Social Problems and Global Issues SSSP Global Division Newsletter Fall 2019 Table of Contents Member Publications 2 Call for Papers 3 Global Division Graduate Student Paper and Book Award 8 Interview With Author 9 Other Opportunities 13 Global Division Sponsored Sessions 11 Dear Global Division members, Greetings from your new chair! Our next Annual Meeting will be in San Francisco (August 7-9). Our theme is inspiring, given the ethos of despair looming large in our global consciousness: “Bringing the Hope Back In: Sociological Imagination and Dreaming Transformation.” SSSP has announced the Call for Proposals, and papers or abstracts will be accepted until January 31st. Our Division is sponsoring and co-sponsoring 10 sessions at the conference. Please see more details in this newsletter about our Division sessions and consider submitting your work. We will be sponsoring our Division’s Graduate Student Paper Award and an Outstanding Book Award. Details of the submission process are in this newsletter. Please consider submitting your work. We are featuring the award-winning book Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa After 1994 in this newsletter, including an interview with the author and longstanding Global Division member, Andy Clarno. We have a few book announcements and conference/workshop announcements throughout this newsletter. If you have not renewed your SSSP memberships, this is the time. Please help to spread information about SSSP and our Division to your graduate students and other faculty. You already know the benefits. I am grateful to Ankur Rastogi for conducting the interview with Andy, and Ismail Nooraddini, our newsletter editor. A special thanks to Andy Clarno for sharing his experiences with us. And a note of thanks to all who have volunteered to as organizers of sessions and members of award committees. Sincerely yours, Manjusha Nair Assistant Professor of Sociology George Mason University Mnair4@gmu.edu Social Problems and Global Issues Fall 2019 # Social Problems Be sure to follow the journal on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (click the icons), as well as check out a new feature online called The Author’s Attic. The Author’s Attic offers short discussions with the authors of articles published within the journal. They can be useful for classroom purposes, or sharing with a broader public. The Author’s Attic can be found here: http://socpro.oxfordjournals.org/content/authors-attic MEMBER PUBLICATIONS The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila (The University of Chicago Press, 2019) By Marco Garrido What has neoliberal economic restructuring meant for urban experience? What has it meant, specifically, for the experience of class relations in cities of the Global South? A number of studies already focus on the plight of the urban poor or middle class under restructuring. It is not just the one or the other group being transformed, however, but their relationship. It is their dynamic, not their individual situations, producing new urban spaces, social relations, and politics. Marco Garrido documents the fragmentation of Manila into a “patchwork” of classed spaces, particularly slums and upper- and middle-class enclaves. He then looks beyond urban fragmentation at its effects on class relations and politics, arguing that the proliferation of slums and enclaves and their subsequent proximity have intensified class relations. For enclave residents, the proximity of slums is a source of insecurity. They feel compelled to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents. For slum residents, the regular imposition of boundaries fosters a pervasive sense of discrimination. Thus we see class boundaries clarify along the housing divide and the urban poor and middle class emerge as class actors—not as labor and capital but as squatters and “villagers” (in Manila residential subdivisions are called villages). Garrido further examines the politicization of this divide in the case of the populist president Joseph Estrada. He shows the two sides drawn into contention not just over the right to the city but over the nature of democracy. The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are connected and thus helps us make similar connections in other cases. It shows class as a social structure to be as indispensable to the study of Manila—and of many other cities of the Global South—as race is to the study of American cities. Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish (Temple University Press, 2020) By Howard Lune In Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish, Howard Lune considers the development and mobilization of different nationalisms over 125 years of Irish diasporic history (1791-1920) and how these campaigns defined the Irish nation and Irish citizenship. Lune takes a collective approach to exploring identity, concentrating on social identities in which organizations are the primary creative agent to understand who we are and how we come to define ourselves. As exiled Irishman moved to the United States, they attempted to create a new Irish republic following the American model. Lune traces the construction of Irish American identity through the establishment and development of Irish nationalist organizations in the U.S. He looks at how networks—such as societies, clubs, and private organizations—can influence and foster diaspora, nationalism, and nationalist movements. By separating nationalism from the physical nation, Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish uniquely captures the processes and mechanisms by which collective identities are constructed, negotiated, and disseminated.  Inevitably, this work tackles the question of what it means to be Irish, to have a nationality, a community, or a shared history.   