WSF-PEWS Conference Program (draft v. 4-9-13)
Institute for Research on World-Systems, University
of California-Riverside
Structures of the World Political Economy and
the Future Global Conflict and Cooperation
Most sessions are 100 minutes. With 4 papers,
a discussant and time for the audience that means 15 minutes per presentation.
If there are 3 papers in a session presenters
will have 20 minutes. Projectors will be available for PPT presentations and we
will figure out how you can hook in to the UCR wireless internet system.
Friday April 12, 2013
7:20 and 7:45 Vans leave hotels for UCR
8:00-8:20 Registration
and Continental Breakfast
*Location: University Theatre Plaza
8:20 Opening and Welcoming Remarks: Dean
Stephen Cullenberg, College of Humanities, Arts and
Social Sciences
*Location: University Theatre
Plenary Session 1
8:30-9:20 Keynote
1: Jason Moore (Fernand
Braudel Center, Binghamton University)
“The End of
Cheap Nature, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about ‘the’ Environment and Love the Crisis of Capitalism”
Presider: Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale)
*Location: University Theatre
9:20-10:10 Keynote
2: Wilma Dunaway (Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University)
“Sexism
after Bifurcation?
The Arrow of Women’s Time and Utopistics for a New
World Order”
Presider: Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)
*Location: University Theatre
15 minute break (10-10-10:25) pick up water
at University Theatre Plaza on way to next venue
Panel
Sessions 1 - 6
10:25-12:05 Session 1: Earth System and
World-System
Presider: Jason Moore (Fernand
Braudel Center, Binghamton University)
Carl Nordlund (Central European University) “Preceding and governing measurements: an
Emmanuelian
conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange”
Farshad
Araghi
(Florida Atlantic University)
“The End of Cheap
Ecology and the Future of “Cheap Capital:” Food Crises, Hunger Regime,
and the Global Crisis of Reproduction”
Thomas J. Burns (University of Oklahoma) “A Theory of
Ecological Mismatch in a World-Systems Perspective”
Discussant: Patrick Bond
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) <pbond@mail.ngo.za>
*Location:
Map Room, College Building South
10:25-12:05 Session 2: World-system Structure and Position
Presider: Albert J. Bergesen (University of Arizona)
Salvatore
Babones (University of Sydney) “Measuring the Degree of Structure in the
World-Economy Using Concepts From Entropy Theory”
Samuel Cohn (Texas A and M University) “Rethinking Unequal Terms of Trade: the
Crystallization of the World into Core and Periphery 1870-1950”
Jeffrey Kentor (University of Utah) “A New Typology of the Global Economy: 1850-present”
Discussant: Matthew Mahutga (University of
California-Riverside) matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu
*Location: College Building North, Rm. 205
10:25-12:05 Session 3: Social Movements and Semiperipheral Regimes
Presider: Jenny Chesters (University of Canberra)
Paul Almeida (University of California-Merced) “The Development State as
Incubator of
Antisystemic Movements”
Alessandro
Morosin and Chris Chase-Dunn
(University of California-Riverside)
“Latin America in the World-System: World Revolutions and Semiperipheral Development”
Chungse
Jung (Binghamton University) “Does the Semiperiphery End?: Empirical Reappraisals
on the
Perspective of Antisystemic Movements”
Robert MacPherson (University of California, Irvine) "Antisystemic Movements in Periods of
Hegemonic Decline: Syndicalist Coalition-Formation in World-Historical Perspective."
Discussant: Mark Herkenrath
(University of Zurich) <herkenrath@soziologie.uzh.ch>
*Location:
The Darwin Room, 1239 Spieth Hall
Lunch
12:05-1:30 Box
Lunch, Location: Director’s Garden adjacent to College Building South
1:30-3:05 (95 minutes)
Session 4: Earth
System and World-System2
Presider: Ellen Reese
(University of California-Riverside)
Jennifer Givens and Andrew Jorgenson (University
of Utah) “Global Integration and
Carbon Emissions, 1965-2005”
Daniela Danna
(University of Milan) “Population in the
core, the semiperiphery, and the
periphery in the current B phase”
Armand Leka Essomba
(University
of Yaounde I/Cameroon) “Fear of “world shortage”
and re-discovery of oil in Africa: Social and political consequences of
Chinese-American oil competition in sub-Saharan Africa”
Discussant: David A. Smith (University of
California-Irvine) <dasmith@uci.edu>
*Location:
Map Room, College Building South
1:30-3:05 Session 5: Global Inequalities
Presider: Paul Almeida (University of
California-Merced)
Jenny Chesters (University of Canberra)
“The Effect of
Neoliberalism on the Distribution of Wealth in the World Economy”
Hiroko Inoue (University of California-Riverside) “Evolution of Global Stratification
—dynamic interaction of trade network and land use patterns”
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz
and Scott Albrecht
(University of Maryland, College Park)
“Global Wages and World Inequality:
Crisis or Opportunity?”
