From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun  1 14:17:35 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun  1 13:20:50 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Culture
Message-ID: <00b401c566cd$d21caa70$4ed4abac@toshibauser>

CFP:  Urban Culture

The focus of this year's Urban Culture area is the current state of cities.
We seek presenters who explore the varied ways in which cities are changing
(or not) and the continuous efforts of people to make cities more habitable.
Papers addressing issues such as displacement, multi-cultural encounter,
hybridization, and the production or loss of public space in the context of
the metropolitan city are welcome. How do the home, museum, street
performance, ethnic food, architecture, spoken and written word,
photography, film, sound, music, and movement help us negotiate our urban
desires and to what end? What is the role of new technologies in such
negotiation? Historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts
of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly
orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the
city are encouraged.

If interested in participating in a workshop on "writing the urban," in
addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so.

Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts (including preliminary titles and
current contact information) and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word
attachments to:

Blagovesta Momchedjikova
bmm202@nyu.edu
by June 15th, 2005.

Blagovesta Momchedjikova,
Department of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10003

Email: bmm202@nyu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun  1 14:25:17 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun  1 13:28:21 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: The 20th Pakistan Workshop 2006: Reflections and Directions
Message-ID: <00cc01c566ce$e4d66880$4ed4abac@toshibauser>

CFP: The 20th Pakistan Workshop 2006: Reflections and Directions

The anthropological and sociological themes have a long history within the
Pakistan Studies Group; but we also welcome researchers from other branches
of the social sciences and humanities. In particular we welcome historians,
political scientists, economists and applied social scientists with
experience working with Pakistani diaspora. The Pakistan Workshop is
intentionally kept small and intimate. (Normally there will be 25 or fewer
participants). In the past it has always provided new scholars (including
postgraduate students) and established scholars the opportunity to get to
know one another beyond the exchange of scholarly comment on papers.

The venue, the Rook How, is one of the oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in
Britain and is an important location in the Quaker world. The Rook How
offers dormitory style sleeping arrangements which are comfortable and
affordable. For those who prefer B&B accommodation, there are several nice
B&Bs in the area, though a car is necessary for them. The total cost of the
Workshop will be about ?65-70 for those staying at the Rook How (this
includes Workshop registration, reception, breakfasts, Pakistani lunches,
teas and coffees). Registrations are limited, therefore early registration
is recommended.

Contact Information:
Marta Bolognani
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Phone: +44 (0)113 3434681
Email: splmb@leeds.ac.uk
URL http://psg.anthropology.ac.uk/workshop2006/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun  1 14:32:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun  1 13:36:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Workshop on Transnationality/Transnationalism (Bielefeld, Germany)
Message-ID: <00fa01c566cf$f28800f0$4ed4abac@toshibauser>

From: Remus Gabriel Anghel <remus.anghel@uni-bielefeld.de>

In november 2005 a workshop on transnationality/transnationalism will
take place at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). For those who are
interested, the description of the workshop and the contact information
are attached to the email.

Sincerely,
Remus Anghel
University of Bielefeld
Institute for World Society Studies
GK "Weltbegriffe und globale Strukturmuster"
remus.anghel@uni-bielefeld.de


Attached Message:


THE MAKING OF "WORLD SOCIETY": Transnational Practices and Global Structures
Workshop at the University of Bielefeld, 24-25 Nov. 2005


The phenomenon of transnationality has been intensely discussed from
different perspectives over the last years. Especially in globalisation and
migration studies, the focus has been put on the emergence of new social
formations and lifestyles that cross the borders of the national states.
This raises criticism into the concepts of social sciences, traditionally
bounded to the framework of the nation states (methodological nationalism)
and opens an inquiry on the necessity to transform them.

The aim of this conference is to analyze the transnational and global
formations, by portraying them in a "world society perspective". This
approach stresses that the world as a whole should be taken as a social
realm, in which transnational or global processes are embedded. In this
respect, different functions and structures of the world society might be
empirically analyzed, for instance, global networks, organisations, and
global markets. From this angle, we look at the possible commonness between
the world society perspective and research of transnationality. In this
light, we might look at communication and economic practices of
transnational actors, at the ways in which local and global interact in
specific markets or development processes. Accordingly, the conference is
organized in four panels.


Panel 1: Transnational Practices and Development
Contributing to local development processes is increasingly becoming a
responsibility of transnational actors that are located beyond the state.
Contributing to the transformation of home is the aim of many migrants
especially from countries in conflict. But apart from political
mobilisation, the major focus lies on active engagement in post-conflict
reconstruction. Financial assistance (e.g. remittances, donations) and other
forms of intervention by transnational actors (diaspora, international
organisations, etc) into local contexts are at the centre of attention in
this panel. The aim is to figure out, how practices of transnational actors
and their negotiations with actors at different levels are influencing local
processes of social change.

Panel 2: Transnational Practices and Irregular Migrants
This panel focuses on the transnational practices of irregular migrants,
their role in the emergence and development of ethnic transnationally (or
even globally) operating enterprises. The attention can be paid either on
direct effects of irregularity in the emergence of transnational fields (by
influencing remittances and transnational circuits), on the emergence of
transnational structures (such as networks, enterprises, and so on) or on
ethnic transnational structures that use the irregular migrants (on the same
or on a different ethno-national group). At the same time, since less was
done in understanding gender differences in transnational practices of the
irregular migrants, in this panel there are also welcomed gender approaches
to this issue, including eventually social changes and redefinitions
produced by these processes.

Panel 3: Transnational Practices and Local Marketplaces
This panel will deal with transnational or global practices and patterns in
the field of seemingly place-bound commerce and trade. The
practices/patterns may be connected with buying and selling but could also
go far beyond; the scope of actors may include "ethnic entrepreneurs" with
migration background as well as (transnational) organisations such as retail
chains or franchise stores. In a second step this panel will deal with the
consequences of these transnational practices and patterns for action and
performance in the marketplace itself - against the background of global
consumption patterns, changing places of production and new ways of
distribution, observation and communication.

Panel 4: Living Together while Being Apart: The Emergence of Internet Based
Life Forms in Transnational Populations
The Internet has turned out to be the single most important medium for
global communication and networking, increasingly used by transnational
populations, in order to tie and maintain links between sites of being and
sites of belonging. This panel seeks to analyze some of the implications of
this fast-growing integration of Internet facilities into the everyday-lives
of transnational families and communities. The following questions might be
addressed at the panel: What kinds of Internet practices have been developed
by transnational populations? How do electronic communication shape senses
of community and belonging? How are physically grounded and virtual sites of
life worlds interrelated and influenced by each other? How do transnational
populations share everyday life virtually? Can we imagine that computer
mediated communication will substitute physical presence?


Conditions of participation
Participants can be either PhD students or young researchers. Applications
should consist of a short CV (maximum two pages) and an abstract between 500
and 1000 words. As a follow up of this workshop, we intend to edit a
publication with some of the papers presented. In case of accepted papers,
written versions of the presentations are expected. The dead-line for
applications is 15 th of July. For applications and additional information,
please contact the following persons:


Contact persons:
Panel 1: Eva Gerharz
eva.gerharz@uni-bielefeld.de
Panel 2: Remus Anghel
remus.anghel@uni-bielefeld.de
Panel 3: Sven Kleinekathoefer
sven.kleinekathoefer@uni-bielefeld.de
Panel 4: Heike Greschke
heike.greschke@uni-bielefeld.de

Address:
Eva Gerharz
tel: + 49-521- 1064231
Universitaet Bielefeld
fax: + 49-521-1066448
Institut fuer Weltgesellschaft
Postfach 100131
33501 Bielefeld
Germany


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun  3 16:43:45 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun  3 15:47:39 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Report on the 2006 Meetings
Message-ID: <00f201c56874$983803b0$f61f94ac@toshibauser>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerim Friedman" <oxusnet@gmail.com>
To: <aaaunite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:10 AM
Subject: [aaaunite] AAA Report

This was sent out by the AAA:

June 1, 2005

To: Labor Relations Commission
From:  Liz Brumfiel, AAA President
RE: 2006 AAA Annual Meeting Location


At its spring meeting, May 14-15, 2005, the AAA Executive Board had a
lengthy and productive discussion of issues surrounding the location
of the 2006 Annual Meeting, presently scheduled to be in San
Francisco.  Give the likelihood of hotel management-labor conflict at
the San Francisco Hilton, the scheduled venue of the 2006 Meeting, and
given strong indications from AAA members that they would not cross
picket lines in the case of a strike or a lockout, the AAA Executive
Board directed AAA staff to begin to explore alternative 2006 meeting
times and locations and to initiate further surveying of membership as
to acceptability of these other potential times and locations.  The
Board also agreed to make a decision concerning the 2006 meeting
location no later than July 1, 2005, and it directed me to consult
with the Section Assembly and the Labor Relations Commission regarding
these deliberations.

This memo reviews the information that was considered by the Executive
Board at its spring meeting.

Status of the Hotel Management-Labor Conflict

President-Elect Alan Goodman summarized the current and anticipated
status of hotel management-labor conflict, based on conversations that
Labor Relations Commission members Paul Durrenberger, Alan Goodman,
and Rob O'Brien have had with UNITE-HERE (UH) representatives Neal
Kwatra and Matthew Walker.  Paul Nuti, AAA Director of External,
International and Government Relations also participated in these
conversations.

Goodman stated that the union regards San Francisco as "ground zero"
in its struggle with the hotel/restaurant industry.  Historically, the
industry has been atomized, but its recent transformation from locally
owned and controlled employers to a more consolidated, globalized
structure has created a need for a "national-level relationship"
between labor and hotel groups.  This is necessary in order for labor
to secure better terms on issues such as health care, safety, workers
compensation costs, health insurance, and worker productivity.

Labor contracts will have expired in several major markets (New York,
Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Detroit,
Monterrey and Hawaii) during 2005-2006.  The union cannot provide any
assurance to the AAA that the dispute in San Francisco will be
resolved in advance of November 2006.  Management shows no willingness
to settle the dispute in the near term.  The stakes for the union are
particularly high in San Francisco where, according to the union, the
hotel companies are making lots of money and the unions are among the
healthiest, best organized, and strongest in the country.  UH Local 2
is a "linchpin" of the UH national strategy.  One-third of the San
Francisco Hilton's cash flow comes from academic/professional groups
like the AAA.  Hilton has stated recently that its recent weak
performance in San Francisco is a result of the labor action.  Walker
expressed appreciation for the AAA's engagement and support in the
labor dispute.

Goodman said that he had every reason to believe that the current
labor action will still be in effect in 2006.  So, it is important to
begin examining options for the 2006 Annual Meeting.

Membership Survey

AAA Executive Director Bill Davis then presented the results of the
recent email membership survey.  Approximately 22% of the membership
responded to the survey.

In response to question 1, "If there is an employee strike at the San
Francisco Hilton Hotel at the time of the 2006 AAA Annual Meeting and
a picket line established at the hotel, would you be willing to cross
the picket line to attend the Meeting?"

9% of respondents answered "Yes"
75% of respondents answered "No"
14% of respondents answered "It would depend on the situation" and
2% of respondents answered "I don't know".

In response to question 2, "If employees of the San Francisco Hilton
Hotel at the time of the 2006 AAA Annual Meeting are being locked out
and a picket line established at the hotel, would you be willing to
cross the picket line to attend the Meeting?"

8% of respondents answered "Yes"
83% of respondents answered "No"
8% of respondents answered "It would depend on the situation" and
2% of respondents answered "I don't know".

In response to question 3, "If union representatives of San Francisco
Hilton Hotel employees are urging a boycott of the hotel at the time
of the 2006 AAA meeting, but employees are not on strike or locked out
of the hotel, would you be willing to attend an AAA meeting at the San
Francisco Hilton?

28% of respondents answered "Yes"
39% of respondents answered "No"
29% of respondents answered "It would depend on the circumstances" and
5% of respondents answered "I don't know".

In response to question 4, "Under normal circumstances, would you
expect to attend the AAA Annual Meeting in 2006?

80% of respondents answered "Yes"
5% of respondents answered "No", and
16% of respondents answered "I don't know".

The Executive Board concluded that these responses provided clear
evidence that the AAA cannot hold an effective annual meeting in San
Francisco in 2006 if, as seems likely, management-labor disputes are
occurring at the time.

Bill also reported on the cost to the AAAof moving the 2004 meeting to
Atlanta.  The total cost of the move was $445,394.  This total
includes:

Refunds to AAA members (registrations and abstracts): $296,015
Exhibitor fee refunds:         55,050
Special event refunds:       2,500
Child care contribution refunds:                 107
Atlanta Hilton attrition clause (50%)         81,000
Legal fees     10,722

A more detailed report on the financial consequences of the decision
to move the 2004 meeting
from San Francisco will be provided to AAA members in the Anthropology
News this fall.

Finally, Davis reported on a survey on labor/hotel conflict he
conducted among the 67 national scholarly organizations who hold
membership in the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and of
two recent meetings of ACLS during which issues involving hotel
contracts for 2005 - 2007  had been discussed at length.  Among issues
viewed as most problematic were (1) the difficulty of informing
association members about the consequences and costs of breaking
contracts for annual meetings, (2) identifying the particular
circumstances in which a society should employ its meeting location
policy to serve the advancement of social policy goals, (3) the extent
to which the use of meeting location policy to achieve social policy
objectives was severely restricting the number of city and hotel
venues available for large scholarly meetings, and (4) the likelihood
that continuing hotel labor/management conflict could prevent some of
the scholarly societies from continuing to successfully conduct their
traditional annual meetings.  The chief executive officers of ACLS
member societies have agreed to continue to work together in
addressing these and other issues.

Report of the Labor Relations Commission

AAA President Liz Brumfiel provided a brief report of the activities
of the labor Relations Commission's efforts to forge liaisons with
other scholarly and progressive organizations.

The LRC has learned that a few organizations have negotiated contract
language that reduces or eliminates financial penalties for
cancellations in response to strikes or other labor disputes.  For
example, the American Sociological Association has included paragraphs
in some of its contracts that permit the Association to cancel its
hotel contract in the event of any labor dispute that it believes will
disrupt or interfere with the Association's Annual Meeting.  The ASA
must demonstrate at least 40% of its members would refuse to attend
the Annual Meeting due to the labor dispute.

The American Studies Association includes a paragraph in its Standard
Agreement that gives it the right to cancel its contract without
penalty if there is a possibility that organized labor actions (such
as picketing) could occur during the meeting dates.
Brumfiel noted that while these contracts protect organizations
against financial loss when they cancel meetings at locations where
labor struggles are in progress, the contracts provide no protection
against the disruption that occurs when meetings must be moved on
short notice from one location to another.  The way to avoid meeting
disruption is to determine the dates that labor contracts will expire
in advance of signing a meeting contract with a hotel and to avoid
signing contracts with hotels for years when their labor contracts are
due to expire.

