PEWS Events
At S4P “Resisting Authoritarianism: Global Solidarity and Democratic Futures” Conference and at ASA Meetings “Disrupting the Status Quo”
Monday, August 10 & Tuesday August 11
Monday 10 August
Monday,August 10, 10:00 to 11:30 am, Sheraton, Floor: Lower Level, Murray Hill
Mobility Regimes in the World-System @ASA
Organizer: Umaima Miraj, University of Toronto
“Hollowing Out or Competitive Upgrading? China Shock and Informal Economy in Advanced and Developing Economies”
Ang Li, Brown University
Anthony Roberts, Colorado State University
“Seeing Like an (undocumented) Immigrant: Understanding Borders and Migration from the Migrant Perspective”
Salvador Rangel, Swarthmore College
“Smelling like a Market: Investment Migration, Cunning States, and the Coloniality of Citizenship in the Caribbean”
Manuela Boatca, Freiburg University
“Who Counts as Skilled? Comparative Perspectives on High-Tech Migration and Labor Market Stratification”
Daniela Mia Campos Ugaz, Florida International University
Monday, August 10, 1:30 to 3:00 pm, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave and 34th St., Room: Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, Main Floor (Lobby Level)
Scholar-Activism in the World-System: NYC and Beyond @S4P
Organizers: Marina Karides, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa & Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Pitzer College
Panelists:
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, New York University
3:30 pm
Move together from S4P venue to ASA venue to Land Rights session. Maybe with a few signs and a collective entrance to the hotel. The PEWS/IPPN is being held in protest of ASA approach but selecting to not cede space at the ASA Meetings.
Monday, August 10, 4:00 to 5:30 pm, Hilton, Concourse H
Land Rights and Indigenous Nations Across the World-System (Co-sponsored by Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section) @ASA
Organizer: James V. Fenelon, California State Univ-San Bernardino
“Neoliberalism, Corporate Mining and Indigenous People’s Resistance in the Philippines: Towards an Integrated Framing of Human Rights, Social Movements, and Sustainability”
Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University
“Between Gangs and the State: Indigenous Resistance to Violence and Dispossession in Ecuador”
Tanya Karina Heurich Casas, Delaware Valley University
“100 Years of Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Waves of Settler Attacks in the West Bank and a Genocide in Gaza”
Viletcia Barghouthi, Michigan State University
Stephen Philip Gasteyer, Michigan State University
“Indigenous Lands and Nations, 400 years from Turtle Island to Palestine”
James V Fenelon, California State Univ-San Bernardino
7:00 pm, Business Meeting/Awards and reception with Labor and Marxist Sections
SEIU 32BJ Union Hall, 25 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011
Tuesday 11 August
Tuesday, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30 am, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Clinton
Commodity, Frontiers, Land, and Global Production @ASA
Organizer: Cinzia Solari
“A Valuable Commodity with Global Reach: Meat Production in the World Economy, 1960–2020”
Bill Winders, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Accumulation by militarization: Land grabs and the politics of dispossession in Pakistan”
Adil Zahoor, University of Illinois
Tues, August 11, 10:00 to 11:00 am, Hilton, Floor: Fourth Floor, East
Political Economy of the World-System Section Roundtables @ASA
(See ASA program)Tuesday, August 11, 12:00 to 1:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave and 34th St., C201, C-Level
Global Production, Labor, Militarization in World Historical Perspective @S4P
Organizers: Corey Payne, University of Richmond, Cinzia Solari, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Marina Karides, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
“Green Gold: Labor, Nature, and Power in the Brazil-China Soy-Meat Complex,”
Adam Joseph Benjamin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Flexible Collaboration: State Embedded Brokerage by Chinese Transnational Elites in the China–U.S. Nexus”
Pengfei Liu, University of California, Davis
“Dominance Without Hegemony: Trump’s New Imperialism in Venezuela and Beyond”
Gabriel Hetland, SUNY-Albany
“Political Capitalism or Pathways Out of Neoliberal Systemic Chaos”
Ganesh Trichur, CUNY-Staten Island
“Migrant Workers, Split Labor Markets, and Racial Conflicts in South Korea’s Shipyards”
Minhyoung Kang, Korea University
Taejeong Lee, Sungkonghoe University
Woosik Kim, Korean Metal Workers’ Union Research Center
Tuesday, August 11, 2:00 to 3:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave and 34th St., C203, C-Level
AI, Digital Capitalism, and Infrastructural Power @S4P
Organizer: Cinzia Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston; Presider: Marina Karides
“Political Risk on Foreign Direct Investment and Firm Innovation: A Tale of Two Stories
in Taiwan”
Chun-Yin Lee, National Chengchi University
“Derisking Without Delegation: The Redistribution of Transitional Risk in China”
Xiaoting Lu, University of Virginia
“Artificial Intelligence and the Reconfiguration of Global Inequality: A World-Systems
Approach to the Digital South,”
Sung Hee Ru, Hankyong National University, South Korea
“Accumulation by Infrastructural Locking: Financialization, Infrastructural Power and the
Mediation of Crisis in the AI Conjuncture”
Hera Hyeonseo Lee, Binghamton
Hera (Hyeonseo) Lee
PEWS WEBINAR: The Global Housing Emergency & Trans-local Movements for Racial and Economic Justice
Friday, February 27, 8 am HST, 10 am, PST, 1 pm EST, 1 hour event
Housing insecurity has long been a growing problem for cities and communities around the world, and in the United States especially, housing is a leading driver of systemic racial disparities. PEWS scholars have long criticized market-based supply-side housing policy, yet these logics continue to drive national and local housing policy and intensify the housing emergency. Our PEWS-sponsored webinar panel centers on activisms and solutions occurring in and across US cities to support the housing needs of urban residents. Dr. Jackie Smith, professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and organizer in the Human Rights Cities Alliance will start the panel with an overview of the global housing crisis in global, historical perspective, showing how housing has become a critical front of struggle bringing grassroots communities together to build intersectional movements for social and non-market housing. Jason Spicer, Associate Professor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College-CUNY will be speaking on the role of community land trusts and resident-owned communities. Speakers will share lessons and insights about the state of housing advocacy in the U.S. and its potential to advance broader grassroots-global movements for racial and economic justice today. The presentations will be followed by a collective Q & A and discussion. This event is coordinated to support the scholar-activism that has shaped the PEWS section since its formation.
We thank Zachary Levenson for tech support. Use this link to join the event. Password: PEWS2026.
Feel free to share the link with students and colleagues for what is sure to be a stimulating presentation and discussion. We will begin promptly at 8:00 am HST.