RC02 Economy and Society
XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
26 June – 1 July, 2023. Melbourne, Australia
Programme Coordinator: Aaron Z Pitluck
Monday, 26 June 2023
JS-3. Fossil Capitalism, Climate Breakdown, and Green-Left Strategies
10:30 — 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 105 (Level 1)
Session Organizer: William CARROLL, University of Victoria, Canada
Chair: Mark STODDART, Memorial University, Canada
William CARROLL, University of Victoria, Canada
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Livable World
Hajime KIMURA, University of Toyama, Japan
Treadmill of Production and Climate Capitalism As Passive Revolution
Angeline LETOURNEAU, University of Alberta, Canada
Out of the Pot and into the Fire: The Limitations of Renewable Technologies for a Just Transition
Liam MCLOUGHLIN, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Australian Climate Movement Strategy
Ines DURAN MATUTE, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de México, Mexico
Revealing and Contesting the Eco-Indigenous Rhetoric of Progressive Capitalism
James GOODMAN, University of Technology, Australia
Climate Movements in Germany, India and Australia: Dynamics of Transition, Transformation and Emergency
38. Developing Socio-Economic Theory with Empirical Cases
10:30 — 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Karen SHIRE, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Xinyue SHEN, Fudan University, China
Relational Duality and the Backup Meaning: Money and Love in the Chinese Idol Industry
Anette STENSLUND, Southern University Denmark
We Know We’ve Been Innovative When We Don’t Win Competitions
Erdem KAYSERILIOGLU, PhD, Koc University, Turkey
Humanitarian Aid As an Economic Action: A Gift Perspective
Ms LEENA, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and Saroj RATH, University of Delhi, India
The Inroad of Retail Investors into the Indian Equity Markets: Tapping the so Far Untapped Potential
39. Varieties of Care Work: Exploring National Differences
15:30 — 17:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Nadya GUIMARAES, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chair & Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED, Wayne State University, United States
Discussant: Helma LUTZ, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Anju PAUL, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sophia QIU, Yale-NUS College, Singapore and Cynthia CHEN, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A Comparison of Domestic Worker Protections Around the World
Nadya GUIMARAES, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Javier PINEDA, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, Simone WAJNMAN, Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil and Suelen CASTIBLANCO, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia
Pandemic, Labor Market and Gender in Brazil and Colombia
Helena HIRATA, GTM/CRESPPA CNRS, France, Aurelie DAMAMME, University Paris 8/CNRS CRESPPA, France and Michelle REDONDO, Paris 8/CNRS CRESPPA, France
Actions and Visions of Care in a Post-Pandemic World?
Ruth MILKMAN, CUNY Graduate Center, United States
Continuity or Change? the Impact of the Pandemic on U.S. in-Home Careworkers
Ito PENG, University of Toronto, Canada
The COVID-19 Its Impacts on Working Parents with Small Children: Korea-Canada Comparison
Guita Grin DEBERT, Campinas State University, Brazil and Jorge FELIX, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Care of Older Adults in the Brazilian Covid-19 Context
Distributed Paper:
David DU TOIT, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Outsourced Maternalism: A Consequence of Outsourcing Domestic Work to Household Cleaning Service Firms
JS-20. International Migration and Economic Informalization: A Denationalized Perspective, Part I
17:30 – 19:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 105 (Level 1)
Chairs & Session Organizers: Zoran SLAVNIC, Linkoping University, Sweden and Klara OBERG, Halmstad University, Sweden
Johan Fredrik RYE, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway and Sam SCOTT, University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
The Mobility-Immobility Dynamic and the ‘Fixing’ of Migrants’ Labour Power
Olaf TIETJE, LMU Munich, Germany
Migrant Cooperatives within the European Border Space
Ray JUREIDINI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Informal Financial Charges and Transfers in Corruption of Migrant Labour Recruitment
Branka LIKIC BRBORIC, Karin KRIFORS and Nedzad MESIC, Linkoping University, Sweden Precarity of Race: The in/Formality Nexus and Translocal Histories of Thai and Roma Workers in Sweden
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
40. The Social Economy of Migrant Labour -- Improving Social Protections to End Exploitation
