CfP: Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: Inequalities and Social Resistance

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PANELS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe:
Inequalities and Social Resistance

Keynote Speakers:
Dorothee Bohle (European University Institute, Florence)
Jonathan Hopkin (London School of Economics)
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS University of London)

1. the limitations and external enablers of current varieties of capitalism and growth models 
2. state-finance relations, with an emphasis on central banking, dependent financial systems and emergence of financial nationalism
3. the modes of insertion of local capitalist firms into the global economy, with an emphasis on their  impact on solidarity, unionism and capacity to break out of semi-peripheral dependency
4. the social, health, educational and tax policies that shaped living conditions, inequalities and class dynamics in the region
5. the new world of capitalist work relations, with a focus on industrial relations and labor market institutions
6. uneven urban development and subordinated financialization of housing in the semi-peripheries
7. racialized inequalities in CEE at the intersection of precarious living and racialized labor  
8. the uneven record of forms of mass resistance to the dislocations produced by the market economy and advancing market society
9. the emergence of specific theoretical and political engagements with the capitalist transformations in the region
10. the emergence of neoliberal subjectivities and the way CEE societies have learned to adapt to capitalism through a variety of spiritual and personal development programs;
11. the impact of the region’s capitalisms on gender relations and on domestic and emotional labor;
12. the politics of the “demographic question” at the crossroads between migration and the revival of conservative family policies
13. the way media, literature and visual arts discourse normalize right wing ideologies that criminalize and degrade the poor and the generic “other” (ethnic or cultural minorities) in order to justify ever more radical neoliberal policies that advance the market society
14. European institutions in the context of global capitalism and the discourse on social rights
15. public policies aiming at generating social inclusion and solidarity in CEE countries
     

Abstract  & Panel Proposals Submissions

Abstract / presentation proposals should be sent via e-mail at socialsolidarity2020@gmail.com no later than the 1st of February 2020. They should address any of the issues listed above, laying the focus on the region of Central and Eastern Europe and/or specific countries from the region. We are open as well to the possibility for submitting proposals for panels and round-table discussions. 

●        Abstracts/ presentation proposals should consist of a description of cc. 400 words that presents the theoretical approach, methods, empirical research, and tentative conclusions.
●        Panel proposals should include between three and five prospective presenters, and their abstracts should be sent together with a brief description of the purpose and the relevancy of the panel to the main themes of the conference in cc. 250 words. Each panel ought to have at least two conveners from different institutions.
●        Book symposium/ round table proposals should explain the relevance of the book/ topic addressed in the round table discussion in cc. 400 words and present the speakers, preferably from different institutions. 

Submissions will be evaluated by the scientific committee of the conference. Accepted abstracts proposals will be clustered together in panels. The submission of full papers and their dissemination to conference participants is optional for the authors. 
 

For any inquires please contact:
Sorin Gog (Institute for Social Solidarity and Babeș-Bolyai University), e-mail: sorin.gog@ubbcluj.ro