Brumfiel also noted that other organizations have had difficulties as
a result the San Francisco labor disputes.  The Pacific Division of
the American Philosophical Association decided to proceed with its
meeting in a hotel that was being struck, and this decision caused
deep and bitter division within the association, disputed elections of
officers, and the resignation of the APA executive director.  The
Organization of American Historians decided to move its March-April
2005 meeting from San Francisco to San Jose when they became aware
that there was "a distinct possibility of a strike, lockout or
continued boycott at the Hilton in San Francisco."  The move cost the
OAH somewhere around $460,000, about the same as the loss to the AAA
when it moved its 2004 meeting to Atlanta.  However, the OAH is about
half the size of the AAA, and most of its loss was incurred as
liquidation damages paid to the SF Hilton whereas most of the AAA loss
was incurred as registration fees refunded to its members and none of
the loss was paid out to the San Francisco Hilton Hotel.

Brumfiel concurred with other presenters that the key to avoiding
disruption of the 2006 meetings was to make an early decision to move
the meeting, giving the SF Hilton time in which to rebook the room
space cancelled by the AAA and before any AAA members make
arrangements to attend the meetings.

Discussion of the AAA's Options

Discussion then ensued of the AAA's options for 2006.  AAA Director of
Meetings Lucille Horn reported that she had already initiated a
discreet search of unionized locales that might be available for the
2006 Annual Meeting.  She observed that when the AAA puts out a RFP to
hotels, it lists unionized facilities as one of its requirements. 
Thus, hotels everywhere are made aware that the AAA will give its
business only to unionized hotels.

Board Action on the 2006 Annual Meeting Location 

After this discussion, Alan Goodman moved the following:

Whereas, there is continued labor unrest in San Francisco

and

Whereas, a recent membership poll shows strong support for not
attending a meeting at a hotel involved in labor unrest:

1) The AAA Executive Board directs AAA staff to explore alternative
2006 meeting times and locations,
2) The Executive Board directs AAA Staff to initiate further surveying
of membership as to acceptability of these other  potential times and
locations,
3) The Executive Board directs Liz Brumfiel, Alan Goodman and Bill 
Davis to consult with the Section Assembly, and the Commission on
Labor  Relations regarding the deliberations of the AAA Executive
Board, and
4) The AAA Executive Board agrees to set a time for the Board to come
together via email or telephone, not later than July 1, 2005.

 By a unanimous vote, the motion was adopted. 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun  6 13:33:48 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  6 12:38:01 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Urban Affairs Review, May 2005
Message-ID: <007301c56ab5$8a8676a0$5d8eaaac@toshibauser>

Following is the Table of Contents for
_Urban Affairs Review_ Vol. 40, n. 5 (May 2005)

1. Beyond Federal Urban Policy
William R. Barnes
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/575

2. Private Markets, Contracts, and Government Provision: What Explains
the Organization of Local Waste and Recycling Markets?
Margaret Walls, Molly Macauley, and Soren Anderson
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/590

3. Media and Momentum: Strategic Contributing in a Big-City Mayoral
Election
Timothy B. Krebs and David B. Holian
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/590

4. Nested Levels of Institutions: State Rules and City Property Taxes
Barbara Coyle McCabe and Richard C. Feiock
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/634

5. Battery Park City: An Ethnographic Field Study of the Community
Impact of 9/11
Setha M. Low, Dana H. Taplin, and Mike Lamb
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/655

6. Book Review: Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st
Century: The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities
Eric J. Petersen
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/683

7. Book Review: The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for
Public Space
Keith Wardrip
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/685

8. Book Review: Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of
Happiness in Fortress America
Brent D. Ryan
http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/5/687



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun  6 15:31:31 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  6 14:35:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Sociology of Urban and Regional Development at
	the ISA World Congress (South Africa)
Message-ID: <003d01c56ac6$011d1840$b3d781ac@toshibauser>

ISA World Congress
23-29 July 2006
Durban, South Africa

RC21 Sociology of Urban and Regional Development

14 sessions available + 2 (one business meeting) @ 9th May 2005
Programme Coordinator: Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino, Italy)
yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it

1. URBAN POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE: CONFLICTING INTERESTS AND CITIZENSHIP

Ian Gordon (LSE, UK) I.R.Gordon@lse.ac.uk

A new conventional wisdom' about the role of cities in an increasingly
competitive international economy suggests that there is a necessary and
observable shift toward more responsive forms of 'governance' at this scale
as a means of securing a required combination of competitiveness and
cohesion. Though the notion of governance is somewhat fuzzy, its key factor
seems to be that of cutting across established models of regulation and of
principles of accountability.
The aim of this session is to dig behind the functionalist and ideological
elements of 'governance' talk, to identify what kinds of related change are
actually underway in the processes of policy, politics and regulation at an
urban scale. Papers are particularly invited which can cast light on:
?         how these vary between societal, institutional and local contexts;
and
?         what the implications of shifts toward some version of governance
are - or could be - for democratic citizenship and how major conflicts of
interest get resolved.


2. RESCALING SOCIAL POLICIES AND THE ROLE OF LOCAL WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS

Attention: Joint Session RC19-RC21

Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino, I)  yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it
Rianne Mahon (Carleton University, CAN) rmahon@ccs.carleton.ca

In the light of most welfare reform processes the territorial (urban and
regional) dimension is acquiring prominence, not only in terms of
implementation, but also increasingly as a regulating actor with widening
degrees of freedom. Reasons for that are many (decentralisation,
privatisation, new forms of governance,...), but all point to a deep
reorganisation of social policies at the territorial level. Even the EU (in
Europe) is fostering that, trying to gain regulatory terrain. The joint
session aims at looking from different perspectives into this process. What
are the implications of this territorial re-organisation? How does it take
place in different contexts and what are the reasons for territorial
differences? Papers are asked to provide both empirical and theoretical
reflections on the processes with preferably a comparative perspective.


3. LEARNING CITIES: KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Alan Scott (University of Innsbruck, AT) Alan.Scott@uibk.ac.at

Cities are in increased global competition with each other. Or perhaps it is
more accurate to say that urban decision makers believe this to be the case
and act accordingly. These beliefs are themselves in part a response to
social scientific debate (and/or rhetoric), in this case to notions such as
'knowledge society'. The result has been an emphasis upon the need to
'position' the city and/or region; to build clusters; to institutionalize
knowledge transfer; to market the locality. Nor is it just major centers or
'global cities' that pursue such strategies and assert their locational
advantages over rivals. Lesser players must do the same, at least within the
national or regional context of inter-city competition.
What are the implications of this renewed emphasis upon knowledge,
innovation and growth? How does it affect key actors within the locality;
not just governing elites, but also universities, research hospitals,
research centers, etc.? Are we witnessing a reconfiguration of the urban
'growth coalition?' Will new forms of urban inequality emerge within and
between cities? Is this a game from which cities outside the 'developed
world' are excluded? This session will seek to address these and related
questions and issues arising from the urban learning imperative.



4. GLOBALISATION AND THE REMAKING OF THE INTERNATIONAL URBAN disORDER

Diane Davis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US)
dedavis@mit.edu

The study of globalization's impact on cities has shed new light on such
questions as economic restructuring, metropolitan governance, and spatial
transformation, among other issues. Implicit in many of these studies is the
assumption that globalization is creating a new international urban order in
which cities are key nodes in a highly inter-connected global network built
around a hierarchy of cities reflecting a relatively functional (if not
efficient) socio-spatial pecking order of inter and intra-urban functions
and activities. Less well studied have been the "dysfunctional" effects of
such changes -- or the ways that globalization, either on its own or as
mediated by the aforementioned political, economic, spatial, and cultural
factors, has led to new or more visceral forms of urban conflict and
disorder.   This session seeks papers that examine how globalization
produces disorder and disarray in everyday urban life, either by rupturing
old political, economic, social, and spatial practices or producing entirely
new ones. Among the suggested topics for discussion are: the growing urban
political struggles and social tensions that accompany new immigrant or
labor flows; the increasing use of coercive force (police and/or private
security firms) to manage accelerating social and spatial polarization; the
growing intra-urban conflicts generated by the rapid transformation of land
uses in emergent global cities; the political tensions within discrete
territorial jurisdictions that form sprawling global metropolises; and the
trade wars between global cities or within global city regions.  Papers can
examine the origins or impact of such conflicts -- for cities, for their
citizens, or for future patterns of globalization and urban development.


5. CITIES AS A SOCIAL FABRIC

Patrick Le Gal?s (CEVIPOF, Paris  F) patrick.legales@sciences-po.fr

Cities and metropolis are being fragmented and reshaped: new groups, new
identities, new socialisation processes are emerging, in a context where
divisions, fragmentation, inequalities, segregation, fragilisation and
precarisation seem to be deeply affecting all categories. Thus, the capacity
of cities to  foster social integration, or social cohesion as some put it,
is questioned in new ways. Urban research has reflected that by focusing on
issues of fragmentation, exclusion. Urban sociology also needs a better
understanding of the processes which allow groups within cities to cohere,
to integrate, to govern as well as to fragment. Papers are asked to explore
both conceptually and empirically how we might understand cities as a social
fabric, within a comparative frame of reference.


6. DECLINING URBAN-RURAL DIVIDES AND URBAN LIVELIHOODS

Alison Todes (University of KwaZulu-Natal eThekwini, Durban)
Todes@ukzn.ac.za

In parts of the developing world, urban-rural divides are declining as
fragmented and impermanent migration occurs in the midst of declining formal
employment, and sometimes stagnant national economies. Urban agriculture is
dispersed throughout the nominally urban areas and increases in scale
towards the nominal urban fringe.
Preconceptions of urban and rural provide a poor guide to these
circumstances. Papers in the sessions are asked to address the underlying
dynamics of urbanisation and migration processes, the relationships rural
and urban areas, and the nature of urban livelihoods in different parts of
the developing world.


7. SLUMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Xolela Mangcu (Human Sciences Research Council, Tshwane, Pretoria)
mangcux@hsrc.ac.za
Ranvinder S. Shandu (Guru Nanak dev University Amritsar, In)
ranvinder@yahoo.com

Slums, which are defined by the limited availability of unsanitary water and
sanitation, little or no waste removal and energy and transport
infrastructure, poor housing, and informal forms of dispute resolution, are
ubiquitous in developing countries.  Slums in their various forms are an
inevitable consequence of, inter alia, insufficient jobs that allow
households to afford better housing and services, inadequate local
government resources and a variety of governance issues.  However,
conditions in slums and the potential for improving these conditions vary
considerably, depending on, inter alia, the pre-conditions for pro-poor
policies, civic action and the responses of households.  Papers in the
session are asked to provide examples of improvements in slum conditions, or
the obstacles to improvements, and also the analysis of the circumstances
that led to these outcomes.



8. THE NEW MEGAPROJECTS: WHAT IS THEIR IMPACT ON URBAN LIFE

Susan Fainstein (Columbia University, NY, US) Sfainstein@aol.com
Fernando Diaz Orueta (University of Alicante, ES) fernando.diaz@ua.es

Critiques of urban renewal and large-scale developments throughout the world
have emphasized their negative environmental and social consequences and
particularly their displacement effects. In the 1980s and 90s, we saw a
decline in such projects in many places, responding to popular protest and
intellectual dissent, along with a new emphasis on preservation. More
recently, however, we see the revival of mega-projects, often connected with
tourism and sports development. This session will present papers evaluating
some of these new ambitious projects in terms of their social and spatial
effects. In particular it will investigate whether these interventions are
reducing or increasing urban inequality. The comparison among different
cities and analyses of the differing roles of the state, the private sector,
and citizen groups provides the basis for understanding the implications of
the new mega-projects.



9. HOUSING AND SEGREGATION IN THE PATHS OF URBAN CHANGE

Hartmut Haeussermann (Humboldt University at Berlin, D)
hartmut.haeussermann@sowi.hu-berlin.de

Residential segregation by ethnicity, race or class is one of the central
issues of urban studies since their beginning. At the end of the 20th
century the thesis of urban 'polarisation'  was widely discussed.  This
perspective was very often related to new city types like the 'global city'.
But this 'theory' has been criticized, and more and more evidence shows,
that the patterns of social and spatial inequality are varying very much in
different countries and cities. This panel should bring together
researchers, who are engaged in empirical work on changes of patterns of
segregation.



10. THE CHALLENGES OF CITY-REGIONS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD

Attention: Joint Integrative Session RC21-RC24-RC47

Louis Guay (University of Laval, CAN) louis.guay@soc.ulaval.ca
Pierre Hamel (University of Montreal, CAN) pierre.hamel@umontreal.ca

City-regions are increasingly on the top of the agenda of territorial public
policy. This is related to demographic and spatial change, but also to the
expansion of the knowledge economy at a global scale. Beyond the new urban
hierarchy emerging out of demographic and economic changes, environmental
and territorial management issues are becoming paramount and multifaceted.
They are linked to urban sprawl, to the quality of city life as well as to
the capacity of local and metropolitan governments to manage environmental
and territorial controversies. The objective of this panel is above all to
assess the importance of these issues and their relationships to other
aspects of city-region's development in a comparative perspective. In what
terms are  environmental challenges defined by social and political actors
within city-regions? Under what conditions is urban development in
city-regions compatible with environmental protection and territorial
management? To what extent can these issues be considered a main concern of
metropolitan governance? These questions are only a small sample of the
territorial concerns of city regions' development. Nevertheless, we think
that if the development of city-regions is on the urban agenda, these
questions cannot be dealt with without taking into account environmental
issues and territorial management. This is mainly what we intend to explore
in the session.


11. THE CITY OF THE FUTURE: TOWARDS ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE URBAN
DEVELOPMENT

Kuniko Fujita (Michigan State University, US) fujitak@msu.edu

World wide urbanization is clashing with nature's limit. Cities are both
prime contributors to the environmental crisis and testing grounds for new,
eco-friendly practices.  Is an ecologically sustainable urban development
possible?  This panel seeks papers that approach the future city from
perspectives of ecologically sustainability. Contributors may focus on case
studies of environmental policies, politics, and planning but sensitivity to
national and global contexts is also important. Cross-national comparisons
among cities are especially desirable. Local efforts to build solidarity
around environmental issues: establish sustainable industries and
employment; develop greener patterns of consumption and styles of life;
institute incentives to motivate and mechanisms to enforce conservation;
establish compatibility between visions of ecological sustainability and a
more egalitarian and inclusive city; and engage in learning networks with
other cities are among the issues authors might address.


