Social Problems and Global Issues SSSP Global Division Newsletter SUMMER 2009 MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL DIVISION CHAIR Once again we can anticipate for relevant, productive, and critical series of sessions on globalization at our annual conference in San Francisco. I sincerely thank all the session organizers, discussants, as well as those who submitted papers. In spite of the budget crunch, the Global Division has been able to sustain the undergraduate and graduate Student Paper Competition Awards, and the Outstanding Book Award. These awards bring visibility to our Division and encourage interest on global issues. I thank all the chairs of these committees for their diligent work. I thank as well those who sent submissions to these awards. The Division is also grateful for David Fasenfest and Richard Dello Buono, editors of Critical Sociology for bailing us out of our budget shortfall for the graduate student paper, as they did last year. As I pass the torch to the next Global Division Chairs, John Dale and Jon Shefner, I would like to thank everyone who made my term doable and helped me accomplished the responsibilities of chairing. Special mention goes to David Steele for co-editing with me the Global Division Newsletter, the Executive Committee members who attended the Global Division meetings, those who took the time to serve as organizers and discussants of sessions, those who chaired the Award Committees, and Michelle Koontz who was always pleasant to work with. The Global Division has still a work-in- progress publication (an edited volume) that Richard Dello Buono and I have previously announced ---“Uprooting Neoliberal Globalization from Below”--- which will include papers on resistance and alternatives to neo-liberal globalization people do in Latin America, Asia, Middle East, North America and Europe. We have extended the deadline to August 6. So, if you have papers related to the theme, you can still submit it electronically to me (lmcgover@iuk.edu) or Richard (rdellob@hotmail.com). We are also in search for someone to take the place of David Steele, co-editor of the Global Division Newsletter. He would like to pass the role to others as he takes on an administrative position in his university. The co-editor will work with the in-coming Chair of the Global Division, John Dale. If you are interested, please let me or John Dale know (jdale@jmu.edu). Let us look forward to a fruitful, intellectually engaging gathering in San Francisco. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Indiana University WINNERS OF THE 2009 GLOBAL DIVISION AWARD COMPETITIONS 1. Global Division Undergraduate Student Paper Competition The co-chairs of the 2009 SSSP Global Division Undergraduate Student Award Committee, Dr. Tony Samara and Dr. David F. Steele, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Shantee L. Rosado Macalester College “El Que no Tiene Dinga, Tiene Mandinga: Black Collective Identity Formation among Afro-descendants in Dominican Replubic and Ecuador” 2. Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Competition The 2009 SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Award Committee co-chairs, Dr. John G. Dale and Dr. David A. Smith, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Tiffany Linton Page Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkley “Social Movements in Transition to Socialism: An Examination of the Campesino Movement in Venezuela” The 2009 SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Award Committee co-chairs, Dr. John G. Dale and Dr. David A. Smith, are pleased to announce this year’s Honorable Mention to: Fang Xu Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia “Governance and the Production of Identity: Consuming Western High-Culture in Contemporary Shanghai” 3. Global Division Outstanding Book Award The co-chairs of the 2009 SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. Howard Lune and Dr. John Dale, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Fuyuki Kurasawa “The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices” Cambridge University Press, 2007 The co-chairs of the 2009 SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. Howard Lune and Dr. John Dale, are pleased to announce Honorable Mention to: Jon Shefner “The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico” Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008 GLOBAL DIVISION BUSINESS MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH All Global Division members are invited to participate in the organizing meeting for our Division scheduled for Friday, August 7th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. in SCH – Stanford West. During the meeting we will create conference sessions for the 2010 SSSP meeting, discuss the student paper competitions and other issues pertinent to our Division. