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Call for Papers
Theme: Dialoguing with the Times and Places of the World(s)
Type: IV International Colloquium of PhD Students of CES
Institution: Centre for Social Studies (CES), Coimbra University
Location: Coimbra (Portugal)
Date: 6.–7.12.2013
Deadline: 1.9.2013
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The IV International Colloquium of PhD Students of CES aims to
promote critical dialogue in a interdisciplinary environment within
the PhD researchers of the Centre and with researchers from other
national and international institutions, looking for value and
disseminate ongoing research projects.
In this edition, Coimbra C: Dialoguing with the Times and Places of
the World(s), we propose to reflect and discuss on the importance of
time and space issues in the production of knowledge in the world(s).
'We live in harsh times', became an expression which is difficult to
refute. But which temporalities are we talking about, and which
places? What complexities lie in those times and places? How can we
act upon the time we live in?
Living the time expresses a set of imaginaries, rationalities and
experiences that are built in different places by different people
who are also in increased mobility, constituting different places
from which is produced knowledge committed to the worlds.
If Western Renaissance societies valued the Greco-Roman ancestry, the
Western modernity of European expansion, with its subsequent
colonialism, looked at the past as something to overcome against the
Enlightenment ideals of Progress, Science, Reason and Technique,
creating with it divisions between people and societies. In modern
European capitalist world system, the time integrated an order of
regulation and control to establish economic, political and symbolic
relations of domination / exploitation, redefining and accelerating
the relationships that people assume with the space through, for
example, the recreation of dichotomies work / leisure, urban / rural,
public / private.
Inhabiting the space also means living in contemporary territories
with porous borders, increasingly experienced in their transcultural
and transnational dimensions. The complexity of these societal
dynamics, which underlies the mobility of people, brings the need to
rethink the relationship between nations, territories, cultures and
identities. The legal impediments to the free movement of people and
goods are materialized, for example, through the construction of
'security walls' against illegal immigration or through nativist
language policies aimed at controlling the diffusion of cultural
diversity in a space imagined as homogeneous. In this sense, space is
seen as a cultural, economic, political and historical production
that results from continuous tensions between heritages and changes,
past and projects, inclusions and exclusions – a process that
produces both places and subjects.
In this perspective, reflecting on the ways we relate to the times
and places (at the individual and collective levels) may probably
reveal the ways people think about the world, which results crucial
to the critique of the unique model of Time that Western modernity
has made hegemonic. It is necessary to identify the various forces of
unequal power - either oppressive or emancipatory - that build,
legitimize and transform the thoughts and / or the actions. Thinking
on the idea of time means necessarily thinking of (lived) history and
memory, in the plural and heterogeneous dimensions through which we
interpret the past, present and future, and how we live the space (or
spaces), which undermines both the linear nature of time as the
Western universality of its scale.
The time has thus praxeological, contextual, ontological and
political dimensions, and synthesizes discontinuity, rhythm, rupture
and crises, appropriations and reinventions, something important to
consider when one wants to share knowledge in order to act in the
different worlds in which we live. To what extent can we be
emancipated in relation to Time?
Accepting this challenging proposition we invite PhD students and
other researchers of national and international institutions to
submit proposals for papers that reflect critically on the following
topics:
1. Citizenship and narratives of development: participations and
impositions
2. Cities, cultures and sustainabilities: policies and publics
3. Law(s), Justice(s) and Democracy(ies): Violences,
representations and transformations
4. Gender, families and sexualities: models and experiences
5. Governance, Public Policy and Social Innovation: from 'crisis' to
alternatives
6. Literature, Science and Images: between practices and
representations
7. Research Methodologies: reflexivity, tools and impacts
8. Migration: tensions between State of law and the subjectivities
9. Heritage, Arts and Architectures: Memories and transformation
10. Sociocultural, political and economic pluralisms: social
movements, emancipatory social struggles and the modern state
11. Post-colonialisms: colonial relations, processes of domination
and resistance
12. International Relations and their contexts: between theory(ies)
and history(ies)
13. Territoriality and Property: nature, private domain and
collective management
14. Labour and Social Inequalities: conflicts and fragilities
The event will take place at the Faculty of Economics, University of
Coimbra (Portugal) on 6-7 December 2013.
The submission of short abstracts – in Portuguese, English or
Spanish, approx. 300 words, keywords, selected topic, contact and
biographical note – should be sent through the following address:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/coloquiodoutorandos2013/index.php?id=8018&pag=8145
The deadline for proposals is 1 September 2013.
Accepted abstracts will be published online until 30 September 2013,
and the applicants will be notified of the decision. After the event
there will be a selection of abstracts for publication in the journal
Cabo dos Trabalhos (http://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt). The selected
papers must be delivered by 30 December 2013.
Colloquium website:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/coloquiodoutorandos2013/
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