SASE Salons are open live exclusively to paid members of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). To join, visit https://sase.org/join-sase/.
The webinar series presents cutting-edge research from leading thinkers in anticipation of the 2022 annual SASE conference at the University of Amsterdam, “Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control” – 9-11 July 2022.
Our aim is to spark debate, challenge assumptions, and become an essential resource for anyone interested in socio-economics and political economy.
Fragmented work boundaries and digital (dis)connections
Speaker: Tony Dundon [chair], Caroline Murphy, Michelle O’Sullivan, and Aida Ponce Del Castillo
28 April at 1pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
Tony Dundon
Tony Dundon is Professor of HRM and Employment Relations, Department of Work & Employment Studies in the Kemmy Business School. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD). His research has been published in journals such as: Human Relations, Organizational Research Methods, Human resource Management Journal, British Journal of Management, Work Employment & Society (among other).
Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick & Digit
Caroline Murphy
Caroline Murphy is a Lecturer in Employment Relations at the University of Limerick, and Associate Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre. She is Director of the Msc in HRM at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. She lectures in Employment Relations, Human Resource Analytics, and Human Resource Management. She has worked on a variety of research projects including: The Impact Technology on Workers in the Finance sector (2021), Pathways to Better Jobs in the Early Years Childhood Care and Education Sector (2020), Gender Equality in Decision-Making (funded by European Commission), A Study of Zero Hours Work in Ireland (and Reconciling Employment and ElderCare Together (2016, funded by the Irish Research Council). Her current research interests include precarious employment, female labour market participation, formal and informal care work and employee representation. She has published in Economic and Industrial Democracy, Industrial Law Journal, Industrial Relations Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Industrial Relations, Personnel Review, Irish Journal of Management.
Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
Michelle O’Sullivan
Michelle O’Sullivan‘s expertise is primarily on quality of work and precarious work with particular attention on public policy. Her research has investigated zero hours work, low wage service sector jobs and wage setting in low paid jobs. Michelle’s other research interests include trade unions, collective action, employee voice and silence, migrant workers, dispute resolution, workplace bullying and employment law. She has published widely including in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Industrial Relations Journal and the Industrial Law Journal. She is co-author of Industrial Relations in Ireland (2020), the primary textbook on industrial relations, co-editor of Zero Hours and On-Call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries (2019) and co-editor of Are Trade Unions Still Relevant? Union Recognition 100 Years On (2013). Her primary teaching interests are in industrial relations and dispute resolution skills in employment. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Industrial Relations.
Michelle is Chair of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations, and is a member of the Board of Directors of TASC and the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies. She was a Board Member of the Workplace Relations Commission from 2015-2021.
European Trade Union Institute
Aida Ponce Del Castillo
Aida Ponce Del Castillo holds a PhD in Law and a Master’s degree in Bioethics. She is a senior researcher at the Brussels-based Foresight Unit of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Her research focuses on the legal, social and regulatory issues of emerging technologies, in particular AI and data-driven technologies. She also conducts foresight projects. At the OECD she is a member of the Working Party on Bio-, Nano- and Converging Technologies (BNCT) and of the OECD.AI expert group on Policies for AI.
The session will include a panel debate including academic researchers, policy and trade union experts around digital transformations of work. It will cover remote working challenges, policy and regulation debates around digitalization and artificial intelligence at work, rights to disconnect from technological surveillance and control.
Anarchism in the Business School
Speaker: Martin Parker
12 May at 1pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Business schools are institutions which act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. If we see universities as institutions with responsibilities to the societies they inhabit, then we must challenge the common notion that 'the market' should be the primary determinant of the education they provide. I want to make the case for a radical alternative, in the form of a 'School for Organising'. This institution would teach and research different forms of organising, instead of reproducing the dominant managerial model, helping us to discover alternative responses to the pressing issues of inequality and sustainability that we all face. One element of such a School will be anarchist ideas which have been, over the past two centuries, one of the most stimulating bodies of thought on the theory and practice of organization today. In this talk I will explain why anarchist experimentalism will be vital to help us shape our future, because anarchists have never been against organization.
