Caucus for a New Political Science
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of
APSA
IN THIS ISSUE
FROM THE EDITOR
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CAUCUS
AWARDS.........................................................................page
3
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
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CHAIR
John Berg
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02108-2770
jberg@world.std.com
SECRETARY‑TREASURER
Carl Swidorski
The College of Saint Rose
Albany, NY 12203
swidorsc@mail.strose.edu
APSA PROGRAM COORDINATOR 2003
Christine Kelly
William Patterson University
Wayne, NJ 07470
KellyC@wpunj.edu
NEWS LETTER EDITOR
Dennis Moran
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN 46556
dmoran@nd.edu
FROM THE CHAIR
Dear Caucus members:
I am delighted to
announce that, after a long and careful search guided by
Laura Katz Olson and Rodolfo Torres,
New Political Science has a new Reviews Editor:
Mark
Mattern of Baldwin-Wallace College.
Mark is a long-term Caucus member;
many of you will know him as the author of Acting in Concert: Music, Community
and Political Action (Rutgers University Press, 1998). I had somewhat
overstayed my tenure under NPS's rotation-in-office plan, but had agreed to
stay on a few months. I am editing the reviews section for the June issue, and
Mark will take over as of the September issue. Anyone who is currently writing
a review at my request should still send it to me; Mark and I will work
together to blend those reviews in with those he solicits.
Mark has written an invitation for
all of you to become reviewers. Here it is.
CJohn
Berg
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FROM THE EDITOR
Our journal
continues to need more manuscript reviewers (contact Joe Peschek, editor) and
individuals willing to write book reviews (contact Mark Mattern, the new book
review editor). George Katsiaficas will be continuing on as book series editor
and asks that you consider submitting proposals for special theme issues or the
journals and/or books for our Routledge book series.
The June issue of
the NPS Newsletter will contain the 2003 APSA Program.
I continue to
encourage you to submit "blurbs" about your books as well as
information about upcoming conferences and events, calls for papers,
professional journal information, and activism to:
Dennis
Moran
The
Review of Politics
University
of Notre Dame
South
Bend, IN 46556
574-631-7705
dmoran@nd.edu
NPS AWARDS
New Award: The
Caucus has established a new award: The Francis Fox Piven and Richard
Cloward Award
This award will be given to a
community activist group located in the region where the annual meeting occurs
each year. It is in honor of the work of these two fine scholars and activists
who played a substantial role in the Caucus. The activist group must exemplify
the commitment of the New Political Science section to making political science
relevant to the struggle for a better
world.
Submit nominees to
the committee chair: Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College, 300 Airdale Rd., Bryn
Mawr PA 19010‑1697. Tel: (610) 520‑2622;
Email:
sschram@brynmawr.edu.
Charles A. McCoy Distinguished
Career Award
The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement
Award for a progressive scholar who has had a long, successful career as a
writer,
teacher and activist.
The award for 2002 went to Phil Green
of the New School and Smith College
Michael Harrington Award
The Michael Harrington Book Award is
given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in
the struggle for a better world.
2002 Recipient: Peter Dreier, John
Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom: Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty‑First
Century.
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas, 2001. Pp 349.)
Christian Bay Award
The Christian Bay Award for a New
Political Science is for a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association
2002 Award Winner: Carl Swidorski,
"From the New Deal to the Human Rights Watch Report: Labor and Freedom of
Expression and
Association, 1935‑2000."
To
Nominate Award Winners for this year:
Nominations for the Charles McCoy
Career Award should be submitted to:
Laura Katz Olson, Lehigh University,
Department of Political Science Maginnes Hall, 9 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem,
PA 18015‑3080. Tel:
(610) 758‑3340; Email:
lko1@Lehigh.EDU.
Nominations for the Christian Bay
Award should be sent to:
John Martin, Dowling College,
Political Science, 167 Richmond Ave,Medford, NY 11763. Tel: (516) 244‑3197;
Email: martinj@dowling.edu.
Nominations for the Michael
Harrington Award (including three copies of the book nominated) should be sent
to: To complete the nomination, a
copy of the book needs to be sent to each of the three committee members
(addresses below). Books must be received by
February 1, 2003. Questions should be
addressed to committee chair, Judith Grant at judithg@usc.edu.
