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Volume 9 No. .3 June, 2001

Caucus for a New Political Science

Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of APSA

IN THIS ISSUE

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FROM THE EDITOR........................................................................page 2

NPS NEWS..........................................................................................page 3

UPCOMING CONFERENCES/CALLS FOR PAPERS................page 11

RECENT PUBLICATIONS..............................................................page 20

NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE...........................................................page 24

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CHAIR SECRETARY-TREASURER/NEWSLETTER EDITOR Laura Katz Olson Carl Swidorski

Lehigh University The College of Saint Rose

Bethlehem, PA 18015-1380 Albany, NY 12203

LKO1@Lehigh.edu swidorsc@mail.strose.edu

APSA PROGRAM COORDINATOR 2001

Michael Forman

University of Washington-Tacoma

Tacoma, Washington 98402-3100

Forman@u.washington.edu

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FROM THE EDITOR

Our summer edition of the newsletter features the preliminary program of NPS panels at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco August 29th – September 2nd. Many thanks to Michael Forman of the University of Washington, Tacoma our 2001 Program Coordinator, for putting together this program.

Everyone is invited to attend our annual business meeting which will be held on Friday, August 31st at 5:30 pm and our journal reception, this year co-sponsored by the Ecological and Transformational Politics Section, which follows at 6:30. Remember that our annual plenary session on Saturday, September 1st at 8:00pm features Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy speaking on “Media Bias: Political Myths and Realities!

Finally, if you do not subscribe to our journal, New Political Science, please consider doing so. The revenues we receive from Taylor and Francis for operating expenses associated with the journal are partially contingent on subscriptions. A few extra subscription, which push us over their baseline number, means a difference of a couple thousand dollars. The price for members, $28, is a bargain. Thanks

Individuals are encouraged to send information about upcoming conferences and events, book announcements, calls for papers, professional journal information, and activism to:

Carl Swidorski

History/Political Science Department

The College of St. Rose

Albany, NY 12203

Tel. (518) 458-5325

Fax (518) 458-5446, e-mail: swidorsc@mail.strose.edu

Please send all information in either hard copy, via E-mail, or WordPerfect or ASCII diskette format. The deadline for the next newsletter is October 15, 2001.

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NPS News

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CHARLES A. McCOY DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD

At its 2000 annual business meeting, the New Political Science section decided to establish a third section award in addition to the Harrington and Bay awards. It would be for a career of distinguished scholarship and service to the Caucus and its goals. The Caucus chair was authorized to appoint a committee to make the selection on an annual basis. The award is named after Charles A. McCoy, one of the founding members of the Caucus. This year’s selection committee, consisting of Carl Boggs, National University, Los Angles (Chair), Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music, and R. Claire Snyder, George Mason University, have selected Bertell Ollman of New York University as the recipient of the award. Congratulations Bertell!

NPS LISTSERV

Michael Forman has set up a list for the dissemination of Caucus discussions, particularly in regard to the journal, and other Caucus business. The list is unmoderated but people do have to sign up.

To sign up for the list send e-mail to: listproc@u.washington.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the body write: Subscribe newpolsci<your name>. Do NOT use<> but do write your first name and your last name. What will happen is that Listproc will send you an e-mail asking if you really mean to subscribe to this list. You need to reply making sure that the “cookie” number in the Listproc message appears within the first couple of lines of your message. At this point, Michael will receive a message from Listproc telling him that you want to sign up and asking for his approval.

If you have further questions or want more info, go to:

http://www.washington.edu/computing/listproc/

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NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE PANELS AT APSA

Plenary Session – Saturday, September 1, 8:00 pm

Business Meeting – Friday, August 31, 5:30 pm

Reception (Co-sponsored by Ecological and Transformational Politics) – Friday, August 31, 6:30 pm

Division 42: New Political Science Panels and Poster sessions

42-1: Human Rights, Civil Society, and Democratic Justice Thurs. 8:45 a.m.

