2011/05/28 Presentation by Luigi Russi, student at the International University College of Turin

Saturday, May 28th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm The Political Economy and Law Seminar Series of the International University College of Turin (PEL Series) Student Lecture Halls (Piazza Paleocapa 2 -- 2nd floor) Workshop Presenters Luigi Russi, International University College of Turin Dr Bhabani Nayak, Glasgow Caledonian University Andre Pusey, University of Leeds Discussants Alfonso Encinas, Jovita Stagniunaite & Mary Nyelenkeh The workings of the market economy affect -- for better or ill - an ever increasing portion of the world's population. Scholars from disparate backgrounds have drawn attention to those spaces which are being lost in the narrative of ever increasing, market-led material well-being. This workshop attempts to reflect on some of these spaces through the prism of identity, religion and resistance. In the first presentation, Luigi Russi investigates how the need for constant economic growth in the Western world is increasingly fed through the manufacture of needs, and interference with individual identity-building processes. Dr Nayak turns then to explain how outside the Western world, the roots of capitalist expansion creep through the most diverse social structures, including religion. Finally, Andre Pusey demonstrates how the ever-increasing sophistication of enclosures in the modern world urges a re-thinking of the act of resistance, and the opening of new commons. The Workshop aspires to contribute to the understanding of the boundary between the market and countervailing non-market structures, and the shape that resistance may take in the face of the crises confronting global governance. Luigi Russi is a "Master dei Talenti della Societa Civile" Research Fellow and postgraduate student at the International University College of Turin. Dr Bhabani Nayak is a Lecturer at the Department of Economic Studies and International Business of Caledonian Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University Andre Pusey is a PhD student at the Geography Department, University of Leeds.