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Benedicte Florin serves as a Lecturer at the University of Tours since 2001, affiliated with the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences and the Arab and Mediterranean World Team (EMAM) of UMR CNRS 7324 CITERES, with additional ties to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire (MSH VdL).
Her doctoral research completed in 1999 at the University of Tours examined Cairo's urban mobility patterns under the title 'City itineraries in Cairo. Mobility and territorialities in a metropolis of the Arab World', supervised by P. Signoles.
Dr. Florin specializes in Arab world urban geography, investigating urban fabric formation, marginal spaces, citizenship dynamics, housing systems (including closed neighborhoods and social housing in Cairo, Casablanca, and French contexts), and waste management challenges. Her fieldwork integrates human geography with socio-spatial analysis to document lived experiences in rapidly transforming metropolitan areas.
She has secured competitive research funding through:
- ANR Program (2012-2015): 'Margins and cities: between exclusion and integration. Mediterranean cases' coordinated by N. Semmoud
- MSH Cross-disciplinary Research (2010-2012): Urban Societies and Waste Program co-coordinated by B. Florin and C. Cirelli
- ADEME-funded Program (2011-2013): ODORR Program on 'Objects, waste, objects: recycling and reuse' coordinated by Delphine Corteel
Her research infrastructure operates through the EMAM team and MSH VdL, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration on Mediterranean urban transformations with emphasis on North African case studies.
