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Fernand Braudel Center NewsletterNo. 23 Activities, 1998-99 September 1999 I. Renewal at the Fernand Braudel Center William G. Martin has been appointed Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center. Prof. Martin has come to Binghamton as Professor of Sociology from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana where he has been Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program. His arrival is a return since, at an earlier point in his career, he served as Research Projects Administrator. Prof. Martin's particular fields of interest have been African studies (particularly of southern Africa) and antisystemic movements across the globe. He was co-director and co-author of previous Center projects in conjunction with the Centro de Estudos Africanos of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. This project produced the volume: S. Vieira, W.G. Martin, & I. Wallerstein, coord., How Fast the Wind? Southern Africa, 1975-2000 (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992). He is the co-editor as well of a volume published this year: William G. Martin & Michael D. West, eds., Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa (Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999). For those of you who have visited us at Binghamton, we announce that we are moving this fall from the offices we have occupied since 1977 to offices in the new Academic Building on campus. The timing is propitious. Our coordinates (telephone, fax, and email) remain the same. II. Research Working Groups a) "Comparative Hegemonies RWG." This project is now officially terminated with the publication of Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999). Co-authors are: Iftikhar Ahmad, Kenneth Barr, Shuji Hisaeda, Po-keung Hui, Krishnendu Ray, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Miin-wen Shih, and Eric Slater. b) "Structures of Knowledge RWG." This group, which has been studying the historical construction and institutionalization of the two cultures, expects to complete its work this academic year. For details on the analytic framework, see Newsletter No. 22, 1998. c) "East Asia in World Historical Perspective RWG." This group will hold a follow-up to its Hong Kong conference of June 27-29, 1998 (see Newsletter No. 22) at Johns Hopkins University on December 3-5, 1999. It will be organized by Giovanni Arrighi & William Rowe. d) New Research Working Groups. "Crisis in the World-System: Options and Possibilities"
We are starting three new groups in an interlinked project, building upon our past projects. The Fernand Braudel Center has completed in recent years a major project on trends in the world-system, which resulted in a pair of books: The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025 (1996), and Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (1999). We have also been studying the structures of knowledge, serving as the Secretariat of the Gulbenkian Commission, which resulted in the publication of Open the Social Sciences (1996), and we are completing now a follow-up project. And we have had a long-standing interest in antisystemic movements which resulted in publications in 1989 and 1995. We have decided to combine these three interests and shall now launch, as of Fall 1999, a major new triple project on "Crisis in the World-System? Options and Possibilities." We shall organize three separate but intellectually integrated Research Working Groups (RWGs) to study (a) structural trends of the capitalist world-economy; (b) categories of social knowledge; (c) waves of antisystemic movements. We shall study these three phenomena as interrelated elements of contemporary social transformation. The project will be coordinated by Immanuel Wallerstein, William G. Martin, and Richard Lee. (a) RWG on Structural Trends of the Capitalist World-Economy We seek to measure and evaluate long-term trends of the capitalist world-economy that affect the average rate of profit. Since prices are not infinitely expansible, the level of profits is ultimately determined by three costs: remuneration of employees; costs of inputs and infrastructure; taxation levels. We intend to measure, over as long a time span as possible and for the world-economy as a whole, whether or not the three categories of costs have been rising as a percentage of total value of sales prices of production. The problems of this measurement exercise are multiple, and the enormity of the task is clear. On the other hand, the data, once acquired, speak to one of the most central questions of the historical evolution of the capitalist world-economy - what is happening to the rate of profit, enabling us to evaluate contrasting theses of increasing efficiency and profit squeeze. The project is exploratory and conceptual, and will start with an assessment of existing statistics. (b) RWG on The Categories of Social Knowledge The structures of knowledge have been constructed in the modern world as, first, a division between "sciences" and "humanities," and then, with the social sciences as an in-between arena. We shall investigate the pressures responsible for the restructuring represented by the social sciences by studying the ways in which categories/disciplines were established and institutionalized as university chairs and departments, scholarly journals and professional organizations, and library and book publishers' designations. By analyzing this process and the current calls for and attempts at reorganization we may then address the question whether there are inherent contradictions in the cultural processes of the world-system that today can no longer be contained within the existing structures of knowledge. The data may be collected from both the five initial sites - England, France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. - and