From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 17:43:03 EDT
From: On Behalf Of Benan Eres Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:50 AM Subject: [Hgs] Call for papers: Critical Perspectives on Third WorldDevelopment CALL FOR PAPERS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT OCTOBER 15, 2004 NEW YORK CITY, USA Conference will be hosted by New School for Social Research in association with Columbia University. Neoliberal strategies of economic growth and social transformation had been immensely popular among the ruling elite, international business and financial circles. During the last decade, however, throughout most of the developing world neoliberal strategies have begun to create more problems than they were devised to solve. Today, increasing numbers of social scientists, policy makers, politicians, and representatives of international institutions can be observed to challenge the central assumptions of neoclassical "free market" doctrines and their translation into economic policy-making in the Third World. Stemming from these challenges, alternative paradigms of development studies started to attract scholarly attention. Parallel to such scholarly challenges and the search for alternative paradigms, a "movement of movements" has emerged from all around the world, a dynamic ensemble of social movement organizations, which heterogeneously targets and opposes the disempowering, impoverishing, immoral, harmful effects of "globalization" on the well-being of the peoples of the developing world. This conference aims to address an inevitable tendency towards the convergence of academic and political challenges (and alternatives) to development in the Third World. We invite papers, as well as reports on ongoing field research from graduate students who are doing critical work on economic policy-making, state-capital-labor relations, class formations and dynamics, cultural transformations, or the relations between economic processes and political mobilization/demobilization in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. Please send an abstract of 500 words or less to both Emrah Goker (Columbia University, Department of Sociology, eg577@columbia.edu) and Aylin Topal (New School University, Department of Political Science, topaa927@newschool.edu). In your proposal, please include: Author's name, paper title, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, telephone and fax number. We are in the process of contacting a number of professors to speak at the opening panel of this one-day conference. The rest of the panels will include graduate student papers. Conference Schedule: Period for submission of abstracts May 20, 2004 Decision on abstracts dispatched September 1, 2004 Deadline for electronic submission of papers September 20, 2004 Conference date October 15, 2004
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