SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND GLOBAL ISSUES SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2008 MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL DIVISION CHAIR This issue will highlight the activities of the Global Division for the 2008 SSSP conference in Boston. Please come to these activities and share your ideas, meet, and network with other Global Division members As we anticipate this year’s annual meeting, I would like to thank all those who contributed their time and talent in making the activities of the Global Division for this conference possible. It is this collective effort that gives life to our Global Division. Due to the efforts of session organizers we have a good number of sponsored and co-sponsored sessions. Award committee chairs (David Smith, Jon Shefner, Howard Lune, John Dale, and Daniel Egan) received a good number of submissions that made their selection process challenging. This year the Global Division will be joining several other special divisions in one big joint reception which will be held on Thursday, July 31 from 6:30 pm-7:30 pm. Please check your conference program for the specific room at the Boston Park Hotel where it will be held. In the previous Global Division Newsletter, Richard Dello Buono and I announced a call for abstracts to the volume we are co-editing as a publication project of the Global Division. The theme of the volume is “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. If you have interest in contributing to the volume, I would be happy to meet you at this joint reception. Alternatively, you may also respond to the ad about this publication in this newsletter. I would like also to invite Global Division members to come to our Divisional meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 31 at 10:30 am -12:10 pm at Stanbro room at the Boston Park Hotel. Among other things the agenda will include the planning for next year’s conference, establishing criteria for certain Global Division Awards, identifying new chairs for one of the award committees, identifying session themes for the Global Division that will provide a global perspective to SSSP general conference theme for next year, budget, and other matters of concern to some members. Let us look forward to a successful, intellectually and socially rewarding gathering in Boston. Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Indiana University CONTRIBUTIONS/SUBMISSIONS TO NEWSLETTER BY MEMBERS Have you read a really good article or book related to the interests of the Global Division lately? Is anything happening on your campus that you would like to share with Global Division members? Do you want to make other Global members aware of your work? Please submit this material for the next newsletter by contacting Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Ligayako29@aol.com or David Steele, steeled@apsu.edu! We look forward to receiving your news! SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE 2008 GLOBAL DIVISION AWARD COMPETITIONS GLOBAL DIVISION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION The co-chairs of the 2008 SSSP Global Division Undergraduate Student Award Committee, Dr. John Dale and Dr. Daniel Egan, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Claire Posner Macalester College “Choosing Truth: The Influence of Function, Institutions, and Global Culture on the Establishment of TRCs.” Session 83: Student Award Winning Papers I Room: Franklin Friday, August 1 (4:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.) GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION The 2008 SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Award Committee co-chairs, Dr. Jon Shefner and Dr. David A. Smith, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Brian J. Gareau Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz "The Limited Influence of Global Civil Society in the Montreal Protocol" " Session 106: Student Award Winning Papers II Room: Franklin Saturday, August 2 (10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.) GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD The co-chairs of the 2008 SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. John Dale and Dr. Howard Lune, are pleased to announce this year’s winner: Michael Peter Smith & Matt Bakker “Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante.” Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Description by the committee: In the words of the co-authors, "Citizenship Across Borders is a political-economically contextualized ethnographic account of transnational politics across the U.S.-Mexican divide." At a time when many theories of contemporary globalization predict the increasing hollowing out of states and consequent erosion of citizenship rights, Smith and Bakker point to a politically intriguing and empirically grounded new discourse on citizenship that is transnationalist in conception, and that locates empowering identities and practices among a diverse range of actors. They conducted qualitative field research in multiple communities in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in California, particularly metropolitan Los Angeles. The five extended case studies in their book offer new ways of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border.  Their analysis highlights the continuing significance of territorial identifications and state policies – particularly those of the sending state – in cultivating and sustaining transnational connections and practices.  