Here is the list of roundtables that have been assembled for the Annual ASA
meeings this August. These are scheduled for the 19th (day 1) of the
meetings (time as yet to be determined)--please plan on attending!
PEWS SECTION ROUNDTABLES, ASA 1995
Tables:
I. Hegemonic Transitions In the Modern World System
Presider: Giovanni Arrighi, SUNY Binghamton
a) Geopolitics and High Finance. Po-Keung Hui, Krishnendu Ray, and
Thomas Reifer, SUNY Binghamton
b) Social Conflict and Cohesion. Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins
University and Eric Slater, SUNY Binghamton
c) Ideology and Culture. Steve Sherman, SUNY Binghamton
II. Culture Globally: Symbolic Networks in the World System
Presider: Elena Ermolaeva, Johns Hopkins University
a) Symbolic Networks in World Systems: Conceptual Issues. Elena
Ermolaeva, Johns Hopkins University
b) Discursive Construction of Global Economy. Teivo Teivainen,
University of Helsinki
c) Symbolic Networks and Anti-Systemic Movements. William J.
Haller, University of Pittsburgh
d) NAFTA: The New Meanings of Culture and Trade in a Global
Economy. Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Johns Hopkins
University
III. Environmental Degradation and the World System
Presider: Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona
a) The Greening of World-System Theory. Albert Bergesen,
University of Arizona
b) CO2 Emissions 1950-1990 and the Changing Division of Labor:
World-System Position and Industrial Efficiency. Peter E. Grimes,
John Hopkins University
c) The Self-Defeating Process of World Accumulation: Nature Strikes
Back. Sing Chew, Humboldt State University
IV. Commodity Chains in the Global Economy
Presider: John M. Talbot, University of California, Berkeley
a) Where Does your Coffee Dollar Go? Retained Value and Surplus
Along the Coffee Commodity Chain. John M. Talbot, University of
California, Berkeley
b) Commodity Chains and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry: A
Case Study of Nike Corporation. Miguel Korzeniewicz and Victoria
Carty, University of New Mexico
c) Trade Liberalization and Regional Development: Commodity Chains,
Ethnicity, and Social Networks in the Texas-Mexico Border Region.
David Spener, University of Texas-Austin
V. Disarticulation, Dependence and Debt in Cross-National
Perspective
Presider: Matthew A.S. Christenson, Ohio State University
a) External Debt as a Dependent Variable: Structural Determinants
of Total Long-Term Debt Service in Lesser-Developed Countries,
1971-1985. Matthew A.S. Christenson and Edward M. Crenshaw,
Ohio State University
b) Structural Disarticulation and Third World Human Development: A
Cross-national Study. Jie Huang, Ohio State University
c) A Reanalysis of Cross-national Data on Urbanization and Economic
Dependence. Tem Calfee, Cornell University
VI. State Transitions, Government Expansion and the Arms Trade
Presider: Angela M. Crowley, University of California, Irvine
a) Fighter Planes and Friendship: A World System Approach to the
Conventional Arms Trade. Angela M. Crowley, University of
California, Irvine.
b) The Impact of Structural Expansion of Modern Government on
National Development, 1955-1985: A Cross-national Study. Young
Soo Kim, Yong Suk Jang, and Hyeyoung Moon, Stanford
University.
c) Social Network Analogy Depicts Interstate Factors Affecting the
Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe and the Dissolution of
the Soviet Union. Shawn McEntee, Ohio State University
VII. Development Theory: Challenges for the 1990s
Presider: Jayati Lal, Cornell University
a) The Two Images of Development. Jar-Der Luo, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
b) The New Critics of Development: Critical and Postmodern
Challenges to the Hegemony of Developmentalist Discourse. Jeffrey
Jackson, University of Texas at Austin
c) Feminist Interventions in Development Studies: From Gendering
Development Theory to Developing Gendered Theory. Jayati Lal,
Cornell University
VIII. World-Systems and Local Processes
Presider: Paul Ciccantell, Kansas State University
a) Analysis of Local Processes in World-System Perspective. Thomas
D. Hall, DePauw University
b) Cosmopolitans and Locals in Chile's Aconcagua Valley. Walter
Goldfrank, U C Santa Cruz
c) The Role of Local Systems in Community Change: An Urban
Latino Perspective. Jaimie A. Carboy and David M. Long, Georgia
State University
d) Philistia in the Neo-Assyrian World-System. Mitch Allen, Sage
Publications, Inc.
IX. Emerging Agro-Food Systems in Asia
Presider: Susan J. Thompson, Bates College
a) The East-Asian Agro-food Import Complex GATT Organized. Philip
McMichael, Cornell University
b) Dismantling Statist East Asian Agricultures? Global Pressures and
National/Local Responses. Larry L. Burmeister, University of
Kentucky
c) Regional Regulation Within a Global Agro-Food Regime: ASEAN
After AFTA. J. Tadlock Cowan and Susan J. Thompson, Bates
College
X. Restructuring Markets, Firms, and Labor Forces
Presider: Laura T. Raynolds, Colorado State University
a) Modernization of Mexican Industry: New Technology and the
Reorganization of Work in Twenty Large Manufacturing Firms.
