Jahrestagung 2012
Arbeitskreis Deutsche England-Forschung: Jahrestagung
2012
German Association for the Study of British History and Politics
Marketisation continued?
Views on Britain from History, Political Science and Economics
31. Jahrestagung, 18.-20.Mai 2012
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Tagungsprogramm
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Friday, May 18, 2012
14.15 Welcome
14.30 – 18.00 Workshops
19.00 – 19.30 Conference Introduction
Christiane Eisenberg (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Welcome and Introduction
19.15 – 20.30 Keynote Lecture
Avner Offer (University of Oxford)
A Warrant for Pain: Market Liberalism, c. 1970-2011
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
9.00 – 10.30 Panel I: Marketisation
as a Long-Term Process
Chair: Andreas Fahrmeir (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.)
Christiane Eisenberg (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Some Peculiarities in the Development of Market Society in Britain
Keith Tribe (University of Sussex)
Market Failure in the Liberal State: Mill, Sidgwick and Pigou
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Panel II: Political Expectations in the Market
Chair: Dominik Geppert (Universität Bonn)
Martina Steber (German Historical Institute, London)
The Conservatives and 'the Market' - a Natural Alliance?
Some Thoughts on Political Languages in the 1960s and 1970s
Sebastian Berg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The British Left's Changing Perceptions of 'the Market'
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30 Panel III: Negotiating Market Devices
Chair: Willibald Steinmetz (Universität Bielefeld)
Kerstin Brückweh (German Historical Institute, London)
How the Citizen Consumer Challenged British Self-Descriptions since the
1950s:
Market Research and Consumer Classifications
Sean Nixon, University of Essex
Advertising and the Consuming Self in Britain 1951-69
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30 Panel IV: Coping with the Market
Chair: Christiane Eisenberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent)
Marketisation in Britain: the Impact on Attitudes
Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary University of London)
The Accountable Mind: News from the Ivory Market Tower
18.00 Dinner
Abstract
The term marketisation has a historical and a social science dimension.
The former describes the creation, spread and shaping of markets for goods,
services and resources, as well as the implementation of the "cash
nexus", i.e. the mediation of social relationships via money. In
the case of Britain this centuries-long process goes back to the early-modern
period. The social science dimension comprises "neoliberal"
policies in modern society like, for example, the delegation of state
powers to private actors (e.g. public-private partnerships) or checking
and controlling administrative dealings from a business point of view
(evaluations, audits). In Britain such policies are generally regarded
as a side effect and result of Thatcherism. However, when we take account
of both dimensions of marketisation simultaneously, this standard interpretation
becomes irritatingly defamiliarised.
The conference plans to bring together historians and social scientists
to enable them to conduct such an "irritating" exchange of opinions.
Scholars will, on the one hand, consider whether contemporary neoliberal
politics mediate qualitatively new experiences of marketisation or whether
it can better be regarded as a further development impulse in a historical
process which goes back for centuries. What is thrown up by such politics?
The structural problems of the welfare state or the revival and continuing
modernisation of market economy? A second question which needs to be clarified
relates to specific British ideas of equality and inequality, fairness
and social justice. These values have grown up over centuries as a concomitant
of marketisation. Have they undergone changes in recent times? If so,
in what direction? Finally the conference should thematise forms of reaction
in civil society to present-day marketisation. Are Britons able to take
on the challenge in a creative manner, as might be expected according
to advocates of the market? Or aren't there any indications of such a
self-subversion of market society?
Contact: Prof.
Dr. Christiane Eisenberg
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