8:30 — 10:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Karen SHIRE, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Chair: Sandhya AS, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Manashi RAY, West Virginia State University - Charleston, United States
To Flee or Not to Flee? Im/Mobility Among Ukrainian Glass Artists and Entrepreneurs
Heidi GOTTFRIED, Wayne State University, United States
Beyond Old Divides: Care Migration in Regional Perspective
Karen SHIRE, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Sylvia WALBY, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
The Political Economy of Human Trafficking -- How Neo-Liberalization Enables Crime
Alinaya Sybilla FABROS, University of California - Berkeley, United States
The Left-Beyond: Failed Patriarchs, Empowered Women and the Labor Earmarking of Older Migrant Workers amid Elusive Retirement
41. Power, Politics, Beliefs and Values in the Economy
10:30 — 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Miguel Angel VITE PEREZ, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, UAM, UAM/IPN, Mexico
Chair: Dana KORNBERG, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
David COBURN, University of Toronto, Canada and Elaine COBURN, Glendon Campus, York University, Canada
Economy and Society, Economy in Society? the World Bank World Development Reports, 1978-2022
Ayca ZAYIM, Mount Holyoke College, United States
The Politics of Swap Lines and the Hierarchy of the International Financial System
Rachel AALDERS, Australian National University, Australia
Empowering Finance: Understanding the Beliefs and Values Embedded in Consumer Fintech
Xiaomin CAI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Working on the Market Frontier: Selling Prohibited Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Pronatalist China
Riona BASU, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Understanding Inequalities: The Concept of Wealth Elites in Sociology
JS-32. International Political Economy of Digital Platforms: Labour-Capital Relations
10:30 — 12:20. Crown – CCH1 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Julia TOMASSETTI, City University of Hong Kong
Chair & Session Organizer: June WANG, City University of Hong Kong
Kenshin NAKANO, Aix-Marseille University, France
How Does the Platform Work Destabilize the National Employment Systems?
Jian XIAO, Zhejiang University, China and Wanyi CHENJIN, Sun Yat-sen University, China
“Emo-Slave”?: A Study on the Affective Labour in the Netease Cloud Music Platform
Monique MCKENZIE, The University of Sydney, Australia
Visions of Digital Labour: How the Motivation for Accumulation Informs the Nature of the Platformed Labour Relationship
Chunhao HUANG, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
The Digital Transformation of Labor Process in Taiwan’s Mold Manufacturing and Plastic Injection Industry
Julia TOMASSETTI, Swinburne University of Technology
Australia Original Content Producers and Contemporary Debates on Labour Law and Policy
JS-42. International Migration and Economic Informalization: A Denationalized Perspective – Part II
15:30 – 17:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 105 (Level 1)
Chairs & Session Organizers: Klara OBERG, Halmstad University, Sweden and Zoran SLAVNIC, Linkoping University, Sweden
Discussant: David FASENFEST, Wayne State University, United States
Hironori ONUKI, University of Wollongong, Australia
Making Decent Employers Perpetrators: A Denationalized Perspective on Informalization within Japan’s Technical Intern Trainee Program
Ahmet COLGECEN, PhD, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Turkey As a Transit Country on the International Migrant Route: Economic Informalization and Precarity
Pei PALMGREN, Stanford University, United States
Governing Guestwork in the Global South: Temporal and Spatial Logics of Migration Control and Social Reproduction in Thailand
Thamali RANASINGHE, The University of Queensland, Australia and Michelle SYDES, Griffith University, Australia
Perceptions of Immigrants As a Threat to Economy, Culture and Security in Australia
JS-44. Variegated Intersections of Social Policy and Finance
15:30 – 17:20. Crown – CCH1 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Asa MARON, University of Haifa, Israel
Chair: Ben SPIES-BUTCHER, Macquarie University, Australia
Adam STEBBING, Macquarie University, Australia
Asset-Based Welfare, Risk and Inequality: The Rise of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds in Australia
Lavinia BIFULCO, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy and Maria DODARO, University of Padua, Italy
Local Public Action for Financial Inclusion: Representations, Limits and Agency
Kalpeshkumar Ambalal CHAUHAN, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Jillet Sarah SAM, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Dealing with Credit Scores: The Work of Microfinance Loan Officers in Rural Gujarat, India
Ray JUREIDINI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
The UNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund
Gustavo Jorge ZALDIVAR1, Delfino VARGAS2,3 and Fernando CORTES3, (1) Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Mexico, (2) Programa Universitario de Estudios del Desarrollo, Mexico, (3) National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
The Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Productivity Strata of the Economic Sectors of Mexico in 2005 and 2020
Distributed Paper:
Armi MUSTOSMÄKI, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The Figure of Femeconomicus – Postfeminist Reconfigurations of Femininity in Financialized Welfare State
JS-49. Labor Unrest, Social Revolts and Revolutions, 1851-2020: Findings from the Global Social Protest Database
17:30 – 19:20. Crown – CCH1 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Beverly SILVER, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Panelists:
Minhyoung KANG, Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Smriti UPADHYAY, American University of Cairo, Egypt
Beverly SILVER, Johns Hopkins University, United States
42. Digitialized Economic Interactions in the Global South: In Search of a New Research Agenda
17:30 – 19:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Michelle Fei-yu HSIEH, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Sana AHMAD, WZB Social Science Center Berlin, Germany
Automated Content Moderation: A Site of Social and Economic Inequalities in India
Heesun CHOI, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
Crowd Work without Crowd: A Study on the Dual Labor Market in Crowd Labor Market in Korea
Vladimir PACHECO and Chiara BRESCIANI, Aarhus University, Denmark
A Wallet on Your Phone: Preliminary Findings on the Salvadorean Bitcoin Bet
Mayumi TABATA, Senshu University, Japan
The Role of Stock Trading Apps and SNS in Generational Justice: The Case of Youth Financial Civic Movements in Taiwan and Japan
Anson AU, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Cryptocurrencies and the Promise of Individual Economic Sovereignty in an Age of Digitalization: A Critical Appraisal
RC02 Dinner
19:30 – 22:00. Off-site location within walking distance. Details to be announced.
All RC02 members with reservations welcome.
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
43. Economic Sociology of Craftsmanship
8:30 – 10:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Andrey SGORLA, University of Siena, Italy
Chair: TBA
Susan LUCKMAN, University of South Australia, and Michelle PHILLIPOV, University of Adelaide, Australia
Artisanal Making, Cultural Inclusion, and the Limits of Media Representation
Emanuela NACLERIO, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
In Search of Sustainable Work: Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Narratives and Practices of Craft
Pauline DELPERDANGE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
The Heterogeneity of Authenticity Arguments in a New Craft Market Sector: The Case of Microbrewery in Belgium
Judit BODNAR, Central European University, Hungary
Craft-Producing Locality in the Sharing Economy
Belinda ZAKRZEWSKA, Michael B BEVERLAND and Stephan MANNING, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Recipes for Crafting Authenticity and Coloniality
44. Indebted Subjectivities: Juggling with Consumer Credit
10:30 – 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: M. Fatih KARAKAYA, Istanbul University, Turkey
Chair: Dustin STOLTZ, Lehigh University, United States
Tobias DAVIDSSON, Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Erik ERIKSSON, School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden
Young and Overindebted. Time out of Rhythm
M. Fatih KARAKAYA, Istanbul University, Turkey
“Restructuring” the Consumer Credit: A Frame Analysis of Non-Performing Loan Market in Turkey
Fernanda GOBBI, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Money and Violence in Informal-Illegal Loans in the Popular Strata of São Paulo-Brazil
Pheeraya WONGSARANUCHIT, Pusanisa THECHATAKERNG, Sutawan SATJASOMBOON and Sirikul TULASOMBAT, Maejo University, Thailand
Stairway to Purchase: New Customer Journey Mapping on Low-Rise Condo in Thailand
45. Finance as a Verb: Local Practices in Global Finance
15:30 – 17:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Aaron PITLUCK, Illinois State University, United States
Alicia GIRON, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas- UNAM, Mexico
China Railway Construction, Chinese Finance Capital
Yu-hsiang CHEN, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Credit Rating As a Tool of Communication and Negotiation: SME Lending in Taiwanese Banks
Rajorshi RAY, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Financial Actors in Context: An Ethnographic Study on Financial Intermediation and Its Role in Platform Dependent Entrepreneurship in India
Anirudh RAGHAVAN, Ashoka University, India
