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Dear all, We’re organising a session on ‘Contemporary Elites and Global Inequalities’ at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference 1-4 Sept 2020. *Deadline for abstracts January 31st 2020* The session will focus on economic elites as a way of studying power and inequality from above (Serafini and Smith Maguire, 2019 p. 4). In a context of intensifying concentrations of wealth and income among the ‘0.1%’, this session examines long-term and newly emerging tensions within and between categories of wealth and elites. First, this session seeks to generate critical reflection on the raced, gendered and post/colonial aspects of elite formations and global inequalities. What are the racial geographies of affluence? What is the role of gender in wealth accumulation and elite social reproduction? What are the colonial and imperial continuities in elite formations? Second, the session aims to complicate and historicise our understandings of monied elites and global inequalities. In contrast to assumptions of the (hyper-)agency of wealth elites, it asks how different social structures produce different elites, at a variety of scales both local and global. What are the wider circuits of intermediaries and infrastructures which enable them? Third, aside from the frequent use of Bourdieu, what alternative theoretical frameworks allow us to engage with how elite power is contingently realised. This session welcomes research which questions how power and capital is accumulated, dispersed and reproduced through historically and geographically specific cultural processes (Yanagisako, 2002). We welcome submissions that explore the geographies of elites in a range of global contexts, at a variety of scales and through diverse theoretical frameworks. If this sounds of interest to you, please send a title, your name, affiliation and an abstract of max. 200 words to the session organisers: Katie Higgins [[log in to unmask]] and Laura Clancy [[log in to unmask]] by 31st January 2020. Best wishes, Laura & Katie Dr Laura Clancy ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Co-chair, Feminist and Women's Studies Association, UK & Ireland<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffwsablog.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cl.clancy2%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca4de61170ec64b041eb008d784888dbf%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C0%7C637123594341457987&sdata=EcH0jyaoSBNOMRMNMM2orPEHVILbTuhpDxfZpgl0hKM%3D&reserved=0> Twitter: @Laura__Clancy Recent publications: ''Meghan's Manifesto': Meghan Markle and the Co-Option of Feminism', Celebrity Studies, 2018<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F19392397.2018.1541541&data=02%7C01%7Cl.clancy2%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca4de61170ec64b041eb008d784888dbf%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C0%7C637123594341467944&sdata=iUr4XLNrd%2FhjQAHS9RHURkvPEoNVQJHpW3F0ooHppbw%3D&reserved=0> ''Queen's Day - TV's Day': the British Monarchy and the Media Industries', Contemporary British History, 2019<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F13619462.2019.1597710&data=02%7C01%7Cl.clancy2%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca4de61170ec64b041eb008d784888dbf%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C0%7C637123594341467944&sdata=5EffMJzPFL9gcy%2Fz2Qpqi%2FciAOwpikMbGWpkZOM9ziM%3D&reserved=0> The BSA Gender Study Group mailing list is for the exchange of ideas and information related to any aspect of Gender Studies and scholarship. We do not undertake editorial control of postings; viewpoints and information posted to the list do not necessarily represent the views of the convenors or association. We encourage respectful communication on the list and ask that questions related to specific postings be directed to the appropriate party.