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World Congress of Sociology
The
Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World
Organized by the
International Sociological
Association
Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July, 2006
Conference Presentation
The theme of the first ISA World Congress of Sociology in
Africa is The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising
World.
A number of special sessions that raise continental issues
of global concern are being finalized by the Programme Committee
which is preparing the semi-plenary morning sessions that
will be of interest to the Association's members, Research
Committees, Working and Thematic Groups and National Associations.
Durban provides the international social science community
with an opportunity to encounter a society in transition,
in a context that is highly cognisant of the importance of
social science in reconstruction and development. With its
superb facilities and infrastructure, Durban has a proven
track record of hosting international events and conferences.
Call for papers
Contributions are invited to the following sessions:
Session 1, Poverty, migration,
and globalisation
Chair: Yanyi K. Djamba, Southeastern Louisiana University,
USA, ydjamba@selu.edu
Today about three percent of the world population lives outside
their countries of birth. Although many scholars still associate
this increasing international migration with economic imbalances
between nations, current migration flows defy existing theories
of social and spatial mobility. This session calls for papers
that rethink the dynamics of the migratory process under conditions
of globalisation and poverty. The focus will be on the analysis
of East-West and South-North migrations, which seem to flow
in the opposite direction of capitalism expansion. The contributors
to this session should review and challenge existing theories
of spatial mobility and propose new directions that help understand
the intersection among poverty, migration, and globalisation.
Both empirically driven and theoretical sound papers on all
contemporary aspects of international migration and poverty
will be considered.
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Session 2, Social policy regimes
and migrant workers in Asia
Chairs: Ian Holliday, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
ian.holliday@cityu.edu.hk
The organizers are interested in receiving proposals for papers
that (a) document the kind of social protection that is currently
available to migrant workers, both legal and illegal, in Asia
(if any), (b) examine specific instances of social policies
made available to migrant workers by distinct types of political
regime in Asia, and (c) think through the kind of social policy
"regimes" that can thereby be said to exist in Asia.
They expect papers to draw on both globalisation theory and
social policy theory.
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Session 3, Indigenous peoples,
globalisation and the welfare state
Chair: Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania, Australia, margaret.walter@utas.edu.au
A rapidly globalising world presents unprecedented challenges
for the interaction of the welfare state and Indigenous peoples.
The rising influence of the market economy, global capital
and the accompanying restructuring of social, economic and
cultural relationships, especially those relating to the welfare
state and social citizenship have specific and unique ramifications
for Indigenous peoples. Given the economically, socially and
politically marginalised status of the majority of world Indigenous
peoples, the impact of globalisation and the direction and
shape of welfare state and accompanying social policy change
is particularly important. The social challenges posed by
a globalising world also vary geographically. While sharing
Indigenous status, Indigenous peoples from western countries,
such as Australian Aborigines, the Sami peoples or the First
Nations peoples of Canada are likely to confront different
issues than those from non-western regions in Africa, Asia
and Central and South America.
Papers for this session would encompass scholarship and research
relating to the current or likely effect of the interaction
of globalisation/globalising world and the welfare state for
Indigenous peoples.
Topics within the session would include, but not be exclusive
to, the impact of a globalising world on Indigenous poverty
in its various dimensions, social policy, citizenship, cultural
and Indigenous rights and welfare reform. Comparative papers
exploring issues for different, geographically diverse and/or
western and non-western Indigenous peoples are also encouraged.
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Session 4, State and civil
society in the making of social policies. The case of Lusophone
African countries
Chair: Isabel Estrada Carvalhais, University of Minho, Portugal,
imestrada@eeg.uminho.pt
More than a language, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape-Verde
and São Tomé & Príncipe share the
burden of a colonial legacy - a legacy quite visible in one
of the most prominent principles of their social, legal, and
political-administrative cultures: the principle of centralisation.
In a context where the concept of 'State' is profoundly attached
to this principle, it is important that we may know how and
how much this affects the dynamics of the relation between
the State and the various social and political actors located
in society; especially their very admission as legitimate
agents of social cohesion and well-being; their admission
to, and participation in, decision-making processes in the
making of social policies. The fact that such state-society
relations happen in contexts of great ethnic and cultural
plurality, of strong local traditions, and deeply ingrained
social habits in the organisation of power relations, is obviously
an element that brings extra complexity to that questioning.
In the particular cases of post-conflict societies such as
Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, the burden of the colonial
legacy must be equated also with on-going peace-building processes
and with emerging expectations about the growth of a culture
of democracy in the conduction of state-society relations.
