mercredi 13 novembre 2013

Le GREGaM a déménagé!


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mardi 24 septembre 2013

Call for paper : "Experiencias de investigación feminista: reflexiones metodológicas en torno a sus procesos". En espagnol


Desde hace más de 30 años, las críticas feministas a la ciencia positivista han generado irrefutables análisis contra la universalidad de la ciencia y han contribuido profundamente a revolucionar las formas en que son definidos los procesos de producción de conocimiento. De esta manera, la epistemología feminista, compuesta por perspectivas plurales y también confrontadas en algunos de sus aspectos, ha ido conformando un corpus de conocimiento muy fértil, abundante y transdisciplinar. Dentro de dicho  corpus, se mantiene un debate específico sobre la existencia o no de una metodología propiamente feminista que no ha sido cerrado aún y que centra planteamientos para todos los gustos.
Pero ese debate, sin embargo, por lo general aporta pocas herramientas prácticas a las personas que, queriendo aplicar una u otra posición epistemológica en las investigaciones que llevan a cabo, no consiguen encontrar referentes para hacerlo. Los materiales disponibles que encontramos, a menudo se limitan a analizar las formas en las que la asunción de una perspectiva de género logra cambiar el punto de vista de las investigadoras, pero este aspecto se señala con frecuencia sin reflexionar específicamente sobre los procesos de investigación llevados a cabo en la llamada “cocina” de las investigaciones. Son todavía pocas las sistematizaciones reflexivas de la puesta en práctica de las epistemologías feministas que han sido publicadas, y menos aún lo son las que podemos encontrar en lenguas no anglosajonas. Y sin embargo, las problemáticas y consideraciones metodológicas que enfrentamos y tenemos en cuenta en nuestras  investigaciones feministas deben ser explicadas y no pasadas por alto.
Por eso, con la propuesta de este número queremos comenzar a llenar ese vacío señalado, y para hacerlo nos dirigimos a investigadoras/es que hayáis diseñado y/o realizado vuestros proyectos o estudios desde perspectivas encuadradas en las epistemologías feministas, pidiéndoos alguna reflexión y sistematización fundamentada sobre los aspectos y las decisiones metodológicas y éticas que hayáis tenido que enfrentar en ellos. La finalidad que perseguimos es poder presentar en el número un conjunto, un arcoiris de experiencias que, desde orientaciones, disciplinas, posicionamientos epistemológicos o áreas temáticas diferentes, puedan informar sobre las posibilidades, decisiones, dificultades y ajustes que habéis puesto en práctica en vuestros trabajos al intentar respetar indicaciones de las epistemólogas feministas.
Esta llamada de artículos está organizada en tres fases:
1º. Envío a la dirección simref.simref@gmail.com de un resumen de entre una y cuatro páginas (mínimo 350-máximo 1500 palabras). Deben constar en el envío, para cada una de las autoras/es: nombre y apellidos, filiación institucional (en el caso de que la haya), correo electrónico, persona de contacto, título del trabajo y palabras clave.
2º. Tras un proceso de selección inicial, llevado a cabo por las editoras del número, las propuestas cuyos resúmenes hayan sido aceptados serán invitadas a producir el artículo completo.
3º. Los artículos contarán con una revisión por pares y su versión final será presentada a la comisión editorial de Athenea Digital para ser publicada en un número especial.

lundi 23 septembre 2013

Call for Abstracts : Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle East Insurrections


Call for Abstracts: JMEWS 10th Anniversary Celebration and 2014 Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop in Honor of Sondra Hale

Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle East Insurrections


We are pleased to announce that our upcoming 10th Anniversary Celebration and Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop in Honor of Sondra Hale will be held at Yale on Thursday, April 3, 2014, and will explore the topic of "Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle East Insurrections." Our Distinguished Lecturer will be Dr. Sondra Hale of the Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los
Angeles. During the day, we will host a research conference around the theme, including Dr. Hale's Distinguished Lecture, followed by a dinner to celebrate JMEWS's 10th anniversary.


We encourage you to present your research or to attend this event as a guest. In order to present your research, please submit a 200-word abstract to jmews@yale.edu by January 1, 2014. Unfortunately, we are unable to reimburse participants for any costs associated with presenting at or attending the conference. The Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop is open to all and free of charge.

More information about dinner registration and cost will be available in the coming weeks. This event is sponsored by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, the Council on Middle East Studies, and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is the official publication of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies.

