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• 30 oct 2020

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Utopias and collective dystopias in rural worlds: Contestation, experimentation, evasion

  "Civilisations", volume 70

  The investment in the rural world by anti-establishment communities is not new. The strategy of withdrawal and distancing from places where power is centralised has already been observed by sociologists, anthropologists and historians at different times and places around the world. People who decide to organise their daily lives and modes of production collectively are motivated by different aspirations. Utopian collectives are also defended by their protagonists as places for experimentation with societal alternatives, whether they concern modes of governance, agricultural techniques, gender relations or the organisation of work. The objective of this issue is to grasp their "creative" potential, as well as the social values and contradictions they promote. This issue is part of a multidisciplinary approach. 

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• 12 oct 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Rethinking the History of the Rust Belt since 1945

  This region, stretching from western New York to eastern Iowa, was until the middle of the 20th century the country's manufacturing and industrial heartland. From the Great Migrations that radically transformed its demographics to the weakening of its economic model, as well as the massive struggles waged by local workers and protagonists of the Civil Rights movement, the political and social history of the Rust Bel. By bringing into dialogue the ongoing or recently completed research of doctoral students and junior academics with a view to opening up new perspectives on the history of the Rust Belt, from a range of disciplines (history, sociology, political science, geography), we intend to highlight spaces and actors too often relegated to the margins of this region’s history, despite their having decisively contributed to shaping the contemporary Rust Belt

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• 15 fév 2014

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Modern

  The camera explores the field

  Contemporary rural worlds, researchers and animated images

  Ce colloque pluridisciplinaire s’inscrit dans la dynamique d’un projet de recherche collectif autour des usages scientifiques des images animées et des sons produits sur et à partir des mondes ruraux contemporains dans la seconde moitié du XX^e siècle. Il pour objectif de dresser un état des lieux des enjeux et des défis liés à l’utilisation par les sciences sociales de l’image animée, tant comme source, objet d’étude que de support d’écriture, ce qui passe notamment par la prise en compte des contraintes spécifiques de ce type de média en terme de conservation et de valorisation.

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