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Call for Papers Canadian Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting New Research in Feminist Economic Geographies Organizers: E. Alkim Karaagac (University of Waterloo) & Nancy Worth (University of Waterloo) Feminist theoretical and empirical interventions in economic geography have expanded the range of economic subjects, spaces and activities—beyond the traditional notions of waged labour, formal workspace and production for a capitalist market (Nagar et al., 2002). By positing economics as relational, contextualized, embodied and realized through practices, feminist scholars have set the stage for an alternative language, theory and praxis of ‘non-capitalism’ (Massey, 1997; McDowell, 2007; Gibson-Graham 1996, 2008). They have made important contributions to ‘re-thinking the economy’ in economic geography, by engaging with questions of social and environmental justice in struggles over public goods, practices of commoning, and recently revitalized debates on post-growth economies. This call for papers aims to contribute to long lasting feminist interventions and innovations in economic geography by exploring new research in feminist economic geographies, informed by lived realities. In particular, we are seeking conceptual, theoretical, empirical, political, and methodological contributions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following areas: Understanding labour and work under neoliberalism - Feminized labour and labour precarity - Gendered work and changing relationships to work - Reproductive and domestic labour, and their connections to the ‘economic’ - Examinations of unpaid work—including interning, volunteering, care Encountering economic restructuring in the post-crisis era - Coping with crises and negotiating austerity - Everyday financial practices, lived experiences of credit and debt - Financialization of social reproduction and crises of care - Politics and actions around alternatives/ ways of surviving Navigating conceptual and theoretical frontiers - Re-imagining units of analysis, scales of measurement and subjectivities in economic geography - Developing intersectional research on environmental/climate justice, value creation, wealth and income, financialization and dispossession - Engaging with concepts of diverse economies, cruel optimism, precariousness, radical vulnerability, commoning, digitality and futurity Please send paper abstracts (max 250 words), including the title of the proposed contribution, name of the author(s), and contact information to Alkim Karaagac (eakar...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:eakar...@uwaterloo.ca>) by March 13th, 2020. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E. Alkim Karaagac (she/her/hers) Ph.D. Candidate, Research Assistant Department of Geography and Environmental Management University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 eakar...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:eakar...@uwaterloo.ca>