Preliminary Draft Program

The Preliminary Draft Program is now online.

Call for Participation

Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy
Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, August 9, 2013

* Pre-register by March 1, 2013 to present
* Register by July 1, 2013 to attend

This one-day conference will focus on highlighting sociologists’ contributions to contemporary struggles for social justice around the world.  Conference streams will focus on topics like:

  • Alternatives to capitalist development
  • Biofuels and global warming
  • Can we have development AND justice?
  • Challenges in international development
  • Criminal justice and injustice
  • Current affairs in major regions of the world
  • Development
  • Economic and social rights
  • Economy and society
  • Environmental footprints
  • Environmental justice
  • Faces of globalization
  • Food security
  • Food sovereignty
  • Human rights
  • Indigenous movements
  • Indigenous nationhood
  • Indigenous peoples’ struggles
  • International law and institutions
  • Local struggles for rights and/or justice
  • Peace movements
  • Policing and social control
  • Race, class, and gender in the world-system
  • Social movements
  • Strengthening civil society
  • The international treaty system
  • The political economy of the world-system
  • The politics of austerity
  • The rise of the surveillance state
  • The transnational capitalist class
  • Transnational corporations
  • World-systems and ecosystems

The conference program is open and all proposals for participation on topics related to power and justice in the contemporary world-economy will be considered.

To Participate

There are multiple ways you can participate in this conference.

(1) To attend without presenting, simply register by July 1, 2013.  Registration fees are $20 for full-time employed professionals, $10 for students, retired professionals, and others who are on limited budgets.

(2) To participate by giving a presentation, pre-register by March 1, 2013 and select the presenter option.  Presenters will be asked to present their knowledge or expertise on their chosen topic, not an academic research paper.  For example, an expert on global inequality would be expected to summarize the state of academic knowledge about inequality levels and trends, not present the results of a specific research paper.  If you register as a potential presenter, you will be asked to provide a 100-word description of the topic(s) on which you would like to present. We are open to all suggestions and will organize panels based on the submissions we receive.

(3) To propose an invited panel (a fully-staffed 90 minute panel of presenters) please contact Salvatore Babones at sbabones@inbox.com as soon as possible.

(4) To volunteer to chair a panel, simply check the appropriate box on your registration and we will contact you to make arrangements.

Conference Papers

All conference participants (both presenters and non-presenters) who pre-register by March 1 will have the opportunity to submit a conference paper that will be fully peer-reviewed and included in an online conference proceedings volume.  You need not present at the conference to take advantage of this facility, though you do have to register.  Initial papers will be due April 29, 2013.  Final papers (revised based on peer review feedback) will be due July 1, 2013.  Pre-registrants will be contacted in March about the opportunity for paper submission after the close of pre-registration.

Conference Organizing Committee

Philipp Babcicky, University of Graz
Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney (co-Chair)
Mark Frezzo, University of Mississippi (co-Chair)
Gregory Hooks, Washington State University
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
Keri Iyall Smith, Suffolk University

Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy

New York City, August 9, 2013

This one-day conference will focus on highlighting sociologists' contributions to contemporary struggles for social justice around the world. Conference streams will focus on topics like the politics of austerity, faces of globalization, labor movements, indigenous nationhood, civil society, food security, transnational corporations, the international treaty system, the transnational capitalist class, challenges in international development, and current affairs in major regions of the world. The conference program is open and all proposals for participation related to power and justice in the world today will be considered.

The conference is being organized by the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association with the support of the Collective Behavior & Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, the Development Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, the Human Rights section of the American Sociological Association, the RC02 (Economy and Society) of the International Sociological Association and the School of Social & Political Sciences of the University of Sydney.

Non-academic representatives from think tanks, publishers, progressive lobbyists, and other civil society organizations will also be participating. Presenters will be encouraged to focus on policy and action rather than purely academic research.

Registration

Click here to register for the conference on Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy.

Conference CFP