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Call for papers - Sociology

Maintaining public goods in an era of austerity

Journal Espaces et Sociétés No. 200

Local government service budgets have continued to be cut, exacerbating the social and environmental vulnerabilities that municipalities now have to manage with limited resources. The purpose of this dossier is to focus on the spatial dimension of the continuance and evolution of public goods in a context of austerity. In particular, we encourage ethnographic and situated perspectives that consider top-down political experiments and bottom-up urban practices and their convergence in the protection, maintenance and regeneration of public goods. The goal is to give space to studies that investigate the relationship between austerity, public goods and care practices.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Precarious housing in the Global South

Public interventions and residents' expériences

This call for abstracts aims to highlight the growth and complexity of precarious housing in a context of increasing urban inequality. Far from being reduced to marginality or poverty, these spaces represent a third of the world's population and play an active role in urban dynamics, combining vulnerability, inventiveness and collective capacities. In the face of often repressive or insufficiently coordinated policies, it calls for recognition of their diversity, their essential function in the urban fabric, and the importance of interdisciplinary reflection based on field surveys, via the following thematic areas: theme 1 - Ambivalent effects of urban public action, theme 2 - Residents' practices, mobilisation and daily resistance, theme 3 - Institutional, symbolic and criminal violence: forms, effects and social responses.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Maintaining public goods in an era of austerity

Espaces et Société n°200, march 2027

This special issue aims to highlight the spatial dimension of public goods maintenance and evolution in the context of austerity by adopting the spatial care perspective through three axes: 1) actors and practices involved in maintaining public goods; 2) maintaining public goods on a day-to-day basis; 3) the work and values of public goods. We encourage ethnographic and situated perspectives that consider top-down political experimentation, bottom-up urban practices and their convergence in the protection, maintenance and regeneration of public goods. This call is open to interdisciplinary, national and international contributions.

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Champs-sur-Marne

Call for papers - Europe

1975-2025: cultura en democracia y cultura democrática en las ciudades de España y América latina

El congreso invitará a reflexionar sobre las nociones de cultura democrática/cultura en democracia, los vínculos entre producción cultural y libertad de expresión política en las sociedades posdictatoriales, destacando los puntos de ruptura y continuidad en diferentes contextos (América Latina y España).

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Bogotá

Call for papers - Political studies

Historical Roots, Challenges for Peace and Non-Violence

Second conference of the UNESCO chair on non-violent social intervention

The 2^nd Conference of the UNESCO Chair on Non Violent Social Intervention of all professionals, lecturers, researchers and students, to participate in the discussion on the contexts of the enduring violence in several regions of the world, as well as scenarios of public policy and action, social movements, popular initiatives, and professional approaches in the field. The Conference will propose a space for dialogue and for raising the profile of these different actions, which aim to build strategies and alternatives to violence.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Mobilités, gouvernances et transitions socio-écologiques urbaines

Rencontres du Réseau international « Habiter les villes du futur » (REHVIF)

« Habiter les villes du futur », objet de recherche de notre réseau IRN CNRS REHVIF, s’apparente à un énorme challenge, au regard des difficultés croissantes de mise en œuvre des services urbains. C’est pourquoi, depuis sa création en 2020, notre réseau a fait le choix stratégique d’investir le champ global de l’étude approfondie des villes, de plus en plus soumises aux aléas et incertitudes des transitions appelées à les restructurer. Notre réseau se propose de contribuer à ces « laboratoires de la ville », censés expérimenter de nouvelles solutions aux problèmes complexes actuels et futurs de la gestion urbaine. Après les rencontres de 2022 qui se sont tenues à Mexico sur la thématique « Mondes urbains en transitions », c’est au tour de la Côte d’Ivoire de recevoir la communauté scientifique constituée autour de l’IRN REHVIF. C’est dans ce cadre que se situe cet appel à communications, pour les dernières rencontres internationales de ce premier cycle 2020-2024.

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Paris

Call for papers - Urban studies

Genre(s), identité(s) et espace(s) dans l’Espagne du XXe et XXIe siècles

Ce colloque a pour objectif d’étoffer les connaissances autour du rapport historique entre espace et genre dans l’Espagne du XX^e et du XXI^e siècles en s’appuyant sur les résultats de différentes études traitant ce sujet. Il serait intéressant d’explorer la construction historique des identités de genre. L’éclosion des identités au regard de cette perspective et le genre considéré comme la catégorie qui examine la manière dont se (re)produisent les significations attribuées au sexe et à la différence sexuelle, seront des éléments à aborder. La seconde perspective invite à s’interroger sur la place de cette séquence identitaire dans l’espace.