Further reading
Parker, Martin 2018 Shut Down the Business School. Pluto Books
Parker, Martin, Konstantin Stoborod and Thomas Swann (eds.) 2020 Anarchism, Organization and Management. Routledge
Parker, Martin 2021 "Against management: Auto-critique" in Organisation, 1–9
Parker, Martin 2020 "The Critical Business School and the University: A Case Study of Resistance and Co-optation" in Critical Sociology, 1–14
Fractious Feminisms and Feminist Solidarities – Women and Gender Forum event
Speakers: Elaine Coburn [chair], Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Jayati Ghosh, Martha Gimenez, Rauna Kuokkanen, Julie Nelson, and Busi Sibeko
17 May at 3pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Centre for Feminist Research, York University
Elaine Coburn
Elaine Coburn is Associate Professor, International Studies, and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research, York University in Toronto, Canada. Her work is concerned with unjust inequities; how we understand them and how we challenge them. The author or more than 70 publications, her work has appeared in the Canadian Review of Sociology, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the International Sociological Review, Political Studies and Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Thought. She writes for Canadian Notes and Queries, Herizons and the Literary Review of Canada.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include The Making of a Catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian Economy (Aleph Books forthcoming 2022); When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy (Tulika Books and Columbia University Press 2021, co-edited); Women Workers in the Informal Economy (Routledge 2021, editor); Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India (Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2009); co-edited Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (2014); co-edited After Crisis (Tulika 2009); co-authored Demonetisation Decoded (Routledge 2017); She has published more than 200 scholarly articles. She has received several prizes, including for the 2015 Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India; the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2011; the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010, Italy. She has advised governments in India and other countries, including as Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005-09). She was the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org), an international network of heterodox development economists, from 2002 to 2021. She has consulted for international organisations including ILO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UNRISD and UN Women and is member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Commission on Global Economic Transformation of INET, the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). In 2021 she was appointed to the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired by Mariana Mazzucato. In March 2022, she joined the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, mandated to provide a vision for international cooperation to deal with current and future challenges. She also writes regularly for popular media like newspapers, journals and blogs.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Martha E. Gimenez
Martha E. Gimenez, originally from Argentina, is Professor Emerita, Sociology, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has written on the political economy of population, Marxist feminist theory, social reproduction, and the political constructions of race, ethnicity and gender. Her work has been published in journals such as Science & Society, The Review of Radical Political Economics, Gender and Society, Das Argument, Actuel Marx and Z., Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung. Her book, Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction was published in 2019 (Brill).
Simon Fraser University
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a feminist economist who is a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University. She has written extensively in the areas of political economy and public policy with special emphasis on the Canadian economy, women, labour, electricity deregulation, energy, climate change and labour, international trade agreements, and the care economy.
Among her books are Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action; Public Policy for Women; Remapping Gender in the New Global Order; Governing Under Stress; Training the Excluded for Work; Global Turbulence, Global Instability, Canadian Women’s Issues (two volumes), Women’s Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Ontario, and Free Trade and the Future of Women’s Work.
Professor Cohen was instrumental in establishing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in British Columbia and was its first Chair. She served on many boards and commissions including the B.C. Industrial Inquiry Commission on the Fisheries; Board of Directors of B.C. Hydro; Board of Directors of NewGrade Energy, Board of Directors of B.C. Power Exchange; and most recently was the first Chair of the BC Fair Wages Commission. Her feminist activity has been considerable including being Vice-President and Treasurer of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Among the awards she has received are the Charles Taylor prize for excellence in policy research, and the Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice.
Her most recent focus is on the care economy and its contribution to economic growth, stability, and meeting people’s needs. Thecareeconomy.ca
University of Lapland & University of Toronto
Rauna Kuokkanen
Rauna Kuokkanen is Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland (Finland) and Adjunct Professor of Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on comparative Indigenous politics and law, Indigenous feminist theory, Arctic governance and settler colonialism. She is a Fulbright Arctic Initiative Fellow for 2021-2022.
Professor Kuokkanen’s most recent book Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance and Gender by Oxford University Press (2019) has been awarded with three prizes (the International Studies Association’s Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section Best Book Award 2020, the British International Studies Association’s Susan Strange Best Book Prize and the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics in 2020). It has also been selected as the semi-finalist for the US-based Grawemeyer 2021 Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Drawing on extensive interviews and political theory, the book is an Indigenous feminist investigation of the concept of Indigenous self-determination, governance and gender regimes in Indigenous political institutions.
