Countermovement Revisited: On the Analytical Power and Boundaries of Polanyi’s Concept Today

Friday, June 24, 2016

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2:30 PM-4:00 PM


TH04-01
Theoretical and Analytical Refinement of Polanyi Today
Countermovement Revisited: On the Analytical Power and Boundaries of Polanyi’s Concept Today

Discussant: Daniel Kinderman, University of Delaware

Participants:
Moral Economy Strikes Back - Polanyi's Countermovements in the Age of Neo-Liberalism
Paul Christensen, Boston College; Jeffery Hass, University of Richmond
Making Markets Fast and Slow: Commodification and the Emergence of Counter-Movements
Chris Rea, UCLA
The Embedding Tendency Is Immanent to the Disembedding One
Maja Savevska, University of Warwick
Globalisation, Transnational Intermediaries and the ‘Polanyi Problem'
Alexander Ebner, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


TH04-02
Embedded Marketization
Countermovement Revisited: On the Analytical Power and Boundaries of Polanyi’s Concept Today

Discussant: Alexander Ebner, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt

Participants:
The Economy for the Common Good: A Progressive Countermovement Against the Marketization of Society and Nature?
Bernd Sommer, European-University Flensburg
Commercial Countermovements: The Case of Alternative Energy Support
Timur Ergen, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Countermovements to the Marketization of Everyday Life: Private Property Politics in the Contemporary US
Debbie Becher, Barnard College, Columbia University

Saturday, June 25, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


TH04-03
Contradictory Countermovements
Countermovement Revisited: On the Analytical Power and Boundaries of Polanyi’s Concept Today

Discussant: Ronen Mandelkern, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Participants:
Ambivalences in the Countermovement – Does Re-Embedding Take Place As a General Move Towards More Equity?
Martin Seeliger, University of Cologne
The Social Aftermath of Economic Disaster: Working Class Responses to Rapid Socioeconomic Change in Greece
Alexander Kentikelenis, University of Oxford
Austere Publics: Why Did the U.S. Public Become More Fiscally Conservative after the Great Recession?
Edward Crowley, New York University