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Economy of leftovers and recycling
Social, political and environmental dynamics in the Global South
Economies built around waste – rubbish, unsold goods, surplus, scrap, used materials – are becoming increasingly important in the Global South. This issue therefore aims to examine these forms of economic activity from three main perspectives: environmental, socio-economic and political. The objective is to bring together empirical and theoretical work that documents, compares and problematises these waste economies based on surveys conducted in Southern countries, while taking into account the circulation and cross-influences with Northern countries. These ‘waste products’ can take various forms, which the issue intends to consider in an open and pluralistic perspective.
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Paris
France - Asie du Sud : Une circulation des savoirs
À l’occasion du lancement de la bibliothèque numérique « Patrimoines partagés » France – Asie du Sud, la BnF et ses partenaires vous invitent à explorer l’histoire des relations entre la France et les pays d’Asie du Sud, principalement l’Inde, mais également le Sri Lanka, le Népal, le Bangladesh, ou encore le Pakistan.
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Oran
“Algerian Journal of Islamic Finance”
Algerian Journal of Islamic Finance (AJIF) is a biannual international refereed scientific journal and free of charge, published by Oran 2 University in Oran (Algeria). The journal publishes original and innovative scientific research papers in three languages (Arabic, English and French) in all fields of Islamic Finance as Islamic economics, Islamic law, Insurance, Markets, Islamic Social Institutions …
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Tropical fruit sectors undergoing change
How are stakeholders in tropical fruit export sectors participating in and adapting to these changes in terms of market flows and consumption habits? How are relations between stakeholders being redefined? And what are the spatial implications of those changes? This call for papers welcomes studies based on what the French academia refers to as the “approche filière” but we are also interested in papers favoring a global value chain approach, this broad view of value chain taking into account the power relationships between upstream and downstream players, whatever the scale. This call for papers welcomes studies research into diverse geographical areas, based primarily on field surveys, and stemming from a range of disciplines studying relations to space.
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"Géocarrefour" Journal
Cet appel vise à prolonger les observations de Mathieu Quet à partir de l’étude des circulations des objets de seconde main à des échelles internationales et transnationales, qui soulèvent plusieurs enjeux. Ces objets connaissent, acquièrent ou perdent différents statuts (importation légale, contrebande, contrefaçon), formes (déchets, marchandises…) et valeurs tout le long de leur parcours, et des routes empruntés. Les circulations sont la condition même d’une requalification et valorisation de l’objet, qui ne passe pas seulement d’un marché à un autre mais aussi d’un système normatif et d’évaluation à un autre.
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Development and democracy in the era of the health crisis
As part of our next collective publication, we invite you to submit a proposal related to the theme of this edition “Development and Democracy in the Age of Health Crisis”. The book aims to address different issues, constraints and perspectives of the covid-19 health crisis on development and democracy in a context of hegemony, instability and climate change.
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Paris
La société japonaise face à la covid-19
Cette journée d’étude sur la société japonaise face à la covid-19 interroge la façon dont la société japonaise a traversé la crise du covid, aussi bien du point de vue des structures de soin que de la couverture médiatique de la pandémie ou encore des impacts sur la santé mentale. La manifestation pourra également être suivie à distance avec inscription préalable.
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Petropolitics in the Countries of the South
Revue internationale des études du développement n°250 (2022-3)
For this special issue, we consider a broad approach to the world of hydrocarbons, ranging from economics to cultural issues, and including history, politics, demography, sociology, and anthropology. Our aim is to go beyond a conception that reduces oil-producing countries to black boxes with outgoing flows of oil and gas and incoming financial flows, thus boiling everything down to this single (economic, political, and geopolitical) issue. Before causing global warming, oil had an in situ impact on territories, human communities, and ecosystems. This approach calls for a critical rereading of the abundant literature on the oil-producing countries of the South, in order to tackle oil-related phenomena differently, to identify new connections between them, and to examine those which are only little or not studied.
