Activities 2008
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Activities 2008 Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Social Studies University of Coimbra Laboratório Associado do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior Associate Laboratory of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education O CES é financiado pelo Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior através da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. CES is funded by the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Educationthrough the Foundation for Science and Technology 2008 Activities Report Index 2 Executive Summary 4 1. Expanding and consolidating research activities 7 1.1. Scientific Organisation 7 1.2. Strengthening the research team 42 1.3.Research Projects 44 1.4.Interaction with other national and international research units 48 2. Advanced Research Training 53 2.1.Annual Cycle of Young Social Scientists 53 2.2.Doctoral Programs 54 2.3.Post-doctoral students 61 2.4.Grants and Scholarships 62 2.5.Participation of young researchers and students in research projects 63 3. Disseminating knowledge 64 3.1.Conferences, seminars and similar events 64 3.2.Advanced training courses 73 3.3.CES Periodical publications 74 3.4. CES Non-periodical publications 75 3.5.Communication Strategies 76 3.6.Website 77 3.7.Outreach activities 79 4. North-South Library 83 4.1.Human resources 83 4.2. Collections’ Development 83 4.3.Outside Users 86 4.4.Circulation 87 4.5.Selective Dissemination of Information (DSI) 87 4.6. SIB-UC (Integrated System of Coimbra University Libraries) 88 4.6.Other Activities 88 5. Expanding and requalifying human resources and infrastructures 89 5.1.Human resources 89 5.2.Spaces 89 5.3.Technical Infrastructure 90 6. Scientific Outputs 91 6.1.Summary of 2008 Scientific Outputs 91 6.2. Comparative analysis of 2007 and 2008 Scientifics Outputs 92 6.3.Description 97 2 2008 Activities Report Annexes Annex 1 – Researchers Annex 2 – Junior Researchers Annex 3 – Doctoral Students Annex 4 – Post-Doctoral Students Annex 5 –Conferences, seminars, and other activities Annex 6 – Organisational Structure 3 2008 Activities Report Executive Summary The present report presents the activities developed by the Centre for Social Studies during the year of 2008. The scientific activities of CES have continued to show a significant growth across all areas of activity, revealing strong dynamics and the opening up of new intellectual challenges. Continuing to nurture the exchange between senior and junior researchers, between lecturers and students and between the CES research community and wider publics, scientific events organised during the previous year have continued to identify the main challenges posed across the four thematic areas that characterize research at the Associate Laboratory: ‘Institutions, Regulation and Citizenship’, ‘New Solidarities: Local, National, Global’, ‘Science, Technology and Humanities’ and ‘Cultures and Social Dynamics’. In 2008, CES initiated a broad programme of events to commemorate its 30th anniversary. Assessing 30 years of growth and consolidation of CES can only be justified as a way to reflect upon the future paths and challenges – in various old and new domains. Activities planned for this commemorative programme are being framed by two major international colloquia devoted to pondering the future of the social sciences. The first one, a major international colloquium, Routes into the Future: New Maps for the Social and Human sciences, was held in June 2008. This central event promoted a wide reflection on the relations, dialogues and tensions which currently stamp the heterogeneous domain of the Social and Human Sciences (SHS) and their diverse contexts of development.Seven major transversal themes were approached from multi- disciplinary perspectives, engaging the humanities and the social sciences, with leading interventions from internationally invited speakers and from researchers from CES. Prior to the Conference, and following an open call for papers, a one-day Workshop was organised, whereby about 200 young social scientists gathered at CES to discuss their own approaches onto the New maps for the social and human sciences.This commemorative project continues in 2009 and ends in 2010 with an international colloquium devoted to the pluralities of Portugal now and its inclusion in the wider world. About ten other large-scale international events also associated to this commemorative programme. They gathered national and international scholars from a wide range ofresearch areas in the humanities, natural and social sciences,to engage in stimulating intellectual debates on topics such as human rights and global justice, Portuguese and Brazilian experiences on 4 2008 Activities Report solidary economy, democracy and judicial courts, traffic of women and sexual exploitation, cities and new urban lexicons, symbolic representations and material practices of violence and peace, creative articulations between various forms of art, social research practice and activism. These events are thoroughly described in the report. These events, as well as many others, were fully embedded in the ongoing activities of the different Research Groups, Observatories, individual research projects and networks, as well as in the activities of the Doctoral Programmes organised in partnership with the School of Economics (FEUC), the School of Law (FDUC) and the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUC). Whilst details of the scientific output of the research team are fully included in the report, the synthesis illustrates the broader output, disseminated extensively at national and international levels, following on the continued growth of all indicators at CES in recent years. CES has continued its line of support to young social scientists from countries with Portuguese as official language. The continuation of the Cycle of Annual Conferences “Young Social Scientists”, which has brought young researchers from different institutions – national and foreign - and across disciplines for seminars and debates at CES, is another example of the concern with the strengthening of the social and human sciences community in Portugal. The development of the CES/FEUC Doctoral Programmes, has seen in 2008 the opening of two new programmes, Cities and Urban Cultures and Work Relations, Social Inequality and Trade Unionism. This leads to a total number of eight doctoral programmes being offered and organised by CES. This development articulates with the investment on the promotion of several series of seminars for doctoral and post-doctoral students, but also on the continued organisation of advanced training programmes targeted to wider publics. Still, the wider communication of the results to different actors and society at large remains a challenge. We have looked to strengthen this area, through new dedicated internal staff, and the development and consolidation of a number of strategies, among them a substantial restructuring of the website and the reinforcement of CES’ public image and visual identity. Part of this new visual identity was developed through a new institutional brochure named “O Saber ocupa lugar”, carefully designed and produced to be a crucial information tool and widely used in several commemorating events of the 30th anniversary of CES. 5 2008 Activities Report CES publications continued to be published regularly, RCCS, CES Working Papers, Poetry Workshop, Cabo dos Trabalhos and CES Newsletter. Additionally, a new online peer-reviewed publication – e-cadernos ces – gathers papers resulting from conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as research papers accomplished within advanced training programmes and scientific research projects. The North-South Library has continued to expand and integrate within the wider University Library activities and cataloguing system (SIBUC). The reading space for the Library was significantly expanded. The improvement of the infrastructure also continued at different levels. It has been a very dynamic year as the following pages fully detail, and yet much of the results of work developed during the current year will certainly be more visible in the Annual Reports of the coming years. 6 2008 Activities Report 1. Expanding and consolidating research activities In 2008 CES saw its activity expanded and consolidated at various levels. This has affected the institution’s scientific organisation through an increasing number of research groups and observatories, the strengthening of the research team and the growing number of research projects, as well as intensive interaction with national and international research units. 1.1. Scientific Organisation 1.1.1. Thematic Areas The activity of CES–Associate Laboratory is structured around four thematic areas: Thematic Area 1: Institutions, Regulation and Citizenship Coordinators: José Manuel Pureza and Cecília Macdowell Santos The Centre for Social Studies has developed a large number of research projects in this thematic area. Legality and legitimacy are the underpinning pillars of democratic development in contemporary societies. Analysing the new, regulatory role of the State, the production and enforcing of the law, the accessibility of justice and the levels of respect for human rights are of particular importance in our times. The judicial system is the central element of a larger constellation of mechanisms for solving litigation. Citizens’ access, whether to the courts or to alternative mechanisms of litigation resolution, is very selective, which often results in human rights