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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
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=
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numerous axes of domination and innovation, why have its analyses tended=20
to be so singleminded and monolingual?
We invite papers on topics such as the following:
=A5 globalization in historical context=20
=A5 "disorganized" labor and "disorganized" capital=20
=A5 from slavery to emancipation=20
=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=20
=A5 struggle and revolution =A5 gendering the global economy=20
=A5 capital flight as response to labor movement(s)
=A5 identity, ethnicity, and culture in flux=20
=A5 internationalism and post-nationalism
=A5 technology and resistance: the internet protest and organization=20
=A5 women and global networks
=A5 the environment and environmentalism =A5 development and its discontent=
s
=A5 labor history: workers and workers' movements in a global market
=A5 national responses to increasing capital mobility=20
=A5 prostitution in migrant economies =A5 contesting the old/new world orde=
r=20
=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=20
=A5 place, space and globalization =A5 gender, race, labor & imperialism=20
=A5 the Atlantic economy in the age of revolutions
=A5 from the plantation to las maquiladoras=20
=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 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
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conference webpage: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/global/
Sponsored by the graduate seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies with=20
funding from the Ford Foundation, the Trent Foundation, and Duke=20
University's Center for International Studies.=20
Graduate and faculty submissions welcome.
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Further information:
"Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical=20
Perspective"
This conference is concerned with "globalization" as a dynamic, contested=
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and often contingent process. Rather than concentrating upon the huge,=20
apparently irresistible structures that have shaped our world in the last=
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500 years we will look rather at how different people and groups in=20
specific situations and places have struggled to come to terms with, and=20
often conduct resistance against, the developing global system. =20
Globalization is all too often defined in strictly economistic terms, but=
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by drawing attention to the negotiations that have constituted=20
globalization at the local level we hope to understand it in more complex=
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and nuanced ways. In so doing we hope to re-conceptualize globalization=20
as a process that is and has been more open-ended and full of=20
possibilities than is generally recognized.
Is there a fixed direction inherent in globalization? Or have global=20
processes sometimes historically resulted from ad hoc responses to=20
specific conditions and local resistances--both organized and=20
disorganized? How have temporary stratagems come to seem--or come to=20
be--such overwhelming forces? =20
The current wave of globalization has transformed the composition of the=20
various forces and groups that make up the global system--allowing=20
perhaps new social movements or multinational conglomerates to come to=20
the fore. Thus traditional alliances are restructured and historic=20
antagonisms dissipated or rekindled. We propose a historically informed=20
investigation into the balance of power and states of struggle that result.
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