CES Summer School reflects the CES approach which values transdisciplinarity, epistemological pluralism, North/South perspectives, as well as a strong interrelationship between practice and theory conducive to the production of policy-oriented knowledge. CES Summer School brings together academics, experts and activists/practitioners. It therefore caters to students and professionals.
2009 Summer School Courses
This series of summer schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy and in economics. The school is primarily intended for advanced graduate and post-doctoral researchers as well as young scholars. Young researchers will thus have the opportunity to attend lectures and discuss their work with distinguished scholars in the selected fields of research.
The course will take the form of morning lectures where the guest speakers are invited to give three lectures. In the afternoons, young researchers will present their work to be discussed by all participants. More...
In this course we seek to:
- analyse transversally – through cases in Colombia, Brasil, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Portugal – the relations between masculinities, femininities and forms of violence (their agents, their strategies and their victims), which affect countries and societies living in contexts of war and/or peace;
- identify the consequences of the segmented hyper-visibility of violence in the silencing of the manifestations and agents of these forms of violence and in the formulation of politics and mechanisms of prevention and response to these forms of violence.
- promote the interrelationship between research and action and among different publics/agents. More...
RENEWED WAYS OF DOING POLITICS
Modern thinking on politics and on the political is centred on the institutions, ideologies and practices of nation-states. The experiences of varying social movements in different parts of the world and at different historical junctures have expanded this State-centred approach in two ways: by extending the “space” of doing politics and by stretching and blending the boundaries between the “political”, the “social” and the “cultural”. However, such an expansion still remains within the boundaries of the nation-state and of national societies. In reality, contemporary processes of globalisation and localisms have promoted new forms of doing politics that complicate these boundaries in three major aspects: first, new ways of doing politics are emerging both inside and outside of the State through local, national, regional and transnational knowledge networkings and activisms; secondly, institutional forms of representative democracy are being increasingly combined with mechanisms of participatory democracy; thirdly, new types of (trans)local collective action expressed through a politics of proximity, politics of memory and performative politics are breaking the boundaries between the spaces, temporalities and vocabularies of the politics of doing politics. This Summer Course will introduce students to a range of studies and concrete experiments on these contemporary forms of doing politics. The Course will also offer different analytical tools to help make sense of the major characteristics, novelties and contributions of these renewed ways of doing politics and redefining the political. More...