NEWSLETTER, FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER No. 18 Activities, 1993-94August 1994 I. International Sociological Association The Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Immanuel Wallerstein, was elected President of the International Sociological Association for the period 1994-1998. The election took place at the XIIIth World Con- gress of Sociology in Bielefeld (Germany), July 17-23, 1994. The secretariat of the ISA is in Madrid. II. Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences The Fernand Braudel Center is serving as the Secretariat of this Commission. Its objec- tives were described in detail in Newsletter No. 17. The members of the Commission were ap- pointed in the fall of 1993. They are: Immanuel Wallerstein, chair of the Commission, sociology, USA.Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Binghamton Universi- ty; author, The Modern World-System (3 vol.), Unthinking Social Science. Calestous Juma, science and technology stud- ies, Kenya. Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies; 1991 Pew Scholars Award in Conservation and the Environ- ment; co-author, An Evolutionary Approach to Economic Growth. Evelyn Fox Keller, physics, USA. Professor, Program in Science, Technolo- gy, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MacArthur Fellow, 1992- 1997; author, Reflections on Gender and Science. Jrgen Kocka, history, Germany. Professor of the History of the Industri- al World, Freie Universit„t, Berlin; permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; author, Geschichte und Aufkl„r- ung; editor, Interdisziplinariat: Praxis - Herausf”rderung - Ideologie. Dominique Lecourt, philosophy, France. Professeur de la Philosophie des Scienc- es, Universit‚ de Paris-Denis Diderot; author, A quoi donc sert la philosophie? Des sciences de la nature aux sciences politiques. Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Romance languages, Zaire. Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Languages and Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University; General Secretary, Society for African Philosophy in North America; author, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Kinhide Mushakoji, political science, Japan. Professor, Faculty of International Stud- ies, Meiji Gakuin University; former President, International Political Sci- ence Association; former Vice-Rector for Programme, United Nations University; President, Japanese Council for Interna- tional Affairs; author, Global Issues and Interparadigmatic Dialogue - Essays on Multipolar Politics. Ilya Prigogine, chemistry, Belgium. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1977: Direc- tor, Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie; co-author, La nouvelle al- liance. Les m‚tamorphoses de la science; Exploring Complexity. Peter J. Taylor, geography, UK. Professor of Political Geography, Univer- sity of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; editor, Political Geography Quarterly; author, Political Geography: World-Economy, Na- tion-State and Locality. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, anthropology, Haiti. Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power & History, and Professor of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University; Chair, Advisory Coun- cil, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropo- logical Research; author, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. The first meeting of the Commission was held in Lisbon on June 17-18, 1994. The Com- mission will meet twice more ş in Paris on January 13-14, 1995 and in Binghamton on April 28-29, 1995. The Commission will issue a report which will include an analysis of the historical construction of the social sciences, a discus- sion of current intellectual debates and dilemmas, and will offer proposals for the directions in which the social sciences might move in the coming decades. This report should be ready by June 1995 and will then be pub- lished in multiple languages. III. Post-Doctoral Training and Research Program This Post-Doctoral Training and Research Program in the Historical Social Sciences ş "Beyond Multidisciplinarity Towards Unidisci- plinarity" was launched last year under the joint sponsorship of the Fernand Braudel Center and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. The theme for 1993-94 was "Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Disciplines: A False Dilemma?" Four Fellows were with the program: Andre Fursov (historian, Russia) Ram¢n Grosfoguel (sociologist, Puerto Rico) Kyung-il Kim (sociologist, [South] Korea) Ulf Strohmayer (geographer, Germany) The fellows have produced jointly a book which is currently being edited. For 1994-95, the Program has five fel- lows. They are: