June 2012

IN THIS ISSUE
P1 Program of the ISA Forum of Sociology,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-4 August
2012
P12 Section officers

This newsletter contains the current information for our ISA

Section sessions to be held in Buenos Aires in August.
We look forward to seeing you all at the business meeting, to be
held on Thursday, August 2, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM. We will
be discussing matters of concern to our section, followed by a
reception. It is an ideal opportunity to meet new members and
visit with old friends.
Be sure to check the program once you have registered to find
the location of each session, and confirm there are no changes in
the program.
For full conference information, please go to:

http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/

Forthcoming, December 2012

Newsletter
Please send articles, book
announcements and other material by
October 15, 2012 to:
Heidi Gottfried
email: Heidi.gottfried@wayne.edu

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RCO2 ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

SECOND ISA FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA 1-4 AUGUST 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Global stratification
Session Organizer: Hiroko INOUE
Industry, occupation and income inequality in global cities and rural area
Hiroshi TAROHMARU, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters; Milos DEBNAR, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters;
Daisuke YASUI, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters
Trends in global wealth inequality from a world systems theory perspective
Jenny CHESTERS, University of Canberra
On the so-called new middle class citizens as the powers of changing capitalist system (Oral Presentation)
Hiroshi SETOOKA, Komazawa University

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Alternatives to neoliberal globalization: Comparing counter-hegemonic projects - Part I
Session Organizers: William CARROLL and Markus S. SCHULZ
Chairs: William CARROLL and Markus S. SCHULZ
In search of a great transformation: Weaving together a new historical subject
Peter EVANS, University of California
Contesting neoliberal hegemony - the case of Bolivia
Mike GEDDES, University of Warwick
The Bolivarian alliance for the Americas as an alternative to neo-liberalism: Then and now
Anna Karoline SINDLER, California State University
Post-neoliberalism: An emerging radical consensus in Latin America
Henry VELTMEYER, Saint Mary's University
Solidarity economy and counter-hegemony in the world-system: Insights from Brazil and Portugal
Joana S. MARQUES, University of So Paulo (USP)

Political Economy, Knowledge, Ecology

Session Organizers: William CARROLL and Carla LIPSIG-MUMME
Seeds of change: The mobilization of farmers as knowledge-users
Felipe FILOMENO, Johns Hopkins University

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Greening the Australian automotive industry

Caleb GOODS, Curtin University
Social economy, the state, and alternative energy: The privatization of energy work through environmentalism
J.J. MCMURTRY, York University
Open-source education
Bryan STEPHENS, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Latin America and global social change
Session Organizer: Christopher CHASE-DUNN
Latin America in the modern world-system: World revolutions and the evolution of global governance
Christopher CHASE-DUNN, University of California-Riverside; Hiroko INOUE, University of California-Riverside
Human rights in pink tide regimes
Alexis ALVAREZ, University of California-Riverside; Rebecca ALVAREZ, University of California-Riverside
New trends in south-south Latin American cooperation
Daniele BENZI, ICSyH (BUAP); Giuseppe LO BRUTTO, CEDES (BUAP)
What will be the fate of Mexico, a nation dependent upon a declining hegemon?
Kathleen SCHWARTZMAN, University of Arizona

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Diversity in corporate networks
Session Organizers: Meindert FENNEMA and Eelke HEEMSKERK
Diversity of ties and political contributions
Roy BARNES, University of Michigan-Flint; Val BURRIS, University of Oregon
Female directors as signaling device: Status, legitimacy and gender diversity in corporate governance
Meindert FENNEMA, University of Amsterdam; Eelke HEEMSKERK, University of Amsterdam
Transnational corporate elite networks in Latin America
Julian CARDENAS, University of Antioquia
Dynamic networks of interlocked directorates in Taiwan semiconductor industry: 1995, 2000,2005,2010
Ray-May HSUNG, National Chengchi University; Yi-jr LIN, 64, Zhinan Road, Wenshan District,; Ke-Wei LU, 64, Zhinan Road, Sec. 2,
Wenshan District

