[Air-L] SASE Call for Papers: Work and the feeling of the future

Tue Jan 22 08:55:49 PST 2019

Dear AoIR folks,

Please see our CFP deadline January 28th. Come to NYC this summer!

We are interested in your work. Details below:

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics - SASE

The New School - New York City, USA, 27-29 June 2019
Abstract submission deadline: 14 January 2019  EXTENDED TO 28 JANUARY 2019

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WORK AND THE FEELING OF THE FUTURE

What cannot be fathomed may be felt. This panel will focus on how the nature of what the future holds may be enfolded in the present in registers that cannot necessarily or completely be articulated: the registers of bodies, emotions, affect, sensations, spaces, capacities, and the virtual. We are interested in bringing together scholars whose work examines the way in which the feeling of the future exists in the work and labor of the present. This includes especially how the feeling of the future defines and reconfigures inequalities, along the lines of class, gender, sexuality, race or ethnicity, or along other lines, and thereby impacts what is experienced as possible/not possible and for whom, and what solidarities are formed/not formed.

All methodological and conceptual approaches are welcome. We hope to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines who share a common interest in the areas of what may be felt, to consider how our training and trajectories as researchers may lead to differing conceptualizations of these topics, but also to see what kinds of overlaps and compatibilities are generated by a more concrete concern with issues of work and labor.

Eventual organization of sessions will reflect the papers submitted, but potential themes for panels and papers include:

  *   Ways in which the future may be felt but not fathomed in work and labor
  *   The effects of digital technologies and platforms on learning to labor, especially embodied and emotional aspects of labor
  *   The effects of digital technologies and platforms on what embodied labor is
  *   New forms of division and segmentation in labor markets on the basis of what is and can be felt, or affected, or embodied
  *   Imaginaries or creative/artistic visions of alternatives to work or the rejection of work
  *   The effects of politics and programs of austerity on the feelings of work (in any area, but notably including work in universities)
  *   The meaning and impact of movements such as #MeToo in relation to workplace cultures and the organization of work

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION

- Abstracts for submissions to mini-conferences should be no longer than 1000 words. All submissions need to include 3 key words.

- Submission is through the SASE website: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#submissions

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Ariel Ducey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada. Her research centers on issues of responsibility, ethicality, knowledge, and emotions in the institutions and practices of health care and medicine. Her book, Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Cornell 2009), examined the creation and justification of a billion-dollar industry for training, upgrading, and multiskilling unionized, frontline health care workers in New York City, in the midst of widespread restructuring of the health care sector. She also published two book chapters on affective and caring labour in this training industry. More recently, she worked for several years with an interdisciplinary research group based at the University of Toronto examining the processes around medical device adoption, regulation, and surveillance in Canada. Her current research, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, focuses on pelvic floor surgery and the adoption of new devices and techniques into surgery, including transvaginal mesh.

Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist, ethnographer, and lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Society<http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/prospective/taught_masters/a_g/msc_in_digital_society>. Her current research explores the possibilities for solidarity in a digital economy, conducting interviews among Deliveroo riders in Scotland. Before coming to Edinburgh, Karen was a lecturer in Division of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at The City College of New York, where she developed and ran the City Lab, a digital collaboration that brought faculty together to develop and highlight digital resources and support for writing, research, communication. She is co-editor of Digital Sociologies (Policy Press, 2016) and her work has appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Triple C: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique, The Sociological Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Elizabeth Wissinger is a Professor of Fashion Studies and Sociology. She is a faculty member of the Masters of Arts and Liberal Studies program at the Graduate School and University Center and the Department of Social Sciences at BMCC/CUNY. She has published and spoken about fashion, technology, and embodiment, in the U.S. and internationally. Her book, This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour (NYU 2015), tracks how emerging technologies shape the demand for varying bodily ideals, which fashion models promote by doing “glamour labor,” the work to appear as attractive, exciting, and cool in person as one’s curated and filtered online self. Her current research focuses on how the coming fusion of wearable technologies with biotech are impacting gender, data privacy, and embodiment.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

- Conference website: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#general <https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#general>

- Mini-Conference Themes: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#mini <https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#mini>

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IMPORTANT DATES

- 28 January 2019: Abstract submission deadline
- Mid-February 2019: Notification of acceptance
- 27-29 June 2019: SASE Annual Meeting in New York

Elizabeth Wissinger PhD
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Data & Society Affiliate (www.datasociety.net<http://www.datasociety.net/>)
@datasociety

Professor of Fashion Studies
Graduate School and University Center of the
City University of New York
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, Fashion Track:
http://fashioncuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu<http://fashioncuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/>
@CUNYfashion

Professor of Sociology
BMCC Department of Social Science
Room N651S
199 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
212 220-8000 x7459<tel:212%20220-8000%20x7459>
@betsywiss

the rest of it:
www.elizabethwissinger.com<http://www.elizabethwissinger.weebly.com/>