Perils and Promises of Globalization:
Difference, Resistance, and Possibility
The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) invites you to participate in our 2006 annual meeting to be held in Louisville, Kentucky on August 10-13. This year's theme is Perils and Promises of Globalization: Difference, Resistance and Possibility. Continuing shifts in the global economy disproportionately disadvantage particular categories of people throughout the world. The poor, people of color, women and children are particularly vulnerable in the social and political-economic shifts that drive and result from globalization. In response, scholars, activists, communities, and public institutions are simultaneously analyzing, resisting, and actively creating alternatives. Differences in race, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality inspire and intersect in the struggle to create new possibilities and opportunities for social and economic equity and environmental sustainability. At this year's meeting, we will push forward on our long-standing commitment to use our scholarship to make a difference in rural people's lives, communities, and places.
We invite you to participate in the 2006 Annual Meeting. We especially encourage papers and panels on these topics:
- Discourses and ideologies surrounding globalization and resistance
- Experiences of people suffering from, resisting, and developing alternatives to globalization
- Public sociologies, public intellectuals, and science studies
- Spatialization, uneven development, and rurality
- Impacts of globalization on labor conditions, workers, and communities
- Particularities of resistance, local and global efforts, and their interconnections
- Methodologies of participatory research, community engagement, and international organizing
- Practices of global capitalism, outsourcing, flexible labor, and cost cutting
- Effects of nationalism, borders, diasporas, and violence
- Roles of culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in rural communities
- Impact of globalization on natural resources and environmental sustainability
- Innovations and changes in food and agricultural systems in the global economy
- Citizenship, governance, and democratic principles, policies, and practices
- Technologies of repression and resistance
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Carolyn Sachs
RSS President Elect
Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Economics
Pennsylvania State University
110 Armsby Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-863-4025
Fax: 814-865-3578
Email: csachs@psu.edu -
Patricia Allen
2006 Annual Meeting Program Chair
Sustainable Food Systems Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel: 831-459-4243
Fax: 831-459-2799
Email: 2006rss@ucsc.edu
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