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The Critical
Social Research Collaborative—an interdisciplinary research unit made up of
faculty, graduate students, organized labour and social justice activists--is
currently seeking presentations for our 2nd Annual Critical Social Research
Collaborative conference to be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
We are seeking submissions from academics, researchers, graduate students,
organized labour & community activists. Send your proposal, including an
abstract of no more than300 words, a title, brief bibliography and three
keywords that describe your project to the Editorial Collective at CSRCproject@live.ca
We invite
submissions that confront the contemporary socio-economic and political order
from a diversity of theoretical perspectives and
methodological forms of inquiry in historical or contemporary contexts.
Accepted submissions may be solicited for publication
in a peer-reviewed edited collection to be published by Red Quill Books in 2010.
For more information
please see: http://www.carleton.ca/socanth/
Suggested Panels/Topics May Include:
*Bankruptcies & Bailouts: New
Proposals for Banking, Credit, and Finance
*Economic Recovery or Relapse: Origins,
Causes & Alternate Routes
*(Class)ifying the System: Neoliberalism
& the Fight Against the Privatization of Public Services & Utilities
*Interrogating the ‘New’ Economy:
Workplace Precariousness & Social Wellbeing
*Towards a New Unionism: Provocative
Perspectives on Union Renewal
*Rhetoric & Reality: Mass Media,
Hyper-Commodification and Popular Culture
*En(gender)ing Global Capitalism:
Patriarchy & Social Reproduction
*Whither Empire? Emerging Debates
regarding Capital & the State
*Manifest Militarization: War, Terror
& Foreign Policy
*Rethinking Economy &
Ecology/Rethinking Development
* Migrant Labour & Social (In)justice:
Food, Farmers & Climate Chaos
*Eco-Alternatives: Beyond Techno-Centric
Solutions & Free-Market Fundamentalism
*More Than A Movement Less Than A Party: Organizational
Expression and Social Transformation
*Reactivating Radicalism: Making the Case
for an Anti-Capitalist Politics Today
*Specters Old & New: The Left's Legacy
and Unresolved Problems
*Who’s Crisis: Theirs or Ours? The Rise of
the New Right & the Next New Left
*Transcending Pessimism: Be Realistic,
Demand the Impossible!
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