Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA June 2002
Caucus for a New Political Science
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA
IN THIS ISSUE
FROM THE EDITOR ......................................................................page 2
NPS NEWS/ APSA 2002 PANELS ..................................................page 3
UPCOMING CONFERENCES/CALLS FOR PAPERS ..............page 11
ACTIVISM ........................................................................................page 14
ANNOUNCEMENTS .......................................................................page 12
NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE ........................................................page 16
CHAIR
John Berg
SuffolkUniversity
Boson, MA 02108-2770
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Carl Swidorski
The College of Saint Rose
Albany, NY 12203
APSA PROGRAM COORDINATOR 2002
John Martin
Dowling College
Oakdale, NY 11769
NEWS LETTER EDITORS
Carl Swidorski
Dennis Moran
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN 46556
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA June 2002
Our summer edition of the newsletter features the preliminary program of NPS panels at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston August 28 - September 1st. Many thanks to John Martin of Dowling College, our 2002 Program Coordinator, for putting together this program.
Everyone is invited to attend our annual business meeting which will be held on Friday,
August 30th at 5:30 pm. Our annual plenary session Saturday, August 31st at 8:00 pm features Norm Chomsky. The plenary is co-sponsored by the Human Rights and Ecological and Transformational Politics sections. Remember that this year, our annual reception has been switched to 10:00 pm Saturday evening following the plenary.
Finally, if you do not subscribe to our journal, New Political Science, please consider doing so. The revenues we receive from Taylor and Francis for operating expenses associated with the journal are partially contingent on subscriptions. A few extra subscriptions, which push us over their baseline number, means a difference of a couple thousand dollars. The price for members, $32, is a bargain. Thanks.
Individuals are encouraged to send information about upcoming conferences and events, book announcements, calls for papers, professional journal information, and activism to:
Please send all information in either hard copy, via E-mail, or WordPerfect and/or Word diskette format. The deadline for the next newsletter is October 15, 2002.
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA June 2002
BUSINESS Meeting - Friday, August 30th 5:30-6:30 pm
Plenary Speaker - Professor Noam Chomsky, MIT - Saturday, August 31st 8:00 pm
Co-sponsored by New Political Science, Human rights and Ecological and Transformational Politics
Reception - Saturday, 10:00 pm
Title Domestic Political Coalitions and Foreign Policy in the New Millennium
Thursday, 8:45 am to 10:30 am
Chair Thoms Ferguson, University of Massachusetts. Boston
Participants Walter Dean Burnham, University of Texas, Austin
"Domestic Political Coalitions and Foreign Policy n the New Millennium"
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Gregory Nowell, SUNY, University of Albany
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Discussant David Gibbs, University of Arizona
Title Feminist Critiques of Contemporary Welfare Policy: A Roundtable Discussion
Co-Sponsored with section 31, Women and Politics
Friday, 10:45 am to 12:30 pm
Chair Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University
Participants Gwendolyn Mink, Smith College
Ann Withorn, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Martha Davis, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University
Title Poor People's Movements: A 25-year Retrospective
Thursday, 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Chair Joel Lefkowitz, State University of New York at New Paltz
Participants Fred Block, University of California at Davis
Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr
Sidney G. Tarrow, Cornell University
Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate School
Joe Kling, St. Lawrence University
Panel 42-4
Title Marx's Theory of the State and Bush's War on Terrorism
Saturday, 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Chair John Manley, Stanford University
Participants Bertell Ollman, New York University
"Of Patriotism"
Mehmet Tabak, Columbia University
"Of Class"
August Nimtz, University of Minnesota
"Of Democracy"
John Manley, Stanford University
Michael Forman, University of Washington
Panel 42-5
Title Intellectuals in a Time of War
Saturday, 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Chair Manfred Steger, Illinois State University
Participants Carol Boggs, Jr., National University
"Militarism and Terrorism: The Deadly Cycle"
Phil Green, Smith College and The New School
"Should Intellectuals be Patriots?"
Manning Marable, Columbia University
Joy James, Brown University
"Dissenting Intellectuals in the Academe and In Prison"
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
"A Feminist Stance in a Time of War"
Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University
Title Civil Society in an Era of Globalization: Agent of Democracy or Weak Substitute?
