Latin American Studies Association: Upcoming Conferences

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Inequality Beyond Globalization: Economic Changes and the Dynamics of Inequality

Date(s): June 26-28, 2008
Location: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Description:
In sociological research on inequality, globalization has been a central focus for over a decade now. Nevertheless, globalization’s effects on intra-national, international, and interregional social inequality remain highly contested. At the upcoming ISA-RC02 Midterm Conference in Neuchâtel, researchers will have the opportunity to discuss the current state of the debates and to contrast them with recent research on the distributional effects of economic change in general. The conference is intended to both create an open forum for current economic sociology and condense the findings of this discipline. The conference organizers invite abstracts related to the following topics:

1) Influence of economic transformations and related institutional changes on inequality: How is the production and reproduction of inequality influenced by economic transformations and related institutional changes?

2) Change and persistence of inequality structures: How and why do patterns of inequality change? Which dimensions of and cleavages related to inequality are persistent (income, wealth, educational and occupational status, gender, ethnicity, region, class, etc.)? What new socially relevant goods emerge, and to what extent do they constitute new dimensions of inequality or reinforce existing ones?

3) Actors and evolving institutional reactions: How do social actors (individuals, institutions, movements) and systems behave with regard to economic change and social inequality?

Proposal deadline:
January 31, 2008

Contact information:
http://www2.unine.ch/iNEquality08

Additional information:
Award of Excellence in World Society Research 2008: The 2008 World Society Foundation aw21ard program will be organized jointly with the Conference. For more information, see http://www.uzh.ch/wsf/

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