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Final CFP for Association of American Geographers conference, April 2015, Chicago
Marxist geography
We are calling for papers and panel contributions for sessions
entitled ‘Marxist geography’. We invite contributions from scholars who take class
exploitation seriously, including those who think about class in relation to
social relations of oppression and of social reproduction, and who view society
dialectically and from a materialist standpoint, giving a proper place to consciousness
and the power of ideas. We are hoping to create a space for a discussion on the
social-geographical contexts of the South and the North, and globally.
We particularly welcome consideration of ideas raised in Harvey's recently
published Seventeen Contradictions and the End
of Capitalism, including contradictions, nature, social
value of labour, uneven geographical development, monopoly and competition,
nature of political domination, social reproduction, radical social-political
change, and socialism. In our view,
Harvey has been crucial to the development of Marxist geography in the last 50
years. But papers do
not need to focus specifically on Harvey’s work.
If you wish to present a paper or
present your ideas in a panel discussion, please send us a short abstract by Friday
31 October. Note that AAG rules allow
one to present one paper and speak on one panel. Abstracts and session plans have to be
submitted to the conference organisers by Wednesday 5 November.
Jamie Gough
Raju Das
Dr Jamie Gough
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Town and Regional Planning,
University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, S10 2TN,
England
Latest publications:
Gough, J. (2014) The difference between local and national capitalism, and why local capitalisms differ from one other: a Marxist approach, Capital and Class, 38 (1) 197-210
Gough, J. (2014) 1. Neil Smith’s work. 2. A brief history of ‘the right to the city’. 3. , 4. Interviews with Jamie Gough and Neil Smith by Ozlem Celik: Urban neoliberalism, strategies for urban struggles, and ‘the right to the city’. In special section on ‘the right to the city’, Capital and Class, 38 (2) 414-52