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Revue des Mondes en développement
Les soulèvements qui ont secoué les régions d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient depuis 2010 portent des revendications de justice sociale et de participation ainsi qu’un rejet des anciennes élites associées à la corruption et à l’autoritarisme. Dans quelle mesure ces revendications sont-elles repérables dans les configurations élitaires de ces sociétés, en particulier en ce qui concerne les rapports entre acteurs économiques et pouvoir politique ? L’analyse des recompositions élitaires dans le contexte post-2011 fait état tant d’une reproduction des élites économiques liées aux régimes autoritaires que d’un processus de renouvellement de celles-ci. Elle nous invite à revisiter la question des liens entre champ économique et pouvoir politique. À quelles transformations du rapport entre élites économiques et pouvoir politique les changements à l’œuvre conduisent-ils ? Les articles contribueront aux analyses des structures élitaires des sociétés d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient par le prisme des fragmentations, des alliances et des conflictualités que l’on observe entre les catégories anciennes et nouvelles d’acteurs d’accumulation et d’exercice du pouvoir depuis 2011. Il s’agit d’élucider quelle rupture historique ces soulèvements ont représenté et dans quelle mesure l’hypothèse d’une restructuration de ces sociétés et de leurs régimes peut être formulée.
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Paris
Modernities and the relational construction of national identities in East Asia (1856-1945)
Le projet de la journée d’étude est d’éclairer cet aspect de diversité des processus de construction des modernités dans la région asiatique. La matinée se concentre plus sur des processus intra-nationaux dans le domaine littéraire et culturel, tandis que l’après-midi abordera une question plus spécifique, celle du pan-asiatisme (ou « panasianisme », ou encore « asianisme »). Cette idéologie politico-culturelle s’est particulièrement développée au Japon, mais a également trouvé une réponse dans d’autres pays ayant développé leur propre discours analogue, parfois dans le cadre de réseaux humains et intellectuels.
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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Mothers' and childrens' health in all its states
Annde journal no.1 – the international journal of health, eco-economy and innovation
Créée en 2019, la revue Annde est une revue pluridisciplinaire semestrielle de sciences sociales qui publie des travaux originaux (sous forme d’articles scientifiques ou de praticien-ne-s) sur les problématiques de santé, d’écologie, d’économie, de sociologie, d’anthropologie, de psychologie, d’histoire, de géographie et de science politique. La revue encourage et privilégie particulièrement les travaux à caractère interdisciplinaire qui intègrent ou mettent en avant les savoirs endogènes au travers d’enquêtes documentaires et empiriques sur les réalités sociales africaines. Annde offre ainsi une opportunité aux chercheurs et chercheuses et praticien-ne-s juniors et séniors intéressé-e-s par des problématiques sociales, dans l’espace africain, de publier des textes dans l’optique de partager les résultats de leurs travaux de recherche dans les domaines aussi variés que la santé, la protection sociale, les économies agricole et informelle ainsi que les innovations qui y sont associées.
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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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Marseille
What role does dessalination have in adapting to climatic change?
La Société hydrotechnique de France (SHF), l’Association française pour l’eau l’irrigation et le drainage (AFEID), l’Académie de l’eau poursuivent leurs travaux sur les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050. Ces travaux soulignent l’importance de considérer la palette complète des outils d’adaptation, organisationnels et techniques, tant pour l’usage économe de l’eau que pour la sécurisation de la ressource. Le dessalement fait partie de cette palette d’outils et fera l’objet de ce colloque.
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Paris
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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Marseille
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
The political issues of the circulation of a collection object between Europe and Hong Kong
Dans le cadre de l’ANR VIPOMAR « La vie politique des marchandises » dirigée par Boris Pétric au Centre Norbert Élias à Marseille (EHESS / CNRS), il est proposé un contrat doctoral en anthropologie / sociologie de 36 mois portant sur les enjeux politiques de la circulation d’un objet de collection entre l’Europe et Hong Kong.
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Paris
Capitalism, state and economic development in comparative perspective
Cette série de conférences est présentée par Linda Marguerite Weiss, professor emeritus à l’université de Sydney, directrice d’étude invitée à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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La Plaine-Saint-Denis
Children's Products and Media: From Design to Circulation
This one-day conference focuses on the production of children's material and media cultures through the work of their creators. Three conferences given by international experts of creative industries and youth cultures (Marc Steinberg from Concordia University, Ning de Coninck-Smith from Aarhus University and Derek Johnson from Wisconsin-Madison University) will punctuate the event. Researchers from the CoCirPE project ("Design and Circulation of Cultural Products for Children") will also present their first results.
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Nogent-sur-Marne
The Political Economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
An accurate assessment of the current economic and political situation in Iran today clearly implies examining the relations between the structure of political power, the dominant forms of ownership, and economic activity. Furthermore, the interweaving of the economic and political spheres in Iran today can be better understood through this lens. Finally, an analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political economy can also provide keys to understand the country's future political evolutions. An analysis in terms of political economy thus requires a multidisciplinary approach involving exchanges between economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians.
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Paris
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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