CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
(Co-sponsored by the ASA Marxist Section, SSSP Global Division and SAGE Publications)
Presents:
POWER AND RESISTANCE:
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS, POSSIBLE FUTURES
 
The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
August 3, 2008
 
8:30-9:00       
 
COFFEE, WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (White Hill Room)
Conference Organizers:
David Fasenfest, Editor, Critical Sociology
Ricardo Dello Buono, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Zacatecas, Mexico
9:00-9:45       
 
“FAT CAT” SOCIOLOGY: REFLECTIONS ON 1968 AND THE SOCIOLOGY LIBERATION MOVEMENT (White Hill Room)
Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University
Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University
 
 
10:00-11:30   
 
CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN MOBILIZING CONSTITUENCIES FOR PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE (Whittier Room)
Organizer and Presider: Michael Sukhov, CUNY Graduate Center
 
“Retheorizing the Politics of the Left: A Critique and Some Lessons for Contemporary Activists and Movements”
Michael E. Brown, Northeastern University,
 
“Between Protest and Political Organization: The Case of the Globalization Movement and World Social Forum”
Heather Gautney, Fordham University,
 
“Political Activism and Deferred Agency: Towards a Theory of Differential Political Participation”
Michael J. Sukhov, The City University of New York Graduate Center
 
“The Technocratization of Protest: Transnational Advocacy Organizations and the WTO”
Kristen Hopewell, University of Michigan
 
Discussant: Samuel Cohn, Texas A&M University
 
A “THIRD LEFT” IN LATIN AMERICA? (White Hill Room)
Presider:Marie Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Organizer: Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell
 
 “Understanding Latin America’s ‘third left’”
Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts Lowell
 
“Resurrected Enterprises and Social Mobilization in Argentina”
Laura Collin Harguindeguy, Colegio de Tlaxcala
 
“The Zapatistas’ ‘other’ politics”
Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College
 
“Community Organizing and Rebellion:  Neighborhood Councils in El Alto, Bolivia”
Emily Achtenberg, Urban Planner and Independent Researcher
 
Discussant: Fernando Leiva, State University of New York Albany
 
TOWARD A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY (Winthrop Room)
Session Organizer and Presider: Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion
 
“The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion”
Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion
 
“Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Veil (Hijab) and the French Laws on Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools”
Mohammad A. Chaichian, Mount Mercy College
 
“After Althusser: The Lacanian Left and the Resurgence of Materialism”
Marios Constantinou, University of Cyprus
 
“Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: Reconsidering Situationist Praxis”
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, University of Illinois-Springfield
 
Discussant: George Sanders, Oakland University
 
 
 
11:30-12:45                                                    LUNCH
 
 
1:00-2:00                                            PLENARY (White Hill Room)
 
It’s Real: Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the URGENT Need for Social Movement Politics
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
 
 
2:15-3:45       
 
 
THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM AND US SOCIAL FORUM: 21ST CENTURY MOVEMENT BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM-UP (Whittier Room)
Organizer and Presider: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University
 
“The Social Forum Movement and the Praxis of Gender, Race, Class, Sexualities”
Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota
 
“The Space of Anamnesis: Writing the Social Forum”
Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University
 
“Reflection on Organizing a Campus Delegation to the US Social Forum”
Melanie Bush, Adelphi University and Deborah Little, Adelphi University
 
“Bridging Contentious and Electoral Politics: Move on and the Digital Revolution”
Victoria Carty, Chapman University
 
“Mobilization for a Better World”
Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago

“Consciousness, Vision and Strategy for 21st Century Bottom-up Movement Building”
Jerome Scott, Project South

ESTADOS UNIDOS: HEGEMONÍA, TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIALES Y POLÍTICA / UNITED STATES: HEGEMONY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLITICS (panel in Spanish / en Español) (White Hill Room)
Presider: Ricardo Dello Buono, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Zacatecas, México
 
“Poder global, geopolítica y las tendencias de la economía mundial”
Carlos Eduardo Martins, Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil
 
“Los partidos políticos en Estados Unidos”
Marco A. Gandásegui, h., Universidad de Panamá y Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos “Justo Arosemena” (CELA), Panamá
 
“Hegemonía y clase obrera de Estados Unidos”
Dídimo Castillo Fernández, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México
 
“Migración y juventud. Los jóvenes latinos en Estados Unidos”
Alejandro I. Canales, Universidad de Guadalajara, México.
 