Panel Chair: Kling, Joseph

Participants: Rachel A. May (University of Washington, Tacoma)

Human Rights NGO’s and the Role of Civil Society in Guatemala’s Process of Democratization

Ariel C. Armony (Colby College)

The “Serpent’s Egg”: Civil Society’s Dark Side

Natalie Oman (University of British Columbia)

Tribunals, Truth Commissions, and Recognition

Neve Gordon, (Ben-Gurion University)

Gramsci and Human Rights

Thomas W. Smith (University of South Florida)

Constructing a Human Rights Regime in Turkey

Discussants: Leo Panitch (York University)

John Ehrenberg (Long Island University, Brooklyn)

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42-2: (Re) Thinking Democracy, (Re) Organizing Communities Co-sponsored with Political Thought and Philosophy Thurs. 1:30 p.m.

Panel Chair: William Corlett (Bates College)

Participants: Christine Di Stefano (University of Washington) and Nancy C. M.

Hartsock (University of Washington)

Thinking What We Are Doing: ‘Woman’ and ‘Democracy’ Revisited

Joseph Schwartz (Temple University)

Is There A Future for Democratic Egalitarian Politics?

William Corlett (Bates College)

Property Rights and Property Wrongs: Retrieving Perfectionism in

Low-income Neighborhoods

Discussants: Lisa Disch (University of Minnesota)

Susan Craig (Illinois State University)

42-3: The Repression of Worker’s Rights in the United States: Historical and

Contemporary Perspectives Fri. 3:30 p.m.

Panel Chair: Diane E.Schmidt

California State University – Chico

Participants: Carl Swidorski (The College of St. Rose)

Freedom of Expression and Association and the Labor Movement: From

the Wagner Act to the Human Rights Watch Report

David Cingranelli (Binghamton University)

Explaining the Gap Between International Labor Standards and US Labor

Policies

Robert Justin Goldstein (Oakland University)

Political Repression of the American Labor Movement During Its

Formative Years: A Comparative Perspective

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Richard Fording (University of Kentucky)

The Relationship between State Welfare Policies and State Labor Markets

Michael Zweig (SUNY, Stony Brook)

The Working Class Majority

Discussants: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY – Graduate Center)

Michael Goldfield (Wayne State University)

42-4: Roundtable on Assessing Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Sat. 3:30 p.m.

Chair: David N. Gibbs (University of Arizona)

Participants: Chalmers Johnson (University of California, San Diego)

Irene Gendzier (Boston University)

Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago)

Mine Doyran (SUNY – Albany)

Manfred Steger (Illinois State University)

42-5; Roundtable on G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America? 4th Edition (Co-sponsored with Ecological and Transformational Politics) Sat. 3:30 p.m.

Chair: Joseph Peschek (Hamline University)

Participants: Edward S. Greenberg (University of Colorado)

Philip Klinkner (Hamilton University)

John Berg (Suffolk University)

G. William Domhoff (University of California, Santa Cruz)

William F. Grover (St. Michael’s College)

Stephen Samuel Smith (Winthrop University)

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42-6: From Local to Global: Prospects for Tele-democracy (Co-sponsored with Ecological and Transformational Politics) Sun. 8:45 a.m.

Panel Chair: John Rensenbrink (Bowdin College)

Participants: Christa Daryl Slaton (Auburn University)

The Political Theory of Teledemocracy

Theodore L. Becker (Auburn University)

Is there and Antidote to Mass Political Alienation? Citizen Power vs. Building Community

John C. Rensenbrink (Bowdoin College)

A Planetary Government for the Planet’s Ills: United Representative Government, Direct Democracy, and the Federal Principle

Discussant: Bertell Ollman (New York University)

42-7: Coalition or Competition: Ethnic and Racial Relations in the United States

(Co-Sponsored with Race, Ethnicity, and Politics,) Sat. 5:45 a.m.

Panel Chair: Ian Haney Lopez

Participants: Cathy J.Cohen (Yale University)

African American and Immigration: An Empirical Examination

Taeku Lee (Harvard University)

Latinos and Asians in the United States: A New Politics of Race?

