CfPs: SGIR conference 2010 in Stockholm

The call for papers for the SGIR conference in Stockholm (9-11 September 2010) ist out. Read the complete call here.

The following four sections are convened by members of this network:

• ‘Another Europe is possible’? Alternatives and resistance to neoliberal European governance (Laura Horn)


• Putting critical IPE in its place? (Ian Bruff)


• The ‘European sub-prime’: The financial crisis in Eastern Europe (Jan Drahokoupil)
  


• The Return of the State? Global Capitalism and Geopolitics after the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff, James Perry)

The Deadline for the submission of paper and panel proposals has been extended to February 28, 2010.

EuroMemorandum 2009/2010

'Europe in Crisis: A Critique of the EU's Failure to Respond and
Proposals for a Democratic Alternative'.

If you are in broad agreement with the main lines of this year's
EuroMemorandum, we ask you to express your support.

In order to submit your declaration of support to the EuroMemorandum
Group, you can fill in the declaration of support and send it back to
wehlau@uni-bremen.de or by fax to
++49-(0)421-2182680. Please submit your declaration of support until 8.
December 2009, since this year's EuroMemorandum will be published - with
the list of signaturies - in early December.

Last year's EuroMemorandum, 'A democratic transformation of European
finance, a full employment regime, and ecological restructuring --
Alternatives to finance-driven capitalism', was signed by a total of 390
people from almost every corner of Europe.

With best wishes,

Trevor Evans, Diana Wehlau and Marica Frangakis
for the EuroMemo Coordinating Committee.

Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy

Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy
State of Crisis / Crisis State:
Domination and Resistance in the Wake of Neoliberalism(s)
May 7-8, 2010
Carleton University, Ottawa

The neoliberal era has been characterized by the privatization of
public assets, the growth of a global division of labour, and the
development of flexible and highly mobile forms of capital
accumulation. Yet the intensification of this capitalist model since
the early 1970s has come to a head in the last year, and the world has
played witness to multiple global crises, including the worst economic
catastrophe since the great depression, the highest recorded
atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and the continuation of
seemingly unending conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

As such, we posit that a critical interrogation of the neoliberal
paradigm is in order. Do contemporary crises mark a break or rupture
with neoliberalism or are they an expression of its continuity and
retrenchment? Do the present crises of finance, ecology and justice
represent the culmination of the neoliberal era, or are they endemic
components of a renewable cycle of laissez-faire capitalism? Have we
seen the emergence of a new form of social organization continually
riddled with instability (the crisis state), or are we merely in a
temporary state of crisis?

The Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy is an
interdisciplinary, international meeting of graduate students
currently inviting submissions that broadly reflect and interrogate
these and other (dis)continuities. We welcome submissions that fit
within the broader tradition of political economy, though perhaps the
following themes may serve to orient contributions:

• The origins and early history of neoliberalism
• Periodization and theories of capitalist crisis
• The spatialization of crisis: urban neoliberalization and the
politics of scale
• The financialization of capital: subprime loans and the mortgage crisis
• The green economy and the ecological limits of capital
• Security, migration and citizenship
• Accumulation by dispossession and colonialism in neoliberal times
• Gender, privatization, and reproductive economies
• Labour unions, precarious employment and permanent exceptionalism
• Post-neoliberalism? Socialism in the twenty-first century

We welcome individual submissions as well as panel proposals. For
individual papers, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words;
for panel proposals send a 100 word panel abstract along with paper
abstracts of up to 250 words. Proposals can be submitted by email
until January 31, 2010 to greatlakes2010@gmail.com.

Please refer to http://greatlakes2010.blogspot.com/ for more information.

IPE in Europe Blog renewed

Dear all,

the following blog might be of interest to you, for new journal/book publications, Calls for Paper or job advertisements.

"IPE in Europe" is a blog that tracks scholarly information in the field of International Political Economy (IPE). It is maintained at the Chair for International Relations and International Political Economy at Goethe-University Frankfurt.

If you would like your information to be published on this website, please contact Marcel Heires (heires@soz.uni-frakfurt.de)

SGIR section proposals - calls for interest

Members of the CPE RN are currently considering submitting section proposals to the ECPR SGIR conference in Stockholm, 9-11 September 2001.

There are currently three sections proposals (click on the link to open)

- Putting critical IPE in its place? (Convener: Ian Bruff)
- ‘Another Europe is possible’? Alternatives and resistance to neoliberal European
governance (Convenor: Laura Horn)
- The ‘European sub-prime’: The financial crisis in Eastern Europe (Convenor: Jan Drahokoupil)

The original call for sections can be found here.

In order to submit these sections, some preliminary panel and paper suggestions have to be indicated. We would thus like to ask you to contact us if you'd like to participate in any one of these sections. The DL for submission is 15 September.

Please note that it is not necessary for you to submit fully-developed panel proposals - a proposed title and short outline of what it will cover and, if possible, the proposed titles of the papers which will comprise the panel, will be sufficient.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any queries about the sections (email addresses are available in the proposal documents)

Best wishes,

Ian, Jan and Laura

ESA Lisbon paper submission

A password-protected area has been created at criticalpoliticaleconomy.pbworks.com. All participants should have received an invitation to join by now. It is essential to make the papers available well before the conference. Please upload the papers to our secure workplace on, or before, 10 August, 2009.

NB There will be a business meeting of the CPE RN at the Lisbon conference. Nominations are invited for all governing position, including the network cordinator-cum-chief.

