From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov  1 12:52:16 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov  1 14:35:14 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: COMPAS Annual International Conference, "International Labor
 Migration: in whose interests?"
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 COMPAS Annual International Conference, July 5th -6th, 2006
'International Labour Migration: In Whose Interests?'

Call for Papers

The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University
invites proposals for papers that are relevant to the theme of the COMPAS
Annual Conference 2006: "International Labour Migration: In Whose
 Interests?".

The papers should fall broadly within the key questions to be explored in
the conference:

.  What are the processes driving and shaping international labour
migration? What are the impacts of international labour migration on
receiving countries, migrants and their countries of origin?
.  What should be the objectives of labour migration policies? How should
the interests of the receiving countries be balanced with those of migrants
and their countries of origin?
.  What policies and governance arrangements are best suited to effectively
manage international labour migration?

The term labour migration should be interpreted broadly to include various
forms of migration that may lead to the employment of migrants including,
for example, the migration of students, refugees, dependents and irregular
migrants.
Although all papers addressing one of the questions above will be
considered, we particularly encourage proposals for papers that discuss:

.  the role of recruitment agencies in shaping the process of international
labour migration
.  the role of individual employers, sub-contracting and more generally
employment relations as factors determining migration flows and shaping
migration outcomes
.  the impacts of labour migration on migrants including their employment
and living conditions in the receiving country
.  the impacts of sending countries' policies on migration flows and
outcomes
.  the role of employment policies - as opposed to admission and selection
policies - in shaping the level and outcomes of migration
.  the role of temporary and permanent migration programmes in labour
migration policy
COMPAS actively encourages proposals of papers that take an
interdisciplinary approach. There are no restrictions with regard to the
geographical regions to be discussed in the proposed papers.

Guidelines for submitting abstracts/papers:

Extended abstracts of proposed papers (max. 500 words) are due by Dec 15th,
2005. Electronic submissions are encouraged (email
emma.newcombe@compas.ox.ac.uk )

Decisions on the abstracts submitted will be taken by Jan 31st, 2006.
Applicants will be notified in early February 2006.

Complete papers are due by May 15th, 2006.

The papers will be presented in panel sessions, with 15 minutes allocated to
each speaker. Each one-and-a-half hour panel session will comprise three
speakers and a discussant.

Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of an
academic journal.
Please send extended abstracts via email to:  Emma Newcombe:
emma.newcombe@compas.ox.ac.uk
Or via mail:

Emma Newcombe
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
University of Oxford
58 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS, UK


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Nov  2 12:34:04 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Nov  2 12:38:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Journal subscription offer for SUNTA members
Message-ID: <00a101c5dfd3$a9491640$69058696@toshibauser>

Dear All,

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and Power, has made a special offer to discount the subscription price of
its journal for current SUNTA members.  Please see the letter below for
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Urbanth-L subscribers who are not current SUNTA members can learn more
about the organization at: http://www.sunta.org/        - AJ

--------------------------
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Nov  2 22:34:09 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Nov  2 22:36:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Hyper-Traditions. Tenth Conference of IASTE
Message-ID: <019701c5e027$7e18fb80$b1058696@toshibauser>

Hyper-Traditions

Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Traditional Environments
December 15 - 18, 2006
Thammasat University - Bangkok, Thailand

February 17, 2006:  Deadline for receipt of abstracts and CVs

Call For Abstracts
For scholars and researchers interested in the study of traditional
environments, the far-reaching transformations brought by globalization
require not only a recalibration of the idea of tradition but also a
substantial repositioning within a shifting intellectual environment.  While
it is clear that contemporary forces of globalization have proven
transformative, the transformations have largely defied prediction.
Contrary to the expectations that globalization would act as a totalizing
force, somehow erasing "tradition" and challenging "cultural coherence,"
investigations reveal that globalization may more accurately be said to have
destabilized the idea of tradition as a repository of authentic ideas and
customs.  In this way, it has intensified the process of de-linking identity
and place and, by extension, intensified the deterritorialization of
tradition: a process that has challenged the idea of tradition as an
authentic expression of a geographically specific, culturally homogenous and
coherent group of people.  However, this process is not entirely new.  Prior
moments of globalization, such as colonialism, have also brought about the
deterritorialization of tradition and provide useful points of comparison to
the present moment.  Prior IASTE conferences have explored the effects of
globalization upon understandings of space and place; inquired into the
post-traditional condition; analyzed the implications of migration,
diasporas, and emerging hybridities; and asked whether or nor the millennium
marked the "end of tradition."  For the 2006 International IASTE Conference,
participants are invited to investigate a new dimension of the
transformation of tradition:  hyper-traditions.

