2015-04-20

CfP: Inaugural Conference on Cultural Political Economy

Cultural Political Economy (CPE) is an emerging and still developing trans-disciplinary approach oriented to post-disciplinary horizons. It is concerned with making cultural turns in the study of political economy to enhance its interpretive and explanatory power. The two-day post-disciplinary conference will take place from 1 - 2 September 2015 in Lancaster University. It will give researchers and post-graduate students an opportunity to examine and debate the philosophical and methodological foundations of CPE and to explore its substantive implications for research. It invites discussion at the interface of cultural turns, critical realism, critical discourse analysis and political economy. Specifically, it focuses on the cultural (and semiotic) dimensions of political economy considered both as a field of inquiry and as an ensemble of social relations. In the light of multiple crises at many sites and scales in the global economic, political, and social order, the organizers invite papers that address theoretical or substantive aspects of the changing nature and dynamic of contemporary social formations and identities.

Intellectually CPE originated in a synthesis of critical discourse analysis, critical political economy, neo-Gramscian state theory, neo-Gramscian International Political Economy, the regulation approach, governmentality and governance studies. As such it does not add a separate realm of culture to existing concerns with politics and economics; instead it emphasizes that the economic and political spheres are always-already cultural and that taking this into account transforms the study of political economy and cognate fields.

In this regard, CPE embraces

  • a wide range of cultural turns (argumentative, conceptual, discursive, ideational, linguistic, narrative, rhetorical, performative, practical, reflexive, visual, etc.);
  • numerous evolutionary and institutional approaches to political economy;
  • evolutionary and institutional concerns with government, governmentality, and governance, with policy and governance failures, and with problems of institutional and policy design; and
  • a commitment to dialogue with a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches across the humanities and social sciences and seeks to remain open to such dialogues and collaboration.
Potential topics for the conference might include, but are certainly not limited to:

  • Cultural Turns and Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis and Political Economy
  • Intersectionalism and Political Economy
  • Marx, Gramsci and Foucault
  • Social Relations, Everyday Life and Subjectivities
  • State, Governance and Governmentality
  • Discourse, Power and Space
  • Global Capitalism, Crises and Imagined Recovery
  • Globalization of Production, Retail and Finance
  • Finance, Austerity and Debt
  • Work, Employment, Body and Embodiment
  • Competition, Competitiveness and Resilience
  • Globalization, Education and Societies
  • Sustainability and Green Capitalism
  • Inequalities of Wealth and Income
  • Subalternity, Social Movements and Resistance
Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to n.sum@lancaster.ac.uk by 5pm on 29th June 2015.

Further information can be found on the conference website.
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