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Subject: [AllCES] Special issue HM: Marxism and politics of identities
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Para os interessados:
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Call for Abstracts for Special Issue
Historical Materialism Journal
Historical Materialism Journal is seeking contributions for a Special Issue
on "The Politics of Identity"
Editors
Ashok Kumar (QMUL)
Shruti Iyer (KCL)
Dalia Gebrial (Oxford)
Ash Sarkar (UCL)
Adam Elliott-Cooper (Oxford)
The charged phrase "identity politics" has come to encompass a range of
ideas and activities under the rubric of either broadening, or developing
alternatives to, class-centric analyses of power. Criticisms of identity
politics have historically been narrow and economistic, with the tension
being framed thus far as a cleavage between the class reductionism of
vulgar Marxism and the individualism of vulgar culturalism. This special
issue positions itself as an intervention into conversations within Marxist
traditions.
The term "identity politics" has often carried pejorative connotations, and
many prefer to identify with "liberation politics". Identity/liberation
politics has allowed for self-organisation, and this played a critical role
in carving out spaces for movements of colour, in anti-colonial
revolutions, feminist struggles, and in queer liberation movements. These
spaces have also been places where the intersecting, mutually reinforcing
nature of these identity categories have been theorised. The moment at
which we are making this intervention is one in which the rhetoric of "safe
spaces", "privilege", and positionality politics permeates liberatory
discourse and social movements - the question is now one of usefulness and
their radical potential.
While these approaches have built new avenues into revolutionary politics
and self-determination, emphasizing an understanding of oppressions as
social relations, they have also been charged with reducing collective
struggles to individualism and essentialism. These pitfalls erode the
possibility of solidaristic links and hinder the broader aim of movement
building. Further, identity politics has been accused of reproducing the
power of capital and the state, and reinforcing the very categories they
ostensibly seek to dismantle.
Some of the questions we are concerned with include (but are not limited
to): Why has identity politics become so appealing amongst self-understood
radical circles? What are the social, political and historical processes
behind identity politics being co-opted by neoliberal and statist
discourses, while simultaneously providing multiple avenues into
revolutionary politics? Does identity-based organising have any radical
capacity, and is there a way in which it can be mobilised to generate
solidarity and resistance? How have feminist, queer and anti-racist
movements moved away from the goal of the abolition of race and gender, and
turned to social mobility? What might the abolition of identitarian
categories of oppression look like as an emancipatory project? What does
it mean for class to be mobilised as an identity? What is the relationship
between intersectionality and identity politics? In what ways do resistance
to identity-based oppressions coalesce with struggles against the hegemony
of the capitalist state?
In particular, we encourage contributors to engage with Marxist traditions
from multiple standpoints, while complicating what it is that is
conceptualised as 'identity' itself. What does it mean for a movement to be
labelled as "identity politics"? Does working class identity being
racialised as white, and gendered as male, shield it from the critiques
commonly made of identity politics as sectarian and divisive? Can we
accurately describe union meetings a 'safe space' from the bosses? Why have
subaltern struggles been largely seen as identity-based, and the material
bases of their resistance under-emphasised? And finally, how might the
traditional left's dismissal of particular movements as 'identity politics'
act as a form of self-preservation?
Areas of interests include (but not limited to):
· Identity Politics versus a Politics of Liberation
· Praxis of Solidarity and Identity Politics
· Radical Critiques of Intersectionality
· Identity Politics As/Against Neoliberalism
· Identity Politics and Radical Social Movements
· Identity Politics, Capital and Empire
· Performativity in areas of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
· Privilege Politics and Solidarity
· Radical Critiques of Cultural Appropriation
· Safer Spaces and the Politics of Comfort
· Identity Politics, Innocence and the Carceral State
· Critiques of Personhood Trauma Politics
· Recovering Subaltern Studies as Anti-Capitalist Resistance
· Transnational Gentrification Discourses
· Victimhood, Security and the State
· Micoaggressions and Social Relations
· Trigger Warnings, Trauma, and the State
· Queer theory, capitalism, & the couple form
· Homonationalism
- Anti-Muslim Racism
· Reparations & class-based demands
· Europeanness & economic crisis
· Whiteness, white fragility and European fascism
· Anti-colonial struggles and Identity Politics
We propose a special issue on Identity Politics that will be rigorous,
grounded, and contributes to theory and praxis, and encourage papers that
make theoretical contributions both within and outside the European
tradition. We acknowledge that academia has traditionally excluded voices
from the margins and encourage submissions in forms of writing both within
and outside white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Abstracts should be no
more than 300 words submitted by email to
hm[dot]identitypolitics[at]gmail[dot]com by April 20th, 2016.
Once accepted paper contributions will have a target maximum length of
5,000 words (inclusive of endnotes, figures, references, etc.).
For any queries about the Special Issue or the abstract submission process
contact: hm[dot]identitypolitics[at]gmail[dot]com.
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:48:03 +0000
From: mauroserapioni@???
To: allces@???; doutorandos@???; posdoc@???
Subject: [Doutorandos] Sociologia visual
A quem possa interessar:
A força das imagens e da sociologia visual.
Brasil, 13 de Março de 2016: Manifestação contra o governo Dilma e
contra o ex-presidente Lula.
Em anexo, algumas fotos que estão circulando nas redes sociais.
Mauro Serapioni
Investigador/Researcher, PhD
mauroserapioni@???
Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Colégio S. Jerónimo, Apt 3087
3000-995, Coimbra, Portugal
T+351 239855570
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Para os interessados:
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Call for Abstracts for Special Issue
Historical Materialism Journal
Historical Materialism Journal is seeking contributions for a Special Issue
on "The Politics of Identity"
Editors
Ashok Kumar (QMUL)
Shruti Iyer (KCL)
Dalia Gebrial (Oxford)
Ash Sarkar (UCL)
Adam Elliott-Cooper (Oxford)
The charged phrase “identity politics” has come to encompass a range of
ideas and activities under the rubric of either broadening, or developing
alternatives to, class-centric analyses of power. Criticisms of identity
politics have historically been narrow and economistic, with the tension
being framed thus far as a cleavage between the class reductionism of
vulgar Marxism and the individualism of vulgar culturalism. This special
issue positions itself as an intervention into conversations within Marxist
traditions.
The term “identity politics” has often carried pejorative connotations, and
many prefer to identify with “liberation politics”. Identity/liberation
politics has allowed for self-organisation, and this played a critical role
in carving out spaces for movements of colour, in anti-colonial
revolutions, feminist struggles, and in queer liberation movements. These
spaces have also been places where the intersecting, mutually reinforcing
nature of these identity categories have been theorised. The moment at
which we are making this intervention is one in which the rhetoric of “safe
spaces”, “privilege”, and positionality politics permeates liberatory
discourse and social movements – the question is now one of usefulness and
their radical potential.
While these approaches have built new avenues into revolutionary politics
and self-determination, emphasizing an understanding of oppressions as
social relations, they have also been charged with reducing collective
struggles to individualism and essentialism. These pitfalls erode the
possibility of solidaristic links and hinder the broader aim of movement
building. Further, identity politics has been accused of reproducing the
power of capital and the state, and reinforcing the very categories they
ostensibly seek to dismantle.
Some of the questions we are concerned with include (but are not limited
to): Why has identity politics become so appealing amongst self-understood
radical circles? What are the social, political and historical processes
behind identity politics being co-opted by neoliberal and statist
discourses, while simultaneously providing multiple avenues into
revolutionary politics? Does identity-based organising have any radical
capacity, and is there a way in which it can be mobilised to generate
solidarity and resistance? How have feminist, queer and anti-racist
movements moved away from the goal of the abolition of race and gender, and
turned to social mobility? What might the abolition of identitarian
categories of oppression look like as an emancipatory project? What does
it mean for class to be mobilised as an identity? What is the relationship
between intersectionality and identity politics? In what ways do resistance
to identity-based oppressions coalesce with struggles against the hegemony
of the capitalist state?
In particular, we encourage contributors to engage with Marxist traditions
from multiple standpoints, while complicating what it is that is
conceptualised as ‘identity’ itself. What does it mean for a movement to be
labelled as “identity politics”? Does working class identity being
racialised as white, and gendered as male, shield it from the critiques
commonly made of identity politics as sectarian and divisive? Can we
accurately describe union meetings a ‘safe space’ from the bosses? Why have
subaltern struggles been largely seen as identity-based, and the material
bases of their resistance under-emphasised? And finally, how might the
traditional left’s dismissal of particular movements as ‘identity politics’
act as a form of self-preservation?
Areas of interests include (but not limited to):
· Identity Politics versus a Politics of Liberation
· Praxis of Solidarity and Identity Politics
· Radical Critiques of Intersectionality
· Identity Politics As/Against Neoliberalism
· Identity Politics and Radical Social Movements
· Identity Politics, Capital and Empire
· Performativity in areas of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
· Privilege Politics and Solidarity
· Radical Critiques of Cultural Appropriation
· Safer Spaces and the Politics of Comfort
· Identity Politics, Innocence and the Carceral State
· Critiques of Personhood Trauma Politics
· Recovering Subaltern Studies as Anti-Capitalist Resistance
· Transnational Gentrification Discourses
· Victimhood, Security and the State
· Micoaggressions and Social Relations
· Trigger Warnings, Trauma, and the State
· Queer theory, capitalism, & the couple form
· Homonationalism
- Anti-Muslim Racism
· Reparations & class-based demands
· Europeanness & economic crisis
· Whiteness, white fragility and European fascism
· Anti-colonial struggles and Identity Politics
We propose a special issue on Identity Politics that will be rigorous,
grounded, and contributes to theory and praxis, and encourage papers that
make theoretical contributions both within and outside the European
tradition. We acknowledge that academia has traditionally excluded voices
from the margins and encourage submissions in forms of writing both within
and outside white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Abstracts should be no
more than 300 words submitted by email to
hm[dot]identitypolitics[at]gmail[dot]com by April 20th, 2016.
Once accepted paper contributions will have a target maximum length of
5,000 words (inclusive of endnotes, figures, references, etc.).
For any queries about the Special Issue or the abstract submission process
contact: hm[dot]identitypolitics[at]gmail[dot]com.
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:48:03 +0000
From: mauroserapioni@???
To: allces@???; doutorandos@???; posdoc@???
Subject: [Doutorandos] Sociologia visual
A quem possa interessar:
A força das imagens e da sociologia visual.
Brasil, 13 de Março de 2016: Manifestação contra o governo Dilma e
contra o ex-presidente Lula.
Em anexo, algumas fotos que estão circulando nas redes sociais.
Mauro Serapioni
Investigador/Researcher, PhD
mauroserapioni@???
Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Colégio S. Jerónimo, Apt 3087
3000-995, Coimbra, Portugal
T+351 239855570
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