Dear colleagues,
Happy New Year! The below panel at the European Conference on African Studies may be of interest to you and your networks.
All best,
Will & Liz
Dr William Monteith
Lecturer in Geography
Queen Mary University of London
T: +44 (0)20 7882 8438<tel:+44%2020%207882%208438>
Room: Geography 105
Disrupting the wage: Post-work futures within and beyond Africa
https://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7646
Deadline for abstracts: 21 January
The history of the wage in Africa is inseparable from that of colonialism, dispossession and expropriation (Fanon 1961; Freund 1984; Mamdani 1976). Yet waged labour continues to be reified in visions of development on the continent. A substantial scholarship debates the extent to which informal economies are indicative of unrecognised labour that is integral to functioning of capitalism or 'surplus life' that is irrelevant to it. However, less attention has been paid to the ways in which African societies have rejected the wage relation in favour of alternate modes of socioeconomic life, and the potential contribution of their activities to a world beyond work.
This panel seeks to disrupt narratives of development in Africa centred on waged labour in order to examine the generative potential of a broader range of socioeconomic relations, including interdependency, reciprocity and care. At the same time, it proposes to connect Africa to debates on post-work, which have hitherto had little to say about life on the continent (Frayne 2015; Gorz 1999; Weeks 2011). How do people provision outside of waged labour? What types of identities, relations and aspirations do they draw upon? And what possibilities do their activities provide for reconceptualising the social, economic and political boundaries of 'work'? We invite historical, contemporary and future-oriented interventions that disrupt the wage relation in order to reanimate debates on the future of work within and beyond Africa.
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