selected others such as Russia, India, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan. (c) RWG on Waves of Antisystemic Movements We shall seek to analyze the long-term, world-historical formation of antisystemic movements of all kinds over the last two centuries, and the ways in which they related to each other. We shall seek to explain successive waves and types of antisystemic movements rooted in world-systemic processes. Existing studies suggest that successive "waves" of socialist, Black, feminist, etc., movements occurred, but we do not to what degree such waves were worldwide. We need also to examine how world-systemic processes - hegemony, the global division of labor, and the constitution of class and status (race, gender, ethnicity) categories - relate to the successes and failures of antisystemic movements. We shall use this analysis to analyze current trends in antisystemic movements. III. The Gulbenkian Commission The Commission's Report continues to be discussed. The recent reports on the state of the social sciences by the OECD (The Social Sciences at a Turning Point?) and by UNESCO (World Social Science Report, 1999) make use of the Report. The American Political Science Association at its 1999 meetings in Atlanta held a special session to discuss its implications for political science. The participants were commission chair Immanuel Wallerstein, Sidney Verba (Harvard Univ.), Robert Bates (Harvard Univ.), and Bertell Ollman (New York Univ.). The Report has inspired the creation of Bruges in BRIOSS (the Bruges Initiative for Opening the Social Sciences), linked to the Collège d'Europe. BRIOSS describes itself as "transdisciplinary, comparative and participative." It is a project of the Salvador de Madariaga Foundation. For further information, see their website: <http://mars.coleurop.be/brioss>. IV. Conference a) Braudel and the U.S.: Interlocuteurs valables? (5th Journées Braudeliennes), Oct. 1-2, 1999 Session I: The Heritage of Fernand Braudel Immanuel Wallerstein, "Braudel and Interscience: A Preacher to Empty Pews?" Maurice Aymard, "One Braudel or Several?" Carlos A. Aguirre Rojas, "Braudel in Latin America and the U.S.: A Different Reception?" Session II: Franco-American Cultural and Institutional Ties Giuliana Gemelli, "American Foundations and Braudel's Institution-Building" Francis X. Sutton, "The Ford Foundation's Trans-Atlantic Roles and Purposes, 1951-1981" Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, "Trends in Historical Research: Franco-American Intellectual Links and Cleavages" Session III: The Longue Durée and the Social Sciences in the U.S. William H. McNeill, "Luméville and the Longue Durée" Giovanni Arrighi, "Braudel, Schumpeter, and the New Economic Sociology" Jean Heffer, "Is the Longue Durée Un-American?" Session IV: U.S. Historiography: Impact of Fernand Braudel Anthony Molho, "La Méditerranée in the U.S.: Ships Passing Each Other in the Dark" Susan Mosher Stuard, "A Capital Idea: Pursuing Demand" Steven L. Kaplan, "The Sixties: Was Braudel a Turning-Point?" (To register, email [devoist@binghamton.edu], or fax [607-777-4315], or visit the Center's website [http://fbc.binghamton.edu])
V: Conferences co-sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center a) Engaging the Legacy of Walter Rodney This conference was held in Binghamton on November 6-8, 1998 and organized by a special ad hoc group representing a large group of co-sponsors. The program was as follows: Plenary I: Walter Rodney's Thought and Politics in Guyana (sponsored by Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York) Eusi Kwayana, "Walter Rodney and Politics in Guyana" Rupert Lewis, "Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought" Panel A: Socialism, Activism and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition: James, Jones and Rodney (sponsored by African New World Studies Program, Florida International Univ., Miami, Florida) Carol Boyce Davies, "Claudia Jones, Feminism and Anti-Imperialism" Alrick Cambridge, "C.L.R. James: Human Happiness and Self-realization" John McClendon, "C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney" Monica Jardine, "Caribbean Social Movements - Incomplete Struggles" Panel B: Rodney's Scholarship and the Transformation of the Social Sciences (sponsored by Africana Studies Dept., Binghamton Univ.) Immanuel Wallerstein, "Walter Rodney: The Historian As Spokesman for Historical Forces" Darryl Thomas, "Rodney, Theory, Methodologies, and Academic Traditions" Winston James, "Walter Rodney and the Politics and Craft of Writing History" Michael West, "African History and the Africanist Historiography" Panel C: Walter Rodney, Pan-Africanism and the Years in Tanzania (sponsored by the Dept. of Afro-American Studies, Syracuse Univ.) Adeola James, "Walter Rodney: The Tanzanian Years" Ed Ferguson, "Walter Rodney: Teaching History and Socialism in Tanzania" Remel Moore, "The Continued Relevance of Pan-Africanism into the 21st Century" Harry Goulbourne, "Walter Rodney and the Growth of Black Awareness During the 1960s and 1970s in Britain" Horace Campbell, "Rodney and Issues in the African Liberation Process" Panel D: Walter Rodney and African Underdevelopment Adeline Apena, "Understanding European Imperialism in West Africa Through Rodney" Marcel Kittissou, "The Economy of Forces: France's Defence Policy in Africa" Seth Asumah, "Underdevelopment and the Nature of the Nation-State in Africa" Joseph Rukanshagiza, "Walter Rodney and Uganda" Jan E. Christopher, "The Social Responsibility of African Americans in the New World Order: An Analysis of Underdevelopment and the African-American Experience" Book Launches and Reception Chair: Prof. Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Dept. of History, African Studies Dept., and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, and Politics, Interpretation, and Culture Program in the Dept. of Philosophy, Binghamton Univ. Rupert Lewis, A Study of Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. and Mona: Univ. of the West Indies Press, 1998) Winston James, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America (New York: Verso, 1998) Perry Mars, Ideology and Change in the Caribbean (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. and Mona: Univ. of West Indies Press, 1998) Brenda DoHarris, Coloured Girl in the Ring (Washington, DC: Tantaria Press) Patricia Rodney, Caribbean State, Health Care, and Women: An Analysis of Barbados and Grenada during 1979-83 (Trenton: African World Press) Review Commentary: Perry Mars, Dept. of Africana Studies, Wayne State Univ. Tiffany Patterson, Dept. of History, Africana Studies Dept. and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, and Politics, Interpretation, and Culture Program in the Dept. of Philosophy, Binghamton Univ. Harry Goulbourne, Faculty of Education, Politics and Social Science, South Bank Univ., London Cynthia Young, Africana Studies Dept. and Dept. of Comparative Literature, Binghamton Univ. Peggy Bristow, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Univ. of Toronto Conversation With Family Malika Scott, A Family Tribute Patricia Rodney, Walter Rodney: Living a Dream Plenary II: Reflections: Walter Rodney and the Working People's Alliance (sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations and the Dept. of Sociology, Binghamton Univ.) Tacuma Ogunseye, "Walter Rodney in the Shaping of the WPA and the Struggle for Democracy in Guyana" Ameer Mohammed, "Walter Rodney and Community Work" Denys Vaughn-Cooke, "A Childhood Friend Remembers" Cedric Licorish, "How Walter Rodney Dealt with Race and Class" Panel D: Africa Between Globalization and Marginalization: From the Slave Ship to the Space Ship (sponsored by the Institute for Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton Univ.) Ricardo Laremont, "Africa Diasporized: Slavery and the Globalization of Africa" Dudley Thompson, "Mutiny on the Amistad: From Slave Rebellion to Post-colonial Reparations Ali A. Mazrui, "Africa between Globalization and Marginalization: A 21st Century Perspective" Jacob Ade Ajayi, "Africa and the West: Where Do We Go From Here" Panel E: Labor, Imperialism and Working People (sponsored by Dept. of History, Binghamton Univ.) Joseph Engwenyu, "The Labor Question and Reforming Imperialism: The Warning from the Caribbean and Africa" Dennis Canterbury, "Structural Adjustment and the Struggle of the Guyanese Working People" Kelvin Santiago, "Erupting Into the [Several-Times Colonized] Terrain of National Letters: Non-White, Puerto Rican Intellectuals and the 'Central Figure in the Shadow [of 1898]'" Hasim Gibrill, "The Weapon of Scholarship: Walter Rodney's Impact on Pan-African Praxis" Plenary III: Humanizing the Landscape (sponsored by Dept. of Comparative Literature, Dept. of English, and Faculty Masters, Binghamton Univ.) Speaker: George Lamming, Poet and Novelist, Institute for Research on African Diaspora in America and the Caribbean, City College of New York Panel F: The Travesty of Mis-education and the Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism: Rodney's Legacies for History and Youth in the Diaspora (sponsored by Graduate Student Organization, Binghamton Univ.) Jesse Benjamin, "Decolonization World History: East Africa and the Scramble for Knowledge Greg Thomas, "Revolutionary Bodies, or Neo-Colonial Reaction?: The Erotics of Underdevelopment and SEXUAL Decolonization" Asha Rodney, "Only The People Can Make A Revolution" Wole Ralph, "Walter Rodney's Political Philosophy" Panel G: Rodney, Gender, Race, and Self-Emancipation (sponsored by Women's Studies Program, Binghamton Univ.) Rohit Kanhai, "An Indian Perspective on Walter Rodney" Anne Macpherson, "Gender Tensions and Alliance in Multi-Racial Anti-Colonialism: Belize in the 30s and 50s" David Hinds, "Democracy in Multi-Racial Societies" Cecil Gutzmore, "Walter Rodney's Approach: Africa and Asian Relations in Guyana" Ari Levy, "The Great Debate of 1840 and the Question of Indian Indenture" Panel H: From the Caribbean to the Diaspora: The Political and Scholarly Influence of Walter Rodney (sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Binghamton Univ.) Nigel Westmaas, "Challenging Orthodoxy: Walter Rodney's Scholarship on the History of Guyana" Ralph Gonsalves, "The 'Rodney Affair' of 16 October, 1968 in Jamaica and Its Consequences" William Santiago, "Discussion Groups of C.L.R. James in London" Kassahun Checole, "What Walter Rodney Taught Us About African Struggle: The C.L.R. James/Walter Rodney Interlude in Binghamton" Ceceilia McAlmont, "Women and Politics in Guyana, 1812-1997" Plenary IV: After "Man," Toward the Human: Rodney and the Rethinking of Intellectual Activism on the Eve of the New Millennium (sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Binghamton Univ.) Speaker: Prof. Sylvia Wynter, Prof. Emerita, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and African and Afro-American Studies, Stanford Univ. Roundtable B: Student Activism at Binghamton (sponsored by Faculty Masters and Student Cultural Organizations) Speakers: Nicole Johnson, Graduate Student, Political Science, Binghamton Univ. Fernando Restrepo, Student, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Binghamton Univ. Phillipe Ayala, Graduate Student, School of Education and Human Development, Binghamton Univ. Rafael Landron, Graduate Student, Dept. of History, Binghamton Univ. Plenary V: The Struggle for Democracy in Guyana Rupert Roopnarine, "How the WPA Attempted to Uphold Rodney's Legacy" Alissa Trotz, "Race, Women, and the Guyanese Political Situation" Roundtable C: Products of the Walter Rodney Conference Chair: Dennis Canterbury, Graduate Student, Dept. of Sociology, Binghamton Univ. Panelists: Rachelle