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• 05 jui 2020

  Saint-Denis

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Participatory budgeting in 2020: participation without democracy?

  Since the 2010s, participatory budgeting processes have not been the subject of many updated empirical studies, despite their multiplication. The present call invites to highlight and put into perspective the specificities of the most recent participatory budgets; in particular since 2014 in France, and more generally since the years 2010. We aim to gather papers that will allow us to renew the understanding of case studies, and the related general questions about the objectives of the organizers, the effects on participants, on public policies and democracy.

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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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