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  1. CfP: Intergenerational Solidarity at the Beginning of the 21st Century

    …of the 21st Century” Special Issue of “Genealogy” journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/intergenerational_solidarity) Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2022 Special Issue Information: The year 2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of developing an active ageing framework that coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing (UN 2002) and the adoption of the Madrid Int…

  2. 2022 HDCA Conference – Antwerp, Belgium

    The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.

    “Capabilities and Transformative Institutions”

    How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well  in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.

    Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.

  3. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

    …d issues in the Global South such as closing labor-productivity gaps in low-income countries and ways to increase aid for trade support for developing countries. – The effects of lack of decent jobs, coupled with weak social insurance schemes and poverty among the workers (working poor and precarity). – Equality and inclusion at work during the COVID-19 pandemic, including challenges of employment in the informal economy. – Technological challenge…

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