From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Jan 2 18:56:17 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Jan 2 18:56:17 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id SAA26122 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 18:56:16 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <70-2>; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 21:00:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 21:00:31 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Book Series (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 20:39:25 -0500 From: mark selden To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Book Series I would like to draw the attention of members of the network to two relatively new book series I edit at Westview Press: 1) Social Change in Global Perspective and 2) Transitions: Asia and Asian America. And particularly to invite contributions. Social Change in Global Perspective Mark Selden, Series Editor, Westview Press Exploring the relationship between social change and social structures, this series considers the theory, praxis, promise, and pitfalls of movements in global and comparative perspective. The historical and contemporary social movements considered here challenge patterns of hierarchy and inequality of race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, class, and culture. The series includes textbooks as well as broadly interpretive and synthetic works. TRANSITIONS: ASIA AND ASIAN AMERICA The Asia/Pacific region stands at a crossroads, riven by the competing forces of socialism and capitalism, tradition and modernity, nationalism and globalism. The books in this series explore broad themes of transition-the human, ecological, and civilizational consequences of economic development, of political and military conflicts, of populations in motion, and of social and cultural transformation in Asia and in the Asian-American experience. The series is grounded in three general perspectives. DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE considers the structuring of economies, polities, and societies by states, by capital and technology, and by markets-often in conflict with cultures, communities, and nature. POPULAR MOVEMENTS considers 20th-century anti-colonial, socialist, and post-socialist revolutions; continuing struggles for self-determination of nations, classes, ethnic and religious groups, and women; battles over democratic rights and processes; and new social movements. Through autobiography, literature, memoir, and social criticism, ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN VOICES will make available in English some of the most compelling writers now questioning and shaping societies and cultures in Asia and the United States. The series includes textbooks, monographs, and works of general interest that illuminate issues that are essential for a deeper understanding of a critical region that continues to challenge and contradict Western assumptions. PUBLISHED Paul Bowles and Gordon White, The Political Economy of China's Financial Reforms. Finance and Late Development Bernard Chavance, The Transformation of Communist Systems: Economic Reforms Since The 1950s Jean-Luc Domenach, The Origins of the Great Leap Forward Edward Friedman, ed., The Politics of Democratization. Generalizing East Asian Experiences Jomo K.S. ed., Privatizing Malaysia. Rents, Rhetoric, Realities KAYANO Shigeru, Our Land Was a Forest. An Ainu Memoir William Turley and Mark Selden, eds., Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism. Doi Moi in Comparative Perspective ANTICIPATED 1995 PUBLICATION Amrita Basu, ed., Women's Movements in Global Perspective Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, African Women: A Modern History Stefan DeVylde and Adam Fforde, From Plan to Market: The Political Economy of Vietnam's Adaptive Communism KUMAZAWA Makoto, Japanese Labor and Labor Movements Chih-ming KA, Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan Kerkvliet, Benedict and Doug Porter eds., Rural Transformation and Economic Change in Vietnam Yuki TANAKA, Hidden Horrors. Japanese War Crimes in the Second World War FORTHCOMING S. Chiu, K.C. Ho and T.L. Lui, City States in the Global Economy. Industrial Restructuring in Hong Kong and Singapore Donna Doane, Cooperative Innovation and Late Development. Technological Catch-Up in Japan David Goodman, The Middle Peasant and Social Change. The Communist Movement in the Taihang Base Area, 1937-1945 Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao and Alvin So, The Chinese Triangle and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Region KANAI Yoshiko, Moving Mountains. Women and Feminism in Japan Caglar Keyder, ed., Global City: Istanbul Mark Lupher, Power Restructuring in Russia and China Mieke Meurs, ed., Many Shades of Red: State Policy and Local Response in Collective Agriculture 1917-1989 Thomas Moran, ed., Unofficial Histories. Chinese Reportage From the Era of Reform MUTO Ichiyo, Popular Movements in Contemporary Japan Gail Omvedt, Women, Agriculture and the New Market Economy Elizabeth Perry and LI Xun, Workers in the Cultural Revolution Anibal Quijano, Culture and Power in Latin America Sonia Ryang, Words of Faith, Faith in Words. The Everyday Life of North Koreans in Japan Miriam Silverberg, A Photographic Guide to Japanese Colonialism Sidonie Smith, ed., Introducing Aboriginal Voices: A Reader SODEI Rinjiro, Were We the Enemy? Japanese-American Survivors of Hiroshima Ivan Szelenyi, ed., Reforming Collective Agriculture: Failures and Successes Haiping YAN ed., Theatre and Society: Contemporary Chinese Drama Daqing YANG, The Rape of Nanjing Reader Peter Zarrow, Twentieth Century China. An Interpretive History Kate Hsiao Zhou, How the Farmers Remade China For information about the series and to discussion possible contributions, please contact Mark Selden, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902; Tel: 607-257-5185; Fax: 607-257-8541; e-mail: ms44@cornell.edu. From SOUTHARD@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue Jan 3 17:14:37 MST 1995 >From SOUTHARD@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue Jan 3 17:14:36 1995 Received: from donald.uoregon.edu (donald.uoregon.edu [128.223.32.6]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA29764 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:14:35 -0700 Received: from OREGON.UOREGON.EDU by OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (PMDF V4.3-9 #7713) id <01HLEZ4DFNXO8WYPZA@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>; Tue, 03 Jan 1995 16:07:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 16:07:46 -0800 (PST) From: Dee Southard Subject: ANNOUNCING HOMELESS LIST To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-id: <01HLEZ4DFOVI8WYPZA@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ********************************** New HOMELESS list, January 1995 [Please repost this announcement to other lists or persons that might find it of interest.] It is our pleasure to announce the introduction of a new list -- HOMELESS. HOMELESS is a global electronic discussion list focused on the subject of Homelessness. The topic is multidiciplinary in its scope, and it is our hope that this electronic forum will provide a place in which a variety of viewpoints on homelessness can be discussed. In the HOMELESS list you are likely to encounter communication from people that are currently homeless, from people that are currently 'homed', and from people from 'all-walks-of-life.' The HOMELESS list invites any person with an interest in homelessness to participate in our exploration of the topic and the issues that surround it. We hope that the HOMELESS list will provide a network where a wide range of information may be shared. The HOMELESS list is maintained through the list's host, Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF), located at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 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To subscribe to the HOMELESS discussion list simply send the message below to: listserv@csf.colorado.edu Sub Homeless Yourfirstname Yourlastname If you have technical problems in subscribing, please contact Lynn Schaper at our host site, Communications for a Sustainable Future: schaper@csf.colorado.edu To post directly to the list, send your message to: Homeless@csf.colorado.edu From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Wed Jan 4 06:37:32 MST 1995 >From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Wed Jan 4 06:37:32 1995 Received: from post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu (pitt.edu [136.142.185.11]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id GAA03167 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 06:37:31 -0700 Received: from unixs3.cis.pitt.edu (wxhst3@unixs3.cis.pitt.edu [136.142.185.12]) by post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu with SMTP (8.6.9/cispo $Revision: 1.10 $) ID <199501041341.IAA21548@post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu> for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:41:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:41:57 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Haller Subject: census advisory (fwd) To: wsn Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi folks! I thought I'd better help spread the word that the U.S. census bureau is seeking input for questions non-federal users may need on the next census. This specifically includes academics. Details follow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Haller \/ University Center for Social Department of Sociology /\ and Urban Research (UCSUR) University of Pittsburgh \/ 121 University Place, 6th floor email: wxhst3+@pitt.edu.us /\ Pittsburgh, PA 15213-9972 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 20:02:05 -0500 From: Bob Hammond To: ace-mg@esusda.gov, admin-list@Census.GOV, gweos.geoweb.iug.ces@Census.GOV Subject: census advisory please forward this to mailing lists and newsgroups that might have an interest. thanks. would anyone like to see the questionnaire as a web form or as ascii text via email? if 'yes', please express your desire to those named below. bob h From: owner-press-release@Census.GOV Subject: Census Advisory, Needs of Non-Federal Data Users (12/29/94) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Information Office CB94-211 301-457-2794 301-457-4067 (TTD) Gloria Porter 301-457-4030 CENSUS ADVISORY The Commerce Department's Census Bureau is seeking information from non-Federal users of decennial census data about the questions to be asked in the 2000 census. To obtain this information, the Bureau is conducting the Survey of Census Needs of Non-Federal Data Users. The survey process will run through mid-March of 1995, and is intended for state, local, and tribal governments; ethnic and community organizations; the business sector; academic researchers; and the general public. To obtain a survey form, contact Gloria Porter or Doug Lee, Bureau of the Census, Room 3555/3, Washington, DC 20233-2000; 301-457-4030; fax, 301-457-3768; or email, dlee@info.census.gov. -X- December 29, 1994 From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Sat Jan 7 19:17:19 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Sat Jan 7 19:17:19 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id TAA09380 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:17:18 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <534-8>; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 21:21:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 21:21:33 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Re: The political-islam mailing list (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 11:08:11 -0500 From: Joseph W. Roberts To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: The political-islam mailing list (fwd) I would like to announce the creation of a new mailing list. POLITICAL-ISLAM is a mailing list for the scholarly discussion of all aspects of political Islam. Possible topics for discussion, and this is by no means an exhaustive list, include: the use of the term fundamentalism to describe the phenomenon; the history, structure, and rhetoric of Islamic groups and organizations; leaders and leadership of Islamic groups and organizations; reasons for the emergence of radical and/or violent actors within Islamic groups and organizations; the possibilities for the creation of and viability of an Islamic state; and, government responses to Islamic groups and organizations. This list is owned by Joseph W. Roberts at the University of Utah (Joseph.Roberts@m.cc.utah.edu). Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this list. To subscribe send the subject subscribe to: political-islam-request@lists.utah.edu And the address for posting messages is: political-islam@lists.utah.edu ----- Joseph W. Roberts | Department of Political Science Phone: (801) 581 - 4262 | University of Utah Fax: (801) 581 - 6183 | 252 Orson Spencer Hall E-Mail: Joseph.Roberts@m.cc.utah.edu | Salt Lake City, UT 84112 From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 11 18:19:13 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 11 18:19:12 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id SAA08413 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:19:10 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1818-1>; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:23:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:23:43 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: registration form (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIE Research Committee 28: Social Stratification Comit=8E de Recherche 28: Conference & Hotel Registration Form ISA RESEARCH COMMITTEE 28 SPRING CONFERENCE University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 25-27, 1995 DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. MACRO AND MICRO APPROACHES Name: =09_______________________________________________ Affiliation:=09_______________________________________________ Mailing Address:=09_______________________________________________ City: _________________=09State/Country: ___________________________ Work phone ___________=09Fax No. ________=09Email: _________________ include area/country codes Title of Paper: ____________________________________________ Session Preference: ________________________________________ Please send your paper proposal with this registration form. Make a detaile= d abstract that gives=20 basic subject, research problems(s), hypotheses and conclusions; reference = the data used; give=20 information on the data analysis techniques applied. Be brief (200-300 word= s), include the ab=D0 stract in the complete version of the paper, and bring the abstract on a (D= OS) diskette to the=20 Conference. CONFERENCE FEE: US$ 50 for paid RC28 members, $90 for non-paid RC28 members= . =20 This fee is payable on arrival and includes the welcome reception on Wednes= day evening=20 (May 24) and the boat trip on the Lake of Zurich on Friday evening (May 26)= .. ACCOMMODATION: Please mark your preference and date of arrival and departu= re: Youth hostel/Dormitories=09under $35.-- (no breakfast)=09 Single student room (No bath/WC)=09under $70.--=09 Hotel***=09Single room/$70=09Double room/$110 Hotel****=09Single room/$110=09Double room/$140 I wish to share a room with: _____________________________________ Arrival: ___May 1995=09Departure: ___May 1995; I will attend boat trip on 5= /26: yes/no Please send this completed form before February 1, 1995 to: ISA-RC28 Confer= ence=20 Administration, Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Raemistrasse = 69, 8001=20 Zurich, Switzerland. Fax: ++41-1-252-10-54. Email: RC28@SOZIOLO= GIE.UNIZH.CH ZURICH MEETING, MAY 25 - 27, 1995 The Zurich meeting will be held from May 25-27, 1995 at the University of Z= urich. The=20 conference is being organized jointly by Volker Bornschier (University of Z= urich) and=20 Marlis Buchmann (University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Techno= logy). The=20 general conference theme is: =20 Dynamics of Social Stratification: Macro and Micro Approaches. Session titles are: -=09Macro Dynamics of Social Stratification: World System, Historical and I= nternational=20 =09Comparisons -=09Micro Dynamics of Social Stratification: Life Course, Careers, and Life= styles -=09Technological Change and Social Stratification -=09The State and Social Inequality -=09Educational Opportunities: Inequality and Mobility -=09Labor Markets: Inequality and Mobility -=09Gender Stratification -=09Race and Ethnic Stratification -=09Subjective Dimensions of Stratification: Perception of Inequality and M= obility -=09Methodological Issues in Stratification Research. The conference can accommodate about 60 papers in non-parallel sessions. Registration should be sent to: ISA-RC28 Conference Administration: Rachel Matthey Institute of Sociology=20 University of Zurich=20 Raemistrasse 69 =09Email: RC28@SOZIOLOGIE.UNIZH.CH 8001 Zurich, Switzerland.=09Fax: ++41-1-252-10-54 Schedule: Participants should send their paper proposal (including session= preference=20 and a detailed abstract) and registration form to the Conference Administra= tion at the above=20 address by February 1, 1995. 60 paper copies of your contribution should = be brought=20 to the conference, as there are only limited facilities for xeroxing availa= ble at the confe- rence and a charge will be made. =20 Conference Fee: Registration and payment of the fee of $50 ($90 for non pai= d RC28=20 members) will commence on Wednesday, May 24th at 4p.m. This fee may be wai= ved for=20 students and members from soft-currency countries. 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Aft= er that date,=20 participants will be required to make their own bookings and/or changes (a = hotel list is=20 available).=20 Site Information: Zurich lies at the northern end of the Lake of Zurich and= , with a=20 population of some 360,000 (including the suburbs about one million) is the= largest city=20 in Switzerland, as well as its economic centre. Situated in Zurich are two= universities, the=20 University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with a = total of some=20 30,000 students. Switzerland being only about 220 miles wide from west to = east and 140=20 miles from north to south, Zurich is also an excellent base for seeing the = country. In a=20 good hour, one can visit Lucerne or Berne (the capital), after a little mor= e than two hours=20 one can be in the middle of the Alps, or in the French- or Italian-speaking= parts of the=20 country. Transportation: From the airport there are direct trains to the Hauptbahnho= f (Main=20 Station) and it is then only a 10-minute walk to the University. Taxis are = expensive, but=20 your hotel is likely to be only a short distance away from the Station. Tra= ms are a cheaper=20 possibility; tickets may be purchased from machines at all stops, where sys= tem maps are=20 on display. From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Jan 13 19:29:27 MST 1995 >From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Jan 13 19:29:26 1995 Received: from SkyBlu.