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Os professores da UFRGS, Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca (ex-diretor do Centro Celso Furtado), André Moreira Cunha, Julimar Bichara, Ricardo Dathein coordenarão a miniconferência “Socioeconomic and Political Transformations in Ibero-America: Where Are We Heading?” no encontro da SASE - SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS, que será realizada em Nova York de 27 a 29 de junho de 2019. Serão 3 mesas e em cada uma delas eles selecionarão 3 ou 4 trabalhos para serem apresentados.
O tema geral é Ibero-America, trabalhos específicos sobre países latino-americanos, além de Portugal e Espanha. As submissões de propostas de apresentação deverão ter até 1000 palavras e devem ser envidadas até 14 de janeiro de 2019. Os trabalhos completos (pelo menos em uma primeira versão) deverão ser enviados até 06 de maio de 2019. As propostas e os trabalhos podem ser enviados a qualquer um dos organizadores da miniconferência até essas datas e podem ser em inglês ou espanhol.
André Moreira Cunha - amcunha@hotmail.com
Julimar Bichara - julimar.dasilva@uam.es
Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca - pedro.fonseca@ufrgs.br
Ricardo Dathein - rdathein@terra.com.br
Para maiores informações e detalhes sobre a temática veja: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/
Socio-Economic and Political Transformations in Ibero-America: Where Are We Heading?
Iberian-American countries’ emerging landscape reveals new socio-economic trend and political transformations. Following the economic growth with income distribution and poverty reduction period that characterized in the initial years of the millennium, the Great Recession of 2008 forced most countries in the region into adopting economy austerity measures. Also, a new international economic scenario, with a growing economic protectionism trend, led these countries into an economic, political and social uncertainty.
Thus, the initial economic boom in the first decade of the 21st century have not reduced their structural imbalances and institutional deficiencies. As a result, today’s shortcomings are bringing to surface socio-economic, institutional and political deficiencies, which, in turn, is allowing a view questioning the structural economic transformations and even democracy itself.
At the same time, all those challenges have emerged in the context of change in the information and communication technologies (ICT) and in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). These factors are beginning to have significant effects in all areas of social organizations -such as, production processes, labor-market relations – as well as affecting economic policies determination, the working of institutions and the state itself. Additionally, they are even putting democracy as a reliable political system at risk.
Although it seems clear that Iberian-America countries are undergoing a process of transformation in all the spheres that constitute and regulate socio-economic relations, its main trends are not, at least so far. On the contrary, there is a great uncertainty. This mini conference, within the SASE`s 31st Annual Meeting call for paper, has, therefore, means to explore possible explanations and, consequently, offering responses to these economic, political and technological challenges that are taking place in the Iberian-American countries.
Particularly, the proposals of this Mini Conference is a call for papers that will deal with the following questions:
- What are the main economic-social-political transformations that the region is facing? What are the main forces behind these transformations?
- Are the existing institutions capable to offer responses to these transformations?
- What role should the State assume?
- What is the role of ICT and AI?
- What are the implications for democracy and socioeconomic policies?
- What kind of State capabilities are required in order to implement an alternative development model?
- What is the potential and limits to civil society’s role in ensuring democracy and promoting economic development?