23-25 June 2018
Doshisha University (Imadegawa campus) - Kyoto, Japan

2018 – Kyoto

Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy and Justice

Conference Theme Overview

For decades, scholars have been charting the multiple effects of “globalization” on political, economic and social practices in the developed and developing world. Broadly, globalization has been understood to involve open trade and the growth of transnational flows, linkages and interdependencies at all levels involving knowledge, labor, business, finance, technology, regulation and norms, such as human rights. After World War II, multiple regimes and institutions traversing and interlinking domestic and transnational positions emerged and were then continuously modified to foster and govern the globalization process. For decades, the diffusion of the ideology and practice architectures of “globalization” was made possible by a strong developed capitalist alliance of mostly western powers, headed by the United States. The results of this historical project have been highly uneven: some regions of the global south (especially Asia), experienced tremendous growth and living standard improvement, while others (eg in Africa) languished; the metropolitan north experienced an initial multiple decade period of prosperity followed by ever more obvious stagnation and socio-economic distress. After more than a half century of increasing openness, nearly all regions in the north and south are experiencing alarming and seemingly ever worsening inequality and often painfully disruptive adjustment in work, civic and private lives. In the wake of these developments, the forces unleashed by the globalization project now seem to be pushing toward its recalibration. Economic success in Asia, especially in China, has shifted global power relations and alliances, challenging the premier position of the US. Recently, populist and authoritarian movements in many global regions have channeled reactions to globalization’s disruptive qualities into political challenges to the basic practices and governance architectures undergirding globalization both domestically and transnationally. Today, at nearly every level of social life across the globe, social, economic and political relations, practices and modes of organization and governance have been unsettled and destabilized.

How should we make sense of the current moment? Exhaustion, rage, reaction, reform, transformation and experimentation all seem to be present and intermingling in turbulent and unpredictable ways. The 2018 annual SASE conference in Kyoto will serve as an occasion for existing SASE networks, as well as new groupings in the form of mini-conferences, to explore the ways in which the processes of reordering occurring across the globe are impacting traditional research areas and paradigms of analysis. How are new developments redrawing the practice and governance terrain within firms and corporations, in management practices, in the welfare state, the law, in industrial relations, across supply chains and in regulation? Are processes of innovation and technological change substantively affected by (or even driving) the current process of global reordering? SASE as a community has long embraced values furthering equality, justice and democracy across a broad array of research terrains. How do reordering processes impact those commitments? The Association’s first meeting in Asia, itself an expression of the changing composition of the global academic conversation, seems like a very fitting occasion for reflection on these powerful dynamics of change and recomposition.

Calls for paper proposals and session proposals will open on 7 November 2017 and close on 29 January 2018

President: Gary Herrigel (g-herrigel@uchicago.edu)

Program Directors: Gary Herrigel and Sebastien Lechevalier

Program Committee: Mary Gallagher and Tobias Schulze-Cleven

Local Organizing Committee: Tadashi Yagi, Masayo Fujimoto, and Sayaka Sakoda

 

Call for Papers in Japanese

Call for Papers in Mandarin

Call for Papers in Korean

Mini-Conference Themes

Each mini-conference will consist of 3 to 6 panels, which will be featured as a separate stream in the program. Each panel will have a discussant, meaning that selected participants must submit a completed paper in advance, by 1 May 2018. Submissions for panels will be open to all scholars on the basis of an extended abstract. If a paper proposal cannot be accommodated within a mini-conference, organizers will forward it to the most appropriate research network as a regular submission.

Comparative Political Economy and the Environment
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Organizers
Matthew Allen
Jared Finnegan
Geoffrey Wood
Global Finance: Hidden and Public Dimensions
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Organizers
Karin Knorr Cetina
Alex Preda
Inclusive Growth and Social Investment: What Prospects For Equality, Democracy and Justice?
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Organizers
Jean-Michel Bonvin
Francesco Laruffa
Kang-Kook Lee
Keun Lee
Hyeog Ug Kwon
Marketization and the Digital Economy
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Organizers
Thomas Beauvisage
Jean-Samuel Beuscart
Dave Elder-Vass
Timur Ergen
Anne Jourdain
Sidonie Naulin
Politics of the Future, Policies in the Present
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Organizers
Vincent Cardon
Antoine Bernard de Raymond
Olivier Pilmis
Professional Networks and Expert Numbers in Economic Governance
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Organizers
Daniel Mügge
Leonard Seabrooke
Prospects for Equality Within and Across Organizations
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Organizers
Nina Bandelj
Andrew Penner
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Revisiting Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan Ten Years After the Great Financial Crisis
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Organizers
Lea Elsässer
Timur Ergen
Daniel Mertens
Martin Seeliger
Socio-Economic Justice, Equality, SDGs and the Constituting of Participatory Society: The Islamic Moral Economy & Finance Project
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Organizers
Mehmet Asutay
Necati Aydin
Shinsuke Nagaoka
State Transformations, Spatial Austerity and the Globalization of Urban Decline: in Search of Alternative Urban Policies (supported by Fondation France-Japon and INCAS)
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Organizers
Yasushi Asami
Sophie Baudet-Michel
Sophie Buhnik
Peter Matanle
Allan Popelard
The Making of Transnational Labor Markets: Reordering of Actors, Institutions, and Policies?
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Organizers
Ursula Mense-Petermann
Karen Shire

Find out more about the exceptional scholars giving featured talks at our 30th conference in Kyoto.