Moore, "The Walter Rodney Virtual Library" Jesse Benjamin, Graduate Student, Dept. of Sociology, Binghamton Univ. Darryl Thomas, Chair, Africana Studies Dept., Binghamton Univ. Prof. Ali A. Mazrui, Walter Rodney Chair, Univ. of Guyana and Director of IGCS, Binghamton Univ. Jocelyn Dow, Interim President, Women's Environment and Development Organization, Walter Rodney Institute in Guyana B. Law and Legitimation in the Ottoman Empire The Eighth Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy was held on Nov. 13-14, 1998. It was co-sponsored as usual by the Fernand Braudel Center and the Middle East & North African Program of Binghamton Univ., with a supporting grant from the Institute of Turkish Studies. The program was as follows: Session I: Cornell Fleischer, "The Rule of Law and Writ in the Formation of Ottoman Classicism" Session II: Huri Islamoglu, "Property as a Contested Category: State Power and Property Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire" Engin Deniz Akarli, "Law and Order in the Marketplace: Istanbul Artisans and Shopkeepers, 1730-1840" Session III: Leslie Peirce, "Bargaining Over the Law in a Provincial Court: Ayntab at the Mid-Sixteenth Century" Judith E. Tucker, "Rethinking Legal Reform: Muftis, the State, and Gendered Law in the Arab Lands in the Late Ottoman Period" Session IV: Roundtable Discussion: conference participants and Ariel Salzmann (Near Eastern Studies, New York Univ.) C. TRANSMODERNITY, HISTORICAL CAPITALISM, AND COLONIALITY: A POST- DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE This conference was held on December 4-5, 1998 and co-organized by Ramón Grosfoguel and Agustín Lao-Montes, on behalf of Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. The triad that entitled this conference signifies a web of shifting linkages (in time and space) between modern rationalities, capitalist relations, and colonial situations. The three notions are based on an understanding of the modern world as a global system which was conceived during the long sixteenth century, along with the "invention" of the Americas, and the emergence of the Atlantic system. This inception of the capitalist world-economy converged with the rise of the "West" (and its Occidentalist discourses), the organization of a corresponding inter(trans)statal system of colonial domination, and the coining of particularly modern modes of identification (namely race, ethnicity, and nationality). The main authors of the three key concepts that will frame the dialogue, Enrique Dussel (transmodernity), Immanuel Wallerstein (historical capitalism), and Aníbal Quijano (the coloniality of power), share a concern with the longue durée, and a world-historical methodology in the analysis of the secular trends, general patterns, and historical particularities, that continuously shape the modern world-system. The emphasis of the conversation was on the intersecting logics of interlocking modernities, capitalist dynamics, and the colonial undersides of power relations and subjectivities. Modernity was problematized beyond Eurocentric definitions of reason, freedom, and progress, and in favor of a more contradictory, historicized, and plural understandings of the modern. Capitalism was analyzed as an historical system of global reach, and an historical dynamic full of contradictions and contingencies, in light of the operations of changing processes and the actions of multiple agencies. Coloniality was explored, not simply as a juridico-political relationship between empires (actors and institutions) and colonized bodies (political and personal) but above all as a basic category for the explanation of the imperial-colonial underpinnings of economic, political, and cultural relations in the modern world. The conference took the form of a conversation among and with Quijano, Dussel, and Wallerstein, as well as a broad-based dialogue (from a variety of social, cultural, political, and academic locations) on the problematic of Modernity, Capitalism, and Colonialism. The program was as follows: I: Dialogue on Transmodernity, Historical Capitalism, and Coloniality Moderator: Ramón Grosfoguel, Boston College 1-Aníbal Quijano, Universidad de San Carlos, Peru 2-Enrique Dussel, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México 3-Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center II: Transmodernity 1-Dale Tomich, Fernand Braudel Center 2-Agustín Lao-Montes, Fernand Braudel Center 3-Emilio Ichikawa, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba 4-Susan Buck-Morss, Cornell University III: Historical Capitalism 1-Giovanni Arrighi, John Hopkins University 2-Bolívar Echeverría, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México 3-Walter Mignolo, Duke University 4-David Lloyd, Scripps College IV: Coloniality 1-Anthony King, Binghamton University 2-Ramón Grosfoguel, Boston College 3-Ella Shohat, City University of New York 4-Ann L. Stoler, University of Michigan 5-Nak-chung Paik, Seoul National University V: In Conclusion: Dialogue on Transmodernity, Historical Capi-talism, and Coloniality 1-Aníbal Quijano 2-Enrique Dussel 3-Immanuel Wallerstein D. World-Historical Sites of Colonial Disciplinary Practices: The Nation-State, the Bourgeois Family, and the Enterprise This was the Second Annual Conference of the Coloniality Working Group at Binghamton University and was held on April 22-24, 1999. The program was as follows: Panel 1: Sylvia Wynter, "'Coloniality' and the Scriptions/Production of 'Man': Towards the Sociogenic Principle" Aníbal Quijano, "The Three Hegemonic Institutions of Modernity: The Nation-State, the Bourgeois Family, and the Enterprise" Panel 2: Zine Magubane, "Is the Post in Post-Apartheid the Post in Postcolonial or the Post in Postmodern?" Kelvin Santiago Valles, "Race, Labor, 'Women's Proper Place,' and the Birth of the Nation(s): Notes on Historicizing