Información:
La XII Conferencia Internacional Karl Polanyi se realizará del 8 al 9 de noviembre de 2012, en la Universidad General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Los ponentes se concentrarán en la propuesta latinoamericana de optar por un desarrollo popular, nacional e independiente.

Twelfth International Karl Polanyi Conference
Karl Polanyi and Latin America

National University General Sarmiento Los Polvorines­Buenos Aires,
Argentina November 8­9, 2012
Co­Organized by the Conurbano Institute, National University General
Sarmiento, Argentina and the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political
Economy, Concordia University, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS
At the present time, can nations and peoples defend their sovereignty
and protect their societies from subordination to global capital and
dependence on economic and political centers?
In Latin America, in particular, there is evidence of encouraging signs:
a) National‐popular processes supported by new social movements that
question the neoliberal economic rationale and in some cases propose
new paradigms: socialism for the XXIst century, vivir bien/ buen
vivir, that give priority to guaranteeing the livelihood of all
citizens, respecting cultural diversity and harmony with nature.
b) Interstate forms of solidarity (UNASUR, CELAC)1 to resist North
American hegemony that increases the capacity for greater autarchy and
sovereignty to confront the economic, political, and cultural
domination of the neoliberal project and the continuous
commodification of all aspects of life.
c) The search for new frameworks of social and political thought,
particularly the so‐called “decoloniality” that converges with
important historical trends in the region. Others include the theology
and pedagogy of liberation, dependency theory, new variants of
socialism, the peasants’ movement, the worldview of indigenous
peoples, the contemporary feminist struggle against patriarchy and the
struggle for the rights of nature.
In Polanyi's terms, are these processes temporary responses to the
crisis of the world capitalist order, or true "counter‐movements"
that challenge neoconservative projects and the dominant neoliberal
paradigm? If so, can they lead to the re‐embedding of the economy
into more just and democratic societies? Can this be a historic
turning point that could spread to other societies that have
experienced capitalist development and now confront problems of their
own and of the planet, resulting in another “great transformation”,
or an "another globalization"? Is there a risk that the latent global
crisis will push democracy in Latin America and other regions of the
world towards new forms of fascism?