Gerda Roelvink, BA(Hons), MA(Auckland), PhD (ANU)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Human Geography

Email: gerda.roelvink@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I am an inter-disciplinary scholar working in the field of cultural economy. I am interested in the relational nature of contemporary economic experimentation, especially that undertaken by social movements and intellectual activists.

Research Interests

Post-structural theories of economy, social movements, market networks, the politics of dignity and the politics of research.

Key Publications

• (with J.K. Gibson-Graham), 'A postcapitalist politics of dwelling', The Australian Humanities Review, forthcoming.
• 'Broadening the horizons of economy', Journal of Cultural Economy, forthcoming, 2009.
• (with J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Social innovation for community economies', in F. Moulaert (ed.) Social Innovation and Territorial Development, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2008.
• 'Review Article: Performing the market', Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 13(1), 125–133, 2007.
• (with D. Craig) 'The man in the partnering state: regendering the social through partnership', Studies in Political Economy, 75 (Spring): 103-126, 2005.
• (with Gibson, K.) 'A postcapitalist politics of dwelling', paper presented at Climate Change and the 'Crisis of Reason': A Symposium to Honour the Life and Work of Val Plumwood, in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, 20 June, 2008.
• 'Research for a post-capitalist world', paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, 15-19 April, 2008.
• (with J.K.Gibson-Graham) 'Surplus and dignity: a post-humanist community economics, paper presented at the Rethinking Marxism Conference Surplus/Excess, University of California, Riverside, 4-5 April, 2008.
• 'The constitution of dignity in community economies: Hannah Arendt's politics in labour/necessity and work/surplus', paper presented in the session on Critical Geographies of Work and Labour in the Twenty-First Century at the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 1-6 July, 2007.
• 'Enlisting the Periperformative', paper presented in the panel Researching in A Post-Capitalist Politics World at the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 1-6 July, 2007.
• 'Performing the market through other worlds', paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, 7-11 March, 2006.
• 'Political economy for another world', paper presented at the conference Other Worlds: Social Movements and the Making of Alternatives, University of Technology Sydney, 28-29 April, 2005.

Career Highlights

Invitation to participate, fully funded, in 2008, in a 25 person international workshop on Performing Markets at the University of Frankfurt.