Her other books include Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (UBC Press, 2007) and Boaris dego eana: Eamiálbmogiid diehtu, filosofiijat ja dutkan (in the Sámi language, translated title: As Old as the Earth. Indigenous Knowledge, Philosophies and Research, 2009). She was the founding chair of the Sámi Youth Organization in Finland and has served as the Vice-President of the Sámi Council. She has also long worked and advocated for the protection of Sámi sacred sites, particularly Suttesája, a sacred Sámi spring in Northern Finland. Professor Kuokkanen was recently appointed as the Chair of the Arctic Program Committee of NordForsk. She is from Ohcejohka/Utsjoki, Sápmi (Finland).
Currently she leads the Siida School project, a community driven renewal of Sámi Siida system, funded by the Kone Foundation. The collaborative project by Sámi scholars, artists and activists seeks to reconstruct and simulate how and which Siida practices could operate as part of Sámi governance structures today.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Julie Nelson
Julie A. Nelson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research interests include feminist economics, economic methodology, ecological economics, and ethics and economics. She is the author of many articles in journals ranging from Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy to Economics and Philosophy and Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; author of a number of books including Economics for Humans (2nd ed. 2018) and Gender and Risk-Taking: Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters (2017); and co-editor (with Marianne Ferber) of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (1993) and Feminist Economics Today (2003). She is editor of the Business Ethics and Economics section of the Journal of Business Ethics, a former Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, and was the 2019 President of the Association for Social Economics.
Independent scholar
Sbusisiwe Sibeko
Busi Sibeko is an economist and researcher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University and a Masters in the Political Economy of Development from SOAS, University of London. She was previously at the Institute for Economic Justice where her research focus was macroeconomic policy, including participatory feminist budgeting. She was the co-Chair of the Budget Justice Coalition which is comprised of 14+ civil society organisations. She provided research support to the labour constituency. She authored The Cost of Austerity: Lessons for South Africa and is a co-author of A fiscal stimulus for South Africa. In 2020, Busi was featured in the roundtable series of renowned economists on Rebirthing the Global Economy to Deliver Sustainable Development by the United Nations Secretary General. She considers herself a feminist political economist in training and is determined to be a part of unwinding structural injustice.
Sponsored by the SASE Women and Gender (WAG) Forum, this panel brings together leading feminist scholars and researchers to share their insights into how feminisms, in their diversity, shed new light on economics and political economy. If malestream traditions dismiss feminists as fractious—as "making trouble and complaining"—this panel asserts the usefulness of feminisms for troubling problematic assumptions and critiquing absences within dominant traditions of economics and political economy. Indeed, given significant income and wealth inequities, global conflicts and climate change, feminisms and feminist solidarities are more necessary than ever before. This panel opens up critical conversations about reimagining economics and political economies in ways that foreground feminist responses to the major concerns of our times.
Read Raunam Kuokkanen's article "Is Reindeer the New Buffalo? Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi"
Society and Economy
Speakers: Mark Granovetter, Elaine Coburn, Michel Grossetti
24 May at 5pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Stanford University
Mark Granovetter
Mark Granovetter is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Northwestern University. From the time of his undergraduate studies in History at Princeton, he has had a consuming interest in the way that individual action, social networks and social institutions interact with and shape one another. His focus is on actors who try to define and solve problems, not with simple rational strategies, but rather as pragmatists assembling ideas and practices from their social environments — what Bourdieu called bricolage . His first approach to these questions led him to the analysis of social networks. His widely cited 1973 paper “The Strength of Weak Ties”, showed how weak rather than strong ties bridge cliques that might otherwise be disconnected, thus conveying information to individuals about jobs, rumors and discoveries about which they might otherwise be unaware. His 1974 (2nd ed. 1995) book Getting a Job pursued this theme, exploring the role of social networks in labor markets. His models of collective behavior, in which small differences in the distribution of individual thresholds for action might lead to huge differences in collective outcomes, focused on the nonlinearity of the relation between causes and social outcomes. Since the mid-1980s, he has focused on the sociology of the economy, beginning with his 1985 paper “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness”. His recent book, Society and Economy, explores how trust, social norms, power and the details of networks accumulate into macro-level institutions that then in turn shape what individuals do. The first volume (2017) sets out the theoretical framework, while the second (in process) will use this framework to illuminate the study of such important topics and cases as the role and variety of personal relationships in the economy, corruption, corporate governance, organizational form and the emergence of new industries like the American electricity industry and the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley.
