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From: Susanne Hofmann <[email protected]> Date: 6 Sep 2014 21:12:55 GMT+2 To: [email protected] Subject: Call for Chapter Contributions: Intimate Economies Reply-To: Susanne Hofmann <[email protected]>
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS
Intimate Economies: Bodies, Emotions and Sexualities on the Global Market
Edited by Susanne Hofmann and Adi Moreno
Intimate economies, based on the commodification of bodies, emotions and sexualities, have become high value-producing forms of exchange in contemporary global capitalism. New technologies in the areas of communication, transport and medicine have allowed new types of commodification producing new subjects and social relations between different actors in the global economy. In various parts of the world commodified intimate exchanges have experienced not only a diversification, but also a ‘new respectability’ as a result of which a broader range of subjects from a variety of social backgrounds now participate in commercial transactions, trading body parts or bodily substances, intimacy and sexuality.
Our book is interested in exploring the interrelatedness of individual practices of self-commodification and contemporary technologies of the self, which are based on ‘free agents’ who ‘actively choose’ to sell body parts, access to their bodies and different kinds of emotional and intimate labour in the capitalist market, often subjugating themselves to new forms of control and exploitation. This book aims to analyse experiences of self-commodification in the context of the global political economy and wider processes of dispossession and disenfranchisement.
We are seeking contributions which expand existing debates on neoliberal governmentality and intimate commercial exchanges, shedding light on how discourses of self-authorship and freedom of choice enable the masking of harsh realities of impoverishment, gross inequalities and economies of extraction, in which bodies and bodily capabilities from the Global South serve the needs and desires of the more affluent populations in the Global North.
Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following themes:
· Intimate exchanges and market ideology · Commodified forms of kinship and relationality · Commodified sexualities / sex work · Assisted reproductive medicine · Commodified bodies and the organ trade · Affective / emotional labour and neoliberalism · Commodification of bodies / affect / sexualities and contemporary technologies of the self · Bodies, the market and the state · Migration, travel and bodies/ intimacy exchanges
Submissions are invited from across the social sciences, gender & sexuality studies, legal studies and economics. We are particularly interested in receiving contributions from the Global South.
Interested contributors are invited to send a 1000 word long abstract by 1st November 2014 to [email protected].
Important deadlines
· Abstract submission by 1st November 2014 · Full chapter submission by 15th March 2015 · Resubmissions (after peer review) by 31st July 2015
Your chapter (of maximum 8000 words, including references and notes) will be peer reviewed by experts in your field and you might be asked to revise and resubmit your chapter.
About the Editors
Susanne Hofmann holds a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester. She is a visiting researcher at the Gender Studies Centre (PAGU) of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her main research interests are globalisation and transnational migration, the commodification of intimacy, affective labour, entrepreneurial subjectivities, neoliberalisation, and governmentality. She has published various articles on sex work in Mexico.
Adi Moreno is a PhD Candidate from the Sociology Department, the University of Manchester. Her main research interests are assisted reproduction technologies and the global reproduction markets, queer kinship, the commodification of relationalities and late-modern subjectivities.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us should you have questions with regard to the call or your submission.
Kind Regards,
Susanne Hofmann (Gender Studies Nucleus/UNICAMP): [email protected]
Adi Moreno (Sociology/University of Manchester): [email protected]
____________ Dr Susanne Hofmann
PhD Latin American Cultural Studies
Gender Studies Centre/PAGU
State University of Campinas/UNICAMP
Visiting Researcher
See my blog: http://susannehofmann.wordpress.com/about-3/ Or follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Susanne_Hofmann
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