We use the term "hyper" to refer to social and cultural realms, created and
maintained through contemporary technologies of communication,
transportation, and information transfer that have radically transformed
notions of time and space, forever changing the meanings of distance and
immediacy.  Hyper-reality is just one of a repertoire of technologies that
have altered time and space at different historical moments, including older
technologies like world exhibitions.  As one form of current time-space
altering media, the hyper-real entails simulation:  in this realm, the
simulation is a map that precedes the territory to which it refers, a map
that effectively creates the territory and becomes the reality itself.  In
this way, perhaps as a response to the perceived "end of tradition" or "loss
of heritage" (seen by some as an inevitable by-product of globalization),
hyper-traditions emerge in part as references to histories that did not
happen, or practices de-linked from the cultures and locations from which
they are assumed to have originated.  To the degree that they indicate a
search for or re-engagement with heritage conducted by those who perceive
its loss, hyper-traditions raise fundamental questions about subjectivity in
a globalized world.  At the same time, many scholars have illustrated how
these transformations of subjectivity offer radical and liberatory
possibilities through emerging practices of mimesis, identity formation, and
knowledge creation: How do these practices change our understanding of
tradition?

There are countless contemporary examples of phenomena that can be seen as
hyper-traditions:  neotraditional towns whose history is invented by the
developers who create them and embraced by their inhabitants; intensifying
fundamentalisms that articulate a political agenda based on the perceived
loss of heritage, customs, morality, and/or identity in a globalized world;
the political struggles over sites of varying religious and historical
significance; and the rise of global tourism and the desire of the
hyper-tourist to see and experience the "traditions" of particular
destinations without the inconveniences that actual exposure may require.
Indeed, hyper-traditions cannot be separated from the apparatus and
relations of political economy.  They circulate through global networks and
circuits of capital exchange and serve as mechanisms by which it is possible
to encounter "traditions" from all over the world.  Thus, hyper-traditions
arise in response, and often in direct opposition, to globalization at the
same time that their deployment and resonance depend upon the same advanced
communication infrastructure and technology.

As in past IASTE conferences, scholars and practitioners from such fields as
architecture, architectural history, art history, anthropology, archaeology,
folklore, geography, history, planning, sociology, urban studies, and
related areas are invited to submit papers that address one of the three
main tracks.

>From Simulated Space to "Real" Tradition
Contemporary communication networks have fueled the expansion of simulated
spaces, which may not exist in the physical sense but are nonetheless real
for those who access and occupy them.  Is the uncharted realm of simulacra
space used as the site for the re-imposition of "real" tradition or the
invention of new traditions, or both?  One example of this complex
relationship appears in the film The Truman Show, whose premise, a
fictitious "real-life" television show, influences our understanding of New
Urbanist environments like Seaside, Florida, where the movie was filmed.
Papers in this track will examine how simulated space is mapped and
navigated, and how the idea of tradition can be transformed within and by
the virtual realm.

Hyper-Traditions and "Real" Places
Hyper-reality has opened up new social and cultural realms, from which new
hyper-traditions regularly emerge.  To a certain extent, virtual
representation has become a key instrument for the transmission of "real"
tradition and the act of place-making.  This is evident not simply with
simulated spaces but also with physical spaces that simulate places
embodying "real" traditions.  How have the cultural norms and rules that
govern the hyper-real been absorbed and brought back into "the real"?
Papers in this track will examine the emergence of hyper-traditions:  how
they are shaped by the unique geography of the hyper-real, and how they give
rise to new understandings of social life and/or influence the lived
experience of "the real."