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! GLOBAL DIVISION SPONSORED AND CO-SPONSORED SESSIONS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE Date: Friday, August 7 Time: 08:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 5: Impact of Globalization on Communities in Less Developed and Developed Nations Room: SCH-Russian Hill Sponsors: Community Research and Development Global Organizer &Presider: Debarashmi Mitra, Delta State University Papers: “Globalization, State, and Community Resistances: Water Rights in India,” Mangala Subramaniam, Jaclyn Tabor and Christopher Malackany, Purdue University “Racialized Privatization: Neoliberal Threats to Indigenous Lands in Highland Peru,” Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University “A Different Perspective on Nations Within Nations: Immigration and Population Policies in Kuwait and Bahrain,” Connie L. McNeely, George Mason University and Mohammad Al-fahad, Kuwait University “Understanding Racial Reconciliation from a Global Perspective: Tourism and Race in America’s Periphery,” Alan Barton, Delta State University “Managing Purity, Maintaining Moral Boundaries: Distinction, Deference, and Social Change in Modern India,” Patrick Inglis, CUNY Graduate Center Date: Friday, August 7 Time: 08:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 7: Teaching About Human Rights Room: SCH-Fournou's Oven Sponsors: Educational Problems Global Law and Society Poverty, Class, and Inequality Program Committee Racial and Ethnic Minorities Teaching Social Problems Organizer &Presider: Otis B. Grant, Indiana University South Bend Papers: “‘And Roma were Victims, too.’ The Roma Genocide and Holocaust Education in Romania,” Michelle Kelso, University of Michigan “Multiculturalism as a New Ideology: The Race and Ethnic Representation in Japan’s Junior High Schools’ English Language Textbooks between 1980s to the Present,” Mieko Yamada, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne “Mystifications in the Construction, Appropriation, and Teaching of Human Rights,” Stephen Adair, Central Connecticut State University “Using the right to health as a framework for fostering integrative learning: Lessons from teaching issues in health and illness,” Alex Otieno, Arcadia University Date: Friday, August 7 Time: 12:30 PM - 02:10 PM Session 26: Neoliberalism, Global Inequality, and Resistance Room: UC-Black Cat Bar Sponsors: Global Marxist Section-ASA Organizers: David A. Smith, University of California Irvine Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee Presider: Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee Discussant: David A. Smith, University of California Irvine Papers: “Field Theory and the Study of Antisweatshop Campaigns,” Marcos Ancelovici, McGill University “Race and the Modern World-System: Changing Patters of Wealth, 1976-2008,” James Love, UC Riverside, Department of Sociology “Strategizing Against Sweatshops: Ideology, Strategic Models and Innovation in US Anti-Sweatshop Movement,” Matthew Williams, Boston College Date: Friday, August 7 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:10 PM Session 36: Global Intersections of Gender, Race and Class Room: UC-Black Cat Bar Sponsors: Global Racial and Ethnic Minorities Organizers & Presiders: Fatime Gunes, Anadolu University Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo Papers: “‘Fight for the Right to Fight’: Race and Gender in Social Resistance,” Monica White, Wayne State University “Globalization and the Local Political Economy of Prostitution in the Philippines,” Jeanette Heinrichs, University of Kentucky “Inequality in the digital world,” Xue Liu, Clemson University “A Critical Study of the Dynamics of Racial Inequalities: The Case of Black Women Domestic Workers in the United States,” Gokhan Savas, Syracuse University “Production of Gender in Bangladeshi Families through Housework and Childcare: An Exploratory Study,” Syeda Jesmin, University of Louisiana at Monroe Date: Friday, August 7 Time: 04:30 PM - 06:10 PM Session 46: Neoliberal Articulations of Imperialism Room: UC-Black Cat Bar Sponsors: Global Journal of Critical Sociology Marxist & World System Sections-ASA Organizers: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo Richard