SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW (SR) SEMINAR / SYMPOSIUM

SERIES
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Applications should be returned to Caroline Baggaley at c.m.baggaley@keele.ac.uk by 8 th July 2015

PRINCIPAL ORGANISERS DETAILS: (Contact point and responsible for liaison with SR)
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Mr.

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F. A.

Surname:

Lagos

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sop02fl@gold.ac.uk, felipe.lagos.r@gmail.com

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07580428091

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PhD (c) in Sociology, Goldsmiths

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Sociology

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Goldsmiths College

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CO-APPLICANTs DETAILS
Name: Monica Greco
Post Held: Reader
Institution: Goldsmiths
Department: Sociology
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TITLE OF PROPOSED SEMINAR SERIES/SYMPOSIUM
Connected Histories and Sociologies of Neoliberalisation among UK and Latin America
Start date

April 2016

End date

June 2016

Number of events (1-3 per series)

Proposed location(s) of activity

RHB, Goldsmiths College

Total funds requested from TSR

(Maximum for research seminar
series 6,000 or for a single symposia
event lasting one day 2,000)

5,833

TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE: HOME (Please break down by seminar and

indicate approximate dates that expenses will be incurred)
Speakers

Breakdown of Costs

Totals

Speakers from
Latin America
(3)

Accommodation:
Symposium April, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120
Symposium May, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120
Symposium June , 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120

1080

TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE: OVERSEAS (Please break down by seminar and indicate
approximate dates that expenses will be incurred)
AMOUNT

DETAILS
Speakers
Speakers
from Latin
America (3)

Travel Expenses
-Symposium April, 2016: Economy return ticket from Buenos
Aires @ 1100
- Symposium May, 2016: Economy return ticket from Rio de
Janeiro or La Paz (Average rate) @ 1350
- Symposium June , 2016: Economy return ticket from
Santiago de Chile @ 1400
Accommodation:
Symposium April, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120
Symposium May, 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120
Symposium June , 2016: 3 nights at max. day rate of 120

3850

360

SECRETARIAL and ADMINISTRATION (Please indicate number of hours x per hour.

Indirect costs are ineligible)
DETAILS

AMOUNT
Year 1
Year 2
360

12 hours x 3 at 10 per hour

4570

STATIONERY, POSTAGE, PHOTOCOPYING, TELEPHONE (Please cost each item

separately)
AMOUNT
Year 1

DETAILS
Design and printing of A3 posters: 30 @ 0.48

14.40

HIRE OF ROOMS, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES (Please indicate basis of cost and state
venue of seminars. Please note that claims cannot be made against the cost of hiring
facilities belonging to the organising HEI)
DETAILS
Catering
Tea, Coffee and Pastries AM: 40 @ 2.20 x3
Tea, Coffee and Pastries PM: 40 @ 1.60 x3
Lunch for speakers: 9 x Premium sandwiches, crisps & fruit @ 6.25
each
Fruit juice for lunch: Selection of chilled fruit juices @ 3.00 x 3
Wine reception: 12 bottles of wine @ 9.00 per bottle x3
Water: 6 bottles @ 1.25 per bottle x3
Nibbles for wine reception: 8 x Olives, nuts and crisps @ 3.50 x 3
Dinner for speakers: 9 @ 30 per person

TOTAL COST REQUESTED FROM SR (Please ensure that this

is the total cost of the amounts requested in each of the above
sections. Do not include co-funding)

AMOUNT
Year 1
Year 2
264
192
56.25
1248
36
324
22.5
84
270

5833

OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPORT: Please give details of other support or co-funding. Do

not include these costs in the section above.
Sociology Department is contributing towards_
Room hire: 350 + 20% VAT for the day = 420, with 50% discount = 210
- Telephone, internet @ 30 per seminar
- Printing @ 30 per seminar
- Stationery 15 per seminar