The Moral Investor: Equity Markets, Speculation and Retail Investing Boom in India
Abhiram H and Jillet Sarah SAM, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Understanding Cryptocurrencies from the Perspective of Social Institutions
46. Postcolonial Ethnographies of Racial Capitalism: A View in/from Africa
17:30 – 19:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Jordanna MATLON, American University, United States
Chair: Lynette SPILLMAN, University of Notre Dame, United States
Discussant: Michael BURAWOY, University of California, United States
Jordanna MATLON, American University, United States
The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism
Marcel PARET, University of Utah, United States
Passive Revolution through Racial Inclusion in South Africa
Zachary LEVENSON, University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States
Reversing Apartheid Under Racial Capitalism: Notes from Land Occupations in Cape Town
Jessie LUNA, Colorado State University, United States
White Gold, Black Debt: Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso
Thursday, 29 June 2023
47. Lifeworld of Precarious Work and Subjectivities
8:30 – 10:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Sandeepan TRIPATHY, National University of Singapore
Andrei POPOV, Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VolRC RAS), Russian Federation
The Meanings of Precarity in the World of Work: Generational Approach
David FARRUGIA, Deakin University, Australia, Julia COFFEY, University of Newcastle, Australia, Australia and Steven THREADGOLD, University of Newcastle, Australia
Solidarity, Belonging and Precarious Work in the Hospitality Industry
Pamela CARO MOLINA, Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile
Precariousness(es) of the Productive and Reproductive Work of Seasonal Fruit Growers in the Central Valley of Chile: An Empirical Study
Shruti GUPTA, National University of Singapore, India
Migrant Experiences, Gender Relations, and ‘Negotiated Agency’: Conceptualising Precarity through and Beyond Labour
48. Seeing Precarity through a Comparative Analysis of Labor in Various Economies
10:30 – 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair & Session Organizer: Sandeepan TRIPATHY, National University of Singapore
Shiyun TANG, Renmin University of China, China
The Power Structure Analysis of the Precarious Labor Situation and Production Relations of Ride-Hailing Drivers
Muhammed ALAKITAN, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Bans, Gender, Unpaid Labour and Surveillance: Precarities of Nigerian Twitter Influencer Entrepreneurship
Ludovic BAKEBEK, University of Liège, Belgium
Thinking Urban Labor and Social Mobility Beyond the Precarity Discourse: A View from the Construction Sector in Douala, Cameroon
Neha GUPTA, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India and Anushree GUPTA, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Heat Resistance: A Case Study of Platform Workers’ ‘AC Strike’ in Kolkata and Hyderabad
49. Racial Capitalisms: Race, Caste, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity in Economic Life
15:30 – 17:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair and Session Organizer: Dana KORNBERG, University of California - Santa Barbara, United States
Tomislav RIMAC, ESCI, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Communion and Generative Social Change: A Study of Intra-Organizational Processes Enabling Individual and Collective Agentry
Cassi CLAYTOR, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Markets, Racial Capitalism, and Racial Exclusion on the Retail Sales Floor
Nioshi SHAH, University of California – Santa Barbara, United States
Reinforcing Caste Boundaries in Everyday Social Interactions: A Critical Analysis of Upper Class Bania Women in India
Deepa EBENEZER, Azim Premji University, India
Multi-National Corporations and Caste: Experiences of Sanitation Workers from Chennai
Sanjeev ROUTRAY, Institute of Asian Studies, Brunei Darussalam
‘Almost like Engineers!’ Material and Symbolic Practices of Plumbers in Delhi
50. Keynote Session: Economy and Culture
17:30 – 19:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Lynette SPILLMAN, University of Notre Dame, United States
Chair: Jeffrey ALEXANDER, Yale University, United States
Paromita SANYAL, Florida State University, United States
Life and Debt: Household Financialization & the Changing Culture of Credit
Simone POLILLO, University of Virginia, United States
Planning and Econometric Models in Post-World-War-II Italy: A Sociology of Performative Regimes
Alex PREDA, Kings College London, United Kingdom, Julie VALK and Ruowen XU, Kings Business School, United Kingdom
The Blockchain Prophecies: Social Imaginaries of the Cryptoeconomy
Lynette SPILLMAN, University of Notre Dame, United States
Theorizing Economic Culture
RC02 Business Meeting – All are welcome to attend!