Mail Books to:
Professor Michael Forman,
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington
Box 358436, 1900 Commerce St.,
Tacoma, WA 98402‑3100 USA
forman@u.washington.edu
Professor Judith Grant, Department of
Political Science, VKC 327, USC, LA, CA 90089
USA ph. 213‑740‑1685 FAX
213‑740‑8893
judithg@usc.edu
Professor Christine B. Harrington, 60
Dana St., Amherst, MA 01002, tel. 413‑549‑2775
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NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE WEBSITE
Thanks to the hard work of Bruce
Wright of California State, Fullerton, we now have a tertific website (www.apsanet.org/~nps/). Please check it out. It
contains information about the section and its officers, our journal, the
Routledge book series, our most recent APSA program, and NPS section awards.
There also are links to other Left sites, the feminist theory site, and the
Emma Goldman archive.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTERNATIONAL
POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
The 19th World
Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) will be held
in Durban, South Africa, June 29-July 4, 2003. The official Congress theme is
"Democracy, Tolerance, Justice: challenges for political change."
See http://www.ipsa.ca/congress/congress/congress.asp for more information.
IPSA Research Committee #49, "Socialism, Capitalism,
and Democracy," will organize two panels at the Congress. The panels will
be related to the purpose of the RC, "to provide a forum for discussion
and collective work among political scientists, with various subject matter
specialisations, who are interested in critical discussion of theories which
regard the capitalist system as an environment fundamentally hostile to
democratic politics and which advocate the replacement of production to the
fulfilment of human needs." With this purpose in mind, the themes of the
two panels will be as follows:
Panel I: Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy: Theoretical
Considerations
Panel II: Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy: Empirical
Studies
(Those are working titles -- once we have all the papers,
we will think up
something catchier!)
We have room for papers on both panels, and will probably
have the opportunity to organize an additional panel, should there be demand
for it. We are also looking for chairs, vice-chairs, and discussants for
panels.
If you are planning to travel to Durban for the IPSA
Congress, you may want to take in the immediately preceding conference of the
African Association of Political Science, June 26-28, 2003.
IPSA Congresses, we hold our own small conference once a
year, in various
places around the globe (Denmark, the US, Canada, the UK,
the Philippines),
and invite you to join us.
BJohn Berg
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Please check out my webpages:See my new book at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0742501922/bergsbookreviews/
CALL FOR PAPERS
I am seeking papers for a proposed panel at the American
Studies Association annual conference, Hartford CT, October 16-19, 2003.
"Strikers,
Communists, and Detectives"
This panel will examine the labor history of the detective
story. Allan Pinkerton's story collections of the 1870s and 80s championed the
Pinkerton National Detective Agency's staunch protection of the interests of
capitalism against "subversive" elements like "Strikers,
Communists, and Tramps" (the title of a 1878 Pinkerton volume). In such
accounts, and, later, in the pulp serial adventures of "Nat
Pinkerton" in the early 20th Century, the detective was dramatized as a
mysterious, if politically conservative, infiltrator of gangs and labor
organizations. To what extent is the detective genre itself-especially in its
popular incarnation in the form of dime novels and magazine stories- complicit with the nationalist and aggressively
capitalist suppression of organized labor and the "foreign" elements
it seemed to represent? To what extent does the detective genre resist this
political orientation, providing, even antithetically, a kind of popular history
of American labor movements and the violent struggles in which they engaged?
Papers that offer new critical approaches to the political
and social violence represented in the history of detective fiction will be
welcome: dime novels, "mysteries and miseries" of the city,
locked-room detective stories, hard-boiled thrillers, gangster stories and
films.
Please submit 300-word abstracts and brief vita by January
15, 2003 to jeburne@utk.edu.
Jonathan P. Eburne
Department of English
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-5401
jeburne@u
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Marxism
and the American Worker: a special issue
of Historical Materialism. America never stood still for Marx and Engels
(Irving Howe). In 2003 Historical Materialism will publish a
special issue, Marxism and the American Worker. The centrepiece will be the
first English translation, by Daniel Gaido of Haifa University, of the long
essay AThe American Worker@ by Karl Kautsky. First published in 1906, in Die Neue
Zeit, Kautsky was responding to Sombart famous book Why Is There No
Socialism in the United States?
New Political Science Books
New
Political Science books, published by Routledge, includes the following titles:
Chris
Toulouse and Timothy W. Luke, ed., The Politics of Cyberspace (1998).
George
Katsiaficas and Teodros Kiros, ed., The Promise of Multiculturalism:
Education and Autonomy in the 21st Century (1998).
Rodolfo D.
Torres and George Katsiaficas, ed., Latino Social Movements: Historical and
Theoretical Perspectives (1999).
Teodros
Kiros, ed., Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community,
Ethics, with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah (2001).
