From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Apr  2 12:43:12 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr  2 12:37:59 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, March 25 - April 1, 2005
Message-ID: <00b501c537ab$7ba45630$bd0684ac@toshibauser>

URBANTH-L Job Postings, March 25 - April 1, 2005
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1. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Cultures
2. University of North Carolina, Assistant Director at the Sonja Haynes
Stone Center for Black Culture and History
3. Urban Anthropology Project, Regional Program Director
4. William Paterson University, Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology
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1. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Cultures

Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year, renewable position as
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in a field of Islamic Cultures and/or Society,
broadly understood geographically and historically. Candidates with
specializations in anthropology, literature, art history, Islamic thought,
cultural studies, or the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The
appointment is contingent upon the completion of the Ph.D. degree. The
Fellow will be affiliated as a Lecturer with one or more of the College's
humanities or social sciences departments, depending on the field of
specialization presented. The Fellow is expected to teach an undergraduate
course each semester (preferably at the introductory or intermediate level),
to be engaged in a publishable research project, to work with an ad hoc
group that is seeking to enrich the presence of Middle Eastern content in
our curriculum, to participate in faculty seminars and to give a public
lecture.

Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, including a statement
of research and teaching interests, and three current letters of reference
by April 15 to: Chair, Mellon Postdoctoral Search Committee, Office of
the Provost, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr,
PA 19010. Website: http://www.brynmawr.edu/provost/searches.html
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2. University of North Carolina, Assistant Director at the Sonja Haynes
Stone Center for Black Culture and History

The Stone Center serves the general campus community and reports to the
Office of the Provost. The Assistant Director will report to the Director of
the Center and will supervise program staff including the Program Manager,
the Public Information Officer and the Coordinator for Communiversity and
Community Outreach. The position is classified as EPA non-faculty and has
primary responsibility for the Center's programming, as well as a central
role in development/fundraising and organizational planning.

The Assistant Director will manage all aspects of Center Cultural and
Artistic programming that includes special and collaborative projects with
University and community based groups along with standing programs (such
as the Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Fellowship and Lecture, the African
Diaspora Lecture Series, and the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent
Film), and will work closely with the University's office of the Executive
Director for the Arts to plan performances that will take place in Center
facilities. He/she will coordinate the selection of Pamela Nicole Cummings
Visiting Artist and Resident Artists and will work closely with the
director, the Development Officer and the Advisory Board to create and
implement a Center development plan; and will work with staff to develop
and implement public information strategies and materials to promote the
work and cultural programming of the Center for the campus community
and local, regional, national and global audiences.

Required: A Master's degree with 5 years relevant experience, or PH.D.
(preferred), in a humanities, social science or related interdisciplinary
field with a specialization in African American, African or diaspora
studies, or at least five years of directly related, progressively
responsible experience in a similar position; Experience in program planning
and project management in Africana studies; Demonstrated skills in grant
writing, event planning, and public relations for Africana studies;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Strong organizational
skills and ability to balance multiple tasks; Ability to work well with
faculty,
administrators; Familiarity with the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill preferred; Demonstrated commitment to students. Formal review of
applications will begin on April 3, 2005; Please apply electronically by
sending a resume, cover letter indicating  interest and summarizing
qualifications,
a writing sample, and a list of three references (in Word format) to
stonecenter@unc.edu.  Website: http://www.unc.edu/
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3. Urban Anthropology Project, Regional Program Director
Los Angeles, CA (http://gvbinstitute.us/uap.html)
Closes: Open until filled

The Urban Anthropology Project's (UAP) is an Educational after-school
program, offers underprivileged children ages 8-18 a platform for
cross-cultural artistic exchange through the use of photography, film, and
digital media. Our mission is to give voice to children through various
forms of artistic expression, and to.foster understanding and tolerance
through art and anthropology.  Established in 2001, the UAP provides
students learning experiences that cross geographical, language, and
cultural boundaries. Exchange among student groups extends throughout
America, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.  The Regional Program
Director will: 1) Consult in development of the UAP's operational method
and manual, and 2) Work with team members to create training approaches
and materials.

Qualifications: 1) Administrator or teacher with specialties
In literacy, mathematics and/or science. 2) Depth and breadth of knowledge
and experience in elementary and/or secondary education. 3) Successful
experience in school leadership, training and consultation. 4) An advanced
degree in Education, Administration or related field.  For more information,
please contact: Nahlyee Van Brunt Urban Anthropology Project 1846 S.
Highland Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90019 E-Mail: uap@gvbinstitute.us; Phone:
(323) 934-7553
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4. William Paterson University, Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology (http://www.wpunj.edu) invites applications
for a tenure-track position beginning September 2005, at the rank of
Assistant Professor for a cultural anthropologist specializing in South
Asia. Ph.D. required. Ability to teach the survey course "Civilizations of
South Asia," along with applied courses in the areas of
ethnicity/nationalism or development/globalization processes desirable. Send
letter of application,
c.v. and writing sample to Professor Maria Villar, Dept of Anthropology,
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, Email: villarm@wpunj.edu,
Phone: (973) 720-2102. Electronic submission of cv and letter preferred;
screening of candidates to begin the week of March 21st. WPUNJ offers a
comprehensive benefits package including tuition waiver for dependent
children after one year of full-time employment. WPUNJ is a comprehensive
public university situated on a 300- acre campus 20 miles west of NYC. EOE.
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Apr  3 19:23:29 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Apr  3 18:18:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Ph.D. Opportunity, Global Capitalism in Urban
	Singapore
Message-ID: <00b201c5389b$c633ff70$bf4f85ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from euroseas@yahoogroups.com]

From: WONG Tai Chee (HSSE) <tcwong@nie.edu.sg>
Subject: Looking for a PhD candidate

Looking for a Candidate to Apply for a PhD Scholarship

I am an urban geographer and am looking for a potential candidate to apply
to do a PhD under my supervision. He (she) should have a good knowledge of
human geography, in particular urban geography or urban studies or urban
planning etc. Those interested should consult the NIE/Nanyang Technological
University Website as follows:

http://www.nie.edu.sg

The potential candidate should be in a position to link closely his/her
future thesis topic with my research project shown in the attachment.
However, he/she does not need to restrict the topic to Singapore. Please
email me if interested. I will appreciate it if you could forward this
message to more people.


Best wishes
Dr Wong Tai-Chee
Associate Professor
HSSE, National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Attachment: Research Proposal

The Future of Central Business Districts: A Case Study of Singapore

The end of the 20th century saw the world being reconfigured by an
intensifying global capitalism characterized by global competition and world
city hierarchical organization. Along with this development, digital
technology has tended to set space freer and more flexible in future
business activities and operations.  Hence, the boundaries of conventional
central business districts (CBD) are being defied, and its role undergoing
tremendous change. Singapore, as a modern and mega-Asian city, is moving at
high speed towards the pursuit for top-level global city status.

To accomplish the rising role of specialized services, Singapore has a prime
site reserved for future expansion of its CBD  Marina South (340 ha). The
city is in search of greater involvement in integrating itself with the
advanced economies, using this reserved site. The objective of the research
is to seek answers to the following research questions.

Research questions

1.      Will the widespread use of ICTs multiply the need for spatial
concentration of specialized services (agglomeration economies)? That is, is
Marina South an anachronism and no longer required for the future expansion
of the CBD?

2.      What kind of urban form will Singapore take in future? In response
to this, a subset of two other questions are called for:

a.       Will Singapore exert spill-over effect to its neighbouring areas
including Johor (Malaysia) and Riau Islands (Indonesia), taking into account
the national border as a barrier?

b.      If the spill-over effect is to be effective, then under what
circumstances?

3.      At the macro-level, what is the role of the state in the pursuit of
the global city status? And, why is achieving the global city status crucial
to the city-state of Singapore as a model of success story?


From dbmonter at uchicago.edu  Mon Apr  4 10:54:59 2005
From: dbmonter at uchicago.edu (Daniel Monterescu)
Date: Mon Apr  4 12:01:08 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: Query: Cities in the Middle East -- Thanks!
Message-ID: <869830ed.e7c52fb9.81ece00@m4500-00.uchicago.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you all for your great suggestions. I have
replied to individuals who sent me their
recommendations, but I would like to extend
collective thanks to the list managers and the
academic community of users who made this dialogue
possible.

I'll compile the suggestions in one file and post it
on the list in a couple of weeks.

Cordially,

Daniel

---- Original message ----

  Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:06:09 -0600
  From: Daniel Monterescu <dbmonter@uchicago.edu>
  Subject: Query: Cities in the Middle East
  To: Daniel Monterescu <dbmonter@uchicago.edu>,
  urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu

  > Greetings!
  >
  > I'm completing now the preparation of a course
  on
  > "Cities in the Middle East" and I would be
  grateful
  > for any recommended references you found useful
  > teaching/reading. I'm also looking for
  > relevant films for screening in class.
  >
  > Cordially,
  >
  > Daniel
From alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it  Tue Apr  5 01:26:21 2005
From: alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it (Alessandro Camiz)
Date: Mon Apr  4 18:26:13 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?Seminar_of_Medieval_Studies_of_N=E1jera_?=
 (Spain). 2005.
Message-ID: <200504050026210740.0002B445@mail.iol.it>

Seminar of Medieval Studies of N?jera (Spain). 2005.
The urban space in the Medieval Europe.
On July 26-29. N?jera (Spain) 2005.

The European net of cities, arisen in the Middle Ages, constitutes the embryo of our urban culture, which supports its force after more than thousand years of existence. After the deep crises that happened with the dismemberment of the urban centers system of the Antiquity, a new civilization was in preparation, first peasant and gradually urban. This new urban system, arisen in the Middle Ages, is the origin of a long historical cycle that comes until our days.

The topic of the Seminar of Medieval Studies of N?jera 2005, The Urban Space in the Medieval Europe, proposes to analyze the own space of the medieval cities - with special reference to Spain-, as well as the conditions, favorable or restrictive, according to the conjunctures and opportunities of every urban center, which allowed the evolution or the creation of the European cities along the Middle Ages.

The development of the seminar is founded around three thematic axes: 
? The first one attends to the new methodologies of analysis applied to the knowledge of the medieval city: graphical sources, archaeological sources and the use of the documentary modern sources for the knowledge of the urban medieval space. 
? The second one prosecutes to know the historical development of the European cities during Middle Ages, from the urban centers that had arisen in the Antiquity and they had continuity in Middle Ages, to those cities that arose "ex-novo" in the Middle Ages.
? Equally, the Seminar of Medieval Studies adds to the general aim of the exhibition, called "N?jera: Medieval Legacy", of giving to know the importance of N?jera in Middle Ages, for which it has reserved a thematic day dedicated to N?jera's medieval city.

In the Seminar of Medieval Studies of Najera 2005, they will participate fourteen referees, of recognized national and international prestige: Juan Antonio Bonach?a Hernando (University of Valladolid); Isabel Falc?n Perez (University of Saragossa), Lorena Fern?ndez Gonz?lez (Ph. D. in Medieval History), Carmen Fern?ndez Ochoa (Autonomous University of Madrid), Enrico Guidoni (Universit? degli Studi di Rome "The Sapienza"), Jose Avelino Guti?rrez Gonzalez (University of Oviedo), Sergio Mart?nez Mart?nez (University of Cantabria), Irene Montilla Torres (University of Ja?n), Jean Passini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Esther Pe?a Bocos (University of Cantabria), Vicente Salvatierra Cuenca (University of Ja?n), Antonio S?nchez del Barrio (Museum de las Ferias de Medina del Campo), Urszula Sowina (Archaeological Institute of Warsaw), Julio Valde?n Baruque (University of Valladolid). The referees of the present edition will expose the most recent researches on the medieval European cities, to whose exhibitions it will add the free communications.


Director:

Dra. Beatriz Ar?zaga Bolumburu 
Professor of Medieval History of the University of Cantabria

Coordinator

Dr. Jesus Angel Sol?rzano Telechea
Lecturer of Medieval History of the University of Cantabria

Address:
University of Cantabria.
Edificio Interfacultativo 
Avda. De los Castros, s/n.
39005. Santander (Spain)
Telephone: 34-942202015
E-mail: solorzaja@unican.es
Najera@najeramedieval.com
Web: http: // www.najeramedieval.com

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Alessandro Camiz
Ph.D. candidate in History of Cities
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Architettura e Analisi della Citt?
Via Gramsci 53
00197 Rome, Italy
tel. ++396 49919133
alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr  5 12:54:10 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr  5 11:51:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Visiting Scholar Program at ISAM (Istanbul)
Message-ID: <004901c539f7$ba31ac10$689d8bac@toshibauser>

ISAM Visiting Scholar Program in Turkey offers 
post-doctoral fellowships

Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM) invites applications for visiting
post-doctoral scholars for independent research project.

ISAM offers visiting scholars the opportunity to undertake short or long
term academic studies in Islamic, Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies in
the world-heritage city of Istanbul, Turkey.

 
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Visiting Scholar Program at ISAM

In addition to its full time faculty and fellows, ISAM houses visiting
scholars from many countries. The Visiting Scholar program at ISAM is
established to accommodate scholars who wish to use its facilities for
research purposes. The Center extends its resources on a selective basis
in the spirit of institutional collegiality and to foster the further
development of knowledge. Visiting Fellowships are awarded bi-annually
to enable scholars to spend short or extended periods (one to three
months) for independent study and research at ISAM. 

Application Requirements


Applicants must submit to the Center a complete application package,
consisting of:

1-     A cover letter, consisting of your request, project title, and
contact information

2-     A 1-2 page outline of the applicant's research proposal 

3-     The period of time during which the applicant plans to be in and
affiliated with the Center 

4-     An updated curriculum vitae 

5-     Two letters of recommendation

When all materials are received, the Center, will make a decision on
acceptance of the applicant. The Center will notify the applicants in
two weeks after the deadline. Applications and requests for additional
information should be directed to: 

ISAM Visiting Scholar Program
Gumusyolu Cad, No 40 
Uskudar, 34662 
Istanbul-Turkey
 

Application Deadlines
For the Summer program                                May 1, 2005
For the 2005-6 Academic year                       September 1, 2005

Tuition and Stipend
Tuition and accommodation grants are available. Regular tuition for the
program is $ 250. And weekly rent for a room at ISAM's guest house is $
100. 

In addition to tuition grant, visiting researchers will also have free
lunch (six times a week) and limited reimbursement for the use of the
photocopier.

Facilities 
Housing. Housing in Istanbul is in high demand and unfortunately, ISAM
is able to provide Visiting Researchers with only a limited number of
housing. 

Office space. The Program aims to provide Visiting Researchers with
(shared) office space, and access to a (shared) computer and to local
telephone and fax. It is strongly recommended that the visitor bring
his/her own laptop. Secretarial services are not provided. 

 Library
Upon presentation of the [Library] identification card, Visiting
Researchers have full access to the ISAM Library.

Expectations from Visiting Scholars
The Visiting Researcher Program aims to create a rich academic
environment for both existing scholars and visiting scholars, and have
them to engage in scholarly exchange during the academic activities such
as seminars, conferences and discussions at ISAM. At the end of the
tenure, Visiting Researcher is expected to make a presentation of
his/her research at ISAM. If desired, Visiting Researcher is welcomed to
submit his/her studi(es) to the Editorial Board to be considered for the
ISAM publication. 

For more information please visit the ISAM website at 
www.isam.org.tr

You can also contact us via email: visiting.scholar@isam.org.tr
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr  5 13:07:12 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr  5 12:04:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 TOC: ISSJ 182, "Explorations in Open Space: The World Social Forum
 and cultures of politics"
Message-ID: <005101c539f9$8d03e5d0$689d8bac@toshibauser>

The full-text of the following special issue of the International Social
Science Journal, on the theme of "Explorations in Open Space: The World
Social Forum and cultures of politics," is currently downloadable in pdf
form as a free sample issue. -AJ


ISSJ 182
A special issue of the International Social Science Journal, no 182, on
'Explorations in Open Space : The World Social Forum and Cultures of
Politics'.  Available from Blackwell's or otherwise presently free on their
website :
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&code=issj
&open=2004#C2004
<http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&amp;code
=issj&amp;open=2004#C2004> .

Explorations in Open Space
The World Social Forum and cultures of politics
Editorial advisers : Chlo? Keraghel & Jai Sen
We are living through a time of the rise of dramatically new politics,
including civil politics at local, national, transnational and global
levels, and new global networks among refugees, migrants, and religious
groups. One of the most prominent manifestations of world civil politics is
the World Social Forum, which held its first world meeting in Porto Alegre,
Brazil, in January 2001. Based on issue analysis and diagnosis, the Forum
aims to encourage the formulation of alternative proposals and strategies to
neo-liberal "pens?e unique" and to all forms of fundamentalism. The dramatic
growth in numbers attending the world event - from around 25,000 in 2001 to
over 100,000 in 2004 - attests to the relevance of the Forum to people all
over the world.