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Thursday, August 2, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Theorizing gender, state and economy
Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED
Feminism and the future of capitalism
Sylvia WALBY, Lancaster University
Gender, state and economy: The need of a multiple mainstreaming
Gloria BONDER, Area Genero, Sociedad y Politicas . FLACSO Argentina
Embedded regulation and social inequalities: The blurry frontier between domestic employment and professional care. Brazil in
a comparative perspective
Nadya GUIMARAES, University of Sao Paulo; Helena HIRATA, CNRS
How do economic downturns affect gender inequality within working arrangements? a comparison of Swiss regions
Sarah KERSTEN, University of Fribourg; Martin GASSER, University of Fribourg; Michael NOLLERT, University of Fribourg;
Sebastian SCHIEF, University of Fribourg

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Economy, economists & public decision making
Session Organizer: Mariana HEREDIA
How is political technocracy possible? economic expertise and politics in China and Latin America
Yingyao WANG, Yale University
Conflict and consensus among elite economists in the state: Network structures and competition for influence in Mexico and
Argentina
Tod VAN GUNTEN, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Networks of power: Central bankers in Latin America
Karin FISCHER, Institute of Sociology
Ambiguous agreement around the regulatory state: How the resolution of an academic controversy impacted on statebuilding in Chile
Antoine MAILLET, Sciences-Po
Do economists hold power? the role of economists in the French railway market liberalization (1970-2011)
Jean FINEZ, University of Lille 1, CLERSE-CNRS
Clash of rationalities? economic science and legal reasoning in the production of competition policy in Brazil (
Iag MIOLA, Universit degli studi di Milano
Mathematical economics in the USSR as an intellectual movement: Theory of optimal functioning socialist economy
Konstantin FURSOV, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Economic knowledge on the Brazilian debate on poverty - actors, institutions, and ideas
Mrcia CUNHA, University of So Paulo

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La imbricacin estado, grupos dominantes y think tanks en los orgenes del neoliberalismo del cono Sur
Hernn RAMREZ, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
The debate on the new developmentalism in Brazil: A division within neoliberal ideas? (Distributed Paper)
Jose Marcos NOVELLI, Universidade Federal de So Carlos (UFSCar)

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Organizing markets
Session Organizers: Daniel FRIDMAN, Jose OSSANDON and Dean PIERIDES
From performing to taming markets. economics making health and transport
Jose OSSANDON, Universidad Diego Portales; Sebastian URETA, Technical University of Berlin
The educational market/state dyad: The Chilean case
Alejandra FALABELLA, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Producing and organizing markets in private security. The commodification of surveillance and protection in Argentina
Federico LORENC VALCARCE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires
To be (or not to be) a market-organizer: Unpacking the Chilean neoliberal state
Antoine MAILLET, Sciences-Po
The absent consumer values in the marketisation of European public services: Results of a cross-national citizens-survey
Guy VAN GYES, K.U.Leuven; Sem VANDEKERCKHOVE, KULEUVEN
The pop management culture and the construction of a market of corporative conducts in Brazil (Distributed Paper)
Monise PICANO, University of Sao Paulo

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM

RC02 Business Meeting

Followed by a Reception
Friday, August 3, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Conflicting economies, livelihoods and social-environmental interactions
Session Organizers: Mark STODDART and William CARROLL
Co-chairs: Mark STODDART and William CARROLL
Sea water change experienced by fishers and women divers in Jeju Island, South Korea: Narratives, reactions, and community
change
Shin-Ock CHANG, Jeju National University

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In the forefront and yet marginal: Women in the farmers' movement in Gujarat, India
Manisha DESAI, University of Connecticut
Addressing the regulatory gaps in the relocation of Alaska natives: A case study of Kvalina, Alaska
Christine SHEARER, UC Santa Barbara Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Environmental pollution in Japan and today's problem of the compensation system for victims -case study research of minamata
disease
Atsushi NOZAWA, Meiji university

Friday, August 3, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Informal economies and the ethnography of economic life.
Session Organizer: Daniel FRIDMAN
The rootless copy: An approach to the counterfeit consumption in Rio de Janeiro
Ceclia Elisabeth BARBOSA SOARES, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Economies of waste: Work with recyclable materials and the natives logics of value (re)creation
Maria Raquel LIMA, PPGSA/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
An informal sphere: "the pirate taxi" drivers
Filiz BALOGLU, Istanbul University; Burhan BALOGLU, Istanbul University
Ethnography study of informal economic activites of rural women in south-west Nigeria
Olabisi YUSUFF, Lagos State University

