Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September Ana Garcia (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society): The rise of BRICS and chances for an alliance from below PANELS 1. Community Economic Development in a Neoliberal Era Friday, 9:00. Room 108. Chair: Andrew Fischer (Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands). • John Loxley (University of Manitoba, Canada): The Manitoba Research Alliance: Community Research and Social Change • Lynne Fernandez (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba, Canada): How Manitoba Social Enterprises Create Decent Jobs • Shauna MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg, Canada): Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market 2. World Food System Friday, 9:00. Room 111. Chair: Ravi Bhandari (University of California, USA) • Manoj Misra (University of Alberta, Canada): Capitalist Agro-Food Regime • Craig Harris (Michigan State University, USA): One hundred years of the geopolitics of seafood • Nathan Clarke (Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA): Political Ecology at the End of a Global Supply Chain 3. Indigenous Struggles in Canada Friday, 9:00. Room 114. Chair: Paulo Drinot (University College London, Institute of the Americas, UK) • Jennifer Keith (University of Manitoba, Canada): State Forms of Writing: The More We Change the More We Stay the Same • Peter Kulchyski (University of Manitoba, Canada): Indigenous emergence: reflections on the historical development of politicized indigenous agents • Ryan Duplassie (University of Manitoba, Canada): Grassy Narrows vs the Crown 4. Itoh on Picketty Friday, 11:00. Room 202. Chair: Alan Nasser (Evergreen College, USA) • Makoto Itoh (Tokyo University, Japan): Political Economy of Disparities Re-expanded – Comments on Capital in the Twenty-First Century – • Discussants: o Robert Chernomas (University of Manitoba, Canada) o Erik Thomson (University of Manitoba, Canada) o Mara Fridell (University of Manitoba, Canada) 5. Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space I Friday, 11:00. Chapel. Chair: Greg Blue (University of Victoria, Canada) • Halyna Mokrushyna (University of Ottawa, Canada): Dehumanizing the Other • Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute for Globalization and Social Movements Moscow, Russia): Europe, NATO and Russia in the Ukraine Conflict 6. Patrimonial Capitalism Friday, 14:00. Room 114. Chair: Shoko Chuma (Kokugakuin University, Japan) • M. Bhuiyan (University of Manitoba, Canada): Unorganized Labour and Capitalist Control over Social Programming in the Least Developed Nations • Ella Rockar (University of Manitoba, Canada): Descamisados y Piqueteros: The Impact of the Labour Movement on the Argentine Welfare State. • K. Griffin (University of Manitoba, Canada): Neoliberalism and The People’s Home: The Erosion of Social Citizenship in Welfare Policy • Mara Fridell (University of Manitoba, Canada): The Indispensable Socialist Backbone v. Patrimonial Capitalism 7. Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space II Friday, 14:00. Chapel. Chair: Sabah Alnasseri (York University, Canada) • Roger Annis (Independent Researcher and Journalist, Canada) : Class and nation in Ukraine • Anna Klimina (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): De-oligarchization in post-soviet transition through the lens of heterodox economics: the tale of Russia and Ukraine 8. Geopolitical Economy of ICT Friday, 14:00. Room 202. Chair: Alan Freeman (GERG, Canada) • Ben Klass (Carleton University, Canada): Gift Horse or Trojan Horse? Facebook’s efforts to control the Internet in the Global South • Winseck (Carleton University, Canada): Return of the State @ the Heart of “New Internet-centric Media Order”: Towards a Critical Geopolitical Economy of World Communication • Bradley Fidler (UCLA, USA): Discussant 9. Insurgency and Imperialism Friday, 14:00. Room 204. Chair: Binoy Kampmark (RMIT University, Australia) • Ryan Toews (York University, Canada): Pacification, Colonial Lineages and the New Counterinsurgency • Greg Blue (University of Victoria, Canada): An Open Sore: ‘Migrated files’ and the unfinished history of decolonization. 10. Creative and Cultural Industries I Friday, 16:00. Room 202. Chair: Ellen Russell (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) • Mohammed Elmi (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Information and Communication Technologies and the Stabilization of a State • Hulya Arik (York University, Canada): The Revival of Islamic Visual Artscapes: A Comparative Approach to Islamic Art and Identities in Turkey and Canada • Alan Freeman (GERG, Canada): Discussant 11. Quality of Life Friday, 16:00. Room 206. Chair: Ruth Rempel (University of Winnipeg, Canada) • Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster, UK ): Contemporary Neoliberal Dehumanization.doc • Carlos Gallegos-Anda (UNDP, Ecuador): Development in Ecuador: the bifurcation of modernity and good living. • Olabanji Akinola (Guelph University, Canada): Understanding the Pains of a Sapped Generation • Grace Oshinfowokan (National Institute of Policy Research, Nigeria): The International Sea Bed Authority And The Common Heritage Of Mankind 12. Transforming Locally in a Multi-Polar World Friday, 16:00. Room 201. Chair: Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria, Canada) • Andrew Woolford (University of Manitoba, Canada): One Cold City: Care And Control In Inner City Winnipeg • Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land (University of Winnipeg, Canada): Good Intentions, Bad Results? The Settler Colonial Dynamics of Crime Prevention Policy in Manitoba • James Gacek ( University of Manitoba, Canada): Carceral Spaces and Indigenous Masculinity: Narratives from Former Inmates • Trine Öland (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Universalism and the Danish welfare nation-state’s boundary work 13. US Hegemony Friday, 16:00. Room 108. Chair: Paul Kellogg (Athabasca University, Canada) • Bradley Mayer (Independent Researcher, USA): The Hegemon That Failed • James Parisot (Binghamton University, USA): In and Against: American Empire Revisited: New Directions in the Capitalist World Order • Richard Westra (Nagoya Univeristy, Japan): China: A Parallax View 14. States and Classes Friday, 16:00. Room 204. Chair: Megan Pickup (Carleton University, Canada) • Bonn Juego (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland): Political Economy and Elite Interests in Asian Capitalisms • Rubens Sawaya (Pontifica Universidade Catolica de Sao Paolo, Brazil): State, Nation and Transnational Capital • Oldrich Krpec (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Czechoslovak Trade Policy after First World War (1918-1929) 15. Terror, Information and State Secrecy Saturday, 10:45. Room 108. Chair: Oldrich Krpec, Masaryk University) • Paul Zarembka (State University of New York, USA): ‘A Challenge for Geopolitical Economy: SBinoy Kampmark (RMIT University, Australia): The Transparency Movement in Geopolitical Economy: WikiLeaks, Economic Diplomacy and the Redistribution of Power 16. Labour in Multipolarity I Saturday, 10:45. Room 114. Chair: Mara Fridell (University of Manitoba, Canada) • Shoko Chuma (Kokugakuin University, Japan): Contemporary significance of unequal exchange of labour • Matthew Dufour (City University of New York, USA) + Ellen Russell (Wilfred Laurier University, Canada): Worker Bargaining Power in Multipolar Context: The Canadian Experience of Wage Stagnation • Intan Suwandi (University of Oregon, USA): Back to Production: An Analysis of the Imperialist Global Economy 17. Keynes and Money Saturday, 10:45. Room 204. Chair: Makoto Itoh (Tokyo University, Japan) • Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba, Canada): Public Engagement and Intellectual Transformation: British Decline in Keynes’s Opposition to the Gold Standard • Richard eptember 11th and Conspiracy Theory’. • Westra (Nagoya University, Japan) : Idle Money and the Merchant of Venice Economy it Begat • Tanweer Akram (Voya Investment Management, USA): Japan’s Liquidity Trap 18. Land and Food Saturday, 10:45. Room 206. Chair: Craig Harris (Michigan State University) • Arindam Banerjee (University of Delhi, India): Understanding Geopolitics Through Food Security • Guljahan Kurbanova (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome): Coordination of the Eurasian Regional Cooperation on Food Security and Agriculture • Ravi Bhandari (St Mary’s University, USA): Neglected Structural and Macroeconomic Constraints in Progressive Land Reform: The Case of Nepal 19. Taxing Rent I Saturday, 10:45. Room 201. Chair: Erik Thomson (University of Manitoba, Canada) • Francis Peddle (Dominican College, Ottawa, Canada): Report of the Assessment and Taxation Commission, Manitoba, 1919: The Fate of Henry George in Canada • Mason Gaffney (University of California, USA): Western Canada’s Magnetic Tax Systems and their Object Lessons, 1890-1940 • Stephen Barton (City of Berkeley USA): Berkeley Mayor J. Stitt Wilson’s 1911 Synthesis of Socialism, Georgism and Feminism • Alexandra Lough (Henry George Birthplace, UK): Land Reform, Socialism, and the Single Tax in the British Isles 20. Imperialism, Racism and War of Terror Saturday, 13:30. Room 111. Chair: Jorge Nallim (University of Manitoba, Canada) • Sabah Alnasseri (York University, Canada): Imperialism and State violence • Jeremy Kowalski (Wilfred Laurier University, Canada): Terrorism 21. Labour in Multipolarity II Saturday, 13:30. Room 206. Chair: Bradley Mayer (Independent Researcher, USA) • Ana Garcia (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): The rise of BRICS and chances