A summary of accounts will also be required

PUBLICITY
The publicity of the event will run through traditional lines (i.e. email information to interested
institutions and academic centres within the UK, information in Goldsmiths and other available websites,
posters, emails and letters of invitation to Latin American researchers, and other means) and will have
another source of information and interaction in the forthcoming web-map of the Goldsmiths Latin
American Hub. This website is currently being designed in order to host complete information and access
to the Latin American archives available in the UK, as well as to inform about events and seminars related
to Latin America and relevant for this country. It also aims to be an interactive place for exchange and
commitment of scholars and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic.
SEMINAR PROPOSAL: Connected Histories and Sociologies of Neoliberalisation among UK
and Latin America
Under this title we propose a series of 3 events dealing with the issue of
neoliberalism and neoliberalization throughout diverse -both disciplinarily and
geographically- practices and perspectives. The series is an invitation to discuss on
the different routes whereby neoliberalism, understood as both a becomingdominant economic ideology and a sociohistorical process (Harvey 2007), has been
carried out. As Naomi Klein (2007) has recently famously recalled, Latin America
became the first loci of neoliberal experiments, fostered from the outset by US

foreign policies since the 1950s and then reinforced by military dictatorships during
the 1970s and 1980s. Therefore, in a moment in which the wake of
neoliberalization seems going deeper in the majority of European countries, this
dialogue with Latin American accounts and perspectives on the matter seems
pertinent. The objective is to connect historical accounts and conceptual or
methodological perspectives which, while diverse in terms of its disciplinary
grounds, are nevertheless oriented to provide reflections of sociological interest.
Neoliberalism may be understood as a political form of social governance
(Mirowski & Phlewe 2009; Jackson 2010), and even a bio-political one (e.g. Foucault
2008 Palgrave,, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collge de France, 1978-1979; see also Lemke 2001); as a new or more advanced phase of capitals
worldwide rule bearing its own crises within (Piketty 2014); or as the completion of
a long-lasting colonial history -that of modernity, however marked off today by its
post condition (Mignolo 2000). Neoliberalism will thus work, in this series, as a
provocative notion (notwithstanding, or perhaps precisely because of, its apparent
ubiquitous currency) that allows to disclose recent histories of reorganisation of
resources, institutions and values, renewed logics of accumulation and
dispossession, new making-up of social and cultural antagonisms, and traumatic
events and forms of processing them both socially and intellectually.
What is proposed here by connecting sociologies is to put into dialogue
diverse ways of making sociology. There is, on the one hand, the task of
connecting sociologies, of bringing about a space where different academic
traditions -cultures and practices- can exchange and confront knowledges on
neoliberal processes. From the connection of Latin American and UK researchers
one can expect some relevant misencounters producing new encounters at the
methodological, conceptual, and epistemological levels (see e.g. Viveiros de Castro
2009, for an anthropological case; for sociology, see Kiem et al. 2014). These
misencounters are the expected food for thought of this project. On the other
hand, we propose to connect sociologies, that is to say, to problematize the
traditional approaches of what making sociology means -which is to ask, in turn,
about sociologys capability to take advantage on the global inter- or transdisciplinary networks she is part of.
The seminar series will explore crossed histories/sociologies of
neoliberalization from three different subjects, which are the three events
proposed.
1) Changes in the state-market relationships and transformations of the
idea of the public
Neoliberalism is usually understood as a political rationality in which the principles
of the market serves as regulative principles in other areas of social conducts and
power strategies (Brown, 2005 and Gane, 2012). The privatisation of public goods,
deregulation and cuts to social spendings, and maximisation of production and
consumption, are key features of neoliberal policies. Neoliberalism, furthermore, has
historically implied a change in the governmental connections between markets and
the state, so that it is about market freedoms but also about forms of

