About VESPA

Research Team

The VESPA research team is young, dynamic, multilingual, multidisciplinary and international.

Researchers

Boudreau, Julie-Anne
Tenured Canada Research Chair in Urbanity, Insecurity, and Political Action
Associate professor at the INRS-UCS, Montreal
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Postdoctoral Fellows

Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy
Postdoctoral Fellow (INRS-UCS)
The North American Suburb and the Political Community
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Students and Interns

Borrero Luz, Joana
M.A. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
Food Insecurity in Urban Centres: A Case Study on Community Kitchens in Montreal
Boucher, Nathalie
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
The Life and Death of Public Spaces in Los Angeles: Urban Fragmentation and Collective Mediations
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Boulianne, Marie-Christine
M.A. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
The impact of the criminalisation of petty crimes on perceptions of insecurity and the development of citizen groups: a case study of "anti-graffiti groups" in Los Angeles
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Chatel, Olivier
M.A. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
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Essone Nkoghe, Jean-Pierre
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (UQÀM, in co-supervision with Richard Morin)
Transportation and Strategies for Accessibility to Employment among Suburban Populations of African Cities: A Case study of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso
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Janni, Laurence
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
Mobility and Reflexivity: New Technologies, Writing and Practices of Montreal’s Urban Space
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Lamotte, Martin
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
Community Policing
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Liguori, Marilena
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
Marketing Diversity in the Competitive City: The Limited Possibilities of ‘Toronto Unlimited’
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Noubouwo, Antoine
Ph.D. in Urban Studies (INRS-UCS)
Managing Urban Areas at Risk in African Cities: A Case Study of Douala - A City between Urban Vulnerability and Strategies for Survival
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Philoctète, Alain
Master’s in Research Practices and Public Action (INRS-UCS)
Exploring the Limits of Research on Street Gangs
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Former members of VESPA

Cossette, July
M.A. in Research Practices and Public Action (INRS-UCS)
Informality: the Impact of Media on the Fabrication of "Public Problems"
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Muriel Sacco
Ph.D. in Political Science (Université libre de Bruxelles)
The Impact of Public Policies and the Mobilization of Private Actors in Projects for Urban Development: A Comparative Study of Brussels and Montreal
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Rebotier, Julien
Postdoctoral Internship (INRS-UCS)
Political and Social Construction of Territories of Urban Risk in Latin America: A Challenge for Metropolitan Governance
Recruited at the Institut Français d’Études Andines, Bogotá (Colombia) as resident scholar for two years (IFEA - MAE/CNRS), and awaiting confirmation for a position as Head Researcher (Second Class) at the CNRS, starting September 2010
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Viswanathan, Leela
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography at Queen’s University
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