CALL FOR PAPERS
SASE 2008: *Economic Flexibility and Social Stability
in the Age of Globalization*
University of Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa Rica
July 21-23, 2008
Deadline for submitting proposals: January 15, 2008
For detailed information, the SASE website: :
http://www.sase.org
Conference Theme:
*Economic Flexibility and Social Stability
in the Age of Globalization*
The theme of the SASE 2008 meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyi’s The
Great Transformation. Polanyi interprets the history of industrial
society in the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of a pendulum-like
"double movement". One side of that movement is toward free and flexible
markets that underpin, and in some sense foster, the material and
technological gains associated with the Industrial Revolution. The other
side is a reaction to the disruption that these markets impose on
people’s lives, an attempt to preserve the social relations through
which people understand themselves and find meaning in their lives. The
current era of globalization mirrors that of the late 19th and early
20th centuries in many ways. Markets are being established, liberalized,
and deregulated throughout the world. Goods, finance, and people are
moving within and across frontiers at an ever-accelerating pace. And
people are bewildered, looking for alternatives to their increasingly
chaotic and insecure lives. Furthermore, the reaction emerging today
recalls the politics and policies of the Great Depression and the
immediate postwar period, when the second half of Polanyi’s double
movement came into effect. But with one critical difference: While the
theories that have guided deregulation and globalization in the closing
decades of the 20th century are the direct descendants of the laissez
faire ideas that guided globalization a century ago, the philosophies
that informed the second half of the double movement—that is, the social
legislation that grew out of the Great Depression—have in many ways been
discredited. Today’s reaction is therefore more instinctive and visceral
than deliberate and considered, and the question is whether it will
indeed be possible to reconcile these two movements in theory or through
practical politics. We will examine the prospects for reconciliation in
a series of panels on the contemporary relevance of four major social
and economic theorists: Marx, Keynes, Polanyi, and Hirschman.
A fifth panel will specifically explore the possibility that these older
social theorists have been rendered obsolete by new technologies,
especially information networking, which, if true, would call for new
understandings of economic development, north-south relations, and the
relationship between the economy and the society. The practical
dimension will be explored through papers and panels drawing on grounded
research on specific industries and geographic areas and devoted, where
possible, to innovative approaches to critical markets (for labor,
capital, raw materials, and the like). Special attention will be focused
on the reaction against neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus in
Latin American countries; to parallels in other countries and regions of
the world; to the economic roots of that reaction; and to changes in
economic and social policy that have emerged as a result not only in the
region but throughout the world.
To explore the interaction between scholarly theory and political
practice, we draw on the Latin American tradition of combining public
service with careers as intellectuals and academicians. Óscar Arias, the
Nobel Laureate and current President of Costa Rica, is one of the most
prominent representatives of this tradition. He will also be the keynote
speaker at the meeting. SASE will invite a group of prominent Latin
American politicians with similar backgrounds to join him as panelists
and discussants in roundtables with each other and with the academic
participants.
Organizational Information.
President: Michael Piore
Past President: Ida Regalia
President Elect: Kathy Thelen
Executive Director: Martha Zuber
E-mail:
mzuber@sase.org <mailto:
mzuber@sase.org>
Website:
http://www.sase.org
Phone: +33 1 40626583
Fax: +33 1 47053555
Program Committee
Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico)
Heloise Petit (Université Paris 1, Sorbonne - Centre d'Etude de l'Emploi)
Local Organizing Committee
Dr. Henning Jensen Pennington, Local Committee President
Dr. Róger Churnside, General Coordinator local committee
Local Academic Committee
M.Sc. Olman Villarreal, Dra, Mayra Achío, Dr. Carlos Palma, M.Sc. Isabel
C. Araya
Logistics Committee
Lic. Cristina Alvarado, Lic. Alicia Mata, Lic. Flor Solano
Guidelines for Submission of Proposals
Sessions will be organized primarily through the Network Organizers. In
addition to formal paper sessions, the 2008 meetings will include author
meets critic panels and focused debates on important issues. Contact
information for the Network Organizers and a description of each network
is available on the Research Networks Page.
