Calls for papers

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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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The Revue Droit, Société et Pouvoir invites contributions for its Volume 15, Issue 2 (September 2026). The journal welcomes original research articles as well as theoretical contributions offering rigorous interdisciplinary analyses of contemporary transformations in legal systems, governance structures, political authority and international dynamics.

The following themes are particularly encouraged (non-exhaustive list):

• Legal systems and institutional reforms.
• Social and political rights.
• International relations and global governance.
• Public policy and societal impact.
• Political theories and ideological developments.

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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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After the creation of the universe, the Genesis account of origins depicts Adam and Eve settling in a paradisiacal space, before their exclusion following the original transgression. This passage from the garden of abundance to the earthly world is symbolically associated with the obligation to work and the confrontation with a nature now marked by hostility. The human experience of nature is thus invested with a strong religious charge: natural elements, whether benevolent or destructive, are interpreted in many traditions as the expression of a divine will or judgment.

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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.

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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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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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Vulnerability thus reveals the diversity through which it can be addressed - in terms of disciplines (sociologies of vulnerable publics, sociology of public action, political science, geography, epidemiology, history, ...), methods (qualitative, quantitative, mixed, action research, ...), fields and objects of investigation. We invite doctoral students from a variety of disciplines to question vulnerability, (...).

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The 7ᵉ edition of the Congress broadened the scope of analysis by systemically integrating the five fundamental pillars of climate action: (1) mitigation, (2) adaptation, (3) loss and damage, (4) resilience and (5) finance, marking an essential conceptual transition towards an integrated and territorialized vision of climate change, in line with international scientific and political priorities.

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The Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle (University of Le Havre -ISEC (Institute of Economic and Cultural Sociology) has created a new section: my thesis in two pages.

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https://sociologieeconomique.org/

Introducing the column

By creating this section, the magazine wishes to contribute to the promotion of research work carried out within the framework of a thesis whose subject is in line with its editorial project.

• Axis 1: economic sociology and anthropology - economic structures and behaviors - the embedding of activities and representations linked to economic objects: work, business, exchanges, consumption, money... (cf. Karl Polanyi) - under- or mal-development.
• Axis 2: the economic and/or cultural dimensions of encounters between peoples - nations, groups and cultures - the international movement of people: tourism, mobility and migration - racism and discrimination - translations and transfers - the place of these themes in education and training.
• Axis 3: the institutional, economic and social dimensions of artistic creation, cultural and sporting activities, both professional and non-professional, and their contribution to the education and training of individuals - the occupation of free or non-working time - commodification and integration of digital tools and social networks at work in these fields.

Modalities of contribution

In order to broaden the audience for their work, we invite PhDs who have recently defended their thesis to publish a summary. In a maximum of three pages (approx. 1400 words), this text will present the object of the research, the methodology and the results obtained, as well as a few bibliographical elements.

There isno deadline. Texts received and accepted by the editorial board are published in the current issue as they are received and processed.

Submissions must be comprehensible to a non-specialist reader and in line with the magazine's orientations.

Permanent link to the journal

https://sociologieeconomique.org/