Identity, Heritage, and Migration
Migration is one of the most prominent factors in shifting cultural,
economic, and political geographies throughout the world.  Migration is a
transformative force, not simply for migrants, but also for the places that
have become the loci of migratory flows.  From migration emerge new
identities and cultural formations: hybrid identities and spaces, ethnic
enclaves, etc.  Yet these new hyper-formations are inextricably linked to
the notion of heritage.  What physical and cultural effects does the "hyper"
have on representations of heritage?  In many cases, the experience of
migration also entails a perceived loss of identity, a struggle to preserve
heritage, or the invention of a new heritage.  Papers in this track will
examine the complex relationships between identity, heritage, and migration.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Interested colleagues are invited to submit a short, one-page abstract, not
to exceed 500 words.  Do not place your name on the abstract, but rather
submit an attached one-page curriculum vitae with your address and name.
All authors must submit an electronic copy of their abstract and short CV
via e-mail.  Abstracts and CVs must be placed within the body of the e-mail,
and also as attachments. E-mail this material to iaste@berkeley.edu no later
than February 17, 2006.

Authors must specify their preference for one or two of the above tracks
when submitting abstracts.  Proposals for complete panels are welcome.  All
papers must be written and presented in English.  Following a blind peer
review, papers may be accepted for presentation in the conference and/or
publication in the conference Working Paper Series.
Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must preregister for the
conference, pay registration fees of $375 (which includes a special
discounted $25 IASTE membership fee), and prepare a full-length paper of
20-25 double-spaced pages.  Registered students may qualify for a reduced
registration fee of $175 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE
membership fee).  All participants must be IASTE members.  Please note that
expenses associated with hotel accommodations, travel, and additional
excursions are not covered by the registration fees and have to be paid
directly to the designated travel agent.  Registration fees cover the
conference program, conference abstracts, and access to all conference
activities including receptions, keynote panels, and a short tour of nearby
sites.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
February 17, 2006:  Deadline for receipt of abstracts and CVs
May 1, 2006:  E-mail notification of accepted abstracts for conference
presentation
July 14, 2006:  Deadline for pre-registration and receipt of papers for
possible publication in the Working Paper Series
October 2, 2006:  Notification for accepted papers for the Working Paper
Series
December 15-18, 2006:  Conference presentations

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Nezar AlSayyad, Conference Director, University of California, Berkeley
Pimpan Vessakosol, Conference Local Director, Thammasat University, Thailand
Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura, Conference Local Deputy Director, Thammasat
University, Thailand
Stacey Murphy, IASTE Coordinator, University of California, Berkeley
Montira Horayangura, Local Conference Advisor, UNESCO, Thailand
Warinporn Yangyuenwong, Local Conference Coordinator, Thammasat University,
Thailand
Kathleen Kuhlmann, CEDR Conference Administrator, University of California,
Berkeley
Pornkes Tantisevi, Local Conference Administrator, Thailand

LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Vimolsiddhi Horyangkura, Trungjai Buranasomphob, Yongtanit Pimonsathean,
Thavanan Tanesdechsunthorn, Jaturong Pokharatsiri, Maadi Tungpanich,
Rachadaporn Kanitpun

SESSIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Hesham Abdelfattah, Nadia Alhasani, William Bechhoefer, Mark Gillem, Clara
Iraz?bal, Gareth Jones, Hasan-Uddin Khan, Anthony King, Duanfang Lu, Robert
Mugerauer, Marcela Pizzi, Gunawan Tjahjono, Dell Upton

CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

CONFERENCE SITE
The conference will be held at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok.  In
order to obtain special conference room rates at the hotel, reservations,
accompanied by full payment, will have to be made by September 15, 2006.
Hotel and travel arrangements should be made directly with the designated
travel agency.

OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS
A variety of one-day and two-day trips to nearby sites will be available to
conference participants for an additional fee.  Optional excursions will
include trips to Ratanakosin Island, the northern region of Chiang Mai, and
the island of Phuket.  Arrangements for these excursions can also be made
with the designated travel agency.

