FYI. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Call for papers Globalization, Gender, and Social Change in the 21st Century A special issue of International Sociology official journal of the International Sociological Association This special issue of International Sociology is planned in conjunction with the XV ISA World Congress to be held in Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002. It is aimed at promoting scholarship and research that emphasizes the centrality of gender in studying social change associated with the process of globalization. The overall theme is framed broadly enough to include a variety of critical issues, debates, and problems as well as transformative practices at the local, regional, national, and global levels. Specific objectives are: - To promote scholarship about important women/gender issues, growing concerns, and new problems worldwide at the dawn of the 21st century. - To analyze systematically and critically the emergent patterns of global structuration and process at the political, socioeconomic, and cultural levels and their impact on women and men in different historical times, societies, and cultures. - To study how women and/or men face the challenges of globalization in terms of opportunities and risks; how they struggle for basic rights, equality, sustainable development, and peace; and how they engage in activism and resistance movements, demonstrating their agency working for empowerment, global justice, and humanity. - To seek understanding of the intricate linkages among theory, research, and praxis by developing a transformative scholarship within sociology in the new millennium. Articles exploring in-depth case studies, ethnographic field research, historical/comparative analyses, and reflective/ theoretical think pieces are welcome. Topic is entirely open as long as it relates to the relationships between gender and globalization. The centrality of gender in theorizing, analysis, and praxis in the process of global changes may cover one or more of the following areas: - Global economy, restructuring, and poverty - Development, inequality, alternative models - Trade, financial crises, loan burdens - Labor market and formal/informal sectors - Household and family dynamics - Modernity, diversity, and culture - Migration, urbanization, and global cities - Social institutions, gender relations, and identities - Women's movements and political activism - Environment and global justice - Upheaval created by and resistance to globalization - Racism and ethnic conflicts in world development - The role of the state, international organizations, and policy - Media, technology, and science - Trafficking of women and child prostitution - Nationalism, politics, and democracy - Colonialism. post-coloniality, and re-colonialization - Human rights, feminist jurisprudence, and legal theories - Fundamentalism, religious movements, and institutions - Militarization, armed conflicts, and peace All papers submitted will undergo refereed reviews. Guidelines for contributions are available at http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/is_guidelines.htm and printed inside the back cover of that journal. Two copies of the paper, typed and double-spaced, should be submitted by June 1, 2002 to: Esther Ngan-ling Chow Department of Sociology, American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., McCabe Hall Washington, D.C. 20016, USA For more information, contact Esther Ngan-ling Chow at [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Germov, Lecturer in Sociology Sociology & Anthropology The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/germov.htm ______________________________ Vice President, TASA: The Australian Sociological Association www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/tasa ______________________________ XV World Congress of Sociology 7-13 July 2002, Brisbane, Australia www.sociology2002.com ______________________________ 'Wisdom begins in wonder.' -- Socrates ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