We believe there is theoretical and methodological pertinence
in discussing intellectual work that is analytically sensitive
to the specificities of the African context, and to the particular
challenges and obstacles these societies face. In this sense,
we would be interested in papers that could make a contribution
to:
a) Building a rigorous characterisation of the dialogue between
state and society in regard to the definition, content and
practice of social policies
b) Stimulating the critical evaluation of interpretative models
and theories of social policy building and welfare regimes,
as well as the creation of frames analytically sensitive to
Africa and to African multiple realities, refusing therefore
the use of 'Africa' as a blurring and identity-killer category.
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Session 5, Eastern European
social policy
Chair: Jolanta Aidukaite, University College of South Stockholm,
Sweden, jolanta.aidukaite@sh.sex
The aim of explaining welfare state development in affluent
capitalist democracies has spawned a plethora of welfare state
theories, approaches and typologies. However, many of them
excluded from their analysis former socialist countries, which
had a rather different historical and economic development
as compared to the capitalist democracies. Nevertheless, the
former socialist countries had extensive social policies,
which, in some cases, were just as developed as those in the
West. The collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and other
Eastern bloc countries added even more to the puzzlement surrounding
the debate as to whether the old welfare state theories still
maintained their explanatory power and also whether new ones
were needed to encompass the sea-changes in Europe.
This session aims to contribute towards a better understanding
of the post-socialist welfare state development from a theoretical
as well as an empirical point of view. It focuses on various
aspects of social policy in post-socialist Eastern Europe;
it examines the characteristics of social security institutions,
the influence of historical legacy on social policy developments,
the impact of policy-makers' and political parties on welfare
reforms as well as the pressure of global organisations on
the development of social policies in this part of the world.
The other broader theoretical issues, such as a reconsideration
of existing welfare models and regime types will be addressed
too.
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Session 6, Social policy in
an enlarged Europe: Theoretical challenges and policy outcomes
Chairs: Ola Sjöberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, ola.sjoberg@sofi.su.se
, Tommy Ferrarini, Stockholm University, Sweden, tommy.ferrarini@sofi.su.se
and Joakim Palme, Stockholm University, Sweden, joakim@sofi.su.se
The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 to 25 countries
poses new challenges to mainstream comparative social policy
research, which hitherto have had a significant bias towards
analysing long-standing member countries of the OECD. This
session will address comparative research that analyse social
policy developments in the new member countries of the European
Union, with a special focus on the former communist countries
in East- and Central Europe.
We are primarily seeking papers and abstracts that fulfil
two criteria:
1. Papers and abstracts should explicitly try to combine theoretical
novelty with empirical analysis. From a theoretical point
of view, the abstracts and papers should address one, ore
preferable more, of the following issues:
- What are the strengths and limits of 'mainstream' theories
and typologies when analyzing social policy developments and
institutions in East and Central Europe?.
- In what way can research on these countries inform existing
theories on social policy and the welfare state?.
- Countries in East- and Central Europe have not only experienced
transformations in their social policy systems, but also in
their political and economic systems. What theoretical challenges
do these more or less simultaneous transformations represent?.
2. From a comparative perspective, we are primarily interested
in abstracts and papers that explicitly compare East- and
Central European countries (or other new member countries
of the EU) with long-standing members of the OECD (i.e. the
countries in Europe, North America and Oceania) that most
often are subject to comparative research on social policy.
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Session 7, Intergenerational
inheritance of inequalities - 'producers' and policy responses
in different social policy regimes
Chair: Wielislawa Warzywoda-Kruszynska, University of Lodz,
Poland, zsoul@uni.lodz.pl
Reproduction of inequalities and poverty transmission from
one generation to another seems to increase in recent decades
all over the world. Because of its scope and extent it may
hinder further development of particular countries and regions.
'Producers' of intergenerational inheritance of inequalities
(e.g. commercialization of education, lacking language skills,
poverty etc) differ in different socio-economic-cultural contexts.
So are policy responses aimed at reducing/overcoming it.
Papers are invited which contribute to better understanding
of factors/processes/mechanisms producing reproduction of
inequalities and poverty and policy responses at central and
regional levels. Of particular interest are results of studies
comparing developed countries with Central Eastern Europe.