Organizing the production of alternative visions to support social justice

Session Organizers: William CARROLL and Vishwas SATGAR
Chair: Michelle WILLIAMS
Confronting climate catastrophe: The South African climate jobs campaign Vishwas SATGAR, University of Witwatersrand
Embedding post-capitalist alternatives: The global network of alternative knowledge production and mobilization
William CARROLL, University of Victoria; JP SAPINSKI, University of Victoria
Practice, organizational form and the production of alternative visions
Peter EVANS, University of California
La reivindicacin de nacionalizacin bajo control obrero frente al gobierno de hugo chvez : El caso de sanitarios maracay
Thomas POSADO, Paris-VIII

Friday, August 3, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Neoliberalism and recomposition of Latin American elites. Part I
Session Organizer: Alejandra SALAS-PORRAS
Elites estratgicas y cambio institucional: La construccin del proyecto post- neoliberal en Argentina y Brasil
Eli DINIZ, UFRJ; Renato BOSCHI, IESP-UERJ; Flavio GAITN, IESP-UERJ

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Changes in the composition and organization of the Mexican business elite

Cristina PUGA, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico; Matilde LUNA, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
De-nationalizing state elites in Mexico
Alejandra SALAS-PORRAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Transformaciones recientes en las elites gubernamentales argentinas. orgenes, formacin, trayectorias y experiencias de los
miembros del poder ejecutivo nacional durante el ltimo cuarto del siglo XX
Paula CANELO, CONICET/IDAES/UBA; Mariana HEREDIA, Universidad Nacional de San Martn
La recomposicin de la elite econmica Argentina entre 1976-2001
Gaston BELTRAN, University of Buenos Aires; Ana Gabriela CASTELLANI, IDAES/UNSAM-CONICET
Las elites econmicas y polticas en el Brasil contemporneo (Distributed Paper)
Karina ASSIS, UFSCar - Nesefi

Friday, August 3, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Neoliberalism and recomposition of Latin American elites. Part II
Session Organizer: Alejandra SALAS-PORRAS
Big business in Chile: An assessment of macro-regional class formation
Karin FISCHER, Institute of Sociology
Democracy, financial crisis and economic alternatives
Alicia GIRN, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
Crisis, public debt and financialization of the Brazilian economy
Daniel BIN, University of Brasilia
Ms desarrollo y menos dependencia? el actual proceso de transnacionalizacin de la burguesa argentina
Andres WAINER, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO); Martin SCHORR, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias
Sociales (FLACSO)
Finanzas y poder en el capitalismo contemporneo: La configuracin de la elite bancaria en la Argentina de la dcada de 1990
Lorena COBE, IDAES-UNSAM
A experincia internacional na formao de executivos de empresas transnacionais brasileiras (Distributed Paper)
Erica Ambiel JULIAN, Universidade Federal de So Carlos

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

The ethnography of economic life
Session Organizer: Daniel FRIDMAN
Practices of time and space in hairdressers in Frankfurt, Birmingham, Dortmund and Glasgow
Martina LOEW, Technische Universitt Darmstadt; Florian STOLL, Technische Universitt Darmstadt

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The analytics of economic ethnographies

Frederick WHERRY, University of Michigan
Beneath the Model: From Developing Nation to Emerging Market, Deal by Deal
Leslie SALZINGER, University of California at Berkeley
Entre la caja fuerte y la timba: Tensiones en torno de las instituciones financieras en las sociedades contemporneas
Mariana LUZZI, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
El tiempo del dinero: Etnografas sobre la velocidad de circulaciones monetarias
Ariel WILKIS, CESE-IDAES/UNSAM y CONICET
La vida econmica de la nueva religiosidad en los secotres medios urbanos: Un anlisis etnogrfico sobre el movimiento the art
of living en Argentina
Nicols VIOTTI, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Multiple realities and contradictions within the transnational corporation
Michel VILLETTE, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, ENS/EHESS/CNRS, Paris

