Institut für Soziologie

29.04.2025

[Colloquium:] Policing São Paulo by Night. Notes from the Fields

Thursday, 24 April 2025, 18.15 - 20.00 CET; Room 101, Institut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen) and via Zoom

On Thursday, 24 April (18.15 - 20.00 CET) Jérome Tâdi (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Parisé) will give a talk on “Policing São Paulo by Night. Notes from the Fields”. This talk will be held in room 101 at the Insitut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstraße 36, 72074 Tübingen) and can be followed online via Zoom. This event is the first session of the G-TURN colloquium "Urbanities in a Global Perspective: Crises, Changes, and Continuities" of the summer term 2025.

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Bio: Jérôme Tadié is an urban geographer, researcher at the Institute for Development Research (IRD) in the Migration and Society Research Unit (UMR Urmis - IRD, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Université Côte). His research focuses on informal control and government of Jakarta and São Paulo, as seen from the grassroots. His publications include, on Jakarta, Les Territoires de la violence à Jakarta (Belin, 2006), articles on political informality, on the use of neighbourhood fires, NGOs, the night economy (both in Jakarta and Manila), and ghosts in Jakarta, as well on the control and policing of the city at night in São Paulo in a historical perspective. He is also working on photography and its uses in social sciences.