12. URBAN POLITICAL ACTION AND THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL LIFE IN CITIES

Justin Beaumont (University of Groningen, NL) beaumont@frw.rug.nl
Walter Nicholls (California State University, US) wnicholl@csulb.edu

This session addresses the ways that various forms of urban political action
contribute to (or limit) social integration and enhanced quality of life for
more deprived, vulnerable and marginalized people in an era of
globalization. Previous and mostly European investigations on this issue
tend to focus on the character of urban policy interventions at various
levels, the rise of interactive strategies between multiple "urban
governance" agents, the socially integrative function of local welfare
arrangements and area-based initiatives for so-called distressed urban
neighbourhoods. The session confronts the European urban tradition, rooted
partly in Durkheim, with one more closely associated with American political
science. In the spirit of De Toqueville and Dahl, the US pluralist tradition
emphasises the importance of autonomous associations in civil society that
mediate between the individual and the state to ensure the plural and
successive influence of interest groups. Confronting these traditions might
improve our understanding of the relationships between urban political
action, on the one hand, and interventions for social integration and
enhanced quality of life for citizens of cities on the other. The aim of the
session is to critically interrogate and examine relations between urban
political action and its impact on the livelihoods (for better or worse) of
the urban poor. Inviting scholars from a variety of disciplines (urban
sociology, urban planning, urban geography), the session will also benefit
from a growing body of work devoted to urban governance and politics,
democratization and social justice in South Africa. The general question is:
"How do various forms of political action contribute to (or limit) social
integration and enhanced quality of life for more deprived, vulnerable and
marginalized people in cities?" Papers are invited to address these issues
both in theoretical and empirical terms.



13. DIVIDED CITIES: URBAN TERROR AND WARFARE

Hank Savitch (University of Louisville, US) hank.savitch@louisville.edu

This panel will address the rising phenomenon of how cities have become
seats for the exercise of specific forms of collective violence such terror
and warfare. The papers selected for this panel will cover a spectrum of
collective, systematic violence that are unique to cities.  This includes
the rise of terror (defined as deliberate and purposeful efforts to kidnap,
maim or kill non-combatants) the prominence of guerrilla warfare (defined as
armed violence carried out by irregular fighters aimed at other combatants)
and conventional warfare (defined as armed violence between regularly
organized armed forces). Thus, we can include terror stricken cities like
Belfast, Jerusalem, New York and Istanbul) as well as cities that have
recently been sites for guerrilla or conventional warfare (Sarajevo,
Baghdad, Kabul).  Some major themes of selected papers should embrace how
cities have changed over the last 30 years in the wake of contemporary
warfare, the link between some forms of collective violence and
globalization and the spatial implications that stem from this occurrence.
These themes are integral to the quality of urban life and the future of
cities.



14. MULTICULTURALISM AND THE VALUES OF URBAN DIVERSITY

Ash Amin (University of Durham, UK)  ash.amin@durham.ac.uk
John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton) j.eade@roehampton.ac.uk

Living with ethnic diversity has become one of the key challenges in our
times of growing transnational flow and civilizational clash. Yet, much of
the debate on models of integration, such as multiculturalism, remains
largely at the national level, while the real business of negotiating ethnic
and cultural diversity unfolds at the level of everyday urban practices and
experiences.  This session is interested in exploring how the urban, as
context and as lived arena, shapes performances and attitudes towards the
other. It is keen to explore the relevance of anxiety, hate and suspicion,
but also their opposites in framing practices towards the stranger. It is
also keen to explore normative and policy options at varying spatial scales
of interaction for negotiating diversity in positive ways. Papers may be of
a social theoretic nature or offer grounded evidence from a variety of urban
contexts, especially from the Global South.


15. THE CHANGING CULTURES OF CITIES

Sharon Zukin (Brooklyn College, NY) Zukin@brooklyn.cuny.edu

During the past few decades, cities have been repopulated and re-imagined by
structural changes suggested by the shorthand terms of globalization,
gentrification, and liberalization of markets.  Immigrant quarters have
grown in both historic cores and distant suburbs, world-class buildings
tower over waterfronts and heritage sites, and public spaces such as
shopping centres support the performance of new urban cultures.  This
session invites the submission of 15-page papers that present case studies
of how the cultures of cities are re-imagined in light of these structural,
spatial, and demographic changes.


16. BUSINESS MEETING

Hartmut Haussermann (RC21 President)
Yuri Kazepov (RC21 Secretary)

The balance of the 2002-2006 board activities: facts, figures and prospects

Election of the new board


DEADLINES

1) Potential paper givers should send their abstracts to sessions chair(s)
and in carbon copy to the programme coordinator by November 15, 2005.
2) Chair will make their selection by January 15th, 2006.
3) Authors of accepted papers will have to submit their abstracts to the
Sociological Abstracts web site http://www.csa.com/socioabs/submit.html
within March 31st, 2006. Only abstracts submitted by this web site will be
accepted. In order to submit an abstract, a participant must have registered
for the Congress.
4) Pre-registration deadline for all programme participants (presenters,
chairs, discussants, etc.) is May, 31st, 2006. Otherwise their names will
not appear in the Programme Book and abstracts of their papers will not be
published.


IMPORTANT NOTE

The above list of sessions is tentative since the number of sessions given
to Research Committees depends on membership. All those submitting abstracts
must be (or become) members of RC21. The number of sessions listed is based
on the April 2005 membership. If membership decreases between now and June
15th, 2005 the number of sessions will be reduced accordingly. If membership
increases significantly RC21 will be entitled to one or more additional
sessions. Consequently it is essential that membership be renewed or taken
out before that date. We encourage you to check with ISA Secretariat
isa@cps.ucm.es if you are duly registered at ISA and RC21 Urban and Regional
Development. If not, do so as soon as possible in order for the RC21 to be
allowed to organize the proposed sessions.

ISA membership form is available at
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/memb_i/index.htm
For any question please inquire with Yuri Kazepov (yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it)


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  9 12:50:15 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  9 11:54:50 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Arbona on Roy & Al Sayyad, eds., _Urban Informality_
Message-ID: <001401c56d0a$f3496060$0dd2afac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

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

Ananya Roy and Nezar Al Sayyad, eds. _Urban Informality: Transnational
Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia_.
Lexington Books. 2004. vii + 338pp. Illustrations, references, index.
ISBN 0-7391-0740-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-7391-0741-0 (pbk).

Reviewed for H-Urban by Juan Manuel Arbona <jarbona@brynmawr.edu>, Bryn
Mawr College

Urban Informalization

The debates about informality span more than three decades (ILO, 1972;
Hart, 1973). For a long period, scholars and international development
institutions attempted to establish a clear definition of informality
and the line separating formal from informal, with the goal of
modernizing (eradicating) the latter. These debates privileged (and for
good reasons) the economic dynamics surrounding these activities, but
"did not directly tackle the spatial aspects of urbanization and the
emerging forms of urbanism" (1). Similarly, the vast body of literature
addressing issues of informality focused on Latin America, ignoring
insights from other regional contexts. It is in this context that
_Urban Informality_ is a welcomed and much needed collection of essays.
One of the central themes of the book is that informality is a "new
paradigm for understanding urban culture" (9) embedded in an
"organizing logic which emerges under a paradigm of liberalization"
(16). Urban informality is understood as being more than economic
transactions or forms of organizing production outside the state's
regulatory framework. In Third World cities, and increasingly in the
rest of the world, informality permeates into the organization of urban
space, political institutions, policy regimes, and trans-national
(trans-border) dynamics. In this sense, _Urban Informality_ underscores
the tensions resulting from the promises, the practices, the outcome
of, and response to several generations of liberalization policies
(Brenner and Theodore, 2002).

The book is divided into three sections: the processes of
liberalization informing the informalization of urban space; the
localized political implications of informality; and transnational
ramifications of informality.  While the essays are uneven in their
theoretical depth, they do address important questions in the study of
cities, and provide important insights on how informality has become
the norm rather than the exception.

The first section aims to provide some context to the processes of
urban informalization as the concrete intersection of the promises and
practices of liberalization. The essays in this section suggest a
causal relation between liberalization and informality, and point to
the social tensions and localized responses informality generates.
Gilbert explores the relationship between liberalization and
informality. He argues and provides evidence of how the implementation
of (neo) liberal policies under the aegis of the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund dismantled many of the political and
economic structures that led to an expansion of informality. The author
points to the contradictory essence of liberalization.  While it sought
to promote globally competitive cities, liberalization resulted in a
situation (for individuals and government alike) in which informality
was the only way to generate income, secure adequate housing, or
sustain political legitimacy.

Hasan builds on this general premise to discuss the case of Karachi,
Pakistan. The author argues that since the liberalization of the
national economy, informality has expanded to most activities such as
recycling of solid waste, education and medical care. Hasan explores
the implications of the expansion in informality on those individuals
that already depend on the informal economy and on the (consumption)
aspiration of the middle classes. In other words, the middle class is
more dependent on the informal economy not only to generate income, but
also as a means of performing its class position.

In the last essay of this section, Bayat presents a compelling analysis
of the subtleties of informality described as a simultaneous process of
integration and social exclusion. Similar to what Roy (2003) described
as the "negotiation of poverty", Bayat focuses on "quiet encroachment"
as a way dispel the "myth of powerlessness" and to explain how those
dependent on the informal economy do have agency. Building from Scott's
(1985) analysis of everyday forms of resistance, Bayat sees the quiet
encroachment as a "largely atomized and prolonged mobilization with
episodic collective action" (90). This encroachment has direct
implications not only for the spatial organization of cities, but also
for the political strategies deployed by municipal governments and
informal producers alike.

The second group of essays highlights how informality is an
increasingly important articulator of political actors, pivotal in the
organization of urban spaces. A point shared by these chapters is that
political institutions are increasingly relying on informality as a
tool of coercion and consent. The importance of the role of informality
in politics (Cross, 1998) stems from the recognition by government
institutions and political parties that their own political survival
rests on a carefully choreographed balance between the liberalization
of (land, real estate) markets required to promote a globally
competitive city and the political gestures of support to those unable
to access its benefits.  Perlman revisits the sites and people of her
groundbreaking study that challenged the argument that poverty is a
natural event related to the work habits of the poor, instead of a
result of their being "stigmatized and excluded from a closed class
system" (121). Over three decades after the publication of "The Myth of
Marginality", Perlman stresses how the promises of the democratic
opening have gone unfulfilled for the residents of the favelas, even
though there has been an improvement in infrastructure and an increase
in household goods and appliances. One of the important points raised
by Perlman and picked up in Roy's chapter is how political parties rely
on informality to sustain and reproduce social and spatial
inequalities. Roy presents the case of Calcutta (Kolkata) and how
political parties (particularly the Communist Party of India Marxists)
selectively support certain squatter settlements as a way to extract
political consent and resources for basic infrastructural improvements.
However, once there is a market demand for this land, the state
reclaims it in the name of urban development and previous residents are
relocated. The importance of Roy's chapter is in the way she uses the
idea of the "gentleman's city" to discuss how informality (absence of
land titles and maps) is used as a political tool important not only in
the organization of urban space, but also in the negotiation of gender
relations.

If Roy emphasizes how informality is used as a political tool to
extract consent, Yaftachel and Yakobi highlight how it is also used as
a tool of coercion. Their chapter discusses how the BeerSheva, Israel
municipal government relies on informality and "planning (or lack of
it) as an instrument of ethnic control" (234). In the drive to expand
and consolidate territories, informality is used in conjunction with
planning to legitimize or limit access to land and basic services
resulting in the "condemnation of large communities to unserviced,
deprived, and stigmatized urban fringes" (218). However, and echoing
Bayat and Roy, Yaftachel and Yakobi note how the Bedouin-Arab residents
use informality as a form of resistance, albeit from a very different
position of power. While the previous authors see informality
(selective forms of regulation) as a political tool, Soliman, who
subscribes to the legalistic school of thought championed by Hernando
de Soto, argues that informality is a problem and can only be address
by a process of (liberalized) legalization. This line of argument
dismisses the connections between liberalization and informalization
presented in previous chapters, and echoes the promise that only
through liberalization can a proper private property regime be
established, which in turn would "allow the private developers to
construct or speculate on vacant available land within informal areas"
(203).

The discussion of the legal implications of informality continues in
one of the chapters in the last section that focuses on the
transnational dimensions of informality. The chapter by Bromley takes
direct aim at the metaphors, assumptions (selective use of history),
and methodology presented in de Soto's latest work (and Soliman's
chapter).  The central criticism is that "simply legalizing extra-legal
real estate does not institute a rule of law, and it does not guarantee
economic stability" (280). While the work of de Soto and others in the
legalistic school of thought suggests that legal propriety follows
international borders, Ward argues that informality is no longer (and
may have never been) the exclusive monopoly of the Third World. He
points to "new forms of informality that are emerging between social
groups, or within labor market niches within society, thereby
intensifying the segmentation of people in the same socio-economic
class" (245).  Ward focuses on colonias (settlements) on several cities
along the US-Mexico border, and describes how there is a market for
self-help housing that takes advantage of the inability or lack of
willingness of government institutions to help low-income households.

The last chapter moves from international borders to academic borders,
asking how we teach about (represent) informality without reproducing
the "aestheticization of poverty". The author warns against the threat
of a pedagogical approach to urban informality that privileges "an
aesthetic and aestheticized (rather than political) relationship
between viewer and viewed, between professional and city, between First
and Third Worlds" (302).

This book should be an important companion to a course on urban
perspectives on political and economic restructuring in the Third
World.  The contributions of this set of essays fall in line with other
important publications on the discussion and debates on informality
(Portes, Castells, and Benton, 1989; Rakowski, 1994). The majority of
authors do not necessarily advocate for the eradication of informality,
but highlight the tendency to negatively and disproportionately affect
those with limited economic means and access to political institutions.
Furthermore, the authors point to the ways in which informality is
becoming a central process in the spatial, social, political, and
economic organization of cities. In her chapter Perlman captures what
is at stake in the ways policy-makers and academics address this issue:
"the real policy challenge may be to move away from paternalism and
toward universalistic rights, entitlements, and guarantees" (127).

Notes
[1]. International Labour Organization (ILO), _Employment, Incomes and
Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya_
(Geneva: ILO, 1972).

[2].Keith Hart, "Informal income opportunities and urban employment in
Ghana," _ The Journal of Modern African Studies_ 11 (1973): pp. 61-89.

[3]. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, "Cities and the geographies of
'actually existing neoliberalism'," _ Antipode_ 34 (2002): pp. 349-379.

[4]. John Cross, _Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in
Mexico City_ (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1998).

[5]. Ananya Roy, _City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of
Poverty_ (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

[6]. Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, Laurie Benton, _ The Informal
Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries_ (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

[7] Cathy Rakowski, _ Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin
America_ (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 10 11:54:56 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 10 10:59:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health
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3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health
Marina Mahathir, Malaysia
November 17-21, 2005

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee for the 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health (3rd APCRSH), I would like to extend a cordial invitation to you and all those who are involved in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights and all interested parties to attend and participate in the forthcoming Conference that will be held in Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, which is a satellite town just 15 km from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur from 17th to 21st November 2005.

The theme of this Conference, "Expanded and Comprehensive Response in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for all Communities," will examine relevant current issues that arose since the last International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and beyond, and with special reference to the Asia Pacific Region.

This will be a great opportunity for policy makers, programme planners, programme managers, service providers, GOs, NGOs, researchers, educators and funders to meet, discuss and share experiences, ideas as well as expertise with their counterparts from Asia and the Pacific Region on important reproductive and sexual health issues.  To join us at the conference, please register as a participant at http://www.3apcrsh.org/registration.htm.

