[Fwd: Globalization workshop at Chapel Hill]

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>Local Democracy . . . An Uncertain Future?
>A Public Workshop
>To be held at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill--All are cordially
>invited to attend
>Friday & Saturday, March 2 -3, 2001
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>Sponsored by the Democratization Traineeship Program of the University
>Center for International Studies,
>The Department of Anthropology, the University Program in Cultural Studies,
>and College of Arts and Sciences,
>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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>What are the prospects for local democracy at the beginning of the new
>millennium? How are communities in the United States and Europe managing
>the tensions and contradictions between the processes associated with
>globalization and economic and political restructuring on one hand, and the
>revitalization of local democratic institutions and practices on the other?
>How, for example, do local democratic institutions contend with increasing
>class polarization, the exacerbation of racial and national divisions, the
>stress placed on locales by capital flight, and by increased transnational
>and infra-national migrations that bring "strangers" into local areas? What
>are the implications of the dominance of a neoliberal ideology of
>governance that prizes the solutions of markets above those of government
>for the workings of local democracy? How do the institutions of the new
>democratic politics work in theory and in practice? In areas less directly
>affected by neoliberal ideologies of governance, to what extent do local
>democratic actors contend with alternative ideologies, and how do their
>democratic strategies face up to the pressures created by these
>alternatives? What leads some people to organize politically to affect
>local democracy, while others withdraw into private concerns?
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>We will be joined by prominent scholars and activists who have studied and
>participated in democratic politics and the political and economic
>transformations of the last three decades in the United States and
>elsewhere, and by the public, as we collectively consider these questions.
>In an attempt to honor the spirit of this workshop, and its call to focus
>on the specifics of democracy in specific places and specific times as it
>confronts the challenges of neoliberal globalization, we seek to engage in
>a comparative dialogue which engages the findings from research on local
>democracy in North Carolina with the findings from research work on
>democracy done in other parts of the country and the world.
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>Public participation is essential, for this is not a conference, but
>instead an open public workshop involving dialogue and engagement between
>participants, that is, anyone who can join us and is concerned about the
>prospects for local democracy in the 21st century.
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>Over two days of open dialogue, we seek to explore the following five topics:
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>* Neoliberalism, Economic Restructuring, and Government Reorganization:
>Democracy's New Contexts
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>* Race, Class, Citizenship, and Nationality: The Schisms that Local
>Democracy Mediates
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>* Managing "Public" Business: New Hybrid Forms and Visions in An Age of
>Neoliberal Dominance
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>* Public and NGO Activism, Private Lives
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>The Future of Local Democracy and Its Politics: What Needs To Be Done?
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>  Speakers (in order of appearance):
>Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council; Carl Boggs,
>Department of Mathematics, Sciences and Humanities, National University,
>Los Angeles; Lesley Bartlett, Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill; Michael Apple,
>School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven Gregory,
>Department of Anthropology, New York University; Paul Luebke, NC State
>Assembly and Sociology, UNC Greensboro, and Doug Schrock, Sociology, UNC
>Greensboro (tentative); Lee Baker, Department of Cultural Anthropology,
>Duke University; Enrique Murillo, Education, Cal State University, San
>Bernardino; John Clarke, Faculty of the Social Sciences, The Open
>University, London; Donald Nonini, Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill; Thad
>Guldbrandsen, Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill; Richard Couto, Jepson School
>of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; Devon Peņa, American Ethnic
>Studies, University of Washington; Dorothy Holland, Anthropology, UNC
>Chapel Hill; Kathryn Dudley, Program in American Studies, Yale University;
>Catherine Lutz, Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill; Marla Frederick, Religious
>Studies, Princeton University; Bob Hall, Democracy South, Pittsboro, NC;
>Chris Fitzsimons, Executive Director, The Common Sense Foundation, Raleigh,
>NC; Gary Grant, (tentative) Concerned Citizens of Tillery, Tillery, NC
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>For more information, please contact:
>Donald M. Nonini
>Associate Professor of Anthropology
>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>Department of Anthropology
>301 Alumni Bldg., CB # 3115
>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
>telephone: 919-962-8092, fax: 919-9621613
>email: donald.nonini@unc.edu    Internet:
>http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/nonini4.htm

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