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• 30 oct 2020

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Utopias and collective dystopias in rural worlds: Contestation, experimentation, evasion

  "Civilisations", volume 70

  The investment in the rural world by anti-establishment communities is not new. The strategy of withdrawal and distancing from places where power is centralised has already been observed by sociologists, anthropologists and historians at different times and places around the world. People who decide to organise their daily lives and modes of production collectively are motivated by different aspirations. Utopian collectives are also defended by their protagonists as places for experimentation with societal alternatives, whether they concern modes of governance, agricultural techniques, gender relations or the organisation of work. The objective of this issue is to grasp their "creative" potential, as well as the social values and contradictions they promote. This issue is part of a multidisciplinary approach. 

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• 03 jui 2016

  Brussels

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies

  PhD fellowship for a research project on “Reinventions of modernist rural landscapes”

  Focus: Rural planning in Morocco – 20th century

  MODSCAPES deals with rural landscapes produced by large-scale agricultural development and colonization schemes planned in the 20th century throughout Europe and beyond. Conceived in different political and ideological contexts, such schemes were pivotal to nation-building and state-building policies, and to the modernization of the countryside. They provided a testing ground for the ideas and tools of environmental and social scientists, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects and artists, which converged around a shared challenge. 

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• 25 mar 2013

  Nancy

  Call for tender - Modern

  Rural territories 2013

  La MSH Lorraine a récemment organisé une journée « Recherche et territoires ruraux en Lorraine », en partenariat avec le Réseau rural lorrain, afin que chercheurs et acteurs des territoires se rencontrent et échangent. Le présent appel à projets consiste à susciter et promouvoir la naissance et le développement de nouvelles recherches interdisciplinaires sur des questions qui touchent le monde rural. Dans ce cadre, l’interdisciplinarité n’est pas limitée aux sciences humaines et sociales, mais celles-ci devront être associées dès la construction de l’objet et de la problématisation.

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