The Conference will be organised in the form of plenary sessions, symposia, parallel and satellite sessions to explore, discuss and exchange experiences and views on the various current and emerging issues in the field of sexual and reproductive health in the Asia Pacific Region and throughout the world.  There will also be skills building and empowerment workshops and poster sessions during the Conference.

The good news is that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15th July 2005.  Kindly submit your abstracts at http://www.3apcrsh.org/usrParticipatelogin.aspx.

We also like to invited International Organisations and NGOs who have an interest in sexual and reproductive health, as well as companies related to healthcare/medical for participation as trade exhibitors at the upcoming 3rd APCRSH.  Kindly email your enquiries to waikin.wong@meditechmedia.com.

We look forward to welcome you at this Conference.  We will like to share with you the knowledge and experiences of all fellow participants in striving the ICPD Programme of Action as well as the Millennium Development Goals in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Dr. Kamaruzaman Ali
Chairperson, Local Organising Committee
3rd APCRSH 2005, Malaysia


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 10 12:06:06 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 10 11:11:11 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Perspectives on Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
 Conference (Salford)
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
Perspectives on Conflict:
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

8th & 9th September 2005

Presenting a two day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate
students of the arts, media and social sciences to be held at the
University of Salford

This conference aims to consider current and changing perspectives on
conflict in cultural, social, political and military life. The intention
is to stimulate debate and generate fresh understandings through
interdisciplinary exchange. We welcome papers in fields related to law,
media, politics, sociology, literature, philosophy, psychology, history,
military history and the performing arts.

The conference intends to address these intersecting themes:


Spaces and Places of Conflict
Practices and Dynamics of Conflict
Mediations and Resolutions of Conflict
Images and Representations of Conflict
Concepts and Understandings of Conflict
Abstracts of 250 words are invited for contributions of 20 minutes. We aim
to provide a supportive and friendly environment where postgraduates can
gain experience in presenting their work and meet fellow researchers. The
conference also welcomes participants who do not wish to present.

Email address for abstracts and information:
conflictconference@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://esri.salford.ac.uk/seminars/forthcoming/index.shtml

Conference Administration:
Sara Lockett, Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Science,
University of Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
Phone: 0044 (161) 295 2811
Fax: 0044 (161) 295 2818

The closing date for proposals is 1st July 2005

Registration forms are available from the conference website


 Sara Lockett, Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Science, University of
Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
Phone: 0044 (161) 295 2811
Fax: 0044 (161) 295 2818

Email: conflictconference@hotmail.co.uk
Visit the website at
http://esri.salford.ac.uk/seminars/forthcoming/index.shtml

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jun 11 09:06:19 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jun 11 08:11:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Converted Spaces -- Religion and Spatiality
Message-ID: <004d01c56e7d$fe3990c0$f0ff86ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Converted Spaces -- Religion and Spatiality

For an upcoming issue of the journal _Radical History Review_ that focuses
on religion and politics, we invite authors to write and submit short
articles or essays (12-18 pages, double-spaced) to be published in a special
forum exploring the theme "Converted Spaces."  We envision the forum to
include 3-5 pieces that explore the following questions:

How do physical spaces (buildings, streets, shrines, natural landscapes)
function as sites of contestation among competing religious groups?  How do
such sites accommodate multiple religious faiths?

In areas where one religious group became displaced by another, how were
physical spaces "converted" from the old to the new faith?  What were the
social, cultural, and political consequences of such converted spaces?

How are sacred spaces "secularized"?  How are secular, public, or civic
spaces (courthouses, schools) transformed when religious rituals, symbols,
and/or practices enter them? What are the socio-political and cultural
ramifications of such transformations?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the Christianization of
non-Christian sacred sites in Europe or regions colonized by Europeans; the
destruction of Muslim mosques in India and their conversion into Hindu
shrines; the use of churches for organizing dissent in the former Communist
nations of Eastern Europe; debates about wearing head scarves by Muslim
girls in French schools; the use of public schools in the United States for
religious education and programs; the rise and function of so-called 'mega
churches' in the United States; etc.  We are interested in historical
analyses, as well pieces analyzing current issues with historical
perspectives.

Interested authors should send a proposal to <rhr@igc.org> with "Converted
Spaces RHR 99" in the subject line of the e-mail message.  Deadline for
proposals is September 1, 2005.  If your proposal is accepted for
publication, final essays will be due January 15, 2006.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jun 11 09:51:11 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jun 11 08:56:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Anniversary Conference
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Please excuse multiple postings

**********

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Anniversary Conference
Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism

July 22-24, 2005
York University, Toronto, Ontario
(www.yorku.ca/cnsconf)

The Capitalism, Nature, Socialism anniversary conference entitled Ecology,
Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism will encourage
interdisciplinary debates on critical political ecology and the current crisis
of societal relations with nature.

This conference draws contributors from a variety of fields, including, but
not limited to: critical theory, political economy, radical geography,
environmental philosophy, and social movement theory.  Key participants
include Maria Mies (keynote), Ariel Salleh, Alex Demirovic, Joan Martinez-
Alier, Joel Kovel, Patrick Bond, Giovanna Ricoveri, Sam Gindin, Neil Smith,
Noel Castree, Daniel Faber, Tim Luke, and Elmar Altvater.

The conference is structured along the following themes:
(1)        Marxism, Critical Theory and Ecology
(2)        Ecosocialism, Feminism and Environmental Justice
(3)        World Order, Imperialism and Global Ecological Politics
(4)        Urbanization, Ecological Degradation and Political Ecology

The Capitalism, Nature, Socialism anniversary conference is organized in
conjunction with the International Political Economy and Ecology Summer School
jointly coordinated by the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of
Environmental Studies, York University.

For more information go to: www.yorku.ca/cnsconf


--
Ute Lehrer, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada, L2S 3A1
phone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 4417
From kate.browne at colostate.edu  Sat Jun 11 17:37:54 2005
From: kate.browne at colostate.edu (kate browne)
Date: Sun Jun 12 11:51:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]economics & morality, Call for Papers
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Hello fellow SUNTA members,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2006 Society for 
Economic Anthropology conference next spring. The theme is Economics 
and Morality, a topic that is bursting with promise for a great 
meeting. Read the Call for Papers and other information below. --Kate 
Browne, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State 
University

CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 SEA Meetings
April 21-23, 2006
Ventura County, California

Economics and Morality

Kate Browne & Lynne Milgram, organizers

The Society for Economic Anthropology seeks proposals for papers and 
poster
presentations for our 2006 annual meetings, April 21-23, 2006 at 
California
State University, Channel Islands on the theme: Economics and Morality.
Deadline for abstracts: OCTOBER 1, 2005.

The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused program of
presentations with time for critical discussion in a convivial 
intellectual
setting. Approximately 15 papers are selected from abstracts for a 
program
that allows 20 minutes for presentation followed by 20 minutes for
discussion in a single plenary session over two days; 20 to 30 
additional
abstracts will be selected for a special poster session. Each SEA 
conference
also produces a book on the same theme. Presenting a paper in the 
plenary
session is a commitment that you are willing to have your work 
considered
for inclusion in this volume. Papers developed from poster 
presentations may
also be considered for the volume.

MEETING THEME: Morality refers to a code of conduct based on shared
principles about what is good and right behavior and values, and what is
not. When moral meanings intersect changing economic realities, economic
anthropologists are ideally positioned to investigate the product of 
these
intersections. For the 2006 SEA meeting, we are inviting
ethnographically-grounded papers that engage the following issues:  how
everyday economic activities are conceptualized in moral terms, how 
local
and global institutions, enterprises and social movements develop moral
claims and package them for consumption, how moralities are challenged,
reformed, and newly indexed, and how moral choices impact 
stratification by
class, ethnic groups, gender, sexualities, and nations. As the possible
range of categories below suggests, research relevant to this topic 
spans
all subfields of anthropology and will hopefully attract scholars from 
other
social sciences and the humanities as well:

1. Strategies for Defining and Investigating Morality in Economic Life
Emphasis on methods for demarcating moral aspects of economic values and
practice over space and time, and for decoding its variability at the 
level
of individuals, local communities, and across societies. Concerns 
related to
moral relativism and fieldwork dilemmas.

2. Conceptualizing Moral Frameworks in Economic Practice
Emphasis on theoretical constructs to distinguish morality from ethics, 
to
frame the emergence, fragmentation, and shifts in moral understandings, 
and
to outline an anthropology of morality and economics.

3. Moral Claims and Contradictions in the Global Economy
Discourses and practices that underlie neoliberal reform and its 
impacts,
new social movements (fair trade, new religious movements, human and 
animal
rights movements, labor movements, environmental movements), and 
increasing
commodification of new terrain (body parts, expired drugs, toxic waste) 
and
of prisons, war, etc.

4. Who Owns the Past? Indigenous and Western Conflicts and Claims
Competing moral claims on bones (NAGPRA), on museum artifacts, and
intellectual property (native crops, medicinal herbs, etc).

5. Who Cheats and Why? The Moral Terms of Economic Deviance
Practices and understandings of cheating, undeclared economic activity.
pilfering, petty theft.

6. What they were Thinking? Moral and Material Intersections of Past
Societies
Understandings of moral codes embedded in landscapes, built 
environments,
material culture, and political transformations.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2005.  Please send your 500-word abstract for a 
paper or poster to both Kate Browne and Lynne Milgram.
kate.browne@colostate.edu and lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca.
Kate Browne, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, 
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1787. Lynne Milgram, Faculty of Liberal 
Studies,
Ontario College of Art and Design, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON, 
Canada,
M5T 1W1.

THE SITE: The meetings will take place in beautiful Ventura County,
California, 1.5 hours north of Los Angeles, where opportunities are
available for hiking, kayaking, snorkeling, boat cruises and visiting
wildlife and wildflower sanctuaries. A Friday afternoon poster session 
and
evening reception will be held on the campus of California State 
University
Channel Islands, the newest addition to the CSU system. Nestled in the
foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains and built as a WPA project, the
mission revival buildings enclose 35 separate courtyards, each uniquely
decorated with hand-painted tiles, amid vast lawns and mature pepper 
and jacaranda trees.

**********************************
Katherine E. Browne
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1787
970-491-5813
kate.browne@colostate.edu
**********************************

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jun 12 12:51:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 12 11:56:51 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: LINEAE TERRARUM (International Borders Conference)
Message-ID: <006101c56f66$a85f6aa0$3cbe8fac@toshibauser>

 LINEAE TERRARUM (International Borders Conference)

Call for Papers
Lineae Terrarum
International Borders Conference

Papers are now being accepted for a special conference on Border Theory and
Border Issues. The event will be held in three proximate cities in the El
Paso (TX), Ciudad Juarez, Las Cruces (NM), March 27th-30th. Transportation
will be provided between venues.

Borders mean more than boundaries and are often the meeting points of
different peoples and cultures. Studying border issues requires attention to
interdisciplinary issues and approaches. In an age where globalization has
increased economic interactions and integration, increased the ability of
terrorists to operate transnationally, increased mobility of migrants, the
greater ease with which disease may spread globally, and the greater contact
of different cultures, we require both theory to explain the special
characteristics of border environments as well as deeper discussion of
policy.

The goal of this conference is to bring together scholarship on Border
Theory and Border Issues. The nature of the conference will be
interdisciplinary with the following themes highlighted:

Border Theory
Border Security
Commerce and Economic Integration
Mobility and Migration
Border Health Issues
Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Boundaries
Cross-Border Cooperation
Environmental Issues and Water Sharing
Future of Border Studies

The conference is open to Faculty from various disciplines, students, and
policy analysts.
It is also a goal to assemble a multi-volume, interdisciplinary publication
reflecting many of the papers presented.

Paper proposals are due on September 1, 2005, and should be about 100-150
words in length.
Please, visit our webpage for further information:
Research.utep.edu/Lineaeterrarum

Tony Payan
Department of Political Science
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Ave.
El Paso, Texas 79968
U.S.A.

Email: lineaeterrarum@utep.edu
Visit the website at http://research.utep.edu/lineaeterrarum


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jun 12 12:55:40 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 12 12:01:02 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: Latin American Cities
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Call for Submissions: Latin American Cities

The fifth issue of Br?jula will be devoted to the study of Latin American
cities. We will consider for publication manuscripts that analyze the idea
of the city from either historical, mythical or imaginary perspectives, as
well as those that deal with the urban experience and its social, political,
economic and cultural manifestations. Br?jula is especially interested in
submissions from diverse disciplines that examine the expression of the
margin/periphery in the center and from pre-colonial times until today.
Please submit materials to submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu by January 6, 2006.

Submissions:
Please submit your essay with a cover letter that includes a brief (50-75
word) professional statement (with your name, academic affiliation, and
standing [graduate student, doctoral candidate, assistant professor],
institution, research interests, and/or a few relevant publications) the
title of your paper as well as a 100-word abstract.

_Br?jula_ is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the process of
selection. Therefore we ask that essays be submitted without names. Names
and e-mail addresses should appear on cover letter and envelopes only.

Essays may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
Papers are limited to 15-20 pages, double-spaced, including endnotes and
bibliography.
Send material via e-mail at: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu. Use Microsoft Word
95 or higher. Or Mail 3.5" formatted disk (IBM or Mac) with document to:
Br?jula, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California,
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8576.

We request that essay format follow the conventions of the MLA Style Manual
and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.

Tables, diagrams, maps, photos, and artwork may be included by arrangement
with editors. Permissions to reproduce such materials will be the
responsibility of the author.

_Br?jula_ only accepts original contributions. Translations of articles or
articles already published will not be accepted. Manuscripts will not be
returned.

Mission Statement:
Published annually by graduate students of the University of California at
Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas,
_Br?jula_ is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American
literary studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between
established academics and a new generation of scholars, while including
original essays from a variety of fields such as linguistics, anthropology,
history, native american studies, comparative literature, art, music,
spanish, and sociology. With each issue, Br?jula intends to highlight a
theme of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores
transnational perspectives to critical approaches.

For more information visit us at: http://hia.ucdavis.edu/brujula

Claudia Darrigrandi
University of California, Davis
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Phone: 530-7528535 or 7523046
Fax: 530-7525655
Email: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun 13 11:19:28 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 13 10:24:45 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Whitehead on Kaika, _City of Flows_
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[Cross-posted from H-HistGeog]

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

Maria Kaika. _City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City_. New York:
Routledge, 2005. xi + 200 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, endnotes,
index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-4159-4715-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN
0-4159-4716-2.

