Popular neighborhoods through the lens of their youths: a participatory research – POP-PART

This participatory and multidisciplinary research project aims to analyze the social and urban reconfigurations underway in the “popular” neighbourhoods from the perspective of their youth. The goal of this study is to understand the experiences of youths, from their territorial anchorages, their individual and collective trajectories and their social representations. By situating them in a history and present of the “popular” neighbourhoods, it tries to capture the different conflicting dynamics that contribute to these reconfigurations. To do this, it relies on a threefold approach: it is based on this youth's experience; it grasps the metropolitan area from the perspective of “popular” neighbourhoods; it develops participatory methods in a citizen sciences perspective. It responds to both methodological issues, epistemological and theoretical.