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> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is the updated version of the 1997 Society for Economic
> Anthropology meeting announcement which contains information that
> were missing in an earlier version of the same that you might
> have received. Please feel free to send this information to
> other colleagues and graduate students whose area of expertise
> and interests fall within the theme of this upcoming conference.
>
> If you need further information, please don't hesitate to contact
> me by email at [log in to unmask]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josephine Smart
> Organizer
> SEA 1997 meeting
>
>
>
> 1997 Society for Economic Anthropology Meeting: Globalization and Regionalism
>
> April 25-26, 1997
>
> Hotel Real de Chapala, Ajijic, Jalisco (Located on Lake Chapala, a lovely lake-side resort with year-round mild climate).
>
> Local arrangements chair: Art Murphy (Georgia State U), CIESAS-Occidente
> (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico).
>
> Organizers: Josephine Smart (University of Calgary), Martha Rees
> (Agnes Scott College), and Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha (CIESAS-Guadalahara)
>
>
> THEME
>
> Relations, including trade and migration, between households and
> local communities and the broader systems in which they are
> immersed reflect changing economic and historical
> conditions. Individuals, households and local communities respond
> to changes in larger systems. Which advances in communication and
> transport, production and populations may become
> globalized. Globalization is the creation of wider, extra-local
> social, political and economic linkages. Globalization has taken
> place historically as artifacts, ideological systems and systems
> of production have spread throughout extra-local systems.
>
> Regionalisation is the consolidation of linkages between
> independent political units within a given geographical boundary
> that can exclude "outsiders", e.g., a trade or military
> bloc. regionalism has taken place historically with
> "world-systems" in, for example, Mesoamerica, Asia and Africa. In
> more recent history, Europe, the Americas, and Asian-Pacific Rim
> blocs are examples of regionalism.
>
> These two processes may be complementary or contradictory. The
> interface between globalization and regionalization generates
> new household structures, migration patterns, production
> patterns and political alliances. We would like to look at how these
> twin processes of globalization and regionalism affect
> individuals, households, local communities and nation-states or global
> systems, both historically and at the present.
>
> The conference theme, Globalization and Regionalism,
> provides a wide historical and geographic range within which to
> examine global, regional, and local change. This topic could
> foster debate on global and regional relations in terms of the
> following questions:
>
> *How do changes in communications technology affect production,
> trade and labor processes?
>
> *How have changes in state-level organization affected local communities and households (historically and recently)?
>
> *What are the effects of regionalization and globalization on
> gender relations in households, local communities and the work place?
>
> *How do globalization and regionalization affect stratification and ethnic relations?
>
> *What are the effects of regionalization on migration and other
> population movements?
>
>
> ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
>
> Send abstracts to:
> Josephine Smart, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Calgary,
> Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada.
>
> Fax: (403) 284-5467
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> The abstract submission should include the following:
> Title of paper;
> Name of author(s), institutional affiliation, address, telephone
> number, FAX, and email address;
> Description of paper in 200 words or less.
>
> Notice of acceptance or refusal by January 1, 1997.
> Preliminary program will be circulated by Feb. 1, 1997.
> Final program will be circulated by March 1, 1997.
>
> IMPORTANT: All participants are reminded to include their email
> addresses in their abstract submission to facilitate more
> efficient communication.
>
>
> Hotel Real de Chapala is located on Lake Chapala, a lovely
> lake-side resort with year round mild climate outside of
> Guadalajara. The hotel facilities include an outdoor swimming
> pool, tennis courts, restaurants and meeting rooms. All the guest
> rooms are very spacious. Conference participants can expect to
> pay US$50/person/night for a single room or US$40/person/night
> for shared accommodation with another person. This room rate
> includes a breakfast, a light reception lunch, a coffee break and
> the use of all hotel facilities. A block of 45 rooms at this
> hotel has been reserved for the SEA meeting for the period April
> 24-26, 1997. Hotel reservation should be made as soon as
> possible.
>
> Hotel Real de Chapala
> Tel: (011) 52-3-121-8025
> FAX: (011) 52-3-766-0025
>
>
> Registration and Travel Information
>
> It is most convenient to fly into Guadalajara and then get a taxi
> to the Hotel at Lake Chapala. Make sure you negotiate with the
> taxi driver about the fare before getting on. A reasonable rate
> for the transport between the airport and the Hotel would be
> US$20-25 (at the exchange rate of 7 pesos/US$, that will be
> 150-200 pesos). If you can share the cab with one or more
> persons, that makes the taxi fare a modest US$7-10/person. Or one
> can also consider flying into Puerta Vallarta and take a 3-hour
> bus ride to Guadalajara. The long distance buses run regularly
> and they cost around $35 each way for the luxury buses
> (non-stop). The information about the bus to Guadalajara from
> Puerta Vallarta should be available from the airport or major
> hotels in Puerta Vallarta. We will try to have a SEA booth set up
> at the Guadalajara airpot to facilitate our SEA participants in
> their travel between the airport and the hotel. Look for the SEA
> sign at the airport.
>
> Registration fees for the meeting are $20.<br>
>
> Tickets for the Saturday night Mexican banquet dinner are $15
> each.
>
>
> Society for Economic Anthropology WEB site
>
> "http://www.lawrence.edu/~peregrip/1997reg.htm" Click here for a
> downloadable registration form.
>
> Look here for roommate information!!
> If you have are seeking a roommate or have a room to share, send
> a note to [log in to unmask] and I'll post it here.
>
>
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Kris Olds, Lecturer
Centre for Urban Studies
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
Rodney Lodge, Grange Road
Bristol, BS8 4EA ENGLAND
Tel: 44 (0)117 974 1117
Fax: 44 (0)117 973 7308
Email: [log in to unmask]
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