Marco Bulhões Cecilio (Federal Univeristy of
Rio de Janeiro) “A Braudelian look at the
contemporary financial
sector as an accumulation center:findings from the investigative
window of
opportunity provided by the 2007/2008
financial crisis”
Discussant: Salvatore Babones (University of Sydney) <sbabones@inbox.com>
*Location: College Building North, Room 205
1:30-3:05 Session 6: Rising Powers 1
Presider: William R. Thompson (Indiana University)
James Fenelon (California State
University at San Bernardino) “Indigenous Alternatives to the
Global Crises of the Modern World System”
F. Sonia Arellano-López (Binghamton University) “Development in the Western Amazon:
Regional
Integration, Economic Growth and Changing Roles of the State”
Antonio Gelis-Filho (Fundação Getúlio Vargas-EAESP ) São Paulo) “The “vinte gloriosos”:
Brazil in the World-System, 1989-2012”
Daniel Pasciuti and Beverly J.
Silver
(Johns Hopkins University) “Developmentalist Illusion
Redux?”
Discussant: Thomas J. Burns (University of
Oklahoma) <tburns@ou.edu>
*Location: The Darwin Room, 1239 Spieth
Hall
Break-15 Minutes 3:05- 3:20 in front of
Genomics Auditorium
Plenary Session 2
3:20-5:20 "World-systems theory and alternative approaches"
Organizer and Presider: Christian
Suter (University of Neuchâtel)
Panelists:Volker Bornschier (University of Zurich); Thomas D. Hall (DePauw University;
William
I. Robinson
(University of California-Santa Barbara); William R. Thompson (Indiana University);
Jonathan
Turner
(University of California-Riverside)
Discussants:
Immanuel Wallerstein
(Yale); Chris Chase-Dunn (University
of California-Riverside)
*Location: Genomics
Auditorium
Reception
5:25-7:00 College
Building South, Director’s Garden
7:00 - Dinner:
On Your Own
Saturday April 13, 2013
Vans leave hotels: 7:20 and 7:40
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast.
*Location: Map Room, College Building South
Panel Sessions 7 - 12
8:30 to 10:10 Session 7: “Global
cities in the world-system”
Organizer and Presider: Michael
Timberlake (University of Utah)
Arthur
S. Alderson, Joe Johnston (Indiana University) and Jason
Beckfield
(Harvard University)
“Urban Development and the World City System:
Inter-City Relations and the Fate of U.S. Cities”
Tang Wei
(Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) “Cities and the Transformation of the Global
System”
Matthew
R. Sanderson (Kansas State University) and Michael F. Timberlake (University
of
Utah) “Bringing
Migration Back In: A Cross-City Comparative Analysis of the World Urban System”
Discussant: Andrew Jorgenson (University
of Utah) <andrew.jorgenson@soc.utah.edu>
*Location: Anderson South, Room 118
8:30-10:10 Session 8: Labor
Presider: Quee-young Kim (University of Wyoming)
Sahan Karatasli,
Sefika Kumral, Ben Scully,
Beverly Silver and Smriti Upadhyay (Johns Hopkins University)
“Bringing Labor Back in: Workers in the Current Wave of Global Social Protest”
Anthony Roberts
(University of California-Riverside) “Neo-Corporatism in the World Economy:
A Cross-National Analysis of 18 OECD
Countries, 1970-2005
Jason Struna (University of
California-Riverside) “Transnationally
Implicated Labor Processes as
Transnational Social
Relations: Workplaces and Global Class Formation”
Discussant: Harold Kerbo (California
Polytechnic State University) hkerbo@calpoly.edu
*Location:
College Building North, Room 205
8:30-10:10 Session 9: Wars and Warfare
Presider: Thomas D. Hall (DePauw University
Albert
J. Bergesen (University of Arizona) “World War II: What Have We Learned About
Global Conflict?”
