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• 12 mai 2016

  João Pessoa

  Call for papers - Law

  Social Rights and Democracy

  Prim@ Facie, Vol 15, No 29 (2016)

  We are especially interested in manuscripts on social rights and democracy. Our intent is to prepare a set of discussions on how democracies promote social rights today, i.e., to what extent social movements, legal institutions, parliaments and executive power are able to find solutions to the challenges of democracies today? Have, for example, affirmative action, housing and health care programs, and even direct financial assistance to the poor actually reduced inequality? In addition, what are the most effective solutions for poverty? Are courts the best way to ensure social rights today? We are also interested in papers that address the costs of social programs. These are some of the possibilities, but many other questions may be brought to the table. We encourage submissions based on historical approaches carried out by jurists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and other professionals in fields that have particular focus on legal problems.

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• 31 mar 2016

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Editorial independence and public powers - Bibliodiversity journal

  Revue Bibliodiversity

  Les recherches consacrées à l’industrie du livre pensent généralement l’indépendance comme un acte de sécession, que ce soit par rapport à la sphère de grande production ou aux pouvoirs publics. Elles mettent ainsi en lumière les stratégies d’éditeurs qui entendent situer leurs activités de manière singulière et autonome par rapport aux figures de l’État et/ou du marché, notamment du point de vue des contenus et des modèles économiques. Le sens de la notion d’édition indépendante varie dès lors selon les pays et les contextes socio-économiques observés et selon chaque acteur éditorial.

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• 08 jan 2016

  Reims

  Call for papers - Geography

  Contemporary crisis and changes

  Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches

  For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the "subprime mortgage crisis" appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity. In 2015, economic difficulties persist (growth stagnation in developed countries and lower growth in emerging markets, explosion of unemployment, deindustrialisation and offshoring, market tensions in China, the euro zone, etc.). In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Saharian and Sahelian Africa, Middle East, Far East and Eastern Europe) leading to strong migratory waves while power poles seem to be redeploying between the USA, China and other regional powers.The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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