{"id":10126,"date":"2014-11-30T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2014-11-30T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T20:58:50","slug":"cfp-marx-engels-and-the-critique-of-academic-labor-highered-edstudies-criticaled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/11\/cfp-marx-engels-and-the-critique-of-academic-labor-highered-edstudies-criticaled\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor #highered #edstudies #criticaled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Papers<\/a>
\n Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Special Issue of Workplace<\/em><\/a>
\nGuest Editors: Karen Gregory & Joss Winn<\/p>\n

Articles in Workplace<\/em> have repeatedly called for increased collective organisation in opposition to a disturbing trajectory: individual autonomy is decreasing, contractual conditions are worsening, individual mental health issues are rising, and academic work is being intensified. Despite our theoretical advances and concerted practical efforts to resist these conditions, the gains of the 20th century labor movement are diminishing and the history of the university appears to be on a determinate course. To date, this course is often spoken of in the language of \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

While crisis may indeed point us toward the contemporary social experience of work and study within the university, we suggest that there is one response to the transformation of the university that has yet to be adequately explored: A thoroughgoing and reflexive critique of academic labor and its ensuing forms of value. By this, we mean a negative critique<\/em> of academic labor and its role in the political economy of capitalism; one which focuses on understanding the basic character of \u2018labor\u2019 in capitalism as a historically specific social form. Beyond the framework of crisis, what productive, definite social relations are actively resituating the university and its labor within the demands, proliferations, and contradictions of capital?<\/p>\n

We aim to produce a negative critique of academic labor that not only makes transparent these social relations, but repositions academic labor within a new conversation of possibility.<\/p>\n

We are calling for papers that acknowledge the foundational work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for labor theory and engage closely and critically with the critique of political economy. Marx regarded his discovery of the dual character of labor in capitalism (i.e. concrete and abstract) as one of his most important achievements and \u201cthe pivot on which a clear comprehension of political economy turns.\u201d With this in mind, we seek contributions that employ Marx\u2019s and Engels\u2019 critical categories of labor, value, the commodity, capital, etc. in reflexive ways which illuminate the role and character of academic labor today and how its existing form might be, according to Marx, abolished, transcended and overcome (aufheben<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Contributions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. A variety of forms and approaches, demonstrating a close engagement with Marx\u2019s theory and method: Theoretical critiques, case studies, historical analyses, (auto-)ethnographies, essays, and narratives are all welcome. Contributors from all academic disciplines are encouraged.<\/li>\n
  2. Any reasonable length will be considered. Where appropriate they should adopt a consistent style (e.g. Chicago, Harvard, MLA, APA).<\/li>\n
  3. Will be Refereed.<\/li>\n
  4. Contributions and questions should be sent to: <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Joss Winn (jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk<\/a>) and Karen Gregory (kgregory@ccny.cuny.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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