Check out the great sessions for ASA 2024!
Sun, August 11, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 511D
Session Organizer: Vilna Bashi, Northwestern University
“Of Crashing Bicycles, Spaghetti, and Lost Teeth: The Diminished World Trade Organization”
Joseph A. Conti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Racialized and migrant workers in US Amazon warehouses -- old theory impacts contemporary globalized supply chains”
David A. Smith, University of California-Irvine; Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University; Elizabeth Alexis Sowers, CSU Channel Islands; Spencer Louis Potiker, University of California-Irvine; Luc McKenzie, University of California-Irvine
“Revisiting and Re-Theorizing “Universality” in the Modern World-System”
Jason C. Mueller, Kennesaw State University
“The BRICS+ And The Middle-Run Futures Of The Global System”
Sakin Erin, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma; Christopher K Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside
“World-System Hierarchy, Economic Productivity, and Global Economic Downturns: Analyzing Trade Networks Post-2008 Global Financial Crisis”
Martín Jacinto, California State University-Chico
Sun, August 11, 10:00 to 11:00am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 7, 710A
Session Organizers: Vilna Bashi, Northwestern University; Jeremy Louis Levine, Stony Brook University
“Argentina and Brazil Political Economy of Soy-Meat Complex and implications of the Trade to China”
Maria Jose Haro Sly, Johns Hopkins University
“Japanification of the Chinese Economy? A Tale of Two East Asian Miracles”
Mingtang Liu, Johns Hopkins University
“Making Expensive Coffee Cheap—Food Regimes, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian Politics in Colombia and Kenya”
Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University; David Osorio Garcia, Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Caldas, Colombia; Patrick Mbataru, Public Policy and Administration, Kenyatta University, Kenya
“Religion, Primitive Accumulation and Colonialism-Nationalism Nexus in the Long-Sixteenth Century: The Spanish-Habsburg Bid for Global Supremacy”
Sahan Savaş Karataşli, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
“The Evolution of Inequality Overshoots Within Polities and in Interpolity Systems”
Christopher K Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside; Hiroko Inoue, University of California-Riverside
“The relationship between within-country and between-country inequality in globalization”
Hiroko Inoue, University of California-Riverside; Teruki Sanada, Doshisha University; Yoshimichi Sato, Kyoto University of Advanced Science; Christopher K Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside; Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland-College Park
“Transforming Epicenter of Antisystemic Movements in the Global South with the Long Durée”
Chungse Jung, SUNY-Cortland
“Urban disadvantages in maternal health care utilization in postcolonialized sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania”
Neema Langa, University of Houston
PEWS Business Meeting
When Sun, Aug 11, 11:00-11:30am
Where: Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517C
The PEWS Section will hold a joint reception with the Labor and Labor Movements, Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Marxist, and Development ASA Sections.
When: Mon, August 12, 7:00-10:00PM
Where: Headquarters of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)/Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU)
1601 Av. De Lorimier, Montréal, QC H2K 4M5, Canada
Check out the great sessions held for ASA 2023!
Fri, August 18, 8:00 to 9:30am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 104A
Co-organizer, Ricado E Jacobs, University of California-Santa Barbara
Co-organizer, Beverly Judith Silver, Johns Hopkins University
In the first decades of the twenty-first century, there has been a worldwide explosion of social protest, unfolding with an intensity and scope that has been rare in the history of the capitalist world-system. Such periods have been intertwined with periods of deep system-level crises of capitalism. In the present period (as in past analogous periods), we witness an array of movements, ranging from ones that are predominantly exclusionary (including genocidal) to ones that are pointing (explicitly or implicitly) towards alternatives paths out of the deepening crisis and toward a more just and equitable post-capitalist world system. Papers in this session will focus on social protest from below as a lens through which to understand the multiple crises of global capitalism and vice-versa. We welcome papers that link concrete local struggles to world-systemic dynamics; that place the current global wave in historical perspective; and that analyze the ways in which current resistance from below may signal the interstitial emergence of routes out of the deepening global crisis and alternatives beyond capitalism.
Fri, August 18, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 104B
Co-organizer, Sahan Savaş Karataşli, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Co-organizer, Sefika Kumral, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Since the turn of the 21st century, there is growing awareness that our world is experiencing interlinked crises at social, economic, political and environmental spheres. In critical sociological studies, it has almost become impossible to talk about ecology, geopolitics, finance, reproduction or health without referring to the term “crisis.” Yet, there is no consensus on the exact nature of these crises or why we have been experiencing different forms of crises around the world in great synchrony. Some scholars tend to view these crises as different manifestations of the crisis of neoliberalism. For some scholars, these simultaneous crises are linked to the crisis of the U.S. world hegemony and the post-1945 world order as a whole. For others, they are symptoms of the crisis (and demise) of the capitalist world-economy as a whole. This panel aims to investigate the nature of crises we have been experiencing, their causes and consequences from a global and macro-historical perspective.
Fri, August 18, 4:00 to 5:00pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 113B
Organizer, Jeremy Louis Levine, SUNY at Stony Brook
The Refereed Roundtables will include front-line empirical research offering new and refreshing ideas about our world-systems using global, political, and economic theoretical perspectives. As our world continues to become more interconnected and many of the remaining challenges call for solutions that require nation-states and people to work together, research and dialogue from different areas of expertise within the field of Sociology is essential. Abstracts and paper submissions received online will cover a variety of themes, including Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Gender Inequality, Racial Inequality and Justice, Stratification, Labor Rights and Migration, Refugees, Human Rights, Interstate and Intrastate Conflicts, Nationalism, Populism, Mass Media and Social Media, and more.
Roundtable 1: Colonial Knowledge, Austerity, and Racial Capitalism
Roundtable 2: Political Economy and Global Perspectives
Roundtable 3: World-Systems and Asia in the Neoliberal Political Economy
PEWS Business Meeting
Time: August 18, 5:00-5:30pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 113B
ASA Reception!
The PEWS Section will hold a joint reception with the Marxist Sociology and Labor and Labor Movements sections.
Time: Friday, August 18, 6:00-9:00PM
Location: Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center
(210 S 45th St, Philadelphia)
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