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• 22 déc 2019

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Mothers' and childrens' health in all its states

  Annde journal no.1 – the international journal of health, eco-economy and innovation

  Créée en 2019, la revue Annde est une revue pluridisciplinaire semestrielle de sciences sociales qui publie des travaux originaux (sous forme d’articles scientifiques ou de praticien-ne-s) sur les problématiques de santé, d’écologie, d’économie, de sociologie, d’anthropologie, de psychologie, d’histoire, de géographie et de science politique. La revue encourage et privilégie particulièrement les travaux à caractère interdisciplinaire qui intègrent ou mettent en avant les savoirs endogènes au travers d’enquêtes documentaires et empiriques sur les réalités sociales africaines. Annde offre ainsi une opportunité aux chercheurs et chercheuses et praticien-ne-s juniors et séniors intéressé-e-s par des problématiques sociales, dans l’espace africain, de publier des textes dans l’optique de partager les résultats de leurs travaux de recherche dans les domaines aussi variés que la santé, la protection sociale, les économies agricole et informelle ainsi que les innovations qui y sont associées.

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• 30 oct 2017

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  What role does dessalination have in adapting to climatic change?

  La Société hydrotechnique de France (SHF), l’Association française pour l’eau l’irrigation et le drainage (AFEID), l’Académie de l’eau poursuivent leurs travaux sur les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050. Ces travaux soulignent l’importance de considérer la palette complète des outils d’adaptation, organisationnels et techniques, tant pour l’usage économe de l’eau que pour la sécurisation de la ressource. Le dessalement fait partie de cette palette d’outils et fera l’objet de ce colloque.

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• 15 nov 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Economic Elites in Developing Countries

  Academic debates on economic elites in “developed” countries are abundant. These theoretical or empirical works study, amongst others, the surge of a transnational capitalist class or the relevance of local dynamics in understanding elite behavior and selection. For their part, studies assessing elites in developing countries tend to uphold the notion that a dominant class exists and that it is able to consolidate its domination by colluding with political strongmen allied to the State and that often, this domination is maintained through a monopoly of the relations with the international economy. However, the political upheavals that recently affected countries in the Arab world as well as those that took place in Latin America in the 1990s, as well as in Eastern Europe and in South-East Asia, call such one-dimensional analyses into question. As this proposal brings to sight, more than a decade ago the combined accumulation of old and new processes led to the emergence, circulation or transformation of existing reproduction modalities in developing countries. Unsurprisingly, these changes caused socio-political disruptions that in turn triggered the renewal of career paths to elite positions, alongside new modalities of international education and State/business collusion mechanisms. We invite applicants to join us in studying these structural yet paradoxical dynamics in order to contribute to a critical understanding of economic elites in different contexts. This workshop is mainly open to empirical research dealing with the analysis of economic elites in developing countries, their resistance to transformations of the international order and, of course, their adaptation to the disruptions of the last twenty years.

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• 15 mai 2014

  Call for papers - Economy

  Accounting Professions in the Arab Region

  Beyond Standardization: Professionel Dybnamics and Challenges

  Arab countries are confronted, like other countries, to the pressure of standardization, but each one of them is responding from the back ground of its particular history. In such a framework, accounting professions have developed, are regulated, have built professional organizations and training institutions, and are now pressed to adopt international standards. International audit firms tend to impose their methods and model with the expansion of transnational corporation, the multiplication of joint ventures and franchised colmpanies. Beyond cultural gaps, historical evolution and political-economic features, reforms are being designed universally, under the pressure of the World Bank. A better understanding of the accounting profession, of practitioners aims and stakes, can point a way forward. The aim of this project is to discuss these issues in the Arab countries, and to contribute by so doing to a new vision of what is at stake in the recent upheavals they have witnessed.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Grenoble

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Employment offer for development sociologist

  Dans le cadre de ses activités, SKM France recrute un(e) sociologue du développement pour un poste de chef de projet. Filiale du groupe SKM, SKM France est un bureau d’étude réalisant des études d’impact social et environnemental dans le secteur des industries extractives, en Afrique, en Asie et au Moyen-Orient. 

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• 07 déc 2009

  08 déc 2009

  Nogent-sur-Marne

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  From debt to over-indebtedness in southern countries: Processes, practices and meanings

  International Workshop, Paris-IEDES, 7-8 december 09

  Organized by UMR 201, RUME India, Mexico, Madagascar, CIESAS (Mexico) (www.rume-rural-microfinance.org). The main purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop will be a theoretical and empirical examination of over-indebtedness from the perspective of southern countries, with the following underlying hypothesis: to define and analyze the process of indebtedness requires first an understanding of the complexity and diversity of debt relationships. The following questions might be addressed: 1) The social meaning of debt, creditworthiness and over-indebtedness. 2) Financial ‘markets’ and financial providers. 3) Financial culture. 4) Impoverishment and accumulation. 5) Over-indebtedness.

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