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• 15 sep 2020

  Call for papers - America

  Borders in the Americas – Integration, Security and Migrations

  In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, many analysts and experts argued that the world had reached the “end of history” [Fukuyama, 1992] and that regional and local organizations and free trade agreements (among which the European Union appeared to be a model of integration) signaled the emergence of a world without borders. Yet, thirty years later, the reality seems to be altogether different. Today, it is clear that “borders are back”. Whether these borders are challenged, violated, transcended, consolidated, or integrated, they remain necessarily at the heart of the political debate. This symposium will focus on a specific geographic area: the Americas.

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• 24 jui 2020

  Grenoble

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  Still on the Map!

  Mississippi Delta Communities Facing Disappearing Land

  "Still on the Map!" takes as its context the Mississippi Delta fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina and about five years after the commissioning of the major new "100-year" flood protection infrastructure. Expressed from its title -a statement of resistance/resilience chanted by many inhabitants during ecological events in Louisiana- this research project aims to describe the links and "attachments" (LATOUR, 2017) that different communities in the delta maintain with their geographical environment in a situation of strong ecological tipping point, integrating the natural and artificial infrastructures of the watershed into the definition of ecosystems as socio-political actors in their own right. In a context where the delta's land is gradually sinking into the sea, every hour the surface area of a football pitch is permanently flooded.

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• 15 mar 2020

  Nice

  Call for papers - History

  Frontier(s) and Frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world

  Call for papers

  It may be argued that any frontier is the expression of what is discontinuous, of the existence of an ‘inside’ and of an ‘outside’, in short, that a frontier is an attempt to keep the ‘other’ at bay, whatever the meaning of the term – a given geographical territory, or a specific political entity, or a different culture, or else all of these put together. These considerations are in tune with the etymological origin of the word ‘frontier’ itself, i.e. anything that helps a group of people ‘develop a united front’. Examples abound, from the so-called ‘natural’ frontier of this or that country to Brexit, to the wall that President Trump has set out to build between his own country and Mexico. 

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• 31 jan 2020

  Call for papers - America

  Supernature - popular culture workshop

  Popular culture workshop

  En refusant d’entendre la parole scientifique et en tentant de décrédibiliser le discours écologiste volontiers tronqué ou caricaturé, l’humanité, l’Amérique en tête, pose nettement la question d’une planète où l’être humain n’aurait plus sa place et serait, finalement, condamné à disparaître comme tant d’autres espèces avant lui. Une autre histoire nous attend donc. Après l’anthropocène et le triomphe du génie industriel, une période où la faune et la flore, débarrassées de leur principal adversaire, pourrait de nouveau croître, augmenter, et évoluer vers de nouvelles formes par le biais de facteurs endogènes ou exogènes. Loin d’une fin du monde annoncée, cette période post-historique, par définition post-humaine, amène de nombreux auteurs à s’interroger sur la place de l’homme sur notre planète.

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