[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory, Cardiff, 27- 29 June 2008

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

   Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology,
   Cultural Studies and Social Theory

Starts: 27 June 2008
Ends:  29 June 2008

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/newsandevents/events/subjectivity/subjectivityconf.html 



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     Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory


     International Conference in Critical Psychology,
     Cultural Studies and Social Theory

     Cardiff School of Social Sciences


     27th - 29th June 2008


     www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/subjectivity

This conference explores shifting conceptualisations of subjectivity in 
contemporary culture, politics, social science and theory. Although 
subjectivity is a key analytic term in fields as diverse as critical 
psychology, postcolonial studies, film theory, gender studies, social 
theory, geography, anthropology and cultural studies, it is rarely 
discussed in its own right. The conference attempts to explore 
subjectivity as a locus of social change, to rethink possibilities for 
everyday social interventions, to explore how subjectivities are 
produced and how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds. We 
are interested in proposals for papers and symposia whose scope falls 
within or between one of the following areas:


     EMBODIMENT, AFFECT, MATERIALITY

The emergence of 'body-theory' across the humanities has transformed the 
terrain in which questions about power, ideology, discourse and 
subjectivity can be asked. There is a move to dismantle the idea of 
separation between the body and the world and to see bodies as always 
gesturing towards practices, energies, things and intensities beyond 
themselves. This focus on process, connection, relationality and bodily 
affectivity traverses a diverse range of disciplines and is forcing a 
reconsideration of our understanding of subjectivity. In this stream we 
welcome papers that might deal with areas such as 'carnal knowing', the 
sentient body, embodiment, critical perspectives on cyberculture and the 
machine-human symbiosis, new materialism, affective labour and care, 
disability and the critiques of the 'able body', somatic feeling and the 
non-cognitive, for example.


     NEW POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITIES/NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

A developing body of scholarship examines the production of new 
subjectivities and social movements in a moment marked by neoliberalism, 
de/re-territorialising capitalism and emerging new sensibilities in 
relation to gender, sexuality, transnational mobility and racial and 
religious differences. What role are the media and new information and 
communication technologies playing in the production of new 
femininities, masculinities and sexualities - and resistance to them? 
What kinds of social movements are emerging to address global injustice 
related to the transformation of labour and the new conditions for the 
production of science and technology, biotech and medical rationalities? 
How adequately have our theoretical vocabularies engaged with new 
social, political and cultural complexities related to processes of 
racialization and migration? What new possibilities are there for 
interdisciplinary work that creates new spaces and dialogues, activism 
and interventions?


     REDISTRIBUTING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL

For many years, critical psychologists and social theorists have 
attempted to move away from an individualist concept of the 
psychological. Some psychologists attempted to rework what was 
understood as on the inside to the outside through the concepts of 
discourse, activity and narrative; sociologists have attempted to 
understand what constitutes the psychological through exploring its 
position within the social and cultural lifeworld; social theorists have 
attempted to expand the concept beyond reductionist notions of the 
subject. While these attempts are all important, how successful are 
they? What is the future of critical studies of psychology and of the 
psychological? How can we develop work which goes beyond the 
psychological while still being able to accommodate and understand 
singularity and experience?



*Please send a 200 word proposal to  subjectivity at cardiff.ac.uk  by 31 
January 2008*

Notification: 1 April 2008 (please contact us if you are in need of an 
earlier notification)



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