Julien Migozzi

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some workshop materials on spatial interaction models with spatial dependence, if you're into that

knaaptime.com/workshop-ner...

(commuting is a kind of small-scale migration)

Mais nous sommes bien d’accord madame la ministre. Il serait temps d’ailleurs.

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Can't wait to not think ever again, and teach students to do the same.

I remember high school classes, where I was fed narratives of France's leading role in promoting enlightenment, freedom, and dignity around the world. What do we do now? A shining ceremony for the Olympic Games? That's it?

France and the EU must send humanitarian boats and planes to Gaza immediately. Stop discussing on rhetorical grounds. Start shipping and dropping supplies now. End the blockade by air and sea.

@aldasky.bsky.social

This is a great paper!

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to....

Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

Allez, elle est juste à 6500 signatures...

📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!

Postdoc opportunity in the University of Cape Town. Please share to anyone who might be interested

With two French ministers accused of rape (and comforted in their function by the government) and the current prime minister that silenced (and still lies about) sexual violence perpetrated over children, the shameless irony is not lost.

Thank you! Would love your thoughts on this - and I hope to catch up in person soon!

I hope you will enjoy reading this piece - and would really appreciate any feedback or comment on this work, which was such a long research journey.

As housing wealth and digital technologies increasingly influence socio-spatial inequalities, the case of South Africa then illuminates how urban change, automated classifications and value creation can be intimately linked through the urban process under digital capitalism.

This definition bridges statistical, income- and occupation-oriented studies with qualitative research on housing consumption and lifestyle, acknowledging the role of spatial dynamics in class formation, and the centrality of data and algorithms in capital accumulation and organizational practices.

I then theorize the middle class as a filtered class, highlighting how its formation is embedded in the production of a stratified suburban space, that I call the mortgaged periphery, wherein asset-deprived home seekers manifest their boundary work by acquiring debt-leveraged assets in gated estates

The main argument is that the housing market operates as a set of filters that stratify home-seekers into unequal market outcomes in terms of residential location, asset ownership and capital gains. These filters - affordability and creditworthiness- are shaped and regulated by credit scoring.

The paper weaves together two streams of literature: housing and middle class formation in the GS, borrowing from @clairemercer.bsky.social ; inequalities and stratification in the digital era, inspired by the work of @kjhealy.co and @marionf.bsky.social

Seeing this piece out is truly a source of joy: it took 10 years of fieldwork and endless hours of coding to put this material and ideas together in order to tackle 2 "big" questions: the formation of the South African middle class; the role of data and algorithms over social & spatial sorting.

SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data-driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing marke....

How does digital capitalism affect wealth inequalities and class formation? This is a question I answer in this new paper, focusing on South Africa.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the grandest tradition of US foreign politics.

Le grand ruissellement.

Grand oublié du texte de cadrage : le rôle entre État, finance et espace, pourtant fondamental et de plus en plus déterminant, et l'un des champs de recherche les plus actifs en géographie humaine depuis plus de 15 ans, a fortiori en géo urbaine, économique, écologie politique et géopolitique.

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

La misère, cet asset si durable.