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• 20 fév 2020

  Lomé

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Circulations in the global South: Ethnographic explorations of globalized exchanges

  APAD Conference

  After the Roskilde conference in 2018, devoted to mobility and migration, the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD) proposes for its 2020 edition, co-organized with the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (FSHS) of the University of Lomé (Togo), to focus on the multiple forms of large-scale circulation of goods, ideas, techniques, information and models that increasingly cross the global South and link it to the rest of the world. Panels or papers focusing on smaller-scale, regional or neighbouring countries' circulations, or showing the consequences of scale change in circulations, are also welcome.

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• 30 sep 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

  This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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• 29 sep 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Global art? Circulation and artistic commitment in the Arab world and Europe

  Cette journée d’études vise à mettre au jour les enjeux, les modalités et les conséquences de circulations artistiques engagées et globalisées. Une approche comparée y sera développée dont le premier point d’ancrage est l’étude de circulations artistiques en provenance du monde arabe vers l’Europe, circulations inscrites dans les suites des soulèvements arabes de 2011 et 2012, mais aussi dans le temps plus long des relations entre l’Europe et le monde arabe. Quels sont les effets de ces circulations sur les contenus artistiques et les parcours des artistes ? De quelle manière le registre artistique se constitue-t-il comme un répertoire d’engagement, la référence à un art politique est-elle ici centrale ? La démarche s’inscrit dans les recherches sur la globalisation au croisement d’une sociologie de l’art et d’une sociologie politique et s’appuiera méthodologiquement sur la reconstitution de parcours d’engagements d’artistes en circulations, du monde arabe vers l’Europe, et retour.

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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Contested Hybrid Democracy: Endorsing or Revisiting the Liberal Model in non-Western Countries

  IPSA Istanbul 2016

  Democracy has become a worldwide reference in terms of political organization and governance. While the universal character claimed by such a model has largely been theorized from a Western point of view, the variety of uses and appropriations from non-Western countries, including emerging States, remains unexamined. Disappointed with the results brought by the transition paradigm, the hybrid regimes literature tends to assess the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries. Nevertheless, the hybrid regimes analytical frame does not exhaust the question of the inner workings of these regimes, since its scientific referential remains based on Western theories and focuses on the uncompleted democratization processes and dynamics. This panel aims at switching the analytical frame towards the reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries through an assessment of uses and reappropriations of this model by political and social actors. Non-Western countries represent an interesting reflection ground for testing appropriation-reject dialectics regarding the Western democratic model. While this model directly inspires some of these countries (India, South Africa or Turkey), it has been rejected by other countries (China and Russia). Are there emerging models of democracy or counter-democracy models in non-Western countries ? We shall address these questions related to the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries.

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• 15 oct 2009

  Saint-Denis

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Recompositions étatiques contemporaines et subjectivité de la ville dans la globalisation

  Comparaisons internationales

  Colloque international sur la subjectivité politique et les nouveaux dispositifs étatiques dans les métropoles, organisé par l'Observatoire franco-brésilien des villes de périphéries (Université de Paris 8, Université luthérienne du Brésil, Forum des autorités locales de Périphérie). Confrontation d'enquêtes multi-situées et ouverture de nouveaux terrains

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