Dear all

The deadline for ICCG abstracts has now been extended to the 10 February. We are very excited by the offers of papers we have had to date and are looking forward to discussions in Frankfurt with Eric Sheppard, Neil Smith, Brigette Young and Philippe Le Billon amongst others.  If you too would like to join us please send an abstract as outlined below.

Kind regards, Wendy and Jeronimo


Theme 1: Financial, economic and fiscal crisis
Coordinators: Wendy Larner (Bristol) <w.larner[at]bristol.ac.uk>,
Jerónimo Montero (Durham) <jeronimo.montero[at]durham.ac.uk>

Keywords: globalization, neoliberalism, political economy, financialization, credit ranking agencies, overaccumulation, bank bail out, state debt, austerity and unemployment

Call for papers and special session proposals

Events taking place in just a few weeks between October and November 2008 gave us all a wake-up call. The benefits of precepts such as free markets, free trade, financial deregulation and the like, vanished in front of the eyes of thousands of astonished economists, journalists, and members of the public. In a similar way to that in which private debt had been made public in several Latin American economies during the 1980s and 1990s, core capitalist states then transferred public money to the bankers in an effort to restore stability to the financial system.

Increasing unemployment, deteriorating working standards, prosecution of migrant labour, state fiscal "discipline" and the politics of austerity are now affecting billions around the world, while concentration of profits and assets appear to be accelerating in the higher spheres of the financial system.

The workshops and debates encompassed in this Theme will be related to the uneven geographical causes and consequences of this economic, political and social shift, broadly centred in (but certainly not limited to) the following questions:

Is this a crisis?  If so, what sort of crisis is it?

Does this crisis represent the end of neoliberalism?

What sort of critical research is needed to analyse this shift?

How is it related to other crises historically and geographically?

What is the response of states in diverse regions and countries of the
world?

How are localities, communities, and social movements responding?

What are the implications for international financial and trade
arrangements?

What new regulatory forms are emerging?

Taking these questions a step further, and considering the exceptional space the Conference offers for debate, we invite papers and session proposals which explore the question of the kind of economic order(s) we want for the future.

For more information please check the Conference website:
www.iccg2011.org
or email us:
Wendy: w.larner[at]bristol.ac.uk
Jerónimo: jeronimo.montero[at]durham.ac.uk



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Jerónimo Montero
Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Department of Geography
University of Durham

Latin American Editor for Human Geography
www.hugeog.com

Research fellow - Lateinamerika-Institüt
Freie Universität Berlin &
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institüt
www.desigualdades.net