In contrast to high-profile warnings of the dangers to national cultures and political institutions brought about by long-distance nationalism and dual citizenship, we demonstrate that, far from undermining loyalty and diminishing engagement in U.S. political life, the practice of dual citizenship by Mexican migrants provides a sense of empowerment that fosters migrants' active civic engagement in U.S. as well as Mexican politics. Incidentally, Matt Bakker is a member of the SSSP, and is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. The co-chairs of the 2008 SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. Howard Lune and Dr. John Dale, are pleased to announce Honorable Mention to: Jennifer Bickham-Mendez “From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor and Globalization in Nicaragua.” Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Description by the committee: From the Revolution presents an ethnographic analysis of the history, politics, and local/transnational engagements of the Working and Unemployed Women’s Movement, María Elena Cuadra (MEC), a women’s labor organization that emerged from the Sandinista labor movement of the 1980s in the context of post-revolutionary Nicaragua under the neoliberal regimes of the 1990s. The book portrays the inner workings of this organization and its complex engagements with transnational corporations, neoliberal state agents, and even male-dominated local and transnational labor movements as contextualized within social and political-economic processes at the local, national and global levels. The theoretical project for this book is to understand how various processes that bundled together make up “globalization” shape and affect the practices and the political identities of the women involved in this organization, but also how locally embedded participants in MEC navigate power structures emerging in the World System in their struggle to create conditions of local democracy. MEC focuses simultaneously on improving working conditions for women laboring in the assembly factories of Nicaragua’s free-trade zones and on empowering women in their homes through education and training about domestic violence and reproductive health. In addition, the women of MEC have become important political subjects in neoliberal Nicaragua through their successful campaign for a code of ethics in maquila factories. What is particularly important about the case of MEC is its hybrid structure and demands as its members seek ways to organize and support women workers in a global economy, but outside the framework of unionism. The case of MEC, then, is positioned at the intersections of some key theoretical debates regarding globalization and the World System, class differences within feminist movements, and grassroots organizing in post-socialist, neoliberal contexts. The analysis seeks to shed light on the local, national and transnational struggles that result when women are increasingly incorporated into the highly gendered terrain of the neoliberal, global economy as well as how gendered inequities and those based on other vectors of power shape transnational politics. The case illustrates the ways in which gendered power differentials shape access to transnational political networks. As in the case of national political arenas, certain political spaces are constructed as male domains, and as an autonomous women’s organization, MEC faced exclusion from them. On the other hand, autonomy from the Sandinista labor movement opened other spaces and connections, giving rise to “transnational political opportunity structures.’ I argue that the experience of this organization also sheds light on the relation between local practices and larger cross-national processes. Like women of color in the US, MEC’s political practices are grounded in the experiences of poor working women, and they draw from a rich, cumulative oppositional history as they negotiate the fluctuating political landscapes under globalization. Finally, the book turns a critical gaze towards NGOs as the implementers of “grassroots development” by examining the pitfalls of the transnational dependency that emerges between grassroots organizations in the Global South and their Northern “counterparts.” Jennifer writes, "My hope is that From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras contributes to collective thinking about the articulations between gender and globalization as well as women’s agency in accommodating but also resisting power structures in the World System."  We think that it does and will continue to do so. GLOBAL DIVISION BUSINESS MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, JULY 31ST All Global Division members are invited to participate in the organizing meeting for our Division scheduled for Thursday, July 31st from 10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. in the Stanbro room. During the meeting we will create conference sessions for the 2009 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 BOSTON CONFERENCE SPONSORED AND CO-SPONSORED SESSIONS SESSION 6: GLOBALIZATION: THEORY, IDEOLOGY, AND PRACTICE Thursday, July 31 (8:30 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.) Room: Newbury Sponsor: Global Division Organizer & Presider: David F. Steele, Austin Peay State University Papers: “A Fanonian Critique of Globalization,” Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts, Lowell “Ecuadorian Indigenous Resistance to Globalization,” Beth Williford, Purdue University “Obstacles on the Path to Post-Genocide Repair: A Comparative Analysis,” Andrew Woolford, University of Manitoba and R.S. Ratner, University of British Columbia “Mediator, Advocate or Following its Own Agenda? A Review of the Role of the State,” David F. Steele, Austin Peay State University “Use of Western Medication among Women in Ghana,” Joyce Avotri Wuaku, Austin Peay State University SESSION 30: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES Thursday, July 31 (12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) Room: White Hill Sponsors: Global Division ASA Section on the Political Economy of the World System Organizers: Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville David Smith, University of California, Irvine Presider: Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Papers: “Essentialized National Culture and Political Mobilization in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of the Action Démocratique du Québec,” Cory Blad, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville “Time Crime: The Transnational Organization of Art and Antiquities Theft,” David G. Bromley, David Lane and John Mahoney, Virginia Commonwealth University and Robert Hicks, Loxodrome History Consultants “Global Commodity Chains and the Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Class: Lessons from the Coffee and Banana Industries of Colombia,” Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University “A Case Study of Gender and Globalization in Ukraine,” Leontina M. Hormel, University of Idaho THEMATIC SESSION 43: NORTH/SOUTH DIALOGUE: GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CONTRADICTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES Thursday, July 31 (4:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.) Room: White Hill Sponsors: Global Division Program Committee Organizers: John Dale, George Mason University LaDawn Haglund, Arizona State University Presider: LaDawn Haglund, Arizona State University Discussant: Jean Quataert, Binghamton University, SUNY Description: Globalization and human rights have an uneasy relationship. With globalization has come the spread of ideals and institutions for promoting human rights worldwide. At the same time, human rights may conflict with or challenge processes underlying globalization, such as market liberalization, migration, dislocation, and innovations in surveillance and repression. Beyond these dynamics, the use of the language of human rights itself can be ambivalent. We see this clearly when state and non-state actors use human rights as a disciplinary instrument to regulate the behavior of other nation-states, especially to strengthen the hegemony of Northern states over Southern ones. This panel seeks to explore the ambivalence of human rights discourse and practice and the contradictions between globalizing forces and the institutionalization of human rights. Papers: “Expert Witnessing Asylum: Human Rights Limitations in a Global Arena,” Adrienne Pine, American University in Cairo “Crossing North-South Divides? Labor Activists at the World Social Forum,” Ellen Reese and Roy Kwon, University of California, Riverside “The Effects of Globalization on Human Trafficking,” Ione DeOllos, Gabriel Aigner and Felicia McConnell, Ball State University “Femicide on the U.S./Mexico Border: The Limits of International Advocacy,” Carol E. Mueller, Grace Daniels and Rebecca Coplan, Arizona State University THEMATIC SESSION 53: GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, AND ECONOMIC DIASPORA Friday, August 1 (8:00 a.m. to 9:40 a.m.) Room: Newbury Sponsor: Global Division Organizer & Presider: Luis Fernandez, Northern Arizona University Papers: “On Dual Citizenship: The Emerging Transnational Class in India/United States,” Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee “Victims of Human Trafficking and Unaccompanied Minors: Dealing with Issues of Culturally Competent Practices and Services,” Rowena Fong and Jodi Berger, University of Texas, Austin “The Place of Muslims in European Societies: Benchmarking Integration,” Pamela Irving Jackson, Rhode Island College and Roderick Parkes, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik “Immigration, Accumulation and Contradiction: (Un)Wanted Migrants and Arizona’s Employer Sanctions Law,” Raymond Michalowski, Northern Arizona University “Spacialized Strategies of Control and Exclusion: Economic Globalization and (Im)migration to the U.S.,” Meghan McDowell and Nancy A. Wonders, Northern Arizona University SESSION 64: GLOBALIZATION AND MODELS OF DEMOCRACY Friday, August 1 (12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) Room: Newbury Sponsors: Global Division Sociologists Without Borders Organizers: Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Mark Frezzo, Florida Atlantic University Presider & Discussant: Mark Frezzo, Florida Atlantic University Papers: “Another Democracy is Possible: Alternatives from the World Social Forum,” Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University “Neoliberalism and Democratization: The ‘Cochabamba Water Wars,’” Luigi Esposito and Fernando Perez, Barry University “An Arena for the Global South? Movements, NGOs, and the United Nations,” Nicole Shortt, Florida Atlantic University “Neoliberalism, the Global Justice Movement, and Transnational Social Movement Organizations in Latin America,” Kaiser ‘Rusty’ Shekha, Florida State University SESSION 86: GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH: RESISTANCE FROM BELOW Friday, August 1 (4:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.) Room: Newbury Sponsor: Global Division Organizers: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Richard Dello Buono, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas Presider: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Discussant: Jimena Arias Feijoo, Center for the Study of State and Society Papers: “When the Victims Become the Heroines for Themselves: The Making of Grassroots Migrant Domestic Workers Movement in Hong Kong,” Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University “Another Integration is Possible: Women’s Organizations and the Popular Struggle for Genuine Regional