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The World-System in the 21st Century
25th Annual
Political Economy of the World-System
Conference
Virginia Tech
19-21
April, 2001
Contact the Coordinator
Keynote Address
Friday Session: Session
1 Session 2
Session 3
Session 4 Session 5
Saturday Sessions
Session 6
Session 7 Session 8
Closing Plenary Session Session
9
Conference Sponsors
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The End of the World As We Know It:
The Intellectual in an Age of
Transition"
Read a Dunaway interview with
Wallerstein
See Wallerstein's CV and selected
papers
Friday Sessions
SESSION 1 : Crises and Resistance of the
World's Women and Children
Convener:
Wilma A. Dunaway, Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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Chyong-fang Ko (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Han-pi Chang (I-Shou
University, Taiwan) "Is the 21st Century World Economy a
Passport to Development or to Sexual Exploitation?"
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Thomas J. Burns, Jeffrey D.
Kentor (University of Utah), and Andrew Jorgensen (University of
California, Riverside) "Environmental Degradation and Infant
Mortality in Developing Countries: A World System Perspective"
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Torry D. Dickinson (Kansas
State University) "The Feminist Face of Democracy and Equality:
Global Movements that Challenge the World-System"
SESSION 2 Survival
and Resistance by Indigenous Peoples
Convener:
Paul Prew (Sociology) University of Oregon
Presenters:
SESSION 3 Crises of 21st Century Cities
Convener:
John Browder
(Urban Affairs & Planning) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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Eric Slater (Manhattanville
College) "The Return of the Capitalist City: Global Urbanism in the
21st Century"
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Bruce Stanley (University of
Exeter, Great Britain) "Going Global and ' Wannabe' World Cities:
(Re) Conceptualizing Regionalism in the Middle East"
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Robert G. Dyck & Wei Huang
(Virginia Tech) "Integration of China's Pearl River Delta into the
World-Economy: 21st Century Crises Associated with
Hyper-Urbanization"
SESSION 4
Labor and Labor
Solidarity in the 21st Century World-System
Convener:
Linda
Arnold (History) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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Kelvin Santiago-Valles
(SUNY-Binghamton) "Reconceptualizing Racially-Depreciated Labor
within the Current Phase of Globalization: The Puerto Rican Case"
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Tom Ricker (University of Maryland)
& Dale Wimberley (Virginia Tech) "Internal Dynamics and
External Activity of a Movement Network during Intense Mobilization:
The Case of the Global Campaign for Nicaraguan Maquila Worker
Rights, 1999-2000"
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Aslihan Aykac (SUNY-- Binghamton)
"Labor's Response to Early 21st Century Globalization"
SESSION 5 Crises at the Periphery
Convener:
Colette Harris
(Director, Women in Development Program) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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Trichur K. Ganesh (Southampton
College) "Capitalist Globalization and Third World Liberalization in
the 21st Century"
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Taimoon Stewart (University of the
West Indies) "Debt and Resurrection: A Prognosis for the Periphery
in the 21st Century" Ana Isla (University of
Toronto, Canada) "Economic and Ecological War against the Poor: The
Debt Crisis and Debt-for-Nature Investment in Costa Rica"
Saturday Sessions
SESSION 6
New Theoretical
Directions
Convener:
Elsworth "Skip" Fuhrman (Sociology) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
SESSION 7
World Cities
and the Nation-State
Convener:
Alnoor
Ebrahim (Urban Affairs & Planning) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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David Smith (University of
California, Irvine) and Michael Timberlake (Kansas State University)
"Global Urban Hierarchies: Cities in the 21st Century World-System"
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Deniz Yukseker-Yenal
(Bilkent University, Turkey) "The Informal Economy in the 21st
Century: From an Urban Enclave to a Transnational Market"
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Trudie Coker (Florida Atlantic
University) "Unveiling the Weakness of the State in a Semiperipheral
Country: The Venezuelan Case"
SESSION 8
The 21st
Century World-System: How Different from the Past?
Convener:
Timothy Luke
(Political Science) Virginia Tech
Presenters:
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Satoshi Ikeda (University of
Alberta, Canada) "Second Phase of the East Asian Miracle:
Accumulation, Governance, and Resistance in the 21st
Century World-System"
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Emanuela Todeva (South Bank
University, Great Britain) and Haico Ebbers (Nyenrode University,
Netherlands) "Integration of the Post-Communist Economies of Central
and Eastern Europe into the 21st Century World-Economy"
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Susan Manning (Johns Hopkins
University) "Financial Crisis and Control in the 21st
Century World-System"
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Joachim K. Rennstich (Indiana
University) "From Commercial to Strategic Rivalry: Rivalry
Environments and the Nineteenth K-Wave"
SESSION 9
Future Structures of
Knowledge, Science and Technology
Convener:
Daniel Breslau (Tel Aviv University); Visiting Professor, Science
& Technology Studies, (Virginia Tech)
Presenters:
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R. Warren Flint (Five E's
Unlimited, Virginia), Richard C. Rich (Virginia Tech), and Kim
Lamphier (Wildlife Habitat Council) "Sustainable Communities: Their
Definition and Science Needs"
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Maria Lucia Maciel (University of
Brasilia, Brazil) "The Scientific-Technological Revolution and
Transformations in the 21st Century World-System"
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Lauren Langman (Loyola University Chicago), Douglas Morris and
Jackie Zalewski "Cyberactivism and Alternative Globalization
Movements"
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION 9
The Future of
World-Systems Analysis
Convener: Paul
Knox (Dean, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, Virginia Tech)
Presenters:
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Peter Taylor
(Loughborough, Great Britain
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Heinz Sonntag
(Central University of Venezuela)
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Charles Lemert
(Weslyean University)
Respondent:
Immanuel Wallerstein
Conference Sponsors
Sponsored by these units of Virginia Tech:
 College
of Arts & Sciences
College
of Architecture & Urban Planning
Department of Sociology
Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies
Department of Political Science
Department of Urban Affairs & Planning
Department of Geography
School
of Public & International Affairs
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