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Mark Whitehead, Institute of Geography and
Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Hydrological Politics and the Dark Spaces of Urban-Nature

Water has in many ways become the new money. In asserting this
seemingly unusual parallel, I am of course not suggesting that you
should rush down to your nearest hypermarket and instigate some form of
bartered exchange for a litre of H20 you have acquired. Instead the
parallel I draw between water and money is based upon the fact that
they both flow. In the case of money we can discern its "flow" from the
labor process into our bank accounts, then investment schemes,
commodities, buildings and infrastructure. In terms of water, it is
possible to trace its "flow" from river catchments, into reservoirs,
along aqueducts, through treatment plants and underground pipes, and
into our domestic taps, hoses and toilets. While the nature of the
"flow" of money and water is of course very different, the fact that
they do flow makes them particularly interesting things to study. The
intellectual importance of things that flow is that they force us to
look beyond the seemingly static objects which are routinely studied
within the humanities and social sciences, to consider the processes
which constitute, challenge and reform the world around us. Water is
the new money because it has become one of the most fashionable neo-
and post-Marxist objects of flow-analysis. Whether it is in relation to
political restructuring and the privatization of water provision in
Western states, geopolitical struggles over water supply in the Nile
Basin, or the moral imperatives of ensuring the delivery of potable
water to communities around the world, water studies are everywhere.[1]

It is in the context of this emerging and important school of critical
water studies that Maria Kaika's fascinating _City of Flows_ must be
positioned. _City of Flows_ is, to use Kaika's own words, "an
historical geographical analysis of the urbanization of water in
Western metropolises" (p. 5). Focusing predominantly, but not
exclusively, on the politics of water supply in Athens and London,
Kaika weaves together an empirically lucid and intellectually
challenging account of the problematic relationship between cities and
their water. As a geographer, Kaika's focus on the urbanization of
water is significant because it signals two concerns with the politics
of water which, while prominent within geographical analyses, have
often been given far less attention within other disciplinary
approaches. First, by focusing on the historical struggle to provide
adequate water supplies to cities, Kaika draws attention to critical
spatial factors that influence the flow of water. With the global urban
population set for the first time in human history to overtake rural
levels, the challenge of providing large amounts of water to densely
populated metropolitan districts (often located at great distances from
sustainable water supply sources) is increasingly defining the spatial
parameters of twenty-first-century water flow. Second, while exploring
the spatial flow of water from its rural sources to its urban
consumption, Kaika questions the ambiguous relationship between water
and nature. While at one level, there may seem nothing more natural
than water, Kaika critically analyses what exactly is left that is
natural about the water we consume after its engineered transportation
and chemical transformation. These twin concerns mean that Kaika's
_City of Flows_ must be contextualized not only within existing work on
water politics, but also within the celebrated history of Marxist
analyses of urbanization and the emerging desire within geographical
circles to uncover the spatial parameters around which the dichotomy
between society and nature is constituted and reinforced.[2]

Kaika sets out the main goals of her book in the first chapter "Visions
of Modernization." In this short chapter, Kaika describes her desire to
challenge our compartmentalized vision of the world as an autonomous
set of social and ecological spaces (home, wilderness, city,
countryside, neighborhood, zoo) and to reveal the messiness and
interconnected nature of socio-ecological existence. In order to convey
the ways in which nature and society routinely become spatially
compartmentalized and separated, Kaika introduces the intriguing notion
of _space envelopes_. According to Kaika, space envelopes are forms of
sealed space within which the supposedly purified realms of society and
nature are preserved as uncontaminated zones of existence. Kaika
attests that the proliferation of spatial envelopes for social and
ecological existence is intimately tied to the historical unfolding of
modernity as a program for social change and scientific development. In
many ways _City of Flows_ is a book about modernity-- or perhaps more
specifically the effects of modernity on urban development and the
urbanization of water supply. In order to facilitate a careful analysis
of the effects of modernity on urban water supply, _City of Flows_ is
presented in two parts. Part 1 contains four chapters (including
Chapter 1), the first two of which outline the theoretical stance of
the volume. The final chapters of Part 1 then trace the flow of water
from its "natural" points of origin into urban spaces and the domestic
sphere of the home. The purpose of this first section is to illustrate
the socio-ecological continuities which connect different space
envelopes like the countryside, city and home, and to reveal the hybrid
hydrological networks which flow through these spaces. Part 2 builds on
the generic account of the flow of water through space developed in
Part 1 to provide a more detailed historical geography of urban water
supply in Athens and London. Part 2 is divided into three main
chapters, each of which charts particular moments within the unfurling
social ecologies of Western modernity.

Although _City of Flows_ is only one of a series of contemporary books
charting the relationship between water and urbanization, in Part 1
Kaika develops some highly original insights into the urban experience
of water.[3] In chapters 3 and 4 Kaika describes the ways in which the
modern urbanization of water has been simultaneously visualized through
the celebratory architecture associated with urban hydrology, and also
rendered invisible by a series of hidden urban infrastructures which
ensure the regular supply of clean water to our homes. In the first
instance, Chapter 3 charts the aesthetic celebration of urban-based
technological networks devoted to the supply and treatment of urban
water. In this chapter Kaika describes how modern urban water projects
were deliberately given visual form through the grand architecture of
water pumping stations and organized tours of newly completed
underground sewerage systems during the nineteenth-century. In Chapter
4 Kaika describes how, despite its commemoration in the urban
landscape, the arrival of clean water in the home has been consistently
obscured and hidden. Kaika describes the highly selective and hidden
flow of water into the domestic sphere through an account of the
construction of subterranean water networks and the designation of "wet
rooms" within the modern home. The highly obscured arrival of water in
the modern home is, Kaika asserts, part of the continuing human desire
to insulate ourselves from the vagaries and threats of nature. In this
context, while the modern home is dependent on the regular supply of
clean water for its operational maintenance, Kaika notices how before
it enters the domestic sphere, water is stripped of its ecological
trappings and unwanted qualities. The purified and highly regularized
entry of water into domestic life ensures, according to Kaika, that the
home can remain that comforting and familiar space of social existence.
Drawing on the writing of Marx, Benjamin, and Freud, Kaika claims that
both the architectural commemoration and domestic concealment of water
tend to hide the socio-ecological consequences of the urbanization of
water from us. Utilizing Marx's notion of the fetish and Benjamin's
"wish images," Kaika describes how urban water consumers are insulated
from the processes of social and ecological exploitation which
under-gird urban water supply by the imagery and ideological
architecture through which water is produced and commodified. Deploying
Freud's description of the "uncanny," Kaika further recognizes that it
is only when urban water networks stop working (in the form of taps
that don't work, leaking pipes, or flooding) that we begin to perceive
the hidden geographies of urban water provision.

In Part 2 Kaika considers the urbanization of water through a detailed
historical geography of Athens and London. In the case of Athens (which
provides the stronger and clearer narrative) we discover that the
restructuring of the city was intimately tied to a series of attempts to
create a modern democratic state in Greece following the demise of the
Ottoman Empire. In Chapter 5 we see how the modernization of Athens was
initially, and perhaps paradoxically, pursued through a series of
attempts to uncover its ancient history and architecture. In the case of
water, this was expressed most famously in the failed attempts to
improve clean water supply to the capital through the excavation and
reactivation of Hadrian's Aqueduct. In the same chapter we hear about
the wider use of water in a series of strategies designed to make Athens
a Western city--such strategies varied from the utilization of water to
control street dust to the creation of the first royal park in the city.
In Chapter 6 Kaika describes how during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries a new era of water conquest started to emerge in
Athens. Based upon the high modernist creation of new dams, aqueducts,
and aquifer drilling projects, this new era culminated in the highly
symbolic completion of the famous Marathon Dam and a new period of water
abundance in the city. In the final chapter, Kaika discusses emerging
urban water crises in twentieth-century Athens and London. Kaika
describes the processes whereby urban water supply has been transformed
from a public, largely state-run venture to a privatized industry.
Echoing her previous observations, Kaika argues that the continuing
fetishization of urban water supply today is enabling private water
producers to respond to contemporary water shortages by increasing
prices (for a "naturally" scarce resource), rather than reforming the
water supply networks which are so inefficient at delivering water to
metropolitan centers in the first place.

While I would recommend _City of Flows_ as a crucial text for anyone
interested in the history of nature and cities, or in the policies and
politics of water supply, I do have certain, albeit limited concerns
with the volume. My first is a fairly stylistic issue and relates to the
treatment of London within the book. While the book states that Athens
and London are the main empirical foci of the volume, the historical
analysis of water supply in London is far less complete, integrated, or
detailed as that provided for Athens. While the selective empirical
focus on Athens as opposed to London is not necessarily a bad thing, the
reader is left at times wondering precisely what the material presented
on London is adding to that already discussed in relation to Athens and
this can be frustrating. My second concern is more theoretical and
relates to the treatment and analysis of water by Kaika. Throughout
_City of Flows_ Kaika consistently emphasizes the importance of
developing a hybrid account of the urbanization of water. In the context
of this promised hybridity, I expected to read much more about the
agency of water in resisting its modern manipulation and transformation
and in consequently shaping the urbanization process it feeds. However,
Kaika's account of water is surprisingly conventional, as we are
persistently reminded of the subjugation of water to the economic,
technological, and political will of modernity. While at one level I am
sympathetic to Kaika's low intensity interpretation of hybridity, I felt
that the volume as a whole would have benefited greatly from a more
detailed explanation of how the notion of the hybrid was to be deployed
within the book, and how it related to Kaika's underlying dialectical
approach. The point is that in her desire to trace the flow of water,
and to thus reveal the inner workings of urbanization and modernity,
Kaika is perhaps guilty at times of depicting water as pure flow and of
thus failing to account for its qualities as a chemical and fluid thing.

These limited criticisms are, however, not meant to detract from the
overall quality of the book. If you read _City of Flows_ you will enjoy
it. It is a clearly written, engaging, and at times provocative book
which can proudly take its place among the required readings for anyone
with an interest in urban-nature relations.

Notes

[1]. For a good overview of contemporary work on the politics of water
supply see A. P. Elhance, _Hydro-Politics in the Third World: Conflict
and Co-operation in International River Basins_ (Washington: United
States Institute of Peace Press, 1999); J. Selby, _Water, Power and
Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict_
(London: IB Tauris, 2003).

[2]. For a more detailed discussion of the spatial dimensions of the
divide between society and nature see D. Harvey, _Justice, Nature, and
the Geography of Difference_ (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), chapters 13 and
14; C. Katz, "Whose Nature, Whose Culture? Private Productions of Space
and the 'Preservation' of Nature" in _Remaking Reality: Nature at the
Millennium_, ed. B. Bruan and N. Castree (London: Routledge, 1998), pp.
46-63.

[3]. G. Desfor, and R. Keil, _Nature and the City_ (Phoenix: University
of Arizona Press, 2004); M. Gandy, _Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature
in New York City_ (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002); E. Swyngedouw, _Social
Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power_ (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004).

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 14 11:58:30 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 14 11:03:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Urban Studies VOL 42(5-6), May 2005
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TOC: Urban Studies
Volume 42 Number 5-6/May 2005

Introduction: The rise and rise of culture-led urban regeneration  pp.
833 - 839 Steven Miles and Ronan Paddison
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=V1V17487U618Q071

Deconstructing the city of culture: The long-term cultural legacies of
Glasgow 1990  pp. 841 - 868 Beatriz Garc?a
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J17319842981JQ54

Urban designscapes and the production of aesthetic consent  pp. 869 -
887 Guy Julier
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M27735808541R03T

Interruptions: Testing the rhetoric of culturally led urban
development  pp. 889 - 911 Malcolm Miles
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M7L65353441NM74U

Our Tyne': iconic regeneration and the revitalisation of identity in
NewcastleGateshead  pp. 913 - 926 Steven Miles
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=L55625Q323707489

Arts festivals and the city  pp. 927 - 943 Bernadette Quinn
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=H8M6712471MG9114

The global cultural city? Spatial imagineering and politics in the
(multi)cultural marketplaces of South-east Asia  pp. 945 - 958 Brenda
S. A. Yeoh
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=NU64V1572T307572

Measure for measure: Evaluating the evidence of culture's contribution
to regeneration  pp. 959 - 983 Graeme Evans
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=X0256839761121T8

Sport and economic regeneration in cities  pp. 985 - 999 Chris Gratton,
Simon Shibli, Richard Coleman
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=W4525XR64772753R

Just art for a just city: Public art and social inclusion in urban
regeneration  pp. 1001  Joanne Sharp, Venda Pollock, Ronan Paddison
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J24Q80503273V252



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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 16 16:56:13 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 16 16:01:57 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and
	urban catastrophe since 1945
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 Call for papers

Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since
1945
Specialist session at the 8th International Conference on Urban History

Stockholm, 30 August - 2 September 2006.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 October 2005.

Natural disasters - fire, flood and famine, earthquake and plague - have
been a focus of many studies of individual towns and cities. Often these
studies have focused on the physical effects of destruction. Dramatic events
attract media hype. Vivid pictures are flashed around the world. For an
instant, the locality becomes the centre of attention, nationally and even
internationally. Yet disasters have an individual and family dimension too.
And once world media attention has subsided, local populations are left to
get on with the reconstruction of their lives, as well as with the
rebuilding of the urban fabric.
There are also other circumstances that radically influence urban change.
Wars usually result in urban catastrophe, there are also cases of deliberate
destruction of a city as when neighbourhoods are cleared, central planning
imposed or urban redevelopment implemented. These are circumstances forced
by human agents that could be considered along with natural disasters as
situations that provoke mourning.

This session explores how people mourn change, how they adjust to dramatic
new circumstances, how they get on with their lives in the chaos resulting
from dramatic events that transform the rhythms and patterns of their lives.
Though concerned principally with oral history, testimonies of mourning
welcomed by this session also include written sources, such as memoirs,
diaries, literature, poetry, newspaper and media stories that reveal how
people 'mourn' the passing of an era, when their cognitive worlds are
disrupted, for whatever reason.

This session aims at comparing different European and world cities that have
passed through radical urban change in the period of time elapsed since the
Second World War. We welcome case studies addressing one, or several, of the
following issues:

The concept of "mourning," its origin as a psychoanalytical concept (travail
du deuil) and its use for urban history (and the social sciences in
general).

Modernity and change - Is there something intrinsically disruptive in the
cultural phenomenon that we usually refer to as modernity? Did modernity
bring about significant new ways of coping with radical change at societal
level?

Oral histories as alternative versions of urban change to dominant
discourse; interchange of personal experiences, media stories and official
history.

Competing narratives - class, ethnic or gender construction of narratives on
urban change.
Everyday life and processes of human adjustment on radical urban change.
Continuity and/or rupture, how people re-construct continuity - old and new
social and cultural practices.

Collective memory - Building collective narratives around disruptive
events - new community identities and commemorations of urban catastrophe.

