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Helsinki

What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro

In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?

Call for papers - Sociology

Mothers' and childrens' health in all its states

Annde journal no.1 – the international journal of health, eco-economy and innovation

Créée en 2019, la revue Annde est une revue pluridisciplinaire semestrielle de sciences sociales qui publie des travaux originaux (sous forme d’articles scientifiques ou de praticien-ne-s) sur les problématiques de santé, d’écologie, d’économie, de sociologie, d’anthropologie, de psychologie, d’histoire, de géographie et de science politique. La revue encourage et privilégie particulièrement les travaux à caractère interdisciplinaire qui intègrent ou mettent en avant les savoirs endogènes au travers d’enquêtes documentaires et empiriques sur les réalités sociales africaines. Annde offre ainsi une opportunité aux chercheurs et chercheuses et praticien-ne-s juniors et séniors intéressé-e-s par des problématiques sociales, dans l’espace africain, de publier des textes dans l’optique de partager les résultats de leurs travaux de recherche dans les domaines aussi variés que la santé, la protection sociale, les économies agricole et informelle ainsi que les innovations qui y sont associées.

Marseille

Call for papers - Sociology

What role does dessalination have in adapting to climatic change?

La Société hydrotechnique de France (SHF), l’Association française pour l’eau l’irrigation et le drainage (AFEID), l’Académie de l’eau poursuivent leurs travaux sur les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050. Ces travaux soulignent l’importance de considérer la palette complète des outils d’adaptation, organisationnels et techniques, tant pour l’usage économe de l’eau que pour la sécurisation de la ressource. Le dessalement fait partie de cette palette d’outils et fera l’objet de ce colloque.

Paris

Call for papers - Asia

Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market

Hegemonic neo-liberal discourse assumes that free competition on all levels sparks a virtuous cycle of economic growth, which eventually trickles down to poor populations. Over the past three decades, the idea that restrictive labour laws hamper such competition has justified the deregulation of labour in the North and the un-regulation of labour in the South, notably in South Asia, where labour relations had already mainly been informal. Various sociologists have noted that intensified economic interactions and the rise of competition have made individuals more likely to activate their social networks to protect their individual interests. In this respect, to what extent do social networks shape relations in the diverse South Asian labour markets? How do new forms of social groupings reconfigure competition and solidarity relations? What forms of social interactions prevail, emerge and weaken in the market: chosen solidarity and inherited solidarity; inter-caste and intra-caste solidarity; class solidarity; corporate solidarity etc.?

Nogent-sur-Marne

Call for papers - Economy

The Political Economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

An accurate assessment of the current economic and political situation in Iran today clearly implies examining the relations between the structure of political power, the dominant forms of ownership, and economic activity. Furthermore, the interweaving of the economic and political spheres in Iran today can be better understood through this lens. Finally, an analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political economy can also provide keys to understand the country's future political evolutions. An analysis in terms of political economy thus requires a multidisciplinary approach involving exchanges between economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians.

Paris

Call for papers - Sociology

Economic Elites in Developing Countries

Academic debates on economic elites in “developed” countries are abundant. These theoretical or empirical works study, amongst others, the surge of a transnational capitalist class or the relevance of local dynamics in understanding elite behavior and selection. For their part, studies assessing elites in developing countries tend to uphold the notion that a dominant class exists and that it is able to consolidate its domination by colluding with political strongmen allied to the State and that often, this domination is maintained through a monopoly of the relations with the international economy. However, the political upheavals that recently affected countries in the Arab world as well as those that took place in Latin America in the 1990s, as well as in Eastern Europe and in South-East Asia, call such one-dimensional analyses into question. As this proposal brings to sight, more than a decade ago the combined accumulation of old and new processes led to the emergence, circulation or transformation of existing reproduction modalities in developing countries. Unsurprisingly, these changes caused socio-political disruptions that in turn triggered the renewal of career paths to elite positions, alongside new modalities of international education and State/business collusion mechanisms. We invite applicants to join us in studying these structural yet paradoxical dynamics in order to contribute to a critical understanding of economic elites in different contexts. This workshop is mainly open to empirical research dealing with the analysis of economic elites in developing countries, their resistance to transformations of the international order and, of course, their adaptation to the disruptions of the last twenty years.