George N.
Katsiaficas, ed., After the Fall: 1989 and the Future of Freedom (2001).
Kathleen
Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, ed., Liberation, Imagination, and the Black
Panther Party: A New Look a the Black Panthers and Their Legacy (2001).
Kenton
Worcester, Sally Avery Bermanzohn, and Mark Ungar, ed., Violence and
Politics: Globalization's Paradox (forthcoming, 2001).
Please
consider using these books in
your courses or ordering them for your college/university library.
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Inciting Democracy: A Practical Proposal for
Creating a Good Society by Randy Schutt
In this age
of terrorism, hatred, and war, is it possible to create a humane and just
society? What obstacles impede social movements that are working for positive
change? How can progressive activists overcome these obstacles and create a
good society?
These are
the questions addressed in Inciting Democracy. Drawing on the scholarly
literature as well as the author's long experience as an activist, Inciting
Democracy offers a vision of what a good society might look like and explores
how we can overcome five key obstacles to creating such a society. It offers a
practical way to develop a large, decentralized education and support program
(the Vernal Education Project) that would bolster grassroots movements so that
people of goodwill can democratically and nonviolently transform society.
Note that the entire book can be downloaded and
read for free from the Vernal Project web site <http://www.vernalproject.org/IcDDownload.shtml>.
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Author Biography <http://www.vernalproject.org/AboutRandy.shtml>
Reviews <http://www.vernalproject.org/IcDReviews.shtml>
Download Chapters <http://www.vernalproject.org/IcDDownload.shtml>
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Published by SpringForward Press <http://www.springforwardpress.com>,
September 2001. 320 pages, paperback, 8
1/2" x 11"
Inciting Democracy has been or will be used in a
variety of college classes including classes at:
* University of Massachusetts, Amherst
* University of Texas, El Paso
* Antioch, New England
* Brandeis University
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Tenure-track
position in environmental politics. We are hiring for Fall 2003 an Assistant
Professor in environmental politics, with a preference for someone who could
teach courses in public policy. Our original announcement in the APSA Personnel
Newsletter stated that we were interested in scholars with a focus on US
politics, but this is longer the case (although those who do study US
environmental policy are encouraged to apply).
The application is due December 1st and should include:
letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, writing sample, teaching
portfolio (syllabi, evaluations) and three letters of recommendation. Address
applications to: Environmental Politics Search Committee, Department of
Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans LA 70118. We encourage
applications from minority and female candidates.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Lehigh
University has an opening for an Assistant Professor in public law. We are
actively seeking minority candidates. If you have a student you could
recommend, please forward the name to me and I will personally call her/him.
And, if you are interested please let me know as well. A description of the job
is available in the APSA newsletter and the web. But if you need more
information, please e-mail or call me.
Thanks.
Laura Katz
Olson, Lehigh University
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The College of Saint Rose invites applications for a
tenure-track assistant professorship in urban politics to begin Fall 2003. The
committee seeks a scholar with specialized research interests in urban politics
to join an expanding department with existing disciplinary expertise in
constitutional law, political theory, legislative politics, and
international/comparative politics.
Teaching responsibilities will include courses in urban ethnic politics
and comparative urban politics, as well as courses in administrative politics
(including the presidency) and survey research/public opinion. Qualifications include teaching experience,
enthusiasm for undergraduate and graduate teaching, and a demonstrated
commitment to scholarship. The Ph.D. is preferred, although advanced ABDs will
be considered. Send letter of
application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, and graduate transcripts to
Professor Carl Swidorski, Chair, Urban Politics Search Committee, The College
of Saint Rose, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, New York 12203.
Review of applications to begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled, but none will be accepted after January 15, 2003. The College seeks to enhance the diversity of
its faculty and encourages women and minorities to apply.
Center for Women=s InterCultural Leadership
www.saintmarys.edu/~cwil
Saint Mary=s College, a Catholic, four-year liberal arts institution for
women located approximately 90 miles east of Chicago, has recently established
the Center for Women=s InterCultural Leadership through support of a Lilly Endowment,
Inc. grant. The Center for Women=s InterCultural Leadership seeks to increase awareness of the
importance of intercultural dialog in today=s world; to highlight the leadership roles women have adopted in
such dialog; and to foster the next generation of women leaders. In pursuit of
these goals, the Center offers a number of fellowships, which are joint
appointments with academic departments.
All appointments are for one year with the possibility of a renewal for
a second year. CWIL Fellows have three
general types of responsibilities: 1)
research; 2) teaching courses relating to cultural or women=s leadership issues; 3) assisting the Center and/or the department
in its programmatic and community activities.
