III CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL de SOCIOLOGÍA de las POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS y SOCIALES
GLOBALIZACIÓN, DESIGUALDAD Y NUEVAS INSURGENCIAS

III International Conference on Sociology of Public and Social Policies
GLOBALIZATION, INEQUALITY AND NEW INSURGENT FORCES

JUNE 1-2, 2017

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• In the last decade there have been important changes in Europe in institutional policy and in the so-called social movements, in the field of the forms of intervention, modes of organization, political communications and the content of Speeches. On the other hand, in other regions, such as Latin America, political creativity in all these and other areas has continued to spread, in many cases around conflicts much harder and bleeding than Europeans. In general, all these changes prolong the decline of the policy that is entrusted to institutional forms and contents, while continuing the progress of the instituted. This conflict between the instituted and the instituting has also impacted on the sciences that deal with the political sphere from different points of view, since the crisis of the classical theoretical references (from Marxism to liberalism, from structuralism to individualism Methodological, from classes to hegemonies, etc.) and has facilitated the emergence of new frameworks, paradigms, agencies, etc. The same disorientation that the political system has affected the standard thought. What is involved is to accompany the political changes with a similar creativity from the scientic discourses. Even if this requires breaking the regular consensus in both cases,
  
  
  
• Aims
  - To think in theoretical and epistemological terms, in general, changes in conflicts and political crises
  - To Analyze new agents, modes of action, forms of organization, and stories of legitimacy in institutional politics
  - To analyze political practices away from institutional neuralgic centers
  
  
  
• Contributions
  In this working group we are interested in receiving contributions that contribute to broadening the field of politics, both in relation to the cases or situations that are the object of attention and in relation to the projected thught about them. We understand that politically novel situations, both within and outside institutions, require equally creative ideas. Therefore, we suggest to the communications to emphasize the most singular aspects, equal the angle or point of view of contemporary politics, and make the effort to accompany such singularities with an equally original thought
  
  
  
• Key Words
  Social movements, associations, political conflicts, political parties, trade unions
  

(2). Peace policies and global violence : public responses to the fear and uncertainty
Chair: Juan David Gómez Quintero (jdgomez@unizar.es) Jesús Carreras Aguerri (jcarrerasaguerri@unizar.es) y Lionel Sebastian Delgado Ontivero (graduated from the University of Zaragoza, lio.delgado.ontivero@hotmail.com)

• Against the idea that a globalized world homogenize and universalizes processes, we are faced with the heterogeneity of the global space and the development of integrated global capitalism, a new transnational scenario that relocates production relationships, subjectivities and social interactions to make them explode in a multiplicity of scales which are articulated to forming new social forms. Endless assembly technologies, peoples, territories and modes of production offers a great challenge at different administrative levels facing the management and control of these new realities.
  The global scenario is convulsed. Wars, disputes over geopolitical interests, struggles over natural resources, terrorism and the spread of intolerance present new challenges for Governments. As a consequence, States' priorities change: concerns over inequality give way to worries about security. The proliferation of national security studies and the concern for the mechanisms of monitoring and social regulation before potentially dangerous populations are an example of this. The development of various devices of management, capture, and social control; the spread of laws of regulation and standardization; the rise of preventive urban planning; and the proliferation of speeches focusing on the risk of international terrorism; they are only some of the manifestations of this policy that it is articulated with media devices and cultural trends in a model of governance and social stability that seeks to manage and prevent all kinds of conflict and ensure the economic production.
  Governments advocate for intervention policies in external conflicts and place themselves as promoters of internal management of population policies. This double face articulates a complex network of elements: from rhetorical exercises to economic interests, through strategic management of populations, prevention of internal conflicts, peace in conflict zones in foreign countries and a long etcetera. This interweaving of positions, interests and strategies raises a very interesting outlook for the reflection and discussion. The role of the public administrations against wars (both internal and external) invites us to research a continuum of different types of management, prevention and conflict.
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• Aims
  -To analyze the national and international security policies as disciplinary technologies.
  -To analyze the various forms of current conflict (terrorism, international military intervention, etc.).
  - To reflect on the policies of management and prevention of violence in the modern States.
  
