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Paul: Thank you for your comments. Do send us such a contestatory abstract. Take care Jon On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Paul.Treanor wrote: > > funding from the Ford Foundation > > This conference is concerned with "globalization" as a dynamic, contested > > and often contingent process. Rather than concentrating upon the huge,=20 > > 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. > > Obviously not with the contestation of globalisation: the entire > programme assumes there is globalisation, and there is no indication in > the programme that anyone will be allowed to question this absolute > truth, as the organisers see it. > > pt > Jon Beasley-Murray Literature Program Duke University [log in to unmask] http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%