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• 15 déc 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Europe

  Social Movements of the Global South

  Methodological and Theoretical Considerations

  ISA47 is launching a new journal "Social Movements and Change". Philipp Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar and Jacob Mwathi Mati are organizing a special edition on "Social Movements of the Global South – Methodological and Theoretical Considerations". Their aim is to "bring together research on social movements worldwide that break with the Eurocentric bias of social movement theory and try to develop both theories and methodologies apt to understand action, discourse or outcomes of social movements in the Global South".

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• 05 oct 2015

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Borders, walls and violence

  Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

  More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

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• 02 mar 2012

  Troyes

  Call for papers - History

  Templar economy in the Western world : estates, trade, finance

  Ce colloque tentera de dresser le bilan des recherches sur l’économie templière : fondements idéologiques et soutiens familiaux qui permirent son enracinement territorial ; géographie des implantations et structuration du temporel ; fonctionnement et diversification des activités des maisons templières ; entreprises de construction et conception des bâtiments économiques ; comparaison des modèles et programmes économiques avec le monachisme cistercien ; rôles et limites des privilèges commerciaux qui leur ont été accordés, notamment dans l’aire des foires de Champagne ; expertise financière et développement des techniques bancaires ; participation à l’essor de la navigation maritime et commande de navires.

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