Apologies for multiple and cross-postings
21 - 23 March 2012
In, against, and beyond neoliberalism: the political, environmental and economic manifestations of crisis
Speakers include:
Paul Chatterton
Vinay Gidwani
Sara Gonzalez
Wendy Larner
Jamie Peck
Jane Wills
Organised by the University of Glasgow Human Geography Research Group.
Venue: the Scottish Trade Union Congress, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow.
This conference addresses critically the many dimensions of the contemporary crisis, conceptualized broadly in its economic, political, and environmental dimensions. It aims to create the intellectual space to think through and explore the multiple social formations through which 'crisis' is made manifest and contested. The conference will also engage with and foster attempts by the left to politicize the crisis in theoretical and strategic terms.
The first afternoon, held at the Scottish Trade Union Congress building, will explore emerging political responses to the crisis. This event will be free.
Registration fees for the full three days are: £85 waged, £25 student/ unwaged.
For a registration form, please contact: [log in to unmask] by Friday 02 March 2012.
***Preliminary Schedule***
Day 1, Wednesday March 21st
Venue: STUC
13:00 - 14:00 Opening talk, Jane Wills
Chair: Andy Cumbers
14:15 - 15:45 Navigating the Crisis: Impacts and Responses?
Chair: Dave Featherstone
(Gehan MacLeod, GalGael; Cathy McCormack; Kate Derickson and Katherine Hankins, Johnnie Crossan, University of Glasgow)
15:45 - 16:15 Tea/Coffee
16:15 - 17:45 Making links: activism, organising and research (Paul Chatterton, Paul Routledge, Kendra Strauss, Sara Gonzalez)
Chair: Andy Cumbers
Day 2, Thursday March 22nd
Venue: STUC
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 Plenary, Renormalizing neoliberalism, Jamie Peck
Chair: Danny MacKinnon
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/tea
11:00 - 12:30 Paper session 1: Urban Crisis
Chair: Kate Derickson
- Consent to Neoliberal Hegemony through Coercive Urban Governance, Harold Perkins
- 'Not the Market has failed, but the state', Sebastian Schipper
- From Kerala to Dubai and back again: construction migrants and the urban roots of the global economic crisis, Michele Buckley
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13.30 - 14:30 Plenary, Wendy Larner
Chair: Kendra Strauss
14.45 - 15.45 Paper session 2: Economic Crisis
Chair: Danny MacKinnon
- The moving map of the global financial crisis: a comparative analysis of four European cities, Stijn Oosterlynck et al.
- The crisis in Britain since 2007, Jamie Gough
15:45 - 16.15 Coffee/tea
16.15 - 17.15 Paper session 3: Environmental / Ecological crisis
Chair: Paul Routledge / Dave Featherstone?
- Disasters, racisms, neoliberalisms, Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn
- Climate Crisis and the articulation of counter hegemony in Bangladesh, Paul Routledge
Day 3, Friday March 23rd
Venue: School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
10:00-11.00 Plenary, Vinay Gidwani
Chair: Dave Featherstone
11:00 -11:30 Coffee/tea
11.30 - 13.00 Paper session 3: Political/ state crisis
Chair: Andy Cumbers
- Politicising the Crisis, David Featherstone
- Placing Neoliberalism: The rise and fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger, Rob Kitchin et al.
- Re-framing urban neoliberalism and neo-liberal citizenship, Michael Janoschka
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Panel and concluding discussion/remarks
Dr. Kendra Strauss
Research Associate in Urban Political Economy School of Geographical & Earth Sciences University of Glasgow East Quad, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ [log in to unmask]
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