[ecrea] Call for panel proposals and papers Annual NALACS Conference 2010 - Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Neoliberalism?

Call for panel proposals and papers Annual NALACS Conference 2010

Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Neoliberalism?

University of Groningen, The Netherlands, November 18th and 19th,
2010.

 

International Conference organized by the Netherlands Association of
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), in collaboration with the
Centre for Development Studies (CDS) and the Centre for Mexico Studies
(CEM) of the University of Groningen, and the Centre for Latin American
Research and Documentation (CEDLA).

 

The past three decades in Latin America and the Caribbean can be called
the age of neoliberalism. The region went through a profound and
multifaceted process of social transformation triggered by the adoption
of  neoliberalism, a worldview that privileges market solutions and
individualism for a great variety of problems and challenges. As a
consequence, the relationships between state, market and civil society
have drastically changed. In the cultural domain, Latin America and the
Caribbean have become more fully integrated into a globalized
US-dominated consumerist culture, while also managing to export their
share of cultural products.

 

However, these transformations have not eliminated some of the region’s
long standing features, such as the rigid class and racial
stratification, the personalist and clientelist political culture, nor
has it meant an end to political currents like nationalism, populism,
socialism and indigenismo. At a time when the global financial and
economic crisis is questioning the neoliberal paradigm, it seems
appropriate to ask questions about the meaning and significance of the
last three decades of neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
How profound have the social, economic, political and cultural
transformations been? What are the ruptures and the continuities of the
social processes of the current neoliberal era with those of the past?
How should we understand the present moment? Are we witnessing a movement
away from neoliberalism? How are the cultural and social changes
represented in the arts, especially in documentary, film and literature?
How are the Arts participating to these transformations?

 

This conference seeks to explore the current neoliberal conjuncture
in Latin America and the Caribbean in the light of its historical
legacies and contemporary trends. We invite interdisciplinary panel
and individual paper proposals on the following three clusters:

 

1. Neoliberal sectoral reforms, public policy and state
restructuring

2. Responses and resistances to neoliberalism

3. Artistic, cultural and ideological transformations in the era of (or
beyond) neoliberalism

The deadline for panel and paper proposals is June
1st,2010. 

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here for the form for paper proposals. 

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here for the form for panel proposals. 

More information about the keynote programme, already initiated panels,
hotel suggestions etc will be posted on the website in due time. (see

http://www.nalacs.nl/Events.aspx)

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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