20-22 July 2023
Windsor Florida Hotel, hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2023 – Rio de Janeiro

Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order

                                        

Conference Theme Overview

En español a continuación

We have observed numerous signs of disruption—at all levels of social relations—of the world built over the past two centuries, in the heat of the industrial revolution and revitalized by successive waves of systemic innovations.

It now seems that some of the engines that have driven this process are breaking down, not only from a conjectural perspective due to the most immediate episodes (pandemic, wars, planetary awareness of global warming, etc.) but also in view of the sustainability of long-term socio-economic development.

In particular, the role of fossil fuels, which have enabled the establishment of the current production and consumption model, threatens the very survival of the planet, and with it its human inhabitants. Beyond millenarian discourses, the energy transition—to leave behind carbon and its destructive effects on the environment that hosts us—is an urgent necessity. The entire fabric that has been built around the carbon energy paradigm is likewise showing signs of stagnation and deterioration.

In their disruption of current models, technological innovation, robotization, and AI may represent an opportunity to move toward this new world order. But the governance of the coming transformations must also lead to the construction of new forms of political organization and new labor scenarios that overcome the ups and downs of volatile and geographically limited democratic systems.

More than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the old Western dream of the urbi et orbi extension of its old democratic formulas of economic and political governance does not seem to have prevailed. Rather, we are besieged by a malaise resulting from the advance of growing authoritarianism, even in the very heart of the oldest democracies. It is not, as in the past, the emergence of fascism or Nazism, strictu sensu, but the expansion of authoritarian expressions of all kinds, with idiosyncratic characteristics, that are permeating institutions in the most varied geographical settings.

These authoritarianisms obstruct the opportunities offered by technological progress for a more inclusive world in all spheres of human life. The counterpoint will have to be new forms of governance in institutions, freeing us from the absolute power of large corporations. Emerging social movements demand forms of democracy that are more participatory than representative, with direct involvement in the collective governance of citizens and their forms of organization in interconnected networks. A new socio-economic paradigm would have to provide answers to this socio-political breaking point.

Demography does not help the matter. We are aware that the production and consumption model—which we have built with greater or lesser success, according to geographical region—and the social and political stabilizer of the Welfare State are suffering from a demographic rupture this century. Increased longevity forces us to rethink this model based on a constantly growing economy in a market framework that drives intense inequalities.

Beyond the hyperglobalization that has been built over recent decades (Rodrik 2022)—with growing economic and social inequalities, and with management concentrated in large corporations and a few political operators—a new international order must respond to the need for higher levels of security and equality for citizens and countries in multiple areas. And this framework of alternative paradigms must also reflect the new economic geography (East-West, North-South) that has changed the world map of international economic relations.

As Diane Coyle points out in her latest work, “we are in a period where there are no clear worldviews to shape policy decisions, and there is a mixture of ideas, both statist and free market, combined with profound voter discontent and loss of trust” (2021:195). In sum, we are immersed in a disoriented society, in which political choice becomes very difficult and confusing, and is expressed through more or less violent protest (Badiou 2021).

Despite neoliberalism’s failure to attain higher levels of growth, prosperity, equity, and freedom, its strange non-death (Crouch 2011) has continued to obstruct the emergence of new socio-economic paradigms. It is necessary to move forward with a new social, economic, and political paradigm that lights new paths for productive organization and the consumption model, and which enables us to maintain a stable balance with the natural world in which we live.

Socio-economics, it should be remembered, is a scientific approach that seeks to build alternative paradigms in the social sciences; thus, in this context, it is a dynamic axis that contributes to the establishment of a new theoretical and methodological horizon in the social sciences. In this perspective, SASE provides a platform for creative empirical and theoretical research on key social problems. We are committed to supporting a diverse international membership which fosters and produces thoughtful yet lively intellectual and interdisciplinary debates.

With regard to these themes, and the more specific areas of the 18 networks that organize the contents of our society, we encourage you to submit your papers and your proposals for mini-conferences at the 35th annual SASE conference, which will be held at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in July 2023.

