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Politics, Labour and Sustainability is an interdisciplinary research group on practical philosophy and the social sciences in the Department of Philosophy and Social Work at the University of the Balearic Islands.

The group's work is oriented towards 1) politics - structural transformations, social justice and public policies, 2) culture - identity and values - and 3) society - work, family and sustainability.

Its general objectives are 1) to systemise and arrange socio-scientific, philosophical and theoretical categories in models for social analyses; 2) contribute to the evaluation of social issues at the local and the global levels; and 3) to discuss and disseminate general knowledge.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

3th Symposium Medimigra The crisis of immigration in the center of the crisis. UIB/Palma de Mallorca, June 1-3 2011. Coordinador: Alejandro Miquel. Blog here
Inside Job Documentary and discussion with Bernat Riutort (PTS), Ivan Murray (GIST) and Maria del Pilar Barceló (Attac-Mallorca), Dijous May 26tn 2011.
Cooperation Project Social and Political Transformations in West Mediterranean: Dialog and Cooperation. UIB/Universidad de Fez, 2008. Coord.: Bernat Riutort.
Seminar by Nancy Fraser: Dilemmas of Justice in the 21st Century: Gender and Globalization
Decembre 12th, 13th and 14th 2007. Palma de Mallorca

X Simposium of the Iberoamerican Society for Political Philosophy, “Equality, old and new challenges”.October 24-26, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México
Post-graduated studies in Gender, Development and Environment, UIB/Universidad de Oriente-Santiago de Cuba
Permanent seminar in Ibero-american social and political analysis