Conference Call for Papers by Hanne Østhus
CfP_Winter School_Intermediaries and Intermediate Places in Global Labour - Past & Present, 2025
Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding... more Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding can apply in their application for support of their travel expenses.
Call for Sessions and Papers on Labour and Working Class Studies Fifteenth European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Leiden, the Netherlands 26-29 March 2025, 2025
in Leiden (the Netherlands)-https://esshc.socialhistory.org/. The ESSHC brings together scholars ... more in Leiden (the Netherlands)-https://esshc.socialhistory.org/. The ESSHC brings together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterised by a lively exchange in many small groups rather than by formal plenary sessions. It is organised into a large number of networks that cover specific fields of interest. The conference language is English.
CfP Historicising Coercive Social Processes, 2022
You are invited to submit your paper to the conference "Historicising Coercive Social Processes",... more You are invited to submit your paper to the conference "Historicising Coercive Social Processes", the capstone event of COST action project WORCK (Worlds of Related Coercion in Work) funded by the Horizon Europe programme of the European Union. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague on 5-7 September 2023. Concept Legal philosopher Alan Wertheimer wrote that "our understanding of coercion underlies… our view of various social practices". The opposite also holds true: Researching social relations in a given historical context is essential for understanding how coercion underpins the organisation of production, the administration of punishment, and interpersonal relations in conditions of power asymmetry. In turn, social practices can only be understood within processes such as valorisation, im/mobilisation, and punishment that converge to create the historical dimension within which we understand those practices.
Call for research papers A recent intervention from labour history has pointed out how "the persi... more Call for research papers A recent intervention from labour history has pointed out how "the persistence and transformation of coercion across world empires, gender regimes, and historical eras" run counter to the classic narratives of a development from unfree to free labour within the emergence of a modern or modernized world. Instead, the authors propose a radically different approach wherein research "links the stories of work and production with those of violence, expropriation, marginalization, and criminalization." 1 This special issue addresses this intervention from the particular approach of intersectionality, and aims to demonstrate how the intersectional approach offers unique insights into this topic. We will achieve this through explorations of how markers such as gender, age, legal status, class, race, religion or sexual orientation shape and are shaped by systems and practices of coercion, bondage and marginalization and systems and practices of labour and production. Feminist and gender studies scholars' exploration of how gendered relations and configurations of power shaped past and present societies is an important starting point when investigating bondage, coercion, marginalization and violence. Moreover, scholars within this field have re-evaluated the concept of work. The concept no longer excludes work that happened in the household or reproductive labour. Moreover, this re-evaluation undermined the binary between productive and unproductive work posited by economists since the eighteenth century, and it challenged divisions between public and private spheres, where what happened in private was seen as outside the realms of economy and therefore not considered work. Moreover, the gendered perspective has been crucial in disbanding the idea of an evolution from bonded to free wage labour beginning with the Industrial Revolution. This assessment has been reinforced by recent developments within global labour history, which have also demonstrated that there was and is no unambiguous shift from unfree to free labour that followed a scheme(s) of "modernization". Such research has emphasized how "free" and "unfree" forms of labour relations co-exist and even re-enforce each other. 2 Scholars within global labour history have sought to bring together various forms of bondage such as serfdom, slavery, convict labour and/or tributary labour, but also to underscore the importance of context and peculiarities of time and space. Research on bonded and coerced labour has therefore revealed and sought out connections and links between regions and areas and attempted to overcome Eurocentric ideas of labour. It has, however, rarely used insights from intersectionality or feminist studies in its analysis. 3 This Special Issue seeks to remedy this. It combines insights from global labour history with
A recent intervention from labour history has pointed out how "the persistence and transformation... more A recent intervention from labour history has pointed out how "the persistence and transformation of coercion across world empires, gender regimes, and historical eras" run counter to the classic narratives of a development from unfree to free labour within the emergence of a modern or modernized world. Instead, the authors propose a radically different approach wherein research "links the stories of work and production with those of violence, expropriation, marginalization, and criminalization." 1 This special issue addresses this intervention from the particular approach of intersectionality, and aims to demonstrate how the intersectional approach offers unique insights into this topic. We will achieve this through explorations of how markers such as gender, age, legal status, class, race, religion or sexual orientation shape and are shaped by systems and practices of coercion, bondage and marginalization and systems and practices of labour and production.
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Conference Call for Papers by Hanne Østhus