Dear all, It is my pleasure to invite attendees to this year's AAG Conference to the annual Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography which will be given by Dr. Nancy Fraser from the New School for Social Research.
"From Exploitation to Expropriation: Geographies of Racialization in Historical Capitalism" Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 12:40 PM - 2:20 PM in Ballroom B, Hynes, Third Level Familiar, exploitation-centered conceptions of capitalism cannot explain its persistent entanglement with racial oppression. In their place, I suggest an expanded conception that also encompasses an ongoing but disavowed moment of expropriation. By thematizing that other "ex," I disclose, first, the crucial role played in capital accumulation by unfree and dependent labor, which is expropriated, as opposed to exploited; and second, the equally indispensable role of politically enforced status distinctions between free, exploitable citizen-workers and dependent, expropriable subjects. Treating such political distinctions as constitutive of capitalist society and as correlated with the "color line," I demonstrate that the racialized subjection of those whom capital expropriates is a condition of possibility for the freedom of those whom it exploits. After developing this proposition systematically, I historicize it, distinguishing four regimes of racialized accumulation according to how exploitation and expropriation are distinguished, sited, and intertwined in each. The journal Economic Geography (at Clark University), in conjunction with the AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group and the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are sponsoring the 2017 Roepke Lecture given by Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research. Dr. Sharad Chari will be the discussant. Official program details here: http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=27096. We hope to see you there. Jim James T. Murphy, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Economic Geography Associate Professor Graduate School of Geography Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 USA (508) 793-7687 (phone) (508) 793-8881 (fax) jammur...@clarku.edu<mailto:jammur...@clarku.edu> http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/ Economic Geography - www.economicgeography.org<http://www.economicgeography.org>
