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• 05 fév 2016

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The production of subjectivity under neo-liberal governance

  Neoliberal governance and its structures, and dispositifs, are at the core of contemporary debates in the human sciences. David Harvey (2006) considers neoliberalism a theory that places individual freedom as the final goal of all civilisations. Private property rights, free markets and liberal democracy are the means through which individual freedom is best protected and society flourishes, according to neo-liberal views. The primary role of the state is to enforce property rights, while market forces govern the economy. Neo-liberal ideas have shaped global and national policy for over three decades, introducing the primacy of private property and market rationality in all range of public life from education to healthcare, from land governance to environmental protection. Workers' rights in the global North as well as in the South are devalued in favour of individual responsibility.

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• 15 fév 2014

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Denationalization and territory

  Ph.d. workshop with Saskia Sassen

  Professor Saskia Sassen will take part in a half-a-day international doctoral workshop, which will be the concluding act of a two-day long seminar on denationalisation and territory (7-8 May 2014). Such doctoral seminar aims at providing Ph.D students who work on issues related to globalisation a dynamic and informal space to present their work, receive inputs from discussants and participants and have a chance to discuss with one of the major sociologists in the field. The participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their research questions, to receive informed opinions and to meet other academics working on similar issues in different regional context.

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• 15 sep 2011

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Militant commitment

  Que signifie être militant aujourd'hui ? Le colloque aborde cette question à partir de trois pôles indissociables et constitutifs de l'engagement militant. Le premier s'intéresse à l'individu engagé, à la perspective identitaire de l'engagement, à la carrière militante, à la base sociologique du militantisme. Le second concerne les causes portées par les militants: la démultiplication des causes, leur légitimation ou disqualification, leur internationalisation, les causes du quotidien. Le troisième s'intéresse à l'organisation, aux formes et aux moyens du militantisme, aux interactions entre les individus engagés et des collectifs plus ou moins structurés.

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