Thursday, 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Chair Robert Fatton, Jr. University of Virginia
Participnts Jennifer Disney, Queens College
"Post-Revolutionary Women's Movements in Mozambique and Nicaragua: The Potential and Limitations of Civil Society"
Erica Bouri, University of Denver
"The Multiple Identities of the State: An Opportunity Missed by the Anti-Globalization Protest"
Rachel May, University of Washington, Tacoma
"Human Rights and Democratization: A Framework for Comparative Analysis"
Rmay@u.washington.edu
Heather Turcotte, San Francisco State University
"The Precarious Alliance of Oil: How Women's Political Activism
Influenced Economic Development and Security in Nigeria's International
Petroleum Industry"
Candice Ortbals, Indiana University
"Embedded Structures and Cultures: An Investigation of Regional
Women's Policy Agencies and Local Women's Groups in Spain"
Irving Leonard Markovitz, CUNY Graduate Center
Catherine O'Leary, Marymount Manhattan College
Panel 42-7
Title Democracy Beyond the Nation-State
Saturday, 8:45 am - 10:30 am -- Co-Sponsored with Section 3 (Normative
Political Theory)
Chair Nancy Hartsock, University of Washington
Participants Theodora Kostakopoulou, University of Manchester
"Floating Sovereignty: A Pathology or a Necessary Means of State Evolution?"
Catherine Guisan-Dickinson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
"Political Theory and the European Union: In Search of a Political Tradition"
Andrea Sngiovanni-Vincentelli, Harvard University
"Why Output Legitimacy Doesn't Work: Democracy and Administrative
Governance in the EU"
Joseph Schwartz, Temple University
Reconceptualizing "the Left" in a Globalized, Allegedly "Postmodern" World"
Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College
Tim Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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Description:
Many of us went into political science because of our commitment to using politics to make the world better. Can such a commitment survive in the academic world? Some have found a way - and will share their knowledge with sort course participants.
Organizer:
John C. Berg
Department of Government
Suffolk University
41 Temple street
Boston, MA 021114-4280
Email: jberg@suffolk.edu
SESSION I: "Political Activism as a Research Method" 1:00 - 3:00 pm
1) Christine Kelly, William Paterson University,
2) Edward Malecki, California State University - Los Angeles,
3) Richard Couto, University of Richmond
4) Thomas S. DeLuca, Jr., Fordham University
SESSION II: "Political Activism and Teaching: How to Integrate Your Professional
Life" 3:30 - 5:30 pm
1) Stephen L. Fisher, Emory an Henry College
2) Victor Wallis, Berkeley School of Music
3) Tracy Lightcap, LaGrange College
4) Craig Rimmerman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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1) Stuart Hartger; "Information Technology for Electoral Accountability: A New
Strategy for Political System Reform." Stuart@civildemocracy.org
2) Jyl Josephson: "Faith-Based Community Organizing: Building Social Capital
Across Social Cleveages." jjosep@ilstu.edu
3) Mary Bellman: "Labor Mobilization in Export Processing Zones: Lessons
from the Firm Level of Analysis." Mbellman@unm.edu
4) Lane Crothers: "The End of a Movement: The Decline of the Modern American Militia Movement: 1994-2001." Alcroth@ilstu.edu
5) Kate Bedford: "From Policy Advocacy to Statistical Assessment? A Feminist Exploration of the Quantification of Violence Against Women in the World Bank." Kbedford@eden.rutgers.edu
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Dr. Philip Green is the 2002 recipient of the Charles A. McCoy Distinguished Career award. After receiving his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1965 he taught at Smith College for nearly 35 years, until 1998. He is now a visiting professor at the New School, in New York City.
Dr. Green is widely know in political science and the progressive community of activists and intellectuals. He has published nine books, including Equality and Democracy (1999); Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood (1998); Democracy (1993); Retrieving Democracy: In Search of Civic Equality (1885) and The Pursuit of Inequality (1981). He has authored numerous book chapters and articles on democratic theory and practice, equality and economics.
He has served on the editorial boards of The Nation and The Massachusetts Review, and has been co-chair of the American Writers' Congress and the Academic Freedom Committee of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Green is a founding member of the Caucus for a New Political Science and served on its executive board for four years. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow.
