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ISA RC52 Interim ConferenceTechnical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 28-30 November 2013 Professionalism in contemporary societies is facing many challenges that may create substantive transformations in the professions and their relationships with the state, the market and the management as well as the clients and citizens. Major challenges are arising from the global economic crisis and the ways in which governments are restructuring (or forced to do so) their public sectors and the concept of citizenship. While public sector services as key area of professional work face overall cuts, thus creating potentially negative effects for professional work and development, other areas may even face expansion and new chances, like the emergent areas of enterprising professionalism furthered by privatisation and new managerial regimes. Ironically, the new challenges of professions may foster professionalism as part of changing policies and governance practices especially in times of crises, because of the high levels of trust that professions enjoy and their unique capacity to buffer social conflict and manage the provision of essential services for the citizens. Yet this capacity may vary between professional groups, countries and globally, and the contemporary challenges may therefore create variety and even contradictions in the transformations of professions. (...)Lire la suite : rc52_lisbon_2013_cfpDeadline: 31 mai 2013