the Coloniality of Power Panel 3: Greg Thomas, "The Erotics of Aryanism in the History of Empire: 'Hellenomania,' 'White-Supremacy,' and the 'Discourse of Sexuality'" Gladys Jiménez, "The 'Native' [Female] 'Writerly Conscious' and the 'Truth of [Multiple] Colonial Difference(s)': 'Womanhood' and 'Race' in the Dialogue on the National Question in Puerto Rico During the 1930s" Plenary Session I Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Globalization and the Politics of Knowledge: Challenges for Anti-Racist, Feminist Practice" Panel 4: Walter Mignolo, "Coloniality of Power and the Colonial Difference" Vandana Swami, "Locating the 'POST': Creating Postcolonial Spaces in a Colonial World" Panel 5: Vishnupad, "The Figure of the Prostitute and the Colonial-Modern Social Space (The Prostitute-Body and 19th Century Colonial India)" Karen Gagne, "Seeing Bodies Through Eugenics Lenses: 'Naked Eye Science' and Other Scopes of Vision in Early-20th Century North America" Israel Silva Merced, "Transgenderism, Sexualities, and Identities: The Male Travesti Experiences in Brazil and Its Repercussions for Latin American Social Movements" Panel 6: Carole Boyce Davies, "Deportation and Diaspora: Claudia Jones's Atlantic Text" Miriam Muñiz Varela, "Puerto Rico Post 936: Miracle and Mirage or Savage Anomaly?" Plenary Session II Facilitator: Greg Thomas, U.C. at Berkeley Panel 8: Fernando Coronil, "Capitalism's Nature: Rethinking Imperialism" Peter Carlo, "Resisting/Reproducing 'The Forced Expropriation and Expulsion' of Bodies: Originary Accumulation and Recalcitrant Colonized Laborers in the New South and the Mezzogiorno" Panel 9: Ifi Amadiume, "Religion, Literature and Models of Opposition: From Okonkwo to Nelson Mandela" Jesse Benjamin, "Jewish Racism and White Agency: The Respectability of Avoidance Versus Activist Engagement" The Coloniality Working Group has now affiliated to the Fernand Braudel Center. E. Contested Terrains of "Globalization" This meeting was held on April 30-May 1, 1999 at Binghamton University. It was the Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy. The program was as follows: Panel 1: The History of Globalization: Continuities, Ruptures, and Multiple Determinations Julio Diaz, "Is World History a Narrative?" Khaldoun Samman, "Globalization Tendencies of Monotheism in the Premodern Global Ecumene (1000 BCE to 1500 AD)" Samuel Knafo, "From Money to Capital: The Capitalist Transformation of Finance in the 19th Century" Panel 2: Globalization: The Adventures of a Concept Jason Read, "The Global Production and Distribution of 'Everyday Life'" Reiko Koide, "Why I Do Not Talk Globalization" Mehretab Assefa, "Globalization and Africa" Youngwon Cho, "Globalization in International Relations Theory: A Search" Panel 3: Globalization, Development, and Environmental Crisis Martha Perales, "Sustainable Development, an Alternative Development?" Sandra George, "ISO 14000: Solution to International Environmental Crisis or Corporate Window Dressing?" Anthony Weis, "The Political Economic Context of Jamaica's Deforestation Crisis" Derek Hall, "Dying Geese: Japan and the Political Ecology of Southeast Asia" Panel 4: Interrogating Globalization: Disciplinarity and Policy Sarah Riegel, "Globalization and Educational Restructuring: A Regulationist Approach" Mathew Coleman, "The Geography of Population Discourse" Vandana Swami, "Synergies of Postcoloniality" Keynote Address: Anthony King, "Contesting Terrain or Commanding the Air? Getting 'Globalization' under Control" Panel 5: The Unevenness of Globalization: Multiple Trajectories, Unequal Outcomes Adam Flint, "Transnationality and the State: Salvadoran Social Movements in an Age of Globalization" Michael Dorsey, "Historicizing Globalization: Rethinking Trajectories of Past, Present and Future" Ho-Fung Hung, "The Rise of East Asia and its Discontents" Steve Jackson, "Rewriting Asia: International Media and the Scripting of the Asian Crisis" Panel 6: Globalization and the Future of the Nation-State Toby Moorsom, "The Colonization of Development Theory: Foreign Aid, Development and Dependency in a System of Competing States" Tanya Heurich, "Determining Localism and the Crisis of the Nation-State" Arslan Dorman & Michael Orsini, "The Global Panopticon Reconsidered: A Reply to Gill" Eric W. Titolo, "The Soft War: 1984 to Present - Where Do You Want To Go Today?" Panel 7: Globalization and Resistance: The Labor Movement Mike Hagman, "How Capital's Cow Chews its Cud: Understanding 'Globalization' through the Redigestion of Production by Capital" Nathan Lillie & Sarah Swider, "Trends and Developments in Transnational Labor Union Cooperation in North America" Larose Chalmers, "Global Economic Transformation, Free Trade and North American Labour Movements' Strategic Responses: Current Challenges and Future Scenarios" Panel 8: Globalization and Resistance: New Sites, New Agents Peter Graefe, "Social Economy: Mobilizing Communities for Resistance or Plunder?" Grace-Edward Galabuzi, "Globalization: Alternative Spaces, Discourses and Emerging Forms of Resistance, North and South" Alejandro de Acosta, "The States in a Concept of Globalization: The Case of Integrated World Capitalism" Closing Remarks Giovanni Arrighi, "Globalization, State Sovereignty and the 'Endless' Accumulation of Capital" Kelvin Santiago-Valles, "The Creation of the First Modern Era of Globalization: Rethinking the Articulation of 'Political Economy' and 'Culture'" F. Historia a Debate The second international congress was held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), July 14-18, 1998. The plenary addresses were as follows: Carlos Barros, "El retorno de la historia" Enrique Florescano, "Mitos, historia y nacionalismo" Georg G. Iggers, "Historiography Between Scholarship and Poetry, Reflections on Hayden White's Approach to Historiography" Harvey J. Kaye, "Fanning the Spark