Ray Griffin and Tom Boland – March 23rd – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary states incessantly pursue welfare reform: This talk traces how welfare has been conceptualised from early twentieth century models of social insurance, through the ILO definition of unemployment to the post-war welfare state,… Read More »The Reformation of Welfare
Ilana Gershon – March 16th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: In 2011, I published a theoretical model for what neoliberal selves and neoliberal relationships are as an attempt to unpack in much more detail the Foucaultian claim that the neoliberal self is an entrepreneurial self. I… Read More »Jobseeking & the Labour Market: Understanding Jobseeking
Mitchell Dean – March 11th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Foucault and Agamben in the present– Governmentality, economic theology and political theology as paradigms and analytical strategies – Methodological orientations, e.g. signature, arche, genealogy – Institutional and conceptual economic theology – The ordeal (l’épreuve): personal, economic, governmental… Read More »Economic Theology: Governance
Stefan Schwarzkopf – March 9th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary ideas about society have a profound and lengthy history – connected in a genealogy to theological ideas. For instance, the market is often considered as a space of choice which reveals true value, outside of… Read More »Economic Theology: Markets & Marketisation
Elizabeth Anderson – March 4th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: Elizabeth Anderson – John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Drawing from my book manuscript on the history of the Protestant work ethic from its… Read More »The Great Reversal: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers
Lynne Layton and Nidesh Lawtoo – February 23rd 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: Theme 1: Ideas Lying Around Date: February 23rd Presented in collaboration with Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability (DIIS). “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs,… Read More »E&S 2021 Kickoff and Follow-up
As of last Wednesday (13/01/21) the Economy & Society Summer School (E&S) has opened for applications with a new and improved website. We have previously written about the E&S and how it impacted on the creation of the HECAT project. We are proud to say… Read More »The Economy & Society Summer School 2021
Today is an auspicious day, though many of our readers won’t know it. Today was supposed to be the first day of the Economy & Society Summer school, a weeklong conference held in Blackwater Castle in Cork, Ireland. The Economy & Society Summer School (generally… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part Three: The Economy & Society Summer School