Labnet: CFP: The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Long-Duree (In Honor of Giovanni Arrighi) - Washington DC 04/10

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From:    Oscar  Larson <meeting at aag.org>

CFP: The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Long-Duree (In Honor of
Giovanni Arrighi) - Washington DC 04/10
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Laurel Mei Turbin, Steve McFarland, Francesca Manning, and Jesse
Goldstein (CUNY Graduate Center, NYC)
14.04.2010-18.04.2010, Washington DC
Deadline: 18.11.2009

Possibility of Multiple Sessions, Panel and Paper
at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

We have recently lost an important thinker, Giovanni Arrighi, whose
legacy lives on in innumerable works that continue to vitally influence
the fields of economic, political, and critical geography. This panel
seeks to pay tribute to Arrighi through an engagement with those
dimensions of radical political economy most indebted to his work. The
importance of such work is paramount in this historical moment, where we
find ourselves in need of a deep understanding of capital's crises in
order to make sense of this juncture and move forward from it.

Capital is at present mired in a militarized financial crisis that
threatens the very reproducibility of its long term cycles of creative
destruction, and which seems poised to irrevocably transform the uneven
geography of the 21st century. We seek papers that attempt a critical
analysis of capitalism with emphasis on its long and medium term
transformations. Questions of crisis theory will be considered, as well
as studies which explore the changing roles of specific elements in
capitalist society over the last several or several hundred years of
capitalist development (for instance, land, real estate, employment,
uprisings, state or government intervention, class struggle).

Papers might focus on issues such as:
- financialization
- productivity and profit rates
- oscillations between "economic freedom" and "economic regulation" and
between "intensive" and "extensive" development
- signal crises and terminal crises
- prospects (or lack thereof) for a new systemic cycle of accumulation,
e.g., the rise of new hegemons

Session organizers seek to incorporate into our discussion the
perspectives of women, people of color, and others addressing issues of
crisis from subjugated viewpoints, as well as scholars incorporating
feminist and third world geographical frameworks to strengthen a
historical understanding and critique of capitalism, in its necessary
co-constitution with historical manifestations of race, gender,
sexuality. We encourage such scholars to submit their work (though do
not intend to limit submissions in this way).

We have left this call for papers intentionally broad, in recognition of
the far reaching influence that Arrighi's work has had in many fields of
critical geography. We welcome any and all papers whose ongoing
interrogation of capital's dynamics serve as a tribute to this important
thinker.

Please send 250 word abstracts to: fmanning at gc.cuny.edu 

Info on submitting to AAG:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm 

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Francesca Manning
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Email: fmanning at gc.cuny.edu 

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
<http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/termine/id=12634>