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Call for papers | “Human Rights, Democracy and the threats of old and new Populisms: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia”
RN31 Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism
Mid-Term conference
Braga, 7 -8 September 2023
University of Minho (Portugal)
Department of Social Sciences of Education, Institute of Education
The ESA Research Network 31: Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism invites submissions of papers for its biannual Mid-Term conference. The conference will be held from 7 to 8 September 2023, at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
We will hold sessions that focus on theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of research on antisemitism and racism, also in a comparative framework. The network’s perspective is to bridge an exclusive divide between the understanding of antisemitism and of racism, exploring the correspondences and affinities, but also the differences and contrasts. Our over-arching question is to understand what are the material conditions and the social, political and historical contexts shaping variations in racism (including neglected forms like anti-Roma discrimination, “antigypsyism”, but also anti-Muslim resentment) and antisemitism (including antisemitism related to the hostility to Israel, Islamic antisemitism, antisemitism of the left as well as of the right), across time and across different European and global contexts. Our network provides a space where antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia are each understood in the context of the others.
This year’s Mid-Term conference will particularly focus on old and new populisms and the challenges to human rights and democracy. Against the background that in recent years proto-totalitarianism and populism have emerged with great speed and ferocity into mainstream democratic discourse, we are interested in scholarly work on the democratic state, critiques of democracy, the totalitarian contempt for democracy, the critique of truth, critique of ‘the media’ etc.
In addition, and given that this year’s Mid-Term will take place in Portugal, we are also interested in scholarly research on Iberian histories of antisemitism and the Sephardic diaspora.
Our special concern lies in (but is not limited to) the following issues:
• Critical Social Sciences in the face of inequalities;
• Theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to the actuality of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia in the context of democracy and its critique;
• Discourses on human rights and their relation to antisemitism and racism;
• Theoretical and empirical studies on conspiracy ideologies and exclusive nationalisms;
• Anti-establishment rhetorics and conceptions of the “white working class”;
• Antisemitism and anti-Muslim resentment as political and social rhetoric in the extreme-right movement across Europe;
• Neglected forms of racism and racialisation, including anti-Roma discrimination or “antigypsyism”;
• The relationship between pandemic crisis, war and racism, antigypsyism and antisemitism).
• The legacy of colonialism in the discourses and practices of democratic and post-colonial societies;
• Intersection of different racisms or of racisms with other axes of difference, inequality and power.
A perspective on the gendered dimensions of all these issues is most welcome. Moreover, we particularly welcome papers that offer a comparative framing (e.g. cross-nationally or from the perspective of different European regions), papers that offer a multi or inter-disciplinary framing (e.g. drawing on history), and papers that offer theoretical and methodological innovation in studying these questions.
During the sessions, each speaker will have 20 minutes. All presentations will be made in English. Please send an abstract including eventual institutional affiliation to the lo-cal committee of the Mid-Term conference: Maria José Casa-Nova (mjcasa-nova@ie.uminho.pt), Manuela Ivone Cunha (micunha2@gmail.com) and Patrícia Jerónimo (ppmj@direito.uminho.pt).
Deadline: 1st April 2023
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Call for Papers | Value and Valuation: challenges in political economy analysis – Workshop
Submission deadline: 31 March 2023
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2023
In capitalist economies, values, as prices, are often understood as the main medium of coordination among economic agents and resource allocation. Through this, vertical and horizontal differences are constructed in the social distribution of commodities and work. The construction and the evaluation of value are present in a number of different but related concepts, such as commodification, objectification, qualification, marketization, economization, competitisation, capitalisation, or value chains. These concepts are starting points for analysing value and valuations.
Valuations are the main mechanisms in the emergence and consolidation of socio-economic inequalities. Valuation has also been linked to calculation practices dealing with uncertainty and imagining futures. In this sense, valuations refer to norms that legitimise calculation practices and provide moral judgements of market objects and market practices. Furthermore, valuations also reflect interests sustained by social groups such as business or political elites, which have a formative impact in the organization of valuation parameters.
In addition to that, valuations refer to processes of defining the criteria for how value creation is measured, allowing for classifications of productivity, value of scientific knowledge or the framing of parts of organisations and of the economy as “cost centres” vs “profit centres”. They give rise to controversies and conflict over what constitutes valuable and non-valuable activities.
The emergence and consolidation of what constitutes value and how to measure it is also shaped by professional groups (economists and other economic experts, lawyers etc.) and of other fields of expertise. Thus, valuation practices allow to control and influence economic and political interests over how the economy should operate. What and how objects gain or lose value also reflects the shifts in meanings attributed by social groups, the formation of tastes, the effects of contexts of consumption, and consumption practices more broadly.