Centre for Feminist Research, York University
Elaine Coburn
Elaine Coburn is Associate Professor, International Studies, and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research, York University in Toronto, Canada. Her work is concerned with unjust inequities; how we understand them and how we challenge them. The author or more than 70 publications, her work has appeared in the Canadian Review of Sociology, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the International Sociological Review, Political Studies and Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Thought. She writes for Canadian Notes and Queries, Herizons and the Literary Review of Canada.
EHESS & CNRS
Michel Grossetti
Michel Grossetti is director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in the area of sociology. His work focuses on social networks, innovation, the geography of scientific activities and social science theory. He has published with Claire Bidart and Alain Degenne, the book Living in Networks. The Dynamics of Social Relations (2020, Cambridge University Press).
Society and Economy: Framework and Principles—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.
The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and constraints as religion, science, politics, or law. While some actions can be understood in traditional economic terms as people working rationally toward well-defined ends, much human behavior is harder to fit into that simple framework. Actors sometimes follow social norms with a passionate faith in their appropriateness, and at other times they conform without conscious thought. They also trust others when there is no obvious reason to do so. The power individuals wield over one another can have a major impact on economic outcomes, even when that power arises from noneconomic sources.
Although people depend on social norms, culture, trust, and power to solve problems, the guidance these offer is often murky and complicated. Granovetter explores how problem solvers improvise to assemble pragmatic solutions from this multitude of principles. He draws throughout on arguments from psychology, social network studies, and long-term historical and political analysis and suggests ways to maneuver back and forth among these approaches. Underlying Granovetter’s arguments is an attempt to move beyond such simple dualisms as agency/structure to a more complex and subtle appreciation of the nuances and dynamics that drive social and economic life.
Further reading:
Coburn, Elaine, "Sociology versus economics: Economic life as social fact and social struggle" in International Sociology Reviews 2021, Vol. 36(5) 720–731
Goyal, Sanjeev, "Society and Economy: Frameworks and Principles: A Book Review" in Journal of Economic Literature 2019, Vol. 57(3), 678–689
Grossetti, Michel, "Mark Granovetter : de la sociologie économique aux sciences sociales de l’activité économique. À propos de l’ouvrage de Mark Granovetter, Society and Economy: Framework and Principles", working text, 2018.
The War in Ukraine
Speakers: Yuliya Bidenko, Alexander Rodnyansky, and Mariia Shuvelova
Moderator: Alya Guseva
2 June at 3pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Karazin Kharkiv National University
Yuliya Bidenko
Yuliya Bidenko is Ph.D. in Political Science (2009) and MA in Sociology (2004). She holds the position of Associate Professor and Guarantee of the Master’s Program at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. She was a Research Fellow for Civil Society Studies Department of Charles University, an Individual Research Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies and Education in Europеan Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), the participant of post-Soviet Researchers and Teachers Excellence Program by the Temple University, Institute for Civic Studies by the Tufts University and the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Dr. Bidenko is an alumna of the European Union Visitors Program (2018), the Aspen Institute-Kyiv International Seminars Program (2019), Ukrainian School of Political Studies by the Council of Europe (2014).
Professor Bidenko was a speaker for more than 100 conferences, seminars, panel discussions, and round tables in Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Belarus, and Moldova. She has published academic articles and papers devoted to the problems of civil society, decentralization, ideologies, political regimes’ changes, and the establishment of democratic institutions and reforms in Ukraine and in Eastern Europe.
Since 2016 Dr. Bidenko is the expert for the “Team Europe” Initiative by the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine. In 2021 she was the expert and the author of the Ukrainian annual country report for the Nations in Transit by the Freedom House. Yuliya Bidenko regularly cooperates as an expert, a political analyst with local, national, and foreign media and think tanks, such as Alliance for Democracies, Belgium; Inmedio-Institut for Dialogue and Mediation, Berlin; Prague Civil Society Centre, Prague; Caucasian House, Tbilisi; New Europe Centre and Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv.
