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<p><font size="-1">Lieber AK,</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">hier nochmal ein Reminder an unsere Session bei
der RC21, sie passt auch ganz gut zum aktuellen Rundmail-Call zu
feministischer politischer Ökonomie :)</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">Liebe Grüße, Eva</font><br>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.2837; margin-top:
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style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-weight: 700;">Call for Papers for ISA RC21 conference,
Antwerp, 6-8 July 2020</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.2837; margin-top:
0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-weight: 700;">Social reproduction in hypercommodified
homes (session #89)</span></font></p>
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<p style="padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt; line-height: 1.2837; margin-top:
0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt;
border-bottom-style: solid;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-weight: 700;">Session organizers:</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
Eva Kuschinski, HafenCity University: </span><a
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font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:
none;">eva.kuschinski@hcu-hamburg.de</span></a><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">;
Leon Rosa Reichle, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity,
De Montfort University: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration:
underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">leon.reichle@dmu.ac.uk</span></a></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Within critical social
science, the housing question has been historically
marginalized over (other) workplace struggles (Gray, 2018).
The home as a workplace of racialized and gendered
reproductive labour has been treated as secondary to matters
of (industrial) production. Even urban studies most often
centre around “public” space, workplace struggles or, when
considered specifically with housing, its role as an asset.
This is paralleled by the marginalization of women’s
presences, participation and leadership of social struggles
around housing (Hughes, Wright, 2018). Symbolic for a
dominance of androcentric perspectives in society, academia
and unfortunately many political struggles, the question of
the reproductive sphere, its relevance for capitalism and
social relations in total, and hence its strategic position
for transformative politics has been either ignored or
treated as a separate and secondary issue. Ignorant of
ground-breaking analytical and political feminist work
(Dalla Costa, 2019; Federici, 2012, 2004) demonstrating the
centrality of relations of social reproduction in
capitalism, even critical housing scholars have neglected
in-depth analyses of questions around racialized and
gendered relations of social reproduction, at most
mentioning them in passing (Aalbers, Christophers, 2014). </span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">While feminist
accounts of social reproduction (Bhattacharya, Vogel, 2017)
are reviving in the face of deepening multiple crises and
social inequalities, systematic feminist analyses of the
housing question remain sporadic (Roberts, 2013; Watson,
1986).</span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We believe that a lot
is to be learnt from reconceptualizing critical housing
scholarship through the prism of social reproduction. In
doing so, we suggest considering relational approaches,
linking the micro-social sphere of the household to societal
relations of reproduction. Whereas critical social theories
on the neoliberalization of work have long emphasized its
relational effects as competitive, divisive and isolating
(Sennett, 1998), we are curious about relational analyses on
the neoliberalization of housing.</span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hence we propose to
reconsider relations of reproduction and relations around
the sphere of social reproduction as an entrypoint to
critical urban analysis. In homes, the centres of daily
lives, relations of social reproduction meet institutions of
private property, the dominant relation-way of capitalism
(Adamczak, 2017). In contexts of state withdrawal and
increasing housing financialization, this encounter is often
violent. As reproductive spaces are politically turned into
scarce market goods on an internationally competitive
housing market, we are interested in the consequences for
social and reproductive relations on different scales. </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">Within these transformations, what is
the role of historically gendered relations within the
reproductive sphere of the home? </span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How to theorize (increasingly
financialized) housing as the site of commodified yet
precarious and multiply marginalized care labour? </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How can we understand the role of
current and historical struggles for the right to housing as
reproductive struggles; struggles for spaces securing the
basic reproduction of human life? </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How can we conceive of these as
intersectional class struggles? </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How to theorize racialized exclusion
from the housing market within these struggles? </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How does the reproduction of social
relations change within these developments? </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> </font>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How are reproductive relations
stabilized or changed, progressively or regressively within
such struggles? </span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;
margin-left: 36pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-style: italic;">How can we navigate the different
scales of relations of reproduction within the home, the
neighbourhood, the city, globally?</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We invite theoretical
or empirical paper presentations that centre around
reproductive relations in a context marked by the increasing
hypercommodification of housing. These can be concerned with
social struggles, with the impacts of housing
neoliberalization on (intersectional) relations of
reproduction, with (the changing reproduction of) urban
communities, with theoretical (and empirical) approaches to
the changing role of the state in social reproduction and
anything else you wish to surprise us with!</span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
10pt;" dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We hope to hear from
four presenters and leave ample time for discussion at the
end, to discuss controversies, draw links, consider
abstractions or define specificities. Therefore we ask you
to keep your presentations to 15 minutes strict.</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.7999; margin-top:
0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"> <font size="-2"><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please
contact us with any questions or uncertainties, we are
excitedly looking forward to your abstracts!</span></font></p>
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dir="ltr"><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></p>
<font size="-2"> <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;
font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Submission details: </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please
submit your abstract (max 250 words) until </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;
font-weight: 700;">15 March</span><span style="font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> via the following link:</span><a
href="https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/rc21-sensing-the-city/call-for-papers/submit-your-abstract/"
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style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family:
Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration:
underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/rc21-sensing-the-city/call-for-papers/submit-your-abstract/</span></a></font>
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Eva Kuschinski M. A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research and Teaching Associate
Geschichte und Theorie der Stadt| History and Theory of the City
Bürozeiten: Di - Do | Office Hours: Tue - Thu
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Überseeallee 16, Raum 4 128
20457 Hamburg
+49(0) 40/42827-5208</pre>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Eva Kuschinski M. A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research and Teaching Associate
Geschichte und Theorie der Stadt| History and Theory of the City
Bürozeiten: Di - Do | Office Hours: Tue - Thu
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Überseeallee 16, Raum 4 128
20457 Hamburg
+49(0) 40/42827-5208</pre>
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