Given the wide range of perspectives under which value and valuation can be studied as well as the multiplicity of links to other conceptual problems it can open up, in this workshop we aim to discuss the topic of value and valuation from different perspectives.
We invite papers that address one of the following questions:
• What has been achieved in studies relevant for this topic?
• What prospects and paths for research should we expect and strive for?
• What role should be attributed to the idea of value?
We welcome proposals that analyse value from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives as well research focusing on empirical domains from economic activities, the educational field (e.g. the value of scientific knowledge), health system and the various public policy areas. Papers either of theoretical, methodological and empirical nature are welcome.
Please send your abstract (300-400 words) to:
luisa.veloso@iscte-iul.pt & alexandre.silva@iscte-iul.pt until 31st march 2023
More info about fees and financial support here: https://cies.iscte-iul.pt/np4/3640.html
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CHAMADA DE ARTIGOS | Revista Configurações N.º 33 (junho 2024) | Dossiê temático “Discriminação e diversidade no trabalho e nas organizações”
Coordenação do Dossiê: Carolina Machado, Emília Fernandes, João Leite Ribeiro e Regina Leite (CICS.NOVA.UMinho, Departamento de Gestão da Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho).
Apesar do conhecimento universal do direito à igualdade e à não-discriminação no emprego e no trabalho, a discriminação racial e étnica, baseada no género, orientação sexual, idade, aparência física, deficiências físicas e mentais, classe social, estatuto socioeconómico e educacional, localização geográfica, religião e identidade nacional, continua a afetar milhões de trabalhadores. Este cenário de desigualdade produz obstáculos no acesso ao mercado de trabalho e às condições de emprego (e.g., oportunidades de progressão de carreira, remuneração, formação). Mais ainda, reflete-se nas fronteiras entre trabalho e não trabalho, nomeadamente no uso do tempo, na qualidade de vida e nas expectativas ligadas aos vários domínios da vida humana e social. A literatura recente continua a evidenciar os contextos de trabalho como espaços de discriminação cumulativa que perpetuam e complexificam o modo como a desigualdade opera com base na diferença e na interseccionalidade das várias categorias sociais acima identificadas. Devido às conturbações económicas e financeiras, à intensificação dos fluxos migratórios, crises na saúde publica, e inovações tecnológicas, de que é exemplo paradigmático a introdução da Inteligência Artificial no contexto laboral, o trabalho tem sofrido transformações profundas que resultam na reconfiguração das profissões e em novas formas de conceção e execução do trabalho e da hierarquia organizacional. O cenário assim traçado tem resultado num aumento da precariedade e vulnerabilidade no emprego, nas profissões e nas organizações para os grupos socialmente minoritários, tornando os espaços de trabalho crescentemente opressivos e violentos. Todavia, os movimentos sociais e ativistas têm paulatinamente conquistado direitos e voz na defesa das minorias nas esferas pública e privada, levando a uma crescente atenção da gestão para uma visão mais complexa e articulada da diversidade e do seu potencial criativo e inovador para as organizações e seus ambientes sociais. Fruto dessa maior visibilidade das minorias e da tomada de consciência das várias partes envolvidas, as organizações começam a reinventar formas de acolher e integrar a heterogeneidade da força do trabalho e de conceber as estruturas e as dinâmicas relacionais organizacionais.
Esta chamada de artigos pretende renuir trabalhos académicos que explorem o modo como a desigualdade e a diversidade se manifestam e são justificadas nas relações de trabalho a partir de diferentes quadros teóricos e metodológicos. Especificamente, visa acolher contributos que se incluam, embora não de modo limitativo, nas seguintes linhas de orientação:
a) Desafios no/ contornos do acesso ao emprego e à progressão de carreira por parte das minorias;
b) Formas de discriminação (formais e informais) no contexto laboral;
c) Desafios da diversidade para a gestão;
d) Constrangimentos e estratégias individuais de gestão do trabalho e não-trabalho;
e) Novas formas de trabalho e suas consequências para a discriminação e gestão da diversidade nas organizações.
f) Sistemas e processos de inclusão/exclusão e culturas organizacionais.
g) Abordagens legais e políticas para lidar com a discriminação no local de trabalho.
As propostas devem ser endereçadas à Direção da Revista, através do e-mail configuracoes_cics@ics.uminho.pt, até ao dia 22 de maio de 2023. Recomenda-se aos/ às autores/as a leitura das normas de publicação, disponíveis no site oficial da revista.
Normas de publicação: https://journals.openedition.org/configuracoes/16576
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The European Sociologist: Call for contributions to issue #49
The European Sociologist is the e-magazine of the European Sociological Association. It is published online and welcomes articles from ESA members. The European Sociologist has regular sections and since the #48 issue it includes a special section devoted to a selected theme.
