CFP: 8th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) (30 June; 19-22 Nov; Penang, Malaysia)

"ASIA PACIFIC REGION: SOCIETIES IN TRANSFORMATION"
8th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) conference
to be held in Georgetown (Penang) Malaysia, 19-22 November, 2007.

Rapid globalization, coupled with economic liberalization and financial deregulation, has opened-up the economics of the Asia Pacific region. Increasing wealth generation is heralded as a sign of great personal and notional success, while large numbers of people remain marginalised in poor paying a insecure jobs. Youth are under extreme pressures in terms of successful education and gaining secure employment. The media glorifies the consumer revolution, and we see increasing use of new technologies which are changing forever the very fabric of work, family life, health and culture in the countries of the Asia Pacific. The region is seemingly now more integrated, with unprecedented levels of tourism, migration, and economic and cultural linkages. But, are the nations of the region, and their populations, becoming more divided, united or are they fundamentally unchanged over the past two decades? This conference aims to explore the various dimensions of the rapid social transformation of the Asia Pacific. Papers that empirically or theoretically address the themes of social transformation, in its diverse forms, are particularly welcome.

http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences/2007/conferences-2007-apsa.html
Please also check the APSA website at: http://www.asiapacificsociology.org

The conference is co-sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia.