POWER AND RESISTANCE:
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS, POSSIBLE FUTURES

“FAT CAT” SOCIOLOGY: REFLECTIONS ON 1968 AND THE SOCIOLOGY LIBERATION MOVEMENT  
Robert J. S. Ross, ClarkUniversity
Rhonda F. Levine, ColgateUniversity

CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN MOBILIZING CONSTITUENCIES FOR PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE

“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

"Global Governance and the Structuring of Global Civil Society: The Field of Transnational Advocacy and the WTO"

Kristen Hopewell, University of Michigan

 A “THIRD LEFT” IN LATIN AMERICA?

 “Understanding Latin America’s ‘third left’”
Marie Kennedy and 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, HampshireCollege

“Community Organizing, Rebellion, and the Progressive State: Neighborhood Councils in El Alto, Bolivia ”
Emily Achtenberg, Urban Planner and Independent Researcher

TOWARD A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY

“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

It's Real: Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the URGENT Need for Social Movement Politics
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University  

              THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM AND US SOCIAL FORUM: 21ST CENTURY MOVEMENT BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM-UP 

“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 theUS 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

“Global Justice as Identity: 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

“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, Transnacionalismo Y Postmodernidad”
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

RACE, GENDER AND IMMIGRATION

“Race and Immigration: Imperialism Gone Wild”
Rodney Coates,Miami University of Ohio

“Negotiating the Meaning of “Family” in the Transnational Field: A Case of Ethnic Chinese 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

THE SOCIAL FORUM PROCESS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE

"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

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

“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

CRITICAL INSTITUTIONALISM

“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