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We are accepting abstracts for a paper session and expressions of interest for a discussion panel until Friday October 17th. Please be in touch with any questions. Best, Oona +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers and Expressions of Interest AAG, Chicago, April 21 - 25, 2015 Locating Feminist Theory and Practice in Economic Geography (Sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group and Geographic Perspectives on Women) Organizers: Oona Morrow, Marit Rosol, Carolin Schurr, Sayoni Bose Discussant: Linda McDowell Feminist theoretical and empirical interventions have reconstituted the economic in economic geography by drawing attention to a broader range of economic subjects, spaces and sites, scales and activities (Nagar et al. 2002). Drawing from diverse theoretical orientations (e.g. feminism, marxism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, critical race theory, political theory, science and technology studies, cultural studies), they have questioned the binaries of private-public, production-reproduction, formal-informal, etc. Through research on care (Pratt 2004), social reproduction (Katz 2001), households (Stenning et al. 2010), diverse economies (Gibson-Graham 2006), postcolonial economic geography (Pollard et al. 2009), gendered labor markets (Wright 2006), performativity, identity and the body (McDowell 2007), affect/emotions (Ettlinger 2004), and the gendered effects of macro-economic restructuring and crises (e.g. Pollard 2013), feminist economic geographers have increasingly politicized the economy. An expanded notion of economic activities and actors – beyond waged labor, capitalist markets and firms – has also allowed for a greater engagement with social movements and questions of social and environmental justice in struggles over public goods, practices of commoning, and recently revitalized debates on post-growth economies. Beyond just foregrounding the analytical category “gender” as empirically relevant, feminist scholarship and activism has thus made an important contribution to reshaping (geographical) economic thought and knowledge production about the “economy”. Feminist (re)conceptualiziations of labor, work, property, markets, finance, and development are increasingly recognized and embraced in economic geography, especially after the cultural “turn”. Yet we wonder, despite the vibrancy of feminist economic geography, how much this work has transformed economic geography more broadly. We also would like to question, to what extent feminist conceptualizations have been appropriated in economic geography without acknowledging or engaging with their feminist origins and politics. In this session we wish to explore the current state of feminist economic geography and reflect on the intersections of feminist studies and economic geography. As our entry point we will revisit key concepts and debates, in order to trace the impact of feminist theory and politics and update our understanding of feminist conceptual, theoretical, political, and methodological interventions and innovations in economic geography. We are thus seeking theoretical and empirical contributions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following questions: * How have feminist scholars engaged with some of the key concepts and themes of economic geography – and how have economic geographers engaged with feminist theory? * What are some of the key contributions of feminist economic geography that we might re-visit and update? What is the relationship between economic geography and feminist economics? * How might feminist approaches to academic labor, care, politics, and research further enhance the politics and practice of economic geography? What else might economic geography learn from feminist practice and politics? * How have feminist insights enhanced the way we teach economic geography? Please send expressions of interest (for panel) or paper abstracts (max 250 words), including the title of the proposed contribution, name of author(s), and contact information to Oona ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), Marit ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), Carolin ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) and Sayoni ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) by October 17th, 2014. For general information on the conference see: http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting and http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers References: Ettlinger, N. 2004. “Toward a Critical Theory of Untidy Geographies: The Spatiality of Emotions in Consumption and Production.” Feminist Economics 10 (3): 21–54. Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006. A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Katz, Cindi. 2001. “Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction.” Antipode 33 (4) : 709–728. McDowell, L. 1997. Capital culture: Gender at work in the city. Oxford: Blackwell. Pratt, G. 2004. Working feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L., and Hanson, S. 2002. “Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization.” Economic Geography 78 (3): 257–284. Pollard, J. 2013. “Gendering Capital: Financial Crisis, Financialization and (an Agenda For) Economic Geography.” Progress in Human Geography 37 (3) : 403–423. Pollard, J., McEwan, C., Laurie, N., & Stenning, A. 2009. “Economic geography under postcolonial scrutiny.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2), 137-142. Stenning, A., Smith, A., Rochovska, A., and Dariusz, S. 2010. “Credit, Debt, and Everyday Financial Practices: Low-Income Households in Two Postsocialist Cities.” Economic Geography 86 (2): 119–145. Wright, M. W. 2006. Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism. New York: Routledge.