  
• Contributions
  We hope to receive communications dealing with policies of security outwards (international intervention) and inward (management of national insecurity). We aim to reflect on and discuss about the relationship between the role of contemporary states and their actions in the field of national and international security. At the same time, we wish that received contributions will help to reflect on disciplinary technologies and the strategies of power that come into play in our societies.
  
  
• Key Words
  Cultural conflict, terrorism, biopolitics, violence, discipline technology
  
  

(3). Security policies and Human Rights in the ‘Global City’ .
Chair: María José Bernuz Beneitez mbernuz@unizar.es LSJ - UNIZAR/ Daniel Jiménez Franco djf@unizar.es LSJ - UNIZAR

• Everything seems to happen in the urban environment. The discourses and processes of globalization suggest that ‘global’ cities experience similar phenomena, including the debates on security and public policies. Such issues as insecurity, delinquency, criminality and the risks posed by these seem to be ‘thought’ in a global framework. But we should also think about their ‘global backroom’ and the causes outlining them, because individuals and local communities are the ones suffering the consequences of those policies.
  In the Spanish case, the years of the ‘economic miracle’ were also a new phase of growth and urban transformation, as well as a permanent crisis for an important and hidden social sector – the ‘lowest third’ of the consumption society. In the current ‘new normal’, this crisis is reaching those who already lived excluded in their own ‘habitats’, those who start experiencing new processes of expulsion, those who see their habitats collapse under their feet, those who become ‘indebted citizens’, those who are being expelled from the ‘citizen audience of indebted consumers’, or those who refuse to take part of it. In parallel to these processes, the sphere of ‘security policies’ – both in their penal and social sense – is also suffering some relevant transformations.
  The debate between the punitive dimension of control devices and the radical perspective on human rights becomes therefore more and more polarized. A widening gap between security and ‘basic needs’ is leading policy-making to crossroads. If prisons are designed to keep dangerous subjects inside their walls, while closed areas are designed to keep them away (Simon, 2007, p. 241), some key questions arise: What do we mean by ‘barrio’?; What socio-spatial mutations are taking place under the economic model to which the ‘global city’ is attached?; What does ‘security’ mean in this context?; How must ‘citizenship’ be defined in a ‘global city’?
  
  Cities have nothing to offer than their own skin, their own flesh, and their own skeletons. The cities outsource themselves, thus practically being unable to produce anything. We have no factories or industries anymore. What cities can do is nothing but selling themselves. Cities have ended up selling their image, projected as a space. The poor are forced into exile because they contrast with any good commodity product, which is what cities are wanted to become, (Manuel Delgado).
  
  
• Aims:
  Discussion on issues related to the definition of security/insecurity in the ‘global urban context’, under the current globalization of policies and discourses in the fields of strategic planning, urban conflict, cohabitation, social rights and security management.
  
  
• Contributions:
  Studies and researches in the areas of urban sociology, security policies, strategic planning, social services, social movements, immigration, criminalization, victimization, visions of criminality, risk perception…
  
  
• Key Words:
  Security, Insecurity, Human Rights, Criminalization, Social Policies, Urban Sociology, Global Cities...
  

(4). Crisis, participation and social cohesion: Community challenges for social policies.
Chair: Chabier Gimeno Monterde (chabierg@unizar.es) y Miguel Montañés Grado (miguelmg@unizar.es)

• We are witnessing the multiplication in Europe and America of actions within the framework of community social services, arising from the growing need to achieve greater social cohesion through participation. Responding to complex phenomena that require joint and collaborative actions from all social actors: inequality, processes of exclusion, cultural diversity, etc. Numerous practices have been developed in this area in recent years. In order to allow their transferability, and given the scarcity of scenarios (academic and professional) where to make them converge, it is the purpose of this working group to provide a space for presentation, exchange, analysis, reflection and evaluation of those initiatives that have at least common social intervention in community key.
  
  Behind all this new techniques there is a search for alternatives to a model that is evaluated as depleted. The current model of intervention of the Social Services presents signs of stagnation, which are not only derived from the very serious economic crisis in southern Europe. The evidence points to a decoupling of the Social Policy regarding its community dimension, which characterized it at the end of the 20th century. The reference to social services collapsed by the care of people most affected by severe impoverishment is common point of view: a growing number of people, disengaged to the world of employment, who only have the opportunity to face their vulnerability through these care logics. And, at the same time, it is assumed that social intervention is fragmented, by sectors of population and fields of action. As well as disarticulated, between public and private actors, in competition for scarce resources.
  