Parthasarathi Banerjee (tech. & devel. st., India) Reinhard Bl„nkner (historian, Germany) Waldemar Czajkowski (social philoso- phy, Poland) Y. Eyp Ozveren (sociologist and economist, Turkey) Wang Zhengyi (political scientist, P.R. China) The theme for the year will be "The States, the Markets, and the Societies: Sepa- rate Logics or a Single Domain?" The Post-Doctoral Program is suspended for 1995-96. IV. Research Working Groups a) Comparative Hegemonies RWG b) Trajectory of the World-System RWG Both these groups have completed their research, and the final versions of the books are being edited. c) Regional Economies and Civilizations RWG This is a new Research Working Group, coordinated by Giovanni Arrighi. P.K. Hui is serving as Secretary. The RWG will engage in a comparative analysis of the various regions in the world-economy and the links of the socio- economic patterns to the civilizational matri- ces in which they are located. The group will look initially at East and Southeast Asia. Persons interested may write to Mr. Hui at the FBC. V. Conferences Organized by the Fernand Braudel Center a) XII International Colloquium on the World-Economy It was held in Tokyo and Nagoya, December 10-14, 1994. The Japan Council on Internation- al Affairs joined with the three traditional sponsors (Fernand Braudel Center, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Starnberger Institut) to sponsor this conference on the theme "Asia in the World-Economy." In addition to some 10 Japanese participants including Prof. Kinhide Mushakoji, President of the JCIA, participants included Samir Amin (Egypt/Senegal), Giovanni Arrighi (FBC), George Aseniero (Philippines), Fran‡ois Gipouloux (France), Terence K. Hop- kins (FBC), Otto Kreye (Starnberger Institut), Su-hoon Lee (Korea), Ravi Palat (India/New Zealand), M. Schoell (Germany/Papua New Guin- ea), Pu Shan (China), and Immanuel Wallerstein (FBC). b) Journ‚es Braudeliennes, II The Primeras Jornadas Braudelianas were held in Mexico City, October 7-11, 1991, organized by Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas. The acts were published by the Instituto Mora, Mexico City, 1993. The second conference, Jan. 20-21, 1994, was organized at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme by Alberto Tenenti and Immanuel Wal- lerstein. The theme: "Histoire et sciences sociales, aujourd'hui." S‚ance I: Changement structural et longue dur‚e "La longue dur‚e au pr‚sent" Bernard Lepetit (EHESS, Paris) "La longue dur‚e: in illo tempore et nunc" Carlos Aguirre Rojas (UNAM, Mexico City) S‚ance II: Histoire et sciences sociales: vers quelle langue commune? "Un nouveau paradigme en ‚conomie politi- que" Pierre DockŠs (Univ. Lyon-II) "Les r‚gimes d'interdisciplinarit‚" Jacques Revel (EHESS, Paris) S‚ance III: Histoire totale ou histoires multiples? "La pratique braudelienne de l'histoire totale" Maurice Aymard (MSH, Paris) "The mysteries of the past: total history or multiple histories?" Maarten Prak (U. Utrecht) S‚ance IV: Echelle d'analyse: l'espace et le temps "Echelle d'analyse: l'exemple de la consommation" Giovanni Levi (Italy) "Une lecture peut-ˆtre peu orthodoxe de l'oeuvre de Fernand Braudel" Emiliano Fernandez de Pinedo (Univ. del Pa¡s Vasco) c) Sixth Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire The Conference is sponsored by the FBC in conjunction with the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Program at Binghamton, and the Institute of Turkish Studies. It will take place at Binghamton on September 23-24, 1994. The theme is "Historiographies of the Ottoman Empire." The four sessions are as follows: Session I: Steve Reinert (Rutgers), "The Byzantine Historiographical Tradition" Cemal Kafadar (Harvard), "Ottoman Histor- ical Writing in the Fifteenth Centu- ry" Session II: Halil Berktay (Boşazi‡i), "Orthodox Ottomanists and Young Radical Social Scientists in Turkey" Heath Lowry (Princeton), "Greek-American Historical Writing on the Ottoman Empire" Session III: Maria Todorova (Florida), "Bulgarian Historical Writing on the Ottoman Empire" Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj (Binghamton/Cali- fornia State), "Arab Historical Writing on the Ottoman Empire" Session IV: Roundtable Discussion €aşlar Keyder, Moderator In addition to panelists: Linda Darling (Arizona) Daniel Goffman (Ball State) Victoria Holbrook (Ohio State) Leslie Peirce (Cornell) VI. Other Conferences a) PEWS XVIII ş It was held at Irvine, CA from April 7-9, 1994 on the theme, "A New World Order? Global Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century." The program was as follows: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Samir Amin, "The Future of Global Polarization" (Forum du Tiers-Monde, Dakar, Senegal) Discussants: Andre Gunder Frank (Faculty of