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• 01 sep 2016

  Call for papers - Representation

  Luxury: Theory and practice

  Revue de l'Institut français de la mode n°1

  The inaugural issue will deal with a definition: how can luxury be defined? In other words, approaching luxury from the angle of how it is considered, demarcated and the more or less successful attempts to outline its perimeter in terms of concepts, methods, representations, fields of application and scientific disciplines. In addition to examining the multitude of definitions of luxury, as well as what these definitions presuppose, this issue of the IFM Review “Luxury: Theory and Practice” will open up the space for thought to different academic disciplines (sociology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, management history and management science) as well as to the free examination of the wide range of subjects (food, fashion, clothes, cars, architecture, art, etc.) that come under the umbrella of the luxury object or service.

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• 30 sep 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Health Data : What's in a name ?

  This call for proposals aims at providing insights one the very concept of health data: their definition, their protection, the respective roles of actors involved and, on a broader perspective, their destination, the frontier between health and well-being, confidential and public, etc. The objective is to foster exchanges and lead to innovative transdisciplinary research opportunities on this complex topic, in order to better understand the future of health.

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• 29 fév 2016

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Looking at luxury fashions

  Ce colloque propose un regard neuf sur la mode de luxe, un secteur d’activité économique international dont la pérennité est assurée par l’émergence des classes moyennes mondiales. La mode de luxe s’illustre dans la manière de s’adapter aux nouveaux marchés et aux exigences des consommateurs. La mode de luxe, c’est aussi un immense champ de compétences, chapeauté par un Comité Colbert, une association de douze métiers de la mode, qui, depuis 1954, est chargée de promouvoir le concept de luxe tout en veillant au maintien d’une vision commune internationale, harmonieuse et respectueuse de l’authenticité du savoir-faire de biens de luxe et des critères de qualité.

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• 01 fév 2016

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Sociology

  On-line communities: the instrumentalisation of marketing and resistance

  Suivant la généralisation de la communication marketing à toutes les sphères de l’activité, l’internet et le web social sont aujourd’hui marquées par la sphère marchande. Ainsi, l’analyse et la compréhension des formes communautaires de socialisation en ligne sont principalement l’apanage des approches fonctionnalistes et gestionnaires. Cet état de fait, s’il nous apparaît significatif d’une généralisation de l’instrumentalisation marketing et marchande du lien communautaire en ligne, nous interpelle a contrario sur les éventuelles formes et figures de la résistance à cette rationalisation.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Questioning self-medication

  A socially and geographically situated bricolage

  Treating oneself is a controversial practice: scorned in the name of the health risks it runs, self-treatment may also be praised in the name of the independence it expresses. The messages of public health authorities are at the heart of the controversy, emphasizing risk one moment and their potential for patient responsibility the next. Such contradictory injunctions also affect the practices of care providers. The conference has chosen to allow comparisons and confrontations between these various disciplinary approaches as well as distinct research field sites (North/South, North/North, South/South). These practices and their determinants have to be more finely mapped and analyzed to put these analyses – by definition always partial, and theoretically, historically, and geographically situated – in perspective.

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