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Mountain Infrastructure and Its Vulnerabilities: Design, Governance and Repurposing
“Journal of Alpine Research”
This thematic issue on mountain infrastructure is dedicated to exploring the planned structures and facilities that ensure the long-term accessibility, habitability and economic activity of mountain regions. These infrastructure assets have both a physical and technical materiality (in relation to the practices of the actors who use and/or manage them, and playing a central role in operational issues) and an economic existence (in terms of their management and finance). They therefore need to be approached both through the lens of the sociotechnical and economic systems of which they are a part, and from the perspective of their environmental, political and historical dimensions.
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Gendered work and working gender
Identifiée comme un angle mort par Benoît Dedieu lors du deuxième symposium international du travail en agriculture, la place des femmes n’est plus à négliger dans l’analyse du travail au sein des mondes agricoles. Bien que la première étape indispensable soit de lutter contre l’invisibilisation des femmes, ce working group propose de mobiliser le concept de genre pour dépasser l’approche centrée sur la seule « spécificité du travail des femmes ».
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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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Aubervilliers
Market gardening and fruit trees in urban and peri-urban areas
Socio-environmental issues and planning challenges
The evolution of market gardening and fruit trees is a rapidly expanding field of research, hence the need for in-depth studies to identify and maximize their positive impacts in disparate urban contexts (geographical and climatic) marked by often difficult conditions and particularly strong competition between different possible uses of resources. They play an essential socio-cultural role by reflecting important heritage, symbolic, and identity values. Finally, they bring local communities together around participatory and innovative projects involving citizens, public decision-makers, associations, and researchers.
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Call for papers - Urban studies
Feeding urban territories in North Africa
Crossed perspectives from Algeria and Egypt
This collective volume explores urban food supply systems in North Africa, with a particular focus on Algeria and Egypt, where rapid processes of metropolization and megalopolization intensify pressures on food resources. Through a territorially grounded approach, the book aims to examine the challenges of food security in cities facing urban sprawl, loss of agricultural land, rising food demand, and increasing dependence on imports. The objective is to provide a cross-cutting analysis of territorial dynamics, supply chains, urban–rural reconfigurations, and the limitations of public policies in addressing urban food systems. Contributions are expected to adopt empirical, comparative, or modelling approaches, addressing themes such as urban planning, multi-level governance, food justice, short supply chains, and the regulation of informal economies, all within a broader perspective of strengthening the resilience of urban food systems.
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Health, Agriculture and Food in Island Territories: Ecological, Political and Social Issues
This dossier aims to examine the specific configurations of island agri-food systems through an interdisciplinary approach combining geography, sociology, anthropology, public health, political ecology and political science. It focuses equally on agricultural policies and social practices, representations and conflicts of use, and the knowledge circulating in island agricultural communities. It welcomes contributions on all island territories, whether French-speaking or not, independent or not, in a postcolonial or dependent context.
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Les nouveaux défis des mobilités rurales
Revue « Flux »
This issue of Flux invites us to examine the mobility issues facing rural communities today. More specifically, it sheds light on the particularities that characterize rural territories in terms of travel, but also the difficulties encountered by the populations that populate them and the forms of ingenuity (individual, collective, informal, institutional, technical, project-based, etc.) that develop there.
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Reims
Plans, Projects and Trajectories through the Lens of Agroecology and Landscape
Âge2SCoT Symposium
The Âge2SCoT project explores the (debatable) hypothesis of a "second age" of SCoTs and aims to sketch this early outlines twenty years after their creation. To this end, the Symposium aims to explore the relationship between plan/project and trajectory through three interrelated prisms : agroecologu, (large-scale) landscape, and counter-narrative(s) in the field of spatial planning.
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Lausanne
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
The aim of the Swiss Mobility Conference is to provide a collaborative platform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences working on various aspects of mobility.
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Paradigmes émergents des territoires intelligents et résilients dans un contexte insulaire
Third scientific meeting on Intelligent Territories – TERINT 2025
La transformation contemporaine des territoires, catalysée par l'évolution des technologies numériques, la contribution des avancées en informatique et l'intensification manifeste des bouleversements climatiques, soulève des questionnements épistémologiques fondamentaux concernant l'évolution de nos espaces anthropiques. Le concept émergent de « territoires intelligents et résilients » s'inscrit dans une démarche scientifique pluridisciplinaire, conjuguant les approches géographiques, anthropologiques, culturelles et technologiques. Cette manifestation scientifique vise à fédérer des chercheurs issus de multiples disciplines autour de cette thématique.
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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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Humanitarian aid: An unexpected driver of territorial planning
« EchoGéo » Journal 76 (April-June 2026)
It is generally accepted that humanitarian aid has an important political dimension. This issue will explore a particular dimension of aid’s political impact: the way in which it concretely shapes territories. This issue will bring together articles based on case studies where aid has played a leading role in spatial planning, whether this planning process was deliberately perceived and designed as such or whether it became established de facto, without any concerted planning; whether it was the result of the intervetion of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international organisations (IOs) or emanated from the State.