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (SkyBlu.CCIT.Arizona.EDU [128.196.120.77]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id TAA17199 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 19:29:25 -0700 From: ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Received: from CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU by CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #2381) id <01HLT58ILRZK8WWKYI@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 19:33:35 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 19:33:35 -0700 (MST) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HLT58J7H8I8WWKYI@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU> X-Envelope-to: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-VMS-To: WSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following will run in the winter political economy of the world-system newsletter. I put in on the net to generate some discussion of who we are and where we are going. THE STAGES OF PEWS Albert Bergesen PEWS is becoming irrelevant. Our numbers are down. We lost a session this year, and our flagship presentation at the 1995 ASAs focuses upon a minor utopian novel about a "world party" in the 21st century. To put it bluntly: in a world-system of pressing problems from environmental degradation to growing violence between races/ethnicities, the use of a session on fantasy politics and indulgent futurology is a grossly irresponsible use of half of the sessions we are allocated. How have we gotten to this situation where utopian speculation about forming a 21st century "world party" is considered putting our best foot forward as research scientists? I don't know, but on reflection I can see three stages in our decline as a research section. In Stage One we started with our feet rooted in the reality of underdevelopment, poverty, oppression, and the human suffering of the 3rd world. We began studying, researching, and theorizing underdevelopment. It brought us our greatest success, the overthrow of modernization theory as the story of development. But this concern for the South waned in the 1980s, and in response to our evaporating subject matter we entered Stage Two--outreach-- where we nominated scholars from other areas to be PEWS Chair with the hope that they would bring in new people and subject matter. We began to drift from the world as it existed today, and took up more esoteric subjects from pre-history to hunter-gatherer "world- systems" and even art history. Our subject matter became ever more arcane and, as a consequence, of interest to ever fewer and fewer people. On their own these are important issues, yes, but clearly we are adrift, and we have lost our moral compass of concern for the problems of our world. At this point we now enter Stage Three, our fantasy stage of non-reality concerns and utopian political fantasies. This is the 1995 ASA session organized around Wagar's fantasy novel presented to the larger ASA as one of our now only two sessions. I do not know the answer, but I strongly feel we must return to the real world of existing problems and pains of the world as we know it. Our irrelevance is unnecessary: the organizations section deal with the global environment, the culture section is thriving, and culture is global, and from job loss leading to underclasses as global restructuring to the immigrant backlash of prop 187, today's biting issues are clearly world-system issues. This is not to say we should ignore our new arcane topics, nor should we abandon studying the underdeveloped South either, but it is clear that we have lost the way that was once lit by the plight of the South. New lights need to be lit; new areas of research for which the world-system is a good explanation need to be identified. Otherwise the drift into fantasy topics and indulgent utopian visions of political power will only increase. Let's return to our original vision. Let's make next year's sessions about the real world. From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sat Jan 14 11:18:35 MST 1995 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Sat Jan 14 11:18:34 1995 Received: from depauw.edu (DEPAUW.EDU [163.120.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id LAA26035 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 11:18:32 -0700 Received: from DEPAUW.EDU by DEPAUW.EDU (PMDF #5830 ) id <01HLU5GDAGDC005ZY2@DEPAUW.EDU>; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 13:25:28 EST Date: 14 Jan 1995 13:25:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: response to Al B, Rnd I To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HLU5GDAQ0I005ZY2@DEPAUW.EDU> X-VMS-To: WSN X-VMS-Cc: THALL MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Al, Up front I will concede you may be right, but I want to pose some alternatives. 1) when in doubt assume SNAFU (I hope everyone can unpack the abbrev). we missed by 16 for other session. There need only have been 15 others besides me who did not get around to sending in ASA dues on time to have pushed us under. 2) Discussing Wagar is not so utopian a fantasy. I've used it twice in a social change class and it works well to get students to look at the very difficult issues you chart from phase one, because Wagar's novel helps them see how stuff about the third world-first world relates to their lives and their futures. Although, I must admit, the green issue has much more flash for students, and had I been the one axing a session I might have done it differently...... 3) There may other reasons for PEWS decline. I want to toss out a few and see if anyone has some good, or even plausible evidence to sort among them. I divide them into two classes: A) those around form or social structure and B) those relating to content. A.1. PEWS is often seen as the Wallerstein section of insiders talking to each other. If you are not in the network by training with doctoral mentor you do not join. 2. PEWS is not really (and never was) part of sociology, it is really history, geography, now archaeology, anthropology or something else. For me that is its attraction. Sociologists, qua sociologists are a very parochial lot. Remember when Pews was founded the critique of American sociology as the sociology of ONE (rather boring) case was fresh, and often on the mark. 3. What does one do with specialty in PEWS or PEWS-like things? Consult for some left wing revolutions where if the CIA does get you the overly zealous revolutionary will? Compare with deviance with prison building as growth industry, race/ethnicity as a perennial problem, medical sociology as a growth industry.... This is not a critique of these things of themselves, but of the state of academe. I know of several people, who as MA students, and initially as graduate students were most interested in PEWS or pews-like stuff but for whom the possibility of a continuing paycheck has forced them to retool in these other areas. 4. We are somewhat fractionated. One problem with ASA is too many sections. The overlap of Marxist, PEWS, Comparative Historical, and Political is extraordinary. I've belonged to all but political for 5 to 10 years. B. Content based. 1. To quote your own editorial a while back, now that the wall is down what is the salience of left analyses of any sort? The question can be asked again, with the preface, now that its a NEWT year? Probably everyone on WSN & PSN could write long, well-reasoned rebuttal to this popular perception, but the perception is out there. This slides back to structural explanations, espec. #3: if students think that, they don't take those courses, there is less demand for those faculty, so graduate students are pressured (by circumstances, if not individuals) to go into other areas so they can get a job.... 2. One point on which I agree with you entirely is PEWS has not done a good enough job on connecting its work with current global phenomena: we have not dealt all that well with job loss for the US re Wilson's thesis, or even (espec?) the LA riots, we have not dealt with globalization or glocalization [how local manifests itself in global processes], we have not dealt with ecology movement (Al Bergesen, Luiz Barbosa, and few others being notable exceptions). The list could go on. It is not so much that we (or someone in PEWS) has not dealt with these issues, but we have not done it as a section in such a way to draw in new members and new interest. 3. We HAVE become arcane (I know I am one of those) and have not done a good enough job making our arcana relevant to the general discipline. 4. This may fit better under A, but the section is aging and we have not been doing a good job of recruiting younger members--a common problem of rebels who start something new--they have spent so much time attacking/tearing down an old institution they do not attend to building a new one. A final A+B: PEWS has lots of natural allies outside of sociology: geography, world history, parts of anthropology and archaeology, and ASA makes it very expensive for us to draw those folks in. Finally, tight budgets for travel, personally for membership, have made "fellow travelling" in organizations expensive, and caused people to cut back. Given our half in half out of sociology position, we get hurt. While all the above seem plausible to me (in varying degrees) I have no hard, or even circumstantial evidence, to sort among them or assess relative weights. Good evidence would be most welcome. Only if we can figure out what is wrong can we hope to fix it. Al tossed out some info on other sections, does anyone have a handle on how many have grown, stayed the same, or shrunk in the last few years? nuff blather.... tom hall thall@depauw.edu From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Sat Jan 14 16:18:00 MST 1995 >From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Sat Jan 14 16:17:59 1995 Received: from baby.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (baby.CCIT.Arizona.EDU [128.196.120.72]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id QAA09996 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:17:58 -0700 From: ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Received: from CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU by CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #2381) id <01HLUCV4ZPK28WW05T@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:22:36 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:22:35 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: response to Al B, Rnd I In-reply-to: <01HLU5GDAQ0I005ZY2@DEPAUW.EDU> To: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Cc: Multiple recipients of list Message-id: X-Envelope-to: wsn@csf.colorado.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT WE JUST DON'T GET IT I read Tom Hall give reasons why PEWS is in decline and I don't believe them. The enviroinmental issues isn't just "flashy" but real about real lives in the North and the South. We are not that arcane: the lit-crit stuff in culture is much worse, yet they are thriving. Everyone has shorter budgets, yet other sections are doing well and growing. No, it is the issues, and our lack of them. Gender is about peoples lives, and it thrives, as does medical, organizations, and other sessions. Ancient, and art, history have a place in abstracted scholarly discourse, yes, but so does the real world, and of that we say little these days that is not said better by someone else. One can put all the blame on wants on outside factors, but the central fact is still that we have lost the vision of focusing upon the injustice, pain, poverty, and underdevelopment of most of the world's peoples in the thrid world, and with that have lost those who thought we had a new vision. To be frank, PEWS is no longer on the cutting edge, of issues in the South or North (well, it never was there). People and interests have their own sections--gender, environment, emotions, culture, and while we occassionally address them, they remain more vangard, more relevant, and hence have more members. I understand your feeling about Wagar's utopian novel, but I remain firm in feeling that for a research profession to use half of its alloted sessions on fantasy politics about the 21st century in the face of falling numbers in PEWS and real issues not addressed, is irresponsible at the least, and terribley indulgent by the powers that be in this sectionthat priortized that over sessions dealing with real issues. al bergesen From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Sat Jan 14 18:48:11 MST 1995 >From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Sat Jan 14 18:48:11 1995 Received: from post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu (pitt.edu [136.142.185.11]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id SAA17795 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 18:48:09 -0700 Received: from unixs2.cis.pitt.edu (wxhst3@unixs2.cis.pitt.edu [136.142.185.29]) by post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu with SMTP (8.6.9/cispo $Revision: 1.11 $) ID for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 20:52:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 20:52:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Haller Subject: PEWS trends To: wsn Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear WSN'ers, I must confess that I share some of Al Bergesen's feelings of frustration with where the world systems school in North American sociology has led. I also think it's important to try to understand the paths we've taken to reach the state that we seem to be in (if it is, indeed, as bad as Al has suggested). It seems to me that part of the problem stems from the methodological position that the world system is the only valid unit of analysis. If you allow yourself only one unit you may describe it, but what *analysis* can you do? (My Webster's New College Dictionary gives "separation of a whole into its component parts" as the first entry in its definition of "analysis.") Either you limit yourself to description, or you find another example of the same kind of unit so you can at least do a comparative study. As there's only one world system on the planet today (with "significant" scope and pervasiveness), you might turn to history, archeology, and anthropology for evidence from other such units for such comparisons. So at least some of the "esoteric" topics make sense in a way. However, for those of us who view understanding the causes, processes, and consequences of local level inequality and socioeconomic change (especially as they relate to contemporary global restructuring) as a priority that particular research agenda appears sometimes as kind of a loopy sidetrack. Why not drop the self-defeating methodological orthodoxy of "one unit of analysis" so we can start defining multiple levels of analysis, determining the various units of analysis which are appropriate for the respective levels, and addressing directly the problem of specifying the linkages between macro and micro levels? Then, we might find ourselves with greater latitude to derive theoretical models about specific processes within the world system and test them using data on whatever units serve to answer the theoretical questions which pertain to, as Al put it, "today's biting issues [which] are clearly world-system issues." I suppose I should add that at least that's the direction in which I'm attempting to move (and it's not making me feel a part of the flock). Given my intentions I hope my "heresy" is forgivable. Finally, I'll just state my opinion that we've barely scratched the surface of the possibilities for creative work in exploring the intersections of world system research with other areas within sociology. Sincerely, Bill Haller ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Haller \/ University Center for Social Department of Sociology /\ and Urban Research (UCSUR) University of Pittsburgh \/ 121 University Place, 6th floor email: wxhst3+@pitt.edu.us /\ Pittsburgh, PA 15213-9972 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su Mon Jan 16 01:12:07 MST 1995 >From adm!adm.nsu.nsk.su!rozov@nsu.nsk.su Mon Jan 16 01:12:06 1995 Received: from nsu.nsk.su (mx.nsu.nsk.su [193.124.209.71]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id BAA14242 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 01:10:26 -0700 Received: from localhost by nsu.nsk.su (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA04466 for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 14:14:25 +0600 Received: by adm.nsu.nsk.su (UUPC/@ v5.09gamma, 14Mar93); Tue, 1 Jan 1980 00:02:10 +0600 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-Id: Organization: Novosibirsk State University From: "Nikolai S. Rozov" Date: Tue, 1 Jan 1980 00:02:00 +0600 X-Mailer: Mail [v1.8 MSDOS] Subject: re: PEWS trends & units of analysis Lines: 94 I am not a PEWS member but maybe some notes from outside can be of interest. 1. I fully support the moral pathos of Al Bergesen concerning intellectual responsibility for the the real today problems of poverty, hunger, environment, agression, etc. At the same time I don't think that general discussion of 21 century problems is always utopian, irresponsible and useless activity. I suggest to focus attention to the LINK (processes of transformation, evolution, restructuring, etc.) between the modern world full of problems and disaster (especially outside the "1st world") and more human images of the future. In fact a great amount of national and international organizations try to deal with this problematique but PEWS (as I suppose according to relative wsn-list) has or should have a significant advantage: a serious knowledge and understanding of systemic, geopolitical and geoeconomical reasons of the modern world situation. Is it not possible also to get understanding of economically, politically, socialy and culturaly provided macrohistorical transformations which should be the desirable LINK (see above)? 2. Tom Hall writes: >3. What does one do with specialty in PEWS or PEWS-like things? Consult >for some left wing revolutions where if the CIA does get you the overly >zealous revolutionary will? Compare with deviance with prison building as >growth industry, race/ethnicity as a perennial problem, medical sociology >as a growth industry.... This is not a critique of these things of >themselves, but of the state of academe. > I know of several people, who as MA students, and initially as >graduate students were most interested in PEWS or pews-like stuff but >for whom the possibility of a continuing paycheck has forced them to >retool in these other areas. It is a problem of lack of field of professional activity and social need (order). At the same time we know that big companies, national governments and inner administrative units (states, lands, provinces) are interested now in elaborating prolonged prospects (programs, projects) of development. The most intelligent managers and officials now already realize that these prospects must take into account the global word-systemic reality of the modern world. Is not it a wide field of activity for PE and WS specialists? The duty of intellectual communities (f.e. PEWS, WSN) might be in this case in providing the general patterns, systemic, geopolitical and geoeconomical (connected with environmental, social, cultural, etc) constraints and ways of realization of basic human values for different national, provincial, organizational programs of development. Surely these programmes of development must be connected with the ideas of global transformation (see above) and play the role of its realizing mechanisms. The "arcane""esoteric" topics (of the 2nd stage of "PEWS decline" according Al Bergesen) can help in this case for providing the necessary specifics of needed programs of development which should correspond with the great inevitable cultural, moral, religious, traditional diversity of the whole world and almost each large country and city. 3. Here we encounter with the problem of units of analisis and it is a pleasure for me to tell about my complete agreement with Bill Haller especially in his suggestion to enwiden the list levels and units of analysis, necessary integration with other branch of sociology. My suggestion is to make an integrative conceptual system (apparatus) which can serve as a general framework of different social and historical sciences (also social ethics and practice: politics, economics, education, etc) and allow us to move within this vast space of topics and problems while preserving logical control and integrity of thought. Such integral conceptual framework should also help to connect the general utopian ideas of the future with analisis of current social, political, demographical, envir-nt, etc etc problems and with theories of world-systems evolution and social, historical transformations. I confess that even for me this idea seems absolutely utopian but who can forbid us to try the first steps? Later we can change the direction of research and limit intellectual ambitions. PS My own step now is constructing of the general typology combining w-s, civilizations, oicumene, societies. I've got enough requests from wsn-members and I hope to present some my ideas soon. ################################################################## Moderator of the list PHILOFHI (info file: PHILOF HISTORY PHILOSOP) Nikolai S. Rozov, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.(Social Philosophy) Dept.Philosophy, Novosibirsk State University ADDRESS: 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, Russia FAX: 7/3832/35 52 37 E-MAIL: rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su ################################################################## From timmons@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Mon Jan 16 17:31:30 MST 1995 >From timmons@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Mon Jan 16 17:31:30 1995 Received: from rs6.tcs.tulane.edu (rs6.