Why Austerity Persists (Polity Press, 2019) By Jon Shefner and Cory Blad In this timely book, Shefner and Blad trace the 45-year history of austerity policies and how they became the go-to policy to resolve a host of economic problems. Using a variety of cases from the Global North and South, the book answers a number of important questions: why austerity persisted as a policy aimed at resolving national crises, despite evidence that it often does not work; how the policy itself evolved over recent decades; and who and what the powerful people and institutions are that have helped impose it across the globe. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and policy-makers interested in austerity, development, political economy, and economic sociology. Newsletter Editor: Ismail Nooraddini, PhD Student—George Mason University, mnooradd@gmu.edu https://globalsocialtheory.org/ This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective. It emerges from a long-standing concern with the parochiality of standard perspectives on social theory and seeks to provide an introduction to a variety of theorists and theories from around the world. The site is organised by Gurminder K Bhambra with web design and support by Pat Lockley. If you have suggestions for who or what needs to be added, please get in touch with Dr. Bhambra (g.k.bhambra@warwick.ac.uk). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice April 22-24, 2020 Santa Cruz, California   Co-presented by the University of California Santa Cruz and the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) Proposal submission deadline: January 6th, 2020 Students, Organizers, Scholars/Researchers, Foundations, Community Organizations and Research/Action Teams: Submit your ideas for workshops, posters, presentations, papers, art work or performances addressing how we build truly equitable partnerships for critical collaborative research, action and social justice. To apply, please fill out an interest/proposal submission form, including a brief summary of how you or your team would like to participate/what you would like to present. The diverse programming will include invited panel discussions involving multiple perspectives and stakeholders, paper presentations, short talks, interactive workshops, performances, and art exhibits. Sessions will be organized thematically, based on abstracts received. Those who wish to have their work considered for a special issue of Civic Sociology, a new open-access journal from UC Press, should indicate their interest on the submission form and submit full drafts of papers prior to the meeting.   There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger partnerships with community-based organizations and others to address pressing issues, such as the affordable housing crisis, privatization and educational injustice, anti-immigrant policies,  health and food insecurity, deepening economic precarity, environmental racism, and the climate crisis.  A particularly rich vein of engaged scholarship is the involvement of undergraduates as equal knowledge producers. The conference will highlight nationally instructive local models, such as UC Santa Cruz’s Community Initiated Student Engaged Research (CISER), which magnify the multiple assets and collective power that diverse students, committed faculty, and community-based practitioners bring to collective approaches. The conference will also address methods for building institutional support for collaborative research, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners, students, and early career scholars.  The conference brings together university scholars, community-based practitioners and researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundation program officers, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for action and the truly equitable co-production of knowledge.  Conference registration will begin in January 2020. Registration fees will be on a sliding scale, with some scholarships available and priority given to student and community member participants. Most meals during the conference will be provided. In addition to registration fees, teams and participants should plan to fund raise to cover housing and transportation. Proposal submission deadline: January 6th, 2020.  For additional information go.ucsc.edu/all-in or contact: Mykell Discipulo mkdiscip@ucsc.edu. CFP for Special Issue: Unfreedom in Labor Relations: from a politics of rescue towards a politics of solidarity? Dr. Siobhán McGrath: Durham University Department of Geography Prof. Louise Waite: University of Leeds School of Geography The cause of contemporary abolitionism has garnered increasing attention and resources over the past two decades. However, critiques of its hegemonic discourses and practices have also become well established (O’Connell Davidson 2015). The dominant criminal justice paradigm has been characterized as constituting a ‘politics of rescue’ (Kempadoo 2015) which is ineffective at best and harmful at worst. With the eradication of modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labor now enshrined as development goals through Target 8.7 of the SDGs, however, new approaches to the issue may be emerging (McGrath and Watson 2018; Kotiswaran 2018). In this context, we wish to consider whether the shift to a development paradigm in contemporary abolitionism creates an opportunity to replace the dominant ‘politics of rescue’ with a politics of solidarity. Our understanding of ‘unfreedoms’ includes existing indicators of forced labour, such as: the combination of working spaces with accommodation; the social relations at stake in accessing paid employment; restrictions on