Dear all,

This is a reminder for the approaching deadline (December 15th) for submitting abstracts and proposals for our session at the NGM17 “Cultural Production Within, Against and Beyond Inequalities”.

Please, find the call for proposals below.  

For any questions and requests, please do not hesitate to contact me or Gabriella Hinchcliff (contact info below).

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions.

Kindest regards,

 

Chiara Valli

 

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CFP Nordic Geographers Meeting - Stockholm June 18th - 21st 2017

http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017/dates/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-1.301952

 

 

Cultural Production Within, Against and Beyond Inequalities

Cultural producers – variously referred to as ´knowledge-based´, ´cognitive´, or ´immaterial´ labour – in many respects epitomize the transformed working conditions of the new ´precariat´ in the post-Fordist economy (Gill and Pratt 2008), embodying striking economic, social, cultural and ethical tensions of our time (Barrett 2014). Moreover, cultural production and the arts frequently struggle to confront entrenched internal gender, class and racial inequalities.  Still, these fields play an important role in meaning-making, and often cultural producers engage in efforts towards exposing inequalities, uncovering bias, and contributing to shaping a more equal world. 

In this session we aim to explore the ways in which cultural producers intervene materially and symbolically in the public sphere and in urban space through alternative ways of creating economic and cultural value within and beyond capitalism.

We welcome theoretical, empirical and methodological contributions in different kinds of media and forms, addressing, but not limited to, the following questions:

Who is producing alternative cultural expressions? For whom? How does creative resistance relate to other social movements?
What kind of (broadly understood) political resistance is displayed through artistic and cultural productions? What is its influence in promoting social change? On which geographical scales?
How are the risks of co-optation into neoliberal capitalistic processes handled?
How do these forms of alternative production within, against, and/or beyond capitalism nuance our understanding of political action and resistance, as well as inform geographical knowledge and theory?

References

Barrett, M. (2014). Women's oppression today: The Marxist/feminist encounter. Verso.

Gill, R., & Pratt, A. (2008). In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work. Theory, culture & society, 25(7-8), 1-30.

 

Conveners

Gabriela Hinchcliff (Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University)

Chiara Valli (Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University)

 

Please, send presentations proposals, max 250 words, no later than December 15th to:

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Best regards,

 

Chiara

 

 

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Chiara Valli

PhD candidate

Department of Social and Economic Geography

Uppsala University, Sweden.

Box 513. SE-751 20 Uppsala. Sweden

Web: http://katalog.uu.se/empInfo/?languageId=1&id=N11-1683_1