PEWS XXIII: Inequality and Social Movements

PEWS XXIII: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 26- 27, 1999

The Conference was organized by Nancy Forsythe and Patricio Korzeniewicz. The theme was "Inequality and Social Movements." The program was as follows:

Panel 1:

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano, Denis Nikitin and Ben Brewer, "Trajectories of Globalization: 1800-2000"

Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Timothy P. Moran and Angela Stach, "Inequality in the World-Economy"

David Smith, "Globalization and Anti-Globalization: World-Systemic Implications of the East Asian Crisis"

Panel 2:

Nancy Forsythe, Vrushali Patil and Gwyndolyn J. Weathers, "Making Ground to Stand On: World-Systems Analysis and Gender Studies"

Ramón Grosfoguel, "Post-Colonial Critique and World-System Approach: A Call for a Dialogue"

Richard Lee, "The Politics of Knowledge Formation: Social Movements and the Structures of Knowledge"

Panel 3:

Torry Dickinson, "Unexpected Feminist Revolutions: Today's Woman-Centered Movements and the Reappropriation of Global Resources"

William G. Martin, "World-Systems Analysis from 1968 to 1998 and Beyond: Still an Antisystemic Intellectual Movement?"

Guest Lecture

Chair: Immanuel Wallerstein

Guest Speaker: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Panel 4:

Angela Martin Crowley, "Weapons Acquisitions and the Limits of Power"

Jason W. Moore, "Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Unrest, and the Last Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1870-1914"

Dale Tomich, "Constructing Global Inequalities: Market, Labor, and Domination in Nineteenth Century Cuban Planter Thought"

Panel 5:

Richard Hutchinson, "Red and Green Movements in the World-System: Contradiction and Synthesis"

Galip Isen, "Moving Without a Movement: Women's Rights in Turkey"

Agustín Lao-Montes, "Niuyol: Urban Regime, Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad"

Panel 6:

Wilma A. Dunaway, "Rethinking Gender Inequality: The Hidden Inputs of Women and Households into Capitalist Commodity Chains"

Marina Karides, "Income Inequality in the Periphery: The World-Systems Debates and the Case of Trinidad's Informal


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