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• 07 nov 2012	08 nov 2012	09 nov 2012
  10 nov 2012

  Barcelona

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Desertions, Counter-movements and Forced Mobilities in the Contemporary City

  First International Conference on Anthropology of Urban Conflict

  Social conflict is inherent in urban society in general. Social conflict is a historic constant that makes cities the epicenter of revolt in all of its forms. Despite our attempts to systematically classify the varied logics that lay behind existing disparate scales of uprising, e.g. large mass movements, small groups organized around blueprint actions, or individuals that quietly rebelled with daily contempt, to date it has not been possible to bring them all under a common systemic defiance. Political movements vs. social movements, peaceful vs. violent actions, organization vs. spontaneity, etc., these are old dichotomies overcome by the force of the present situation. So, how does conflict come about in contemporary cities? The varied kinds of agitation featured in the current crisis are a good example of the different types of rebellion against public order, the norms that sustain it, and the authorities that implement them. From a demonstration against government cuts to apolitical graffiti somewhere on the urban fringe, from insubordination against mortgage repossessions to the refusal to pay for the use of public transport, from symbolic happenings performed in public spaces to the defense, at any cost, of squatted housing, of neighborhood resistance against evictions or of the opposition to identification raids on undocumented migrants.

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• 28 mai 2012

  29 mai 2012

  Madrid

  Conference, symposium - History

  The cause of victims in Spain and Europe

  Civil wars, terrorism and political violence

  Les travaux de sciences politiques portant sur les mobilisations de victimes se développent depuis peu en France. Malheureusement, la plupart d’entre eux semblent systématiquement méconnaître le cas de l’Espagne, qui devrait pourtant être considéré comme l’un des plus pertinents et féconds pour cette problématique d’études. A l’inverse, si la cause des « victimes », qu’il s’agisse de celles du terrorisme, de la guerre civile ou du franquisme, est à l’évidence omniprésente dans le débat public espagnol, elle n’est que trop rarement traitée en tant que telle, et le plus souvent mêlée à des considérations sur la mémoire collective et la justice (notamment au travers du mouvement pour la « récupération de la mémoire historique ») qui ne contribuent pas nécessairement à éclaircir les choses. Les rares travaux qui abordent la question le font soit d’un point de vue psychologique, soit d’un point de vue historique, en laissant relativement de côté des problématiques propres à la sociologie des mobilisations et à la science politique.

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