28. 11. - 2.12. 2007, Washington DC

In the contemporary world, the symbolic and material dimensions of inequality and power are being actively renegotiated in dynamic contexts of crisscrossing flows and overlapping fields in which civil societies, states, markets and capitals are being restructured according to the logic of a transnational, neoliberal culture. Accompanying, or perhaps as a result of this process, disparities of wealth, health, life-expectancy and military control appear to be widening.

If these trends continue to unfold, what are the implications for subsistence security, intercultural relations, human rights and well-being, and the prospects for environmental sustainability and world peace? What identities and practices are emerging to contest, craft alternatives to, and arrest these trends? What ideologies, social movements and political projects are being mobilized to create conditions for a future of greater equality and social justice?

To what extent are models and struggles for justice gendered, raced and grounded in culturally resonant expressions of class consciousness and opposition to heterosexism?

How does talk about difference implicate forms of symbolic and structural violence? Or does it reinforce regimes of truth that claim kinship, classlessness, color blindness, gender neutrality, and equal opportunity in the face of hunger, poverty, pandemics, homophobic hate crimes, mass rape, war and genocide?

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