Third International Cultural Political Economy Conference
Call for Papers
Taking Issues In/With Cultural Political Economy: Neoliberalism,
Democracy and Crises
6-8 September 2017 at Lancaster University, UK
Plenaries: Jonathan Joseph (Sheffield), Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum
(Lancaster)
Cultural Political Economy (CPE) is an emerging approach with
post-disciplinary horizons. It engages with ‘cultural turns’ in the
study of political economy to enhance its interpretive and explanatory
power. Intellectually it arose from a synthesis of critical discourse
analysis, critical political economy, neo-Gramscian state theory,
neo-Gramscian International Political Economy, feminism,
post-colonialism, governmentality and governance studies. This three-day
conference and associated workshop gives researchers and post-graduate
students an opportunity to take issues in/with CPE in philosophical,
methodological and empirical terms. It invites discussions at the
interface of ‘cultural turns’, critical realism, critical discourse
analysis and political economy. Specifically, it focuses on the cultural
(and semiotic) dimensions of political economy considered both as a
field of inquiry and as an ensemble of social relations. In the light of
multiple crises at many sites and scales in the global economic,
political, and social order, the organizers invite papers that address
theoretical or substantive aspects of the changing nature and dynamic of
neoliberalism and democracy.
Potential topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:
· Cultural Turns and Critical Realism
· Critical Discourse Analysis and Political Economy
· Cultural Political Economy and Critical Policy Studies
· Marx, Gramsci and Foucault
· Social Relations, Everyday Life and Subjectivities
· Intersectionalism and Political Economy
· State, Governance and Governmentality
· Discourse, Power and Space
· Global Capitalism, Crises and New Imaginaries
· National Competitiveness and National Branding
· Finance, Austerity and Debt
· Fourth Industrial Revolution, Infrastructural Growth and
Post-Growth
· Nature, Sustainability and Green Capitalism
· Work, Employment, Body and Embodiment
· Precarity, Inequalities of Wealth and Income
· Education, Knowledge and Capitalism
· Care and Shared Economy
· Political Crises, Democracy and Authoritarianism
· Brexit, EU and Global Political Economy
· Immigration, Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism
· Protectionism and Isolationism
· Religions and (In-)Securities
· Civility, Civil Society and Civilizations
· Subalternity, Social Movements and Resistance
Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to [log in to unmask] on
30th June 2017 (Friday).
Weblinks: First International CPE conference
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cperc-conf/
Second International CPE conference
https://cpe2016.com/
Best wishes,
Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop
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Jana Bacevic
PhD candidate
Department of Sociology
University of Cambridge
Twitter: @jana_bacevic
Web: janabacevic.net
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