CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Global Regulation. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
The Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, with the support of the Staff Development Office and together with CEPREMAP, Paris, ESRC, CSGR at Warwick, Le Monde Economie and the Review of International Political Economy are organising a major international conference to be held at the University of Sussex on May 29-31, 2003. Regulation has recently come back to the centre of public and specialist attention, as testified by major publications, academic and political events, and not least by the prominence of mass protests. Contrary to the prediction of further liberalisation and deregulation, the trend in the past few years has been towards the construction of a thick maze of international regulatory structures and apparatuses. But what is the meaning of global regulation? Is it the harbinger of a proto-global state modeled on Western liberal states? Is it evidence for the entrenchment of a particular transnational class power? The expansion of a managerial discourse and technocratic capitalism on a global scale? Or perhaps none of the above? This conference bring together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines concerned with issues dealing with grounded and theoretical issues pertaining to the regulatory responses to contemporary capitalist globalisation. We are inviting papers on the following aspects: Codes of Conduct and Corporate Responsibility Regulation of the Body and Pornography Communication, Emancipation and the Internet NGOs, Expertise and Technology Labour Market Regulation & Migration Resources and Property Rights Accountancy and Transparency Private Military Security Conference Committee: Kees Van Der Pijl, Mick Dunford, Jean-Christophe Graz, Ronen Palan, Libby Assassi, Duncan Wigan and Calos Ortiz Please send abstracts by 20 November 2002 to: Libby Assassi, RIPE office, Arts E 408, School of Social Sciences University of Sussex, Brighton, Falmer BN1 9QN Phone: + 44 (0) 1273 678064 Fax: + 44 (0) 1273 673563 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