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Session 8, Globalisation,
deregulation, re-regulation and social policy
Chair: Max Koch, University of Ulster, UK, m.koch@ulster.ac.uk
In the debate on 'globalisation' a relative decline of the
nation state as a location of welfare and regulation power
has often been stressed. However, the 'old' nation-state centred
forms of regulation have not, as yet, been replaced by equivalent
global institutions; attempts to transform international institutions
such as the IMF, the World Bank, or the UN have remained limited.
Despite these rather unsuccessful attempts, governance, on
both the national and international level, appears to be in
a constant flux. While it is generally recognised that regulation
is necessary to address the social, ecological, and political
issues at stake, it is less clear how processes of re-regulation
- at the regional, national, and supra-national level - work
and impact on social policy. Neither is there consensus on
how the new regulatory regimes will look. The session calls
for papers that address processes of deregulation and re-regulation
in different regions of the world and discuss possible new
forms of regulation in the emerging new international economic
and political structure. It welcomes papers from all parts
of the world and from different theoretical perspectives.
While the scope is intended to be multi-disciplinary, world-wide,
highly varied, and as practical as possible, papers focussing
comparative welfare state analysis are particularly welcome.
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Session 9, Social capital,
active citizenship and social welfare
Chair: Thomas P. Boje, Roskilde University, Denmark, boje@ruc.dk
Governments and societies seek economic growth and prosperity
but are also increasingly concerned about its impact on social
conditions and social integration. They are concerned about
inequality, new forms of poverty and social exclusion, which
seems to expands in combination with new technologies, globalisation
and individualization.
How to ensure social cohesion and justice at local, regional
and national level in societies characterized by individualization,
diversity and influenced by growing globalisation and marketisation?.
Dealing with these concerns we have to understand the complex
and changing relationship between work, family life, and community
involvement. These three institutions taken together determine
the conditions under which individual and social groups organize
their social relations. Focus in these sessions will be on
the importance of social resources, social network and political
involvement in creating community development and sustainability.
Scholars who deal with social capital, citizenship rights
and civil society and its impact on social welfare, solidarity
and social participation in both a national and cross-national
perspective are invited to submit papers.
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Session 10, Social citizenship
in the Americas
Chair: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University, Canada, rmahon@ccs.carleton.ca
Different types of social citizenship regimes took root in
North and in South America during the twentieth century. Today
both North and South America are grappling with efforts to
scale back the state, leaving greater room for markets, families
and the voluntary sector. In Latin America, the US model of
targeted social policy is being introduced through piecemeal
reforms. At the same time, both North and South face demands
to include once marginalised groups. Gender equality has advanced
throughout the hemisphere, although serious gaps remain between
norms and women's real life experience. Migration flows are
increasing pressures from 'latinos' in North America for access
to social services, respect for cultural diversity, labour
mobility and human rights. Demands for inclusion can give
rise to new models of social citizenship at the local level,
which challenge existing national regimes. Similarly, processes
of economic integration (NAFTA, the FTAA, bilateral agreements)
pose new questions about the appropriate scales of social
citizenship rights. This panel will explore the changing patterns
of social citizenship in the Americas and reflect on the questions
these raise for analytical frameworks developed to analyse
postwar social regimes in Western Europe and North America.
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Session 11, Origins of cross-national
variations in gendered configurations of social citizenship
Chairs: Cecilia Benoit, University of Victoria, Canada, cbenoit@uvic.ca
and Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir, University
of Victoria, Canada, hkbenedi@uvic.ca
Recent research on citizenship in advanced welfare states
has identified how the caring work that makes it possible
for social and economic institutions to function- child-care,
house-work, elder-care, and care of sick family members -
reflects dominant societal gender contracts and thus can be
shown to vary significant in time and across place. Figuring
out how care-work is written into citizenship vocabularies
is therefore a pressing theoretical and empirical issue and
one with important policy implications. The purpose of this
session is to explore the historical backgrounds and social
contexts behind cross-national differences in how vocabularies
and configurations of citizenship make sense of and are inclusive
of care-work. We encourage submissions that pertain to historical
origins as well as contemporary variations in citizenship-care
regimes. If you wish to present a paper in this session, send
an abstract of no more than one page to session organisers.
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Session 12, Consumerism and
choice in social policy
Chair: Tine Rostgaard, The Danish National Institute of Social
Research, Denmark, tr@sfi.dk
Choice and consumerism in social policy is a topic on which
there is great interest at the moment, along with user involvement,
participation, empowerment, and the creation of an active
welfare citizenship. The demand for more choice seems to be
a natural consequence of the criticism of the workings of
the traditional welfare state. In accordance, we look for
other solutions of the organization of welfare, which should
preferably be solutions that can reflect the diversity of
lifestyles that we are leading. We can see this reflected
in the introduction of payment for care benefits, personal
budgets and the free choice between private and public provider
of services, pensions, hospitals etc.
