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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NOTES FROM THE CHAIR
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Minutes from 2002 APSA Meeting
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CAUCUS
AWARDS.........................................................................page
19
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 EDITOR
Our journal continues to need more
manuscript reviewers (contact Joe Peschek, editor) and individuals willing to
write book reviews (contact John Berg, reviews 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.
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
Please send all information in either hard copy, via E‑mail,
or Microsoft WordPerfect or ASCII Diskette formats. The deadline for the next
newsletter is January l5, 2002
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Notes from the Chair
What
a great annual meeting! Our Saturday
night plenary in Boston, featuring a talk by Noam Chomsky, was the biggest
event at the conference B somewhere between 500 and 800 people
filled every chair and stood and sat on the floor along the walls. The success of the plenary goes to show what
the Caucus has always said B put some politics into political
science, and people will receive it with enthusiasm. The plenary was
co-sponsored by two other sections: Human Rights, and Transformational and
Ecological Politics. Many thanks to
them, and most especially to Zehra Arat, Micheline Ishay, and Patricia Longo
who took the initiative to bring us together.
Our other panels were great, as well.
Thanks to the high attendance, the quality of the program organized by John
Martin, and the efforts of John, Michael Forman, and Christine Kelly to make
the APSA understand their past errors in panel allocation, we have been given
several additional panels for the 2003 meeting in Philadelphia. I hope you will all be there!
Between the high-energy plenary and the
following late-night reception, I found myself unable to get out of bed the
next morning, so I missed saying goodbye to many of you before you left Boston.
If that includes you, please accept my grateful thanks for all you did to make
our meeting a success.
As you will see from the minutes, we
also adopted two policy resolutions B one, endorsing a proposal by the Labor
Party to provide free college education in public universities to all students,
was passed at the meeting; the other, opposing war with Iraq, was passed by
mail ballot later. With all the ferment
going on in the APSA, I think this may be the time for the Caucus to be a bit
more assertive about policy issues.
We
took another significant step at the meeting: we created a membership
committee, with Carl Larsen appointed as the first chair of that committee. Our
membership has been growing slowly year by year, but we could have
substantially more impact on the discipline if we could get all the people who
agree with us to become members! Please get your friends to join B
and to subscribe to our journal, New Political Science. There is a
special discounted subscription rate for members.
There is a lot more to say, but not a
lot more room. So let me close with a word of appreciation for George
Katsiaficas has stepped down as editor in accordance with our principle of
rotation in office. George saw the journal through momentous changes, all for
the good B
moving to a professional publisher, regularizing the quarterly production
schedule, launching the NPS book series, expanding the editorial board
internationally, and much more. Joe Peschek is on the job as his replacement,
and I expect great things from him B but let=s
all give a cheer to George for a job well done.
--John
C. Berg
Minutes
New
Political Science Section Business Meeting
American
Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Boston,
Massachusetts
August
30, 2002
The New Political
Science section held its annual business meeting at 5:30 pm on August 30, 2002 at the Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association with John Berg, Section Chair,
presiding. The agenda included the
following items:
Announcements
John
Berg reminded people of the plenary talk by Noam Chomsky, co-sponsored with the
Ecological and Transformational Politics and Human Rights sections, on Saturday
at 8:00 pm. The plenary would be
followed by a reception which he invited members to attend. John also announced the section=s awards, which would be given out at
the plenary preceding Chomsky=s
talk. Philip Green was the recipient of
the Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award; John Mollenkopf, Peter Dreier,
and Todd Swanstrom, of the Michael Harrington Book Award; and Carl Swidorski of
the Christian Bay Best Paper Award.
John
reminded people of the ongoing governance debate in the APSA, largely responding
to the perestroika movement, and urged people to continue to be involved in it
and in submitting to the new journal started by APSA, APerspectives
on Politics.@ John
also reported on a successful short course offered at the meeting on Wednesday
which was attended by fifteen people. Finally, John informed the section that
APSA was considering raising the minimum section dues to $8.00.
