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

> 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)
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