[ecrea] CFP Cultures of Capitalism CSAA Dec 2017 New Zealand

Cultures of Capitalism Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 
Conference 2017

December 6-8
Massey University, Wellington Campus
Aotearoa New Zealand

Keynote Speakers: Professor Patricia Hill Collins (University of 
Maryland), Professor Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), 
Professor Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Professor Wendy 
Larner (University of Victoria, Wellington).

The relationship between capital and culture is hotly contested. On the 
one hand, dominant political discourses valorise “culture” as the 
solution for ailing communities, cities and industries. Discourses of 
neo-liberal globalization claim that, in the face of mass migration, war 
and climate change, communities equipped with the “right” culture will 
adapt and endure, while others will be left behind; discourses of urban 
planning celebrate culture as the key to revitalising municipal 
economies through creativity and social participation; and discourses of 
post-industrial work, parsing radical shifts in the manufacturing 
sector, champion cultural, intellectual and creative labour as the 
paradigm for new forms of work. On the other, a range of critical 
voices, many of them associated with Cultural Studies, offer a decidedly 
less rosy vision of the relationship between culture and emergent 
capitalist formations. For these critics, nascent technologies of 
capital have led!
  to a renewed reification and exploitation of racialised, sexualised, 
and classed populations, even as newly precarious conditions of labour 
give rise to affective economies marked by depression, antagonism and 
the “crisis ordinary.”

The 2017 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference will 
focus on the work that cultures do in constructing, contesting, and 
constituting new capital formations. While the “culture industry” 
critique cast culture as the opiate through which economic dominance is 
propagated, cultures can potentially mediate economic conditions in 
multiple and heterogeneous ways. This conference invites contributions 
that explore these mediations. In doing so, we return to one of the key 
concerns of early cultural studies: to make sense of the 
mutually-determining relation between culture and its capitalist 
context. If, following Stuart Hall, we understand ‘culture’ as the 
production of meaning through language and representation, what are the 
modes of communication through which capitalism/s are created? How are 
capitalism/s materialised in different spaces? How is it embodied in 
different identities and communities? What is the role of the economy in 
shaping the possibili!
 ties for culture? What is the role of Cultural Studies as critical 
praxis in the present economic time?

Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
•	The cultural politics of neoliberalism
•	Precarious and/or immaterial labour
•	Digital capitalism
•	Capitalist affects
•	Trump, Brexit and the resurgence of capitalist nationalisms
•	Capitalism, culture and technology
•	The cultural and creative industries •	Capitalism, culture and 
sustainability
•	Cultures of surveillance and war
•	Cultural identity and globalisation
•	Cultural resistance and activism
•	Productive and unproductive cultures
•	Base, superstructure and mediation
•	Formal and real subsumption of culture
•	Representations of capitalism, class and markets
•	Political economies of online, digital and social media
•	Anticapitalist, Socialist, Anarchist and Communist cultures
•	Racial capitalism
•	Critical theory, Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies

The conference also accepts papers that fall within the general 
disciplinary area of Cultural Studies. We are also happy to accept 
submissions for pre-formed panels: if you wish to submit as part of a 
pre-formed panel, please indicate this in your submission.

In addition, to the regular conference events, we will also be holding a 
pre-fix day for postgraduate students and early career researchers. More 
details regarding this event will be announced shortly.

Early bird registration costs for the event will be $350 NZD for faculty 
and fully waged participants, and $250 NZD for students, adjunct faculty 
and unwaged participants. Registration will include membership of the CSAA.
If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 
word abstract with your name, e-mail address and affiliation to 
(csaa2017 /at/ massey.ac.nz) by August 1 2017. Any other enquires regarding the 
event should also be addressed to (csaa2017 /at/ massey.ac.nz).

Organising Committee: Nicholas Holm (Massey University), Sy Taffel 
(Massey University), Holly Randell-Moon (University of Otago), Pansy 
Duncan (Massey University), Ian Huffer (Massey University), Kevin Veale 
(Massey University).

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