Minutes of 2001
Meeting
The
minutes of the 2001 business meeting, circulated by Carl Swidorski the previous
Fall, were unanimously approved.
Treasurer=s
Report (Attached)
Carl
Swidorski, Caucus Treasurer, distributed copies of the 2001-2002 financial
report. The sections=s ending balance as of June 30, 2002
was $2301.34. Expenses for the year were
$666.61 while income totaled $1295.05.
Expenses associated with the annual plenary were limited to a speaker=s fee because there was no need to pay
for travel or hotel expenses for the speaker, Norman Solomon, who lived in the
San Francisco area.
Report of 2002
Program Chair
John
Martin expressed concern over the number of panels allocated to the section
this year - only six. One additional
panel was co-sponsored with the Women and Politics section, bringing the total
to seven. In addition, the section
sponsored six poster sessions. John and
last year=s Program
Chair, Michael Forman, indicated that they would continue to ask APSA for more
information about why the panel allocations for smaller sections have declined
so dramatically. John informed the meeting that 113 paper proposals had been
submitted with 8 accepted, a 93% rejection rate (APSA=s
was 65%). Twelve panel proposals were
submitted with four accepted. Fourteen
requests were submitted to chair a panel or be a discussant, with five
placed. Forty-one individuals
participated in the section=s
panels, including sixteen Caucus members and four graduate students. The criteria John used for selection were: 1)
the quality of the proposal; 2) the correspondence of the proposal to the
progressive values of the Caucus; 3) the relation of the proposal to the
conference theme; and 4) Caucus membership.
He stressed the importance of attendance at Caucus panels because it was
one of the criteria emphasized by APSA in its decisions on allocating
panels. He also indicated that
attendance at the panels which had been offered thus far at the meeting was
quite high, averaging approximately thirty persons.
Report of 2003
Program Chair
Christine
Kelly, the 2003 Program Chair, informed the meeting that the call for papers
was available in a variety of places, including the program for this year=s meeting. She indicated that she would try to involve
more graduate students and new persons on the panels for next year. She also welcomed all new members attending
the business meeting and passed out ANew
Political Science@
buttons. Everyone was urged to wear the
buttons during the conference to give increased visibility to the section.
New Political Science
Journal Report
John
Berg thanked outgoing editor George Katsiaficas for the great work he had done
as journal editor, especially for his role in developing our successful
partnership with Taylor and Francis.
Based on policy approved two years ago, George will share duties with
the incoming editor over the next year to facilitate the transition. John reported that the search committee for
the new journal editor, chaired by Meredith Sarkees, and including Manfred
Steger and Beth Kelley, had recommended Joe Peschek of Hamline University. Joe=s
nomination had been approved unanimously by the Executive Committee of the
journal at its Wednesday night meeting.
The business meeting then approved Joe=s
nomination by acclamation. John also
announced that a search committee, consisting of Rudy Torres and Laura Olson,
had been appointed to recruit a new reviews editor for the journal to replace
John Berg.
Joe
Peschek briefly addressed the meeting and thanked everyone for their vote of
confidence. He indicated that he was
aware of the high standards that George had set and asked for everyone=s support by contributing manuscripts
to the journal, serving as reviewers, and subscribing and/or getting their institutional
library to subscribe.
George
Katsiaficas reported on the forthcoming issues of the journal and titles in the
pipeline for the books series, including Carl Bogg=s
book on militarism, George=s(?)
on Korea, and George and Bertell Ollman=s
on AWhat Is Political Science?@
He then announced plans, approved by the journal=s
Executive Committee, to expand the book series beyond just books growing out of
special issues of the journal. The
Executive Committee asked George to be the editor of the book series and to
bring a proposal to it next year recommending whether an editorial board needed
to be selected and, if so, what process should be used to do so.
Helen
Rennie, our liaison with Taylor and Francie, then presented data about the
circulation of the journal. Prior to
doing so, however, she reported on the tragic death of the wife of publishing
director, David Green. We had a 100%
rate of institutional renewal (153) and individual membership grew by one, from
28 to 29. She suggested the number of
individual memberships was problematic.
