FWD: conference-"Globalization From Below:

[MDOLAN <mdolan@citizen.org>]

  >> please post and forward...
  >>
  >> 		     "Globalization From Below:
  >> 	Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective"
  >>
  >>       an international conference at Duke University, Durham, NC
  >>
  >> 		      February 5th-8th, 1998
  >>
  >> Second call for papers: abstracts due November 1st 1997
  >>
  >> Confirmed keynote speakers include Mary Louise Pratt
  >>
  >> If globalization is such a multivocal and complex process, constituted by
  >> numerous axes of domination and innovation, why have its analyses tended
  >> to be so singleminded and monolingual?
  >>
  >>
  >> We invite papers on topics such as the following:
  >>
  >> * globalization in historical context
  >> * "disorganized" labor and "disorganized" capital
  >> * from slavery to emancipation
  >> * the politics of the family and the post-welfare state
  >> * forced labor, wage labor, affective labor, immaterial labor
  >> * the black Atlantic, the cosmic race: hybridities and traditions
  >> * struggle and revolution * gendering the global economy
  >> * capital flight as response to labor movement(s)
  >> * identity, ethnicity, and culture in flux
  >> * internationalism and post-nationalism
  >> * technology and resistance: the internet protest and organization
  >> * women and global networks
  >> * the environment and environmentalism * development and its discontents
  >> * labor history: workers and workers' movements in a global market
  >> * national responses to increasing capital mobility
  >> * prostitution in migrant economies * contesting the old/new world order
  >> * intellectual property, the privatization of information, and free trade
  >> * the autonomy of capitalist command; the anatomy of new social movements
  >> * the "postwork" society, from unemployment to pensions
  >> * place, space and globalization * gender, race, labor & imperialism
  >> * the Atlantic economy in the age of revolutions
  >> * from the plantation to las maquiladoras
  >> * Domestic work and international migration
  >> * wages for housework: the price of reproduction
  >> * communication networks: spreading subversion, disseminating ideology
  >> * peripheral modernities and the third world in the developed heartland
  >> * the welfare state in a global society
  >> * the country and the city: urbanizations and nationalisms
  >> * reactive capital, working class autonomy
  >>
  >>
  >> Please send one-page abstracts by November 1st 1997 to:
  >>
  >> Jon Beasley-Murray, Vince Brown, or Paul Husbands
  >> "Globalization from Below" conference
  >> Center for International Studies
  >> Box 90404
  >> Duke University
  >> Durham, NC 27708-0404
  >>
  >> fax. (919) 684-8749
  >> tel. (919) 286 3526
  >>
  >> email jpb8@acpub.duke.edu, vabviv@acpub.duke.edu, husbands@acpub.duke.edu
  >> conference webpage: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/global/
  >>
  >> Sponsored by the graduate seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies with
  >> funding from the Ford Foundation, the Trent Foundation, and Duke
  >> University's Center for International Studies.
  >>
  >> All (graduate and faculty and other) submissions welcome.
  >>
  >> -----
  >> Further information:
  >>
  >> "Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical
  >> Perspective"
  >>
  >> This conference is concerned with "globalization" as a dynamic, contested
  >> and often contingent process.  Rather than concentrating upon the huge,
  >> apparently irresistible structures that have shaped our world in the last
  >> 500 years we will look rather at how different people and groups in
  >> specific situations and places have struggled to come to terms with, and
  >> often conduct resistance against, the developing global system.
  >>
  >> Globalization is all too often defined in strictly economistic terms, but
  >> by drawing attention to the negotiations that have constituted
  >> globalization at the local level we hope to understand it in more complex
  >> and nuanced ways.  In so doing we hope to re-conceptualize globalization
  >> as a process that is and has been more open-ended and full of
  >> possibilities than is generally recognized.
  >>
  >> Is there a fixed direction inherent in globalization?  Or have global
  >> processes sometimes historically resulted from ad hoc responses to
  >> specific conditions and local resistances--both organized and
  >> disorganized?  How have temporary stratagems come to seem--or come to
  >> be--such overwhelming forces?
  >>
  >> The current wave of globalization has transformed the composition of the
  >> various forces and groups that make up the global system--allowing perhaps
  >> new social movements or multinational conglomerates to come to the fore.
  >> Thus traditional alliances are restructured and historic antagonisms
  >> dissipated or rekindled.  We propose a historically informed
  >> investigation into the balance of power and states of struggle that result.
  >>
  ===== Comments by MDOLAN@CITIZEN (MDOLAN) at 9/19/97 9:54 am
  I know I'll be getting to work on my abstract pronto.