Decorrerá em Buenos Aires, em Agosto do próximo ano, um Fórum da ISA (Associação Internacional de Sociologia) subordinado ao tema Justiça Social e Democratização. Idiomas para apresentação de trabalhos: inglês, francês e espanhol. No evento, destaque para o GT Relações entre o Local e o Global - abaixo, reproduzo as suas diretrizes.
Working Group on Sociology of Local-Global Relations, WG01
Programme Coordinator
Nataliya VELIKAYA, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia, natalivelikaya@gmail.com
WG01 Liaison in Argentina
Sebastián Pereyra, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, sebpereyra@gmail.com
Number of allocated sessions including Business meeting: 12.
Deadlines
· On-line abstract submission will be open from August 25 to December 15, 2011.
· All Forum participants (presenters, chairs, discussants, etc.) need to pay the early registration fee by April 10, 2012 in order to be included in the programme. If not registered, their names will not appear in the Programme or Abstracts Book.
· On-line registration will open on August 25, 2011.
Call for papers
We invite all the members of the WG and all scholars and researchers in the broad field of political sociology and political sciences to participate and to send your papers for session topics.
Proposed sessions
in provisional order
Only abstracts submitted through ISA website platformwill be considered.
Session A
Local-global relations after Rio+20
Chair
Krzysztof OSTROWSKI, Pultusk Academy of Humanities, Poland, krzysztof@ostrowski.waw.pl
ISA Forum will take place right after Rio+20 UN Summit on Sustainable Development. It should be expected that this summit will expand, re-write or re-schedule some of important provisions of Earth Summit 1992 and such key documents as Brutland report or Agenda 21. Summit in 2012 is planned in an innovative way, opening not only debates but also preparation of documents to Member States, UN system and representatives of nine major groups having crucial importance in shaping local-global relations: Business and Industries, Children and Youth, Farmers, Indigenous People, Local Authorities, NGOs, Scientific and Technological Community, Women, Workers and Trade Unions. Contribution fromconcerned groups are expected by 1 November 2011. The papers presented at ISA Forum session will address issues raised in those preliminary contributions and will comment on the results of the summit as will as the prospects of sustainable development in different regions and countries.
Session B
Political culture and political actors: Socialization, recruitment, and values of the local political class
Chair
Flaminia SACCA, University of La Tuscia, Italy, sacca@unitus.it
Over a century has gone by since Gaetano Mosca’s definition of a political class, focused on the fact that in any society in history a minority governs and a majority is governed. Regardless of the political system and of the way consensus is sought after. Almost fifty years have passed since Almond and Verba’s first theorizations on political culture and its influence on a Country’s democratic basis. Although many authors have pointed out the limits of its first version (the liberal point of view, the limits of the political culture of citizens disregarding their actual behavior, or the economic and political system in which political processes take place), the innovation in the approach to social studies of political processes is still topical.
In this session we aim at analyzing the political culture of what represents a relevant part of the political bone-structure in many countries: the local political class. Of course juridical and economic factors define the role and relevance of local administration and politics but if they are at the turning point between citizenship, territory and national politics, what is their contribution (real or potential) to democratic policy making in times of globalization? Can we still speak of a political class at a local level? How is it recruited, what is the background and, most importantly, what political culture does it express in the different Countries? Is its decision making process challenged by the general globalization of politics, leadership, agenda, key words, communication and, of course, economy?
Session C
Post-Soviet societies: 20 years of tortuous transformation
Chair
Olga GUZHVA, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, guzhva.olga@gmail.com
The purpose and the main focus of this panel will be the transformations that the post-Soviet societies were undergoing since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Twenty years of these changes have produced mixed results: In some states, the new institutions tend to work more or less efficiently, and society seems to be generally normalized. In some other states one finds today a situation of high degree of political and economic instability leading to serious social problems. We would like to launch the discussion on whether the post-Soviet transformations have produced a new kind of “failing state” that requires a serious conceptual elaboration. This panel offers the possibility of a debate on transformation in politics and policies, in economics, international relations, in culture and identities of the post-Soviet countries. We need to address these developments by raising a number of serious and stimulating questions: What are the structural and functional problems of Post-socialist polities? What are the stabilizing factors for these societies? How to explain the variety of transformation models in these countries after the initial enthusiasm for marketization and democratization? What is so peculiar about cultural changes and national identity building?
