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Lyon

The posthumous relegitimations of sovereigns sentenced to death (16th-21th centuries)

“In my end is my beginning ...” : last words attributed to Mary Stuart in the morning of her execution Feb. 7, 1587. Sixty years later, Charles I faced his executioner with dignity and was beheaded. In France, the execution of Louis XVI, and Marie-Antoinette a few months later, also takes place after a trial and in public. Other princes were again put to death after a more or less expedient trial, in order to break down their power into its symbolism, like Maximilian of Austria in Mexico or Tsar Nicolas II, summarily executed with his family after the reading of a death sentence issued by the "Ural Executive Committee". Their death, premeditated, and often public and widely informed, was made necessary towards a political change, but it is precisely by then embodying a political, or even in some cases, a religious cause, that they became martyrs promised to posterity - devoting more to cult than to loyalty – the matter here being to clarify their historical issues.

Rennes

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Discriminations: sport and the school in questions

Le colloque analyse les processus de discrimination au sein des institutions scolaire et sportive largement représentées comme des espaces méritocratiques. Notre volonté est d’appréhender la discrimination, non seulement comme le produit d’un processus, mais comme un processus en lui-même. Au-delà des dix-huit critères discriminants identifiés par les pouvoirs publics et inscrits dans la loi, il s’agit de comprendre les mécanismes à l’œuvre grâce à une approche pluridisciplinaire permettant d’alimenter les quatre axes suivants : 1. La discrimination comme concept politique et scientifique ; 2. L’expérience de la discrimination ; 3. Les processus de régulation de la discrimination ; 4. Le coût social des discriminations.

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10 nov 2012

Barcelona

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Desertions, Counter-movements and Forced Mobilities in the Contemporary City

First International Conference on Anthropology of Urban Conflict

Social conflict is inherent in urban society in general. Social conflict is a historic constant that makes cities the epicenter of revolt in all of its forms. Despite our attempts to systematically classify the varied logics that lay behind existing disparate scales of uprising, e.g. large mass movements, small groups organized around blueprint actions, or individuals that quietly rebelled with daily contempt, to date it has not been possible to bring them all under a common systemic defiance. Political movements vs. social movements, peaceful vs. violent actions, organization vs. spontaneity, etc., these are old dichotomies overcome by the force of the present situation. So, how does conflict come about in contemporary cities? The varied kinds of agitation featured in the current crisis are a good example of the different types of rebellion against public order, the norms that sustain it, and the authorities that implement them. From a demonstration against government cuts to apolitical graffiti somewhere on the urban fringe, from insubordination against mortgage repossessions to the refusal to pay for the use of public transport, from symbolic happenings performed in public spaces to the defense, at any cost, of squatted housing, of neighborhood resistance against evictions or of the opposition to identification raids on undocumented migrants.

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