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• 15 oct 2018

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Racialization and othering in the context of mobilities: a focus on the Globalized South

  Special Issue of the "Civilisations" Journal, vol. 68 (2019)

  This special issue proposes to understand the multiple transnational circulations of the processes of othering and racialization in postcolonial contexts by shifting the gaze through the category “Globalized South”. By “Globalized South”, we refer to a set of geopolitical areas - interconnected through colonial histories and/or economic and social structural transformations. We prefer this category over others (like “Developing countries” or “Southern countries”) because it points out the dynamics and reconfigurations structuring the relations of domination at the global scale. By adopting this category, we accentuate the social processes that (re)produce the power relations in contemporary societies. In general, this special issue intends to gather papers that focus on the making of racialized identity and otherness in the context of mobilities in the globalized South. 

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• 14 mar 2018

  15 mar 2018

  16 mar 2018

  Neuilly-sur-Seine

  Conference, symposium - Information

  Knowledge, job insecurity and mobility

  Ce séminaire fait suite à des ateliers et des enquêtes menées par des collègues internationaux pour tenter de problématiser le lien entre conditions de précarité (sociale, politique...), pratiques de production des savoirs, nature des savoirs sur la société et modes d'expression et de partage de ceux-ci. Ensemble, nous tentons de développer une réflexion qui permette de situer le travail académique dans un ensemble de rapports aux savoirs marqués par des conditions d'empêchement ou de vulnérabilité. Nous nous relions, notamment, aux travaux sur les subalternités, et à une préoccupation à la fois épistémologique et politique sur les alliances entre sciencessociales, savoirs de proximité, et imaginaires d'un monde habitable.

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• 05 mar 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Queering Friendship | citizenship, care and choice

  Intimate Final Conference

  Contrary to individualization theories that suggest the impoverishment of human relationships, theories of relationality recognize the increasing centrality of informal networks of solidarity and care. In this debate, friendship plays a fundamental role. The mutual implications of intimacy and citizenship need to be addressed, exploring the extent to which issues of LGBTQ friendship matter (or not) in being recognized as citizens. The centrality of friendship is even more striking when considering personal lives of trans and non-binary people, but also lesbian women, gay men and bisexual people, LGBTQ migrants and other intersecting, vulnerable groups. In particular, the way transgender people actively provide and receive different care between friends offers invaluable contributions to political debates and conceptual discussions around friendship and care as a key aspect of LGBTQ everyday life. Unveiling the richness of the blurred spaces of intimacy, the ways in which LGBTQ people produce alternatives to family-based forms of cohabitation are also of critical importance. LGBTQ lived experiences further contribute to destabilizing the family/friends and public/private binaries, whilst challenging heterocisnormative expectations about who legitimately belongs to the intimate sphere and who remains excluded and/or invisible.

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