19:30 – 20:50. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Chair: Aaron PITLUCK, Illinois State University, United States
Come learn what RC02 has accomplished, meet the new board and officers, and contribute your ideas and energy to RC02’s trajectory over the next four years.
Friday, 30 June 2023
52. Elements for an Emancipatory Sociology: An Appraisal of the Work of István Mészáros
8:30 – 10:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Ricardo DELLO BUONO, Manhattan College, United States
Chair: David FASENFEST, Wayne State University, United States
Ricardo DELLO BUONO, Manhattan College, United States
Moving Beyond Leviathan: Mészáros on the Role of the State
Ricardo ANTUNES, University of Campinas, Brazil
Una Apuesta Al Futuro y La Urgência De La Alternativa Socialista: La Contribuicíon De István Mészáros
Andres PIQUERAS, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
Degenerative Phase of Capitalism. Terminal Capitalism?
Adrian SOTELO VALENCIA, UNAM, Mexico
La Superexplotación Del Trabajo En Las Mediaciones De Segundo Orden De István Mészáros. the Super-Exploitation of Labor in the Second-Order Mediations of István Mészáros
Carlos Eduardo MARTINS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Structural Crisis of Capitalism, US Imperialism and Alternatives for the XXI Century
Murillo VAN DER LAAN, University of Campinas, Brazil
The Question of Natural Limits in the Work of István Mészáros
Caio ANTUNES, Federal University of Goiás - UFG, Brazil
Education in Mészáros
JS-117. International Political Economy of Digital Platforms: Sovereignty and Infrastructural Power
8:30 – 10:20. Crown – CCH1 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: June WANG, City University of Hong Kong
Chair & Session Organizer: Julia TOMASSETTI, City University of Hong Kong
Karolina MIKOLAJEWSKA-ZAJAC, University of Queensland, Australia
An Ecosystemic Perspective on the Growth of Airbnb
Olivier JUTEL, University of Otago, New Zealand
Platform Governance and the Hybrid War Industrial Complex
Liu CAO, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Wanghong Urbanism and Its Politics of (re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation
Anne KOVALAINEN and Seppo POUTANEN, University of Turku, Finland
Platformization As a New Social Order
Kb HEYLEN, Macquarie University, Australia
Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code: A Case Study in Digital Platform Sovereignty
June WANG, City University of Hong Kong
Constructing the Value Chain of the Creator Economy in China
JS-127. Thinking Through and Beyond Capitalism After the Great Reset
10:30 – 12:20. Crown – CCH2 (Level 2). Note atypical room #.
Chair & Session Organizer: Hiro SAITO, University of Tokyo, Japan
Alwyn LIM, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Accelerationism: Capitalism Beyond the Great Reset
Svetlana KIRDINA-CHANDLER, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
The Formation of a Bipolar World with a New Anti-Capitalist Coalition?
Carlos PALACIOS, Macquarie University, Australia
The Test for “Post-Neoliberal” Governance: Harnessing Human Value with Residual Competition
Christian GIRARD, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business: Foundations for the ‘Great Reset’ or Canary in the Coal Mine?
