Mini conference MC06 “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times” (Shoba Arun, Knut Laaser and Valeria Pulignano organizing within the 37th Annual SASE Conference, Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, 9-12 July 2025).
https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#mini
This mini conference will encourage research that investigates how both traditional and emerging institutions can be reimagined to create more inclusive,intersectional forms of solidarity through the distribution of meaningful work. During a period when increasing inequalities, expanding political and socio-economic polarization, enhancing fragmentation and exacerbating social turbulences due to wars, inflation,climate and digital transformations hit at the very core of both traditional and emerging institutions underpinning solidarity and the value and meanings of work it is a priority as both researchers and activists to examine how those institutions can be re-imagined to create more inclusive and intersectional forms of solidarity in both (and between) Global North and Global South. Contributions will explore the six following areas:
1.How do intersectional inequalities shape access to and experiences of meaningful work? How do social identities, such as gender, race, and class, intersect to either enable or constrain access to meaningful work?
2.What role do foundational social, political, and economic institutions play in reinforcing or challenging the unequal distribution of meaningful work?How can these institutions be reformed to promote more inclusive forms of solidarity?
3.How do technological changes, generative AI and new business models, such as platform work impact the distribution of meaningful work? What are the consequences for solidarity in a labour market increasingly marked by inequality and precarity? What are the meanings individuals attribute to their experiences of precarity in work and life?
4.How do individuals and organizations navigate or resist these inequalities in their pursuit of meaningful work? What examples exist of labour movements or social movements that have successfully bridged intersectional divides to promote solidarity?
5.How do perspectives from the Global South deepen our understanding of the relationship between meaningful work, intersectionality, and solidarity? In what ways do unique social hierarchies, such as caste, colonial legacies, and informal labour markets, influence the availability and experience of meaningful work in these regions? How do global systems of inequality, including the uneven distribution of economic resources and labour standards, shape the capacity of workers in the Global South to engage in meaningful work, and what lessons can be drawn for building cross-border, intersectional forms of solidarity?
6.How do intergenerational patterns of social stratification shape access to meaningful work? To what extent are experiences of meaningful or meaningless work inherited across generations?
We would like to encourage you to submit your work to our MC06 mini-conference.
MC06 accepts abstracts of approximately 1000 words (deadline December 16 2024). If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked (but not required) to submit a full paper prior to the conference in Montreal (9-12 July 2025). We will be in touch about deadlines and specifications in due time.
MC06 will organize one virtual session during the virtual conference days (1-3 July 2025), as well as one hybrid session during the on-site conference(9-12 July 2025).
Submissions can be made through the usual process, details here:
https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#s ... guidelinesMini conference MC06 “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times” (Shoba Arun, Knut Laaser and Valeria Pulignano organizing within the 37th Annual SASE Conference, Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, 9-12 July 2025). [url]https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#mini[/url]
This mini conference will encourage research that investigates how both traditional and emerging institutions can be reimagined to create more inclusive,intersectional forms of solidarity through the distribution of meaningful work. During a period when increasing inequalities, expanding political and socio-economic polarization, enhancing fragmentation and exacerbating social turbulences due to wars, inflation,climate and digital transformations hit at the very core of both traditional and emerging institutions underpinning solidarity and the value and meanings of work it is a priority as both researchers and activists to examine how those institutions can be re-imagined to create more inclusive and intersectional forms of solidarity in both (and between) Global North and Global South. Contributions will explore the six following areas:
1.How do intersectional inequalities shape access to and experiences of meaningful work? How do social identities, such as gender, race, and class, intersect to either enable or constrain access to meaningful work?
2.What role do foundational social, political, and economic institutions play in reinforcing or challenging the unequal distribution of meaningful work?How can these institutions be reformed to promote more inclusive forms of solidarity?
3.How do technological changes, generative AI and new business models, such as platform work impact the distribution of meaningful work? What are the consequences for solidarity in a labour market increasingly marked by inequality and precarity? What are the meanings individuals attribute to their experiences of precarity in work and life?
4.How do individuals and organizations navigate or resist these inequalities in their pursuit of meaningful work? What examples exist of labour movements or social movements that have successfully bridged intersectional divides to promote solidarity?
5.How do perspectives from the Global South deepen our understanding of the relationship between meaningful work, intersectionality, and solidarity? In what ways do unique social hierarchies, such as caste, colonial legacies, and informal labour markets, influence the availability and experience of meaningful work in these regions? How do global systems of inequality, including the uneven distribution of economic resources and labour standards, shape the capacity of workers in the Global South to engage in meaningful work, and what lessons can be drawn for building cross-border, intersectional forms of solidarity?
6.How do intergenerational patterns of social stratification shape access to meaningful work? To what extent are experiences of meaningful or meaningless work inherited across generations?
We would like to encourage you to submit your work to our MC06 mini-conference.
MC06 accepts abstracts of approximately 1000 words (deadline December 16 2024). If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked (but not required) to submit a full paper prior to the conference in Montreal (9-12 July 2025). We will be in touch about deadlines and specifications in due time.
MC06 will organize one virtual session during the virtual conference days (1-3 July 2025), as well as one hybrid session during the on-site conference(9-12 July 2025).
Submissions can be made through the usual process, details here: [url]https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#submission-guidelines[/url]