Caucus members can subscribe to the journal for only $30 , yet only
about 10% subscribe. She urged more
members to do so and announced a plan to send out membership subscription forms
to all members each year. Subscription
forms were distributed at the meeting and the Caucus treasurer, Carl Swidorski,
would send out forms to members requesting them over the course of the
year. Finally, Helen asked members to
get their institutional libraries to subscribe if they were not already doing
so.
Election of Officers
Jennifer
Disney, of Winthrop College in South Carolina, was elected by acclamation as
the 2004 Program Chair.
New Business
John
Berg asked for approval of the creation of a Membership Committee. Carl Larsen had been serving on an ad hoc
basis since Spring. The purpose of the
committee is to increase our membership
and visibility in the APSA. The meeting
approved the creation of the Committee and authorized the Chair to set up a
process for selecting additional members.
George
Katsiaficas announced that the Executive Committee of the journal was
recommending the creation of a fourth section award, an activism award to be
given each year to a community organization in the city where the Annual
Meeting was being held. The recommended
name for the award was the Piven and Cloward Activism Award. The meeting enthusiastically approved the
recommendation and authorized the Chair to set up a committee to select the
award winner for next year.
Preston
Smith of Mt. Holyoke College and the Labor Party asked the meeting to approve a
AFree Higher Education@ resolution. Preston was standing in for Adolph Reed, a
long-time member of the Caucus. After
listening to his presentation about the initiative, the meeting approved the
resolution. Preston thanked the Caucus
for its approval and asked members to work at their respective campuses in
spreading support for the project.
Bertell
Ollman suggested we set up a membership/recruitment table at the plenary on
Saturday night since a large audience was expected for the presentation by Noam
Chomsky.
Steven
Bronner, reported on a meeting he had participated in with New York=s Senators, Hilary Clinton and Charles
Schumer. Based on their response, he
suggested the Caucus adopt a resolution opposing a war on Iraq, and send it to
APSA, the Senate, Congress, and White House.
It was agreed that an ad
hoc committee would draft such a resolution, circulate it electronically, and
have the membership vote whether they supported or opposed the resolution.
Carl
Swidorski thanked Dennis Moran for assuming responsibility for publishing the
newsletter. Carl and Dennis had
co-edited it for the previous year.
Dennis reminded members to submit information to the newsletter about
books they had published.
The meeting adjourned at
6:30 PM..
Respectfully submitted,
Carl Swidorski
Secretary/Treasurer
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.
NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION
Treasurer=s
Report
July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002
Opening Balance $1672.90
Income
APSA Section Dues Payments $674.00
APSA Mailing Labels
111.05
Non-APSA Memberships 10.00
Contribution from New Political Science 500.00
Total Income $1295.05
Expenses
APSA
Plenary Speaker
Speaker=s
Honorarium $
500.00
Awards Plaques 166.61
Total
Expenses $ 666.61
Ending Balance $2301.
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Respectfully submitted,
Carl Swidorski,
Secretary/Treasurer
New
Political Science
Executive Committee Meeting, August 28, 2002
Boston, Massachusetts
Minutes
The Executive Committee
met at Q-Vin Restaurant in Boston at 6:30 PM.
Present were: George Katsiaficas,
John Berg, Laura Olson, Victor Wallis, Joe Kling, Rudy Torres, Meredith
Sarkees, Irene Gendzier and Carl Swidorski.
Minutes
Carl Swidorski stated that the minutes of
last year=s meeting
had been circulated to the Executive
Committee via the newsletter and email during the Fall and asked for their
approval. The Committee approved the
minutes.
Reports
George
Katsiaficas, editor, reported that the journal was doing well and the
relationship with Taylor and Francis remained excellent. Thirty articles had been submitted the
previous year. Nine were rejected
(additional articles were rejected by the editor without sending them out for
peer review), five accepted, and sixteen were pending reviews. George indicated his full agreement with the
importance of rotating editorship of the journal and promised to work closely
with the new editor over the next year.
