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• 31 mai 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - America

  Knowledges, Sciences, Techniques and State building in Iberian America, 1790-1870

  Over the last few decades the renewal of the history of the sciences has been marked by an opening towards non-European spaces, especially the Iberian Americas, and by the study of the relations between knowledges and power. We now have at our disposal a growing body of work on the imperial sciences, the contribution of the colonies to the advancement of knowledge, more particularly the natural sciences, and on the Enlightenment and the links between sciences, revolutions and independence in the colonial territories. However it is the opposite hypothesis that we seek to explore, highlighting both the modalities by which the legacy of the imperial, colonial Enlightenment was passed on and transformed, and the processes which meant that late 19th century Ibero-American societies, including Brazil and the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, were ready to take full advantage of the new scientistic paradigm with a rapidity that ought to strike us as surprising.

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• 01 jan 2014

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Perspectives and thoughs of Latin America

  Development and democracy in globalisation. Reflections based on the critical social sciences

  En prenant appui sur les sciences sociales critiques, ce colloque cherchera à problématiser la situation latinoaméricaine en contexte de globalisation. Pour cela, il proposera d’organiser la réflexion autour de deux axes majeurs: le développement d’une part, la démocratie d’autre part. Pour chacun de ces axes, il proposera d’analyser les concepts utilisés pour rendre compte de la réalité latino-américaine, mais aussi de voir dans quelle mesure les pratiques alternatives en matière de développement et de démocratie sont porteuses de savoirs spécifiques. Ce colloque cherchera à proposer un espace où pourront être discutés à la fois des regards critiques mobilisés sur l'Amérique latine et des savoirs critiques produits par l'Amérique latine en les situant dans le cadre, synchronique et diachronique, des relations qu’elles entretiennent avec d’autres régions du globe : Europe, Afrique, Asie…

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• 31 mai 2014

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  International comparison: methods and challenges

  Journal Espaces et sociétés

  Espaces et sociétés raises the issue of the aims of international comparison in its specific scientific field: the relationship between societies and their spaces. This themed issue intends to discuss the challenges and methodologies at stake in comparative research. The aim is not to present data extracted from an international comparison, but to focus on the epistemological and methodological challenges in the process of their production.

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