‘Contentions against neoliberalism: Reconstituting the social fabric in the developing world’. Oxford Department of International Development. University of Oxford, June 27-28th 2013. Abstracts (500 words max. including theoretical approach) should be sent to sofia.donoso@sant.ox.ac.uk by March 20, 2013.
The conference aims to bring together postgraduates and early career researchers who study the relationship between free-market reform and political change. We welcome submissions from a range of disciplines and topics, including but not limited to:
– New forms of trade unionism and/or reshaping of ‘old’ trade unions
– Social movements against privatisation
– Citizenship contests
– Forging of political subjects in the neoliberal era
– Contestation of the neoliberal transformation of the state