Offre de doctorat genre et politique VUB - Bruxelles


Vacancy notice for a PhD researcher


The Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are hiring a PhD researchers for the research programmes on ‘Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe’ (EDGE) and on ‘Participation and Representation in Modern Democracies (PARTIREP). More precisely, we seek a PhD researcher for the project entitled ‘The substantive representation of women and ethnic minorities in Belgian politics’ (see brief description below).

PhD grants are for four years. Candidates need to have a master in political science or in other social sciences. Joint degrees of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and other universities are possible. The working language is English, although for this particular sub-project knowledge of Dutch and / or French is necessary.

We seek to improve the gender balance among our research staff. Women are thus strongly encouraged to apply.

Starting date is flexible. For further inquiries about this vacancy, contact Prof. Dr. Karen Celis at Karen.celis@vub.ac.be

The substantive representation of women and ethnic minorities in Belgian politics

It is generally accepted that substantive representation the representation of citizens’ interests, views, needs, and perspectives is the most crucial aspect of political representation and thus essential to democratic governance. This call seeks research projects set out to conceptualise and theorise what responsiveness means in today’s representative democracies and how representatives realise it over the course of highly complex and dynamic processes of representation. This necessitates a close examination of just how our representatives substantively represent, or perform responsiveness, during the constitutive process of representation. A related challenge concerns deeming citizens’ views to be the litmus test of democracy. There is a long-standing research tradition on political trust, traditionally considered to be one of the most important resources for the stability of a political system. Notwithstanding the fact that the citizens’ assessment of the representation of their interests can be expected to impact their belief in the political system, substantive representation has actually never been studied within this framework.

We especially welcome projects that focus on the political representation two groups (women and ethnic minorities), and within these broad categories, intersecting sub-groups (e.g. ethnic minority women), and sub-groups (e.g. Turks, Moroccans) in Belgian politics. The project ideally combines an elite and a citizen perspective in order to understand and conceptualise what constitutes responsive substantive representation of these groups and to theorise the conditions for it. When adopting this double perspective, the project is set out to, first, uncover how representatives establish the ‘substantive linkage’ in the course of their representative actions. The project would then address the motivations of the representatives to represent specific issues and interests (electoral incentives, personal conviction and experience, the wishes of the party, civil society organisations, …), the decisions on the concrete content and framing given to these (how is the concrete content defined; why is a specific issue framing chosen; who, if anyone, was consulted, …), the activities representatives perform and their beliefs that what they do constitutes accountable and responsive SR. Secondly, the project would also study the extent to which representatives’ ways of establishing responsive substantive representation indeed impacts on citizen’s feelings of being represented (citizens’ perspective).


Sexuality and Morality : third and fourth edition of the one-week intensive course Lisbonne


We are pleased to announce that the third and fourth edition of the one-week intensive course “Sexuality and Morality” will be held at the Lisbon University Institute. Third edition:  13-18 January 2014 / Fourth edition: 21-26 April 2014.

Please note that scholarships are available via the European Commission-Grundtvig program for both editions, and that the application deadline for these is the 17th September 2013, very soon! We would really appreciate if you could forward this information to colleagues who might be interested. http://sexualityandmorality.wordpress.com/

Intensive Course

Sexuality and Morality: Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations Lisbon, 13-18 January 2014  /   21-26 April 2014 The course “Sexuality and Morality:Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations” will be held at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 13th to the 18th of January 2014, and from the 21st to the 26th of April 2014. Around 20 participants will be accepted. Scholarships are available from the Grundtvig Program funded by The European Commission (see below). Please note that the deadline for applying for these scholarships is the 17th of September 2013.

Objectives and Rationale

From the very beginnings of anthropology the entanglements of sexuality and morality have captured the imagination of scholars, challenging their normative assumptions and calling into question their descriptive and interpretative tools. What can be said of these entanglements at the beginning of the 21st century, after decades of research on the matter? Are there still unbroken taboos in the social sciences? How are we to understand sexuality and morality, and how can these issues be investigated? How are relations between sexuality and morality being (re)defined? What is the role of religion, politics, and commerce in (re)shaping these relations? How can anthropology improve our understanding of such complex entanglements?

In recent years, sexuality and morality have received increased attention in the social sciences. While sexuality has ‘gone global’ and become a highly seductive concept (Moore 2011), its entanglements with moral issues and
anxieties continue to provide important insights on key societal concerns and transformations. To illuminate such concerns, an emerging body of scholarship on morality in the social sciences, and more particularly in anthropology, seems particularly well suited. By giving new impetus and analytical purchase to the notion of morality, this scholarship helps us rethink sexuality and its wider implications.

