SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW (SR) SEMINAR / SYMPOSIUM SERIES

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Applications should be returned to Caroline Baggaley at c.m.baggaley@keele.ac.uk by 8th July 2015

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TITLE OF PROPOSED SEMINAR SERIES/SYMPOSIUM

Connected Histories and Sociologies of Neoliberalisation among UK and Latin America

Start date April 2016

End date June 2016

Number of events (1-3 per series) 3

Proposed location(s) of activity RHB, Goldsmiths College

Total funds requested from TSR (Maximum for research seminar series £6,000 or for a single symposia event lasting one day £2,000)

£ 5,833

TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE: HOME (Please break down by seminar and indicate approximate dates that expenses will be incurred)

Speakers Breakdown of Costs Totals

Speakers from Latin America (3)

Accommodation:Symposium April, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120 Symposium May, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120 Symposium June , 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120

1080

TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE: OVERSEAS (Please break down by seminar and indicate approximate dates that expenses will be incurred)

DETAILS AMOUNT

Speakers

Speakers from Latin America (3)

Travel Expenses-Symposium April, 2016: Economy return ticket from Buenos Aires @ £ 1100- Symposium May, 2016: Economy return ticket from Rio de Janeiro or La Paz (Average rate) @ £ 1350- Symposium June , 2016: Economy return ticket from Santiago de Chile @ £1400

3850

Accommodation:Symposium April, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120Symposium May, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120Symposium June , 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of £120

360

SECRETARIAL and ADMINISTRATION (Please indicate number of hours x £ per hour. Indirect costs are ineligible)

DETAILS AMOUNTYear 1

Year 2

12 hours x 3 at £10 per hour360

4570

STATIONERY, POSTAGE, PHOTOCOPYING, TELEPHONE (Please cost each item separately)

DETAILS AMOUNTYear 1

Design and printing of A3 posters: 30 @ £0.48 14.40

HIRE OF ROOMS, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES (Please indicate basis of cost and state venue of seminars. Please note that claims cannot be made against the cost of hiring facilities belonging to the organising HEI)

DETAILS AMOUNTYear 1

Year 2

CateringTea, Coffee and Pastries – AM: 40 @ £ 2.20 x3Tea, Coffee and Pastries – PM: 40 @ £ 1.60 x3Lunch for speakers: 9 x Premium sandwiches, crisps & fruit @ £ 6.25 eachFruit juice for lunch: Selection of chilled fruit juices @ £3.00 x 3Wine reception: 12 bottles of wine @ £ 9.00 per bottle x3Water: 6 bottles @ £ 1.25 per bottle x3Nibbles for wine reception: 8 x Olives, nuts and crisps @ £ 3.50 x 3Dinner for speakers: 9 @ £ 30 per person

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56.25

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1248

TOTAL COST REQUESTED FROM SR (Please ensure that this is the total cost of the amounts requested in each of the above sections. Do not include co-funding)

£ 5833

OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPORT: Please give details of other support or co-funding. Do not include these costs in the section above.

Sociology Department is contributing towards_- Room hire: £ 350 + 20% VAT for the day = £ 420, with 50% discount = £ 210- Telephone, internet @ £30 per seminar- Printing @ £30 per seminar- Stationery £15 per seminar

A summary of accounts will also be required PUBLICITY

The publicity of the event will run through traditional lines (i.e. email information to interested institutions and academic centres within the UK, information in Goldsmiths and other available websites, posters, emails and letters of invitation to Latin American researchers, and other means) and will have another source of information and interaction in the forthcoming web-map of the Goldsmiths Latin American Hub. This website is currently being designed in order to host complete information and access to the Latin American archives available in the UK, as well as to inform about events and seminars related to Latin America and relevant for this country. It also aims to be an interactive place for exchange and commitment of scholars and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic.

SEMINAR PROPOSAL: “Connected Histories and Sociologies of Neoliberalisation among UK and Latin America”

Under this title we propose a series of 3 events dealing with the issue of neoliberalism and neoliberalization throughout diverse -both disciplinarily and geographically- practices and perspectives. The series is an invitation to discuss on the different routes whereby ‘neoliberalism’, understood as both a becoming-dominant economic ideology and a sociohistorical process (Harvey 2007), has been carried out. As Naomi Klein (2007) has recently famously recalled, Latin America became the first loci of neoliberal ‘experiments’, fostered from the outset by US’ foreign policies since the 1950s and then reinforced by military dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s. Therefore, in a moment in which the wake of neoliberalization seems going deeper in the majority of European countries, this dialogue with Latin American accounts and perspectives on the matter seems pertinent. The objective is to connect historical accounts and conceptual or methodological perspectives which, while diverse in terms of its disciplinary grounds, are nevertheless oriented to provide reflections of sociological interest.

