Institute of International Studies: University of California, Berkeley

Welcome to UC Berkeley's program on Crossing Borders: Area Studies and the New Geographies. This project is funded by the Ford Foundation's Education, Media, Arts, and Culture Program, and is part of Berkeley's Institute of International Studies. The Principal Investigator for this project is Professor of Geography and Director of IIS, Michael Watts.

See the program for the April 2001 conference, "Central Asia Palimpsest: (Re) Emerging Identities and New Global Imprints"

Note: Information on this program for 2002 and thereafter can be found at the "New Geographies, New Pedagogies" website.

Research Proposal to the Ford Foundation

1. The Problem
2. Implementation
3. The Thematic Working Groups
1. Traveling Theory and Ethnographies of Post-Communist Transition
2. Multiple Capitalisms: Global-Local Articulations and African Recovery
3. Challenges to Federalism: NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and the Miami Process
4. Remapping Identities; the Africa-American Diaspora and Pan-Indian Movements
5. Identities in Question: The Contradictions of European Integration
6. Transnational Environmentalism, Civil Society and Social Networks: Green Activism in Asia and California
4. Looking to the Future

First-Year Reports on the Working Groups

• Traveling Theories: Theoretical Explorations of Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe
• Rethinking "Globalization," a workshop by the Multiple Capitalisms: Global-Local Articulations and African Recovery working group
• Challenges to Federalism, a conference/workshop hosted by the Canadian Studies Program
• Remapping Identities: The Africa-American Diaspora and Pan-Indian Movements
• Islam and the Changing Identity of Europe: Culture, Politics, and Citizenship in an Era of Globalization
• Migration, Labor, and Natural Resource Exploitation in Transnational Perspective: Green Activism in Asia and California [jpeg images total 106k]

Forthcoming Activities

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