Calls for papers

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The distribution of water resources in the Alpes-Maritimes is constrained: most of the water consumed on the coast is stored in the Var alluvial aquifer, but most of it comes from rainfall and runoff upstream in mountainous areas. Today, as in the past, this interdependence raises many questions in terms of territorial cohesion. This symposium aims to highlight this reality through a multi-disciplinary approach in the human and social sciences. For this reason, while focusing on a historical approach, it intends to call on specialists in geography, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, urban planning and architecture.

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This multidisciplinary colloquium aims to examine fictional and non-fictional representations and discourses on air travel, from both scholarly and popular cultures, to understand how aeronautical travel is caught between an inexhaustible poetics of the sky and contemptuous, disillusioned discourses. It seems necessary to take a close look at aerial imaginaries, to try and understand how air travel has come to be the subject of such polarized affects and value judgments: at first synonymous with grandeur, success, glory, even the divinization of humanity, how has it come to refer us today to a form of failure or collective threat?

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Call for book chapters

This collective work aims to examine, deepen and test Sen's thinking from the perspective of women's experiences, trajectories and capacities for action, in different social, economic and cultural contexts. The aim is to propose an interdisciplinary reflection that will enable us to better understand how women construct, exercise and transform their capabilities and their freedom as agents, as well as the structural, economic, social, institutional or cultural obstacles that can limit these processes.

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In May 2027, the DeCoLa program of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will hold the fourth edition of its decolonial comparative law workshop series in Cameroon. Organized in partnership with the Afric'Avenir Foundation, this edition aims to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond.

This call is part of a series of workshops on decolonial comparative law. Following workshops on methodology (Johannesburg/online 2020), pre-colonial law (Oxford 2022) and property (Brasília 2024), this fourth workshop will examine decolonial comparative approaches to the informal and formal economy.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Informal cross-border trade, including trade carried out by peoples transcending state borders, regardless of its legality under national legislation.
• Local and digital currencies created or used for non-colonial purposes.
• Indigenous and customary economies, both urban and rural, including their own non-colonial value systems, exchange practices and monetary forms.
• Ecofeminist, pastoralist and intentional communities (e.g. ZADs in France), as well as pre-colonial or other traditional modes of value creation (regardless of the actual historical roots of the practice).
• Labor rights in informal work, including economic dependence within and beyond the employer-employee relationship, conflict resolution practices and collective organization (e.g. unions, associations, cooperatives).
• Microcredit, alternative securities and property rights as mechanisms for accessing capital.
• The (non-)legal recognition of informal workers.
• Migration and the (in)formal economy.
• Informal work at the heart of globalization.
• Digital businesses and the linking of informal workers via digital platforms (e.g. Instagram/TikTok, Yango/Uber).
• State-imposed constraints on local economic sovereignty, including the spatial distribution and regulation of formal and informal economic activities.
• The blurred boundaries between formal and informal economies: workers operating in both contexts (e.g. secondary jobs for civil servants; 'entrepreneurs' or 'débrouillard.e.s').

If your research does not fit any of these themes, we still encourage you to submit a proposal. Generally speaking, we invite authors to analyze and destabilize coloniality by examining, in a comparative way, the economic and legal imaginaries through which communities (generally, but not necessarily, in the South) define, practice or refuse to practice an economy beyond (or in spite of) coloniality.

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This thematic issue of Sociologie du travail examines how subaltern workers are affected by im/mobility, i.e. the multiple spatio-temporal assemblages that simultaneously constrain and delimit their movement and mobility practices. The challenge is to rethink work as the product of the tension between mobilization of the workforce, restriction of its movements and workers' agentivity. Mobility and its corollary, immobility, constitute a battlefield where the logics of coercion, control, mobilization and commitment, as well as the aspirations to autonomy of the most fragile workers, clash and recompose themselves.

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The International Review of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Sustainable Development (ESD) is a multidisciplinary scientific collection dedicated to the critical exploration and dissemination of knowledge, innovative teaching practices and field experiences related to the contemporary challenges of sustainable development. Its first issue inaugurates a series of scientific publications dedicated to critical, interdisciplinary and forward-looking reflection on the major contemporary challenges of education for sustainable development.

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Against a backdrop of increasing pressure on African coastlines, including erosion, overfishing, pollution and conflicts of use, the blue economy is emerging as a strategic horizon for reconciling economic development, social inclusion and ecological sustainability. However, this notion, often promoted by international bodies, is based on technocratic, top-down approaches that tend to marginalize local knowledge and cultural practices derived from the experience of coastal communities. In Africa, such knowledge, long perceived as "traditional" or "informal", nonetheless constitutes a reservoir of skills, norms of use and representations of the marine world, essential for thinking about integrated and situated management of marine and coastal resources. From a sociological point of view, this symposium is in line with work on the co-production of knowledge (Jasanoff, 2004), environmental commons (Ostrom, 1990) and participatory governance (Fung and Wright, 2003), which questions the way in which scientific and lay knowledge can dialogue to build legitimate, effective and equitable public policies. The aim is to go beyond a strictly extractivist vision of the blue economy and give it a territorial and social scope, by placing local stakeholders - such as artisanal fishermen, women processors, ecotourism guides, etc. - at the heart of the dynamics of innovation, regulation and valorization.

Moreover, from a postcolonial perspective, the recognition of local knowledge also makes it possible to question the epistemic hierarchies inherited from Western modernity (Santos, 2011), and pave the way for an "ecology of knowledge" capable of responding to the challenges of climate change, food security and environmental justice.

Thus, this symposium aims to question the theoretical, practical and political conditions for the valorization of local knowledge in the dynamics of the blue economy, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, anchored in African realities.

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This is one of the questions that will drive the 6th edition of the colloquium for doctoral students and young doctors, entitled "Actualité et réactions du droit", to be held on November 17, 2026 at the Faculté de Droit et de Sciences politiques in Nantes. The aim is to discuss and study the various reactions of the law to events of varying degrees of importance. While the law may give the impression of feeding on current events, it also appears that certain subjects and certain types of events do not lead to any evolution, or even lead the legislator to go back on acquired legal norms.

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Universities have traditionally been places for preserving and transmitting knowledge, but today they need to rethink their role in cultural mediation. In the digital age, heritage preservation has gone beyond simple archiving or scholarly commentary to include interactive, immersive and participatory features. However, this technological transition raises a fundamental ethical and aesthetic question: how can we promote heritage, whether tangible or intangible, without betraying it?

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This international symposium focuses on religious practices in public space in contemporary Latin American and European contexts. It proposes to adopt a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective, around a broad definition of the notion of public space: both the shared urban or rural space through which the public transits, and the institutions within which the public is represented and socialized. Putting the notion of belief at a distance, this call values a corporeal, material and performative approach to religious practices.