While it calls itself "Social", the Forum is a fundamentally political idea
and promotes a specific vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics. This
issue aims at a wide-ranging, critical, and insistently plural exploration
of the idea and concept of "open space" as a political-cultural concept,
focusing on the Forum and its self-defined culture(s) of politics. In these
terms, the Forum represents both an important experiment and something of a
paradox. On the one hand, it offers a rich vision of an "open space" for
movements that challenge empires and celebrate diversity and plurality. On
the other hand, the open space is circumscribed by a specific conception of
politics and a specific ideological orientation. Is multiplicity sustainable
within and in relation to a single, "unique" larger idea? Can the culture of
"open space" politics operate coherently both within the Forum and in its
relations with the world it seeks to change?


Table of contents :

Abstracts

Editorial

Chlo? Keraghel & Jai Sen
Explorations in open space. The World Social Forum and cultures of politics

_The Dynamics of Open Space_

Michal Osterweil   A cultural-political approach to reinventing the
political

Geoffrey Pleyers   The Social Forums as an ideal model of convergence

Baris Gencer Baykan & Gul?in Erdi Lelandais   Cross-readings of the
anti-globalisation movement in Turkey and beyond. Political culture in the
making

Isabelle Biagiotti   The World Social Forums: a paradoxical application of
participatory doctrine

_The Ethnography of Open Space_

Taran N Khan   Trio

V?ronique Rioufol   Approaches to social change in Social Forums:
 snapshots of recompositions in progress

Anila Daulatzai   A leap of faith: thoughts on secularistic practices and
progressive politics

Giuseppe Caruso   Conflict management and hegemonic practices in the World
Social Forum 2004

_New Worlds_

Massimo De Angelis   Opposing fetishism by reclaiming our powers. The Social
Forum movement, capitalist markets and the politics of alternatives

Vanessa Andreotti & Emma Dowling    WSF: ontology, ethics, pedagogy

Ra?l Enrique Rojo, Carlos R. S. Milani & Carlos Schmidt Arturi   Expressions
of international contestation and mechanisms of democratic control

Immanuel Wallerstein   The dilemmas of open space: the future of the WSF
  Document

Germ?n Solin?s   UNESCO and the World Social Forum: the first three years

  Review

Elise F?ron   The World Social Forum, a space for free and democratic debate
?.  A review of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, edited by Jai Sen,
Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar & Peter Waterman. New Delhi: The Viveka
Foundation, 2004.

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About the ISSJ
The International Social Science Journal, founded by UNESCO in 1949, is
published quarterly in six language editions: English, French, Spanish,
Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
Its purpose is to bridge diverse communities of social scientists, working
in different problems and disciplines and in different parts of the world.
It provides information and debate on subjects of interest to an
international readership, written by an equally international range of
authors. The ISSJ has a particular interest in policy-relevant questions and
interdisciplinary approaches. It serves as a forum for review, reflection
and discussion informed by the results of relevant research, rather than as
an outlet for first publication of the results of individual research
projects

The bulk of each issue is devoted to a special theme comprising mainly
commissioned articles. Unsolicited manuscripts are also welcome for the
"open forum", "continuing debate" and "professional issues" sections.
Prospective contributors should bear in mind the profile of the journal as
described above.

Further information on the ISSJ, its editorial policies and submission
requirements may be found in the "Guide to authors", available on UNESCO's
website at www.unesco.org/issj <http://www.unesco.org/issj> . The Spanish
language version is available at the same address.
Subscription details for all language versions are given on the UNESCO
website, as well as on the inside back cover of each issue. For the English
language version subscription information may also be found at the website
of its publisher, www.blackwellpub.com <http://www.blackwellpub.com/> ,
which in addition carries the English title, table of contents, and
abstracts of the current and recent issues.

Preceding issue (181) : Mega-cities
Editorial adviser : Mattei Dogan

Next issue (183) :  Affirmative action


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Apr  6 13:58:14 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr  6 12:55:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Architectures of (Unbe)longing
Message-ID: <00b801c53ac9$dda7b400$55f18dac@toshibauser>

CFP: Architectures of (Unbe)longing
Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians
Savannah, GA, April 26-29, 2006
http://www.sah.org

 For a session at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural
Historians, to be held in Savannah, Georgia, April 26-29, 2006, papers are
being sought that address "Architectures of (Unbe)longing." This session
will focus on recent publications of social anthropologist Michel S.
Laguerre, who will serve as discussant. Both Laguerre's _Minoritized Space:
An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things_ (1999) and _Urban
Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City_ (2003) consider, among
other things, minoritized diasporic and indigenous cultures in the built
environment. Laguerre's analyses explore ways in which people have been
marginalized spatially and the methods by which these spaces are maintained,
reproduced, and transformed through time. Papers are sought that examine the
history of minoritized spaces themselves, as well as those that analyze
linkages between majority/minority or colonizer/colonized places.

Possible questions might include: How have majority/dominant populations or
patrons created structures of (un)belonging and/or alienation-e.g., favelas,
lakous, bidonvilles, reservations, internment camps, shtetls, mellahs,
barrios--and what forms have these acquired? How have occupants of these
structures or neighborhoods shaped or transformed their environments,
perhaps informed by their longing for homeland or observation of religious
practices? How can we best understand the architectural and urban
relationships among classes, races, or ethnicities that create majority and
minority spaces? Abstracts of 300 words and a short resume should be sent to
Sharon Irish along with complete contact information. Please read the
general guidelines on the website of the Society of Architectural Historians
prior to submission.

Sharon Irish
School of Architecture
117 Buell Hall, MC-621
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
61820-6921, USA
FAX: 217/244-2900
Email: slirish@uiuc.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Apr  7 22:50:16 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr  7 21:47:12 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, April 2-8, 2005
Message-ID: <00d601c53bdd$578e6c50$f99083ac@toshibauser>

In recognition of the SfAA annual meeting, and SUNTA's participation in it
this year, this URBANTH-L Job Posting has an applied anthropology focus.

URBANTH-L Job Postings, April 2-8, 2005
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1. Academy Fellowship Program
2. Center for Immigrant Health, Research Assistant
3. East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Immigrant & Civil Rights
Organizer
4. Hoboken Homeless Shelter, Executive Director
5. Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Community Liaison
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1. Academy Fellowship Program

The Academy Fellowship Program is an annual public policy and leadership
training program for multi-ethnic students who have at minimum completed
their undergraduate studies and want experience working on low-income and
minority economic development and policy issues. Program Period: September
1, 2005 - August 31, 2006

Application to the 2005-2006 Academy Fellowship Program is open to
applicants who have completed, at minimum, their undergraduate degrees by
the start of the program. Individuals from all academic disciplines are
encouraged to apply; there are no preferred majors.  To apply please visit
our website at http://www.greenlining.org/program/academy/apply and download
a copy of the Academy application. Applications must be received by April
15, 2005.
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2. Center for Immigrant Health, Research Assistant
http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih

We're looking for an energetic, committed, bilingual research assistant for
a groundbreaking study on medical interpreting. The Center for Immigrant
Health is conducting this study at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Responsibilities include recruiting and interviewing patients, tracking
patient information, and assuring quality of data. Additional opportunities
to contribute to the research and analysis commensurate with experience.
Additional Qualifications: Oral and written fluency in BOTH Mandarin and
Cantonese, as well as English; Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills.
Must be detail-oriented, organized, self-motivated and able to work without
supervision; Research experience a plus.  Please submit resume with cover
letter to Ephraim Shapiro, ephraim.shapiro@med.nyu.edu
*******************************************************************
3. East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Immigrant & Civil Rights
Organizer

The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) is at the forefront
of the economic justice movement in the East Bay. We build coalitions of
labor unions, community and faith-based organizations to challenge the
crisis of working poverty and support organizing in the low-wage service
sector.  EBASE's Workplace Immigrant & Civil Rights Program is challenging
the exploitation of low-wage workers by supporting the national movement to
reform immigration, civil rights and labor law; supporting the rights of
immigrant and African-American workers to organize; and researching,
documenting, and educating a broad array of constituents about the
connections between workers rights, immigrant rights and civil rights.

Under the supervision of EBASE's Executive Director or designee, the
Organizer will be responsible for:
-Supporting the Northern California Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
Coalition, including providing staff support, mobilization and
organizational outreach to expand the membership.
-Training and developing members of a committee of immigrant and
African-American workers as leaders, including developing curriculum,
leading trainings and holding leaders accountable
-Coordinating local participation in local and national campaigns to improve
conditions for immigrant and African-American workers, including
mobilization, advocacy and grassroots lobbying.
-Educating key constituencies on workplace immigrant and civil rights
issues, including summarizing policy issues and developing popular education
and communications materials.

Bilingual Spanish, a commitment to economic and social justice, and at least
two years of experience in labor, community, political or faith-based
organizing are required. Experience with immigrant constituency and labor
movement preferred.  To apply, please e-mail cover letter and resume to
info@workingeastbay.org, or mail to: Hiring Committee, WICR Organizer,
EBASE, 1714 Franklin Street, Suite 325, Oakland, CA 94612,
http://www.workingeastbay.org
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4. Hoboken Homeless Shelter, Executive Director

The Hoboken Homeless Shelter seeks an Executive Director. Professional
degree and related experience that demonstrate applicants leadership,
knowledge and commitment. Responsibilities include: program development and
administration; communications with funding agencies; and establish budgets
and maintain fiscal oversight. Email: resume@hobokenshelter.org (or) Mail:
Resume, PO Box 1776, Hoboken, NJ 07030
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5. Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Community Liaison
 http://www.jcua.org

The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs combats poverty, racism and
anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago's diverse communities. Guided by
prophetic Jewish principles, JCUA pursues justice for Chicago's most
vulnerable neighborhoods by promoting a vision of empowerment from within.
Since 1964, JCUA has assisted groups in low-income and minority communities,
built coalitions with diverse groups, advocated on issues of poverty and
racism and mobilized a constituency that works to create a more righteous
city. The Community Liaison is assigned to give staff support to community
organizations in low income and minority neighborhoods. Under the guidance
of our community partners, this position will: Provide staff assistance to
grass-roots community organizations; Develop and implementing organizing and
action strategies; Research issues affecting the local community; Develop
information materials and strategies for outreach and media campaigns;
Access resources and garnering support.

Candidates should have a commitment to social and economic justice and
empowerment of low-income and minority communities; experience working in
Chicago's low-income and minority communities on race and poverty issues;
excellent inter-group, communication, analytical skills, and time management
skills; and should be comfortable working as part of a team. A college
graduate with urban studies, public policy, or related major or commensurate
experience is preferred.  Good benefits package including 401K and health
care. Send resume and cover letter to:  Brian Gladstein, Community
Initiatives Director, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, 618 South Michigan,
Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60605, Briang@jcua.org
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Apr 11 11:55:00 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 11 11:10:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Urban Affairs Review, May 2005
Message-ID: <02e501c53ea8$ed1d37b0$caa599ac@toshibauser>

Following is the Table of Contents for
_Urban Affairs Review_ Vol. 40, no. 5 (May 2005)


1. Beyond Federal Urban Policy
      William R. Barnes

2. Private Markets, Contracts, and Government Provision: What Explains the
Organization of Local Waste and Recycling Markets?
      Margaret Walls, Molly Macauley, and Soren Anderson

3. Media and Momentum: Strategic Contributing in a Big-City Mayoral
Election
      Timothy B. Krebs and David B. Holian

4. Nested Levels of Institutions: State Rules and City Property Taxes
      Barbara Coyle McCabe and Richard C. Feiock

5. Battery Park City: An Ethnographic Field Study of the Community
Impact of 9/11
      Setha M. Low, Dana H. Taplin, and Mike Lamb

6. Book Review: Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st
Century: The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities
      Eric J. Petersen

7. Book Review: The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for
Public Space
      Keith Wardrip

8. Book Review: Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of
Happiness in Fortress America
      Brent D. Ryan
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Apr 11 15:11:54 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 11 14:34:00 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Humanitarianism :: Humanitarian Responses to
	Narratives of Inflicted Suffering
Message-ID: <007601c53ec1$f171e270$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANITARIANISM PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH & TEACHING 2005-2008
CALL FOR PAPERS "HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES TO INFLICTED SUFFERING"
International conference: October 13-15, 2006

We invite scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law to submit
papers that analyze humanitarian responses to narratives of suffering
inflicted by states, political groups and/or social, economic, or cultural
forces. Panels will address apartheid, genocide, colonialism, slavery and
abolition, the media, and the law. The Foundations of Humanitarianism
program will pay panelists' expenses. Please submit a one-page abstract and
current c.v. (up to 3 pages) by March 1, 2006 to richard.d.brown@uconn.edu
or richard.wilson@uconn.edu

Organizers:
Richard D. Brown, Humanities Institute
and Richard A. Wilson, Human Rights Institute


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Apr 11 17:38:01 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 11 16:38:12 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: World Tourism Organization Ulysses Conference 2005 (deadline today)
Message-ID: <000701c53ed6$5a677420$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

CFP: World Tourism Organization Ulysses Conference 2005 (deadline today)

The WTO.Ulysses Conference 2005 aims to bring together researchers and
practitioners to discuss key issues in tourism policy and management. This
year's conference will focus on Excellence in public-private destination
management, examining and debating the issues of strategic planning and
destination management as well as the interrelated issues of safety,
security, crisis management; quality; sustainability and human resources.
The conference will be held over one and a half days on 1 and 2 June in
Madrid. Keynote speakers and expert panels will make presentations relating
to the conference theme. Additionally delegates will be invited to attend
the 2005 WTO Ulysses Prize ceremony and conference reception to be held on
the evening of 1 June.

Presentations are welcome within the broad themes of the conference and
authors are invited to submit abstracts for consideration.
Abstract submission- key dates:

Submission of abstract (maximum 200 words including key issues, methodology
and indication of findings) and author C.V. in either English or Spanish by
11 April 2005.

Authors notified of acceptance to present at the conference by 25 April
2005.
Abstracts and author C.V. should be submitted in word format to Lisa Ruhanen
at the e-mail address provided below.
All abstracts accepted for presentation will be included in a ?book of
abstracts? which will be available at the conference. Upon notification of
acceptance, authors will be asked to provide their abstract in both English
and Spanish and a 150 word author bio. Authors whose abstracts are accepted
for presentation and wish to be considered for publication in the WTO.EKM
paper series should submit full papers by 23 May 2005.

Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference are
excluded from paying the conference registration fee.
Lisa Ruhanen
WTO Education Council Officer (University of Queensland)
World Tourism Organization
Capit?n Haya, 42
Madrid 28020, Spain
Phone: (34) 91 567 8207
Fax: (34) 91 571 3733
Email: educa1@world-tourism.org
Visit the website at
http://www.world-tourism.org/education/council/menu.html


From rrotenbe at depaul.edu  Tue Apr 12 10:31:32 2005
From: rrotenbe at depaul.edu (Robert Rotenberg)
Date: Tue Apr 12 10:32:25 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2005 Leeds Prize Submissions
Message-ID: <s25b9581.080@gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu>

The Leeds Prize is awarded by SUNTA (Society for
Urban/National/Transnational Anthropology -- formerly known as the
Society for Urban Anthropology) each year for an outstanding
contribution to urban anthropology; the prize is named in honor of the
late Anthony Leeds, a distinguished pioneer in urban anthropology. The
Prize Committee for this year is chaired by Catherine Lutz and includes
Kim Hopper (winner of the 2003 Leeds Prize for his book Reckoning with
Homelessness (Cornell University Press) and the 2004 winner.  This
year's deadline for submission will be June 30, 2005 for the receipt of
books for consideration. Letters of nomination (from an author, a
colleague, or a publisher) and *three* copies of the book should be sent
to:

Catherine Lutz
Chair, Leeds Prize Committee
c/o Department of Anthropology
Giddings House
128 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02912

Please be sure that books are clearly marked "for Leeds Prize
Committee."

To be eligible for consideration a book must be relevant to the field
of urban anthropology, but it does not have to be written by someone who
is professionally identified as an anthropologist. The book must have a
publication date of 2004. Textbooks and anthologies will not be
considered, but books of original scholarship by more than one author
will be considered.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr 12 19:29:38 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 12 18:26:47 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhine
Message-ID: <00c101c53faf$1fc0e890$406a81ac@toshibauser>

From: Sukanya Kulkarni <sukanya.kulkarni@utoronto.ca>

Call for Papers

Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhine:
German - Indian Cross-Cultural Relations University of Toronto, Canada May 24 - 26, 2006 

Keynote Speakers:
Anil Bhatti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Kamakshi Murti, Middlebury College

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts - July 31, 2005

Cross-cultural relations between the Indian subcontinent and the German-speaking countries have a long, diverse history and have manifested themselves in literature, linguistics, the performing arts, religion, philosophy, history, and many other fields. They have also long been regarded as expressions of a special relationship: ever since the Middle Ages, "India" - not just as a geographical location, but also a philosophical, spiritual concept - has held a unique position in the German imagination. On the flipside, there is considerable Indian interest in German culture, including wide recognition of several German authors, philosophers, and Indologists. Concepts and names that mark some of the channels of exchange and communication between the two cultures include Balthasar Sprenger, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, Kalidasa's "Sakuntala", Herder, the Schlegel brothers, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heine, Nietzsche, "Moksha" M?ller, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore, the ideology of the "Aryan," Subhash Chandra Bose and his affiliation with Hitler, Gandhi, Annemarie Schimmel, G?nter Grass, and many others. In recent years, Orientalist Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Intercultural German Studies, and Transnational Studies have given new impetus and directions to the interest in Indo-German relations. The aim of this conference is to achieve an overview over the current state and trends of research in this field.

