{"id":5331,"date":"2021-12-09T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_event&p=5331"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:14:13","slug":"institute-of-political-economy-22-annual-graduate-student-conference-beyond-resistance","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/event\/institute-of-political-economy-22-annual-graduate-student-conference-beyond-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Political Economy Annual Graduate Student Conference: Beyond Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Institute of Political Economy will be hosting a two-day event over zoom for this year’s annual graduate student conference. English Closed Captioning [auto-generated] will be available throughout. This event is open to the public, but registration is required [complete form below].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of our conference is Beyond Resistance. We face an era of intertwined crises: climate, capitalism, and colonialism. Our social systems encompassing economic, political, ecological, gendered and racialized forms of oppression are changing at an unprecedented rate. We are in the midst of the sixth mass-extinction event in the planet’s history, yet leadership persists as if it\u2019s business as usual, with policies of endless economic growth. Decolonial, anti-capitalist, feminist and labour struggles are gaining momentum, but as of now they lag behind the exploiters\u2019 access to power, institutions and funds. Struggles for liberation unfold on numerous fronts, demanding the application of new tactics and alternative knowledge. We want to create a space to develop this knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speaker<\/strong>: Visiting Professor, Denise DuRuiz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thinking about the Worker Family without Familialism”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thinking beyond resistance entails thinking with<\/em> people, as decolonial, anti-capitalist, feminist, and labour struggles have been doing for decades. However, colonized people, working classes, women, migrants, and refugees in \u201cmost of the world\u201d in Partha Chatterjee\u2019s words, who critical scholars and activists intend to think with, build their immediate relations of care, support, and solidarity by relying on a patriarchal, heteronormative, and biopolitical institution, namely the family. Analyzing ethnographic data on Kurdish and Syrian migrant worker families in Turkey, this talk attempts to unpack the familial relationships that produce both resilience and governability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Duruiz received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and she is a sociocultural anthropologist working with Kurdish migrant farm workers and Syrian refugees in Turkey and in Europe. For her doctoral dissertation, she conducted ethnographic research both in the Kurdish region and at twelve different rural worksites (farms, greenhouses, charcoal production, public landscaping) in western Turkey. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which examines political violence in the Kurdish region and the resulting racialized and regionally divided class formation in Turkey through this migrant labor practice. Her postdoctoral research explores the Syrian experience of migration to Europe with a focus on labor. She is also the creator and the host of the Keyman Podcast and the co-organizer of The Colloquium on Refugees, Migrants and Statelessness at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conference Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 3, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00am – 10:30am
\nPanel 1: Labor, Intersectionality and New Imaginaries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: Daiva Stasiulis
\nProng, Alex: Doing Queer: Queer Temporal Theory, Imaginative Capacity, & Hopepunk
\nSuravee, Nayak:  Intersectional Inequalities and the (Un) Making of Labour in Coal Mines of Eastern India
\nBirks, Sophie : Solidarity with whom? Police violence and the labour movement\u2019s complicity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00am -12:30pm
\nPanel 2: International Relations, Violence and the State<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: William Walters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akinlabi, Akinkunmi Afeez: Political Economic Implications of Foreign Military Bases: Djibouti as a Case Study
\nClevenger, Michael:  The Political Economy of North and East Syria (Rojava) from a World-Systems’ Perspective
\nKathen, Noah:  Pain and Power: The Political Economy of the US\u2019s and Canada\u2019s Prescription Opioid Crises<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:30pm – 3:00pm
\nPanel 3: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: Jane Stinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00f3pez, Guillermo: Murcia Labour precarity: towards a consistent and operative concept
\nMcIntosh, Alex: Towards a value theory of labour: a Weberian-Nietzschean analysis of the morality of work
\nAbernethy, Zoe: Beyond Mobilization: Evaluating Struggles for Gig Worker Rights in Ontario<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30pm – 5:00pm
\nPanel 4: Gender and Labour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: Susan Braedley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maudlin, Taylor: The Customer is Not Always Right: Sexual Harassment & Consent in Waitressing
\nSaj, Danielle: Social Reproductive Unions as Social Unions: The Case of Manitoba
\nThompson, Kenya: Diverse Economies as Care Economies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, March 4, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00am – 10:30am
\nKeynote: Dr. Deniz DuRuiz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00am – 12:30pm
\nPanel 5: Climate (In)action<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: David Hugill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterling, Julia:  Climate Solution or Climate Delusion?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Solar Geoengineering
\nBecherer, Ariel:  An Ecosocialism at \u201cBritish Columbia, Canada\u201d
\nBeard, Matt: Transition Pathways in Canadian Concrete: CarbonCure, Carbicrete, and Competing Interests in Sustainable Innovation Transitions
\nGometz, Jakob: Climate on the Horizon? Gothenburg dockworkers\u2019 framings of their political horizon regarding climate change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:30pm – 3:00pm
\nPanel 6: Settler Colonialism and Decolonization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: Jennifer Henderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boote, Emily Louise How can Structural Violence Theory be used to understand how inequality is maintained and why it persists in relation to Indigenous communities in Canada?
\nProkipcak, Nathan A Policy Critique Perspective on Food Mail and Nutrition North
\nFung, Amy The Long Memory of Mourning
\nLucas, Kieran Morgan Marxism in the Colonial Context<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30pm – 5:00pm
\nPanel 7: Finance and Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator: Marc-Andre Gagnon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Madison:  Rise of the New Capitalists
\nMatheson, Katrina:  Nicole Blockchain in the Pacific: Economic Performativity and the Assetization of Trust
\nCarazza, Andre: Financial Citizenship in Brazil: the influence of International Financial Institutions and the possible contributions from Feminist Political Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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