Fall 2011 Issue of PEWSNews

The Fall 2011 issue of the Political Economy of the World-System Section Newsletter is now available for download (PDF). In this issue: Reading Arrighi in Tehran: The Reception of World-Systems Analysis in the Islamic Republic of Iran, words from the section chair Leslie Gates, changes at JWSR, and section awards.

2012 PEWS Conference -- Labor, Democracy and Global Capital

Next year's PEWS conference will be held April 19-21, 2012 at Clark University. Please see the call for papers.

Congratulations to our 2011 PEWS award winners Bill Winder, Wilma Dunaway, and Kelly Austin!

Distinguished Book Award: Bill Winders (2009) The Politics of Food Supply. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Article Award Winner: Dunaway, Wilma. 2010. “Nonwaged Peasants in the Modern World-System: African Households as Dialectical Units of Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Resistance, 1890-1930.” The Journal of Philosophical Economics: 4:1:19-57.

Terence Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award Winner: Austin, Kelly. 2010. “Soybean Exports and Deforestation from a World-Systems Perspective.” The Sociological Quarterly:51:511-536.

Book Award honorable mention: Borocz, Jozsef. 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A critical geopolitical-economic analysis. London and New York: Routledge Press.

Article Award Honorable Mentions: Hall, Thomas. 2009. “Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications.” Journal of World-Systems Research:15:1:25-47.

Sanderson, Matthew and Jeffrey Kentor. 2009. “Globalization, Development and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000.” Social Forces: 88:1:301-336.

Moore, Jason. 2010. “Amsterdam is Standing On Norway.” Journal of Agrarian Change:10:1:33-68 and 10:2:188-227.

PEWS Sessions at the 2011 ASA Annual Meeting

PEWS has organized one regular session and one roundtable session for the 2011 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago. Please see the calls for papers for the regular and roundtable sessions.

In addition to the official PEWS sessions at the 2011 ASA meetings, David A. Smith from UC-Irvine will be the organizer of a "regular session" on "Globalization." He would encourage and welcome papers addressing various and sundry aspects of that topic that use a world-system analytic framework and come from PEWS section members. So please consider submitting your paper to Professor Smith and that panel. Remember ASA's deadline for electronic submissions is mid-day on January 13th.

Spring 2011 Issue of PEWSNews

The Spring 2011 issue of the Political Economy of the World-System Section Newsletter is now available for download (PDF). In this issue: A Review of: Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, words from the section chair Paul Ciccantell, section awards, calls for papers, and member profiles.

Fall 2010 Issue of PEWSNews

The Fall 2010 issue of the Political Economy of the World-System Section Newsletter is now available for download (PDF). In this issue: "What Can the World-System Approach Teach Us About the Current Financial Crisis?", words from the section chair Paul Ciccantell, section awards, calls for papers, and member profiles.

PEWS at the 2010 ASA Annual Meeting

PEWS has organized three paper sessions and thirteen roundtables for the 2010 ASA Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The Section will also be hosting a joint reception with the Environment and Technology Section. Please see the PEWS ASA Schedule for more information.

Congratulations to Andrew Schrank and Karin Rosemblatt!

Congratulations to Andrew Schrank, this year's winner of the PEWS Article award. His 2008 article is entitled "Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform." It can be found in the American Journal of Sociology 114(1): 1-34.
 

Also, a second hearty congratulations to Karin Rosemblatt, who received an honourable mention for her 2009 article entitled "Other Americas: Transnationalism, Scholarship, and the Culture of Poverty in Mexico and the United States." Karin's article can be found in the Hispanic American Historical Review. 89(4): 603-642.

2011 PEWS Conference -- National Borders in the 21st Century

Next year's PEWS conference will be held April 28-30, 2011 at SUNY-Stony Brook. Please see the call for papers.

New PEWSNews Editor

Kelly Austin of North Carolina State University has been appointed the new editor of PEWSNews. She will begin work soon assembling the Fall 2009 edition. Send inquiries or submissions to kfaustin@ncsu.edu.