Since the turn of the millennium, and paradoxically fuelled by the global economic crisis, enhanced marketization – the deepening of markets as well as the re-engineering of markets and of individual market behavior – is touted by a multiplicity of institutions. Indeed, enhanced marketization is the key element of policies circulating across the Global North and South and fostering the assemblage of a new (global) policy consensus. In light of these dynamics, a renewed analytical focus on the dynamical relationship between globalizing capitalism (reinforced by these pushes for marketization) and the diverse dimensions of uneven development is urgently needed. 

Marxist, feminist and postcolonial critiques have long argued that dynamics in globalizing capitalism are co-constitutive with processes of socio-geographical differences and inequalities, and thus with uneven development. They have drawn attention to how globalizing capitalism relies on framing-cum-capitalizing on and thus continuously re-creating its multiple “Outsides”, ranging from nature (nonhuman) to reproduction (subsistence) and non-capitalist social relations of production and exchange (Fraser 2014, Tsing 2015). 

It is the aim of this session to engage with the co-constitutive relationship between globalizing capitalism and uneven development through the lens of particular commodity chains, market realms or production networks. We encourage empirical and/or theoretical contributions that focus on the struggle over market b/orders and the (re-)production of multiple differences and inequalities widely understood. We also encourage papers that bring contemporary theoretical perspectives into conversation with one another. 

Please submit your abstract online through the conference website until March 15th 2018: https://www.gceg2018.com/call-for-sessions-and-papers.html

References:

Fraser, Nancy. 2014. “Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode. For an Expanded Conception of Capitalism.” New Left Review 86 (March-April): 55–72.

Tsing, Anna. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, Princeton.