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CALL FOR PAPERS
GLOBALIZATION AND THE ASIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS
A Special Session at the 95th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, 23-27 March 1999
Organisers: Philip Kelly1, Kris Olds2, Henry Wai-chung
Yeung2
1 Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University
of Singapore
2Department of Geography, National University of
Singapore
Following the devaluation of the Thai Baht in mid-1997,
the contagion of financial turmoil spread across the economies of East
and Southeast Asia. IMF packages have been implemented (or at least
agreed upon) in three countries. In the second half of 1997 and first
half of 1998, many economies in the region continued to see currency
depreciations, tumbling stock markets, reduced growth rates, and
political and social turmoil.
Are these events the inevitable outcome of economic
globalization and financial integration? Are they exacerbated by
externally-imposed disciplinary action? Are they attributable to
'corrupt' regimes and domestic financial mismanagement? Can they be
blamed on individual speculators like George Soros? What are the social
and political implications of both the 'problems' and the 'solutions'?
How have the Asian 'region' and its 'crisis' been represented?
These questions offer geographers and other analysts an
opportunity not only to assess the nature and trajectories of Asian
economic development, but also to unpack the crisis tendencies of
economic globalization and assess the responses and consequences of
recent events.
Specifically, the sessions to be held at the Honolulu
AAG meeting in March 1999 could include the following topics:
* global capitalism and its relation to the Asian
economic crisis
* financial liberalisation and the Asian economic
crisis
* the politics of international financial
institutions involved in the crisis
* the sociocultural dimensions of economic crisis
* representations of the 'crisis' and the 'region'
* the impact on national and regional development
in Asia
* the regulation and governance of Asian economies
* regional economic cooperation and organisation
* the impact of the crisis on regional trade and
investment flows
* property speculation and its role in the crisis
Please send all your enquiries and/or titles and
abstracts (no more than 250 words) to Philip Kelly (E-mail:
[log in to unmask]; Fax: +65-777-6608) or Kris Olds (E-mail:
[log in to unmask]; Fax: +65-777 3091) by 1 August 1998.
Alternatively, find Henry Yeung at the Boston AAG
conference next week.
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Dr. Philip F. KELLY, Lecturer,
Southeast Asian Studies Programme,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore. 119260.
TEL: (65) 874-6896
FAX: (65) 777-6608
Email: [log in to unmask]
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