ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology

Call for Nominations – 2013 Global and Transnational Sociology ASA Section Awards!

2013-01-14T00:00:00-08:00

Nominations (including self nominations) are now being accepted for the 2013 Global and Transnational Sociology awards! The deadline for all nominations is March 1st 2013, and the winners will be announced at the section reception in New York. The awards are described below.

(1) Best Scholarly Article Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations (self-nominations also encouraged) for the 2013 Best Scholarly Article Award, recognizing an outstanding article published in 2011 or 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. When nominating an article, include a brief (one page or less) comment on its contributions to the field. The nominations deadline – and only section members may submit nominations — is March 1, 2013.

Please email materials, including the article itself, to the Best Scholarly Article committee at:

Andreas Wimmer at awimmer@princeton.edu (committee chair)
Tim Bartley at bartley.83@sociology.osu.edu
Alondra Nelson at alondra.nelson@columbia.edu
Raka Ray at rakaray@berkeley.edu

(2) Best Scholarly Book Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations (self-nominations also encouraged) for the 2013 Best Scholarly Book Award, recognizing an outstanding book published in 2011 or 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The nominations deadline – and only section members may submit nominations — is March 1, 2013. For more information, contact committee chair Ho-fung Hung at hofung@jhu.edu.

Please send copies of the book and your brief (one page or less) accompanying comment on its contributions to the field to the 4 members of the committee at:

Professor Ho-fung Hung (committee chair)
Sociology Department
Johns Hopkins University
533 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Professor Frank D. Bean
Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy
University of California, Irvine
3207 Social Sciences Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697

Professor Saskia Sassen
713 Knox Hall
Columbia University
606 West 122nd Street
New York, NY 10027

Professor John Torpey
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

(3) Best Scholarly Publication by a Graduate Student Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations, including self-nominations, for the 2013 Best Scholarly Publication Award by a Graduate Student, recognizing an outstanding article or book published in 2011 or 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The first author must have been a graduate student when the publication was written. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2013. Please, nominations from section members only.

Email the nominated publication and a brief (no more than one page) comment on its contributions to the field to the Best Scholarly Publication committee at:

Claudio Benzecry at claudio.benzecry@uconn.edu (committee chair)
Andrew Junker at ajunker@uchicago.edu
Tasleem Padamsee padamsee.1@osu.edu
Anju Mary Paul anju.paul@yale-nus.edu.sg

(4) Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award: Best Article

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations for the 2013 Best Scholarly Publication Award by an International Scholar. This year the award will recognize an outstanding article published between 2010 and 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The author or authors must not be U.S. citizens or affiliated with a U.S. institution. Only section members may submit nominations; self-nominations are encouraged. When nominating a publication, please include a brief (no more than one page) comment on its contributions to the field. The nominations deadline is March 1, 2013.

Email or mail materials (including the article) to the entire committee.

Professor Gurminder Bhambra at G.K.Bhambra@warwick.ac.uk (committee chair) Professor Bhambra’s mailing address is Sociology; Room R2.35; University of Warwick; Coventry CV4 7AL England

Professor Mounira M. Charrad at charrad@austin.utexas.edu Professor Charrad’s mailing address is: The University of Texas-Austin; Department of Sociology; 305 E 23rd St, A1700; Austin, TX 78712-1086

Professor Anthony J. Spires at ajspires@cuhk.edu.hk
Professor Spires' mailing address is: Room 431, 4th Floor, Sino Building; Department of Sociology; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Shatin, HKSAR

Call for Papers - Global and Transnational Sociology at ASA 2013 (New York)

2013-01-05T00:00:00-08:00

This year for the 108th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, the section on Global and Transnational Sociology will be hosting the following open submission sessions:

Global and Transnational (3 sessions): Submission jointly to Wesley Longhofer (wesley.longhofer@emory.edu) and Sadia Saeed (sadia.saeed@yale.edu)
Roundtables: Submission to Nicholas Wilson (n.wilson@yale.edu)
Joint Session With Sociology of Law: “Failures and Challenges of Global Governance: The Case of Financial Regulation” Submission to Terry Halliday (halliday@abfn.org)

There are also two invited sessions: “Rethinking the Global and Transnational in Power and Politics” and “Whither the New Global and Transnational Elite?”

As a reminder, the deadline for submission is Jan 9th, 2013 at 3pm EST through the ASA submission system. In addition to submitting your scholarly work, we encourage you to submit nominations for the section awards that will be presented at the meeting. The deadline for award submissions is March 1st.