Papers are invited on a broad area of topics from comparative
social policy architecture, gender issues, equality to governance
and organizational studies but with the common theme of the
consequences of more choice and consumerism in social policy
seen in comparative perspective.
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Session 13, Changing health
care systems in a changing world
Chairs: Juergen Kohl, University of Heidelberg, Germany, juergen.kohl@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
and Claus Wendt, University of Mannheim, Germany, claus.wendt@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Health care system comparison is a neglected area of welfare
state research. The topic seems to be occupied by health economists
or medical sociologists. A comparative analysis of health
care systems, however, can benefit to a high extent from findings
by welfare state researchers. Especially the focus of health
economists on financing and expenditure has to be complemented
by a focus on actors, institutions and effects of health care
systems. On the other hand, health system analysis can provide
additional insights for studies on the welfare state since
it concentrates to a greater extent on social services and
to a lesser extent on financial transfers as, for instance,
in the old age pension debate. Furthermore, there are strong
links between health and health care, ability to work, poverty,
care (for the elderly) or the ability to support family members
etc. By analysing the connections between different problem
areas of social existence we might gain a better picture of
welfare state tasks in total.
The session should go beyond the "traditional"
focus on the OECD world and include especially African and
Asian countries where the needs situations are likely to be
different. The question, therefore, should not be "how
can developing countries learn from Western Welfare State
experiences?", but what insights we can gain by contrasting
developing health care systems with highly developed ones.
Papers will be requested especially from four different areas:
1. Needs, interests and ideas in health policy;
2. Regulating health care: the changing role of the state
in health care systems;
3. Changing health care institutions and their effects on
(access to) health care;
4. Trust and legitimation: Citizens' views on health care
systems.
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Session 14, Social policy
and ageing in a globalised world
Joint session with Research Committee on Sociology of Aging,
RC11
Chair: Andreas Hoff, German Centre of Gerontology, Germany,
andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk and
Juergen Kohl, University of Heidelberg, Germany, juergen.kohl@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Population ageing has become a global phenomenon that has
an impact on both more developed and less developed countries.
Within the next 50 years, the absolute number of older people
will have more than tripled while birth rates will have dropped
by a third. By 2050 the number of older people will exceed
the number of the young for the first time in history.
These demographic shifts pose serious challenges to a wide
range of social policies. In Western societies, public pension
schemes, which are among the core institutions of developed
welfare states, have increasingly come under reform pressure.
By contrast, the situation in less developed countries seems
almost opposite: the age structure is more favourable, but
the institutionalisation of public pension schemes is mostly
weak and the state capacities to build up such schemes are
rather limited. However, evidence suggests that demographic
changes will occur in developing countries at an even more
rapid pace than in the industrial world today. At least since
the 1990s, pension reform has thus become a global issue.
Global discourses and agencies increasingly influence national
policies in both Northern and Southern countries.
Because of the health risks and care needs associated with
longevity, the ageing process will also have a dramatic impact
on the provision of health care services. Moreover, because
of the costs of social protection involved, increasing life
expectancy calls for more flexible arrangements for the transition
from work to retirement.
But social policies for older people go beyond pension and
health care issues. They include issues of housing and social
services as well as providing a supportive environment for
family care. Social security policies will have to go hand
in hand with policies targeted on the activation of civic
action and self-help potentials.
A global consensus seems to be emerging that a new 'welfare
mix' of state, families, the voluntary sector, and markets
is needed - but what welfare mix and with what role for the
state? At the heart of the debate will be the question to
what extent such policies vary between the less developed
and the more developed world, and what both sides can learn
from each other.
Papers are invited which address one or more of the issues
outlined above.
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Session 15, Averting the old
age crisis - revisited
Chair: Niels Ploug, The Danish National Institute of Social
Research, Denmark, np@sfi.dk
Pension reform has been high on the welfare agenda in many
countries since the OECD publication Reforming public Pensions
in 1988 and the World Bank publication Averting the Old-Age
Crisis in 1994. These analyses pinpointed the economic instability
of existing pension schemes due to demographic developments
faced by many countries.
