Jacques Lévy is a geographer, an urbanist, and a social scientist.
He is the director of the Spatial Intelligence chair, at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. He is a member of the Chôros research rhizome. In 2018, he has been awarded the Vautrin-Lud international prize [‘Nobel prize’] in Geography.
Education, Positions, and Activities
His major concerns are social theory of space, political geography, spatial justice, urbanity, globalisation, cartography, and the epistemology of social sciences. He has completed numerous research projects, including theoretical reflections, field studies on metropolises worldwide, and practical urban and territorial projects. He is working on the introduction of non-verbal, namely audio-visual languages, in all dimensions of academic research. He has been the director of a manifesto scientific film, Urbanity/ies (2013), of a nine-film series, Thinking Places (2015).
He has published in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Hungarian. Among his over 800 publications, the following ones can be particularly noted:
Teaching
Research Grants, A Selection
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Universität Erfurt
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
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