A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College Presider: Richard A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College Papers: “A Selective Imperialist Model for the State in the Global Political Economy,” Christopher Malackany, Purdue University “Chile: Suffering the Consequences of Imperial Designs,” Ximena de la Barra, Dialogo Sudamericano “Neoliberal Articulations of Imperialism in the Philippines,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo and Isidor Wallimann, Former Fellow, Indiana University Institute of Advanced Study “Surfing for a Shaman: Analysis of an Ayahuasca Tourism Website,” Christine Holman, Arizona State University Date: Saturday, August 8 Time: 08:00 AM - 09:40 AM Session 50: Contemporary Issues for Workers at Home and Abroad Room: SCH-Rincon Hill Sponsors: Global Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Labor Studies Marxist Section-ASA Organizers: Bhavani Arabandi, University of Virginia Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College Emily S. Ihara, George Mason University Presiders: Bhavani Arabandi, University of Virginia Emily S. Ihara, George Mason University Papers: “Frontline Supervisors in Health Careers: Role Strain, Stress, and Worker Compromise,” Kendra J. Jason, University of North Carolina Institute on Aging and North Carolina State University “Globalization, Inequality, and the Legal Services Industry,” Adam Sechooler, University of Wisconsin “One Nation, Interdependent: Exploring the Boundaries of Citizenship in the History of Social Security and Medicare,” Brian Grossman, Erica Solway, Brooke Hollister and Carroll Estes, University of California, San Francisco and Leah Rogne, Minnesota State University, Mankato “Positive and Negative Family-to-Work Spillover: The Pros and Cons of Family,” Jennifer Puentes, Indiana University Bloomington Date: Saturday, August 8 Time: 12:30 PM - 02:10 PM Session 56: Alternative Globalizations Room: SCH-California Blue Sponsors: Global Journal of Critical Sociology Organizers: Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell John Dale, George Mason University Presider & Discussant: John Dale, George Mason University Papers: “Obsolete Collective Cultural Rights? The Human Rights Movement’s Gambit for Cosmopolitan Solidarities and the Problem of Corporate Personhood,” John Dale, George Mason University “Nurturing the Grassroots: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Radio Barnraising,” Zach Schiller, Kent State University, Stark “Globalization and Eritrean Diaspora,” Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman University “The Globalization of the American Model of Education,” Neema Noori, University of West Georgia and Pia Anderson, American University of Sharjah Date: Sunday, August 9 Time: 08:30 AM - 10:10 AM THEMATIC Session 94: Global Dynamics in the Pacific Rim Room: UC-Library Sponsor: Global Organizers & Presiders: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Rutgers University Discussant: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Rutgers University Papers: “China, Economic Growth & Political Liberalization: The Role of NGOs,” Matthew Bradley, Indiana University Kokomo “Malaysia’s Unique Affirmative Action and its Bumiputra Policy,” Bernadette Kwee Garam, Manhattan College “The Emergence of Neoliberal Policing in Seoul, South Korea,” Alex Vitale, Brooklyn College “The Politics of Repression and Militarization in the Philippines and Civil Society’s Response,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo Date: Sunday, August 9 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 98: Mapping the Discursive Coordination of Global Action Room: SCH-Nob Hill Sponsors: Global Institutional Ethnography Organizer: Marie Campbell, University of Victoria Presider & Discussant: Liza McCoy, University of Calgary Papers: “Achieving ‘results’ in international funded NGOs in Kyrgyzstan: Aid-Effectiveness as discursive coordination of global ruling relations?” Marie Campbell, University of Victoria and Elena Kim, American University - Central Asia “Viewing Abu Ghraib: Congress and the Construction of Problem Photos,” Jared Del Rosso, Boston College “Relations of Ruling, Discourses of Rights and the Disappearance of the Child: The Dominican Experience,” Henry Parada, Ryerson University Date: Sunday, August 9 Time: 12:30 PM - 02:10 PM Session 114: Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion in the Neo-liberal Agenda and Participatory Development Room: UC-Library Sponsors: Community Research and Development Global Organizers: David A. Smith, University of California