PEWS XXV: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 19-21, 2001.
The theme of the conference, organized by Wilma Dunaway, was "The World-System in the 21st Century." The program was:
Keynote Address: Immanuel Wallerstein, "The End of the World As We Know It: The Intellectual in an Age of Transition"
First Theme: Systemic Crises and Antisystemic Resistance
Session I: Crises and Resistance of the World's Women and Children
Chyong-fang Ko (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Han-pi Change (I-Shou University, Taiwan), "Is the 21st Century World Economy a Passport to Development or to Sexual Exploitation?"
Thomas J. Burns, Jeffrey D. Kentor (Univ. of Utah), & Andrew Jorgensen (Univ. of California, Riverside), "Environmental Degradation and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries: A World-System Perspective"
Torry D. Dickinson (Kansas State Univ.), "The Feminist Face of Democracy and Equality: Global Movements that Challenge the World-System"
Session II: Survival and Resistance by Indigenous Peoples
Thomas D. Hall (DePauw Univ.), "Using the Past to Discover the Futures of Indigenous Peoples"
Kathleen Pickering (Colorado State Univ.) "The Dynamics of Everyday Incorporation: Lakota Culture in the 21st Century"
Kinuthia Macharia (American Univ.), "Resistant Indigenous Identities in the 21st Century World-System: Selected African States"
Session III: Crises of 21st Century Cities
Eric Slater (Manhattanville College), "The Return of the Capitalist City: Global Urbanism in the 21st Century
Bruce Stanley (Univ. of Exeter, U.K.), "'Going Global' and Wannabe World Cities: (Re) Conceptualizing Regionalism in the Middle East"
Robert G. Dyck & Wei Huang (Virginia Tech), "Integration of China's Pearl River Delta into the World-Economy: 21st Century Crises Associated with Hyper-Urbanization"
Session IV: Labor and Labor Solidarity in the 21st Century World-System
Kelvin Santiago-Valles (Binghamton Univ.), "Reconceptualizing Racially-Depreciated Labor within the Current Phase of Globalization: The Puerto Rican 'Case'"
Tim Ricker (Univ. of Maryland) and Dale Wimberley (Virginia Tech), "Internal Dynamics and External Activity of a Movement Network during Intense Mobilization: The Case of the Global Campaign for Nicaraguan Maquila Worker Rights, 1999-2000"
Aslihan Aykac (Binghamton Univ.), "Labor's Response to Early 21st Century Globalization"
Session V: Crises at the Periphery
Trichur K. Ganesh (Southampton College), "Capitalist Globalization and Third World Liberalization in the 21st Century"
Taimoon Steward (Univ. of the West Indies), "Debt and Resurrection: A Prognosis for the Periphery in the 21st Century"
Ana Isla (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), "Economic and Ecological War against the Poor: The Debt Crisis and Debt-for-Nature Investment in Costa Rica"
Second Theme: Looking Toward the Future
Session VI: New Theoretical Directions
Victor Roudometof (Washington & Lee Univ.), "Globalization and Competing Paradigms in World-Systems Analysis"
Jason W. Moore (Johns Hopkins Univ.), "The Modern World-System as Environmental History? Nature and Future of World-System Analysis"
Richard E. Lee (Binghamton Univ.), "Historical Social Science and the Epistemology of Political-Economic Agendas"
Session VII: World Cities and the Nation-State
David Smith (Univ. of California, Irvine) & Michael Timberlake (Kansas State Univ.), "Global Urban Hierarchies: Cities in the 21st Century World-System"
Denyz Yukseker-Yenal (Bilkent Univ., Turkey), "The Informal Economy in the 21st Century: From an Urban Enclave to a Transnational Market"
Trudy Coker (Florida Atlantic Univ.), "Unveiling the Weakness of the State in a Semiperipheral Country: The Venezuela Case"
Session VIII: The 21st Century World-System: How Different from the Past?
Satoshi Ikeda (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), "Second Phase of the East Asian Miracle: Accumulation, Governance, and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System"
Emanuela Todeva (South Bank Univ., U.K.) & Haico Ebbers (Nyenrode Univ., Netherlands), "Integration of the Post-Communist Economies of Central and Eastern Europe into the 21st Century World-Economy"
Susan Manning (Johns Hopkins Univ.), "Financial Crisis and Control in the 21st Century World-System"
Session IX: Future Structures of Knowledge, Science and Technology
R. Warren Flint (Five E's Unlimited, Virginia), Richard C. Rich (Virginia Tech), and Kim Lamphier (Wildlife Habitat Council), "Sustainable Communities: Their Definition and Science Needs"
Maria Lucia Maciel (Univ. of Brasilia, Brazil), "The Scientific-Technological Revolution and Transformations in the 21st Century World-System"
Lauren Langman (Loyola Univ., Chicago), Douglas Morris & Jackie Zalewski, "Globalization, Domination and Cyberactivism"
Closing Plenary Session: The Future of World-Systems Analysis
Peter Taylor (Loughborough Univ., U.K.)
Heinz Sonntag (Central Univ. of Venezuela)
Charles Lemert (Wesleyan Univ.)
Respondent: Immanuel Wallerstein