Events
2nd Workshop of the Hegemony Research Group
Class: History, Formations and Conceptualisations
3-4 March 2006
University of Wollongong
Program [pdf 19kb]
This workshop aims to interrogate the concept of class in terms of its analytical relevance, relationship to hegemony and its theoretical development and usage in historical and contemporary research. The workshop draws together researchers in globalisation studies, sociologists, historians and political economists. This event is a small workshop designed to enhance our understanding of social class by bringing in selected academics from outside the university. Due to financial limitations, the workshop is by invitation only. Many of the papers are works in progress and we are hoping to use the knowledge and experience of the invited academics to clarify our own positions on this challenging field of inquiry. Discussants will be critiquing these papers with a view to bringing out certain common themes. The paper writers are mostly staff and postgraduate students from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. There are several invited scholars as well. We intend to publish selected papers in an edited volume following the conference in 2006.
Papers will cover a variety of themes including:
- Intellectuals and class formation and class consciousness
- New class formations - subclasses and class politics
- Global/local interconnections
- Oppositional cultures and movements
- Class organisation and linkages between classes
- Globalization and class formation
- Class, politics and political parties
- Class reproduction
- Popular culture, the media and class
- Sources of class unification and movements
- Defining class: money and wealth or workplace autonomy?
- Classes in history
- Commodification and class identification
Papers:
- Gillian Cowlishaw (UTS), "All our mates were lower class white people": Race, Class, and Ethnography [pdf 93kb]
- Mike Donaldson (UoW), The Working Class [pdf 121kb]
- Dave Eden (ANU), Analysis "Multitude/Exodus/Disobedience: a critical reading of Paulo Virno [pdf 102kb]
- James Goodman (UTS), Counter-globalism: class conflict? [pdf 66kb]
- Kate Hannan (UoW), China: Class, Disaffection and Disorder [pdf 110kb]
- Richard Howson (UoW), "Gramsci and Class: A Pre-Prison Analysis [pdf 55kb]
- Rick Kuhn, Classes in Australia, in themselves and for themselves [pdf 50kb]
- Ben Maddison (UoW), Commodification and class – thinking through Lukacs [pdf 59kb]
- Max Lane, (UoW), “Recovering class consciousness after total defeat: Memory, street protest, and Soekarnoism in contemporary Indonesia” [pdf 100kb]
- Michael Pusey (UNSW), The Troubling Experience of Economic Reform
Full paper [pdf 109kb]. Abstract [pdf 11kb]
- John Robinson, UoW,
Uncertainty in contemporary ideas of social class: how the effects of ideological romanticism, politics and identity issues are distorting the analysis [pdf 113kb]
- Tim Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, UoW,
Neo-liberalism and the Culture of Class in India [pdf 105kb]
- Leslie Sklair, Iconic Architecture as a Hegemonic Project [pdf 118kb]
- Nick Southall (UoW), A Multitude of Possibilities: Hardt & Negri's strategic vision [pdf 83kb]
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