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



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):  s.hofmann@hotmail.co.uk    

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