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Subject: [RK] Subjectivity Conference, Cardiff, June 2008
From:    "Matteo Pasquinelli" <matteopasquinelli la gmx.it>
Date:    Mon, July 9, 2007 22:53
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From: Rutvica <nig4982 la iperbole.bologna.it>
Date: July 6, 2007 9:37:58 AM EDT
To: nextgenderation la nextgenderation.net
Subject: [NextGenderation] SUBJECTIVITY CONFERENCE


SUBJECTIVITY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURAL STUDIES AND
SOCIAL
THEORY

27-29 JUNE 2008

School of Social Sciences
Cardiff University, UK
www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/subjectivity  [site will be up in July 07]

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

This conference explores shifting conceptualisations of subjectivity in
contemporary culture, politics, social science and theory. Although
subjectivity is a key analytic term in fields as diverse as critical
psychology, postcolonial studies, film theory, gender studies, social
theory,
geography, anthropology and cultural studies, it is rarely discussed
in its own
right. The conference attempts to explore subjectivity as a locus of
social
change, to rethink possibilities for everyday social interventions,
to explore
how subjectivities are produced and how emerging subjectivities
remake our
social worlds. We are interested in proposals for papers and symposia
whose
scope falls within or between one of the following
areas:

1  EMBODIMENT, AFFECT, MATERIALITY

The emergence of 'body-theory' across the humanities has transformed
the terrain
in which questions about power, ideology, discourse and subjectivity
can be
asked. There is a move to dismantle the idea of separation between
the body and
the world and to see bodies as always gesturing towards practices,
energies,
things and intensities beyond themselves. This focus on process,
connection,
relationality and bodily affectivity traverses a diverse range of
disciplines
and is forcing a reconsideration of our understanding of
subjectivity. In this
stream we welcome papers that might deal with areas such as 'carnal
knowing',
the sentient body, embodiment, critical perspectives on cyberculture
and the
machine-human symbiosis, new materialism, affective labour and care,
disability
and the critiques of the 'able body', somatic feeling and the non-
cognitive, for
example.

2  NEW POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITIES/NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

A developing body of scholarship examines the production of new
subjectivities
and social movements in a moment marked by neoliberalism,
de/re-territorialising capitalism and emerging new sensibilities in
relation to
gender, sexuality, transnational mobility and racial and religious
differences.
What role are the media and new information and communication
technologies
playing in the production of new femininities, masculinities and
sexualities -
and resistance to them? What kinds of social movements are emerging
to address
global injustice related to the transformation of labour and the new
conditions
for the production of science and technology, biotech and medical
rationalities?
How adequately have our theoretical vocabularies engaged with new
social,
political and cultural complexities related to processes of
racialization and
migration? What new possibilities are there for interdisciplinary
work that
creates new spaces and dialogues, activism and interventions?

3  REDISTRIBUTING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL

For many years, critical psychologists and social theorists have
attempted to
move away from an individualist concept of the psychological. Some
psychologists attempted to rework what was understood as on the
inside to the
outside through the concepts of discourse, activity and narrative;
sociologists
have attempted to understand what constitutes the psychological through
exploring its position within the social and cultural lifeworld; social
theorists have attempted to expand the concept beyond reductionist
notions of
the subject. While these attempts are all important, how successful
are they?
What is the future of critical studies of psychology and of the
psychological?
How can we develop work which goes beyond the psychological while
still being
able to accommodate and understand singularity and experience?

Please send a 200 word proposal to  subjectivity la cardiff.ac.uk  by 31
January
2008

Notification: 1 April 2008 (please contact us if you are in need of
an earlier
notification)





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