Public Seminar: New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities

Event Name
Public Seminar: New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities
Date
25 February 2019
Time
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Location
Parramatta Campus

Address (Room): Building EA, Level 2, Room 13 (LT02), Parramatta Campus (South)

Description

Class Matters: A New Materialist Approach
Presenter: Peta Hinton

The material turn that has been gathering steam in the social and cultural sciences in recent years is distinguished by its signature approach to materiality as emergent, indeterminate, self-organising or sui generis: a dynamic participant in social meanings and processes that extends political analysis to more-than-human agencies.

Re-materialising Social Class
Presenter: Nick J. Fox

In this paper I outline a new materialist perspective on social class, and contrast this with existing approaches. Marx’s materialist analysis of social class explored two flows of matter: of human bodies and of economic capital.

Please RSVP to e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au by Friday, 22 February 2019.

Web page: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/public_seminar_new_materialism_and_the_sociology_of_inequality_class,_capital_and_capacities.

Contact
Name: Elise Blight

e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au

Phone: 02 9685 9602

School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society