We will focus on the reality of post-socialism and try to raise and answer the questions that require a systematic and multi-dimensional analysis of the political, socio-economic and cultural problems of Post-Soviet societies. We highly encourage the papers that would combine multi-disciplinary, comparative and case-study approaches.
Session D
Social challenges in developing countries as consequences of globalization
Chair
Aigul ZABIROVA, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan, zabirova@hotmail.com
Much of the preceding discussion in social sciences can be subsumed under a positive meaning of globalization processes and results. Obviously, globalization has a positive meaning due to removing barriers to free trade and promotes an economic integration; globalization has the potential to improve quality of life for deprived social groups. Simultaneously, globalization can led to adverse environmental changes, corrupted political structures, and cultural lag in developing countries as a result of rapid economic changes. The focus of this session is the social challenges and consequences faced by local groups under the force of globalization. We will address following principal questions. First, how has globalization affected inequality among and within developing countries? We will try to investigate this problem deeper than in has been done by pessimists and optimists of globalization and suggest some answers to the question of whether globalization is good for employment, poverty alleviation and income redistribution within the developing/transitional countries. Secondly how are local groups and communities responding to global risks and challenges? The risk response mechanisms that countries and entire regions have in place are often not able to deal with the complex problems that confront the world. Growing unemployment is an example.
Session E
Local development and local democracy: Problems of social justice
Chair
Arvydas Virgilijus MATULIONIS, Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania, matulionis@ktl.mii.lt
Social injustice/social justice can be evidently seen at the local level. Different duties of municipalities and different forms of local authorities can transform municipalities from bodies solving social problems to the bodies pursuing theirs own selfish ends. We are going to examine experience of local communities, their problems, success and failures from different countries and regions all over the world. Motivation and activities of local elites, local staffs and local deputies can be described as well as public opinion about local power and its representatives.
The main questions of the session are the following: What are the different approach of local elites to the problems of social justice? What is the difference between considering social justice in old capitalist countries and in developing countries? What are national and territorial peculiarities of perception of social justice? How might social justice be encouraged in developing/transitional countries? How social has been transforming during global economic crisis? How does social justice depends on economic and political level of development of different communities and on level of democracy in the country? What s the role of civil initiatives, NGO and political organizations in the public discourse about social justice?
Session F
Global cultural centers and development of local cultures
Chair
Nataliya VELIKAYA, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia, natalivelikaya@gmail.com
Globalisation affected cultural processes in a total way. Homogenization of culture in modern world obviously has been following by the so called localization of the culture which have different manifestations: from archaization to self-isolation and from macdonaldization to simplification. This process has both positive and negative consequences.
So centers of globalization dictate and determine cultural consumption and main cultural tendencies in the world. On the other hand this process clash with contrary tendencies. Local cultures have to adapt to the needs of new cultural market or to close themselves and to conserve themselves excluding development.
We are going to focus on tendencies of cultural process connected with globalization on local, regional and sub-regional levels, to consider different points of cultural interventions to provinces and to peripheries and to estimate some of results of that, to find our if globalization makes deeper cultural gap between different communities and provokes new forms of inequality in modern world or on opposite it destroys cultural barriers and create common cultural space?
Session G
Panel session: Protest movement in globalizing world
Chairs
Husein ISAEV, EuroAsian Universtity, Kyrgyzstan, kusein@elcat.kg
Larissa VDOVICHENKO, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia, vdlarissa45@yandex.ru
Globalism as a policy includes different elements in the common melting pot of the new order, reproduces inequality and discrimination, provide bureaucratic management on the different levels. On the other hand new social forces appear which cant accept new order (M. Hardt, A. Negri, Empire). This groups act not only in new developing countries exclkuded from the world economic system but also in the old capitalists countries, where we can see increasing of movements agains reducing social rights. Sustainability of social states mainly depends on the striving of social groups to defend and to keep their rights.
As for developing countries social rights there are directly linked with the way to democracy and with the political regimes. One can remember events in post-socialist countries (so called orange revolutions and colored revolutions) or Arab spring.
It would be expedient to examine different protest movements, their social bases in different social and political systems as well as to estimate activity of so called global civil society, which are becoming the most significant actors of political changes.
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