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2010-04-20T11:07:00.005-04:00

The 2010 Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy is quickly approaching! Come take part in panel discussions and hear presentations by innovative graduate students from North America's Great Lakes region.

"State of Crisis / Crisis State: Domination and Resistance in the Wake of Neoliberalism(s)"

Hosted by the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University

May 7th & 8th, 2010

Humanities Theatre (303 Paterson Hall), Carleton University, Ottawa

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The Call for Papers is now closed. We have reviewed all applications and are making plans for the conference. Stay tuned to this website for further details... coming soon!

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy

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. Yet the intensification of this capitalist model since the early 1970s has come to a head in the last year, and the world has played witness to multiple global crises, including the worst economic catastrophe since the great depression, the highest recorded atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and the continuation of seemingly unending conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

As such, we posit that a critical interrogation of the neoliberal paradigm is in order. Do contemporary crises mark a break or rupture with neoliberalism or are they an expression of its continuity and retrenchment? Do the present crises of finance, ecology and justice represent the culmination of the neoliberal era, or are they endemic components of a renewable cycle of laissez-faire capitalism? Have we seen the emergence of a new form of social organization continually riddled with instability (the crisis state), or are we merely in a temporary state of crisis?

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, though perhaps 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
• Case study analyses of neoliberalization(s)
• 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

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2009-11-06T14:44:00.005-05:00

The Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy will take place at Carleton University in Ottawa on May 7th and 8th, 2010. The conference organizing committee is currently preparing a Call For Papers. Stay tuned to this website for upcoming information!

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Conference Organizing Committee

Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy 2010

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