As a trainer for civic education projects for the Ukrainian youth, women in politics, civic activists and electoral commissions’ members she co-works with Ukrainian and international NGOs, among which are OESCE, Freedom House, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Hans Seidel Foundation, European Endowment for Democracy, SIDA, NED, OPORA-Ukraine, IFES-Ukraine.
University of Cambridge
Alexander Rodnyansky
Alexander Rodnyansky is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, a research affiliate of the CEPR, and a member of the CFM. Alexander is also a presidential adviser in Ukraine, a supervisory board member of Ukraine’s biggest bank, The State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank), and the former chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2019-2020). Alexander received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2017 and joined Cambridge shortly thereafter. Alexander’s main research fields are empirical macroeconomics and finance and international finance.
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Mariia Shuvalova
Mariia Shuvalova is a literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Fulbright Scholar (Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the city of New York, 2019–2020). Editorial assistant of the international peer-reviewed journal Kyiv Mohyla Humanities Journal. Translator at Tapas Localization, an agency of media content localization, Annual International Film Festival Molodist. Co-founder and head of the non-governmental organization New Ukrainian Academic Community whose latest projects were the publication of a book by Volodymyr Dibrova Taras Shevchenko. New Perspectives, an international conference The Female Artist as an Icon of National Modernization: The Phenomenon of Lesia Ukrainka in a Comparative Perspective (in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Writer). Projects were implemented in cooperation with such organizations as the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, the Association of Hispanics of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society in America, and publishing house Bilka.
Boston University
Alya Guseva
Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University specializing in economic and medical sociology. Her particular interest is in the processes of market formation. She is the author and co-author of two books on emerging credit card markets in the postcommunist region — Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (2008) and Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries (2014, with Akos Rona-Tas), both at Stanford University Press. Her work also appeared in American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Family Issues, Geneses, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, East European Quarterly and Social Science Research.
Combining her expertise in sociology of markets and medical sociology, she is currently researching emerging markets for gestational surrogacy in several surrogacy-friendly jurisdictions in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan).
She has been a member of SASE for 10 years, is a co-founder and co-organizer of Research Network N: Finance and Society, and served as the Chair of Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
The War in Ukraine Salon will feature a conversation about cultural, political and economic aspects of the ongoing war, including the warmongering of the war literature, the effects of the war on Ukraine’s civil society and the economic costs and consequences of the war, with three Ukrainian scholars: Mariia Shuvalova, literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Yulia Bidenko, Associate Professor of Political Science at Karazin Kharkiv National University; and Alexander Rodnyansky, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Moderated by Alya Guseva, alumna of Karazin Kharkiv National University, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and Chief Editor of Socio-Economic Review.
The Rise of the Right in the US
Speaker: Arlie Hochschild
Chair: Glenn Morgan
9 June at 5pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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University of Bristol
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan is Honorary Professor in the School of Management, University of Bristol. He was President of SASE in 2014-15. He is currently working on the relationship between business and populism. With Magnus Feldmann he has edited Business and Populism: the Odd Couple, which will be published by Oxford University Press later in 2022 and will be discussed in a panel at the forthcoming SASE conference in Amsterdam.
Since the 1970s in America, the combined effect of globalization and automation have created winners and losers. On the whole, the coastal urban middle class of all ethnicities have gained from new opportunities and new premiums on their cultural capital and so—have come to feel like winners and cultural insiders. On the other hand, white blue-collar workers in middle America—whose jobs have been off-shored or automated—have felt increasingly like losers and cultural outsiders. This globalization effect has helped push the American white blue collar to a cultural membership they feel on the political right.
Drawing on field work in the deep South (Strangers in Their Own Land) and on-going work in Appalachia, Hochschild describes a right-wing “deep story” that led to the rise of Donald Trump. Hochschild describes subsequent “chapters” of that story from a focus on “loss” to “victimhood of theft” (of an election, cultural centrality, affluence) to a focus on revenge and status-reversal: outsider as insider). She discusses the suppression of a social class narrative, its relation to the right wing narrative, and possible ways forward.
Further reading
Hochschild, Arlie (2018) Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. The New Press.