Challenging taken for granted assumptions on sexuality and morality, and focusing on their intersections, the course is designed to move from general theoretical and methodological considerations to a range of concrete examples dealing with religion, politics and commerce. Religious taboos, sex work, and same-sex marriages are among the cases addressed. They will help participants answer the key questions asked during the course, and provide exemplary illustrations of how sexuality, morality, and their complex relationships can be rethought in the light of the latest debates in the field of anthropology.

Without neglecting classical authors such as Margaret Mead and Michel Foucault, the course has a strong emphasis on contemporary debates in the social sciences. It will review key perspectives and approaches, offer participants a flexible methodological and theoretical framework, and provide a space for debating a range of case studies and concrete examples under the guidance of lecturers with first hand ethnographical knowledge on
the addressed topics.

Programme

The course will consist of 5 lectures (3 hours per day), complemented with 5 seminars (3 hours per day) that will allow in-depth discussion of previously shared material. There will also be a fieldwork excursion on the final day. Combining theory and empirical research this course offers theoretical as well as practical tools that will provide the participants with a wide spectrum of strategies to address the intersections of sexuality and morality.

The lectures and seminars will be structured around the following themes:
Day 1:The anthropology of sexuality and morality: An introduction 
Day2:Delineating the field: Key debates on sexuality and morality 
Day 3:Sexuality, taboo and religion 
Day 4:Sex work and the commerce of intimacy
Day 5:Same-sex marriages and the ‘end’ of gender
Day 6, there will be a fieldwork excursion and a final discussion Lectures and seminars will be given by academics with a strong international profile that have both empirical and theoretical expertise on the subjects treated.

The lectures are structured to proceed from more general theoretical and methodological considerations (lessons 1 and 2) to a range of concrete examples dealing with religious taboos (lesson 3), sex work (lesson 4), and same-sex marriages (lesson 5). The seminars provide a space for in depth, participatory debate on the topics addressed during the lectures. They are based on the discussion of key texts sent to participants before the beginning of the course. The distributed material allows participants to prepare in advance for the seminars, enabling also those who wish to undertake the course’s assessment to comply with its requirements.

Tutorials are provided to participants who wish to receive the course’s diploma (6 ECTS) to support them in the preparation of their final papers. The tutorials offer methodological, theoretical, and practical guidance to help participants design and write up their research. The course is taught in English, but discussion may be in English and Portuguese depending on the participants’ preferences. As for the tutorials and the final essay, Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian are accepted.

For enquiries related to the course content or the scholarships, please contact the Summer School co-ordinators, Valerio Simoni (vals_sim@yahoo.com) or Anna Fedele (fedele.anna@gmail.com)
Scholarships: This intensive course has been included in the Grundtvig Training Database and a limited number of scholarships are available. We encourage prospective participants coming from countries in which the Grundtvig Program operates to apply for these scholarships after prior consultation with us regarding
the places available.
You can find general information about the Grundtvig program at: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm

Call for papers : What place for young people? Access to employment in developing countries


What place for young people? Access to employment in developing countries

Florence BOYER (geographer, Institute of research for development, France), Charlotte GUÉNARD (economist, University of Paris 1)

Because of lagged demographic transitions on different continents, young people today face highly differentiated employment opportunities. In Sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the Arabic countries, which began their demographic transition earlier, the young people who massively enter the labour market are at the heart of present demographic and social challenges: unemployment, employment precariousness, saturated urban informal sector, generational tensions, constrained desires for autonomy. The “Arabic revolutions” have brought out the yearnings of increasingly qualified young people unemployed or occupying positions that do not match their skills. In emerging countries, in Latin America or in Asia, young people will have to support the burden of an increasing number of inactive people: as a result of the absence of generalized pension systems, the termination of activity may be delayed at the end of the life cycle, leading to competition for employment between different generations while the eldest remain the responsibility of their descendants.

While farming largely remains a family affair In Sub-Saharan Africa, rural activities tend to diversify a process to which the younger generations contribute in still relatively unclear conditions. In that region, the young people remain massively rural in spite of the fast growth of the cities, which still attract people and activities. The population distribution and the economic activities are more concentrated in cities in Latin America, where young people are essentially urban. In Asia, the situation is intermediary due to a relative under-urbanization: economic activities and employment are still massively located in rural areas, but due to rapid urbanization, urban people should be the majority by 2030. From one continent to another and from one environment to another, young people face unequal opportunities resulting from changes on labour markets – steep decrease in public sector recruitments for example – and from educational differentials.