If you are interested in organizing a panel or presenting a paper, fill
out the Paper Proposal Form or the Session Proposal Form on the SASE
website (www.sase.org <http://www.sase.org>) and designate a network for
your proposal. Your proposal will be sent both to the Network Organizer
and the SASE office. Participants are strongly encouraged to organize
their own sessions - either related to the theme of the meeting or any
other topic related to socio-economics.
Paper proposals require a paper title and an abstract of up to 200
words, and complete contact information. Session proposals require a
session title, an abstract of up to 200 words for the session, paper
titles, and complete contact information for each of the presenters.
NOTE: SASE policy permits only two participations per individual at the
annual meeting. A participation consists of delivering a paper at an
official panel, or participating in a roundtable or similar
discussion-oriented panel.
IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU INCLUDE ALL OF THE CONTACT
INFORMATION – PARTICULARLY A CURRENT E-MAIL ADDRESS AND A POSTAL ADDRESS
FOR ALL POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS, INCLUDING CO-AUTHORS. THIS WILL ASSURE
THAT LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE ARE SENT TO THE CORRECT ADDRESS.
The SASE office will notify you formally of the acceptance of your
proposal. If you do not receive a letter of acceptance from the SASE
office by April 15, 2008, contact the SASE office by e-mail to find out
the status of your proposal.
MEETING COSTS: see website: :
http://www.sase.org
To participate in the SASE meeting you must be a current member of SASE.
You can join when you submit your registration form. Membership in SASE
includes a one-year subscription to Socio-Economic Review, SASE’s
journal. The subscription will include issues published during 2008.
Note: All presenters, except those designated as "Featured Speakers,"
are required to register for the meeting and pay the registration fee.
Non-Student Rates
Early Registration (Through April 15, 2008)
SASE Member: $160
Non-Member: $235 (Includes $75 dues)
Late Registration (After April 15, 2008)
SASE Member: $200
Non-Member: $275 (Includes $75 dues)
Student Rates
Early Registration: (Through April 15, 2008)
SASE Member: $80
Non-Member $130 (Includes $50 dues)
Late Registration (After April 15, 2008)
SASE Member: $100
Non-Member: $150 (Includes $50 dues)
TRAVEL AWARDS
There will be travel awards for attendance at SASE 2008. Up to five
prizewinners will be selected for outstanding papers by scholars from
universities and research institutions outside the European Union or
North America. Prizewinners will receive up to $1,000 to attend SASE
2008 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The selection committee invites
submissions of publishable quality. Papers in English of 10,000 word
maximum must be received electronically at the SASE office by February
15, 2008. Awards will be announced by April 1, 2008. A paper proposal
form, with an abstract, should also be sent to the appropriate network
organizer through the normal submission process. Papers will not be
considered for an award unless they are accepted by a network organizer.
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
To recognize graduate students and to encourage them to attend the
meeting, SASE will provide up to 5 stipends to the author(s) of the best
graduate student papers submitted. Each of the students selected will
receive an award of $500 to help with expenses. Faculty and other
members of SASE are encouraged to submit the papers of their graduate
students. Students may also submit their papers directly. In case of
multiple authors, the stipend will be shared among the authors who
attend the meeting.
To be considered for an award, papers must meet the following criteria:
1. Have a maximum word length of 5,000 (word length to be added at the
end of papers);
2. Address socio-economic issues;
3. Display originality in at least one of the following ways:
a. Discovery of new ideas/facts/concepts/interpretations
b. Critical examination of existing ideas/facts/concepts/interpretations
c. Development/adaptation of ideas of others
d. Demonstrate understanding of relevant socio-economic and other
literature; and
4. Be well-written and clearly presented; include an abstract,
introduction, conclusion, and appropriate sub-sections throughout; and
employ a recognized system for Notes and References. The paper may be
written in English, French, or Spanish.
It is permissible for the paper to have been submitted as part of an
M.A. or Ph.D. thesis.
