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Neoliberalism, Inequalities, and the Gendered Everyday
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In the past decades, the process of neoliberalization has created new forms of social inequality and has transformed each and every aspect of our personal lives and social structures, including the state, law, the market, occupations, family, sexuality, education, health, cities, emotions, and forms of intimacies. These emergent forms of inequality are gendered and gendering. Gender relations and embodied experiences tend to transmogrify as a result of complex processes like commercialization, privatization, commodification, and financialization of culture, sociabilities, and subjectivities. Neoliberalism provides a framework to understand these planetary experiments and everyday transformations as well as local and global scales of resistance.
This panel aims to integrate discussions on social inequalities and the gendered (and sexual) everyday geographies, and expand our theoretical horizons on the existing inequalities—created or intensified by neoliberalism—at the intersection of public culture, space, identities, and subjective experiences. We are particularly interested in bringing together papers that would address the cultural politics of gendered lives as embedded in spaces, temporalities, and relations under transformation. In which ways can the discourse of neoliberal subjectivity be meaningful and useful to illustrate the capacity, complicity, and resistance people demonstrate navigating their lives? How can intersectionality offer new ways to explore actually existing and experienced realities of a neoliberal (or a post-neoliberal) setting of inequalities? What is the particular role that gender sexuality play in confrontations with neoliberal logics, discourses, and institutions of, for example, health, education, urban space, work, or mass culture?