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Conference Theme
We are especially interested in submissions that are closely related to the conference theme, "Perils and promises of globalization: difference, resistance, and possibility". Submissions that address this theme will be given priority on the program.

We especially encourage papers, panels, and posters on these topics:

Discourses and ideologies surrounding globalization and resistance

Experiences of people suffering from, resisting, and developing alternatives to globalization

Public sociologies, public intellectuals, and science studies

Spatialization, uneven development, and rurality

Impacts of globalization on labor conditions, workers, and communities

Particularities of resistance, local and global efforts, and their interconnections

Methodologies of participatory research, community engagement, and international organizing

Practices of global capitalism, outsourcing, flexible labor, and cost cutting

Effects of nationalism, borders, diasporas, and violence

Roles of culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in rural communities

Impact of globalization on natural resources and environmental sustainability

Innovations and changes in food and agricultural systems in the global economy

Citizenship, governance, and democratic principles, policies, and practices

Technologies of repression and resistance

Conventions for Submissions

The deadline for submissions is February 27, 2006. After this date, submissions will be considered only if they are needed to round out the conference program.

Abstracts should be submitted following the instructions on the web site. Text is limited to 150 words, excluding authors, affiliation, and so forth.

Authors are limited to two submissions in which they are the primary author.

Contacts
For program-related questions only, please contact Patricia Allen (2006rss@ucsc.edu).

For all other questions, please contact Edie Pigg at the RSS Business Office (piggea@missouri.edu).

Thank you for your interest in the 2006 annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society. We look forward to seeing you in Louisville, Kentucky in August.