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• 16 fév 2020

  Ifrane

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Public Sphere and the Politics of Space

  With the gradual rise of socio-economic and political challenges facing the Middle East and North African (MENA) and the Sub-Saharan regions, the “public space” and the “public sphere” have come to the forefront of scholarly debates and research by scholars in various fields of studies. The concept of the “public sphere” was conceived as part of the interplay of first a physical locale that imply constant social relationships in a concrete public domain (public space) and second the constellations of socio-economic factors contributing to the rise of political debates (public sphere). The aim of this conference is to probe social, economic, political problems via the theoretical lenses of the public sphere, the different aspects of spatial configurations, the politics of space, as well as the counter-public or parallel discursive arenas as conceived by Nancy Fraser.

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• 30 avr 2018

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Industrial citizenship

  Perspectives from the South and North

  The recent proliferation of workers' protests throughout the world reminds us of the importance, for political studies, of observing workplaces. In this conference, we propose to revisit industrial citizenship in a transversal manner through local empirical studies that document how the organization of labour influences collective practices. Our goal is to bring together scholars from different disciplinary, geographic and historical backgrounds and perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on approaches that seek to situate workers' actions in thick descriptions of local social and political relations. Papers should seek to account for the inclusion of forms of industrial citizenship in various configurations, beyond the sole labour organizations: the legal context, economic relations, social relations of domination inside and outside the factory, the modes of political enunciation invented or reappropriated by workers.

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