Theme: Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy and Justice. The 2018 annual SASE conference in Kyoto will serve as an occasion for existing SASE networks, as well as new groupings in the form of mini-conferences, to explore the ways in which the processes of reordering occurring...

The theme of the SASE 2008 meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyis The Great Transformation. Polanyi interprets the history of industrial society in the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of a pendulum-like "double movement." One side of that movement is toward free and flexible markets that...