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.57]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA11406 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:31:29 -0700 Received: (timmons@localhost) by rs6.tcs.tulane.edu (8.6.9/8.5) id SAA60647; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:37:44 -0600 From: "J. Timmons Roberts" Message-Id: <199501170037.SAA60647@rs6.tcs.tulane.edu> Subject: PEWS' Process/Future To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 18:37:44 CST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] WSNers, PEWSers: Being a junior person I hesitate to jump in and alienate people. However I am glad to see some of these issues finally being raised about PEWS's process and direction. As someone who had hoped to submit a paper to Al Bergeson's session I was very disappointed it was cancelled. I had been asking for an environment session in PEWS for the past three or four years at PEWS business meetings at ASA. That topics for the sessions seemed to already be decided before the open suggestions were taken and then final decisions were made by a small cadre always bothered me. Now to have the session cut makes me more concerned about how we can make PEWS more participatory and democratic. I therefore believe PROCESS is part of the reason for PEWS's declining membership. Talking with many people not in the section about how it is perceived confirms this. Relevance, and substance of our topics, clearly is another. Al's three stages of PEWS' decline from concern about world poverty, inequality and underdevelopment into esoteric minutia included a second stage in which PEWS invited people from other areas to chair the section in hopes of expanding its pull. I would say this was the beginning of an unfinished expansion of what we consider world-systems research. I believe we need to, thoughtfully, re-take that approach. Any subject in sociology, I suppose, can be approached from a world- system methodology and perspective. However WS work grew in the area of development and third world poverty. THERE STILL IS NO DEVELOPMENT SECTION IN THE ASA. Why doesn't PEWS expand its purview to include development in its title? How about cross-national research? Macro- sociology? Could we rename the section "COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT"? What about Macrosociology and International Development? For those who don't like "development" because of its baggage (with whom I sympathize but cannot find a decent replacement right now), how about"MACROSOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY"?? What I'm trying to say is that PEWS faces a critical question, which Mike Timberlake raised in the newsletter and people have been talking about for years: do we want to limit ourselves to members who use the same theoretical perspective? Most people don't categorize the New International Division of Labour (NIDL), post-Fordism/Regulation School or other new theories as "World-system theory." They therefore don't consider themselves World-systemites. Why are we stuck with this old terminology??? I ask this though I continue to use "a world-system approach" or "a world-system analysis" as the subtitle to many of my recent papers (most with Peter Grimes) which address environmental issues using cross-national data sets. In several cases reviewers have dismissed world- system theory as outdated and not that useful. While I obviously dis- agree, the name has begun to limit us by creating turf-wars and the section will decline as the "halcyon days" of the world-system approach (1975-1985 probably) fade further back into the past. Fewer and fewer young members will be recruited. LET'S not get stuck on old terminology. We are all interested in how societies change over time and often use a comparative perspective. Why not change to an inclusive title to the section? Timmons By the way, the great leveling effect of the listserver could perhaps be useful in more participatory decisionmaking during the periods between business meetings at the ASA. J. Timmons Roberts Assistant Professor Department of Sociology/Program in Latin American Studies Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 USA timmons@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu From P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Mon Jan 16 21:51:32 MST 1995 >From P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Mon Jan 16 21:51:31 1995 Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id VAA24956 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 21:51:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199501170451.VAA24956@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9515; Mon, 16 Jan 95 23:55:37 EST Received: from JHUVM (NJE origin P34D3611@JHUVM) by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9508; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 23:55:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 23:54:51 EST From: Peter Grimes Subject: PEWS Issues To: wsn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Friends, 1/16/95 I am very grateful to Al Bergeson for initiating what I hope will be a important and useful discussion. It has been long enough since PEWS was founded that we need to re-assess and re- define our area in the light of a world that is very different from the world within which PEWS was formed. Many issues have been raised, but here I would like to address just a few. As one of those who had prepared a paper for presentation at Al's session on World-Systemic analyses of the global environment, I was disappointed when the announcement came that the session had been canceled. My immediate questions were about PROCESS--what criteria were employed in guiding the decision, and who made it? It came to me as a complete surprise. My first thought was that there should be a one-year time-lag between the membership falling below the threshold value and the sections being cut. That way the present situation could be avoided-- presenters working hard on and investing in papers that are suddenly cut off. Second, I think that decisions about section topics and their priority should be made by involving as many interested people as possible: right now, I do not know who made the decision, nor do I know why. There seems to be no procedure, and no transparency of decision-making. Also no appeal mechanism. These are elementary bureaucratic issues that should have been worked out long ago. A second major area of concern is the question of substantive issues and declining membership. Al originally proposed that there may be a linkage between declining enrollment in PEWS and the topics it has recently chosen to focus on. (I would also call attention to another variable--the fact that in an era of budget cuts and declining real wages, increasing numbers of us cannot *AFFORD* to be members of ASA, let alone additional sub-sections.) This may be the case, although we cannot know for sure. But if it is, it seems to me that it is because PEWS has finished the first stage of growth of a new paradigm, and now needs to move on. The first task of any new paradigm is to declare its independence from its predecessors and competitors, while attracting new adherents--this PEWS did in the late '70's & early '80's. It set itself up in clear opposition to Modernization and Dependency theories, and pursued a program of reconstructing our understanding of history from the new perspective. In this period, it was necessarily self-absorbed, and the title "Political Economy of the World-System" was reflective of that narcissism. Now, however, the initial phase of narrow self-definition is past. Research has exploded into a myriad of specific areas scattered across disciplines. Put simply, World-System Theory has been moving from being itself the SUBJECT of research to being a TOOL of research. In the latter capacity, ALL subjects become fair game. Our task in these discussions here is to retain our common interest in W-S theory and Political Economy as a tool, while simultaneously opening the doors to all subject matters. Timmons suggests that we return to our roots in issues of "Development" &/or "Macrosociology". My own personal interests lean towards global development, evolution, and the prospects for our species. I'm sure each of us has individual preferences. The point is to allow the space for these differences (and future expansion) while remaining grounded within a shared paradigm. Within this context, I agree with Nikolai that both the "real" world AND speculation about possible future worlds have merit as topics for investigation. "Futurology" need not be mere self-indulgent utopianism. Forecasts about the future can serve as a good intellectual enterprise, insofar as they force us to clarify, stream-line and verbalize explicitly to others our internal models of how the world really works. But these explorations must always be based upon and grounded in the real world of today. There is no doubt that our current global "civilization" (if we can dignify it with that label) is sinking into an interrelated set of crises that could destroy it. These crises are manifested simultaneously in many different ways on a global scale: environmentally, politically, and financially. Against this background we are struggling to give birth via the Internet to an historically unprecedented PLANETARY intelligentsia that might actually offer some solutions. It is precisely in these times that world-system theory should be the most popular, because it organizes history in a special way that allows us to forecast the future with a precision unavailable to others. Now- -more than ever before--it is our unique responsibility and duty to teach others about how we have gotten ourselves into this political-environmental mess, and which steps could lead us out of it. PEWS within the ASA is being presented with an historic opportunity, because W-S Theory can uniquely provide the framework for a new understanding. But if we allow ourselves to be diverted into scholastic debates about arcane esoterica, we will continue to lose membership and will earn the status of being ignored. Peter Grimes Johns Hopkins p34d3611@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jan 17 08:27:57 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jan 17 08:27:56 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id IAA23843 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 08:27:55 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA12352 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:32:45 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:32:42 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: PEWS Message-ID: I basically agree with many of the points advanced by Bergeson, Roberts and Grimes in the on-going discussion about the future of PEWS. I do not wish to add another lengthy posting to the discussion, only briefly reflect on a few issues. Unfortunately, PEWS appears to be victim of the iron law of oligarchy and I think this goes a long way to explaining why PROCESS is neither public nor collective. But one can not simply blame the "elites"- oligarchies generally arise in organizations because of a "double" apathy on the part of the membership. On the one hand, the membership is generally uninterested in participating in decisions or, for that matter, the organization and, on the other, the membership tolerates the rule of the elites. I suggest that one way to encourage and ensure discussion and participation in PEWS is through WSN. While I doubt if WSN was begun as a forum for PEWS, that can now be one of WSN's functions. (If this is a problem, a new list for PEWS can also be started.) Maybe CCD (the WSN list owner) knows the overlap between PEWS and WSN, I don't, but we (PEWS members) could easily say that one of the benefits of PEWS membership is an "automatic" subscription to WSN (or some other list). I think this would promote more discussion in the section and simplify, as well as reduce the cost of, the distribution of material such as the Newsletter. (Of course, people without access to e-mail would still receive the Newsletter via regular mail.) I have already said too much, so let me conclude with a question about direction, the future and the past: Has the W-S perspective turned into a dogma with its own jargon which excludes those who don't speak the jargon? A concrete instance/question, is Arrighi's new book THE LONG 20TH C., `World-System'? Carl Dassbach --------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological Univ. Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 U.S.A. From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Tue Jan 17 09:22:32 MST 1995 >From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Tue Jan 17 09:22:31 1995 Received: from post-ofc01.srv.cis.pitt.edu (pitt.edu [136.142.185.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id JAA28185 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:22:27 -0700 Received: from unixs3.cis.pitt.edu (wxhst3@unixs3.cis.pitt.edu [136.142.185.12]) by post-ofc01.srv.cis.pitt.edu with SMTP (8.6.9/cispo $Revision: 1.11 $) ID for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:27:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:27:16 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Haller Subject: 5037 Gingrich Eyes Internet as 'Cyber-Political' Forum for Americans Jan. 11 (fwd) To: wsn Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII WSNers, Speaking of futurology, this item came over GEOWEB. I don't mean to distract from the current discussion, considering its basic importance, but this may of of interest to some. Bill Haller ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 22:43:19 -0800 From:more+@newsmaster.tgc.com To: bob.hammond@census.gov Subject: 5037 Gingrich Eyes Internet as 'Cyber-Political' Forum for Americans Jan. 11 Gingrich Eyes Internet as 'Cyber-Political' Forum for Americans Jan. 11 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT HPCwire ============================================================================= Washington, D.C. -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich sees the future as a wonderful place where every citizen can speak out directly to the government and access to the Internet is guaranteed to all Americans, according to Nita Lelyveld, a writer for the Associated Press. "Somewhere there has to be a missionary spirit in America that says to the poorest child in America, `The Internet's for you. The information age is for you,'" Gingrich told fellow futurists at a conference Tuesday called "Democracy in Virtual America." "If we can wire the world -- 84 countries, 42 million people wired into Internet ... -- we can wire Washington, D.C., we can wire Anacostia," he said of one of the capital's poorest neighborhoods. "We can find a way to reach out." Gingrich was the last of many speakers at the conference sponsored by the conservative Progress & Freedom Foundation. The first was his favorite futurist, the best-selling author Alvin Toffler, who drew an enthusiastic response. Toffler believes human history has progressed in waves, from a first-wave agricultural society to a second-wave industrial society to a just-now- blossoming third-wave information society, Lelyveld reported. As each new wave emerges, it clashes with the existing order, he contends. Now, for instance, industrial ways of thinking persist -- centered on mass society, mass production and the assembly line -- while new ways of thinking emerge focusing on individualism, knowledge, computers and fax machines. "Second-wave muscle is being replaced by 'knowledge power' in the emerging third-wave workplace," Toffler argues. "We believe that this election is not a stand-alone event but part of a larger historical process." Toffler and his wife, Heidi, sat for several hours more listening to a panel of conservative theorists describe their own techno-theories about "byte cities", "brain lords" and "cyber-politics". Among the panelists was Arianna Huffington, wife of defeated California Senate candidate and multimillionaire Michael Huffington. She urged third- wave thinkers not to associate with those who cling to the second wave. "I don't believe in small rebellions. I believe in huge revolutions," she said. Toffler stated that Huffington and the others weren't entirely on his wave length. "Some of the things they said bothered me," he added. Toffler commented that he and his wife diverge from Gingrich, too, on such issues as school prayer and just how decentralized government should become, Lelyveld said. The Tofflers said Gingrich has been a friend for more than 20 years, and Republicans as a whole have been more receptive to new ideas. "Newt is a new thinker," Mrs. Toffler said. 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From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Tue Jan 17 10:19:47 MST 1995 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Tue Jan 17 10:19:46 1995 Received: from depauw.edu (DEPAUW.EDU [163.120.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id KAA03145 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:19:43 -0700 Received: from DEPAUW.EDU by DEPAUW.EDU (PMDF #5830 ) id <01HLYBCCLN8M003VYA@DEPAUW.EDU>; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 12:26:44 EST Date: 17 Jan 1995 12:26:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: re Toffler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <01HLYBCCMPTK003VYA@DEPAUW.EDU> X-VMS-To: WSN X-VMS-Cc: THALL MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Gang, It is quite likely that most of Toffler's stuff is wrong--this is one place some of the precapitalist world-systems stuff has bearing on these issues. Since Chris C-D and I are in the midst of hacking out what we think I don't want to say more just now, but we'll probably be archiving some papers related to this soon. Meanwhile if I can find any of my "spare time," I ought to look at Toffler again so I can explain why years ago I cataloged his stuff under trash, and rethink my cataloging. If we are not already carved in stone for ASA one thing the Wagar discussion might do is address some of Toffler's work seriously.... I'd like to see other thoughts on Toffler tom hall From SOCTB%EMUVM1.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Tue Jan 17 15:08:53 MST 1995 >From SOCTB@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU Tue Jan 17 15:08:53 1995 Received: from vaxf.Colorado.EDU (vaxf.