Neoliberalism may be understood as a political form of social governance (Mirowski & Phlewe 2009; Jackson 2010), and even a bio-political one (e.g. Foucault 2008 Palgrave,, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979; see also Lemke 2001); as a new or more advanced phase of capital’s worldwide rule bearing its own crises within (Piketty 2014); or as the completion of a long-lasting colonial history -that of modernity, however marked off today by its ‘post’ condition (Mignolo 2000). ‘Neoliberalism’ will thus work, in this series, as a provocative notion (notwithstanding, or perhaps precisely because of, its apparent ubiquitous currency) that allows to disclose recent histories of reorganisation of resources, institutions and values, renewed logics of accumulation and dispossession, new making-up of social and cultural antagonisms, and traumatic events and forms of processing them both socially and intellectually.

What is proposed here by ‘connecting sociologies’ is to put into dialogue diverse ways of ‘making sociology’. There is, on the one hand, the task of connecting sociologies, of bringing about a space where different academic traditions -cultures and practices- can exchange and confront knowledges on neoliberal processes. From the connection of Latin American and UK researchers one can expect some relevant ‘misencounters’ producing new ‘encounters’ at the methodological, conceptual, and epistemological levels (see e.g. Viveiros de Castro 2009, for an anthropological case; for sociology, see Kiem et al. 2014). These misencounters are the expected ‘food for thought’ of this project. On the other hand, we propose to connect sociologies, that is to say, to problematize the traditional approaches of what making sociology means -which is to ask, in turn, about sociology’s capability to take advantage on the global inter- or trans-disciplinary networks she is part of.

The seminar series will explore crossed histories/sociologies of neoliberalization from three different subjects, which are the three events proposed.

1) Changes in the state-market relationships and transformations of the idea of the ‘public’Neoliberalism is usually understood as a political rationality in which the principles of the market serves as regulative principles in other areas of social conducts and power strategies (Brown, 2005 and Gane, 2012). The privatisation of public goods, deregulation and cuts to social spendings, and maximisation of production and consumption, are key features of neoliberal policies. Neoliberalism,

furthermore, has historically implied a change in the governmental connections between markets and the state, so that it is about market freedoms but also about ‘forms of governmentality that operate through such freedoms and, moreover, through forms of surveillance and regulation that are designed to inject market principles of competition into all spheres of social and cultural life.’ (Gane, 2012: 625). Indeed, freedom is understood more as an absence of state coercion rather than freedom to act (or to speech, XXX) in society; in political and economic terms, freedom of choice replaces the idea of social rights guaranteed by the State (cf. Gray, 1981 and Ball, 2012). In this sense, this seminar seeks to explore the ways in which neoliberal policies have transformed both Latin American and the UK states, and the reduction of social rights formerly granted by it, bringing thus into debate what the ‘public’ means today.

2) The production of ‘ others’: alterity in the intersection between class, gender and raceLatin America has been constructed as part of ‘the rest’ from whom the ‘West’ has built its identity (Moreiras XXXX, Quijano XXXX Mignolo, 2005, )The symposia aims to reflect the categories produced in the wake of the ‘postcolonial turn’ in a non-dichotomic way. As Quijano (XXXX) suggests, Latin America’s ‘alterity’ has been created in economic, political and cultural terms, through the ideas of underdevelopment, populism and indigenous; all of which generates a particular articulation of gender, class, race and sexuality. Such (‘identitarian’) categories are today used by markets as roads of capitalisation, in a dynamic which, at the same time, displays also new forms of empowerment and social mobilization. Therefore, through dynamics that pertain to (and hence need to be read as) particular contexts but are, at the same time, apparent at both sides of the Atlantic, gender, class and ethnicity are in permanent re-construction and re-signification, many times from their appropriation by ‘others’ and their folklorization. By means of these categories, in sum, we can think on the social, historically particular contents of ‘culture(s)’, as well as to approach to new methodological and conceptual challenges to sociological apparatuses.

3) Traumatic events and the making of memoriesNeoliberalism is also synonym of catastrophe or shock (Klein 2007). At one level, it can be blamed by the ongoing weakening of public investment in infrastructure, something that becomes dramatically apparent when destructive natural events occur (the cases of New Orleans in 2005 and Haiti in 2010 are only two recent ones). Conversely, the obstination for subjecting peoples and countries to neoliberal rules reveals the same aggressiveness at the geo-political level: military and/or ‘diplomatic’ interventions are permanently combined with adjustment measures and privatizations -in other words, war and dispossession on behalf of capital accumulation. This symposium aims to gather together works and reflections on traumatic historical events related to neoliberal policies, being the Latin American military dictatorships a permanent reference in this sense. The work of memory, therefore, becomes a crucial reference in this debate, not only because of its social, political (and ethical and aesthetic; Bell 2014) relevance, but also in terms of the variety of knowledge’s techniques it brings about.

