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ISA - XIXe congr&#232;s mondial de sociologie, du 15 au 21 juillet 2018, Toronto, CanadaArgumentaireLe combat &#224; distance n&#8217;a rien de neuf et pr&#233;c&#232;de ce que le sociologue Norbert Elias a nomm&#233; &#171; Processus de Civilisation &#187; (Elias, 1939). Les relations entre le &#171; processus de civilisation &#187; et l&#8217;av&#232;nement de l&#8217;arme &#224; feu dans l&#8217;activit&#233; guerri&#232;re en Occident (d&#232;s XIII&#232;me si&#232;cle), comme dans le d&#233;veloppement de l&#8217;armement moderne, sont aussi frappantes qu&#8217;ambivalentes, et pourront &#234;tre &#233;tudi&#233;es et discut&#233;es &#224; travers les cas d&#8217;&#233;tude des intervenant-e-s.D&#8217;une part, et ce de mani&#232;re tr&#232;s embl&#233;matique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les populations civiles &#8211; sans parler des victimes du g&#233;nocide - constituent un lot immense des victimes de la violence de guerre, du fait m&#234;me de la port&#233;e meurtri&#232;re des nouveaux types d&#8217;armements.D&#8217;autre part, la f&#233;rocit&#233; des champs de bataille du pass&#233; laisse probablement place &#224; de nouveaux affects, &#224; des enjeux de corps diff&#233;rents, voire diff&#233;r&#233;s : les bombardements forcent combattants et civils &#224; s&#8217;enterrer le plus profond&#233;ment possible dans le sol. Le recours plus large, &#224; l&#8217;artillerie puis au bombardement a&#233;rien, permet de tuer &#224; distance ce qui suppose des proc&#233;d&#233;s techniques et des cha&#238;nes de commandement qui &#233;loignent la mise &#224; mort. Mais bien des modalit&#233;s de combats rapproch&#233;s continuent &#224; avoir lieu simultan&#233;ment.Cette session invite des sociologues, socio-historiens et historiens &#224; questionner une ou plusieurs de ces transformations dans les mani&#232;res de faire la guerre et de faire violence au fil du temps. Les interventions pourront notamment se pencher sur la dimension prox&#233;mique (Hall, 1966) de la bataille, mais aussi &#224; des enjeux d'images et de repr&#233;sentation de cette violence. Selon le contexte historique, certaines modalit&#233;s de violences sont consid&#233;r&#233;es comme moins "respectables" que d'autres, et ce ind&#233;pendamment du nombre de victimes inflig&#233;es.Modalit&#233;s de soumissionD&#233;lai de soumission :&#160;20 septembre 2017Vous &#234;tes invit&#233;s &#224; soumettre vos abstracts en anglais (300 mots max.) &#224; l&#8217;adresse suivante:&#160;https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10152.htmlOrganisationDieter REICHER, Professeur associ&#233; de sociologie, Universit&#233; de Graz, Autriche.Ilan LEW, Chercheur associ&#233; &#224; l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Gen&#232;ve &#38; Doctorant en sociologie au CADIS &#8211; &#201;cole des Hautes &#201;tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.R&#233;f&#233;rencesCulture and War studies.AUDOIN-ROUZEAU, St&#233;phane, Combattre. Une anthropologie historique de la guerre moderne (XIX&#232;me - XXI&#232;me si&#232;cle). Paris : Seuil, 2008.ELIAS, Norbert, The Civilizing Process. Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000 [1939].HALL, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. New-York: Garden City, 1966.KUZMICS, Helmut et Sabine HARING, Emotion, Habitus und Erster Weltkrieg. Soziologische Studien zum milit&#228;rischen Untergang der Habsburger Monarchie. G&#246;ttingen, 2013.MENNELL, Stephen, The American Civilizing Process. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.PARKER, Geoffrey, ed. The Cambridge History of Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.XIX ISA - world congress of sociology, Toronto, Canada - July 15th to 20th 2018ArgumentCombat at a distance is not new and precedes what Elias called "the civilizing process", but the development and generalization of firearms in warfare taking place between 1300 and 1600 seems, remarkably, to coincide with it.The relations between the "process of civilization" and new types of weapons are striking and ambiguous. On the one hand, these transformations enabled killing on a new dimension and scale. And since the World Wars not only soldiers but also great parts of the civilian population fall victim to mass killings because of new types of weapons. On the other hand, fencing, suffocating, stabbing, seem to lose their importance in the killing from a distance. The atomic bomb kills millions but it needs only a person pushing a button. Drone warfare is also an example of what may call ironically &#8221;civilised warfare&#8221;.There is no need for the spontaneity, affectivity and other forms of fierce emotions that one could find on the battlefields of the past.This session invites sociologists, socio-historians and historians to question the transformation of the manners of making war and violence in its complexity. The intervention could consider the proxemic dimension (Hall, 1966) of a battle, but also the representation of violence at any given time, or the fact that some modalities of violence are considered less "respectable" than others, paradoxically independently of the number of victims they claim.Submission guidelinesDeadline : September 20th 2017Abstracts (300 words max.) have to be submitted at the following address : https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10152.htmlThen you will be asked to register through a form.RC 56 : Historical SociologyFigurational Research Network &#8211; Norbert Elias FoundationCall Authors / OrganizersDieter REICHER, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria.Ilan LEW, Research Associate in Sociology, University of Geneva &#38; PhD Candidate CADIS &#8211; &#201;cole des Hautes &#201;tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.ReferencesCulture and War studies.AUDOIN-ROUZEAU, St&#233;phane, Combattre. Une anthropologie historique de la guerre moderne (XIX&#232;me - XXI&#232;me si&#232;cle). Paris : Seuil, 2008.ELIAS, Norbert, The Civilizing Process. Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000 [1939].HALL, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. New-York: Garden City, 1966.KUZMICS, Helmut et Sabine HARING, Emotion, Habitus und Erster Weltkrieg. Soziologische Studien zum milit&#228;rischen Untergang der Habsburger Monarchie. G&#246;ttingen, 2013.MENNELL, Stephen, The American Civilizing Process. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.PARKER, Geoffrey, ed. The Cambridge History of Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.