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    Call for papers - Sociology

    Anchoring International Organizations in the Study of Organizational Sociology

    This paper session aims to bring together scholars who adopt a sociological perspective to the study of international organizations (IOs). IOs have historically been studied by jurists and later by political scientists through the prism of theories in international relations (IR). In the past two decade, growing scholarship in IR has shifted the focus to analyzing IOs as actors in IR in their own right. To this end, scholars have not only developed new methodologies, traditionally used by anthropologists and organizational sociologists, but have also embraced sociology as a discipline and more precisely the field of organizational sociology. In this way, IOs have been studied as bureaucracies, as organizations within which various actors compete, which comply and produce norms and values. Nowadays, organizational sociology provides a fascinating basis to study IOs not only from within, but also with respect to their environment in a dynamic perspective.

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  • Geneva

    Conference, symposium - Europe

    Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge

    Global Histories of Compassion from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

    The conference invites scholars to think about the notion of "humanitarian knowledge" in a multidisciplinary way, by combining perspectives such as gender history, the histories ofemotions and the body, literary and visual culture studies, global health history, as well as the history of institutions and their agents. All of them are useful to explore the transnational networks through which humanitarian practices and ideas have been promoted, disseminated and standardised.The conference brings together scholars interested in working on the history of humanitarian knowledge from a gender perspective. The interventions deal with stories of flesh and blood, which put women’s and men’s humanitarian experiences at their centre, in order to inscribe their local practices within a global history of compassion from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

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  • Geneva

    Study days - Early modern

    Legal cooperation from the 16th century to the present day

    Between state sovereignty and "public security"

    Si depuis une vingtaine d'années, l'histoire du droit de punir fournit l'un des chantiers les plus féconds de l'historiographie, les normes et les pratiques de la coopération judiciaires entre les Etats souverains demeurent encore largement méconnues. De la construction de l'Etat moderne jusqu'aux processus contemporains d'intégration, la journée d'études est consacrée au temps long de la coopération judiciaire et à tous les champs d'intervention qui la rendent possible (justice, diplomatie, police).

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  • Geneva

    Conference, symposium - Modern

    Responding to Famine : mobilizations, operations and humanitarian practices

    Historical Perspectives

    Le colloque propose de réfléchir aux problèmes complexes posés par les interventions humanitaires destinées à secourir les populations victimes de la famine durant l’époque contemporaine. Quelles sont les causes de ces interventions ou de l’absence d’interventions? Quels modèles suivent-elles ? Quels produits, techniques et savoirs ont-elles mobilisés ? Comment sont-elles financées ? De quelle manière les secours sont-ils distribués ? Quelle est leur efficacité ?

     

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  • Lausanne

    Call for papers - Sociology

    The conditionality of social policy, a new global paradigm?

    Le RT6 de l'Association française de sociologie et l'université de Lausanne organisent un séminaire à Lausanne, le 2-3 octobre 2012, consacré à l'analyse des politiques sociales du Nord et du Sud qui se présentent comme « conditionnelles ». Les réponses doivent s'inscrire dans un des quatre thèmes suivants: i) La place des contreparties dans les réformes des politiques sociales, comparaisons internationales, ii) effets de la mise en œuvre des contreparties dans les secteurs de l’assistance et de l’emploi, iii) le mythe de la « boîte à outils » promu par les organisations internationales : de la « bonne pratique » à la diffusion des idées et des pratiques. États des lieux et dérives, iv) genre, politique sociale, lutte contre la pauvreté : l'émergence de la femme / mère en tant que catégorie centrale des nouvelles politiques sociales.

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