Calls for papers

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The French Revolution has long been considered the matrix of all revolutions. Having "flooded its shores" with a dynamic that was "salutary and fruitful among the blessings of men", its principles and majesty inflected the destinies of neighboring peoples. What's more, for Michelet, 1789 made France the "vessel of humanity", the guide for all peoples in their quest for emancipation and freedom. In this paradigm, subsequent foreign revolutions stemmed from a unique global message delivered in France, the homeland of human rights and, as such, the beacon of humanity.

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Nouvelle Afrique Juridique et Politique (NAJP), the journal of the Centre d'études et de recherches en droit et institutions politiques of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Omar Bongo University, Libreville (Gabon), invites contributions for its second issue, to be published in December 2026.

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At the beginning of the 21st century, with globalization taking hold of our pluralistic societies, the issues of languages, identities (social and political) and individual rights have become nodal themes for the world as it reshapes itself. Paradoxically, globalization has made it possible not to compartmentalize, standardize - or even normalize - the 6,700 (re)known languages and 7,000 ethnic groups that interact in the legal-normative (rights of States, customs, heteronomies) and economic system it encloses, but, on the contrary, to think modernity in terms of freedom, security and democracy, and thus to open up new language practices.

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For its seventh issue, the Revue internationale sur l'eau et le développement durable (RIEDD), published by the Association pour la protection de la biodiversité et adoption de gestes marqueurs (ASPROBIO AGM), looks at issues such as water pollution management in the light of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), rice growing and people's need for water, oil and gas management in relation to ocean protection, water salinity management, and the governance of fishing quotas.

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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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Each issue of Nouvelles Questions Féministes deals with a theme proposed by a coordinating group, made up of members of the magazine's editorial board and possibly external specialists. The magazine accepts off-theme proposals for the Champ libre section at all times, and reserves the Grand angle section for thematic contributions. NQF regularly issues calls for contributions on these themes, but not always, when, for example, an issue is put together following a symposium that the editorial board has deemed of interest to the magazine.

Sources of information: the “Revue des droits et des libertés fondamentaux” website (the “Contribute” tab).

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The journal NGABAN-DIBOLEL is issuing a call for interdisciplinary contributions to promote scientific reflection on farmers’ strategies for adapting to climate change, in relation to the challenges of food security, sustainable rural development, and regional resilience. This call also aims to foster dialogue among researchers, public policymakers, farmers’ organizations, development practitioners, legal experts, environmentalists, economists, geographers, sociologists, and agricultural scientists regarding current transformations in food and agricultural systems.

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These doctoral workshops will provide an opportunity to examine the legal regimes governing animals. Indeed, the plural is appropriate here, as there are a multitude of legal regimes: legal scholarship tends to distinguish between animals close to humans, animals useful to humans, and wild animals. This academic event will thus facilitate discussion on the various legal frameworks governing animals and contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity of this subject.