Les Ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum: Announcements
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description: Presentation A multidisciplinary journal on the normative challenges of public policies and social practices. Indexing The journal is in open access mode and can be entirely downloaded on Érudit.org. Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum is permanently archived on Portico. It is indexed in many catalogues, among others Philosopher's Index, Philpapers.org, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals, Portail BiblioSHSof the INIST and Papyrus. Mandate The primary objective of the journal Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum is to publish high-level research articles dealing with normative issues that concern ethics in different fields. In addition to publishing only original articles of the highest quality, the journal distinguishes itself by the multidisciplinary character of its authors as well as by its commitment to turn ethics into a field of study whose theoretical issues call for the participation of researchers from several disciplinary horizons. The journal publishes articles in French in order to disseminate the work of francophone scholars and to make international research in contemporary ethics available to the francophone public. It is also important to the journal to create the conditions for a dialogue between francophone and non-francophone authors, which is why it is entirely bilingual, publishing as many articles in English as in French. Themes The journal covers the three branches of interdisciplinary research in ethics: the foundations of ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Thus, the journal publishes articles bearing on the study of the foundations of this field and its main concepts, including agents’ moral psychology as well as the nature of deliberation and the emotions. It also publishes articles on the normative dimensions of public policies and social practices in areas as varied as health, the management of the human and natural environment, commerce, social and cultural diversity, justice, education, feminist st…
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items: “The Ethics and Politics of Trauma, Resilience and Repair”
items: “Housing and Social Justice” (Deadline: 22 November 2024)

“The Ethics and Politics of Trauma, Resilience and Repair”
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description: If resilience discourse has over the years been the target of numerous criticisms within political philosophy and the social sciences (Walker and Cooper 2011; Carton 2013; Chandler and Reid 2016; Bracke 2016), resilience itself remains central as a form of adaptation and source of solidarity within certain marginalized communities (Herman 1997; Solnit 2010; Weaver 2023). The language of resilience has unmistakably been co-opted by neoliberalism, but researchers in critical psychiatry and psychology nevertheless still view it as a mode of resistance—most notably in colonial contexts where survival is tested daily, or within communities targeted by hate crimes (Jabr 2019; Malatino 2019; Seechi & Seechi 2021). Thus, depending on the context requiring resilience (uprooting, migration, colonialism, precarity, trauma, etc.), resilience cannot necessarily be seen as a ‘docile’ acceptance of suffering, but could – in cases where there are networks of support – constitute a force for survival or even social transformation (e.g. Simich & Andermann 2014; Ionescu 2013; Hall & Lamont 2013). Invoking the concept of resilience thus requires us simultaneously to reflect on the discreet violence done to certain groups and on the means used to co-opt and/or make invisible the various forms of survival and resistance of these groups. As such, studying resilience requires a joint reflection on traumatic experiences and ‘ordinary’ oppressions, as well as on the political, social and economic conditions that make this resilience possible or not (Fassin and Rechtman 2009; Alexander 2012; Hamrouni and Milot 2022; Pain 2022). As is the case with resilience, invocations of trauma as a diagnosis and as a lived experience have ethico-political implications: the use of a trauma diagnosis can, for instance, be employed to gain access to certain rights or to reparations (Fassin and Rechtman 2009, 10). But if the diagnosis of trauma can serve to make certain experiences of violence or oppression m…
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date: 2025-02-28

“Housing and Social Justice” (Deadline: 22 November 2024)
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description: We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special issue of Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum focused on Housing and Social Justice. This special issue follows the recent Housing and Social Justice Conference held in Montreal in May 2024 and aims to further explore the critical issues discussed. Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum is dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of ethical issues in contemporary society, and this special issue seeks to bring together diverse perspectives on the intersection of housing and social justice. We invite submissions that address various aspects of housing and social justice, including but not limited to theoretical essays, empirical research, case studies, and reviews. Contributions from various disciplines including philosophy, sociology, urban studies, political science, ethics, and law are welcome. Submissions can be in either French or English and can be related, without being limited to the following themes: Normative housing issues. What does it mean to have “fair” access to housing? Does the state have a duty to provide housing for all? This first line of research examines how housing is thought of in the light of central conceptions of political philosophy and seeks to establish what housing “justice” means. The question is whether access to housing enables a form of freedom or relational equality, or whether access to housing only concerns material conditions. It is as much a question of thinking about the normative implications of a “loss of control over one’s living environment” (Gaudreau, 2020) because of a financialized housing market as it is of using certain tools from theories of justice to imagine or test public policies for access to housing. (King, 2011; Taylor, 2019) Private property and housing. Is the right to property compatible with the right to housing in the context of liberal democracies and market economies? Is the right to property the best way to guarantee equality? Th…
creator: Les Ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum
date: 2024-09-19