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• 19 sep 2016

  Lille | Brussels

  Call for papers - Law

  Democratic and Electronic Changes in Local Public Action in Europe: REvolution or E-volution?

  The OLA network (Observatory on Local Autonomy), the CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions), and Lille University, will organise a three-day conference on September 2017, in Lille (France) and Brussels (Belgium). The topic of the symposium is “Democratic and Electronic Changes in Local Public Action in Europe: REvolution or E-volution?”.

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• 05 fév 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The production of subjectivity under neo-liberal governance

  Neoliberal governance and its structures, and dispositifs, are at the core of contemporary debates in the human sciences. David Harvey (2006) considers neoliberalism a theory that places individual freedom as the final goal of all civilisations. Private property rights, free markets and liberal democracy are the means through which individual freedom is best protected and society flourishes, according to neo-liberal views. The primary role of the state is to enforce property rights, while market forces govern the economy. Neo-liberal ideas have shaped global and national policy for over three decades, introducing the primacy of private property and market rationality in all range of public life from education to healthcare, from land governance to environmental protection. Workers' rights in the global North as well as in the South are devalued in favour of individual responsibility.

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