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CFP AAG 2023: Feminist economic geography and the future(s) of work and social reproduction Tyler Blackman, Lia Frederiksen, Emily Reid-Musson, Daniel Cockayne, Nancy Worth Feminist economic geographers and other aligned perspectives offer new ways of thinking about and understanding futurity and the future of work. These perspectives are valuable as they push back on many of the optimistic and pessimistic economistic and technocentric understandings of what kinds of futures are likely or possible. By foregrounding power and social difference, feminist, intersectional, queer, transfeminist, and Marxist approaches are especially important for considering the potential range of futures for workers and work. In this session we seek to foreground emerging and in-progress research in feminist economic geography that examines work alongside an understanding of futurity or the future. We welcome contributions with a focus on work, broadly conceived (whether paid or unpaid, formal or informal, waged or salaried, as production or as social reproduction, etc.) as well as workplaces, and/or the future(s) of work. Topics may include (but are not limited to): * Deregulation and precarization * Re/productive labour divisions, relations, and platforms * Changing relations between employers and employees or contractors * How agency is conceptualized, constrained, and enacted at work * Workplace surveillance and control * Work and diverse economies * Capacities to work from home and the associated change in spatial relationships with workplaces and the home * The expansion of care-giving related forms of work * Organizing and secure work * Labour mediation and intermediaries * Digital, on-demand, and other forms of precarious and informal 'sharing economy' work * What gets to count as paid and unpaid work, and who gets to decide * Migrant labour and mobilities * The future of work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic The format for this hybrid session will be a bit different from other sessions at the conference - we are aiming for a more dialogic format focused on sharing, receiving feedback, and answering each other's questions. Papers will be no more than 8-10 minutes in length, to leave room for questions, discussion, and debate after each paper and at the end of the session. Participants are encouraged to share new research ideas and work in progress (rather than "finished" or previously published research) and foreground the kinds of feedback they'd like to receive. Send your 200 word abstract to Daniel Cockayne daniel.cocka...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:daniel.cocka...@uwaterloo.ca>, Emily Reid-Musson emilyreidmus...@gmail.com<mailto:emilyreidmus...@gmail.com> or Nancy Worth nancy.wo...@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:nancy.wo...@uwaterloo.ca> by November 7th.