Facing difficulties using their skills, young people struggle to build their future around key moments: end of schooling, entry into the working world, end of cohabitation and/or migration, first marriage and family formation. Entering the working age is often not independent from the family sphere where collective choices of activity, income diversification, etc. are made. The previous generations more or less largely hold the economic power and may be in a position to influence the activity choices and projects of the young people while they themselves expect that a higher level of education as compared to their elders should allow them to target a better professional career.

In the past, social sciences have focused on young people in public space. They have more recently turned to research on specific categories of workers: women, homeworkers, small tradespeople in the informal sector. The purpose of this issue is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the employment situation of young people in developing countries in terms of gaining access to employment and working conditions, and to emphasize the different constraints young people face.
Proposals for this issue might address, but not exclusively, the following themes:

-       Integration in employment. Under what conditions and in which contexts do young people start working? Does finding a first employment or diversifying their activities imply an internal migration, mobility between rural and urban areas, or even an international migration for the young people? Do they mobilize their personal or family networks for their professional insertion? Does access to a first employment, even precarious, constitute a step toward new opportunities in their professional and migration history? Do they benefit from public incentives or assistance in finding employment? Are they victims of discrimination?

-       Working conditions and remuneration. What are the working conditions of young people? What are their levels of remuneration? In which sectors are they more likely to work? Do they find employment in the formal or informal sector? Are there important gender differences in their working conditions and remuneration? Are young women concentrated in precarious positions due to their level of education, employers’ policies, family decisions, or because of a temporary personal positioning on the labour market?

-       Youth autonomy, intergenerational relationships. What are the professional aspirations of the youth in developing countries today? Who makes the decision regarding their search for employment and their career choice? How are know-hows inherited and negotiated from one generation to the next? What are the main transmission channels of experience and know-how (family, apprenticeship, social networks) ? Are young people willing to avail of the legacies of previous generations or do they want to break free for more autonomy in decision making?

-       Social and professional mobility. do young people occupy “better” positions than their elders at the beginning of their professional life at the same age? What is their perception of their future occupational mobility? Are their success models different from those of their elders? Do they experience an upward or downward mobility in comparison with the previous generations? What can be the professional insertion of young graduates when they return to their country of origin?

Autrepart invites researchers in the fields of anthropology, demography, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology to address these questions.

Proposal (title and abstract not exceeding 150 words) must be sent to the journal Autrepart before 15th september 2013

The articles selected have to be submitted by 15th november 2013

Book reviews on the topic of this issue must be sent to the journal Autrepart before 15th December 2013


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Appel à contribution : Quelle place pour les jeunes ? L’accès à l’emploi dans les Suds



Quelle place pour les jeunes ? L’accès à l’emploi dans les Suds
Florence BOYER (géographe, IRD UMR 205 URMIS), Charlotte GUÉNARD (économiste, Université Paris 1- IEDES/ UMR 201 Développement et Sociétés)

La transition démographique décalée des différents continents met les jeunes aujourd’hui face à des situations et des opportunités d’emploi très différenciées. En Afrique sub-saharienne ainsi que dans les pays arabes qui ont débuté leur transition démographique plus tôt, les jeunes qui arrivent massivement sur le marché du travail sont au cœur des enjeux démographiques et sociaux qui se posent à l’heure actuelle : chômage, précarité face à l’emploi, secteur informel urbain saturé, tensions générationnelles, désirs d’autonomie contraints. Les exemples des « révolutions arabes » ont mis en exergue les aspirations des jeunes de plus en plus qualifiés sans emploi ou occupant des emplois qui ne correspondent pas à leurs compétences. Dans les pays « émergents », en Amérique latine ou en Asie, les jeunes vont avoir à supporter la charge d’inactifs de plus en plus nombreux : alors que du fait de l’absence de systèmes de retraites généralisés, les cessations d’activité peuvent être tardives en fin de cycle de vie, mettant en concurrence les générations entre elles pour l’accès à l’emploi, les plus âgés restent à la charge de leurs descendants.

En Afrique sub-saharienne, au côté des exploitations agricoles encore largement familiales, une diversification des activités rurales est à l’œuvre à laquelle les jeunes générations contribuent dans des conditions encore mal connues. Malgré la forte croissance des villes qui continuent à attirer les populations et les activités, les jeunes sub-sahariens restent encore massivement des ruraux. La répartition du peuplement et celle des activités sont plus concentrées en villes en Amérique latine où les jeunes sont des urbains pour l’essentiel. En Asie, la situation est intermédiaire du fait d’une sous-urbanisation relative : l’activité et les emplois se trouvent encore massivement en zones rurales mais l’urbanisation progressant, les urbains devraient y être majoritaires d’ici 2030. D’un continent à l’autre et d’un milieu à l’autre, les jeunes font face à des opportunités inégales, conséquence à la fois de l’évolution des marchés de l’emploi – importante baisse des recrutements dans la fonction publique par exemple – mais également des différentiels de formation.