INQUIRIES
Please use the following information when making inquiries regarding the
conference.
IASTE 2006
Center for Environmental Design Research
390 Wurster Hall, #1839
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839, USA
Phone:  510.642.6801
Fax:  510.643.5571
E-mail:  iaste@berkeley.edu
Website:  www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Nov  3 17:16:40 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Nov  3 17:53:11 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: University Seminar on the City (Columbia U)
Message-ID: <002e01c5e0c9$168461b0$94058696@toshibauser>

From: Nancy Haekyung Kwak <nhk4@columbia.edu>

INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON THE CITY
NOVEMBER 15, 2005

Speaker: Richard C. Wade
Talk: "A Conversation with Richard Wade"

PLEASE NOTE ~~ SPECIAL SCHEDULE:
    SPEAKER: 4:30pm
    DRINKS: 6:15 pm
    DINNER: 6:45 pm

Place: Faculty House, Columbia University. 400 West 117th Street. New 
York City.

Upcoming Talks:
Dec. 7 *special schedule
Jon Butler, Yale University
"God in Gotham: The Religion Problem in Modern New York"

Jan. 30
Barnet Schecter, Independent Scholar
"A City Divided: The Civil War Draft Riots in New York"

Feb. 27
David Badillo, Bronx Institute, Lehman College
"Latinos and the New Immigrant Church: Urban Contexts and Contrasts"

Mar. 27
Peter Eisenstadt, Editor, Encyclopedia of New York State
"Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York"

April 27
Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr
"A Capital Idea: Finding (or Not Finding) A Center for Europe"


Reply to seminar rapporteur via phone or e-mail (no paper mail, 
please) with the necessary information.  Please contact by phone or 
e-mail to cancel a reservation at least 24 hours prior.

Nancy Kwak
917.684.4268
nhk4@columbia.edu

-----------------------------------------------------
University Seminar on the City (#459A)
_____        I will attend the meeting.
_____        I will join the group for dinner.

Name:
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov  5 12:37:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov  5 12:37:29 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: New Philadelphia Archaeology Field School 
Message-ID: <003b01c5e22f$902a78d0$8b058696@toshibauser>

New Philadelphia Archaeology Field School
Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and
Illinois State Museum

This NSF-REU sites program will help enhance undergraduate education in
scientific methods and analyses in an ongoing long-term project at New
Philadelphia. The primary goals of the project are to: 1) Understand the
town's founding and development as a multi-racial integrated town; 2)
Explore and contrast dietary patterns between different households of
different ethnic backgrounds by examining faunal and botanical remains; 3)
Reconstruct the townscape and town lot uses of different households from
different ethnic backgrounds using botanical data and archaeological
landscape features; 4) Elucidate the different consumer choices residents of
different ethnic backgrounds made in a frontier situation and understand how
household choices changed with the increased connection to distant markets
and changing perceptions of racialization within the society. The excavation
and analysis of artifacts and archaeobiology data will provide students with
a hands-on learning experience and mentoring process for students in an
interdisciplinary setting. Ultimately, these different data sets will be
integrated and the students will gain an understanding of the importance of
scientific interdisciplinary research as they examine the growth and
development of the town. This research will elucidate how individual members
and families of this integrated community made choices to create their
immediate environment, diet, agricultural practices, social affiliation, and
consumer choice.

Contact Information:
Christopher Fennell
Email: cfennell@uicu.edu
URL http://http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell/NP/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Nov  6 12:31:02 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov  6 12:31:54 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
Message-ID: <00ee01c5e2f7$f2ab28b0$b0058696@toshibauser>

Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots

Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
Sunday November 6, 2005
The Observer

France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as rioting swept
from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.

In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline bombs
torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. Police said
that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half outside the
Paris region.

The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise extreme
care in the affected areas'.

The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister
Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He said setting cars
on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the government was
'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are describing
as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a crisis
meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting continued
to spread.

Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in Grigny,
in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well as two
classrooms at another school.

In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan Lemaitre,
the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told French
radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the fire is
Sarkozy.'

By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them inside
Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.

The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks were
reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many known for their
calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the resort
cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.

In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least 50
vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools, said
Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.

He added that five police officers and three firefighters were injured
battling the blazes.

Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and Rennes in
the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In the
eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight, police
said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.

Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to bolster
security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a recycling factory was set
on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.

Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, north east
of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were accidentally
electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were being
pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.

France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds trying to
light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them over to
police.

Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the Republique
section, north east of City Hall.

Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in Paris
suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen
some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles
and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.

De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to regain the
momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up plans
for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris mosque, Dalil
Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.

But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting with De
Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in
which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.

Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 'stop at
nothing' in their attacks.


From paulanthropus at cox.net  Sun Nov  6 10:43:15 2005
From: paulanthropus at cox.net (Paul)
Date: Sun Nov  6 14:43:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
References: <00ee01c5e2f7$f2ab28b0$b0058696@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <000e01c5e301$f427d210$6401a8c0@YOURD5CF4FDDE9>

These riots have threefold implications. First, it is a harbinger of things
to come if the basic needs of the world's majority are not met. The
globalization advocates had better deliver the goods if their "trickle down
theory" holds any water. Second, this provides an important avenue of
research--when do people say "basta" and raise holy hell? Third, it warns
anthropologists and other social scientists to stop arguing the fine points
of postmodernism or some other theory du jour and start applying a
disciplined knowledge to solving the issues of deprvation that have been
festering for decades, indeed centuries.

In short, it's time to get on with the research and applied tasks that
really matter.

Paul McDowell
Instructor
Santa Barbara City College.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu>
To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned


> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
>
> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
> Sunday November 6, 2005
> The Observer
>
> France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as rioting
swept
> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
>
> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline bombs
> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. Police said
> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half outside
the
> Paris region.
>
> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise extreme
> care in the affected areas'.
>
> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister
> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He said setting cars
> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the government
was
> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are
describing
> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.
>
> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a crisis
> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting
continued
> to spread.
>
> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in
Grigny,
> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well as two
> classrooms at another school.
>
> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan Lemaitre,
> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told French
> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the fire is
> Sarkozy.'
>
> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them inside
> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.
>
> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks were
> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many known for
their
> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the
resort
> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
>
> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least 50
> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools, said
> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
>
> He added that five police officers and three firefighters were injured
> battling the blazes.
>
> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and Rennes
in
> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In the
> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight,
police
> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
>
> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to bolster
> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a recycling factory was
set
> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
>
> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, north east
> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were accidentally
> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were being
> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.
>
> France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds trying to
> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them over to
> police.
>
> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the
Republique
> section, north east of City Hall.
>
> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in Paris
> suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has
seen
> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles
> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
>
> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to regain the
> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up plans
> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris mosque,
Dalil
> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
>
> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting with De
> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts,
in
> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
>
> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 'stop at
> nothing' in their attacks.
>
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From mbrand at virginia.edu  Sun Nov  6 16:11:59 2005
From: mbrand at virginia.edu (Mieka  Brand)
Date: Sun Nov  6 17:48:21 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
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Who are these anonymous rioters? What are they so passionate about that they 
are willing to risk "stiff punishment"? And why is the French government so 
anxious to suppress these acts in the face of global media attention?

This article, like almost all of the mainstream media reports I have been 
reading in the past days, makes the faces and voices of the protesters 
completely invisible. Look at the language: "the meyhem came in direct 
defiance," "the rioting continued to spread," "the troubles threatened to 
spiral" "the figures are expected to rise" -- Who are these people, besides 
disembodied meyhem, rioting, troubles and figures? What do they want? The 
only private individual mentioned in this article is the parent of a child 
whose school "went up in flames." Even here, the apparently transluscent 
perpetuators of the fire are absent. Instead, the parent is quoted blaming 
the Minister of Interior, not the individual or individuals who actually 
began the fire.

Who are the rioters and why are they so angry? The article alludes to 
anonymous 'armed youth.' Other pieces I have seen describe 'angry migrants,' 
but all leave out a discussion about what these youth, these migrants -- 
and, indeed, many French-born ethnic minorities -- are so angry about, what 
they are fighting for, and what are the conditions they face that make them 
feel passionate enough (and silenced enough) to take to the streets.

