Mini-conference No. 8 Capitalist globalization and its alternatives Coordinators William K. Carroll, University of Victoria, Victoria Canada Georgina Murray, Griffith University, Brisbane Session 1. Structures and contradictions in capitalist globalization Sunday, October 28 9:30 – 11:30 Room No. 309 Chair William K. Carroll University of Victoria, Victoria Georgina Murray Global Financialisation of Ownership and the Implications for Climate Change Speakers Griffith University David Peetz Griffith University Dennis McNamara Georgetown University Janusz Hryniewicz EUROREG Centre for European Regional and Local Studies Xinliu Liu Sussex University Session 2. Coordination across Borders – Towards Sociology of East Asian Regionalism Empirical Verification of Centre – Periphery Theory (Before Crisis 2008) Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in World History : Alternatives in China's Post-1979 Development Alternatives within and beyond globalizing capitalism Sunday, October 28 12:00 – 14:00 Room No. 309 Chair Georgina Murray Griffith University, Brisbane Arianna Lovera A little Differently: Alternative Finance between Anti-capitalist Critique and Market Constraints Speakers Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Aaron Pitluck What does a Speculation-free Financial System Central European University & Illinois State University Look Like? Critically Appraising Islamic Finance as an Alternative Financial System William K. Carroll Embedding Postcapitalist Alternatives: the global network of alternative knowledge production and mobilization University of Victoria Kevin St. Martin Rutgers University Sandy Ross London School of Economics and Political Science / Higher School of Economics Performing Diverse Economies and Enacting Economic Alternatives: The Case of Community Supported Fisheries Beyond Embeddedness and Performativity: An Hybridised Economic Sociology Mini-conference No. 8 Capitalist globalization and its alternatives Coordinators William K. Carroll, University of Victoria, Victoria Canada Georgina Murray, Griffith University, Brisbane Distributed papers Thomas Janoski University of Kentucky David Luke University of Kentucky The Jobs Crisis: The Impact of Globalization, Lean Production and New Technologies on Employment in the AICs.