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CURRICULUM VITAE
(April 2011)
Associate Professor (Matre de Confrences habilite diriger les recherches) in Geography,
Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon (ENSL, http://www.ens-lyon.fr/), Lyon, September
2000- present.
Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (http://iuf.amue.fr/), 2009-2014
Personal details
Born July 12th, 1970, in Paris, France
Nationality: French
Married July 31st, 1993, to Nicolas Holzschuch, 3 children: Henry (born 1999), Erik (2002)
and Lena (2005)
Personal address:
27 rue Sidi Brahim, 38100 Grenoble - France
Tel.: +33 (0) 9 51 99 92 19
cell: +33 (0) 6 42 59 82 27
Professional address:
cole Normale Suprieure Lettres et Sciences humaines
15, parvis Descartes, 69366 Lyon cedex 7 - France
tel.: +33 (0) 4 37 37 61 58
fax: +33 (0) 4 37 37 61 42
e-mail: Myriam.Houssay-Holzschuch@normalesup.org
Web page: http://www.ens-lyon.eu/73516614/0/fiche___pagelibre
Education
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Teaching experience
As an Associate Professor at the ENS LSH, my teaching load amounts to 192
hours/year.
Postgraduate lectures
For agrgation candidates
[The agrgation is a nation-wide, competitive exam to become a secondary school
teacher. Candidates must hold a master and programs rotate every 2 years.
Approximately 30 people per year pass, for more than 350 candidates. Between a
quarter and a third of successful candidates each year come from the ENS LSH]
Feeding Mankind, 2008-2010
Geography of Africa, 2003-2005
Limits and discontinuities in geography, 2002-2004.
Causality in Geography, 2001-2004
Urban Geography, 2000-2001
Graduate seminar with E. Verdeil (CNRS): Cities, territories and globalization
(http://eric.verdeil.site.voila.fr/seminaireG11.htm), yearly, since 2004.
Graduate seminar on African Studies, with Pascale Barthlmy and Ccile van den
Avenne since 2008.
Undergraduate seminars and tutorials
Readings in social sciences (2004-present)
Common to students from history, geography, sociology economy and philosophy
departments, the seminar aims to give them the necessary theoretical tools for their
research. http://cedille.ens-lsh.fr/lectures/
History and epistemology of Geography (2003-2009)
Geography as a social science, University of Reims, 1998.
An initiation to Political and Cultural Geography, University of Reims, 1998 ; University
of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1999.
Research activities
Since 2000, my activities have taken place within Geophile (http://www.enslsh.fr/LAB_GEO/1/fiche___laboratoire/), the ENS LSH Geography research team.
Gophile is accredited by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS,
http://www.cnrs.fr/index.html) and part of the UMR 5600 Environnement, Villes,
Socits (http://cassiopee.univ-lyon3.fr/umr5600/) project.
I am also an associated researcher with the UMR 8586 PRODIG (http://prodig.univparis1.fr/) since 2009.
Boards and expertise
Scientific Council of French Research Institutes in Africa, French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, 2004-2008, 2009-.
Comit national de la recherche scientifique (http://www.cnrs.fr/comitenational/) for
geography, 2004-2008
The Comit is the national evaluation committee for researchers and research
teams.
Evaluation of research proposals for the region of Brittany, the Ecole Normale
Suprieure, or the ANR (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr, French equivalent
of the NSF).
AERES (national evaluation agency) Evaluation Committee for the Laboratoire
Population Environnement Dveloppement research team.
Editorial Boards
Co-editor, ACME, An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (http://www.acmejournal.org/), May 2009Editorial Committee, justice spatiale\spatial justice (http://jssj.org/), September 2009Gographie et Cultures, the French journal of cultural geography: editorial committee
member (1999-2008), then scientific committee member (2009-)
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=revue&no=17
Associate Book Review Editor, H-SAfrica (http://www.h-net.org/~safrica/), H-Net,
Michigan State University, 2001-present
Reviewer for Annales de Gographie, Antipode, Autrepart, Cahiers de gographie du Qubec,
Carnets de gographes, Cultural Geographies, Cybergo, EchoGo, Gocarrefour, Geografiska
Annaler B, Gographie et Cultures, justice spatiale\spatial justice, LEspace politique,
Mappemonde, Political Geography, Revue Tiers Monde, Traces.
