[ASA_PEWS] Fwd: Call For Papers: Globalizing Political Economy (Conference at University of British Columbia in July, 2026)

Sat Aug 16 17:39:26 PDT 2025

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From: Jorgenson, Andrew <andrew.jorgenson at ubc.ca>
Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Call For Papers: Globalizing Political Economy (Conference at
University of British Columbia in July, 2026)

*Globalizing Political Economy:*

*Launching the Global Political Economy Network*

*University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada*

*July 21 – July 23, 2026*

With financial support from the World Society Foundation
<https://www.worldsociety.ch/> (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate &
Society Lab <https://www.climateandsocietylab.com/> at the University of
British Columbia (UBC), the newly formed Global Political Economy Network
(GPEN) is pleased to announce a conference to be held at UBC, from July 21
to July 23, 2026. The conference theme is *Globalizing Political Economy:
Launching the Global Political Economy Network*, and we invite paper
submissions that address this theme from various methodological and
theoretical approaches. The goal of this conference is to highlight the
Global Political Economy perspective on topics of current interest and
study by sociologists and other social scientists.

*What is Global Political Economy?*

*Political Economy* (PE) is the study of interrelationships between the
economy and polity. *International Political Economy* (IPE) shifts the
focus to the interrelations between *national *economies and polities. *Global
Political Economy* (GPE) encompasses both. Like PE, it concerns itself with
both economic and political outcomes and assumes these are mutually
constitutive and interact in space and time. Like IPE, it frequently shifts
its focus to macro-level phenomenon. What makes GPE distinctive is that its
unit of analysis is, first and foremost, the *global* economy and polity as
it varies structurally and historically. That is, if citizen’s economic and
political preferences are functions of their position in an economic system
(PE) and if states aggregate these interests (IPE), then historically and
structurally varying characteristics of the global economy and polity
impact these lower-level processes. Theoretically, GPE scholars are
agnostic, or at least heterogeneous, and draw flexibly from theories that
originated in industrial transformations in Europe and elsewhere.
Methodologically, GPE scholars are committed to the scientific method and
draw broadly from both quantitative and qualitative approaches that
encompass various units of observation, periods of time, and bases of
comparison. Because almost any social phenomenon is shaped at least in part
by the global economy and polity, GPE scholars are substantively diverse
but converge around common questions regarding such topics as development,
inequality, the climate crisis, population health, labor, migration, and
global governance.

*Conference Topics*

We welcome original research on all substantive topics that are examined
within a Global Political Economy framework.

*Submissions*

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the chair of the
conference organizing committee (andrew.jorgenson at ubc.ca) no later than
November 1, 2025. We will send out acceptance email notifications for
abstracts by December 15, 2025. Full drafts of papers should be submitted
by March 15, 2026. Notification of acceptance of full papers for the
conference will be announced via email no later than April 15, 2026.

*Conference Housing*

Lodging will be available on campus in walking distance to the conference
venue.

*Travel Support*

Financial support to help cover travel and lodging costs will be available
for presenters, with priority given to earlier career scholars and those
traveling internationally. If you would like to be considered for financial
support, please indicate this in your email when submitting your abstract.

*Publication Opportunities*

The organizers anticipate editing a special issue of the journal *Sociology
of Development* and publishing an edited volume with the World Society
Foundation consisting of papers from the conference.

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https://staticapp.icpsc.com/icp/resources/mogile/957088/36e881fe211f9b16b6a199f92745c3dc.jpeg]

[image: csl]

Andrew Jorgenson <https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/andrew-jorgenson/>

Professor

Department of Sociology

The University of British Columbia

Musqueam Traditional Territory

[image: CSL logo skinny] <http://www.climateandsocietylab.com/>

Research Fellow

Vilnius University

Coeditor, *Sociology of Development <https://online.ucpress.edu/socdev>*

-- 
chris chase-dunn   邓宇歌
institute for research on world-systems
university of california-riverside
riverside, ca 92521 USA
mailing address: 2007 mt vernon ave, riverside, ca 92507 usa
Consider using my textbook in your class:
_Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present_ Routledge
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