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• 15 nov 2020

  Call for papers - America

  Creating ruins or showing ruins in cinema

  Ce thème nous est suggéré par l’action actuelle, à l’échelle mondiale, de la démolition et de l’abattement des statues, des stèles dans un geste de destruction volontaire des vestiges, symboles et icônes du passé liés à l’histoire coloniale et impériale, acte que l’on peut considérer comme une mise en ruines en tant que telle. Pouvait-on imaginer une liquidation des ruines-vestiges du passé pour signifier la ruine d’un passé ?

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• 30 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The discreet mobilisations of the popular classes: tactics of adaptation or forms of alternative life?

  Le concept de mobilisation a longtemps été surdéterminé par son rapport au politique, tout particulièrement dans la perspective de la « structure des opportunités politiques » (Tarrow, 1990), comme si toute forme de résistance ne pouvait se positionner que par rapport au pouvoir en place et en fonction de lui. La mobilisation soignante contre le COVID 19 a rappelé pourtant qu’il existe tout un champ de pratiques en apparence consensuelles, mais porteuses de dimensions égalitaires et émancipatrices (ou au contraire conservatrices), dont la portée politique n’est ni un préalable, ni une conséquence inéluctable. Ces pratiques participent d’une définition ouverte des mobilisations et du mouvement social, dans la mesure où elles sont collectives, largement intentionnelles et portées vers le changement social, entendu ici comme pratique de subversion (partielle) d’un rapport social de domination. Elles se rapportent aux mœurs et aux formes de vie partiellement autonomes par rapport au champ politique, en tout cas elles ne se positionnent pas hic et nunc par rapport au politique – elles sont discrètes. Mais comment une mobilisation peut-elle être discrète ?

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• 15 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Labour and Migration in the Age of Borders

  The recent focus in politics and the media on the “migration crisis” and the rise of populisms in Europe is an invitation to interrogate migrations in the light of geopolitical, ethical or identity approaches. With this thematic issue we wish to complement, not contradict, these approaches by reintroducing the economic dimension of migration through a study of the multiple forms of work and labor; and address the entanglements between migration policy and work. This special issue asks the following question: what can we learn from the exploration of migrant labor in an age of advanced capitalism and border consolidation? It will look at the relation between migratory statuses, legal and professional situations, under a juridical and socio-economic perspective: at the articulation of power relations within forms of migrant labor; at the impact of processes of borderization on the various worlds of labor; at the forms of resistance to exploitation and subjugation of migrant workers or employees working with migrants. These multiple forms of action at the margins indicate that rather than being depoliticized, labor — and especially labor as it is transformed by migration — remains today a privileged site for understanding the political effects of greater flexibility when it comes to working conditions, the denial of recognition for workers and the hidden face of authoritarian capitalism.

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• 31 mar 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Tilting

  Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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• 16 jan 2020	13 fév 2020	12 mar 2020
  09 avr 2020	14 mai 2020	...

  Marseille

  Lecture series - Sociology

  Lifestyles in the Mediterranean

  How to change our lifestyles?

  La Méditerranée est sans doute une des régions du monde parmi les plus affectées par le réchauffement climatique et les bouleversements de notre écosystème. Ce constat est le point de départ de notre réflexion collective sur les changements de nos modes de vie. Comment vivre ? Sans doute bien différemment, dès aujourd’hui, et plus encore demain, compte tenu des fragilités de longue date du monde méditerranéen. Changer nos modes de vie ? Telle est la question qui servira de fil conducteur au cours des six séances de notre atelier de recherche, en 2020.

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• 15 mar 2020

  Metz

  Call for papers - Representation

  LGBTI and Queer Arts, Cultures and Activisms

  In France, a few years after the law authorizing same-sex marriage, LGBTQ associations are now facing new struggles, fighting for access to assisted procreation or the creation of a communal archive center. Drawing on these dynamics, this conference aims at interrogating the bonds between LGBTQ forms of arts, cultures and activisms. We look forward to opening a space for academics and grassroots activists, whether they be engaged in institutional collectives or not, to exchange, reflect and dialogue. LGBTQ-related topics appear to be often overlooked in French research networks. We aim to make it more visible and richer, and make it dialogue with local, national and international networks of academics and activists.

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• 16 fév 2020

  Ifrane

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Public Sphere and the Politics of Space

  With the gradual rise of socio-economic and political challenges facing the Middle East and North African (MENA) and the Sub-Saharan regions, the “public space” and the “public sphere” have come to the forefront of scholarly debates and research by scholars in various fields of studies. The concept of the “public sphere” was conceived as part of the interplay of first a physical locale that imply constant social relationships in a concrete public domain (public space) and second the constellations of socio-economic factors contributing to the rise of political debates (public sphere). The aim of this conference is to probe social, economic, political problems via the theoretical lenses of the public sphere, the different aspects of spatial configurations, the politics of space, as well as the counter-public or parallel discursive arenas as conceived by Nancy Fraser.

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• 01 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Modern

  Demobilising the popular classes

  Espaces et sociétés Journal

  Dans ce numéro d'Espaces et Sociétés, nous souhaitons analyser la dimension spatiale des obstacles et des stratégies visant à empêcher la mobilisation des classes populaires, que ce soit avant ou après que celle-ci prenne forme. La notion de démobilisation permet d’interroger de concert les pratiques qui contraignent ou empêchent l’émergence de l’action collective et les formes symboliques et matérielles visant à entraver et réprimer les mobilisations. On peut penser par exemple, d’un côté, aux stratégies de stigmatisation ou de délégitimation, aux pratiques paternalistes, clientélistes ou de cooptation ou, de l’autre, aux modes de répression, directs ou indirects, policiers ou judiciaires.

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