The annual conference of the Global Studies Association
Challenging globalization: new perspectives, alternative visions, emerging agendas
Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London
2nd - 4th September 2009
Wednesday 2nd September 2009
12.00 - 13.00 Arrival, registration, and coffee (Foyer)
13.00 – 14.30
Session 1: Challenging globalization theory I (Auditorium)
Roland Robertson (Aberdeen) - Globalization theory since the 1970s: Future prospects
Paul Kennedy (Manchester Met.) - Re-discovering the local and the significance of micro-interpersonal relations: a critique of globalization theory
Zdravko Mlinar (Ljubljana) - Global studies and dialectics of social change
Nisha Shah (Brown) - The territorial trap of the territorial trap: globalization's discursive dimensions as the global jail break
Chair: Barrie Axford (Oxford Brookes)
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee (Foyer)
15.00 – 16.30
Session 2: Challenging the global economy (Auditorium)
Nathan Lillie (Groningen) - Bringing the offshore ashore: Transnational production, industrial relations and the reconfiguration of sovereignty
Bruno Ruettiman (Independent scholar) - Modelling economic globalization
Luke Martell (Sussex) - Globalisation and economic determinism
Guoguang Wu (Canada) - Globalization as iInstitutions: Rethinking the relationship between capitalism and democracy
Chair: Jill Timms (LSE)
15.00 – 16.30
Session 3: Challenging global/local relations (Room MB03)
LooSee Beh (Malaysia) - Globalization of privatization: Malaysia’s response to global and local challenges
Anuja Prashar (Goldsmiths) - Transnational capitalist class of Indian origin: within the Global Political Economy of 21st Century
Shoba Arun and Robert Grimm (Manchester Met.) Global changes, local lives – trajectories of skilled migrant workers in Manchester
Chair: Nathan Coombs (Royal Holloway)
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee (Foyer)
17.00 – 19.00
Plenary 1 (Auditorium)
Faisal Devji (Oxford) – The guilt of being still alive: death as a form of globalization
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Royal Holloway) - Human rights and property rights: Subjectivities, identities, capitalisms and globalizations
Chair: Sandra Halperin (Royal Holloway)
19.30 Evening meal (The Hub)
Thursday 3rd September 2009
09.00 – 09.30 Coffee (Foyer)
09.30 – 11.00
Session 4: Challenging cosmopolitanism (Room MB03)
Elena González Barriga (Sussex) - The new cosmopolitanism: a vision of social reality?
Jaume Castan Pinos (Belfast) - When globalisation theory fails; the reassertion of external borders in the EU
Hilde C. Stephansen (Goldsmiths) - Beyond the ‘global’ in ‘global civil society’: shifting scales and partial connections at the World Social Forum
Chair: Anthony Cooper (Royal Holloway)
09.30 – 11.00
Session 5: Challenging self/identity (Auditorium)
John Gibson (Independent scholar) - Myth, psychoanalysis and the global
Abigail Halcli (Oxford Brookes) - The gender question in globalisation: challenges and contributions to global studies
Barbara Henry (Pisa) - The play of mirrors: Representation of the self and the other in fragmented globalisation
Chiara Certoma (Pisa) - Being locally global: power-geometries in post-global space
Chair: Pepijn van Houwelingen (Royal Holloway)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee (Foyer)
11.30 – 13.00
Session 6: Challenging grassroots connectivity (Auditorium)
Nick Clarke (Southampton) - Spaces of advanced liberal society: The new localism and the new politics of scale through town twinning
Anthony Cooper and Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway) - Borderwork in UK towns: borders as connective tissue?
Nick Stevenson (Nottingham) - The Transition Movement and subpolitics
Anna Plyushteva (Amsterdam) – ‘Click here to stop climate change’: challenging political participation in new global spaces of deliberation
Chair: Stuart Elden (Durham)
11.30 – 13.00
Session 7: Challenging global ethics (Room MB03)
Hans Krause Hansen (Copenhagen) - Corruption governance: Globalization, normalization, differentiation?
