Mini-conference 8. Capitalist globalization and its alternatives

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Dina Bowman

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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Caring labour an archive

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dina Bowman

I stumbled across this wonderful blog that was put together by students in East Bay California protesting the closure of a community child.care service.  The site is a wonderful repository of resources on care and care issues. Sadly it hasn’t been updated since February 2011 as the compilers are taking a break. It is well worth checking out – great videos, links to articles and other resources. Caring labour an archive: power to the caregivers and therefore to class

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The Economic Sociology of Responsibility Accounting: A Field Study in a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Dina Bowman

Sven Modell, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UKResearch on responsibility accounting has been dominated by functionalist perspectives of which many subscribe to economic approaches, such as agency theory. By contrast, little is known about the wider socio-political dynamics associated with the development of systems for this purpose. This paper attempts to bridge these perspectives by adopting an economic sociology perspective and draws on a historically informed field study in a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE). The development of responsibility accounting is explored in the context of SOE reforms unfolding as part of the transition of the People’s Republic of China to a socialist market economy since 1978. We illustrate how the notion of responsibility accounting evolved from largely indigenous practices deeply embedded in the cultural and political mechanisms underpinning economic life in the pre-reform era to becoming subject to an increasingly “Westernized” reform agenda in an attempt to improve the economic performance of SOEs. Consistent with economic sociology, we demonstrate how political and cultural mechanisms continued to exercise an important influence on economic behaviour and both compounded existing agency problems and created new ones as the notion of responsibility accounting evolved. The study thus offers insights into how agency theory postulates associated with the efficacy of responsibility accounting need to be modified when applied to a particular social context.

Time & Date: 11.00am-12.30pm, Wednesday 7th December, 2011

Venue: Room 214/5, H69 Economics and Business Building

RSVP Essential by Monday 5th December to: lily.schulz@sydney.edu.au

or Tel: (02) 9036 5473. Please specify if you will be attending lunch in The Darlington Centre after the seminar.

This seminar is brought to you by the Discipline of Accounting and the Accounting Foundation.Source: Claudine Moutou

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International Association for Feminist Economics

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dina Bowman

The 2012 International Association For Feminist Economics Annual Conference will be held next June in Barcelona, Spain. Submissions must be completed by February 1st, 2012. Submissions can be made through the IAFFE website.

More information about the conference including the Travel Grant application process will be added tothe IAFFE website as it becomes available.

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Reminder SHE deadline

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dina Bowman

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.

We finally have the SHE Conference on-line registration working. To register for this year’s conference, please go to SHE Online registration. There are also links for accommodation near the Conference venue on the Conference website. We have a special Conference deal with the Crowne Plaza, which should be on the SHE website soon.

 

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SHE Extension of Deadline of Papers

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dina Bowman

The  deadline for refereed papers to Monday 31st October, and for unrefereed papers to Friday 4th November. Please send papers as a word document to Peter Kriesler p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au. There are currently a number of Symposia, name and organisers below:

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Gender and economic growth

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dina Bowman

The World Bank’s World Development Report 2012   Gender equality and development  argues that economic growth is good for gender equality.  But not everyone agrees. Here’s a link to a recent critique published in the Guardian ( thanks to Stephanie Seguino for pointing this out)

 

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Raewyn Connell’s website

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dina Bowman

Raewyn Connell has a wonderfully expansive website that reflects her interests and expertise. Check out the sections on  class;  gender,  political writing and theory.

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Uncertainty, Conflict and History: Sociology meeting Heterodox Economics

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dina Bowman

Thanks for those who have submitted papers to the session we are convening at TASA this year. A similar session is being planned at the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE) being held the week after TASA. SHE brings together a range of economists, political economists and social scientists examining economic affairs from non neoclassical perspectives. It seems an obvious place to broaden the conversation about alternative sociological perspectives on economic life. Details of our session are below.

While the GFC has shaken our faith in neoclassical economics, the rise of austerity measures highlights the continued dominance of orthodox policy approaches. In building alternatives to neoclassical economics we suggest a re-engagement with a broader social scientific approach to the economy. Critical social science offers the possibility of addressing some of the most challenging aspects of a new financialised global economy, going beyond developments within the neoclassical tradition that attempt to incorporate limits to rational behaviour and knowledge. In particular we focus on three themes. First, the importance of uncertainty, and the way risk and uncertainty are managed by political and economic institutions. Second, the role of conflict in shaping economic institutions and outcomes. And third, the importance of politics and history in shaping economic life. We highlight the continuing dominance of the finance sector and the imposition of austerity measures as evidence of the need to develop new analyses of the role of government and of social movements in the economy. The workshop aims to open a dialogue between heterodox economists and other social scientists to better inform our understanding of the economy, and to develop more coherent alternatives to neoclassical approaches.

Full papers are due by October 10, abstracts by October 31. More information is available here.

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PhD STRAPA scholarships (4) Brotherhood of St Laurence and University of Melbourne – closing date extended to 26 Sept 2011

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dina Bowman

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