Globalisation
-starting to fill the gaps-
Theory, practice and lacunae
Nottingham Trent University
Eleonore Kofman & Christopher May
Department of International Studies
The series of seminars seeks to explore specific lacuna in the
discourse around the term 'globalisation', initially drawing on issues
raised by Eleonore Kofman and Gillian Youngs (editors) Globalisation:
Theory & Practice (London: Pinter, 1996) and the conference from which
the papers were drawn. During the ongoing series the organisers aim
to establish a more coherent theory of the processes of globalisation.
To this end practitioners of Global Political Economy, International
Relations and Political Geography will be brought together to discuss
and develop new ideas and approaches.
By promoting an interdisciplinary approach to the 'problem' of
globalisation, the series will support and act as a forum for new
perspectives that avoid the short comings and gaps that previous
attempts to theorise and understand globalisation have fallen prey to.
Papers should be prepared to engage with current literatures and
establish ways forward that can feed into revised and reflexive
theories of globalisation.
The series does not seek to work to a set agenda but to respond to
issues and problems that arise during the seminars, building on the
contributions and interactions of the participants and mapping out
areas of concern that need further development. The first seminar in
February 1996 dealt with the theme of Democracy and Governance in the
'Third World'. The second in July focuses on 'Putting people into
GPE': migration, finance and knowledge' and the third in November on
'Identity Politics in a Globalising World'.
Papers presented at the first seminar:
'Dancing Towards a Better Future' . Gender issues in a Mozambican
multi-party political transition, Ruth Jacobson (University of
Bradford); 'From Employment to Social Compensation'. The gendering
of neo-liberalism in Latin America, Nina Laurie (Newcastle
University); 'Globalisation' and the end of the 'Third World state',
Norman Lewis (Sussex University); 'Globalisation, Democracy &
Citizenship' Prospects for the Third World, Giles Mohan (University of
Portsmouth).
'Putting people into GPE'
Migration, finance and knowledge
Second seminar
3rd July 1996
Nottingham Trent University
With the emphasis in much recent debate around 'critical theory' and
emancipatory theories, papers for this session are invited to
reintroduced collective and individual experiences and trajectories
into the analysis of globalisation. Utilising feminist and other
perspectives, papers should ground an understanding of globalisation
and the issue of 'circulation' within the global political economy in
the movement of groups and individuals. Papers givers will be asked
suggest ways of groups and individuals. Part of the object of this
session will be to begin to transform our understanding of ourselves
in the global system, from 'agents' to 'people'!
Confirmed papers
Theorising International Migration: Structures, trajectories,
biographies
Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent University)
Labour in the Global Political Economy
Robert O'Brien (University of Sussex)
The Experience of Hunger: Self-determination and the Globalisation of
Vulnerability
Julian Saurin (University of Sussex)
For further information, please contact:
Eleonore Kofman or Christopher May
Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS
Fax: 0115 948 6610 or email: [log in to unmask]
Suggestions for subsequent meetings have been:
New Configurations of the State;
Global Co-operations;
Militarisation and Demilitarisation;
and Peripheralising Centres
Key papers from the seminars
will be brought together for publication.
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