PEWS XXIX

WORLD‑SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND CONTENDING POLITICAL SCENARIOS

29th Conference of the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS)

Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 14-15, 2005

Plenary Session I: Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociology, Yale University & Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Plenary Session II: Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Session I: Neoliberalism & Power

Chair: Joya Misra, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Farshad Araghi, Mark Frezzo, and Marina Karides, Sociology, Florida Atlantic University. AFracturing the Consensus: The Decline of Neoliberal Doctrine, Keynesianism, and the Global Future@

Antonio Y. Vazquez Arroyo, Political Science, City University of New York. ANeoliberalism, Imperialism, and Liberal Democracy: An Essay of Juxtaposition@

Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas and Erika Marquez Montano, Political Science and Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. ALaw, Development, Neoliberalism, and the Coloniality of Power: A Post‑Occidentalist View@

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. AThe Road not (yet?) Taken: Lula's Administration at Two@

Antonio Carmona Baez, Political Science, University of Puerto Rico. AState Accommodation/ Resistance to Globalization in Cuba@

Session II: Empire, Imperial Discourses, and Global Hegemonies

Chair: Nerissa Balce, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Bill Robinson, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara. AThe Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking on It@

Vijay Prashad, International Relations, Trinity College. AThe Assassination of the Third World@

Joan Cocks, Political Science, Mount Holyoke College. ABeyond Empire & the Nation State: Said & the Israeli‑Palestinian Conflict@

Santiago Slabdosky, Religious Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. ARe/Dis‑Placing Evil and the Project of Modern Re‑Colonization of Spiritualities from Immanuel Kant to George W. Bush@

Khaldoun Samman, Sociology, Macalester College. AIdentities in Times of Systemic Crisis: Orientalizing the Self in the Middle East@

Session III: The Politics of Global Institutions

Chair: Dan Clawson, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Jennifer Bair, Sociology, Yale University. AFrom the UN CTC to the Global Compact: The Privatization of Politics in Global Civil Society@

József Böröcz, Sociology, Rutgers University and Institute for Political Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. AHow Size Matters: The EU as a Geopolitical Animal@

Mark Thomas, Sociology, York University, Canada. AWorking for Better Standards? Global Institutions, >Partnership Internationalism,= and Resistance@

Heikki Patomaki, International Relations, University of Helsinki, Finland. AGlobal Economic Decline: Future Crises, and Changes in Global Governance@

Heinz Sonntag, Sociology, University of Massachusetts and Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, Universidad Central de Venezuela. ARegional Inter‑State Integrations in the Periphery: Obstacles or Vehicles of the Actual Globalization@

Enrique Dussel Ambrosini, Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Anibal Quijano, Sociology, Binghamton University & Lima, Peru

Session IV: Historical Capitalism in Crisis? Contending Scenarios for Change Today

Chair: Randall Stokes, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Minqi Li, Political Science, York University, Canada. ASecular Trends and Long Waves of the Profit Rate and its Determinants@

Matthew Mahutga and David Smith, Sociology, University of California at Irvine. AThe Structural Underpinnings of the Contemporary World‑System Crisis: Relating Changing Global Networks in the Late 20th Century to Contending Scenarios for Change Today@

Manuela Boatca, Sociology, Katholische Universität Eichstätt‑Ingolstadt, Germany. AThe Chance of Interregnum: Revisiting Past Solutions to Systemic Change@

Patricio Korzeniewicz, Sociology, University of Maryland and Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. AHistorical Patterns of Association in Latin America@

Denis O=Hearn, Sociology, Queens University‑Belfast, Northern Ireland. AThe Celtic Tiger and the Mayan Jaguar: Two Responses to World Inequality@

Session V: State, Nation, Region: Cartographies of Power and Contestation

Chair: Srirupa Roy, Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Shelley Feldman, Development Sociology and Women=s Studies, Cornell University. AMobility versus Place‑making: Securing Rights and Voice in the Contemporary Conjuncture@

Fouad Makki, Sociology, Binghamton University. AWorld Time, National Space: Historical Temporality and the Nationalist Re‑enchantment of Space at the Horn of Africa@

Roman de la Campa, Spanish and Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stonybrook. APost‑National Mapping and New City‑States in Latin America@

Daniel La Parra, Sociology, Universidad de Alicante, Spain. AMapping Interstate Relationships between Arab Countries: Content Analysis of National Arab News Agencies@

Kiran Asher and Timothy Currie, Geography, Clark University. AMobilizing and Contesting the Global Commons through Biodiversity Conservation Measures@

Session VI: A New Wave of Antisystemic Movements?

Chair: Millie Thayer, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Christophe Aguiton, Paris, France. ANew Capitalism, Transformation of Social Movements, and New Technologies@

Barry Gills, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. AAnswering Empire: Global Society, Alter‑Globalization, and the Global Justice Movement@

Ganesh Trichur, Global Studies, Saint Lawrence University. AEast Asian Futures and the Future of Global Democracy in the World‑System@

Liliana Cotto‑Morales, Sociology, University of Puerto Rico. AIs the Social Movement for Peace and Justice for Vieques and Puerto Rico an Anti‑Systemic Movement?@

Teivo Teivainen, Program on Democracy & Global Transformation, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Peru. ATransnational Activism Confronts Economism: New Politics of the World‑System@

Session VII: Homage to Gloria Anzaldua : New World Theater Performance, Readings, Testimonials

Session VIII: Race, Coloniality, Social Movements, and the World‑System

Chair: John Bracey, Afro‑American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

James Fenelon, Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino & Thomas Hall, Sociology, Depauw University. AIndian, Black, and Irish: Empire, Racial Nationalism, Resistance, Resurgence, and Global Racism@

Ramon Grosfoguel, Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley. AQue Tal Raza? Global Coloniality and Global Decolonization@

Kelvin Santiago‑Valles, Sociology, Binghamton University. AComparing Global Racial Regimes: The Belle Epoques of British and US Hegemony@

Nikhil Pal Singh, History, University of Washington. AThe Afterlife of Fascism@

Howard Winant, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara. AConceptualizing World Racism & the New Global Wave of Social Movements@

Closing Session

Chair, Agustin Lao‑Montes, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Closing Remarks:

Amrita Basu, Political Science and Women=s Studies, Amherst College and Director, Five College Women Studies Center

Catherine Walsh, Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador.

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