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Colleagues A friendly reminder: deadline Tuesday 10 November. Please see below a call for papers for next year's LAEMOS conference in Chile. Please note that our stream includes a pre-conference road-trip to connect to local struggles and social movements. Kind regards, Steffen LAEMOS 2016, Viña del Mar, Chile, 6-9 April 2016 Deadline submission: November 10, 2015 Subtheme #11 The neoliberal state and its socio-ecological crises: Organizing resistances, subversions & alternatives CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PDF version http://laemos.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SUB-11-CALL-FOR-ABSTRACTS-LAEMOS-2016.pdf Convenors Cristián Alarcón Ferrari / Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences -Sweden / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Francisco Valenzuela / Nottingham Trent University - UK / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Rajiv Maher / Copenhagen Business School - Denmark / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Rogério Faé / Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Steffen Böhm / University of Essex - UK / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Yuna Fontoura / FGV-EBAPE - Brazil / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> The neoliberal state and its socio-ecological crises: Organizing resistances, subversions & alternatives Chile, 1973. In a CIA-backed coup, General Pinochet and the Chilean military toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Soon after Chile became the testing ground for neoliberal state policies dreamt up by the so-called 'Chicago boys', a group of Chilean economists, trained or inspired by Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger at the University of Chicago, who set out to radically redefine the role of the state in the capitalist system, redesigning the entire political economy consensus of the post- Second World War period. After the 'successful' experimentation with neoliberal policies in Chile in the 1970s - which included radical privatization, deregulation and 'free market' economic programs as well as the disintegration of social welfare provisions and political collectives - neoliberalism has come to dominate global political economy from the 1980s onwards. In organization studies, even in the critical pockets of the field, there has been a strange silence on neoliberal organizing. Being dominated by instrumentalist, positivist and managerialist analyses of organizations and organizing on the one hand, and hermeneutic, micro-political and individual subjectivity-focused studies on the other, organization studies has not been well known for considering questions of the organization of political economies. While the neoliberalist state has spread its wings across the world - resulting in the financialization of economies and private lives, worsening income and wealth gaps between rich and poor, rising powers of corporate elites, intensifications of work at an unprecedented scale, the cut down or elimination of entire social welfare programs, as well as negative outcomes for biodiversity, ecosystems and the entire planetary biosphere - organization studies has increasingly focused on studying the managerial administration of this brave new world rather than critically analyzing it, searching for alternatives. This conference stream will address this gap by inviting critical analyses of the global organization of the neoliberal state and movements of capitalist accumulation it underpins. A particular focus will be placed on understanding the variations of neoliberal organizing and unequal geographical development in so-called 'developed' and Latin American countries. How can we understand recent Latin American histories that has seen many countries move from military dictatorships to neoliberal, 'Chicago-boys'-run administrations to more left-leaning, 'new developmentalist' models over the course of the last 30-40 years? How is this 'new developmentalism' organized and does it break with neoliberalism, or is it a continuation under a different name? What are the respective roles of state, corporate and civil society actors in contemporary Latin American political economies, which are increasingly dominated by the extractive industries? What are the social and environmental costs of this new extractivism? What kinds of identities and social milieus are produced by these modes of organizing the political economy? These are examples of questions that this conference stream will address. Such an analysis, however, would not be complete without developing a deep knowledge and experience of the multitude of social movements that have resisted the hegemonic logic behind the neoliberal state and its more recent incarnations. We hence invite reports and analyses of how social movements, peasants, quilombo communities, indigenous people, religious groups, grassroots cooperatives, NGOs, village councils and others have resisted and subverted neoliberal logics and their capitalist accumulation processes, struggling for alternative political economies and ways of life. These struggles have taken place in various domains such as: industrial and educational work, culture, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and the land. We will explore these struggles in a pre-conference excursion into the hinterland of Chile. We will talk to participants of community groups and social movements, trying to understand their social and environmental struggles against neoliberal enforced policies for a more just future in Chile that includes different conceptions of the role and effects of the state and its organization. While stream participants are not required to take part in this excursion, they will be strongly encouraged to do so, and low-cost participation options will be made available. Deadlines Abstract submission: November 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2015 Submission of full paper (6.000 words): March 10, 2016 Abstracts of about 1000 words should be submitted through the website form at www.laemos.com<http://www.laemos.com> The abstracts should be in English, including the name and email address of the author(s) Professor Steffen Boehm | Director, Essex Sustainability Institute | PhD Director, MMO, Essex Business School | University of Essex | Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK | Rm EBS.3.14 | Office +44(0)1206 87 3843 | www.essex.ac.uk/people/steffenboehm<http://www.essex.ac.uk/people/steffenboehm> | http://steffenboehm.net<http://steffenboehm.net/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/SteffenBoehm> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ProfSteffenBoehm> | LinkedIn<http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/steffen-boehm/28/378/733> | Academia.edu<http://essex.academia.edu/SteffenBoehm> | ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steffen_Boehm2/> | Google Scholar<http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=nwSA52YAAAAJ&hl=en> The ESI: http://www.essex.ac.uk/esi | Weekly Sustainability news round-up<http://paper.li/ESIsustain/1371451782> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ESIsustain> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ESIsustain> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Essex-Sustainability-Institute-4874153> | YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOdL0FmW3k8HKOcV9tzb4Q> Visiting Professor of Renewable Energy Activism, Uppsala University<https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?languageId=1&id=N15-793>, Sweden Honorary Professor of Management and Sustainability, University of St Andrews<http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/management/aboutus/people/honoraryandvisiting/steffenboehm/>, Scotland Recent articles in The Conversation<https://theconversation.com/profiles/steffen-bohm-104321/articles> Recent articles on the political economy of climate change (with the UN's COP21 conference in Paris<http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en>, Nov/Dec 2015, in sight): We keep choosing cars over clean air - that's the real scandal<https://theconversation.com/we-keep-choosing-cars-over-clean-air-thats-the-real-scandal-48108> Obama's climate plan is another half-baked carbon trading scheme<https://theconversation.com/obamas-climate-plan-is-another-half-baked-carbon-trading-scheme-46048> EDF Energy's green CSR claims examined: the follies of global carbon commodity chains<https://www.academia.edu/15842257/EDF_Energy_s_green_CSR_claims_examined_the_follies_of_global_carbon_commodity_chains> What happened to the 'greenest-ever' Conservative Party?<https://theconversation.com/what-happened-to-the-greenest-ever-conservative-party-44535> Even the pope gets it - carbon markets won't fix the climate<https://theconversation.com/even-the-pope-gets-it-carbon-markets-wont-fix-the-climate-38950> Pope's climate letter is a radical attack on the logic of the market<https://theconversation.com/popes-climate-letter-is-a-radical-attack-on-the-logic-of-the-market-43437> Shell can't afford to wait until 2050 to adapt its business to climate change<https://theconversation.com/shell-cant-afford-to-wait-until-2050-to-adapt-its-business-to-climate-change-42001> Ten reasons why carbon markets will not bring about radical emissions reduction<https://www.academia.edu/11081055/Ten_reasons_why_carbon_markets_will_not_bring_about_radical_emissions_reduction> 'Fixing' the climate crisis: Capital, states and carbon offsetting in India<https://www.academia.edu/8611488/Fixing_the_climate_crisis_Capital_states_and_carbon_offsetting_in_India> Even climate change experts and activists might be in denial<https://theconversation.com/even-climate-change-experts-and-activists-might-be-in-denial-34903> NEW Book: Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities - routledge.com/9780415812856<http://routledge.com/9780415812856>