movement and work authorization across borders; delayed payment of wages owed; charges and deductions from pay by employers or labour intermediaries; and terms of credit and loan provision. But additional forms of coercion, control and confinement might also be classed as unfreedoms. These might include: the ways that some workers are actively excluded from labour markets through carceral systems, increasing surveillance of other workers (such as warehouse and delivery workers), or the means through which still others are pushed into employment (e.g., through punitive welfare regimes). We therefore invite papers which propose new approaches for understanding and addressing unfreedoms by prioritising justice and solidarity. We request full papers if possible, as we will be seeking an outlet to publish selected papers, for example by proposing a special issue of New Political Economy. For consideration for this opportunity, please send a 600-word abstract by 15 December to Dr. Siobhán McGrath . References Kempadoo, K. (2015) ‘The modern-day white (wo)man’s burden: trends in anti-trafficking and anti-slavery campaigns,’ Journal of Human Trafficking 1(1): 8–20. Kotiswaran, P. (2018) ‘Trafficking: A Development Approach,’ Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 4/2019. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3349103 (accessed 22 July 2018). McGrath, Siobhán and Samantha Watson. 2018. Anti-Slavery as Development: a global politics of rescue.  Geoforum 93, 22-31. O’Connell Davidson, J. 2015. Modern slavery: The margins of freedom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: “The Neoliberal State Reconsidered: Risk, Surveillance, and The Future of Global Capitalism” The Comparative Historical Social Sciences Working Group at Northwestern University invites scholars to the third edition of our interdisciplinary conference on comparative and historical social science scholarship. We aim to bring together faculty, postdocs, and graduate students for fruitful interaction and debate on theoretical, empirical, and methodological questions currently shaping the field.  This year, our conference has a theme: “The Neoliberal State Reconsidered: Risk, Surveillance, and The Future of Global Capitalism.” Talk of “Surveillance Capitalism” abounds in scholastic circles and public audiences alike. Tactics of state surveillance, techniques of social control, and profits within global financial capitalism all seem to increasingly rely upon the extraction of personal data and information through various technologies. What this spells for the power of states to monopolize violence, the stability of global capitalism, and the political possibilities for social movements remains to be seen. Our keynote and closing will begin to unfold the answers to these theoretically intriguing and politically troubling uncertainties. We are accepting paper proposals broadly oriented towards comparative and historical social science research, though we encourage scholars to submit papers relevant to the theme. In particular, this includes proposals that address key theoretical debates or contribute to new methodological ideas and tools in the subfield of comparative historical analysis.  The Third Annual Chicago Area Comparative Historical Social Sciences Conference will take place on April 9th-10, 2020 at Northwestern University, Evanston. Participants from around the world will present their papers in small panels and roundtables organized thematically. We will have a Keynote Reception to open up the conference on the 9th, and will close with a panel on the conference theme on the evening of the 10th. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker this year will be Professor Sarah Quinn (University of Washington). She is the author of American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation (Princeton University Press, 2019), which uses original archival research to examine the effect of political institutions on mortgage markets.  The conference is organized by graduate students and is especially geared towards young scholars. Still, we encourage faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to submit proposals at different stages of research. This is a unique opportunity to receive feedback from internationally renowned senior scholars and peers in the field, attend panels dedicated to new comparative-historical research, and engage with an interdisciplinary scholarly community. There will be a reception with hors d’oeuvres at the opening Keynote, and meals (breakfast, lunch, and a closing panel reception) will be provided. There will also be coffee available throughout the day.  Please submit abstracts of about 150 words in our submission system. Abstracts will be evaluated based on the strength of their project, relevance to the comparative and historical social science discipline, and ability to cohere into dynamic conference panels. Participants selected will be notified to present their papers at the conference. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS JANUARY 8th, 2020. Please contact Charlotte at charlotterosen2021@u.northwestern.edu if you have any questions. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY To specify some of the interests of the IPS board, we have set up a forum in which new topics can be suggested and in addition we currently welcome both theoretical and empirical explorations of the following issues: IR Theory and the sociology of the discipline; Major works of various sociologists and their impact on the study of IR; Critical discussion of the notions of frontiers, boundaries and limit; International Political Anthropology of mobility, globalization and confinement zone; Prevention and precaution: securization/desecurization, emancipation, resistance and freedom practices; Implementation of international law in a comparative perspective and impact of international law on the claims of sovereignty or primacy of national interests; Religion and secularism: the vision of the Enlightenment and the post-colonial discussion and religious belief. These themes are not exclusive and other possibilities include works on global patterns of urbanization, international policing, military sociology, political opinion and communication, the sociology of culture, the sociology of political movements, and the transnational effects of the reshaping of national, cultural and religious identities. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics SASE’s 32nd Annual Meeting Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 18-20, 2020 www.sase.org We at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) would be grateful if you would kindly distribute our call for submissions to our 32nd Annual Conference, Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution, to members of the ASA section Labor and Labor Markets. This year's conference will be held at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseil and Campus) from 18-20 July 2020. We believe that you and members of your section would find SASE's international and interdisciplinary conferences to be a promising venue for fruitful exchange. If you would like to know more about SASE, please visit sase.org. We would also be more than happy to answer any questions you might have. ‘Capitalism and Contention’ Symposium Keynote speaker: Vivek Chibber (New York University), "Movements and the Many Lives of Capitalism"  Where: New York University, Department of Sociology, New York City (in the historic Puck Building, Houston Street @ Lafayette) When: March 13-15 (Friday, March 13, 5 to 7 pm; Saturday, March 14, 9 am to 6 pm; Sunday, March 15, 9 am to 1 pm) Conference organizers: Jeff Goodwin (NYU) and Nada Matta (Drexel) The goal of this conference is to facilitate dialogue and debate among scholars and students who are working at the intersection of political economy and social movement studies. We are calling for papers which address the following questions: How have capitalism and capitalist states catalyzed, but also constrained, workplace resistance, labor movements, "identity movements," environmental movements, rebellions, revolutions, and other forms of political contention around the globe over the past century? How and to what extent have these various forms of contention shaped capitalism and capitalist states in turn? Also, how have recent transformations of capitalism, and of class relations, altered the possibilities for and the nature of contentious collective action in the contemporary period? How have, and should, social movements relate to political parties and elections in pursuit of their goals? What are the prospects for radical change in contemporary capitalist societies? To what extent does social movement theory help us answer these questions, and to what extent does it need to be recast, perhaps radically? Abstracts (300-400 words) are due on December 31, 2019. They should be sent to capitalismandcontention@gmail.com. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference will by notified by January 7. Conference papers are due on March 1. CALLS FOR PAPERS STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION Deadline: 01/31/2020 The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems announces its 2020 Graduate Student Paper Competition.  The goal is to encourage critical scholarship in the areas of global or transnational studies and social problems.  Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to the following themes: Jointly-authored papers are accepted, however all contributing authors must be current graduate students at the time of submission for this award.  The paper must be either unpublished or published after January 2019.  The award recipient will receive student membership in the SSSP, conference registration at the 2020 Annual SSSP Meeting in San Francisco, be recognized with a plaque at the SSSP Awards ceremony, and receive a $200 prize. Award recipients are expected to present their paper at the 2020 Annual Meeting. Papers must be submitted through the SSSP CFP process and to the e-mail address below.  Papers should be accompanied by a cover letter specifying their submission as consideration for the graduate student paper competition to the Chair of Student Paper Award Committee.  Please submit the paper electronically in a format compatible with MS WORD.  Papers should be double-spaced and not exceed 10,000 words including citations.  Authors should ensure that they receive a confirmation of receipt for their submission. Note: previous winners of this award are ineligible to compete and students may only submit their paper to one division competition.  Papers should be double-spaced and not exceed 10,000 words including citations.  To be eligible for consideration, submissions must be uploaded to the Call for Papers online submission system for the SSSP Annual Meeting and must also be sent to Martin Jacinto at mjacint1@uci.edu  by January 31, 2020. OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD Deadline: 03/01/2020 The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems is pleased to announce its 2020 Outstanding Book Award.  The award is intended to recognize published work of exceptional quality in the areas of global studies and social problems and to encourage further critical scholarship in these areas.  