Programme of CPE RN sessions at the Lisbon conference

RN6 The financial crisis: Responses and implications in Europe

The 9th European Sociological Association Conference, Lisboa

Semi-plenary session promoted by RN6

State, Politics and Global Economy (Semi Plenary Session IV)

Thursday, 3 September 2009

11.00 – 12.30 Why economic sociology matters to understand the financial crisis (and what should be done accordingly to overhaul finance)

Frederic Lordon, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Second speaker: Manuel VillaVerde Cabral; Discussant: Rui Pena Pires

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regular sessions

Thursday, 3 September 2009

9.00 – 10.30 Paper session 1 – Social theory and the financial crisis

Chair: Jan Drahokoupil

Discussant: Andreas Nölke

The Financial Crisis and the Re-Regulation of the European Financial Service Markets: The Hour of Heterodox Political Economy?

Brigitte Young, University of Münster

The Global Financial Crisis and the Irrelevance of European Integration Theory

Alan Cafruny, Hamilton College & Magnus Ryner, Oxford Brookes University

The critical in critical IPE research: Progressive Constitutionalism and immanent critique

Kolja Möller, Universität Bremen

13.30 – 15.00 Paper session 2 – Social theory of the financial crisis

JOINT SESSION WITH RN9 ‘ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY’ AND RN8 ‘DISASTER AND SOCIAL CRISIS’

Chair: Oliver Kessler

Discussant: Frederic Lordon

Everyday Finance in Varieties of Capitalism: A sociological analysis of the credit crisis

Ben Jacoby, University of Warwick

Financial Crisis - Understanding the past, Raising the future

Pedro Ferreira, University of Coimbra

Participation and self-management as a strategy for mitigation, reconstruction, prevention and social development in the 2008 global accumulation of capitalsystemic crisis

Vera Vratuša, Belgrade University

15.30 – 17.30 Paper session 3 – Comparative perspectives on the financial crisis

JOINT SESSION WITH RN9 ‘ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY’ AND RN8 ‘DISASTER AND SOCIAL CRISIS’

Chair: Nicholas Petropoulos

Discussant: Alan Cafruny

Financial Crisis, Financialization and Comparative Capitalism

Andreas Nölke and Marcel Heires, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Back to the Future: Can American-Style Consumer Capitalism Be Saved? Should It Be Saved?

Maria N Ivanova, New York University

Global Financial Crisis: Complexity, Dilemmas and regulatory failiures.

Alberto Martinelli, Tom R. Burns

The Credit of the State

Nina Boy, Lancaster University

17.30 – 18.30 RN6 Business meeting

Friday, 4 September 2009

9.00 – 11.00 Paper session 4 – The ‘European sub-prime': Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Chair: Klaus Mueller

Discussant: Maria Ivanova

Parasitical economic relationships in the transitional economies: aggravations in the conditions of economic crisis

Uliana Nikolaeva, Russian Academy of Science

How many solutions to how many crises? The European labour movement vis-à-vis the financial turmoil

Björn Wagner, University of Jena

Responses to global economic crisis in Eastern Europe? A ‘verdict on transition’?

Jan Drahokoupil, Universität Mannheim

14.00 – 15.30 Paper session 5 – Crisis management

Chair: Nina Boy

Discussant: Uwe Becker

The contradictions and tendencies within state responses to the current crisis: the case of Germany

Ian Bruff, Edge Hill University

Economic crisis and nationalism

Sam Pryke, Liverpool Hope University

Labour and the Locusts? Emerging Contestation of Financial Governance and Capital Market Liberalisation in the EU?

Laura Horn, VU University Amsterdam

Keeping the Aspidistra Flying: The Political Economy of Capital Accumulation in the United Kingdom

Arjun Singh, London School of Economics and Political Science

Saturday, 5 September 2009

9.00 – 11.00 Paper session 6 – It’s the finance, stupid!

Chair: Arjun Singh

Discussant: Brigitte Young

Global Finance and Modes of Development in Europe

Johannes Jäger & Karen Imhof, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna

Varieties of banking aid measures

Stefan Schmitz & Beat Weber, Oesterreichischen Nationalbank

Comparing Britain and France: The Institutional Mediation of the Re-moralisation of Islamic Banking after the Global Financial Crisis

Ebru Thwaites , Lancaster University

Disintegrative Effects of European Monetary Integration

Klaus Mueller, AGH University of Science & Technology

11.30 – 13.00 Paper session 7 – The crisis and the European model

Chair: David Byrne

Discussant: Johannes Jäger

A European Variety of Capitalism as Normative Socio-Economic Construction

Uwe Becker, University of Amsterdam

Past and Future of the European Social Model

Christoph Hermann, FORBA - Working Life Research Centre Vienna

Globalisation, EU Enlargement and the Challenge of the Financial Crisis: East-West Migration and the Search for EU Solidarities

Branka Likic_Brboric, Linköping University

14.00 – 15.30 Paper session 8 – Resistance and the search for alternatives

Chair: Ebru Thwaites

Discussant: Ingemar Lindberg, ARENA & AGORA, Sweden

Neoliberalism: Crisis and 'Postneoliberal' Tendencies

Mario Candeias, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Critiques to Concrete - Problems in Constructing Post-Crisis Policy

David Anderton, School of Oriental and African Studies

Moving beyond the Crisis: The Mondragon Cooperativist Group

Ramon Flecha, Universitat de Barcelona; Iñaki SantaCruz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Carmen Elboj, Universidad de Zaragoza

Post-industrial class action in a context of crisis

David Byrne, Durham University