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    Call for papers - Geography

    Sustainability of Rural Systems

    Balancing Heritage and Innovation

    Belgium is a highly populated country with a long history of land exploitation. The landscape is modified through human impact, shaped by diverse agricultural practices, early urbanization and industrialization, the exploitation of quarries and mines and the dense development of canals, railways and motorway networks. Nevertheless, rural areas are important because farming activities, increasingly mechanized and technologically based, contribute to economic activity, especially to Belgian exports. Agriculture plays an important role in maintaining open space and offering many services, which may be called agroservices, to the new residents of the countryside and people seeking recreation. Due to this long history and sophisticated technological responses to different issues, Belgium is a suitable place to reflect on sustainability and how to balance cultural and natural heritage and innovation with special reference to the ecological and social dimensions.

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Africa

    Situating the Africas in a world history of food: cuisine, consumption and eating together

    Cet atelier, proposé dans le cadre des IVe Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF) a pour objectif de rassembler des études ayant pour trait commun d’intégrer l’histoire de l’alimentation en Afrique – et dans les diasporas – aux dynamiques de l’histoire des mondialisations et de l’histoire connectée. Les contributions, portant sur une période large allant du début de la période moderne à nos jours, devront interroger la construction des goûts, des habitudes de consommation, des façons de manger et notamment de manger ensemble, en relation avec les échanges culturels et économiques entre régions d’Afrique, entre ces régions et les autres continents, et enfin entre ces régions et leurs diasporas. Les contributions pourront interroger autant les pratiques alimentaires elles-mêmes que les discours sur ces dernières émanant des sociétés africaines et des diasporas.

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