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Transnational Ethical Economies:
Global Frontiers in Poverty and Entrepreneurialism (American Studies Association Annual Meeting)
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Transnational Ethical Economies:
Global Frontiers in Poverty and Entrepreneurialism
Organizers: Zenia Kish (NYU) and Jan Padios (University of Maryland)
American Studies Association Annual Meeting
“Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent”
November 21-24, 2013: Hilton Washington, DC
Emerging ideas about poverty, responsibility, and economic growth are reshaping understandings of global inequality and social change. As mid-20th century models of “development” and “aid” to the Global South fall into decline, they give way to new practices of economic, social, and cultural investment based on the ideas of “philanthropic capital” and “ethical economies” rather than charity and corporate imperialism. Such practices often deploy market-based solutions—such as microfinance—to aid the world’s poor in accessing housing, health care, environmental resources, commodities, and of course, capital. Within this new regime of transnational development economics, entrepreneurs are upheld as citizens and economic subjects par excellence and individual responsibility is configured as the ultimate social good.
The presenters on this panel explore the shift towards ethical economies, interrogating how people and places once seen as “under-developed” become new frontiers for innovation and profitability. Charting various transnational projects in the Global South, we ask which practices and whose interests define the Good Economy/Society today; how these emerging ideas circulate across diverse geographies of development; and how they contribute to the emergence of new economic subjectivities. The panel thus contributes to broader critiques of the social functions and cultural basis of markets and the ways in which the ethical itself becomes a domain for the production of economic value.
We welcome papers on the following:
- critical approaches to changing definitions and measures of value in “bottom of the pyramid” markets, foreign direct investment, (micro)finance, and transnational modes of consumption
- cultural and social analysis of market-based solutions to poverty alleviation and/or public-private partnerships in “emerging economies”
- imaginaries and/or new forms of knowledge linked to philanthropic capital/ethical economies
- the “co-creation of value” and the so-called end to corporate imperialism
- radical approaches to issues related to debt, poverty, finance, or consumption in Latin America, Asia/Pacific Islands, Africa, the Caribbean by local and non-elite actors
- discursive analysis of “emerging economies,” “philanthropic capital,” “ethical economies,” etc.
- representations (visual or otherwise) of issues related to debt, poverty, finance, or consumption in Latin America, Asia/Pacific Islands, Africa, the Caribbean
- new financial practices and economic subjectivities in Latin America, Asia/Pacific Islands, Africa, the Caribbean
- American/cultural/interdisciplinary methods for studying any of the above, and/or connecting the above with US-based economic and imperial practices
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Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words by January 17th at midnight EST, to Jan M. Padios at janmpadios@gmail.com or Zenia Kish at zenia.kish@nyu.edu
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Jan M. Padios, PhD
Assistant Professor of American Studies
2103 Holzapfel Hall
Department of American Studies
University of Maryland College Park
College Park, MD 20742
Email: janmpadios@gmail.com
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