Victoria Hattam (New School for Social Research)

Theorizing Ethnicity: Analyzing Coalition Politics

Jennifer L. Hochschild (Harvard University)

The Politics of Identity versus the Politics of Coalitions

Discussant: Hamideh Seghi

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42-8: New Political Science Plenary Session Sat. 8:00p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Norman Solomon (Institute for Public Accuracy): “Media Bias: Political Myths and Realities”

POSTER SESIONS

Comparative

William Aviles (U. Cal. Riverside): Globalization, the Transnational Elite and Paramilitarism in Colombia

Terrie R. Groth (Universidade de Brasilia) Offering Choices as a New Political Science: Democracy, Justice, and the State

Lois Harder (University of Alberta): Tax Expenditures: The Social Policy of

Globalization

Katherine Smits (Miami University): Saying Sorry: Apology, Reconciliation and

Democratic Community-Building in Australia

IR,

Marc Belanger (Saint Mary’s College) Transnational Movements and Institution Building: The Worker Right Consortium and the Anti-Sweatshop Movement

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American,

James Sawyer (Seattle University): After the Battle for Seattle: Hope Rising for the Common Good?

Josiah Bartlett Lambert The Decline in U.S. Strike Rates and the

(St. Bonaventure University): Erosion of the Right to Strike

Eric Boehme (Rutgers University): A Critical Theory of Violence and Coercion: State and Civil Society in Twenty-First Century America

Political theory

Amentahru Wahlrab Evolutionary Nonviolence: From Nationalist (Illinois State University): Power to Cosmopolitan Culture

Call for Papers 2002 Annual Meeting New Political Science

The New Political Science Division is committed to help make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world and to promote a critical and activist approach to the discipline of political science. Thus, we encourage the submission of scholarship that stresses, for example, human rights, labor rights, social rights, justice for women and minorities in the United States and around the world. We especially encourage proposals along these lines that are compatible with the overall theme of the conference, Political Science and Public Life: Knowledge, Politics, and Policy.

In the spirit of this theme, and the draft program statement that elaborates it, we encourage submissions that seek “to enter into a dialogue with wider publics” ..., “to discuss the political implications of our research,” and that ... “pay attention to the questions and ideas about politics that (these) publics raise.

Submissions might focus, for example, on a variety of past or current social and /or protest movements. Alternatively, submissions might focus on one of the traditional focii of political investagation, e.g., the state. Or, finally, submissions might reflect, in a constructively critical manner, on the activity in which we are all engaged, i.e., thinking about politics.

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Individual paper proposals, panel proposals, poster sessions, and suggestions for roundtables are all welcome. Submissions may come from any field (or subfield), and they may draw upon a wide variety of critical and engaged perspectives including critical theory, feminism, environmentalism, Marxism, political economy, etc. Contributions form junior colleagues, graduate students and others submitting to New Political Science for the first time are especially encouraged.

Elite Interviewing Short Course

Beth Leech of the Political Organizations and Parties Section has sent the following announcement.

Interview data have provided the backbone of many of the most important works in political science, but few graduate programs provide any formal training about how to conduct interviews, especially with elite subjects. For those who would like to learn more, the Political Organizations and Parties section is organizing a short course on elite interviewing that is open to any member of APSA.

The short course will feature an afternoon of advice and pointers from some of the most experienced interviewers in the discipline, and is open to any member of APSA.

Topics covered will include confidentiality, how to gain access, how to write up interview notes, how to code open-ended responses systematically, and discussions of standard issues of research design (e.g. sampling frames, validity, replicability) as they apply to interview data.

Our panelists come from several different subfields within political science. they have interviewed members of Congress, members of parliaments, civil servants, White House Staff, party leaders, interest group leaders, and political activists. They have experience in both standardized interviewing as well as more open-ended, exploratory interviews, and several of them also specialize in survey methodology.