Possible avenues of investigation include, but are not limited to:

- Actual interactions and mutual perceptions between the two regions and peoples
- Intellectual and fictional encounters
- Political influences in different historical periods
- Interdisciplinary approaches to geographical border crossings
- The impact of "Oriental Renaissance" and "Wilhelminian Orientalism"
(Alexander Honold) in cultural relations
- Travel accounts from the Early Modern period to the 21st century - The changing perception of the "exotic"
- Exotic and adventure textual and filmic narratives
- Representation of past and current colonial fantasies
- Transnational authors: Anant Kumar, R. Singh, among others

The organizers plan to publish the conference proceedings and hope that this conference will launch a future Indian-German research network. In order to foster lively discussion at this meeting, participants will be asked to submit their papers by April 15, 2006 so that they may be distributed to other presenters. Conference presentations should be approximately 15 minutes and offer a summary of the paper's contents and, if applicable, additional comments about how the paper relates to current research in progress.

Graduate students are encouraged to submit an abstract. Some travel assistance will be available to conference presenters. The conference will take place immediately prior to the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, to be held at York University, Toronto.

Please send your abstracts before July 31, 2005 to

Sukanya Kulkarni
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto Toronto, ON  M5S 1J4 Canada sukanya.kulkarni@utoronto.ca

and (for e-mail) / or (for surface mail)

Joerg Esleben
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Ottawa 70 Laurier Ave East Ottawa, ON  K1S 4S3 Canada jesleben@uottawa.ca
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Apr 13 17:45:17 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr 13 16:50:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Second CFP: Hierarchy and Power in the History of
	Civilizations
Message-ID: <03cc01c54069$c9526090$ed95a6ac@toshibauser>

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS"
June 13-16 2006, Moscow, Russia
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2005
Visit the website at http://www.civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarchy2006.html

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
CENTER FOR CIVILIZATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES
30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, RUSSIA
Tel.: + (7 095) 291 4119; Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
E-mail: civ-reg@inafr.ru
and the

INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, RUSSIA
Tel.: + (7 095) 291 4119; Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW
6, Miusskaya Ploshad' 125267 Moscow, RUSSIA
Tel.: + (7 095) 298 5886; Fax: + (7 095) 298 0345

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies in cooperation with the
Institute for African Studies (both under the Russian Academy of Sciences)
and the Russian State University for the Humanities is organizing in Moscow
on June 13-16, 2006 the Fourth International Conference "HIERARCHY AND POWER
IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS".?
All the Conference events except culture program will take place on the
Russian State University for the Humanities main campus.

The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.  The
deadline for paper proposals (in the form of abstracts within 300 words in
English) is November 1, 2005. Paper proposals should be sent not to the
Organ-izing Committee but directly to the respective panel convenor(s) who
is (are) to inform the applicant about his (her) application's fortune by
December 1, 2005. The information to be submitted alongside with the paper
abstract includes full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and
e-mail addresses, and fax #.  In the case you feel your paper does not fit
any particular panel but corresponds to the Conference's general theme, you
may submit your proposal to the Organizing Committee and it will be
considered for scheduling for the Free Communication Panel.  All the general
inquiries and proposals for the Free Communication Panel should be sent to
the Organizing Committee, to the attention of Ms. Anastasia Banschikova,
Conference Secretary preferably by e-mail (civ-reg@inafr.ru), or either by
fax (+ 7 095 202 0786), or by ordinary mail (Center for Civilizational and
Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001
Moscow, Russia). The telephone number is: + 7 095 291 4119.

The Conference participant?s registration fee is 100 euros (or the
equivalent sum in US dollars or Russian rubles) which includes the visa
application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry,? culture program,
Conference Book of Abstracts, reception, coffee-breaks, is to be paid on the
spot upon arrival. The fee for an accompanying person is 50 euros (or the
equivalent sum in US dollars or Russian rubles) includes the visa
application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry, participation in
culture program and reception.

PANELS ACCEPTED FOR THE CONFERENCE (In the alphabetical order of titles):

Europe as Political and Cultural Entity: Dialogue of Civilizations or
Civilization of Dialogue?
Convenors: Dr. Ekaterina B. Demintseva (Department of Cultural Anthropology,
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
30/1 Spiridonovka st., 123001 Moscow, Russia; Tel.: + 7 095 291 4119; Fax: +
7 095 202 07 86; E-mail: katia-d@yandex.ru); Timour Atnachev (European
University Institute, Florence, Italy; E-mail: timour.atnachev@iue.it)

The current enlargement of the European Union makes acute even more than
before the question of where do the borders of Europe lie? The question has
two dimensions: political and cultural. Dealing with both or any of the
aspects presupposes choosing one of the two lines of reasoning: Europe may
be considered either as a field of interaction of a number of civilizations
or as one though internally highly diversified civilization. Finally, do the
frontiers of Europe as a political and cultural entity co-insides with the
continent's geographical borders? Anthropology, History, Political and
Social sciences offer different perspectives to answer these questions, and
we invite specialists in these (and other) disciplines to their discussion.
Paper proposals may tackle such problems as social, political, and cultural
exchanges in Europe in past and present, formation of the European political
system and institution and national political cultures, integration of
infra-European and non-European immigrants into the European countries'
societies and cultures, the possibility of national and ethnic cultures'
dissolution in the process of European integration, as well as any other
aspects relevant to the panel's general problematics.
Hierarchical Structures and Local Network Communities in the Muslim World
Convenors: Galina A. Khizriyeva (School of History, Political Science and
Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow; E-mail:
khizriyeva@yahoo.com); Dr. Igor L. Alexeev (School of History, Political
Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow;
E-mail: ialexeev@mail.ru)

The modern state is based ?n two key principles. They are internal hierarchy
and external autonomy. But internal hierarchy of many polities traditionally
includes internal network communities that can compete with internal
hierarchical systems of the state, influence and even corrode it. The
process depends on the character of interrelations between the two
organizational principles ? political hierarchy and network in which
hierarchy is loose and situational. As a result, a state can undergo the
process of its weakening and become an arena for a political crisis and
conflicts. Within the framework of the panel we would like to discuss the
problematic mentioned above with respect to different types of contemporary
Muslim states, societies and communities. However, cases from any part of
the world and of any historical period relevant to the problem of state
emergency out of network communities or vice versa are welcome.


Hierarchy and Power before and after Revolutions
Convenor: Dr. Bahram Navazeni (P.O. Box 288, Department of Political
Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin 34149-16818, Iran;
Tel/Fax: 98 281 367 9092; Fax: 98 281 378 0035; E-mail:
navazenib@ikiu.ac.ir)

The history of mankind has witnessed various types of state systems in which
the main subject has always been the distribution of power. In each type,
ancient or modern, theocratic or democratic, despotic or pluralistic,
different classes and groups have played different roles either in
supporting or opposing the power which might have some relation to a
particular context of cultural, religious, social and economic power.
Classes such as nobles, clergies, bourgeoisie, proletariats and peasants,
and groups such as patriots, zealots, and nationalists may insist on their
will and not ease until the revolution and the collapse of the whole system.
But even when revolutionaries come to power, they find the distribution of
power among themselves and with the opposition as the first task, so the
game still continues. Covering a large area of the political science field,
this panel encourages political scientists, sociologists, historians and all
the others interested in the nature of the old or modern state, and the
power it wields to use historical and contemporary material to illustrate
the theoretical analysis and different and changing will and need of the
ruling vs. revolutionary groups and classes. Papers on the Russian, Persian,
British, American, Turk, Arab, Indian, Chinese, African and other
revolutions in the past and present will surely be appreciated in this
panel. I invite the interested participants to discuss the causes of revolts
and revolutions and to find a way to ease tensions in the civilization as a
whole.


Human Rights in the History of Civilizations
Convenor: Dr. Pattamaporn Busapathumrong (Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Asian University, 89 Moo 12
Highway 331, Banglamung, Chon Buri 20260, Thailand; Tel.: +66 1 8153054;
Fax: +66 38 754 447; E-mails: pattama@asianust.ac.th; pattama15@yahoo.com)

The panel on human rights in history and civilization focuses on exploring
how the economic, political and socio-cultural factors have influenced the
conception, definitions and the emergence of human rights in history and
civilization. This involves social processes in historical dimension
concerning human rights in the areas of human rights violation and the
development of human rights instrument (written and unwritten codes) such as
traumas among those who experience human rights violation, grassroot
movements, peace movements, civil society, legal frameworks and instruments,
the role of government, non-government and international organizations. To
what extent that power strategies vs. stages of political evolution, the
ideology and legitimation of power in different civilizational contexts play
key role in history and civilization including violence and non-violence in
the history of political institution, formation, development and decline;
hierarchy and heterarchy in the sociopolitical history of humankind.


Interpreting Violence: The Confessional, the National, the Generational, and
the Personal
Convenor: Dr. Charles Rheaume (Directorate of History and Heritage, National
Defense Headquarters, 2429, Holly Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K2;
Fax: +1 613 990 85 79, E-mails: rheaume.cc@forces.gc.ca;
crheau@sympatico.ca)

The theme and title of the panel are shaped the way which permits to welcome
papers on a great variety of particular topics related to any country and
historical period. Currently, the confirmed or prospective participants
intend to discuss such problems as the attitude towards the use of force in
the Judaic tradition, essentially that such use is not compatible with that
faith; Canada's self-image as a non-violent nation through the historical
example of Canada's decision not to develop a nuclear bomb of its own after
the Second World War, and its eagerness in engaging in peacekeeping missions
across the world as early as the late 1940s; the interpretation of violence
in Stalinist Russia; the phenomenon of violence as seen through today's
Russian youth; and the inner process by which Danish physicist Niels Bohr
was led from taking part in building up the ultimate means of violence that
nuclear weapons are to advocating their international control.


Modern Mass Media and the Public Sphere: New Challenges and Opportunities
for Democracy

Convenor: Dr. Veronica V. Usacheva (Department of Cultural Anthropology,
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
30/1 Spiridonovka st., 123001 Moscow, Russia; Tel.: + 7 095 291 4119; Fax: +
7 095 202 07 86; E-mails: veronius@mail, veronius@rambler.ru)

Globalization has created new challenges in information space. New models of
communication have emerged. Their influence overcomes states? borders and,
what is even more serious, they have a great potential and capabilities for
destroying the basis and cultural values of a society. In the classical
interpretation by J?rgen Habermas the ?public sphere? is the arena within
which a debate occurs. It is the zone where access to information is
sufficient for more probable rational discourse and looking for mutually
acceptable public standards. The public sphere is where ideas, information
and knowledge are shared, where ideas generated and opinions are
constructed. Although real and experienced, the public sphere cannot be
located in a particular place or identified as an object. It is not a
physical spot where discourse has consequences. For Habermas, correctly
functioning public sphere restricts state power and gives possibilities
through which democracy could be realized. Ideally, the public sphere should
be free from limitations, both private interests and state control. Nowadays
the public sphere as a zone of modern discourse is distorted by unequal
access to information, power and prosperity. What is the role of modern mass
media in the public sphere's formation? What possibilities do they offer
citizens to seek, receive, and impart information? How do mass media provide
equal access to them for different social groups and individuals? Is equal
access possible in the modern world? During the 20th century the state
became a serious player on the public sphere stage, being sometimes
authoritarian or totalitarian monopolist. Information control can serve as a
part and parcel of nation-building. At the same time, media manipulation can
become a weapon of mass deconstruction. What kind of public sphere can exist
in the situation of increasing influence of the state and economic interests
on mass media? Where is the solution to overcome the elitist character of
the public sphere? The progress of communications gives new opportunities
for people to overcome limitations and deficiencies, even social norms and
social control. The many point out that new mass media are revolutionizing
the nature of discourse. The crucial question is: Do people receive now more
information than before? Do we have more zones for public discourse, than
before? Are there any new possibilities for broad and unlimited freedom of
expression, including critical to authorities? The panel will cover both
theoretical and empirical approaches to the mentioned above problems and
encourages papers that deal with the following: public sphere / public
sphericules; modern mass media in maintenance the institutions of civil
societies and democracy; public discourses, their competition and
hierarchical relations.


Networked Cultures: Negotiating Cultural Difference in Contested Spaces
Convenor: Prof. Peter M?rtenb?ck (Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths
College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom;
E-mail: p.mortenbock@gold.ac.uk)

This panel aims to discuss the dynamics and potentials of newly emerging
socio-political network structures and the ways in which they
re-conceptualise socio-political organisation through innovative forms of
spatial practice. It looks at contemporary spatial practices characterised
by a dislocation and dispersion of contributors, participants and
spectators, by processes of fragmentation and multiplication, by a shifting
of perspectives from dominant centralities to networked peripheries,
clandestine economies and virtual sites. In doing so, this panel intends to
question the ways in which the local is reinstalled as a new sphere of
activities which can only be understood through its network of relationships
with other localities. Albeit an increasingly fictitious construct, urban
space continues to be a central site of negotiation between conflicting
cultural histories, narratives and values in Europe and between Europe and
other world regions. Call centres, for instance, create the illusion of
speaking to someone geographically close to the location of the client, they
create a sense of ?hereness?, whereas for economic reasons more and more
call centres of the Western world are relocated to Asia. Territorial
boundaries are both being undermined and upheld as is the case in the
recently proposed building of Austrian prisons in Rumania or the British
border controls on French territory. Both the contested geography and the
contested imaginary described in these and in many other instances are
indicative of a rapidly growing fragmentation and attempted re-stabilisation
of space formed in and by the projection of dominant cultural narratives.
These power moves challenge our traditional understanding of cities as sites
of actual exchange: The exchange between communities is not bound to a
material site any longer, it rather develops into a site of migratory
co-existence and cross-cultural networking. What is at stake in these newly
emerging communities of fleeting identifications and chance encounters is a
new way of thinking through the problematics of an illusory ?hereness? in
relation to an illusory ?thereness?. A crucial question addressed here is
the extent to which we actually participate in these complexities of
socio-political organisation and how we relate to concepts and images
produced by culturally specific groups to which we belong or to which we do
not belong. As participation can no longer be restricted to instruments such
as memberships, polls and questionnaires, we have to look at new modes in
which collectivities (contact zones, nodes of intensities and communities)
are developed. How do new forms of communication and representation, in
particular virtual-spatial ones, change the social spaces where different
cultures meet? How do public fantasies interact with the actual living
conditions of citizens? How do constructions of an illusory ?hereness?
relate to constructions of a similarly illusory ?thereness? Contributions to
this panel will consider different spaces of contested nature: spaces which
exhibit or call for the potentiality of new forms of cohabitation and
cross-cultural fertilisation. It will investigate how such networked
cultures reflect and generate new epistemological models and intends to
critically assess their potential for cultural dialogue.


Power and Identity in Multicultural Societies

Convenor: Prof. Vassili R. Filippov (Department of Ethnoregional Studies,
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, Russia; Tel.: + 7 095 202 3311; Fax: +
7 095 202 0786; E-mail: fvr@east.ru)

The panel is to consider the power and ethnicity interactions in political
practice of contemporary multiethnic states and quasi-states. The following
issues are to be discussed: the problem of ethnic groups as subjects of the
law: collective rights of substantiated ethnic groups vs. the individual's
right for free choice of ethno-cultural identity; political practice of the
ethnic processes optimization in multicultural states; forms of realization
of the individual?s ethno-cultural identity in multicultural states; the
ways of ethnicity's depolitization and politics' deethnization in
multiethnic societies; paradigmatics of contemporary ethnological science
and ideological substantiation of the ethnocratic regimes' legitimation;
ethnic models of power legitimation in political practice of contemporary
states and quasi-states.


Power and Ideology in the Northern Maya Lowlands
Convenor: Prof. Justine M. Shaw (College of the Redwoods, Anthropology
Section, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, CA 95501, USA; Tel.: + 1 707 476
4322; Fax: + 1 707 476 4430; E-mail: justine-shaw@redwoods.edu)

The Northern Yucatan, including much of the modern Mexican states of
Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche, has been the location of a series of
recent and ongoing archaeological projects. Some of the primary objectives
of these ventures have been to simply locate and date settlements in the
region, due to the paucity of prior research and the pressing need to
document sites that are increasingly threatened by modern development.
However, sustained investigations are beginning to allow archaeologists to
test hypotheses concerning the roles of past ideologies in structuring and
legitimizing power, the nature of political organization, and the role of
economy in socio-political processes. While the past and present occupants
of the Northern Lowlands are commonly referred to as the "Maya", this label
belies the cultural diversity within the region, as well as the enormous
amount of culture change that has taken place during the approximately 2,500
years covered by studies in the region. One area in which these changes are
most evident is that of ideologies, which have been continuously manipulated
by a series of powers within the region, starting from the first kings
through Spanish colonial times to the present. Even where writing is not
present, archaeologists have been able to call upon architecture, art, and
the distribution of relatively common artifacts in order to make inferences
about the cosmological programs of particular factions. While kingship is
assumed to be the norm for ancient Maya political organization, an
examination of the scale and distribution of settlement within the Northern
Lowlands makes it clear that, if such kings were the leaders of sites, they
were not all equal. Settlement pattern shifts through time reveal certain
centers, which might be called regional capitals, which were able to attract
substantial populations, while others retained little-to-no residents.
Examinations of the distribution of artifact types and architectural styles
provide insights into the actual areas that such rulers might have
controlled, the strategies that they used to attract and retain followers,
and the degree to which their leadership extended into economic realms.


