Mini-conference on Capitalist Globalization and its Alternatives, as part of the conference ‘Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet Economic Realities’, to be held on October 25-28, 2012 in Moscow
Coordinators: William Carroll (University of Victoria, Canada) wcarroll@uvic.ca & Georgina Murray (Griffith University, Australia ) g.murray@griffith.edu.au
As economic sociology has evolved around the concept of embeddedness, an older tradition of sociology, drawing on political economy and power structure analysis, has probed the conflictual relations and dynamics of globalizing capitalism. Four decades after the first wave of scholarship on the internationalization of capital and its socio-political entailments and ramifications, a rich interdisciplinary literature, centred to a great degree in sociology, has grown up around such issues as transnational class formation; financialization, crisis and spatial-temporal fixes; the changing character of core-periphery relations; and alter-globalization, post-capitalism and counter-hegemony. These invite us to view the ‘economic’ not as socially embedded markets but more sociologically, as a concept that relates back to the mode of production as a vehicle of capitalist accumulation and control. Concomitantly, they call to attention the co-constitutive nature of the economic, social and political. This mini-conference welcomes papers, whether empirical or theoretical, that address these sorts of issues and challenges.
The deadline for receiving abstracts, at http://esconf2012.hse.ru/programme , is 15 February 2012.
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A reminder that the deadline for unrefereed papers for our session at the Society of Heterodox Economists Conference in Sydney is this Friday. If you have any questions please email Ben Spies-Butcher ben.spies-butcher@mq.edu.au.