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• 08 déc 2016

  09 déc 2016

  Limoges

  Conference, symposium - History

  Environmenal protest, resistance and negotiation on a local scale in industrialised societies

  XIXe-XXIe siècle

  En recourant à des études de cas pour mieux comprendre le rôle des instances de régulation de ces conflits, il entend exhumer et mettre en relation les résistances locales pour en dégager les logiques à l’œuvre. Quatre axes de réflexion structureront ce colloque : les motifs, les acteurs, les formes de l’action et les résultats.

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• 01 oct 2016

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Poverty and social intervention in the rural environment - portrait, assessment and prospects

  Nouvelles pratiques sociales journal, volume 29, issue 1 (spring 2017)

  La revue Nouvelles pratiques sociales est à la recherche d’articles pour le dossier « Pauvreté et intervention sociale en milieu rural : portrait, bilan et prospective ». Dans le cadre de ce dossier thématique, nous souhaitons créer un espace de réflexion en nous appuyant sur des perspectives disciplinaires variées, des savoirs pratiques et des expertises de vie pour explorer des questions permettant de mieux comprendre les enjeux et défis reliés au territoire rural, à la pauvreté en milieu rural et aux pratiques d’intervention en la matière.

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• 02 jui 2016

  03 jui 2016

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Borders, Walls and Violence

  Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

  Chaque semaine amène l’annonce de la construction d’un nouveau mur frontalier : Kenya / Somalie, Tunisie / Libye, Hongrie / Serbie, Turquie / Syrie… De nouveaux remparts sont érigés, dans la foulée du 11 septembre, du Printemps arabe et du conflit syrien, pour prévenir, enrayer, selon les discours officiels, l’immigration illégale, la contagion terroriste, le trafic. Désormais, les frontières ne sont plus des lignes, ni même des interfaces. Elles ne sont plus souples et poreuses, elles sont dures et agressives. À la frontière, la nouvelle norme est celle d’une violence latente.

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• 15 mar 2016

  Banská Bystrica

  Call for papers - Europe

  Identities, Democracy, Borders

  Within Europe, a relatively indeterminate contours’ space, efforts to integrate and to bound the people and the political systems have yielded tangible results in political, economic, social and cultural matters. The objectives were consensual, such as to ensure lasting peace, economic growth and global security, as well as the freedom to act, to undertake and to think. Yet some may think that the integration has been made too hastily – especially to the east, creating new differentiations: East/West, adding to an older North/South. This analytical prism however is reducing because it largely ignores internal disparities in most national territories.

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• 15 jan 2016

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Geography

  Thinking Migration to Rethink the World

  The aim of this conference, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of MIGRINTER, is to examine the contribution of migration studies to human and social sciences at large. It will feature panels bringing forward some of the scientific domains that have addressed issues pertaining to international migration: the production of cities; the relation of politics to migration and of migrants to politics; history beneath and beyond nations; literature in/of exile.

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• 01 avr 2016

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Housing and inequalities

  Espaces et sociétés

  In a general context of growing social inequalities, this issue reviews the role that housing plays in the system of inequalities, on the one hand, and in the multiple variations of housing inequalities, on the other. Faced with growing tensions in the housing market, we seek contributions that capture the changes at work in a field well-trodden by urban studies. Produced by class domination, racism and gender, how are today's inequalities intersect in analyses of access and housing conditions? How are inequalities produced in housing, who are the actors, what is the role of public policy? Beside typical situations, we encourage contributors to provide analyses of minority forms of housing as "social fact park" or de facto social housing in the private sector and existing housing stock and via third parties. Finally, this Call for Papers asks what are the consequences of housing inequality on the (re)production of inequality, and the changing classificatory function of housing.

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• 08 jan 2016

  Reims

  Call for papers - Geography

  Contemporary crisis and changes

  Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches

  For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the "subprime mortgage crisis" appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity. In 2015, economic difficulties persist (growth stagnation in developed countries and lower growth in emerging markets, explosion of unemployment, deindustrialisation and offshoring, market tensions in China, the euro zone, etc.). In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Saharian and Sahelian Africa, Middle East, Far East and Eastern Europe) leading to strong migratory waves while power poles seem to be redeploying between the USA, China and other regional powers.The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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