Accordingly, books on a variety of topics and themes will be considered for the award, including but not limited to the following: alternative models of globalization; global dynamics and forms of resistance to neoliberalism; transnational social movements; human rights struggles and global activism (around gender, indigeneity, migration, peace, social justice, etc.); transnational communities and cultural politics; global cities.  We are particularly interested in books that link critical politics and activism with analytical and theoretical rigor. To be eligible for consideration, books must have been published within 3 years of the meeting (2017-2020) for this year’s award) and not have been nominated for this award previously.  Single or multiple-authored books will be accepted, however edited collections will not be considered.  At least one of the authors must be a member of the SSSP in order to qualify for the award, although they will not be required to present a paper at the 2020 Annual Meeting.  Nominations can be made by members of the Global Division as well as by publishers; self-nominations are also welcomed.  The winner will be recognized at the 2020 Global Division business meeting. Nominees should first send a letter with full publication information and a paragraph outlining the reasons for their nomination to the Chair of the Global Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr Ching Kwan Lee (cklee@soc.ucla.edu).  All nominating correspondence should include “SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Nomination” in the e-mail subject heading.  Once your nomination letter has been received, the Award Committee Chair will confirm the mailing addresses to which copies of the book should be sent directly.  Authors will be requested to facilitate with their publishers that both a physical and an electronic copy of the book (if available) be sent to each member of the award committee by the nomination deadline of March 1, 2020. Neoliberal Apartheid (The University of Chicago Press, 2017) By Andy Clarno Can you tell us about your book? As an activist and scholar, my first visit to Palestine was in 1996 and South Africa in 2002. It was in Palestine where I was drawn into understanding the neoliberal visions that influenced the Oslo peace process. Learning and analyzing the impacts of neoliberalism and racism in Palestine, I became interested in learning about post-apartheid South Africa. Therefore, I attended the 2001 World Conference against racism in Duran, South Africa. People from all over the world attended and watched the Conference. The Conference made a controversial statement by stating that Israel-Palestine is an apartheid racist state. After the conference, I went back to Palestine to continue my work. The questions kept arising from the people in drawing the comparison between Israel/Palestine and South Africa. This inspired my interest in the topic, therefore, I talked to my mentors in figuring a plan to conduct my research successfully. I started my research by working with social movements of the 1990s that questioned and went against the neo-liberal policies that were implemented by the African National Congress Party. It was immediately evident to me that much of the comparisons among the two regions had limitations such as they neglected understanding post-apartheid South Africa, and, neglected the economic repercussions of the neo-liberal policies. Therefore, to bring light and enhance the studies of the topic, I decided to compare the impact of the neo-liberal vision on Israel/Palestine with the continued struggle of poor black South Africans post-apartheid and this is where the Neoliberal Apartheid Begins. This was a 15-year project that centralized in examining the relationships between settler colonialism and racial capitalism. In addition, the research analyzes the methods of the “peace processes” that intended to use neo-liberal policies to liberate the colonies. However, the restructuring of the neo-liberal policies maintained the same oppressive system during apartheid South Africa. In Palestine, these policies exacerbated and intensified the settler-colonial project coupled with the racial capitalist system. Neoliberal Apartheid is an ethnographic study that goes into detail, highlighting the positioning of poor black South Africans and the relationship in the colonization of Palestine. All papers must be submitted by midnight (EST) on January 31, 2020 in order to be considered. Beyond Neoliberalism: Hope, Resistance, and Transformation in the Global South (Thematic session) Sponsor: Global Division Organizer: Annie Hikido Email: anniehikido@gmail.com Neoliberalism is often discussed as an inexorable force that bears down on the lives of vulnerable populations. This is especially true of studies based in the Global South, where histories of colonization have resulted in a focus on market-driven underdevelopment, precarity, and suffering. Yet the Global South is not simply a site of victimization. People devise creative strategies, adapt daily routines, and forge alliances in response to global inequalities. This session invites papers that illuminate the practices of hope, resistance, and transformation that interrupt absolutist declarations of neoliberal devastation. Global Apartheid, Statelessness, and Social Justice (Critical Dialogue) Sponsor: Global Division Organizer: Andrew J. Clarno Email: aclarno@uic.edu We live in a world of walled enclosures. Gated communities and border walls attempt to lock people out, while jails, prisons, detention centers, and internment camps lock them in. In a world marked by climate catastrophe, virulent white supremacy, and concentrations of extreme wealth and extreme poverty – where 26 people now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population – the poorest of the poor are either superexploited in low wage service and manufacturing