Dr. Phil. Cédric Duchene-Lacroix | Assoziierter Forscher
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Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
E-Mail:
c.duchene ( at ) unibas.ch
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+41(0)6126-72815
Position
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Assistent am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Basel (http://www.unibas.ch)
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Fachbereich
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Soziologie
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Biographie
I share with the populations I study - as well as many scientists - a multilocal living.
I'm researcher at the sociological Institute of the University Basel since 2007. For my first research topic "multilocality" I'm currently visiting scientist at the National Institute for Demography (INED) in Paris. Then I will continue this research in cooperation with the special section "multilocality of family" at the German youth Institute. I was also between 2008 and 2010 postdoctoral research fellow at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration Lausanne. One year before I was postdoctoral teaching assistant at the University Savoy in France.
For my PhD I spent my time institutionally between the Humboldt-University, the Centre Marc Bloch, as well as the statistical office - all three in Berlin - and the University of Strasbourg in France. Many scientific discussions and paid activities allowed me to succeed in writing the Thesis. I'm also most grateful to the institutions which gave me research grants (Stiftung Luftbrückendank, OFAJ, DAAD, European Doctoral College of Strasbourg, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin).
My first big professional experience has been the coordination of a heavy survey at National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) in Strasbourg 1996-1998. At the same time I finished one master in Demography and then a master in Social sciences.
I'm researcher at the sociological Institute of the University Basel since 2007. For my first research topic "multilocality" I'm currently visiting scientist at the National Institute for Demography (INED) in Paris. Then I will continue this research in cooperation with the special section "multilocality of family" at the German youth Institute. I was also between 2008 and 2010 postdoctoral research fellow at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration Lausanne. One year before I was postdoctoral teaching assistant at the University Savoy in France.
For my PhD I spent my time institutionally between the Humboldt-University, the Centre Marc Bloch, as well as the statistical office - all three in Berlin - and the University of Strasbourg in France. Many scientific discussions and paid activities allowed me to succeed in writing the Thesis. I'm also most grateful to the institutions which gave me research grants (Stiftung Luftbrückendank, OFAJ, DAAD, European Doctoral College of Strasbourg, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin).
My first big professional experience has been the coordination of a heavy survey at National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) in Strasbourg 1996-1998. At the same time I finished one master in Demography and then a master in Social sciences.
Stipendium
Stiftung Luftbrückendank BerlinOFAJCollège Doctoral Européen StrasbourgCentre Marc Bloch Berlin
Forschungsthema
***First topic: Multilocality
Motoko Rich resumed in few words the little territorial revolution of the second modernity: "Enabled by cheap airfares, flexible work schedules and technology like cellphones, Blackberrys and the Internet, a growing number of people are shuttling between two or more homes, blurring the age-old distinction between the primary and the vacation home" Motoko Rich, NYT, 2006.01.19
Even if the spatial possibilities - or better for instance the motility (from Kaufmann) - are wider than before, society keep a complex structure and contraints as well as need or conformity are still working. The different living places remain their social particularities. So we could still say today as "Gorgs Prc" once wrote: "To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself."
The consequences for the society are huge but not always visible. The actual official statistics don't catch very well practices, which go over the usual concepts such as household, primary home, nuclear family, etc. What are these consequences? It could be sometimes dramatic: family desintegration, multi-local disembedding, burning-out because of a "travel overdosis", increase of the population movement and switching overload/underuse of infrastructure ("cold beds" in touristic alpine villages), pressure on the real estate business etc. But the multilocality can also open some social and organisational opportunities.
***Second Topic: Demographic and social Indicators for the public policy
Let me first explain my paradigmatical position: I think that a better understanding of social statistics by policy stake holders as well as of the way to use these widens its use and strengthens a reflexive and intersubjective (so let say "objectivized") approach on public policies. Indicators are not just some technical instruments. They are products and they produce social effects. So this research topic deals with social phenomena, technical quality of indicators, use of indicators and last but not least it deal with the conception of public policies today.
(cotutelle)Motoko Rich resumed in few words the little territorial revolution of the second modernity: "Enabled by cheap airfares, flexible work schedules and technology like cellphones, Blackberrys and the Internet, a growing number of people are shuttling between two or more homes, blurring the age-old distinction between the primary and the vacation home" Motoko Rich, NYT, 2006.01.19
Even if the spatial possibilities - or better for instance the motility (from Kaufmann) - are wider than before, society keep a complex structure and contraints as well as need or conformity are still working. The different living places remain their social particularities. So we could still say today as "Gorgs Prc" once wrote: "To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself."
The consequences for the society are huge but not always visible. The actual official statistics don't catch very well practices, which go over the usual concepts such as household, primary home, nuclear family, etc. What are these consequences? It could be sometimes dramatic: family desintegration, multi-local disembedding, burning-out because of a "travel overdosis", increase of the population movement and switching overload/underuse of infrastructure ("cold beds" in touristic alpine villages), pressure on the real estate business etc. But the multilocality can also open some social and organisational opportunities.
***Second Topic: Demographic and social Indicators for the public policy
Let me first explain my paradigmatical position: I think that a better understanding of social statistics by policy stake holders as well as of the way to use these widens its use and strengthens a reflexive and intersubjective (so let say "objectivized") approach on public policies. Indicators are not just some technical instruments. They are products and they produce social effects. So this research topic deals with social phenomena, technical quality of indicators, use of indicators and last but not least it deal with the conception of public policies today.
Titel der Dissertation
Transnationale Archipele und IdentitätszusammenstellungBetreuer
Prof. Freddy Raphael, Universität Strabourg (Universität Marc Bloch); Prof. Klaus Eder, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin