Call for
Papers
Deadline Extended
The Uneven
and Crisis-prone Development of Capitalism
The Tenth Forum of the World Association
for Political Economy
June 19-21,
2015, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Co-hosts: South African
National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences; University of KwaZulu-Natal Development Studies;
and political economists based at the Universities of the
Witwatersrand, of Cape Town,
of Johannesburg, and of Pretoria
Partner
organisations: Chris
Hani Institute (Congress of SA Trade Unions and SA
Communist Party); National Union
of Metalworkers of SA Institute; Economic Freedom
Fighters; Alternative Information and Development Centre;
International Labour Research and Information Group
The
Ninth Forum of the World Association for Political Economy
(WAPE) was successfully held in Hanoi, Vietnam,
on May 23-25, 2014.
About 200 participants from 22 countries attended. Over
100 papers or abstracts were submitted. David Kotz (US)
and Yuanpeng Hong (China)
were granted the Marxian Economics Award, and
eight professors from Canada,
China,
India,
Japan,
Korea,
the Netherlands
and South
Africa were granted
the Distinguished Achievement Award of World Political
Economy of the 21st Century. A Statement on “Growth,
Development and Social Justice” was released at the
closing ceremony of the forum.
The
Tenth WAPE Forum – “The Uneven and Crisis-prone
Development of Capitalism” – will be held in Johannesburg at the University of
the Witwatersrand on
June 19-21, 2015. South Africa
has several features that will make for a memorable,
influential conference:
· the rich legacy
of Marxian political-economic scholarship dates back more
than fifty years, with South Africa consistently amongst
the world’s most researched sites of capital accumulation
and class struggle;
· the society has
been ranked by the World Economic Forum as having the most
militant working class for the second year in a row, and
there are also thousands of community and social protests
recorded by police each year;
· in addition to
the heroic defeat of apartheid two decades ago, class
struggle by AIDS activists against multinational
pharmaceutical corporations led to provision of generic
(not branded) medicines to more than two million people
for free (they used to cost $15,000/person/year), and as a
result, a rise in life expectancy from 52 to 62 over the
past decade; and
· diverse
traditions of Marxism co-exist in South Africa, with a
Communist Party in alliance with the ruling African
National Congress (holding four ministerial positions in
the Cabinet), with another openly Marxist party in
parliament having won a million votes in the 2014
election, with the largest trade union advocating
revolutionary socialism, and with hundreds of other
Marxists in academia and research institutes advancing
strong criticisms of the state, capital and civil society.
The
thematic areas under discussion will include the
following:
· Global economic
and financial crises
· New monetary and
currency systems
· Development of
Marxian economic theory
· GDP distortions
and alternative measures of economic performance and
socio-economic progress
· Role of the
state and public ownership in economic and civic society
· Trade unions,
class struggles and the political economy of working
people
· Political
economy of climate change and the principle of ‘common but
differentiated responsibility’
· Ecological
crises
· The land
question
· Urbanisation
· Race, class and
gender
· Inequality’s
causes and antidotes
· Social policy
and socialist experiences
· BRICS and new
economic regionalisms
· The TransPacific
Partnership and ‘Free Trade’ agreements
· Decline of US
power?
· Sub-imperialisms
· China-Africa
relations
· The new scramble
for Africa
· The solidary
economic model for Ukraine
· The Resource
Curse and other colonial hangovers
How to apply
to attend the Tenth WAPE Forum
Please
register at www.wape2015.com with
your personal information and submit your full curriculum
vitae and a paper abstract of 500 words in English. Once
your abstract is accepted, please pay your registration
fee online. When your payment is confirmed, please submit
your full paper. You will then receive an official
invitation. You also have the option to apply to attend
the forum without a paper. Both individual papers and
complete panels on the theme and proposed topics are
welcome. If you have any inquiries, please contact wapemember@vip.163.com.
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Important dates
Deadline for abstract: March 31,
2015;
Notice of acceptance: April 10,
2015;
Deadline for full paper: May 10, 2015.
Full papers submitted after May 10, 2015 will not
be included in the conference proceedings.
•
All accepted papers will be considered for publication in
World Review of Political Economy (WRPE).
•
Registration fee
US$180 for online payment before April 30, 2015;
US$220 for online payment after April 30, 2015 or on-site
payment on June 18–21, 2015.
•
Official Language: English (interpretation
available for most events)
•
Schedule
1. On-site registration June 18-21, 2015.
2. WAPE Council meeting/WRPE Editorial meeting on June
18, 2015.
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What is the benefit of joining WAPE?
While
applying to attend the Ninth WAPE Forum, you have the
option to join WAPE. It is highly recommended that you
choose to join WAPE. Please find below the details on WAPE
membership.
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General Membership
WAPE
has decided to develop itself as a membership organization
in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, new
thought and research across the divide of language and
geography, and offer its members access to certain
benefits. These include:
•
Free digital copies of the organization’s peer reviewed
academic journal, World Review of Political
Economy (WRPE), which is published four times
a year.
•
Publishing of members’ selected articles on our websites.
•
Translation of selected books and articles into Chinese
and publishing them in China.
•
Invitations to attend a variety of conferences in China.
•
Scholars who are members may be invited to China on a lecture tour.
•
Members will be invited to join panels, which WAPE will
organize for various international conferences held in
different countries.
The
general membership fee of WAPE is only US$30 per year, and
the membership fee including a hard copy of WRPE
is US$100 per year. Membership taken out in 2014 has the
added benefit to members of receiving eight digital issues
of WRPE Volumes 4 and 5.
Marxian economists from all over the
world are welcome to attend the forum whether or not
they will present a paper. The WAPE Forums aim to
encourage cooperation among Marxian economists and to
enlarge and strengthen the influence of Marxian
economics in the world.
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WAPE. The World Association for Political
Economy, registered in Hong Kong, China,
is an international academic organization founded in 2006
by Marxian economists and related groups around the world.
The mission of WAPE is to utilize modern Marxian economics
to analyze and study the world economy, reveal its laws of
development, and offer policies to promote economic and
social progress on the national and global levels. The
last nine WAPE forums were successively held in Shanghai, Shimane (Japan), Beijing,
Paris, Suzhou (China), Amherst (USA), Mexico City (Mexico),
Florianópolis (Brazil)
and Hanoi (Vietnam) during 2006–14.
Participants in past WAPE forums have come from over 50
countries in Asia, Australia,
Africa, Europe, and North and South
America.
•
WRPE. The World Review of Political
Economy is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of
Marxian Political Economy sponsored by WAPE and published
by Pluto Journals. For more information including types of
submissions that will be considered, please go to http://wrpe.plutojournals.org/
and submit your articles to wrpejournal@gmail.com.
•
WAPE Awards. The Distinguished Achievement
Award of World Political Economy of the 21st Century,
established by WAPE, has been granted annually since 2009
to recognize an outstanding book or article in political
economy. It is intended to promote research in modern
political economy around the world by granting the award
to economists who have made important innovations in the
theory or methodology of political economy since the year
of 2001. The World Marxian Economics Award,
established by WAPE in 2011, is given to recognize an
outstanding lifetime record of achievement in political
economy. Its purpose is to promote the development of the
research of Marxist economics around the world by granting
the award to economists of different countries in the
world who have made important innovations in the
research of theories, methodology and application of
Marxian economics. The 2015 WAPE Awards will be granted at
the opening ceremony of the Ninth WAPE Forum. Nominations
and applications can be sent to wapemember@vip.163.com.
The WAPE
Secretariat
February 26, 2015
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