Samstag, 13. September 2014, 09:00 - 17:00 iCal

CPERN Mid-Term Conference

Crisis, Resistance and Rights: Critical Political Economy Perspectives

Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien
Universitätsstraße 7/2, 1010 Wien

Tagung, Konferenz, Kongress, Symposium

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Weitere Termine

The current crisis reveals one of capitalism’s key contradictions: the relationship between rights, the state and society. Giving primacy to austerity politics, governments appear unable to guarantee basic rights vis-à-vis market forces. These developments constitute fundamental challenges to social reproduction. Governments have for example been pro-active in protecting banks’ rights in foreclosures and housing evictions at the expense of people’s right to housing, or imposed labour reforms marking a retreat of labour rights and rights to decent work. Similar trends can be observed with respect to welfare rights, the right to education, the right to water or democratic rights that go beyond ballot boxes, such as the right to protest and claim public spaces. Of particular importance here is also the political ecology dimension, with a focus on the financialisation of nature, enclosure of commons, and the green economy as a new hegemonic project. Resistance movements and civil society organisations/groups increasingly challenge private property rights and demand collective socio-economic and human rights. Academic discussions of rights have long been a prerequisite of liberal political philosophy and received little attention from critical scholars. What can scholars in law, political economy, political science and sociology contribute to a critical understanding of rights? How does an emancipatory conception of rights look like? What are common rights, and/or rights to commons? How could such conceptions add to a critical understanding of crisis and resistance?

This two-day conference, hosted by the University of Vienna, Department of Political Science, seeks to explore interlinkages between crisis, resistance and rights in an open, genial and reflexive manner. We hope to attract a diverse range of participants, from a variety of countries and backgrounds.

There is no fee for attending and participating in the workshop. The workshop language will be English.

To view the entire programme of the conference, go to www.univie.ac.at/intpol

Zur Webseite der Veranstaltung

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Veranstalter

Critical Political Economy Research Netwerk, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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Kontakt

Etienne Martin Schneider
Universität Wien, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
01427749451
etienne.schneider@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Mittwoch, 20. August 2014, 12:24
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 10. September 2014, 11:39