2012 Officers and Council

2012-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

Chair-Elect and Council (2012 – 2013)

Current Officers

Chair: Julia Adams, Yale University
Chair-Elect: Ann Swidler, University of California at Berkeley
Secretary/Treasurer: Colin Beck, Pomona College

Council

Nitsan Chorev, Brown University
Alex Hicks, Emory University
Nina Bandelj, University of California at Irvine
Sigrid Quack, Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany
Kiyoteru Tsutstui, University of Michigan
Pamela Paxton, University of Texas

Denver 2012: Global and Transnational Sociology Section Events

2012-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

First, on Thursday, August 16, there will be a Global and Transnational Sociology Pre-Conference at the Colorado Convention Center. You can look at the schedule here. For further information, contact Elizabeth Boyle at boyle014@umn.edu.

Second, on Friday, August 17, there are two important G&TS events:

The section business meeting at 5:30 p.m. Please come if you are interested in the governance of the section, and to meet our incoming Section Chair, Julia Adams!
The section reception at 6:30 p.m. To foster cross-section synergy, the reception will be co-sponsored with the Comparative and Historical Sociology section. We will also be awarding the 2012 G&TS prizes at the reception. I hope to see many of you there!

Third, please consider attending one or more of this year’s very interesting G&TS panels:

Global Governance: Friday, August 17, 8:30-10:10 a.m. (co-sponsored with Sociology of Law)
Organizer and Presider: Evan Schofer

“Institutional Emergence of Global CSR Frameworks: Global Corporate Governance in the Intergovernmental Field,” Alwyn Lim (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
“The Limits of Multi-stakeholder Governance: The Crisis of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC),” Sandra A. Moog (University of Essex), Steffen Boehm (Essex Business School), André Spicer (City University London)
“The Institutionalization of Nongovernmental Regulation of Markets: The Uneven Rise of Fair Trade Producer Organizations,” Kristen E. Shorette (University of California-Irvine)
“International Linkages and Liberalization of Abortion: Competing Institutional Logics and International Organization Networks,” Dong-ju Lee (Harvard University)
“Global Environmental Governance & Pathways for the Achievement of Environmental Justice,” Beth Schaefer Caniglia (Oklahoma State University)

Transnational Processes and Institutions: Friday, August 17 – 10:30am – 12:10pm
Organizers: Wes Longhofer (Emory) and Sadia Saeed (Yale)
Presider: Terence C. Halliday (American Bar Foundation)

“The Spread of the Worldwide Financial Crisis, 2007-2010,” Neil Fligstein (University of Californnia), Jacob Habinek (University of California-Berkeley)
“Transnational Authority and Political Legitimacy in a Refugee Camp,” Elizabeth Holzer (University of Connecticut)
“Fair Trade Certification in the Global Flower Industry: Challenges in Improving Labor Standards and Labor Rights,” Laura T. Raynolds (Colorado State University)
“Global Justice, National Distinctions: Criminalizing Human Rights Violations in Darfur,” Joachim J. Savelsberg (University of Minnesota), Hollie Colleen Nyseth (University of Minnesota)
“The National Bureaucratic Underpinnings of Transnational Regulatory Networks: Latin American Labor Inspectors in Comparative Perspective,” Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico)

Gender, Globalization, and Transnationalism: Friday, August 17, 2:30- 4:10pm
Organizer and Presider: Leslie Salzinger (University of California-Berkeley)

“Transnational Women’s Activism and the Global Diffusion of Gender Quotas,” Melanie M. Hughes (University of Pittsburgh), Mona Lena Krook (Washington University-St. Louis), Pamela M. Paxton (University of Texas).
“Reproductive Rights and the Shifting Arena of Membership in Ireland,” Paulina Garcia del Moral (University of Toronto), Anna C. Korteweg (University of Toronto).
“Refusing Rights: Migrant Women, Feminist Advocacy, and Gendered Morality in South Korea,” Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto)
“Gender Inclusivity in Postcolonial Organizations: Culturalism and Isomorphism in Indian IT Corporations,” Smitha Radhakrishnan (Wellesley College)

Discussant: Leslie Salzinger (University of California-Berkeley)

Transnational Networks: Saturday, August 18, 8:30-10:10 a.m. Organizers: Wes Longhofer (Emory) and Sadia Saeed (Yale) Presider: David A. Smith (University of California-Irvine)

“The Limits of Transnationalism: Trapped Between Two Nations,” Ernesto Castaneda (University of Texas-El Paso)
“Transnational Transformative Effects of Remittances: The Cuban Experience,” Susan Eckstein (Boston University)
“Intergovernmental Organization Membership and U.S. Development Aid Flows,” Lauren M. Gaydosh (Princeton University)
“Diffusion as Negotiation: The Relational Dynamics of How Innovations are Localized and Why They Stick,” Tamara Kay (Harvard University)
“Does Generalized Trust Promote International Trade?” Simone Polillo (University of Virginia)

Fourth and finally, our section roundtables will be held Friday, August 17 from 4:30-5:30p.m., right before the business meeting.

