Call for Papers
Assembling Economic Geographies
New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2010, with the Institute of
Australian Geographers
5-8 July 2010, Rydges Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand (details at: http://www.nzgs2010.org.nz/ )
Organised
by Rae Dufty (University of Western Sydney) and Russell Prince (Massey
University)
Increasingly
economic geographies are extending beyond traditional boundaries of the purely
economic to connect with the concerns of political, cultural and social
geography. With the blurring of these analytical boundaries, economic geography
has engaged with a wide range of theoretical tools that enable the
subdiscipline to develop new ways of understanding how these dimensions are
co-constituted and entangled. In particular, post-structuralist ideas of
actor-networks, assemblage theory, governmentality and 'cultural economy'
(Bennett et al. 2008) have increasingly been adopted by economic geographers.
This session invites papers that contribute to a variety of economic geography
themes but which engage with and build on debates and emerging issues and ideas
within this context.
Papers
may explore, but are not limited to, the following:
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How 'the economy' is delineated and constructed.
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How economic concepts such as the household, industry, productivity and value
are constructed and deployed.
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The production, fragmentation, dissolution and reconstruction of economic
identities, subjectivities and performances.
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The construction of markets, production systems, supply chains and other
economic forms across space through the assemblage of bodies, forces and
materialities.
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Alternative economic spaces and forms (e.g. Gibson-Graham, 2006).
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Other ways of thinking about economic agency and performance, such as emotion,
affect and desire.
Please
contact session organisers Rae Dufty ([log in to unmask])
and Russell Prince ([log in to unmask])
to express an interest, and/or email send abstracts by April 1, 2010.