Maria Pozas, Johns Hopkins University
b) Marginal Citizens: The International Division of Labor, the
Capitalist State, and Contested Ideas of Citizenship. Lionel
Cantu, University of California, Irvine
c) Restructuring Agricultural Production and Gendered Rural Labor
Forces. Laura T. Raynolds, Colorado State University
d) From Crisis to Restructuring: The Nexus of Global and National
Change in the Costa Rican Labor Market. Richard Tardanico,
Florida International University
XI. Internet Communities: E-Lists and E-journals.
Presider: Carl H.A. Dassbach, Michigan Technological University
a) Issues in E-Journal Publishing: the Case of the Electronic
Journal of Sociology (EJS). David V. Waller, University of Texas
at Arlington
b) Electronic Conferencing, Journals and Hypemedia Presentation of
Social Science Research Results. Chris Chase-Dunn, Johns
Hopkins University
c) Progressive Sociologists Network (PSN): A community in the
making. Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado at Boulder
XII. Globalization and Agricultural Restructuring
Presider: David Myhre, University of California at San Diego
a) The Restructuring of Korean Agriculture and Changing Rural
Social Relations. Chul-Kyoo Kim, Korea University
b) The 'Tequila Effect' and Mexican Agriculture: Staggering Farmers,
Stumbling Middlemen, and Stuporous Policymakers. David Myhre,
University of California at San Diego
ADDRESSES OF PARTICIPANTS:
Mitch Allen, Altamira Press, 1630 N. Main St. Suite 367, Walnut Creek,
CA 94596
Giovannni Arrighi, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton,
NY 13901
Albert Bergesen, Dept. of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona 85721
Larry L. Burmeister, Dept. of Sociology, 500 Garrigus Building,
University of Kentucky, Lexinton, KY 40546
Tem Calfee, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York 14853
Lionel Cantu, Social Relations Program, University of California,
Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717
Jaimie A. Carboy, Dept. of Sociology, Georgia State University,
University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303
Victoria Carty, Dept. of Sociology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Chris Chase-Dunn, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD. 21218
Sing Chew, Dept. of Sociology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
95521
Matthew A.S. Christenson, Dept. of Sociology, 190 North Oval, Mall,
300 Bricker Hall, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Paul Ciccantell, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work,
Waters Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506
Edward M. Crenshaw, Dept. of Sociology, 190 North Oval Mall, 300
Bricker Hall, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Angela Martin Crowley, Social Relations Program, University of
California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717
Tadlock Cowan, Dept. of Sociology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240
Carl H.A. Dassbach, Dept. of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological
University, Houghton, MI 49931
Elena Ermolaeva, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 21218
Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Department of Sociology, The Johns
Hopkins University, Charles and 34th Streets, Baltimore,
Maryland 21218
Martha Gimenez, Dept. of Sociology. Univ. of Colorado at Boulder,
Boulder, CO 80309
Walter Goldfrank, Dept. of Sociology, University of California at
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Peter E. Grimes, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 21218
Thomas D. Hall, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, DePauw
University, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037
William J. Haller, Dept. of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Jie Huang, Dept. of Sociology, 190 North Oval Mall, Ohio State
University, Columbus OH 43210-1353
Po-Keung Hui, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
13901
Jeffrey Jackson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712
Yong Suk Jang, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
94305-2047
Chul-Kyoo Kim, Dept. of Sociology, Korea University, Anamdong 5-1,
Sungbuk-KU, Seoul, Korea
Young Soo Kim, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
94305-2047
Miguel Korzeniewicz, Dept. of Sociology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Jayati Lal, Dept. of Sociology, 323 Uris Hall, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York 14852
David M. Long, Dept. of Sociology, Georgia State University,
University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303
Jar-Der Luo, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia
Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
Shawn McEntee, Dept. of Sociology, 190 North Oval Mall, Ohio State
University, Columbus OH 43210-1353
Philip McMichael, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York 14853
Hyeyoung Moon, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA 94305-2047
David Myhre, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego 0510, La Jolla, CA 92093-0510
Maria A. Pozas, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 21218
Krishnendu Ray, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton,
NY 13901
Laura T. Raynolds, Dept. of Sociology, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Thomas Reifer, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
13901
Steve Sherman, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton NY
13901
Beverly Silver, Dept. of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 21218
Eric Slater, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
13901
David Spener, Population Research Center, 1800 Main Building,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1088
John M. Talbot, Dept. of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720
Richard Tardanico, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida
International University, Miami, FL 33199
Teivo Teivainen, Iberoamerican Research Center, PO Box 4, 00014
University of Helsinki, Finland
Susan Thompson, Dept. of Sociology, Bates College, Lewsiton, ME
04240
David V. Waller, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Box 19599,
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019!
Jayati Lal
Department of Sociology
323 Uris Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853-7601
email: jl34@cornell.edu
Fax: (607) 255-8473