Face à des difficultés pour mettre à profit leurs compétences, les jeunes ont du mal à construire leur avenir autour de moments-clefs : fin de leur scolarité, entrée dans la vie professionnelle, décohabitation et/ou migration, entrée en union et constitution d’une famille. L’entrée dans l’âge actif n’est souvent pas indépendante de la sphère familiale, au sein de laquelle s’effectuent des arbitrages collectifs en matière de choix d’activité, de diversification des revenus… Le pouvoir économique est aussi plus ou moins largement détenu par les générations antérieures, qui peuvent peser fortement sur les choix et les projets de vie active des jeunes, alors que ces derniers aspirent à une meilleure insertion professionnelle que leurs aînés, justifiée par leur meilleur niveau de formation.

Par le passé, les sciences sociales se sont intéressées aux jeunes dans l’espace public, s’orientant plus récemment vers une réflexion sur des catégories spécifiques de travailleurs : les femmes, les employés de maison, les petits commerçants du secteur informel. L’objectif de ce numéro est d’analyser en profondeur l’emploi des jeunes dans les sociétés du Sud à la fois en termes d’accès et de conditions de travail, et de mettre en évidence les nombreuses contraintes auxquelles ils font face.

Différents axes thématiques pourraient être abordés dans ce numéro de manière indépendante ou en lien les uns aux autres. Ces thèmes n’entendent pas exclure d’autres entrées possibles.

-       Insertion dans l’emploi : dans quelles conditions et dans quels contextes les jeunes entrent-ils dans la vie professionnelle ? Cela suppose-t-il une migration interne, une mobilité entre milieux urbain et rural, voire une migration internationale, pour la recherche d’un premier emploi ou d’une diversification de leur activité ? Mobilisent-ils leurs réseaux personnels ou familiaux pour leur insertion professionnelle ? L’accès à un premier emploi, même précaire, constitue-t-il une étape vers de nouvelles opportunités dans un parcours professionnel et migratoire ? Bénéficient-ils de politiques publiques incitatives ou d’aides à l’insertion dans l’emploi ? Sont-ils victimes de discriminations ?

-       Conditions de travail et rémunérations: dans quelles conditions matérielles les jeunes exercent-ils leur travail ? Quels sont leurs niveaux de rémunérations ? Sont-ils plus particulièrement présents dans certains secteurs ? Dans quel type d’emplois (formels ou informels) trouvent-ils à s’employer ? Existe-t-il des différences importantes de conditions de travail et de rémunération selon leur sexe ? Les jeunes femmes sont-elles cantonnées dans des emplois précaires en raison de leur niveau éducatif ou d’arbitrages effectués au sein des entreprises, de la sphère familiale, ou encore d’un positionnement personnel temporaire sur le marché du travail ?

-       Autonomie des jeunes, rapports intergénérationnels : Quelles sont les aspirations des jeunes en matière d’emploi ? Qui prend la décision de leur recherche d’emploi et sont-ils maîtres de leur orientation professionnelle ? Comment les savoirs-faire sont-ils hérités et négociés d’une génération à l’autre ? Quels sont les canaux majeurs (famille, apprentissage, réseaux sociaux) de transmission des expériences et du savoir-faire ? Les jeunes souhaitent-ils bénéficier d’un héritage transmissible, ou bien veulent-ils s’en affranchir pour plus d’autonomie de décision ?

-       Mobilité sociale et professionnelle : par rapport à leurs aînés, les jeunes occupent-ils de « meilleurs emplois » au début de leur activité professionnelle  au même âge? Quelle est leur perception de leur mobilité professionnelle à venir ? Leurs modèles de réussite diffèrent-ils de ceux de leurs aînés ? Connaissent-ils plutôt une mobilité ascendante ou descendante par rapport aux générations antérieures ? Quelle peut être l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes diplômés à l’international à leur retour dans leur pays d’origine ?

Les contributions des disciplines suivantes sont particulièrement attendues : anthropologie, démographie, économie, géographie, histoire, sciences politiques, sociologie.


Les intentions de contributions (titre et résumé ne dépassant pas 1000 signes)
doivent être adressées à la revue Autrepart
le 15 septembre 2013 au plus tard
Les articles sélectionnés devront être remis le 15 novembre 2013


Les notes de lecture sur le thème du numéro
doivent être adressées à la revue Autrepart avant le 15 décembre 2013


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