Denver 2012: Global and Transnational Sociology Section ASA Pre-Conference

2012-06-26T00:00:00-07:00

Thursday, August 16
Room 112, Colorado Convention Center

The Global and Transnational Sociology pre-conference will provide an opportunity for section members to get better acquainted with one another and to engage in lively intellectual conversations related to global and transnational sociology.

SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

1-2:45 p.m. Ways of Seeing: New Directions in Transnational and Global Research (panel presentation)
3-4:45 p.m. Ways of Knowing the Global and Transnational: Speaking Across Methodologies (round-table discussion)
6 p.m. Informal dinner

DETAILS

1-2:45 p.m.
Ways of Seeing: New Directions in Transnational and Global Research
Organizer: Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College

This panel will showcase research on topics and using methods that have often been on the edges of global and transnational sociology to bring them more centrally into our conversation. Panel members will present their own research and reflect on how it relates to our emerging collective research agenda.

Bandana Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut) – How Do We Consider Race and Age Within a Transnational Lens? A reflection on methodological prospects and challenges.
Lisa McCormick (Haverford College) – The Sound of Civility: Music Competitions and the Meaning of a Global Musical Public
David Halle (UCLA) – Globalizing Art and Culture in New York City: Contemporary Art and Museums and Does the Physical Gallery and Museum Have a Future?
Cinzia Solari (University of Massachusetts, Boston) ‘Prostitutes’ and ‘Defectors’: Transnational Nation-building and State Constructions of Emigrants in Ukraine
Patricia Fernández-Kelly (Princeton University) Expressive Entrepreneurship in a Transnational World

3-4:45 p.m.
Ways of Knowing the Global and Transnational: Speaking Across Methodologies
Organizer: Liz Boyle, University of Minnesota

This panel will follow a roundtable discussion format. Scholars representing ethnographic, quantitative, comparative, and mixed methods, respectively, will provide introductory comments. This will be followed by discussion about methodological integration, innovations in methodologies, the promises and pitfalls of different methodologies, etc. The panelists will provide the foundation for discussion while all in attendance will contribute to the subsequent discussion.

Gay Seidman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Evan Schofer (University of California-Irvine)
Terrence Halliday (American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University)
Wesley Longhofer (Emory University)

6 p.m. Adjourn for an informal dinner, place to be announced.

2012 Section Awards

2012-06-21T00:00:00-07:00

Announcing the G&TS awards for 2012! The awards will be presented at our section reception at ASA on Friday, August 17th at 6:30 p.m. Many thanks to everybody who sent in nominations; and a very special thanks to our hard-working Awards Committee!

Best Book

Julian Go. 2012. Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present impressively challenges the prevalent view that the American empire is unique and unlike the empire of the British hegemon that preceded it—indeed perhaps not properly termed an “empire” at all. It shows how the practices, policies, institutions and tend to dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British one, right up to the recent era of economic decline, Middle Eastern intervention and general overextension. The work uses the comparative historical method with theoretical and empirical rigor, and is a good read.

Best Article (co-winners)

Colin Beck. 2011. “The World-Cultural Origins of Revolutionary Waves: Five Centuries of European Contention.” Social Science History 35:2.

and

Ho-fung Hung and Jaime Kucinskas. 2011. “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980–2005.” American Journal of Sociology, 116:5.

Beck argues that revolutionary waves are both events of entire international systems and profoundly cultural phenomena. Thus, revolutionary waves occur during periods of rapid expansion in world culture as the creation and institutionalization of new political models and practices strains states, empowers oppositions and fractures elites. To substantiate these claims, he conducts multivariate analyses that look for the correspondence between a new indicator of world culture (generated from institutional and discursive measures) and revolutionary waves in Europe since the year 1495. The results suggest that revolutionary waves are positively associated with more rapid growth in world culture, as well as periods of hegemonic decline. The contribution lies in extending our models of the cultural side of the international system back further in time, as well as providing a systematic account of the transnational phenomenon of revolutionary waves.