Is it the case they thay are simply an angry bunch? A naturally-violent 
element? Youth that must be apropriately disciplined and shown their right 
place? Do they not have a message? A demand? Are they not reacting to a real 
or perceived threat? You might wonder if you read mainstream media 
uncritically. If you are halfway critical or know a little about the ongoing 
suppression of civil rights for migrants and ethnic minorities in France, 
articles like the one below simply ring hollow. Or worse: they give a 
blazing immediacy to Derrida, Fanon, Spivak, and others' struggle to explain 
what it means to have no language or voice to articulate one's own 
experience of oppression. Setting 607 cars afire. Throwing gasoline bombs 
all over the country. Being France's "worst civil unrest since the 1968 
student revolts" -- and STILL not being heard beyond the disembodied 
descriptions of subject-less rioters. No that's subaltern.

Who are these rioters? What are they fighting for? Whether or not we agree 
with the methods or even with the cause, should we not at least have a 
chance to hear what they are so impassioned about? I am searching for the 
reports who will offer this insight, the brave reporters who will shift the 
focus away from the apparently victimized French government, to the people 
involved in these violent protests, the real subjects of these events.

If you know about such an article, or if you are looking for an incentive to 
write one (anthropologists of France, this is your opportunity to share your 
insights with concerned oustiders) -- there are a few of us out here waiting 
to read it.


Mieka Brand
University of Virginia



On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:31:02 -0500
  "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu> wrote:
> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
> 
> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
> Sunday November 6, 2005
> The Observer
> 
>France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as rioting swept
> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
> 
> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline bombs
> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. Police said
> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half outside 
>the
> Paris region.
> 
> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise extreme
> care in the affected areas'.
> 
> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister
> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He said setting cars
> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the government 
>was
> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are 
>describing
> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.
> 
> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a crisis
> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting 
>continued
> to spread.
> 
> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in 
>Grigny,
> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well as two
> classrooms at another school.
> 
> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan Lemaitre,
> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told French
> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the fire is
> Sarkozy.'
> 
> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them inside
> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.
> 
> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks were
> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many known for 
>their
> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the 
>resort
> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
> 
> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least 50
> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools, said
> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
> 
> He added that five police officers and three firefighters were injured
> battling the blazes.
> 
> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and Rennes 
>in
> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In the
> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight, 
>police
> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
> 
> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to bolster
> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a recycling factory was 
>set
> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
> 
> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, north east
> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were accidentally
> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were being
> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.
> 
>France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds trying to
> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them over to
> police.
> 
> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the 
>Republique
> section, north east of City Hall.
> 
> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in Paris
> suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has 
>seen
> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles
> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
> 
> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to regain the
> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up plans
> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris mosque, 
>Dalil
> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
> 
> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting with De
> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, 
>in
> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
> 
> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 'stop at
> nothing' in their attacks.
> 
> 
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--
Mieka Brand
University of Virginia
Department of Anthropology,
Carter Woodson Institute for
   African American & African Studies
mbrand@virginia.edu

From enigbo01 at newschool.edu  Sun Nov  6 16:45:58 2005
From: enigbo01 at newschool.edu (OlatokunboAdeola Enigbokan)
Date: Sun Nov  6 17:48:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
Message-ID: <s36e334b.034@TEMP.NEWSCHOOL.EDU>

Do we really believe that some sort of "disciplined knowledge" is what
is needed to "solve issues of deprivation that have been festering for
decades?" 

It seems counter-productive to try to incorporate (and thereby defuse)
the concentrated, visceral response of people trying to effect some sort
of real change in a crippling and crippled system into "important
avenues of research." I highly doubt that there has been a dearth of
"important research" into when people "raise holy hell." In fact I would
say that a significant part of the social sciences' contribution to the
rise of the very systems the Parisians are trying to burn down was due
to the need for soveriegn and disciplinary powers to understand and then
control the hows and whys of people raising hell, through the production
of the very "disciplined knowledge" we tend to value so highly.