Irvine Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee Presider: Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee Papers: “Coalition Work: a comparison of two Mexican contexts,” Krista Brumley, Wayne State University and Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee “Methodologies of the Peoples: Approaches to Inclusion and Discovery,” Doreen E. Martinez, University of Colorado - Boulder “National Culture and Neoliberal State Legitimacy: The Case of Turkey,” Cory Blad, Manhattan College and Banu Koçer, Beykent University Date: Sunday, August 9 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:10 PM Session 123: Globalization and Environmental Justice Room: SCH-Fournou's Oven Sponsors: Environment and Technology Global Organizer & Presider: David F. Steele, Austin Peay State University Papers: “Monsanto, Biotechnology, and Framing Theory,” Anne Larsen, California State University, East Bay “Global Environmental Pollution and Human Rights,” Rebecca Katz, Morehead State University “Computer Waste in the World-System: The Case of China,” Scott Frey, Sociology - University of Tennessee, Knoxville “The Role of Local NGOs in Building Democracy and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and their Challenges,” Zelalem Getaneh and Wossene Abebe Desalegn, St. Francis Integrated Development Organization-FIDO “Globalization and Ethnic Conflicts: Understanding Baluch Opposition to Gwader Port in Pakistan,” Tarique Niazi, University of Wisconsin Date: Sunday, August 9 Time: 04:30 PM - 06:10 PM Session 129: Human Rights: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity and Immigration Room: SCH-Nob Hill Sponsor: Global Organizers: John Dale, George Mason University Tony Samara, George Mason University Discussant: Tony Samara, George Mason University Papers: “Cultural Securitization, Labor Market Involvement and Anti-Immigrant Hostility: Civic Integration Contracts and Immigrant Integration in Germany,” Peter Doerschler, Bloomsburg University and Pamela Irving Jackson, Rhode Island College “Disciplining Public Space: Race, Immigration, and Illegality in Arizona,” Meghan McDowell and Nancy Wonders, Northern Arizona University “Immigration and the Rules of Law,” Luis F. Nuño, William Paterson University “Migrant Workers in China: Rights and Security,” Qingwen Xu, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF GLOBAL MEMBERS ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Dworkin, S.L., Blankenship, K. “Microfinance and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Assessing Its Promise and Limitations.” (2009). AIDS & Behavior, 13, 462-469. Dworkin, S.L., Gambou, S., Sutherland, C., Moalla, K., Kapoor, A. (2009). “Gendered ‘Empowerment’ and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Policy and Programmatic Pathways to Success the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.” JAIDS, 52, S111-S118. Dworkin, S.L., Fullilove, R.  Peacock, D. (2009). “Are HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions for Heterosexually-Active Men Gender-Specific? A Critical Look at Work in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health, 99, 98- 984. Gareau, Brian J. and E. Melanie DuPuis. (Forthcoming) “From Public to Private Global Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Montreal Protocol’s Stalled Methyl Bromide Phase-out.” Environment & Planning A. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “A Brief Discussion on Métis and Alberta Métis Settlements Act.” Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies. Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1-29. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “Belgium's Nation-Building” (pp.291-308) in Democracy and Politics in Contemporary Belgium, edited by   Cheng-Feng Shih  & Jolan Hsieh. Taipei:  Taiwan International Studies Association. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “Colonization and State Building:  A Case Study of Samoa” (pp.89-110) in Democracy and Politics in Contemporary South Pacific Region, edited by Cheng-Feng Shih  & Ho-Chia Chueh.  Taipei: Institute for National Development. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “Métis and Alberta Métis Settlements Act - Right Claims” (pp. 161-198) in Indigenous Land Rights in Canada. Hualien, edited by Cheng-Feng Shih  & Jolan Hsieh.  Hualien: College of Indigenous Studies. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “Taiwan National Identity and Building: A Siraya Perspective.”  Journal of Taiwan Historical Studies, Vol. 3, pp. 61-92. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “Taiwan Studies Research Methods: Examining 228 Oral History and Ethnic Relations Studies.” Taiwan Studies and Research Journal. No.5, pp.16-31. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “UN Women's Conference and Impacts” (pp.69-93) in United Nations Summits, edited by Cheng-Feng Shih  & Jolan Hsieh.  Taipei: Institute for National Development. Hsieh, Jolan (2008). “United Nations Women's Conference and Human Rights.”  Taiwan International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 53-79. Ng, Roxana & Kiran Mirchandani. (2008). “Linking global trends and local lives: Mapping the methodological dilemmas.” In Gallagher, Kathleen (Ed.), The Methodological Dilemma: Critical, Creative, and Post-Positivist Approaches to Qualitative Research. New York: Routledge, p. 34-45. BOOKS Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya (Forthcoming July 2009), Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance, co-edited with Isidor Wallimann. London: Ashgate Publishing Co. Shih, Cheng-Feng & Jolan Hsieh (2008), Eds. Affirmative Action and College Professor Hiring. Hualien: College of Indigenous Studies. ISBN 978-986-01-6726-9 Shih, Cheng-Feng & Jolan Hsieh (2008), Eds. Indigenous Land Rights in Canada. Hualien: College of Indigenous Studies. ISBN 978-986-01-5782-6 Shih, Cheng-Feng & Jolan Hsieh (2008), Eds.  United Nations' Summits.  Taipei:  Institute for National Development.  ISBN 978-986-84007-1-9. Shih, Cheng-Feng & Jolan Hsieh (2008), Eds.  Democracy and Politics in Contemporary Belgium.  Taipei:  Taiwan International Studies Association.  ISBN 978-986-82090-7-7 Thomas, Mark (2009) Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Brian J. Gareau, who received his PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008, will be an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College starting fall 2009.  Contact information: Department of Sociology McGuinn Hall 426 Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3807 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY CONFERENCE Monday, August 10 9:00am – 6:15pm The Stanford Court Hotel 905 California Street, San Francisco 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introductions David Fasenfest, Editor and Richard Dello Buono, Latin American and Caribbean Editor Critical Sociology 9:15 - 11:00 SACRIFICING NEOLIBERALISM TO SAVE CAPITALISM? PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GLOBAL CRISIS Ximena de la Barra International Development Consultant and Social Policy Analyst Former Public Policy Advisor, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Discussants: NEOLIBERALISM AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS AS A SOCIAL PROCESS Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney WOMEN, GENDER AND NEOLIBERALISM Joan Acker, University of Oregon 11:15 - 12:30 1. California Blue Room Moderator: Victoria Carty, Chapman University Participatory planning in a rural Mexican village: Lessons for community development and professional education Mercedes Arce, la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Marie Kennedy, Chris Tilly, UCLA The Geography of the Family of Anti-systemic Movements: Activists at the World Social Forum Chris Chase-Dunn, Rick Niemeyer, Preeta Saxena, Matheu Kaneshiro, James Love and Amanda Spears, UC-Riverside 2. California Gold Room Moderator: Vida Bajc, Queens University Exploitation, Capital’s Innovations, and the Obscuring of Social Class: Notes on an Intellectual History of the Labor Theory of Value Stephen Adair, Central Connecticut State University A Progressive Vision of Interpersonal Racial Inequality Theory Chavella T. Pittman, New College of Florida Of Innovations and Fluctuations: A Critique of the Philippine Criminal Justice System and Restorative Justice Movement Diana Veloso, Loyola University Chicago The Neoliberal Retirement Crisis James W. Russell, Eastern Connecticut State University 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch Break 2:00 - 3:15 RACE AND POLITICS IN THE OBAMA ERA Bob Newby, Central Michigan University Discussant Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado 3:30 - 5:00 1. California Blue Room Moderator: Gregory Pratt, University of Illinois-Chicago: ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ You Better Not Believe It: Politics as Usual in a Different Style Johnny E. Williams, Trinity College Corporate Status, Neo-liberalism and the Obama Administration Christopher Doran, University of Newcastle The Changing of the Guard 2006-2009: The Rise of the Immigration Industrial Complex and