WSF-PEWS Conference
2013 Annual Meeting of the Political Economy of
World-Systems Section of the American Sociological Association
and the
World Society Foundation Award of Excellence
Program
for Research Papers on World Society
April 12-13, 2013
v. 4-10a-12
The
Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological
Association (PEWS) and the World Society Foundation (WSF) have
joined forces to sponsor a conference at the University of California,
Riverside (UCR). This will be the 37th Annual
Spring Conference of PEWS and the 4th World Society Foundation Award Program
for Research Papers. The conference will be held April 12-13, 2013.
Conference Theme:
“Structures of the World
Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation”
Some see recent developments in the
world political economy as fundamental departures from the structures of the
past while for others these recent changes are similar to those that have
occurred in earlier centuries. The international division of labor in the world
economy seems to be in a constant state of flux, and the most recent wave of financialization has sent the global economy into a
crisis Rising food prices and high
unemployment have contributed to an increase in anti-authoritarian movements in
the Middle East and elsewhere, while many developed countries are facing
unsustainable levels of sovereign debt and pressures for greater
austerity.
What
are the implications of these developments for the future of global conflict
and cooperation? Western powers are engaged in several wars in the
The
World Society Foundation and the ASA PEWS Section are encouraging researchers
to investigate the evolution of the world economic structure in the 21st
century, contending scenarios for the future of global conflict and cooperation
and particularly the relationship between the two. Issues that may be addressed
at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
·
Qualitative, quantitative or historical studies of
important changes to the structure and/or the logic of the world political
economy, including the rise and fall of leading sectors and their changing
geographical distribution;
·
Empirically informed considerations of theoretical
concepts including the core/periphery hierarchy, the semiperiphery,
North/South relations and global class formation;
·
The role of firms and supra-national organizations in
the evolution of the world
political economy and/or conflict
and cooperation;
·
Empirical considerations of the rise of new blocks or
international coalitions and the rise of important contending national powers;
·
The future of global governance and global state
formation in world historical perspective;
·
Coalition-formation among contemporary antisystemic social movements and potential
coalitions with progressive
regimes in the Global South in world historical perspective.
Wilma A. Dunaway
·
Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University
·
Sexism after
Bifurcation? The Arrow of Women’s Time and Utopistics
for a New World Order
William I. Robinson
University of California-Santa Barbara
Policing
the Global Crisis
Jason Moore
·
Binghamton University
·
The
End of Cheap Nature, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about ‘the’ Environment
and Love the Crisis of Capitalism
Randall Collins
·
University of Pennsylvania
·
Routes
towards the end of capitalism in mid-21st Century: World-System cycles, and proletarianizing the electronic middle-class
The conference will be located at the
University of California, Riverside (UCR), California, USA.
A map of the relevant part of the UCR
campus and the location of White Horse Ranch is at https://irows.ucr.edu/conferences/wsfpewsconf/venues.htm
Program (the latest draft version
of the program is at https://irows.ucr.edu/conferences/wsfpewsconf/wsfpewsprog.htm
) please check frequently for changes
Sixty papers will be presented at the conference.
There will be three plenary sessions and fourteen regular sessions with three
sessions running concurrently. Most sessions are 100 minutes. With 4 papers,
a discussant and time for the audience that means 15 minutes per presentation.
Projectors will be available for PPT presentations. Abstracts of the papers to
be presented are at https://irows.ucr.edu/conferences/wsfpewsconf/abstracts.htm
Awards
The World Society Foundation Awards of Excellence
Program for Research Papers on World Society, with a prize of US$ 10,000 (First Prize) and
US$ 5,000 (Second Prize), will be presented at the Awards Dinner on
Saturday evening April 14. The World Society Foundation's Board of Members and the Organizing Committee of the Conference will act as the jury for
this evaluation.
Registration
If you intend to attend the conference please fill out a participation
form and send it to
Nelda Thomas <nelda.thomas@ucr.edu> and Chris Chase-Dunn <chriscd@ucr.edu>
The participation form is at https://irows.ucr.edu/conferences/wsfpewsconf/ParticipantForm.htm
Logistics
The conference
begins at 8:20 am on Friday, April 12. Those coming from out of town should
arrive Thursday. The conference is over after the Awards Dinner on Saturday.
Those coming from out of town may want to leave Sunday.
The conference
hotels (The Mission Inn and the Riverside
Marriot) are in downtown Riverside, about 2 miles from UCR. We will provide
van transportation from the hotels to UCR and back for conference attendees.
For those who are on the program as paper presenters or discussants we will
make your hotel reservations. Please let Nelda and Chris know when you will be
arriving and which nights you will be staying over.
The best airport for arriving at UCR is Ontario International Airport (ONT) in Ontario, California. It is about 30 minutes from Riverside. There is no longer free shuttle service provided by the Mission Inn or Marriott. Taxi service costs approximately $40 one way. Super Shuttle is $39 for the first person and $9 per person in the same group. Rental cars from ONT range from $39-$56 per day. We will send vans to ONT to bring people to the conference hotels on Thursday evening. If you are scheduled to arrive at ONT on Thursday afternoon or evening please let us know when and which airline you will be on.
For those coming from abroad it may not be
possible to fly in to ONT, but it would be far more convenient if it is
possible. The other option is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). If you
fly in to LAX you will need to either rent a car or take Super
Shuttle (outside baggage claim) to Riverside. Supershuttle
from, LAX to Riverside costs $79.00 for the first person and $9.00 for any
additional. It takes about 1
and ½ hours or more if traffic is
bad. You can also return to LAX via Super Shuttle. Make a reservation with them
to be picked up in time to make your flight. We have gotten a discount
code for Supershuttle that will allow you a 20%
discount. All guests must book online
and use their credit card in order to receive the discount.
http://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?GC=8U68J
note the code in the box in the upper left hand corner of the supershuttle page.
For those who are driving: The University Theatre address is 400 Humanities,
when you come into the University you can park in Lot 6, there will be 2
attendant available for any additional questions you might have about the
buildings. There is no charge for parking, so you can park there all day.
It is also possible to take the Metrolink
Train from Union Station and other locations in Southern California to Riverside.
The schedules are at http://www.metrolinktrains.com/schedules/line/name/Riverside/service_id/1149.html
Publications
There will be two publications coming out of this
conference. One, selected by the WSF's board, will be in a volume of World Society
Studies, the WSF's edited book series. A second, selected by the PEWS
Organizing Committee, will appear in the PEWS series, published by Paradigm.
Organizing Committee: Christopher Chase-Dunn
(UC-R), Matthew Mahutga (UCR), David A. Smith (UC-Irvine), Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel), Immanuel Wallerstein
(Yale).
Questions?
Nelda Thomas <nelda.thomas@ucr.edu> and Chris Chase-Dunn <chriscd@ucr.edu>
Links
For more
information on the World Society Foundation and its activities, please check
out our web site: http://www.worldsociety.ch/
The PEWS web
site is at http://www2.asanet.org/sectionpews/index.html
The IROWS web
site is at https://irows.ucr.edu .
The conference web site is at http://www.irows.ucr.edu/conferences/wsfpewsconf/wsfpewsconf.htm
Archive: for those of you with an
interest in intellectual history the web site for the PEWS Conference held at
UCR in 2002 is here.
Stiftung Weltgesellschaft
World Society Foundation
Political
Economy of World-Systems
Section
of the American Sociological Association
Institute for Research on World-Systems, UCR