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Degrowth in Mountain Tourism: Future Challenges and Prospects of Tourism in Mountain Regions
Global tourism has growth to a level that questions the current and future sustainability of the industry and its impacts for our environment. While the developmental aspects of tourism have been largely based on the scale of visitors flows, there is an increasing need to think the limits to growth in tourism and alternative development paradigms for future tourism. This kind of questioning of the impacts of growth, in general, is not new (First Report to the Club of Rome, 1972; First World Climate Conference [Geneva] 1979; Brundtland Report 1987), but there are new ways to reconceptualise alternative futures for development. In tourism, one of the recently emerged idea is based on a degrowth thinking in economic and social development discussion in the 2000s (Latouche, 2022; Bernard et al., 2003)
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Call for papers - Representation
Journal “Mutations en Méditerranée” (MeM) issue 2 - 2024
Imagine Herodotus travelling around the Mediterranean today, more than 2400 years after his voyages. Would he be surprised to see citrus fruits dotting the horizon? Would he be astonished to be served tomatoes? In 1940, Lucien Febvre retraced the evolution of Mediterranean agriculture from this multi-secular perspective. At the time, he may have been dreaming of an ancient Medi- terranean world made up of nothing but wheat, vines and olive trees, even though it was already a hub of global agricultural trade. The Mediterranean has witnessed the evolution of this agricultural and alimentary triad and how it is depicted, alongside the transformation of related practices. The dialectical relationship between the practices and depictions of this triad changed as a result of the climatic, demographic, political and technical upheavals that have marked and continue to trans- form this area. Wheat, vines and olive trees are thus seen as the first step in the study of transfor- mations of social practices and representations in the Mediterranean, at different spatial and tem- poral scales of analysis.
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Dans ce numéro spécial de la Revue de géographie Alpine, nous soutenons l’hypothèse que vieillir en montagne est une expérience qui permet de lire les transformations sociales des régions de montagne, non seulement en ce qu’elles touchent les personnes âgées, mais aussi les plus jeunes, dans ces territoires et au-delà. De plus, dans la ligne de nombreux travaux qui s’attachent à investiguer l’expérience des personnes dans un contexte sociologique spécifique, nous considérons le récit comme une ressource essentielle pour explorer la vie des personnes qui vieillissent en montagne, à partir de leur propre point de vue et de leur propre histoire.
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Poitiers
Local food governance and citizen participation
Les doctorant·es du laboratoire Ruralités (université de Poitiers) invitent les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs de multiples disciplines en sciences humaines et sociales – SHS (géographie, sociologie, sciences politiques, sciences de l’information et de la communication, management, etc.) à partager leurs travaux de recherches sur le thème « Gouvernance alimentaire locale et participation citoyenne ». Cette journée d’étude a pour objectif d’explorer diverses approches de participation citoyenne locale dans une perspective de gouvernance alimentaire.
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Les territoires périphériques et ultrapériphériques face aux risques majeurs. Le retour de la distance
Les territoires périphériques et ultrapériphériques se caractérisent par un éloignement certain des espaces métropolitains et des grands centres de commandement. Cela se traduit par des formes d’isolement, de marginalisation, et par une plus faible intégration à l’économie globale. La proximité n’est alors ni simple à définir, ni une protection contre les inégalités et les injustices spatiales. Elle reste un enjeu contemporain et futur. Dans cette perspective, sont attendues des propositions mettant en valeur ces fragmentations sur un de ces espaces périphériques ou ultrapériphériques. La proposition peut être faite à l’échelle de l’espace ou à une échelle plus fine, mais toujours interactive. D’autres propositions peuvent s’intéresser aux politiques mises en œuvre, avec les effets espérés.
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« Revue internationale des études du développement » n°254
This issue is a continuation of the series of thematic issues that the Revue Tiers Monde, now the Revue internationale des études du développement has regularly published for 25 years on the subject of financial inclusion (no. 145, 1996; no. 172, 2002; no. 197, 2009; no. 225, 2016). This issue calls for original papers based on field research that contribute to knowing how the transformation of agricultural and rural systems in emerging and developing countries is financed, and more specifically, how farmers are financed. It aims, in particular, at delving into the new practices in the field of agricultural and rural financing, which is often marginalized in development financing policies.
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Lyon
Socio-spatial representations and relationship with others
The fifth call for papers from the International Conference of the Cartotête network intends to bring together researchers interested in the impact of the relationship with others in the process of cognitive mapping. Our biannual conference will be devoted to themes which aim to better understand to which extent the relationship with others affects the social representations of geographical space, so as for broadening the horizon of research works carried out on the collective memory and the social space. Relevance will be granted to the alterity, especially in its contemporary and concrete reality without excluding its symbolic dimensions.
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Strasbourg |
“People’s ecology” and “Just sustainability” in Europe between urban and rural areas
Le séminaire, organisé dans le cadre de la chaire Jean Monnet Governance of Integrated Ubran Sustainability in Europe (GoInUSE), propose de discuter et de diffuser les résultats de recherches récentes et d’expériences en cours sur la gouvernance multi-niveaux et intégrative de la durabilité urbaine en Europe : ses acteurs, ses processus et enjeux, ses expérimentations et thématiques majeures dans et autour des espaces urbains. Pour cela, il réunit des spécialistes de sciences sociales autour de la thématique de l'écologie populaire et de la durabilité entre espaces urbains et ruraux en Europe.
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