the Prospects for Progressive Immigration Reform Under the Obama Administration Jesse Díaz, Jr., UC-Riverside Luisa Heredia, UC-Riverside Civil Rights after Obama Suzanne Goodney Lea, Trinity University 2. California Gold Room Movements and Visions for the 21st Century: The US Social Forum and World Social Forum Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota Jackie Smith, University of Notre Dame Lauren Langman, Loyola University Melanie L. Bush, Adelphi University Rod Bush, St. Johns University Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America 5:15 – 6:15 * * * * * * SPECIAL LABOR WORKSHOP * * * * * * The Crisis in the Newspaper Industry: Possible Responses of Organized Labor Carl Hall, Local Representative California Media Workers Guild, Local 39521, TNG-CWA The Social and Natural Limits of Globalization and the Current Conjuncture August 7, 2009 University of San Francisco Conference Schedule 8:15-8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:30 Opening Plenary Speaker: John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, “The World-System Crisis: Ecology, Economy, Empire” Presider: Andrew Jorgensen, University of Utah 9:30-11:10 Paper Session #1: Concurrent Panels 1. Finance and Financialization 2. Institutions, Inequality and Development 3. States, Scales and Alternative Futures 11:10-12:50 Paper Session #2: Concurrent Panels 4. The Social Foundations of Environmental Change 5. Cross-Border Organizing and Transnational Activism 6. Global Food Crisis: The End of Cheap Food? 12:50-1:00 Pick-up box lunches 1:00-3:00 Lunchtime Plenary Session, “The Counter-Movement(s) Today” Speakers: Fred Block, University of California Davis Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California Riverside Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University Timmons Roberts, Brown University Presider: Robert Ross, Clark University 3:00-4:40 Paper Session #3: Concurrent Panels 7. Migration 8. States, Scales and Regulation 9. Environmental Activism and Climate Politics 4:40-5:30 Closing Plenary and General Discussion, “Making Connections: Thinking across the social and natural in global context” A panel of several conference organizers will offer brief introductory remarks before opening the floor for general discussion. Paper Session Information First Paper Session: 9:30-11:10 AM 1. Finance and Financialization Organizer: Joseph Cohen, City University of New York Presider: Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado Discussant: Dan Hirschman, University of Michigan Presenters: Aaron Pitluck, Illinois State University, “Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: an Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets” Nicole Aschoff, Johns Hopkins University, “The rise and demise of vertical production:  A case study examining the role of finance in the restructuring of the US auto industry” Christian Suter, University of Neuchâtel, “Financial crises and the institutional evolution of the global debt restructuring regime, 1820-2008” Christopher Yenkey, Cornell University, “Instituting Investor Capitalism in the Global Periphery: The Construction of Retail Investing in Kenya, 2006-08” 2. Institutions, Inequality and Development Organizer and Presider: Matthew Mahutga, University of California Riverside Presenters: Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney, “Entropy Modeling of the Global Income Distribution” Lori Smith, Princeton University, “Democracy in the World Polity: The Structure of International Organization and Political Regime Change” Kristen Shorette, University of California Irvine, “Integration into the World-Economy and Health Benefits for Peripheral and African Countries: A Global Comparative Analysis” Matthew Flynn, University of Texas Austin, “The Limits of Global Capitalism: Brazil's Strong State Response to Transnational Drug Firms” Donald Light, Stanford University, “Globalizing Unequal Access to Drugs and Vaccines” 3. States, Scales and Alternative Futures Organizer and Presider: Paul Gellert, University of Tennessee Presenters: Chris Chase-Dunn and Kirk Lawrence, University of California Riverside, “World-System Future(s)” Elson Boles, Saginaw Valley State University, “The Spiral Evolution of Rights” Robert Schaeffer, Kansas State University, “Re-emergence of Hybrid States and the External Arena” Sherrow Pinder, California State University Chico, “The Nation State in the Era of Globalization: Some New Challenges” John Gulick, Hanyang University, “Chinese Agricultural Restructuring and the Future of the Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership” Second Paper Session: 11:10 AM-12:50 PM 4. The Social Foundations of Environmental Change Organizer and Presider: Andrew Jorgensen, University of Utah Presenters: Richard York, University of Oregon, “The Carbon Intensity of the Global Economy and the Prospects for De-Carbonization” Riley Dunlap, Oklahoma State University, “The Globalization of Citizen Concern for the Environment: Results from Seven Cross-National Surveys” David John Frank, Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer, University of California Irvine, “Environmental Outcomes in Global Perspective” Liam Downey, University of Colorado, “Natural Resource Extraction, Violence and Environmental Degradation” Bruce Podobnik, Lewis and Clark College, “Building the Clean Energy Movement: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective” 5. Cross-Border Organizing and Transnational Activism Organizer and Presider: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, College of William and Mary Discussant: Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut Presenters: Gary Adler, University of Arizona, “Building Cross-Border Solidarity?: The Impact of Group Styles on Immersion Travel Trips to Mexico”  Raphi Konstantin Rechitsky and Renata Blumberg, University of Minnesota, “East/West and North/South Fissures in Transnational Social Movements: The case of 2007 No Border Camps at the Ukraine/EU and U.S./Mexico Borders” Mary Robertson, University of Colorado Boulder, “Negative Implications of U.S. Anti-Trafficking Policy on Transnational Feminist and Women’s Organizing” Anthony J. Spires, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Ideas from Abroad: Global Civil Society and Its Impact on China” Robyn Rodriguez, Rutgers University and Valerie Francisco, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, “Countertopographies of Globalization: Diasporic Nationalism and Migrant Transnationalism” 6. Global Food Crisis: The End of Cheap Food? Organizer and Presider: Farshad Araghi, Florida Atlantic University Discussant: Stephen Zavestoski, University of San Francisco Presenters: Alessandro Bonano, Sam Houston State University, “The Global Food Crisis: The Case of Tyson Foods, Flexible Accumulation and Resistance in Mexico” Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First, “Food Movements and the Food Crisis: Food Security, Food Justice or Food Sovereignty” Miguel Altieri, University of California-Berkeley, “Food Crisis, Agroecology, and Food Sovereignty” Hannah K. Wittman, Simon Fraser University, “Stepping up to the Plate:  Agrarian Citizenship and the Crisis of Food Sovereignty” Tarique Niazi, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, “Neo-Corporatization of Agriculture and the Food Crisis: From Food Farming to Farming out Food Production in Pakistan” Third Paper Session: 3:00-4:40 PM 7. Migration Organizer and Presider: Matthew Sanderson, Lehigh University Presenters: Raul Delgado Wise, Director of Doctoral Program in Migration Studies and Professor of Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, “Dialectic of Forced Migration and Uneven Development: Lessons from NAFTA” Moshe Semyonov, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago and Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, “Spatial Assimilation of Ethnic Immigrants in European Societies” Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York Brooklyn, “Guest Workers, Migration and the U.S. Tourist Industry Labor Market” Kathleen Schwartzman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, “Import Surges and Emigration: NAFTA’s Two-Way Traffic” 8. States, Scales and Regulation Organizer, Presider and Discussant: Paul Gellert, University of Tennessee Presenters: Phil Hough, Florida Atlantic University, “Disarticulations and Commodity Chains: Cattle, Coca and Capital Accumulation along Colombia's Agricultural Frontier” Samuel Cohn, Texas A & M University, “New Types of Regulatory Regimes in a Post-Debt-Crisis World: Can Neo-Liberalism Reproduce Itself?” Brian Obach, SUNY New Paltz, “Private Regulation and the State in the Organic Agriculture Industry” Rachel Meyer, Harvard University, “Globalization and Local Politics: Community-Based Responses to Neoliberalism” William Friedland, University of California Santa Cruz, “New Ways of Working & Organization: Alternative Agrifood Movements and Agrifood Researchers” 9. Environmental Activism and Climate Politics Organizer and Presider: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, College of William and Mary Discussant: Timmons