“Salsa, migración y globalización. Las luchas por la hegemonía desde la cultura”
Ángel G. Quintero Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
 
Discussant: Víctor M. Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
 
RACE, GENDER AND IMMIGRATION (Winthrop Room)
Presider: Daphne Phillips, the University of the West Indies
 
“Race and Immigration: Imperialism Gone Wild”
Rodney Coates, Miami University of Ohio
 
“Negotiating the Meaning of “Family” in the Transnational Field: A Case of Taiwanese Immigrants and their Families”
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Brandeis University
 
“Visual Technology Culture and Gender in Remaking the Globalized Representation of Forced Migration”
Oscar F. Gil, UC Santa Barbara
 
“The Global Structuring of Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class: When Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers Rebel”
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Indiana University Kokomo and SSSP Global Division Chair
 
Discussant: Monica White, Wayne State University
 
 
4:00-5:30       
 
THE SOCIAL FORUM PROCESS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE (Whittier Room)
Organizers and Presiders: Ellen Reese and Chris Chase-Dunn, UC-Riverside

"Comrades in Arms?: Socialists and Communists at the World Social Forum"
Bridgette Portman, UC-Irvine

"Environmentalists and the Family of Anti-systemic Movements"
Matthew Kaneshiro and Kirk Lawrence, UC-Riverside
 
"Changing contours of the network of movements in the social forum process"
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Matthew Kaneshiro and Gary Coyne; Department of Sociology and Institute for Research on World-Systems

"Neoliberal Policies Persist, Indigenous Movements Resist: Making Sense of the Current Social and Political-Economic Conjuncture in Southern Mexico."
Molly Talcott, UC Santa Barbara

Discussant: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University
 
PODER Y RESISTENCIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA: REFLEXIONES CRÍTICAS SOBRE LA CRISIS ACTUAL Y LOS FUTUROS POSIBLES / POWER AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS AND POSIBLE FUTURES (panel in Spanish/ en Español) (White Hill Room)
Presider: Alfonso Latoni, Independent Scholar
 
“Quince años de TLC. Su legado en el medio rural mexicano”
Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México
 
“Inserción asimétrica y migración internacional”
Víctor Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México
 
“El conflicto colombiano y las posibilidades para una genuina integración sudamericana”
Diana Avila, Diálogo Sudamericano, Lima, Perú
 
“Procesos emancipatorios emergentes en America Latina”
Ximena de la Barra, Diálogo Sudamericano, Santiago de Chile y R.A. Dello Buono,
Critical Sociology
 
Discussant: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Wayne State University
 
CRITICAL INSTITUTIONALISM (Winthrop Room)
Organizer and Presider: Graham Cassano, Oakland University
 
“Symbolic Exploitation: An Institutionalist Approach”
Graham Cassano, Oakland University
 
“Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism”
Dan Krier, Iowa State University
 
“‘IR Experts’ and the New Deal State: The Diary of a Defeated Subsumed Class”
Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine and Ric McIntyre, University of Rhode Island
 
Discussant: Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University
 
5:45-7:00        AWARDS and RECEPTION (Stanbro Room, on Mezzanine Level)
 
CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY Research Award Presentation
Chair:  Graham Cassano, Oakland University
            Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University
            Paul Paolucci, Eastern Kentucky University
 
Critical Sociology Research Paper Award
Oscar F. Gil-Garcia, UC-Santa Barbara
"The Rural Women's Movement: Engendering Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
 
SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Brian J. Gareau, University of California, Santa Cruz
“The Limited Influence of Global Civil Society in the Montreal Protocol”
 
Reception to follow: Food and Drink (Cash Bar)
 
 

NOTE: Registering for the SSSP Conference will automatically register you for the Critical Sociology conference. If you require further information concerning the Critical Sociology conference please e-mail Conference Organizers Ricardo Dello Buono at or David Fasenfest at .