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Michael,
Could you disseminate this announcement? People can write to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if they are interested in presenting. The
registration form is attached as a word 3 document, and is also on our
website.
Susan Fleck
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URPE Summer Conference
Political Economy, the environment
and economic crisis
August 21-24, 1999
Camp Chinqueka
Bantam, Connecticut, USA
The volatility of today's markets, the world recession, and US trade
wars (and other wars) are the result of growth policies gone awry in the
race to produce for profit. The role of responsible stewardship of the
world's resources and their just allocation is left behind.
Environmentalists and political economists have overcome earlier antagonisms
pitting nature against jobs and have begun forging new alliances to discuss
a new sustainable way forward for workers who depend on the environment.
The three Plenaries and the David Gordon Lecture for this year's
summer conference are a forum for how environmental issues are a necessary
complement to radical political economic analysis of growth, distribution,
and development. Names of confirmed speakers are:
Plenary 1: Moving Forward: Integrating Environmentalism and Political
Economy
FRANK ACKERMAN
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. Author of
Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy and numerous other
books and articles critiquing market incentives for environmental
protections.
LAURIE TIPTON JOHNSON
State University of New York, Albany. Environmental economist, long-time
environmental activist and URPE Steering Committee member examines the links
between environmental sustainability and equitable and fair economic and
social change.
DUANE CHAPMAN
Cornell University. Previously visiting faculty of University of Zimbabwe
and University of Natal, Chapman's research ranges from political economy of
environmental regulation to effects of heavy industries on environment in
southern Africa.
PETER DORMAN
Evergreen State College. Eco-socialist activist and teacher who will discuss
the imperative and difficult task of restructuring the US economy for a
sustainable future.
Environmentalists are often not political economists, and political
economists are often not environmentalists. The first plenary reveals how
each must understand the other in order to bring about broad-reaching social
change. Speakers will present a primer on the language of environment and
political economy. The speakers will outline the theory and logic behind
sustainable growth strategies, discuss whether marketing of environmental
goods and bads is effective and why, describe how progressive government
policies can squash pollution and promote sustainable growth, and put
forward an agenda for integrating political economy and environmentalism.
plenary 2: Confronting Capitalism: How Should the Global Economy
Be Governed?
JAMES BOYCE
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on how
inequalities of wealth and power affect the distribution of environmental
costs and the challenges to securing sustainable livelihood in developing
countries.
Radhika Balakrishnan
Marymount Manhattan College. Development economist who has worked for many
years on issues of international trade, development, structural adjustment,
and poor people's movements.
KEVIN GALLAGHER
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. Author of
critiques on mainstream trade and environment assumptions, and on the
effects of NAFTA on pollution.
Political and economic institutions impose short-term, profit driven
economic policies that dismiss concerns of environmental degradation and
sustainable growth. Speakers discuss whether growth is a good or a bad, how
the World Trade Organization impacts poor and environmentally degraded
communities, and how industries move across borders to pollute.
plenary 3: STRUGGLES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
MIKE DAVIS
Author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, discusses how 'normal'
capitalist development leads to racial and environmental injustice and
disaster.
Ashok Gupta
National Resource Defense Council. Energy economist and activist supporting
indigneous rights in the James Bay community's struggle against dam
development in Canada.
JOEL KOVEL
Green Party Candidate for US Senate recounts challenges of building a
grassroots political movement. Bard College
EBAN GOODSTEIN
Lewis and Clark College. Author of Economics and the Environment textbook
and organizer of the KYOTO NOW! student movement against global warming.
Activism on environmental issues is heating up along with global
warming. The third plenary creates a forum to tell the stories of struggle
of communities and individuals that choose to protect or sustain their
environment against rapacious business interests. Speakers share their
successes and challenges in building labor-environment coalitions,
confronting energy projects imposed on Native American lands, and
strengthening student movements to combat global warming.
Special Plenary: Graduate Student forum
Graduate students are being actively recruited and are encouraged to
participate in a special plenary session on Sunday, August 22, in which each
student will be asked to describe his/her area of interest and possible
research topic to the audience (5-10 minute presentation per person). URPE
members with experience in mentoring and teaching will also share their
advice and suggestions for preparing dissertation proposals and getting
dissertations completed. Scholarships will be provided to students who
participate.
Graduate Student Scholarships
Half-price scholarships are being offered to graduate students who
are interested in presenting in the Graduate Student Forum. If you present
at the forum, the cost of your registration for food, lodging, and
conference for 3 days is only $50. Please check off the scholarship box on
the registration form, and send the description of your 5-10 minute talk to
workshop organizer Susan Fleck, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Paper and Session Submissions
In addition to the plenaries, the organizers invite YOU to present
papers, works in progress, or roundtables on current events. Workshops
provide an opportunity for academics, activists, and students to present
their work-in-progress for supportive discussion and critique. Proposals
for individual papers will be considered, but the workshop organizers
strongly encourage you to organize complete workshops. Please contact the
workshop organizers, Susan Fleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and Laurie Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, with your proposals.
For those who present papers, you are invited to submit the paper to
URPE's journal, the Review of Radical Political Economics, to be considered
for inclusion in the RRPE's Papers and Proceedings issue for 2000.
We especially encourage graduate students to use the conference as
an opportunity to present their work in a nonjudgmental atmosphere where
their radical role models will also be attending.
Need-based Scholarships for Activists Available!!!!
Two scholarships are available for activists who would like to
present but can not afford to pay the conference fees. To apply for a
scholarship to cover the costs of attendance at the Summer Conference, you
must write one paragraph describing your presentation/paper, with a
statement indicating that you can not afford to pay the conference fees.
Please include your name, address, and phone number. Scholarships will be
awarded on a first-come first-serve basis. Send request for need-based
scholarship to the URPE National Office.
Directions
Transportation by regional bus companies is available from New York
City and Hartford, CT (closest town with bus service is Kent (via Danbury)).
Upon arrival to Kent, call the Camp at 1-(860)-567-9678. The closest
airport is the Bradley International Airport in Hartford. Camp Chinqueka is
located off of US Route 202 at the entrance of Mt. Tom State Park between
Bantam and New Preston, close to Litchfield, Connecticut.
For driving directions on the internet, go to <MAPS.yahoo.COM> and click on
'driving directions'. Enter your starting address and the destination
address as Litchfield, CT. This should assist you in planning your driving
itinerary.
We will also post a map on our internet site, <WWW.URPE.ORG> in the near
future.
Odds and Ends
Please remember to bring your own bedding, towels, and flashlight.
If you have any physical problems that require handicapped access, please
contact the URPE National Office. We are interested in making the camp
accessible to people who require handicapped access, and we are working with
the camp owners to improve access.
Camp Chinqueka offers quiet, indoor classrooms so that serious
intellectual work is possible. In addition, one can also enjoy the outdoor
activities of soccer, canoeing, swimming and tennis. Evening fun includes
dancing, singing, conversation with colleagues from across the country and
food and drinks. Child care is provided as part of the conference costs,
and Camp Chinqueka provides a fun and activity filled time for children of
all ages. Join us at this relaxing, family-friendly camp where participants
combine rich intellectual interplay with the wholesome fun of the outdoors.
The Camp's phone number is: (860)-567-9678.
We look forward to seeing you!
(Contact the URPE National Office at (203) 777-4605 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if
you have more questions.)
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