A voice of the New Left, a radical in the spirit of John Stuart Mill, Dr. Green has been a caring teacher and mentor to many undergraduates, graduates and young faculty colleagues at Smith and in the profession generally. There is hardly a member of the Caucus who has not benefitted from his kindness, generosity, and intelligence. The Caucus is honored to give him our prestigious Charles A. McCoy Distinguished Career Award.
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NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE WEBSITE
Thanks to the hard work of Bruce Wright of California State, Fullerton, we now have a terrific website (www.apsanet.org/~new/). 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
'The Politics of Resistance and Class' will be a stream at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, October 2-4, 2002, at the Australian National University, in Canberra.
Closing date for offers of papers is May 31st ; closing date for receipt of papers for peer review is August 2nd . For details of the format for offers of papers and about the conference in general see
http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/psa/
If you are interested in presenting a paper in the 'The Politics of Resistance and Class' stream, contact:
Rick Kuhn
Australian National University
School of Social Sciences/Arts
ACT 0200 Australia
Phone: +61(2) 612-53851
Fax: +61(2) 612-52222
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA June 2002
The Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), located amid central Vermont's rolling mountains, has been a center for education and action working with the ideas of social ecology since the 1970's. The ISE and its programs also serve as a forum for serious dialogue among ecological, social justice, and anti-capitalist activists, as a laboratory for new ecological technologies, and as a resource for community groups around the world. For the summer of 2002, the ISE is again offering its widely acclaimed programs.
Ecology and Community - June 28 to July 27
This month-long, intensive learning experience offers workshops and practica in the field of social ecology. Course include: Understanding Capitalism: Global Perspectives, Movement Building: Theory and Practice, Feminism and Ecology, Radical Agriculture, Toward Direct Democracy, and Radical Education & Deschooling.
Economics, Philosophy, & Politics in the Age of Globalization - August 2 -10
This continuing studies program offers a dynamic exploration of current social and political trends, even as it mines the past to make sense of the present. In this eight-day intensive, students will participate in one of two possible tracks. To enroll, students must have completed the Ecology and Community program offered each summer by the ISE.
Science, Technology, the State, and Globalization - August 12 - 14
The aim of this 3-day continuing studies workshop is to show how many current environmental, cultural, and economic problems posed by globalization remain rooted in the hegemonic ideas of capitalist technology, science, and statism. Alternatives to this inherently destructive evolution will also be discussed. To enroll, students must have completed the Ecology and Community program offered each summer by the ISE.
ISE / Burlington College B.A. Degree in Social Ecology
The ISE in collaboration with Burlington College, offers a B.A. in an individualized major in social ecology. This program is rooted in the understanding that every student is an individual. Rather than the standardized learning offered by traditional colleges and universities, we believe in an alternative education model that is flexible and interdisciplinary.
The Institute for Social Ecology was established in 1974 and incorporated in 1981 as an independent institution for th purposes of education, research, and outreach in the field of social ecology. For over a quarter of a century, ISE has inspired individuals involved in numerous social change movements to work toward a directly democratic, liberatory, and ecological society. The education programs of the Institute for Social Ecology have served more that 2,000 students around the world.
For further information on our programs, contact the ISE BY email at info@socialecology.org/, telephone (802) 454-8493, or visit our website at http://www.socialecology.org/.
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA June 2002
The 2001 Daniel Singer prize has been won by Professor Sam Gindin of York University, Toronto, Ontario. Professor Gindin holds the Packer Chair in Social Justice, Department of Political Science.
The $2,500 annual prize is a tribute to the outstanding writer and thinker who died in December 2000. Daniel Singer was an independent and important Marist thinker who extended a critical analysis of capitalism, social democracy and the ideals of socialism, in his journalism and books.
This year's competition attracted submissions from ten states in the USA, as well as from Hungary, India, the UK and Canada. The judges were authors and scholars from Italy, France, England, Mexico and the USA.
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation now invites submissions for the 2002 Daniel Singer Prize.
Convinced that our society is no longer able to provide answers that meet the social needs of our stage of development, Daniel Singer insisted that another society must be built progressively by the people -- a society unequivocally based on democracy and equality.
The Foundation seeks to stimulate thinking about ways the people of the world, at the beginning of a new millennium, can take control of their own destinies to move societies to a next and higher stage of development.