We invite historians, anthropologists, sociologists, art and literary
historians, architects and others whose work might shed light on the subject
proposed. Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words and a short
CV by October 1, 2005 to both of the session organisers.
For further details of the Conference organization and site, registration,
bursaries etc., see:
http://www.eauh.org

Session organisers:
Dr. Maria Raluca Popa
New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Rotterdamseweg 296, 2628 AT Delft, The Netherlands
e-mail: mpopa@nec.ro; ralpopa@yahoo.com

Dr. Valentina Gulin Zrnic
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Ul. kralja Zvonimira 17,
Zagreb 10 000, Croatia
e-mail: gulin@ief.hr

Valentina Gulin Zrnic
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
Ulica kralja Zvonimira 17
Zagreb 10 000, Croatia
phone: ++ 385 1 4553 632
fax: ++ 385 1 4553 649
Email: gulin@ief.hr
Visit the website at http://www.eauh.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 16 16:59:29 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 16 16:05:08 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Empire, Borderlands and Border Cultures
Message-ID: <002c01c572ad$eaba8c50$34fd98ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Empire, Borderlands and Border Cultures

 California State University Stanislaus will host a conference on "Empire,
Borderlands and Border Cultures on March16-18, 2006.

In an effort to facilitate a wide-raning and interdisciplinary conversation
about empire, scholars working in a variety of disciplines are invited to
submit papers. We hope participants will address the issues of empire from
antiquity to postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures,
including topics such as diaspora, immigration, reverse colonization,
imperialism and visual culture, gender and empire, the empire in popular
culture, and the construction of national, religious and ethnic identities.
One page vitas and proposals for a 20 minute paper should be mailed to:

Betsy Eudey (BEudey@csustan.edu)
or
Arnold Schmidt (AShmidt@csustan.edu)

Panel proposals are welcome. No attachments please.
Arnold Schmidt
Empire Conference Committee
Department of English
California State University Stanislaus
801 W Monte Vista Ave
Turlock, Ca 95382
Email: aschmidt@csustan.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 16 17:03:18 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 16 16:09:00 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Making Global Civil Society: Grassroots Practice and Academic
 Theory of Globalization from Below
Message-ID: <003201c572ae$749e8930$34fd98ac@toshibauser>


please forward widely - sorry for x-posting

****************************************
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

Making Global Civil Society:
Grassroots Practice and Academic Theory of Globalisation from Below

A weekend gathering for activists and academics.

November 4, 5 & 6 - 2005

Lancaster University, North West England.

With support of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Lancaster
University, the "Knowledge Laboratory on Globalisation from Above and
Below" is happy to invite you, your affinity group, your collective, or
your organisation to contribute to its first event.

The aim of the gathering is to discuss key aspects of the historical
development of the capitalist economy that drives globalisation from
above - such as enclosures, (precarious) labour, structural violence,
colonialism, and their justifying cultural imagery - and to make visible
alternative architectures of social organisation emerging through the
processes of globalisation from below, that is, through grassroots
movements cooperating to create a global civil society based on human
rights and mutual aid, and to restore the (intellectual) commons, in the
street, on the land, and in cyberspace.

We are particularly interested in contributions that relate people's
experiences of, perspectives on, motivations for, and frustrations with
their involvement in grassroots movements. The idea is to bring together
first-hand accounts of the successes and failures of social, cultural
and political projects and experiments with theoretical elaborations by
academics trying to understand the reality of globalisation and the
connections beween its manifestations from above and below. By letting
academics listen to narratives from global civil society we hope to
create an atmosphere in which practice can inform theory and where
theoretical academic perspectives can facilitate a reflection on
activist practices.

If you are engaged in any form of social, political, or cultural
activism and have a story to tell, issues to explore, or anything else
you would like to share in this forum, then get in touch and suggest a
contribution or presentation.

Academic presentations should be in areas relevant to social movements,
such as:

* conceptions of global civil society, counter-public sphere and
counter-hegemonic movements

* the dynamics of enclosing knowledge and genetic material

* history and change of precarious labour

* resisting enclosures, resisting precarity, constructing alternatives

* transformations of colonialism: biocolonialism, TRIPs and structural
adjustment

* networked databases, biometrics, and border control

* subversive and transhuman uses of technology

* reclaiming/liberating urban spaces and rural land

* sexual politics, discourse, and resistance

* radical media and art collectives

* self-organisation and consensus processes conceptually

* non-central, non-hierarchical networks and governance; network-centric
thinking

* human rights as  community building, form of resistance, and as global
vision of movements


Participation is limited to a hundred people.  A LIMITED AMOUNT OF
TRAVEL GRANTS AND FREE ACCOMODATION FOR ACTIVISTS ARE AVAILABLE  -
CONTACT US NOW.

SEND SUGGESTIONS FOR WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PAPERS (MAX. 1 PAGE)
TO: n.moeller [at] lancaster.ac.uk

- further info will be made available on
http://knowledgelab.blogspot.com (download .pdf file of this call from
there, too!)

Costs, incl. (predominantly organic and vegan) Friday dinner, Saturday
lunch and dinner:

Volunteers/unpaid activists: Free
Unfunded students: Donation
Funded students, Lancaster academics: ?20 (additional donation welcome!)
Representatives of smaller NGOs: ?35 (negotiable)
Representatives of bigger NGOs: ?65
Academics: ?65


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 17 11:14:46 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 17 10:21:06 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Journal of Poverty
Message-ID: <007601c57346$f9e9ef10$881180ac@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS: JOURNAL OF POVERTY:

Keith M. Kilty, Ph.D. and Elizabeth A. Segal, Ph.D., Editors

The Journal of Poverty:  Innovations on Social, Political & Economic
Inequalities is a refereed journal designed to provide an outlet for discourse
on poverty and inequality.  Poverty means more than "the condition or quality
of being poor; need; indigence; lack of means of subsistence."  It also refers
to "deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific
quality; inferiority; inadequacy."  The editorial board welcomes manuscripts
which sensitize social scientists and practitioners to the varied forms and
patterns of inequalities, new developments in cultural diversity, and
interventions promoting equality and social justice.

Articles guided by conceptual analyses involving quantitative and qualitative
methods are encouraged.  The intent is to produce and disseminate information
on poverty and social, political, and economic inequalities and to offer a
means by which nontraditional strategies for change might be considered.  The
journal is concerned with various levels of intervention ranging from direct
practice to community organization to social policy analysis.  Manuscripts
should increase knowledge of oppressive forces, such as racism, sexism,
classism, and homophobia, which contribute to the maintenance of poverty and
inequality and suggest methods of change leading towards their eradication.

The Journal of Poverty is now in its ninth year of publication and is published
quarterly by Haworth Press, Inc.

Submissions should reflect the mission of the Journal.  Authors should submit
five copies of the manuscript.  Manuscripts should be double spaced and no
longer than 30 pages (including text, references, footnotes, tables, and
figures).  Please include an abstract of no more than 100 words.  References
and format should follow APA style.  Manuscripts will be peer reviewed by at
least three referees and returned with comments.  For more information on the
mission of the Journal and author instructions, visit our web site:
http://www.journalofpoverty.org.

Manuscripts should be sent to The Editors, Journal of Poverty, P. O. Box 3613,
Columbus, OH 43210-3613.  Phone:  614-292-7181.  Fax:  614-292-6940.  Email:
kilty.1@osu.edu.


--
Eric Swank
Associate Professor
Morehead State University
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Criminology
Morehead, KY 40351
(606) 783-2190

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 17 11:33:44 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 17 10:39:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Feedback for Upcoming AN Issue: Biological Anthropology's
 Separation from the Field?
Message-ID: <009101c57349$9509c720$881180ac@toshibauser>

Dear SUNTA folks,

Our Secretary, Elzbieta Gozdziak, wishes to receive your feedback on the
issue of the biological wing of anthropology's separation from the
anthropology department at Harvard, or in other departments (see below).
The issue will be discussed in an upcoming issue of Anthropology News.
Please email your comments to Elzbieta at: emg27@georgetown.edu

Angela Jancius


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Anthropology News
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:27:03 -0400
From: Stacy Lathrop slathrop@aaanet.org

Dear Contributing Editors,


Earlier this month a preliminary proposal was put forth by the biological
wing of Harvard's department of anthropology to leave the department and
establish its own.  I paste below the Crimson story on this.  Currently Mary
Shenk is researching this story for AN so that we might report on it this
fall.   Yet, several individuals have suggested that AN provide a forum to
discuss the following questions:


1) Is this move by the biological wing at Harvard the wave of the future for
other anthropology departments?  If so, what are the factors that are
driving such a move.  Is it issues of recognition of different
theoretical/methodological frameworks?  Is it issues of different funding
mechanisms and needs of the different sub-fields?


2) Can anyone provide examples of where anthropologists that are split by
various issues (theoretical/methodological frameworks, areas of research
focus, different infrastructural and funding needs) are still able to
recognize, appreciate and work with each other in ways that each can see
that the other "side" can inform their own research?   I would like to find
some good examples of where this kind of synergy has a track record of
working.


I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions on this.  Please
send them to my by Wed, July 6, if possible, although I will still welcome
them at a later date.


With thanks and best wishes,


Stacy Lathrop


ps -  Just a friendly reminder that August 15 is the deadline for the
October issue of AN.  We will not publish Section News in the September
issue so that we might print the preliminary program.

---------------------------------------------


Published on Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Bio-Anthro Profs Seek Own Dept.
Plan for Human Evolutionary Biology program would need Faculty
Council approval

By ANTON S. TROIANOVSKI
Crimson Staff Writer

The biological anthropology wing of Harvard's Department of
Anthropology has submitted a preliminary proposal to leave the
department and establish its own.

Citing a disconnect between biological anthropology and the
focus of the rest of the 119-year-old anthropology department,
the biological anthropologists wrote a 13-page report, obtained
by The Crimson, that calls for a new Department of Human
Evolutionary Biology (HEB) with its own undergraduate
concentration and Ph.D. program.

Members of the full anthropology department met yesterday
afternoon for the first time to discuss the proposal. A
professor at the meeting, who asked not to be named, said it was
"very congenial" and that no key decisions were made.

The proposal, the professor said, "represents what I think is a
long-running desire by the biological anthropology wing to be
recognized as more of a life science and not to be subject to
review or critique by social anthropology."

The new department would report to Harvard's dean for the life
sciences, rather than to the dean for the social sciences, to
which the Department of Anthropology is accountable.

The department's current structure, the proposal argues, is
inadequate and restrictive for biological anthropologists.

"Remaining in anthropology, whose intellectual bases are rooted
in the social sciences (and, increasingly, in the humanities)
does not fully reflect the nature of the field in terms of
either research or teaching," the report reads.

The proposal also requests a "University-wide initiative to
facilitate and support research in all aspects of human
evolution," to be called the "Harvard Human Evolution
Initiative."

Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said he was aware of the
proposal, and said it would have to be approved by the Faculty
Council and then the full Faculty before it goes into effect.

Reflecting the preliminary nature of the discussions, two
members of the council contacted yesterday said that they had
not heard of the proposal.

The possible division would not be unprecedented. In 1998,
Stanford's anthropology department divided into
twoanthropological sciences and cultural and social
anthropology. And the anthropology departments of Princeton; the
University of California, Berkeley; and the University of
Chicago, among others, are already without biological
anthropology tracks.

The core problem with Harvard's department, the proposal argues,
is its disparate nature.

"It is impossible for a single department structure to be broad
enough to encompass the reality of what is now included in
anthropology," it reads.

Three professors in Harvard's Department of Organismic and
Evolutionary Biologywhich is closely linked to biological
anthropologyconfirmed that the proposal had been made.

One of them, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
David Haig, said he expects the department to split eventually
along the lines suggested in the proposal.

"The anthropology department sort of functioned for quite some
time as a loose federation of social anthropology, biological
anthropology, and archeology," Haig said. "So I think in some
sense [the proposal] is just a recognition of the defect that
exists in the Department of Anthropology."

According to the report, the new department would use research
in genetics and the evolution of humans, and their close
relatives, to help explain "the genetic versus environmental
underpinnings" of how people look, act, and function. The
department would also study "what selective forces operated at
different times in human evolution."

Discussion of the structure of the HEB concentration is still
ongoing, the report says, but it would combine the existing
biological anthropology concentration with a series of courses
in biology and other sciences. The new concentration would
require 12 half-courses, rather than the 10 currently needed for
a non-honors anthropology concentration.

The professor at yesterday's meeting stressed the preliminary
nature of the report.

"It's a very real proposal," the professor said, "but it's
nowhere near a fait accompli."

Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at
atroian@fas.harvard.edu.
http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article508049.html


Stacy Lathrop
Managing Editor
Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201-3357
Tel 703/528-1902, ext 3005
Fax 703/528-3546
slathrop@aaanet.org
www.aaanet.org

--
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Institute for the Study of International Migration
Georgetown University
3307 M Street NW
Suite 302
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu



From bmm202 at nyu.edu  Sat Jun 18 14:16:10 2005
From: bmm202 at nyu.edu (Blagovesta Momchedjikova)
Date: Sat Jun 18 16:30:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, New Brunswick, NJ, November
 4-6th, 2005
Message-ID: <23b443c23b079a.23b079a23b443c@nyu.edu>

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association, New Brunswick, NJ, November 4-6th, 2005

The focus of this year?s Urban Culture area is the current state of 
cities. We seek presenters who explore the varied ways in which cities 
are changing (or not) and the continuous efforts of people to make 
cities more habitable. Papers addressing issues such as displacement, 
multi-cultural encounter, hybridization, and the production or loss of 
public space in the context of the metropolitan city are welcome. How 
do the home, museum, street performance, ethnic food, architecture, 
spoken and written word, photography, film, sound, music, and 
movement, help us negotiate our urban desires and to what end? What is 
the role of new technologies in such negotiation? Historical or 
ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts of personal 
geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or 
surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city are 
encouraged. If interested in participating in a workshop on ?writing 
the urban,? in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. 
Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts (including preliminary titles 
and current contact information) and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-
free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by 
June 15th, 2005. (Late proposals will be accepted until June 20th, 
2005.)


Blagovesta Momchedjikova
Department of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jun 18 17:54:47 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jun 18 17:01:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Howard on Feldman, _Citizens without Shelter_
Message-ID: <009601c57448$0190c7a0$db8984ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

Leonard C. Feldman. _Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy,
and Political Exclusion_. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
2004. x +185 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8014-4124-2.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Ella Howard <ehoward@bu.edu>, 
Doctoral Candidate, American and New England Studies, Boston University

Recognition, Redistribution and Rhetoric

In an era of "quality of life" campaigns resulting in public-sleeping
bans and police raids on homeless encampments, many observers of the
plight of the homeless feel conflicted over developments in urban
policy. The discourse around homelessness frequently returns to tired
distinctions between the "worthy" and the "unworthy" poor, triggering
charitable emotions and feelings of personal guilt and subsequent
generosity, without challenging the broader meanings of political and
economic inequality in America. The rhetoric adopted by many liberals
looking for ways to bring the homeless into the nation's economic and
social mainstream often inadvertently echoes that of "compassionate
conservatives" calling for "tough love" and behavior modifying programs
for the poor. Attempting to balance the provision of social services to
those in need with options respecting the rights and dignity of
homeless individuals, anyone proposing a "solution" to the "problem" of
homelessness enters a minefield of opposing goals and complex
motivations, all too often rooted in the politics of fear.

