Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention, and invite you, to a set of
panel discussions titled “Geography of Post Fordism” at the annual
meeting of the AAG (Washington, DC) – this is a Human Geography
(journal) event. Details and abstract is available below:
Sessions:
Geography of Post Fordism – Capital (session I) -- Thursday, 4/15/10,
from 4:40 PM - 6:20 PM in Congressional B, Omni Shoreham.
Chair: Waquar Ahmed
Panelists: Eric S. Sheppard, Gordon L. Clark, Nancy Ettlinger, Geoff
Mann, Mazen Labban
Geography of Post Fordism – Class (session II) -- Saturday, 4/17/10,
from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Marriott Ballroom Salon 3, Marriott Lobby
Level
Chair: Ipsita Chatterjee
Panelists: Raju J. Das, Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker,
Neil Smith, David Featherstone.
Geography of Post Fordism – Space (session III) -- Saturday, 4/17/10,
from 4:40 PM - 6:20 PM in Hoover, Marriott Mezzanine Level
Chair: Richard Peet
Panelists: John R. Allen, Stijn Oosterlynck, David Slater, Elaine
Hartwick, Kevin R. Cox, Rupal Oza
Abstract: Decline in the manufacturing sectors in parts of the
developed and developing economies and a corresponding decline in the
importance of the factory floor as a site for production and capital-
labor confrontation is described as a transition to Post-Fordism. The
geography of post-Fordism is replete with de-regulation, market
liberalization, outsourcing, subcontracting, informalization, leading
to what is often described as the post-industrial era. Post-Fordism
is often understood as a period of decline of capital-labor
confrontation and a corresponding rise of struggles over symbolic and
cultural resources, and rights to specificity and difference. Much
research in geography today is devoted towards investigating
identity, ethnic, and cultural struggles. Space is conceptualized as
place versus place competition, spaces of regionalism, re-scalings,
flat ontology, glocalization, and capital is understood as foot-
loose, global, speculative, and financial. In a series of three
sessions, we hope to debate class, space, and capital from Marxist
and Post-structuralist positions. Each session will discuss the need,
if at all, to re-conceptualize each of the three concepts (capital,
space, class) and deliberate how it could be useful to re-imagine
class, labor, and class struggles; re-envision space, place, scale,
uneven development; and understand accumulation strategies of capital
in the context of post-Fordist de-industrailization - this is a panel
on Space. The purpose is to glean out conceptual resources that could
be intellectually useful for understanding the geography of post-
Fordism.
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Waquar Ahmed
Department of Geology and Geography
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075.
web: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/geography/wahmed.html