To propose that more studies are what are needed is to totally
misunderstand, and possibly even disrespect the impulse to dramatically
address the injustices in everyday life. It is also to assume that the
people rioting do not themselves possess the necessary tools and
knowledge to resolve the problems of which they themselves bear the
brunt. Do they really need more social scientists and policymakers to
make more studies of what's wrong with their situations? 

The riots in Paris are immediate, local, aimed at a particular system.
The machinery of academic discipline is hardly comparable.  The people
in rioting in Parisian suburbs and housing projects are not the same as
the people studying in US universities. It is best not to confuse
writing a dissertation with burning a car. Different endeavours,
different audiences, different goals, different effects.  

Assuming that anthropologists can do more than "argue the finer points
of postmodernism," is to misunderstand one's own position within a
powerful institution, and to disregard the importance of "arguing finer
points." Arguing amongst ourselves is what we do best, and to greatest
effect. Anthropologists, as is true for most academics, WRITE. The power
of the academy lies in its support for the activities of reading,
talking and most of all, writing. Am I sounding too postmodern? This is
not my aim. The postmodern moment was before my time. Please bear with
me...

Changing how we write, to whom we write and from where we write are
among the most important interventions that can be made from the
positions we occupy. I am unclear on what Mr. Macdowell means by
"applied tasks," but I am in support of anthropologists doing high
quality research and writing, which does not presume to speak for or
about people, but aims to open up avenues through which people can begin
to speak to each other, before they have to burn each other's cars.

Sincerely,
Adeola Enigbokan
PhD candidate, The New School for Social Research

>>> "Paul" <paulanthropus@cox.net> 11/06/05 1:43 PM >>>
These riots have threefold implications. First, it is a harbinger of
things
to come if the basic needs of the world's majority are not met. The
globalization advocates had better deliver the goods if their "trickle
down
theory" holds any water. Second, this provides an important avenue of
research--when do people say "basta" and raise holy hell? Third, it
warns
anthropologists and other social scientists to stop arguing the fine
points
of postmodernism or some other theory du jour and start applying a
disciplined knowledge to solving the issues of deprvation that have been
festering for decades, indeed centuries.

In short, it's time to get on with the research and applied tasks that
really matter.

Paul McDowell
Instructor
Santa Barbara City College.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu>
To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned


> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
>
> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
> Sunday November 6, 2005
> The Observer
>
> France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as rioting
swept
> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
>
> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline
bombs
> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. Police
said
> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half
outside
the
> Paris region.
>
> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise
extreme
> care in the affected areas'.
>
> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister
> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He said setting
cars
> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the
government
was
> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are
describing
> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.
>
> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a
crisis
> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting
continued
> to spread.
>
> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in
Grigny,
> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well as two
> classrooms at another school.
>
> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan
Lemaitre,
> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told
French
> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the fire
is
> Sarkozy.'
>
> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them
inside
> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.
>
> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks were
> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many known for
their
> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the
resort
> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
>
> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least
50
> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools,
said
> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
>
> He added that five police officers and three firefighters were injured
> battling the blazes.
>
> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and
Rennes
in
> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In
the
> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight,
police
> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
>
> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to bolster
> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a recycling factory
was
set
> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
>
> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, north
east
> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were
accidentally
> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were
being
> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.
>
> France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds trying
to
> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them over to
> police.
>
> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the
Republique
> section, north east of City Hall.
>
> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in
Paris
> suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which
has
seen
> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out
vehicles
> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to
dialogue'.
>
> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to regain
the
> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up
plans
> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris mosque,
Dalil
> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
>
> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting
with De
> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's
outbursts,
in
> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
>
> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 'stop
at
> nothing' in their attacks.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
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From v-brennan at uchicago.edu  Sun Nov  6 18:51:18 2005
From: v-brennan at uchicago.edu (Vicki Brennan)
Date: Sun Nov  6 18:52:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
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References: <00ee01c5e2f7$f2ab28b0$b0058696@toshibauser>
	<web-163236333@cgatepro-3.mail.virginia.edu>
Message-ID: <d61804f5468016b315f193d4f7f1e165@uchicago.edu>

Good information as well as a critique of the media coverage of the 
riots can be found here:
http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/11/_members_of_par.html

