A great transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms

Veranstalter

Institute of Sociology and Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz; Department of Political Science (University of Vienna); DFG-Kollegforschergruppe "Postwachstumsgesellschaften" (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Veranstaltungsort

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Ort

Linz

Land

Austria

Vom - Bis

09.01.2017 - 13.01.2017

Deadline

15.12.2016

Website

http://www.jku.at/conferences/content/e290365

Von

Karin Fischer

Ever since the global economic area opened up in the 1990s – and most recently, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis – Karl Polanyi’s economic and cultural history of capitalism, published as The Great Transformation in 1944, has been attracting renewed attention. Given his deft analysis of the liberal creed or how he refers to labor, land, and money as fictitious commodities, Polanyi’s critique of capitalism has never disappeared from the discussion. However, the unleashing of the market – and more specifically, of financial markets – has resulted in his ideas being widely received among sociologists, political scientists, and economists from all over the world. Polanyi’s analyses of the relationship between economy and society, and between economy/market and politics/state – along with his perspectives on civil society movements – all seem to be custom-made for capturing the crises, changes, and transformations of contemporary capitalisms. Meanwhile, Polanyi’s ideas and models have been profusely revised, pursued, developed, and checked for appropriateness when analyzing developments in the Global North and South. Moreover, a wealth of answers has emerged to the question of how his particular analysis of society may have inspired sociology, political science, and economics.

The conference A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms seeks to continue this discussion, identify new salient points and study the following questions: How do developments in contemporary capitalisms in the Global North and South constitute a great transformation, i.e. an epochal change in which the relationship between politics/state and economy/market undergoes fundamental changes at the global, international, transnational, and national levels? Have there been parallel, contradictory or interwoven developments and what form do these take? How are they shaped by social inequalities, by power and dominance, and by conflict and resistance? How can all these developments be considered in light of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation? How do other analyses of and theories on capitalism rooted in sociology, political science, and economics contribute to social analysis and criticism? Where do they interlink with Polanyi’s perspective and where do they take different paths? All these questions will be thoroughly discussed at this interdisciplinary international conference.

Programm

Pre-Conference Wissensturm, Linz
Monday, January 9, 2017
Market Fundamentalism and New Right-Wing Populism
Hans-Jürgen Bieling (Tübingen, Germany)
Die Transformation gebiert ihre Kinder: Rechtspopulismus als Gegenbewegung zum liberalen Kosmopolitismus
Klaus Dörre (Jena, Germany)
Polanyi und die neue national-soziale Gefahr
Birgit Sauer (Vienna, Austria)
Kulturkampf 2.0? Zur Bedeutung von Geschlechterverhältnissen in der neuen Rechten

Preliminary Conference Program
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Michael Burawoy (Berkeley, USA): Karl Polanyi Today

Sessions (Wednesday to Friday)
Politics of Crisis
The (Neo)Liberal Creed
Theoretical Conversations with Polanyi
Polanyi Meets Regulation Theory
(De)Commodification
Intertwinements between Social Reproduction and Growth: Commodification and Decommodification of Labor
Degrowth
Transformation and (Counter)Movements
Degrowth – Alternative Economies, Social Ecological Transformation and the Post-growth Society: Seeking Utopias and Avoiding Dystopias
Fictitious Commodities
Conceptions of Crisis and Pathways toward Transformation
Marketization of Knowledge and Science
Crisis & Welfare
Beyond (De)Commodification?
Alternatives

Plenaries
Polanyi and Marx
Kari Polanyi Levitt (Montreal, Canada)
Marx and Polanyi as Complementary Social Philosophers
Bob Jessop (Lanchaster, United Kingdom)
Marx and Polanyi on the Limits and Barriers to Capital Accumulation
Klaus Dörre (Jena, Germany)
Marx and Polanyi on Countermovements and Class Struggle

Social and Ecological Reproduction: Fictitious Commodities, Marketization and the Imperial Mode of Living
Cornelia Klinger (Tübingen, Germany)
NOT FOR SALE?!? Toward an Integrative and Transformative Understanding of Polanyi's Three “Fictitious Commodities”
Brigitte Aulenbacher (Linz, Austria) & Birgit Riegraf (Paderborn, Germany)
The Never-ending Story of Marketization!? – Care as a Fictitious Commodity and Points of Resistance
Ulrich Brand (Vienna, Austria)
Understanding the “Imperial Mode of Living” and Strategies for a Social-ecological Transformation based on Polanyi’s Insights

Crisis, Reform, Transformation: Economy and Democracy in Contemporary Capitalisms in Europe and Beyond
Michele Cangiani (Venice, Italy)
Christoph Deutschmann (Tübingen, Germany)
Maria Markantonatou (Lesvos, Greece)
Hans-Jürgen Urban (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

Uneven Development and Experience of (Ex)Commodification: a View from the Global South
Karin Fischer (Linz, Austria)
The Transformation of Global Inequality: Unequal Inclusion or Exclusion
Ernst Langthaler (Linz, Austria)
The Commodification of Food. Old and New Agrarian Questions
Jenny Chan (Hong Kong, China)
The Commodification of Labor and the Conditions for Collective Resistance in China

Beverly Silver (Baltimore, USA)
Forces of Labor Revisited

Michael Burawoy (Berkeley, USA) & Kari Polanyi Levitt (Montreal, Canada)
Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation

Kontakt

Karin Fischer

Altenberger Str. 69
4040 Linz

karin.fischer@jku.at

http://www.jku.at/conferences/content/e290365

Zitation

A great transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms., In: H-Soz-Kult, 24.10.2016, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-82197>.

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