[CFP] Conference 2019 – Joint call of the Commodity Studies and Social Reproduction Working Groups for Papers and Activist Proposals

We welcome proposals for individual research papers and other interventions that relate to the intersecting interests of the Commodity Studies and Social Reproduction Working Groups namely processes of commodification, commodity chain dynamics, and their gendered content and expression.

Whilst not limited to the following, we are particularly interested in exploring the commodification of care related the crisis of social reproduction on the one hand, and the gendered nature of social relations in the production of commodities, on the other. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical contributions on the following themes:

• Commodification of care provisioning
• Gender, race and class relations in processes of commodification
• Commodification of social policy
• Processes of shifting reliance on commodities for social reproduction
• Gender, race, and class relations in global commodity production
  

To submit a paper proposal, go to https://afep-iippe2019.sciencesconf.org/. (If it appears in French and you want English, select the small English flag near the upper left corner of the page.) Select “Submission”/ “Dépôt” from the left column. Be sure to select “IIPPE Paper” when you submit, and once you do that you will need to specify that you are submitting your proposal to the Commodity Studies Working Group to be considered as part of the joint working group stream.

We welcome panel proposals and single paper proposals. If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually as above. In addition, please send an email indicating what papers (with their authors) you would like to be grouped into a panel (give title). This should go to Ourania Dimakou (od1@soas.ac.uk) on the Conference Committee, and please copy in the Commodity Studies and Social Reproduction working group coordinators, Hannah Bargawi (hb19@soas.ac.uk), Sara Stevano (sara.stevano@uwe.ac.uk), and Susan Newman (susan3.newman@uwe.ac.uk)

To submit to this joint call please select EITHER the Commodity Studies Working Group OR the Social Reproduction Working Group.

The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2019. All other deadline dates are stated in the Electronic Proposal Form instructions. For general information about IIPPE, its Working Groups, and the Conference, visit http://iippe.org/.