Conjunctural analysis: moments and methods | By Jamie Peck
There has been a remarkable resurgence in the adoption of various forms of conjunctural analysis in recent years, in the long decade that began with the global financial crisis of 2008-2010, to be punctuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been roiled by the rise of resurgent currents of authoritarianism, populism, nationalism, protectionism, and more. With deep roots traceable to Machiavelli and Gramsci, and more recently to the work of Stuart Hall and his collaborators, conjunctural analysis comes with a reputation for potency and contextual relevance, yet remains somewhat elusive and enigmatic, combining as it does a critical ethos, ethic, and orientation, along with a bundle of craft practices, but no more than a tacit methodology. Conjunctural analysis will not be reduced to a method, but it is not methodologically neutral or indifferent.
The presentation reflects on the recent (re)turn to conjunctural analysis in the critical social sciences, including geography and urban studies, exploring its implications for contemporary methodological practice.
Seminar by:
Jamie Peck, FRSC, FBA, FAcSS, FeRSA is University Killam Professor, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With long-term research interests in economic geography, urban and regional studies, and institutional political economy, his books include Variegated economies (2023, Oxford), Offshore (Oxford, 2017), and Fast policy (Minnesota, 2015, with Nik Theodore), and Constructions of neoliberal reason (Oxford, 2010). An editor of EPA: Economy & Space, he is the founder of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.
Discussants:
Ugo Rossi and Alberto Valz Gris
Chaired by:
Emanuele Sciuva
Seminar in person at:
Aula Zodiaco, DIST, Castello del Valentino, Torino
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