(Conflicting) Political Ontologies and Implications for Transformative Action
Friday, 27 May 2016
09:00
Registration
09:30–09:50
Welcome by Mònica Clua-Losada, Chair of CPERN and Miha Andric, Director of the Institute of Labour Studies
10:00–11:45
Session 1: Conflicting political ontologies and the body
Chair: Olatz Ribera-Almandoz
Phoebe Moore – Forced separation through corporeal regulation, an ontology for the quantified workplace
Katharina Bodirsky – On the Ontopolitics of Culture in Capitalist State-Making
Paul McFadden – The Ontology of Alienation: Bodies of Praxis and the New Contradiction of the Social Form of Domination
Primož Krašovec – Knowing and hating
12:00–13:45
Session 2
Section 1. Philosophical and theoretical challenges
Section 2. Disruption, Protest and Resistance for transformative action
Section 3. Uneven development, trade and class struggle
| Section 2.1
Materialism(s) and critical realism Chair: Phoebe Moore |
Section 2.2
Approaches to resistance Chair: Mònica Clua-Losada |
Section 2.3
The Critical Political Economy of Trade Chair: Ian Bruff |
| Tibor Rutar – Renewing historical materialism with critical realism
Michiel Van Ingen – Critical Realism and the New Materialisms: Outline of a Critique Ziga Horvat – Does sociology need critical realism? Daniel Keil – The Ontological Prison – New Materialism and its Dead Ends Aleksandar Stojanovic – Value, quantity and social reproduction |
Amanda Earley – Of Probability and Possibility: Elucidating the Conditions of Radical Social Change through Contemporary Philosophy and Activism
David Bailey & Saori Shibata – Anti-austerity in low resistance models of capitalism Ognjen Kojanic – Countering Dispossession with Worker-Ownership: The Case of ITAS in Neoliberal Croatia
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Yuliya Yurchenko –From GATS to TiSA and TTIP: neoliberal offensive on public services, finances, and social security. Nora Sophie Schröder – EUrope under (re-)construction: Multiple self-understandings of “Europe” in the socio-political field of the TTIP-conflict Jonathan Arlow – Ontologies of capitalist spheres of production, trade and finance Anže Dolinar – Time of the market or markets for time – Temporal structuring of capitalist market relations
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13:45–14:45
Lunch break
14:45–16:30
Sessions 3
| Section 3.1
Urban spaces and prefigurative practice Chair: Ian Bruff |
Section 3.2
Dependency and development: Latin American concepts for Europe Chair: Angela Wigger |
| João Paulo Tavares – THE FUTURE AS A BATTLEFIELD: The anti-hegemonic struggle of an urban social movement in Rio de Janeiro
Simon Marijsse – Authoritarian neoliberalism and political exclusion in Brazil’s city space Rastko Antić – The Agoraphobia of Hybrid Regimes Mikhail Ilchenko – The Art to Mobilize: Social Effects of the Public Art Initiatives under the Protest Wave Lucas Pohl – Locating the impossible: the |
Johannes Jäger – Capitalist development and the methodology of CPE: The dependency approach and the EU crisis Lukas Schmidt/Stefan Pimmer – Dependency revisited Karin Fischer – The dependency school and the strategy of collective self-reliance: failed idea or still a valuable contribution worth considering? Rudy Weissenbacher – The ‘European dependency school’ revisited. Lessons to be learnt for peripheral Europe today? |
16:30–17:00
Break
17:00–19:00
Plenary
20.00
Dinner (at own costs)
Saturday, 28 May 2016
09:00–10:45
Session 4. Social reproduction: domination and transformative action
Chair: Katharina Bordinsky
Ian Bruff – Conceptualising the household in contemporary capitalism: implications for feminist political economy and for transformative action
Olatz Ribera Almandoz – Contesting the Multilevel State: Social Reproduction and the Construction of Scale
Nina Suesse – Standpoint in German Childcare Reforms: A discursive material ontology of social coordination
Darko Vinketa – Dispossession and Futurelessness: Remarks for the Future Conversation between Queer and Social Reproduction Theory
10:45–11:15
Break
11:15–13:00
Session 5
| Section 5.1
Feeling neoliberalism
Chair: Yulyia Yurchenko |
Section 5.3
A critical political economy of social movements and prefigurative practice Chair: Angela Wigger |
Section 5.2
Capital, class and the state
Chair: Saori Shibata |
| Mary W. Wrenn – The Ontology of Fear and Neoliberalism
Monica Soares – Ruling Human Dignity: On the Psychosocial Basis of the Neoliberal Project’s Ideology Mathieu Rousselin – Capitalism as a distinct regime of desire Matija Potočnik Pribošič – The Disenchantment of Hope Martin Gramc – Vulnerability as action
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Albert Jiménez – The Spanish Debtfarist Model: The Brick Factory Madelaine Moore – Are ontological differences enough? Ontology and praxis in pre-figurative politics. Bernd Bonfert – A materialist approach to social movement theory – What the anti-austerity movements can teach us about class, hegemony and the effects of authoritarian politics Lea Kuhar – Universality as necessary and impossible: The Revolutionary Principle of Antagonistic Struggles Teppo Eskelinen – The ontology of money and political resistance |
Esben Bogh Sorensen – Capitalism and labour
Jonathan Preminger – Invoking the State: the pervasive presence of an idea Stefano Gasparri – Between class and society. The role of ideas in union strategies in the Italian retail sector Jon Las Heras – ‘Contingent Necessity’ or ‘Necessary Contingency’: How Can Jessop’s Dialectical Relativism become Emancipatory?
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13:00 –14:00
Lunch break
14:00 –15:45
Session 6
| Section 6.1
Marxism, anarchism and ontology
Chair: Phoebe Moore |
Section 6.2
Challenges to transformative action
Chair: Mònica Clua-Losada |
Section 6.3
Dependency and development: Implications for economic and political strategies in Europe Chair: Albert Jiménez |
| Saso Furlan – Towards an Ontology of Use-value
Aljoša Kravanja – Alienation and Ontology of Human Activity in Early Marx Mikkel Flohr – “The Point is to Change it” – Against the ontological separation of interpretation and political action Aleksandar Matković – Overcoming the Unthinkable: Value-Critique and “the Ontological Break Adin Crnkić – Forgotten tradition: Reintroduction of classical anarchism and its ontological perspectives |
Yannick Harrison – Tensions in building transnational movement: clashing ontologies of action Manuel Iretzberger – Why people do not organize – post-fordism and de-politicization Shannon Ikebe – A Social Democratic Path to Socialism? Contradictory Ontology of Social Democracy in the 1970s Sweden Owen Worth – Mapping out the construction of Critical (International) Political Economy Salim Chena – Reification and commodification of irregular migration: ontological consequences |
Joachim Becker/Rudy Weissenbacher/Hendrik Theine – Dependent Accumulation and Ecology
Ana Podvršič – Dependency school revisited and the peculiarities of peripheral capitalism in Slovenia Stefanie Huertgen – Structural heterogeneity: formerly a key concept to analyze „underdevelopment“ – today a necessary heuristic category to understand development in Europe
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15:45–17:30
Roundtable: Struggles and alternatives
Chair: David Bailey
Monica Clua-Losada & Angela Wigger – Grassroots mobilising for transnational transformative action
Judith Dellheim & Frieder Otto Wolf – Stocktaking Scenarios
Gorazd Kovačič – The possibility of academic trade unions: The case of the Slovenia
Joscelyn Shawn – Graduate Workers of Columbia
Ida Susser – Remaking the Commons: contentious performances over time
20.00
Drinks and Dinner
