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• 30 avr 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Mountains and New Ways of Building Knowledge

  Contemporary societies have to tackle “wicked” problems, characterized by their complexity, a diversity of views about these problems, as well as a context of uncertainty. Increasingly, the thinking goes that such problems cannot be properly understood by researchers from a single discipline or even by researchers alone. Therefore, the latter are encouraged to find collaborators across disciplinary and academic boundaries and to find and implement « new » ways of building and spreading knowledge.This call is seeking articles that will allow us to question – through and from the mountains – the forms, processes and effects of those “new” ways of building knowledge. It also aims to encourage the reflexivity of researchers who contribute to this evolution and question the how and the why of a fondness for/reliance on Alpine research.

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• 26 nov 2018

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  The Low-Tech City

  Urbanités journal #12

  À l’occasion de son numéro #12, la revue Urbanités souhaite explorer « la ville (s)low tech » et lance à cet effet un appel à propositions d'articles. Cette ville (s)low tech se situe à la croisée de deux chemins scientifiques convergents, celui des questions sur les rythmes de la ville et celui sur la place de la technologie dans la façon de gérer les villes et de les habiter. 

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• 17 mai 2018

  Orsay

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Catastrophe: warning, prevention, precaution

  Changement climatique, crise environnementale, extinctions de masse, phénomènes naturels de plus en plus violents, objets divers se baladant dans l’espace : vivons-nous le temps des catastrophes, résultats et prix à payer d’une modernité qui a rendu l’humanité trop sûre de sa science et de ses technologies ? Ou bien nos inquiétudes ne sont-elles que la réémergence d’un discours apocalyptique, comme l’histoire en a connu beaucoup, le témoignage d’une montée des irrationalités ?

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• 15 oct 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  IT systems and the management of the urban in the long term (late 18th – early 21st centuries)

  Ce colloque se penchera sur l’histoire longue des systèmes d’information impliqués dans la gestion de l’urbain en s’interrogeant sur les caractéristiques, les usages, les acteurs et les conséquences de ces systèmes et des flux de données engendrés. Il est ouvert aux historiens, géographes, sociologues et praticiens travaillant sur ces questions.

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• 30 jui 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Revisit Patrick Geddes

  In the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international dimensions and the timeliness of his ideas, but also given the misunderstanding of his work in France, Espaces et Sociétés devotes its next folder issue to Patrick Geddes, pioneer of modern urbanism and interdisciplinary methods, precursor of environmentalism.  In effect, the environmental question has not emerged suddenly in urbanism, it goes back to the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century with authors such as Geddes.   The choice of Geddes reflects the interdisciplinarity of his thought, its international reach and the novelty of his ideas, but also by the lack of his work in France; it was necessary, in fact, to wait until 1994 for the first translation of his work Cities in Evolution (1915).  Equally this number wishes to address this oversight by understanding and by calling for a critical rereading of his work.

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