Status, Society and Accusation: Forms of Accusation and Inquisition from
Antiquity to Renaissance

Convenor: Dr. Nadezhda A. Selonskaia (Center for Comparative Studies of
Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, 32a Leninskii pr., apt. 1501, 119334 Moscow, Russia; Fax: + 7 095
938 1912; E-mails: spes@dr.com spesbona@mail.ru)

The panel is to deal with the concepts of culpa, accusation and inquisition
in a number of political and social contexts. It intends to analyze the
variability of perceptions, representations, and interactions of the secular
and sacred components of these concepts. The goal is also to demonstrate the
role written and oral forms and performances of the process of accusations
and the possible evidence of historical sources can play in interpretation
of the phenomena. The final goal is to indicate the specific features of the
concepts of culpa and accusation not only from the history of law
perspective, but also to analyze the phenomena in the context of social
hierarchy, with attention given to the secular and religious conflicts and
the interests of society's members. Paper proposals are to be focused first
and foremost on the world of Antiquity, Medieval Latin West and Byzantine
Empire, and the Renaissance. However, the framework of the panel could
include not just pagan Antiquity and Christian European civilization but
also a broader historical context of the Mediterranean world.

Structure of Power and Hierarchy in the Chinggis Khan Empire: A
Cross-Cultural Perspective
Convenor: Prof. Nikolay N. Kradin (Institute of History, Archaeology and
Ethnography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 89
Pushkinskaya st., Vladivostok 690950, Russia; Tel.: +7 4232 228 067; Fax: +7
4232 268 211; E-mail: kradin@mail.ru)
The problem of the Mongols' conquests and the place of the Chinggis Khan
empire in the world-system history received new sounding in the last decade.
Activation of its studying is connected with approximation of the 800th
anniversary of the Mongolian empire's declaration in 1206. The fundamental
problem to be discussed in the panel is the structure of power and hierarchy
in the Chinggis Khan empire. The other points for discussion are: Why did
the Mongols rise from a small, little-known people to a powerful empire
which became able to destroy a number of mediaeval civilizations? What role
did Chinggis Khan play in these processes? What were the reasons for
creation of the Mongolian empire and other nomadic empires? What was the
basis of Chinggis Khan's power? What were the features of the Mongols and
other nomadic empires' structure of hierarchy? Was the Mongol empire a state
or a supercomplex chiefdom? Finally, What part did the Mongol empire play in
the world-system processes?


The Cossack Communities, Identity and Power on the Eurasian Space in the
16th ? 20th Centuries

Convenor: Dr. Sergey M. Markedonov (Department of Interethnic Relations
Problems, Institute for Political and Military Analysis, 20/6, bldg. 1
Kuznetskiy Most St., 107031 Moscow, Russia; E-mail: smark@pochta.ru;
smark-72@mail.ru)

During the last 10 or 15 years the history of the Cossacks has been arising
a considerable interest of both academics and politicians. It is manifested
in numerous publications and conferences on the Cossacks. The conferences
have revealed the subjects, dealt with the history of the Cossacks,
predominantly in the context of the events in this or that separate region
(Ukraine, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Far East) or in the context of military
or socio-economic history. Moreover, the Cossacks are considered as a
completely Russian historical phenomenon, while the Cossack communities
existed not only on the territory of contemporary Russia and within the
boundaries of so called ?Slavic area? but also as a part of the Crimea
Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, Qing China. Thus, it is possible to ascertain
that in the public and academy there are still absent an integral notion of
the Cossack phenomenon and its evolution, a typology of the Cossack
communities, etc. The main purpose of the proposed panel is to accumulate
papers on the history of the Cossacks given in the vein of the civilization
approach and regarding the regional factor, implying the research emphasis
on the interrelationship between the individual/community and the state, on
the specific features of culture (in the ethnographic and civil-national
meanings) and psychology, on spatial and symbolic geography, etc. within the
chronological frameworks from stable Cossack communities formation in the
16th century to the 20th century, the period when the Cossacks existed in
different language and cultural milieu (in the Soviet Union and in
emigration) and enjoyed revival in the post-Soviet states. The following
points for discussion may be outlined: the political and judicial
institutions of the Cossacks and their evolution; the relations between the
Cossack communities and the Moscow state, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire,
Poland-Lithuania, etc.; the Cossacks as a phenomenon of intercultural
dialogue (the history of non-Slavic ethnic component in the Cossack
communities); the image of the Cossacks in history (cultural stereotypes of
their perception by other peoples); self-identification of the Cossacks, the
mechanisms of its transmission, the ghosts of the Cossacks? ?nationalism?
and separatism; the Cossacks as a political myth and political ideal in
social thought of Russia, Ukraine, and other European states; the ?Cossack
question? in the official policy and public opinion of the Russian Empire in
the 19th ? early 20th centuries, contemporary Russia and other post-Soviet
states.


The Olmecs of Mesoamerica: Studies in Power and Hierarchy

Convenors: Prof. Richard A. Diehl (Box 870210, Department of Anthropology,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0210, USA; Fax: + 1 205 348
7937; E-mail: rdiehl@tenhoor.as.ua.edu); Dr. Andrei V. Tabarev (Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk University, 17 Lavrentieva St.,
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; E-mail: olmec@yandex.ru)

The Olmecs were the first civilization to emerge in pre-Columbian America.
Although they have long been famous for their spectacular Colossal Heads and
other stone monuments carved from multi-ton basalt boulders, until recently
little was known about the social, political, and economic underpinnings of
this civilization. Recent archaeological and iconographic studies have
revealed a wealth of data on these and many related topics. They will be
addressed by the panel members.

The Ruler and Socio-Cultural Norm in the Ancient World
Convenor: Dr. Alexander A. Nemirovskiy (Center for Comparative Studies of
Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, 32a Leninskiy pr., 119334 Moscow, Russia; Fax: + 7 095 938 1912;
E-mails: sidelts@inbox.ru; alexandre_029@yahoo.com; alexandre_092@yahoo.com)

The panel is designed to bring together papers on a rather specific topic.
One of the main questions we face while studying the phenomenon of hierarchy
as a means of society's (self)organization is redistribution of activities
and competence (both nominal and real) between rulers on the one hand and
the whole society on the other hand, especially with respect to the problem
of how social norms are maintained, modified and introduced. Every society
functions according to some rules, guaranteed by the society on the whole
and, specifically, by its political hierarchy. This hierarchy holds at its
disposal some opportunities and rights to change and interpret old norms, to
introduce new ones or to ignore them both on some extraordinary occasions
and to some degree; the norm itself recognizes and sets forward some rules
at this point. It would be a complicated but useful task to determine and
understand nominal and real limits of these rights and opportunities, and
the panel is just aimed at contributing to this field. In this respect
ancient civilizations share some specific traits: it is precisely at this
stage of socio-cultural development that new-born hierarchies intervene in
the sphere of creation, manipulation and use of norms especially actively
and in various ways; on the other hand, this problematic is thought upon,
realized and developed very eagerly, but the society (contrary to the modern
period) does not codify or regularize the corresponding collisions; it
defines only the recommended vectors of behavior for the situations when it
deals with these collisions, but it does not create a system of concrete and
formalized mechanisms, institutions, or rules for their resolving. It means
that while exploring the essence and functioning of norms in antiquity we
must look more for precedents and cases (and their evaluation by society)
than for laws or edicts.


The Structure and Legitimation of Power in Ancient Societies of North-East
Africa, the Near and Middle East

Convenors: Prof. Eleonora E. Kormysheva (Institute for Oriental Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences, 12 Rozhdestvenka St., Moscow, Russia; E-mail:
eleonora@orc.ru); Dr. Dan?el Kahn (Haifa University, Israel; E-mail:
danelka@netvision.net.il)

The proposed thematic scope of the panel includes the evidence from
societies belonging to a single Kulturkreis. The major factor of its
development might be defined as the strong political and ideological
influence of the great rivers? (the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates)
civilizations. The regions of this area represent all the three variants of
social and political evolution in the typology established by Igor Diakonoff
(relative preponderance of the state economy and the ?despotic? political
structure ? Southern Mesopotamia, early South-Western Iran ? Elam; total
preponderance of the state economy and the ?despotic? political structure ?
Egypt; the economic preponderance of rural communities, which also had a
strong influence on the royal power of mostly military character, - Sudan,
Eastern Mediterranean, the Armenian Upland, the Iranian Upland in the time
of formation and heyday of ethnically Iranian political structures, Asia
Minor). However, the doubtless historical leaders of the whole area, as to
the formation of the earliest polities (Fourth to early Third Millennia
B.C.E.), their regional entities (early to mid-Third Millennium B.C.E.), and
expansion to peripheral regions (actually, also from Fourth Millennium
B.C.E.) were the regions of the great rivers? valleys ? Egypt and Southern
Mesopotamia. Hence, their civilizations were bound to lay a guiding imprint
not only on their immediate periphery but also on more distant areas, which
happened to fall into their scope (e.g., copper-mine regions of Asia Minor,
which became a victim of the aggression of the Mesopotamian Akkadian empire
as early as in the 24th-23rd centuries B.C.E.). The scope of the panel is
supposed to comprise the whole extend of the area?s ancient history, up to
its early medieval period including the time after the Macedonian conquest,
when the area became a formative zone of the syncretic Hellenistic
civilization (ca. 3rd century B.C.E. ? 3rd century C.E.). This chronological
and territorial extend permits to study within the panel a vast variety of
interrelations between societies of different types (all forms of social
evolution in the Diakonoff?s typology plus classical Greek city-states) and
their respective ideologies and cultures in the sphere of construing and
legitimating political structures.

Transitions, Transformations and Interactions of Hierarchical Structures and
Social Networks in the Late 20th ? Early 21st Centuries

Convenors: Dr. Alexei G. Loutskiy (Social Affairs Department, Moscow
Government; Tel.: + 7 095 290 7454; Fax: + 7 095 957 9682; E-mail:
shaanxi@mail.ru); Oleg I. Kavykin (Department of Cultural Anthropology,
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
30/1 Spiridonovka st., 123001 Moscow, Russia; Tel.: + 7 095 291 4119; Fax: +
7 095 202 07 86; E-mails: atrociter@mail.ru; oleg.kavykin@inafr.ru)

The panel's objective is to shed light on the following problems, among
others relevant to the panel's problematics: the partial transition of power
from hierarchical structures to social networks; institutionalization of
subcultures and the process of transformation from network organizations to
hierarchical structures; the pathways of hierarchies and networks
transformations; the principle of complimentarity in the network and
hierarchical structures functioning; global and local trends in the
hierarchical structures and networks development and transformations.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Apr 13 17:55:46 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr 13 17:05:41 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
Message-ID: <040e01c5406c$f15b8640$ed95a6ac@toshibauser>

Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
Deadline: October 3, 2005

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards
approximately 45 fully funded fellowships each year. Radcliffe Institute
fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and
writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment, who wish to
pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts.
Applicants must have received their doctorate or appropriate terminal degree
by December 2004 in the area of the proposed project. Radcliffe welcomes
proposals from small groups of scholars who have research interests or
projects in common. Please check the Web site for more information.
The stipend amount is $55,000. Fellows receive office space and access to
libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship
year, which extends from early September 2006 through June 30, 2007,
residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the
Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress
and to attend other fellows' events. Applications must be postmarked by
October 3, 2005.

Radcliffe Application Office
34 Concord Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
ph: 617-496-1324
fax: 617-495-8136
Email: fellowships@radcliffe.edu
Visit the website at http://www.radcliffe.edu.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Apr 15 12:43:05 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 15 11:57:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Istanbul Fragmented
Message-ID: <00d101c541d4$233c3e30$8e0a9bac@toshibauser>

From: Ipek Akpinar <ipekakpinar@yahoo.co.uk>

Deadline for Abstracts: 23 MAY 2005
Workshop application deadline for students: 30 MAY 2005

ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED
Istanbul, 21 - 25 September 2005
www.if2005.itu.edu.tr
Istanbul Technical University-Faculty of Architecture

ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED 2005  invites abstract and poster
proposals.

The purpose of ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED '05 is to provide an experimental
discussion platform on urban representation for experts in the cultural
fields to compare a series of speculative recent approaches by the
young researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.

ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED '05 will be an opportunity to enhance
interdisciplinary ties between those in the academic world exploring
ideas of city, and those practitioners and organizations focused on
urban works.

The theme of the city fragmented places emphasis on urban design models
and ideals, contrasting with the diversity of cities and urban
situations. In this context, ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED '05 is a platform in
conceiving the city as a place for the intersection of historical and
cultural identities, and in representing the city through the media of
photography in particular as well as literature, art, film and performance.

ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED '05 coincides with the 9th International Istanbul
Biennale between 16 September- 30 October 2005, co-curated by Charles
Esche and Vasif Kortun. The title of the Biennale is "Istanbul"
refferring both to the real urban location and the imaginative charge
that this city represents for the world.

Combining a symposium in the format of round table discussions and a
series of workshops in the field of urban-architecture-landscape-art,
the organizers have sought to develop a programme that will look beyond
the familiar images of cities and focus rather on the past-today-future
of the city with a challenging approach.

The Conference will address the following sub-themes:

1. Representation of Istanbul by a foreigner: the Past
Moderator: Vasif Kortun

The role of visual and textual documentation of the local by a
foreigner, exploration the power of urban representation via
photography in particular.

Ottoman Istanbul - critique of orientalism effects of urban photography
in the making of propaganda

Travellers and photography: (re)reading Istanbul after the photographs
of foreigners, James Robertson in particular:

2. Urban Representation:Today
Moderator: Arda Inceoglu

Representation of "the real" in the city

Representation of the "distortion" in Istanbul and in
other cities: the loss of the real

Representation & art

Photography as art

3. Speculative projections for the urban future:
Istanbul and the city in general

Moderator: Arzu Erdem

Representation of urban experience

Representation of every day life

Distopias/heterotopias/ hyper-reality

Hybrid identities/ hybrid formations
in-between

The conference schedule will be enhanced by a program
of workshops and exhibitions.

WORKSHOP
The workshop ateliers are organised by guest professional from various
disciplines for international students from departments of
architecture-landscape architecture- urban design-art-cultural studies.

EXHIBITIONS
The competition of an international competition of urban photography
will be exhibited, and the awards will be given during the conference.

CONFERENCE
Conference proceedings and presentations will be in
English.


We welcome submissions in two categories: papers and
posters

PAPERS
Those interested in presenting a paper should send an
extended abstract of 600 to max 750 words, plus a
resume of 300 words, including a list of relevant
recent publications.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by two members of the scientific
committee. Each session of the conference focuses on the discussion of
a pre-circulated paper. A keynote lecture will be delivered in the
beginning of each round table discussion. Presentation of the papers
will be 15 minutes in length for 4 person panels.

POSTERS
The format of the poster will be A4, and should be sent as a jpeg
format. Accepted ones will be published in the conference proceedings
and will be presented. The exhibition of accepted ones will be in A2
hard copies, and will be brought by the participant.


important dates
23 MAY: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS

30 MAY: WORKSHOP APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR STUDENTS

01 JULY: ACCEPTANCE NOTICE for abstracts

01 SEPTEMBER: SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS and POSTERS

21 ? 25 SEPTEMBER 2005 SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOP &
EXHIBITIONS


PUBLICATIONS
Accepted abstracts and posters will be published in conference
proceedings, and distributed to conference attendees.
Presented contributions and the results of the workshops will be
published in the edited post-conference book.


REGISTRATION FEE: 275 euro (includes opening and
closing dinners; caf?-breaks; documents; city    tour;
biennale entry)

POSTER FEE : 130 euro (includes opening and closing
dinners; caf?-breaks; documents; city tour; biennalle
entry)

WORKSHOP FEE FOR STUDENTS: 100 euro (includes
accommodation; opening and closing dinners;
caf?-breaks; documents; city tour; biennalle entry)

For up-to-date information on the conference, please
visit the conference web site regularly at:
http:// www.if2005.itu.edu.tr

All submissions and queries should be emailed to:
if2005@itu.edu.tr


Looking forward seeing you in ?stanbul

Dr.Ipek AKPINAR
coordinator

ISTANBUL FRAGMENTED  2005
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
TASKISLA building-Taksim
34437, Istanbul-Turkey
phone:  90 212 293 13 00 (23 43)
fax:    90 212 251 48 95
akpinari@itu.edu.tr
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Apr 15 13:15:12 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 15 12:12:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP AIDS Conference: Bridging the gap between policy, research and
 interventions
Message-ID: <014e01c541d6$51127ca0$8e0a9bac@toshibauser>

 ?Bridging the gap between policy, research and interventions?