Economics, Univer- sity of Amsterdam) Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center, Bing- hamton University) STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY Day One: Basic Approaches to Global Restruc- turing I. Herb Addo (International Relations, Univ. of the West Indies,Trinidad and Tobago), "Late Twentieth Century Global Changes: The Refining Continuities for the Periphery" Robert Ross (Sociology, Clark Universi- ty), "The Theory of Global Capitalism: Variants of Capitalism on a World Scale" Philip McMichael (Rural Sociology, Cor- nell), "Transforming Capitalist Regula- tion: State System Restructuring and the New Colonialism" Edel Egger & Gerhard Hanappi (Socioecono- mics, Austrian Academy of Sciences), "After the Class - Information Technology and the New World Order" II. Empirical Analysis of Global Restructur- ing: Network Analogies Albert Bergesen (Sociology, Arizona) & Roberto Fernandez (Business School, Stan- ford), "A Network Analysis of Global Economic Competition, 1956-1989" Tieting Su (Sociology, McGill), "A Dynam- ic Analysis of World Trade Structure" III. Regional Dynamics: East Asia & the Pacif- ic Rim Richard Child Hill & Kuniko Fujita (Soci- ology, Michigan State), "Product Cycles and International Divisions of Labor: Contrasts Between the United States and Japan" Stephen G. Bunker & Paul S. Ciccantelli (Sociology, Wisconsin), "Restructuring Space, Time and Competitive Advantage in the World-System: Japan and Raw Materials Transport After World War II" Jieli Li (Sociology, UC-Riverside), "Geo- politics of China: Towards the Turn of the Century" Frederic Deyo (Sociology, SUNY-Brock- port), "Competition, Flexibility, and Industrial Ascent: The Thai Auto Indus- try" IV. Regional Restructuring: Three Cases Denis O'Hearn, (Sociology, Queens Univer- sity, Belfast) "Restructuring, Hegemonic Competition and the Transnational Sector in the European Periphery: Has Anything Changed?" John Martino (Economics, La Trobe Univer- sity, Melbourne), "Against the Grain: Social Democracy and the Process of Capi- tal Restructuring in Australia During the 1980s-1990s" Cynthia Siemsen Maki & Walter L. Gold- frank (Sociology, UC-Santa Cruz), "Les- sons From the Gulf War: Hegemonic Dec- line, Semiperipheral Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier State" Day Two: New Social Movements and Strategies for Resistance V. Responses and Resistance to Restructur- ing: South Asia Robert Denemark (Political Science, Dela- ware), "Sri Lanka in Crisis: Understand- ing 'Ethnic' Upheaval in the Post Cold War World System" Timothy J. Scrase (Sociology, University of Tasmania), "Voices from India: Global- ization and the Struggle for Justice" Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (Sociology, Deakin University, Australia), "Can Watching MTV End Class Divisions? Global Manufacturing and Indian Leather Workers" VI. Ecological Crisis and Activism: An Anti- systemic Movement? Sing C. Chew (Social Sciences, Humboldt State), "Global 'Transformations': Accu- mulation, Ecological Crisis and Social Movements" Stefan Kipfer (Environmental Studies, York, Toronto), "Urban Politics in World Cities: The Case of Ecological Politics in Zurich, Switzerland" VII. Reconceptualizing Resistance: Theoretical Explorations" Andre Drainville (Political Science, Laval, Quebec City), "Left International- ism and the Internationalization of the State: The Politics of Resistance in the New World Order" Jeffrey M. Paige (Sociology, Michigan), "Intimacy, Identity and Dignity: Human Needs and the Primacy of Production in Marxist Social Thought" b) XIX PEWS. The theme is "Latin America in the World-Economy." It will be held at the North-South Center (Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL) on April 20-22, 1995. The sub- themes are: a. The Persistence of Authoritarianism or Deepening Democratization? In order to understand current politi- cal transformations in Latin Ameri- ca, we seek to analyze these devel- opments in a historical perspective. What are the institutional changes that have accompanied processes of democratization? Have democracies changed the culture of institutions such as the military over the past decade? What is the current regional status of human rights? What are the persistent differences and similari ties across the region? b. The Social Construction of Commodity Chains: States, Enterprises and Households. Current efforts at eco- nomic restructuring in Latin America have entailed new relations between states, enterprises and households. What is the nature of these new regulations? How have these new relations altered the character of these three arenas? Has the emer- gence of a new entrepreneurial ethos accompanied economic restructuring? What has been the regional evolution of social stratification over the