[ASA_PEWS] Fwd: Can you please post to the PEWS and IROWS list servs?

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

*below and attached*

*Towards a New World Order? The US, China, and the Rise of the Far Right*

*A Conference Organized by the Sociology Department, Binghamton University,*

*Binghamton, NY*

*October 21-23, 2022*



The world-economy is being fundamentally transformed. After the financial
crisis of 2008, the Chinese economy has grown dramatically—by some measures
it has already surpassed the United States—and Beijing is now flexing its
military and political muscle. In February 2022, almost 50 years to the day
since President Richard Nixon visited the Forbidden City, President
Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jingping signed a pact signaling their
resolve to oppose President Joseph Biden’s faltering efforts to revive Cold
War alliances. With the collapse and/or transformation of socialist states
and social democratic parties, anger and resentment against increasing
class and status inequalities has led to the rise of authoritarian and
violent populists like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Rodrigo Duterte in the
Philippines, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India, Viktor
Orbán in Hungary, and Donald Trump in the United States and to Brexit. The
rise of these new nationalisms and new right movements threaten democratic
norms and had led, in the U.S., to attempts to disenfranchise African
Americans in many states, and violence against migrants and minorities has
also been manifested elsewhere. At the same time, powerful opposition
movements—from new trade unions to anti-black racism insurgences like Black
Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, through land and farmer movements from
India to Zimbabwe, to shack dweller uprisings worldwide—have also with
varying degrees of success challenged the new right and state power. In
short: the contours, faultlines, and struggles marking the path towards a
new global order are increasingly evident.



This conference brings together scholars to address these major
contemporary issues:



1. *The Rise of China and its implications for a new world order*: The
growth of China and its increasing investments in Africa and Latin America
and its creation of new

international financial institutions—the New Development Bank, Asia
Infrastructure

Investment Bank, the China Silk Road Fund—provides the nucleus for a new
financial

infrastructure to challenge the institutions dominated by the Atlantic
Alliance. The proxy war between Russia and NATO has also initiated elements
for an alternate international financial structure that may challenge the
dominance of the dollar.



2. *A New Fascism? *The rise of the new right across the world also signals
a political transformation thatmobilizes anger and resentment against
deepening inequalities and channels these sentiments against ethnic
minorities, migrants, and liberal elites. The demand for a return to a
mythical past—"Make America Great Again” (Trump), “France for the French”
(Le Pen and the National Front), “Take Back Control” (Brexit), “Our
Culture, Our Home, Our Germany.” (Alternative for Germany), “Pure Poland,
White Poland” (Poland’s Law and Justice Party), “Keep Sweden Swedish”
(Swedish Democrats), Hindu nationalism in India, Amhara nationalism in
Ethiopia, Islamic nationalism in West Asia—is distinctive because the base
of these movements have been mobilized by its leaders, who in turn are
supported by, and are supportive of, big capital. These movements challenge
existing structures of government often by furthering the oppression of
marginalized populations.



3. *Radical responses: *The disruption of the Atlantic world order has been
equally accompanied by new movements that challenge the new right and
repressive state power, most notably by rising racial, ethnic, and gender
movements. Rising inequality, precarity, and the power of Northern, white,
and male elites has led to new calls that challenge long-existing
structures of oppression and marginalization. These range from
community-based movements to protect the environment and state-sponsored
corporate segregation in housing and anti-Black, anti-Muslim, and
anti-Asian racism in Europe and North America, through the decolonization
of the state and\nationalist histories across the Global South, to the
burgeoning worldwide movements to end police and domestic violence. The
disciplining of labor through pressures on social reproduction has also
been challenged by new waves of labor mobilizations.



Please send abstracts of 100-200 words by *August 10* to
sociology at binghamton.edu ; please address inquiries to palat at binghamton.edu
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CFP Conference on Towards a New World Order, Binghamton University, October 21-23, 2022.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 16508 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/asa_pews/attachments/20220525/e016e2c3/attachment-0001.docx>