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CALL FOR
PAPERS
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT
OCTOBER 15, 2004 NEW YORK CITY, USA
Conference will be hosted by New School for Social Research in
association
with Columbia University.
Neoliberal strategies of economic growth and social transformation had
been
immensely popular among the ruling elite, international business
and
financial circles. During the last decade, however, throughout most of
the
developing world neoliberal strategies have begun to create more
problems
than they were devised to solve. Today, increasing numbers of
social
scientists, policy makers, politicians, and representatives of
international institutions can be observed to challenge the
central
assumptions of neoclassical "free market" doctrines and
their translation
into economic policy-making in the Third World. Stemming from
these
challenges, alternative paradigms of development studies started to
attract
scholarly attention.
Parallel to such scholarly challenges and the search for
alternative
paradigms, a "movement of movements" has emerged from all
around the world,
a dynamic ensemble of social movement organizations, which
heterogeneously
targets and opposes the disempowering, impoverishing, immoral,
harmful
effects of "globalization" on the well-being of the peoples
of the
developing world.
This conference aims to address an inevitable tendency towards the
convergence of academic and political challenges (and alternatives)
to
development in the Third World. We invite papers, as well as reports
on
ongoing field research from graduate students who are doing critical
work
on economic policy-making, state-capital-labor relations, class
formations
and dynamics, cultural transformations, or the relations between
economic
processes and political mobilization/demobilization in Central and
South
America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Please send an abstract of 500 words or less to both Emrah Goker
(Columbia
University, Department of Sociology, [log in to unmask]) and Aylin
Topal
(New School University, Department of Political Science,
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proposal, please include: Author's name,
paper title, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, telephone and
fax
number.
We are in the process of contacting a number of professors to speak at
the
opening panel of this one-day conference. The rest of the panels
will
include graduate student papers.
Conference Schedule:
Period for submission of abstracts May 20, 2004
Decision on abstracts dispatched September 1, 2004
Deadline for electronic submission of papers September 20,
2004
Conference date October 15, 2004
--
Chris Jones
CSE / Capital and Class
25 Horsell Road
London, N5 1XL
02076079615
www.cseweb.org.uk