| Quarterly Newsletter N° 13 | January - March 2008 |
PEKEA NEWSLETTER
IN THIS ISSUE (click on a heading to jump to that section) :
1- Editorial by Yves Franchet, President of PEKEA
2- PEKEA Activities’schedule in 2008
3- World Social Forum- a Process in Construction, by Chico Whitaker
4 - Conferences, Publications, Web sites
1- Editorial by Yves Franchet, President of PEKEA
It is my pleasure for the first time as President of PEKEA to wish you and your families all the best for this New Year. I also hope that PEKEA will remain a place of communication and dialogue which will contribute to strengthen and specify our shared vision.
During 2007, PEKEA has analysed the conclusions of the DAKAR conference. A publication will be issued in 2008 which will summarize the four years of reflexion of our Association as well as the conclusions of this conference. Progress has also been achieved in the project about « local indicators on social progress », which may lead to an extension of this project.
Our vision for the next few years remains unchanged, to gather under the same banner, with a non exclusive, soft and pluralistic approach, individuals and associations who share our opposition to the financial ultra-liberalism, and our radical criticism of the prevalent economic paradigm.
Our level of activity in 2008 will be a function of our capacity to mobilise resources. In this respect, allow me to remind you that PEKEA does not benefit from permanent and significant financial support, and that your support can also consist of paying your membership fees, which we have fixed at a very reasonable level.
We have decided to postpone to 2009 the conference which we organise with UNITAR in GENEVA, and I wish to tell you today how much your participation to the preparation of this conference during 2008 is a key to its success. From your contributions will come out the priority research projects for PEKEA during the next years.
We are also actively looking for a partnership which would enable us to expand the project on local indicators of social progress, start this project in several regions of the South, and strengthen the theoretical basis for the selection of these indicators with the participation of all partners implied in the local social life.
Finally, we will start in 2008 a reflexion on the production of an « alternative »world report, describing how the real economy is working as it can be seen from case studies all over the world. Here again, your contributions will be crucial, and we will contact you as the project becomes a reality.
All the best for 2008
Yves Franchet
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2- PEKEA Activities’schedule in 2008
My dear friends,
The PEKEA schedule in 2008 is becoming clear.
The bureau, the CA and the local team in Rennes have a difficult but stimulating task to launch the next step of PEKEA and they are making progress but cautiously. Following indications given by our President, I try to implement the programme according to the schedule below.
Definitely, the on-going project to extend partnerships with Local Governments seems a sound track to follow with the objective to design, through this cooperation, alternative indicators of wealth, namely Localised Societal Indicators of Well-Being. Thus, a conference will be organised at the end of this year 2008 on this theme. The conference organiser is Michel Renault (michel.renault@univ-rennes2.fr).
The project to draw a synthesis from our previous conferences is in the making; we hope to get from the work in progress a more elaborate draft for our themes of references, a kind of PEKEA Consensus; this will allow us to complement the one we already have put in the preliminary call (see Click here) for the world conference we will organise with UNITAR and that we had to postpone to 2009.
However we can meet altogether in joining the Polanyi Conference that will take place in Montréal from 4th to 7th December 2008. When we were in the ECLAC premises, for the launching conference of PEKEA in Santiago de Chile in 2002, the ECLAC executive secretary at the time, opening our conference and supporting the PEKEA project, José Antonio Ocampo, drew the attention of the audience to the fantastic valuable work from Karl Polanyi. Ms Marguerite Mendell, member of our Board and Chair of Karl Polanyi Institute is in charge of this conference. We will get details about this conference very soon.
Before that we will have an Electronic General Assembly in early July 2008 to take any disposition following the meeting of our Board. You will be informed in due course.
Sooner we will try to launch the writing of a world report on the wide diffusion of alternative ways of economic activities: everywhere in the world economic activities are performed in a Political and Ethical way, in a PEKEA way. We would like to present a wide array of them, from as many countries as possible and for as many different activities as possible. You are already invited to send a one-page proposal with details of a case you would like to be put in the Report. I am personally involved in this project with Theotonio Dos Santos. Thus you may send me your proposal at my email address marc.humbert@univ-rennes1.fr.
With my best wihes
Marc Humbert
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3- World Social Forum- a Process in Construction, by Chico Whitaker
A Global Day of Action in 2008 [Click here]
In January 26th 2008 takes place a new experiment in the World Social Forum process: the Global Day of Action (GDA), with free activities, all over the world, self organized by WSF participants, in all levels, places and themes of the struggle to overcome neoliberalism (the whole can be seen in wsf2008.net). That is to say, this year the WSF is absolutely decentralized, instead of one Forum somewhere in the world, as in Porto Alegre (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005), Mumbai (2004) and Nairobi (2007), or three nearly simultaneous Forums as in Bamako, Caracas and Karachi in 2006.
