Poster Session: New Political Science: Activism, Identity, and the Informal Economy

• In Event: Poster Session: European Politics and Society & New Political Science

Session Submission Type: Poster Session

Session Description

This poster session offers on-the-ground perspectives of the politics of activism, identity, and the informal economy. Visitors to this session will be given inside views of the activist organization Denver Food Vision, taken through the multisensory experiences and intersectional micropolitics of Occupy Wall Street and the Women’s March, and transported to the streets of Kolkata, India, where they will witness the neoliberal state’s heavy-handed regulation of street vendors.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 42: New Political Science

Individual Presentations

• Edible Activism: Multi-Sensory Experiences and Raising Political Consciousness - Kelsey Obringer, University of Delaware

• Anxiety of Markets? Politics of Informal Economy in the Neoliberal Era. - Anirban Acharya, Le Moyne College