of Hope in the Past: The British Marxist Historians" Jacques Revel, "Les usages cognitifs du récit historique" The names of the sessions were: Balance da historiografia do século XX Crise da historia, cambio de paradigmas Retorno do suxeito social e fin da violencia Mentalidade, alteridade, multiculturalismo Pasados e presentes, pasados e futuros A historia no século XXI: novos enfoques ¿Como facer historia global? Novas tecnoloxias e escritura da historia Historia ecolóxica, historia xeral ¿Que historia imos ensinar no novo século? Historiografia, definición e historia da ciencia Historia, historiografia e globalización Historiografias poscoloniais Oficio de historiador: sociabilidade, condicións materiais e medios decomunicación Especialidades históricas: converxencias e transversalidade VI. PEWS Conferences A. PEWS XXII, Northwestern, 1997: The PEWS volume, to be published by Greenwood is entitled: Georgi M. Derluguian and Scott L. Greer, eds., Dilemmas of Globalization: Political Projects in a Changing World-System. The table of contents is: I. Restructuring World Power Georgi M. Derluguian & Walter Goldfrank, "Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century" Stephen Gill, "Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the Twenty-First Century" Brian Uzzi, Marc Ventresca, and Michael Sacks, "Application of Network Analysis to the Ranking of States Within the World-Economy" Randall Collins & David Waller, "Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System" II. Redefining World Culture Daniel Chirot, "Why Must There be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis" Bruce Cumings, "Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking About the New Geopolitics" Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer & Charles Ragin, "Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags. A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's 'Jihad Versus McWorld'" Arif Dirlik, "Formations of Globality and Radical Politics" III. From National States to Regional Networks? Michael Loriaux, "The Geopolitics of European Integration and the Pending Regionalization of the World Economy" Isabella Alcañiz, "Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the MERCOSUR" Scott L. Greer, "Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy" Xianming Chen, "The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the State: The New Transborder Subregions of Asia-Pacific" Georgi M. Derluguian, "The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution" B. PEWS XXIII: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 26- 27, 1999 The Conference was organized by Nancy Forsythe and Patricio Korzeniewicz. The theme was "Inequality and Social Movements." The program was as follows: Panel 1: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano, Denis Nikitin and Ben Brewer, "Trajectories of Globalization: 1800-2000" Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Timothy P. Moran and Angela Stach, "Inequality in the World-Economy" David Smith, "Globalization and Anti-Globalization: World-Systemic Implications of the East Asian Crisis" Panel 2: Nancy Forsythe, Vrushali Patil and Gwyndolyn J. Weathers, "Making Ground to Stand On: World-Systems Analysis and Gender Studies" Ramón Grosfoguel, "Post-Colonial Critique and World-System Approach: A Call for a Dialogue" Richard Lee, "The Politics of Knowledge Formation: Social Movements and the Structures of Knowledge" Panel 3: Torry Dickinson, "Unexpected Feminist Revolutions: Today's Woman-Centered Movements and the Reappropriation of Global Resources" William G. Martin, "World-Systems Analysis from 1968 to 1998 and Beyond: Still an Antisystemic Intellectual Movement?" Guest Lecture Chair: Immanuel Wallerstein Guest Speaker: Michel-Rolph Trouillot Panel 4: Angela Martin Crowley, "Weapons Acquisitions and the Limits of Power" Jason W. Moore, "Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Unrest, and the Last Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1870-1914" Dale Tomich, "Constructing Global Inequalities: Market, Labor, and Domination in Nineteenth Century Cuban Planter Thought" Panel 5: Richard Hutchinson, "Red and Green Movements in the World-System: Contradiction and Synthesis" Galip Isen, "Moving Without a Movement: Women's Rights in Turkey" Agustín Lao-Montes, "Niuyol: Urban Regime, Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad" Panel 6: Wilma A. Dunaway, "Rethinking Gender Inequality: The Hidden Inputs of Women and Households into Capitalist Commodity Chains" Marina Karides, "Income Inequality in the Periphery: The World-Systems Debates and the Case of Trinidad's Informal Sector" C. PEWS XXIV: Boston College, March 24-25, 2000 Call for Papers: THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM IN THE 20th CENTURY The twenty-fourth annual conference of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association will take place March 24-25, 2000 at Boston College on the theme "The Modern World-System in the 20th Century." We will do a retrospective analysis of the 20th century by focusing on several world-scale, long-term processes. Priority will be given to papers that cover from 50 to 100 years or more in terms of time-length and/or encompass a regional or world-scale spatial dimension. We will discuss several processes that have been crucial in changing some of the geopolitical, geocultural, and economic dynamics of the capitalist world-system in the 20th century and that have important implications for the next century. *Peripheral Decolonization and Global Coloniality: How do we understand the demise of the colonial administrations in the periphery of the capitalist world-economy? What new global forms of power and discourse were created to discipline the periphery once colonialism disappeared as the dominant form of core-periphery relationships? What is the