CALL FOR PAPERS: CLASSCRITS VI: Stuck in Forward? Debt, Austerity & the Possibility of the Political
Stuck in Forward?
Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political
Sponsored by
Southwestern Law School &
U.C. Davis School of Law
Keynote Speaker: Professor Akhil Gupta, Department of Anthropology
Director, Center for India and South Asia, University of California, Los Angeles
What are the possibilities and alternatives for a genuinely progressive economic project in an age of resurgent neoliberal policies and politics, worldwide shifts in population and demographics, and hegemonic economics?
How can we address the challenges of our age including, but not limited to: globalization; shifting power relationships between the developed world and formerly “third world” countries; massive intergenerational and upward transfers of wealth; abject poverty; staggering debt; wage stagnation; a declining middle class; an increasingly dysfunctional food system; and environmental and climate risks that will require concerted national and international efforts.
Stuck in Forward? Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political will address these questions by bringing together scholars, economists, activists, policymakers, and others to critically examine and take stock of who wins, who loses, how the law facilitates the hierarchical and spatial distribution of winners and losers, and how we may use law and politics to develop both real and utopian interstitial spaces of classlessness within the new post-recession global order.
We invite panel proposals and paper presentations that speak to this year’s theme as well as to general ClassCrits themes. In addition, we extend a special invitation to junior scholars (i.e., graduate students or any non-tenured faculty member) to submit proposals for works in progress . A senior scholar as well as other scholars will comment upon each work in progress in a small, supportive working session.
Please visit the ClassCrits website for more information about this year’s themes and topics.
For the full call for proposals, contact any member of the Conference Planning Committee:
Danielle Kie Hart, Southwestern Law School
dhart@swlaw.edu
Tonya Brito, The University of Wisconsin Law School
tlbrito@wisc.edu
Athena Mutua, SUNY Buffalo Law School
admutua@buffalo.edu
Lucille Jewel, John Marshall Law School
ljewel@johnmarshall.edu
Martha McCluskey, SUNY Buffalo Law School
mcclusk@buffalo.edu
Jessica Owley, SUNY Buffalo Law School
JOL@buffalo.edu
Matthew Titolo, West Virginia University College of Law
Matthew.titolo@mail.wvu.edu
René Reich-Graefe, Western New England University School of Law
rene.reich-graefe@law.wne.edu
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