Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis
Saturday 25th February 2023, University of 糖心TV
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Keynote Addresses:
, University of Cambridge
, Queen Mary University London
In his discussion of the socio-ecological crisis of capitalism, Jason Moore dismisses the theoretical tendency to describe 鈥榯win鈥� social and environmental crises, arguing that 鈥榯hese are in fact a singular process of transformation that today we call a crisis鈥� (2011: 136). In order to interrogate the singular socio-ecological crisis further, this conference proposes 'territorial bodies' as a critical framework for readings of contemporary world culture, synthesising interdisciplinary approaches to embodiment and violence studies. It considers how the 鈥榯erritorial body鈥� offers an analytical tool for addressing urgent social, ecological, and political challenges, from ecological breakdown to the rise of statelessness, to violence against women and racial exploitation. Key questions include:
- How is the intersection between bodies and territories registered in world culture today?
- How do cultural registrations work to locate the body as a distinct site of socio-ecological crisis?
- What happens to our conception of a 鈥榗ulture in crisis鈥� when explored through the lens of 鈥榯erritorial bodies鈥�?
The concept of 鈥榯erritorial bodies鈥� takes inspiration from the Latin American feminist transnational concept of 鈥榖ody-territory鈥�, which has been used as a 鈥榮trategic鈥� tool to engender new forms of global solidarity, linking multi-form violence at various scales (Gago, 2020: 95). More broadly, 鈥榖ody-territory鈥� becomes a lens through which to critique overlapping forms of violence in an era of socio-ecological crisis. The expanded notion of 鈥榯erritorial bodies鈥� offers a new methodology to explore and critique the registration of socio-ecological crisis in contemporary world culture.
Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis will be a one-day interdisciplinary conference, bringing together scholars from across the humanities. We aim to rethink dominant notions of crisis, using the framework of 鈥渢erritorial bodies鈥� to generate new modes of understanding crisis in neoliberal culture. Our hope is that the conference will lead to an edited collection via the , Routledge.
Conference organisers can be contacted via this email: territorialbodies at gmail dot com
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