CfP: Workshop Politics from below

Protests and social movements are fuzzy objects to study. Scholars face a lack of clear boundaries, diversity-by-definition, and -often dramatic- changes over time. The field of social movement studies holds particular challenges to researchers with a view to getting the research design straight and becoming clear about the restrictions of an argument. These challenges contrast with the conditions of scientific production: the lion’s share of research on social movements and protests is realized in individual post-graduate projects.

CfP: FeltrinelliCamp 2019. Rethinking Capitalism: from globalization to humanization

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is one of the major European centres of research and documentation in the fields of history, political science, economics and social scien-ces, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, political cultures and democratic movements in the framework of globalization related phenomena. In recent years, Fon-dazione Feltrinelli has established fruitful collaborations with numerous research centres of excellence all over the world (e.g.

The social history of black populations in France / Histoire sociale des populations noires en France

Depuis plusieurs années, des  travaux étudient les formes de racialisation subies, ou revendiquées par certains groupes dans la société française, en particulier par les populations noires. Ils invitent également à analyser les usages sociaux de la notion de race – entendue comme un fait social et non biologique – en France et ils interrogent de façon générale la place à accorder à la « question raciale » dans l’historiographie française. Quelle histoire sociale des populations noires ces travaux permettent-ils de construire ?