[ecrea] Call Designing and Transforming Capitalism

*Call for papers*



*Designing and Transforming Capitalism*

*Thursday/Friday 9-10 February2012*

*Aarhus University, Denmark*



Confirmed keynote speakers: LucBoltanski (France), Kathrine Gibson
Australia), Anne Balsamo (USA), CampbellJones (New Zealand)



When all alternatives to capitalism seem exhausted or abandoned,
creative and transformative energiesand ideas descend upon capitalism
itself. In practice and theory, in daily lifechoices and organizational
changes, in legislative initiatives and academia, ininitiatives taken by
individuals and groups interesting work is being done toexplore and use
a transformative approach to capitalist processes trying torealize
immaterial values, human resources and utopias within a capitalist
framework.


In Marxist and neo-Marxist aswell as liberal theories, capitalism seems
to be the economic strong optionwithout alternatives and the
accumulative logic of capitalism the only possibleway of economic
thinking in contemporary societies. Nevertheless we see lots ofsigns of
non-accumulative logics ruling traditional capitalist
producers,consumers as well as traditional critics of capitalism. Green
capitalismaddresses traditional capitalism’s exploitative and
instrumentalist approach tonature; Corporate Social Responsibility tries
to tackle social issues locallyand globally from within corporations;
Social entrepreneurs are using thecapitalist business model to solve
pressing problems such as poverty or lack ofclean water; designers are
weaving creative solutions into the commodities andpractices of our
every day life. It seems to grow ever more difficult todistinguish
between working within capitalism or working in order to
changecapitalism as capitalism seems to change from within rather than
from without.


This conference addresses the question of capitalism's transformative
potentials and the limits to suchtransformations, if any such exists?
How malleable are the logics and processesof capitalism? How is
capitalism ceaselessly practiced and constantly redesigned?We aim to
bring together people working within various fields oftendisconnected
from each other but all centering their work on empirical andtheoretical
studies of how people and societies live with, deal with,negotiate,
fight with and transform capitalism.



The conference will have four streams, each with its own set of themes.
The listed themes are meant as suggestive and non-exhaustive. We invite
paper proposals within:



*Political capitalism*

(coordinators:Morten Raffns??e & Mikkel Thorup)



New forms of laborand their politics

Everyday life incapitalism

Work inside and outside the market

New forms of political action inside and outside capitalism

Transforming ownership, aims and organization in capitalism

Political action in the market, civil society and the state

¬?¬†¬†¬†¬†¬ †Politihip and performance management

¬?¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†Accouney,love, ethics or happiness?

Critical accounting

¬*†*

*¬*

* *

*Civic *

(coordinators: Anne Ellerup Nielsen & Christian Olaf Christiansen)


Corporate citizenship

Corporate Social Responsibility


¬?¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†Ethic
Gr
een Capitalism, Sustainability

¬?akeholder theories

¬?stainable investment

Environmental development

¬?cial integration

 

*Performative Capitalism *

(coordinators: Louise Fabian, Jonas Fritsch, Per Blenker, Carsten Stage)



Self-organized communities as business opportunities

Cultural citizenship

Global Culture Industry

Hyper,trans, cross, Re-phenomena

Green bodies and environmental (online/offline) activism

Posthumanitarian developments in charity work and communication

Affect and vulnerability as tools of anti-capitalist mobilisation

The commoditization of dissent

Urban Interactions, Appropriations and Co-creativity in a design perspective


*Consumer Capitalism*

(coordinators: Sophie Esmann Andersen & Carsten Stage)


Anti-consumerismand consumer resistance

Consumermovements, activis m and cultural ideology

¬?¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† Co-crcreativity

Consumer-citizenshipor citizen-consume rism

¬?¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† DIY ces

Brandedidentities and bra nd hegemony

Pleasesubmit your abstract proposals (max 300 words) to Tina Friis
((semtina /at/ hum.au.dk) <mailto:(semtina /at/ hum.au.dk)>). For registration and
furtherinformation look at the conferencewebsite
http://www.begivenhedskultur.dk/_events/2011/capitalism/.Please indicate
which stream yourproposal refers to.

Deadline for paper proposal: October 15, 2011 (feedback on paper
proposals November 1,2011).



*The conference organized by the Departments of Aesthetics and
Communication(Britta Timm Knudsen) and The Department of Culture and
Society (MikkelThorup), Faculty of Arts and The Department of Language
and Business Communication and Department of Management, Faculty of
Business and SocialSciences. Funded by The Aarhus University Research
Foundation (AUFF) and The Velux Foundation. *



Britta Timm Knudsen
lektor, ph.d./Associate Professor Ph.D.
Nordisk Institut/Scandinavian Institute
Jens Chr. Skousvej 7, 467/324
Aarhus Universitet/Aarhus University
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
t: 89422450 /29263916 /86163070
e: (norbtk /at/ hum.au.dk) <mailto:(norbtk /at/ hum.au.dk)>
http://person.au.dk/en/norbtk@hum


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