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.9]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA29717 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:08:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199501172208.PAA29717@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (MAILER@EMUVM1) by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) id <01HLYHA7OO28001625@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:12:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (NJE origin SOCTB@EMUVM1) by EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with RFC822 id 2090; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:56:38 -0500 Resent-date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:56 -0500 (EST) Date: 17 January 95, 15:08:37 EST Resent-from: Terry Boswell From: Terry Boswell Resent-to: wsn To: WSN@CSF.COLO Resent-message-id: <01HLYHA9TAK2001625@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU> X-Envelope-to: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Al Bergesen raises good points but wrong headed conclusions. First some housekeeping: there is no elite conspiracy. Decisions on PEWS session content are made by an elected council and president. [Apparantly Al has not served on the council or he would know this. I will gleefully nominate him.] When word came that PEWS membership fell below 400, the council had to cut a session. They cut Al's session on the enviroment, about which he is understandably upset. That he somehow blames the session on the future of the world-system for his demise and thinks that the council's decision is an indicator of a flight of fancy that dooms PEWS to irrelevance, is wrongheaded. I am not privy to the council's discussion, but is the outcome fanciful? PEWS is co-sponsoring a session on science and technology (being co-sponsored, it could not be cut). This topic overlaps at least in part with enviromental issues. There is also an open topic world-systems regular session and enviromental sessions where papers could be sent. I encourage Al, Timmons, Grimes and others to send their papers to one of these outlets (if enough good papers arrive, the regular session can expand). A panel on the future of the world-system could not be so easily accomodated elsewhere. So, the decision may have been a bit more practical than Al let on. There is also the issue of what PEWS sessions should do as compared to other sessions. World-system theory can be applied to a variety of topics -- the enviroment, race, gender, ethnicity, development, war, culture and other topics, hot and not. A strength of the theory is its diverse uses, but this is also a source of decline in membership as people identify with the topics rather than the perspective. While outreach is necessary, PEWS has a particular responsibility to focus on the perspective itself. Does a session on the future of the system fulfil that responsibility or does it contribute to our irrelevance? I will try to give an answer in a later post, but as a co-organizer, I obviously think the answer is that it is an important topic. I even think that explaining what our perspective offers for understanding and changing the future is precisely what we need to do to make it MORE relevant. Thanks for your time, Terry Boswell From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Jan 17 17:59:55 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Jan 17 17:59:55 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id RAA10843 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 17:59:54 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1927-1>; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 20:04:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 20:04:39 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Nice to see some discussion of important issues on wsn. WE need to be a bit more organized about getting 15 new members so we can have four sessions next year. I dont think this is a crisis for the PEWS section. It is too bad that Al Bergesen's session on ecological problems in the world system was canceled. Perhaps we can get organized to see that such a session gets on next year's program. The members have to convince the council and the incoming president. Does anyone know who is on the nominating committee this year? To answer Carl Dassbach's question, there is no official connection between the ASA PEWS section and wsn. wsn is available for the use of the PEWS section members but it is constitutionally interdisciplinary and so an official sponsorship by a section of the American Sociological Association would be inappropriate. chris Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Tue Jan 17 20:30:15 MST 1995 >From P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Tue Jan 17 20:30:15 1995 Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id UAA24123 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 20:30:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199501180330.UAA24123@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7714; Tue, 17 Jan 95 22:34:17 EST Received: from JHUVM (NJE origin P34D3611@JHUVM) by JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7712; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:34:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 22:33:59 EST From: Peter Grimes To: wsn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU I think that what Carl and Terry have each contributed makes a lot of sense. Having spent much of my life involved in small organizations, I have seen the process Carl describes repeat itself numerous times. Also, Terry's more specific information seems very reasonable, and I only regret that it did not accompany the original announcement. In any event, WSN does open the possibility of broadening discussions to include people unable to be at conferences, much as Carl has suggested. The process could still be opened somehow this way. But regardless of process issues, it should be clear from my previous post that I have no objection to the application of W-S Theory to the issues about our collective future--on the contrary, I support it. I just think questions about the GLOBAL environment are among the most vital of those issues. Peter Grimes Johns Hopkins From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Jan 17 21:37:51 MST 1995 >From ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Jan 17 21:37:50 1995 Received: from green.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (green.CCIT.Arizona.EDU [128.196.120.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id VAA26982 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:37:49 -0700 From: ABERG@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Received: from CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU by CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #2381) id <01HLYUWS4JH88WWQPD@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:42:29 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:42:28 -0700 (MST) Subject: stages of pews To: wsn wsn Message-id: X-Envelope-to: wsn@csf.colorado.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Having heard from Chris and Terry who put together the Wagar/World-Party/What will the future be like session, let me make a couple of comments. If that is/was the decision of the council, then so be it. The point about being a research association and having only a few sessions still holds, and even if it were not for the cancelling of the global ecological problems session I still feel that our sessions should be--particularly in these hard times of fewer sessions--about research we are doing. I also think we need to talk about where we are going and what the issues are, and I mean research issues not just world party issues. So, in the spirit that put this section together and keeps it going let us all get together at the next ASA meetings and continue the dialog about what we are and where we are going. al bergesen From dassbach@mtu.edu Wed Jan 18 06:24:25 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Wed Jan 18 06:24:24 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id GAA19809 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 06:24:23 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA16976 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:29:15 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:29:13 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: PEWS and WSN Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Thank you Chris for clarifying the relationship between PEWS and WSN. I wasn't proposing that PEWS sponsor WSN, actually I was propsosing the opposite - that WSN sponsor PEWS. Anyway, I still think that creating an e-list for PEWS and PEWS business would be a good way to `democratize' the section (and simply a good idea). I have already mentioned some of the advantages and there is no need for me to elaborate to anyone using e-mail. It might also be a good way to get non e-mail users onto e-mail. Any thoughts on how this could be done? Where to set up the list isn't a problem - I could do it on our listserver. BTW, I am still wondering if Arrighi's THE LONG 20TH C. is "world-system"? Carl Dassbach --------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological Univ. Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 U.S.A. From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Jan 19 08:02:29 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Jan 19 08:02:29 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id IAA09639 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 08:02:27 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA25773 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:07:21 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:07:19 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: A question about internal funding Message-ID: Our dept. is trying to get the school to provide some internal funding for research, etc. To make the case, we need to present examples and how they work. If anyone has such an arrangement at their school, I would appreciate hearing about it privately. Thank you, Carl Dassbach --------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological Univ. Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 U.S.A. From dassbach@mtu.edu Fri Jan 20 06:24:34 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Fri Jan 20 06:24:34 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id GAA20661 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 06:24:33 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA08739 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:29:29 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:29:17 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: A question Message-ID: Am I disconnected from WSN? is the matter resolved? or has the discussion of PEWS died from lack of interest? From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 07:24:57 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 07:24:57 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id HAA26334 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 07:24:55 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <694-9>; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:29:47 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:21:34 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <33694.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Society for Socialist Studies annual conference (message of 735 lines) ------------------------------ From: VORST3@ccm.UManitoba.CA Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:44:18 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Society for Socialist Studies annual conference (message of 735 lines) Learneds 1995: 3-6 June at UQAM in Montre%al The 1995 Learneds will be held at the Universite% du Que%bec a$ Montre%al. Our society dates are 3-6 June (Saturday-Tuesday). Patrick Bolland has agreed to coordinate the Montre%al local committee. David Mandel is our direct connection with UQAM. They will be in contact with the National Office to deal with such practical matters as room allocation, audio-visual needs and, of course, the famous Socialist Studies Party. More on these things in future Bulletins. Final Call for Papers For the sessions listed below you are encouraged to submit your proposals for a paper to the coordinator (note that in one session submissions must be made to three coordinators) and to the National Office: Society for Socialist Studies, University College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2M8, fax 204-261-0021, e-mail vorst2@ccm.umanitoba.ca. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 10 February. Note that several sessions have been added since the previous call for papers. Some of these are now cross-listed with the CSAA. Some comments re speakers: 1) Ordinarily, speakers must be (or become) members of the Society for Socialist Studies. Exceptions are (a) special guests who could not be expected to join the organisation otherwise, and (b) participants in joint sessions if they are members of the other group. 2) Speakers are expected to have a finished paper ready for distribution at the conference. 3) Being accepted as a speaker does not mean that funding for travel to the conference is available. Last year the requests for funds were triple the amount provided to us by SSHRC and SSFC (and a bit from our own resources). 4) SSHRCC rules preclude the payment of travel money to those living within 325km/200miles from the host university. 5) Our society has, for many years, used the following order of priority: (i) students, unemployed, commmunity activists, other low-income people; (ii) postdoctoral appointees, sessional academics; (iii) term and probationary appointees; (iv) tenured faculty members. Usually, only members of the first two groups receive (some) funding. 6) Ordinarily, only speakers are eligible for funding. 7) In accordance with a motion passed at the 1994 AMM, travel support is normally awarded (if at all) no more than twice in a row to any fully employed person. 8) No money will be paid for "income replacement". All confirmed speakers will be contacted by the National Office in March with further details. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The following sessions have been proposed: Labour and the extreme right: the myths and the realities. Barrie Anderson, Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina, Regina S4S 0A2. Fax 306-585-4815 Papers dealing with all aspects of the consequences for labour of an emerging neo-fascism are invited. Presentations concentrating on anti-Semitism, white-supremacist hate groups, anti-labour activities, anti-feminism, and strategies to fight back will be particularly welcome. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Genocide as a concern for socialist and feminist theory & practice (papers and/or round-table) Organiser: Dr. Sima Aprahamian (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., Montreal, Que%bec H3G 1M8; H: 514-331-9571) Genocide is the ultimate destruction of life, therefore of all labour and work. Genocide is not a new issue. Although genocide as a political and legal terminology has only been in use in association with the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, as a systematic annihilation plan it has much deeper roots. In view of the recent massacres in Rwanda, Bosnia and the 80th anniversary of the unrecognized genocide of the Armenians I propose a forum to re-examine the politics of terminology and theories of genocide. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Health care in the 90s: re-visions, reorganization, research (with CSAA) Marie Campbell, Faculty of Human and Social Resources, University of Victoria, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2. Tel. 604-721-8203. Fax 604-721-7067. E-mail MCAMPBEL@HSD.uvic.ca (one L!) This session covers critical and feminist analyses of current trends and research (population-based, community participation, regionalisation, "closer-to-home" care, etc.) in our health-care system. Questions to be be addressed include: What is happening in the name of progress and reorganization? How are researchers involved in such changes? In the face of fiscal restraint -- especially targetting social spending -- what kinds of research activity do health activists, professionals, policy makers and unionists find helpful in the struggle to maintain and improve health care? The CCF-NDP and the labour movement. Lorne Brown, Political Science, University of Regina, Regina SK S4S 0A2. Tel. 306-585-4444 (w), 306-729-4558 (h). Fax 306-585-4815. The relationship of the CCF-NDP to the labour movement in Canada has some similarities with that between labour and social-democratic parties in Europe and Britain, but probably differences too. This session will feature papers, whether from a historical or an contemporary perspective. exploring the Canadian situation, in particular the connections between trade unions and CCF-NDP provincial governments. Papers may deal exclusively with Canada or compare and contrast the Canadian experiences with those of other countries. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Contemporary and historical international solidarity. Lorne Brown, Political Science, University of Regina, Regina SK S4S 0A2. Tel. 306-585-4444 (w), 306-729-4558 (h). Fax 306-585-4815. The left has traditionally played an important role on the international scene through solidarity movements. Struggles in Canada and Que%bec have often found support in other countries, and vice versa. Solidarity actions in the U.K., the U.S.A. and several other countries supported the democratic rebellion of 1837-38, the struggle for union recognition in 1871, the Saskatchewan Rebellion of 1885, and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Likewise, Canadians have played, and continue to play, active roles supporting such international struggles as the Spanish Civil War, anti-colonial struggles in many parts of the British Empire, the Cuban revolution, the Vietnam war, the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and the revolutionary upheavals in Central America -- to mention some of the most obvious cases. Presentations on historical and current solidarity activities and groups are invited from academics and solidarity activists. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Alternative and people's budgets Paul Browne, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 804-251 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa K1P 5H3. Tel. 613-563-1341. Fax: 613-233-1458. In 1994-95, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Cho!ces have developed an "alternative federal budget." It is intended both as a demonstration of the possibility and fiscal viability of alternative economic and social policies, and as an instrument for building people's coalitions against the state and capital. Other alternative and people's budgets have been produced in Canada and elsewhere over the years (for example in Grenada under the New Jewel Movement). Papers are invited on all aspects of people's and alternative budgets in Canada and abroad, addressing such questions as: What should be their role in socialist strategy? Can they avoid the twin perils of unrealistic utopianism and timid reformism? etc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The federal social security review Paul Browne, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 804-251 Laurier Ave West, Ottawa K1P 5J6. Tel. 613-563-1341. Fax 613-233-1458. Home phone & fax 613-234-3191. The social security review, launched in January 1994 and intensified with the publication of Lloyd Axworthy's discussion paper "Improving Social Security in Canada", will reach a peak in 1995. The paper proposes to transform social policy into an instrument of labour market policy and, implicitly, to renew the Poor Law tradition of welfare as relief to the "deserving poor" only. Papers are invited developing socialist and feminist critiques of -- and alternative proposals for -- any aspect of the federal social security review: social insurance, education & training, labour market policy, federal-provincial relations, fiscal & monetary policy, continental economic and political integration, theories of welfare. Contributions of a philosophical nature will be as welcome as those from the vantage points of sociologists, political scientists, economists, educators etc. etc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The contemporary relevance of class. Howard Chodos, 46 Brighton Avenue, Ottawa K1S 0T2. Tel. 613-730-1258. Understanding the world of work in terms of class has been a distinguishing feature of socialist analyses. Re-examening the salience of class is an important requirement for revitalising socialist theory and practice. This session will deal with the definition of class, the effects of class, strategic implications of class analysis, and the (possible) precedence of class over other axes of social stratification. Is class an explanatory variable or an agent of history? What mechanisms enable the expanded reproduction of class? Theoretical and empirical papers on these topics and questions are invited. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Canada, Que%bec, and Social Movements (session with the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy) Coordinators: Frank Cunningham, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1; fcunning@epas.utoronto.ca; and Marguerite Mendell, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q. H3G 1M8; mendell@vax2.concordia.ca. Uncertainty about future relations between Que%bec and the rest of Canada does not change the fact that things like environmental degredation, sexism, racism, or class oppression cross national borders. This makes it all the more important that activists in social movements combatting these things maintain or construct contact and, where feasible, coordination of effort no matter whether under conditions of the constitutional status quo, division of the country into two states, or anything in between. To explore ways that this might be done, the Society for Socialist Studies and the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy are soliciting interest in a roundtable on this topic at the Learneds, bringing together people involved in social movements on both sides of the Que%bec border. While the questions of whether and how independence of Que%bec would be pertinent to the discussions of the roundtable, the envisaged focus will be on possiblity for ongoing interaction among social movements under a variety of conceivable outcomes of current national politics. To ensure full discussions, all participants in the session should be sufficiently proficient in both French and English that we can proceed without the aid of translators. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Training, ideology and the changing labour market (with CSAA) (see also the Call for Papers, Annual 11, elsewhere in this Bulletin) For this session only, send proposals to all coordinators: Thomas Dunk, Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. P7B 5E1. Tel. 807-343-8091. Fax 807-343-8100. Internet thomas.dunk@lakeheadu.ca Stephen McBride, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC V5A 1S6. Tel. 604-291-3729. Fax 604-291-4786. Internet stephen_mcbride@sfu.ca Randle Nelsen, Sociology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. P7B 5E1. Tel. 807-343-8376. Fax 807-346-7831. Internet c/o emaunula@cs_acad_lan.lakeheadu.ca In recent years worker training and retraining have been seen by politicians of various political leanings and many social commentators as an important part of the solution for several different but closely related economic problems. Training and retraining are thought to be central to labour productivity and, therefore, the competitiveness of national economies; they are frequently proposed as an answer to the crisis experienced by workers displaced by industrial restructuring and "adjustment", and they are seen as a way of reducing high rates of unemployment. This session examines worker training and retraining from a critical perspective. We invite papers which examine the political economy and ideology of the training and "adjustment" debate. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Political economy of religion Ron Fletcher, 1152 Redland Ave, Moose Jaw SK S6H 3P3. Tel. 306-692-5579(h), 306-692-3842(w). This session addresses social, political and/or economic aspects of the various religious doctrines and institutions. Some suggested topics (but no more than examples!) are: the class nature of religious denominations; biblical positions on property, usery, exploitation, and other social-economic issues; the political and economic basis of the attack on the United Church of Canada. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Humanism and religion in Canadian social thought. NOTE: A coordinator is still sought for this session. Volunteers are encouraged to contact the National Office. One paper proposal has been received to date: "The humanist element of Canadian social democracy -- the thought of F.R. Scott". Potential coordinators may obtain this proposal from the National Office. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Women, labour and race. Ronnie Leah, Sociology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4. Tel. 403-329-2552. E-mail leah@hg.uleth.ca This sessions addresses issues of gender and race in the workplace. Theoretical and empirical papers are invited. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Is there still a women's movement in Canada? In Que%bec? (with CSAA) Patrice LeClerc, Canadian Studies, Duke University, Box 90422, Durham NC USA 27708-0422. Tel. 919-684-4260. E-mail declerc@acpub.duke.edu (note: declerc, not leclerc!) Many changes have occurred in the women's movement in Canada in the past five years, much affected by the political scene. Two groups that officially coordinate "the movement", NAC and the FFQ, have lost some of their power. Many groups have proliferated with their own special interests. Women in Que%bec and the rest of Canada often disagree on priorities, tactics and principles. Some questions to be addressed in this session: Is there still sisterhood? A women's agenda? Do women need to work together? Can they? Do we need new structures or procedures to deal with government(s)? Do present institutions work? Is diversity problematic? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Market, planning, efficiency & justice: the experience and options in the East, the West & the South. NOTE: A coordinator is still sought for this session. Volunteers are encouraged to contact the National Office. The debate about the various ways of allocation of productive resources continues. The western-style forms of "free" markets (with various degrees of government control) and the eastern-style central planning models have been successful in some aspects but have failed to deliver on the promise of both efficiency and justice. What types of intermediate allocative and distributive structures can be developed in theory and practice? Papers are invited reviewing and extending the current debate, as is taking place in many progressive journals, electronic networks, and political-action groups. One paper proposal has been received to date: "Market socialism - an oxymoron". Potential coordinators may obtain this proposal from the National Office. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The Transformation of Educational Work: The Political Economy of Teaching and Learning in Canadian Postsecondary Institutions (with CSAA) Coordinator: Diane Meaghan (Liberal Studies, Seneca College, 1750 Finch Ave. East, Willowdale, ON M2J 2X5. W: 416-491-5050 X2245. Fax: 416-491-3081) Administrators at colleges and universities across the nation are determinately moving their institutions towards a business model, often with the active support and encouragement of political leaders anxious to reduce the burden of public debt with the pretext of enhancing accountability. This has led to an attempt to define and measure every aspect and outcome of the educational process with a resulting ever-expanding list of performance indicators. Furthermore, various productivity-enhancing practices aimed largely at reducing labour costs are being examined and implemented, such as the use of part-time sessional teachers, alternative delivery methods and increased teaching loads. As teaching and research become more articulated to the needs of business, this transformational process has direct implications for how the members of the academy will continue to control the professional components of teaching. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Sociology of the family: mothers who mother other women's children (with CSAA) Baukje (Bo) Miedema, Sociology, University of New Brunswick, P.O.B. 4400, Fredericton NB E3B 5A3. Tel. 506-453-4849. Fax 506-453-4549. E-mail S8BR@UNB.CA This session invites papers concerning foster care or adoptive mothers; papers may be research oriented or based on personal experiences. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Class, ethnicity, sexuality, and technology. Judy Morrison, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6. Home: 1526 E 10th Ave, Vancouver V5N 1X5. Tel: 604-291-5487 or 4293 (u), 604-879-3661 (h). Fax: 604-291-4786. email: judithm@sfu.ca This session will address the social relations embedded in power mediated through such factors as class, gender and ethnicity. Included will be discussions on reproductive technologies; contraceptive use and promotion; the social construction of 'race' and the historical construction of 'cheap labour'; as well as the 'cycloptic' world vision of those with power and how this shapes our realities. Such a forum for critical discussions should lead to strategies for action and change. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The environment and the relations with First Nations. (with the Environmental Studies Association of Canada) Peter Penz, Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York ON M3J 1P3. Tel. 416-736-5252. Fax 416-736-5679. E-mail ES_PPENZ@Orion.YorkU.CA (NOTE: change of coordinator!). This session will feature a panel debate on "Rethinking Environmental - First Nations Relations: A Discussion Paper" by David Orton. It will be produced and circulated as a Green Web Bulletin prior to the Learneds, and will be available (mail and e-mail) from the National Office well before the Learneds. Session participants (and hopefully all attendants) would be expected having read the paper. Other papers are not invited (but will not be refused if submitted). This paper will consider (but will not be limited to) the following: Did aboriginals "own" Canada? Should treaty rights be supported? Purpose of land claims settlements. Problems and their resolution in fur trapping, parks and wilderness, forestry, and fisheries conflicts. The "Left" critique and its limitations. The left ecocentric perspective on land use and on environmental/First Nations relations. What is the way forward? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Pushing the margins, making the connections, fighting the oppression. Nandita Sharma, 1957 Kitchener Street, Vancouver V5L 2W6. Tel. 604-254-6258 (h), 604-291-3146 (u, messages only). This session features a panel to discuss and demonstrate popular education techniques. Its contrbutions are organised around a slide show on the development and expansion of fascism, particularly in the context of the recent phase of capitalist restructuring. Also shown will be a video which explores many of the issues surrounding women's health concerns. Papers are sought dealing with the methods, processes and people playing a role in popular education, demonstrating its usefullness in advancing our means of gathering and disseminating knowledge, and in linking activism with the academy. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The ideological proletarianization of educators. Robert Runte%, Sociology of Education, Faculty of Education, Lethbridge University, Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4. Tel. 403-329-2454. Fax 403-329-2252. runte@hg.uleth.ca In many Canadian jurisdictions teachers have lost control over the goals of education, through the imposition of fiscal and managerial constraints. The introduction of standard curricula and the increased imposition of pre-packaged materials are both designed to "teacher-proof" the educational system. Still, as is the case with other knowledge workers, teachers retain a narrow technical discretion that allows them the illusion of professional autonomy. This, in turn, isolates them from other workers and encourages them to continue a strategy of co-operation with (or being co-opted by) the sectional interests controlling the legislative process. Papers are sought on factual evidence, analysis and implications for public policy and teachers' strategy. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Various readings of Capital Ajit Sinha, 6 Ross Street, Toronto M5T 1Z9. e-mail: asinha@vm1.yorku.ca Tel. 416-597-6765. Fax 415-736-5615. Capital, the most important intellectual contribution of Marx, has been read and reread for more than 125 years and remains as controversial as ever before. It, on the one hand, is a philosophical discourse, and on the other, an economic theory. During the early 60's two major works, one in the area of philosophy and another in the area of economic theory, created an unprecedented stir within the Marxist intellectual community. One was the works of Louis Althusser, particularly Reading Capital, and the other was Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. This panel discussion will attempt to explore the significance of this development as well as other alternative readings of Capital. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Class Struggle and Labour Unrest in Post Mao China. Gerald B. Sperling, Political Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2. Phone 306-585-4442. Fax 306-585-4815. Internet: sperling@max.cc.uregina.ca With the triumph of "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", that is, neo-capitalism under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party, has come unprecedented prosperity for hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants and urban dwellers. However, also accompanying dizzying economic growth rates have come unprecedented social problems amongst the old and the new working class. Thousands of state enterprises cannot meet their payrolls, raising the prospect of tens of millions of unemployed urban proletariat. In addition, anywhere from 50 to 100 million former peasants, now surplus labour, have become migrant workers, moving to the cities in search of work on construction projects. Labour unrest (work stoppages, protest marches) is growing significantly. Papers are invited dealing with the theory and/or empirical evidence related to the rapidly changing labour situation in present day China. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Unpaid female labour. Michelle Weinroth, 1003-85 Range Road, Ottawa K1N 8J6. Tel. & fax 613-234-3191. Capitalist society quantifies and judges every social relation according to market values. It thus denies women at home any public, social recognition; it demeans caregiving and regards mothers' nurturing activities as unworthy of material reward, despite this work being the most demanding, versatile and extensive labour of our society. Although they give far more than nannies or daycare workers, mothers-at-home earn no wages for their 24-hour task, no pension, sick leave, or other benefits. If they desire greater fulfillment and recognition, they must enter the paid workforce and yield their children to the care of others. This session invites papers on all aspects of unpaid female labour. It encourages participants to provide a critique of the alienating dilemma that the capitalist market foists on women: either the solitary autonomy of wage labour or the solitude of unpaid homework. Can we supersede this contradiction? What are the emancipatory possibilities? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Consequences of exclusion from the labour force on various dimensions of older workers' lives. Vivian Wiseman, 3805 Grey Ave, Montre%al PQ H4A 3N8. Tel. 514-482-9573. (Session co-organizers: Marc Andre% Deniger and Eric Shragge) Over the span of the past 15 years of economic recession and the restructuring of general patterns of work, many workers aged 45 and over have been displaced from their jobs. In this session we will review implications drawn from perspectives on work and social history that reveal important linkages between joblessness, income loss and dysfunction on individual, social and psychological levels. We shall examine the qualitative impact of the labour market crisis on the unemployment experience, particularly that of women. Other impacts to be discussed include frequency and duration of long-term unemployment and the movement to social assistance of older workers, effects on communities' recourse to health and social services, consequences on the family, social networks and personal identity. Special Learneds Event - The Strangest Dream history and people of working-class Montre%al James McCrorie is organising a special full-day event at the 1995 Learneds on the theme of the book The Strangest Dream by Merrily Weisbord. This programme item will consist of the following: - James' review of this book in the next Socialist Studies Bulletin (no. 39). - an invitation to members to read the book before the Learneds; The National Office has copies available for $ 14.50 (20% off). - a seminar or workshop at the conference with veterans from the Montre%al labour struggles, in particular the period 1930-1960. - a walk-about, visiting those historic sites associated with events described in the book. - a panel discussion on the relevance of the Montre%al experience for modern social and political action. Those who want to become actively involved are asked to contact James McCrorie, Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, Regina SK S4S 0A2. Tel. 306-585-4758/59. Fax 306-586-9862. Make sure to order this book from the National Office! Socialist Studies - National Film Board Film & Video Presentations -- Learneds 1995 Patrick Bolland is organising a Socialist Studies film and video festival at the UQAM Learneds through the offices of the National Film Board. The NFB facilities are located next to UQAM. Current plans call for 3 events to be held in their big cinema (142 seats) from 3:00 until 5:30 (approximately). Each event will feature an NFB film or video, preceded by an introduction from the director (or other person closely connected with the production) and followed by a panel discussion involving the director and Socialist Studies members. As usual, the events will be open to the public. >From the list published in the previous Bulletin (no. 37), Patrick Bolland has, so far, selected a couple of titles for posssible inclusion: on NAFTA and on Que%bec socialism, respectively. Members are encouraged to send him suggestions for suitable NFB titles of interest and inform him of their availability to take part in any panel discussion (formal papers will not be required for these events). Contact: Patrick Bolland, 424 Prince Albert, Westmount, Que%. H3Y 2P5. Tel. 514-481-5757. Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:01 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:00 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id IAA01465 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:21:59 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1132-9>; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:26:50 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:18:38 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <37118.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: interesting Poem: Enjoy ------------------------------ From: ruprect@cats.ucsc.edu (Roberto) Fri, 20 Jan 1995 06:49:57 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: interesting Poem: Enjoy Rejected message: sent to bfellows@lmrinet.gse.ucsb.edu by FMLN@CATS.UCSC.EDU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canto a Marcos Comandante: Marcos Libertador. (Freud Perez Sanchez) Marcos, Comandante Marcos, El Mexico de hoy te escucha. Te esperabamos Marcos. Marcos, te llaman misterioso. Criticante aquellos que dicen, pero que no saben. Que dicen saber, pero que nunca han sabido. Tienen miedo al cambio. El cambio hace el mal, creenlo todos. Sospechan de ti Marcos; te juzgan, porque abandonaste tu maquina de escribir? Por que una impresora? Creen SUN STATION tenes. Te critican Marcos. Los enemigos de Mexico y de los mexicanos te llaman incongruente y creen que hasta a las redes a surfear te vas. Mexico te Escucha. Marcos Libertador tanto tiempo te esperamos. ------ -Mi general, no se vaya! luchemos por la patria. -Cual patria? Yo ya no tengo patria. Mi patria se fue a la vaina (parafraseado del General en su Laberinto). Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:06 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:06 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id IAA01467 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:22:01 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1038-5>; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:26:50 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:18:37 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <37117.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: IREX Short Term Travel Grants (fwd) ------------------------------ From: Marcus Lindemann Fri, 20 Jan 1995 05:55:04 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: IREX Short Term Travel Grants (fwd) Forwarded Message: From: George Frajkor Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 19:21:37 -0500 Subject: IREX Short Term Travel Grants (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list MIDEUR-L > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:01:34 EDT > Subject: IREX Short Term Travel Grants > > Dear LISTSERV Moderator: > > Attached is a description of the IREX Short-Term Travel > Grant Program for Central & Eastern Europe and Eurasia. > The next application deadline is February 1, 1995. > > We felt that subscribers to your LISTSERV would benefit > from this information, and hope that you will post it to > your group. If you would prefer not to receive such > postings (there are 3 deadlines per year), please let us > know and we will take you off the list. > > Thank you. > > The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) > 1616 H Street, NW > Washington, DC 20006 > E-mail: irex@info.irex.org > > *** > > IREX Short-Term Travel Grant Application Guidelines > > > The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) > offers travel grants for brief visits (1-2 weeks) which > do not require administrative assistance or logistical > support (such as placement or access to archives, housing, > visas, travel, etc.). Please read the following guidelines > carefully, and contact IREX with any questions on > eligibility. > > APPLICANTS must meet all of the following eligibility > requirements: > o US citizen or permanent resident; > o PhD or equivalent professional/terminal degree in the > project discipline at time of application; those holding a > professional/terminal degree should contact IREX regarding > eligibility; > o Projects in humanities or social sciences focused on > Central and Eastern Europe or Eurasia*; > o Scholars with projects concerning Mongolia, and > scholars who are employees of US federal government > organizations, should contact IREX before submitting an > application, regarding availability of funding. > > > APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEADLINE DATE TO > QUALIFY. > DEADLINES: February 1, 1995; June 1, 1995; October 1, 1995. > Applications received after the deadline will be returned to > the sender. Applicants are encouraged to use priority mail > services to ensure that the application is received by the > deadline. > > > PROVISIONS: Grants will normally not exceed $3000. > o Transoceanic APEX airfare on a US flag carrier (consult > a travel agent for fares_generally the grant will pay up to > $1450). > o Per diem for up to 14 days, not to exceed $100/day to > cover in-country costs for meals, lodging, and local > transportation only. > o Applicants inviting a foreign colleague to the US may > apply for funds to cover temporary health insurance for the > foreign invitee, up to a maximum of $65. > o Conference registration fee to attend a conference, up > to a maximum of $100. > o Visa application costs, up to a maximum of $50. > o Miscellaneous expenses, up to a maximum of $100 > (SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING AND EXPENSES > APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT). > > MAXIMUM STAY: Applicants may stay up to thirty (30) days > total (with any additional per diem expenses covered by the > applicant). However, all travel, whether connected to the > research, or for personal reasons, may not exceed thirty > (30) days. Applications with itineraries exceeding 30 days > will not be processed. 