2nd Call - Apologies for cross posting 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference: Constructing a radical politics in an age of crisis Clark University, Worcester, MA, November 4-6, 2011 Paper Session: Call for Papers
Session Title: Feminism(s) and Marxism(s): grounding politics and rescaling analysis in an age of crisis Over thirty years ago, Heidi Hartmann (1979) suggested that despite efforts to merge feminist and marxist theory, feminism was continually subordinated to marxism as the ‘feminist struggle’ was subsumed into the ‘larger’ struggle against capital. Since then feminist geographers have expanded field of class, crisis, and economy to include feminist struggles and struggles beyond capitalism. While feminist and critical geographers more broadly have powerfully challenged the silences and exclusions created by dominant marxist approaches through examinations of a range of issues including: the gendered division of labor (Massey 1994, McDowell 1997, Hanson and Pratt 1995, Boyer 2004), social reproduction (Katz 2001, Pratt 2004, Safri and Graham 2010), affective/immaterial labor (Hochschild 1983, Ettlinger 2004, Smith 2005), consumption (Domosh 2006, Hawkins 2011, Hartwick 2000), globalization/economic restructuring (Nagar et al. 2002, Wright 2001, Gibson-Graham 1996), diverse economies (Gibson-Graham 2006, Pavlovskaya 2004, Oberhauser 2005), research epistemologies (Hartstock 1983, Haraway 1991), we are left wondering how to characterize the current relationship between feminism(s) and marxism(s) in geography and the social sciences more broadly. This panel aims to explore the continued relevance and utility of merging feminist, marxist, and other critical theoretical approaches. What does incorporating feminist or other critical theoretical traditions into a marxist analysis illuminate that otherwise remains obscured? Does this type of analysis provide a more useful or powerful grounding for contemporary political struggles? What political strategies do marxist and feminist perspectives offer in confronting (economic, political, environmental, personal, everyday) crisis at various scales? We invite submissions from scholars working at the intersections of feminist/anti-racist/postcolonial /etc. and marxist theory to query what these approaches offer each other through empirically grounded analyses of topics including: Unexplored intersections of Feminism and Marxism Social Movements Crisis (Economic, Political, Everyday, Environmental) Social Reproduction Epistemologies Politics/politics Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by September 10th Co-Organizers: Oona Morrow, Clark University; Jill Williams, Clark University Discussant: Mona Domosh ________________________________
