FFJ-MICHELIN FOUNDATION WORKSHOP

Urban Mobility versus
Gender, and Care

Connecting the urban mobility and the social-gender roles
16 January 2023
14.15 - 17.30 (France) | 22.15 - 1.30 (Tokyo time) | 20.15 - 23.30 (Hanoï time)
Online & on site: Room 3.01 | Centre des colloques - Campus Condorcet
Place du Front populaire, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex
In English
Registration: https://forms.gle/LUJicX4gv9rEfZQ1A
Contact: events_ffj@ehess.fr
Transport infrastructure and services are the means to improve the well-being of all groups of the population, including
women, men, children, the elder, and people with disabilities. However, they are often incorrectly considered “genderneutral. In fact, mobility is socially determined by gender roles related to reproduction, production, and community.
The relative economic, social status, and gender roles, as well as livelihoods of women and men also influence thedifferent needs and usages of transport services. The gender dimensions in public transportation should become
more evident when its investment can be viewed in terms of facilitating the mobility of people for various purposes
and needs as well as in different modes, in which women and men, children and elders could differently experience– rather than just simply investing in hard infrastructure that equally benefits all groups of the population. The
inadequate design of public transport infrastructure and services will constrain women's access and limit the positive
distributional impacts of urban public transportation. Integrating the gender focus into the transport policy dialogue
and planning procedures could promote equal economic opportunities for the entire society in expecting to unlock
barriers to women’s economic potential.

Programme
14.15 | Opening Remarks
Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS, President), Thị Ngọc Tú LÊ (FFJ/MichelinFoundation fellow, Hoa Sen University)

14.25 | Session 1
Chair: Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS, President)
Speakers: Thị Ngọc Tú LÊ (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow, Hoa Sen University),
Andrés BORTHAGARAY (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow, Furban Foundation, City
on the Move Institute Latin America)
Discussants: Beatriz FERNANDEZ (EHESS), Huê-Tam JAMME (Arizona StateUniversity)

15.10 | Q&A Session
Break16.00 | Session 2
Chair: Thị Ngọc Tú LÊ (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow, Hoa Sen University)
Speakers: Alexandre FAURE (FFJ-EHESS), Huê-Tam JAMME (Arizona State University),
Monica DWIYANTI (EHESS)
Discussants: Andrés BORTHAGARAY (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow, Furban
Foundation, City on the Move Institute Latin America), Beatriz FERNANDEZ (EHESS)

17.05 | Q&A Session
17.30 | Concluding Remarks
Alexandre FAURE (FFJ-EHESS), Thị Ngọc Tú LÊ (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow,Hoa Sen University)

CocktailParticipants(alphabetical order)
Andrés BORTHAGARAY (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundationfellow, Furban Foundation, City on the Move Institute
Latin America)
Andrés Borthagaray is an architect from Buenos Aires University, has a degree inpublic administration at ENA in France, and is a doctor from Sorbonne Nouvelle(geography and urbanism). He is president of Furban Foundation and is responsible
for the City on the Move Institute (Latin America). He directs a post-graduate program
about designing and managing smart and inclusive cities, School of Architecture,Design, and Urbanism, Buenos Aires University. He also has graduate courses
on urbanism (FA UP) and, as a guest professor, urban mobility for post-graduate
programs in urbanism (FAUD, UNC; Master DUT, UPC). He has been undersecretary for decentralization,strategic planning, and transportation, Buenos Aires city government. He has developed a line of research
about the space of urban mobility, its governance, and the social implications of energetic and digital transitions,particularly in Latin American cities.

Title: Public spaces of mobility in Tokyo, Paris and Buenos Aires
It analyses the criteria for its design, management, and governance by studying three metropolitan cases.
While spaces for urban infrastructures are essential, the focus here is on railways and railway stations as thebackbone of metropolitan dynamics and as a guiding principle for social inclusion, urban growth, andsustainability.

Monica DWIYANTI (EHESS)
Monica Dwiyanti is currently doing her second year of Master’s in Social and Economic
Sciences at EHESS, specializing in gender equality and economic development.
Previously, she worked for Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development
as Project Officer where she conducted research to provide recommendations togovernment counterparts regarding gender-responsive economic governance. She
also has an extensive experience working with international organizations, including
the International Labour Organization (ILO). She collaborated with two principal
researchers to prepare an ILO’s report on the employment formalization in the AsiaPacific region.

Title: The Gender Dimension of Developmentalism: Analysis of Female
Labor Force Participation in Indonesia
The study aims to examine the reasons behind the relatively low female labor force participation (LFPR) inIndonesia in the context of developmental state by using a mixed method of quantitative and qualitativeresearch.

Alexandre FAURE (FFJ-EHESS)
Alexandre Faure, PhD in Urban Studies at EHESS, is currently a post-doctoral fellow
at the France-Japan Foundation of EHESS. His main work focuses on political andurbanistic temporalities, in the context of world cities' bids for the Olympic Games, butalso on public transport and electromobility policies.

