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Perla Serfaty-Garzon|Perla Korosec-Serfaty}}AcademicPsychosociology>writer}}| awards = J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award| website =perlaserfaty.net/| education = Ph.D.| alma_mater = University of Strasbourg| workplaces = University of Strasbourg}}Perla Serfaty (pen names, Perla Serfaty-Garzon and Perla Korosec-Serfaty; born in 1944 in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer, and essayist, known in particular for her work on home and intimacy. She is a theorist of domestic intimacy, hospitality and the appropriation of inhabited places,WEB, En mouvement – Le chez-soi à l’épreuve des mobilités – un texte de Perla Serfaty-Garzon,archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perlaserfaty.net%2Ftexte33.htm#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url, perlaserfaty.net, archive.wikiwix.com, 27 April 2023, fr, and an expert in environmental psychology.BOOK, Armelle, Gaulier, Denis-Constant, Martin, 19 July 2017, Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience, African Books Collective, 49–, 978-1-928331-51-3, 1000439814,books.google.com/books?id=nwJXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA49, Her book Vieillesse et Engendrements. La longévité dans la tradition juive., dedicated to the traditional Jewish view of longevity as transmitted by the Hebrew Bible, was awarded the J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award in 2014. The contribution of Serfaty’s work to environmental psychology was distinguished by her induction in 2018 into the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Hall of Fame.WEB, Hall of fame,iaps-association.org/about-iaps/hall-of-fame/, IAPS Association, 27 April 2023, fr,

Early life and education

Perla Serfaty moved to France in 1964. She studied philosophy, psychology, and sociology at the University of Strasbourg, where she followed the teachings of Georges Gusdorf, André Canivez, Georges Lanteri-Laura, Didier Anzieu, and Henri Lefebvre. She joined the laboratory of Professor Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, (École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris V – Sorbonne, where she received her doctorate in literature and humanities (1985, sociologie).

Career and research

Appointed to the Institute of Psychology at the University of Strasbourg in 1969, she introduced into her teaching environmental psychology,WEB, The Library of Congress, Serfaty-Garzon, Perla, 1944– – LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies {{!, Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86831808.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=27 April 2023}} a young discipline that was not taught in France at the time, where it was still practically unknown.WEB, Blueprints for a History of Environmental Psychology (II): From Architectural Psychology to the challenge of sustainability in Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano,archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmach.webs.ull.es%2FPDFS%2FVol8_1y2%2FVol8_1y2_a.pdf%2Findex.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url, archive.wikiwix.com, Editorial Resma, 27 April 2023, 1–28, 2007, Serfaty took an active part in the development of research in environmental psychology as well as in its institutional recognition.Bulletin of People-Environment Studies, no. 32, Autumn-Winter 2007–2008, p. 10ENCYCLOPEDIA, Esteban-Guitart, Moises, Appropriation,link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_616, Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, Springer, 27 April 2023, 128–132, en, 10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_616, 2014, 978-1-4614-5582-0, She organized the first international conference devoted to environmental psychology to be held in France: the 3rd International Architectural Psychology Conference (IAPC) (Strasbourg, 1976),BOOK, Appropriation de l’espace : actes de la 3ème conférence internationale de psychologie de l’espace construit, [université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 21–25 juin 1976] {{!, WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715418650 |via=www.worldcat.org |oclc=715418650 |access-date=27 April 2023 |language=en}} ), in Strasbourg, the theme of which was ‘The Appropriation of Space.’ The creation of the IAPS (International Association of People-Environmental Studies) in 1981 consolidated, institutionalized and gave formal recognition to the international character of the IAPC.Perla Serfaty took an active part in the development of research and theory of Environmental Psychology as well as in its institutional recognition as well as in the conceptualization within the framework of this discipline of the notions of dwelling, ‘chez-soi,’ hospitality, loss of home in migration, as well as of appropriation of space.Among Perla Serfaty’s research interests are also sociability and the modes of appropriation of public urban spaces, the transformation of the meaning of protection of architectural and urban heritage as well as of intangible cultural heritage.

Awards and honours

• 2014, J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award
• 2018, induction into the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Hall of Fame

Selected works

• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 2016, Quand votre maison vous est contée, Bayard Canada, 978-2-89579-768-5, 991381693,books.google.com/books?id=w9UoswEACAAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, Vieillesse et engendrements, Novalis, 2014, 978-2-89646-656-6, 937593826,books.google.com/books?id=TU1FEAAAQBAJ, (Prix J.I.-Segal, 2014)
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 30 April 2008, Marre d’être la fée du logis ?: Paradoxes de la femme d’aujourd’hui, Armand Colin, 978-2-200-24362-3, 1041211802,books.google.com/books?id=9pY0BwAAQBAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 2006, Enfin chez soi?, Bayard Canada Livres, 978-2-89579-815-6, 1269054550,books.google.com/books?id=x-FEEAAAQBAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 2006, Un chez-soi chez les autres, Bayard Canada, 978-2-89579-811-8, 1256742953,books.google.com/books?id=tOGJzgEACAAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 13 November 2003, Chez soi: Les territoires de l’intimité, Armand Colin, 978-2-200-35643-9,books.google.com/books?id=IIk3BwAAQBAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, 1999, Psychologie de la maison: une archéologie de l’intimité, Editions Cursus Universitaire, 978-2-89546-001-5, 313654636,books.google.com/books?id=fTC_PQAACAAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Serge, Carreau, Perla, Serfaty-Garzon, Québec (Province). Ministère de la culture et des communications, 1998, Le patrimoine de Montréal: document de référence, Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère de la culture et des communications, 978-2-89417-777-8, 43281621,books.google.com/books?id=TrhrAAAACAAJ,
• Korosec-Serfaty, Perla, La Grand’place. Pratiques quotidiennes et identité de lieu, Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 1986
• BOOK, none, en, Perla, Korosec-Serfaty, 1982, The Main Square: Functions and Daily Uses of Stortorget in Malmoe, Aris, 9789197045407, 1049275642,books.google.com/books?id=gN5oQgAACAAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Korosec-Serfaty, 1979, Une maison à soi: déterminants psychologiques et sociaux de l’habitat individuel, Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 490940817,books.google.com/books?id=5e53tgAACAAJ,
• BOOK, none, fr, Perla, Korosec-Serfaty, 1976, Appropriation de l’espace, Universite Louis Pasteur, 757287074,books.google.com/books?id=xyYauQAACAAJ,

References

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External links

• Personal website

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