We look forward to seeing you at SASE/Rio de Janeiro 2023!

SASE President: Santos Ruesga


Socioeconomía en un mundo en transición: rompiendo líneas y paradigmas alternativos para un nuevo orden mundial

Hemos venido observando numerosos signos de ruptura —en todos los niveles de las relaciones sociales— del mundo construido durante los últimos dos siglos, al calor de la revolución industrial y revitalizado por sucesivas oleadas de innovaciones sistémicas.

Ahora parece que algunos de los motores que han estado impulsando este proceso se están estropeando, no sólo desde una perspectiva coyuntural por los episodios más inmediatos (guerras pandémicas, conciencia planetaria del aumento del calentamiento global, etc.) sino también a la vista de la sostenibilidad del desarrollo socioeconómico a largo plazo.

En particular, el papel de los combustibles fósiles, que han permitido el establecimiento del actual modelo de producción y consumo, amenaza la propia supervivencia del planeta, y con ella de sus habitantes humanos. Más allá de los discursos milenarios, la transición energética —dejar atrás el carbono y sus efectos destructivos sobre el medio ambiente que nos alberga— es una necesidad urgente. Todo el tejido que se ha construido alrededor del paradigma de la energía del carbono también muestra signos de estancamiento y deterioro.

En su disrupción de los modelos actuales, la innovación tecnológica, la robotización y la IA pueden representar una oportunidad para avanzar hacia este nuevo orden mundial. Pero la gobernanza de las transformaciones venideras también debe conducir a la construcción de nuevas formas de organización política y nuevos escenarios laborales que superen los vaivenes de sistemas democráticos volátiles y geográficamente limitados.

Más de tres décadas después de la caída del Muro de Berlín, el viejo sueño occidental de la extensión urbi et orbi de sus viejas fórmulas democráticas de gobernanza económica y política no parece haber prevalecido. Más bien nos asedia un malestar producto del avance de un autoritarismo creciente, incluso en el seno mismo de las democracias más antiguas. No se trata, como en el pasado, del surgimiento del fascismo o del nazismo, strictu sensu, sino de la expansión de expresiones autoritarias de todo tipo, con características idiosincrásicas, que están permeando instituciones en los más variados escenarios geográficos.

Estos autoritarismos obstruyen las oportunidades que ofrece el progreso tecnológico para un mundo más inclusivo en todas las esferas de la vida humana. El contrapunto tendrán que ser nuevas formas de gobierno en las instituciones, liberándonos del poder absoluto de las grandes corporaciones. Los movimientos sociales emergentes demandan formas de democracia más participativas que representativas, con implicación directa en la gobernanza colectiva de los ciudadanos y sus formas de organización en redes interconectadas. Un nuevo paradigma socioeconómico tendría que dar respuestas a este punto de quiebre sociopolítico.

La demografía no ayuda en el asunto. Somos conscientes de que el modelo de producción y consumo -que venimos construyendo con mayor o menor éxito, según la región geográfica- y el estabilizador social y político del Estado del Bienestar, sufren una ruptura demográfica en este siglo. El aumento de la longevidad obliga a repensar este modelo basado en una economía en constante crecimiento en un marco de mercado que impulsa intensas desigualdades.

Más allá de la hiperglobalización que se ha construido en las últimas décadas (Rodrik 2022) —con crecientes desigualdades económicas y sociales, y con la gestión concentrada en grandes corporaciones y unos pocos operadores políticos—, un nuevo orden internacional debe responder a la necesidad de mayores niveles de seguridad y igualdad para ciudadanos y países en múltiples áreas. Y este marco de paradigmas alternativos también debe reflejar la nueva geografía económica (Este-Oeste, Norte-Sur) que ha cambiado el mapa mundial de las relaciones económicas internacionales.

Como señala Diane Coyle en su último trabajo, “estamos en un período en el que no hay visiones del mundo claras para dar forma a las decisiones políticas, y hay una mezcla de ideas, tanto estatistas como de libre mercado, combinadas con un profundo descontento de los votantes y pérdida de confianza. (2021:195). En suma, estamos inmersos en una sociedad desorientada, en la que la elección política se vuelve muy difícil y confusa, y se expresa a través de protestas más o menos violentas (Badiou 2021).