Panelists for the course include: Joel D. Aberbach, Jeffrey M. Berry, David Farrell, Ken M. Goldstein, John H. Kessel, Beth L. Leech, H.W. Perry, Bert A. Rockman, and Laura Woliver. The course will run 1-5p.m. on Wednesday, August 29th.

There is no charge for the course, but participants must pre-register. Registration forms will appear in the summer issue of PS.

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DANIEL SINGER PRIZE

The Daniel Singer Prize Foundation invites submissions to the 2001 Daniel Singer Prize competition. The $2,500 annual prize is a tribute to the outstanding writer, lecturer, and thinker, who died in December 2000. His last book Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? offered insights into the next stage of the struggle for special justice and human rights, a struggle which shaped and indeed defined Daniel’s life. The prize will be awarded for an original essay of not more than 5000 words, which advances his ideas and ideals. Essays may be submitted in any language, but if other than English, it would be helpful to append an English translation. Essays will be judged by a panel of experts appointed by the Foundation. The winning essay will be announced in the month of December 2001, and the winner will be invited to deliver a public lecture based on the essay.

Submissions should be made no later than July 31, 20001 to:

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation, Inc.

P.O. Box 334, Sherman Connecticut 06784 USA

All inquiries should be sent to this address

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES/ CALLS FOR PAPERS

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I would like to encourage all Caucus members to come to Copenhagen this August – right before the APSA – for the annual conference of IPSA Research Committee 49, “Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy” (SCD). SCD is the IPSA equivalent of the Caucus, although not as well developed, and I would love to see more Caucus members take part. The deadline to submit paper proposals is July 15; the call for papers is below.

I hope to see you in Copenhagen!

-John Berg

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8th Annual Conference of the International Political Science Association

(IPSA)’s Research Committee #49:

The Political Economy of Democracy: Citizenship in an Age of Globalization –

Transforming Communities and Identities.

Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen,

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 23-25, 2001

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Citizenship has been the academic talk of the town for at least a decade. To conceptualize different normative and functional versions of citizenship, to dispute its proper theoretical ancestry, and/or to reformulate more traditional theoretical and empirical concerns inside the wide framework of this new old term – all this has long

formed important part of the repertoires of journals, departments, and conferences inside the field of political theory – as well as those of political science, social policy, and historical sociology.

The main theme of this conference is the future of citizenship in a global (ized) society: conceptual and functional prospects of a contested ideal. The conference proposes to look at citizenship as a contested ideal and a functional reality rooted in specific historical societies. And it aims to ask questions about the future of citizenship in the face of a series of challenges to its underlying assumptions and structural properties, posed by processes of globalization and European integration. Citizenship may well crystallize the promise and inevitable shape of things to come in a liberal century of further, Habermasian ‘rectifying revolutions’. But equally evident, it suggests the sheer diversity of possible liberal futures. The conference stresses that the conceptual and functional diversity of national citizenship models make for different agony points in the face of the future. These may be compared and contrasted. But it also proposes to keep in mind two anchors of broader normative reference, and to query their possible reformulation under new circumstances. One is the ideal of a universalistic, enabling citizenship of equal

social status and effective autonomy in a common ‘material culture’ – the old promise of

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T.H. Marshall. Another is some version of a republican or participatory citizenship, enabling individuals to be masters of their own collective destinies, securing, defending, or delineating their rights and liberties in the process, and identifying themselves in terms of the past and future tasks and accomplishments of political projects rather than in terms of pre- or extra political essences.

We invite a variety of papers – on contemporary or historical developments, of a theoretical or empirical kind, using case-oriented or comparative approaches – to answer parts of the following kinds of questions in order to contribute to the recapturing of the complex meaning of the citizen as ‘homo politicus’: What are the function and purpose of being a citizen of a nation-state? Is the idea of cosmopolitan citizenship necessary and/or possible, and is both a) desirable and b) practicable? How is the idea of citizenship bound up with the modern idea of ‘republic’? What are the relations between the concept of citizenship and different dimensions of the concept of democracy? How can democratic citizenship be based on other communities/identities than nation or ethnicity? Is it possible to define and defend citizenship more substantially or fully than merely in formal terms? Can this be otherwise under conditions of globalization? Should citizenship be primarily a political concept or a social one? Does the political/societal category of citizenship differ in the different economic systems of capitalism and socialism? Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? How are the rights of citizens and the rights of man (or the human) related? Does one require or presuppose the existence of the other? How does citizenship enable or bar the exercise of justice and human solidarity?

