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• 31 mai 2019

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  State-building, social movements and political economy

  Modernity was marked by the edification of increasingly complex and sophisticated state system, committed to governing territories and populations, through a multiplicity of administrative, fiscal, police and judicial networks. At the same time, new mechanisms for legitimizing political power emerged, based on the building of a public sphere and the dissemination of different forms of collective organization and mobilization: from associations to petitions, from political demonstrations to strikes and riots. Finally, a new regime of production and consumption was created in the form of a Political Economy directed to the creation of markets, the movement of goods and the accumulation of capital.

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• 28 fév 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  In search for efficiency?

  Changes and continuities in contemporary Public Administration

  As pretext of commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the creation of the Secretariat for Administrative Reform in Portugal (1967) is time to reflect on the national and international reforms that took place during the 20^th century and aimed to make them more adapted to their objectives and needs. In this way, the meeting seeks to constitute a moment of reflection on these issues, considering its multiple dynamics at national and international level, in a multidisciplinary perspective.

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• 15 mar 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Social Policy in Europe after the 2008 crisis

  15th Annual European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) Conference

  The central theme for the event will be Social Policy in Europe after the 2008 crisis, and it will gather researchers from many countries and different areas of expertise. The European Social Model can play a central role in countering emergent social and economic problems while providing room for social cohesion and European reconstruction.

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• 16 jan 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The social construction of practical norms: everyday practices at the margins of rules and laws

  African dynamics in a multipolar world – ECAS 5 : Panel 048

  In Africa, activities transgressing established laws and norms are proliferating. They are undermined by tensions between normative and practical rules. This panel expects to bring some insights into the normative complexity of activities that overstep the legitimate frames of collective action.

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