difference between global colonialism and global coloniality? How was the debt crisis politically administrated by core powers and the financial institutions of global capitalism? *Anti-Systemic Movements: How were working class movements transformed in the 20th century? What are the geocultural consequences of the anti-colonial, racial, gender, and sexual movements in the late 20th century? How did they affect knowledge production and ideologies on a world-scale? What are the achievements and limitations of national liberation movements and recent social movements such as environmental, gender, sexual, and anti-racist movements? What new forms of resistance are emerging in the world-system? What is the significance of the emergence of global identity movements (islamic fundamentalism, U.S. Christian fundamentalism, green movements, zapatistas, etc.) after the demise of socialism and the decline of revolutionary workers movements? *Utopistics and Anti-Capitalist Strategies: What new utopistics emerged (or could emerge in the future) as a response to the demise of the "socialist imaginary" in the modern world-system? How effective are (or could be) these utopistics in replacing the old developmentalist socialist imaginary? Is "radical democracy" an anti-capitalist alternative utopistics? What would a "second decolonization" of the world imply and how would it transform the capitalist world-system? What are the historical choices that we all face for the Twenty-First Century? How to think about a global democracy linked to a decolonization of knowledge/culture/ imagination and no longer steered or guided from a hegemonic local history in conditions to impose global democratic designs? *Gender Inequality: How is gender inequality a constitutive element of the modern world-system? Has there been a transformation of gender dynamics, and if so, how does it affect power and inequality in the late 20th century? What are the bases for a convergence or dialogue between radical feminist and world-system approaches? In what ways do both feminist studies and world-systems analysis challenge conventional political economy/social science? Where do they converge/diverge in their critiques? *Geopolitics of Knowledge//Geocultural Locations//Knowledge Produc-tion: What is the relationship between knowledge production and geocultural locations in the 20th century? What are the present inequalities of knowledge production in the world-system? What are the similarities and differences between subaltern studies, post-colonial studies, and world-system approach? What dialogue or convergence can be developed between these perspectives? What are the critics of these approaches to Eurocentric historiography and forms of knowledge? What forms of knowledge are produced by these approaches that contribute to decolonize knowledge production? What is the historical significance of the emergence of these approaches in the 1970s and 1980s? We will provide lodging and some meals for conference participants. Selected papers from the conference will be published in the annual series edited through Greenwood Press. THE DEADLINE FOR SUB-MISSION OF PAPERS OR DETAILED ABSTRACTS IS DECEMBER 15, 1999. Please submit materials to: Ramón Grosfoguel, Sociology Department, McGuinn Hall 426, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3807 (e-mail: grosfog@ix.netcom.com). VII. Colloquium on Culture and the World-System This is a continuing colloquium at Binghamton Univesity, co-sponsored by the Fernand Braudel Center and the Institute of Global Cultural Studies. It is organized by Anthony King and Ali Mazrui. The theme for 1998-99 was "The Political Cultures of Racism." The sessions were: October 22, 1998: Kelvin Santiago-Valles (Sociology & LACAS, Binghamton Univ.) "'Still Longing for de Old (Sugar) Plantation': The U.S. Racial Cartography of the Caribbean and the Pacific as 'An Embodiment of Humor,' 1898-1910" November 5, 1998: Jose Piedra (Romance Studies, Cornell Univ.) "De-racing the Nation: The Graphic Construction of Prejudice" (co-sponsored by Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, Dean of Harpur College of Arts & Sciences) November 12, 1998: Jane Connor (Psychology Dept., Binghamton Univ.) "Racism and the Development of Racial Identity: Psychological and International Perspectives" March 11, 1999: N'Dri Assie-Lumumba (Africana Studies and Women's Studies, Cornell Univ.) "Race, Gender, and Imperial Domination: Encounters from Colonial and Slave Societies" April 8, 1999: Maria Lugones (LACAS and SEHD, Binghamton Univ.) "Race and Policy in Recent Feminist Theory" April 22, 1999: Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Women's Studies, Hamilton College and The Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati) "Globalization and the Politics of Knowledge: Challenges for Anti-Racist, Feminist Practice" (co-sponsored by Africana Studies, Asian & Asian American Studies, Graduate Students Organization, History, Philosophy, PIC Graduate Students, Sociology, Women's Studies, Dean of Harpur College of Arts & Sciences) VIII. Review The contents of vol. XXII, 1999 were as follows: XXII, 1, 1999 Mauro Ceruti, "Narrative Elements: A New Common Feature Beween the Sciences of Nature and the Science of Societies" Lawrence Birken, "Chaos Theory and 'Western Civilization'" Jim Mac Laughlin, "European Gypsies and the Historical Geography of Loathing" Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas, "La vision braudelienne sur le capitalisme antérieur à la Révolution Industrielle" Steven Sherman, "Hegemonic Transitions and the Dynamics of Cultural Change" XXII, 2, 1999 Jan de Vries, "Great Expectations: Early Modern History and the Social Sciences" Arif Dirlik, "Place-based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place" Mario González Arencibia, "Alternatives de Desarrolo Frente a la Globalization y al