53. Rising Corporate Concentration and the Monopolistic Milieu
15:30 – 17:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizers: Siddharamesh HIREMATH, Bangalore Central University, India and Somashekher CHINNAPPA, Bangalore University, India
Chairs: Somashekher CHINNAPPA, Bangalore University, India and Jayashree KULKARNI, JSW Steel Limited, India
Hiroko INOUE, University of California - Riverside, United States
Political and Economic Power: Foreign Investment Dependence
Abdul Gaffar KHAN, Gulbarga University, India
Corollaries of Corporate Invasion: Colonization of Healthcare Sector in India
Miguel Angel VITE PEREZ, UAM, Mexico
Extractivism As an Interpretative Concept of Urban Development in the Global South
Subhaschandra NATIKAR, Karnatak University, India
Medical Corporatism: Commodification of Healthcare
Vasudha M C, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, India
Spate of Mergers and Acquisitions in Indian Edtech Industry: Waves of Predatory Consolidation
Raghavendra GUDAGUNTI, Near Gopalswamy Temple, India
Big Pharma Corporatism and Vaccine Monopoly: Indian Struggle through the Pandemic
Distributed Paper:
Anjanappa BADADA HANUMAPPA, Kuvempu University, India
Monopolistic Consolidation in Pharmaceutical Sector: Implications for Medication and Innovation
JS-129. Brokering Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology: Innovation and Dynamism
15:30 – 17:20. Crown – P1 (Level 1)
Chair & Session Organizer: Aaron PITLUCK, Illinois State University, United States
Dana KORNBERG, UC-Santa Barbara, United States
Transactional Pathways
Dustin STOLTZ, Lehigh University, United States
Theorizing Imaginative Labor
Po-Fang TSAI, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Einverständnis: A Neglected Concept in the Tradition and Field of Economy and Society
Arnaud SALES, Université de Montréal, Canada
Innovative Corporate Networks and Dynamic Reticular Structures
JS-135. Brokering Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology: Relational and Cultural Analysis
17:30 – 19:20. Crown – P1 (Level 1)
Chair & Session Organizer: Dustin STOLTZ, Lehigh University, United States
Ekaterina SVETLOVA, University of Twente, Netherlands
Methodological Relationalism
Jordi MUNDÓ, University of Barcelona, Spain
Fiduciary Relationships
Aaron PITLUCK, Illinois State University, United States
Conflicts of Interest
Tom DUTERME1,2 and Jean DE MUNCK1, (1) University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (2) Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS), Belgium
The Semiosis and the Market: What Peirce Can Learn to Economic Sociology
Xiangyu MA, University of Chicago, United States
Tastes and Complex Tastes
54. Reconstructing the Global Economy: Production Chains, Knowledge Chains, and Value Chains
17:30 – 19:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizer: Dennis MCNAMARA, Georgetown University, United States
Chair: Maïlys GANTOIS-MALDAGUE, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Dennis MCNAMARA, Georgetown University, United States
China’s Challenge - Managing Cross-Strait Connectivity
Bronwyn LEE, Binghamton University, United States
Suriname's Bauxite Industrialization: How a Specialized Commodity Exporter Reconstructed Global Aluminum Production Chains By Asserting Local Priorities
Svetlana KIRDINA-CHANDLER, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
From Global Economy to Bipolar Economy
Joonkoo LEE, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
What the Netflix-Korean Wave Nexus Teaches Us about Global Cultural Value Chains
Amogh ARAKALI, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
Locals within Globals: Theorising for Local Environmental Factors in Global Manufacturing Chains Using Case Studies from India
Diego MAGGI, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Knowledge Management and Division of Labor in the Global Automotive Industry: Considerations on the Brazilian Case
Saturday, 1 July 2023
JS-138. Brokering Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology: Societal Variation, Entrepreneurship
8:30 – 10:20. Crown – P1 (Level 1)
Session Organizer: Alexander EBNER, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Chair: Aaron PITLUCK, Illinois State University, United States
Yuhao LIAO and Christopher CHASE-DUNN, University of California - Riverside, United States
Deglobalization: Conceptual Issues and Long-Term Global Social Change
Mayya SHMIDT, Uppsala University, Sweden
On the Concept of Sharing
Quentin SCHNAPPER, Sciences Po Toulouse, France
From Family Businesses to “Houses”. Virtues of an Old-Fashioned Anthropological Concept to the Study of Entrepreneurship
Lewei HUANG, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; Chenyun GUO and Zijie SONG, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Relational Mobility and Entrepreneurship
JS-139. Racial Capitalisms, Spatial Productions
8:30 – 10:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 106 (Level 1). Note atypical room #.
