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Apologies for cross-postings...please note that the deadline for papers has been extended to 22 September. *** The University of Glasgow Human Geography Research Group invites abstracts for a workshop titled: *In, against, and beyond neoliberalism: the political, environmental and economic manifestations of crisis* 21 -23 March 2012 University of Glasgow Keynote Speakers include: Wendy Larner, University of Bristol Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia Geographers have made a series of critical interventions in, and contributions to, our understandings of the geographies of neoliberalism and its contestation. Within much of this work, substantive efforts have been made to identify common epistemological ground between post-structuralist-influenced ideas about power, subjectivity, governmentality and agency with political economic accounts of globalization, financialization, and governance. This task, while unfinished in many ways, signals a productive rapprochement between the caricatured positions ossified during the so-called cultural turn in Geography and social sciences more broadly in the past 20 years. This workshop intends to channel these live theoretical discussions through an empirical engagement with current crisis, conceptualized broadly in its economic, political, and environmental manifestations. The intention is to create the intellectual space to think through and explore the multiple and intersectional social formations through which 'crisis' is made manifest and contested. To this end, we invite abstracts for papers that address the following questions through diverse empirical and geographical contexts: - What kinds of political responses have emerged in relation to the crisis? - How can, and why should, the terms of debate be shifted beyond capital-centric accounts? - How is the crisis being negotiated differently in different geographical contexts? - What does human geography specifically have to say about the crisis of neoliberal capitalism and how can and should a geographic perspective shape the associate debates? - What are the implications for praxis and/or active engagement? Please submit abstracts to Kendra Strauss ([log in to unmask]) AND Danny MacKinnon ([log in to unmask]) no later than 22 September 2012. Dr. Kendra Strauss Research Associate in Urban Political Economy School of Geographical & Earth Sciences University of Glasgow East Quad, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ [log in to unmask] *Please note: my current days of work are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.