We are pleased to announce the 36th annual SASE conference, "For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics and Technologies of Neoliberalism", to be held in person in at the University of Limerick from June 27-29 2024.
We invite you to submit a proposal to our research network “Alternatives to Capitalism”.
The call for papers and panels is now open and the hard deadline for submitting to the SASE Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network I is January 19th 2024.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Annual Meeting, June 27-29 2024
Conference Theme Overview
“Alternatives to Capitalism” Research Network I
Abstract deadline: January 19th 2024
Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network I
The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of capitalism and its alternatives, and thereby contribute to debates on the future of capitalism, the commons, prefigurative politics, social movements and collective action, real utopias, radical politics, and heterodox economic thinking. The main area of enquiry is to explore how long-standing and emerging social actors are challenging and supplanting conventional capitalistic modes of production, consumption, and reproduction by engaging in collective action of various sorts. We are especially interested in research that helps us to understand: Who are the emancipatory subjects that are embodying alternatives to capitalism? What are the emancipatory strategies enacted by these subjects and to what extent are they viable, achievable, and scalable? And in what ways does the State and the market co-opt, repress, or facilitate alternatives in the socio-economic, political, and geographic contexts in which they are embedded? Our past annual gatherings in Berkeley (2016), Lyon (2017), Kyoto (2018), New York (2019), online (2020, 2021), and in Amsterdam (2023) have given rise to a new book series titled ‘Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century’ and published by Bristol University Press.
Join us in Ireland at the University of Limerick in 2024! Submissions are made through Oxford Abstracts on the SASE website
We welcome individual submissions (max. 1000 words), pre-formed panels (up to five presenters + 1 moderator/discussant), roundtable discussions (typically about 4-5 roundtable participants), and book salons (one newly published book and 2-4 discussants).
To date, our network has featured a range of fantastic events such as book salons with Professor Nancy Fraser and Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara, roundtable discussions with the Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project, and special events such as visits to worker and cohousing cooperatives in Berkeley, and a documentary film screening of ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce – Scop Ti’ with Professor Dario Azzelini and artist Oliver Ressler.
You can submit your proposals using the online system by going to https://sase.org/event/2024-limerick/#submissions, creating an account in Oxford Abstracts and following the instructions. Early Bird registration fees are normally available until April 15, 2024.
Early career scholars are eligible to apply for the Early Career Workshop. If selected, the conference fee cost and membership fee will be waived. For more info click here: https://sase.org/events/conference-submission-and-award-guidelines/
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
See you in Limerick!
All the best,
The SASE Network I Co-founders and Co-chairs:
Torsten Geelan (University of Copenhagen, tg@soc.ku.dk)
Lara Monticelli (Copenhagen Business School, lm.bhl@cbs.dk)