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Betreff: [ib-liste] CfP ISA/BISA Edinburgh 2012 - Analysing labour and the
crisis
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BISA/ISA Joint Conference 'Diversity in the Discipline: Tension or
Opportunity in Responding to Global Challenges' Edinburgh, 20-22
June 2012
Analysing labour and the crisis: Challenges, responses and new avenues
Ṃnica Clua Losada (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) [log in to unmask]
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Laura Horn (VU University Amsterdam), [log in to unmask]
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The challenges for transnational labour agency and solidarity have been
greatly exacerbated by the financial and economic crisis. Scholars from
a range of social science perspectives have been studying how labour has
responded to recent developments, whether at the local, national or
global level, in trade union structures or autonomist actions, at the
firm level or in cooperation with social movements.
And yet strangely enough it seems that the class character of these
struggles, whether at local, national or global level, still remains
obscured in the field of International Studies, in particular with
regard to approaches situated within International Political Economy.
While there has been a resurgence of historical materialist and other
Marxist scholarship within the field, most studies focus on the crisis
of overaccumulation, geopolitics, the return of the state and other
structural trends in global politics. A critical engagement between
different approaches to class struggle and transnational labour
solidarity is still marginalised within these debates. However, if we
take David Harvey's statement seriously, namely that `if it
looks like class struggle and acts like class war then we have to name
it unashamedly for what it is', it is clear that IPE needs to open
up a dialogue of how to understand the class character of global
politics through a discussion of different approaches to labour.
In correspondence with the main conference theme, we propose a series of
panels which focus on the diversity of theoretical and methodological
perspectives on labour in the global political economy. We welcome panel
and paper submissions on theoretical engagements but also specific case
studies which consider labour responses to the crisis. Possible themes
for panels include for instance
· Transnational labour solidarity within and beyond trade
union structures
· Discontent and the crisis: labour, social movements and
local, regional, national and global articulations of resistance.
· Against the Marxist mainstream? Theoretical perspectives on
autonomist Marxism/Operaism
· The resurgent state-theoretical debates and labour: a
missing link?
Please submit your individual paper or panel proposals by Friday 26
August!
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