Intimate Economies Book Chapter - last chance for contributions
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 int.eco.book@gmail.com.
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,
Adi Moreno (Sociology/University of
Manchester): adimoreno@gmail.com
____________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
____________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