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Engineer or engineers? Between expansion and fragmentation.
New insights and comparative perspectives
| Location: | France |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-05-02 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-02-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
183119 |
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The prevalent research interest towards atypical occupational groups partly explains the subsequent disengagement of social sciences and humanities in the study of engineering. However, the latest research endeavours clearly show that a number of vivid questions remain unsolved.<p>
The transformation of the professional group has reached a point where its unity is put into question, especially given the growing heterogeneity of practices, labour markets, functions, social categories and even training programmes. Is this fragmentation as salient as it appears? And is it really new? Does it engender consequences on the position occupied by the group in the system of professions (Abbott, 1988)? Should one regard this ongoing ramification as a colonisation of new territories in the division of labour, or as a balkanisation of the profession? Can one instead imagine that it actually maintains its unity while at the same time undergoing a process of segmentation? Which approaches should be mobilised to seize these apparently contradictory phenomena?
This present call for paper will lead to an international conference in Paris on the 6th and 7th of October 2011. The selection committee will give special attention to propositions that extend the field of enquiry with international cases, particularly non-occidental societies that have been understudied. It will also consider with high interest approaches shedding light on new dimensions of the history of the group, through the study of particular periods, movements or biographies that have left imprints on the profession, or through reflections on engineering historiography.<p>
Abstracts shall not exceed 4000 characters and will include an author presentation (name, surname, status, institutional affiliation and contact details) as well as a preliminary title. Abstracts must be submitted before May, 2nd 2011 to the following address: colloque.ingenieur2011@ehess.fr.<p>
Communications can be performed in French or in English and shall not exceed 20 minutes.<p>
The outcome of the call will be communicated to authors in May 2011. Accepted papers shall be submitted for the 1st of September 2011.
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