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

Friday, 4 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

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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: Bob Jessop

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

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

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

The Cultural Political Economy of Financial Crisis: the Paradox of "Responsible Competitiveness"

Ngai-Ling Sum, Lancaster University

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 crisis

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

Chair: Nicholas Petropoulos

Discussant: Magnus Ryner

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

Fractionalization, Governance and the Economic Crisis in Europe

Elias Kikilias, National Centre for Social Research

Delegation of Regulatory Authority to Transnational Standard-Setters and the Changing Macroinstitutional Architecture of Advanced Capitalist Systems

Andreas Kruck

17.30 – 18.30 RN6 Business meeting

Friday, 4 September 2009

9.00 – 11.00 Paper session 4 – Crisis management

Chair: Ian Bruff

Discussant: Uwe Becker

Cultural Political Economy of Crisis Management in the European Union

Bob Jessop, Lancaster University

Economic crisis and nationalism

Sam Pryke, Liverpool Hope University

Analysing the ‘Limits of the Possible’ in European Integration: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Marxian-Constructivist synthesis

Joseph Baines, York University, Toronto

Disagreeing to agree: Financial crisis management within the logic of no alternative?

Huw Macartney, University of Manchester

14.00 – 15.30 (parallel sessions)

Paper session 5A – 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

Paper session 5B – The crisis and the state of European capitalisms

Chair: Huw Macartney

Discussant: Ngai-Ling Sum

The Credit of the State

Nina Boy, Lancaster University

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

Arjun Singh, London School of Economics and Political Science

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

Ian Bruff, Edge Hill University

In response to the current global crisis, Turkish think tanks signal new route for capital groups:? Look to the East instead of the West!?

Ozlem Tezcek, Ordu University

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

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

Laura Horn, VU University Amsterdam

Financialisation and Ontological Security: The Construction of the European Investor Subject

David M. Berry & Claes A. Belfrage, Swansea University

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

Chair: Claes Belfrage

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

Disintegrative Effects of European Monetary Integration

Klaus Mueller, AGH University of Science & Technology

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: Johannes Jäger

Discussant: Ingemar Lindberg, ARENA & AGORA, Sweden

The problem of translating intellectual criticism into policy prescription or alternative strategies

David Anderton, School of Oriental and African Studies

Neoliberalism: Crisis and 'Postneoliberal' Tendencies

Mario Caneidas, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

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

Globalisation and European Integration: 'The Nature of the Beast'

5th-6th June 2009, University of Warwick.

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL TO PARTICIPANTS

Registration is now open

Description
A cutting-edge event on Critical Political Economy approaches to European integration and its relationship with globalisation. The conference aims to stimulate a constructive engagement between historical materialist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to European integration. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary exchange between specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology on their research findings regarding global governance, regional integration and the national state with special reference to the European Union.

Registration fee
£27 including refreshments, buffet lunch and wine reception on Saturday.

Registration deadline
15 May 2009.

Capacity
There is a limited number of places available, so please register as soon as possible in order to secure your participation.

Keynote Speakers
A. Cafruny and M. Ryner.

Participants
K. Van der Pijl, B. Jessop, H. Overbeek, L.S. Talani, A. Bieler, W. Bonefeld, B. Clift, A. Wigger, H. Buch-Hansen, O. Holman, H.J. Bieling, S. Shields, C. Belfrage, J. Grahl, G. Menz, J. Baines, H. Macartney, I. Bruff, J. Drahokoupil, L. Levidow, C. Shaw, G. Strange, J. Tittenbrun, H. Plaschke, E. de Zutter, F. Ercan, S. Oguz, S.M. Rodrigues Balão, C. Dannreuther, K. Möller, C. Hermann, L. Horn, V.Muzaka, M. Notshulwana, A. Popa, O. Parker, J. Caballero, F. Capano, M. Fini, N. Fuentes, E. Gundogdu, W. Ko, O. Yaka, S. Braconi, J.W.Son.

For more information (conference programme, registration procedure, transport/accommodation information), please visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/ss/beast/ .

Co-organisers: Andreas Tsolakis (A.A.Tsolakis@warwick.ac.uk) and Petros Nousios
(P.Nousios@warwick.ac.uk).

Rethinking Democracy Promotion in the Post-Bush Era: Lessons from Political Theory

Symposium

‘Rethinking Democracy Promotion in the Post-Bush Era: Lessons from Political Theory’

International Politics Department, Aberystwyth University

21^st May, 2009

9am-4pm

Event organised by ‘Political Economies of Democratisation’-project (funded by the European Research Council under the=2 0European Community’s Seventh Framework Prog ramme, 2007-2013)

By framing and justifying many contentious policies during ‘the War on Terror’ in reference to the defence and extension of democracy, the actions of the Bush administration had negative consequences for the larger democracy promotion agenda. The concerted effort by President Obama to break with the policies of his predecessor now opens up space for a rethinking of democracy promotion practices. In considering and responding to recent problems, it is necessary to go beyond policy calibration, however, and address more fundamental issues. Specifically, there is a pressing need to reconsider the concept of ‘democracy’ in democracy promotion. Yet, it is curious that while debate continues to rage in political theory over what democracy does, can and should mean, such questions are largely ignored when it comes to democracy promotion.

