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• 01 déc 2016

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The flow of debt. Understanding the processes of debt

  Société québécoise de science politique conference 2017

  Le crédit est de ces choses qui circulent sans entraves dans les espaces ouverts de l’économie mondialisée. Quand le pouvoir financier ne se passe pas tout simplement des frontières, il n’hésite pas à les redessiner selon ses besoins. Or, les dernières années nous ont appris que la raison d’être du volume de toutes ces transactions ne se rapporte pas principalement à la fonction que les économistes de toutes sensibilités prêtent d’abord au crédit, à savoir de permettre à des initiatives de se matérialiser.

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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Borders, Walls and Security

  Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour all around the world, whether in North America, in Europe (with the Greek border fence), in Asia (for instance in India) or in Middle East. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?

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