‘Re-Imagining Our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments?’ - Symposium Announcement
Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on June 27, 2010 |
The Theory Study Group section of the British Sociological Association is supporting the symposium ‘Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments? on July 16th 2010 in London so that the invited speakers engage in a preliminary attempt to define the theoretical implications of this Age.
Re-embodiment is a global social phenomenon. It is a popular and organized response against the excesses of Wester(nized) both modernity and postmodernity that also receives the firm support of international intellectual quarters and NGOs. These excesses are part of the colonial legacy. They are conspicuously epitomized in the international climate change regime.
Re-Embodiment cuts across the social and natural sciences and reassembles both. It builds on previous work on embodiment theory from as varied fields as 20th-century philosophy, environmental sociology, ecofeminism, political economy, ethno-ecology and human geography. Re-embodiment theory equally builds upon classical and post-structuralist social theory and philosophy.
This symposium is organized as a roundtable with six speakers. Two speakers open up the debate by attempting to define the Age of Re-Embodiments from the perspective of philosophy & social theory. Subsequently another two address the topic from the the domain of political ecology. Two ecofeminists close the symposium.
An edited collection named after the symposium with another seven invited papers shall mark the official opening of the theory around the Age of Re-Embodiments.
For further details see the booklet of the symposium.
VENUE
BSA London Meeting Room, Suite 2, Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham SW6 2PY
Entrance Fee
£20 for regular attendees, £10 concessions, to pay at the entrance on the day of the symposium. Book in advance as the conference room only sits 35 people.
Bookings & inquiries to Ruth Thomas-Pellicer.
Tags: Age of Re-embodiments > ecological debt > embodied debt > International Climate Change Regime > land and food sovereignity > modernity > postmodernity > The Sociological Imagination
Comments
Leave a Reply
