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[ecrea] Speculating on everyday life CFP: Panel Session at ACS Crossroads, Hong Kong

Sun Oct 11 09:15:03 GMT 2009



CFP: Panel Session at ACS Crossroads, (17-21 June 2010, Hong Kong).
Convenors: Fiona Allon and Guy Redden, Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney

?it is now possible to use just about anything as a platform for more speculative financial activity ­ up to and including the kitchen sink ??
Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift, The Capitalization of Almost Everything

Paper proposals are invited for a panel session ?Speculating on everyday life: the cultural economy of the quotidian? at the 8th Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference. The goal of the session is to bring together cultural studies scholars who are interested in the critical perspectives that cultural economy provides for thinking about how everyday life is increasingly framed as a space of economic action and investment. A wide range of cultural-economic forms ­ home ownership and mortgages, credit cards, car loans, pension plans and superannuation ­ are now firmly embedded in global financial networks through processes of securitization. However, ordinary lifestyle practices are also often viewed in terms of the future returns they will yield to the individual, with everyday consumption tied to the accumulation of capital (cultural, financial, economic, social and so on) that can then be leveraged to provide further dividends. This not only makes everyday life and material consumption more and more ?aspirational?, but also positions the individual as an investor in a life project that requires the constant pursuit of opportunities and the negotiation of risks in order to yield rewards. While this logic of economic action and investment is sometimes made explicit (for example, in financial literacy literature), it is more often than not presented in a range of popular culture formats (lifestyle television; home renovations and makeovers etc.) as ?just living?. It is a cultural/political rationality that is of interest here for the ways in which it disrupts a range of binaries ­ consumption/production; everyday life/markets; culture/economy ­ that continue to stubbornly inform much cultural research and analysis.

If you would like to present a paper as part of this session, please send a 100-150 word abstract to Fiona Allon ((fiona.allon /at/ usyd.edu.au)) and Guy Redden ((guy.redden /at/ usyd.edu.au)) by 30 October 2009.

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Dr Guy Redden
Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9351 8495, Fax: +61 2 9351 3918
Office: J4.03 Main Quadrangle (A14)

Postgraduate Coursework Convenor <http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgrad/coursework.shtml>http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgrad/coursework.shtml

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