governmentality that operate through such freedoms and, moreover, through forms
of surveillance and regulation that are designed to inject market principles of
competition into all spheres of social and cultural life. (Gane, 2012: 625). Indeed,
freedom is understood more as an absence of state coercion rather than freedom to
act (or to speech, XXX) in society; in political and economic terms, freedom of
choice replaces the idea of social rights guaranteed by the State (cf. Gray, 1981 and
Ball, 2012). In this sense, this seminar seeks to explore the ways in which neoliberal
policies have transformed both Latin American and the UK states, and the reduction
of social rights formerly granted by it, bringing thus into debate what the public
means today.
2) The production of others: alterity in the intersection between class,
gender and race
Latin America has been constructed as part of the rest from whom the West has
built its identity (Moreiras XXXX, Quijano XXXX Mignolo, 2005, )The symposia aims
to reflect the categories produced in the wake of the postcolonial turn in a nondichotomic way. As Quijano (XXXX) suggests, Latin Americas alterity has been
created in economic, political and cultural terms, through the ideas of
underdevelopment, populism and indigenous; all of which generates a particular
articulation of gender, class, race and sexuality. Such (identitarian) categories are
today used by markets as roads of capitalisation, in a dynamic which, at the same
time, displays also new forms of empowerment and social mobilization. Therefore,
through dynamics that pertain to (and hence need to be read as) particular contexts
but are, at the same time, apparent at both sides of the Atlantic, gender, class and
ethnicity are in permanent re-construction and re-signification, many times from
their appropriation by others and their folklorization. By means of these categories,
in sum, we can think on the social, historically particular contents of culture(s), as
well as to approach to new methodological and conceptual challenges to
sociological apparatuses.
3) Traumatic events and the making of memories
Neoliberalism is also synonym of catastrophe or shock (Klein 2007). At one level, it
can be blamed by the ongoing weakening of public investment in infrastructure,
something that becomes dramatically apparent when destructive natural events
occur (the cases of New Orleans in 2005 and Haiti in 2010 are only two recent
ones). Conversely, the obstination for subjecting peoples and countries to neoliberal
rules reveals the same aggressiveness at the geo-political level: military and/or
diplomatic interventions are permanently combined with adjustment measures and
privatizations -in other words, war and dispossession on behalf of capital
accumulation. This symposium aims to gather together works and reflections on
traumatic historical events related to neoliberal policies, being the Latin American
military dictatorships a permanent reference in this sense. The work of memory,
therefore, becomes a crucial reference in this debate, not only because of its social,
political (and ethical and aesthetic; Bell 2014) relevance, but also in terms of the
variety of knowledges techniques it brings about.

The organization of the seminar series will comprise three different activities. The
first is a general call for papers, mainly oriented to postgraduate students based in
UK. The aims to settle a panel of 3 or 4 early researchers, which would be the first
activity of each seminar. The second activity is the talk of two keynote speakers,
one from the UK and the other from Latin America. The third activity is a general
plenary or workshop.
For the second activity, we have already confirmed some participants, and
are in conversations with the rest. For the first seminar (Changes in the statemarket relationships and transformations of the idea of the public), it is expected
the participation of Toni Prug (Queen Marys, London) and Veronica Gago
(Universidad de Buenos Aires). For the second seminar (The production of others:
alterity in the intersection between class, gender and race), we expect to count on
with Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, London) and either Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
(Universidad de San Marcos, La Paz) or Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Universidade
Federal, Rio de Janeiro). For the third seminar (Traumatic events and the making of
memories), we have confirmed the participation of Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, London)
and Alicia Salomone (Universidad de Chile, Santiago).
Outputs
We plan to develop the contributions to the Symposium into a special issue of The
Sociological Review. We also plan to video-record contributions to the event and to
make these recordings available through a dedicated website. The Symposium is
intended as the first step in a programme of work whose intention is eventually to
involve a wider range of stakeholders in further events and publications. There is
the compromise of the Head of Postgraduate School of the Universidad de Chile,
Alicia Salomone, to actively collaborate in this sense.

