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Friday, November 22
H15 Friday, 2:15pm – 4:15pm LaSalle 1
Organizing Primitive Accumulation: State Power and Capitalist Development
in Historical Perspective
STATES AND SOCIETY, Labor, Macro-Historical Dynamics
Chairs: Kevan Harris, Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies)
Phillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University (Sociology)
Changing Agrarian Order in the Making of Chinese Capitalism, 1750-2000
Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)
Labor Between the Lines: Dispatch Workers and State Regulatory Politics in
Postcommunist China
Lu Zhang, Temple University (Sociology)
Dispossession as Hegemony: Class Politics and the Reproduction of Primitive
Accumulation in Colombia's Coffee and Banana Regions
Phillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University (Sociology)
Weber, Protestant Ethics, and the Hunger Regimes of Historical Capitalism:
Primitive Accumulation as Cultural Revolution
Farshad Araghi, Florida Atlantic University (Sociology)
Discussants: Kevan Harris, Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies)
Phillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University (Sociology)
H16 Friday, 2:15pm – 4:15pm LaSalle 2
Transitions to Modernity...and Empire?
STATES AND SOCIETY, Macro-Historical Dynamics, Politics
Chair: Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Technology (Social Sciences)
Towards a Class-Based Theory of Decolonization and Post-Colonial Development:
The Case of Indian Coffee House
Kristin Plys, Yale University (Sociology)
Empire, Corruption and State Formation
Nicholas Wilson, Yale University (Sociology)
Fighting for the Future: Imperial Fiscal Policy and the Origins of the American
Revolution
Justin DuRivage, Yale University (History)
The Whiskey Rebellion and American Empire
Isaac Reed, University of Colorado-Boulder (Sociology)
Discussant: Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Technology (Social Sciences)
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