Dear colleagues,
There are a couple of spaces left on this workshop. If you would like to
attend, please contact Karen Lai ([log in to unmask]) as soon as
possible to book a place. Please note that the workshop itself is free
and lunch and coffee/tea will be provided. However, we will not be able
to cover travel expenses.
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Neoliberalization, financialization and economic citizenship
One-day Workshop
10th October 2007
Suite 1, Lenton & Wortley Hall, University of Nottingham University Park
(Main Campus), University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD
The contract between individuals and the state in many Euro-American
countries is being remade, with personal responsibility and markets
increasingly becoming the default mode for processes such as welfare
provision, short-term income smoothing and long-term financial security.
At the same time, there have been increases in economic polarisation,
raising concerns about social and financial exclusion. Various concepts
have been deployed to help explain such a transformation. This workshop
focuses upon neo-liberalization and financialization, concepts which
share many potential points of contact but which hitherto have tended to
run in parallel to one another. Studies of neo-liberalization have
proved effective in disciplines such as economic geography where it has
informed analyses of welfare reform, the reorganization of labour
markets, local government, nature-society relations, etc.
Financialisation, which focuses on the growing power and systemic
influence of money and finance within contemporary life, has become
increasingly significant in fields such as economic sociology and
critical management studies. This workshop provides an opportunity to
explore the relationship between processes of neoliberalization and
financialization, and will provide an opportunity to explore the
consequences of both for economic citizenship, a concept which denotes
the ability of individuals and households to participate fully in the
economy and produce economic security.
Programme:
10:15-11:00: Arrival and coffee, Introduction
11:00-12:30: Session 1. Chair: Sarah Hall
Jamie Peck (University of Wisconsin-Madison): 'Finding
the Chicago School'
Shaun French, Andrew Leyshon and Thomas Wainwright
(University of Nottingham): 'Financializing space'
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00: Session 2. Chair: Shaun French
Wendy Larner (University of Bristol): 'Situating
neoliberalism'
Sue Smith (University of Durham): 'The financialisation
of housing: a comment on the inexorable integration of property,
mortgage and financial markets'
15:00-15:15 Break/Coffee and Tea
15:15-16.45 Session 3. Chair: Andrew Leyshon
Paul Langley (Northumbria University): 'Neo-liberal
financialised subjects'
Adam Swain (University of Nottingham): 'Neo-liberalizing
post-soviet space'
16:45-17:30 Discussant (Noel Castree, University of Manchester) and
wrap-up.
18:00 Drinks/Meal* - venue to be confirmed
*Those wishing to attend the post-workshop meal will need to confirm
with Karen Lai ([log in to unmask]) by Monday 1st October, for
reservations purposes. Please note that the cost of dinner is not
included in attendance at the seminar.
Attendance is free and includes lunch and tea/coffee for all
participants. However, places are strictly limited so please contact
Karen Lai ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible if you would
like to reserve a place, which will be allocated on a 'first come, first
served' basis.
The Workshop is being held in Suite 1, Lenton & Wortley Hall, University
Park (Main Campus), University of Nottingham. For directions to
Nottingham and the University Park Campus go to
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/campuses/maps.php
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Regards,
Andrew Leyshon
Karen Lai
Karen P.Y. Lai | PhD researcher | School of Geography, The University of
Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom |
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