>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:48:14 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Jim Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fwd: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS OF SCALE >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Status: U > >Dear PEF Members; > >The following conference announcement may be of interest. > >>Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS OF SCALE (fwd) >> >>Governance and the Politics of Scale: >>Democracy, Capitalism and Power in a Global Age >> >>Time: February 4, 2000 >>9:00 am - 5:30 pm >>Place: York University, Toronto >>Senate Chamber >>9th Floor, Ross Building >> >> >> The conference will present some of the foremost voices in this >>debate in North America, particularly from all over Canada. The conference >>will, perhaps for the first time anywhere in this dense a format, present >>speakers with interests in areas as diverse as community politics, the >>urban question, regional development, national economic policy, and >>international relations to address questions of the scaling of governance >>under globalization. >> The conference will interrogate current hegemonic politics in the >>rescaling of political power at a number of levels. We will pay particular >>attention to neo-social democratic proposals of various third ways, to the >>intervention of new social and political actors, to possibilities and >>openings for radical social critique and resistance, and to what has come >>to be termed globalization with a human scale. >> >>9:00 Registration and coffee >> >>9:15 Opening Remarks: Hugh Armstrong, Studies in Political Economy >> >>9: 30 - 11:00 am >> >>Governance in a Global World: Reform Agenda - Utopian Dreams? >> >>Chair: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University >> >> Neil Brenner, New York >>University >> Kanishka Goonewardena, >>University of Toronto >> Stephen Gill, York >>University >> Harriet Friedmann, >>University of Toronto >> >>11:00-11:15 am >> >>Coffee Break >> >> 11:15 am - 12:45 pm >> >>Sovereignty, Capitalism, Power: Post-National States? >> >>Chair: Fred Judson, University of Alberta >> >>Leo Panitch, York University >>Warren Magnusson, University of Victoria >>Pablo Idahosa, York University >>Feyzi Baban, Humber College >> >>12:45 pm - 1:45 pm >> >>Lunch break >> >>1:45 pm - 3:15 pm >> >>Governance and the New Regionalism: Is This the Third Way? >> >>Chair: John Shields, Ryerson University >> >> Vince Della Sala, Carleton >>University >> Ellie Perkins, York >>University >> Thomas Hueglin, Wilfried >>Laurier University >> t.b.a. >> >>3:15 pm - 3:30 pm >> >>Coffee break >> >>3:30 pm - 5 pm >> >>An Urban Globe? >> >>Chair: Caroline Andrews, University of Ottawa >> >>Stefan Kipfer, York University >>Stephen Dale, Ottawa >>Katharine Rankin, University of Toronto >>Roxanna Ng, OISE, Toronto >> >>5:30 pm >>Conference disperses >> Governance and the Politics of Scale: >>Democracy, Capitalism and Power in a Global Age >> >>Time: February 4, 2000 >>9:00 am - 5:30 pm >>Place: York University, Toronto >>Senate Chamber >>9th Floor, Ross Building >> >> Globalization has created new spatial relationships on a variety >>of scales. Together with the spatiality of global capitalism came an array >>of new governance institutions and mechanisms, as well as redrawn internal >>and external boundaries of states and other governance institutions. This >>is partly a consequence of the changing role of nation states and of >>systems of nation states. Particularly urbanization and regionalization >>are among the dynamic material dimensions of globalization. >> These processes establish distinct complexes of social >>relationships and of political forms of governance on all socio-spatial >>scales. This vision defies much of current globalization discourse both of >>the aggressively boosterist neoliberal Right (which sees only bliss in >>globalization) and of parts of the traditional defensive Left (which >>fetishizes globalization beyond any strategic usefulness). It allows us to >>pose new questions about the incongruence of different levels of market, >>state and society. It has also presented policy makers with new sets of >>challenges and opportunities, and has led to new arenas of social >>struggle. >> For political economists relationships of spatiality and >>governance are of central concern as the (national) state has undergone >>multiple processes of restructuring which begs the general question of >>political form in a changing economic environment. Especially, what has >>been termed the rise of civil society and the emergence of a post-Fordist >>economy, has led to the necessity of reexamining the spatiality of state >>and politics. >> Studies in Political Economy examines these new relationships in a >>conference and theme issue of the journal with a particular interest in >>questions of (local) state theory, new strategies of international >>politics and possibilities of local action. >> Studies in Political Economy is a Canadian scholarly journal >>providing detailed analysis of current issues and informed commentary on >>topics in Canadian and international political economy. Contents and >>themes of recent issues have included Restructuring States (Summer 1999), >>Globalization (Spring 1999), and The State and Regulation (Autumn 1998). >> >>Conference Registration >> >>Participation in this conference is free. Due to limited seating capacity, >>we do, however, request registration. Please r.s.v.p. with Roger Keil >>(email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; tel: 416.736.2100, ext. 22604) or Greg Albo >>(email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by January 31. >> >> >> >>Roger Keil >>Faculty of Environmental Studies >>York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 >>www.yorku.ca/academics/rkeil >