  It seems that the first cause of this situation is the abandonment of preventive and promotional work. This transforming work, once abandoned, has become a concentration of the human and economic resources of the Social Services in individual care and, rarely in the groupal. This abandonment of the community has followed an extreme sectoralization of the entities and services. So that kind of specialization has led to abandonment of the territory as a subject of intervention, which has facilitated, even more, an inefficient management of the welfare state.
  
  In this context, it has been assumed to be "normal", as a majority, a negative sum competitiveness. What some win, others lose. Favoring this climate is a loose communication between political administrators, technical-professional resources and citizenship. Something that , in parallel, has contributed to a social environment of competitiveness, a lack of collective and solidarity search for solutions, which very negatively affects the weakest sectors of the population. In short, assuming a neoliberal project of society, in the absence of an evaluation and systematization of professional practice.
  
  Faced with this exhaustion of the care model, new logics of intervention are demanded, based on participation and community. They seek an effective articulation of the different actors involved (public and private), which allows the improvement of living conditions.
  
  
• Aims:
  -to show experiences of Social Policies and public and private interventions with a community approach, especially those that promote participation as a way to improve social cohesion.
  -to show research carried out by university groups or social service professionals, as well as other forms of reflection that favor the transferability of these innovation practices.
  -to create a space of exchange and reflection on the potentialities and obstacles to the development of these formulas of intervention in the present context.
  
  
• Contributions
  -Experiences with a community approach in Social Services.
  -Plans for the management of diversity in municipalities and Autonomous Communities.
  -Projects of community intervention in territories of high cultural diversity.
  -New community strategies in the Third Sector.
  -Community Approach to Social Policies financed with European Funds..
  
  
• Keywords:
  1. Community; 2. Participation; 3. Diversity; 4. Social cohesion; 5. Crisis
  
  
  

(5). New migratory challenges in a globalized world
Chair: Diana Valero Errazu, (dvalero@unizar.es), Ana Cristina Romea Martínez, (romea@unizar.es)

• In an increasingly multicultural and globalized society the impact of the economic crisis and its management by different governments has been a challenge (Giddens, 2001). We are dealing with what the authors call "the era of migration" (Castillos and Miller, 2004). However, in spite of this increase in migratory flows, a significant part of the population at the destination countries is questioning the arrival of immigrants to their countries. This fact has been manifested in the increase of right-wing parties who blame immigrants of the current situation and which is implying a change in the migratory policies.
  As researchers on immigration, we face aspects as diverse as Brexit's potential impact on the freedom of movement within the EU, the US President's immigration proposals, the war in Syria and the migratory flows that affect minors (Gimeno-Monterde, 2013), the massive influx of refugees (De Lucas, 2015, Moure, 2015) or the increase in racist acts in host societies (SOS Racism, 2016).
  All this, without forgetting the traditional migratory flows, which emphasize the importance of migrations for economic or labor reasons (Arango, 2007); these, continue to grow and form different realities that affect both, countries of origin and destination countries, among them the increase in female migration for labor reasons (Sassen, 2006; Mora, 2008), the emergence of the transnational families (Portes et al. 1999), and a long etc. In short, we are facing with multidimensional social problems that pose great challenges for our societies and that demand a multidisciplinary approach; Political, economic, legislative and social actors must work in a coordinated way to consolidate intercultural societies, guaranteeing democratic rights to all who form it.
  In the current situation of global uncertainty, migration represents a political and social challenge for all countries and requires a deep and responsible research that, in addition to describe reality and analyze each aspect of it in depth, responses and proposes solutions based on all the hypotheses in a world that lives between globalization and the migratory crisis.
  
  
• Aims:
  -To examine the new migratory realities that give rise to new social contexts.
  -To analyze migration policies and the interventions that are being carried out with
  this group, both internationally and locally.
  -To know who the new migratory actors are.
  -To promote debate and discussion about the new migratory challenges among different Scientific disciplines.
  