Roberts, Brown University Presenters: Thomas Swerts, University of Chicago, “Transnational Environmental Activism and the Post-Political Trap: Assessing Toxics Link’s anti-systemic resistance potential around E-waste in India”   Matheu Kaneshiro and Kirk Lawrence, University of California Riverside, “Environmentalism and the Family of Anti-Systemic Movements”             Scott Byrd and Cari Levay, University of California Irvine, “Claims, Aims, and Climate Change: Climate Justice Now! and the UNFCCC Negotiations” Lachelle Norris and Juan Saenz, Tennessee Tech University, “Democratizing Development in the Face of Environmental Injustice: The Case of the Tambogrande Gold Mine Protest” “Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance” Edited by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo, USA and Isidor Wallimann, University of North Texas, USA Adopting the notion of ‘third world’ as a political as well as a geographical category, this volume analyzes marginalized women’s experiences of globalization. It unravels the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity, nationality and class which have shaped the position of these women in the global political economy, their cultural and their national history. In addition to a thematically structured and highly informative investigation, the authors offer an exploration of the policy implications which are commonly neglected in mainstream literature. With its contributions to sociology, as well as its specific value in the fields of globalization, migration, social movements, development, women/gender, labor and policy studies, Globalization and Third World Women will appeal to a wide-range of readers, including academic researchers, teachers and students, social policy experts and professionals working within non-governmental organizations. Contents: Introduction: neoliberal globalization and 3rd world women: exploitation, coping, and resistance Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Wallimann; Globalization and regional inequalities: regional divisions of reproductive labor: Southern African migrant domestic workers in Johannesburg, Shireen Ally; Global Capitalism and women: from feminist politics to working class women’s politics, Martha Gimenez; Migration, transnational politics, and the state: challenging the limits of the law: Filipino migrant workers’ transnational struggles in the world for protection and social justice, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez; Identities, nation, and imperialism: confronting empire in Filipina American feminist thought, Anne E. Lacsamana; The struggle for land and food sovereignty: feminism in the Mau Mau resurgence, Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner; Alternative economies: Mexican women left behind: organizing solidarity economy in response, Ann Ferguson; Towards a global economy of commoning: A ‘gift to humanity’: 3rd world women’s global action to keep oil in the ground, Terisa E. Turner and Leigh Brownhill; Neo-liberalism in women in development discourse: using ICTs for gender and development in Africa: the case of UNIFEM, Christobel Asiedu; Globalization and women’s empowerment in Africa, Robert Dibie; Globalization and the sexual commodification of women: sex trafficking migration in South Asia, Bandana Purkayastha and Shweta Majumbar, Index.   SSSP Global Division Chair: Ligaya Lindio McGovern lmcgover@iuk.edu SSSP Global Division Executive Committee: Bhavani Arabandi, baza@virginia.edu John Dale, jdale@gmu.edu Richard A. Dello Buono, rdellob@hotmail.com Daniel Egan, Daniel_Egan@uml.edu Luis Fernandez, Luis.Fernandez@nau.edu LaDawn Haglund, ladawn.haglund@asu.edu Howard Lune, hlune@hunter.cuny.edu Ligaya Lindio McGovern lmcgover@iuk.edu Javier Pereira, jpereira@mail.utexas.edu Tony Samara, tsamara@gmu.edu Jon Shefner, jshefner@utk.edu Stephen Sills, sills.stephen@gmail.com David A. Smith, dasmith@uci.edu Alan Spector, a_spector@sbcglobal.net David Steele, steeled@apsu.edu Co-Editors of Social Problems and Global Issues: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, lmcgover@iuk.edu David Steele, steeled@apsu.edu SSSP Global Division Listserv Approximately one hundred of our Division members are currently signed up for the SSSP Global Division Listserv. The listserv is a quick way to share news about the Division and global issues. If you would like to be added to the SSSP Global Division Listserv, please send an e-mail to David Steele at steeled@apsu.edu or Ligaya McGovern at lmcgover@iuk.edu. 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