Nathan Marom
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Dr. Nathan Marom was (until 2022) a Senior Lecturer at the School of Sustainability, Reichman University (Interdisciplinary Center) Israel, and currently teaches at the Urban School, Sciences Po, Paris. He is an urban scholar and sociologist specializing in the urban environment, its planning, politics, and social transformations, and its socio-ecological sustainability. Currently, he is working on the metropolitical ecology of the Tel Aviv region, its uneven urban metabolisms and socio-environmental inequalities. At the University of California Berkeley, and at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, he researched urban strategies in global South cities, especially in India and South Africa, and how they engage and interlock with urban inequality.
In September 2023, he joins the Paris IAS as part of the French Institutes for advanced Study fellowship program - FIAS - co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945408. Her fellowship also benefits from the support of the RFIEA+ LABEX, with a national funding (Grant ANR-11-LABX-0027-01).
Research interests
Urban policy and planning, urban political ecology, urban sustainability and resilience, comparative urbanism, climate justice.
Metro-Political Metabolisms: A New Conceptual Framework and Comparison of Paris and Tel Aviv Metropolitan Regions
Metropolitan Regions (MRs) are a critical scale for addressing urbanization and understanding complex socio-ecological systems in relation to the climate crisis. They put enormous material demands and environmental pressures on natural environments, mediated through complex infrastructural-technical systems. Yet despite their impact, the material-environmental processes operating at the MR scale are rarely addressed holistically. The project will address this challenge by developing an interdisciplinary concept of Metro-Political Metabolisms (MPM) that captures both the expanded metropolitan scale of metabolism and its critical political dimensions. The goals of the project are three-fold:
- Theoretically, to develop a new conceptual framework of MPM that significantly expands current understandings of Urban Metabolism. This expansion is at once spatial (address multiple scales), temporal (combine material “stock-taking” with an understanding of metabolism as a socio-historical process), and thematic (connect to “nexus” approaches and account for politics, power relations, and injustice).
- Empirically, to apply the MPM framework to systematically compare the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Region with the Métropole du Grand Paris, building on my ongoing work on the political ecologies of the Tel Aviv MR.
- To outline new policy ideas and tools that focus on the interactions between different metabolic fields and build on the project’s interdisciplinary insights.
Key Publications
Marom, Nathan and Shlomo, Oren (2022). “Green, Gray, Glocal: Governing Urban Resilience in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Region.” Urban Geography (online first) https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2149946
Marom, Nathan (2019) “Urban Visions and Divisions in the Global South: Comparing Strategies for Mumbai and Cape Town.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4): 778-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12309
Marom, Nathan (2014) “Relating a City’s History and Geography with Bourdieu: One Hundred Years of Spatial Distinction in Tel Aviv.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(4): 1344-1362. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12027
 Workshop organized by Nathan Marom, 2023-2024 Paris IAS Fellow, and Nathalie Blanc, Centre des Politiques de la Terre, UPC |
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