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Economic sociology: New approaches from Latin America
Session Organizer: Gaston BELTRAN
La sociologa de los instrumentos de conocimiento del mundo popular y la sociologa econmica: Una historia reciente en las
ciencias sociales latinoamericanas
Ariel WILKIS, CESE-IDAES/UNSAM y CONICET
Expandindo as possibilidades de compreenso da inovao: Alternativas da sociologia econmica
Jaiane PEREIRA, Fafijan - Faculdade de Jandaia do Sul; Maurcio REINERT, UEM - Universidade Estadual de Maring; Alessandra
CENERINO, Unifamma; Mrcia Cristina David de SOUZA, UDC - Unio Dinmica de Faculdades Cataratas; Cristiani Passolongo
NOVELI, UEM - Universidade Estadual de Maring
Towards an economic sociology of the investment and religious practices in Brazil
Elaine Silveira LEITE, Federal University of Pelotas
Economic sociological view of the SRI market in Brazil
Marina DE SOUZA SARTORE, Universidade Federal de Gois
Alianzas pblico-privadas: La industria del software. experiencias en Argentina e India
Dora ORLANSKY, IIGG-UBA; Santiago CUNIAL, UBA
The socio-economic phenomenology: A relational approaches
Francesco VIGLIAROLO, Universidad Nacional de San Martin
Aglomeraciones industriales en regiones perifricas: El intercambio de recursos con el territorio (Distributed Paper)
Carmen CINCUNEGUI, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Notas sobre el estado y la apropiacin del excedente en las teoras neoschumpeterianas de la innovacin y el desarrollo
(Distributed Paper)
Carina BORRASTERO, IDAES / UNSAM CONICET

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LAS posibles relaciones entre CAPITAL SOCIAL, asociaciones y desarollo econ"mico LOCAL (Distributed Paper)
Angela ESTER Mallmann CENTENARO, UNIVERIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS - UNISINOS

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

RC02 Round Table 1: Focus on Latin America

Language: Spanish

La visin acerca de la poltica econmica en los principales actores socioeconmicos de la Argentina de comienzos de los aos
90
Hernn FAIR, CONICET-UBA-UNGS-UNlAM
O papel das polticas pblicas na reduo das desigualdades de renda no Brasil
Luciene RODRIGUES, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Programa de Pos Graduao em Desenvolvimento Social; Maria
Elizete GONALVES, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Departamento de Economia
Nuevos desafos de la poltica econmica de amrica Latina mediante la produccin de conocimiento: Desafos de la poltica de
estado en Venezuela (Oral Presentation)
Rafael PALACIOS, RC23
Desentraando las caractersticas de un emergente estado post-neoliberal en Argentina: Representaciones del gobierno
nacional de los ajustes estructurales solicitados por el FMI en el canje de la deuda externa 2003-2005 (Oral Presentation)
Alejandro Gabriel MANZO, Universidad Nacional de Crdoba (UNC)
La nueva seguridad social latinoamericana: Nuevos derechos, nueva economa, nueva democracia?
Nicols DVOSKIN, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales - CONICET
La plaza del s: Medios y reformas estructurales en los aos 90 en Argentina
Micaela BALDONI, Universidad de Buenos Aires

RC02 Round Table 2: Politics, Economy and Society

Language: Spanish

Modificaciones en la gobernanza internacional del sistema financiero internacional Federico MANCHN, Universidad Autnoma
Metropolitana Xochimilco
Las cooperativas: Hacia la inclusin social y generacin de ingresos de los recolectores en el siglo XXI?
Vanessa ROCHA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARABA
Ciudadana y subjetividad en la crisis de la modernidad: Multitudes en la red
Diana Carolina HERNANDEZ PATIO, N
Una lectura sociolgica de la macroeconoma de los servicios en las zonas metropolitanas de Michoacn
Miguel ngel VITE PEREZ, IPN
Desajustes y solapamientos entre elites de posicin y decisin
Mariana GEN, CONICET/IIGG/UBA
Economical crisis and large employers' economical preferences in Argentina (1989-2003)
Eduardo GLVEZ, FLACSO (Buenos Aires), MASCIPO (Paris), UCSE (Buenos Aires)

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RC02 Round Table 3: States and Economies: case studies
Domestic production and neo-liberalism at the borders
Eugenia MOREY, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Seeking for new patterns of development in Brazil: The case of a science park in So Paulo state
Rafael G. FELIZARDO, University of So Paulo
Reforming the welfare states in new growth economies and mature welfare states
Sven BISLEV, Copenhagen business school
The quality of life concept in jurer internacional territorial development
Helena SALES, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Felipe PEREZ, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Paulo Thiago
MELO, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Rodrigo CORTEZ, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