If you wish to apply for this award, send an electronic copy of your
paper to the SASE office by February 15, 2008. An abstract of the paper
should also be sent to one of the Network Organizers through the normal
proposal process. The SASE office will notify the winning candidates by
April 15, 2008. To be eligible for the award, selected graduate students
must participate in the meeting.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Information on available hotels will be posted on the SASE web site as
soon as it becomes available. There may be low-cost student housing
available. This information will be posted on the SASE website.
If you have questions about proposing sessions or papers, or any other
details concerning the meeting, contact the SASE office at:
E mail:
mzuber@sase.org <mailto:
mzuber@sase.org>
19 rue Amélie, 75007 Paris, FRANCE
Fax: +33 1 47053555
Phone: +33 1 40626583
SASE WEBSITE:
www.sase.org <http://www.sase.org>
Up-to-date information on the San Jose meeting will be posted on the
SASE web site. Check it often!!
Program Co-Chairs
Heloise Petit
Université Paris 1, Sorbonne
France
E-mail:
Heloise.petit@univ-paris1.fr <mailto:
Heloise.petit@univ-paris1.fr>
Andrew Schrank
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
E-mail:
schrank@unm.edu <mailto:
schrank@unm.edu>
Network Organizers
A. Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society
Jose Perez Adan
Departmento deSociologia
University of Valencia
Valencia 46022 Spain
E mail:
jose.perez@uv.es <mailto:
jose.perez@uv.es>
B. Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
Enrique Dussel Peters
Coordinator of the China/Mexico Studies Center
National Autonomous University of Mexico
E-mail:
dussel@servidor.unam.mx <mailto:
dussel@servidor.unam.mx>
El Mouhoub Mouhoud
Department of Economics
University of Paris Dauphine
Paris, France
E-mail:
el_mouhoub.mouhoud@dauphine.fr
<mailto:
el_mouhoub.mouhoud@dauphine.fr>
Diego Sanchez
Institute for the Study of the Americas
University of London, School of Advanced Study
E-mail:
diego.sanchez@sas.ac.uk <mailto:
diego.sanchez@sas.ac.uk>
C. Gender, Work and Family
Bernard Fusulier
University of Louvain
Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
E-mail:
fusulier@anso.ucl.ac.be <mailto:
fusulier@anso.ucl.ac.be>
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Télé-université
Quebec, Canada
E-mail:
dgtrembl@teluq.uquebec.ca <mailto:
dgtrembl@teluq.uquebec.ca>
D. Occupations and Professions
Didier Demazière
Université de St Quentin en Yvelines
France
E-mail:
Didier.demaziere@printemps.uvsq.fr
<mailto:
Didier.demaziere@printemps.uvsq.fr>
E. Industrial Relations and the Political Economy
Sabina Avdagic
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
E-mail:
s.avdagic@sussex.ac.uk <mailto:
s.avdagic@sussex.ac.uk>
Lucio Baccaro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
E-mail:
baccaro@mit.edu <mailto:
baccaro@mit.edu>
Graciela Bensusan
Universidad Autonoma, Mexico
E-mail:
bensusan@servidor.unam.mx <mailto:
bensusan@servidor.unam.mx>
F. Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation
Sigurt Vitols
Social Science Center Berlin
Berlin, Germany
E-mail:
vitols@wz-berlin.de <mailto:
vitols@wz-berlin.de>
G. Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
David Marsden
London School of Economics
London, UK
E mail:
d.marsden@lse.ac.uk <mailto:
d.marsden@lse.ac.uk>
H. Markets, Firms, and Institutions
Gregory Jackson
Department of Management
King’s College London
London, UK
E-mail:
gregory.2.jackson@kcl.ac.uk <mailto:
gregory.2.jackson@kcl.ac.uk>
Clemente Ruiz Duran
Department of Economics
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E-mail:
ruizac@servidor.unam.mx <mailto:
ruizac@servidor.unam.mx>
I. Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
David Bartram
Department of Sociology
University of Leicester
Leicester LE1 7RH UK
Email:
d.bartram@le.ac.uk <mailto:
d.bartram@le.ac.uk>
Maritsa V. Poros
Department of Sociology
The City College of New York
New York, NY, USA
E-mail:
poros@ccny.cuny.edu <mailto:
poros@ccny.cuny.edu>
J. Rethinking the Welfare State
Alexander Hicks
Department of Sociology Annex C
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
E mail:
ahicks@emory.edu <mailto:
ahicks@emory.edu>
K. Socio Economic Theory
Nitsan Chorev
Department of Sociology
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
E-mail:
nitsan_chorev@brown.edu <mailto:
nitsan_chorev@brown.edu>
Kieran Healy
University of Arizona
Tucson Arizona USA
E-mail:
kjhealy@arizona.edu <mailto:
kjhealy@arizona.edu>
L. Law and the Social Sciences
Isabelle Ferreras
Harvard Law School
E-mail:
iferreras@law.harvard.edu <mailto:
iferreras@law.harvard.edu>
Alvaro Santos
Georgetown Law
E-mail:
asantos@law.georgetown.edu <mailto:
asantos@law.georgetown.edu>
Katherine Stone
School of Law, UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
E-mail:
stone@law.ucla.edu <mailto:
stone@law.ucla.edu>
M. French Language Sessions
Bernard Fusulier
University of Louvain
Louvain la Neuve Belgium
E-mail:
fusulier@anso.ucl.ac.be <mailto:
fusulier@anso.ucl.ac.be>
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Télé-université
Montréal, Québec, Canada
E-mail:
dgtrembl@teluq.uquebec.ca <mailto:
dgtrembl@teluq.uquebec.ca>
N. Spanish Language Sessions
Manuel Angel Rodriguez
Baja California S/N
Condominio Hornos Insurgentes D-33
Acapulco, Guerrero 39350, Mexico
E-mail:
marocio@gro1.telmex.net.mx <mailto:
marocio@gro1.telmex.net.mx>
Description of Research Networks
(A) Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society
This network focuses on the moral underpinnings of human thought,
practices, and institutions. It examines the communal roles of both
individual autonomy and social order in the building of a viable civil
society. The network’s core is social and scientific. Yet, while it
relies on social-science theory and research, philosophers and ethicists
are considered essential partners in examining communities and societies
as cultural and social phenomena. Communities and societies are looked
upon as much more than the aggregated products of free-standing
individuals motivated merely by calculative self-interest.
(B) Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
The aim of this network is twofold: (1) To test the ambiguous effects of
globalization on local socio-economic development. In particular, issues
of traditional and new flexible forms of local economies, the role of
local institutions and local governance models will be examined; and (2)
To compare dominant and alternative models of country development and to
assess the strengths and weaknesses of development policies for
developed, developing, and transition countries.
(C) Gender, Work, and Family
This network focuses on exploring the current state, and the changes in
institutions concerned with gender and family roles and workplace
organization. A particular interest of the network is theory and
research on social policies that produce greater compatibility between
institutions geared toward production for the market and reproduction in
the family. The network also focuses on cultural and social barriers
that prevent positive integration of family and work, examines gender
inequalities in work and family, and looks at the inter-relationship of
gender roles across these institutions.
(D) Occupations and Professions
This network is broadly concerned with the evolution of occupations and
professions. A particular interest is the way in which occupations,
professional groups, and professional service firms are instrumental in
constructing markets and market regulation within national and
international contexts. The network welcomes contributions on how firms
such as accountants, lawyers, management consultants, investment
bankers, brokers and analysts participate in the development of forms of
market regulation in national and international public and private
arenas and how they construct and legitimate their knowledge and
expertise in these areas. Such contributions may be historical in
perspective as well as analyses of contemporary processes of market
regulation and market building in the developed and the developing
world. The role of these actors in specific institutional arenas both
national and international (e.g. the EU and the WTO) and their impact on
market rules in areas such as accounting standards, corporate law,
central banking and public finances is of particular concern. Studies of
the interaction between rule building, the development and application
of professional knowledge and expertise and the politics of
institutional change are encouraged. Studies of how occupations,
professional groups and professional firms are organized and the
relationship between national professional associations and
international professional service firms are also welcome.