The organization of the seminar series will comprise three different activities. The first is a general call for papers, mainly oriented to postgraduate students based in UK. The aims to settle a panel of 3 or 4 early researchers, which would be the first activity of each seminar. The second activity is the talk of two keynote speakers, one from the UK and the other from Latin America. The third activity is a general plenary or workshop.

For the second activity, we have already confirmed some participants, and are in conversations with the rest. For the first seminar (“Changes in the state-market relationships and transformations of the idea of the ‘public’”), it is expected the participation of Toni Prug (Queen Mary’s, London) and Veronica Gago (Universidad de Buenos Aires). For the second seminar (“The production of ‘ others’: alterity in the intersection between class, gender and race”), we expect to count on with Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, London) and either Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Universidad de San Marcos, La Paz) or Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro). For the third seminar (“Traumatic events and the making of memories”), we have confirmed the participation of Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, London) and Alicia Salomone (Universidad de Chile, Santiago).

Outputs

We plan to develop the contributions to the Symposium into a special issue of The Sociological Review. We also plan to video-record contributions to the event and to make these recordings available through a dedicated website. The Symposium is intended as the first step in a programme of work whose intention is eventually to involve a wider range of stakeholders in further events and publications. There is the compromise of the Head of Postgraduate School of the Universidad de Chile, Alicia Salomone, to actively collaborate in this sense.

Possible Contributors

The contributors will be the participants of the seminar series as keynote speakers, although we might not disregard the possibility of good-quality papers from early researchers.

Participants (keynote speakers) ● Toni Prug (Queen Mary’s, London) has a PhD in business and management (Queen Mary) and

a PhD in sociology (Goldsmiths). He focsues on emancipatory and egalitarian human development and non-commodity production (public health, education, care, infrastructure, household, digital outputs). He published The Mirror’s Gonna Steal Your Soul in 2006.

● Veronica Gago is an Argentinian PhD in sociology and professor of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad de San Martin of the same city. Her work focuses on neo-extractivism and accumulation in neoliberal times (in a collaboration with Sandro Mezzadra), and has recently published The Neoliberal Reason. Baroque Economies and Popular Pragmatics (2014). In the latter, she gives account of the co-participation of actual people in the Argentinian’s neoliberal forms of governmentality.

● Nirmal Puwar is Reader in Sociology in Goldsmiths. Her work focuses on the subjects of postcolonialism, race and gender, and critical methodologies. In 2004 Puwar published Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. She is also part of the Feminist Review editorial collective, co-convenor of the BSA Race Forum, and co-organizer of Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab.

● Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Universidad de San Marcos, La Paz) is an Aymara sociologist, social activist and subalternist theorist. Her 1984 book Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles

Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900–1980 remains a classic for subaltern debates in in Latin America. She co-founded, directed and is still member of the Workshop on Andean Oral History in La Paz. Rivera’s ltter work, (Re)Masked Violences in Bolivia (2012) cast a strong critique of the current ‘proceso de cambio’ in Bolivia.

● Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and professor of the Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro. His book Cannibal Metaphysics (2009 for the French edition; 2014 for the English translation) summarizes his former work on the ‘Amerindian perspectivism’, which is arguably one of the most important recent contributions to both anthropology and the social sciences in general. Amerindian perspectivism is presented as the indigenous ontology through which objects and subjects, non-humans and humans, are in constant negotiation, mutual violation, radical displacement and thus re-definition. The consequences of these arguments have addressed Viveiros de Castro to reflections on the ecological crisis yielded by neoliberal processes.

● Vikki Bell is professor in Sociology in Goldsmiths and Research Associate in the Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires. Her work focuses on processes of subjectification, feminist theory, transitional justice, ethics and the politics of aesthetics. His latter book, The Arts of Post-Dictatorship. Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina (2014), is a significant account of varied artistic manifestations for justice and reparation, read from the Foucauldian concept of ‘techniques of existence’ as politics of memories.

● Alicia Salomone is associate professor of Literature and the Centre of Latin American Studies, and Head of the Postgraduate School of the Universidad de Chile. She works on female and feminist literature, postcolonialism, and Latin American modernity, focusing on the crosses of gender and power. Salomone is author of Alfonsina Storni. Women, Modernity, and Literature (2006), and co-author of Poscoloniality and Nation (2003) and Modernity in a Different Tone. Latin American Women’s Writing 1920-1950 (2004).

● There will be 12 to 16 participants from the call for papers.

E1 Justification for funding: Please provide full justification for funds sought. This section should not exceed one page.

The conference XXXX for which funds are being sought is organized by the recently formed Latin American hub that aims to produce and coordinate existing research on Latin America within the UK, as well as to stimulate the academic collaboration among these regions.

The funds asked to Sociological Review are part of the first efforts to launch…..

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