APPEL AUX COMMUNICATIONS – ASSEMBLÉE ANNUELLE DE L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DROIT ET SOCIÉTÉ DE 202111/19/2020
Colloque #420
« Les tribunaux comme objet de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales » Sous la responsabilité de Yan Sénéchal, Pierre Noreau et Emmanuelle Bernheim Appel à communications 1. Argumentaire Les tribunaux constituent une institution centrale depuis la différenciation des sphères sociales dans la modernité. En retour, l’autonomisation graduelle résultant de ce processus a induit une ambivalence croissante de l’institution judiciaire, particulièrement manifeste aujourd’hui. D’un côté, les tribunaux ont été érigés en temples de la Justice, sous condition de légalité, de rationalité et de légitimité, et les magistrats en gardiens du pouvoir de dire le Juste, avec exigence d’indépendance, d’impartialité et d’intégrité. D’un autre côté, les tribunaux et les magistrats semblent actuellement dépassés par les réalités que vivent les justiciables : sentiment d’incompétence juridique, méconnaissance du droit, incompréhension du langage juridique, méfiance vis-à-vis des professionnels du droit, disproportion entre le coût des procès et le montant réclamé dans les causes, diminution des litiges civiles, multiplication des saisines administratives, autoreprésentation à la cour, recours aux médias sociaux pour dénoncer des injustices, etc. Cette ambivalence entre l’idéal et le réel porte à penser que les tribunaux sont un remarquable révélateur des transformations juridiques et des changements sociaux qui caractérisent les sociétés contemporaines. En dépit de l’absence quasi-totale de données publiques précises et fiables (de statistiques en particulier), sur le fonctionnement de l’institution judiciaire – une situation pour le moins surréaliste au regard des pratiques qui prévalent en santé et en éducation – force est de reconnaître que de plus en plus de travaux en sciences humaines et sociales au Québec érigent en objet de recherche les tribunaux (leurs modes d’organisation, les processus qui s’y déroulent, les pratiques qu’ils occasionnent, les acteurs qui s’y activent, les dispositifs alternatifs qui se substituent à eux, etc.). D’où l’intérêt de prendre acte des recherches produites à propos et autour de cet objet. Cinq axes structurent le colloque proposé : (1) quels thèmes retiennent l’attention des chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales ?; (2) quels terrains empiriques investissent-ils pour les explorer ? (3) quels concepts et quelles méthodes mobilisent-ils ?; (4) quels sont les apports de ces recherches à la compréhension du monde juridique et du monde social ?; (5) quelles sont les perspectives d’avenir de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales concernant les tribunaux ? Cet appel à communications s’adresse aux chercheurs et aux chercheuses, ainsi qu’aux étudiants et aux étudiantes à la maîtrise et au doctorat, provenant de l’ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales. 2. Objectifs Le colloque vise à atteindre cinq objectifs : (1) thématiser les orientations actuelles de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales autour des tribunaux afin d’assurer une certaine cumulativité des travaux; (2) témoigner du dynamisme des recherches actuelles afin de susciter l’intérêt des diverses sciences humaines et sociales à l’égard des phénomènes judiciaires; (3) favoriser le rapprochement des chercheurs juristes et non-juristes intéressés à la question des tribunaux; (4) consolider le réseautage en sciences humaines et sociales de manière à pérenniser les initiatives scientifiques vouées au partage des connaissances sur les institutions judiciaires; (5) animer l’avancement des connaissances sur les mondes sociaux de la justice afin d’accroître la pertinence des recherches en sciences humaines et sociales pour les acteurs du monde juridique et judiciaire. 3. Proposition de communication Une proposition de communication doit inclure :
Territories of the Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee// Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation Treaty Territory // Dish With One Spoon Treaty Territory
The organizing committee for the 2020 Abolition Convergence invites you to come dream with us! We invite each of you to join us in hopes that our relationships will advance movements and shifts that bring about the futures we dream of! So come create, connect, explore and dream with us! Proposals: We will be open for proposals from September 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019 and welcome a wide range of artistic, activist, academic submissions! We also encourage folks to submit proposals that will help to build our children and youth tracks!! Ideas for proposals may include but are not limited to: Workshops; Wellness spaces; Art, Multimedia, theatre and game-making spaces; Relationship building and sustaining; Panels Academic paper presentations Caucus meetings; Performances; Community Kitchens; Multi-session themes; Trainings/Skillshares; Roundtables; Spaces for creation and collaboration; Social Spaces And more! Our organizing committee is a collaboration of artists, activists, academics, and people with direct experience with the carceral system. Our group includes Indigenous folks, Black folks, people of colour, white folks, queer/trans* and 2-spirit folks, younger and older folks, folks who have been incarcerated and people who have worked and struggled against incarceration, detention, deportation, and settler colonialism in various ways. In this light we want to encourage and make room for the participation of people/communities who face oppression or who may typically have less access to similar platforms including youth/students, Indigenous peoples, Black people, Latinx people and other racialized folks, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, Muslims, Jewish folks, Palestinian people, women, trans*/non-binary folx, people with different abilities, migrants, poor folks, sex workers, prisoners and other people who are directly affected