October 10th -14th 2005
_______
H?tel Meridien President
Dakar, Senegal


SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use
social science research to prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS and
mitigate the impact of its devastation on South Africa, the SADC region and
sub-Saharan Africa.

This Social Aspect of AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) is a channel for
facilitating the sharing of research expertise, sharing knowledge,
conducting multi-site and multi-country research projects that are
exploratory, cross-sectional, comparative or intervention-based with the
explicit aim of generating new social science evidence for prevention, care
and impact mitigation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on individuals, families and
communities.

The SAHARA research network project is funded by DFID (United Kingdom), CIDA
(Canada) and implemented by the Human Science Research Council (South
Africa) in partnership with the Tropical Institute for Community Health
(Kenya) and University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (Senegal).

Goals and themes of the conference

The conference will bring together stakeholders interested in the Social
Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research in Africa.

The conference is expected to embrace all institutions, networks and
alliances.

The Conference should be of specific interest to researchers and
policymakers who are interested in the following themes:


 - The cultural and socio-economic environment of vulnerability and access
to treatment.

 - Social, economic and psychological impact of HIV/AIDS on African women,
communities and countries.

 - Gender inequalities and access to prevention, treatment and care.

 - Stigma and social aspects of prevention, voluntary testing, treatment and
care.

- The burden of HIV/AIDS on the health care system and the involvement of
the private sector in the fight against AIDS.

 - Policies, programs and responses to international, national and local
plans.

 - The nutrition and feeding of people living with HIV/AIDS and social
aspects of mother to child transmission of the disease.

 - Behavioral changes, structural changes and assessment of the
interventions.

 - Socio-behavioral surveillance and socio-cultural aspects of
epidemiological surveillance.

 - Street children, sexual abuse, children in war and conflict situations;
ethnic and legal issues regarding the rights of women and children.

?        Abstracts on themes not appearing on this list may also be accepted
for presentation.

Call for abstracts:
We welcome the submission of abstracts for original contribution to the
field of HIV/AIDS.
Guidelines on how to submit your abstract can be found on the conference
website.
Use the following URL link:
http://www.sahara.org.za/conference/submission.php

The deadline for abstract submission is  May 15, 2005.

The SAHARA 2004 Conference in Cape Town (May 9 - 12th  2004) attracted over
350 delegates from 33 countries.

Click here for more information about the Conference:
http://www.sahara.org.za/conference/index.php

The Conference will be held in Dakar Senegal, October 10 - 14th  2005, at
the Hotel Meridien President.

Contacts:
 Dr Cheikh Ibrahima Niang
Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement
Facult? des Sciences et Techniques
Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop
Dakar - S?n?gal
BP : 45716
Tel : 221 825 19 57
Fax : 221 824 60 25
Email : saharaconf05@sentoo.sn
http://www.sahara.org.za/conference/submission.php





From migration at ssrc.org  Tue Apr 19 12:09:36 2005
From: migration at ssrc.org (migration)
Date: Tue Apr 19 11:35:40 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship Announcement
Message-ID: <6AE7EEC3D4BE2E44B6907916A5841E1F035E485B@mail.ssrc.org>



The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are pleased to announce a fellowship for U.S. and Canadian scholars to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the U.S. or Canada, between July 2005 and September 2006. Approximately ten research fellowships of up to $7,500 (approx. ?5000) will be awarded.

Applicants should have received a Ph.D in one of the social sciences (including history) by the time the proposed visiting fellowship would start. They should have been based in the U.S., Canada, or Britain for at least two years before the application deadline of June 1, 2005. The fellowship is open to scholars from U.S. and Canadian universities, colleges, independent research organisations, and public agencies and to scholars at ESRC-supported centres, programmes, groups and networks in Britain. 

Fundable activities include but are not strictly limited to: 
	*	engaging in collaborative or complementary research that will add a comparative focus to existing or new research projects; 
	*	engaging with a range of researchers, including younger scholars, to stimulate international and comparative dimensions to their thinking; 
	*	writing co-authored papers, articles, and books; 
	*	developing new proposals for joint research. 

The deadline for applications is June 1, 2005. More information about the fellowship, and application forms, can be found at www.ssrc.org. 

Contact: 
Elisabeth Roesch
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(212) 377-2700
email:  migration@ssrc.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr 19 12:44:26 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 19 11:42:32 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 PhD Fellowship in Migration, Diversity and Social Change (Dublin)
Message-ID: <006f01c544f6$b7244be0$fe5396ac@toshibauser>

Two-Year PhD Fellowship in Migration, Diversity and Social Change

Applications are invited for a two-year PhD fellowship, funded by the Royal
Irish Academy Third Sector Research Programme and hosted by the Migration &
Citizenship Research Initiative (MCRI), a new, dynamic interdisciplinary
research programme located in the Geary Institute at University College
Dublin. The fellowship is intended to fund a doctoral student pursuing a PhD
in the broad area of migration, diversity social change. It will provide a
unique opportunity for the successful candidate to gain valuable, paid
training and experience while working toward the fulfilment of the doctoral
degree. The post (?14,000 per annum, exclusive of fees and tuition) will be
based on a fixed term contract for one year in the first instance, renewable
for a second year.

The Migration & Citizenship Research Initiative

Having only recently undergone the transition from a country of emigration
to one of net in-migration, one of the most significant areas of change in
contemporary Ireland is that linked to migration. The related social and
institutional transformations taking place are dynamic and far-reaching. As
such, the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative has been established
by an interdisciplinary team of UCD staff, associated postgraduates and
national and international affiliates. The MCRI, led by Dr. Alice Feldman
(Sociology) as part of a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship and Dr.
Mary Gilmartin (Geography), is currently in its initial stages of
development, and seeks to provide the infrastructure necessary for promoting
excellence in migration-related scholarship, training and research
contributions to policy and practice at national and international levels.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

The Fellowship will involve participation in
?       a research project on immigrant-led mobilisation and the development
intercultural capital in Irish civil society led by Dr Alice Feldman
(Sociology Department) (*This project can also be the focus of the fellow?s
PhD research, which, while recommended, is not mandatory.)
?       the development and administration of MCRI activities
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From oxusnet at gmail.com  Tue Apr 19 15:35:52 2005
From: oxusnet at gmail.com (Kerim Friedman)
Date: Tue Apr 19 22:43:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L][Linganth] Please Vote "No" on AAA Referendum #2
Message-ID: <5.1.1.5.2.20050419143502.02976ef8@pop.mail.drexel.edu>

I thought this note was worth sharing.  It was just posted today (4/19) on 
the linguistic anthropology listserver.

Regards,

Rachel Reynolds
________________________________________________________________________________________

[Please Distribute Widely]

Dear fellow AAA Members,

I admit it, I normally throw my AAA ballot in the circular file. But
this year I didn't, because I knew that there were some important
labor related issues at stake. However, as I sat down to vote, I
realized just how confusing the wording is for Referendum #2. Although
it might seem otherwise, if you wish to support the collective
bargaining rights of workers in the United States, you should vote
"no" on this referendum!

Voting "no" will keep the current wording of the guidelines passed by
the AAA executive board last December.

Voting "no" will keep the wording as follows:

"AAA staff responsible for negotiating and administering meeting venue
contracts shall select only meeting facilities whose staff are
represented by a union."

Voting "yes" will have the adverse affect of changing this wording to
remove the word "must" and replace it with "strongly prefers," thus
weakening our bargaining position in negotiating contracts with hotel
and conference chains.

Referendum #2 misrepresents the number of venues that the AAA will
continue to be able to use we keep the current language. It does this
by listing venues the AAA has historically attended, rather than all
the potential venues we could continue to use.

Please take the time to vote on this important ballot.

Vote "no" on Referendum #2.

You can comment on this referendum, and view other comments, at the
following URL;

<http://www.aaanet.org/committees/nom/05comments/05_ref_mtgs.htm>

Thank you.

P. Kerim Friedman
Visiting Professor of Anthropology
Haverford College
On behalf of AAA-UNITE
http://aaaunite.blogspot.com
The views expressed here are my own.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Apr 21 12:19:48 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 21 11:17:45 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural,
 Economic and Social Sustainability
Message-ID: <001801c54685$91cb1f50$577d84ac@toshibauser>

The Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and
Social Sustainability
Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, 9-12 January, 2006
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which
environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It
will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking
varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of
sustainability.

As well as impressive line up of international main speakers, the
conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium 
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly 
like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted
for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published
in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of
Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. If you are
unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also
available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible
publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to
the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the
next round call-for-papers 1 June 2005. Proposals are usually reviewed
within four weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form,
are to be found at the conference website.

Yours Sincerely,


Emily Edwards
Pacific-Asia Observatory for Cultural Diversity and Human Development
Australian National University
On behalf of the Sustainability Conference Organising Committee

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Apr 21 12:40:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 21 11:39:06 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Connected Space" (Cambridge)
Message-ID: <00a901c54688$8a05f530$577d84ac@toshibauser>

 'Connected Space'

Saturday and Sunday 14th--15th May 2005,
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

Connected Space brings together scholars from related but often disengaged
disciplines, focusing on the problematic nature of space.

Geography, Anthropology, Fashion, Architecture, Sociology, Art, Archaeology

Speakers include: Rachel Ballantyne, Matthew Barac, Emma Beadsmoore, Victor
Buchli, Peter Carl, Duncan Garrow, Jay Gort, Vedia Izzet, Mark Knight,
Raymond Lucas, Pete Manfield, Trevor Marchand, Linda McDowell, Lesley
McFadyen, Tim O'Riley, Paula Orrell, PocketVisions, Debby Ray, Jane Rendell,
Chris Scarre, Debra Benita Shaw, Elizabeth Shove and Ann Varley.

To register, or to obtain further information, please e-mail Lesley McFadyen
(lm10012@cam.ac.uk) or Matthew Barac (mjwb2@cam.ac.uk).


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Apr 22 10:59:32 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 22 09:57:37 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 New Book: Maria Chee's _Taiwanese American Transnational Families_
Message-ID: <001701c54743$85e07d70$970d8dac@toshibauser>

Maria Chee (waimaria2000@yahoo.com) has published a new book, which she
announces to SUNTA colleagues in the message below:



First, please allow me to thank those of you who have helped in ways that
make the following possible.  You know who you are, it is truly team work.
Now comes the news:

Routledge has just released my book Taiwanese American Transnational
Families: Women and Kin Work.  Copies can be ordered at the Customer Service
Dept at Routledge, (800) 634-7064. International orders please contact
heidi.milner-mith@taylorandfrancis.com

With appreciation,
Maria

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Theoretical Consideration and Methodology
2. Historical Chinese American Transnational Families
3. Immigration from Taiwan: From Early Arrivals to Concentration in
Southern California
4. Taiwanese Immigrants' Impact on Local Communities
5. Migration from the Women's Standpoints
6. Global Political Economy, Local Disadvantages, and Transnational
Families
7. Migration Decision and Power Relations
8. Impact on Women as Workers, Mothers, and Individuals
9. Impact on Marital Relations
10. Summary and Conclusion
Epilogue


From slyoncallo at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 22 08:21:35 2005
From: slyoncallo at yahoo.com (lyon-callo vincent)
Date: Fri Apr 22 11:09:19 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another  New Book of Possible Interest
In-Reply-To: 6667
Message-ID: <20050422142135.2415.qmail@web50404.mail.yahoo.com>

I also have a recently published book that some SUNTA members might find interesting.  The information from the publisher's website is below:
 
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance 
Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry 
By Vincent Lyon-Callo




Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activists, policy makers, and homeless people focused attention on market-based and individualized practices of reform and governance, collective efforts that challenged an economy dependent on low wage jobs, declining housing affordability, and the dismantling of the social safety net were marginalized and ignored. Homelessness continued, despite, and partly due to, the limitations of the neoliberal approach. 

Combining the rich detail of an ethnographic study with the systemic examination of political economic studies, this book offers a view of homelessness and inequality that is rarely explored elsewhere. Chapters include discussion of the medicalization of homelessness, the difficulty of finding paid employment given broader political economic conditions, how shelter staff are trained to manage homeless people, how statistics are used to produce ideas of homeless people as deviants, and how funding concerns affect possibilities for resistance. Key to the study is an activist approach that raises the possibilities and problems associated with a publicly engaged anthropology. 

Comments: 

"In short, this is a terrific book.... Lyon-Callo’s descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them. His arguments are clear and convincing; he made me think in different ways about issues I thought I already understood." - Susan Greenbaum, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida

"With a masterful blend of theory, sophisticated ethnographic analysis and personal commitment, Lyon-Callo achieves his ambitious goal. Moving way beyond the usual focus on the homeless, he conveys a clear, convincing, and grounded understanding of the complex processes which produce policies, professional expertise, and popular 'common sense,' and [which] ultimately constrain the subjectivities of guests and staff in a homeless shelter." - Judith Goode, Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Temple University

Vincent Lyon-Callo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. He also worked in homeless shelters in Connecticut and Massachusetts throughout most of the 1990s. His work on poverty, neoliberal policies, and the possibilities of an activist ethnography has been published in a wide range of academic journals and volumes.   
http://`www.broadviewpress.com/bybooks.asp?BookID=675

 
 
 

 

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From alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it  Sun Apr 24 13:45:59 2005
From: alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it (Alessandro Camiz)
Date: Sun Apr 24 06:45:44 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]THE STATE ARCHIVES IN ROME
In-Reply-To: <E1DOe66-0005kz-Fz@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1DOe66-0005kz-Fz@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <200504241245590290.0033870A@mail.iol.it>

International Study Centre for the History of Cities 
http://www.storiadellacitta.it/intro_e.htm

English digest:

Translating the contents of the site with the newly published paper:

DONATO TAMBLÈ, THE STATE ARCHIVES IN ROME
http://www.storiadellacitta.it/fonti_archivio/ASR_e.rtf

--------------------------------
Alessandro Camiz, ADI member
Ph.D. candidate in History of Cities
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Ar_Cos-Dipartimento di Architettura e Costruzione
Centro di Documentazione su Roma
http://w3.uniroma1.it/cdr
Via Gramsci 53
00197 Rome, Italy
Room  8
telephone ++396 49919133
mobile: -++39 338 8713648
email: alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it
website: http://www.storiadellacitta.it
--------------------------------


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Apr 24 21:49:59 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Apr 24 16:50:01 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 New BOOK: Susan Mazur-Stommen's _Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal
 in Rostock_
Message-ID: <005301c560a2$59e6e600$3f91d0ac@toshibauser>

From: Susan Mazur-Stommen <susanmazur@hotmail.com>


Dear colleagues, I also have a new book to announce (perhaps we need a 
regular column;-))

Susan Mazur-Stommen
Engines of Ideology
Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany 1990-2000
Reihe: European Studies in Culture and Policy
Bd. 2, 2005, 240 S., 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 3-8258-6892-3
http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-6892-3

"An ethnography of the practices of urban planners, politicians, and other 
community actors in Rostock, this book explores the relationship between 
ideology and specific architectural forms, the role of revitalization 
programs with external funding in this process, and possible conclusions 
regarding the future of other small cities in the Baltic region. "

Check it out!

Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Anthropologist
University of California, Riverside

susanmazur@hotmail.com
www.susanmazur.com

951.687.8661 home (new)
951.907.8069 cell


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Apr 24 19:14:19 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Apr 24 18:14:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Dearborn on Gibson, _Securing the Spectacular City_
Message-ID: <00fc01c5491b$1e0732a0$3f91d0ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu (April 2005)

Timothy A. Gibson. _Securing the Spectacular City: The Politics of
Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown Seattle_. Lanham: Lexington
Books, 2004. 312 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-7391-0569-8.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Dr. Lynne Dearborn <dearborn@uiuc.edu>,
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Equitable Urban Redevelopment in the Globalized City?

Urban environments in the United States have suffered as a result of
competition in an increasingly global market place. In this context, U.S.
cities begin at a disadvantage as a result of federal policies that have,
over time, increasingly supported suburbanization at the expense of central
cities and have whittled away aid to cities. Because of wage and benefits
expectations, unionization, and existing regulations, U.S. cities have not
fared well in the contest for multinational corporate investment and jobs.
In the face of fierce competition for private investment and thus an
increase in the urban tax base, leaders in some cities have engaged in what
Timothy Gibson terms a "spectacularizing" of the urban fabric. By this he
means promoting development of large, glittering office towers, yielding to
the demands of developers which may skirt zoning regulations to increase
profits, providing subsidies for large-scale development, and investing
public funds in upscale shopping districts and buildings that provide
high-culture experiences. All of these efforts and resources are expended
to provide cultural amenities that might lure global corporations and their
white-collar employees to a particular city, and draw wealthy tourists and
convention-goers. According to Gibson, the growth of the "spectacular city"
has been accomplished at the expense of development that benefits a wider
public. Likewise, the urban fabric created does not provide true public
urban space, but rather space that is privately controlled by those
corporations who own it. The result, as the author demonstrates in his case
study of creating "spectacular" Seattle, is that people of modest incomes
and few resources are driven away as moderately priced housing is torn down
to make way for world-class development projects. The marginalized in
society--fixed-income pensioners, immigrants, low-income families, and the
homeless--are associated with urban decay while new fashionable development
is associated with the rejuvenation of the city.

