CALL FOR PAPERS: SYMPOSIUM + POST GRAD
WORKSHOP
“Social
Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: Classificatory Logic and Systems of
Governance”
Western Sydney University, Parramatta South
Campus, Sydney, Australia, July 18-19th, 2019
Post Grad Workshop: Wednesday, 17 July
2019.
KEYNOTES
Chris
Grover, University of Lancaster www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/people/chris-grover
Corrinne
Sullivan, WSU www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/ms_corrinne_sullivan
Jason
De Santolo, UTS, Sydney www.uts.edu.au/staff/jason.desantolo
Paddy
Gibson, UTS, Sydney www.uts.edu.au/staff/padraic.gibson
This symposium examines neoliberal systems
of governance and its daily practices of managing, regulating and subordinating
individuals, peoples and communities. While it is well established within the
international and national research that neoliberal systems of population
management target the poor, the marginalised and the stigmatised, there has
been a comparatively smaller body of research examining its interlocking
practices for those who occupy the fringes or margins of multiple disadvantage.
In Australia and other Anglophone
countries, research is beginning to attend to people defined as homeless,
disabled, and unemployed – and as often occupying more than one of these
categories. Yet, to date, there has been little critical examination of the
ways in which these ‘identity categories’ intersect, interplay, overlap; governed
at distinct policy crossroads in the social security system (for example, some
Indigenous Australians are simultaneously governed by disability, income
management and the Community Development Programme). Increasingly, and
precisely through such classificatory procedures themselves, such persons emerge
as a sub-class within the general logic of neoliberal classification regimes. This two-day symposium aims to bring together,
for the first time in Australia, divergent research, scholarship and narratives
that have been critically engaging in this area. The national symposium
provides a unique opportunity to work across disciplinary and categorical
boundaries, and examine research narratives in collaboration with community
members. Papers exploring, as way of example, socio-legal categorisations,
automation of welfare governance, technologies of policy design and delivery, conditionality
and systems of penalisation, practices of resistance and subversion, are
welcome.
Post
Grad Workshop: Chris Grover will work with post
grads to develop their papers in preparation for the symposium alongside
exploring core issues in relation to their HDR project. Post grads are to
prepare a short 15 min presentation surrounding core issues which will then be
discussed in a supportive collegial environment.
*TASA PostGrads: Up to 3 travel
reimbursements are available valued to a total of $400.00 per applicant. Please
submit your request at time of submitting your HDR / symposium abstract.
Submission
of abstracts
Please prepare your abstracts following
these guidelines:
·
250-500 words maximum
·
Please include four to
six keywords
·
Times New Roman 12 point,
single space
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Submit abstracts by the
deadline via email to
Key
dates
Abstract
submission deadline: Friday, 24 May 2019
Notifications: Monday, 10 June 2019
Email
Abstracts: Karen Soldatic [log in to unmask] & Louise St Guillaume [log in to unmask]