The relative weight of these activities will vary depending upon the
type of fellowship and the needs of the sponsoring department.
__________________________________________________________________________
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a
tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning in Autumn
2003. Teaching responsibilities include a set of three introductory thematic
courses on Equality, Freedom, and Legitimacy as well as upper level courses
focusing on particular traditions and discourses. A serious background in Western political
thought will be necessary, but candidates with additional strong interests in
non-Western or post-colonial thought would bring desired breadth to our
program. This position also involves teaching in an interdisciplinary general
education program. The search committee is eager to review applications of
individuals with demonstrated excellence in teaching. DePaul University is committed to recruiting
a diverse faculty to complement the diversity of its student body and Chicago
area communities. The Ph.D. is required by date of appointment. Candidates
should send a letter of application, vita, writing sample, sample syllabi,
comprehensive set of course evaluations, and three current letters of
recommendation to Political Theory Search Committee, Department of Political
Science, DePaul University, 990 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Il 60614-3298.
For more information, email polisci@depaul.edu or visit the department=s web site at http://condor.depaul.edu/~psc. Please do not send applications by
email. The search committee will begin
reviewing applications immediately. To
ensure full consideration, please send your completed application file by
January 24, 2003.
Journal of the Caucus for a Political
Science
New Political Science is the journal of the Caucus for a
New Political Science. The focus of New Political Science is on developing
analyses which reflect a commitment to progressive social change as well as
those which are within exploratory phases of development in political science.
Thus, the editors seek manuscripts that make contributions to critical thinking
and progressive politics and which fit the following criteria:
1. The preferred form of communication is by e‑mail.
Articles should be submitted by E‑mail but five copies suitable for blind
anonymous peer review should simultaneously be sent by snail mail.
2. Manuscript should be typed, double‑spaced on one
side of 8 l/: by 11 paper.
3. Submitted works should not normally exceed forty pages.
4. Submitted works should be accompanied by an abstract of
approximately 150 words.
5. Submitted works should be accompanied by a brief
autobiographical sketch of author(s) of around 25 words.
6. All footers should appear at the bottom and be numbered
consecutively. Full citations should be presented within footnotes using the
following example guideline:
Books: David
Helvarg, The War Against the Greens (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1994), p. 287.
Articles: Edward
P. Morgan, "America's Post‑Vietnam Stress Disorder," Peace
Review 8:2 (1996), pp. 237‑38.
Ibd, and Op. Cit. may be used.
Manuscripts accepted for review are evaluated by a minimum
of two scholars active in the field. Because we use anonymous peer reviews, the
copies of the paper should have separate title pages. Manuscripts accepted for
publication must be submitted on computer disc formatted on Word Perfect 5.1 of
Word 6.0. Authors are expected t o promptly (within 48 hours) return corrected
proofs. Fifty off prints of each published article and complete copy of the
revenant journal issue will be sent to the senior author.
Manuscripts should be submitted to:
George Katsiaficas, Editor
New Political Science / Wentworth Institute of Technology
550 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
katsiaficasg@wit.edu
Call for Reviewers and Review Materials:
NPS
Caucus members and New Political Science journal readers are encouraged to
volunteer as reviewers for the journal. Consistent with the mission of the
Caucus, reviews emphasize critical and progressive perspectives on politics and
culture. Politics is interpreted broadly to include, for example, the politics
of class, gender, race/ethnicity, and disability as well as government. As a
"Journal of Politics and Culture," New Political Science offers a
space for critical commentary on multiple political and cultural expressions.
These potentially include, for example, film, public art, performance art,and
community art as well as books. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer,
please contact reviews editor Mark Mattern at the address below. Caucus members
and journal readers are invited to submit ideas for books and other materials
to review. Authors and other culture producers are also invited to bring their
work to the review editor's attention for possible review. Authors should ask
their publisher to send the review editor a copy of their book, or alert the
review editor to its publication so he can secure a copy, for possible review
in New Political Science. Filmmakers, artists, and other culture producers
should also bring their work to the reviews editor's attention for possible
review.
Please
direct your suggestions, questions, concerns and criticisms to the address
below. Thank you, in advance, for your contributions to the New Political
Science journal and to the larger goals of the Caucus for a New Political
Science.
Mark Mattern
NPS Reviews Editor
Department of Political Science
Baldwin Wallace College
275 Eastland Road
Berea, OH 44017
mmattern@bw.edu
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