Session Organizer: Nicole TRUJILLO-PAGAN, Wayne State University, United States
Chair: Matthew WAYMOUTH, iNZight Analytics, New Zealand
Kasey HENRICKS and Diego TABOADA, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States
A City So Cold: Winter Parking on the Streets of Segrenomics
Jiyoung KIM, IDHE.S-Nanterre, France
The Coloniality of Spatial Production: Gentrification in Canal Saint-Martin Neighbourhood in Paris
Jessica TERRUHN, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Rethinking Residential Segregation through an Anti-Racist Lens
JS-143. Tax Policies and Tax Optimization Practices
10:30 – 12:20. Crown – P1 (Level 1)
Session Organizers: Maïlys GANTOIS-MALDAGUE, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France and Antoine VION, University of Nantes, France
Chair: Dennis MCNAMARA, Georgetown University, United States
Maïlys GANTOIS-MALDAGUE, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Employer Tax Optimization Strategies and Practices: An Ethnographic Eye from the Solicitor Job
Antoine VION, University of Nantes, France and Maïlys GANTOIS-MALDAGUE, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Enrich the Sociology of Tax Evasion: Preponderance of British Virgin Islands in the Architecture of Offshore Financial Circuits, Extracts from Data Leakage
Alice KROZER, El Colegio de México, Mexico; Natalia TORRES, Raymundo CAMPOS and Aurora RAMÍREZ, Colmex, Mexico
Governing Inequality: Tax Perceptions, Redistributive Preferences and Expectations Towards the State Among the Political Elite in Mexico
Marie QUARREY, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Border Optimisation: Issues and Genesis of the Social Construction of Tax Optimisation Practices at the Franco-Swiss Border By Professionals
Florencia Fu-Chuan HUANG, Graduate Institute of Latin American Studies, Taiwan
Debt, Loan and National Development in 21st Century Argentina: Fiscal Social Contract Approach
JS-144. Women Entrepreneurs on the African Continent and Beyond
10:30 – 12:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 106 (Level 1). Note atypical room #.
Session Organizers: Ulrike SCHUERKENS, Université Rennes 2 LiRIS EA 7481, France and Dorina ROSCA, The American University of Moldova
Chair: Dieter NEUBERT, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Ulrike SCHUERKENS, Université Rennes 2 LiRIS EA 7481, France and Seydi Ababacar DIENG, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal
Paul DIEDHIOU, Rennes 2 et UCAD, Senegal
La Multinationale « Auchan » Au Sénégal : Une Source d’Approvisionnement Pour Les Femmes Vendeuses d’Étalage à Mbour (Thiès)
Moustapha SEYE, LARTES-IFAN/Université Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar, Senegal
Femmes Entrepreneures Et Logiques Entrepreneuriales Dans Le Secteur Informel Au Sénégal
Sutawan SATJASOMBOON, Pusanisa THECHATAKERNG and Pheeraya WONGSARANUCHIT, Maejo University, Thailand
The Challenges of Young Female Social Entrepreneurs after Covid 19: A Case Study of Mueang Pon Village, Mae Hong Son, Thailand
JS-149. KEYNOTE: Sylvia Walby on Political Economy and Violence
12:30 – 14:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 203 (Level 2). Note atypical room #.
Chair & Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED, Wayne State University, United States
Discussants: William CARROLL, University of Victoria, Canada, and Margaret ABRAHAM, Hofstra University, United States
Sylvia WALBY, Royal Halloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Political Economy and Violence: The Implications of Taking Violence Seriously for Theories of Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Forces
55. Global Inequalities and Pandemic Diseases—Recent and Historical Impacts of Contagious Diseases on Within- and Between-Country Inequalities
14:30 – 16:20. Melbourne Convention Centre – 213 (Level 2)
Session Organizers: Yoshimichi SATO, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan; Hiroko INOUE, University of California – Riverside, United States
Chair: Christopher CHASE-DUNN, University of California – Riverside, United States
Michael LEE, CUNY-Hunter College, United States
From Flea to Shining Flea: Pandemics in the Modern World-System, 1600-2022
Anthony ROBERTS, Colorado State University, United States
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Contemporary & Future Income Inequality in the United States: A Machine Learning Approach
Vitalina BUTKALIUK, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
The Pandemic of Inequality: The Social Lessons of the Pandemic for Humanity
Farewell Reception
16:30 – 19:30. Off-site location within walking distance. Details to be announced.
All members are welcome!