Rémi Jenvrin

Remi Jenvrin

Junior Research Associate ; INFRAPATRI

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My research in geography lies at the crossroads of two fields of interest: natures and cities and heritage processes.

My doctoral thesis at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France is based on an ethnography of the city dwellers relationships to nature in Porto-Novo, Benin Republic and Òṣogbo, Nigeria. Among the many relationships that unfold between human groups and plants, my research explores the social-spatial transformations of urban populations’ attachments to nature in these two cities. In a context where African cities are mainly studied through objects that represent their modernity or its consequences, such as concrete or waste, I chose to look at urban trees and urban forests to think about contemporary African urban realities. By mobilizing work in critical geography, including urban political ecology, anthropology of nature and environmental history, the aim of my thesis is to document the diversity of the heritage processes involved in composing and recomposing the relationships between city dwellers and urban nature.  

Latest publications

(to be published), « Au pied des arbres et des statues, quand la forêt fait ville ouverte au monde », Techniques et Culture.

2024, «TASSI (Sara), Ville de lignage.Généalogies urbaines à Ajacé/Xọgbonú/Porto-Novo, Genève, MētisPresses, 2023, 304 pages», Politique africaine, 3-4, N°175-176, p.244-246

2024 avec Salomé Isibhenmen Okoekpen, « Deux itinéraires diasporiques de recherche Nord-Sud : retours réflexifs autour de négociations identitaires multiples entre l’Europe et l’Afrique de l’Ouest », Migrations Société, 4, N°198, p.67-82

2022 avec Juliette Reflé « Mise en récits et analyse des changements environnementaux, perspective nigériane », Revue internationale Cahier des UMIFRE, N°9 p.26-29