  
• Contributions
  This working group creates a space for reflection on migration in a globalized world. To this end, the following thematic axes are proposed, although other types of contributions with the common link of the migratory issue, are welcome:
  -New migratory trends.
  -Forced migration, refugees, asylum and refuge policies ...
  -New world order / disorder around immigration policies ...
  - Transnational families, distance maternity / paternity, mixed marriages, unaccompanied minors ...
  -Good practices around intervention with immigrants.
  
  In order to address the issue of new migration challenges from different perspectives, this working group accepts scientific contributions from different fields: Sociology, Public Policy, Social Work, Anthropology, Psychology, Education, Law and Social Economics, among others.
  Works may consist of theoretical reflection on migrations, analysis of migratory public policies, practical experiences with immigrant populations and their systematization, fieldwork in countries of destination or origin, etc.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Migrations, migration policies, globalization, transnationality, migratory actors
  
  

(6). The new Socio-environmental challenges, sustainable development and global and national environmental policies
Chairs: Iván López, (ivalopez@unizar.es), Lourdes Casajus (lcasajus@unizar.es), Mª Victoria Sanagustín (vitico.sanagustin@gmail.com)

• Public Administrations face unprecedented socio-environmental challenges in the twenty-first century (global environmental change, high pollution - atmospheric, soil and water resources - loss of biodiversity - fauna and flora…). Nonetheless, in Spain, for example, the contemporary economic crisis - along with cuts in public budgets and extraordinary unemployment rates - has been determinant 1) to relegate environmental issues to a secondary position in the political and social agenda; 2) and to highlight the obsolescence of the institutional “architectures” and political practices - both at the global and national levels - with the intensification of these king of conflicts. In this thematic session will be discussed the tendencies on the matters of institutional policies, forms of organization and strategies - further, the re-conceptualization of the notion of sustainable development - when approaching a scenario of new frame crisis in the interaction between society and the environment.
  
  
• Aims:
  o To discuss current environmental problems from the sociological and political perspective, and from social sciences and the humanities in general, in the framework of sustainable development.
  o To analyze environmental policies at international, national, regional and local levels, and their impacts on the specific societies, in the framework of sustainable development.
  o To identify Good Practices regarding environmental policies, as well as both institutional and social resilience.
  
  
• Contributions:
  Studies and research in the field of environmental sociology, both theoretical and empirical, environmental policies, strategic planning, sustainability ... Contributions from the different social sciences and the humanities: Sociology, Political Sciences, Psychology, Social Work, Economics, Education, Law…
  
  
• Key words:
  Environment and society, environmental policies, institutional and social resilience, sostenibility.
  
  

(7). Horizon 2020 Program: Priorities for promoting health and quality of life and empowering vulnerable groups.
Chair: Marta Gil Lacruz y Ana I. Gil Lacruz, (mglacruz@unizar.es)

• In a conference dedicated to the analysis of the consequences of globalization, the critical perspective of the social problems and inequalities derived from globalization should be taken under account. An example of this critical perspective focuses on the diagnosis of needs and the evaluation of alternatives for change. The review of public policies is a pending subject to be carried out from different levels of action: International - local, citizenship - vulnerable groups, global policies - specific strategies, public and private agents, among others.
  Under European background, growing economic and cultural interdependence push us to cope with shared challenges such as: aging and demographic change, social disintegration and exclusion, inequalities and migratory flows, growing distrust of democracy, etc.
  In this sense, the Horizon 2020 program provides us with a research and innovation framework for the period 2014-2020 in which social challenges constitute one of its three fundamental pillars. Within the challenges of society: Demographic change, well-being and inclusive, innovative and reflexive societies are recognized as priorities for study and intervention for their impact on the quality of life of European citizens.
  The goal of “lifelong health and the well-being for all”, including in the thematic criteria of social challenges, points to the consideration of active aging and the awareness and training of people for self-management of health. Achieving this goal depends on allowing vulnerable groups to be fully integrated both inside and outside the labor market.
  For example, in the case of the elderly, their empowerment will help them to remain active as workers, consumers, caregivers, volunteers and citizens. We have to assume that older people can take charge of their own lives and contribute to society (Article 3 of the Lisbon Treaty, 2009).
  World Health Organization's policy on “friendly cities with older people” also highlights the need to address isolation and community integration through respectful and inclusive services. This intervention strategy will allow us improving the public perceptions of aging and the interactions between generations.
  Ultimately, solidarity should be fostered, sensitizing the population on these issues, changing negative social representations, stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination towards these groups, for social commitment to values of respect for dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, human rights (consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union, Article 2).
  The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union also affects the mainstreaming of public policies, pointing to additional related rights such as: gender equality, social security, health care and education. In order to reduce social inequalities, Horizon 2020 program advices to social partners of the European Union (eg. social and health systems), that in order to reduce social inequalities, make decisions based on evidence and divulgate information related to best practices and innovative approaches.
  This working group proposes the analysis of the main strengths for health and quality of life of groups that are often in a situation of social vulnerability based on the goals of “health throughout life and well-being” from Horizon 2020.
  
