Call for Papers EASA 2014, Tallinn, 31st
July-3rd August
Panel: Changing Intimate Exchanges and
Emerging Forms of Resistance to Intensified Self-Commodification
Submit proposals by 27th
February 2014 through http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3047
Convenors: Susanne Hofmann (University
of Leeds), Adi Moreno (University of Manchester)
Discussant TBC
Short Abstract
This
panel seeks to explore the recent transformations of individuals’ relationship
between ‘self,’ ‘body’ and ‘commercial exchange’ and resistances to the
expansion of intensified commodification covering all aspects of our selves
(e.g. bodies, body parts, sexuality, personality, emotions, affect).
Long Abstract
In
neoliberal capitalism with the sharpening of economic inequalities, an all life
encompassing expansion of the sphere of the economic, and a general trend of
‘disenchantment’ or ‘cultural cooling,’ intimate exchanges have increasingly
come to resemble other forms of utilitarian transactions, even within
private-sphere, nonmarket exchanges. It is precisely the extension of market
logics to the realm of the personal and intimate that brings about an increased
imaginability to the use of the body, sexuality and intimacy as a resource for
economic advancement.
Commercialised
intimate exchanges have experienced not only a diversification in contemporary
capitalism but also a ‘new respectability’ as a result of which a broader range
of subjects from a variety of social backgrounds now participate in commercial
transactions, trading body parts or bodily substances, intimacy and sexuality. Market
logics have not only made the commercial demand of personal and intimate
services more acceptable, but also individuals’ commodification of their bodies
and intimacies. These changes stand in relation to the emergence and impact of
the service economy in contemporary capitalism, and subsequent conceptual
transformations of individuals’ relationship between ‘self,’ ‘body’ and
‘commercial exchange.’
This
panel seeks to examine how attitudes towards marketability and practices of
commodification have changed over the past two decades. Also welcome are
explorations of changed notions of selfhood and of existing or emerging
resistances against the expansion of intensified commodification covering all
aspects of our selves (e.g. bodies, body parts, sexuality, personality,
emotions, affect).
Enquiries
to Susanne Hofmann
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Dr Susanne Hofmann
PhD Latin American Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
Visiting Research Fellow
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