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Expenses will only be > accepted in this category if funds have been awarded to the > grantee as per the official Terms and Conditions. > > DUE TO THE LARGE number of applications and limitations on > funding, projects with multiple participants may not receive > full funding for all participants. > > NOTE ABOUT SELECTION PROCESS AND NOTIFICATION > > SELECTION CRITERIA: The IREX Selection Committee for this > program has identified a number of criteria which they > consider when reviewing all applications: (1) academic > merit of the proposed project (including its relevance for > the Slavic studies community); (2) well-documented need for > in-country research and a clearly stated research > methodology; (3) language skills adequate for research on > the scholar's topic in the host country; (4) feasibility of > the proposed time frame; (5) demonstration of serious > preparatory work with the general literature available in > Western repositories, basic guides to host-country archives, > and current research; (6) applicant's record of publication; > and (7) reasonable budget request. > > NOTIFICATION letters are sent to all applicants > approximately eight weeks after the deadline. No > notifications will be made prior to that time, and decisions > cannot be disclosed by telephone. Grant checks become > available approximately one month after receipt by IREX of > the signed grant contract, and no sooner than two months > prior to the start of the project. All IREX-funded project > activity must be completed within one year of the > application deadline. Permission for departure from the > proposal must be secured in advance from IREX. > > SELECTION COMMITTEE: The IREX Selection Committee for this > program is composed of senior scholars who represent a broad > cross-section of US universities and disciplines. Selection > Committee members are familiar with IREX programs and in > many cases have participated in an IREX program at some > point in their academic careers. Members of the Selection > Committee are appointed by the decision of the IREX Program > Committee on the authority of the IREX Board of Directors. > New members are chosen based on recommendations from current > Committee members, the IREX Program Committee, and IREX > staff. Disciplinary, geographic, age, and gender balance > are taken into consideration in determining the final > composition of the Selection Committee. IREX staff provides > administrative support only, and does not participate in > selection of grantees. > > ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY THIS PROGRAM: > o Individual scholarly, academic research visits to > archives, libraries, museums, etc., or to conduct > interviews; > o Presentation at scholarly conferences focused on > Central and Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia; > o Invited lectures or consultations; > o Collaborative projects such as joint publications and > comparative surveys; > o US scholars may invite 1-2 colleagues from the > countries of focus to the US for collaborative research, > publications, surveys, or conference presentation; the US > scholar is considered the applicant. > o In general, conferences which are located outside the > geographic regions covered by this program are NOT eligible > for funding through the Short-Term Travel Grant Program. > Contact IREX for confirmation of eligibility. > > SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS will be responsible for obtaining all > necessary travel documents, including visas, whether for > themselves or for a foreign colleague. Applicants should > check with the relevant country's embassy for specific > information on necessary visas, or with a university's > office of international programs for the appropriate visa > for an incoming scholar. > > For further information or to request an application form > contact: > > Short-Term Travel Grant Competition > IREX > 1616 H Street, NW > Washington, DC 20006 > irex@info.irex.org > Tel: 202-628-8188 > Fax: 202-628-8189 > > * Eligible countries are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, > Belarus, Bosnia Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech > Republic, East Germany (only projects that address > its communist experience, or which extend into > the period of reunification, and relate to the > transition experience of other countries in the > region), Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, > Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, > Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, > Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, > and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (International > Sanctions apply). > > Revised 08/94 Application materials valid for 02/95, > and 06/95 competitions only. Jan George Frajkor _!_ School of Journalism, Carleton Univ. --!-- 1125 Colonel By Drive | Ottawa, Ontario /^\ Canada K1S 5B6 /^\ /^\ gfrajkor@ccs.carleton.ca / aa003@freenet.carleton.ca o: 613 788-7404 fax: 613 788-6690 h: 613 563-4534 ************************************************************** * A message from: * * MARCUS LINDEMANN * * Dept. of Government, University of Essex * * mlinde@essex.ac.uk * * * * "Life is too short to spend it in front of a boring screen"* ************************************************************** Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:08 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 20 08:22:07 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id IAA01497 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:22:06 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <709-1>; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:26:48 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:18:33 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <37113.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: UC IGCC Pointer ------------------------------ From: jpournelle@ucsd.edu (Jennifer Pournelle) Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:25:21 -0500 To: burgess@colorado.edu, pdh@U.WASHINGTON.EDU, kurian@alishaw.ucsb.edu, Subject: UC IGCC Pointer Dear Researchers: System-wide Information about or published by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a multicampus research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national Laboratories, can now be found at: gopher://irpsserv26.ucsd.edu or, for www users, at: http://irpsbbs.ucsd.edu/igcc/igccmenu.html ABOUT IGCC The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) was founded in 1983 as a multicampus research unit serving the entire University of California (UC) system. The institute=BCs purpose is to study the causes of international conflict and the opportunities to resolve it through international cooperation. During IGCC=BCs first five years, research focused largely on the issue of averting nuclear war through arms control and confidence-building measures between the superpowers. Since then the research program has diversified to encompass several broad areas of inquiry: regional relations, international environmental policy, international relations theory, and most recently, the domestic sources of foreign policy. IGCC serves as a liaison between the academic and policy communities, injecting fresh ideas into the policy process, establishing the intellectual foundations for effective policymaking in the post=82Cold War environment, and providing opportunities and incentives for UC faculty and students to become involved in international policy debates. Scholars, researchers, government officials, and journalists from the United States and abroad participate in all IGCC projects, and IGCC=BCs publications=E3boo= ks, policy papers, and a semiannual newsletter=E3are widely distributed to individuals and institutions around the world. In addition to projects undertaken by the central office at UC San Diego, IGCC supports research, instructional programs, and public education throughout the UC system. The institute receives financial support from the Regents of the University of California and the state of California, and has been awarded grants by such foundations as Ford, MacArthur, Rockefeller, Sloan, W. Alton Jones, Ploughshares, the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Susan L. Shirk, a professor in UC San Diego=BCs Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and in the Department of Political Science, was appointed director of IGCC in June 1992 after serving for a year as acting director. Former directors of the institute include John Gerard Ruggie (1989=821991), and Herbert F. York (1983=821989), who now serves as director emeritus. ABOUT IGCC ON-LINE The year 1994 saw several critical events in the publishing world: * Paper costs rose 25%; *Postal rates rose 10%, effective 1 January 1995; * Federal Executive emphasis sparked explosive growth in public availability and use of Internet resources (the so-called =84information superhighway=BE). With an ever-increasing demand for information about the Institute and its products, along with tightening of the California state budget, it was clear that we needed to expand world-wide access to our publications=E3just as we needed to hold down publishing costs in the face of rising expenses. =84On-line=BE publishing was the answer. In cooperation with the University of California, San Diego Graduate School for International Relations and Pacific Studies, in December, 1994 IGCC established a =84Gopher=BE server. Thus, all text-based IGCC materials and publications (including informational brochures, newsletters, and policy papers) are now available via the Internet. This week, IGCC joined the World Wide Web (the multimedia subset of Internet users), making not only text, but related full-color photographs, audio- and video clips, maps, graphs, charts, and other multimedia information available to Internet users world-wide. Since =84The Web=BE is expanding at a furious pace, with new sites (includin= g, most recently, the U.S. Congress) added daily, the net result of our electronic effort will be (conservatively estimated) to treble circulation of IGCC materials with no increase in cost=E3and without abandoning printed mailings to those with no Internet access. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Jennifer R. Pournelle jpournelle@ucsd.edu Publications Coordinator ph 619-534-1979/fax 619-534-7655 ---------------------------- University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Mon Jan 23 08:25:48 MST 1995 >From FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Mon Jan 23 08:25:47 1995 Received: from ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu (acspr1.acs.Brockport.EDU [137.21.151.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id IAA03566 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 08:25:44 -0700 From: FDEYO@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu Message-Id: <199501231525.IAA03566@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: (from user FDEYO) by ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu; 23 Jan 95 10:28:06 EST To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: PEWS PROCESS Date: 23 Jan 95 10:28:06 EST As I note in my forthcoming PEWS chair contribution to the Feb PEWS News, the WSN may provide an important basis for reinvigorating our section. The on-goind WSN dialogue now undersay both substantiates that suggestion and renders dated and irrelevant much of the content of the contribution. Is the process through which PEWS panels are selected a closed and non-trans parent one? Of course it is. In fact, it was largely made by one persons..me . While I think the panel on Global Praxis and the Future of the World System is a very exciting one which engages us (and prospective section members) directly, politically, and personally in WS issues, I concur that we must rethink our decision-making process. As things stand, the business meeting throws up a few half-thought-out panel proposals during the few minutes allocate for this "deliberative process," after which the chair is charged with the task of putting together a final PEWS program following the ASA meetings for subsequent transmittal by Sept 1 to the ASA offices. Factoring in a few days travel etc following the meetings, the change has a window of about a week and a half to put a package together before the Sept 1 deadline. I consulted briefly with a few of the council members I was in touch with, but basically had to start making and getting commitments as soon as I arrived back from LA. I assumed we would get the environmental panel in, but was careful to note that his panel, the last committed, would be dropped if we failed to meet our membetship target. In any case, the process was driven not by considerations of participation and consensus so much as by the pressure of time. Let's change this! I suggest that we follow up on the suggestions several have made that we exploit our new technology for democratic ends. Let's discuss panel ideas for '96 over the WSN so that our council can put together a package of proposals to present for discussion and perhaps even a vote at our '95 business meeting. Use the WSN initially to throw out panel ideas for network discussion. Then, when an ideas seems to have crystalized, ask Dale Wimberley to type it up, along with its rationale, for subsequent consideration. Perhaps the council can then prepare some recommendations on the proposals to take to the business meeting, where all the proposals can be distributed for discussion and vote. I will be contacting our PEWS council for reaction to this approach, but wish to solicit section reactions at the same time. Join us out here on the global WSN highway to discuss this and other PEWS matters. Fred Deyo, PEWS chair. Happy New Year to all. From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Jan 23 11:25:00 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Mon Jan 23 11:24:59 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id LAA18831 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 11:24:58 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <641-5>; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:29:53 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:21:34 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <48095.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Re: World History Journal and Assoc. ------------------------------ From: J B Owens Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:45:38 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list WORLD-L Subject: Re: World History Journal and Assoc. On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, David Kalivas wrote: I would like to subscribe to the World History Journal and join the World History Association. Can anyone provide me with the e-mail address for either the journal or the association? Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. Individual subscriptions, which include membership in the World History Association, are US$25/year. Check and address should be sent to Prof. Richard Rosen, World History Association, Department of History and Politics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Jerry H. Bentley is the Journal's editor and his e-mail address is jbentley@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Jack J. B. "Jack" Owens Department of History Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209 USA Voice: (208) 233-8589 e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jan 24 07:22:22 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jan 24 07:22:21 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id HAA04588 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 07:22:20 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00695 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:27:21 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:27:12 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: Re: PEWS PROCESS Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199501231525.IAA03566@csf.Colorado.EDU> I agree with F. Deyo's suggestion that PEWS panels for 96 be discussed over WSN and that we "exploit our new technology for democratic ends." Clearly, many processes, including the general governance process, appear to have been shaped and constrained by matters other then "democratic participation." I have a few observations/suggestions: 1. We need most,if not, all PEWS members subscribed to WSN. 2. As WSN grows in importance, the Newsletter should be converted to an electronic form and the printed version eliminated. 3. The PEWS conference should also be discussed on-line to dispel the mystery of how themes and organizers are chosen. 4. I think that a name change, as suggested by Deyo in the Newsletter, should be discussed if only to address the question of what is meant by "world(-)system." (This gets me back to a question that I keep asking and get no response (and which, in my mind, alludes to the heart of this matter): Is Arrighi's new book THE LONG 20th C, world-system? If not, what is it? Historical IPE (HIPE) - whatever that may be. What's the difference between w-s and hipe. Does it matter?) Carl Dassbach --------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological Univ. Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 U.S.A. From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Tue Jan 24 23:40:58 MST 1995 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Tue Jan 24 23:40:57 1995 Received: from orion.oac.uci.edu (orion.