  
• Aims
  —To define the concept of empowerment and its political implications in groups at risk such as the clients of the health system.
  —To propose alternatives for action in vulnerable groups that are useful for psychosocial intervention resources.
  —To explore good practices in relation to healthy and active aging. For example, gastronomic heritage preservation, senior volunteering, assets and resources of the third and fourth age.
  
  
  
• Contributions:
  One of the major public health challenges in modern societies is to achieve healthy and active aging. If no measures are taken, the change of the demographic pyramid will have an enormous impact on the economy, health, social development and welfare systems. The health status of citizens depends on many factors such as access and use of quality health goods and services, biological processes or environmental impact, but individual behaviors are also decisive.
  In this working group, we will try to analyze how senior volunteer could promote, in a sustainable way, the welfare in the third age. At present, it is important to give visibility to alternative public health policies that promote leisure time activities among the elderly. Senior volunteering empowers elder to tackle with the difficulties of retirement, physical problems and inactivity, thus positively reinforces their health and happiness.
  
  
• Key Words:
  Horizon 2020. European programs. Social challenges. Active aging. Empowerment. Quality of life. Social capital.
  
  

(8) Youth and Youth Policies at the Crossroads of Crisis
Chair: Alessandro Gentile (agentile@unizar.es)

• Structural instability started in 2008 represents an important challenge for the sustainability of our welfare model and for the generational replacement in our society. A large academic literature shows that job precariousness and labour exclusion have assumed a “youth face” in this period of economic crisis for most of the advanced occidental countries. Unemployment is one of the crudest evidence of the personal drama experienced by young people in our country. Nevertheless, it reflects only partially the negative consequences of the crisis: nowadays many pre-existing problems of Spanish society are getting worse, meanwhile the traditional patterns of labour insertion and social integration, jointly with the structures of solidarity (in a framework of familistic welfare model) that have been allowed to overcome or to relieve such issues so far in the recent past, are under an increasing pressure. Following the main indications of the EU Youth Strategy 2010-2018, the political reaction to the structural instability should be quick and effective, deploying a longstanding strategy through political initiatives leaded by young people and, as a consequence, through a strong commitment between all the social actors aimed to the defense of social cohesion, the improvement of inter-generational solidarity, and the endorsement of equality of opportunities both in the labour market and in the welfare system. These indications were frequently ignored in the last years; as a prove of that we may observe the recent increase of labour insecurity among young people, the growing risk of poverty for youngsters and infants, and the prolonged marginality of youth policies in the political agenda of our country.
  
  
• Aims
  The main aim of our panel is to improve dialogue on these issues from an academic perspective of research and analysis
  
  
• Contributions:
  Academic contributions shold be focused on almost one of two basic topics: 1) the key role of youth policies as institutional tolos to integrally face the problems of youth insertion, integration and participation in our society; 2) the detailed research of economic crisis' impacts on educative, profesional and residential conditions and trajectories of Spanish Young people in the last decade. Those contributions with a comparative perspective will be particularly welcame in order to consider the youth and youth policies in Spain looking at the international scenario, with a special focus on comparations between the case of Spain and the rest of Europe or the case of Latin American countries.
  
  
• Key words:
  Young people, job precariousness, transition to adulthood, inter-generational solidarity, policies of emancipation.