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Injunction to social mix and individualization. Genealogy of the obstacles to evicted tenants' collective action (1970's-2000's)This paper offers a socio-historical analysis of the relationship of French citizens to legislations and public policies' programmes aimed at developing social mix. While, in the seventies, opposition to urban renewal programmes excluding the poorest from the city centers was seen as a legitimate form of action, the injunction to social mix is nowadays largely imposed on people. Associations and collectives fighting against the demolition of housing or the expulsion of poor tenants have changed their discourse and repertoire of actions. The collective conception of the category of citizen has melded into a personal relationship to institutions, while French professionals feel no legitimacy to advise, judicially and strategically, the renovated neighbourhood's inhabitants. Finally, this paper tries to list the explanations of the contemporary lack of democratic debate about urban renewal projects in comparison with the seventies.

Industrial and spatial determinants in the technology adoption process: The case of electronic traceability systems in the French industrial firmsThe aim of this paper is to analyze the factors influencing firms'behavior, with regards to the adoption of electronic traceability systems in the French industrial firms, by taking into account the firm's sectoral and geographic environment. Traceability, or the capacity to trace a product through all stages of a supply chain, has become an important instrument to ensure quality, as well as an interesting tool for the codification of information between firms, carried by the development of ICT. A model of technology adoption is tested using original data representative of the entire French industrial sectors. The objective is to show the role played by industrial and spatial dynamics on a firm's behaviors, and to test the existence of sectoral specificities. The results evidence that the firm's adoption process depends on the complementarities between their organizational and environmental characteristics. Different adoption profiles are shown, depending on the firm's sector and on the different ways in which firms interact with its spatial environment.

The role of environmental cognitions in the economic valorization of products and touristic services
This paper presents an analysis of products and tourist services differentiation in rural areas, that we call «cognitive differentiation». It is shown how environmental cognitions are at the origin of a positive interaction between environmental quality and purchase of quality products and tourist services. This environmental anchoring leads to a rigid demand for these bounds products and services, which favors the emergence of high prices differentials, source of rents. The first part shows how the relationship between tourism and environmental services is built through environmental cognitions (attitudes, beliefs, emotional experience). The second part highlights the joint valorization of environmental services and “terroir” quality products in the case of rural tourism in Baronnies, starting from an investigation carried out with tenants and owners of lodgings during summer 2003.

Gender differences and dependence between spouses in chauffeuring children among dual-earner families
Since the early 2000s there has been renewed interest in the study of gender differences in mobility. The emphasis has increasingly been on the interdependence, of spouse's daily commutes. In this article, using mobility data from the Paris Region survey, we identify two types of dependence in chauffeuring children in dual-earner families. On the one hand, there is a ripple effect: when one spouse is chauffeuring the other has a higher probability of chauffeuring too. On the other hand, spouses share their chauffeuring trips before work and after work. However, the interdependence between spouses is asymmetrical. Women are more sensitive to their spouse's working hours than men. Women's probability of chauffeuring children increases with their spouse's duration of employment, while this is not the case for men. Thus women still tend to do more chauffeuring than their spouses.