Integration,” Diana Avila, South American Dialogue and Richard Dello Buono, Independent Scholar “Globalization, Women, and the Social Debt in Latin America,” Ximena de la Barra, Independent Development Consultant “Violence Against Women in Selected Nigerian Video Films and Novels,” Chioma L. Enwerem, Imo State University “Filipino Women’s Resistance to Neo-liberal Globalization,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University SESSION 97: GLOBALIZATION, ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND ALTERNATIVES--I (International Issues) Saturday, August 2 (8:30 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.) Room: Lexington Sponsor: Global Division Organizer, Presider &Discussant: Alan Spector, Purdue University, Calumet Papers: “Perceptions of People about Desertification in Desertification Risk Areas in Turkey,” Fatime Gunes, Anadolu University “Is There a Green Future for Taiwan?” Jolan Hsieh, National Dong Hwa University “Green Privatization and Indigenous Human Rights in Oaxaca: What are the Relationships?” Molly Talcott, University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION 109: GLOBALIZATION, ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND ALTERNATIVES--II (THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES) Saturday, August 2 (10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.) Room: Lexington Sponsor: Global Division Organizer &Presider: Alan Spector, Purdue University, Calumet Discussant: Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Papers: “Our So-Called Environmental Crisis Is Really a Cognitive Crisis,” Olaf Krassnitsky, The Strategic Counsel, Ottawa “Radical Horticulture as Conceptualized by the Anarchist Kropotkin,” Suzanne Risley, New York University “Local Government and Global Environmental Issues: The Case of Bucks County, Pennsylvania,” Barry Truchill, Rider University “The Conservative Impulse within the Environmental Movement: 1970-2008,” Alan Spector, Purdue University, Calumet THEMATIC SESSION 121: GLOBALIZATION, IMMIGRATION, AND HEALTH Saturday, August 2 (12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) Room: Lexington Sponsors: Global Division Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division Organizers: Jean Elson, University of New Hampshire Howard Lune, Hunter College, CUNY Presider: Jean Elson, University of New Hampshire Discussant: Howard Lune, Hunter College, CUNY Papers: “Immigrant Acupuncturists in Argentina: Negotiating and Accommodating Expertise in the Western Periphery,” Betina Freidin, Brandeis University “Conceptualizing Professional Diaspora: The Case of the International Medical Graduates in Canada,” Elena Neiterman and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, McMaster University “Adoption Medicine and the Management of Health Risk in International Placements,” Heather Jacobson, University of Texas at Arlington “General Well-being and Use of Social Services Among Refugees: New Hampshire Refugee Resettlement Study,” Emily M. Douglas, Bridgewater State College and Nina Glick Schiller, University of New Hampshire THEMATIC SESSION 122: CONSUMPTION, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE GLOBAL-LOCAL INTERFACE Saturday, August 2 (12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) Room: Newbury Sponsors: Environment and Technology Division Global Division Organizer & Presider: David F. Steele, Austin Peay State University Papers: “From Cozies to Coziness: Producing and Consuming the Etsy Online Community,” Jennifer M. Ashlock, College of Notre Dame and Kay Bozich Owens, Florida State University “Green Market Advertisers’ Focus on Women: A Content Analysis of Magazine Advertisements,” Eileen Weigand, Virginia Tech “Crossing the Border: An Exploration of the Visual Markers between Rural-urban Communities,” Susan Machum, St. Thomas University “The Forgotten Wedge: Sufficiency and the Search for Climate-Change Solutions,” Anders Hayden, Boston College “The Flow of Heavy Metals in the World-System,” R. Scott Frey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville SESSION 142: GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY: CROSSING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL BORDERS Saturday, August 2 (4:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.) Room: Lexington Sponsors: Global Division Institutional Ethnography Division Organizers: Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill Kamini Maraj Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Facilitators: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill Kamini Maraj Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo Description: This session will involve an open discussion workshop on institutional ethnography and global research. Examples of IE-based approaches to aspects of globalization will be highlighted, and related approaches will be considered. The discussion starter-facilitators will be Peter Grahame, Kamini Maraj Grahame, Lauren Eastwood, and Ligaya Lindio McGovern. AGENDA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: SOLUTIONS 2008 The Justice 21st Committee of SSSP has gotten off the press the Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2008.  Both the entire booklet and pamphlet of single-page briefs are accessible for free at the SSSP website: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/323.  First published in 2004, the Agenda comes out every four years, to coincide with major U.S. elections.  