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• 28 Nov 2025

  Aubervilliers

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Seeing like and beyong James C. Scott (1936-2024)

  En juillet 2024, nous apprenions le décès de l’anthropologue et politiste états-unien James C. Scott, dont les travaux figurent désormais parmi les classiques des sciences sociales. Son œuvre se distingue par l’ampleur de ses enquêtes tout comme par la richesse de ses concepts et leur dimension heuristique. Elle participe à jeter un regard nouveau sur des questions classiques des sciences sociales et de l’anarchisme comme celles de la définition de l’État, du politique, ou encore des modes de domination et de résistance à l’autorité.

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• 31 Jan 2019

  01 Feb 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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• 14 Sep 2012

  Coimbra

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Alice - Strange mirrors, unsuspected lessons

  Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences

  The Centre for Social Studies (CES) –Associate Laboratory– of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has an open competition to two Post-Doctoral Grants within the scope of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences” (alice.ces.uc.pt), funded by the European Research Council (269807), under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in social sciences.

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