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            "Globalization From Below: 
Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective" 
 
      an international conference at Duke University, Durham, NC 
 
      February 5th-8th, 1998 
 
Second call for papers: abstracts due November 1st 1997 
 
Confirmed keynote speakers include Mary Louise Pratt 
 
If globalization is such a multivocal and complex process,  
constituted by numerous axes of domination and innovation, why have  
its analyses tended to be so singleminded and monolingual? 
 
 
We invite papers on topics such as the following: 
 
 globalization in historical context 
 "disorganized" labor and "disorganized" capital 
 from slavery to emancipation 
 the politics of the family and the post-welfare state 
 forced labor, wage labor, affective labor, immaterial labor 
 the black Atlantic, the cosmic race: hybridities and traditions 
 struggle and revolution  
 gendering the global economy 
 capital flight as response to labor movement(s) 
 identity, ethnicity, and culture in flux 
 internationalism and post-nationalism 
 technology and resistance: the internet protest and  
organization 
 women and global networks 
 the environment and environmentalism  
 development and its discontents 
 labor history: workers and workers' movements in a global market 
 national responses to increasing capital mobility 
 prostitution in migrant economies  
 contesting the old/new world order 
 intellectual property, the privatization of information, and free  
trade 
 the autonomy of capitalist command; the anatomy of new  
social movements 
 the "postwork" society, from unemployment to pensions 
 place, space and globalization 
 gender, race, labor & imperialism  
 the Atlantic economy in the age of revolutions 
 from the plantation to las maquiladoras 
 Domestic work and international migration 
 wages for housework: the price of reproduction 
 communication networks: spreading subversion, disseminating  
ideology 
 peripheral modernities and the third world in the  
developed heartland 
 the welfare state in a global society 
 the country and the city: urbanizations and nationalisms 
 reactive capital, working class autonomy 
 
 
Please send one-page abstracts by November 1st 1997 to: 
 
Jon Beasley-Murray, Vince Brown, or Paul Husbands 
"Globalization from Below" conference 
Center for International Studies 
Box 90404 
Duke University 
Durham, NC 27708-0404 
 
fax. (919) 684-8749 
tel. (919) 286 3526 
 
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conference webpage: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/global/ 
 
Sponsored by the graduate seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies with 
funding from the Ford Foundation, the Trent Foundation, and Duke 
University's Center for International Studies. 
 
Graduate and faculty submissions welcome. 
 
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Further information: 
 
"Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in  
Historical Perspective" 
 
This conference is concerned with "globalization" as a dynamic,  
contested and often contingent process.  Rather than concentrating  
upon the huge, apparently irresistible structures that have shaped  
our world in the last 500 years we will look rather at how different  
people and groups in specific situations and places have struggled  
to come to terms with, and often conduct resistance against, the  
developing global system.  
 
Globalization is all too often defined in strictly economistic terms,  
but by drawing attention to the negotiations that have constituted 
globalization at the local level we hope to understand it in more  
complex and nuanced ways.  In so doing we hope to re-conceptualize  
globalization as a process that is and has been more open-ended  
and full of possibilities than is generally recognized. 
 
Is there a fixed direction inherent in globalization?  Or have  
global  processes sometimes historically resulted from ad hoc  
responses to specific conditions and local resistances--both  
organized and disorganized?  How have temporary stratagems come to  
seem--or come to be--such overwhelming forces?  
 
The current wave of globalization has transformed the composition of  
the various forces and groups that make up the global  
system--allowing perhaps new social movements or multinational  
conglomerates to come to the fore.  Thus traditional alliances are  
restructured and historic antagonisms dissipated or rekindled.  We  
propose a historically informed investigation into the balance of  
power and states of struggle that result. 
 
 
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