Title: Mass transport and inclusive mobility: what
lessons from Japan?
Abstract : Japan has built the most efficient and cost-effective rail network in the world
over the past century. It is based on an economic model that makes train lines thedriving force behind urban development, mass consumption, leisure, and tourism. However, this model relies

on large numbers of passengers and their regularity. With the demographic decline, the decrease in the numberof workers and students, the whole economic model is facing a whole array of structural challenges highlighted
during the pandemic. This presentation aims to question the consistency between the quest for economic
profitability of Japanese rail transport and the pursuit of the goals of inclusiveness and maintenance of transport
services in rural, peri-urban and areas of economic and demographic decline.

Beatriz FERNANDEZ (EHESS, Géographies Cité)
Trained as an architect and urban planner, Beatriz Fernandez joins the EHESS as an
Associate Professor proposing an interdisciplinary research project on urban studies,
where she crosses spatial, policy and social approaches. Her research focuses on theterritorial transformations of contemporary cities in a comparative and historicalperspective. She is particularly interested in the socio-spatial impacts of urban growthand shrinkage, as well as in the urban policies and planning guiding these processes.
She is a member of the research lab Géographie Cités (UMR 8504) and co-chair ofthe PhD Academy of the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN).
She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Institut d’urbanisme de Paris,Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Dortmund Technical University.

Huê-Tâm JAMME (Arizona State University)
Huê-Tâm Jamme is an Assistant Professor at the Arizona State University’s Schoolof Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the effectsof new technologies on space and society, especially on how people move, work,shop, and socialize in cities. Her award-winning dissertation advances a new theoryof productive frictions to frame understandings of the relationships between physical(transport) mobility and social interactions. From a productive frictions perspective,
Jamme has led projects on car-free living in the United States; automated foodvending in France; and gender and the platform economy in Southeast Asia; amongothers. She systematically uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods andpromotes a global comparative perspective in built environment research. Her
work has been published in edited volumes and academic journals, including the Journal of the American
Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Transport Behaviour and Society, andTransportation Research. Her research and teaching draw on several years of professional practice in Asia asa consultant in urban development.

Title: Urban Mobility, the Platform Economy, and Women’s Empowerment:
The lived experience of online female workers in Bangkok and PhnomPenh
The platform economy is often featured as an opportunity for reducing the gender gap in employment and thus
promote women’s empowerment in developing nations. Drawing on case studies in the capitals of Thailand(Bangkok) and Cambodia (Phnom Penh), this research aims to disentangle the complex relationships
between the platform economy, new spatiotemporal working patterns, and women’s empowerment. Data wascollected through an online survey and in-depth interviews. A mix of qualitative methods and multivariate
regressions were used to analyze the data within a framework combining Nussbaum’s capabilities approachand Jamme’s theory of productive frictions. The findings emphasize the pivotal role of the home-bound factor
in the relationship between online platform work and women’s empowerment. Indeed, most online female
workers reported working from home. They also reported decreased travel times since becoming platformworkers. Like remote work, platform work limits opportunities for the casual interactions that promote socialintegration. Furthermore, platform work completely blurs the spatial and temporal boundaries between home
and the workplace, leisure and work, and paid and unpaid work. On the one hand, these blurry boundaries
facilitate women’s income generation. On the other hand, they limit empowerment by maintaining rather thandisrupting traditional gender norms.

Thi Ngoc Tú LÊ (2022 FFJ/Michelin Foundation fellow,Hoa Sen University)
Dr. Tu Le has a background in Economics and Mathematics. She obtained herPh.D. at Göttingen University-Germany. She has substantial working experience inDevelopment Economics; she has gained tremendous experience in working withmicrodata, big data, satellite data, quantitative analysis, Geography informationsystems, systematic review, and meta-analysis. With a strong background inEconomics and Mathematics, Dr. Tu Le has successfully turned her long-life passion
for Women’s Economics Empowerment into highly impactful research. Her contribution
to the field of Gender Equality was recognized by the mission as Returning Expert in
the framework of the Programme and Expert Fund Migration & Diaspora (PMD) German Cooperation (GIZ) since 2020.

Title: The HoChiMinh City- Urban Mobility and gender-sensitive analysis
This research investigates the cohesive relationship of urban transportation including Mobility, Gender, andCare by studying the case of HoChiMinh city. The difference of women and men participation in transportation
will be identified and connected to the social-gender role activities

Sébastien LECHEVALIER (Professor at EHESS/Presidentof the Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS)
Sébastien Lechevalier is an Economist and a Professor at EHESS (School ofAdvanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris), specialised in Japanese economyand Asian Capitalisms. He is also founder and president of the Fondation FranceJapon de l’EHESS (FFJ).Trained as a labor economist, he has extensively published on
various dimensions of the Japanese economy, in comparative perspective, including:“Lessons from the Japanese experience. Towards an alternative economic policy?”(ENS Editions, 2016). His book, The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism(Routledge, 2014) was published in three languagesand has been cited as one of themost influential ones on the Japanese economy published during the last decade.
Other research interests include innovation (Innovation beyond technology, Springer, 2019), industrial policies(“Financialization and industrial policies in Japan and Korea: Evolving complementarities and loss of statecapabilities” in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2019, Vol. 48), and inequalities & redistribution(“Decomposing Preference for Redistribution. Beyond the Trans-Atlantic Perspective”, forthcoming). For morethan a decade, he is involved in SASE, as a participant and an organizer.