RC02 Round Table 5: Power, Markets, Theory

TBD

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Organizing global and domestic finances
Session Organizers: Jose OSSANDON and Liz MCFALL
Economizing insurance solidarity - the practices of insurance industry in Finland
Jyri LIUKKO, University of Helsinki
Designing securities and calculating credit ratings
Manuel B. AALBERS, University of Amsterdam
Una moneda de confianza (a trustworthy currency): Dollarization, debt, and everyday economic organization in Ecuador
Taylor NELMS, University of California, Irvine
Sowing financial consumers: Retail credit in Chile
Jose OSSANDON, Universidad Diego Portales
Moralidad y finanzas populares: El capital moral como especie de garanta
Ariel WILKIS, CESE-IDAES/UNSAM y CONICET
Regulating financial markets with financial knowledge
Natalia BESEDOVSKY, Humboldt University Berlin
Global inequality and the financialization of food
Rebecca GRESH, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The organizing governance structure of a shadow financial market
Todd Arthur BRIDGES, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Home economics: Organising the household for global finance
Fiona ALLON, University of Sydney

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Saturday, August 4, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM

Knowledge based economies and networks of knowledge transfer
Session Organizers: Julian CARDENAS and Gabriel VELEZ-CUARTAS
Social capital: Components and determinants
Julia ESLAVA, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Networks, public, and governance in transition to bioeconomy: Turkish case and co-production of knowledge
Emre SNTER, Middle East Technical University
The development of knowledge and technology transfer in Russia: Challenges and opportunities
Galina SAGIEVA, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Knowledge based economy? barriers towards transfer of knowledge in Poland
Karolina LUKASIEWICZ, Jagiellonian University; Anna SZCZUCKA, Jagiellonian University
Study of skills for innovation in the large-scale survey
Natalia SHMATKO, Higher School of Economics; Olga SHUVALOVA, Higher School of Economics
Mobility patterns of researchers (Distributed Paper)
Natalia SHMATKO, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Aprendizaje en redes de prctica: Tres casos de grupos crea (Distributed Paper)
Hector CHASKIELBERG, Aacrea
La calidad institucional como objeto econmico. la construccin social del mercado de indicadores agregados en Argentina
(Distributed Paper)
Nicols CHUCHCO, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani / Universidad de Buenos Aires
Social topography of knowledge based economies (Distributed Paper)
Borut RONCEVIC, School of Advanced Social Studies Nova Gorica; Nadja DAMIJ, Faculty of Information Studies Novo mesto
South-south development cooperation under analysis: Paradigmatic rupture or reproduction? (Distributed Paper)
Rosinha CARRION, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Danielle ULLRICH, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS)
Circulation of information in networks of interaction between university-industry (Distributed Paper)
Responsabilidad y pertinencia social de la universidad y transferencia de conocimiento (Distributed Paper)
Pressures which sustain or transform training programmes run by regional headquarters: Organisational fields of multinational
corporations in Singapore and the perceptions of their managers (Distributed Paper)
Nobuko HOSOGAYA, Sophia University

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Officers
President:

Board:

William Carroll
University of Victoria, Canada
wcarroll@uvic.ca

Sabine Gensior
Brandenburg Technical University-Cottbus, Germany
sgensior@tu-cottbus.de

Vice Presidents:

Patrick Ziltener
University of Zurich, Switzerland
zaibate@soziologie.uzh.ch

Salvatore Babones
University of Sydney, Australia
sbabones@inbox.com
Georgina Murray
Griffith University, Australia
g.murray@griffith.edu.au

Treasurer:
Daniel Fridman
University of Victoria, Canada
dfridman@uvic.ca

Secretary and Newsletter

Editor:
Heidi Gottfried
Wayne State University, USA
heidi.gottfried@wayne.edu

Michelle Hsieh
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Mhsieh17@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Hiroko Inoue
University of California-Riverside, USA
INOUEH02@ucr.edu
Darlene Miller
Rhodes University, South Africa
d.miller@ru.ac.za
Alejandra Salas Porras
National and Autonomous University, Mexico
Asalasporras@hotmail.com
Karen Shire
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Karen.Shire@uni-due.de
Sylvia Walby
Lancaster University, UK
S.Walby@lancaster.ac.uk