The developed and highly exposed welfare states in the Nordic
countries are facing the same challenge as other welfare states
in relation to pension systems and demographic development
but have taken on the challenge in quite different ways. Denmark
was able to take account of the ageing problems already in
the 1980s. The resulting development of the pension system
is in some ways in line with recommendations of the World
Bank (1994) and the OECD, but with a specific Danish flavour
of collective agreement rather than individualised pensions.
Sweden introduced a high profile pension reform that might
be copied - like other Swedish welfare arrangements - by Norway;
Finland has also introduced a comprehensive pension reform.
As the Nordic countries are seen by some as the front runners
in welfare development this session will welcome papers on
the content of Nordic pension reform and the differences across
the Nordic countries; papers that relate the Nordic reform
movements to on the one hand earlier recommendations on pension
reform and on the other hand to the quest to reform pension
systems in other countries will be particularly appropriate.
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Session 16, Reshaping programs
for long-term care. The effects of reforms
Joint session with Research Committee on Sociology of Aging,
RC11
Chair: Karl Hinrichs, University of Bremen, Germany, hinrichs@zes.uni-bremen.de
In view of demographic aging and family change, a number of
countries have introduced special schemes providing long-term
care benefits to frail (elderly) people (e.g. in Austria,
France, Germany or Japan), while many others have made significant
changes to their existing programs. Research on the intended
as well unintended effects of those institutional innovations
is of great interest - for example, to what extent are benefits
utilized, what are the consequences for other welfare state
programs (notably social assistance), or how has the quality
of services developed (or been secured)? Related aspects are
the development of a welfare market for long-term care services
and problems to regulate such a market or to keep expenditure
under control. "Learning from others" may be another
effect of reforms, i.e. how far have foreign examples played
(or currently play) a role in national debates and initiatives
to set up such a scheme. Paper proposals for this session
are encouraged which, from a single-country or preferably
from a comparative perspective, touch upon the wide array
of effects and their (potential) repercussions on further
policy change. Abstracts should make clear how the paper will
tackle its specific subject empirically as well as analytically.
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Session 17, International organisation
prescriptions for and influence upon national social policy
Chairs: Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield, U.K, B.Deacon@sheffield.ac.uk,
and
Nicola Yeates, Open University, UK N.Yeates@open.ac.uk
Deacon et al (1997), Yeates (2001), Orenstein (2004), Stubbs
(2003), Boas & McNeill (2004), Armingeon and Beyleler
(2004) and others have all contributed to the analysis of
the social policy prescriptions of international organisations
such as the World Bank, ILO, OECD and International NGOs.
More research is required into the ways in which such prescriptions
for national social policy are arrived at within such organisations
and how they are transmitted to national policy makers. What
are the networks of policy scholars and policy entrepreneurs
who seek to influence such policies? Do governments who are
stakeholders in some of these organisations seek to influence
policy prescriptions via, for example contributions to World
Bank Trust funds? What is the relationship in terms of policy
influence between institutes such as the World Bank Institute
and the Bank or between the UNRISD and WIDER and UN social
agencies? What are the processes of policy review and refereeing
and how have these lead to the adoption of specific policy
measures such as the Multi-Pillar framework for pensions in
the Bank or the Extension of Social Security policy within
the ILO? Are policy transfers from IOs to government Ministries
facilitated by the membership of national and international
'civil servants' of the same epistemic communities? How is
global policy diffused?
This panel is inviting papers that open up to scholarly scrutiny
the social policy content, social policy formation process
and social policy transfer process associated within international
organisations. Case studies of either global organisations
or of regional organisations such as the Asian and Development
Bank are welcome. Papers may address any sector of social
policy: health, education, social protection, water and utilities,
housing etc. Papers will be considered for publication in
Global Social Policy
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Session 18, The changing landscape
of public/private partnerships in funding and service delivery:
Impact on service delivery systems, service agencies and clients
Chairs: Prema Thirupathy, Washington University, USA, pthirupathy@gwbmail.wustl.edu
and Stephanie C. Boddie, Washington University, USA, sboddie@
gwbmail.wustl.edu
The landscape of human services funding and service delivery
is rapidly changing. In the United States, federal policy,
such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act of 1996 and various administrative initiatives shift resources
from state and local governments to faith-based and community-based
organizations, new funding streams and different types of
funding (eg. matching grants, performance based contracts)
are now available to non-profit organizations. The types and
extent of federal resources available to non-profits ultimately
have the potential to change the funding sources, services
provided, service delivery, and oversight required for the
accountability for such resources. All of these factors, in
turn, can change organizational structure, culture, goals,
and effectiveness. Often these changes may occur in non-profit
organizations without debate, discussion, examination and
evaluation of processes and impacts, and any coherent plan.
