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• 30 mar 2020

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Africa

  Southern Nights - interdisciplinarity and Night Studies

  Première approche interdisciplinaire des nuits du Monde

  The night, a long-forgotten dimension of the city, is now at the heart of urban issues in research, city-making and in the development, management, tourism development and governance of cities. Socio-economic studies, strategic approaches and public policies directed at the night are gradually emerging in many countries and on different continents. In research, a new interdisciplinary field is gradually being structured around "night studies" or "night research". The aim of this colloquium is to bring together researchers from different disciplines (geography, planning, art, history, sociology, urban studies, etc.), and artists, and speakers from different countries to discuss approaches for using, creating, inhabiting, living and protecting the nights of the Global South. These reflections and exchanges will enrich the emerging field of Nights Studies.

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• 15 oct 2018	18 oct 2018	25 oct 2018
  10 déc 2018

  Paris

  Lecture series - Sociology

  Social movements in the global age

  The analysis of social movements in invisible regions and sociology

  Ce cycle de conférences de l'initiative de recherche Mouvements sociaux à l’âge global du Collège d'études mondiales, FMSH, propose des analyses de mouvements sociaux du Sud de la planète ou de régions qui sont généralement peu visibles dans le champ sociologique, comme l’Europe de l’Est, dans l’objectif de mieux intégrer les chercheurs, analyses et acteurs de ces régions dans la construction d’une perspective globale multi-située sur les mouvements sociaux et les défis de la démocratie en cette période troublée.

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• 30 jan 2017

  Port-au-Prince

  Call for papers - Geography

  What kind of development for “the post-crisis city”?

  Des grandes villes dans le monde ont connu des épisodes traumatiques de fortesampleurs, marquant durablement ces espaces et leurs populations. Ces événements, parfois sources de transformations majeures des zones touchées, peuvent également révéler ou se faire le relais de mécanismes de crise plus profonds. À travers quatre axes de discussion (morphologie et composition des nouveaux tissus urbains, fabrication de marges sociospatiales, moteurs et pratiques du développement économique, citadinité et pratiques urabines), le colloque propose d'aborder les conséquences de ces périodes traumatiques sur les dynamiques urbaines, en interrogeant le rôle de la crise et son importance entant que facteur de causalité des évolutions récentes qui marquent ces villes. 

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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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• 17 jui 2013

  Paris | Villetaneuse

  Call for papers - Geography

  Oases in globalization: ruptures and continuities

  This conference aims to provide answers to these broad questions, analyze the local impacts of the inclusion / exclusion of the oases in / out of the globalization process. The conference, held over two days, will focus on the following topics: oases in globalized trade networks ; the internal organization of global oasis: centers, margins, peripheries ; and ruptures and discontinuities in oases in a context of resource scarcity.

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