Dear Paul, Although we have no space for an additional keynote speaker,
you are more than welcome to come and express this point of view. While
most contributors will accept that globalization in some sense is a
reality, there will be many views of this and of the extent to which it
is the case. Many of us will indeed have read the anti-globalization
literature. There is no intention to impose any orthodoxy. Martin Shaw
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:24:39 +0100 (MET) [log in to unmask]
(Paul.Treanor) wrote:
>> CONFERENCE: GLOBALIZATION, STATE AND VIOLENCE
>
>This conference has an impressive list of big names in globalisation.
>I am prepared (for free) to attend as keynote speaker, and deliver this
>keynote address: "There is no globalisation". But of course that is not
>allowed. I think there is a serious point, which recurs in every
>conference announcement or course announcement on globalisation. So far
>as I know, every single conference and course on globalisation,
>everywhere in the world, starts from the assumption that there is
>globalisation. Certainly total denial of its existence, is unacceptable
>behaviour at such conferences: it implies the conference is a hoax.
>
>Most globalisation researchers have never had any professional contact
>with any academic who denies the existence of globalisation. Some
>globalisation researchers have never read any text denying the
>existence
>of globalisation.
>
>It is obviously not possible in such a climate to question the
>hype-turned-lobby. Just as the catholic Church is the last place where
>you can deny the resurrection of Christ, globalisation research is the
>last place to talk about globalisation. And the catholic Church has
>been
>going for 2000 years: I fear the worst.
>
>pt
>
>> Martin ALBROW, Roehampton Institute
>> Michael COX, Aberystwyth
>> James DER DERIAN, Michigan
>> Stephen GILL, York CA
>> Eric HOBSBAWM, London
>> John LOVERING
>> Robin LUCKHAM, Sussex
>> Philip McMICHAEL, Cornell
>> Kate MANZO, Newcastle
>> Margit MAYER, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
>> Jan Nederveen PIETERSE, ISS The Hague
>> Sol PICCIOTTO, Lancaster
>> Peter TAYLOR, Loughborough
>> Kees VAN DER PILJ, Universiteit Amsterdam
>> Gillian YOUNGS, Leicester
Martin Shaw
Professor of International Relations and Politics
Chair of the International Relations and Politics Group
School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel 44 (0) 1273 678032, fax 44 (0) 1273 673563
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