past decade? What can we learn from micro and macro approaches to this theme? c. New Regional and Conceptual Bound- aries: Economic, Political and Cul- tural Flows. The past decade chal- lenged existing boundaries in Latin America. What has been the evolution of migration? Have capital flows acquired a new character? To what extent have trade agreements result- ed in the creation of new institu- tional arrangements between and within states? What will be the appearance of these boundaries as we approach the year 2000? d. Terrains of Confrontation: Social Movements and Categories of Identi- ty. The relationship between social movements and current transforma- tions in Latin America is not clear. What has been the role of social movements over the past decade in Latin America? Has the development of new categories of identity stren- gthened or weakened social move- ments? e. Regional Differences and Commonali- ties. What is the role that Latin America has played and will play in the world-economy? Has it been, is it now, will be an important locus of world accumulation of capital, or has it been, is it now, will it be relatively marginalized? How do the trends addressed in this conference relate to concurrent developments elsewhere in the world-economy (- e.g., Eastern or Southern Europe)? What theoretical approaches and concepts have proven most useful in analyzing these transformations? Those interested in offering papers are asked to send an abstract by December 1, 1994 to both of the organizers: Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Prof. William C. Smith Dept. of Sociology Graduate School of Int'l St. University of Maryland University of Miami College Park, MD 20742 Coral Cables, FL 33124 FAX: (301) 405-5743 FAX: (305) 284-2863 E-Mail: rk81@umail.umd.edu VII. Colloquium on Culture and the World- System The Colloquium is sponsored by the Fer- nand Braudel Center and The Institute for Global Cultural Studies, and is organized by Anthony King and Ali Mazrui. The theme for 1993-94 was "World Cultures and Comparative Gender Relations." The sessions were as follows: October 14: Negussay Ayele (Univ. of Addis Ababa, and Institute of Global Cultural Stud- ies, Binghamton University), "Macho and the Political Culture of Violence: The Case of the Horn of Africa" November 11: Maria Lugones (LACAS and SEHD, Binghamton University), "Purity, Impurity and Separation" December 9: Bill Haver (History Department, Binghamton University), "Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Aids, Materiality, Globality or Totality" March 15: Isidore Okpewho (Afro-American and African Studies, Binghamton University), "The Cousins of Uncle Remus: Relations between African and Afro-American Oral Traditions" April 7: Linda Forcey (SEHD, Binghamton Uni- versity - Sponsored in association with Wom- en's Studies), "Women in India Thinking About Peace: An Outsider's Reflection" April 21: Maria Grosz-Ngat‚ (Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton Universi- ty), "Women, Men, and the Construction of 'Community' in Sana (Mali)" VIII. Publications a) Review The contents of vol. XVII, 1994 were as fol- lows: 1, Winter THE EXOGENEITY/ENDOGENEITY DEBATE Andre Gunder Frank Inside Out or Outside In? Ernest Mandel Reply David M. Gordon Reply FEUDALISM/CAPITALISM IN JAPAN Stephen K. Sanderson The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: The Theoretical Significance of the Japanese Case Mark Metzler Capitalist Boom, Feudal Bust: Long Waves in Economics and Politics in Pre-Industrial Japan 2, Spring William McNeill The Fall of Great Powers: An Historical Commentary William G. Martin The World-Sys- tems Perspective in Perspective: Assessing the Attempt to Move Beyond Nineteenth- Century Eurocentric Conceptions Tariq Banuri Noah's Ark or Jesus's Cross? UNCED as a Tale of Two Cities Wilma A. Dunaway The Southern Fur Trade and the Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the World- Economy, 1690- 1763 Jim Mac Laughlin Emigration and the Peripherlization of Ireland in the Global Economy 3, Summer George Aseniero South Korean & Taiwanese Development: The Transna- tional Context Samir Amin The Future of Global Polarization WORLD CITIES Ram¢n Grosfoguel World Cities in the Caribbean: The Rise of Miami and San Juan €aşlar Keyder & Ayse ™nc Globalization of a Third-World Metropolis: Istanbul in the 1980's 4, Fall Mark Selden Pathways from Collectivization: Socialist and Post-Socialist Agrarian Alternatives in Russia and China Anouar Abdel-Malek Historical Initiative: The New "Silk Road" SILK Rila Mukherjee The Story of Kasimbazar: Silk Merchants and Commerce in Eighteenth- Century India Patrizia Sione Patterns of International Migration: Italian Silk Workers in New Jersey, USA b) The work of the World Labor RWG will be published