Labnet: CFP: Rethinking Labour - Extended Deadline

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From: David Gray David.Gray at UCD.IE 
 
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 22nd.
 
Rethinking Labour: Labour, Affect and Material Culture 
April 18th 19th and 20th 2008
Clinton Institute of American Studies, UniversityCollegeDublin
 
Plenary speakers:
 
Andrew Ross, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and Program in American Studies, New YorkUniversity: “The New Geography of Work”
 
Sherry Linkon and John Russo, Co-Directors, Center for Labor and Working-Class Studies, YoungstownStateUniversity: “Learning About Labour: A New Working-Class Studies Perspective”
 
Tim Strangleman, Schoolof SocialPolicy, Sociology and Social Research, Universityof Kent: “Identity, Meaning and the Representations of Labour: Rethinking Attachment and Loss at Work”   
 
Recent studies have placed increased emphasis on the affective dimensions of labour. Social scientists, social theorists and historians have explored the ways in which affect shapes social relations, representation and identity in the labour process. At the same time material culture has received renewed attention as an important factor in shaping experience and behavior at work. The purpose of this conference is to explore the historical and contemporary implications of the labour/affect/material culture nexus and to generate discussion of what the “affective turn” holds for our understanding of labour. How are particular forms of affect produced and managed in the factory, the office and service work locations? How does material culture shape habits, dispositions and affective processes in the workplace? How does affect shape identity, performance and authority in particular kinds of work? And how might an analysis of the relationships between affect and material cultu!
 re i nform labour history, the sociology of work, literary studies, aesthetics, social theory, public history and other fields that examine labour?  
 
We invite papers that address any aspect of the historical and contemporary relationship between labour, affect and material culture but especially welcome work that crosses disciplinary borders. Papers are invited on, but are certainly not limited to, the following subjects and areas:
 
 
 
Class
Ideology
Structures of feeling
Emotions/feelings  
Aesthetics   
Workplace community  
Ethics, conduct and performance
Visual culture and visuality 
Authority and legitimacy
Race and ethnicity
Governmentality
Literature and literacy
Gender and Sexuality
Representation
Historiography
Nation/alism & Transnationalism
Identity production
Policy and economics
 
Please e-mail abstracts (200-300 words) for 20-minute papers to
David.Gray at ucd.ieby Friday February 22nd. We also invite abstracts for
panels of 3-4 presenters. Applicants will be notified concerning
acceptance by February 25th. In the e-mail, please include the following
information:
 
Presenter(s) name(s)
Title of paper(s)
Institutional affiliation(s)
Contact information 
Audio visual requirements
 
Questions or further information: David Gray, Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Clinton Institute for American Studies, UniversityCollegeDublin,
Belfield, Dublin4: David.Gray at ucd.ie 
 
Visit the Clinton Institute website: http://www.ucd.ie/amerstud/ 
 
 
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Dr. David Gray
Post-Doctoral Fellow in American Studies
UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies
Belfield House
UniversityCollegeDublin
Belfield, Dublin4
Ireland
Tel. +353 1 716 1592
Fax  +353 1 716 1562
Email: david.gray at ucd.ie 
http://www.ucd.ie/amerstud/
 
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