Rémi DE BERCEGOL
Quote
“Malgudi is where we all belong, and where we wish we lived” (R.K. Narayan)
Biography
Dr. Rémi de Bercegol is a CNRS research fellow at CSH, affiliated in France to PRODIG (UMR 8586, Paris). He has a doctorate in urban planning from LATTS (research group on technology, territories and societies) at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Université Paris Est, France.
He has been collaborating with CSH since 2008, when he worked as Scientific Secretary for two years and was a visiting PhD candidate. During this time, he worked on his book ‘Small towns and decentralisation in India’ (Springer, 2017). His current research focuses on socio-technical transition of basic urban services (water, sanitation, waste, energy) in India (as well as in East Africa and South East Asia), and more broadly urban dynamics. On top of publishing his work, Dr. Rémi de Bercegol has been also involved in different exhibitions to communicate about his research activities.
His current projects are:
- “Alter Systems” (with MITI CNRS)
- “Real Estate for the Lower Middle Classes” (with Université Paris 1)
- “Energy Transition” (with ANR Hybridelec)
- “CHALLINEQ” (with EQUIP)
Publications
Selected recent publications in English:
- With Lucie Dejouhanet (ed) Special Issue on “New Geographies of Collection: Crossed perspectives on modern “gatherers” ”, EchoGéo, 47 | 2019, https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/16477
- with Jochen Monstadt. The Kenya Slum Electrification Program. Local politics of electricity networks in Kibera. Energy Research & Social Science, 2018,. 〈halshs-01806991〉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618303529?via%3Dihub
- De Bercegol, R., Small Towns and Decentralisation in India, Springer, collection Urban Change in South Asia, January 2017 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132227625
- with Gowda S. « Waste and Energy Nexus : rethinking the modernisation of waste services in Delhi » in Urban Studies, Special Issue on ‘Urban Nexus’, edited by Jochen Monstadt and Olivier Coutard, June 2018 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098018770592
- with Jérémie Cavé & Nguyen Thai Huyen, Arch ; Waste Municipal Service and Informal Recycling Sector in Fast-Growing Asian Cities: Co-Existence, Opposition or Integration?, in Resources, Vol.6, Décember 2017 DO – 10.3390/resources6040070 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/6/4/70
The full list of publications is available here: http://www.prodig.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2676
