CALL FOR PAPERS
GRADUATE STUDENT
CONFERENCE
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT
OCTOBER
15, 2004 NEW YORK CITY,
USA
Conference
will be hosted by New School for Social Research in
association
with Columbia University.
Neoliberal strategies
of economic growth and social transformation had been
immensely popular among
the ruling elite, international business and
financial circles. During the
last decade, however, throughout most of the
developing world neoliberal
strategies have begun to create more problems
than they were devised to
solve. Today, increasing numbers of social
scientists, policy makers,
politicians, and representatives of
international institutions can be
observed to challenge the central
assumptions of neoclassical "free market"
doctrines and their translation
into economic policy-making in the Third World. Stemming from these
challenges,
alternative paradigms of development studies started to attract
scholarly
attention.
Parallel to such scholarly challenges and the search for
alternative
paradigms, a "movement of movements" has emerged from all around
the world,
a dynamic ensemble of social movement organizations, which
heterogeneously
targets and opposes the disempowering, impoverishing,
immoral, harmful
effects of "globalization" on the well-being of the peoples
of the
developing world.
This conference aims to address an inevitable
tendency towards the
convergence of academic and political challenges (and
alternatives) to
development in the Third
World. We invite papers, as well as reports on
ongoing field
research from graduate students who are doing critical work
on economic
policy-making, state-capital-labor relations, class formations
and dynamics,
cultural transformations, or the relations between economic
processes and
political mobilization/demobilization in Central and
South
America, Africa, the
Middle East, Asia and Eastern
Europe.
Please send an abstract of 500 words or less to both
Emrah Goker (Columbia
University, Department of
Sociology, eg577@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
and Aylin Topal
(New School University, Department of Political
Science,
topaa927@xxxxxxxxxxxxx).
In your proposal, please include: Author's name,
paper title, institutional
affiliation, e-mail address, telephone and fax
number.
We are in the
process of contacting a number of professors to speak at the
opening panel of
this one-day conference. The rest of the panels will
include graduate student
papers.
Conference Schedule:
Period for submission of abstracts
May 20, 2004
Decision on abstracts dispatched September 1,
2004
Deadline for electronic submission of papers September 20,
2004
Conference date October 15, 2004