ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2006
 
SSSP GLOBAL DIVISION SYMPOSIUM
 
GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS:
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA ~  AUGUST 13, 2006
 
This international, post-conference symposium was made possible thanks to the generous financial and /or organizational assistance of the sponsors listed below.

Sponsors:
 
SSSP Global Division & SSSP Lee Scholar-Activist Support Fund;
CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY (Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands);
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, CANADA;
Rights and Democracy, Montréal, CANADA;
Inter Pares, Ottawa, CANADA;
Project South, Atlanta, USA;
Project Counselling Service (PCS), Lima/Latin America;
FLACSO-Cuba Programme, University of Havana, Cuba;
International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, CANADA.
 
 
Thematic Sequence
I:    SURVIVAL STRUGGLES UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
II:   MIGRATION AND BORDER CRISIS
III:  POPULAR STRUGGLES AND ALTERNATIVES IN THE AMERICAS:
             ANOTHER INTEGRATION IS POSSIBLE
IV:   URBAN DILEMMAS IN CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION
 
GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS:
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL STUGGLES 
Co-Chairs:  R.A. Dello Buono, SSSP Global Division; David Fasenfest, Wayne State University & Critical Sociology; and José  Bell Lara, FLACSO- Cuba/University of Havana. 

Discussants: Martin Oppenheimer, Rutgers University (emeritus); Brian Murphy, Inter Pares, Ottawa; Javier Pereira, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; and James Cockcroft, Mexico/SUNY.
 
I: SURVIVAL STRUGGLES UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
 “Neo-Liberal Globalization in the Philippines: Its Impact on Filipino Women and Their Forms of Resistance”
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Indiana University
 
“A Tale of Two Neoliberalisms: British and French Welfare Policy after the Neoliberal Turn”
Basak Kus, University of California, Berkeley.
 
“Villa Grimaldi: Culture’s Role in Making Democracy”
Macarena Gómez-Barris, University of Southern California
 
“The Social Impact of Globalization”
Delia Luisa Lopez and José Bell Lara, FLACSO-Cuba
For Spanish version,click here / en español

“Indigenous Movements in the Americas: Pro-Traditionalism and Anti-NeoLiberalism”
James V. Fenelon, California State University

“Transformative Pedagogies in Teaching Social Justice”
Alan Kahn, South University

“When Yellow Ribbons Just Aren't Enough: A Case of Framing the Anti-Iraq War Movement”
Greg Gibson, Purdue University

“Is the Cultural Critique an Enemy to Movements? A Review of Social Movement Theory”
Louis Esparza, Stony Brook University

II: MIGRATION AND BORDER CRISES

“The Boundaries of Belonging: Reflections on Migration Policies into the 21st Century”
Alison Crosby, Inter Pares, Ottawa
For Spanish version, click here / en español
For French version, click here / en français


III: POPULAR STRUGGLES AND ALTERNATIVES IN THE AMERICAS: ANOTHER INTEGRATION IS POSSIBLE
“South American Dialogue: Another Integration is Possible”
Diana Avila, PCS and R.A. Dello Buono, SSSP Global Section
For Spanish version, click here / en español
 
“The Declaration of Caracas: Another Integration is Urgent, Possible and Necessary”
Camilo Castellanos, Inter-American Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development, Bogotá, Colombia  
(Discussion)  (Text of Declaration)
For Spanish version, click here / en español
 
“The Role of the New South American Dialogue: Looking to the Future”
Ximena de la Barra, Santiago, Chile
For Spanish version, click here / en español
 
“Venezuela: Reasons for a New Historical Project” 
Dozthor Zurlent, Caracas, Venezuela
 
IV: URBAN DILEMMAS IN CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION
“Conflicted Sustainability and Crushing Landscapes: The Quagmire of Neoliberal Development and the New Urban State in Buenos Aires”
Ryan Centner, University of CA, Berkeley
 
“Social Policy Decision-Making in Argentina During the 2002-2003 Emergency: A Case Study of the ‘Plan Jefes de Hogar’”
Jimena Arias Feijoo, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
For Spanish version, click here / en español
 
“Canada's Global City Hierarchy”
Nathanael Matthiesen, UIC-Irvine
 
“You're On Your Own: The Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Policy”
James Russell, Eastern Connecticut State University