He estimated that the new editor would assume responsibility for the journal
with edition 25:3, as 25:1 and 25:2 already were in the pipeline. In response
to a question and subsequent discussion about the peer review process, George
agreed that reviewers should be kept informed of the status of manuscripts they
had reviewed. Suggestions also were made
that information be kept about the topics/areas of articles submitted and
accepted. Finally, George and the
Committee members agreed that it was important for the journal to be cited
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).
We, and other Taylor and Francis journals, are awaiting their decision.
Carl
Swidorski, treasurer, submitted the treasurer=s
report. (Attached) As of the end of the
fiscal year we had an operating balance of $8292.16 which included a
contingency reserve of $4800. This was an increase in the operating reserve of
approximately $2000 due to royalties earned from the book series
($2025.53). The journal once again had
reached, but just barely, the magic subscription level of 200 so that we
received a royalties payment from Taylor and Francis of $2140.28.
John
Berg, reviews editor, passed out a
report on the reviews published in volume 24. John indicated that a process needed to
be established to replace him as reviews editor and recommended a committee be
appointed to select his replacement.
Rudy Torres and Laura Olson volunteered to co-chair the committee, with
another committee member to be solicited.
They would recommend a new editor via email to the Executive
Committee. The goal is to have a person
in the position by March 1st, 2003 to serve a three year term.
Editorial Search
Committee Report
Meredith
Sarkees reported that the search committee she chaired, which also
included Manfred Steger and Beth Kelly,
had recommended Joe Peschek of Hamline University as the new editor of the
journal. The search committee had
circulated a full report to the Executive Committee about a month earlier,
describing their findings and the basis for their recommendations. According to policy established two years
ago, the new editor would serve as co-editor with George Katsiaficas during the
first year of his term. George
Katsiaficas provided information as to what issues were already in process and
which issue would be under the primary control of the new editor. The Executive Committee unanimously approved
the recommendation and thanked the search committee for all of their hard
work. The Executive Committee=s decision was to be presented to the
business meeting on Friday, August 30th.
Standards for
Publishing in the Journal
Victor
Wallis expressed concern that some articles recently published in the journal
perhaps had not met the criteria of being compatible with the mission and
philosophy of the Caucus. A discussion
followed. It was pointed out that
currently, the letter sent out to reviewers stated that the Aarticle should fit the declared
purposed of the journal.@
The suggestion was made that perhaps the mission statement of the journal could
be added to the letter of guidelines sent out to reviewers. There seemed to be agreement that the process
would be improved if reviewers got copies of the other critiques of manuscripts
they had reviewed and the revised versions of the manuscripts before they were
published. Another suggestion was to
have the editorial board meet at the annual meeting to discuss standards for
publishing in the journal and the degree to which articles were conforming to
such standards. Also discussed was the
issue of whether a further statement on quality was needed. The Committee concluded that the primary
responsibility for quality and compatibility still should be left up to the reviewers and the editors
but that the editorial board should have a breakfast meeting each year at APSA,
paid for by the journal, to assess how the process was working.
Changes to Editorial
Board
George
Katsiaficas recommended that Andrei Markovits and Itty Abraham be removed from
the editorial board. The Committee
agreed. A number of people were
nominated to add to the board - Leo Panitch, Antonia Darder, Spike Peterson,
Sheila Collins, Christine Kelly, Claire Snyder, and Fawwaz Traboulsi. George indicated he would collect their c.v.=s and circulate them for an email
ballot of the members of the Executive Committee.
Changes to the
Executive Committee
Victor
Wallis was re-elected as editorial board representative to the Executive
Committee. David Gullette, associate
editor, was added as a non-voting member and Joe Kling was elected as a new
associate editor.
Book Series Plans
George
Katsiaficas informed the Committee that Routledge was very interested in
expanding the book series and bringing in new authors, including individuals
outside the Caucus. He asked that the Committee discuss whether we should have
a separate book series editor and an editorial board for the book series. The Committee approved George=s proposal for an expanded book series
and having George serve as its initial editor.
