Nicolas Brun

ATER in Geography (CNU 23) at Marie and Louis Pasteur University (UMLP). My research focuses on gambling venues in Paris and Dakar. I am particularly interested in the urban traces of gambling, as well as the spatial strategies implemented by gambling stakeholders (operators, regulators, etc.).

• [Since 2022] PhD thesis in Geography and Planning: Young people and gambling in Paris and Dakar: when games shape urban practices – Érasme Doctoral School – Sorbonne Paris Nord University; supervised by Marie Redon (Professor of Geography at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University), Boris Lebeau (Professor of Geography at Sorbonne Paris Nord University), Ababacar Fall (Senior Lecturer in Geography at the École Polytechnique de Thiès).


• [2020-2022] Master's degree in Geography, specialising in Territories, Environments, Societies – Sorbonne Paris Nord University.


• [2015-2020] Bachelor's degree in Geography and Planning, specialising in Geography, Cities, Territories – CY Cergy Paris University.

• [2022-2023] Contractual doctoral student with teaching duties (Geography) at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (L1, L3).


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• [2023-2024] Contractual doctoral student with teaching duties (Geography) at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (L1, L3).


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• [2024-2025] Contractual doctoral student with teaching duties (Geography) at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (L1, L3).


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• [2025-2026] ATER in geography at Marie et Louis Pasteur University in Besançon.

In a global context of normalization of gambling and liberalization of their practice with the development of new communications technologies, gambling is becoming a new social and spatial issue (Järvinen-Tassopoulos, 2010). This research will deal with gambling practices in urban spaces in Paris (France) and Dakar (Senegal) where the gambling industry is developing and is strongly engraved in “urban landscapes and practices” (Fall et al., 2019). It will focus on gamblers in general, in being attentive to the trajectories that bring gambler onto the gambling field and by taking a particular look at young populations who are developing new ways of gamble in relation to new communication technologies. The comparison between the Parisian and Dakar conurbations will make it possible to articulate dynamics of urbanization and inclusion of gambling and gambling spaces in different urban landscapes, by emphasizing common processes, differences and circulations, while compare South/North perspectives. It’s about questioning common dynamics, resulting from globalized processes, but also the specificity of the links between urbanization, youthful populations, and the development of gambling on a local scale.

Articles :

• Nicolas Brun. Jeux de hasard et d’argent et micro-proximités dans les bars-PMU. L’exemple d’Aubervilliers. GéoProximitéS, 2023, Ma proximité, 0|2023, ⟨hal-04161359⟩

Communications :

• Nicolas Brun. La fabrique d'une spatialité des jeux d'argent au Sénégal. Journée d’étude « Jeux d’argent et de hasard : regards des sciences sociales », Sophie Massin et Christian Ben Lakhdar, Jun 2025, Lille, France. ⟨hal-05094295⟩


• Nicolas Brun. La stratégie d'implantation de la LONASE à Dakar. Première journée d'étude des jeunes chercheur·ses de la SCREAF, Magali Dufau, May 2025, Toulouse (FRANCE) UT2J, France. ⟨hal-05070501⟩


• Nicolas Brun. Ville et jeux d'argent : Le cas d'Aubervilliers. Espaces et temporalités des jeux d'argent. Des pratiques sociales en contextes, Sophie Chevalier; Véronique Moulinié; Pierre-Jacques Olagnier; Thierry Wendling, May 2023, Amiens (Université Picardie Jules Verne), France. ⟨hal-04096140⟩


• Nicolas Brun. Jeux d’argent dans les populations immigrées (Afrique de l’Ouest, Maghreb) à Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). Atelier n°36 : « Les jeux d’argent en Afrique : circulations, asymétries, appropriations » - 7e Rencontres des études Africaines en France, Marie Redon; Ababacar Fall, Jun 2022, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-03864468⟩

Autres productions :

• Nicolas Brun, Boris Noyet. De Paris à Dakar : quand les jeux d'argent modèlent la ville – Interview de Nicolas Brun. 2024. ⟨hal-04935210⟩

• Gambling


• Paris (France)


• Dakar (Senegal)


• Urban