2024 Global Political Economy Workshop
Organizer: Andrew Jorgenson, (andrew.jorgenson@ubc.ca; 672-968-1118)
Location: Room 2107, ANSO Building, UBC, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
(map showing ANSO location: https://www.maps.ubc.ca/?code=ANSO)
Wednesday, July 24
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Welcome and Introductions
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Session 1
Matthew Mahutga (University of California, Riverside) – “Global Value Chains and Mass Incarceration”
Min Zhou (University of Victoria) and Gang Wu (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China) – “Influences of Sociocultural Networks on the International Trade Network: Evidence from the Exponential Random Graph Model”
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Break (Walk to get Coffee at Great Dane)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Session 2
William Carroll (University of Victoria) – “Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Livable World”
Nicolas Viens (University of British Columbia) and Alexis Montambault-Trudelle (University of Edinburgh) – “De-Risking and the Infrastructural Entanglements of Decarbonization: Cases from Saudi Arabia and Québec”
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch at The Gallery Patio and Lounge, covered by Climate & Society Lab
2:00 – 3:30 PM: Session 3
Xiaorui Huang (Drexel University, via Zoom) et al. – “Working Time and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in High-Income Countries: A Multidimensional Study”
Orla Kelly (University College Dublin) and Ryan Thombs (Pennsylvania State University) – “The Relationship Between Unpaid Work and Carbon Emissions in the US Over Time”
Annika Rieger (Singapore Management University) – “Pathways to Corporate Carbon Pollution”
3:30 – 3:45 PM: Break
3:45 – 4:30: Group Discussion
4:30: Walk Down to Beach
6:30 PM: Group Dinner at Chi Restaurant (https://www.chiplantbased.com/; 1935 West 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1M7; optional and self-pay; take Uber in groups)
Thursday, July 25
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Session 4
Nicolas Graham (University of British Columbia) – “Constructing Green Growth: The Case of Canada”
Jared Fitzgerald (Oklahoma State University) – “Inequality and Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Longitudinal Analysis of Developing Countries, 2000-2018”
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Break (Walk to get Coffee at Great Dane)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Session 5
Hassan Eltinay (Boston College) – “Why is Palestine Still the Compass? Hegemonic Turbulence and the Palestinian Focal Point”
Anthony Roberts (Colorado State University) – “State-Sponsored Disinformation, Censorship, and Political Polarization in the 21st Century: A Comparative Study of Developed and Less-Developed Countries”
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch at The Gallery Patio and Lounge, covered by Climate & Society Lab
2:00 – 3:30 PM: Session 6
Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside) and Sakin Erin (University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma) – “The BRICS in the Global Political Economy: A Network Analysis”
Roshan Pandian (Southern Methodist University) – “Overstatement of GDP Growth in Autocracies and the Recent Decline in Global Inequality”
Jeffrey Kentor (Wayne State University) and Robert Clark (University of California, Riverside) – “FDI Network Centrality and Democracy”
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Break
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM: Group Discussion & Wrap Up
4:45 PM: Walk Down to Beach
Friday, July 26
11:00 AM – ??: Group Activity at Cypress Mountain. Hiking, food, and a mountain coaster.
Workshop Participants
Dylan Bugden (Washington State University)
William Carroll (University of Victoria)
Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside)
Robert Clark (University of California, Riverside)
Hassan Eltinay (Boston College)
Sakin Erin (University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
Jared Fitzgerald (Oklahoma State University)
Jennifer Givens (Utah State University)
Taekyeong Goh (University of British Columbia)
Nicolas Graham (University of British Columbia)
Xiaorui Huang (Drexel University)
Andrew Jorgenson (University of British Columbia)
Orla Kelly (University College Dublin)
Jeffrey Kentor (Wayne State University)
Matthew Mahutga (University of California, Riverside)
Roshan Pandian (Southern Methodist University)
Annika Rieger (Singapore Management University)
Anthony Roberts (Colorado State University)
Mark Shakespear (University of British Columbia)
Guy Stecklov (University of British Columbia)
David Tindall (University of British Columbia)
Ryan Thombs (Pennsylvania State University)
Nicolas Viens (University of British Columbia)
Min Zhou (University of Victoria)