Hung and Kucinskas look at whether global economic integration enlarges or reduces global inequality. Their analysis is based on an innovative strategy that combines change in average intra-national inequality and international inequality to assess the net change in global inequality in 1980-2005. They find that overall global inequality has been unambiguously decreasing, and that the global-inequality-reducing effect of globalization can be explained largely by the fact that the rise of China and India, two population and economic giants in the global economy, has been dragging down international inequality must faster than the rise of internal inequality within the two nations and elsewhere under globalization. But the study also projects that in the next two decades, global inequality is set to rise again, either when economic growth in China/India inevitably slows down or when either one of them inevitably passes the threshold of middle-income country. This means that the global-inequality-reducing effect of the rise of China and India is temporary, unless in the implausible scenario that the two countries’ stellar economic performance could be replicated in most other developing countries. So, in the long run, the rise of global inequality since the nineteenth-century industrial revolution is not likely to be reversed significantly by globalization.

Best Scholarly Publication by a Graduate Student

Anju Mary Paul. 2011. “Stepwise International Migration: A Multistage Migration Pattern for the Aspiring Migrant.” American Journal of Sociology 116 (6): 1842-86

Based on data from interviews with 95 Filipino domestic workers in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore, this article documents the strategies that migrants use to chart and navigate a stepwise migration trajectory. Specifically, Paul shows how migrants with limited options use successive overseas employment opportunities to accumulate human and financial capital that allows them to move between countries en route to the ultimate objective of (often) legal entry into their preferred destination countries. By showing how this pattern of stepwise migration is enabled by the development of a transnational labor market in particular occupations, Paul makes an important contribution to our understanding of immigration as a global, not just international, phenomenon.

Best Work by an International Scholar

Justin Rosenberg. 2010. “Basic Problems in the Theory of Combined and Uneven Development. Part II: Unevenness and Political Multiplicity.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23(1): 165-89.

This article interrogates the concept of “international” using the idea of ‘uneven and combined development’ (U&CD). First, a depth model is constructed, comparing different ways of linking uneven development with international relations. Thus far, it turns out, these ways have all presupposed the fact of political multiplicity, rather than explaining it. In search of explanation, the article turns, secondly, to the compelling historical sociological argument of Barry Buzan and Richard Little. This locates the origins of geopolitics in the late prehistoric shift from hunter-gatherer to settled agricultural existence, together with associated processes of social differentiation and proto-state formation. Buzan and Little’s explanation appears at first to pre-empt the need for the concept of U&CD. Yet closer inspection reveals that unevenness and combination play a key role in their empirical account without, however, being theorized. The third step of the argument therefore seeks to show how these are necessary parts of the process of social change which Buzan and Little describe. And in this way it emerges that the origins of ‘the international’ do indeed lie in the uneven and combined character of historical development.

2012 Global and Transnational Section Election Results

2012-06-05T00:00:00-07:00

Announcing the winners of the 2012 elections for section officers:

Chair-Elect:
Ann Swidler, University of California at Berkeley

Secretary-Treasurer:
Colin Beck, Pomona College

Council Members:
Kiyoteru Tsutstui, University of Michigan
Pamela Paxton, University of Texas

They will be assuming their official duties at the meetings in Denver. Many thanks to the devoted G&TS members who were willing to stand for election!

The Winter 2012 Section Newsletter - Global Review

2012-02-28T00:00:00-08:00

Global Review Section Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2012

This Quarter’s issue of Global Review includes:

Chair’s Message – Sarah Babb
Jobs for global sociologists
Section Elections – Meet the candidates!
ASA sessions for G&TS in Denver
Announcements
Hot off the Press – Recent publications by section members

Available here!

Call for Nominations - Global and Transnational Sociology Awards for 2012

2012-01-09T00:00:00-08:00

Nominations (including self nominations) are now being accepted for the 2012 Global and Transnational Sociology awards! The deadline for all nominations is March 1 2012, and the winners will be announced at the section reception in Denver. The awards are described below.

Best Scholarly Book Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations for the 2012 Best Scholarly Book Award, recognizing an outstanding book published between 2010 and 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. Self-nominations are encouraged. In nominating a book for the award, please include a brief (no more than one page) comment on its contributions to the field. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2012. Only section members may submit nominations. For information on where to send copies of the nominated book, please e-mail subcommittee chair Alex Hicks.

Best Scholarly Article Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations for the 2012 Best Scholarly Article Award, recognizing an outstanding article published between 2010 and 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. Self-nominations are encouraged. In nominating an article for the award, please include a brief (no more than one page) comment on its contributions to the field. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2012. Only section members may submit nominations. Please email materials (including the article) to subcommittee chair April Linton.

Best Scholarly Publication by a Graduate Student Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations for the 2012 Best Scholarly Publication Award by a Graduate Student, recognizing an outstanding article or book published between 2010 and 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The first author must have been a graduate student when the publication was written. Self-nominations are encouraged. In nominating a publication for the award, please include a brief (no more than one page) comment on its ontributions to the field. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2012. Only section members may submit nominations. Please email or mail materials (including the publication) to subcommittee chair Jennifer Bair.

Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award

The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations for the 2012 Best Scholarly Publication Award by an International Scholar, recognizing an outstanding article or book published between 2010 and 2012 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The author must be an international scholar who is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident of the USA. Self-nominations are encouraged. In nominating a publication for the award, please include a brief (no more than one page) comment on its contributions to the field. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2012. If the nomination is an article, please e-mail materials (including the article) to subcommittee chair Samuel Clark. If the nomination is a book, please contact the subcommittee chair for information on where to send copies.

Call for Papers - Global and Transnational Sociology at ASA 2012 (Denver)

2011-12-14T00:00:00-08:00

Submissions for ASA 2012 in Denver are open. Global and Transnational Sociology will have four panels—two themed and two open, which will be:

Gender, Globalization, and Transnationalism. Session Organizer: Leslie Salzinger, University of California-Berkeley
Global Governance (co-sponsored with Section on Sociology of Law). Session Organizer: Evan Schofer, University of California-Irvine
Open Topic on Global and Transnational Sociology (2 sessions). The section invites submissions for two paper sessions. We invite research that defines or explores global and transnational processes and their consequences. This includes work that empirically, conceptually, or theoretically examines (a) global or transnational groups, movements, networks, or governance, or (b) global or transnational processes, mechanisms, and variables that are important in the study of global, national, regional, local, comparative, or historical issues and places. Session Organizers: Julia Adams, Yale University and Sarah Babb, Boston College

Additionally there are two regular sessions that may be of interest:

Transnational Processes. Session Organizer: Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois
Globalization. Session Organizer: Stephanie Limoncelli, Loyola Marymount University

We will also be hosting the usual one-hour roundtables. One of these roundtables will be themed:

Teaching Global and Transnational Sociology to Undergraduates (one-hour roundtable). Except at the most elite institutions, American students tend to enter college with limited knowledge not only of any language other than English, but also of geography and world history. Instructors of Global and Transnational Sociology may find themselves struggling to make the course seem relevant to the lived experiences of their students. To look into alternative solutions to this problem, the Program Committee will be organizing a special roundtable on “Teaching Global and Transnational Sociology to Undergraduates.” We are looking for 4 participants who feel that they have found effective ways of teaching in this area. The syllabi and accompanying commentary of roundtable participants will be posted on the G&TS website to serve as a resource for section members.

If you are interested in being a part of this roundtable, please submit a syllabus and a 1-3 paragraph description of what you feel makes your course work to Nitsan Chorev by January 15, 2012. The ASA submission system doesn’t allow you to submit to a themed roundtable, so we will be pre-selecting submissions.

The Fall 2011 Section Newsletter - Global Review

2011-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Global Review Section Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2011

This Quarter’s issue of Global Review includes:

Chair’s Message – Sarah Babb
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – Jobs for global sociologists
Section Awards
Leaving Las Vegas – George Thomas
Announcements
Hot off the Press – Recent publications by section members

Available here!

2011 Officers and Council

2011-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

Chair-Elect and Council (2011 – 2012)

Current Officers

Chair: Sarah Babb (Boston College)
Chair-Elect: Julia Adams, Yale University
Secretary/Treasurer: Gili Drori (Stanford University) and Maria Charles (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Council

Lauren Langman, Loyola University Chicago
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
Nitsan Chorev, Brown University
Alex Hicks, Emory University
Nina Bandelj, University of California at Irvine
Sigrid Quack, Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany

Global and Transnational Sociology at ASA 2011 (Las Vegas)

2011-05-17T00:00:00-07:00

The program for this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association is now online (at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa11/). Below is a schedule of activities for the Section on Global and Transnational Sociology (most are on the last day—Tuesday, August 23rd) and related ASA Special and Thematic Sessions.

Official Section Meetings and Sessions

Mentoring Lunch (Mon, Aug 22, meet at 12:15pm)
Session on Contested Politics and Policies in Global and Nation-State Dynamics (Mon, Aug 22, 2:30pm – 4:10pm)
Section Reception (Mon, Aug 22, 6:30pm – 8:10pm)
Session on Constructions of Global and National Identities and Perceptions through Cultural Mechanisms (Tue, Aug 23, 8:30am – 10:10am)
Invited Session on Markets, Institutions, and Governance (Tue, Aug 23, 10:30am – 12:10pm)
Section Roundtable Session (Tue, Aug 23, 12:30pm – 1:30pm)
Section Business Meeting (Tue, Aug 23, 1:30pm – 2:10pm)
Session on Human Rights and Justice in Global-Local Dynamics (Tue, Aug 23, 2:30pm – 4:10pm)

