Staff and postgraduate students are invited to a seminar on ‘What Do Wages Do – Feminist Theory for Austere Times’ on Thursday 10 April from 5-7pm.
The seminar, in the CLGS Common Room, Eliot College, will be led by visiting scholar, Professor Lisa Adkins. It has been organised as part of a visit hosted by Kent Law School’s Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (KCLGS).
Professor Adkins, BHP Billiton Chair of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, will challenge participants to consider the potential of money, in the form of wages, to redistribute justice.
Professor Adkins said: ‘Can we have faith in money as an injustice remedying substance in a crisis ridden and (yet still thoroughly) financialized reality? While the latter scenario is implied in recent feminist calls to redistribute resources to redress widening socio-economic inequalities under austerity, in this paper I suggest that such a redistributive logic fails to account for the shifting capacities of resources, including the capacities of money.
‘To track these shifting capacities, I revisit the demands of the 1970s women’s liberation movement and especially the assumptions at play in these demands that money both measure and distribute justice.’
Professor Adkins, previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, is widely published in the areas of social theory, feminist theory and economic sociology. Her recent research focuses on the restructuring of labour and shifts to the economy-society relation in post-Fordist capitalism.
Contact: a.p.shieber@kent.ac.uk