by state violence. We welcome proposals from anywhere in Canada, the United States or internationally. We recognize that lack of funds is often a barrier to participation and we will do our best to offer some subsidies for travel if a need is identified and funds allow. Proposals & Registration: To register to attend or to submit a proposal, please fill out our registration form – and tell us a little bit about yourself:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iSb4ikPzzUic190uyrWwOii5LJpD2b7rFhvv-F3-mrI/viewform?edit_requested=true Cost: In an effort to make the convergence financially accessible to as many people as possible, we are proposing the following registration costs (Note: All funds are in Canadian dollars and $1 CDN = $0.75 US): Free – I am a youth, unemployed, underemployed, unfunded student, or someone who is formerly incarcerated $1 – $100 (sliding scale) – I am employed but receive no funding from my work or school to attend the convergence $100 – $200 (sliding scale) – I receive funding from my work or school to attend the convergence Payments can be sent by e-transfer to: abolitiontoronto@gmail.com Twitter: @abolitionTO Instagram: @abolitionTO Facebook: @abolitionjournal Questions? – Email us at abolitiontoronto@gmail.com Please include a clear description of your proposed session, information as to how long it will be, whether you have any access needs, and whether you would like to conduct your session in a language other than English. We will accept proposals in text, audio or video format based on whatever is easiest for you. Please let us know if you are bringing children and would like them to participate in the children’s track for the event! If you have specific accessibility needs, if you have dietary restrictions, or if you require support with accommodation and travel give us that information and we will do our best to support your attendance and participation in this convergence. We are continually in a process of trying to make all events accessible, but please let us know if there are things we’ve missed! For more information on the convergence, please go here: https://abolitionjournal.org/more-information-on-convergence-2020/ On April 6, 2020, Birkbeck, in the University of London, will host a workshop on Critical Perspectives on Land Registration.
From the call for papers: In 2018, the Law Commission released its extensive report on updating the Land Registration Act 2002. The same year, HM Land Registry announced its ambition to become “the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data, and aiming to achieve comprehensive registration by 2030”. Meanwhile, other states around the world have taken steps towards paperless, digital platform-based conveyancing. ‘Proptech’, the use of digital platform-based technology to find innovative ways of extracting value from real estate, is emerging as a new industry in late capitalist economies around the world. In the English and Welsh context, the proptech industry is being actively supported by HM Land Registry, even as law struggles to regulate it. Even, arguably, as the courts and others struggle to conceptualise just what land registration actually does, how and why it does this, and whether we actually want it to do what it does. The history and doctrinal contradictions of the LRA 2002 and its predecessor, the Land Registration Act 1925, are well studied. What is less well-studied are the implications of the changes effected by systems of land registration. Which rights the law recognizes, how it recognizes them, and how the different rightsholders interact with each other are complex questions which tacitly rank competing claims to and in land and, by extension, rank those making these claims. The transfer of entitlement to enclosed, privatized land is thus not only a necessarily complex legal task, but also one that is dependent on and productive of relations of power. For a very long time, as Alain Pottage has demonstrated, that power was located in local community memory (Pottage 1992, 1994). The seemingly banal change in legal process from proving and transferring title through paper deeds to relying on a central register involved a shift in power away from local community memory and toward a central administrative archive, and a corresponding shift in the very idea of what was being proven and transferred (ibid). This legal technology was first trialled in the colony of South Australia, and its dispossessory effects on racialised populations and on women, whose relationships with land tend to be less amenable to registration, are now being acknowledged (Hanstad 1998; Ye 2009; Mollett 2010; Bhandar 2015; Keenan 2017). As we move away from paper registries and toward digital technology, new constructions of property are being produced and with them new formations of power. It is striking that these changes towards digitisation are happening before courts and others have fully conceptualised just what land registration does. In light of these developments, new perspectives on land registration and its social, economic and political significance are pressing and important. For legislative schemes in which registration is necessary for the agreed title transfer to take effect, land registration does not merely provide the machinery for dealing with property, it manufactures new constructions of property. In this one-day workshop we seek papers which engage with the broader significance of land registration. How does land registration change our understanding of property, what effects has land registration had on who can make claims to land and how, and how do these changes in our relationship to land matter more broadly? We are especially interested in papers applying critical theoretical lenses to land registration. Please send a maximum 500 word abstract to Dr Sarah Hamill (sarah.hamill@tcd.ie) and Dr Sarah Keenan (s.keenan@bbk.ac.uk) by 1 March 2020. More information is available here (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=9409). |
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