November 18, 2009, 4:30 p.m. Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330
Xiaoxi Tong, Sociology Department, Chinese Agricultural University Beijing and Visiting Research Fellow, Sociology Department, Binghamton University
"Popular Contentions in the History of the People's Republic of China: Cycles, Repertoires, and Transformations"

April 7, 2010
William Robinson, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
"The Crises of Global Capitalism: Cyclical? Structural? Systemic?"

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The Global South and the Emerging World-Order
Coordinator: Ravi Palat

The continued growth of production in China, India, Brazil, South Africa and other states in the global south signifies a fundamental transformation of global geo-political relations. More...

October 23, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - Location TBD
Anne-Maria Makhulu, Anthropology, Duke University
"Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City"

March 18, 2010
Sujatha Fernandes, Sociology, Queen's College CUNY
"Media, Social Movements and the State in Post-Neoliberal Venezuela"


The Global Criminal Justice Complex: Women, Migrants and Foreigners
Coordinator: William Martin

One of the hallmark features of the last several decades has been an astonishing increase in the number of persons imprisoned in the United States. By the closing years of the twentieth century this generated much discussion in scholarly and public policy circles. Most of this interest has been focused on the costs and causes of imprisoning Latino and African-American men. This speakers series moves beyond this common frame by examining incarceration as a larger, world-wide, process of social regulation, particularly as it affects the fastest growing components of today?s prison population in the US, Europe, and elsewhere: women, migrants, and foreigners, especially those marked by subordinate ethnic or racial status. Individuals and communities in these groups share a common marginality, bordering on invisibility, having been excluded by lack of citizenship, gender, ethnicity, race, or human rights.

The series is sponsored by members of a collective working group, the Social Justice Projects group, which facilitates research and community work in this area.

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