A pesar del fracaso del neoliberalismo en alcanzar niveles más altos de crecimiento, prosperidad, equidad y libertad, su extraña no muerte (Crouch 2011) ha seguido obstruyendo el surgimiento de nuevos paradigmas socioeconómicos. Es necesario avanzar con un nuevo paradigma social, económico y político que ilumine nuevos caminos para la organización productiva y el modelo de consumo, y que nos permita mantener un equilibrio estable con el mundo natural en el que vivimos.

SASE Presidente: Santos Ruesga

Mini-conferences consist of a minimum of 3 panels, which will be featured as a separate stream in the program. Submissions are open to all scholars on the basis of an extended abstract. If your abstract is accepted, all mini-conferences require accepted participants to submit full papers by 15 June 2023. 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.

MC 1: Post-Neoliberal Transformations: Politics, Practices and Governance in a Changing International Political Economy
detailed info
Organizers
Pedro Garrido da Costa Lima
Alexandros Kentikelenis
Gabriel Rached
Quinn Slobodian
Christy Thornton
MC 2: Connecting the Dots between Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms in a Transitional World Order
detailed info
Organizers
Fulya Apaydin
Arie Krampf
Andreas Nölke
Merve Sancak
MC 3: A Digital Revolution in the Making? Productive Opportunities, New Divides and Implications for Development and Policy in Middle-Income Countries
detailed info
Organizers
Antonio Andreoni
Elvis Korku Avenyo
João Carlos Ferraz
Alejandro Lavopa
Fiona Tregenna
MC 4: Recasting Futures: Fracturing Multiplicity of Learning
detailed info
Organizers
Gary Herrigel Gary Herrigel
Adriana Mica
Ann Mische
MC 5: Elites and Power Structures
detailed info
Organizers
Bruno Cousin
Christoph Houman Ellersgaard
Elisa Klüger
Elisa Reis
Thierry Rossier
André Vereta-Nahoum
Kevin Young
MC 6: A Future for Health: Policies, Organizations, and Practices within Market and Social Transformations
detailed info
Organizers
Larry Au
Kathryn Ibata-Arens
Wan-Zi Lu
Etienne Nouguez
MC 7: Decolonizing Development
detailed info
Organizers
Zophia Edwards
Julian Go
Jason Jackson
Alexandre White
MC 8: Welfare States and Inequalities in the Global South
detailed info
Organizers
Renata Bichir
Patrick Heller
Eduardo Marques
Prerna Singh
MC 9: Rethinking Science in Latin America at the End of Times: Policies, Controversies, and Futures
detailed info
Organizers
Juan Felipe Espinosa
Carla Fardella
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
MC 10: Studies on Informal Activity and Policies for Its Reduction / Estudios sobre la Actividad Informal y Políticas para su Reducción
detailed info
Organizers
Javier Baquero
Danielle Carusi Machado
Rodrigo Chávez
Jesuswaldo Martínez Soria
Valéria Pero
Jésica Lorena Pla
Clemente Ruiz Durán
MC 11: Theories and Practices of Racial Capitalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Migration during Periods of Transition
detailed info
Organizers
Nabila Islam
Mishal Khan
MC 12: Sources of Power in Illegal Markets
detailed info
Organizers
Matías Dewey
Gabriel Feltran

Featured Events

Featured Speakers

Glass Ceilings, Brick Walls and Sticky Floors: Feminist Economics’ Insights into Labor Markets

Abstract

This presentation will use a feminist economics framework and insights from different disciplines to address various barriers to mobility in labour markets across the Global South, barriers that are manifested in the widely observed horizontal and vertical segmentation of labour market hierarchies.

