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2nd CfP for AAG2017 Feminist Economic Geography- Encountering the subject Sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group Inspired by the recent series of commentaries in EPA (http://bit.ly/2dt6gNQ ) and sessions at the 2015 AAG, this call for papers aims to develop conversations about feminist economic geography. In particular, the session seeks papers that engage with the lived realities of the economic, broadly defined. Examining the economic from the perspective of the worker, the citizen, the migrant, the parent, the student, the consumer, the artist etc.- the session wants to connect an attention to embodied difference to concerns about inequality and the practices of economic actors. Potential topics include: Encountering austerity and changing forms of the economic - Negotiating austerity - Responses to and experiences of precarious work - Coping with vulnerability in housing markets - Examinations of unpaid work-including interning, volunteering, care - Politics and actions around alternatives/ ways of surviving - Gendered entrepreneurship (Larner 2016) Engaging difference - Gendered work and workers - Reproductive and domestic labour, and their connections to the 'economic' - Changing conceptions of the family and other social formations under neoliberalism - Feminized labour and changing relationships to work - Intersectional research that moves beyond the assumption of sameness of economic actors, understanding 'the ways in which capital divides, rewards and excludes not only the case of multiple Others, but also the unmarked male worker' (McDowell 2016) Experiments with theory - Challenges to 'what gets recognized as economic' (MacLeavy, Roberts, Strauss 2016) - Engagements with concepts of futurity, hedging, cruel optimism, becoming, precariousness etc. - Ways to '"decolonize" or "post-colonize" economic geography' (Winders 2016) Please send abstracts (200 words) and your AAG PIN to Nancy Worth (nwo...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:nwo...@uwaterloo.ca>) by October 25th, 2016. -------------------------------- Dr Nancy Worth Department of Geography & Environmental Management University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 1-519-888-4567 ext 33223 nwo...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:nwo...@uwaterloo.ca>