It asked him to bring a proposal to it and the Caucus next year about an
editorial board and its possible composition.
Subscriptions, Caucus
Memberships, and Taylor and Francis
John
Berg and George Katsiaficas reported on discussions with Taylor and Francis
about building up subscriptions to the journal from Caucus members. John outlined a plan to send out brochures to
Caucus members each year with an application to subscribe at the reduced
rates. Individuals who wanted to
subscribe during the course of year would contact Carl Swidorski, Caucus
treasurer, to receive a copy of the subscription form.
Proposal to Give
Grants to Activist Organizations
The
Committee approved a proposal from George Katsiaficas to give an annual grant
of $200 to an activist organization in the city where APSA was holding its
yearly meeting. The Committee also
recommended that the grant be established as the Caucus=
fourth award and named the Piven and Cloward Activism Award. John Berg was asked to present the proposal
to the Friday business meeting of the Caucus.
Bookstore
Distribution
John
Berg reported on the continuing saga of our efforts to have the journal
distributed through DeBoers. In the ten
years we have been relying on them to distribute the journal to bookstores and
related venues, we have never received a payment. Efforts over the past year by Laura Olson and
others to reach some agreement with DeBoers have failed so the Committee
approved John=s recommendation to stop using them for
distribution purposes.
The meeting concluded in
jovial spirits at 9:45 PM.
Respectfully submitted
Carl Swidorski
Michael Harrington Award
The
Section's annual Michael Harrington Award for 2000 was awarded to Peter
Dreier, Occidental College, John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate School,
and Todd Swanstrom, Saint Louis University, Place Matters:
Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century (University Press of Kansas,
2001). The award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how
scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world. The prize, which is
named in recognition of the scholarship and activism of the late Michael
Harrington, was presented at the APSA annual meeting in San Francisco
The
Caucus invites nominations for the 2002 Harrington Award. Nominations can come
from any New Political Science members, including the author. Book written by
non‑Caucus members will be considered as well. The letter of nomination
should briefly describe the book and its significance. It must include the
basic publishing information. Only books published in 2001 will be considered.
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2003. Questions and letters of
nomination should be sent to:
John
Berg
jberg@world.std.com
Christian Bay Award
The
Christian Bay Award, presented annually in honor of the late Christian Bay, a
founding member of Caucus for a New Political Science, is given annually to
the,best paper Dresented at a section panel during the‑previous year's
meetings. The 2001 Award was presented to Carl Swidorski, College of
Saint Rose, "From the Wagner Act to the Human Rights Watch Report: Labor
and Freedom of \ Expression and Association, 1935-2000."
CHARLES A. McCOY DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD
At its
2001 annual business meeting, the New Political Science section decided to
establish a third section award in addition to the Harrington and Bay awards.
It would be for a career of distinguished scholarship and service to the Caucus
and its goals. The Caucus chair was authorized to appoint a committee to make
the selection on an annual basis. The award is named after Charles A. McCoy,
one of the founding members of the Caucus. This year=s
recipient is Philip Green, Smith College
2002 Chairs Announced
Each year, the Caucus
makes several awards. Next year, we have added a new oneCthe
Piven and Cloward award for an activist group. Here is a list of all the
awards, with the chairs of the award committee for each. If you want to make a
nomination for any of the awards, please send it to the appropriate chair.
Christian
Bay Award for the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at
the 2002 annual meeting. Chair: John Martin, Dowling College, Political Science,
167 Richmond Ave, Medford, NY 11763. Tel: (516) 244-3197; Email:
martinj@dowling.edu.
The
Michael Harrington Award for an outstanding book that demonstrates how
scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world. Chair: Judith
Grant, University of Southern California, Department of Political Science, Los
Angeles, CA 90089. Tel: (213) 740-1695; Email: judithg@usc.edu.
The
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award for a progressive political
scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and
activist. Chair: 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.