work or abandoned to a life of permanent unemployment. Land grabs, resource wars, and extreme weather drive people from their lands – and the world responds with walls and cages. Apartheid is an increasingly common framework for making sense of these strict divisions of race and class, of life and death. But what do we mean by apartheid? And how do we envision and fight for justice in a post-apartheid future? Bringing together scholars who analyze the dynamics of global apartheid, statelessness, and struggles for social justice in the US and around the world, this panel will focus on the following questions: (1) What theoretical frames do you find most productive for analyzing the shifting social and spatial configurations of inequality in the contemporary world? (2) Where do you see openings or spaces for opposing, escaping, or subverting these formations? The panel will include short (5 minute) presentations by up to 8 authors followed by facilitated dialogue that critically explores connections among the papers. International Criminal Justice Co-sponsors: Global, and Law and Society Divisions Organizer: Alycia Wright Email: Alycia@BoldRecklessGrace.org Bringing Hope Back Into International Criminal Law – The lofty goals of International Criminal Law include ending impunity by holding individuals accountable and preventing mass atrocities. But, in a world plagued with ongoing atrocities, what is the place of International Criminal Law? We must first examine the limitations produced by International Criminal Law in order to move forward and bring about the necessary change to improve the current system. This session will focus on - What are the ultimate goals of International Criminal Law? How can these goals be achieved? What are the current shortcomings of International Criminal Law? How do we breathe new life into the area of International Criminal Law? GLOBAL DIVISION SPONSORED SESSIONS GLOBAL DIVISION GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AND BOOK AWARD • Transnational Public Sociology • Knowledge Production about Globalization • Democratizing Globalization • The Politics of Human Rights • Re-imagining Community • Critical and/or Institutional Ethnography and Global Governance • Transnational Corporate Accountability • Immigration, Citizenship, and Global Justice • Globalization and Environmental Justice • Transnational Movements • Transnational Organizing within the Global South • Gender Issues in Globalization • Transnational Families INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHOR How does looking at the securitization and neoliberalization of the economies provide you with a framework to develop this idea of neoliberal apartheid?: Securitization has often been overlooked in studies that examine the neoliberal project. These policies are invested in education and healthcare, however, in the same vein, the economic and political transformation tends to increase expenditures on security forces, like police, military, intelligence agencies, surveillance. The investment on security forces by the state occurs in sequence with the expansion of privatization of the security forces and therefore, companies that contract with the state protects the interests of the elites and powerful. As a result, this has increased inequality, unemployment, and racialized inequality, which is apparent when we look at states like Israel and South Africa. The innovative security regimes are developed in maintaining the power of the elites and further exacerbating the racialized inequality. What can public sociologist learn from your book? First, it is important to recognize the deleterious impacts of neoliberal policies. Regardless of the abolishment of the apartheid, South Africa becomes an important study in understanding these effects. The wealth, power, and land are still monopolized by the South African elites, thus, replicating the same system during the apartheid era. Second, it is apparent the settler colonialism and racial capitalism is embedded within the neoliberal agenda. These policies continue the marginalization of black and minority communities within South Africa and Palestine. Therefore, we can learn that neoliberalism not only has negative impacts on South Africa but, as well as, on the other nations in the global South. South Africa provides us with a sound framework in understanding how neoliberal policies heighten inequality and marginalization of vulnerable communities throughout the world. Using this knowledge, public sociologists have a foundation for understanding how to combat the racialized structures. About the author: Andy Clarno is Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and coordinator of the Policing in Chicago Research Group at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines racism, capitalism, colonialism, and empire in the early 21st century, with a focus on the relationship between marginalization and securitization. Andy teaches courses on globalization, race and ethnicity, policing, and urban sociology. His book, Neoliberal Apartheid (University of Chicago Press 2017), received the 2018 Political Economy of the World System Distinguished Book Award and the 2018 Paul Sweezy Marxist Book Award. About the interviewer: Ankur Rastogi is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. His primary fields of inquiry are political economy, stratification, inequality, globalization with a special focus on South Asia, Middle East, and Africa regions. His prior research includes agriculture, distribution of wages, post-colonialism, and social theory.  