"Capitalism, Welfare Regime and Intimate Sphere: Theory of Human Reproduction inMature Societies in Europe and East Asia"(CAPWELCARE)
Seminar organized by the Fondation France Japon de l’EHESS

Coordinators:
Emiko Ochiai, Professor at Kyoto University & Blaise Pascal International Research Fellow
at the EHESS (2014-2016) & Sébastien, Lechevalier, Associate Professor at the EHESS &President of the Fondation France Japon de l’EHESS

Presentation of the seminar
The proposition at the origin of this seminar is that understanding the transformationsof social protection in Asia should be taken very seriously and included in the current debatesin Europe on the future of welfare systems. This is also a real epistemological challenge forsocial sciences that had the tendency in the past to consider welfare state as a form of social
protection specific to Europe. The issue at stake is less to enrich existing typologies than toproceed to a rebuilding of our concepts in order to properly analyze the social dynamics andthe political logic which explain how potential changes become effective and specific directions
are chosen among various possibilities, which are partly based on historical patterns. Thiscomparative perspective leads us to emphasize the limitations of existing conceptual
frameworks and to try to revise them. As it can be easily seen, this conceptual effort to build an
integrated framework requires not only first-hand knowledge of Asian socio-economic systems
but also an interdisciplinary approach involving scholars’ contributions in political science,sociology and history.
The goal of this seminar is therefore to build a theoretical framework that canaccurately contribute to analyzing the current evolution of European and East Asian societies.
The multi-faceted comparative analysis of the two regions can help us to understand the various
institutional conditions for a sustainable future. To that end, this seminar aims at integrating
three frameworks that are formally separated in different disciplines: studies on the diversity ofcapitalism, on welfare regimes, and on the intimate sphere. The latter two frameworks try toclarify the mechanisms of human reproduction and their cost, a domain which was often placedon the outside of the field of conventional social science. It will permit to build a theory andmethodology to deal with human reproduction in mature societies, while trying to link it to thedynamics of capitalism, which leads to the reproduction of social classes.
To build research cooperation for long-term span, we include trained young
researchers such as graduate students as full members of the project. Our aim is to publish ahigh level theoretical and empirical work through international co-authorship.

Program of the seminar in 2015-2016

Date

Title

Speakers(s)RoomTuesday
17/11/15, 14h16h“Welfare Regimes or Attachment
Regimes? For a Theorical
Reinterpretation of the Esping
Andersen's Typology”

Introduction by Emiko room 638
Ochiai & Sébastien
Lechevalier
Speaker : Serge
Paugam (EHESS)
Discussant : Emiko
Ochiai

Tuesday“The Same Logic, Different Paths:
08/12/15, 14h- Comparison of Europe, Asia and16hAmerica in the Era of Global
Ageing and Migration”

Speaker : Emiko
Ochiairoom 662

Discussant : Sébastien
LechevalierTuesday“The genesis of the social protection Speaker : Robert Boyer room 662
15/12/15, 14h- systems in Nordic countries: which (CNRS & EHESS)
16h
theoretical lessons?”
Tuesday“How to compensate inequalities
Speaker Marie12/01/16, 14h- between men and women in relation Thérèse Letablier
16hwith the investment in motherhood (CNRS)
and parenthood? A Comparison
Among 5 European Countries”

room 640“Moral education and quelling care” Speaker : Vanessa
Tuesday
Nurock (Paris 8)
02/02/16, 14h16h

room 015

Tuesday“The birth of the Japanese Social
09/02/16, 14h- State”
16h

Speaker : Bernard
Thomann (Inalco)

room 662

Tuesday“Brazilian schools in Japan in the
23/02/16 , 14h- 2000s : hub between the working16hclass world and the domesticsphere”

Speaker : Guenole
Marchadour (CNAM)room 638

Discussant : Miwon
Seo (EHESS)

Tuesday"Gender and temporalities ofSpeaker :Marc Bessin
15/03/16 , 14h- interdependences : mobilizing social (CNRS)
16h
presences to analyze solidarities"

room 662

Tuesday15 /03/16, 16h18h“Decommodification 25 years after: Speaker :Yohann
A critical view from the North”
Aucante (EHESS)

room 662

Tuesday“Welfare State and gender
Speaker : Hélène
Périvier (OFCE)
22/03/16, 14h- hierarchy: which model after the16h
male breadwinner model to promote
Discussant : Caroline
equality?”
Ibos (Rennes 2)

room 640

Tuesday“Unpaid Labor in Variegated
22/03/16, 16h- Welfare Capitalism”
18h

Speaker : Karen Shire
(University ofDuisburg-Essen)room 640

Tuesday“Translational effects of changing
05/04/16, 14h- social protection in North China :16hemerging flow of migrants”

Speaker : Florence
Lévy (EHESS)

room 640