Naila Kabeer
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The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

Abstract

Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? "Clean" technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. In this talk, we will unpack these challenges through the lens of lithium, a so-called "critical mineral" essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand exceeding existing supplies, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to "secure" lithium, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. Meanwhile, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction, defending ecosystems, livelihoods, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude, we will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero carbon transportation.

Thea Riofrancos
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Relational Inequalities

Abstract

Relational Inequality Theory (Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt, 2019 Oxford) is a robust alternative to individual and societal level approaches to the generation of inequalities. It is at once an Actor-Organization-Institutional model and a challenge to human capital and varieties of capitalism approaches. This talk outlines the theory and presents a series of qualitative, historical and quantitative cross-national exemplars from the rapidly expanding published research using a relational inequality framework.

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
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Presidential Address

Paths toward a New Alternative Paradigm in Social Sciences

Santos Ruesga
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Featured Panels

For a Public Sociology of Money

 

Discussants: Nina Bandelj / Frederick Wherry / Viviana Zelizer
Moderator: Ariel Wilkis

Nina Bandelj
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Frederick F. Wherry
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Viviana Zelizer
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Ariel Wilkis
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Featured Authors-Meets-Critics

The Economic Sociology of Development

Abstract

Economic sociology and the sociology of development live in virtual isolation from each other. Economic sociologists tend to focus on high-income countries, bracket the origins of their prosperity, and operate at the “micro” level of firms, families, and individuals. In contrast, development sociologists tend to focus on low-income countries, address the origins and consequences of their poverty, and operate at the “macro” level of states, classes, and collectivities. The Economic Sociology of Development tries to foster a mutually beneficial dialogue between the two subfields by bringing the tools of economic sociology to bear on the problem of international inequality in the twenty-first century.

 

The book begins with an exploration of the split between the two subfields, and the ghettoization of the Global South in particular, before addressing: the social construction and performativity of development indicators, like GDP per capita and the Human Development Index; the differences between “structural” and “exchange” mobility in the world-system, and the inevitability of “unequal exchange” in a warming world; the organizational and cultural roots of national development trajectories in different regions and time periods; the roles of individual identity, elite closure, and social capital in the reproduction of inequality within countries; and the extent to which competition, coercion, professional norms, and mimicry influenced the origins and diffusion of “neoliberal” development policies in the late twentieth century. It goes on to offer an alternative approach to the breakdown of neoliberalism—and the concomitant growth of populism, protectionism, and xenophobia—in the early twenty-first century by taking the mismatch between people’s values and social valuations seriously. When individuals lose faith in existing institutions, the book argues, they adopt “contrarian” strategies that include exit (e.g., emigration, disinvestment, sabotage) as well as voice (e.g., strikes, protest), and in so doing open the door to imitation, contagion, and large-scale social transformation. And it concludes by asking whether and how development policy might differ if sociologists had as much influence in international donor organizations and national governments as economists.

 

The book is historically sensitive, methodologically catholic, and theoretically sophisticated. Insofar as it speaks to both economic and development sociologists, moreover, it offers both a comprehensive introduction to the economic sociology of developing countries and a bridge between micro- and macro- approaches to the study of development more generally.

 

Author: Andrew Schrank
Critics: Daniel Aldana Cohen / Mariana Heredia / Jason Jackson
Moderator: Ken Shadlen

Andrew Schrank
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
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Mariana Heredia
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Jason Jackson
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Ken Shadlen
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Existential Risks, International Politics, and National Agendas

Abstract

Despite an awareness that existential threats such as climate change, pandemics, nuclear risk, and the possible threats posed by Artificial Intelligence should be addressed at the global level, there has been little progress – if not a clear backslash – with respect to global governance. Be that as it may, the risks are real, and policy decisions by national governments in response to these risks deserve careful examination not only to assess their successes and failures, but also to call attention to the limitations that domestic policies face both internally and internationally.

 

This panel will discuss how the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the Amazonian ecosystem, and Artificial Intelligence have figured in domestic policy agendas and consider their entanglements with international politics.