Grants and awards
Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, 2009-2014
Research sabbatical (dlgation), Centre National de la Recherche scientifique - with the
UMR 8586 PRODIG and as Visiting Research Scholar, at the Department of Geography,
Maxwell School, University of Syracuse (USA), 2007-2008.
Ph.D. grant (allocation couple), French Ministry for Research and Tertiary Education,
1994-1997
Research projects
Head
Living together in post-apartheid South Africa, funded by the Institut Universitaire de
France, 2009-2014.
Les espaces publics dans les pays intermdiaires [Public Spaces in intermediary
countries: China, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey], funded by the French
Ministry for Research (No. JC2069), 2003-2007.
Member
Geographical knowledge: dynamics and mediations (MEDIAGEO), headed by
Isabelle Lefort (UMR 5600 EVS), supported by the French National Agency for Research
Programme Blanc SHS. Head of the Social Demand subproject. 2009-2012.
Urban peripheries in the global South (PERISUDS), headed by Jean-Louis Chalard
(UMR 8586 PRODIG), supported by the French National Agency for Research (ANR No.
Suds-07-046), Head of the Cape Town subproject (2007-2010).
Privatization of security in sub-Saharan African cities (Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Durban, Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Nairobi, Maputo, Windhoek): urban dynamics and new
forms of governance, coordinated by Elisabeth PEYROUX (Paris X Nanterre), 20032007. Funded by The French Institute of South Africa, IFRA-Ibadan, IFRA-Nairobi.
Metropolization, territorial governance and spatial margins, coordinated by Martin
VANIER (Grenoble I), Franck SCHERRER (IUL), Lydia COUDROY de LILLE (Lyons II)
and Emmanuelle BONERANDI (ENS LSH), 2004-present. Funded by the Rhne-Alpes
region.
Thomas RADOVCIC, Les espaces publics lpreuve du tourisme: pratiques, representations et gouvernance au
Cap, Universit Paris I, M1 Thesis, co-supervised with Martine Berger, September 2010.
Marguerite DESCAMPS, Le Camino francs entre Burgos et Lon : une voie sacre du dveloppement ?, M1
Thesis, ENSL, June 2010.
Hlne BALAN, Les activits informelles dans Paris : petites perturbations humaines des normes urbaines en cur
de mtropole occidentale, M2 Thesis co-supervised with Jean-Fabien Steck, ENSL/Universit Paris-Nanterre,
June 2010.
Julien MIGOZZI, Le rugby scolaire Cape Town. Territoires sportifs et spatialits contemporaines : un jeu entre
sgrgation et transformation, M1 Thesis co-supervised with Jean-Pierre Augustin, ENSL, June 2010.
Marine SUTEAU, Recompositions urbaines au Cap. Le quartier dhabitat social de Delft South, Master Thesis,
University Paris I, September 2009.
Benot LEMONNIER, Fils du Ciel(s) et Hommes Intgres : lEmpire du Milieu ? tude gopolitique de la relation
triangulaire Chine Populaire-Taiwan-Burkina Faso et des pratiques commerciales burkinab, Master Thesis, ENS
LSH, September 2009.
Hlne FROGNEUX Dsgrgation des espaces publics dans la ville post-apartheid : lexemple des plages du Cap,
en Afrique du Sud, mmoire de M1, mention TB, Universit de Paris I, juin 2009.
Marion DONARS Le vignoble autour du Cap, entre mondialisation et renouveau post-apartheid, mmoire de
M1, mention TB, Universit de Paris I, 26 juin 2009.
Violette OZOUX, Mcanismes et modes dinsertion spatiale de la nouvelle conomie Bangalore, Master
Thesis, ENS LSH, co-supervised with Ludovic Halbert (CNRS), September 2007.