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Seville

Call for papers - History

At the heart of the transnational allophone press

Production, financing, distribution, circulation and reception (XIX°-XX° centuries)

Long ignored by specialists, the foreign-language press exists in most countries at the margins of the global media system. In some countries, especially in those that attract large flows of immigrants, exiles and expatriates, these periodicals are numerous and of a great variety. For the 10^th Transfopress Encounter, we invite papers on the organization and functioning of the allophone press, its funding, its distribution, circulation and reception by its readres.

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Bordeaux

Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

L’intervention sociale face à la violence : méthodes, dispositifs et expérimentations

Intervención social frente a la violencia : métodos, dispositivos y ensayos

Cet appel à contributions se positionne dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire UNESCO « Intervention sociale non-violente » (ISNoV) portée par l’Université-IUT Bordeaux Montaigne. L’objectif du dispositif pluridisciplinaire de la Chaire est de réunir des savoirs et savoir-faire de professionnels et professionnelles de la recherche académique et de la formation, du « social », ainsi que d’experts et expertes de la non-violence (ou approches affinitaires) ; ce, pour mettre au travail la question des situations et formes de violences qui traversent aujourd’hui l’intervention sociale (IS), afin d’identifier, analyser les pratiques, les possibilités d’action et de réduction des processus d’enviolentement.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Spaces and societies

Chinese public space, a shared space?

Espaces et Sociétés’ perspective on the Chinese city and urbanization, through a notion that is both distinctive and paradoxical in China: public space. The title of this call for papers, “Chinese public space, a shared space?” questions on the one hand the specific definition of Chinese public space, which is undergoing very rapid changes, and on the other hand its ability to be “shared” locally and internationally.

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Aubervilliers

Call for papers - Geography

Learning from Territories / Teaching Territories

The 6^th CIST (International College of Territorial Sciences) will focus on two questions: how to teach about territories and how to learn from territories. The objective of the following sessions is to highlight, on the one hand, the specific features of the teaching methods used in territorial sciences in the various disciplines involved, specifically by examining how they vary from one discipline to another and between countries; and on the other, to demonstrate how research in the territorial sciences develops specific methodologies for investigating places and individuals depending on whether the times being studied are periods of calm or of crisis; and on whether the territories in question are unremarkable in their ordinariness or exceptional in some way.

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Champs-sur-Marne

Call for papers - Urban studies

Cultura urbana en América Latina y España: transferencias, hibridación, reapropiación

Le colloque propose d’entrer dans l’histoire culturelle des villes d’Amérique latine et d’Espagne à travers les processus d’hybridation et les mouvements connexes d’interculturation comme le transfert et la réappropriation. L’urbanité peut être approchée comme le résultat du processus de réappropriation de la ville par sa société. Depuis les objets culturels, envisagés sous les angles multiples de la production, des pratiques, de la réception, il s’agira de questionner ce qui caractérise les sociétés urbaines hispaniques, leur développement matériel, les modes de vie, les relations sociales, la configuration des espaces et des temps, dans le cadre plus large d’une réflexion sur la construction d’un espace public urbain moderne et ouvert. Si la vague d’urbanisation invite à circonscrire nos travaux à l’époque contemporaine en privilégiant l’analyse des phénomènes urbains à partir du XIX^e siècle, les angles choisis permettent – voire requièrent – des éclairages à partir d’époques antérieures pour comprendre la diachronie des constructions.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Urban Images in African Contexts

In this special section, we seek to reimagine imagetic and urban practices and representations of the African continent, articulating two main fields, the visual and the urban. Here we want to reunite research that discouses discourses, imaginaries, representations, figurations, and politics about different African cities. Here we understand "images" in a broad sense, encompassing not only production and reproduction technologies, like photography and film but also virtual and digital, visual arts, and museum expositions. The purpose is not only to extend the debate over the field of the visual in different cities from an anthropological perspective. In this special section, we want to punctuate the implications of the imagens in a diversity of urban processes in the continent, emphasizing the plasticity of its forms and contents, its changes, its ambivalence, and opacity; beyond the debates about gender, agency, power, and resistance.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Caring for Urban Nature

Revue « Espaces et Sociétés »

This issue of the journal Espaces et Sociétés is focued on the contributions of city-dwellers to the care of greenery in the city, with particular emphasis on two key perspectives. In the first, we look solely at practices that emerge in the public space, whether spontaneous and developed outside organised structures, or encouraged by institutional entities established by the public authorities. In the second perspective, the aim is to look critically at the urban nature activities undertaken by individuals, i.e. outside the collective practices traditionally pursued in shared gardens or big urban projects by public authorities, cooperatives or civil society organisations. International comparisons or case studies from outside France are welcome.

