CfP: SASE 2025 Annual Meeting, Network Q “Asian Capitalisms”: Asian Capitalisms and Global Turbulence

Call for Papers

Network Q “Asian Capitalisms”

SASE 2025 Annual Meeting, July 9-12
University of Montreal – Canada

Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times

The Call for Papers for Network Q “Asian Capitalisms”, included in the SASE 2025 Annual Meeting,
has opened (https://sase.org/).

Network Q promotes theory and research on the diversity of socio-economic systems and capitalist development in Asia as well as its global implications. We welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives (e.g. comparative and international political economy, economic sociology, management studies, industrial sociology, innovation studies, political science and international relations, geography, development studies, anthropology).

Network Q 2025 Theme
Asian Capitalisms and Global Turbulence

The emergence of Asian capitalism(s) has raised a host of questions and a burgeoning literature on commonalities, differences and complementarities with capitalism in the West and other geographies. Similarly engaging has been the debate on the national, regional and international implications of globalizing Asian capitalism(s). Recently, research has sought to capture the dynamics of rising economic nationalism and ‘systemic competition’ in the global economy. Such concepts as armed interdependence, deglobalization, post-neoliberalism and a Second Cold War have been used to characterize the global resurgence of neo-mercantilist policies and rhetoric, industrial policies, trade and tech wars, regionally competing alliances, and decoupling tendencies among the world’s biggest industrial powers. These contestations are formulated in particular in relation to the emergence of a global China, expanding BRICS and expansionist Russia as perceived contenders of the US-led liberal international order. These dynamics may reverberate very differently within a region that covers the expanse of the Eurasian landmass to the Pacific Rim and the interaction with other emerging, late developing and peripheralized economies in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. At the same time, growing South-South collaboration is reconfiguring the rules of the game and modes of cooperation around global issues such as digitalization, climate change and sustainable development.

This turbulent state of affairs raises a whole set of questions on the combined and uneven development of 21st century Asian capitalism(s), in their interaction and encounter with other regions, and the possibility of new, reconfigured pathways of socio-economic integration and eco-systems. This year’s network will put a special focus on newly emerging socio-economic ecosystems of industrial development and innovation in Asia and among Asian countries, an their potential as alternative pathways to the dominant pattern of geo-economics and -politics.

We hence welcome papers and panels around the following themes:

• the globalization of Asian economies
• varieties and modalities of capitalism in Asia
• dynamics of Asian network and platform capitalism
• technological upgrading and emerging sectors in Asia
• state capitalism in Asia and its impact abroad
• supply-chain and industrial policies in the East, West and Global South
• innovation, finance, and entrepreneurship in Asian capitalism(s)
• labor, education, and social policy in Asian capitalism(s)
• socio-political changes in Asia and its impact abroad
• South-South collaborations, contestation and development
• North-South collaborations, contestation and development.

Topical issues related to globalizing Asian capitalism such as tech competition and geopolitical rivalry, public health and social protection, climate and sustainability, connectivity, rising economic nationalism, and economic decoupling and de-globalization, are particularly welcomed. We welcome individual papers but also specifically encourage participants to submit panel proposals.

Network Q 2025 Submission types

For the 2025 conference, Network Q, invites individual paper submissions, submissions for thematic panels, and Author-meets-Critics panels on recently published books. Moreover, since SASE 2025 is going to be an offline conference, Network Q is organizing two virtual sessions before the conference.

Thematic panels can address any of the themes and issues above and should be based on paper drafts with a structured discussion including a discussant. Author-meets-Critics panels (“book salons“) are composed of a minimum of three discussants with relevant expertise on a recently published book speaking to Network Q themes. Note that SASE seeks to promote gender equality. We thus strongly encourage you to take gender balance into account in panel proposals.

Submissions should be done through the SASE website:

https://sase.org/events/conference-submission-and-award-guidelines/

The deadline for submissions is December 16, 2024 (hard deadline).

Please direct your questions concerning this network to Prof. Boy Lüthje (luethje[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de). If you wish to contact the network organizers individually, please write to Prof. Nana de Graaff (n.a.de.graaff[at]vu.nl); Prof. Imogen Liu (i.t.liu[at]vu.nl); Prof. Boy Lüthje (luethje[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de), Prof. Tobias ten Brink (ttenbrink[at]constructor.university); and Prof. Zhao Wei (zhaow[at]scut.edu.cn).