This panel focuses on the practice of “peopling” (peuplement, in French), a form of state action that seeks to maintain or change the distribution of a population within a territory according to specific social, ethnic, religious, or other characteristics. The panel takes its starting point from the recent French-language book, Le peuplement comme politiques, which demonstrated how the practice of peopling has taken shape over the last twenty years in various national and urban contexts. Beginning with a summary of the book’s arguments from one of its co-authors, the panel explores how peopling has emerged, in very different ways, in three Montréal neighbourhoods.
Moderator: Ted Rutland, Concordia University
Inhabiting a Backlash: Housing Policy and Anti-Black Racism in 1980s Montreal Ted Rutland, Concordia University
Organizing the City: Montreal’s Housing Developers and the Management of Peopling Louis Gaudreau, Université du Québec à Montréal
Social Housing, Residential Mobilities of Immigrant Families and Urban Revitalization Policies: “Peopling” in Park Extension, Montréal Chloé Reiser, Université de Montréal; Violaine Jolivet, Université de Montréal
Peopling as Public Policy: Governing Populations in Urban Spaces Fabien Desage, Université de Lille 2