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Travailler les âges en professionnel·le : accompagnement et catégorisation

Call for papers - Sociology

Au cours des dernières décennies, la sociologie francophone des âges s’est concentrée sur les passages et leur encadrement par les politiques publiques. Même si de plus en plus de chercheur·se·s appellent à construire une sociologie transversale des âges de la vie, la sociologie de l’âge n’en reste pas moins très segmentée par catégorie : sociologie de l’enfance, de la pré-adolescence, de la jeunesse, du vieillissement. Les recherches sont aussi bien souvent cloisonnées de par leur thématique, amenant les chercheur·se·s à travailler sur un groupe d’âge spécifique : c’est le cas de la socialisation ou de l’école. La sociologie du travail quant à elle a produit un champ abondant de recherche sur l’âge au travail interrogeant l'entrée dans la carrière jusqu’aux aléas de sa fin. Cependant, si l’âge y est envisagé comme une catégorie du parcours, il est rarement étudié en tant qu’objet de l’activité de ceux et celles qui encadrent des passages d’âge.

Social justice in times of uncertainty

Geneva

Call for papers - Sociology

The 2021 Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA)

Social Justice in Times of Uncertainty takes as a starting point the health pandemic that erupted in 2020, which led societies across the world to cope with disruptions in the provisioning of goods and services, means of livelihood, and fundamental freedom – not least, that of movement. The crisis also revealed global and local inequalities, translated into who has the right to live or not, and raised new questions around (in)justice in the contemporary world. In light of the turmoil experienced, as a globalized society and within our communities, this congress emphasizes the relevance of social and environmental justice in the making of a fair society, asking the question: in times of uncertainty, what does it mean to live a good life in a just society?

Sport and crisis: bodies, practices, representations

Teramo

Call for papers - Sociology

ESA Research Network 28 - Society and Sport

The aim of this midterm conference is to bring scholars, researchers, educators, students, professionals, and other groups interested in sports and physical activity to propose their works. The focus of this midterm conference lays in the challenges that sociology of sports and physical activity have to face to understand these new complex scenarios, the main issues we had to face, the successes, the criticalities and the lessons learned, the new horizons of our understandings of the social and cultural landscapes.

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Brussels

House/Keeping

Domestic accumulation, decluttering, and the stuff of kinship in anthropological perspective

We invite submissions of abstracts considering the following sorts of questions: What is the relationship between storage and the labor of kinship? What kinds of possessions are sources of obligation? Which are experienced as social or animate beings? What social practices and spatial processes surround waste, excess, and the riddance of objects from the home? How might local ethnographic concepts like hau orbrol inform the anthropological understanding of attachment to possessions, recycling, or the circulation of second-hand objects? When is accumulation a valued social practice, and when is it morally suspect? How is the space of storage constructed in relationship to the social space of the home, and how might this reflect on the local category of stored things? We invite authors to consider how practices such as storage, stockpiling, and purging of belongings can be approached anthropologically in order to provide both nuanced ethnographic depth and broader cross-cultural and historical perspective. Interdisciplinary perspectives are also welcome.