Jean Gardin

Jean Gardin serves as a Lecturer-researcher at the Faculty of Geography, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and is affiliated with CNRS research unit LADYSS (UMR 7533). He actively participates in Section 23 of the CNU (National Council of Universities) and co-leads the Environment axis within LADYSS since 2013.

His research investigates critical geographical themes through five interconnected domains:

• Animal Geography: Spaces of animal killing, circulation of norms and representations
• Spatial Justice: Justice as regulator of social behavior in geographic space
• Social Marginality: Dynamics of how margins construct centers
• Environmental Policy Translation: How aspatial policies manifest in localized territorial experiences
• Rural-Tech Interfaces: High-tech management tools' impact on rural territorial plurality

Dr. Gardin has directed significant research initiatives including the Ritual and Profane Animal Death program (2014-2015) and contributed to ESPON's ITAN programme (2012-2014), Tunisia's Democracy and Territories project (2011-2012), and ANR's BALKABAS program (2009-2012). His scholarly leadership includes editorial duties for Justice spatiale/Spatial Justice journal since 2009 and organization of major conferences like Les temps des territoires (2017) and study days on algorithmic governance (2014).

Based at Panthéon-Sorbonne University with France as his primary geographical focus, his work bridges theoretical geography with empirical studies of social regulation and territorial transformation.