Marie Gibert-Flutre Gibert-Flutre

Marie Gibert-Flutre is an Associate-professor in Geography at the University Paris of Paris (France), in the department of East-Asian Studies (UFR LCAO, UMR CESSMA).
She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI, National University of Singapore) in the Asian Urbanisms Cluster from July 2015 to July 2016. She received her Ph.D. in urban geography from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UMR 8586 Prodig), in June 2014.
Her research deals with the dynamics of public and private spaces in the production and appropriation of urban space in Asia. By critically exploring ‘global Asia’ from ordinary public spaces and neighborhoods, she turns in particular the traditional approach to ‘global cities’ upside down and contributes to a renewed conception of metropolization as a highly situated process, where forces at play locally are both intertwined and labile. As Principal Investigator, she manages the Ho Chi Minh City case study of the International SEANNET (Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network) research programme (IIAS, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation). She has recently published Les envers de la métropolisation: Les ruelles de Ho Chi Minh Ville (Vietnam) (CNRS Edition, 2019) and Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), co-edited with Heide Imai.