We are delighted to announce the second
'Bodies of Value' Symposium:
'BODILY STATES: MULTIPLE SOVEREIGNITIES IN A GLOBALISED WORLD'
Tuesday, 19th February, 2.30-6.30PM
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick
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2.30 PM
Kate Bedford (Kent), ‘Harmony ideology (re-loaded): Gender, development,
and the political-economic space of consensus’
3.15 PM
Kate Hardy (Leeds), ‘Moral economies of sex work and struggle in
contemporary Argentina’
4.00 PM
Coffee
4.15 PM
Shaheen Ali (Warwick), Shirin Rai (Warwick) and Pratiksha Baxi (Jawaharlal
Nehru University), ‘Legacies of common law: Crimes of ‘honour’ in India and
Pakistan’ (presented by Shaheen Ali)
5.00 PM
‘In the name of Jyoti Singh Pandey: Multiple sovereignities in India today’
(A discussion of Pratiksha Baxi’s recent work; chaired by Sarah Hodges)
5.30 PM
Wine reception
This event is free but in order to make sure that we have enough refreshments, please RSVP
janet.smith@warwick.ac.uk
Copies of the Baxi readings are available. Please contact
janet.smith@warwick.ac.uk
The symposium is the second in a series funded by the Institute of Advanced Studies at Warwick.
On 'Bodies of Value':
The aim of this series of symposia is to link researchers at Warwick and beyond developing multiple disciplinary perspectives on
different aspects of the body, value and work. They explore the value of bodies, whether whole or in parts, asking questions like:
How do bodies acquire and lose value? How are disaggregated bodies valued? How does the contemporary valuation, revaluation
and devaluation of bodies articulate with our current neo-liberal historic moment? Such questions lend themselves to multidisciplinary, comparative debate and investigation. The first event in November 2012, focused on body, property and the working
body.
The 19 February symposium considers the ways in which our bodies are valued within a variety of regimes of governance: within the
household, within the nation state, through kinship and ethnicity and through global markets. Struggles over the construction of
sexuality, in particular, take place in these multiple domains. We seek to address the questions of how bodies are valued, by whom,
for what purposes? Does the secular logic upon which most nation states and international organisations function find it hard to
grapple with these multiple sovereignties that both precede and exceed their domain? A key theme for the workshop, therefore, is
the exploration of the impact of the interactions between multiple sovereignties.
The core group of Warwick researchers involved are Professor Shirin Rai from Politics, Dr Carol Wolkowitz from Sociology, Dr Sarah
Hodges from History and Dr Ann Stewart from Law.