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The Marseille, France, metropolitan area is home to a heavily concentrated industrial region directly adjacent to residential communities. These towns have been subjected to a wide variety of social science and public health studies, but residents continue to have many questions about health concerns for which they currently have primarily anecdotal evidence. Reflecting on our in-progress research in two of these towns, we argue that community-based participatory research that draws from both social science and public health science can be successfully adapted to the French political and cultural context and is key for developing environmental health research that is relevant for community residents and local leaders. Understanding and working within the customs of the local values and practices culture is critical for community-based participatory research regardless of location but is particularly paramount when working in non-United States contexts, since local values and practices will shape the particular techniques used within the community-based participatory research framework.

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Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study participants in this stage could further knowledge justice, science that aligns with and supports social justice agendas. This article reports on two community-based participatory environmental health surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019 in an industrial region near Marseille, France, and focuses specifically on our approach of organizing focus groups to directly involve residents and community stakeholders in the analysis and interpretation process. We found that, in these focus groups, residents triangulated across many different sources of information—study findings, local knowledge, and different types of expert knowledge—to reach conclusions about the health of their community and make recommendations for what should be done to improve community health outcomes. We conclude that involving residents in the data analysis and interpretation stage can promote epistemic justice and lead to final reports that are more useful to community stakeholders and decision-makers.

Cet article se propose de saisir une fraction de ce « populaire contemporain » (Collovald et Schwartz, 2006) à partir d’un type d’habitat spécifique, la copropriété dégradée en grand ensemble. Ce type d’habitat concentre une catégorie de population relativement homogène qui partage à la fois des caractéristiques socio-économiques et une expérience vécue similaire. L’analyse des parcours résidentiels des locataires de trois copropriétés dégradées marseillaises datant des années 1950-1960 permet de montrer comment « habiter » ce type d’habitat représente une rare opportunité d’accéder au logement pour certaines fractions des classes populaires, mais entraîne de fortes contraintes contribuant à accentuer leur précarité. Il s’agit ainsi de montrer que même des copropriétés construites après la Seconde Guerre mondiale peuvent devenir un nouvel habitat social de fait.

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