Below is a list of the PEWS (and some PEWS-related) events taking place at
the American Sociological Association meeting in New York at the end of
this week.
See you there!
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Saturday, August 17, 3:30-4:15 p.m.
Section on Political Economy of the World System Business Meeting
(discussion of next years paper sessions; party location
announced; etc.)
Party at about 8:30 pm
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 4:30 PM
89. Regular Session. World Systems: Present Status and Prospects of
World-System Studies
Organizer: Terence K. Hopkins, Binghamton University
Presider: Cedric Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Capitalism, the West and the Modern World-System:
Re-Thinking the Non-Debate of the 1970's. Giovanni Arrighi, State
University of New York, Binghamton
The Rise and Future Demise of World-System Analysis.
Immanuel Wallerstein, State University of New York, Binghamton
Discussion: Cedric Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 8:30 AM
117. Section on Political Economy of the World-System. Globalization:
Myths and Realities
Organizer: Philip McMichael, Cornell University
Presider: Alvin So, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Globalization and Deindustrialization: Direct Investment
and the Decline of Manufacturing Employment in 17 OECD Nations. Art
Alderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Modeling Zones of the World-Economy: A Polynomial
Regression Analysis (1938-1996). Giovanni Arrighi, State University of New
York, Binghamton; David Consiglio, Timothy Moran, and Roberto P.
Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland, College Park
Globalization, Glocalization, and World (or Global)
History. Roland Robertson and Victor Ruodometof, University of Pittsburgh
Globalizing the Antipodes: Australia in the World System,
Then and Now. Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University
Discussion: Ravi Palat, University of Auckland
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 10:30 AM
140. Section on Political Economy of the World System. The Environment
and the World Economy
Organizer and Presider: Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona
Simultaneities of World-System Development: Cities,
Empires, and Climate Change. Chris Chase-Dunn, Johns Hopkins University
Concentrating Capital with a Spatially Diffuse Commodity:
The Political Ecology and Economy of the Indonesian Timber Industry. Paul
K. Gellert, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The "Greening" of the World Bank. Michael Goldman,
University of California, Berkeley
Shifting Correlates of National Carbon Efficiency in the
World System. J. Timmons Roberts and Tulane University; Peter E. Grimes,
Johns Hopkins University
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165. Section on Political Economy of the World System. The Social
Regulation of Global Capitalism
Organizer and Presider: Fred Deyo, State University of New York, Brockport
States and the New Geography of Power. Saskia Sassen,
Columbia University
Capitalism as a Class Society and as an Economic System: A
Critical Comparison of the Regulation and Social Structures of Accumulation
Theories. Costas Panayotakis, City University of New York
Global Regulation, or Global Governance. Philip McMichael,
Cornell University
Discussion: Farshad Araghi, Florida Atlantic University
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2:30-3:30 PM
189. Section on Political Economy of the World System. Informal
Discussion Roundtables and Business Meeting
Informal Discussion Rountables
Organizers: Miguel Korzeniewicz, University of New Mexico; and Farshad
Araghi, Florida Atlantic University
Tables (21 different presentations):
1. Asymmetry and Interdependence in Core-Periphery Relations
2. Culture in the World System
3. New Approaches to World System Theory
4. East Asia in the World System
5. Commodities
6. National and Regional Case Studies
7. Inequality and Zones in the World System
8. Global Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility
9. Gender Differentiation in World Systems Analysis
Dale Wimberley
PEWS Sec.-Treasurer
Dept. of Sociology
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University