All these questions touch in one way or another upon the question of the nature of citizenship as being either a constraining or enabling factor of political action. In essence, the question of citizenship is inseparably linked to the question of political alternatives and choices. Arguably, this also presupposes and requires a critique of the deconstruction and reconstruction of citizenship that is part of the process of globalization.

Deadline for submitting an abstract for a paper is the 15th of July 2001.

Deadline for papers is the 15th of August 2001.

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Paper proposals or questions of any kind can be directed to the organizers:

Uffer Jakobsen Koula Mellos

Vladimir Suchan kmellos@uottawa.ca

UJ@ifs.ku.dk University of Ottawa

vsuchan@smcvt.edu

University of Copenhagen

St. Michael’s College

Thomas Berg Per Mouritsen

Marlene Wind pm@ifs.ku.dk

tbe@ifs.ku.dk

mwi@ifs.ku.dk

8th annual Conference of IPSA RC #49

University of Copenhagen

Department of Political Science

Rosenborggade 15

DK-1130 Copenhagen, Denmark

Telefax: +45 35 32 33 99

Telephone: +45 35 32 33 83

For practical information on travel and lodging, venue and academic programme, availability of conference papers etc., please go to the conference homepage: http://www.polsci.ku.dk/ citizenship/welcome.htm

How Class Works

Call for Papers

A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook

June 5-9, 2002

The group for the Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5-9, 2002. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until November 15, 2001 according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our website at <www.workingclass.suny.edu>.

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Purpose and orientation. The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. While the focus of the conference is in the social sciences, presentations from other disciplines are welcome as they bear upon conference themes. Presentations are also welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the theme of the conference. For non-academic presenters, papers will be welcome but are not required.

Conference Themes. The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding any of the following themes:

The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of class.

Class, power and social structure. To explore the social content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of power; to explore ways in which class structures of power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.

Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside the workplace in the communities where people of various classes live.

Class in a global economy. to explore how class identity and class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor standards.

Middle class? Working class? What’s the difference and why does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to explore the relationship between the middle class and the working class.

Class and public policy. To explore how class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic policy, housing, and education.

Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses.

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Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a) title; b) which of seven conference themes will be addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter’s name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants.

Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to participate from each proposed session member.

Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the:

How Class Works Conference,

Group for the Study of Working Class Life

Department of Economics

SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.

Timetable. Proposals must be postmarked by November 15, 2001.

Notifications will be mailed on January 15, 2002.

The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 5-9, 2002.

Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after January 15, 2002. Details and updates will be posted at <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.

Conference coordinator:

Michael Zweig

Group for the Study of Working Class Life

Department of Econimics

SUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384

mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

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Call for Papers

Special Issue of Science & Society on Marxist-Feminist Thought Today

Editors: Martha Gimenez and Lise Vogel

As capitalism strengthens its worldwide domination, the resulting burdens fall increasingly on those in the poorest sectors of the rural and urban populations and of the masses displaced by armed conflicts and natural disasters. Growing numbers of men find themselves downsized, unemployed, in prison, or forced to migrate. Regardless of marital status, income level, or prior occupational experience, women are increasingly in charge of supporting themselves, their families, and future generations. The proportion of households that are female-headed has been moving up since the 1970’s, particularly in areas of the world affected by neoliberal economic policies. While spared from the devastation inflicted in the third world, the developed countries have seen similar increases in female-headed households. In the U. S., for example, households composed of married couples with children are only 24 percent of all households. In short, women workers, peasants, and migrants not only increasingly bear all responsibility for economic provision, care of household members, and the never ending tasks of daily life they also make up the majority of the world’s working classes.

