MORANGE Marianne

Marianne Morange is a Professor of Geography at INALCO, specializing in neoliberal urban governance in African cities. Her work examines the standardization of urban space through Foucauldian governmentality frameworks, focusing on South Africa and Kenya. She combines critical theory with qualitative ethnography (biographical interviews, discourse analysis) to analyze urban political subjectification under neoliberalism.

• Education:
  • 2016 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Paris Nanterre
  • 2001 - Doctoral Thesis, French Institute of Urban Planning
  • 1995 - Master's in Planning, Paris 1/Paris 8
• Research Programs:
  • 2014-2018 - DALVAA (co-directed), rethinking right-to-city from Global South
  • 2008-2012 - JUGURTA on spatial justice in southern cities

Her 2020 monograph Vivre et construire le droit à la ville systematized Global South right-to-city movements. Articles analyze Cape Town street traders, Nairobi's entrepreneurial urbanism, and CID models in Johannesburg. Methodologically, she pioneers critical spatial ethnography while maintaining editorial roles in Justice Spatiale and Carnets de Géographes.

Scientific Awards:

• Junior member, University Institute of France (2013–2018)

As co-director of Paris Diderot's DynPED master's track until 2019, she supervised Thania Herrera (Lima housing) and Carole Bignon (Douala land rights). Her current Labex DynamiTe work interrogates urban space production in neoliberal frameworks.