as a Special issue of Review, XVIII, 1, 1995. LABOR UNREST IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, 1906-1990 Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky Special Editors Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Introduction Arrighi & Melvyn Dubofsky PART I: RESEARCH DESIGN Beverly J. Silver Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measure- ment Jamie F. Dangler The Times (Lon- don) and New York Times as Sources on World Labor Unrest PART II: RELIABILITY STUDIES Giovanni Arrighi Labor Unrest in Italy Mark Selden Labor Unrest in China Mark Beittel Labor Unrest in South Africa Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Labor Unrest in Argentina Donald Quataert Labor Unrest in Egypt Melvyn Dubofsky Labor Unrest in the United States John Casparis & Labor Unrest in Germany Giovanni Arrighi PART III: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Beverly J. Silver World-Scale Patterns of Labor- Capital Con- flict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony APPENDICES World Labor Group Data Collection Instructions World Labor Group The Geographical Spread of Mentions of Labor Unrest, 1906-1990 c) Giovanni Arrighi's book, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Ori- gins of Our Times will be published this fall by Verso. d) Papers delivered at conferences and available at request. Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Fall of Great Powers, Peace, Stability, and Legitima- cy: 1990-2025/2050," paper presented at Norske Nobelinstitutt, Tromsí, August 1-4. Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Geoculture of Development, or the Transformation of our Geoculture?," paper presented at IFES/UNESCO, Seoul, September 20-22. Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "End of What Modernity?, paper presented at President's Forum on The End of Modern Age, Bucknell University, September 30. Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Insurmount- able Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System," paper prepared for International Seminar on Nations, Identi- ties, Cultures at Duke University, November 5. Immanuel Wallerstein (1993). "The Agonies of Liberalism: What Hope Progress?," paper pre- pared for 25th Anniversary of founding of Kyoto Seita University, December 7. IX. Visiting Research Associates September 1993: Mario Murteira, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Lisbon, Portugal September 1993 - June 1994: Hiroshi Makina, International & Cultural Studies, Tsuda Col- lege, Japan September - December 1993: Anna-Maria Nassisi, Economics, Univ. of Rome, Italy November 1993: Victor Armony, Sociology, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal, Canada November 1993: Leo Poncelet, Anthropology, Univ. of Montreal, Canada December 1993 - December 1994: Qu Zhenyuan, Economics, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing China February 1994: Manjit Singh, Labor Relations, Punjab Univ., India April - July 1994: Zheng Weimin, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China July 1994: Ant¢n Alvarez Sousa, Sociology, La Coru¤a Univ., Spain July - October 1994: Sergei Shilovtsev, Insti- tute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences X. Public Lectures September 9, 1993, Mario Murteira, Director, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Lisbon, "Transi- tion to a Market Economy in Portuguese-Speak- ing Africa" September 27, 1993, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, History, Univ. of Dar es Salaam and President, CODESRIA, and Jacques Depelchin, African- American Studies, Syracuse Univ., "Democrati- zation in Zaire and Africa," co-sponsored by Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Political Science Dept. October 13, 1993, Gail Arrigo, Ph.D. candi- date, Sociology, Binghamton Univ., "Report on U.N. Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, June 1993" October 15, 1993, Brantly Womack, Government and Foreign Affairs, Univ. of Virginia, "The Many Worlds of China's Provinces: Trade and Diversification," co-sponsored with Sociology November 10, 1993, Andrezej Wyczanski, Scien- tific Secretary and President, Polish Academy of Sciences, "The Annales School and Polish Historiography: Research and Attitudes," co- sponsored by History February 12, 1994, Symposium, "The Black Experience Today: Black Humanities: Literature and Philosophy; Political Africa: Left, Right, and Center," co-sponsored with Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Dept. of Afro-Ameri- can and African Studies May 9, 1994, Daniel Mato, Inst. of Latin- American Studies, Univ. of Texas-Austin, Construction of Transnational Identities in Latin America in Times of Globalization," co- sponsored with LACAS, Office of the Dean of Harpur College