Ching Kwan Lee
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Emiko Ochiai
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Christine Parker
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Wang Hui
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Presidential Panels

Labor in Asia (Roundtable)

Chair: Karen Shire

Discussants: Ryo Kambayashi, Boy Lüthje, Pun Ngai, Ito Peng, and Lu Zhang

Digital/Platform Economy – Rise of Asia

Chair: John Zysman

Discussants: Martin Kenney, Tatsuyuki Negoro, Sidonie Naulin, and Lan Xue

Financialization in Comparative Perspective

Chair: Lea Elsässer

Discussants: Richard Deeg, Thomas Haipeter, Chang Kyung-sup, Natascha van der Zwan, and Steven Vogel

Changing Dynamics of Global Trade (Roundtable)

Chair: Seung-Youn Oh

Discussants: Kozo Kiyota, Adnan Naseemullah, Wonkyu Shin, and Till van Treeck

New Perspectives on Labor, Firms and Markets in Japan

Organizer: Masayo Fujimoto

Discussants: Mitsuo Ishida, Gregory Jackson, Steven Vogel, and Hugh Whittaker

 

Author Meets Critics

For SASE/Kyoto 2018 a great selection of ‘Author meets Critics’ sessions have been organized, see the list of books and discussants below

PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS SESSIONS

Root-Cause Regulation, Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century – Michael Piore and Andrew Schrank

Harvard University Press, 2018

Discussants: Lucio Baccaro /Tim Bartley / Mari Sako

The Changing Politics of Central Banking – Annelise Riles

Cornell University Press, 2018

Discussants: Sebastian Diessner / Wataru Takahashi / 3rd discussant TBD

Korean Modernization & Uneven Development – Kyong-Dong Kim

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Discussants: Dorothee Bohle / Sébastien Lechevalier Kang Kook Lee / Sophia Seung-yoon Lee

 

NETWORK AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS SESSIONS

Network B

Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia – William Hurst

Cambridge University Press, 2018

Discussants: Yusuke Anami / Caroline Arnold / Mark Dallas / Douglas B Fuller / Mary Gallagher / Ayame Suzuki 

 

Network B

Strategic Coupling:East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy – Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Cornell University Press, 2018

Discussants: Caroline Arnold / Douglas B Fuller / Michelle Hsieh / Eun Mee Kim 

Network D

Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets – Susan Block-Lieb and Terence Halliday

Cambridge University Press, 2017

Moderator: Jonathan Zeitlin

Discussants: Nitsan Chorev / Sigrid Quack / Leonard Seabrooke

Network D

Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency – Lotta Björklund Larsen

Berghahn Books, 2017

Discussants: Margarita Gelepithis / Christine Musselin / Leonhard Seabrooke / Sigrid Quack

Network E

Reconstructing Solidarity. Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe – Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, and Valeria Pulignano (eds.)

Oxford University Press, 2018

Moderator: Aidan Regan

Discussants: Chris Howell / Gregor Murray / Jacqueline O’Reilly

Network E

Exclusion by Elections: Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy – John D. Huber

Cambridge University Press, 2017

Moderator: Sabina Avdagic

Discussants: Alexandre Afonso / Nancy DiTomaso / Silja Häusermann

Network F

Venturing in International Firms: Contexts and Cases in a High-Tech World – Christopher Williams

Routledge, 2018

Discussants: Alexander Ebner / Jessica Santana / Seijiro Takeshita

Network G

Work in the Digital Age: Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Florian Ranft, Jacqueline O’Reilly, and Max Neufeind (eds.)

Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018

Authors in attendance: Jackie O’Reilly / John Zysman / Virginia Doellgast / Bruno Palier

Discussants: Karen Shire / Mark Stuart

Network K

Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism – Isabelle Ferreras

Cambridge University Press, 2017

Moderators: Yuri Biondi and Gregor Murray

Discussants: Robert Boyer / Virginia Doellgast / Michael Piore / Antoine Reberioux

Network L

Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy – Tim Bartley

Oxford University Press, 2018

Discussants: Sigrid Quack / Mary Gallagher / Christine Parker / Jonathan Zeitlin

Network L

Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Finance, and Power – Abraham L. Newman and Elliot Posner

Oxford University Press, 2018

Discussants: Daniel Mügge / Dorothee Bohle / Gregory Shaffer / Jonathan Zeitlin

Network P

Understanding Mattessich and Ijiri: A Study of Accounting Thought – Nohora García (ed.)

Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017

Discussants: Shyam Sunder / Pierre Liang / Yoshitaka Fukui

Online Program and PDF Program

The finalized program for SASE’s 30th Annual Conference, hosted by Doshisha University is now available to download. An addendum with last-minute changes will be available at the registration desk.

The online program is also available to be consulted, here.

*Please note: You must bring your own laptop if you plan on using a PowerPoint presentation (Macintosh users should also bring a standard VGA convertor).

App

The native app for our 30th annual conference in Kyoto is now live. You can download the app for free through Google Play or the App Store by searching ‘SASE 2018’.

The app will allow you to see abstracts of all the sessions from SASE Kyoto. You can save your favourite presentations to create an agenda, in addition to this you will have access to any last minute changes in the schedule.

To download to your device, simply follow one of the links below:

Andriod: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.confex.meetingapp.sase.m2018

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sase-2018/id1391210853?ls=1&mt=8