The unit mainly brings together geographers, urban planners and sociologists, but also researchers from other disciplines (environmental psychology, architecture, communication sciences, etc.). The scientific objective is to contribute to the understanding of the spatial dimension of society.
Three areas of research are being developed:
- Production and hierarchisation of social worlds: towards overcoming paradigms?
- Practices, experiences and representations of space
- The (re)localisation of politics: a process under tension
ESO-ANGERS is a multi-site unit bringing together the universities of Angers, Caen, Le Mans, Nantes, Rennes 2
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Confluences is a federative research structure (SFR 4201) that brings together the 8 humanities and social sciences laboratories of the University of Angers: CLiPsy; CJB; CIRPaLL; 3L.AM; ESO; GRANEM; LPPL and TEMOS.
It has 5 main missions:examining responses from laboratories to various calls for proposals from the University of Angers;
- supporting the design and implementation of transdisciplinary research programmes;
- promoting the work of researchers in the region;
- supporting doctoral students;
- managing a UserLab: Plateforme Angevine d'Analyse des Comportements (P2AC) in a network with similar facilities in Nantes and Le Mans.
Six structuring themes emerge from the SFR's activities: Child studies;
- Gender and discrimination studies;
- Plants, food and the environment;
- Tourism, culture and territory;
- Eco-responsibility and the digital transition;
- Health.
Its scientific programme is structured around six incubator areas, whose role is to encourage interaction between laboratories: Heritage, writing, trauma and culture;
- Social change: gender, discrimination, inequality;
- Plant cultures and the environment;
- Responsible behaviour and digital technology;
- Tourism, territories, solidarity;
- Health and society.
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