How can we understand the contradictions and possibilities of these shifts? It has become commonplace for progressives to argue that in our presumably post-capitalist times Marx’s work no longer pertains. For feminists, the rejection of Marxism builds on the outcomes of a 1970’s discussion of the relation of Marxism and feminism. Although most feminists concluded Marxism to be irrelevant, a large minority retained a certain interest in Marxist analysis by adopting “dual systems” theories, which represent women as shackled to both patriarchy and capitalism. And a handful of scholars, male as well as female, have persisted in a commitment to make Marxism feminist and feminism Marxist.

Readers of Science & Society are not likely, of course, to have given up on Marxism. But they may not be aware of the past three decades’ extensive Marxist-feminist discussions, much less of current trends in Marxist-feminist thought and analysis. It is time for all of us to reappraise Marx’s work, the Marxist heritage, and Marxist-feminist theory in an effort to understand, in all their complexity, the manifold ways in which capitalism affects the lives of women and men everywhere.

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To this end, Science & Society is planning a special issue on “Marxist-Feminist Thought Today.” We encourage prospective authors to explore both concrete issues, amenable to the use of empirical research findings, and theoretical questions having to do with postnonststructuralist, postmodern and postfeminist challenges to Marxism and to Marxist-feminism. Possible topics could include: unionization among women workers; the relationship between changes in men’s opportunity structures and women’s rising levels of labor force participation and economic responsibility; the effects of recent welfare reforms; the decline of the male-breadwinner family unit; rethinking race, gender, and identity politics; Marxist-feminism, materialist-feminism, and other puzzles; Black feminism and Marxist-feminist thought; etc. In all cases, we ask authors to explain how they view their framework to be Marxist as well as feminist. We especially welcome manuscripts and proposals from younger scholars.

The coordinating editors for the issue are Editorial Broad members Lise Vogel (Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648); lvogel@mindspring.com; 718-499-4952) and Guest Editor Martha E. Gimenz (Department of Sociology, Campus Box 327, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO 80309; gimenez@csf.colorado.edu). Copies of proposals, abstracts, manuscripts and other correspondence should go to both Vogel and Gimenez. The deadline is September 2002 and the issue is projected for publication in 2003.

The Marx International III Congress will be organized by Actuel Marx at Paris X – Nanterre University September 26-29 2001

To submit a paper for the Economic Section, send a title and a ten-line summary to: Gerard Demenil 39, rue d’ Estienned d’Orves/ 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses/ France Email: dumenil@u-parisID.fr

For more information or to submit a paper for another Section consult the web site:

http://www.u-paris10.fr/Actue/ Marx/index.html

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Critical Criminology, Call for Papers

This open call requests quality manuscripts pertaining to critical criminology in all its manifestations, including critical legal studies and social justice issues. We welcome qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including non-traditional approaches to data gathering and analysis. Papers should expose and oppose forms of domination that include class, gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation – especially their intersecting and interlocking nature. We encourage works that focus on creative and cooperative solutions to justice problems, plus strategies for the construction of a more inclusive society.

Paper should be 4,000 to 6,000 word (including tables, illustrations, notes and references) and framed in a manner that wold be of interest to an international audience. Book reviews are also welcome and shorter research notes (3,000 words) will be considered for publication. Pleases send 2 paper copies and 1 electronic copy (IBM compatible) to the appropriate editor listed below. Submissions not from North America or Europe are welcome and can be sent to any editor listed below. All manuscripts are subject to peer review. For more information, see http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/ critical-crim-journal.htm

General Editor (North American submissions) Paul Leighton Dept of Soc., Anthor & Crim, 712 Pray Harrold, Eastern Michagan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 <paul@stopviolence.com>

Co-Editor (Management & Production) Jeffrey Walker, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204-1099 <jtwalker@ualr.edu>

Editor (European & Continental submissions) Jock Young Centre for Criminology, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield, EN3 4SF United Kingdom. <j.young@mdx.ac.uk>

Book Review Editors:

John Fuller (North America) Dept of Soc, Anthro & Crim, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118 <jfuller@westga.edu>

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Jayne Mooney (Europe) School of Social Science, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield EN3 4SF United Kingdom <j.mooney@mdx.ac.uk>

If you would like to be added to our reviewer database, please email or send a letter to the appropriate editor. Be sure to include contact information, your areas of specialization and if there is a website/URL that contains more information about you.

