I second Tim Roberts' motion.
gunder frank
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, J. Timmons Roberts wrote:
> PEWSers:
>
> I am concerned that in its sessions at ASA that PEWS continue to
> appeal to people interested in issues of international "development" but who
> do not think of themselves as "worldsystemites." How might we do that?
>
> Right now one of our most useful contributions may be to clarify and
> try to reach a consensus particularly on how world[-]system(s) theory can
> inform international and local activism in confronting the "globalization"
> of production and communications. I am speaking of the importance and
> strategies of labor, environmental, consumer, and other movements [and even
> states] in attempting to control the flight of capital from regulation.
> This issue directly ties to the world party issue which is being discussed here.
> However I would like to see session(s) on 1. how local and global
> struggles are linked, and 2. on [actually] emerging global governance
> structures. An example of the latter are the new international environmental
> standards and treaties, on which I am working on some research, and wrote
> some in the PEWS'95 conference volume _Latin America in the World Economy_
> coming out soon edited by Korzeniewicz and Smith.
>
> I am pleased that the PEWS'97 conference will be about the
> environment and hope we can keep "greening PEWS" in the next years. World
> systems theory has long ignored the issue, taking what Morrison and Dunlap
> called the "human exemptionalist" approach common among sociologists.
> Shouldn't ASA sessions (or at least papers) carry that "green" momentum
> forward in 1997 and 1998?
>
> Timmons Roberts
> Assistant Professor
> Tulane University
> timmons@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
>