 

Panelists: Fernando Filgueiras / Mariana Heredia / Carlos Milani
Moderator: Elisa Reis

Fernando Filgueiras
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Mariana Heredia
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Carlos Milani
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Elisa Reis
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Artificial Intelligence and the New Digital World of Social Relations

 

Panelists: Nitsan Chorev / Vili Lehdonvirta / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Moderator: Akos Rona-Tas

Nitsan Chorev
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Vili Lehdonvirta
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
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Akos Rona-Tas
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Practical Information

 

CONFERENCE LOCATION

Windsor Florida Hotel

Rua Ferreira Viana, 81

Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Postal Code 22210-040

Location on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/ZDVKFeKfarB1yhRC9

You are welcome to book your stay directly at the Windsor Florida Hotel; additional hotels are in the ‘Hotels in Rio’ tab above.

 

Getting there:
Windsor Florida Hotel is served by metro, bus, and taxi. 

By Metro. Take Line 1 – direction Uruguai, or Line 2 – direction Pavuna, drop off at Catete station, and take exit B. The hotel will be just in front, to the left. 

By Bus. Bus lines on Ave. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana – 100/TRO1 (direction Central), 455 (direction Meier), 740D (direction Charitas). Drop off at Praia do Flamengo, Parque das Crianças stop. Cross the avenue, turn right, walk two blocks, and turn left on R. Ferreira Vianna. The hotel is at the end of the block on the left.

AIRPORT TRANSFERS

We recommend taking an official taxi from the airport:

You don’t need to book a taxi in advance. When you arrive at the airport, after you pass the passport formalities, you go downstairs to recuperate your luggage. In this hall, you will see a kiosk with the yellow “Taxi comum oficial” logo. You can book your taxi and pay for it directly there – they accept credit cards and cash. Once you leave the luggage area, simply show your receipt at the yellow Taxi comum oficial booth, and you will be escorted to a taxi. You do not have to pay anything else after that point; the driver has already received payment.

 

MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION

To pay membership dues or to register for the conference, please go here. Please note that you must be a SASE member to attend the conference, and that the registration deadline is June 15th 2023.

 

VISAS

Should you require a letter of invitation for your visa application, please email SASE Executive Director Annelies Fryberger (saseexecutive@sase.org).

Click here for information on visa requirements and applications to enter Brazil; click here for an overview of visa requirements by visitor citizenship.

 

Upcoming Deadlines and Important Dates

1 February 2023: paper and sessions submissions deadline (hard deadline)

Late February 2023: decisions rendered on paper and session submissions

Late March 2023: publication of preliminary program

1 April 2023: decisions rendered on Early Career Workshop applications

1 March 2023 – 14 April 2023: Early bird registration

15 June 2023: Registration deadline (in addition: Networks D, E, H, J, N and all mini-conferences require the submission of a full paper by 15 June 2023).

19 July 2023: Early Career Workshop

20-22 July 2023: Conference

 

CONFERENCE FEES

Please see the “Fees” tab above.

 

BADGES

Badges can be picked up in the hallway of the Excelsior Room, in the Windsor Florida Hotel Convention Center. 

Registration will open on the day before the conference, Wednesday July 19, from 2-7pm.

On Thursday July 20th we will be there starting at 7:30am (with coffee!), and then for the duration of the conference.

If you don’t manage to pick up your badge before your first session, don’t worry! Come see us when you can. 

 

PRESENTATIONS
Generally speaking, if you have 4 presenters in your session, aim for a presentation of 12-15 minutes to leave time for discussion; with 5 presenters, aim for 8-10 minutes. For more specific instructions, best is to contact the organizers of your network/mini-conference, and/or the moderator of your session.

 

TECH & A/V

  • For charging your equipment, bring an adapter (information on power plugs in Brazil here).
  • If you have a mac, bring an adapter.
  • You are strongly advised to bring your own laptop for projecting your presentation, as desktop computers will not systematically be available. A projector will be available in every room (USB, VGA, and HDMI cables will be available). 
  • There will be wifi available throughout the conference venue.

 

CATERING
Lunch bag content and delivery spots TBD. Lunch is included in the registration fee for all participants. 