Labor in the Global Supply Chain Co-sponsors: Global, and Labor Studies Divisions Organizer: Melanie Borstad Email: mborsta@calstatela.edu Global networks of raw materials acquisition, manufacturing, and distribution create the landscape for competitive markets in modernity. Shifts in political and economic world power affect workers participation and autonomy in global supply chains. Income inequality is exacerbated on a global scale through the interdependence of the global labor market. Rising tensions in free trade agreements contribute to this precarious employment throughout core, semi-periphery, and periphery nations amongst periods of decreased trade volumes. How is the international division of labor changing in response to consumer and corporate demands? How has economic growth in semi-periphery nations produced new markets in periphery nations? Have there been improvements or declines in transnational corporations’ labor practices? What are ways in which organizations or nations are either upholding better standards or combating unjust labor practices? Papers in this session should aim to approach the topic of global supply chains from the perspective of the laborer and/or the impact macro-level decision making has upon labor market outcomes. A broad investigation of global economic relations and employment conditions both domestic and international are also welcome in this paper session. Research conducted in the interaction of labor and globalization is multi-faceted and complex, allowing a rich discussion to generate from the inclusion of a wide array of levels of analysis and theoretical frameworks. ADDITIONAL PANELS FOR THE SSSP 2020 GLOBAL DIVISION Session Title Sponsor(s) Organizer(s) CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Space, Migration, and the (Trans)Formation of Global Inequality (Thematic Session) 1. Global, 2. Poverty, Class, and Inequality Martin Jacinto [ mjacint1@uci.edu ] Power, Politics, and Family in the Global Context 1. Global 2. Family Sarah Ahmed [ sahmed2@uoregon.edu ]   Global Health Challenges   1. Global 2. Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Deanna Hughes [ deanna.j.hughes@wmich.edu ]   Migration, Immigration, Community, and Sanctuary Spaces (Thematic Session) 1. Global, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2. Community Research and Development Theo Majka [ tmaljka1@udayton.edu ] Amy Foerster [ afoerster@pace.edu ]   Futures and Imaginaries in the Global Context 1. Global 2. Educational Problems Lydia Hou [ lhou2@uic.edu ] Round Tables 1. Global Claire Anderson [ cander@masonlive.gmu.edu ] Global South Studies - South/South: Critical Ethnographies Workshop We are pleased to announce the first annual meeting of the University of Southern California South/South Critical Ethnographies Workshop. The Workshop is designed to develop ethnographic methodologies that advance Global South Studies, provide hands-on mentorship to graduate student fellows, and build an interdisciplinary community of ethnographers.  For 2020, the South/South Critical Ethnographies Workshop will take place on Thursday April 2nd and Friday April 3rd at the University of Southern California. About the Event: The first day of the event (Thursday, April 2) will feature a round table panel discussion with faculty regarding current methodological, substantive, and ethical issues presently confronting international ethnographic research. The panel will be followed by a reception for all fellows and invited guests. The second day of the event (Friday, April 3) will consist of a series of “fellows workshops,” in which we will engage the work of graduate student fellows. Each student will have three faculty members provide critical substantive feedback on the work and stimulate broader conversations regarding the methodological practice of ethnography. The day will conclude with a dinner for fellows. Airfare, lodging, and select meals will be provided to all selected graduate student fellows. Faculty Fellows Marco Garrido (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)  - tentative Tanya Golash-Boza (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced) Natasha Iskander (Associate Professor of Public Policy, New York University) University of Southern California Faculty Participants Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Professor of Sociology) Josh Seim (Assistant Professor of Sociology) Call for Graduate Student Submissions We invite applications from graduate students in any discipline who are engaged in dissertation-level, ethnographic research on the Global South. We are particularly interested in works that document and examine south-to-south flows of culture, materials, monies and people. Applicants must be advanced to doctoral candidacy (ABD status). To apply to become a 2020 graduate student fellow, prepare the following materials by December 20, 2019 and submit the following electronically to uscglobalsouth@gmail.com : A current CV (5 pages maximum). 2. A one page description of the dissertation project (500 words maximum) from which the data is being excerpted. A ten-page (maximum) writing sample (double-spaced, not including references) from an in-progress work (e.g., dissertation chapter or article). Writing samples should focus on empirical data and analysis. Please keep discussions of methodology, literature review, and other “front end” matter to a minimum. Student fellows will be notified by January 15th, 2020. Introducing the new Global Division newsletter editor: Ismail Nooraddini is a PhD student in Sociology at George Mason University. His interests include immigration, family and adolescence, gender, and research methods. His dissertation is a cross-national comparative mixed method study of Turks in Germany and Mexicans in the United States and the role family structure and processes play in cultural integration across generations. OTHER OPPORTUNITIES