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Bio

Mathieu Berger is a professor of sociology at UCLouvain, where he teaches urban sociology, theories of public space, social semiotics and qualitative research methods. He is a research fellow at CriDIS (Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires Démocratie, Institutions, Subjectivité) and a research affiliate at EHESS Paris (CEMS – Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux) and at EPFL Lausanne (LASUR – Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine). His research deals, on one hand, with democratic public spaces and political participation, and on the other, with social aspects of city planning and urban policies in Europe and the US. Mathieu is also the general coordinator of Metrolab (UCLouvain-ULB), a laboratory of applied urban research based in Brussels and funded by the European Regional Development Fund.