** Apologies for cross-postings **
Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of
British Geographers) Annual Conference, London, 30 August-1 September
2006
***ABSTRACT DEADLINE - 20th JANUARY***
Global Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Voices from the 'Margins'
Convenors: Alison Stenning (University of Newcastle), Adrian Smith
(Queen Mary, University of London) and Katie Willis (Royal Holloway,
University of London)
Sponsored by the Economic Geography, Developing Areas and Post-Socialist
Geographies Research Groups of the RGS-IBG
The continuing extension of neoliberalism and neoliberal economic and
social policies into ever more spaces and ever more spheres of life - in
the west, the global south, and former east - has profound implications
for social justice. Despite the ubiquity of policies to target 'social
exclusion', in many communities people continue to find themselves
marginalised by the processes of marketisation and economic
restructuring. For this reason, there is a clear and recurring need to
connect discursive critiques of neoliberalism with understandings of
neoliberalism's material impacts. Equally, in both areas there is also a
need to extend analyses beyond the dominant spheres of 'capitalism', to
explore the ways in which communities resist and remake capitalism,
through processes of contestation and protest, but also through their
everyday lives, their proliferative economies and their livelihood
strategies. Within the context of the conference theme of 'global
social justice', this session, with sponsorship from the EGRG, DARG and
PSGRG, seeks to pull together papers which critically explore these
themes in the global south, the former east and the west, at a variety
of scales, and which ask how the experiences of marginal peoples, places
and communities might challenge our conceptions of capitalism and its
geographies.
Papers might explore any of the following themes:
- conceptualisations of social justice and challenges to neoliberalism
- thinking beyond neoliberalism as a hegemonic project
- discursive constructions of neoliberalism and its material
implications for social inequality, social exclusion, poverty and
economic opportunity
- everyday practices and strategies for remaking and 'managing'
neoliberalism
Please send abstracts of not more than 200 words to Alison Stenning
([log in to unmask]) and Adrian Smith ([log in to unmask]) by
20 January 2006.
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Dr Alison Stenning
Postgraduate Director, Geography
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
tel: +44 191 222 8017
office: +44 191 222 8016
fax: +44 191 232 9259
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www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/alison.stenning
www.nowahuta.info
www.working-class-studies.net
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