Social Movements and World-System Transformation

Jackie Smith is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Patrick Manning is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. John Markoff is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction: Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff, and Jackie Smith

Part 1) Disrupting Hegemonic Discourses & Modes of Thought






Janet Conway, Brock University, "The Study of Social Movements in the Modern-Colonial World System"

Joyce Dalsheim, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "Other Moral Orders: Epistemology & Resistance in Israel/Palestine"

*Dialogue –Jackie Smith

Part 2: World-Historical Perspectives on Emancipatory Struggles & Organizational Logics






Patrick Manning, "Linking Social Movement Networks, 1989 to 1992: Southeast Asia, Africa and South America"
Todd Wolfson, Rutgers University & Peter Funke, University of South Florida, "Contemporary Social Movements and Media: The Emergent Nomadic Political Logic and its Nervous System"



Rafal Soborski "Ideological Imbalance Post the Credit Crunch: Neoliberalism Versus the Politics of Resistance"

*Dialogue: -Patrick Manning

Part 3: Practices and Challenges in Contemporary Organizing across Diversity

6) Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut, "Exploring the Persistence of Gendered Geographies of Global Justice"

7) Lee Cormie, University of Toronto, "Religious Others and Global Social Justice Movements"

9) Jackie Smith and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum "Transnational Feminism and United Nations Global Conferences"

*Dialogue- John Markoff

Part 4: The Politics of Making Life Possible: Towards Buen Vivir?

10) Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland and Pratik Raghu, Westminster College, "Indigeneity Vs. ‘Civilization’: Indigenous Alternatives To The Planetary Rift In The World-System Ecology"

11) Peter (Jay) Smith "Spirituality and Global Capitalism – Contested Perspectives

*Dialogue- Michael Goodhart

Conclusion: Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning and John Markoff,
"Transforming the World-System? What Would Revolution Look Like?"