Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Labor Struggles in India "Learning from Labour in Contemporary India", AAS, Toronto, March 2012

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Labor Struggles in India "Learning from Labour in
Contemporary India", AAS, Toronto, March 2012

> H-ASIA
> July 18, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Learning from Labour in Contemporary India, for
> Association for Asian Studies conference, Toronto, March 15-18, 2012
> **********************************************************************
> From: Dia Dacosta <dacosta@queensu.ca>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am looking for three papers and a chair to compose a panel on
> contemporary labour struggles in India for AAS in Toronto, 2012. Please
> see the draft panel abstract pasted below. If you're interested in this,
> please send me an abstract (250 words max) and your full name, address,
> e-mail, and institutional affiliation by July 25th, 2011.
>
> best,
> Dia
>
> Panel
> Title: Learning from Labour in contemporary India
>
>
> This panel builds on recent calls to 'stretch labour historiography' by
> asking how we know labour struggles in contemporary India when we see
> them. In light of the massive global and local transformations underway
> since the 1970s, scholars have alternately mourned the 'lost worlds' of
> industrial labour struggle or celebrated the promise of thinking about
> labour 'beyond the factory'. Ultimately,however, much scholarship on
> labour struggles tends to view labour struggles in terms of
> transformations and interruptions in the nature of contemporary capital.
>
> This inter-disciplinary panel proposes to learn from labour, in part, by
> refusing to pit nostalgia for industrial labour mobilisation against
> current calls for focusing on struggles beyond the factory. This panel
> contributes to recent scholarship in political economy, postcolonial
> historiography, development studies, cultural studies and more by asking
> what forms of belonging, citizenship, and political mobilisation are
> actually produced by nostalgic mourning for lost worlds of labour
> struggle. Likewise, it asks what new spaces, affects, and forms of labour
> struggles are generated when we consider labour struggle beyond the
> factory. What, if anything, do these new spaces and forms of labour
> struggle accomplish in terms of the limits of capital?
>
>
> Some themes for papers might include:
>
>
> Dispossession
> and the relation of labour struggles to land, climate change, and
> environment
>
> The politics of
> caste and Dalit movements in reimaging the labour-capital relation
>
> The celebration
> and marketization of knowledge economy and society and its
> effects on the forms, spaces, and possibility of labour struggles
>
> The affects
> and effects of the creative economy, cultural activism, and
> cultural production on spaces and meanings of labour struggle
>
> The politics
> of gender and sexuality in contemporary labour struggles
>
> Labour
> struggles and the financialization of Indian economy, society, and
> everyday
> life
>
>
> Dia Da Costa
> Associate Professor,
> Global Development Studies
> Mackintosh-Corry Hall Rm A 403
> Queen's University
> Kingston, ON, Canada
> K7L 3N6
>
> Ph: (613) 533-6000 ext.79048
> http://queensu.ca/devs/?q=faculty-staff/devs-faculty/dia-da-costa
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