_Citizens Without Shelter_ offers an extraordinarily lucid and
provocative analysis of these themes. An interdisciplinary project
grounded in political theory, it draws upon sociological theory,
representations in the popular media, legal history and theory, and
public policy debates around homelessness, while maintaining rigorous
historical specificity. Leonard Feldman develops a complex theoretical
argument informed by empirical evidence and crafts a richly detailed
and highly readable text.

Feldman poses the key question, "Is there an underlying structure or
process that links compassion with compassion fatigue, and permits the
relatively easy slide from calls to _eliminate homelessness_ to calls
to _eliminate the homeless_?" (pp. 5-6) While previous scholarship has
recognized the "social control" inherent in social welfare endeavors
and acknowledged the fact that the propertied classes are partially
constructed through their very difference from the homeless, Feldman
explores the explicit and implicit connections between liberal and
conservative approaches to homelessness through close analysis of
policy developments and discourse.

The author develops a theoretical model depicting representations and
understandings of homelessness at the intersections of two axes, one
spanning the "sacred" to the "profane," the other the "free" to the
"unfree." (pp. 6-7) These intersections allow him to unpack various
visions of homelessness in a nuanced and systematic fashion,
characterizing them as variations on themes such as "sacred unfreedom"
(as in the situation of the pitiable, helpless beggar depicted in
appeals by charitable organizations) or "profane freedom" (as in the
case of the outlaw renegade choosing to sleep on the streets as framed
by proponents of punitive city ordinances). Throughout the text, he
returns to this model while analyzing the role of homelessness in sites
ranging from the popular film _The Fisher King_, to key court cases and
politicians' arguments.

Feldman challenges traditional analyses of homelessness, arguing, "it
is time to pry homelessness loose from its usual frame as a social
problem and to see the state and sovereign power as deeper causes, not
as superstructural with respect to others." (p. 15) Drawing on Giorgio
Agamben's idea of "bare life," as opposed to political existence,
Feldman argues  "the political exclusion of homeless persons is a
constitutive exclusion." (p. 18)  In response, he seeks to complicate,
pluralize, and refocus discussions of homes and their meanings as they
shape dialogues over shelters, encampments, and city streets.

Feldman usefully analyzes urban policy, situating the recent shift from
vagrancy laws to anti-homeless ordinances in a broader transformation
in the nature of the public sphere. As the post-industrial state no
longer requires the labor of many individuals, he argues, the debates
over "idleness" that formerly dominated discussions of homelessness are
found increasingly in the realm of welfare reform. The homeless become
the subjects of debates focusing instead on their role as impediments
to consumer activity. The 1972 _Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville_
case, in which the Supreme Court struck down a vagrancy ordinance as
vague and anachronistic, forms a pivotal point in Feldman's analysis,
as a move from critiques of "conspicuous consumption" on the part of
"idle" beggars to the protection of the non-homeless consuming public.
The author remains skeptical of simplistic interpretations of the new
ordinances as punishing the homeless for their conduct rather than
their status, finding their actions, however necessary, increasingly
categorized as choices. Tying these developments to the "rollback of
the liberal welfare and regulatory state," Feldman offers a sobering
portrait of the contemporary scene. (p. 48)

The chapter, "Redistribution, Recognition, and the Sovereign Ban,"
presents an especially provocative examination of the conflicts over
recognition of the rights of homeless individuals. Although many policy
analysts and service providers characterize homeless activist movements
as, at best, pointless, and at worst, counterproductive to the struggle
to acquire needed funds and programs for the poor, Feldman frames such
tensions as largely overdrawn. "Where a "recognition" politics is aimed
against a set of punitive policies that seek to deny homeless persons
the very right to exist, "legal recognition" is not identity politics
run amok but rather the struggle for political inclusion in response to
the ban on bare life. The fundamental and necessary first step in
combating the injustices of homelessness is establishing citizenship."
(p. 86) While others have used homelessness as "the absurd outer limit
to a politics of identity recognition," the author posits such
recognition as central to the development of political inclusion. (p.
88) Feldman's work here offers a cautionary note to those quick to
dismiss such movements at their first suspicion of "identity politics,"
urging a more rigorous contextual analysis considering the ways in
which homeless people participating in activist movements reestablish
their roles as citizens.

In the wake of the era of the SRO hotel, Feldman sees, as did Charles
Hoch and Robert Slayton, a lost opportunity for affirmative community
building among the homeless (and near homeless) who gathered in
dwellings that, while substandard in many regards, provided them with
needed access to services and social contact. Drawing on the work of
Michael Walzer on the differentiation of spheres and Hannah Arendt on
connections between the household and the public realm, Feldman urges a
move away from a society divided between those with homes and those
without. Instead, he urges a pluralization of the notion of "home" that
would resist twentieth-century idealizations of the nuclear family and
its residence. A diverse range of housing forms, including residential
hotels, publicly subsidized private programs, and other models of
residence, he argues, would combat such a needless dichotomy.
Concluding with a call for the development of a new "ethic of
dwelling," Feldman effectively challenges those with homes to consider
the frequently arbitrary distinctions drawn between their behavior and
the actions of the homeless.

Feldman could further develop his analysis of the meaning of housing
forms through deeper consideration of the shifting demographics of
homelessness in the contemporary era. Even as the SRO faded from view,
the "new"homeless population that appeared in the 1970s and 1980s was,
as he notes, increasingly comprised of women, children, African
Americans and Latinos. Considering the implications of the changing
age, gender, "race," and ethnicity of homeless individuals as well as
their family groupings could complicate the discussion of both homeless
policy and appropriate housing forms.

Feldman's argument about the relationship between the meaning of "home"
and the scope of political inclusion complements that of another recent
work, historian Todd DePastino's _Citizen Hobo: How a Century of
Homelessness Shaped America_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2003). The visible presence of homeless white men, DePastino argues,
profoundly shaped understandings of "home" and the rights and
responsibilities of citizenship from the close of the Civil War into
the postwar era. In essence bracketing the modern welfare state, these
new works lend insight into the wide-ranging influence of homelessness,
less a marginal subtopic of poverty history than a theme central to the
development of American politics and culture.


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H-Net@H-Net.Msu.Edu.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jun 19 12:07:25 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 19 11:17:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Sixteenth Annual Summit of Child Welfare Leaders
Message-ID: <005c01c574e1$34c50d40$31ff8aac@toshibauser>

WorldForum 2005 - The IFCW's Sixteenth Annual 
Summit of Child Welfare Leaders
19 to 23 September 2005
Tallinn, Estonia

MAIN TOPICS:
Child-centered approach 
Can a child be poor?
(Welfare, poverty, poverty linked to income, children as active individuals,
welfare index, poverty of individuals and households, reflection of poverty in
children's life, relative deprivation and social exclusion, child labour,
children in armed conflicts)

Approach through parent
Poor parenthood? 
Changing society, parenthood patterns, childhood, changes in the traditional
family model, reconciliation of work and family life, unemployment, social
exclusion, access to community resources, family elations)

Social-political approach
What are the roles and possibilities of the community/state/NGOs in
alleviating poverty? 
(Social justice, child as a citizen, children's access to education, health
care and hobbies, enhancing personal social skills, media and advertising)

Enquiries: feilat@racsa.co.cr
Web address: http://www.ifcw.org
Sponsored by: International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW)
From rthomas at aaanet.org  Mon Jun 20 15:19:34 2005
From: rthomas at aaanet.org (Richard Thomas)
Date: Mon Jun 20 15:40:49 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Exciting Job Opportunity
Message-ID: <73673AD67A72304380D2DC771119F481A6E107@aaa_mail.aaanet.org>


Physicians for Human Rights
Position Announcement - June 2005

International Forensic Program Director

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) seeks a Director for the International Forensic Program, based in its Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters. PHR mobilizes the health professions and enlists support from the general public to protect and promote the human rights of all people. PHR has a staff of 30 in its Cambridge office and has an office in Washington, DC with a staff of six. The director is part of the senior staff of the organization, and will manage all forensic staff. The program also deploys dozens of consultants and volunteers for specific field investigations and training projects. 

The widely respected and recognized International Forensic Program, formally established in 1994, grew out of the need to establish the truth about massive abuses of human rights, especially crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. The program serves three key purposes: to hold perpetrators accountable, to enable the victims' families to learn (and cope with) the fate of their missing loved ones, and to answer the claims of history. PHR's program brings skills of forensic pathology, trauma medicine, epidemiology, physical anthropology and archeology, genetics, toxicology and odontology and other sciences to this task. The program has supported tribunals, truth commissions, national courts, families and associations of families, human rights organizations, and provided training and capacity-building to forensic scientists worldwide. 

The director will determine the priorities of the program, manage specific projects and address requests for forensic assistance and training. The director will also engage in various field projects. These may include assessing, conducting exhumations and documenting evidence of individual and mass graves, conducting or observing autopsies on deaths in custody or in suspicious circumstances, and offering expert consultation to governmental, nongovernmental and intergovernmental bodies. 

Duties Include: 

1. Lead PHR's work in human rights forensic investigation, training and advocacy.
2. Assess and develop forensic projects.
3. Conduct some assessments and participate in projects in the field. 
4. Recruit, and in some cases train qualified volunteers and consultants in relevant fields to perform forensic assessments of individual and mass graves in human rights cases, reviewing autopsy reports, and communicating with families of the victims.
5. Develop strategies to assure psycho-social needs of families are met in cases where PHR is involved in forensic investigations.
6. Testify before courts and tribunals when required.
7. Assure quality of products and progress according to established timetables, developing and maintaining process to monitor and evaluate all projects.
8. Participate in international standards development for forensic human rights work.
9. Provide technical assistance and training on forensic human rights matters.
10. Advise governments, tribunals, and international agencies on appropriate approach and management of forensic matters where appropriate.
11. Communicate with and oversee PHR forensic volunteers.
1. 12. Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with other NGOs and relevant governmental institutions and individuals, providing guidance to other human rights organizations on forensic scientific matters.
13. Generate reports and articles on projects and developments as well as policies in this field.
14. Manage the forensic program and supervise staff consistent with PHR standards including performance planning, feedback and performance reviews and coordinating with other PHR departments and external parties. Oversee staff compliance with organizational policies and procedures, including strategy team requirements as well as administrative policies and procedures.
15. Participate in PHR strategy related to specific situations, development of the program, and its relation to PHR's other program areas.
16. Support fundraising initiatives for forensic projects including assisting development staff in grant writing and donor appeals and speaking at events.

Qualifications

? PhD. or equivalent in physical anthropology. Prefer anthropologist with specialization and experience in forensic anthropology including in medical examiner office settings. Pathologists may also apply; prefer US, Board-certified forensic pathologist with experience working on death investigations of individual and mass graves in concert with anthropologists. 
? Record of publication for academic and general audiences, as well as human rights documentation.
? Excellent leadership, team management and communication skills
? Experience as spokesperson with media and the public
? Team orientation
? Cross-cultural experience and sensitivity; experience and proven ability to work with internationally represented staff
? Diplomatic skills and experience
? Human rights background, experience and commitment; knowledge of international humanitarian and human rights law
? Ability to work with diverse group of people from range of professions and backgrounds
? Willingness to work within context of a non-profit, non-governmental organization
? Willingness to travel including ability to withstand the physical rigors of international work and willingness to live and work in difficult conditions when doing international investigations/projects.

Please send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, names of three professional references and salary history to Barbara Harris, Physicians for Human Rights, 2 Arrow Street, Suite 301, Cambridge, MA 02138 E-mail resumes@phrusa.org. For more information about PHR, please visit our website @ www.phrusa.org

	

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 21 11:04:56 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 21 10:11:32 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Beijing Ten Years Later
Message-ID: <006301c5766a$38469d50$04e6a5ac@toshibauser>

 Beijing Ten Years Later

 Description
The UNSRID is sponsoring a series of regional conferences to focus on the
status of women since the 1995 conference. The conference for the North
American region is co-sponsored with the Program of Women's Studies at The
Pennsylvania State University. With this call for papers, we invite
participation in the conference from scholars, activists, NGOs,
artists/writers and filmmakers. We encourage a diversity of perspectives as
well as presentation styles. Participants may present their work via
academic papers, artistic performances, activist workshops, plenary sessions
and keynote addresses that explore the important issues raised at Beijing
ten years after that monumental event. Every effort will be made to have all
activities translated into Spanish, English and French. The Zoller Gallery
will be used as an alternative conference site for scheduled performances
and a group art exhibition. Please include in your conference proposal
exhibition details including dimensions, scale, material and 1-3 images
(jpegs). Gallery information can be accessed at
http://www.sva.psu.edu/zoller.html. For more information regarding
alternative format possibilities contact Dr. Stephanie Springgay at
sss23@psu.edu. We invite proposals which focus one or more of the following
interdependent themes: Economic Globalization, Environment and Equality
Work, Health and Welfare Citizenship Democracy and Social Justice Frontline
Feminisms, Violence and Social Change

 Contact Information
Lorraine Dowler
Penn State University
Dept of Women's Studies
University Park PA 16802 USA
Phone: 814 863-5422
Email: lxd17@psu.edu
URL http://www.womensstudies.psu.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 21 17:00:26 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 21 16:07:33 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships for Recent PhDs
Message-ID: <017901c5769b$f05ca8e0$e7819eac@toshibauser>

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE LIBERAL ARTS
Application deadline: October 3, 2005
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~sf

Three-year postdoctoral fellowships 06-09 for recent Ph.Ds (from Jan. 2003)
in humanities or social sciences. Three appointments to pursue research and
teach half-time. 1) Open; 2) History of books, their making, their diffusion
or their interpretation, in any language or period; 3) Study of Race and/or
Ethnicity. Stipend: approx. $62,000. For details, see website
www.princeton.edu/~sf

Contact Info:
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The Joseph Henry House
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 23 15:49:42 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 23 14:57:04 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Rhythms and Rituals in urban Europe from 1700 (Postgraduate Workshop)
Message-ID: <005f01c57824$5f382d00$825499ac@toshibauser>

Centre for Urban History 5th Annual Postgraduate Workshop (04 November 2005)

 The Centre for Urban History invites papers from postgraduates and new
researchers on the multi-disciplinary theme of 'Rhythms and Rituals in urban
Europe from 1700'.

For further information follow links to Postgradute Workshop 2005 at
http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/news.html

Abstracts c300 words to be submitted by 31 July 2005.
Workshop date Friday 04 November 2005.

Please note, this workshop is for the presentation of work in progress by
postgraduate students and new researchers; papers from established academics
will not be accepted.