The European Sociologist welcomes contributions for all the regular sections and the special theme of this issue by 31 May 2023.
Sections
DISCUSSION
This section is open to contributions on topics and debates of general concern for the ESA and broader social science audiences, or of specific relevance to RNs or NAs. This may include, for example, commentaries to debates developed in recent events (workshops, conferences etc.) organized by RNs or NAs, overview articles addressing emergent issues, methodologies and literatures, and critical reviews and commentaries.
Contributions should not exceed 2,500 words (including references).
DOING SOCIOLOGY
A) SPOTLIGHT
This section is open to summaries of PhD theses and work in progress of early-career scholars.
B) PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
This section is open to papers concerning research with direct public impact or other public outreach initiatives.
C) INTERVIEWS
This section is open to interviews with prominent or emergent scholars, concerning their career, theoretical and methodological approach and reflections on the topics of their concern.
Contributions to each section in Doing Sociology should not exceed 2,500 words (including references).
SPECIAL SECTION
THE SOCIAL FABRIC UNDER STRESS
Margaret Thatcher famously said there is no such thing as society, only individual men and women, and families. Yet sociologists know that society is more than a sum of individuals or households. Today the social fabric in Europe (and beyond) is under stress, for a number of reasons.
The war in Ukraine seems to have turned back the hands of the clock to an almost forgotten past. The horrors of the war have been complemented with a crisis in energy supply that hit hard on the European economies. The latter’s problems, however, had begun much earlier, at least since the 2008 financial crisis, which brought into question capitalist globalization as a whole. The Covid-19 pandemic and growing evidence of climate change are further elements that contribute to a general feeling of anxiety and insecurity. Poverty and inequality expand, and governments seem unable to address them organically. They do not fare any better with the management of migration flows. Prosperity increasingly appears a precarious condition or a vanishing goal, and technological promises are met with growing scepticism. Social media can make people feel increasingly connected and yet they also leave them increasingly alone, while new powers, based in the extraction and management of big data, grow by the day, in the absence of proper means of public control.
The most disadvantaged parts of the population are of course the most exposed to and impacted by the consequences of these processes, but the decline of the middle classes indicates that these problems and challenges involve large sectors of societies. The revamp of nationalism, the anti-gender turn, the rise of populisms and the growing electoral success of the far right are a resonant consequence of the situation. The idea of “progress” and its political advocates on the left are losing ground, in part because they have increasingly interpreted it in terms of individual affluence and identity politics, to the detriment of collective solidarities, the need of which is becoming ever-more apparent to many.
The picture, however, is not entirely bleak. There are a number of signs that social cohesion and solidarity in European societies are resilient: from the manifold responses of civil societies in support of the Ukrainian population to NGO initiatives to assist migrants; from the growing – especially younger generations’ – commitment to a just transition to sustainability, with rising protests against governments’ inaction and a flourishing of initiatives at everyday level (community-supported agriculture, energy communities, etc.), to novel alliances between blue and white collar workers, in the attempt to bring production out of the shallows of a polluting and declining industrialization. Novel intersectional, cross-sectoral and multi-scalar connections and alliances emerge against resurgent and new forms of racism, homophobia, ageism and other forms of discrimination, social and territorial marginalization, extractivism and unequal exchange, technological lock-ins and cognitive imperialism, as well as the securitization of social life and the hollowing out of democracy.
The special section aims to collect contributions that address these and other connected issues, and more in general the current dynamics of tearing and mending the social fabric. Against the myth, or the nightmare, of a “society of individuals” – in and by themselves – the purpose is to draw a picture of emergent societal processes, challenges, resistances and novel re-arrangements.
Contributions to this section should not exceed 3,000 words (including references).
All submissions should be addressed to: communication@europeansociology.org by 31 May 2023.
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CHAMADA DE ARTIGOS I Working Papers ComTextos
ComTextos é uma publicação eletrónica do polo da Universidade do Minho do Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, destinada aos investigadores do CICS.NOVA, e direcionada para a divulgação de trabalhos de investigação em curso – working papers –, com o objetivo de potenciar a discussão e prossecução de trabalhos de pesquisa.
Aceitam-se submissões de textos, em vários formatos, não publicados, tais como textos que resultem de trabalhos conducentes à elaboração de dissertações/projetos de intervenção, artigos cuja discussão de dados ou maturação da perspetiva teórica esteja numa fase intermédia, comunicações resultantes de encontros científicos que os seus autores pretendam ver publicadas.
A chamada encontra-se permanentemente aberta. Os artigos submetidos deverão ser enviados para comtextos_cics@ics.uminho.pt, em conformidade com as normas estipuladas.
Saiba mais em http://cics.uminho.pt/?page_id=2933&lang=pt
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