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IN MEMORIAM

Giovanni Arrighi, Dottore in Economia
(July 7, 1937 - June 18, 2009)

Giovanni Arrighi, the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Sociology and renowned authority in the fields of world systems analysis and historical sociology, has died after a year-long battle with cancer. Giovanni died at home peacefully on June 18, his son, Andrea, and his wife and partner in scholarship, Beverly Silver, at his side.

Read more about the life of Giovanni Arrighi at http://www.soc.jhu.edu/people/Arrighi/
and at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Arrighi.

Globalization and the Struggle for Peace and Human Rights
Co-Sponsored by the Peace Studies Program

The GSA would like to thank Mark Frezzo, Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic University, The Peace Studies Program, and all of this year's keynotes speakers and panelists for their participation and support at this year's GSA North American conference. Please join us next year for Globalization and the Economic Crisis at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (more information will be forthcoming).

Papers presented at the FAU conference are now being considered for inclusion in our next GSA Book of Papers. Send your completed manuscript to Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net by June 30, 2009.

Click here for manuscript submission guidelines.

Our Sister Organization - Global Studies Association/UK 2009 Conference

Keynote speakers:

• Faisal Devji (New School, New York)
• Stuart Elden (University of Durham)
• Jonathan Friedman (Lund University)
• Robert Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)
• Ronnie D. Lipschutz (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The nature and dynamics of globalization have been at the centre of social science debate over the past two decades or so. Such debates have generated an enormously rich multidisciplinary literature and global studies has asserted itself as a key area of social science research. In recent years, the beginnings of a 'backlash' can be discerned and the expansion of global studies has been slowed and subject to sustained critique. As David Held has pointed out critics argue that 'globalization is no longer a useful description of social reality, not does it provide a cogent explanation of social forces shaping our world ... the world is witnessing the demise of globalization'. Is the study of globalization on the wane, or can global studies overcome the challenges? This year's GSA conference provides an opportunity to explore critical approaches to globalization and the challenges to global studies represented by a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to cosmopolitanism, transnational studies, and resurgent nationalisms, and importantly also offers an opportunity for global studies scholars to challenge the skeptics and assert the enduring relevance of globalization to an understanding of the world.

The conference organizers invite proposals for papers which address themes of relevance to the conference topic, including:

• alternative/multiple modernities and globalization
• anti-globalization: bottom-up challenges?
• rise of the global non-West
• teaching globalization: challenging students
• global fragments/fragmented globalizations
• challenge of Transnational Studies
• my global self: globalization and subjectivity
• the limits of globalization theory
• one world/multiple worlds
• globalization in one country
• the challenge of cosmopolitanism
• rethinking global/local relations
• towards a more critical global studies

Proposals for papers should take the form of a 300-word abstract and may be submitted on any aspect of the conference theme. The organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April, 30 2009.

For more information, visit the GSA/UK website.

NEW!

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. By placing the crisis within this larger historical and systemic frame, Wolff argues convincingly that the proposed government “bailouts,” stimulus packages, and calls for increased market regulation will not be enough to address the real causes of the crisis - in the end suggesting that far more fundamental change will be necessary to avoid future catastrophes.

Visit the Media Education website for more information and to order this DVD.

Interface e-Journal

The first issue of Interface, a multilingual, open access and global e-journal produced by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now available at www.interfacejournal.net. The special theme of this issue is "movement knowledge": what movements know, how they produce knowledge, what they do with it and how it can make a difference.

Articles in this issue include:

• Laurence Cox, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Editorial: movement knowledge.
• Mayo Fuster Morell, Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action.
• Budd Hall, A river of life: learning and environmental social movements.
• Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho / José Ernandi Mendes, Extensão universitária: compromisso social, resistência e produção de conhecimentos (Continuing education: social commitment, resistance and the production of knowledge).
• Ilse Scherer-Warren, Redes para a (re)territorialização de espaços de conflito: os casos do MST e MTST no Brasil (Networks for the reterritorialisation of spaces of conflict: the cases of the Brazilian MST and MTST).
• Antonio Pedro Dores, Movimentos sociais existem? (Do social movements exist?)
• Michael Duckett, "Wor diary": a case of DIY alternative history (action note).
• Süreyyya Evren, Alternative publishing experiences in Istanbul (action note).
• Caspar Davis, Creative democracy - wisdom councils at work (action note).
• Alejandrina Reyes, La sistematizacion de experiencias y la vision emergente en el hecho educativo (teaching / research note).
• David Landy, The mirror stage of movement intellectuals? Jewish criticism of Israel and its relationship to a developing social movement (review essay).
• Fergal Finnegan, Janet Conway, Praxis and politics (book review).

A call for papers for issue two is now open, on the theme of "civil society versus social movements". Visit the site for more details.

Interface is looking for new participants for its various regional / linguistic groups. We are particularly keen to find IT collaborators who can help us make the site more useful and accessible, and translators to support our multilingual project. Our overall aim is to "learn from each other's struggles": to develop a dialogue between researchers and practitioners, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions and national contexts. Contact us today for more details.

Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment of U.S. power has been evident in the recurrent attempts of Latin American nations to pull away from U.S. dominance and in the frequent appearance of popular discontent and unrest directed against imperialist U.S. policies. In Empire and Dissent, senior Latin Americanists explore the interplay between various dimensions of imperial power and the resulting dissent and resistance.

Visit Duke University Press for more information and to order this book.

Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But more than this, Made in LA provides an insider's view into both the struggles of recent immigrants and into the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm, discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment.

Visit California Newsreel for more information about this and other movies.

New Books:

Global Giant: Is China Changing the Rules of the Game?
Edited by Eva Paus, Penelope B. Prime and Jon Western

Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction
Edited by Nandini Gunewardena & Mark Schuller

Latin America and Global Capitalism
by William I. Robinson

Is There Hope for Uncle Sam?
by Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Now Available in Paperback!
The Dialectics of Globalization
by Jerry Harris

Coming of Age in a Globalized World: The Next Generation
by J. Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna

Chronicles of Humanity
Photography by Sydney Harris

Solidarity Divided
by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin

Global Capitalism Unbound
Edited by Eva Paus