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• 25 jan 2019

  Zurich

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  Vacancy PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich

  We are looking for a doctoral student to be part of the research project “Visions of the Social: The Transformation of State Planning in Postcolonial India” which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  The PhD student will examine local implications of financialized forms of social service provision in North India.  We offer employment for four years with a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and innovative research setting in a lively department with a motivated faculty interested in collaboration and academic exchange.

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• 09 avr 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  Competition and solidarity networks in contemporary South Asia's Labour Market 

  Hegemonic neo-liberal discourse assumes that free competition on all levels sparks a virtuous cycle of economic growth, which eventually trickles down to poor populations. Over the past three decades, the idea that restrictive labour laws hamper such competition has justified the deregulation of labour in the North and the un-regulation of labour in the South, notably in South Asia, where labour relations had already mainly been informal. Various sociologists have noted that intensified economic interactions and the rise of competition have made individuals more likely to activate their social networks to protect their individual interests. In this respect, to what extent do social networks shape relations in the diverse South Asian labour markets? How do new forms of social groupings reconfigure competition and solidarity relations? What forms of social interactions prevail, emerge and weaken in the market: chosen solidarity and inherited solidarity; inter-caste and intra-caste solidarity; class solidarity; corporate solidarity etc.?

   

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• 29 sep 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Asia

  Patients, practicians and walls: thinking well-being at hospital in India and elsewhere

  Dans le cadre de l’atelier Idéologies et pratiques du « bien-être » (CEIAS-EHESS), cette journée d'étude veut s’intéresser à l’hôpital en Inde, un lieu de soins de plus en plus fréquenté par les patients locaux et étrangers. Il s’agit pour les organisateurs à la fois de présenter une partie de leurs travaux respectifs, d’offrir un panorama actualisé de la recherche sur un espace de prise en charge en mutation, et d’ouvrir une discussion sur la place du « bien-être » dans l’hôpital  à partir de recherches croisées (Inde, France, Maroc).

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• 14 déc 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Anthropology, madness and care

  New perspectives

  Une nouvelle anthropologie de la folie est en train de naître. Davantage centrée sur la vie quotidienne que sur la clinique, elle relève les défis qui sont nés des limites de la psychiatrie transculturelle ou encore de l’ethnopsychiatrie d'autrefois. Cette matinée d'études permettra à trois de ses figures principales (Anne M. Lovell, Stefania Pandolfo et Veena Das) de présenter leurs recherches, conduites sur trois terrains extrêmement différents (la Nouvelle-Orléans après la catastrophe de Katrina, un bidonville de Rabat au Maroc et un quartier pauvre de Dehli), en dialogue avec une philosophe (Sandra Laugier) et un psychiatre (Richard Rechtman). 

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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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