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• 15 nov 2014

  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.

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• 10 avr 2014

  11 avr 2014

  Nanterre | Vanves

  Conference, symposium - Economy

  Guaranteed social income

  Theoretical and political issues and forms of application in Latin America

  Depuis quelques années le revenu garanti forme désormais un enjeu à la fois théorique et politique qui nourrit le débat aussi bien au sein des mouvements et des forces critiques que dans les cercles académiques. D’un côté, se consolident des réseaux nationaux et internationaux promouvant des instances vouées à sauvegarder un accès aux biens et aux services indépendant de la quantité et du type de prestations fournies ; d’un autre côté la question du revenu traverse à l’heure actuelle de nombreux champs du savoir et des pratiques. Le colloque de deux journées « Les enjeux théoriques et politiques du revenu social garanti » que nous proposons vise à contribuer à une réflexion pluridisciplinaire et critique capable d’explorer tant sa légitimité éthico-économique que son applicabilité financière et économico-politique.

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