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Wakayama

Responsibility, resistance and resurgence in the Asia Pacific

The Asia Pacific region more broadly also finds itself living in troubled times. Environmental issues such as climate change, pollution and resource scarcity continue to clash with visions and ideologies for economic prosperity, while social and political issues such as economic disparity, human right abuses and geopolitical conflicts persist and take on new forms. Within this context, unbridled tourism growth in the Asia Pacific region is on the rise as governmental and private industry initiatives endeavor to combat issues of poverty, gender inequality, rural revitalization, post-disaster recovery, and sustainable development goals through sustained tourism growth.

Guangzhou

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Urban China and the challenges of sustainability

Medium conference

This is the second international event organised in the context of the Medium project. While research conducted in the context of the project focus primarily on the medium-sized cities Hangzhou, Zhuhai and Datong, the conference will consider urban China in its diversity, with a great variety of case studies including Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, the region of the Taihu lake etc. It will address the issue of sustainability from a broad perspective, tackling ageing housing, social inclusion, urban governance, environmental sustainability, participatory processes in urban planning, with a multi-disciplinary approach ranging from geography, political science, economy, sociology, computer science, environmental science, etc.

Ulan Bator

Call for papers - Political studies

Can regions understand each other?

Europe and Asia: challenges and crisis-management

Further to the first Europe-Asia conferences exploring regional regime dynamics (France, 2004), policies of regional cooperation (Korea, 2005), interregional competition (France, 2012) and the limits of regional constructions (Kazakhstan, 2014), this 2016 edition will look at the reciprocal understanding of regions and how that is conducive to their capacity (or lack thereof) to monitor crises they undergo, both specific crises and interregional ones. Papers must address original research, in regional dynamics of Asia and Europe, since the end of the cold war and focus on one area among.

Nablus

Call for papers - Modern

Living, Consuming and Action in Glocal Palestine

More often than not, Palestine, characterised by conflict, is analysed through the sole lenses of its political or cultural idiosyncrasy. Yet, new ways of living, consuming and acting that are embedded in the global reality, have emerged in the previous years and remained understudied. This global dimension may be understood as an imposed and inescapable reality, yet it is also adopted, integrated, amended and applied to a local dimension, so as to create a purely Palestinian form of it.This event will gather mostly researchers and PhD students in social sciences specialised in Palestine but will also pursue a comparative approach by resorting to other cases in the Middle East, North Africa or Europe. The conference also aims at confronting various approaches at the crossroads between art and science, research and action; it will create the frame for a dialogue between social sciences and the works of artists, architects as well as the new actions and philosophy of citizen and activist societies.

Amman

Call for papers - Geography

Circulation, borders, and migratory control in the Middle-East

L’Institut français du Proche-Orient organise un colloque à Amman les 29 et 30 mai 2014 sur la thématique des circulations humaines dans la région du Moyen-Orient (Turquie, Iran, Proche-Orient, Golfe). L’objectif est de réfléchir à la manière dont s’articulent les flux de circulation avec les contextes conflictuels qui caractérisent l’espace régional et la manière dont les différents États tentent de s’adapter à ces flux et de les encadrer. Dans un contexte de crise, les transformations spatiales des espaces frontaliers, des villes d’accueil, des zones où séjournent et se regroupent migrants et réfugiés seront au centre de ce colloque. De plus, le contexte socio-historique où des flux de migrants, de marchands, de pèlerins ou de réfugiés participent, depuis fort longtemps déjà, aux recompositions socio-spatiales de lieux qui servent de transit et d’accueil à ces populations mobiles, sera abordé pour questionner les flux actuels.

Ningbo

Call for papers - Geography

Tourist practices, discourses and representations around the contemporary recreative uses of the countryside

Les universités d’Angers (France) et de Ningbo (Chine) proposent une manifestation scientifique autour des phénomènes de tourisme et de loisirs dans les espaces ruraux, afin de saisir les rapports entre ces deux objets considérés comme sources privilégiées de réflexions et d’échanges. Le tourisme dit rural a déjà fait l’attention de nombreux chercheurs et depuis longtemps, Michel Bonneau proposant dès 1984 un « bilan de trente année de recherches géographiques » sur la question. Il n’est donc pas tant question de proposer ici un nouveau colloque sur les manifestations contemporaines de ce phénomène, que de réfléchir aux discours et représentations autour des usages recréatifs de la ruralité. Trois axes d'analyse sont privilégiés : les représentations et discours sur la campagne ; les logiques entrepreneuriales et les stratégies de mise en tourisme des espaces ruraux ; ce que le tourisme dans les espaces ruraux veut dire aujourd'hui.

Abu Dhabi

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Boom Cities: Urban Development in the Arabian Peninsula

Cities in the Arabian Peninsula are at the intersection of global energy markets, local and regional politics, international investment, religious networks, and labor migrations. This conference convenes international specialists of urban studies to map the latest evolutions in the field.

Almaty

Conference, symposium - Modern

The Caucasus and Central Asia, twenty years after independences: Questioning the notion of “South countries”

Ce colloque clôture un projet ANR mené au Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre européen (CERCEC, CNRS/EHESS), intitulé « Caucase et Asie Centrale : un autre Sud ? ». Il rassemblera à Almaty, outre les membres de l'équipe du projet, une cinquantaine de participants venus d'Asie Centrale, du Caucase, de Russie, d'Europe des Etats Unis et du Japon. Pluridisciplianire, ce colloque a pour ambition d’interroger la pertinence des outils heuristiques élaborés à partir de terrains situés au « Sud », mais aussi de la notion même de « Sud(s) » pour appréhender les périphéries méridionales de l’espace post-soviétique. Il entend réunir des chercheurs de toutes les disciplines des sciences sociales (sociologie, histoire, sciences politiques, géographie, anthropologie, démographie, économie). Colloque organisé avec le soutien de l'Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (programme ANR « Les Suds »). Final English version attached below / Русская версия в аттачменте ниже.

Beirut

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

City Policies and Urban Explosion in Beirut and Damascus

Colloque de clôture du projet PCSI-AUF.

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