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Lille

Call for papers - Modern

Socio-poétiques urbaines : construire le discours social de la ville dans la littérature

Atlante, Revue d’études romanes numéro 17 (automne 2022)

Depuis que Roland Barthes a proposé, dans son article célèbre « Sémiologie et Urbanisme » (1967), de mener l’analyse de la ville du point de vue sémiologique, les écoles critiques ont été nombreuses à se livrer à cette tâche tout en poursuivant, de façon privilégiée, la tradition des études de poétique de l’imaginaire. Malgré une telle richesse, les études se font moins nombreuses quand il s’agit de parler de la construction significative de la ville d’un point de vue social, voire sociopolitique, à partir de ses représentations littéraires. En raison de ce que représentent les villes pour la philologie romane, et en raison des facteurs linguistiques et géographiques qui motivent leurs origines et leurs figurations littéraires différentes tout en préservant des points de convergence, nous croyons que le domaine roman constitue l’espace idéal pour délimiter la portée de ce volume.

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Lille

Call for papers - Urban studies

Socio-poétiques urbaines : construire le discours social de la ville dans la littérature

Depuis que Roland Barthes a proposé, dans son article célèbre « Sémiologie et Urbanisme » (1967), de mener l’analyse de la ville du point de vue sémiologique, les écoles critiques ont été nombreuses à se livrer à cette tâche tout en poursuivant, de façon privilégiée, la tradition des études de poétique de l’imaginaire. Malgré une telle richesse, les études se font moins nombreuses quand il s’agit de parler de la construction significative de la ville d’un point de vue social, voire sociopolitique, à partir de ses représentations littéraires. En raison de ce que représentent les villes pour la philologie romane, et en raison des facteurs linguistiques et géographiques qui motivent leurs origines et leurs figurations littéraires différentes tout en préservant des points de convergence, nous croyons que le domaine roman constitue l’espace idéal pour délimiter la portée de ce volume.

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Nice

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Migration Triage and Experiences of Blocking : Africa, America, Europe

On a global scale, many migrant populations are stopped in their journey at international border or on the roads and places that are gradually built up as internal state borders. The political processes of contention are currently a common denominator of the production of blocked situations, as part of a transformation of the dynamics of control and surveillance. The « border effects » have in common that they confront migrants, like asylum seekers, with forms of blockage, lengthening waiting periods, producing new social dynamics, temporalities and spatiality where various actors intervene. The objective of the conference is to analyze the diversity of migratory situations produced by blockage at different levels according to their production context. The aim of the event is to participate in the construction of a comparative framework to address these situations by putting into perspective the construction of migration policies and their effects in Africa, Latin America and Europe.

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Call for papers - Geography

Local production and appropriations of globalised urban planning

The acceleration of globalisation and the massive urbanisation of the planet over the past forty years have played a powerful role in the transformation of cities. These worldwide dynamics are often presented as sources of a homogenisation of the cities’ organisational principles and the policies guiding their development, as well as urban forms and architectural styles. The result would thus be a ‘globalised urban planning’, in the sense of a uniform vision of the ways of creating the city promoted by the intensified circulation of ideas and models, the mobility of urban planning actors and the concentration of capital on a global scale. ‘Globalised fragments’ (Verdeil, 2006, p. 160) would be the symbol of this process, characterised by an influx of private stakeholders and specific planning schemes where the production of urban images play a key role.

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Paris

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Adventure playgrounds of the past/for the future

Current state of knowledge, issues and perspectives

Adventure playgrounds are unique spaces of play. While the 1990s saw their disappearance in France, a recent resurgence has brought up questions around their legacy and theoretical basis as socio-pedagogical experiments. This symposium, organised by TAPLA (Terrains d’aventure du passé/pour l’avenir – Adventure playgrounds of the past/for the future) and supported by Labex: pasts in the present, is designed to investigate how adventure playgrounds raise questions around the place accorded to children in the city, and more specifically, children’s unmediated experience of socio-spacial learning systems. In addition, we aim to lay the groundwork for an international, interdisciplinary network, combining the human and social sciences with spacial design and urban planning, along with the fields of education and socio-cultural community work.

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Brest

Seminar - Urban studies

Études sur la nuit

Los estudios sobre la noche no cesan de multiplicarse en el ámbito académico. Las temáticas de investigación sobre la noche cubren actualmente un gran espectro: estudios sobre la protección del cielo nocturno, sociología política de la noche, turismo y noche, historia de la noche, antropología de la noche, trabajo nocturno, arte y noche en Asia, musica popular y noche. Paralelamente, existen cada vez mas iniciativas públicas y privadas enfocadas en la noche : gestión de la vida nocturna, iluminación nocturna inteligente, servicios nocturnos, derecho a la noche, federaciones de profesionales.

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