{"id":678,"date":"2015-12-21T21:26:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.22.4.40\/news3\/?p=678"},"modified":"2015-12-21T21:26:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:26:56","slug":"call-for-papers-for-a-conference-on-islam-and-the-construction-of-new-economic-moralities-at-uc-berkeley-organized-by-a-cob-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/call-for-papers-for-a-conference-on-islam-and-the-construction-of-new-economic-moralities-at-uc-berkeley-organized-by-a-cob-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers for a Conference on \u201cIslam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities\u201d at UC Berkeley organized by a COB Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

In collaboration with several international scholars, Dr. Necati Aydin, Associate Professor of Economics at College of Business, is organizing a mini-conference on Islam and economic morality at University of California, Berkeley. The conference is part of annual meeting of SASE (Society for Advancement of Socio-economics) which was established in 1989 as an international, inter-disciplinary organization with members in over 50 countries on five continents. The theme of 28th SASE Annual Meeting is \u201cMoral Economies and Economic Moralities\u201d. The mini-conference with up to six panels will be on the following theme: \u201cIslam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures\u201d.<\/p>\n

The conference is a great opportunity for our faculty members and graduate students. The conference team will select around 30 papers for the conference through the blind peer review process. The selected papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited volume through Edward Elgar publishing company in UK. Selection of papers will be based on 1000 word extended abstracts, which are due 18 January 2016. Full papers will be due 30 May 2016. Three best papers awards will be given, as well as a limited number of travel grants for graduate students. The detail description of the conference theme is provided below.<\/p>\n

Islam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures<\/h2>\n

SASE Conference on \u2018Moral Economies, Economic Moralities\u2019,\u00a0University of California-Berkeley , 24-26 June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extended abstracts are due 18 January 2016. Full papers will be due 30 May 2016.<\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/h2>\n

This mini-conference invites contributions from across the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the past, present, and contested futures of Islam\u2019s new financial and economic moralities. As part of the Islamic revival of the 1970s and 1980s, social movements worldwide have pursued multiple strategies to imagine and implement an economic system organized around Islamic values such as social justice, reciprocity and the spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, and material well-being of individuals. This includes the US$2.5 trillion Islamic finance industry and US$1.29 trillion\u00a0halal<\/em>\u00a0food market, not to mention Islamic \u201cmodest fashion,\u201d\u00a0halal<\/em>\u00a0pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and Islamically-marketed travel, recreation, and lifestyle products. It also includes philanthropic institutions such as pious foundations (waqf<\/em>) and charities funded by almsgiving (zakah<\/em>). Islamic economic practices range from the morally guided everyday practices of individuals to those of multinational corporations and state elites seeking to enter and advance Islamic markets. With the hindsight of forty years, we can observe heterogeneous and explicitly competing Islamic economic moralities, found at various scales of socio-economic organization.<\/p>\n

Three overlapping research projects have emerged as a result of the rapid growth of the Islamic economy. First, it has attracted social scientists seeking to document and interpret the historical and contemporary dynamics of this new socio-economic phenomenon. This strand of scholarship studies the emergence of the Islamic economy either on its own terms, or with reference to its convergence and divergence with other economies, be they explicitly moral or otherwise. Second, it has generated research by academics and practitioners to advance this socio-economic project. In this scholarship, Islamic economy is often conceptualized as part of an emerging alternative modernity that explicitly embraces the morality of economic action. Third, it has also generated scholarship critical of Islamic economic practices, particularly in Islamic banking and finance. Much of this third research stream argues that Islamic finance is excessively focused on efficiency and profitability at the expense of Islamic moral values such as equity, fairness, and individual development. Importantly, it debates the extent to which the Islamic finance industry has diverged from Islamic idea(l)s, investigates alternative aspirations for Islamic finance, and deliberates strategies for transforming its current trajectory.<\/p>\n

Embracing all three research streams, the conference aims to (i) (re-)examine the key axioms and moral claims of Islamic economy both in theory and as practiced; (ii) explore the economic, social and political dynamics underpinning the various sectors, scales and sites of the Islamic economy; and (iii) interrogate the extent to which the Islamic economy provides a substantive alternative to mainstream economic activity with a special emphasis on the Islamic finance sector. A provisional list of panel topics and indicative research questions can be accessed at the University of Warwick<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0University of Durham<\/a>. King Saud University is providing a limited number of travel grants for graduate students.<\/p>\n

Guiding\/Tentative Topical Areas and Panel Contents<\/h3>\n

Panels will be provisionally divided between seven themes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Introductory Panel: Conceptualizing and Theoretizing the Moral Economies of Islam<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n