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*The *
*political economy/ecology of animal labour in Asia*
***6th Congress of Asian Studies, Paris, 26-28 June, 2017***
Labour has been an enduring concept in the critical social sciences and
environmental studies. A dynamic process mediating nature and society
(Marx, 1976), it has been a key analytic for thinking about value (Rubin,
2000 [1928]), work (Harriss-White, 2003), as well as nature (Smith, 1996)
in political economies. In recent years, following reworking divisions
between human and nonhuman productive activity (Ingold, 2000), and work
(Porcher, 2015), a more expanded understanding of labour emerged.
A nascent body of research seeks to rethink how bodily capacities of
animals qualify as labour (Lainé 2016), and explore how such labour is
enrolled into processes of expropriation
in both living and ‘dead’ forms (Perkins, 2007). Others emphasize the
dynamics and logics of commodifying nonhuman labour in the form of ‘lively
commodities’ (Collard, 2013), the differential forms of value it generates
(Barua, 2016), besides tracking how its sensibilities manifest in
capitalist practices of accumulation (Blanchette, 2015).
By acknowledging animal labour, contributions of this panel will aim at
reorienting political economic and ecological approaches to nature in
Asia. More specifically, it will ask how accounting for animal labour
might enable other definitions of the conservation paradigm that has
emerged from global crisis and responses to the Anthropocene (Bonneuil,
Fressoz 2012).
To this end, themes of interest include:
- Histories of animal labour in Asian context
s
, with a focus on colonial and postcolonial period
s
- Non-human working activity and its role in co-producing political
economies of conservation (zoos, parks, ecosystem services)
- Partnership between human-animal communities and their role in shaping
landscapes
- Understandings of commodities produced through animal labour/ animal body
parts.
Please send expressions of interest to
*Nicolas Lainé* ([log in to unmask]), LAS, Paris, Paris; and
*Maan Barua* ([log in to unmask]), University of Oxford, UK
, by the *10th of November*, *2016*.
For details on the conference, see:
https://congresasie2017.sciencesconf.org/
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