Gradual, incremental organizational changes may ultimately
radically alter the non-profit sector and inevitably impact
the lives of their clients and service recipients.
Papers are invited on (i) changing public policies and the
subsequent challenges faced by non-profit organizations; (ii)
the promise of public/private partnerships in ensuring the
best outcomes possible for service delivery systems, services
agencies and clients being served through the systems; and
(iii) the changing landscape of public/ private partnerships
and their impact around the world.
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Session 20. Rescaling social
policies and the role of local welfare arrangaments
Joint Session with ISA Research Commite on Urban and Regional
Developmet RC21
Organisers: Yuri Kazepov, University of Urbino, Italy, yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it
and
Rianne Mahon, Carleton University, Canada, rmahon@ccs.carleton.ca
In the light of most welfare reform processes the territorial
(urban and regional) dimension is acquiring prominence, not
only in terms of implementation, but also increasingly as
a regulating actor with widening degrees of freedom. Reasons
for that are many (decentralisation, privatisation, new forms
of governance,...), but all point to a deep reorganisation
of social policies at the territorial level. Even the EU (in
Europe) is fostering that, trying to gain regulatory terrain.
The joint session aims at looking from different perspectives
into this process. What are the implications of this territorial
re-organisation? How does it take place in different contexts
and what are the reasons for territorial differences? Papers
are asked to provide both empirical and theoretical reflections
on the processes with preferably a comparative perspective.
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Proposals should be submitted to session organisers before
December 15, 2005.
All those submitting proposals must be members of RC19. The
numbers of sessions listed is based on the November 2004 membership.
If membership decreases the number of sessions will be reduced
accordingly. If membership increases significantly RC19 will
be entitled to one or more additional sessions. Consequently
it is essential that membership be renewed or taken out before
that date. For information on RC19 membership please contact
Torben Fridberg, tf@sfi.dk
ISA membership form is available at http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/memb_i/index.htm
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Financial Support
International Sociological Association and the Local Congress
Organizing Committee of the XVI World Congress of Sociology
have made a provision in their budget to support invited speakers,
session organizers and paper givers, totalling 665,000 Rand.
This amount is made up from an anticipated grant of 250,000
Rand from the UNESCO Participation Programme and another 415,000
Rand taken from the joint ISA-LOC Congress budget.
The grants for the XVI World Congress of Sociology will be
allocated by the Grants Committee elected by the ISA Executive
Committee in 2004. The Committee shall be composed of four
members of the ISA Executive Committee and the Chair of the
South African Local Organizing Committee. The Committee shall
be chaired by the ISA Vice-President for Finances.
Four categories of grants are
proposed:
1. Invited speakers: Presidential Sessions, Author meets
the Readers, Symposia
Designated for invited speakers who may not be ISA members
and may come from category A countries. Applications shall
be sent to the President and the Vice-President for Programme
who will make recommendations to the Grants Committee.
Funds: 200,000 Rand
2. Travel/accommodation grants for individual members of
the ISA in good standing coming from the developing countries
(category B or C) and who play an active role in the Congress
programme either as a session chair or a paper giver. Decision
shall be made by the Grants Committee (see below for the proposed
guidelines for submitting applications).
Funds: 250,000 Rand
3. Registrations grants allocated to the Research Committees
to subsidise the participation of featured speakers and/or
paper givers chosen by the RCs. This funding will allow RCs
to apply either for 1 congress registration in category A,
or 2 in category B, or 3 in category C. Applications should
be sent by Research Committees on behalf of individuals to
the ISA Secretariat isa@cps.ucm.es before January 31, 2006.
Applications must include the name(s) of the person(s) to
whom the grant will be allocated and the title(s) and abstract
of their paper(s). Grants are available only to participants,
members of the International Sociological Association, presenting
papers in the RC programme. Considering that the allocated
amount cannot meet every need, requests may have to be arbitrated.
Final recommendations shall be made by the Vice-President
for Research with two other members of the Research Coordinating
Committee.
Funds: 90,000 Rand
4. Fourth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists
To cover travel and accommodation expenses of the finalists
of the competition
Funds: 125,000 Rand
Please, check the Conference's web site to learn further
details on paper submission and application for grants: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc19_durban.htm
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