The prize will be awarded for an original essay of not more that 5,000 words that advances those objectives, and also explores and expands Daniel Singer's legacy.
Essays may be submitted in any language, but if other than English, it would be helpful to append an English translation.
Essays will be judged by an international panel of distinguished experts appointed by the Foundation. The judges' names will not be published. This panel will include none of the trustees. The winning essay will be announced in December 2002, and the winner will be invited to deliver a public lecture based on the essay.
Submissions should be made no later than August 31, 2002 to:
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
P.O. Box 334
Sherman, CT 06784 (USA)
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A Call to Invest Social Choice Account Assets In Companies and Community Development Institutions That are Models of Social and Environmental Responsibility
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
In a New York Times article (January, 2002), TIAA-CREF'S CEO's John H. Biggs said he would support the creation of a new retirement fund that would employ not only negative screens (avoiding certain companies), but also positive screens (investing in companies strong on social responsibility). As such, it would be more similar to a state-of-the art socially responsible mutual fund than TIAA-CREF's current Social Choice Account. (In the Times article and since, Biggs has voiced opposition to other more proactive ways of investing that would make direct social change along with making a profit. However, we will continue to push for those.)
Mr. Biggs made this offer in the context of a challenge: to quote the article, "He said he would support creating such a fund only 'if you could guarantee the investors would be there to invest.'" He explained that TIAA-CREF would need $50 million in seed money, and that the minimum commitment needed from investors to justify the development of such a fund would be $25 million. TIAA-CREF would provide the other $25 million, with the expectation that it could be withdrawn as the fund grew.
Accordingly, we are gathering financial commitments to the new fund from TIAA-CREF participants. The opportunity toward which many have been working over the past few years has finally arrived. We ask that you step up and make a commitment to ensure the launch of this new fund. Here is a chance for our retirement savings within the TIAA-CREF Pension System to make a real difference in the world at large, as well as secure our later years.
Please go to:
http://www.manchester.edu/academic/programs/departments/peace_studies/fund/
to learn more about our proposed new fund and to submit information we need to present to TIAA-CREF. This includes how much of your current retirement savings you are willing to transfer into the new fund, and what percentage of your future retirement savings you will earmark for the new fund. (Some of those heavily involved in lobbying efforts for the fund have already pledged to put a large percentage of their current CREF investments and future contributions into the new fund. However, we recognize the value of proper diversification and do not expect anyone to put all of their money into this fund (unless you feel so inclined.)
The information you provide will be kept strictly confidential. The website data is secure (requiring username and password). Other than management at TIAA-CREF, the only person who will see the data is a Vice President at Manchester College who has agreed to help. He administers the school's insurance and TIAA-CREF retirement plans, so he is accunstomed to keeping personal financial information confidential.
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It is relatively easy to move current investment assets from on CREF fund to another. If just
0.0116 percent of the assets in the $4.3 billion Social choice Account were to transfer, it would mount to $50 million. This would allow TIAA-CREF to withdraw its seed money very quickly. More importantly, it would send a clear message that many CREF participants are committed to a more positive approach to investing their retirement dollars.
After you visit the website, please copy and paste this message into a new e-mail message with a personal explanation and plug for this effort. Please pass it on to sympathetic friends, colleagues, retirees, and Listservs. If you happen to receive a copy of this message but are not a participant in the TIAA-CREF Pension System, you can still help out by sending this message to those who might be and who would likely be interested in supporting this effort.
We thank you in advance for your support.
Abigail A. Fuller, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Neil Wollman, Senior Fellow of the Peace Studies Institute and Professor of Psychology
Co-Chairs, Social Choice for Social Change:
Campaign for a New TIAA-CREF
MC Box 135
Manchester College
North Manchester, IN 46962
(260) 982-5346
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 developrnent 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 by 11 paper.
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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 to promptly (within 48 hours) return corrected proofs. Fifty off prints of each published article and complete copy of the relevant journal issue will be sent to the senior author.
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George Katsiaficas, Editor
New Political Science / Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Book Review queries may be sent to:
John Berg
Reviews Editor, New Political Science
Department of Political Science
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02108-2770
In the spirit of supportive criticism, we welcome all correspondence and responses to published articles, and will upon occasion publish such pieces with permission of the author(s).
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