Hochschild, Arlie (21 Jul. 2019) "Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals" The Guardian
Hochschild, Arlie (15 Sept. 2020) "What's Wrong With the Meritocracy" The New York Times
Feldmann, Magnus & Glenn Morgan (2021) "Business elites and populism: understanding business responses" in New Political Economy.
Feldmann, Magnus & Glenn Morgan (2021) "Brexit and British Business Elites: Business Power and Noisy Politics" in Politics & Society
Morgan, Glenn & Christian Lyhne Ibsen (2021) "Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics" in Politics & Society
Thompson, Derek (29 Dec. 2020) "The Deep Story of Trumpism" The Atlantic
How Digital Media Facilitated and Curtailed the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong
Speakers: Joseph Chan and Francis Lee
14 June at 9am UTC (find your timezone here)
TO BE RESCHEDULED
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joseph Chan
Joseph M. Chan is currently Emeritus Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he served as a chair professor and school director. He has published extensively in books and various international journals. The publications pertain to media and social movements, media and political transition, journalism, collective memory, and comparative communication. He was elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and a recipient of the Changjiang Chair Professorship from the Ministry of Education, China, in affiliation with Fudan University.
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Francis L.F. Lee
Francis L.F. Lee is Director and Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in the areas of journalism studies, political communication, public opinion research, and media and social movements. He is the lead author of Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Talk Radio, the Mainstream Press and Public Opinion in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2014). He is currently the Chief Editor of Chinese Journal of Communication and an Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association.
Much has been written in the past two decades about how digital media could facilitate and empower social protests, whereas more and more scholars have also noted how digital media could undermine social protests either because of problematic online phenomena or because of the state's capability of appropriating the Internet for political control. This talk will review the experience of Hong Kong throughout the 2010s. We would first review our research on the Umbrella Movement, highlighting how digital media strengthened social mobilization, yet also introduced forces of decentralization into the movement, leading to a "tactical freeze" that hampered the movement in the end. We then review our research on Hong Kong people's collective remembering of the 1989 Tiananmen student movement in which digital media served not only as a channel for mobilization but also a memory archive. But at the same time, the state also perpetrated their narratives through online platforms. The result is the phenomenon of memory balkanization and polarization of attitudes toward the Tiananmen Incident. At the end, the talk will also briefly discuss the role of digital media in the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement as well as the digital media scene after the establishment of National Security Law in 2020.
Further reading:
Joseph M. Chan and Francis L.F. Lee (2018) Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Oxford University Press.
Joseph M. Chan and Francis L.F. Lee (2021) Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019. Amsterdam University Press.
Histories of Racial Capitalism
Speakers: Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy
23 June at 5pm UTC (find your timezone here)
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Please note that this event is open live to non-SASE members.
Stanford University
Destin Jenkins
Destin Jenkins is a scholar of racial inequality in America. He is interested in the financial processes and relationships that foster racial inequality, and their implications for democracy, public space, and social movements.
Jenkins is the author of The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021) and co-editor of Histories of Racial Capitalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021).
Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford University, he was the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He has held fellowships at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.
Duke University
Justin Leroy
Justin Leroy is assistant professor of history at Duke University. He is a scholar of Atlantic and U.S. slavery, with particular interest in histories emancipation, Black political thought, and capitalism. He was previously assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis and postdoctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University. Leroy is author of The Lowest Freedom: Slave Emancipation, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition, forthcoming from Columbia University Press, and co-editor of Histories of Racial Capitalism.
The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades.
The book Histories of Racial Capitalism (ed. Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy), from which this event stems, brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept across historical settings. These scholars offer dynamic accounts of the relationship between social relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested. Deploying an eclectic array of methods, their works range from indigenous mortgage foreclosures to the legacies of Atlantic-world maroons, from imperial expansion in the continental United States and beyond to the racial politics of municipal debt in the New South, from the ethical complexities of Latinx banking to the postcolonial dilemmas of extraction in the Caribbean. Throughout, the contributors consider and challenge how some claims about the history and nature of capitalism are universalized while others remain marginalized. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today s scholars and activists.
Further reading
Jenkins, Destin and Justin Leroy (eds.) (2021) Histories of Racial Capitalism. Columbia University Press.
