Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: cfp "Globalization from Below"


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=09            "Globalization From Below:
=09Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective"

      an international conference at Duke University, Durham, NC

=09=09      February 5th-8th, 1998

First call for papers: abstracts due October 15th 1997


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:

=A5 globalization in historical context
=A5 "disorganized" labor and "disorganized" capital
=A5 from slavery to emancipation
=A5 the politics of the family and the post-welfare state
=A5 forced labor, wage labor, affective labor, immaterial labor
=A5 the black Atlantic, the cosmic race: hybridities and traditions
=A5 struggle and revolution =A5 gendering the global economy
=A5 capital flight as response to labor movement(s)
=A5 identity, ethnicity, and culture in flux
=A5 internationalism and post-nationalism
=A5 technology and resistance: the internet protest and organization
=A5 women and global networks
=A5 the environment and environmentalism =A5 development and its discontents
=A5 labor history: workers and workers' movements in a global market
=A5 national responses to increasing capital mobility
=A5 prostitution in migrant economies =A5 contesting the old/new world order
=A5 intellectual property, the privatization of information, and free trade
=A5 the autonomy of capitalist command; the anatomy of new social movements
=A5 the "postwork" society, from unemployment to pensions
=A5 place, space and globalization =A5 gender, race, labor & imperialism
=A5 the Atlantic economy in the age of revolutions
=A5 from the plantation to las maquiladoras
=A5 Domestic work and international migration
=A5 wages for housework: the price of reproduction
=A5 communication networks: spreading subversion, disseminating ideology
=A5 peripheral modernities and the third world in the developed heartland
=A5 the welfare state in a global society
=A5 the country and the city: urbanizations and nationalisms
=A5 reactive capital, working class autonomy


Please send one-page abstracts by October 15th 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

tel. (919) 490 6475
email jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu, vabviv-AT-acpub.duke.edu, husbands-AT-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

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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.



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