[KS] [CFP] 2023 Situations International Conference: Neoliberal Asia and Its Precarious Others

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*Call for Papers: 2023 Situations International Conference*



*Neoliberal Asia and Its Precarious Others*



*October 20-21, Grand Hyatt Jeju, South Korea*



The modern history of Asia has been characterized by rapid and even
spectacular growth, as societies that were poor and agrarian became
prosperous and advanced through the process of state-led development. But
the much-vaunted successes of the developmental state have often served to
conceal intractable problems and troubling realities. The neoliberal
economic model has exacerbated inequalities across the globe, and Asia has
not been spared the pernicious dynamic whereby a few have achieved
tremendous wealth while many more have fallen out of the middle class and
are confronted with an increasingly gloomy and uncertain future. Precarity
has driven these issues to the fore, as the loss of faith in the future has
come to unsettle and weaken social cohesion in Asia just as it has
dissolved it across the West.



This conference examines the experience of precarity in Asia, past and
present. Whether it relates to contract laborers working without benefits,
migrants seeking low-wage jobs, the physically handicapped cut off from
steady employment, the neuro-diverse negotiating the rules of corporate
culture, or gays and lesbians carving out a niche in a traditional society,
*Situations* welcomes papers from a wide variety of perspectives taking on
these and other issues related to the worsening instability of social
structures and the spread of uncertainty in traditionally communitarian
Asian societies. How have members of marginal or disenfranchised groups
responded to the predicaments of precarity, and how are views of these
groups changing among the general public? What kind of politics are
emerging in response to mass disillusionment regarding a better future, and
what kind of influence are disenfranchised groups beginning to exert
against the forces arrayed against them? Could precarity also provide
opportunities for marginalized groups that did not exist in the past?



*Invited Speakers:*



·      Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University)

 “Democracy or Totalitarianism? Terms of the New Cold War”



·      Dr. Lisa Yoneyama (University of Toronto)

   “Thresholds of Precarity”



·      Dr. Youngmin Choe (USC)

   “The Viscous Return of the Rheol”





*Possible topics might include:*



·      labor and precarity

·      disability rights

·      migrant workers in Asia

·      precarity and the shaping of biopolitics

·      the crisis of the low birth-rate

·      the emergence of neuro-diversity (such as *Extraordinary Attorney
Woo*)

·      the transformation of family life

·      gender identity in uncertain times

·      cults as a phenomenon of precarity

·      *Squid Game* and other metaphors of precarity

·      environmental politics and the loss of the future

·      precarity and the experience of deep time

·      the impact of the Old and the New Cold War

·      lives under authoritarian regimes





Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. *By 20 August 2023*
, *we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference
presentation with its abstract and keywords* (the acceptance of the
presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited
participant will then be expected to turn his or her conference
presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a
future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, *Situations: Cultural Studies
in the Asian Context*. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to both
situations at yonsei.ac.kr and skrhee at yonsei.ac.kr.



Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using
only endnotes.



*Venue: Grand Hyatt Jeju* (
https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/south-korea/grand-hyatt-jeju/cjugh)



*Notes:*

We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose final
papers we accept. The presenters will share twin bedrooms.


For more details, please visit http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr .
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