The
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Activism Award, for a community
group, in the region of the annual meeting, that exemplifies to the commitment
of the New Political Science section to make political science relevant to the
struggle for a better world.
Chair: Sanford Schram,
Bryn Mawr College, 300 Airdale Rd., Bryn Mawr PA 19010-1697. Tel: (610)
520-2622; Email: sschram@brynmawr.edu
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 ordrering them for your college/university
library.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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
___________________________________________________________________________
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.
________________________________________________________________________
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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?
The
special issue will also include critical analyses of ongoing efforts within the
Marxist tradition throughout the 20th century to come to terms with this
question, a debate reignited by the publication in 2000 of It Didn=t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in
the United States, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. In essays and
reviews which range across questions of the development of US capitalism,
processes of class formation and struggle, cultural politics, race and racism,
gender relations, and aspects of intellectual history, contributors to the
special issue include Johanna Brenner, Malik Miah, Kim Moody, Alan Wald, Paul
Le Blanc, Michael Goldfield, Robbie Lieberman, Charles Post, Dean Robinson, Boy
Luethje, Gerald Friedman, Loren Goldner and Bryan Palmer. We invite
submissions, of between 4000 and 7000 words, on any of these themes. We are
especially interested in receiving empirically grounded Marxist analyses of the
contemporary US working class and the contemporary forms of itos
class struggle. We also would like to receive submissions assessing the work of
CLR James which sought to come to terms with American civilisation. Enquiries and submissions
should be sent to the issue editor, Alan Johnson, at ajoh244867@aol.com. Historical Materialism is a
journal of critical research in Marxist theory published quarterly by Brill
Academic Press
Labour
CultureCUnion
CultureCand the
Culture of Resistance
The
advance of the labour and trade union movement has contributed an enduring
legacy to the quality of life for all people in the modern age. Yet, the
relation of this contribution has to date not been well articulated by social
and cultural scholars. Previous generations of working people involved in such
mass movements as the Chartist and Syndicalist movements in England and France
of the nineteenth century fought bitter struggles with state and capitalist
authorities to gain social rights and working standards often taken for
granted. The political implications of these movements mark the wider social
expression of working class interest, manifesting of a culture of organized
resistance. This culture of resistance acts directly as the engine of labouring
peoples' political interests world wide, forming the anarcho-syndicalist and
non-market socialist movements of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first
centuries.
This
series of panels and events explores the broad relational themes of these
movements, providing a forum for the interchange of ideas and histories of the
diverse range of working class culture and working class politics. We invite
both academic and nonacademic presentations on all aspects of trade union and
labour culture, including their political and economic relation to past and
present anarchist and socialist movements. Question periods and further on and
off-campus discussion and educational forums will ensue. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to:
Chartism,
Syndicalism, and Wage-Work
Labour,
Fabianism, and the Left
Radical-Reform
Politics of the Late-Eighteenth, Early-Nineteenth Centuries
The
Franchise and "Eight Hour Day"
Literature
and Anarchism/Socialism
Rosa
Luxembourg n "Reform
or Revolution"
Labour
Precedents n
Contemporary Role(s) of The Canadian Labour Congress
Alberta
Federation of Labour
Women,
Work, and Politics
Robert
Owen/Saint-Simon - French and English Utopian Socialism and Labour
Levellers,
Diggers, & "The Norman Yoke" Theory n Early
Foundations of Labour-Politics
Godwin,
Wollstonecraft, Marx, Bakunin n Anarchist & Socialist
Thought
Art,
Labour, & Socialism n William Morris and the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Working
Class Co-Operatives in Canada and the United States
Young
Workers & the Labour Movement
Music,
Film, & the Labour Movement
Industrial
Workers of the World, The Impossibilists, and One Big Union
Canada,
the United States, and Twentieth Century Working Class Realities
Please
send a 200 - 300 word abstract for a 15 n 20 minute paper (7-10 pages)
and a brief CV by January 15, 2003 to the theme coordinator, John Ames.
Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta Canada, T6G 2E5
ames@ualberta.ca
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.
