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How
can we conceive relevant
knowledge on « globalisation »
considering the plurality
of speeches upon this
topic? This term first
appeared around 1960 in a
strictly analytical
meaning of « spreading
all over the world ». The
idea of a tendentious
transformation of the
world has opened out only
for twenty years.
Can it be reduced
to an « economic
globalisation » or
to the American hegemony?
What about the fast
irruption of China, the
development of India? We
intend to discuss this coherent
and accelerated overall
transformation
contemporary world,
engaged since the
beginning of the years
1980, like a response to
the crisis inaugurated in
1973-4**
How do this change,
this overall process of
transformation of the
society affect States,
people, classes, cultures,
languages, or even,
individualities? How did
these historical, social,
human unities gather to
face globalisation, to
merge or to tame it? What
are their representations
of
these processes, of the
policies which reoriente
them, and of their
actions, between multiple
levels of knowledge and
ideologies but also with
utopias and imaginary?
This
trans-disciplinary
conference intends to talk
about the largest variety
of approaches, studies,
research and observation.
Do the multiple social
experiments of this
globalisation have their
necessary interpretations?
How do the sector-based or
local experiments inflect
the global theories? How
do their reciprocal
retranslations take place?
Spaces
and territories
Spaces and territories have changing borders and denominations during
history. What do they
become within these (new?)
technical, economic,
political movements
whereas the dominating
talks refer to them only
in the register of the
networking of individuals
reduced to desires and
trade? Without limiting
itself to the new
interferences between
cities and campaigns, with
the ambiguous
“rurbanisation”, we
attend today the emergence
of a great number of
protected spaces,
considered as being
natural or not, at the
same time as the emergence
of industrial fallow lands
or agricultural waste
lands. Meanwhile, some
residential zones become
prohibited and protected,
like the private cities of
the American or European retired (rich and well off) elders.
Beyond the judicious
e-business which is
said to be able to
guarantee freedom of
movement of trade and
information, can we still
consider that centre/peripheral
polarisations are still
relevant on the world
level as within society,
whereas the dynamics of
development upset the
established sharing ?
States
and society
If
the European construction
in particular is
considered by some people
as leading to the national
politicians’ resignation,
which new geopolitical
configurations are the
central apparatuses able
to induce? What about the
war itself ?
Do the tendencies to the
imperialism of
State-Nations go in the
direction of the control
of the economic,
associative or ideological
trans-national public or
private organisations,
rather than in the
direction of a compromise
with them?
Crisis of citizens’
representation, the
installation of
oligarchies of experts in
any kind would lead to a
loss of substance of the
democracy, increased by
the competition between
local and national rights.
It will be necessary to
wonder about the role of
the trans-national firms
in the making of laws. We
observe from now on
problems of articulation
between the spirit of the
Anglo-Saxon contract laws
and the spirit of the laws
of the Roman or
Mediterranean legacy,
as indicated by the
transformation of the labour
law, and
the transfers of the legal
prerogatives to
supranational
institutions.
To which extend do the
great migrations for the
search of work (North-South,
intra-Eurasian,
inter-American),
restructure society
between communities,
assimilation or interbreeding
?
Languages
and cultures
Is there a language of globalisation? Some fear that Anglo-American of the
exchanges or, on another
level, the newspeak,
could endanger the
respective evolutions of
great civilizations
languages if they don’t
maintain their presence
among the scientific and
cultural productions. In
this world village
of the words surface, how
the civilisationnal
vernacular languages will
put up with a possible
regionalisation of Europe
or with other territories
dislocations? The religious
comeback raises many questions : are
there any religions of
globalisation :
fundamentalisms as
religions without country
? Which relations do they
maintain with the new
effervescence of a deeply
rooted sacred ?
Communities are often
forced to react to
globalisation by the
merchandising of their
arts and media. We attend
meanwhile a centralization
of the mass culture
production and the
invention of products
considered as being
authentic or folk. How is
then presented the feeling
of local or national
belonging? We could wonder
about processes of
ethnicisation of
populations which are
challenged and politically
controlled by by caciques
and local politics.
People,
classes and individuals
In which new configurations of social forces are located the groups that
globalisation develops or
weakens? The rise of
communities
would correspond
for many spokesmen to a
dissolution of the social
classes and to a weakening
of nations’ destiny. The
new distribution of the
economic and political
capacities recomposes
fractions of social
classes. Some are put on
stage within the belief of
globalisation, like the
over-graduated employees
of metropolitans, whereas
producing classes resist
in an undifferentiated or
invisible way in rural
peripheries, in suburbs
and rural worlds.
Is globalisation always
too much associated with
triumph within the
civilisation assets?
Globalised classes of
consumption (youth and
music...) or of employment
(sailors of trade) coexist
with strongly localised
identities (sports events...).
If the mobilizations and
the resistances to
globalisation are
transverse to the social
classes, how do popular
solidarities from now on
express its relations with
elites ?
Means
of production, predation
and market
The trans-national firms, their
networks of subcontracting
and consultants, their
policies of location and
relocation, do not exhaust
the complexity of the
economic web where
trade-guilds, Mafias,
families and chalk-linings
thrive more than ever.
Within the
local, national,
international markets, as
in the activity of the
small or informal
companies and farms, how
do contradictions appear
between productive unities
and financial groups on
one hand, between forced
productivist predation and
safeguarding of ecosystems
and
of earth’s
resources on the other
hand ?
Are the metamorphoses of
the forms of employment
induced by the firms and
federation of contractors-unequally
relayed by the States -
reducible with a
generalisation of dead-end
jobs and with the
institutionalisation of
the concept of
non-employability? How do
the real work stimulate
(or dynamite) models of
organization that one
thought hegemonic? What
are the logics of the
local inscription of the
poles of competences or
poles of technology, of
the start up, of
the development itself?
After the double shock
of the bursting of the
Internet Bubble and of the
crash on September 11, 2001, which would be the ordered or chaotic
configurations of
globalisation ?
Scientific
comitee
Au
25 juin 2004 : Jean-Paul Barbe
Université de Nantes, Études
germaniques sociolinguistique, Françoise
Bourdarias Université François
Rabelais, Tours
Socio-anthropologie des villes
d’Afrique noire. Guy
Bois, Université de Paris
VII, Histoire médiévale.
Histoire des crises systémiques. Pierre
Cam, Université de Nantes,
Sociologie et Droit du travail
comparé, Joëlle Deniot,
Université de Nantes,
Anthropologie des cultures. Gérard
Heuzé, Université de
Toulouse Le Mirail, EHSS,
Anthropologie du monde indien.
Paula Godinho,
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Anthropologie du
Travail. Ali
El Kenz, Université de
Nantes, sociologie du monde
méditerranéen. Bruno Lefebvre,
Université de Nantes,
Anthropologie du travail. Jacky
Réault, Université de
Nantes, Sociologie historique des
territoires.
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