Feminist Political Economy: Critical Engagements with Interlocking Crises of our Time

More than ever, it is necessary to look at the world through the analytical lenses of feminist political economy. They offer trenchant concepts for understanding contemporary systemic conflagrations entangling finance and techno-capitalism with resurgences of patriarchy, new forms of ethnonationalism, racism and war, and continuing extraction of labor value under growing precarity. We are witnessing the monsters of an interregnum, including outsized inequalities paired with obscene concentrations of wealth, impunity to perpetrate sexual and gender-based violence, unrestrained drives for domination normalizing aggression and genocide, and the gospel of growth engendering the wanton destruction of our planet. There is an urgency to describe and analyze these conflagrations, unravel the dynamics and forces that fuel them, and identify the materialities, fears, interests, and knowledges that they assemble. It is equally urgent to identify alternatives, foster solidarities and imagine new futures. For this section of the ECPG, we are inviting papers and panels that take on the challenges of our times by offering critical analyses and gesturing beyond cynicism and resignation. We are looking for interventions that pluralize our understanding of social reproduction approaches and cover a broad range of topics, including those well-established in Feminist Political Economy, but also those reaching beyond. Some suggested topics are: • Labor relations in factories and on farms, in offices and homes, and in global production chains. In particular, the way in which these relations are intersectionally gendered and racialized, and the particular experience of migrants. • Social reproduction and the care and war economies, including various forms of depletion attendant upon these and upon coping with planetary challenges. • The digitalization of labor, including platform labor and the gig economy, but also the promises of new technologies for alternative labor arrangements • The gendered political economy of war and militarization, including the role of the arms industry, war economies, and post-war reconstruction. The gendered political economy of uprisings and revolutions. • Feminist political ecology and the gendered effects and experiences of the climate crisis. Living alternatives of non-capitalist economies and commoning. • The political economy of gender-based violence. • The governance of economies at the state and multilateral level, including the mainstreaming of gender and diversity considerations in development, industrial, fiscal, trade, environmental and other policies. • Transnational business feminism, including social finance. • Reflections on methods and methodologies, including on what the political urgencies of our times demand from us as researchers. • Feminist solidarities and social forces; anti-capitalist and anti-racist organizing Keeping with the interdisciplinary character of FPE, we invite a breadth of approaches, from systemic thinking and practice tracing to theorizing from the everyday, from feminist-materialist, post-/decolonial, intersectional and queer to post-humanist approaches. We also welcome a diversity of methodologies and both, qualitative and quantitative methods.