Extract from :
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM – A PROCESS IN CONSTRUCTION
by Chico Whitaker, WSF committee, Saõ Paulo, Brazil
Download the full text in English: Click here
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4 - Conferences, Publications, Web sites
Conferences and call of participation
The PEKEA working group « NURR- New Urban-Rural Relationships » organises on the 6-7-8 November 2008 , at University Rennes 2, France , its 2nd International Conference on the theme « *Participatory Agriculture - Why, How, Up to Where ?* –» . The full call for proposals may be found in our website: Click here.Contributions of researchers from all human and social sciences are expected in French, English and Japanese. Four themes will be dealt with : /1) City-Countryside interactions, // 2) New trends in fair-bio- multifunctionnality production, exchange and consumption, 3) Education of taste and dietary balance, 4) Dynamics and local cultures.
* Deadline 15 April 2008 for your proposition in an attached file to be sent to the following mail address : Hiroko Amemiya : villecampagnebj@yahoo.fr
The Department of Economics at Drew University Presents The Revival of Political Economy An all-day conference with distinguished scholars in Political Economy Saturday February 9, 2008 , Hall of Sciences, Drew University, Madison, USA .
Conference Webpage: http://depts.drew.edu/econ/RPE/ or click here Click here
Le Forum des Economistes Marocains organisera les 9 et 10 mai 2008 à Tanger, Maroc, ses troisièmes journées scientifiques internationales sous le thème : « Politiques économiques et performance globale de l'économie »
Les résumés des propositions de communication sont à transmettre au plus tard le 12/02 à benannizakaria@gmail.com et fem.synergie@gmail.com. Pour de plus amples informations sur l’appel à contribution, merci de contacter Mr Benanni Zakaria (benannizakaria@gmail.com) ou de cliquer ici Click here
Call for papers. A conference on the theme « Social and Solidarity Economy : new paractices and territorial dynamices » is organised by University of Nantes and the Network of researchers in social economy in West France, with a partnership from DIIESES (Délégation interministérielle à l’innovation, à l’expérimentation sociale et à l’économie sociale) and the Region « Pays de la Loire », on the 29 and 30 Septembre 2008. This conference will take place at Institut d’Economie et de Management de Nantes – IAE (University of Nantes).
Call for papers in French and in English and all information Click here
Contacts : Isabelle.courcoul@univ-nantes.fr Click here; Nathalie.Schieb-Bienfait@univ-nantes.fr Click here; henry.nogues@univ-nantes.fr Click here
Publications and Newsletters
La Revista Nueva Sociedad . Democracia y Politica en America Latina es una revista en línea que trata de la gobernanza de la cuidad y de las evoluciones buscando a mejorar la calidad de vida de los cuidadanos. En la edición Nº 212 de Nueva Sociedad , Gobernar la ciudad , Fernando Carrión M., Benjamin Goldfrank, Lucía Dammert, Carlos A. de Mattos, Luiz C. Queiroz Ribeiro, Ian Thomson N., Adolfo Garcé, X. Andrade, Kazuo Nakano y Juan Villoro describen los cambios recientes en las ciudades latinoamericanas, analizan sus modelos de gestión y exploran distintas políticas y herramientas orientadas a mejorar la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. Esta revista en español esta libre de acceso y los artículos se pueden leer integralmente. Para saber mas clica aquí: Click here
L’Institut Européen de l’Economie Solidaire INEES issues every month a newsletter (French, English and German) addressing a specific topic about solidarity economy or/and sheding light on an actor or an event of the solidarity economy. The last issue, n° 11 December 2007 Well-being indexes for a responsible and solidary territory. You may access it byClick here ">Click here And to visit the website of l’INEES and all their documents Click here
Web Sites
_ Se les inviten a consultar la Enciclopedia y Biblioteca Virtual de www.eumed.net de las Ciencias Sociales, Económicas y Jurídicas . En este sitio web puede encontrar gratis y accesible libremente, el texto completo de diccionarios, libros, cursos, revistas, vídeos y presentaciones multimedia sobre Economía, Derecho y otras Ciencias Sociales. También podrá inscribirse en los Encuentros Internacionales en Internet que EUMED organiza cada mes. Para acceder, clica aquí: Click here
_ The Heterodox Economic Newsletter proposes in its webpage http://www.heterodoxnews.com the Heterodox Economics Calendar which gives all the dates of all the events registered inside. Check it out if you are looking to go to a conference at some particular time in the year or if you are planning a conference in the future. You can subscribe to this newsletter and inscribe your conference Click here
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| PEKEA President: Yves FRANCHET yves.franchet@wanadoo.fr Executive Secretary: Marc HUMBERT Marc.Humbert@univ-rennes1.fr Scientific VPdt : Theotonio DOS SANTOS theotoni@terra.com.br Treasurer: Danièle BENEZECH daniele.benezech@univ-rennes1.fr |
PEKEA Newsletter Chief editor : Robert Frouville |