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Global Studies Association/UK - Globalizations: Global Poverty or Global Justice?
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
September 7 - 9, 2005XVI International Sociological Association World Congress 2006
Durban, South Africa
July 23-29 , 2006
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Globalizations: Global Poverty or Global Justice?University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK
September 7 - 9, 2005Sponsored by Globalizations journal; Global Studies Association (UK); the faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham and Trade Craft.
We welcome submissions on the nine themes of the conference:
- The global campaign for action against poverty (or ‘Make Poverty History’)
- Global reform/ Global democracy
- Global justice/ Global ethics
- The Africa Crisis
- The UN Millennium development goals
- Global environmental justice
- The global AIDS crisis
- Trade justice/ Fair trade/ Free trade
- Global human security
XVI International Sociological Association
World Congress 2006Durban, South Africa
23rd-29th July, 2006
RC-40: Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Decent Work, Livelihood Strategies, and the EnvironmentThe concept of decent work can be usefully applied to the fuzzy frontiers between sectors, occupations, social networks, and locations, and then tied to the realities of peoples lives and the spaces they live and work in. Countervailing laws and conditions (such as labour, commodity, and environmental regulations, available technologies, and resource scarcity) affect how livelihood strategies are carried out. Read more >>
RC-40: Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Gender, land and agricultureThis call focuses on gender issues: it proposes to bring together papers
dealing with large-scale/commercial and small-scale agriculture, and focuses both on the 'macro' and 'micro' levels of analysis. In the 'macro' context, a central question concerns the place of agriculture and land in current production and livelihood systems: due to a variety of factors the relative importance of agricultural based production is declining. Read more >>
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