Derrumbe del 'Socialismo Real': Opciones para Cuba" XXII, 3, 1999 Elizabeth Rata, "The Theory of Neotribal Capitalism" ReOrientalism? Samir Amin, "History Conceived as an Eternal Cycle" Giovanni Arrighi, "The World According to Andre Gunder Frank" Immanuel Wallerstein, "Frank Proves the European Miracle" XXII, 4, 1999 Samir Amin, "Post-Maoist China: A Comparison with Post-Communist Russia" Prabirjit Sarkar, "Are Poor Countries Coming Closer to the Rich?" Caribbean Migrants to Core Zones Ramón Grosfoguel, "Introduction: 'Cultural Racism' and Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Core Zones of the Capitalist World-Economy" Michel Giraud, "Les migrations guadaloupéenne et martiniquaise en France métropolitaine" Philip Nanton, "Migration Dynamics: Great Britain and the Caribbean" Livio Sansone, "Small Places, Large Migrations: Notes on the Specificity of the Population of Surinamese and Antillean Origin in the Netherlands" Ramón Grosfoguel, "Puerto Rican Labor Migration to the United States: Modes of Incorporation, Coloniality, and Identities" IX. Visiting Research Associates Sept.-Dec. 1998 - Jacques Kabbanji (Visiting Fulbright Scholar), Institute of Social Sciences, Lebanese Univ., Beirut Sept. 1998-July 1999 - Bolívar Echeverría, Dept. of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico Sept. 1998-July 1999 - Raquel Serur, Dept. of Literature, UNAM, Mexico Aug. 1998-Oct. 1999 - Seung Wook Baek, Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National Univ. X. Public Lectures Sept. 17, 1998 - Bertrand Roehner, Maître de conférences, Laboratoire de physique théorique et hautes énergies, Physics Dept., Paris 7-Denis Diderot; Visiting Scholar, Economics, Harvard Univ., "Regularities in Separatism and Integration," co-sponsored with Economics Dept., History Dept., Sociology Dept., Dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences Sept. 18, 1998 - Manoranjan Mohanty, Political Science, Delhi University, "India, China and the Emerging World Order," co-sponsored with History Dept., Sociology Dept., Asian and Asian- American Studies Oct. 1, 1998 - Jacques Kabbanji, Institute of Social Sciences, Lebanese Univ., Beirut and Visiting Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, "The Effects of Globalization on Working Women in Egypt" Oct. 29, 1998 - Bolívar Echeverría, Dept. of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico and Visiting Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, "The Baroque and Modernity," co-sponsored by Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture Program (PIC) Nov. 19, 1998 - Seung Wook Baek, Research Fellow, Institute for Social Development & Policy Research, Seoul National University and Visiting Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, "The Chinese Economic Bloc and the Transformation of the East Asian NIC's" Feb. 22, 1999 - Ricardo R. Laremont, Associate Director, IGCS, "Law and Racism in the African Diaspora," co-sponsored by Africana Dept., Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS) XI. Other Activities Agustín Lao-Montes gave a paper, "1898: World Hegemonic Transitions, Changing Fields of Empire, and the Coloniality of Modern Power" at the conference "The End of the Spanish Empire: History, Discourse, Representation" on December 10-12, 1998, sponsored by the British Academy, British Council, Spanish Embassy, Institute of Latin American Studies and the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, London School of Economics. XII. Conference Papers Available Papers given by affiliates of the Fernand Braudel Center are listed on our website <http://fbc.binghamton.edu> and may be downloaded from there. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Uncertainty and Historical Progress," to be published in German by Das Argument. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century." Immanuel Wallerstein, "Globalization or The Age of Transition?: Immanuel Wallerstein, "The End of Certainties in the Social Sciences." Immanuel Wallerstein, "Les dilemmes actuels des capitalistes." Immanuel Wallerstein, Commentary on papers for Session A1, XIIth International Economic History Congress, theme: The Economic Consequences of Empires (1492-1989). Immanuel Wallerstein, "Islam, the West, and the World." Lecture in series, "Islam and World-System," Michaelmas Term, at Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, Oct. 21, 1998. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Writing History." Key text for session on "Writing History," at the Colloquium on History and Legitimisation, "[Re]constructing the Past," 24-27 February 1999, Brussels. Immanuel Wallerstein, "A Left Politics for the 21st Century? Or, Theory and Praxis Once Again." XIII. Archive An archive of materials of the Fernand Braudel Center has been established in the Special Collections of the Library of Binghamton University. It is available for use by scholars, by application to the Library. At present, it contains material from the pre-history of the Center (1975) to 1990. As of 2000, it will have material up to 1995. It is planned to update its contents every five years thereafter. XIV. Available Position Binghamton University. Senior appointment in world-systems analysis/historical sociology as of Fall 2000. Advanced assistant professor will also be considered. Will jointly teach in the Department of Sociology and direct research projects in the Fernand Braudel Center. Fields of research open, but should be consonant with established interests of Center and department. Send letter of application, evidence of experience in collective research, and three references to Immanuel Wallerstein, Director, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. Applicants will be reviewed starting Oct. 15, 1999. This post is contingent upon available funding. 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