As others on this list have mentioned, the IGU organisers have pushed the abstract deadline back to 27th January. Below is a call for papers on non-financial gift and sharing economies.
Please submit abstracts via the conference website: http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=registration
Thanks,
Ant
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Subject: CFP IGU 2014: Globalization, Sharing / Gift Economies, and Contested Everyday Futures
Call for Papers
Globalization, Sharing / Gift Economies, and Contested Everyday Futures
Globalization, as an uneven process of proliferating connections across space, has become a central marker of society, recasting the spatialities of our world. While capitalist accumulation and state control have intensified through globalizing processes, new economic avenues for confronting and circumventing these systems have emerged. Many have emerged, not as localist reactions against global processes, but through the same global spatial configurations and technologies. These new 'sharing' (Gold 2004) or 'gift' (Mauss 1954) economies often arguably involve the co-production of resources and value beyond both capitalist markets and state regulations. Many, if not most, of these non-financial economies are not explicitly political, however they can destabilize or circumvent the commodity form, constructing and mobilizing ways of being, relating in, and performing a globalised world that indicate a "politics of economic possibility" (Gibson-Graham 2006) and alternative notions of value. Indeed, many everyday sharing/gift practices echo some of the most revolutionary ideas of the past century, including Kropotkin's anarchist vision of mutual aid (1972 / 1912) and Marxist theories of working class "general intellect" as driving social change (Virno 2001).
This panel considers the everyday spaces and practices of sharing and gift economies, and what they can tell us about alternative global futures. In what ways are they resisting, evading, recuperated by, or entangled within, spatialities of statist-capitalist globalization? To what extent are they re-shaping constructions of value? How might we learn from the self-organised intellectual and material generosity of sharing economies to address the profound challenges society now faces?
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Anthony Ince
Postdoktor / Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kulturgeografiska Institutionen / Department of Human Geography Stockholms Universitet / Stockholm University
+46 8 674 78 47
http://people.su.se/~aince/
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