42. New Political Science

Clyde Barrow, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, cbarrow@umassd.edu

Globalization is often understood as the inexorable result of impersonal technological and market forces that operate beyond the control of existing governments, institutions, and organizations.  The New Political Science section is calling for individual papers and panel proposals that question this thesis by analyzing how various forms of inequality are reproduced and extended through intersecting networks of domestic governmental policies and programs, international treaties, and the decisions of transnational or supranational organizations. Papers or panels that explore how different forms of oppression, domination, and exploitation are created, reproduced, or extended through the inequalities generated by the existing policies of globalization are particularly welcome.  To the extent that existing globalization is an unfinished policy, or merely one policy option among others, it is still subject to political intervention and, therefore, paper and panel proposals should also exemplify the intellectual practice of new political science as an academic movement committed to advancing progressive political development.  The section is interested in papers or panel proposals that not only critically challenge the dominant ideological categories of the political science discipline, but that challenge the politics legitimated by those ideological categories.