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• 04 oct 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Comparative perspectives on censorship

  Modes of control of cultural production under different political regimes

  Les recherches sur la censure politique sous différents régimes politiques, ainsi que celles consacrées aux aires géographiques relativement éloignées, ne se rencontrent que très rarement. Le premier objectif de cette journée d’études qui se place dans une optique interdisciplinaire est de faire dialoguer les chercheurs qui étudient la censure sur des terrains politiques et géographiques variés, afin de poser la question des similitudes et des spécificités. Le deuxième objectif de cette manifestation est de croiser les regards sur les modalités de la censure appliquées aux différentes formes de production culturelle.

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• 04 déc 2017

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Digital platform-based employment and jobs

  A number of digital platforms (Airbnb, Deliveroo, Uber, etc.) have expanded in recent years by presenting themselves as new types of intermediaries linking end users and the suppliers of labour. The success of these new kinds of companies has intrigued the press, causing polarised debates between advocates of “the sharing economy” and critics of how “uber-isation” damages work and employment. Some of these new economic actors have become multinational enterprises within a very short period of time, generating colossal revenues, whereupon they become quickly and widely lauded as the harbingers of a new digital economy. Yet behind this supposedly innovative business model, one particularity characterising this new type of economic transaction is the fact that the suppliers or labour are often private individuals who neither earn wages nor qualify as bona fide professionals. The correct way of viewing them is as the owners of the means of labour (i.e. labour force) that they - acting in their capacity as independent contractors - either sell directly to consumers or else to other intermediaries.

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• 15 fév 2017

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Justice and politics in the post-Arab revolution Maghreb

  Reform, institutions, reconciliation

  After years as a space of authoritarian exception, the Arab world became a space of "revolution". The outcome has proven meager at best: most authoritarian regimes have managed to muzzle protest movements. Only Tunisia seems engaged in a process of transition, relaying and integrating key political constituencies. Given such a configuration, we will examine the various modes by which relations of Justice and political power have been articulated in recent years in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

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