Call for papers - Economy

Accounting Professions in the Arab Region

Beyond Standardization: Professionel Dybnamics and Challenges

Arab countries are confronted, like other countries, to the pressure of standardization, but each one of them is responding from the back ground of its particular history. In such a framework, accounting professions have developed, are regulated, have built professional organizations and training institutions, and are now pressed to adopt international standards. International audit firms tend to impose their methods and model with the expansion of transnational corporation, the multiplication of joint ventures and franchised colmpanies. Beyond cultural gaps, historical evolution and political-economic features, reforms are being designed universally, under the pressure of the World Bank. A better understanding of the accounting profession, of practitioners aims and stakes, can point a way forward. The aim of this project is to discuss these issues in the Arab countries, and to contribute by so doing to a new vision of what is at stake in the recent upheavals they have witnessed.

Call for papers - Sociology

The manufacture of heritage in Turkey. Actors, issues and scales

European Journal of Turkish Studies

L'European Journal of Turkish Studies consacre un numéro spécial à la fabrique du patrimoine en Turquie. Plus spécifiquement, ce numéro entend explorer la thématique du patrimoine en Turquie en se centrant sur les rapports entre patrimoine et construction nationale. Il s’agira d’appréhender cette question, en tenant compte, d’une part, du patrimoine comme processus et comme construction sociale, d’autre part, des conceptions patrimoniales des différents acteurs, professionnels et profanes.

Delhi

Call for papers - Asia

Labour, mobility and mobilization in South Asia

16th Workshop Young Researchers Association Jeunes Études Indiennes (AJEI)

Les ateliers 2014 de l’AJEI ont pour objectif d’offrir une vision aussi complète que possible de l’actualité de la recherche contemporaine sur le travail en Inde, afin d’en comprendre les évolutions conceptuelles et d’en analyser les enjeux les plus récents. En mettant en avant les questions de mobilité et de mobilisations politiques et sociales, l’objectif de ces ateliers est de placer au coeur des discussions, les travailleurs et leurs enjeux quotidiens.

Call for papers - Geography

Food production and catastrophes in Japan

Géographie et Cultures special issue

Ce numéro spécial se propose de tenter de comprendre comment la qualité des produits issus de l’agriculture japonaise est maintenue à travers les siècles malgré les menaces qui pèsent sur leur environnement. Les contributions ne se limiteront pas uniquement au nord-est du Japon, brutalement frappé par la succession d’évènements du 11 mars, mais considèreront sur le temps long l’ensemble du pays dans les rapports qu’il entretient avec une agriculture visant à fournir des produits de qualité dans un environnement imprévisible pouvant réduire à néant les efforts de générations.

Paris

Call for papers - Economy

Entrepreneurial Societies and the English-speaking World: cultures, contexts, perspectives

Le colloque international « Entrepreneurial Societies and the English-speaking World: Cultures, Contexts, Perspectives», se tiendra les 16, 17, 18 septembre 2010 en Sorbonne. Organisé par le CERVEPAS, (Centre de Recherche sur la Vie Economique des Pays-Anglo-Saxons), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III , cette rencontre rassemblera chercheurs et praticiens afin d'examiner l'extension et la transnationalisation des processus entrepreneuriaux et le rôle des variables contextuelles (culturelles, institutionnelles, économiques, etc.) qui favorisent l'activité entrepreneuriale mais aussi une forme émergente de lien socio-économique. Les meilleurs articles seront publiés dans un ouvrage collectif à paraître aux Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle et dans des revues anglo-américaines dédiées.

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