Stephanie Maksimovic
Centre for Urban History
Universirty of Leicester
Email: ssm4@le.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/news.html


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 23 15:47:07 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 23 15:24:20 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Chapters: Killer Commodities: A Critical Anthropological
 Examination of Corporate Products and Public Health
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Call for Book Chapters

Killer Commodities:
A Critical Anthropological Examination of Corporate Products and Public
Health
Edited by Merrill Singer, Ph.D. and Hans Baer, Ph.D.
Publisher: AltaMira Press

Almost every day there are fresh accounts plastered across newspaper
headlines and broadcast solemnly on the evening news of consumer products,
ostensibly designed to meet consumer wants and desires, that turn out to be
deadly in their unintended effects. From a long and ever growing list of
pharmaceutical products to children's toys, the public health has suffered
because very unsafe items regularly reach consumer hands. The costs are
telling. In this book, we refer to these products as "killer commodities,"
consumer goods produced and marketed by leading corporations that turn out
before long to be highly dangerous and sometimes fatal for consumers or
others. In retrospect, it is not uncommon to learn that producers of these
toxic products had some degree of awareness that their goods might be
hazardous, but the appeal of untold fortune pushed them to mass
distribution. This edited volume, a companion to the recently published
Unhealthy Health Policies (AltaMira 2004), will include original chapters
from critical medical anthropologists and other health social scientists
from around the world. Also included in the book will be chapters that
address deadly aspects of the corporate production processes as well as
health-threatening environmental destruction tied to commodity production.

United around a common theme of substantial consequence: what is the extent
of harm wrought by unsafe, unsound, and inadequately tested consumer goods
from manufacture to discard, the chapters in this book will address the ways
in which the damage of dangerous corporate production is distributed in
society in light of the existing configuration of social inequality between
nations, social classes, ethnic/racial groups, and genders. Written in the
vogue of the new public-focused anthropology, the book argues that the
public has not been granted a full and complete airing of the public health
aspects of many of the products they consume.

If you are interested in contributing a 30 page (double spaced) chapter for
consideration for inclusion in this timely volume, please send a one page
description with title, brief chapter overview, author(s) name and
affiliations/discipline, availability to complete the chapter by the Spring
2006, and willingness to make changes in your draft based on comments by the
editors, as well as inquires by July 15, 2005 to:

Merrill Singer anthro8566@aol.com and Hans Baer habaer@ualr.edu
Merrill Singer
Center for Community Health Research
Hispanic Health Council
175 Main St.
Hartford, CT 06106
(860)527-0856, EX. 253
Email: anthro8566@aol.com


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 24 21:01:46 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 24 20:09:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: US Supreme Court Affirms Property Seizures
Message-ID: <002401c57919$2a47a990$55b3a4ac@toshibauser>

[This troubling news will be of interest to anyone working in the U.S. -AJ]

Justices Affirm Property Seizures
5-4 Ruling Backs Forced Sales for Private Development

By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 24, 2005; Page A01

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that local governments may force property
owners to sell out and make way for private economic development when
officials decide it would benefit the public, even if the property is not
blighted and the new project's success is not guaranteed.

The 5 to 4 ruling provided the strong affirmation that state and local
governments had sought for their increasing use of eminent domain for urban
revitalization, especially in the Northeast, where many city centers have
decayed and the suburban land supply is dwindling.

Opponents, including property-rights activists and advocates for elderly and
low-income urban residents, argued that forcibly shifting land from one
private owner to another, even with fair compensation, violates the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the taking of property by
government except for "public use."

But Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, cited cases in
which the court has interpreted "public use" to include not only such
traditional projects as bridges or highways but also slum clearance and land
redistribution. He concluded that a "public purpose" such as creating jobs
in a depressed city can also satisfy the Fifth Amendment.

The court should not "second-guess" local governments, Stevens added, noting
that "[p]romoting economic development is a traditional and long accepted
function of government."

Stevens's opinion provoked a strongly worded dissent from Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor, who wrote that the ruling favors the most powerful and influential
in society and leaves small property owners little recourse. Now, she wrote,
the "specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent
the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a
shopping mall, or any farm with a factory."

D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who serves as president of the National
League of Cities, issued a statement praising the court for upholding "one
of the most powerful tools city officials have to rejuvenate their
neighborhoods."

In addition to its national repercussions, the court's decision removed a
possible obstacle to the District's plans to build a baseball stadium along
the Anacostia River waterfront and to redevelop the Skyland Shopping Center
in Southeast -- a project Williams said could generate 300 jobs and $3.3
million in tax revenue.

A number of property owners in those areas had hoped the court ruling would
help them resist the city's exercise of eminent domain. But David A. Fuss,
an attorney for several of them, acknowledged that the court's ruling "is
going to have a major impact."

The redevelopment program at issue in yesterday's case -- the plan of the
Connecticut city of New London to turn 90 acres of waterfront land into
office buildings, upscale housing, a marina and other facilities near a $300
million research center being built by pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer -- was
also expected to generate hundreds of jobs and, city officials say, $680,000
in property tax revenue.
New London, with a population of about 24,000, is reeling from the 1996
closing of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, which had employed more than
1,500 people.

But owners of 15 homes on 1.54 acres of the proposed site had refused to go.
One of them, Susette Kelo, had extensively remodeled her home and wanted to
stay for its view of the water. Another, Wilhelmina Dery, was born in her
house in 1918 and has lived there her entire life.

D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who serves as president of the National
League of Cities, issued a statement praising the court for upholding "one
of the most powerful tools city officials have to rejuvenate their
neighborhoods."

In addition to its national repercussions, the court's decision removed a
possible obstacle to the District's plans to build a baseball stadium along
the Anacostia River waterfront and to redevelop the Skyland Shopping Center
in Southeast -- a project Williams said could generate 300 jobs and $3.3
million in tax revenue.

A number of property owners in those areas had hoped the court ruling would
help them resist the city's exercise of eminent domain. But David A. Fuss,
an attorney for several of them, acknowledged that the court's ruling "is
going to have a major impact."

The redevelopment program at issue in yesterday's case -- the plan of the
Connecticut city of New London to turn 90 acres of waterfront land into
office buildings, upscale housing, a marina and other facilities near a $300
million research center being built by pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer -- was
also expected to generate hundreds of jobs and, city officials say, $680,000
in property tax revenue.
New London, with a population of about 24,000, is reeling from the 1996
closing of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, which had employed more than
1,500 people.

But owners of 15 homes on 1.54 acres of the proposed site had refused to go.
One of them, Susette Kelo, had extensively remodeled her home and wanted to
stay for its view of the water. Another, Wilhelmina Dery, was born in her
house in 1918 and has lived there her entire life.

Scott Bullock, a lawyer for the institute, said that the only recourse for
property owners facing condemnation under eminent domain would be to sue in
state court based on the property rights provisions of each state's
constitution.

New London City Manager Richard M. Brown said he was "very pleased" by the
court's decision. He said the city hopes to restart its redevelopment plan,
which has lost money so far, partly because of the litigation.

In the disputed neighborhood, known as Fort Trumbull, most residents sold
out and their homes were demolished. The site is now a flat expanse of
dusty, rock-strewn soil dotted by the few remaining houses. Signs
advertising the development site are withered and torn; builders who once
considered projects have moved on, deterred by the controversy.

Stevens was joined in the majority by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, David H.
Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

Kennedy's vote was something of a surprise because he had expressed strong
sympathy for property-rights claims in past cases. But in a brief concurring
opinion he explained that the New London plan showed no sign of improper
favoritism toward any one private developer.

O'Connor was joined in her dissent by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. They wrote that the majority
had tilted in favor of those with "disproportionate influence and power in
the political process, including large corporations and development firms."
And in a separate dissent, Thomas sounded a rare note of agreement with
liberal groups such as the NAACP, which had sided with the property owners
in the case.

He protested that urban renewal has historically resulted in displacement of
minorities, the elderly and the poor.

"Regrettably, the predictable consequence of the Court's decision will be to
exacerbate these effects," he wrote.

The case is Kelo v. City of New London , No. 04-108.
Staff writer Kirstin Downey contributed to this report.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jun 26 01:22:59 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 26 00:30:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Supreme Court Affirms Property Seizures (Replies)
Message-ID: <008301c57a06$bfd4e480$d57d9dac@toshibauser>

[The following replies respond to the recently posted Washington Post
article on the U.S. Supreme Court's eminent domain ruling - AJ]

From: Deb Woodell <bozorth25@hotmail.com>

>The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that local governments may force property
>owners to sell out and make way for private economic development when
>officials decide it would benefit the public, even if the property is not
>blighted and the new project's success is not guaranteed.
---
My corner of the world in southern New Jersey is filled with loads of empty
"private economic development" fixtures that local politicians once thought
would "benefit the public."

Deb Woodell
Berlin, NJ

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

From: David Levinger <david@feetfirst.info>

Don't be fooled by the media coverage surrounding the definition of eminent
domain.  The media has latched on a couple of sensational points in this
ruling that distort the social justice implications of the ruling.  Note
that the four justices who dissented were the conservative ones.  This case
is also about the ability of government policy to consider the collective
interests above individual interests.  In the U.S., property rights
advocates have done incredible damage... to environment, to our ability to
complete public trail projects, and most recently to growth management
efforts in Oregon where the government is now forced to compensate
land-owners for changes to land-use codes that alter the developable value
of their property.

So please consider whether this ruling is truly about supporting corporate
interests over private interests.  Is it about government ignoring the
desires of communities?  Or might it be about the ability to pursue
improvements to our communities?

Perhaps economic vitality of cities is something that we should be excited
about, so those same cities can provide social services and
programs.  Here's the local coverage of the ruling:
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=0909EAC0-38FA-4AC1-A646-E1C195
2E9BED

David





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun 27 16:18:59 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 27 15:31:08 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Supreme Court Affirms Property Seizures (Further
	Responses)
Message-ID: <008c01c57b4d$b471eaf0$2566a2ac@toshibauser>

From: Susan Greenbaum <greenbau@chuma1.cas.usf.edu>

I agree with Deb.  Here in Tampa, where they are getting ready to do
this again, the landscape is similarly littered with losing
partnerships; in an aquarium, sports stadium, historic preservation
district turned into a youth arcade, and many others, all of which were
supposed to be magic revenue bullets, but are liabilities instead.  

~~~~~~~~~~

From: Paul <paulanthropus@cox.net>

I never thought I would agree with Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and
William Renquist on anything. But however you cut it, the decision is
tantamount to one private entity trumping another. This is the sort of
decision that favors the corporate elite over the so-called little guy. The
empty fixtures in southern New Jersey that Deb Woodell points out also
demonstrate the failures of a twin bureaucracy--the public and the
corporate.

I don't know the logic behind Thomas et al.'s dissent--it strikes me as
inconsistent with the neoconservative ideologies they represent--but this
decision threatens us all. An viable neighborhood is to be displaced thanks
to a few fools in New London who not only favor a set of corporate entities
over their own citizens, but offer no guarantee that the private economic
development projects won't wind up a bust such as the ones in southern New
Jersey.

Paul McDowell
Santa Barbara, CA
paulanthropus@cox.net


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun 27 18:04:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 27 19:36:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Colonials in the Metropole: Race, Nation, and
	Belonging in Europe's Decolonization Migrations
Message-ID: <000e01c57b6f$dd428e40$3a12a5ac@toshibauser>

CFP: SEEKING PANELISTS FOR COUNCIL ON EUROPEAN STUDIES MEETINGS, 
Spring 2006

If you are interested in participating in the panel below, please contact
Andrea Smith at smithal@lafayette.edu.

Colonials in the Metropole: Race, Nation, and Belonging in Europe's
Decolonization Migrations

It is commonplace to assert that Europe has changed dramatically since
decolonization, and to highlight the changes wrought by the immigration of
former colonial subjects from colony to metropole.  Less often explored are
the immigrants deemed "repatriates," whose arrival and integration are assumed
to have been far smoother processes.  Has this in fact been the case?  If so,
what does this tell us about national ideologies of citizenship and belonging?
This panel addresses these questions through a comparative approach to
Europe's postcolonial "colonials." Some repatriate/migrants encountered
notions of national membership understood as rooted in race, language, and
other attributes purportedly stemming from some common ancestral heritage,
rather than in the legal-political realm, such as citizenship status.  For
other colonial migrants, however, citizenship status and place in a racial
classification scheme were isomorphic.  Moreover, in many countries,
visibility of these migrants has shifted with the changing valence and
salience of the decolonization history as people sometimes grapple with this
past well after the fact. By presenting cases from several different European
countries that repatriated citizens following the loss of former colonies,
this panel both highlights recent research conducted in this new area of
postcolonial European studies, and explores in a focused ways how an
exploration of colonial "repatriates" can elucidate the role played by race,
citizenship status, and cultural capital in the experience of migrants more
generally.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 28 15:00:30 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 28 14:08:25 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 WWW: Urban.Space.Public.Art: Searchable Bibliography of Public Art
 Publications
Message-ID: <030f01c57c0b$4f5b11a0$dd0093ac@toshibauser>

 U.S.P.A. - Urban.Space.Public.Art
Searchable Bibliography of Public Art Publications

Urban . Space . Public . Art is a research group based in the Department of
Geography and Geomatics in the University of Glasgow. Our focus is urban
public space and in particular the role that public art plays in the
processes of urban cultural regeneration, community development and social
inclusion.

U.S.P.A. has produced a searchable bibliography of research and commentary
on public art. This can be found via our website:
http://www.geog.gla.ac.uk:443/uspa/

The bibliography currently has over 1300 entries and is still 'under
construction'. We hope that it will be of use to artists, academics,
decision makers, commissioners etc. If you have any comments or would like
to suggest any additions for the bibliography please e-mail us on
uspa@geog.gla.ac.uk
We hope that you find the bibliography to be a useful resource.

U.S.P.A. - Urban.Space.Public.Art
Department of Geography and Geomatics
Centre for Geosciences
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Email: uspa@geog.gla.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.geog.gla.ac.uk:443/uspa/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 28 14:54:32 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 28 14:08:35 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Woodrow Wilson Post-doctoral Funding for Latin
	America 
Message-ID: <030e01c57c0b$4b82e080$dd0093ac@toshibauser>

 Post-doctoral Scholars in the Study of Democracy in Latin America
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, with the support of The Ford Foundation, announces a competition
for Post-Doctoral Junior Scholars in the Study of Democracy in Latin
America. Eight grants of $10,000 will be awarded for studies of democracy in
Latin America that deal with one or more of the following subjects:
?Citizenship and rights ?Poverty and inequality ?Reforms of the state
?Representation and accountability ?Local government, including cities ?The
international context The studies to be completed during the grant period
(November 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006) must be of publishable quality and be
the equivalent of an article in a major scholarly journal or a chapter in a
book. The papers may be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Applicants for these grants may be citizens of any country in the Western
hemisphere. To be eligible, applicants must have received their PhD within
five years from the date the competition closes. In very exceptional cases,
applicants from Latin America who have not completed formal doctoral studies
will be considered if they are in an equivalent stage of their academic
careers. Applications will be due no later than September 30, 2005. For a
complete description of the fellowship, please see www.wilsoncenter.org/lap

Contact Information: Trisha Fields
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20004 USA
Phone: 202-691-4078
Email: lap@wwic.si.edu
URL http://www.wilsoncenter.org/lap