The author focuses on the fall and rise of the city of Seattle from the
mid-1970s through the end of the 1990s. Gibson prefaces his urban case
study with a description of Fordist and post-Fordist economic agendas in
the United States and the impact of these on U.S. corporations and U.S.
workers. He then describes in minute detail two different stories about
development in Seattle. The first concerns the development of large-scale
office towers in downtown Seattle in the 1980s including, for example,
Prescott's Pacific First Center and Unico's Two Union Square. Rapid
development of a skyline full of "trophy" skyscrapers led to a glut of
office space in the city just as the recession of 1990 took hold.
Developers were subsequently cautious and demanded concessions from the
city, while the city government became exceedingly pro-business throughout
the 1990s. The second story concerns the battles among Seattle's business
interests, advocates for the homeless and for preservation of public open
space, and the mayor and the city council in the 1990s. The business
interests in this story included the Nordstrom family, developer Jeff
Rhodes (who is seen by some as the savior of the retail core of the city),
as well as several other small-business property owners who expected to
benefit from public investment in the cultural district, which contains the
new Benaroya Symphony Hall and the Seattle Art Museum. Advocates for the
common good included several shrewd individuals who came together to
support providing low-cost housing and services for the homeless as well as
a group who sought to protect the one true public space in the retail core
area, West Lake Park. The mayor and the city council vacillated over the
course of the 1990s, supporting first the business interests, then the
advocates for broad access to the central city and then the business
interests again.

As a result of strong-arm tactics by both the pro-business group and their
opponents, a compromise ultimately gave something to both sides. When the
owner of the Mann Building, David Gellatly, discovered that a business deal
for his building might fall through because of the homeless service center
proposed for the basement of the Glen Hotel next door, he went public in a
front page story in the _Puget Sound Business Journal_ where he exaggerated
the size, scope, and hours of operation of the homeless service center. He
also exaggerated the patron to staff ratio at the center which incited
fears of drug deals in the center and incivilities on the sidewalk outside.
He followed this with a lawsuit to stop construction of the center. In
response, LIHI, the group developing the homeless service center, demanded
a million dollars to stop their project. When that demand was not met, LIHI
proposed an impossible task: find an alternative site in the central part
of Seattle. This battle continued until LIHI agreed to develop the center
in another building on the fringe of the city core, aided by one million
dollars from the City. In exchange, they were able to save another 47 units
of affordable housing. However, as Gibson points out, this compromise was
really a loss of true urban experience, by which I mean street-level mixing
of diverse people who live and work in Seattle's downtown blocks.
Fashionable shops and high-culture establishments for high-end consumers,
which Gibson terms salvation by retail, replaced this experience of
diversity. Urban public space was replaced with privately owned commercial
space.

This book provides several well-documented and captivating stories that
draw the reader into specific events in the timeline that transformed
Seattle from a sleepy port city to the desirable location it is today. In
telling these stories, Timothy Gibson relies extensively on the Seattle
City Archives, news accounts from the mainstream and alternative press, as
well as semi-structured interviews and census data. He also aptly situates
the case of Seattle in the discussion of post-modern and tourist-oriented
urban development, the strategy supported by many city governments in the
United States.

If the author's purpose in this book is to convince readers that
pro-business urban re-development strategies do not, in and of themselves,
provide equitable distribution of public resources such as truly accessible
urban public spaces--parks and restrooms, affordable housing, and retail
establishments that provide for modest-income shoppers, his message is
muddled by the book's organization. The title of the book adds to this
confusion because it focuses attention on spectacularizing the city. While
the author briefly addresses some issues associated with creating a
spectacular city, such as the desire to remove the homeless from sight, he
does not analyze more complex questions. When human interactions are
increasingly commercialized, what are the trade-offs? What are the urban
spatial consequences of skyscrapers taking the place of human-scaled
buildings?

Introducing the material about pro-business urban re-development strategies
early in the book, in place of the detailed discussion of economic theory,
would have carried the reader into the subsequent chapters with Gibson's
main theme firmly in mind. Chapters one and two, which discuss broad
economic trends, are too long and lose the reader's attention. The theory
might have been more useful integrated with the later case studies. This
would have served to tie together the various events told in the book with
the author's main thesis. Throughout most of the book, the author's
treatment is too even-handed regarding the developers' stories. When Gibson
finally assembles his argument in the final chapter of the book, he does so
insightfully, making his sympathy for the advocates of public amenities
clear. The idea of "the spectacular" holds promise and perhaps can be
developed further in future scholarship. In doing so, it would be well to
provide more comparisons to "spectacular" development in other cities both
inside the United States and in other countries. Despite the book's
weaknesses, the stories told are very instructive. With the appropriate
preface and linkages, the book can provide an educational case study for
students of planning, advocacy, and large-scale real estate development.

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         the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
         educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
         author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
         H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
         contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu.


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Apr 25 08:24:06 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 25 10:24:19 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN re: new books in general
Message-ID: <1114439045.426cfd8603d23@webmail.sfsu.edu>

[Forwarded from Elzbieta Gozdziak:]

New books can be featured in the SUNTA column in AN.  If you wish to 
include a short blurb about your new publication, please send it (along 
with a picture of the cover and/or the author) to Elzbieta Gozdziak at 
emg27@georgetown.edu

From mjwb2 at cam.ac.uk  Mon Apr 25 15:15:56 2005
From: mjwb2 at cam.ac.uk (M.J.W. Barac)
Date: Mon Apr 25 10:24:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 For posting on the circulation list: Connected Space conference,
 May 14th-15th 2005 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Prayer.1.0.13.0504251415560.12592@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>



...........................................................................


`Connected Space'

Saturday and Sunday 14th--15th May 2005, McDonald Institute, Cambridge UK.

Connected Space brings together related but often disengaged disciplines. 
Scholars and practitioners in Geography, Anthropology, Fashion, 
Architecture, Sociology, Art, and Archaeology will address the problem of 
space in seven sessions over two days. Notes on the conference theme, a 
poster, and a programme including paper titles can be downloaded at 
http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/whatsup/index.html.

Speakers include: Matthew Barac, Emma Beadsmoore, Victor Buchli, Peter
Carl, Duncan Garrow, Jay Gort, Vedia Izzet, Mark Knight, Raymond Lucas,
Pete Manfield, Trevor Marchand, Linda McDowell, Lesley McFadyen, Tim
O'Riley, Paula Orrell, PocketVisions, Debby Ray, Jane Rendell, Chris
Scarre, Debra Benita Shaw, Elizabeth Shove, Carolyn Steel, and Ann Varley.
Other participants include Graeme Barker, Marcial Echenique, Caroline
Humphrey, and Sir Colin Renfrew.

To register, or to obtain further information, please e-mail Matthew Barac
(mjwb2@cam.ac.uk) or Lesley McFadyen (lm10012@cam.ac.uk). Tickets are ?30
(full rate), ?20 (student rate) for both days, or ?22.50 (full rate), ?15
(student rate) for one day only.

This conference is sponsored by the MacDonald Institute of Archaeological 
Research, the Department of Architecture, and the Department of Archaeology 
at the University of Cambridge. We are also grateful for support from 
CRASSH, John Wiley & Sons, Oxbow Books, Phaidon Press Ltd, Routledge, 
Cambridge University Press, Thames & Hudson, Manchester University Press, 
and Berg Publishers. 
...........................................................................



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Apr 25 13:00:15 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 25 11:59:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Another New Book: Alan Smart's _Petty Capitalists and Globalization_ 
Message-ID: <006301c549af$e388b960$b1b29fac@toshibauser>

From: Alan Smart <asmart@ucalgary.ca>

Since we are in the new book announcement mode, here is one more:
      

Petty Capitalists and Globalization
Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development.  SUNY Press, 
2005.  Alan Smart and Josephine Smart (eds.)

      Globalization is often seen as driven by large corporations and 
supranational organizations. Enterprises operated by petty capitalists may 
be small, but there is nothing petty about their significance for the 
operation of economies or our understanding of contemporary societies, 
families, and localities. Petty Capitalism and Globalization uses 
ethnographic research to examine how small firms in Europe, Asia, and Latin 
America have been compelled to operate and compete in a fast-moving 
transnational economic environment. From Nepalese rug makers to German 
bakers to Taiwanese memory chip designers, these fascinating case studies 
delve into the complex situation of petty capitalists, often ambiguously 
situated between capital and labor, cooperation and exploitation, family and 
economy, tradition and modernity, friends and competitors. Understanding the 
position of petty capitalists in a global economy provides lessons in the 
potential and limitations of promoting small firms and entrepreneurship as a 
route to sustainable development.

      Contributors include Michael Blim, Hans Buechler, Judith-Maria 
Buechler, Hill Gates, Simone Ghezzi, Jinn-yuh Hsu, B. Lynne Milgram, Susana 
Narotzky, Donald M. Nonini, Tom O'Neill, Frances Abrahamer Rothstein, Alan 
Smart, Josephine Smart, Adrian Smith, and Gavin Smith


      Alan Smart
      University of Calgary

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr 26 12:59:43 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 26 11:58:35 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Postgrad Research Scholarships with Interdisciplinary Urban Studies
 Focus (London)
Message-ID: <00e401c54a78$f9c5ade0$aa048fac@toshibauser>

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil A Cohen [mailto:P.A.Cohen@uel.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 April 2005 12:25
Subject: UEL Research Studentships programme

Dear Colleagues

I  enclose details about these new research studentships. I am writing
to you because the intention is that one or two of these  will be attached
to
the London East Research Institute. These particular studentships will have
a focus on Urban Studies, and on regeneration issues related to the Thames
Gateway plan for sustainable communities. LERI is the unversity's only
Research Institute and as such offers an interdisciplinary  framework
for study, across a whole range of policy  areas. These include  Housing,
Transport, Health, Tourism and heritage, the cultural and knowledge
economies, environmental planning , community  arts, urban planning and
policy analysis, design for a multicultural city.

Ph.D students will have an opportunity to participate fully  in the
intellectual life of the Institute, including its public events and
seminar programmes; they will be able to attend courses in our new
MA in Urban Innovation,  contribute to our on line journal Rising East
and, if appropriate  to their studies , engage with our funded  research
and community outreach programmes.

You can find out more about our programmes  and activities  by going to
our website www.uel.ac.uk/londoneast and also be checking out our
online jounral : www.risingeast.org

I would be very grateful if you could draw the attention of suitable
candidates to  this new opportunity.

Many thanks,
Phil Cohen
London East Research  Institute
4-6 University Way
London E 16 2 RD
 tel 0208 223 2544
--------------------------------------

Attached Research Assistantship Description:

Postgraduate Research Scholarships
UEL is a vibrant scholarly community and one of the UK's top ten modern
universities for research. It is offering 30 full-time Postgraduate
Scholarships to well-qualified and committed students wishing to study for a
PhD within any area of expertise relevant to UEL's 8 Schools. Fields of
particular interest are listed below.

Architecture & the Visual Arts: Sustainability; Creative Industries; Fashion
History & Theory; Digital Media; Fine Art & Cultural Production; Film
History.

Business: Critical Management; Organisation Studies; Marketing;
Entrepreneurship.
Computing and Technology: Computing; Engineering; Technology;
Geo-Information.
Education: Early Childhood Studies; Education.

Health & Biosciences: Diabetes; Neuroscience & Rehabilitation;
Cardiovascular Health; Complementary Medicine; Family Health; Childhood
Obesity; Public Health; Molecular Ecology.

Law: Law; Criminology.

Psychology: Cognitive Psychology; Neuropsychology; Health Psychology;
Infancy & Developmental Psychology; Critical Psychology; Applied Psychology;
Virtual Environments.

Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies: Urban Studies, Communications and
media; Film; Journalism; Consumer Studies; Sociology; Anthropology; Social
Work; Politics; Development and Refugee Studies; Gender; Sexualities;
Ethnicity; Sound & Music Cultures; History; English Literature; Cultural
Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Non-Western and Diasporic Cultures;
Narratives; Autobiography.

What does the Scholarship provide?
UEL's internally-funded Scholarships are provided on terms broadly
comparable to those offered by UK Research Councils. Successful applicants
will be expected to study on a full time basis and complete their PhDs
within 3 Years. For those 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress, UEL
will provide a tax-free maintenance grant of ?12,000 p.a. and will waive
tuition fees.

Who is eligible to apply?
Applicants will normally be expected to hold, or to obtain by August 2005, a
good Honours degree or Masters degree in a subject relevant to their
proposed research topic. Applications are welcomed from students of any
nationality. UEL is committed to equal opportunities and diversity.
Opportunities to undertake limited academic support roles on a voluntary and
paid basis may be available in some cases, in which event full training will
be provided.

How should I apply?
In the first instance please send a brief covering letter with full contact
details, an outline of your research interests and a CV that includes
details of your academic qualifications. Neither the covering letter,
statement of research interest nor the CV should exceed 1 side of A4.
At a later stage you may be required to provide further information and
attend an interview.

Please send your statement of research interest and brief CV to:

The Graduate School
University House
Romford Road
Stratford
E15 4LZ
Tel: 020 8223 2976
Fax: 020 8223 2826
Email: gradschool@uel.ac.uk

Closing Date: 6th May 2005

Reference No: SS0405 should be quoted at the top of all correspondence
Where can I find further details about UEL?

You should consult the UEL website at: www.uel.ac.uk or contact the Graduate
School at the address above.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr 26 13:12:22 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 26 12:11:37 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Gender, Technology and Development
Message-ID: <012a01c54a7a$bd7c6980$aa048fac@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender, Technology and Development
Special Issue on Gender and Environmental Governance Winter 2005

Across Asia, natural resource exploitation is accelerating dramatically as
regions become ever more incorporated into the global economy.  At the same
time, structural adjustment programs and market reforms, coupled with the
pressures associated with population growth, urbanization and
commoditization, are reconfiguring patterns of natural resource governance
at both a national and local level, with complex impacts on people's lives.
Within the development literature there is a general recognition that the
environmental consequences of accelerated export-led industrialization and
neo-liberalism have different impacts on, and in turn elicit different
responses from men and women.  Throughout the 1990s, this recognition was
expressed through debates regarding the links between environment,
development and gender, particularly as donor agencies, governments and
non-government organizations identified women as a critical component of
sustainable development initiatives seeking to ameliorate environmental
degradation and its negative livelihood effects as a response to
gender-blind initiatives.

Thus, on the one hand, gender-blind approaches to current decentralization
and community-based natural resource management programs continue to exist;
on the other, chief responsibility for care of the environment is being
placed upon women.  In both instances, the gendered power relations that
underpin resource access and control are side-stepped.

This special issue of Gender, Technology and Development seeks papers that
put forward critical feminist perspectives on the intersection between
gender relations and environmental governance in Asia in the context of
contemporary policy concerns with decentralization and poverty alleviation.
Specifically, the papers are envisaged to break new ground in this area in
three important ways and contexts:

(i)  GENDER IN THE CREATION OF LOCAL INSTITUTIONS:  Papers will bring
attention to the gender implications inherent in the decentralization of
natural resource or environmental governance as currently being encouraged
by international development institutions and governments across Asia.
While governments increasingly pursue programs to involve direct users in
the management of natural resources, new patterns of stakeholder inclusion
and exclusion are created, as gender stereotypes and assumptions lead the
state to privilege particular social groups.

(ii)  CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:  By
examining the complex contradictions associated with attempts to load
community resource management on women in ways that chime with earlier
ecofeminist writings, papers will critically examine community programs that
assume women's proclivity towards environmental protection and care.  While
some critical scholarly attention has been given in the past to the problems
associated with assuming synergy between women's interests and the
environment, the feminization of natural resource management continues
apace.  In some parts of Asia, women are being deliberately mobilized to
constitute the unpaid labor force to meet the demands of conservation
projects under the banner of women's participation, drawing on a view that
women are the principal fixers of degraded environments.

(iii)  PEOPLE'S MOBILITY:  By recognizing people's mobility and its
implications for natural resource management, the papers will depart from
the implicitly sedentarist portrayal of rural livelihoods in much of the
literature on gender and natural resources.  This makes little sense in
Asia, where most people's lives are marked by rural-urban or transnational
connections shaped by global forces.  Papers may address this important gap
in the literature by highlighting how the links between gender and natural
resource management are embedded in wider patterns of serial mobility and
emerging cultural reassertions.

Please send your submission by May 20, 2005 to Ms. Anita Pandey Pant,
Managing Editor, Gender, Technology and Development at Gender and
Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Lunag,
Pathumthani 12120, Thailand or at gtdjournal@ait.ac.th.  Papers required to
be in the range of 5 to 10 thousand words inclusive of endnotes and
references following the prescribed style of the journal available at
http://gendevtech.ait.ac.th/gtd/gtd.htm.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Apr 26 13:02:00 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 26 12:32:51 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Eugene Lang College Urban Education Visiting Faculty
Message-ID: <00f801c54a79$4d90ca40$aa048fac@toshibauser>

Eugene Lang College of New School University - Urban Education - Visiting
FT Faculty (Search #22665)
Location: New York, United States

Eugene Lang College, a division of New School University seeks to hire a
full-time visiting faculty member in the area of urban education for the
academic year 2005-2006. The visitor will teach five courses (or the
equivalent) per year and bear advising responsibilities. The appointment
will be renewable for up to three years.