Possible Contributors
The contributors will be the participants of the seminar series as keynote speakers,
although we might not disregard the possibility of good-quality papers from early
researchers.

Participants (keynote speakers)

Toni Prug (Queen Marys, London) has a PhD in business and

management (Queen Mary) and a PhD in sociology (Goldsmiths). He focsues on
emancipatory and egalitarian human development and non-commodity
production (public health, education, care, infrastructure, household, digital
outputs). He published The Mirrors Gonna Steal Your Soul in 2006.

Veronica Gago is an Argentinian PhD in sociology and professor of the

Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad de San Martin of the same

city. Her work focuses on neo-extractivism and accumulation in neoliberal times

(in a collaboration with Sandro Mezzadra), and has recently published The
Neoliberal Reason. Baroque Economies and Popular Pragmatics (2014). In the
latter, she gives account of the co-participation of actual people in the
Argentinians neoliberal forms of governmentality.

Nirmal Puwar is Reader in Sociology in Goldsmiths. Her work focuses

on the subjects of postcolonialism, race and gender, and critical methodologies.
In 2004 Puwar published Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place.
She is also part of the Feminist Review editorial collective, co-convenor of the
BSA Race Forum, and co-organizer of Goldsmiths Methods Lab.

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Universidad de San Marcos, La Paz) is an

Aymara sociologist, social activist and subalternist theorist. Her 1984 book
Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and
Quechua in Bolivia, 19001980 remains a classic for subaltern debates in in
Latin America. She co-founded, directed and is still member of the Workshop on
Andean Oral History in La Paz. Riveras ltter work, (Re)Masked Violences in
Bolivia (2012) cast a strong critique of the current proceso de cambio in
Bolivia.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and professor

of the Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro. His book Cannibal Metaphysics
(2009 for the French edition; 2014 for the English translation) summarizes his
former work on the Amerindian perspectivism, which is arguably one of the
most important recent contributions to both anthropology and the social
sciences in general. Amerindian perspectivism is presented as the indigenous
ontology through which objects and subjects, non-humans and humans, are in
constant negotiation, mutual violation, radical displacement and thus redefinition. The consequences of these arguments have addressed Viveiros de
Castro to reflections on the ecological crisis yielded by neoliberal processes.

Vikki Bell is professor in Sociology in Goldsmiths and Research

Associate in the Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires. Her work focuses on
processes of subjectification, feminist theory, transitional justice, ethics and the
politics of aesthetics. His latter book, The Arts of Post-Dictatorship. Ethics and
Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina (2014), is a significant account of varied
artistic manifestations for justice and reparation, read from the Foucauldian
concept of techniques of existence as politics of memories.

Alicia Salomone is associate professor of Literature and the Centre of

Latin American Studies, and Head of the Postgraduate School of the Universidad
de Chile. She works on female and feminist literature, postcolonialism, and Latin
American modernity, focusing on the crosses of gender and power. Salomone is
author of Alfonsina Storni. Women, Modernity, and Literature (2006), and coauthor of Poscoloniality and Nation (2003) and Modernity in a Different Tone.
Latin American Womens Writing 1920-1950 (2004).

There will be 12 to 16 participants from the call for papers.

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Justification for funding: Please provide full justification for funds sought. This section should
not exceed one page.
The conference XXXX for which funds are being sought is organized by the recently formed Latin
American hub that aims to produce and coordinate existing research on Latin America within the UK, as
well as to stimulate the academic collaboration among these regions.

The funds asked to Sociological Review are part of the first efforts to launch..

We are aiming to count with experts from both sides of the atlantic,,,, in order to generate a
dialogue. their presence requires at least to cover tavel an acommodation. Given the large
number of hours and changes in time that the participans from latin america havce to stand, we
have calculated 3 nights.
comida, lo minimo
goldmisths se pone con lo basico.
Otras fuentes de financianiamienyo siguen buscandose coo X y X

CVs: Please attach a ONE PAGE CV for each applicant.