Claire DUBUS, Territoires de la musique et culture mondialise Dar es Salaam (Tanzanie), Master Thesis, cosupervised with Philippe Gervais-Lambony, ENS-LSH & University of Paris X-Nanterre, June 2007.
Frdric DEJEAN, Gographie des nouvelles formes religieuses : les pentectismes lyonnais, Master Thesis, ENSLSH & University of Paris VIII, co-supervised with Herv Vieillard-Baron, June 2007.
Laetitia OLIVESI, Lcole sud-africaine: un espace entre sgrgation et mixit. Espace scolaire et enjeux urbains au
Cap, ENS LSH, July 2006.
Erina SIROY, Les gated communities appliques au cas sud-africain : lexemple de Steenberg Golf Estate au Cap,
Lyon II, September 2005.
Eve-Line BRENET, Les espaces publics au Cap. tude de deux cas sud-africains, Companys Garden et Cavendish
Square, Lyon II, September 2005.
Jeanne VIVET, Espaces publics et urbanit : pratiques, perceptions et politiques de lespace public Dakar, cosupervised with Karine BENNAFLA, Lyon II, July 2003.
- Master Jurys
Marguerite RIBSTEIN, Wesbank sanime. Un township entre les mains de ses habitants, Travail personnel de fin
dtudes dirig par Gilles Clment, cole nationale suprieure du paysage, Versailles, septembre 2010.
Jean-Hermann EKRA, La gestion des dchets Yamoussoukro. Un paradoxe de la ville nouvelle ivoirienne,
Mmoire de M2 dirig par Lydia Coudroy de Lille, Universit Lyon 2, septembre 2010.
tienne CHABOZ, La vidosurveillance urbaine, de la demande de scurit la redfinition des espaces publics:
lexemple de lagglomration lyonnaise, Mmoire de M2 dirig par Michel Lussault, Institut dUrbanisme de
Lyon, septembre 2010.
Solne BAFFI, Les transports en commun au Cap : entre structuration et fragmentation, mmoire de M1 codirig par Martine Berger et Olivier Ninot, Universit de Paris I, PEED, septembre 2010.
Flaminia PADDEU, La nature dans les villes amricaines : le cas de Central Park au prisme des paradigmes
Sur
le
Vif,
July
2008.,
27. Sociabilit, solidarit : culture, identit et vie urbaine dans les quartiers noirs du
Cap [Sociability, solidarity: culture, identity and urban life in Cape Towns
African townships], Les approches culturelles en gographie, IGU conference,
Paris, December 1997. Published online in Cybergo, 95, le 05/05/1999,
(http://www.cybergeo.eu/index4894.html).
Workshops and seminars
28. Gervais-Lambony P. & Houssay-Holzschuch, M. 2011. La ville post-apartheid
[The post-apartheid City]. Sminaire Rsilience urbaine. Paris, Ecole normale
suprieure, March 17.
29. Houssay-Holzschuch, M., 2011. Enjeux de mots : approches gographiques
contemporaines de la toponymie [Name Games: contemporary geographical
approaches on toponymy]. Cluster 13, Rome et lhellnisme : Toponymes et strotypes
urbains dans les mondes antiques. ENSL, February.
30.
31. Houssay-Holzschuch, M. 2011. Espaces publics, publicit, citoyennet [Public
spaces, publicity, citizenship]. cole doctorale d'hiver "Penser l'espace des humains
ensemble", Confrence universitaire de Suisse occidentale et ENSL. La Tour de Peilz
(CH), January.
32. Cape Town, post-apartheid peripheries, invited seminar, UMR LADYSS, Paris,
October 2009.
33. Dcentrer le regard sur les espaces publics [Decentering the gaze on Public
Spaces], Art, espaces publics, identits seminar, Gophile/UMR 5600 Series,
University of Lyon, December 18, 2008.
34. Public Spaces and Places of Memory in post-apartheid South Africa,
Geography Department Colloquium, Syracuse University, April 9, 2008.