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.20]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id XAA15871 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:40:56 -0700 Received: by orion.oac.uci.edu id AA07169 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for world-system network ); Tue, 24 Jan 1995 22:45:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 22:45:58 -0800 (PST) From: David Smith To: world-system network Subject: PEWS PROCESS Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just a quick note, stimulated by Carl Dassbach's message: I agree with Carl and others that PEWS needs to be more open and democratic and think that WSN potentially offers an opportunity to move things in that direction. BUT, I think that his first point is CRITICAL. Those of us who are plugged into the Internet, and more specifically, WSN, find it an indispensible way to communicate. Most of us would have trouble living without our familiar routine of logging in and checking our mail several times a day. But, we need to remember it IS a relatively new technology. I am not at all certain that ALL PEWS members are in the position (or, for that matter, have the disposition) to have access to the network. Perhaps the answer is fervent evangelism toward these folks to convert them to the online way of life we've adopted. However, there may be some folks who simply don't want to subscribe, but are still interested in participating in the section. At any rate, my real point is this: we don't want to replace what some people see as a interpersonal cabal of PEWS insiders with an electronic network clique that also may exclude certain people and points of view. We need to be intentionally inclusive to the greatest extent possible. Having said all this, I want to be clear: I agree with Carl, Fred, and others that WSN can and should be a forum for the sorts of discussions that they are advocating. I hope that it can provide us with a place where we can have a serious, thoughtful debate about the more fundamental issues that Al Bergesen raised in his posting, too. I just want to remind everybody whose on WSN that we probably don't represent all of the PEWS section... dave smith pews council member From rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su Wed Jan 25 00:41:00 MST 1995 >From adm!adm.nsu.nsk.su!rozov@nsu.nsk.su Wed Jan 25 00:40:59 1995 Received: from nsu.nsk.su (mx.nsu.nsk.su [193.124.209.71]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id AAA21325 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:39:57 -0700 Received: from localhost by nsu.nsk.su (8.6.5/8.6.5) id MAA16723 for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:50:46 +0600 Received: by adm.nsu.nsk.su (UUPC/@ v5.09gamma, 14Mar93); Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:50:12 +0600 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-Id: Organization: Novosibirsk State University From: "Nikolai S. Rozov" Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:50:10 +0600 X-Mailer: Mail [v1.8 MSDOS] Subject: constructive typology Lines: 260 Let me realize my promise according w-s typology. In fact my task occurred to be more wide because the problems of differentiation between w-ss and non-w-ss are not less significant than the problems of differentiation between types of w-ss themselves. That's why I wish to present now some primary ideas on CONSTRUCTIVE TYPOLOGY OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS What preliminary requirements to our typology should we set? R1. The typology of s-systems must include all commonly used concepts (i.e. w-systems, w-economies, w-empires, civilizations, societies) as units of analysis for diverse social disciplines. The taxons in typology should not differ essentially in volume and meaning from their correspondent concepts. (The task is not a terminological revolution but conceptual clarification and systematization.) R2. It should help us to divide types of societal systems (s-systems) with different essential features and to integrate s-systems without such essential difference into one type (even if the last differ very much in volume, geographical location and historical period). R3. The criteria of "essential" must be flexible because of development of our thought, research interests and values. R4. The typology should be provided with the criteria and methods for empirical identification of s-systems. Typology of s-systems is not a new task. We can remember many taxonomies since Plato's and Aristotle's descriptions of state political forms. All traditional taxonomies (which I know) begin from the apriori existence of s-systems ("polices," states, empires, nations, societies, cultures, civilizations, etc.) The w-s paradigm deviated from this tradition. I. Wallerstein (from my viewpoint) deals with w-ss (w-empires and especially w-economies) not as with empirically presented phenomena but as with theoretically reconstructed essences. In his analysis of "basic logic" he focused on the economical and political c o n n e c t i o n s between parts of w-ss. This line was developed in the prospective idea of nested networks by C.Chase-Dunn & T.Hall, 1993 (it's a pity I have only the brief outline of this idea in Chris C-D and Peter Grimes's post to wsn). My suggestion is to make this approach more clear and systematic for myself (surely it's only my responsibility for all mistakes). The idea is to begin from "parts" or "loci" and then varying the sorts of connections to c o n s t r u c t conceptually the ideal types (M.Weber) of different s-systems (including w-systems, oicumenas, civilizations and societies). The typology using approach of this kind I name constructive typology. I expect the most probable question: "You reject taking apriori societies and w-ss, but why on Earth do you take apriori your loci?" I agree that "locus" is not less theoretical abstraction than "society,""w-s," "civilization" or any other s-system. Nevertheless I have at least two arguments for beginning namely from loci to s-systems. First, loci are more close to empirical (historical, archeological, economical, cultural) analysis. Two researchers using empirical data can gain consensus according features and connections of one province much sooner than in discussion of the features, borders and connections of the whole encompassing s-system (society, civilization, w-system). Second, "locus" is an artificial construct which can be used as an "elastic concept": in various research situations one can change flexibly the meaning, volume, borders of his "loci" (surely announcing it explicitly). Now I will present some concepts which have "Pickwick's meaning," i.e. they pretend only to demonstrate the very logic of constructive approach. Probably you will find some blanks and defects and I will be grateful for any comments. At the same time I ask to focus mainly on the general principle and possibilities of the constructive approach. LOCI - inhabited geographical places which can be considered as homogenous relatively to connections with other places. It is possible if necessary to differ: i) mini-locus, f.e. small village of group of family farms using the same trade, social, transport and other networks, ii) midi-locus (a small province, a "nom" in Shumer, a "police" in Greece, a "uezd" or a "rayon" in Russia, a county in US) usually including a town with its countryside, iii) mega-locus (large province, "gubernia" or "oblast" in Russia, land in Germany, state in US) including large city (directly connected to other large cities) with its partly urban and partly rural surrounding. (Interloci) CONNECTIONS - any kinds of regular economical, political, demographical, social, cultural, technological and other relations between loci. I suggest to differ four main types of CONNECTIONS: MATERIAL and INFORMATIONAL TORRENTS: movement of goods and raw materials, texts and other cultural patterns, finances; INTERACTIONS: military, economic, political, sociocultural, and MIGRATIONS, COMMUNITY OF CULTURAL GENESIS including common features and elements in language, morals, religion, art, also in technological, economic, political, legal patterns, etc. COMMUNITY OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL ORDER subordination to common power agents and set of laws and rules. Connections as a rule are not equal but oriented according to active or passive role of each locus in organizing, realizing, supporting this connection. It is the main way for constructing core-periphery relations. This aspect is well known and I will not explicate it in the following concepts. Any inhabited place (locus or stable group of interconnected loci) whose interior connections have essential difference from exterior connections can be considered as SOCIETAL SYSTEM (S-SYSTEM). As you can see s-system is also an elastic concept which depends directly from our current criteria of "essential difference." "Basic logic" of system (I.Wallerstein) is very fruitful but probably not unique criterion for "essential difference." The sorts of interior connections are the basis for setting the types of s-systems. We will use the idealization that within one s-system its loci are connected only with one sort of connections. Such (surely non-existing) s-systems are ideal types. Identification and research of definite real s-system consist of comparing it with correspondent ideal types. Ideal types of S-SYSTEMS: NETWORK OF TORRENTS - s-system whose loci are connected by material and informational torrents. OICUMENA (MILITARY/POLITICAL O., TRADE O., ECONOMIC O., CULTURAL O.) - s-system whose loci are connected with correspondent interactions. CIVILIZATION - s-system whose loci have community of cultural genesis. SOCIETY - s-system whose loci have community of political and legal order. What are the relations between these types? NETWORKS OF TORRENTS always encompass OICUMENE. OICUMENA frequently includes parts of different CIVILIZATIONS. The spread of CIVILIZATION can lead to several new OICUMENE. OICUMENE and CIVILIZATIONS usually encompass SOCIETIES. Some SOCIETIES can include parts of different CIVILIZATIONS and take part in different OICUMENE. Well, but where is our goal concept - world-system? I suggest to name as w-ss both oicumene and networks of torrents. The very meaning of the term "w-s" tells that this system is (or seems to its people) like the whole world. So we can consider OICUMENA (inhabited land) as the "visible" or "subjectively the whole world." At the same time we can study by objective methods that the torrents of goods, texts, other patterns were much wider than the space of interactions (oicumena). So we can reveal "objectively the whole world"- NETWORK OF TORRENTS. Both have right to be named world-systems. The division of labor in research practice maintains this position: Macroeconomics, World Economics deal with NETWORKs OF TORRENTS. International Relations, Political History, Geopolitics, (Macrosociology?), etc. deal with diverse OICUMENE. Culturology and civilization approach deal with CIVILIZATIONS. Traditional sociology deals with SOCIETY. Namely in two former cases World-System approach occurred to be the most efficient. Nevertheless two last units of analysis should not be neglected. The constructive typology suggests the conceptual bridge between all these disciplinary traditions. The elastic concepts of LOCUS and S-SYSTEM allow in principle to fulfill R2-3. I mean that the aerials of w-ss, civilizations, societies are not absolute but depend of our current research conventions of what criteria of "homogenous" or "differences of interior/exterior connections" are essential. What about other well-known or discussed in wsn terms (see R1)? "WORLD ECONOMY" can be TRADE OICUMENA but it also can occur ECONOMIC OICUMENA if the econ. connections are more strong (investments, common projects, etc.). "WORLD EMPIRE" usually is POLITICAL/ECONOMIC OICUMENA with strong regular uni-center core-periphery connections. Some world empires can occur or develop into SOCIETIES (China? Russia?). "Interactive zones," "interaction networks," "political military interactions" (R. Dunn, Wilkinson, C.C-D., T.Hall) can be considered as MILITARY/POLITICAL OICUMENE. "DISCOURSE-BASED W-SS" (Voll) seem to occur sometimes CIVILIZATIONS, sometimes CULTURAL OICUMENE (the difference is not trivial but it is a special topic). "Symbolic networks" (E.Ermolaeva) can be considered, as I suppose, also as cultural oicumene. MINI-SYSTEMS (I.Wallerstein) and STATELESS W-SS (C.Chase-Dann) can be isolated LOCI (as autonomous s-systems) or pheripherical terminals of TRADE OICUMENE and encompassing NETWORK OF TORRENTS. "W-s" from China to Europe in 13 century (Abu-Lughod) can be considered as a NETWORK OF TORRENTS of goods. This network consisted of several overlapping TRADE OICUMENE (I support here the position of I.Wallerstein in his resume to A-L's book). "Prestige goods networks" I consider as the same type. I don't think that we really can study the modern World System (MWS) as one oicumena of interactions (even trade oicumena). I suggest to take more modest task: to consider MWS only as a NETWORK OF TORRENTS encompassing rather many ECONOMIC/POLITICAL/CULTURAL OICUMENE, POLITICAL/MILITARY OICUMENE and also CIVILIZATIONS which did not disappear and don't go to die at all! Surely informational (cultural, financial) torrents in MWS are not less but maybe more significant than material torrents. What about R4 - the criteria and methods for empirical verification? The basic logic of these criteria and methods is very simple: empirically discovered presence/absence of signs of torrents, interactions (of diverse sorts), common cultural genesis and common political/legal order between definite LOCI. The whole picture of these interloci connections allows to make decision about type, composition, areal of the s-system (group of s-systems). For me the most interesting are the evolutionary trends (patterns? laws?) of historical transformation of s-systems of diverse types and application of this knowledge to the problems of probable future transformations of MWS and its parts. Sorry for too long posting and for my English, I am looking forward for comments. Nikolai S. Rozov rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From dassbach@mtu.edu Wed Jan 25 06:25:15 MST 1995 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Wed Jan 25 06:25:15 1995 Received: from mtu.edu (mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id GAA06820 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 06:25:12 -0700 Received: from social2.mtu.edu (social2.yth.mtu.edu [141.219.41.32]) by mtu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA02616 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:30:16 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: mtu.edu: Host social2.yth.mtu.edu claimed to be social2.mtu.edu Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:29:56 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: Pews process Message-ID: I totally argee with David Smith's observations that not all members of PEWS have either the access or inclination to use e-mail (and I feel that we should somehow work on both.) Still, I think that moving PEWS discussions etc. to WSN will enable far more people to participate and will make the decision process far more transparent (de-cabal-ize) for those who don't care to participate. Why - becuase there are already a substantial number of PEWS members subscribed to WSN. As a result, discussion can occur, I think, with a far larger audience then is present at the ASA in August. Carl Dassbach From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:11:52 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:11:51 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA24186 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:11:49 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu via suspension id <7832-9>; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:16:07 -0500 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <3063-2>; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:48:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 18:25:57 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: fyi (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 18:55:53 -0500 From: Haines Brown To: Multiple recipients of list WORLD-L Subject: fyi From: SMTP%"ISLAM-L%ULKYVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu" 23-JAN-1995 13:49:40.45 To: BROWNH CC: Subj: Frontiers Conference Return-Path: <@uga.cc.uga.edu:owner-islam-l@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU> Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU with SMTP; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:49:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2411; Mon, 23 Jan 95 13:49:47 EST Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5462; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:54:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 10:20:31 -0700 Reply-To: History of Islam Sender: History of Islam From: Ralph Mathisen Subject: Frontiers Conference X-To: History of Islam To: Multiple recipients of list ISLAM-L *Final Announcement* SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY An Interdisciplinary Conference The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas March 23-26, 1995 In many ways, Late Antiquity (which traditionally extends from A.D. 260, the accession of the emperor Gallienus, until 640, the death of the emperor Heraclius and the rise of Islam) represents several kinds of "new frontiers." Late Antiquity itself is a chronological frontier, separating Antiquity from the Medieval, Byzantine, and Is- lamic periods. It saw new geographical frontiers, which separated east from west, Mediterranean from inland European, and Christian from Muslim. One also can identify various kinds of metaphorical frontiers involving spiritual, religious, intellectual, psychological, mental, social, ethnic, gender, and cultural matters. Current research by scholars of Late Antiquity, the early Middle Ages, the early Byzantine Empire, and the early Islamic period is ex- panding to include consideration of this multiplicity of frontiers. Hitherto, such investigations have been carried out in a vacuum. This conference, organized by Hagith S. Sivan of the University of Kansas and Ralph W. Mathisen of the University of South Carolina, will create a first-ever venue for a comprehensive discussion of the frontiers of Late Antiquity. SPEAKERS ROSTER Andre Basson (Rand Afrikaans Univ., South Africa), "A Transformation of Genres: Shifting Frontiers in Late Latin Literature" Lisa Bitel (Univ. of Kansas), "The Land of Women: Domestic Space and the Frontiers of Gender in Early Medieval Ireland" Thomas S. Brown (Univ. of Edinburgh), "Stragegies for Mapping the Frontiers between Late Antique and Early Medieval Italy" James Brundage (Univ. of Kansas), "The Paradox of Equality in Canon Law" Richard Burgess (Univ. of Ottawa), "Hydatius and the Final Frontier," Beatrice Caseau (Univ. de Nanterre), "Fragrances: A Gateway through the Impenetrable Frontier between Earth and Heaven" Evangelios Chrysos (U. of Ioannina), "The Transformation of the Roman World, Fourth through Ninth Centuries" Gillian Clark (Univ. of Liverpool), "Bodily Frontiers: The Christian Body in Late Antiquity" Frank M. Clover (Univ. of Wisconsin), "The Northeast Frontier of Van- dal Africa, A.D. 476-533" John F. Drinkwater (Univ. of Nottingham), "The Authenticity of the German 'Threat': A Romano-Gallic Artefact?" John Eadie (Michigan State Univ.), "Reinventing the Past: Theory and Practice in Roman Frontier Studies" Linda Ellis (San Francisco State Univ., "Dacians, Sarmatians and Goths on the Roman-Carpathian Frontier, 2nd-4th Centuries A.D." Hugh Elton (Trinity College), "Defining Roman Frontiers" Jill Harries (Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland), "Sidonius the Fron- tiersman" Sebastian Heath (Univ. of Michigan), "Settlement in Southern Gaul: Boundary to the Past?" Michael Jones (Bates College), "Geographical-Psychological Frontiers in Sub-Roman Britain" Walter Kaegi (Univ. of Chicago), "Reconceptions of Byzantium's Eastern Frontiers in the Early Seventh Century" C. Kirby (British Museum) and S. Orel (N.E. Missouri State) "Political Border, Cultural Change: The Case of Gebel el Haridi (Egypt)" Fannie J. LeMoine (Univ. of Wisconsin), "Winning the Right to Read: Women and the Study of Scripture in Late Antiquity." Jacqueline Long (Univ. of Texas), "Two Sides of a Coin: Aurelian, Va- ballathus, and Economic Frontiers in the Early 270s" Constantin Marinescu (Columbia Univ.), "The Use and Reuse of Greco- Roman Art in Late Antiquity: Episodes of Adaptation and Accultura- tion" Ralph W. Mathisen (Univ. of South Carolina), "Crossing the Supernatu- ral Frontier in the Early Middle Ages" David H. Miller (Univ. of Oklahoma), "A Frontier Perspective on the Transition between the Late Ancient World and the Early Middle Ages" David Olster (Univ. of Kentucky), "The Oikumene and its Limits: The Transformation of Roman Universalism in the Seventh Century" Richard Rothaus (Oklahoma State Univ.), "Christianization and De-pa- ganization: The Late Antique Creation of a Conceptual Frontier" Hagith Sivan (Univ. of Kansas), "Why Not Marry a Barbarian? Marital Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Thomas Smith (Loyola University, New Orleans), "A Clash of Theological Frontiers in the Early Fifth Century" Susan T. Stevens (Randolph Macon Women's College), "Frontiers between City and Country in North Africa, A.D. 400-700" Richard J.A. Talbert (U. of N. Carolina), "Mapping the Frontiers of Late Antiquity" Dennis Trout (Tufts University), "Invisible Frontiers: Town, Country- side, and Christianization at Paulinus' Nola" LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS The Conference sessions will be held at the Spenser Museum of Art on the University of Kansas Campus. Sessions will run from late afternoon of Thursday, March 23, thorough the morning of Sunday, March 26. All sessions will be plenary, and papers will be aproximately 25 minutes each. There will be ample time for discussion and personal interaction among the registrants. Those arriving by air will fly to Kansas City International airport (MCI), which is served by all the major airlines. Limo service at a cost of $21 one-way is available, and the conference organizers will make reservations and attempt to arrange shared rides if arrival times are known. Registration for the Conference is $96, and will include copies of abstracts, three breakfasts, two lunches, and three receptions. Reg- istration by out-of-town attendees who intend to stay at the Eldridge should be made by February 15. Students may register at a reduced rate of $25 to attend the sessions only. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Eldridge Hotel in historic downtown Lawrence, telephone 913-749-5011. Room rates are $67 for a single or double (plus 9.9% accommodations tax). The number of rooms is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Those attending from over- seas,who would like to have shared rooms arranged, or who otherwise would like assistance with accommodations should contact the organizers: For further information, please contact Hagith S. Sivan, Dept of History, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044, phone 913-864-3569; or, via EMAIL Ralph W. Mathisen at N330009@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU. REGISTRATION FORM Name _____________________________________________________________ Last First M.I. Affiliation (if any) _____________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Phone: Office _______________ Home ________________________ EMAIL _______________ FAX ________________________ Arriving on ____________ airline at ________ (time) on ________ (date) Registration Fee Full registration fee of $96 includes copies of abstracts, three breakfasts, three lunches, and two receptions; must be enclosed to ensure hotel accommodations. Students may register for $25 to attend sessions only. I wish to register for ____ persons and enclose $__________ Please make payment to: Frontiers Conference And mail to: If you register but are unable Dr. Hagith Sivan/Frontiers to attend, please notify orga- Dept. of History nizers at least one week before University of Kansas the conference for refund of Lawrence, KS 66044 registration fee. N.B. For a hard copy of this form, please contact Ralph Mathisen at the above EMAIL address. From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:11:58 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:11:57 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA24202 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:11:53 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu via suspension id <4579-7>; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:40:50 -0500 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <768-1>; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 16:06:13 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 14:46:47 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <56807.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Faculty Positions ------------------------------ From: "MIRIAM D. ROSENTHAL - PH.D." Sun, 22 Jan 1995 11:28:53 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Faculty Positions Levon Chorbajian asked us to post the following for him: ***************************** TWO POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY University of Massachusetts, Lowell: The Department of Sociology invites applications for two anticipated tenure-track positions effective September, 1995. 1. A junior or senior level anthropologist. Applicants should be able to teach both introductory and advanced level undergraduate courses, including qualitative methods. 2. A junior or senior level sociologist. Applicants should be able to teach in at least two of the following areas: demography, economic development, ethnic and race relations, environmental sociology, new communication technologies, and organizations and occupations. Outstanding applicants with other specialties will be considered. Both positions require a Ph.D. and evidence of active research and teaching excellence. The deadlines for applications is March 1, 1995. Candidates should forward a cover letter, vitae, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Levon Chorbajian, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854. The University of Massachusetts, Lowell is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:12:05 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Jan 25 15:12:05 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA24241 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:12:03 -0700 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu via suspension id <4549-8>; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:18:47 -0500 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ([128.220.2.5]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <1018-2>; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:20:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 18:32:14 -0500 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: ASA Immigration Section (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 03:14:01 -0500 From: Horton, John SOCIO To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: ASA Immigration Section Those of you who are now or desperately want to be members of the American Sociological Association can do your political act of the day by joining the new section on International Migration. According to the section chair, Ruben Rumbault, we are short about 70 members of the 200 necessary for a section and a program in the August meetings at Washington, D.C. Especially in this time of immigrant bashing, it is important to have a space at the ASA where we can discuss the issue. Also, it is especially important to have a progressive presence in the section. What to do? ASA members can send a check for only $4.00 (indicate that it's for membership in the International Immigration Section) to Elizabeth Czepiel, Section Coordinator, American Sociological Association, 1722 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2981. Any letter postmarked by Feb. 1 will count toward membership. If you want information about joining the ASA and section membership, you can FAX 202 785-0146 or email asa_governance_sections@meimail.com Thanks for your help, John Horton From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Wed Jan 25 23:03:38 MST 1995 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Wed Jan 25 23:03:37 1995 Received: from orion.oac.uci.edu (orion.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.20]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id XAA01158 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:03:36 -0700 Received: by orion.oac.uci.edu id AA07110 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for world-system network ); Wed, 25 Jan 1995 22:08:41 -0800 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 22:08:41 -0800 (PST) From: David Smith To: world-system network Subject: National Standards (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 21:22:00 PST From: Zeitlin, Maurice SOCIO FROM: Szelenyi, Ivan SOCIO To: History and Social Studies Colleagues From: Ross Dunn < rdunn@sciences.sdsu.edu> San Diego State University NATIONAL HISTORY STANDARDS On January 19, I posted a report that the U.S. Senate enacted by a vote of 99 to 1 a resolution calling on the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) and the National Education Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC), which Pres. Clinton has not yet appointed, to disapprove the National History Standards developed under the supervision of the National Center for History in the Schools. This resolution also read that "if the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, or any other Federal agency provides funds for the development of the standards . . . the recipient of such funds should have a decent respect for the contributions of western civilization, and United States history, ideas, and institutions, to the increase of freedom and prosperity around the world." I have subsequently learned that the 99 to 1 vote against the standards reflects in part a tactical move on the part of some members of the Senate. Sen. Gorton (R., Washington) had proposed an amendment to the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act instructing the NEGP and NESIC to disapprove the standards. Some Senators argued that such an amendment would constitute Congressional interference in the work of these two bodies. Recognizing that not enough votes could be mustered to defeat the amendment, these Senators agreed to support a nonbinding resolution, thus preventing the repudiation of the history standards from being enacted into law. Prior to the vote Sen. Gorton and others made speeches vigorously attacking the standards based on articles and media commentary by Lynne Cheney and other conservatives. It is unlikely that Senators who might have taken issue with these attacks have made themselves familiar with the actual contents of the standards books. Further Senate debate on this issue is likely to come. And certainly we will be hearing from the House. This Tuesday (Jan. 24) hearings will begin in the House regarding abolishment of the NEH. Lynne Cheney will testify, and certainly the history standards will be under discussion. On Jan. 19 Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the NEH, made a statement that history professionals should welcome: "It is completely inappropriate for the NEH to dictate, endorse or dissent from any of the model national standards being produced by various groups. Our role was to assist financially in the nonpartisan process of developing some of those guidelines for further public discussion, review, and ultimately decision by state and local school authorities. I must say, in the case of the History Standards, the way some people have politicized the discussion is a real disservice to the nation; the discussion has become more of a 'drive-by debate' than a thoughtful consideration. School reform is much too important to be made a hostage in the culture wars." Remarks made by Sen. Gorton and others reflect a general line of attack taken by Mrs. Cheney, John Fonte, and other critics. I wrote the following in the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (Dec. 7): "Since the standards in fact manifest no serious evidence of educational radicalism, the critics launched a campaign to misrepresent them, manufacturing a scary, imaginary version of the guidelines that does not remotely exist. These fictitious 'standards from hell' are made up of immense lists of names and terms that kids are supposed to memorize. George Washington, Einstein and the U.S. Constitution have been ruthlessly stricken from the inventory; dozens of obscure female poets, medieval African kings and degenerate rock stars have been added on. The pragmatic veteran school teachers from around the country who wrote the history standards would find this fabrication comical if some respectable reporters and politicians were not taking it so seriously." I would like to give you a few examples of the approach Sen. Gorton took in attacking the standards on the Senate floor: Sen. Gorton: "What is a more important part of our Nation's history for our children to study, George Washington or Bart Simpson? Is it more important that they learn about Roseanne Arnold, or how America defeated communism as the leader of the free world?" [The standards do not of course constitute a proto-textbook or sets of extended didactic essays but rather topical guidelines supported by hundreds of SUGGESTED classroom activities. The US standards devote 22 pages to the "Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s), a subject in which George Washington would obviously figure prominently. Sen. Gorton's reference to Bart Simpson and Rosanne Arnold is based on a single, four-line suggested activity for grade 9-12 students under a sub-standard encouraging students to "demonstrate understanding of contemporary American culture." The activity suggests that students "analyze the reflection of values in such popular TV shows as Murphy Brown, Roseanne, . . . and the Simpsons. Compare the depiction of values to those expressed in shows like Ozzie and Harriet, The Honeymooners. . . ."] Sen. Gorton: "The Constitution is not mentioned in the 31 core standards. . . ." [This is one of the more disingenuous charges. If pressed the critics have admitted they mean that the WORD "constitution" does not appear in the following major standard: "Students should understand the institutions and practices of government created during the revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system." Under this major heading are four standards calling for extensive study of the Continental Congress, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, and other subjects.] Sen. Gorton: "Thomas Edison . . . is not mentioned. Albert Einstein . . . not mentioned." [The thrust of this charge (and many others regarding historical personalities not "mentioned" in the books) is that the standards writers have suppressed such heros of our past for ideological reasons. As it turns out, both these men are "mentioned" on p. 262 of the World History Standards, though in a historical context, not as part of a list of names for students to memorize. So no one has deleted them from our collective consciousness after all! The U.S. standards, moreover, include the following standard: "Explain how inventions, technological innovations, and principles of scientific management transformed production and work" in the 1920s.] Sen. Gorton: "The world history standards fail to note that although slavery ended in the West during the 19th century, at the cost of the blood of hundreds of thousands of . . . the intrusive European immigrants, slavery continues to exist today as it has for millennia in the non-West. . . ." [This charge is an example of the cultural essentializing that has characterized much of the hostile commentary, as if the criteria guiding the standards project called for comparing the "sins" and "crimes" of the West and the "non-West." Do the standards "fail to note" the abolition of slavery in the 19th century? A world history standard reads in part "Demonstrate understanding of the causes and consequences of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery by: Assessing the relative importance of Enlightenment thought, Christian piety, democratic revolutions, slave resistance, and changes in the world economy in bringing about the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves in the Americas."] It is of course far easier to make flip accusations about the standards and to drop bombs on them than to explain in detail their organization and content, the criteria guiding them, the consensus-building process by which they were written, and so on. But it is important that efforts continue to be made to resituate 2the discussion in a forum of reason and sanity. BECAUSE OF THE SENATE ACTION AND FURTHER DEBATES AND HEARINGS TO COME, I URGE HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES PROFESSIONALS TO CONTACT THEIR LAWMAKERS AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO SUPPORT SHELDON HACKNEY'S APPEAL FOR A "THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION" OF THE HISTORY STANDARDS. IF YOU HAVE READ THE STANDARDS, LET YOUR REPRESENTATIVES KNOW YOUR VIEWS. The National Center for History has received many requests to make the standards available on-line. The Center is not funded to do this at present, though the Dept. of Education has indicated at various points that it would take responsibility for that project. It seems unlikely that they will do so in the present political climate. I will try in the next several days, however, to get at least an outline of both the US and world standards out to you. I encourage you to forward this message to other lists and to colleagues. I would also appreciate having the address for the new high school history teachers list if someone would supply it. Ross Dunn rdunn@sciences.sdsu.edu From acc1004@cus.cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 29 15:45:20 MST 1995 >From acc1004@cus.cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 29 15:45:19 1995 Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA13570; Sun, 29 Jan 1995 15:45:17 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #24) id m0rYiRl-000BzkC; Sun, 29 Jan 95 22:50 GMT Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 22:50:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "A.C. Cobb" To: ipe cc: World Systems Net , Peace studies group , EuroIR List , ANUIRLIST Subject: Calling Ralph Clem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know if Professor Ralph Clem of the Florida International University is on this list? Apologies for x-posting. Adam Cobb St John's College Cambridge acc1004@cus.cam.ac.uk From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Jan 31 15:11:54 MST 1995 >From chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tue Jan 31 15:11:53 1995 Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.5]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with SMTP id PAA29813 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:11:51 -0700 Received: from [128.220.25.44] ([128.220.25.44]) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <2316-3>; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:16:53 -0500 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 16:08:19 -0500 From: "Chris Chase-Dunn" Sender: chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Message-Id: <61700.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: NEWS RELEASE--CUBA TRAVEL CHALLENGE ------------------------------ From: "Michael Erisman" Mon, 30 Jan 1995 10:18:35 -0500 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NEWS RELEASE--CUBA TRAVEL CHALLENGE NEWS RELEASE On January 23, 1995, the six members of the second travel- challenge delegation returned from Cuba. Considering the licensing requirement imposed by the Federal Government on August 20, 1994, to be a blatant violation of First Amendment Rights, they refused to request licenses from the Treasury Department before travelling. Upon their return, those who landed in Miami were held for four and one half hours by Treasury and Custom agents and threatened with arrest. In the end, however, their passports were returned and they were released. The members of the delegation were Joel Edelstein of the University of Colorado, Michael Erisman of Indiana State University, Jean Handy of the University of North Carolina, Jack Hopkins of Indiana University, Reid Reading of the University of Pittsburgh, and Wayne Smith of Johns Hopkins University. They were supported by Margaret Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Asked by Treasury agent if in future they would request licenses, members of the delegation answered that they would not, since to do so would not only be to condone but to cooperate with a regulation flagrantly at odds with the First Amendment. Asked further if there would be additional delegations, they answered in the affirmative, indicating a new groups of academics was already forming to travel in defiance of the offending regulation in late February. This is not an isolated effort. The seven professors named above found some 25 other American academics in Cuba who had also travelled without licenses. The Freedom to Travel Campaign in San Francisco has taken hundreds of American citizens to Cuba over the past year in defiance of travel controls, and now Cuban-American groups have vowed to insist on their rights and to travel to the island to visit families despite the August 20 prohibition against such travel. LASA members interested in joining the February delegation (at your own expense) should contact Wayne Smith at (202) 232-3317; or fax (202) 232-3440. ******************************************************************* * H. MICHAEL ERISMAN TEl: 812/237-2429 (Office) * * Chair, Political Science 812/237-2430 (Dept.) * * Department * * Indiana State University FAX: 812/237-3445 * * Terre Haute, IN 47809 Direct To Dept * * * * E-MAIL: PSMERIS@SCIFAC.INDSTATE.EDU (Internet) * * PSMERIS@INDST (Bitnet) * * * ******************************************************************* Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu