Editor’s Introduction

Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction TH IS ISSU E OF SOCIAL RESEARCH CONTAINS THE PRO CEED IN GS OF the “Human Rights and the Global Economy” conference that took place at The New School on November 9-10, 2011. The conference, which was the twenty-fifth in the Social Research conference series, cele­ brated the tenth anniversaiy of The New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), and was organized by the issue’s three guest coeditors: Nehal Bhuta, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Miriam Ticktin. The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship hosted the conference in collaboration with GPIA. We are grateful to the conference funders the Climate Change Narratives, Rights, and the Poor Project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, and the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School for Public Engagement for their support. E ditor’s Introduction xvii ...