Coffee break stations TBD.

Welcome reception:

Start time: 6:30pm, Thursday July 20.

Location: same location as the conference itself – Hotel Windsor Florida, Rooftop 

The welcome reception is open to all participants.

 

Conference dinner:

Start time: 6:30pm, Friday July 21.

Location: same location as the conference itself – Hotel Windsor Florida, Rooftop 

Please note: The conference dinner is ticketed – tickets are $50 (full rate) or $25 (reduced rate). You can purchase a ticket through the registration site: https://sase.site-ym.com/

 

CONFERENCE HOURS (excluding special events)

July 20: 8:30am – 6:15pm
July 21: 8:30am – 6:15pm
July 22: 8:30am – 4:15pm

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: @SASE_meeting

Conference hashtag: #SASE2023

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SASEMeeting/

 

HELP
You can always come to registration if you need something. And if you want to send us an email, you can write to help@sase.org.

 

WEATHER RIO – JULY

July is winter in Brazil, temperatures around 20-25°C, dry, lots of sun. Sunrise around 6am, sunset around 6pm. 

 

SECURITY

The area around the conference is a safe, middle-class, residential area. Nonetheless, we advise that you avoid wearing flashy jewelry or watches, and keep your cellphone in your bag rather than carrying it in your hand. Pickpockets are a reality in Rio (as in many major European cities!), and vigilance is advised, especially on public transport (metro and bus). The staff at your hotel can help you with a taxi, especially if you are traveling by yourself. It’s always a good idea to walk in a group rather than alone, and better to be out during the day than at night.

 

COVID

For up to date COVID-related entry requirements, please go here: https://www.visitbrasil.com/en/covid/

Rio de Janeiro currently has no COVID restrictions in place. You are encouraged to socialize outdoors (during breaks and the welcome reception), and you may of course wear a mask during sessions. Your choice will be respected.

 

OTHER IMPORTANT POINTS

  • Be sure to tell your bank you will be traveling to Brazil. Major credit cards are widely accepted.

 

Questions? Email Annelies Fryberger at saseexecutive@sase.org.

Hotels in Rio

 

The conference will be held in the (4-star) Windsor Florida Hotel; rooms can be booked there directly.

Additionally, SASE recommends the following hotels: 

4-star within walking distance: Royal Regency Palace Hotel

Good hotel (3-star) within walking distance: Hotel Regina

Budget hotel (2-star) within walking distance: Hotel Vitoria

Two 4-star hotels on Copacabana: Windsor Leme Copacabana and Novotel Leme Copacabana. Shuttle service will be offered free of charge to/from the hotels on Copacabana and the conference venue.

You can book your hotel yourself, or Safetour, a local travel agency, has set up a website for you to book at the recommended hotels: Safetour SASE site.

Fees

To join SASE or renew your membership, or to register for the 2023 conference, please visit our membership and registration portal (note the registration deadline of June 15 2023):

Membership and registration portal

2023 SASE membership and conference fees (fees for virtual and on-site participation are the same):

Category*

Rate

OECD Non-student*

$415

OECD Emeritus*

$325

OECD Student registration*

$230

Non-OECD Non-Student*

$160

Non-OECD Emeritus*

$120

Non-OECD Student*

$80

Community-sponsored reduced fee

$50 membership not required

Auditor registration

Free

Faculty and staff from host institutions (UFRJ and Fluminense)

Membership only (see below for rates)

Community-sponsored reduced fee

$50 membership not required

Auditor registration

Free

Faculty and staff from host institutions (UFRJ and Fluminense)

Membership only (see below for rates)

 

*All categories are in US Dollars and include membership dues (required to participate in the conference) and conference registration fees. Only the conference dinner will be ticketed separately ($50 full rate, $25 reduced rate).

Cancellation policy: SASE shall retain $50 of the registration fee in the event of a member cancelling conference participation within 30 days of the conference start date. Membership dues are non-refundable. 

 

Membership dues

Category

Rate

OECD Non-student

$130

OECD Emeritus

$100

OECD Student

$65

Non-OECD Non-Student

$50

Non-OECD Emeritus

$40

Non-OECD Student

$25

 

Questions? Email Annelies Fryberger at saseexecutive@sase.org.

Virtual option

Virtual sessions

Most Networks and all Mini-Conferences will organize a very limited number of virtual sessions in the week before the Rio conference. These will take place July 11, 12, and 13th (the on-site conference in Rio is 20-22 July 2023). A hybrid conference is not possible, as the wireless network on site cannot support multiple, simultaneous online meetings. Thus, it was decided to offer purely virtual sessions the week before. Participation in these sessions is limited to those individuals who cannot by any means travel to Rio for the on-site conference, and therefore would not have applied for the conference at all otherwise. Most networks will organize two virtual sessions, most mini-conferences only one. 

The following networks will offer virtual sessions: A, B (only pre-formed panels, individual papers will not be considered for network B virtual sessions), D, E, F, G, H, J, L, O, P, Q, R, S.

All mini-conferences plan to organize one virtual session each. 

To apply for virtual participation, follow the prompts in the submission system – when you select a network or mini-conference for your submission, you will be prompted to answer a question about virtual participation (if that network/mini-conference is indeed organizing virtual sessions). Information on submissions is here: Conference Submission – SASE. The hard deadline for submissions is the 1st of February 2023. 

Fees for virtual participation are the same as for on-site participation (the fee schedule can be found by clicking the “Fees” tab above). 

Questions can be addressed to saseexecutive@sase.org.

SASE Early Career Workshop

The SASE Early Career Workshop will be held in 2023 on the 19th of July, on the same site as the SASE conference. 15-20 competitively allocated spots are available for early career researchers – travel and accommodations, as well as SASE registration and membership, are paid for participants in the Workshop.

Applicants to the workshop will be informed regarding their participation around mid-March.

Please go here for detailed information: https://sase.org/events/early-career-workshop/

YSI pre-conference workshop

Call for Papers – YSI @ SASE Pre-Conference Workshop

 

Socio-economic policies in Latin America: discussing challenges and opportunities

 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19th of July 2023

Deadline for submissions: 8 February 2023

The Economics of Innovation, Economic Development and States & Markets working groups of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI/INET) are glad to announce a workshop on Socio-economic policies in Latin America to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 19th of July 2023 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Background
Over the past decades, Latin America has faced challenges finding a suitable economic and social development strategy. The structural dependency of Latin-American economies on the Global North, its financial subordination in the international financial and monetary system, its peripheral position in global values chains, and political turbulences represent challenges to achieving development. However, the recent economic and environmental crisis, as well as the growing US-China hegemonic competition, has meant new challenges and potential opportunities to the structural conditions faced by Latin America.
Historically, the region has been characterised by its inclination to be used as a laboratory for new economic and political regimes, such as during the Chilean and Argentinian neoliberal and authoritarian regimes in the 1970s or the shock therapy in Bolivia in the 1980s. However, Latin America has also come up with rather indigenous answers to the prevailing status quo in the rest of the world. In the 2000s, the pink tide reverted some of the previous policies implemented in the 1990’s, such as through the re-nationalisation of key industries and public utilities, but also implemented new policies to reduce poverty and income inequality, such as the Bolsa Família in Brazil.
At present, the cyclical political movements within the region have put into power a new wave of governments that share some of the political and economic goals of the earlier pink tide tendency, although with more stringent economic, political and environmental constraints.

Motivation
The goal is to organise a workshop to discuss socio-economic policy challenges and
opportunities from a Latin American perspective in order to propose alternative paradigms.
We focus on research on various topics from heterodox economics approaches including, but not limited to, Structuralist, Marxist, Post-Keynesian, Institutionalist, Evolutionary and Feminist theories. Moreover, we encourage the use of both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

This early career workshop is part of the pre-conference activities for the Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference, which will be held at the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The YSI early career workshop will also be held at the UFRJ on the 19th of July 2023, and the SASE conference will be held at the same location 20-22 July 2023. The workshop will consist of sessions with presentations by young scholars and feedback from senior scholars, who will act as mentors, and one panel with Latin-American policymakers.

