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Agenda | Participants & Papers
Globalization in the World-System: Mapping Change Over Time
University of
California, Riverside, CA
February 7-8, 2004
Organizers
Richard Appelbaum, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Helen
Couclelis
Sponsors
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences at the
University of California, Santa Barbara,
and at The University of California, Riverside: Office of
the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Chancellor,
Institute for Research on World-Systems, and Program on Global
Studies
Purpose
This workshop will bring together about thirty scholars with
a substantive or methodological interest in the study of global-scale
socioeconomic processes across time and space. The group will
be composed of empirically oriented scholars of global social
processes and several experts on geographic information science
and network analysis. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage
participants to develop ideas for research projects on the
structure and dynamics of globalization using new research
technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
spatial analysis methods (including network analysis), and
sources of geographic information not usually employed by
globalization researchers. Geologists, climatologists and
other earth scientists have long used GIS and related methods
along with geocoded data at the global scale, but social-science
work on globalization phenomena that explicitly utilizes such
methods is still quite rare. This workshop will bring researchers
together to help generate ideas for new globalization research
projects that make use of GIS methods, spatial analysis including
formal network analysis, and scientific visualization techniques
such as “time-mapping.”
Particularly relevant to the objectives of the workshop are
worldwide studies of evolving social processes, and projects
that explicitly compare recent global processes with those
that have operated in the past. We are also interested in
mapping and more generally, graphically representing the spatial
scale and intensity of human interaction networks in order
to study the emergence of global integration and its cross-temporal
characteristics. We hope that new research projects that use
novel methods developed in geographic information science
will eventually emerge from the workshop.
The program will open with a keynote address by Michael Goodchild
of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences at
UC Santa Barbara, and will consist of five topical sessions
built around 15-minute paper presentations. Each topical session
will have two discussants, one familiar with geographic information
science concepts and methods and the other an expert on the
substantive theme of each session. There will also be a final
session for brainstorming about possible research projects
that capitalize on new ways to study globalization using GIS
and related spatial analysis techniques.
The workshop’s five topical sessions will be on:
- Commodity Chains and Labor in the World Economy
- Global Business Networks
- Global City Systems
- Hegemony and Power Configurations in Interstate Systems
- Global Transportation and Communications Networks
For more in depth information go to
the Time-mapping
Globalization in the World-System Website
at The Institute for Research on World-Systems
(IROWS)
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