Calls for papers

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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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RELI'LART presents itself as a crossroads for reflection on all aspects of literature, literary theory, language science and the arts. It aims to build an ideal bridge between all researchers whose interests lie in one of the above-mentioned fields of study. The journal is open to all themes and issues relating to literature, language and art, as well as to the interaction between these three fields of research within a broad vision that favours interdisciplinarity and diversity.

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This issue of Tracés takes as its starting point the growing number of audiovisual devices used at the most contemporary sporting events, as well as the increasing use of still and moving images by professional and amateur athletes alike, in the course of their training and practice. It looks at the ways in which we see and make seen in the practice and consumption of modern sports.

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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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For several years now, the journal Géographie et cultures has been following the transformations of contemporary geography, whether in terms of its objects, methods or ways of transmitting knowledge. As an extension of these reflections, the editorial board would like to devote a thematic issue to the uses, discourses and controversies raised by the recent spread of artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular so-called "generative" AI, in the academic world. In so doing, the aim is to provide food for thought on the uses and non-uses of Artificial Intelligences in the production and dissemination of geographical knowledge.

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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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This seminar aims to provide an open and regular academic forum dedicated to the presentation of recent or ongoing research in legal history, gender studies, the history of judicial practices, legal discourse analysis, and historiographical reflection. It is intended for both established researchers and doctoral and postdoctoral students whose work falls within this field.