State of Crisis / Crisis State:
Domination and Resistance in the Wake of Neoliberalism(s)
May 7-8, 2010
Carleton University, Ottawa
The neoliberal era has been characterized by the privatization of public assets, the growth of a global division of labour, and the development of flexible and highly mobile forms of capital accumulation. However, in the face of the worst economic crisis since the great depression, the highest recorded atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and seemingly unending conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan, this periodization must be critically interrogated. Do contemporary crises mark a break or rupture with neoliberalism or are they an expression of its continuity and retrenchment?
The Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy is an interdisciplinary, international meeting of graduate students currently inviting submissions that broadly reflect and interrogate these and other (dis)continuities. We welcome submissions that fit within the broader tradition of political economy. The following themes may serve to orient contributions:
- The origins and early history of neoliberalism
- Periodization and theories of capitalist crisis
- The spatialization of crisis: urban neoliberalization and the politics of scale
- The financialization of capital: subprime loans and the mortgage crisis
- The green economy and the ecological limits of capital
- Security, migration and citizenship
- Accumulation by dispossession and colonialism in neoliberal times
- Gender, privatization, and reproductive economies
- Labour unions, precarious employment and permanent exceptionalism
- Post-neoliberalism? Socialism in the twenty-first century
We welcome individual submissions as well as panel proposals. For individual papers, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words; for panel proposals send a 100 word panel abstract along with paper abstracts of up to 250 words. Proposals can be submitted by email until January 31, 2010 to greatlakes2010@gmail.com.
Please refer to http://greatlakes2010.blogspot.com/ for more information.
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