(E) Industrial Relations and the Political Economy
The focus of this network is on a conceptually and empirically rigorous
qualitative and quantitative study of comparative political economy,
including but not restricted to “varieties of capitalism.” The network
aims to help integrate research on labor markets and industrial
relations with the study of welfare states. It hopes to foster an inter-
and multi-disciplinary dialogue that includes labor economists. Among
more specific topics of interest are: social concertation, its
conditions, mechanics and results; state and societal actors' responses
to increasingly international competition and regional integration; and
emerging new forms of interest aggregation, governance, and identity
formation.
(F) Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation
This network’s goal is to promote theory and research on the economic
and social role of knowledge and its implications. Contributing to an
interdisciplinary, critical perspective on world development, the
network focuses on inter-relationships among knowledge formation, use,
and diffusion in organizations and institutions locally, nationally, and
internationally. Among topics of particular interest are: national
systems of innovation; firms as knowledge systems; formal and tacit
knowledge in organizations; knowledge sharing and organizational
learning; knowledge workers; and knowledge, science, and society.
(G) Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
Social institutions and social structures exert a huge influence on the
workings of labor markets, the links between jobs and vocational
education and training, and the way firms manage their human resources.
The network welcomes contributions on the general issues of labor market
segmentation, unemployment, and the link between training, skills and
jobs, as well as on the implications of the new human resource
management practices of firms for the future of skills and employment,
and on the new incentive and reward structures that support these. It
also welcomes theoretical work on the interaction between ‘competitive’
and ‘institutional’ forces in labor markets.
(H) Markets, Firms, and Institutions
This network focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms,
and institutions. New approaches to the study of markets are needed to
understand better how different markets (e.g. capital markets, product
markets, etc.) and market processes (e.g. competition, cooperation,
speculation, risk) are related to the changing strategies, structures
and governance of business firms. Moreover, both markets and firms are
themselves embedded within various institutional contexts at the
sectoral, regional, national and international levels. Institutional
diversity impact the capacities of firms and patterns of cooperation and
competition in markets, while markets and business interests themselves
are important factors in the politics of institutional change. We
welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives (e.g. political
economy, economic sociology, management studies, neo-institutionalism,
and comparative institutional analysis). Recent topics have included
financial systems, corporate governance, inter-firm networks, strategy,
national business systems, varieties of capitalism, internationalization
and regional integration, business interest associations, and processes
of institutional change.
(I) Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
This network addresses processes, patterns, and changes related to
socio-economic aspects of race, ethnicity, and immigration in all parts
of the world, and from different historical eras. The network seeks to
develop a forum for theory and research on the study of these processes,
which include but are not limited to: cooperation and conflict,
inequality, identity, ideology, measurement and classification systems,
policy implications, labor market incorporation, segregation, and
stratification. The network welcomes research from diverse disciplinary,
theoretical, and methodological perspectives, which address issues of
race, ethnicity, and immigration.
(J) Rethinking the Welfare State
This network focuses on the contours, causes, and consequences of state
policies aimed at insuring, supplementing, redistributing, or assuring
growth in income by a diverse means including income or in-kind
transfers, services, jobs policies, economic stabilization, and
competitive policies. The network also examines reciprocal effects of
policies and politics, including diverse political strategies and
political and social movements from all parts of the political and
institutional spectrum that bear on the fate of a broadly conceived
definition of the welfare state.
(K) Socio-Economic Theory
The goal of this network is to explore and develop theoretical tools for
the analysis of economic processes and their intersection with broader
(political, cultural, and moral) social systems. Such tools may be
sought through systematic engagement with a range of theoretical
traditions -- including but not limited to rational choice theory, game
theoretic approaches, heterodox economics, Marxist theory, feminist
theory, postmodernism, post-structuralism, cultural studies,
institutionalist approaches, etc. -- and by exploring the theoretical
implications of new areas of
(L) Law and the Social Sciences
Law is both a constraint upon social action and as a constituting force
that shapes social institutions. Law operates at both an instrumental
and normative level, and thus legal discourse provides a platform for
social critique. This network will examine the role of law in shaping
the institutions that define the labor market, the economy, and global
trade. It will consider how legal rules, principles, and policies
interact with methodologies and insights from the other social sciences.