Ray
Dezzani,(University of Idaho) and Colin Flint ( University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)
“One Logic, Many Wars: The Variety and
Geography of Wars in the Capitalist World-Economy, 1816-2007”
Eric Bonds (University of Mary Washington) “Global
Humanitarian Norms and Hegemonic Power:
Terrorizing Violence in
the Long Iraq War”
Bruno Hendler (University of Brazilia) “The
United States and China in the 21st century:
the costs of the War on Terror and the
changes in asymmetric interdependence”
Discussant: Samuel Cohn (Texas A and M University) <s-cohn@neo.tamu.edu>
*Location:
College Building South, Map Room
10:10-10:25 Break, Water at
College Building South
10:25-12:05 Session 10: On the Trail of the Global Commodity Chain
Organizers: Jennifer Bair (University of
Colorado, Boulder) and
Jeffrey Henderson (University of
Bristol)
Presider: James Fenelon (California State
University at San Bernardino)
Donald A. Clelland
(University of Tennessee) “The Core of
the Apple: Surplus Drain and
Dark
Value in a Global Commodity
Chain”
Elizabeth Sowers
(University of California-Irvine) Paul
S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University) and
David Smith
(University of California-Irvine) “Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity
Chains in the Early
Twenty-first
Century: Opportunities For and Constraints on Labor and Political Movements”
Mario Davide Parrilli (Basque Institute of Competitiveness & and Deusto Business School)
Khalid Nadvi (University of Manchester) and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (National University of Singapore)
“Local and Regional Development in Global
Value Chains, Production Networks and Innovation Networks:
A Comparative Review and Challenges
for Future Research”
Somjita Laha (University of Manchester) “Spatial Movement of
E-waste as Capital Flow”
Discussant: Jennifer Bair (University of Colorado, Boulder) <jennifer.bair@colorado.edu>
*Location:
Anderson South, Room 118
10:25-12:05 Session 11: Development in the
Global South
Presider: Beverly J. Silver (Johns Hopkins
University)
Harold
Kerbo (California Polytechnic State
University) and Patrick Ziltener (University of
Zurich) “Sustainable Development and
Poverty Reduction in the Modern World System:
Southeast
Asia and the Negative Case of Cambodia”
Gary Coyne (University of California-Riverside) “The
Political Economy of Language Education Policies”
Rak koo Chung (SUNY-Albany) “Global and Local: Elites and the
Dynamics of Nominal Democratization”
Tamer El Gindi (University of California,
Irvine) “Income
Inequality and Economic Globalization:
A Longitudinal Study of
Muslim-Majority Countries (1963-2002)”
Discussant: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz (University of
Maryland, College Park) <korzen@umd.edu>
*Location:
Map Room, College Building South
10:25-12:05 Session 12: Political Globalization
Presider: Chris Chase-Dunn (University
of California-Riverside)
Alexis Alvarez (University of California-Riverside) “The Structure and Dynamics of Global Governance”
Patrick Bond
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) “Territorial alliance formation and dissolution as
building blocs for
geopolitical theory”
Manuela Boatcă (Free University of
Berlin) “Commodification of Citizenship: Global Inequalities and
the Modern Transmission of
Property”
Lindsay Jacobs and Ronan Van Rossem (Ghent University)
“Political power and the world-system:
can political
globalization counter core hegemony?”
Discussant: William R. Thompson (Indiana University) <wthompso@indiana.edu>
*Location:
College Building North, Room 205
Lunch
12:05-1:30 Box
Lunch, College Building South, Director’s Garden
Plenary Session 3
1:30-2:20 Keynote 3: William I. Robinson
(University of California-Santa Barbara) "Policing the Global
Crisis."
Presider: Katja Guenther (University of California-Riverside)
2:20-3:10 Keynote 4: Randall Collins (University
of Pennsylvania) “Routes towards the end of capitalism in mid-21st
Century:
world-system
cycles, and proletarianizing the electronic
middle-class”
Presider: Jonathan Turner
(University of California-Riverside)
*Location: Anderson South, Room 118
Break-15 Minutes 3:10-3:25 water at College
Building South
Panel Sessions 13 - 14
3:25-5:05 Session 13: System Boundaries and
Competition
Presider: Wilma Dunaway
(Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Thomas D.
Hall (DePauw
University) “Boundaries,
Borders, and Frontiers in the Contemporary
World-System as Seen from Non-State Angles”
Daniel Gugan (University of Budapest) “The EU’s regional world-system: Evaluating the
European Neighborhood Policy in the
light of regional core-periphery patterns”
Thomas E. Reifer (University of San
Diego) “The Battle for the Future Has Begun:
The Reassertion of
Race, Space and Place in World-Systems Geographies and Anti-Systemic Cartographies”
Discussant: Farshad Araghi (Florida Atlantic
University) <araghi@fau.edu>
*Location: College Building North,
Room 205
3:25-5:05 Session 14: Rising Powers 2
Presider: Volker Bornschier (University of Zurich)
Quee-young Kim (University of
Wyoming) “The Meaning of the Rise of China”Astra
Bonini (Columbia University)
“The Rise of China: Implications for Raw Material Producing Countries
in Comparative Historical Perspective”
Wai Kit Choi
(California State
University- Los Angeles), Andrew Duncan and David A. Smith (University of
California-Irvine)
“Shanghai and Hong Kong: Competitors for World City Prominence in China?
Discussant: Manuela Boatcă (Free University of
Berlin) <manuela.boatca@fu-berlin.de>
*Location:
Map Room, College Building South
Awards Dinner
6:00 - White
Horse Ranch, 2007 Mt.Vernon Avenue, Riverside, CA
92507