for an alliance from below • Judith Marshall (York University, Canada): Strikes, Bread Riots and Blockades: Mozambican Workers and Communities in Resistance • Julie Guard (University of Manitoba, Canada) + Mercedes Steedman (Laurentian University, Canada): The Vale Strike: Union and Community Confront Global Capital 22. Revolution, Gender, Culture Saturday, 13:30. Room 204. Chair: Johanna Brenner (Portland State University, USA) • Jorge Nallim (University of Manitoba, Canada): The World Crisis and Argentine Cultural Circles, 1930s-early 1940s • Patricia Harms (Brandon University, Canada): Dictating Feminisms: Jorge Ubico, the Great Depression and Gender in Guatemala City, 1930-1944 • James Handy (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) : Discussant 23. Contemporary Capitalism Saturday, 13:30. Room 108. Chair: Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) • Paul Kellogg (Athabasca University, Canada): Panic Capitalism: Reframing Neoliberalism in the Context of Multipolarity • Alan Nasser (Evergreen College, USA): The Unacknowledged Stage of Capitalist Development: the Obsolescence of Net Investment and the Emergence of the Age of Wage-Driven Economies 24. Taxing Rent II Saturday, 13:30. Room 201. Chair: Shauna MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg) • Mary Rawson (Civic Activist, Vancouver, Canada): Eight Times Mayor Of Vancouver ‘Single Tax’ Taylor: Louis Denison Taylor – 1857-1946 • Robert Williams (Vancity Credit Union, Canada): Civic Revenues and Business District Rents • Ted Gwartney (BC Assessment Authority, Canada): Assessment reforms in B.C. under the NDP. 25. Intellectual History I Sunday, 10:45. Room 204. Chair: Erik Thomson (University of Manitoba, Canada) • Ruth Rempel (University of Winnipeg, Canada): States, Trade, Progress and Stability: The “Thirty Years’ Crisis” and Emerging Theories of Economic Development • Andrew Fischer (Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands): Rethinking the dialectic of developmentalism and dependency within the evolution of hierarchical multi-polarity 26. Indigenous Economies and Economics Sunday, 10:45. Room 114. Chair: Ian Hudson (University of Manitoba, Canada) • James Arruda (York University Canada): A Work in Progress • Jacqueline Romanow (University of Winnipeg, Canada) ) + Hugh Grant (University of Winnipeg, Canada): White Buffalo, Cash Cow, or White Elephant • Emily Eaton (University of Regina, Canada) : Beyond social democratic and neoliberal moments of colonial extraction in Saskatchewan: a case for renewable, reciprocal and anti-colonial economies 27. Creative and Cultural Industries II Sunday, 10:45. Room 108. Chair: Dwayne Winseck (Carleton University, Canada) • Julio Moraes (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Creative Economics 3g: Technology, Brics And The New Shape Of Creativity • Sergio Ordoñez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico): Knowledge Capitalism, Globalization And Hegemony: Towards A Socio-Spatial Approach • Alan Freeman (GERG, Canada): Combined Development, Scientific and Creative Labour, and the Modern Developmental State • Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria, Canada): Discussant 28. Foreign Policies Sunday, 13:30. Room 204. Chair: Bonn Juego (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) • Petar Kurecic (University North, Croatia): Small European States and Euro-Atlantic integration: Different Paths to Security and Influence • Rodrigo Lima (Sao Paulo State University, Brazil): Ways of Development : Rethinking Modernization Role in Brazilian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century • Megan Pickup (Carleton University, Canada): Foreign Policy of the New Left: Explaining Brazil’s Southern Partnerships in a Changing World Order 29. Economics as Intellectual Cleansing Sunday, 13:30. Room 201. Chair: Greg Blue (University of Victoria) • Ian Hudson (University of Manitoba, Canada): On the 21st Century Vision of a Cleansed Mainstream Economics. • Robert Chernomas (University of Manitoba, Canada): On the Cleansing of Economics. • Mark Gabbert (University of Manitoba, Canada): The Thirty Years’ Crisis, Intellectual Cleansing, and Academic Freedom 30. Indigenous Movements Sunday, 13:30. Room 114. Chair: Paul Kellogg (Athabasca University, Canada) • Kathleen Buddle (University of Manitoba, Canada): The international roots of the indigenous nationalist movement in Canada • Todd Scarth (University of Manitoba, Canada): Indigenism in Context 31. Intellectual History II Sunday, 13:30. Room 108. Chair: Kari Polanyi-Levitt (Polanyi Institute, Canada) • Gordon Holmes (Mongolia International University, Mongolia): Imperial Political Economy of the Interwar Period • Erik Thomson (University of Manitoba, Canada: The Thirty Years War and Thirty Years Crisis http://gergconference.ca/programme/  Back