Session on Contested Politics and Policies in Global and Nation-State Dynamics

All the World’s A Stage: How Globalization of Media and Civil Society Are Affecting Contentious Politics - J. Craig Jenkins, Edward M. Crenshaw, and Kristopher K. Robison (Ohio State University)
Crafting the Nuclear Regime Complex (1950-1975): Dynamics of Fragmentation and Harmonization of Nonproliferation Treaties - Gregoire Mallard (McGill University)
How Did International Agencies Manufacture the “One World, One Health” Policy Framework? - Yu-Ju Chien (University of Minnesota)
Scientized Politics and Global Governance in the Cotton Trade - Amy Adams Quark (College of William & Mary)
World Society and the Global Foreign Aid Network, 1966-2005 - Liam Swiss (Memorial University)
Organizer and Presider: Aaron Benavot (Univ at Albany-State University of New York)
Discussant: Kiyoteru Tsutsui (University of Michigan)

Session on Constructions of Global and National Identities and Perceptions through Cultural Mechanisms

How is Global Communication Possible - Aneesh Aneesh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Knowledge and Beliefs about Development and Developmental Hierarchies: Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Counties - Arland Thornton (University of Michigan), Georgina P Binstock (CENEP Institution)
Creating Global Citizens?: Museums, the Nation,and the World - Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College)
Portraying the Global: Cross-National Trends in Textbooks’ Portrayal of Globalization and Global Citizenship - Elizabeth S. Buckner and Susan Garnett Russell (Stanford University)
The production of national difference in global media culture: Screen translation in four European countries - Giselinde Kuipers (University of Amsterdam)
Organizer: Aaron Benavot (Univ at Albany-State University of New York)
Presider and Discussant: Vilna Francine Bashi Treitler (City University of New York – Baruch College, Graduate Center)

Invited Session on Markets, Institutions, and Governance

This session brings together research on the construction of markets and competition through global institutions, organizations and practices. It presents analyses on how transnational organizations and communities (governmental, nongovernmental, private) constitute markets (transnational, regional, and national) through rulemaking. Cutting across diverse fields, the presentations will highlight the role of institutionalized cultures, law, professions, standard-setting, and the interplay of global and local processes.

International Trade Law Organizations - Terence C. Halliday (American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University)
Global-local Interactions in Transnational Governance Fields - Sigrid Quack (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Spreading Global Models and Enhancing Banal Localism: The Case of Local Government Cultural Policy Development - Pertti Alasuutari (University of Tampere)
Global Science: A Cultural Institution in the Era of Markets - Gili S. Drori (Stanford University)
Private Regulation in Global Supply Chains: Making Sense of “Fair” and “Sustainable” Production Standards - Tim Bartley (Indiana University)
Organizers: George M. Thomas (Arizona State University) and Marc J. Ventresca (University of Oxford)
Presider and Discussant: LaDawn Haglund (Arizona State University)

Session on Human Rights and Justice in Global-Local Dynamics

Does Ratification of Human Rights Treaties Increase State Repression?: Reevaluating the ‘Paradox of Empty Promises’ - Matthew Donald Mathias (Emory University), Michael A. Elliott (Towson University)
Love Thy Neighbor: Explaining Asylum Seeking and Hosting, 1982-2008 - Jeong-Woo Koo (Sungkyunkwan University), Eunhye Yoo (University of Minnesota)
Signaling Commitments, Making Concessions: Democratization and State Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties, 1966-2006 - Min Zhou (Harvard University)
The Global Diffusion of Truth Commissions – Narrating Organizational Legitimacy - Anne K. Krueger (Humboldt University Berlin)
The Silhouette of Women’s Rights in China: The CEDAW NGO Shadow Report on “Floating Women” - Ling Han (UCSD)
Organizer: Aaron Benavot (Univ at Albany-State University of New York)
Presider: Asli F. Gur (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Vida Bajc (Methodist University)

Mentoring Lunch

The Section will be hosting its first mentoring lunch at this year’s ASA meetings. It’s an opportunity for graduate students, junior faculty, and senior faculty to meet and greet one another in an informal setting to talk about common interests and issues of professional development. Chris Chase Dunn, David Frank, John Boli, Beverly Silver, George Thomas, Valentine Moghadam, Roland Robertson and others will be there. Please join us for good fun and conversation.