Brain McLean will be putting together a special theme edition on Criminology, Employment, and Social Justice. Please contact Brain, <bdspm@aol.com>

Call For Essays

The Death Penalty

Peace Review

Winter 2001: Volume 13, number 4

Special Editors: Connie de la Vega and Steven Shatz,

University of San Francisco Law School

Deadline for Submissions

July 9, 2001

Peace Review invites the submission of essays on the death penalty for its Fall 2001 issue. The issue will focus on the death penalty in the international context. At present, although a majority of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes, a substantial number of countries, including the world’s most populous continue to employ the death penalty. This profound split endangers an ongoing debate concerning the morality, utility and fairness of the death penalty. Essays will be accepted from various disciplines and may be academic, descriptive or prescriptive in style. Submissions should include a short biography of the writer and the writer’s postal and E-mail addresses.

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Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research and analysis, focusing on the current issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world. We define peace research to include human rights, development, ecology, culture, race, gender and related issues. We present the results of this research and thinking in short (2500-3500 words), accessible and substantive essays.

Please send for Peace Review’s Writer’s Guidelines by emailing watkinsr@usfca.edu. or by calling (415) 422-2910.

Send essay submissions by email attachment to: watkinsr@usfca.edu. Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts and disks can be sent to Robert Elias, Peace Review, Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco CA 94117, USA. Tel: 415-422-6349/2910. Fax: 415-422-5671, or 415-388-2631, Attn. Elias. Email: Eliasr@usfca.edu.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

***Robert J. Goldstein. Political Repression in Modern America From 1870 to 1976.

University of Illinois Press. 712pp. $24.95 ISBN 0-252-06964-1

Robert Justin Goldstein’s Political Repression in Modern America provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state.

A history of the dark side of the “land of the free,” Goldstein’s book covers both famous and little known examples of governmental repression, including reactions to the early labor movement, the Haymarket affair, “little red scares” in 1908, 1935, and 1938-41, the repression of opposition to World War I, the 1919 “great red scare,” the McCathy period, and post-World War II abuses of the intelligence agencies.

Enhanced with a new introduction and an updated bibliography, Political Repression in Modern America remains an essential record of the relentless intolerance that suppresses radical dissent in the United States.

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***Sonia Kruks. Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in

Feminist Politics Ithaca: Cornell University Press 224pp. $16.95 paper

ISBN 0-8014-8417-0

In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yields important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory-a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.

Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and “lived” experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers-including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty-and her own analysis inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women.

***Terrell Carver The Postmodern Marx Penn State University Press. 2000. 240pp $17.95

In the wake of Communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe, one of today’s foremost interpreters of Marx’s text and ideas offers postmodern readings of canonical texts to discover what Marx has to say to our postmodern condition. Terrell Carver takes advantage of the ideological release of Marxism from its association with Soviet Communism to explore how Marx’s writings can be reread in the spirit in which they were written: as a critique of capitalist society.

***Terrell Carver and Manfred B. Steger, Eds. Engels After Marx. Penn State

University Press 2000. 310 pp. $18.95

Engels After Marx is an impressive work of scholarship. It brings Engels out from under the shadow of Marx and treats him as a thinker and activist in his own right. The host of perspectives offered in this volume examines the range of Engels’s influence, his achievements, his mistakes, and his legacy for progressive theory and practice. The editors have indeed made a genuine contribution to our understanding of a crucial figure in the history of modernity.

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