The workshop intends to cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:
• Latin-American socio-economic thought
• Structural change, industrialisation and industrial policy
• Income distribution & taxation
• Financial inclusion & innovation
• Poverty & food insecurity
• Financialisation of social policy & new welfare systems & economy
• Extractivism, green transition & sustainability.

Application process and funding
• Submit an extended abstract of 800-1,000 words
• Deadline for abstract: 1st of February 2023
• Deadline for full papers: 19th of June 2023.
• Abstracts and full papers should be sent in English but we will exceptionally
accept Spanish and Portuguese.
• To submit your application, please, fill out the following form (here).
A selected number of young scholars will receive accommodation and a partial travel
stipend from YSI/INET based on their application and travel requirements. There is no fee to attend the YSI pre-conference. Interested students should have a valid profile at Young Scholars Directory and state in their application their motivation for funding, country of origin and academic status. Our target audience consists of young scholars (Graduate students, PhD candidates, Postdocs) and early career researchers from Latin American countries working on topics related to the Structuralist, Marxist, Post-Keynesian, Institutionalist, Evolutionary and Feminist theories.
We encourage registration and attendance to SASE’s main conference, 20-22 July 2023 at the UFRJ (information on submissions and registration can be found at www.sase.org).
Applicants who would like to attend the SASE conference will have to follow SASE’s
application process – acceptance to the YSI workshop does not mean acceptance to the SASE conference, and vice versa. Having a presentation accepted for the main SASE conference will not be a prerequisite for participation at YSI’s pre-conference event. Unfortunately YSI cannot cover fees for SASE’s conference.

Workshop Venue
The Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Contact
Questions concerning this call may be sent to the organisers to the email
ysi.sase2023@gmail.com.
More information on the Young Scholars Initiative and the Working Groups may be found at the Young Scholars Directory: https://ysd.ineteconomics.org/workinggroup

SER Workshop

SASE’s journal, Socio-Economic Review, will be holding a 3-part workshop in advance of, during, and following the 2023 annual conference in Rio.

Run by SER chief editors Alya Guseva, Akos Rona-Tas, and Gregory Jackson, the workshop will focus on the publication process – from constructing your article, submitting it, and revising it.

Please note: this workshop will be open to those planning to attend the Rio conference (further eligibility criteria TBD).

Dates

  • June 30th virtual  3 pm to 5 pm UTC
  • Session during the SASE conference in Rio
  • August TBD

More information forthcoming

Registration

SASE Membership is required to attend the conference. Please see the “Fees” tab above for rates. Note the registration deadline of June 15 2023, and the early bird deadline of April 15 2023.

To join or renew your membership, and to pay conference registration fees, please go here: Membership and registration portal

2023 Local organizing committee

Marta dos Reis Castilho [chair] (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Mithaly Correa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Carolina Dias (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Annelies Fryberger (SASE Executive Director)

Mayra Goulart (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Marilia Bassetti Marcato (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Josué Medeiros (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Cristiano Fonseca Monteiro (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Lucilene Morandi (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Valeria Pero (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Frederic Rocha (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Rodrigo Salles Pereira dos Santos (PPGSA-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Julia Torracca (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Ana Urraca Ruiz (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Deadlines

Upcoming Deadlines and Important Dates

1 February 2023: paper and sessions submissions deadline (hard deadline)

Late February 2023: decisions rendered on paper and session submissions

Late March 2023: publication of preliminary program

1 April 2023: decisions rendered on Early Career Workshop applications

1 March 2023 – 14 April 2023: Early bird registration

15 June 2023: Registration deadline (in addition: Networks D, E, H, J, N and all mini-conferences require the submission of a full paper by 15 June 2023).

19 July 2023: Early Career Workshop

20-22 July 2023: Conference

Program

 

The preliminary program can be found here: Program • SASE Rio de Janeiro 2023 (oxfordabstracts.com)