RSVPs appreciated (to Peggy Levitt at plevitt@wellesley.edu) but you can always come at the last minute. Bring a colleague (section membership not required). Meet on Monday, August 22nd, at 12:15 – 12:30, by the Hotel Registration Desk of Caesars Palace. We’ll share cabs to the restaurant, which is India Palace, 505 East Twain Avenue (the buffet will be about $15).

Special and Thematic Sessions related to Global and Transnational Sociology

There are many sessions at the ASA that focus on global and transnational sociology, not to mention individual papers throughout that bring in global and transnational themes. It is not possible to draw attention to all of these, but we thought it useful to note the related Special and Thematic Sessions organized by the ASA program committee. Details for each can be found on the ASA website, and day/times should be checked. Apologies to those in any omitted sessions.

ASA Special Invited Sessions (alphabetical order)

Climate Change: Reconfiguring Global Authority, Resources, Ideas, and Bodies (Sat, Aug 20, 8:30am – 10:10am)
Global Civil Society and Religion (Sat, Aug 20, 10:30am – 12:10pm)
Global Health Governance and HIV/AIDS (Sun, Aug 21, 12:30pm – 2:10pm)
Globalization and the Transformation of Sexuality (Tue, Aug 23, 8:30am – 10:10am)
New Directions in Globalization Research (Sat, Aug 20, 10:30am – 12:10pm)
The Resurgence of Political Populism in a Global Perspective (Sun, Aug 21, 12:30pm – 2:10pm)
Uprisings in the Arab World (Sat, Aug 20, 4:30pm – 6:10pm)

ASA Thematic Sessions (alphabetical order)

Assessing the Work of Immanuel Wallerstein (Sun, Aug 21, 10:30am – 12:10pm
Conflict and Coalition Building in the Globalization Movement (Sat, Aug 20, 10:30am – 12:10pm
Drug Trafficking, Cartels and Gangs and their Socioeconomic Impact Within and Across Borders (Sun, Aug 21, 12:30pm – 2:10pm)
Engaging War: Sociologists Confront National Conflict (Mon, Aug 22, 10:30am – 12:10pm)
Indigenous Colonial Conflicts/Indigenous Identities (Tue, Aug 23, 8:30am – 10:10am)
Learning from Intractable Social Conflict (Mon, Aug 22, 4:30pm – 6:10pm)
Myths of 9/11 (Mon, Aug 22, 2:30pm – 4:10pm)
Terrorism and Countering Terrorism: Micro and Macro-Level Dynamics (Tue, Aug 23, 2:30pm – 4:10pm)
The Great Decline in Global Conflict since the End of the Cold War (Mon, Aug 22, 8:30am – 10:10am)

2011 Section Awards

2011-05-17T00:00:00-07:00

Distinguished Career Award

John W. Meyer
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Stanford University

Award committee: Salvatore Babones, Terence Halliday, and Hwaji Shin

Best Scholarly Book Award

Sarah Babb
Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009)

and

Susan Eva Eckstein
The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the US and their Homeland (Routledge, 2009)

Award committee: Julia P. Adams, Alex Hicks, and Ann Hironaka

Best Scholarly Article Award

Cheris Shun-ching Chan
“Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305 (2009)

and

David John Frank, Bayliss J. Camp, and Stephen A. Boutcher
“Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005,” American Sociological Review 75: 867-93 (2010)

Award committee: Katja M. Guenther, Heather Hurwitz, and Andrew Kent Jorgenson

Best Publication Award by an International Scholar

Cheris Shun-ching Chan
“Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305 (2009)

Award committee: Sara Curran, Matt Mathias, and Miriam Abu Sharkh

Best Publication by a Graduate Student

Min Zhou
“Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000,” Social Forces 88: 1619-43 (2010)

Award committee: Colin Beck, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, and Rachel Sullivan Robinson

2010 Officers and Council

2010-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

Election Results for Chair-Elect and Council (2010 -2011)

Chair: George Thomas, Arizona State University
Chair-Elect: Sarah Babb (Boston College)

Secretary/Treasurer: Gili Drori (Stanford University) and Maria Charles (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Council

Liz Boyle, University of Minnesota
Lauren Langman, Loyola University Chicago
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
Francisco (Chiqui) Ramirez, Stanford University
Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
Jackie Smith, University of Notre Dame

Nominating Committee

Peter Evans, Chair, UC Berkeley
Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol
Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford

Program Committee

Aaron Benavot, SUNY Albany
Vida Bajc, Queen’s University
Asli Gur, University of Michigan
Vilna Treitler, City University of New York
Leslie Salzinger, Boston College
Nitsan Chorev, Brown University

Membership Committee

Laura Toussaint, Outreach Coordinator, American University
John Boli, Emory University
Karen Bradley, Western Washington University
Jeong-Woo Koo, Sungkyunkwan University
David Miyahara, Azusa Pacific University