Responsibilities:
Successful candidates will offer courses in urban education to
undergraduates at Eugene Lang College. We are particularly interested in
candidates who can locate a critical understanding of the challenges facing
city schools within the context of the broader urban, political, and
economic processes that shape urban education. Additional responsibilities
include assisting in the development of an urban education track within Lang
College's Urban Studies program.

Requirements
Earned PhD in education or relevant social science discipline. A record of
publication and teaching experience investigating the processes and
practices of education in an urban context is necessary. Administrative
experience, including interest and expertise in curriculum and program
development, is desirable.

Interested candidates should send a CV, cover letter, one-page statement of
teaching philosophy, outline of research program, sample of written work,
and three letters of recommendation to: Lisa Soares, Eugene Lang College, 65
West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011, or e-mail to: NSUjobs@newschool.edu.
Be sure to indicate the search #22665 and discipline in subject line and
include search #22665 in all correspondence. Applications will be accepted
until the position is filled.

New School University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in all
its activities and programs, including employment and promotion. It does not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin,
citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical
handicap, veteran or marital status.


Contact Info:
Lisa Soares
Eugene Lang College
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY 10011

or e-mail to: NSUjobs@newschool.edu. Be sure to indicate the search #22665
and discipline in subject line.  Website: http://www.lang.edu

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue Apr 26 18:40:56 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 26 20:44:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CONF: Globalization, Transnationalism, and Cultural
	Studies, Portland State U
Message-ID: <1114562456.426edf986e232@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Globalization, Transnationalism, and Cultural Studies
Location:	Oregon, United States
Conference Begins:	2005-05-07 (in 11 days)

This mini-conference takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday,
May 7 and 8, at the Native American Center on the downtown Portland State campus
(710 SE Jackson St. at Broadway). The event features from numerous Portland area
speakers across the academic disciplines, with Lisa Lowe (Literature, UCSD) and
Jean Comaroff (Anthropology, U of Chicago) as keynote speakers. The event is
free and open to the public.

Leerom Medovoi
Portland State University
PO Box 751
Portland OR 97214
(503) 725-4946
Email: medovoi@pdx.edu
Visit the website at http://www.arch.pdx.edu/CulturalStudies/

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Apr 27 13:51:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr 27 12:51:25 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?Maestr=EDa_y_doctorado_en_antropolog=ED?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?a_social=2C_Universidad_Iberoamericana?=
Message-ID: <004e01c54b49$66786830$239097ac@toshibauser>

LA UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA
CONVOCA A LOS
PROGRAMAS DE MAESTRIA Y DOCTORADO 
EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL*

*Registrados en el Programa Integral 
de Fortalecimiento del Posgrado-SEP-CONACT 
con posibilidad de becas.
Registro de validez oficial de estudios SEP.

En sus mas de 35 anos de existencia, los programas de
Maestria y Doctorado en Antropologia Social han
mantenido su compromiso de formar antropologos del mas
alto nivel, con una solida experiencia de trabajo de
campo, capaces de trabajar en docencia e
investigacion, de generar y difundir conocimientos
originales y de participar en la elaboracisn de
polmticas pzblicas en organismos pzblicos y privados,
nacionales e internacionales.

Lineas de investigacion:
Ambiente y sociedades rurales.
Ecologma cultural, sistemas agricolas mesoamericanos,
antropologia demografica, historia ambiental, estudios
campesinos, frontera Mixico - Estados Unidos,
desarrollo, economia politica, agua y agricultura.
 
Cambio y continuidad en el Mexico contemporaneo.
Parentesco y grupo domestico, demografia antropologica
e historica, transformacion rural, reciprocidad e
intercambio, persona y comunidad, antropologia urbana,
antropologia del deporte, jovenes.
 
Expresiones locales de lo global
Antropologma de la industria, mercados de trabajo,
globalizacion, antropologia de las organizaciones,
campesinado y transformaciones rurales, culturas
corporativas, estudios sobre Estados Unidos.
 

INGRESOS
Recepcisn de documentos Agosto-Octubre. Inicio de
cursos Enero
Recepcisn de documentos Enero-Mayo. Inicio de cursos
Agosto

Informes:
www.uia.mx
Coordinacisn de Posgrado en Antropologma Social
roger.magazine@uia.mx
dula.rodriguez@uia.mx
(+52) 55 59-50-40-36
(+52) 55 59-50-40-00, ext. 4860



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Apr 27 13:43:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr 27 12:51:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Spaces and Private Quarters
Message-ID: <004d01c54b49$61ffd860$239097ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Urban Spaces and Private Quarters 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post-Graduate College "Technology and Society", Darmstadt
12.10.2005-14.10.2005, Technical University Darmstadt
Deadline: 15.05.2005

Call for Papers for the Panel:
Urban Spaces and Private Quarters

at the International Conference: Technisierung/?sthetisierung -
Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society
12.10.2005-14.10.2005, Darmstadt

Post-Graduate College "Technology and Society" at the TU-Darmstadt


Panel: Urban Spaces and Private Quarters
In this panel the focus lies on spatial relations and the city both as
object of and as the location for scientific scrutiny. Perceptions of
symbolic and material artifacts in the city guide the everyday life of a
majority of the world's contemporary population. The tacit power of
architecture, the subtle influences of the aesthetics of things are
constantly reconfigured by the practices of the people moving through
and using urban spaces. However, built space is not the only hub of this
panel. The staging of events in the city by different actors and the
conflicting uses of publically accessible spaces directs our interest to
presentations and representations of the city and its diverse
inhabitants. This area of inquiry connects discursive with visual and
performative aspects of urban life. Finally, we are interested in the
multiple ways in which the modeling and visualization of urban space in
architectural design influences the development and the decision making
processes that eventually solidify into concrete buildings, plazas, and
parks. Regarding all three of these hubs we want to encourage
presentations that explicitly deal with the ambivalent or dialectic
character of aesthetics in the cities. Touristic interests produce sites
that are intended to attract people, their time, their money and their
attention. These sites become places of a specific cultural and economic
significance. At the same time other places are produced and presented
as repellent - the "no-go areas" of the modern ghetto, ethnic
neighborhoods, and the hidden or gated communities of the rich and
powerful. Aestetics are a central component of the processes of
attraction and exclusion that regulate our everyday practices. We are
particularly interested in presentations that include photographic,
acoustic or audio-visual components. The presentetations should be tied
to empirical phenomena.

Abstracts from a wide variety of disciplines are welcome. These include
history, sociology, philosophy, economics, engineering and art history.
Submit 500-word abstracts by Mai 15, 2005, as a Word or RichText
document to:

Lars Frers/Lars Meier
TU Darmstadt
Fachbereich 2
Graduiertenkolleg "Technisierung und Gesellschaft"
Karolinenplatz 5 (Fach 1404)
64289 Darmstadt
Germany

e-mail: tagung-graduiertenkolleg@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

Information:
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/gradkoll/Konferenzen/abschluss/main.html


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Apr 28 12:35:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 28 11:35:19 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Extended CFP: Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories
Message-ID: <007a01c54c08$02c82e50$540c94ac@toshibauser>

conference reminder... sorry for cross-posting... deadline for late
abstracts: 1 May 2005

TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE:
SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
2005 Tourism and Cultural Change Research Conference
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 14-18 July 2005

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com

TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE: SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES is an international
research conference organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change,
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. The extended deadline for this
CFP is 1 May 2005; late abstracts may be accepted. Due to lower venue costs,
we have been able to reconsider the registration fees, and offer a student
rate.

CONTEXT AND AIMS
Performance has been theorised as a way by which human beings act in society
and organise their being in the world. In the context of tourism, there is
much debate regarding the idea of tourists as performers, 'acting out'
spaces, and enacting 'scripts', through which they organise and add meaning
to their experiences and journeys. Tourism in this sense can be seen to be
'staged'. But such perspectives raise a number of questions regarding the
reflexivity, the hermeneutics, the sensual and aesthetic modalities, the
social interactions and the political economy of tourist performance: How is
individual tourist performance linked to socially prescribed or learnt
models regarding tourism behaviour and spaces? How are spaces and material
culture 'enacted' by and for tourists? What are the production and
consumption modalities of in situ and in visu stages for tourism
performance? How is tourism performance linked to modes of touristic social
interaction during the journey? What roles do stories play in generating
performativity and in liberating tourists from the acts of travel and
tourism? The aim of this conference is to explore such questions by drawing
on the methodological and conceptual knowledge of different disciplinary
perspectives including those of: tourism studies, anthropology, sociology,
history, cultural studies, folkloric studies, literature, critical theory,
linguistics, human/cultural geography, psychology, theatre studies and other
relevant approaches.

THEMES
Key themes of interest to the conference include:

- Who is cooking who? Tourism consumption, digestion, and excretion
- Hermeneutics, reflexivity and agency: Tourism as a parable of the social
world
- Eden, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Solitary Wanderer, the Golden Fleece:
Archaeologies of tourist imaginary and performance
- Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the senses: cognitive
categories and perceptive processes in tourism experience
- Objects as props - objects as texts
- Staging, eroticising, and making visible: Translations, adaptations, and
variations of the 'cultural'
- Reconsidering the economic in tourism: Transnational spaces of encounter,
production and exchange
- Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism scripts
- 'Losing the plot': Tourism lost in translation

PLENARY SESSIONS
Prof Edward Bruner from the University of Illinois, USA will give a plenary
speech on 'Experience, Narrative and Memory in Tourism'.

LIST OF PAPER PRESENTERS
A regularly updated list of full text abstracts can be downloaded at our
website: www.tourism-culture.com.

Kristin Becker (Dept of Theatre Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University,
Mainz, Germany); Gary Best (School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality
Management, La Trobe University, Australia); Maria Beatrice Bittarello
(Dept. of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Stirling, UK);
David Boles (NJIT/Rutgers-Newark, UMDNJ, USA); Michael S. Bowman (Dept. of
Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, USA); Edward M. Bruner
(Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA); Shirley J.
Chappel & Lorraine Brown (School of Management, University of South
Australia, Australia); Lisa Cooke (Dept. Social Anthropology, York
University, Toronto, Canada); William G. Feighey (Beltourism International,
China); Sybille Frank (Institute of Sociology, Darmstadt Technical
University, Germany); Ulrike Friedl (University of Innsbruck, Austria);
Modesto Garc?a Jim?nez (Anthropology, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain);
Donna Glasson; Margaret Hart Robertson (University of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain); Keith Hollinshead (Dept of Tourism Studies, Luton
University, UK); Lucy Huxley (Dept of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK); Jennifer Iles (School of Social Sciences, Roehampton
University, UK); Alick Kay (Management School, University of South
Australia, Australia); Alan Kirby (, Amersham College, UK); Sergei Kropotov
(Art History and Cultural Studies, Urals State University, Russia); Jane
Lancaster (Pembroke Center for Research on Women and Gender, Brown
University, USA); Patrick Laviolette (Dept of Anthropology, University
College London, UK); Sonja Lebos (Independent cultural practitioner,
Croatia); Kenneth Little (Dept. of Anthropology, York University, Canada);
Maria Antonia Lopez-Burgos (Economics, University of Granada, Spain);
Catherine Mathers (Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of
Pretoria, South Africa); Grant McCall (Centre for South Pacific Studies,
University of New South Wales, Australia); Maren M?hring (Historical
Seminar, University of K?ln, Germany); Maureen Mulligan (FTI, University of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Sally A. Ness (Dept of Anthropology,
University of California, USA); Pal Nyiri & Joana Breidenbach (Dept of
Anthropoligy, Macquarie University, Australia); Daniela Peluso (Dept of
Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK); Alison Phipps (Arts and
Humanities, University of Glasgow, UK); Hanne Pico Larsen; Kathrin Rountree
(Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, New Zealand); Jacqueline
Tivers et al. (Arts, Communication and Culture, Nottingham Trent University,
UK); Raghuraman S. Trichur (Dept of Anthropology, California State
University, USA); Hazel Tucker (Dept of Tourism Studies, University of
Otago, New Zealand); Lauren Wagner (Dept. of Anthropology, University of
Texas, Austin, USA); Chris Wilbert & Rikke Hansen (Dept. of Planning, Anglia
Polytechnic University, UK); Michael Zinganel (Faculty of Architecture, Graz
University of Technology, Austria).

VENUE AND REGISTRATION
The conference will take place in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The
registration fee for the conference is ?190 if paid before 1 June 2005 and
?240 if paid after this date. We also offer a student rate at ?160. This
includes the full conference documentation, an ISBN referred proceedings
CD-ROM, day-time conference catering, a conference dinner and a field study.
To register to the conference, please use the registration form included in
the conference information pack which can be downloaded at our website
www.-tourism-culture.com.

ACCOMMODATION
The conference registration fee does not include accommodation. This can be
booked directly with the venue (address to be confirmed through our
website). Delegates will benefit from excellent rates at the hotel /
conference venue where 3* style bed and breakfast accommodation is
available. A single will be at ?55, a double at ?80 per night including
breakfast buffet. As in previous events, we expect that the majority of
delegates will stay on the conference site and therefore urge early
bookings. These rates can only be guaranteed if booked by 2 June 2005. To
book a room, please use the accommodation booking form included in the
conference information pack which can be downloaded at our website
www.-tourism-culture.com.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Late abstracts may be considered. People who wish to present a paper should
send a 300 word abstract with full address details as an electronic file to
Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr. David Picard (send to d.picard@shu.ac.uk) as
soon as possible.

CONTACT
For any other or further enquiry regarding this conference or the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change, please visit www.tourism-culture.com or contact
us at:

Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard
(email to d.picard@shu.ac.uk)

conference administrators:
Mr Francesco Gilardi and Ms Annie Yeromian
(email to f.gilardi@shu.ac.uk)

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street, Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdon
Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax: +44 (0) 114 225 3343
Web: www.tourism-culture.com


From FromYosee at aol.com  Thu Apr 28 13:32:22 2005
From: FromYosee at aol.com (FromYosee@aol.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 12:37:59 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] conferences........
Message-ID: <e5.123bda39.2fa26a16@aol.com>

 
Thanks for keeping the list updated to conferences in our subfield (such as  
this post and the other about the German conference).  I must wonder,  
however, whether I made an incorrect assumption when subscribing to this AAA  
division.  I thought urban anthropology was one of the more practical  arms of our 
discipline.  Either I was incorrect or we are turning  the clock back a few 
years to when post-mo became the standard  "scholar-ese," unapproachable to all 
not well versed in the esoteric world of  literary criticism.  
 
I have to wonder how this is going to be helpful to our discipline  with 
budget crunches in Higher Ed and tenured positions of  retirees turning into 
multiple part-time adjunct pools.  Do we  not need to show our colleagues and 
administrators how anthropology is *more*  rather than *less* applicable to today's 
difficult economic times in  education? 
 
Please think about trading in the seemingly self-important naval gazing for  
more fruitful, applicable and future-reaching approaches.
 
Joe Ellman, Ph.D.
 
 
In a message dated 4/28/2005 10:40:16 AM Central Standard Time,  
acjancius@ysu.edu writes:

TOURISM  AND PERFORMANCE:
SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
2005 Tourism and Cultural  Change Research Conference
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 14-18 July  2005




From greenbau at chuma1.cas.usf.edu  Thu Apr 28 07:12:34 2005
From: greenbau at chuma1.cas.usf.edu (Greenbaum, Susan)
Date: Thu Apr 28 12:38:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another  New Book of Possible Interest
Message-ID: <A7C176D5AABCE84F80B94D0BEA7373E501CDA2DF@mail.cas.usf.edu>

I reviewed Vin's book.  It is not only interesting.  It is wonderful.

________________________________

From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu on behalf of lyon-callo vincent
Sent: Fri 4/22/2005 10:21 AM
To: Angela Jancius; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another New Book of Possible Interest



I also have a recently published book that some SUNTA members might find interesting.  The information from the publisher's website is below:

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
By Vincent Lyon-Callo




Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activists, policy makers, and homeless people focused attention on market-based and individualized practices of reform and governance, collective efforts that challenged an economy dependent on low wage jobs, declining housing affordability, and the dismantling of the social safety net were marginalized and ignored. Homelessness continued, despite, and partly due to, the limitations of the neoliberal approach.

Combining the rich detail of an ethnographic study with the systemic examination of political economic studies, this book offers a view of homelessness and inequality that is rarely explored elsewhere. Chapters include discussion of the medicalization of homelessness, the difficulty of finding paid employment given broader political economic conditions, how shelter staff are trained to manage homeless people, how statistics are used to produce ideas of homeless people as deviants, and how funding concerns affect possibilities for resistance. Key to the study is an activist approach that raises the possibilities and problems associated with a publicly engaged anthropology.

