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*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
The Economization of Life and Social Inequalities
1st Graduate CASA – SASA Conference* in Telč, Czech Republic
It is characteristic of neoliberalism that market relations, once confined
to areas traditionally defined as ‘economic’, are increasingly penetrating
into other spheres of social life. As a result, neoliberal conceptions and
practices have become intimately involved in our understanding of social
relations, and ideas concerning the free market, individualism and
rationally acting subjects are increasingly being invoked in diverse social
and cultural fields. People activate their social networks to sell the
products of international companies; homes become sites of labour when
workers are hired to look after children or the elderly; schools offer
programs to teach children the basics of entrepreneurship; and health,
education and even leisure time are colonized by the imperatives of
rationality, individualism, effectiveness and freedom of choice.
Within this milieu, individuals are encouraged to analyze their lives in
terms of cost, profit, risks, investments, or insurance. Those who are
considered incapable of economic (in the sense of effective and rational)
behaviour are morally denounced, disadvantaged, even marginalized.
Furthermore, social inequalities are often denied, naturalized and explained
away by economic elucidations.
We would like to invite graduate students of social anthropology and other
disciplines to submit papers and panel suggestions which deal with the
following, or similar, topics:
· The economization of social relationships and various aspects of
life including family, health, leisure, private and public space, etc. from
various standpoints (studies of migration, religion, gender, disabilities
etc.).
· The transformation of work, labour and entrepreneurship (emotional
labour, domestic labour, creative work, aesthetic labour)
· Money and monies: different meanings and uses of money
· Moral economy and alternative currencies
· The transformation of policies and uses of different legitimizing
categories (“individual responsibility”, “moral” behaviour etc.)
· The uses of numbers and statistics in the public sphere (opinion
polls, measures of criminality, etc.)
· Credit and indebtness in people’s lives
We ask that abstracts be no more than 300 words in length and be sent to
[log in to unmask] by July 8, 2011. Candidates will be informed by
July 31, 2011 if their papers or panel suggestions have been accepted.
The graduate conference will take place on September 2, 2011 in Telč, Czech
Republic, as part of the second international CASA / SASA (Czech Association
for Social Anthropologists / Slovak Association for Social Anthropologists).
For more information, visit http://www.casaonline.cz/konference or contact
the organizers:
Iveta Hajdakova, [log in to unmask]
Tereza Dvorakova, [log in to unmask]
* The conference is financed by Research Grant FHS K 263 706 administered by
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.
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