Information Resources Committee

Selina Gallo-Cruz, Archivist, Emory University
Terry Halliday, American Bar Foundation
Paulette Lloyd, Indiana University
Ryoko Yamamoto, University of Hawaii Manoa

Publications Committee

Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Margaretta Swigert Gacheru, Loyola University Chicago

Awards Committee

Miriam Abu Sharkh, Stanford University
Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney
Colin Beck, Pomona College
Liz Boyle, University of Minnesota
David Frank, University of California Irvine
B. Nadya Jaworsky, Yale University
Matt Matthias, Emory University
Simone Pulver, Brown University
Rachel Robinson, American University

Student Outreach Committee

Heather Hurwitz, Coordinator , UC Santa Barbara
Kemi Balogun, University of California Berkeley
Neslihan Cevik, Arizona State University
Shawn Dorius, Pennsylvania State University (student)

Web Work Committee

Malcolm Fairbrother, Webmaster, University of Bristol
Matt Mathias, Emory University
Claude Rubinson, consultant, University of Arizona

2010 (Inaugural!) Section Awards

2010-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

The ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of this year’s section awards. We will introduce the honorees and their work at the business meeting in Atlanta. Congratulations to all! For the award committees’ explanations of their decisions, and descriptions of the winners’ works, see: SGTS.awards2010.pdf.

Distinguished Career Award

Roland Robertson, Chair in Sociology and Global Society, University of Aberdeen
Committee: Colin Beck; David John Frank; and Ann Hironaka

Best Scholarly Book Award

Terrence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers. Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford University Press 2009)
Committee: Nitsan Chorev; Heather Hurwitz; and Simone Pulver

Best Scholarly Article Award

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Hwa Ji Shin “Global Norms, Local Activism, and Social Movement Outcomes: Global Human Rights and Resident Koreans in Japan.” Social Problems 55:391-418 (2008).
Committee: Sara Curran; Rachel Sullivan Robinson, and Miriam Abu Sharkh

Best Publication Award by an International Scholar

Max Haller, Roger Jowell, and Tom W. Smith, editors. The International Social Survey Programme, 1984-2009: Charting the Globe (Routledge 2009).
Committee: Elizabeth Heger Boyle; Katja M. Guenther; Joachim Savelsberg

Best Publication by a Graduate Student

Patricia Bromley and Susan Garnett Russell. “The Holocaust as History and Human Rights: A Cross-National Analysis of Holocaust Education in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008.” Prospects 153 (2010).
Committee: Salvatore Babones; Andrew Jorgenson; and Matt Mathias.

2009 Officers and Council

2009-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

Election Results for Chair-Elect and Council (2009)

Chair: George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Chair-Elect: George Thomas, Arizona State University

Council

Liz Boyle, University of Minnesota
Lauren Langman, Loyola University Chicago
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
Francisco (Chiqui) Ramirez, Stanford University
Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
Jackie Smith, University of Notre Dame

Secretary/Treasurer

Maria Charles, UC Santa Barbara, and Gili Drori, Stanford University

Nominating Committee

Peter Evans, Chair, UC Berkeley
Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol
Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford

Program Committee

Aaron Benavot, SUNY Albany
Vida Bajc, Queen’s University
Asli Gur, University of Michigan
Vilna Treitler, City University of New York

Membership Committee

Laura Toussaint, Outreach Coordinator, American University John Boli, Emory University
Karen Bradley, Western Washington University
Jeong-Woo Koo, Sungkyunkwan University
David Miyahara, Azusa Pacific University

Information Resources Committee

Selina Gallo-Cruz, Archivist, Emory University
Terry Halliday, American Bar Foundation
Paulette Lloyd, Indiana University
Ryoko Yamamoto, University of Hawaii Manoa

Publications Committee

Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Margaretta Swigert Gacheru, Loyola University Chicago

Awards Committee

Miriam Abu Sharkh, Stanford University
Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney
Colin Beck, Pomona College
Liz Boyle, University of Minnesota
David Frank, University of California Irvine
B. Nadya Jaworsky, Yale University
Matt Matthias, Emory University
Simone Pulver, Brown University
Rachel Robinson, American University

Student Outreach Committee

Heather Hurwitz, Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara
Kemi Balogun, University of California Berkeley
Neslihan Cevik, Arizona State University
Shawn Dorius, Pennsylvania State University (student)

Web Work Committee)

Malcolm Fairbrother, Webmaster, University of Bristol
Matt Mathias, Emory University
Claude Rubinson, consultant, University of Arizona

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