35. The post-apartheid City in Perspective: International Comparisons, Urban
Margins and Public Spaces, Department of Geography and Environmental
Science, University of Fort Hare (Alice, South Africa), February 7, 2008.
36. Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Cultural Geography , intervention in Don
Mitchells World Cultures Course, Department of Geography, University of
Syracuse (NY), November 19, 2007.
37. Urban fragmentation and Public Spaces: De-centering the Gaze , Department
of Social Policy and Urban Studies, University of Helsinki, April 2007.
38. Espaces publics au Cap, de lapartheid au post-apartheid , Southern Africa
seminar, (EHESS, Paris VII, Paris V), February 2007.
39. With Cline VACCHIANI-MARCUZZO, LAfrique du Sud, une exploration du
lointain , Gographie-cits, "Le proche et le lointain : quelles distances son objet
de recherche?", May 2003.
Espace
et
Cultures,
Louis
63. Review of the movie Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, 2005) for the Cafs gographiques
(http://www.cafe-geo.net/article.php3?id_article=939), October 2006.
64. Review of HOSSARD Nicolas, JARVIN Magdalena (eds), 2005, Cest ma ville ! De
lappropriation et du dtournement de lespace public, Paris, LHarmattan, for Lienssocio (http://www.liens-socio.org/article.php3?id_article=829), January 2006.
65. Ville et scurit : questions franco-amricaines , review of BILLARD G.,
CHEVALIER J., MADOR F., 2005, Ville ferme, ville surveille. La scurisation des
espaces rsidentiels en France et en Amrique du Nord, Rennes, Presses Universitaires
de Rennes, Annales de Gographie, 649, 2006, p. 317..
66. Espaces domestiques , review of COLLIGNON Batrice, STASZAK JeanFranois (eds), 2004, Espaces domestiques. Construire, habiter, reprsenter, Paris,
Bral, Gographie et Cultures, 53, Spring 2005, pp. 135-137.
67. Un dictionnaire culturel de lhabitat et du logement , review of Marion
SEGAUD, Jacques BRUN, Jean-Claude DRIANT (eds), 2002, Dictionnaire de
lhabitat et du logement, Paris, Armand Colin, Gographie et Cultures, 52, Winter
2004, pp. 139-140.
68. Les espaces publics lheure globale , review of Cynthia GHORRA-GOBIN
(ed.), 2001, Rinventer le sens de la ville : les espaces publics lheure globale, Paris,
LHarmattan, Gographie et Cultures, 42, Summer 2002, pp. 133-134.
69. tre jeune dans les socits du Sud , review of COLLIGNON Ren, DIOUF
Mamadou (eds.), 2001, Les jeunes : hantise de lespace public dans les socits du Sud ?,
numro spcial de Autrepart, n18, ditions de lAube & IRD, Gographies et
Cultures, 41, Spring 2002, pp. 134-135.
70. English and French review of DARBON Dominique (ed.), 1999, L'aprs-Mandela.
Enjeux sud-africains et rgionaux, Paris, Karthala, for H-SAfrica, April 2001.
71. "Reassessing the past(s)", review of REDDY Thiven, 2000, Hegemony and
Resistance: Contesting identities in South Africa, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000 for HSAfrica,
February
2001
(http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21807983220930).
72. La gographie sociale, entre la globalisation et le sujet , review of WERLEN
Benno, 1997, Sozialgeographie alltglicher Regionalisierungen, t. 2 Globalisierung,
Region und Regionalisierung , Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, Gographie et
Cultures, 34, Summer 2000, pp. 139-140.
73. "Il n'y a que la terre qui leur appartienne" : la vie d'un paysan noir en Afrique
du Sud , review of Charles VAN ONSELEN, 1996, The Seed is Mine: The Life of
Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985, Cape Town, David Philip,
Gographie et Cultures, 32, Winter 1999, pp. 136-138.
74. Pouvoirs et socit dans les villes dAfrique australe, ou la gestion urbaine estelle possible? , review of Philippe GERVAIS-LAMBONY, Sylvy JAGLIN et
Alan MABIN (ds), 1999, La Question urbaine en Afrique australe, perspectives de