The 2008 Agenda contains eleven pieces of public social sciences scholarship written by SSSP members. Each piece is intended to define a pressing social problem, present research evidence about it, and then to offer concrete policy initiatives designed to ameliorate the problem. SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION LISTSERV Sixty 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 . CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY (CO-SPONSORED BY THE ASA MARXIST SECTION, SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION AND SAGE PUBLICATIONS) PRESENTS: POWER AND RESISTANCE: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS, POSSIBLE FUTURES   The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 3, 2008   8:30-9:00          COFFEE, WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (White Hill Room) Conference Organizers: David Fasenfest, Editor, Critical Sociology Ricardo Dello Buono, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Zacatecas, Mexico 9:00-9:45          “FAT CAT” SOCIOLOGY: REFLECTIONS ON 1968 AND THE SOCIOLOGY LIBERATION MOVEMENT (White Hill Room) Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University   10:00-11:30      CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN MOBILIZING CONSTITUENCIES FOR PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE (Whittier Room) Organizer and Presider: Michael Sukhov, CUNY Graduate Center   “Retheorizing the Politics of the Left: A Critique and Some Lessons for Contemporary Activists and Movements” Michael E. Brown, Northeastern University,   “Between Protest and Political Organization: The Case of the Globalization Movement and World Social Forum” Heather Gautney, Fordham University,   “Political Activism and Deferred Agency: Towards a Theory of Differential Political Participation” Michael J. Sukhov, The City University of New York Graduate Center   “The Technocratization of Protest: Transnational Advocacy Organizations and the WTO” Kristen Hopewell, University of Michigan   Discussant: Samuel Cohn, Texas A&M University   A “THIRD LEFT” IN LATIN AMERICA? (White Hill Room) Presider:Marie Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Boston Organizer: Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell   “Understanding Latin America’s ‘third left’” Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell   “Resurrected Enterprises and Social Mobilization in Argentina” Laura Collin Harguindeguy, Colegio de Tlaxcala   “The Zapatistas’ ‘other’ politics” Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College   “Community Organizing and Rebellion:  Neighborhood Councils in El Alto, Bolivia” Emily Achtenberg, Urban Planner and Independent Researcher   Discussant: Fernando Leiva, State University of New York, Albany   TOWARD A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY (Winthrop Room) Session Organizer and Presider: Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion   “The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion” Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion   “Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Veil (Hijab) and the French Laws on Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools” Mohammad A. Chaichian, Mount Mercy College   “After Althusser: The Lacanian Left and the Resurgence of Materialism” Marios Constantinou, University of Cyprus   “Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: Reconsidering Situationist Praxis” Richard Gilman-Opalsky, University of Illinois-Springfield   Discussant: George Sanders, Oakland University       11:30-12:45 LUNCH     1:00-2:00   PLENARY (White Hill Room) It’s Real: Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the URGENT Need for Social Movement Politics Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University   2:15-3:45          THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM AND US SOCIAL FORUM: 21ST CENTURY MOVEMENT BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM-UP (Whittier Room) Organizer and Presider: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University   “The Social Forum Movement and the Praxis of Gender, Race, Class, Sexualities” Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota   “The Space of Anamnesis: Writing the Social Forum” Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University   “Reflection on Organizing a Campus Delegation to the US Social Forum” Melanie Bush, Adelphi University and Deborah Little, Adelphi University   “Bridging Contentious and Electoral Politics: Move on and the Digital Revolution” Victoria Carty, Chapman University   “Mobilization for a Better World” Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago “Consciousness, Vision and Strategy for 21st Century Bottom-up Movement Building” Jerome Scott, Project South ESTADOS UNIDOS: HEGEMONÍA, TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIALES Y POLÍTICA / UNITED STATES: HEGEMONY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLITICS (panel in Spanish / en Español) (White Hill Room) Presider: Ricardo Dello Buono, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Zacatecas, México   “Poder global, geopolítica y las tendencias de la economía mundial” Carlos Eduardo Martins, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil   “Los partidos políticos en Estados Unidos” Marco A. Gandásegui, h., Universidad de Panamá y Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos “Justo Arosemena” (CELA), Panamá   “Hegemonía y clase obrera de Estados Unidos” Dídimo Castillo Fernández, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México   “Migración y juventud. Los jóvenes latinos en Estados Unidos” Alejandro I. Canales, Universidad de Guadalajara, México.   “Salsa, migración y globalización. Las luchas por la hegemonía desde la cultura” Ángel G. Quintero Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico   Discussant: Víctor M. Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas   RACE, GENDER AND IMMIGRATION (Winthrop Room) Presider: Daphne Phillips, the University of the West Indies   “Race and Immigration: Imperialism Gone Wild” Rodney Coates, Miami University of Ohio   “Negotiating the Meaning of “Family” in the Transnational Field: A Case of Taiwanese Immigrants and their Families” Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Brandeis University   “Visual Technology Culture and Gender in Remaking the Globalized Representation of Forced Migration” Oscar F. Gil, UC Santa Barbara   “The Global Structuring of Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class: When Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers Rebel” Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo and SSSP Global Division Chair   Discussant: Monica White, Wayne State University     4:00-5:30          THE SOCIAL FORUM PROCESS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE (Whittier Room) Organizers and Presiders: Ellen Reese and Chris Chase-Dunn, UC-Riverside "Comrades in Arms?: Socialists and Communists at the World Social Forum" Bridgette Portman, UC-Irvine "Environmentalists and the Family of Anti-systemic Movements" Matthew Kaneshiro and Kirk Lawrence, UC-Riverside   "Changing Contours of the Network of Movements in the Social Forum Process" Christopher Chase-Dunn, Matthew Kaneshiro and Gary Coyne; Department of Sociology and Institute for Research on World-Systems "Neoliberal Policies Persist, Indigenous Movements Resist: Making Sense of the Current Social and Political-Economic Conjuncture in Southern Mexico." Molly Talcott, UC Santa Barbara Discussant: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University   PODER Y RESISTENCIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA: REFLEXIONES CRÍTICAS SOBRE LA CRISIS ACTUAL Y LOS FUTUROS POSIBLES / POWER AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS AND POSIBLE FUTURES (panel in Spanish/ en Español) (White Hill Room) Presider: Alfonso Latoni, Independent Scholar   “Quince años de TLC. Su legado en el medio rural mexicano” Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México   “Inserción asimétrica y migración internacional” Víctor Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México   “El conflicto colombiano y las posibilidades para una genuina integración sudamericana” Diana Avila, Diálogo Sudamericano, Lima, Perú   “Procesos emancipatorios emergentes en America Latina” Ximena de la Barra, Diálogo Sudamericano, Santiago de Chile y R.A. Dello Buono, Critical Sociology   Discussant: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Wayne State University   CRITICAL INSTITUTIONALISM (Winthrop Room) Organizer and Presider: Graham Cassano, Oakland University   “Symbolic Exploitation: An Institutionalist Approach” Graham Cassano, Oakland University   “Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism” Dan Krier, Iowa State University   “‘IR Experts’ and the New Deal State: The Diary of a Defeated Subsumed Class” Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine and Ric McIntyre, University of Rhode Island   Discussant: Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University   5:45-7:00        AWARDS and RECEPTION (Stanbro Room, on Mezzanine Level)   CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY Research Award Presentation Chair:  Graham Cassano, Oakland University             Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University             Paul Paolucci, Eastern Kentucky University   Critical Sociology Research Paper Award Oscar F. Gil-Garcia, UC-Santa Barbara "The Rural Women's Movement: Engendering Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa"   SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Best Graduate Student Paper Award Brian J. Gareau, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Limited Influence of Global Civil Society in the Montreal Protocol”   Reception to follow: Food and Drink (Cash Bar)     NOTE: Registering for the SSSP Conference will automatically register you for the Critical Sociology conference. If you require further information concerning the Critical Sociology conference please e-mail Conference Organizers Ricardo Dello Buono at rdellob@hotmail.com or David Fasenfest at david.fasenfest@wayne.edu . BOOK PROPOSAL Ligaya Lindio McGovern and Richard Dello Buono are putting together a publication (an edited volume) that will compile selected papers presented in the Global Division sessions as well as papers from invited contributors.  The theme of the volume is “Uprooting Neo-liberal Globalization from Below”.  The book will bring together analytical and empirical case studies or essays on how people/grassroots groups in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East, North America and Europe are organizing resistance and alternatives to neo-liberal globalization.  They are currently soliciting two-page abstracts that can be included in the book proposal they will send to the publishers to negotiate for an advance contract.  If you are interested in submitting an abstract please send Ligaya (lmcgover@iuk.edu or ligayako29@aol.com) and Richard (rdellob@hotmail.com  an email expressing your interest and a brief description of your work.   This will give them a chance to have some sense of what works are out there. If you are coming to the SSSP conference in Boston and you would like to meet with Ligaya and Richard to discuss your potential contribution to the volume, please send either or both of them an email to arrange an informal meeting during the conference. SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION GLOBAL DIVISION CHAIR: Ligaya Lindio McGovern lmcgover@iuk.edu GLOBAL DIVISION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 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, luneh@wpunj.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 17