This symposium will bring together a number of leading thinkers in=2 0international relations and political science to discuss how political theory and thought on radically different models or visions of democracy can be integrated into the consideration and practice of democracy promotion. The symposium seeks to reconsider the role of the currently dominant liberal-democratic tradition of thought in democracy promotion, as well as explore other possible democratic models and alternatives in relation to the idea of democracy promotion. The distinguished speakers at the event include: Prof. John Keane, Prof. Magnus Ryner, Dr. Beate Jahn, Prof. Heikki Patomaki, Prof. Robin Hahnel (in absentia), Prof. Michael Foley and Prof. Howard Williams.

Attendance is free but attendees are asked to email Milja Kurki (mlk@aber.ac.uk) to inform the organisers of intent to attend. Please note that all views expressed by the contributors and participants at the event are those of the individuals who express them and may not correspond to the views of the European Community.

Preliminary programme

9.00-9.15 Introductory comments - Milja Kurki

9.15-10.45 Session 1. Liberal democracy and liberal democracy promotion (re)considered - Dr. Beate Jahn, Prof. Howard Williams, Christopher Hobson

11.00-12.30 Session 2. Lessons from alternative traditions of democratic thought - Prof. Magnus Ryner, Prof. Heikki Patomaki, Prof. Robin Hahnel

13.30-15.00 Session 3. Transformations of democracy since 1945 and the future of democracy - Prof. John Keane, Prof. Michael Foley

15.10-4.00pm Concluding session. Democratic theory and democracy promotion today - reflections on future directions

Lisbon conference: Deadline extended to March 8th

Due to the high number of abstracts being submitted to the ESA2009 secretariat during these last few days, and in order to adequately respond to every request of assistance, the LOC decided to extend the deadline for abstract submission until March 8th.

Gisèle Tchinda, ESA Secretary

CfP Critical Political Economy RN at the ESA conference, Lisbon, 2-5 September 2009

Critical Political Economy RN at the ESA conference, Lisbon, 2-5 September 2009

Direct link into the abstract submission platform: https://vas.ambity.pt/abstracts/

The financial crisis: Responses and implications in Europe

Europe is experiencing its most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. The response of the EU and member states to this crisis has been paradoxical. The crisis has discredited the ‘Anglo-American’ model of finance-led capitalism and gravely weakened the American imperium.

Yet, the countries of Europe have been unable either individually or collectively to devise a concerted regional solution to the crisis. The result has been rising unemployment, the intensification of intra-regional disparities, signs of inter-state rivalries and is likely to result in growing poverty. Notwithstanding the deployment of massive resources to failing banks, the EU and member states continue to pursue the main planks of the neoliberal agenda, including labour market reforms, privatisation, and financialisation. This session seeks to address the prospects for a European alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism. Addressing the theme of this conference, we aim to consider to what extent does the current crisis unite or divide Europe and prospective allies in the world order, and what are its implications for the European project of integration. We invite papers which consider at least one of the following:

· Limits and contradictions of the mode of development currently in crisis, which may enable us to understand the current conjuncture.

· The problem of translating intellectual criticism into policy prescription or alternative strategies

· The political consequences of the crisis, its implication for political strategies pursued in relation to the 'European model' as well as to the regulatory frameworks on national and sub-national levels

· The issue of contemporary social and political mobilization and attendant effects on the ‘limits of the possible’.

Abstracts should be submitted by 26 February 2009 (online submission form: view Call for Abstracts button at www.esa9thconference.com)

Direct link into the abstract submission platform: https://vas.ambity.pt/abstracts/

CPE RN organizing committee: Alan Cafruny, Yves Dezalay, Jan Drahokoupil, Magnus Ryner

Critical Mass Forum on Political Economy and Power

The Critical Mass Forum on Political Economy and Power brings together researchers interested in exploring the possibilities and limitations of the concept of power as an alternative basis for re-thinking the tradition of political economy and its foundational categories of value, capital and accumulation. Created and maintained voluntarily by graduate students of political economy at York University in Toronto, Critical Mass aims to extend beyond York to foster online discussion and debate between the global community of researchers working in these areas.

In addition to facilitating a general discussion on political economy and power, the forum also gives participants an opportunity to discuss issues related to statistical data, to post and discuss upcoming political economy events and to receive feedback on their own research.

If you are interested in participating, please visit the forum website:
http://www.yorku.ca/cmass/forum/