Timo Herold (Ulm) and Christopher Stehr (Karlsruhe) - Hypernorms for a corporate code of ethics
Jill Timms (LSE) - Fighting for control over the globalising discourse of corporate social responsibility: Transnational corporations versus campaigners for workers’ rights
Ville Päivänsalo (Helsinki) - Responsibilities for human capabilities: Avoiding a comprehensive global program
Chair: Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Foyer)
14.00 – 16.00
WORKSHOP: Resisting Globalization (Sponsored by the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies) (Room AG3, Arts Building)
Keynote speaker: Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) - The normative sources of empire
Oscar Guardiola Rivera (Birkbeck) - Lessons for the future revolution from past globalisations
Samina Luthfa (Oxford) Resisting global extractive industry: Nexus of local-national-transnational activist frames
Samuel Dwinell (Cornell) – “Fuck The Border”: Anti-war punk as transnational critique?
Chair: Nathan Coombs (Royal Holloway)
14.00 – 16.00
Meet the authors: (Auditorium) Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson discuss their new book Globalization and Football (Sage) with a panel comprising Jean Williams author of A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football (Berg), Alan Bairner author of Sport, Nationalism and Globalization (SUNY Press) and Barrie Axford author of The Global System (Polity Press).
Chair: Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee (Foyer)
16.30 – 18.15
Session 8: Challenging globalization theory II (Auditorium)
Didem Buhari-Gulmez (Royal Holloway) - ‘World polity’ approach: directions in the study of IR
Irina Isaakyan (Edinburgh) - What stands behind “home”? ‘Home’-narratives of the Soviet academic diaspora
Paul James (Melbourne) - The dialectics of globalization and religion: Resisting the return to particularism
Chair: Robert Holton (Trinity, Dublin)
16.30 – 18.15
Session 9: Challenging global trade (Room MB03)
Martin Dada (George Mason) - Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa: a critical review of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
Kostas Physentzides (Thessaly) - The globalisation effect of cyberspace
Christopher Stehr (Ulm) - Design, implementation and evaluation of an e-learning course on globalization
Violeda A. Umali (Vienna) - Health is wealth: Negotiating responsibility and accountability in medical tourism
Chair: Paul Kennedy (Manchester Met.)
16.30 – 18.15
WORKSHOP: Collapsing borders (Sponsored by the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies) (Room AG3, Arts Building)
Keynote speaker: Stephen Hopgood (SOAS) title to follow
Ogochukwu Ekwenchi (Westminster) Comparing and Contrasting: Nigerian video film producers and the discourses of the local and the global
Pieter Meurs (Brussels) - This world without another: On Jean-Luc Nancy and la mondialisation
Sanae Elmoudden (New York) - Crossing and passing: Discursive borders in offshoring.
Chair: Anthony Cooper (Royal Holloway)
18.15 – 1945 Wine reception: Launch of the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (Foyer) www.criticalglobalisation.com
19.45 Conference dinner (The Hub)
Friday 4th September 2009
09.00 – 09.30 Coffee (Foyer)
09.30 – 11.00
Session 10: Challenging global culture (Room MB03)
Linda Longmire and Timothy H. Smith (Hofstra) - The Odyssey model of critical global studies: A view from the road
Mahshid Mayar (Heidelberg) - Globalization of ideas, globalization of words
Michelle Kempson (Warwick) - Global “scenes”: Exploring the impact of global communication on activist identity within the feminist zine community.
Chair: Chris Perkins (Royal Holloway)
09.30 – 11.00
Session 11: Challenging nationalism (Auditorium)
Anwar Anaid (Sydney) - Globalization and minority nationalism: Explaining the nature of the impact and opportunities
Songok Han Thornton (Taiwan) - Global meltdown: The search for an “alter” Third Way
Mona Domosh (Dartmouth) - Challenging globalization in revolutionary-era Russia
Chair: Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Royal Holloway)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee (Foyer)
11.30 – 13.15
Plenary 2 (Auditorium)
Robert Holton (Trinity, Dublin) - Is globalization reversible?
Stuart Elden (Durham) Territory without borders
Chair: Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway)
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch (Foyer)
14.00 – 15.30
Session 12: Challenging global security (Auditorium)
Marta Cordini and Barbara Lucini (Milan) - New perspectives on risk in contemporary societies
John Sloboda and Chris Abbott (Oxford Research Group) - Global responses to global security threats: regional perceptions, blockages, and directions
Katina Kuhn (Lüneburg)- Sociocultural globalization and global environmental change
Maria Ela L. Atienza (Philippines) - Globalization, agricultural communities and opportunities for empowerment: Lessons from local community responses to the patenting of plant varieties in Bilar, Bohol
Chair: Sandra Halperin (Royal Holloway)
15.30 Conference ends
15.45 Business meeting (GSA members)
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 10:55AM