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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age, ed. by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (Cornell University Press, 2017)

6/29/2017

 
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age, ed. by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (Cornell University Press, 2017)
 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100001820
At a moment when national politics across the globe indicate the failure of neoliberal policies and governance, cities have emerged as limited but vital laboratories for progressive change, and as the emblematic site of contentious politics and protest for the twenty-first century. From the streets of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park, the contributors to this volume argue that the city is becoming like the factory of old: a site of production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity, resistance, and social reimagining. The City is the Factory provides both theoretical analysis, and empirical overview, of the varied efforts of urban workers and citizens to attain their “right to the city” and from there, a more just world.
We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the unemployed find common cause with community-based struggles.  Some efforts are limited to individual cities, while others engage coalitional urban politics that cross states and national boundaries. The case studies and essays in The City Is the Factory profile the work lives and organizing efforts of street vendors, retail workers, port truckers, and day laborers, as well as “right to the city” campaigns focused on environmental justice, immigrant rights, and fair employment, among others.  Together, they provide descriptions and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of these timely urban struggles.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  Emerald Studies in Media and Communications

6/29/2017

 
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is delighted to announce two new calls with a due date of January 15, 2018:
Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional.  
Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed.  We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns. The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts. Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc.  
Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional
We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality. Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include: Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc.


Submission Guidelines: Deadline January 15, 2018 by email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com.
Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used. All submissions must include 1) title of manuscript, 2) abstract up to 250 words, and 3) up to 6 keywords, 4)  main text with headings, 5) references, and 6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables. While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines. Submissions may be considered for either volume.
For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:
  1. Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information.
  2. Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF.
  3. ​Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email.
  4. Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline. 
Anonymized Review Copy in PDF
Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: "Submission Title Anonymized")
Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF
Editorial Copy in Word
Title of your submission + Editorial (example: "Submission Title Editorial")
In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words.
For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com.
Please address any questions to: editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com

The RC44 Call for Abstracts for the XIX ISA World Congress in Toronto, 15-21.07.2018

6/9/2017

 
http://www.rc44labour.org/the-rc44-call-for-abstracts-for-the-xix-isa-world-congress-in-toronto-15-21-07-2018/


We invite paper proposals to be submitted for the RC44 sessions during the XIX ISA World Congress in Toronto, 15-21.07.2018. The full list of sessions is available on the Congress website:
The topics of the RC44 sessions include:
  • International Labour Solidarity in the Americas: Exploring New Research and Developments
  • Labour Movements Under Rekindled Nationalism
  • Academic Labour in Times of Authoritarianism, Violence and Injustice 
  • Assessing the Supranational Strategies of International Labour Movement Organizations
  • Authors Meet Critics
  • China’s Labor in Global Services and Transnational Production 
  • Connections Between Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and Labour Movements
  • Free Trade, Labour Movements and the Search for Alternatives
  • Informal and Precarious Worker Organizing Under Global Capitalism 
  • Labour and Populism: Trajectories, Dilemmas, and Opportunities
  • Labour and the Forces of Nature: Prospects, Paradoxes and Perspectives
  • Learning from Migrant Labour Struggles: Innovative Initiatives of Precarious Workers
  • Organizing in a Gig Economy: Atomized Work and the Labor Movement 
  • Precarious Labour, Life and Urban StruggleRC44 Roundtable
  • The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario (Joint Session with RC44 Labour Movements)
  • Trade Unions in Transformation: Acquiring and Applying Power Resources
  • Xenophobia, Anti-Migrant Politics, and Workers’ Movements


Participants must submit abstracts on-line from April 25, 11:00 GMT through September 30, 2017, 24:00 GMT. The detailed instructions are available on the ISA website.
​
The RC44 Program Coordinator is Bridget KENNY, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa:  Bridget.Kenny@wits.ac.za

Call for Streams: The 36th International Labour Process Conference 2018  ‘CLASS AND THE LABOUR PROCESS’Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018

6/9/2017

 
Call for Streams
http://www.ilpc.org.uk/

The International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) is broadly focused on work and employment relations in the context of the broader political economy, with an emphasis on workers perspectives and theory-led empirical research. Most proposals for papers are submitted to the general conference and are only themed by the organisers for the final programme at a later stage.
During the past few years, the conference has begun to incorporate streams into the program. While there is no intention to become a fully streamed event, we have found that additional streams have been an important and intellectually stimulating aspect of our conference.

We are formally setting forth a call for streams to be included in the 2018 conference to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-23 March 2018. Since streams only represent a portion of our conference, we may not be able to accept all stream proposals

Acceptance of streams is based on a review process in which streams are evaluated based on two main criteria (in addition to the substantive focus of the proposed stream):

 The focus of the stream is on issues or topics not normally covered in the Conference (see the Call for Papers for such a list); or treats traditional topics in a novel way.
 The stream will broaden the audience for the conference and attract scholars who may be new to the event.

Considering this year conference special theme on Class and the Labour Process we particularly welcome stream submissions that can address this and overlapping themes in an interdisciplinary way and with contributions from both the Global North and the Global South.  Some stream topics incorporated into recent ILPC conferences are as follows.

 Precarious work and workers organisation
 Work, labour and employment in China
 The role of the state
 Integrating labour with global value chains
 Migrant labour and employment relations
 Climate change, Green jobs and Labour Movement responses
Stream proposals should include:
 Detailed description of the proposed stream (including title and key conveners)
 A discussion of how the stream will address the criteria for inclusion listed above

If you are interested in organizing a stream for the 2018 conference please send a proposal not more than 750 words to ilpc.admin@ilpc.org.uk by July 1st 2017. Decisions on acceptance will be made by July 31st 2017(this email address can also be used for informal queries and advice). The organisers will consult with the ILPC Steering Group and a decision will be made in time for the second, amended Call for Papers.

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