Comments:

"In short, this is a terrific book.... Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them. His arguments are clear and convincing; he made me think in different ways about issues I thought I already understood." - Susan Greenbaum, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida

"With a masterful blend of theory, sophisticated ethnographic analysis and personal commitment, Lyon-Callo achieves his ambitious goal. Moving way beyond the usual focus on the homeless, he conveys a clear, convincing, and grounded understanding of the complex processes which produce policies, professional expertise, and popular 'common sense,' and [which] ultimately constrain the subjectivities of guests and staff in a homeless shelter." - Judith Goode, Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Temple University

Vincent Lyon-Callo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. He also worked in homeless shelters in Connecticut and Massachusetts throughout most of the 1990s. His work on poverty, neoliberal policies, and the possibilities of an activist ethnography has been published in a wide range of academic journals and volumes.  
http://`www.broadviewpress.com/bybooks.asp?BookID=675







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From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Apr 28 12:40:14 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 28 14:47:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: John Friedmann, "China's Urban Transition"
Message-ID: <1114713614.42712e0e24c2f@webmail.sfsu.edu>



CHINA?S URBAN TRANSITION
John Friedmann
University of Minnesota Press | 200 pages | 2005
ISBN 0-8166-4514-7 | hardcover | $56.95
ISBN 0-8166-4615-5 | paperback | $18.95

It is only in the past quarter century that urbanization has emerged in China as
a force of social transformation while a massive population shift from country
to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics,
and economy. Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents a
succinct, readable account and interpretation of how this transition?one of the
most momentous phenomena in contemporary history?has occurred.

?John Friedmann captures the most profound aspects of China's stunning
urbanization and makes sense of its world-historic importance.? ?Fulong Wu,

?This is an extremely timely publication that clarifies the web of forces and
players involved in China's dramatic urban transition without forgetting the
historical backdrop peculiar to this vast country with a long history of urban
experience.? ?Heng Chye Kiang

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/F/friedmann_chinas.html

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From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Apr 28 12:56:21 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 28 15:22:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] conferences........
Message-ID: <1114714581.427131d573fc5@webmail.sfsu.edu>

[Editor's note: This is a response to Joe Ellman's previous post, by Paul
McDowell (paulanthropus@cox.net).]

That criticism applies to all divisions. Anthropology has become so
hyperspecialized that it is neither applicable to anything useful nor
interesting from an academic standpoint. Then there's that postmodernist
tripe.

To engage in a shameless act of self-promotion, I just wrote a supplemental
textbook that makes that same criticism. I think that we need more work that
criticizes this trend in a field that is supposedly holistic and
cross-cultural in orientation.

Paul McDowell
Instructor in Anthropology
Santa Barbara City College

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Apr 28 18:36:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 28 17:57:02 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Response to Joe Ellman
Message-ID: <00d101c54c3a$5112ae00$cbb18eac@toshibauser>

From: Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu>

Joe makes an important point (see below).  He needs to be brought into the
loop of people who are involved in the kind of work he is proposing.  While
limited in the last few years, it has been going on since the 1960s, if
anyone can remember that far back.  We now have folks involved in all sorts
of anthropology.  Let me list the ways and let a thousand flowers bloom!

public anthropology
action anthropology
participatory action research anthropology
community service learning anthropology
service anthropology
critical anthropology
activist anthropology
advocacy anthropology
policy anthropology

If you are interested in these areas, I am in the process of pulling
together some information that will be on a Web site, part of the Society
for the Anthropology of North America Web page for you to use.  If you want
to be listed on this page, send me your information.  if you want to
contribute to this effort let me know and send along texts, bibliographies,
etc.

Sam Beck
Director
Urban Semester Program
Cornell University
sb43@cornell.edu


>Thanks for keeping the list updated to conferences in our subfield (such as
>this post and the other about the German conference).  I must wonder,
>however, whether I made an incorrect assumption when subscribing to this
AAA
>division.  I thought urban anthropology was one of the more
>practical  arms of our
>discipline.  Either I was incorrect or we are turning  the clock back a few
>years to when post-mo became the standard  "scholar-ese," unapproachable
>to all
>not well versed in the esoteric world of  literary criticism.
>
>I have to wonder how this is going to be helpful to our discipline  with
>budget crunches in Higher Ed and tenured positions of  retirees turning
into
>multiple part-time adjunct pools.  Do we  not need to show our colleagues
and
>administrators how anthropology is *more*  rather than *less* applicable
>to today's
>difficult economic times in  education?
>
>Please think about trading in the seemingly self-important naval gazing for
>more fruitful, applicable and future-reaching approaches.
>
>Joe Ellman, Ph.D.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Apr 29 15:01:44 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 29 14:23:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]On Vincent Lyon-Callo's book
Message-ID: <011b01c54ce5$874f4c70$a20f89ac@toshibauser>

From: Judith Goode <JudithGoode@cs.com>

To second what Susan Greenbaum has said, I've used Vin's book in a major's
class and my classes really loved it.

Judy Goode

>
>Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
>Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
>By Vincent Lyon-Callo
>


From petersm2 at muohio.edu  Fri Apr 29 13:52:25 2005
From: petersm2 at muohio.edu (Dr. Mark Peterson)
Date: Fri Apr 29 15:28:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Response to Joe Ellman
In-Reply-To: <00d101c54c3a$5112ae00$cbb18eac@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050429120955.024f6cd0@po.muohio.edu>

For many years I have suspected that the term "postmodern" (along with the 
term "politically correct") is simply a straw man people construct to burn, 
or an epithet that people throw at things they don't like or don't 
understand.  Joe Ellman's post does nothing to disabuse me of this 
notion.  What on earth seems "po-mo" or "navel gazing" about cultural 
tourism and performance?  Or have words like "performance" and "story" just 
become anti-"po-mo" red flags producing knee jerk responses?

Tourism circulates as much or more people and more money around the globe 
than labor migration, albeit along very different circuits and for 
different durations.  The recent efforts by IMF and other organizations to 
promote tourism as yet another "magic bullet" has led states to put 
increased pressure on their "indigenous" groups to market and display 
themselves for touristic consumption.  Under these pressures, ritual 
performances are broken free of their local life cycle patterns, social 
structures, agricultural cycles and religious calendars, with enormous 
consequences for local social and cultural transformation.  Economies, 
politics, belief systems--everything is potentially affected.  Ironically 
(oops--another po-mo red flag word), even as indigenous groups seek to 
market "authenticity" to foreigners, as a result of those efforts the 
problem of authenticity arises in the local community as ritual becomes 
increasingly a scripted "performance".  In some communities, rituals are 
transformed and important intergenerational cultural realities are lost, 
traded for tourist dollars.  In other cases, revivals are occurring.  For 
example, in Malta the willingness of tourists to pay to watch "medieval" 
Catholic pageants has reawakened interest in these rites among the middle 
classes, whose educations for decades have taught them to ignore them.

Social change, community, social structure, economic adaptation, 
ritual--there's nothing "po-mo" or esoteric in any of this.  Nor is there 
anything unreal about the millions of Americans and Europeans and Asians 
who will pay for cultural tourism, creating the engine that generates the 
performances.  And there are jobs in it.  Cultural tourism is financed by 
many development agencies. So you can use your anthropological knowledge to 
be selling authenticity or assisting local communities to adapt to economic 
conditions while minimizing cultural loss, or both, depending on your 
ethical standards.
Frankly, I think it sounds like a great conference and I'm sorry I'll be in 
North Africa and have to give it a miss.

Mark

Mark Allen Peterson
Asst Prof of Anthropology and International Studies
152 Upham Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH  45056
tel: 513 529-5018
fax: 513 529-8396
e-mail: petersm2@muohio.edu

Now in paperback: Anthropology and Mass Communication
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/titles/Peterson.htm


In a message dated 4/28/2005 10:40:16 AM Central Standard Time,
acjancius@ysu.edu writes:

TOURISM  AND PERFORMANCE:
SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
2005 Tourism and Cultural  Change Research Conference
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 14-18 July  2005



> >Thanks for keeping the list updated to conferences in our subfield (such as
> >this post and the other about the German conference).  I must wonder,
> >however, whether I made an incorrect assumption when subscribing to this
>AAA
> >division.  I thought urban anthropology was one of the more
> >practical  arms of our
> >discipline.  Either I was incorrect or we are turning  the clock back a few
> >years to when post-mo became the standard  "scholar-ese," unapproachable
> >to all
> >not well versed in the esoteric world of  literary criticism.
> >
> >I have to wonder how this is going to be helpful to our discipline  with
> >budget crunches in Higher Ed and tenured positions of  retirees turning
>into
> >multiple part-time adjunct pools.  Do we  not need to show our colleagues
>and
> >administrators how anthropology is *more*  rather than *less* applicable
> >to today's
> >difficult economic times in  education?
> >
> >Please think about trading in the seemingly self-important naval gazing for
> >more fruitful, applicable and future-reaching approaches.
> >
> >Joe Ellman, Ph.D.
>
>
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From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Apr 30 14:46:24 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 30 16:47:10 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Response to Joe Ellman
Message-ID: <1114893984.4273eea0b4b3d@webmail.sfsu.edu>

[Editor's note: This is a message from FromYosee@aol.com.]

Hi Sam,
Thanks for this info.  My schooling was so steeped in post mo that the  areas 
you mentioned below were marginalized.  I would like to help in  changing 
that, but I am not sure where to begin.  Is your website already  in operation?  
If so, please provide its address, so I can get a better  idea of what you are 
proposing.
Joe

From:  Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu>

Joe makes an important point  (see below).  He needs to be brought into the
loop of people who are  involved in the kind of work he is proposing.  While
limited in the  last few years, it has been going on since the 1960s, if
anyone can  remember that far back.  We now have folks involved in all sorts
of  anthropology.  Let me list the ways and let a thousand flowers  bloom!

public anthropology
action anthropology
participatory  action research anthropology
community service learning  anthropology
service anthropology
critical anthropology
activist  anthropology
advocacy anthropology
policy anthropology

If you are  interested in these areas, I am in the process of pulling
together some  information that will be on a Web site, part of the Society
for the  Anthropology of North America Web page for you to use.  If you want
to  be listed on this page, send me your information.  if you want  to
contribute to this effort let me know and send along texts,  bibliographies,
etc.

Sam Beck
Director
Urban Semester  Program
Cornell  University
sb43@cornell.edu

From FromYosee at aol.com  Sat Apr 30 17:25:34 2005
From: FromYosee at aol.com (FromYosee@aol.com)
Date: Sat Apr 30 16:48:00 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Response to Mark
Message-ID: <99.5d90af28.2fa543be@aol.com>

 
Mark,
No one is saying that a study on power relationships of the tourist  industry 
lacks practical application.  It is not the topic, but the  abstraction upon 
abstraction that post mo encourages that is not useful to our  discipline.  
Heck, most of us who were steeped in its tradition have a hard  time keeping 
tract of the focus let alone those in other disciplines.  
 
Yes, language and writing style do matter.  In this information age  when 
info is increasingly becoming available to a larger audience we need to get  over 
ourselves as an exclusive club guarding sacred knowledge.  Using  
abstractions that lose readers do nothing to promote anthropology.  A study  on the 
tourist industry with the goal of letting readers know specifically what  the 
practical applications might be promotes the usefulness of our  field.  Post mo has 
not been concerned about direct application; hence, the  term "navel gazing." 
Joe  
 
In a message dated 4/29/2005 2:31:18 PM Central Standard Time,  
petersm2@muohio.edu writes:

For many  years I have suspected that the term "postmodern" (along with the 
term  "politically correct") is simply a straw man people construct to burn, 
or  an epithet that people throw at things they don't like or don't  
understand.  Joe Ellman's post does nothing to disabuse me of this  
notion.  What on earth seems "po-mo" or "navel gazing" about cultural  
tourism and performance?  Or have words like "performance" and  "story" just 
become anti-"po-mo" red flags producing knee jerk  responses?

Tourism circulates as much or more people and more money  around the globe 
than labor migration, albeit along very different  circuits and for 
different durations.  The recent efforts by IMF and  other organizations to 
promote tourism as yet another "magic bullet" has  led states to put 
increased pressure on their "indigenous" groups to  market and display 
themselves for touristic consumption.  Under these  pressures, ritual 
performances are broken free of their local life cycle  patterns, social 
structures, agricultural cycles and religious calendars,  with enormous 
consequences for local social and cultural  transformation.  Economies, 
politics, belief systems--everything is  potentially affected.  Ironically 
(oops--another po-mo red flag  word), even as indigenous groups seek to 
market "authenticity" to  foreigners, as a result of those efforts the 
problem of authenticity  arises in the local community as ritual becomes 
increasingly a scripted  "performance".  In some communities, rituals are 
transformed and  important intergenerational cultural realities are lost, 
traded for  tourist dollars.  In other cases, revivals are occurring.  For  
example, in Malta the willingness of tourists to pay to watch "medieval"  
Catholic pageants has reawakened interest in these rites among the middle  
classes, whose educations for decades have taught them to ignore  them.

Social change, community, social structure, economic adaptation,  
ritual--there's nothing "po-mo" or esoteric in any of this.  Nor is  there 
anything unreal about the millions of Americans and Europeans and  Asians 
who will pay for cultural tourism, creating the engine that  generates the 
performances.  And there are jobs in it.  Cultural  tourism is financed by 
many development agencies. So you can use your  anthropological knowledge to 
be selling authenticity or assisting local  communities to adapt to economic 
conditions while minimizing cultural  loss, or both, depending on your 
ethical standards.
Frankly, I think it  sounds like a great conference and I'm sorry I'll be in 
North Africa and  have to give it a miss.

Mark

Mark Allen Peterson
Asst Prof of  Anthropology and International Studies
152 Upham Hall
Miami  University
Oxford, OH  45056
tel: 513 529-5018
fax: 513  529-8396
e-mail: petersm2@muohio.edu




From cornue at rci.rutgers.edu  Fri Apr 29 21:29:39 2005
From: cornue at rci.rutgers.edu (Dr. Virginia Cornue)
Date: Sat Apr 30 16:48:17 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]politically correct--YES
Message-ID: <4272D173.6090406@rci.rutgers.edu>

I come out 40 years as an activist, advocating for integration starting 
as a high school school student in the segregated south, working for 
women's issues, civil rights, homelessness ( forever it seems) and other 
people and earth oriented issues. When I hear the term politically 
correct used as a a slur, I steam, since that is a semantical move to 
retract the line of inclusion and acceptance and empowerment further and 
further back. In the late 1980s, when I was doing course work for my 
doctorate studying new women's organizations, gender and social change 
in marketizing PRC, Dinesh Desousa came through Rutgers expousing a line 
of conservatism, sexism, racism and disempowerment. His slant was to 
name and classify everything that I and hosts of others had spent years 
working on  as "Politically Correct." In other words, if you step over 
this line of inclusion we were working to expand, you are entering the 
land of "Political Correctness" peopled by weirdos, feminazis and 
radical freaks who are destroying the country, if not the world. And an 
effective move it was as we have seen the PC line drawn further and 
further back, excluding more and more people.

I have always proudly claimed my stance as a liberal, feminist, civil 
rights worker and am even more ardent in demonstrating to my classes how 
disparaging analyses and actions dealing with (Em)power (ment) are in 
themselves forceful strategies to dominate and uphold if not reinstate 
existing and excluding forms of power. So, call me PoMo and PC. I say, 
YES! and proud of it.

Virginia Cornue. 



From wolf0358 at umn.edu  Sat Apr 30 18:50:19 2005
From: wolf0358 at umn.edu (M Wolf-Meyer)
Date: Sat Apr 30 19:18:33 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Necessary Abstractions
References: <1114893984.4273eea0b4b3d@webmail.sfsu.edu>
Message-ID: <004a01c54dd7$2c883ac0$83fe6580@Lenin>

Urban Anthropologists:

I, for one, think it utterly necessary that anthropologists think more 
theoretically about what they attempt to capture ethnographically, hence the 
need for more abstractions, not fewer.

My impression is that in the past 30 years anthropology has become 
increasingly insular (in part due to the discipline's own self-critique), 
and there is nothing more "navel-gazing" in my mind than producing library 
dissertations and books that no one will read (especially scholars outside 
of anthropology).  And I think that very pragmatic, non-theoretical, 
"applied" anthropology is more prone to this critique than anything remotely 
"postmodern."  "Applied" anthropology often smacks of anti-intellectualism, 
engaging in the production of "facts" rather than engagements, and only 
helping to produce in applied anthropologists feelings of intellectual 
alienation (both from the people they attempt to help and from the 
discipline).  Compare the average contents in Cultural Anthropology to the 
average contents of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (a very pragmatic 
journal): The latter suffers from material that engages in no debates, and 
comforts itself through a myopic empiricism that assumes the lone 
anthropologist publishing in a scholarly journal can make a difference in 
the world.  The former, however, even when authors are focused 
geographically or topically, at least attempt to engage in the sort of 
abstractions that allow a conversation to occur (within the discipine and 
interdisciplinarily).

If anthropologists want to make a difference in the world, the first thing 
they need to do is enter into debates with the people they attempt to 
understand and effect.  Facts rarely produce engagements; abstractions, 
metaphors and theories often do.

Best wishes,

Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota 


