{"id":6350,"date":"2024-12-03T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:54:46","slug":"conference-call-for-papers-starting-over-mass-politics-and-the-future-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2024\/12\/conference-call-for-papers-starting-over-mass-politics-and-the-future-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Call for Papers – Starting Over: Mass Politics and the Future of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and the University of Naples Federico II<\/b>\u00a0invite individual paper and panel submissions\u00a0for\u00a0our 48th annual conference and special issue\u00a0Call\u00a0For\u00a0Papers. Topics may include but are not limited to: Inequality and (De)Democratization; Left Economic Policy and Labour Market Restructuring; War, Imperialism and Colonialism; Race, Gender and Other Disparities; Austerity and the State; Climate Change; Digital Labour and Platforms; Unions and Social Movements; Populism and Political Realignment; Global Governance.<\/div>\n
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The deadline <\/b>for conference submissions has been extended to: January 1, 2025<\/b>. Please see the attached CFP or below\u00a0for\u00a0more information. We would appreciate if you could share with any departmental colleagues and networks you believe may be interested.<\/div>\n
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Starting Over:\u00a0 Mass Politics and the Future of the Left Conference and Special Issue\u00a0Call\u00a0For\u00a0Papers<\/b><\/div>\n
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Organizing Committee: <\/b>Carlo Fanelli, York University; Francesca Gabbriellini, University of Bologna; Luca Mandara, University of Naples Federico II; Marco Marrone, University of Salento; Salvatore Prinzi, University of Naples Federico II; Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo<\/div>\n
When: <\/b>May 27-30, 2025<\/div>\n
Where: <\/b>University of Naples Federico II<\/div>\n
From the economic downturn of the early-2000s, to the Great Recession and COVID-19 crisis, the last twenty-five years have been characterized by mounting economic volatility and accompanying political unrest. While precipitating this period, the broadly defined \u201cleft\u201d has increasingly shown itself to be a spent\u00a0force \u2013 either unable to convince the masses that real alternatives to market rule do exist, or abject failures in their ready willingness to reproduce the status quo.<\/div>\n
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The decline of organized labour as a social and political\u00a0force, combined with social movements\u2019 recurring inability to scale-up demands, has exacerbated the decoupling of class from political identity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In its place, the radical right has thrived as evinced by the mainstreaming of neofascist politics, rise of authoritarian populisms and accompanying assault on democratic rights and freedoms. Despite a working class larger and more heterogeneous than ever, a yawning chasm now separates the left from working class politics. In this void have flourished deepening\u00a0forms of anti-politics, from political disengagement to acquiescence of authoritarian rule. How has the working class and left been transformed? What accounts\u00a0for\u00a0the growing divide? What is the next new left project? And how can left movements challenge wider\u00a0forms of depoliticization?<\/div>\n
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To submit your proposal, please click HERE<\/a>\u00a0or visit www.alternateroutes.ca<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research\u00a0and the University of Naples Federico II\u00a0invite individual paper and panel submissions\u00a0for\u00a0our 48th annual conference and special issue\u00a0Call\u00a0For\u00a0Papers. Topics may include but are not limited to: Inequality and (De)Democratization; Left Economic Policy and Labour Market Restructuring; War, Imperialism and Colonialism; Race, Gender and Other Disparities; Austerity and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,4500188],"tags":[4500204,2550,4500205,4500207,4500208,4500206],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-publications","tag-alternate-routes","tag-cfp","tag-critical-social-research","tag-future-of-the-left","tag-mass-politics","tag-university-of-naples-federico-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}