Team

Biographie

Florian Opillard is a geographer, researcher at IRSEM in the "Defense and Society" team and associate researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (IHEAL-CREDA). He holds an Agrégation in geography and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2018), and was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Berkeley (USA). His doctoral research questioned the spatial dimension of urban conflicts and the political economy of contemporary urban production, as well as the processes of politicization of everyday life. As part of his doctoral research, he conducted a comparative investigation of several months in the United States (San Francisco) and Chile (Valparaiso) with organizations involved in the struggles against gentrification processes. 

His current research analyzes the production of discourse on the adaptation of armies to climate change, the transformation of value systems and the forms of engagement of the military. 

He is currently the scientific coordinator of the ANR project "ARMY" (CEVIPOF/IRSEM) which analyzes military mobilizations in the health crisis of the COVID-19 in Europe and the United States: https://anrarmy.hypotheses.org.

Publications

2022, « Armies are back in town. Urban warfare and the metropolization of violence », Note de recherche de l'IRSEM. 

2022, avec Palle A., Delerue F., Carayon L. et Chidiac C., « Policy Making and Liberty Restrictions in the Covid-19 Crisis, the Case of France » in Morag Nadav (dir.), Impacts of the Pandemic: International Legislative and Public Health Policy Responses, Wiley eds.

2020, avec Palle A. et Michelis L., « Discourse and Strategic Use of the Military in France and Europe in the COVID-19 Crisis », Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Volume111, Issue3, Special Issue: The Geography of the COVID-19 Pandemic, pp. 239-259, https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12451.  

2018, « Comparer la dimension spatiale des luttes urbaines. Analyse critique des mobilisations contre la gentrification à San Francisco (États-Unis) et contre la prédation immobilière à Valparaíso (Chili) », Annales de géographie, 2018/2, n°720, pp. 115-144.

2017, « Prédation immobilière et dépossession habitante. La construction d’un problème public à partir de l’étude d’actions collectives à Valparaiso, Chili. », L’information géographique, 2017/3, vol. 81, pp. 75-93.

2016, « From San Francisco’s ‘Tech Boom 2.0’ to Valparaiso’s UNESCO Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification in a comparative political perspective », in: Colomb, C. and Novy, J. (eds) Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City, London, New York: Routledge, URL: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138856714. 

Publications IRSEM :

Avec Anne Muxel, Edouard Jolly, Léa Michelis et Angélique Palle « Covid-19 et mobilisation des forces armées en Europe et aux États-Unis », IRSEM, Note de recherche n°107, 2020. (Etude disponible en anglais)

Avec Anne Muxel et Angélique Palle, « L’armée, les Français et la crise sanitaire. Une enquête inédite », IRSEM, Étude 95, juin 2022.

"Armies are back in town. Urban warfare and the metropolization of violence", IRSEM, Research Paper No. 123, 2022.