I've pasted in an excerpt below but urge everyone to go read the entire 
entry on this topic.
Best,
Vicki Brennan
University of Chicago

***

 From 
http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/11/_members_of_par.html

Members of Paris?s African community have been rioting in the streets 
of Paris for the past 9 days. The riots were triggered by the death of 
two youths of African decent,? Bouna Traore, aged 15, and Zyed Benna, 
17, were electrocuted at an electricity sub-station in Clichy-sous-Bois 
as they ran from the police.? ?A third youth who escaped death, said 
they panicked and ran because they found themselves near? the scene of 
a break-in? incident where police began to arrive.? The police of 
course deny any involvement in the boys death.? It should be noted that 
these young people are not immigrants. Their grandparents and possibly 
their parents are but they are born in France and are French citizens.? 
Constantly referring to them as "immigrants" is a problem in itself and 
reinforces their exclusion from mainstream French society.

The boys did not have criminal records nor were they known to the 
police so why did they run. The explanation given in Indymedia Paris by 
Laurent Levy is very plausible given the appalling racist record of the 
French police.? They knew what would happen to them if they were 
stopped for an ID check.? They would risk being detained and spending 
several hours being humiliated at the police station - you do not have 
to have much of an imagination to know the kind of taunts the boys 
would be subjected to.? It was late and they wanted to get home where 
they were expected by their families.? Levy also asks why the Minister 
of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy had to say that this drama took place 
after a burglary attempt implying the boys were invovled or boys "like 
them" ie Africans and Arabs.

Following the death of the boys on Thursday there were two days of 
riots.? On the Saturday community members in an attempt to calm the 
situation organised a silent march in memory of the teenagers.? ? In 
the evening, some 150 young Africans met with the Mayor to discuss the 
events.? ?The mayor talked about the cost of the damage but did not 
make any reference to the heavy handed policing.? The youths became 
very angry at the police, the repression, the abusive language directed 
at their mothers, calling them sluts.? The police began to arrive with 
flashballs (for shooting rubber bullets) and riot gear provoking the 
crowds.? They then told the brother of one of the dead youths to go 
home. He took three steps towards? the police who then began to fire 
tear gas at the crowd.? The following day, about 8.30pm on Sunday 
evening there was another incident which took place around the local 
Mosque. By this time according to Netlex things had calmed down but it 
seems the police presence was heavy in the area.? It is not clear what 
exactly happened but the police released tear gas grenades one of which 
landed in the local Mosque during prayers which was full of families.? 
A panic followed as the building filled with smoke and people were 
crying and coughing and running. It is this incident that triggered the 
riots again and they have continued ever since spreading into a 
worsening situation and spreading to other French cities.? ?


>
>
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:31:02 -0500
>  "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu> wrote:
>> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
>> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
>> Sunday November 6, 2005
>> The Observer
>> France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as rioting 
>> swept
>> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
>> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline 
>> bombs
>> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. Police 
>> said
>> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half 
>> outside the
>> Paris region.
>> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise 
>> extreme
>> care in the affected areas'.
>> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister
>> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He said setting 
>> cars
>> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the 
>> government was
>> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are 
>> describing
>> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.
>> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a 
>> crisis
>> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting 
>> continued
>> to spread.
>> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in 
>> Grigny,
>> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well as two
>> classrooms at another school.
>> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan 
>> Lemaitre,
>> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told 
>> French
>> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the fire 
>> is
>> Sarkozy.'
>> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them 
>> inside
>> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.
>> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks were
>> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many known for 
>> their
>> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the 
>> resort
>> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
>> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least 
>> 50
>> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools, 
>> said
>> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
>> He added that five police officers and three firefighters were injured
>> battling the blazes.
>> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and 
>> Rennes in
>> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In 
>> the
>> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight, 
>> police
>> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
>> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to bolster
>> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a recycling factory 
>> was set
>> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
>> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, north 
>> east
>> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were 
>> accidentally
>> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were 
>> being
>> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.
>> France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds trying 
>> to
>> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them over to
>> police.
>> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the 
>> Republique
>> section, north east of City Hall.
>> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in 
>> Paris
>> suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which 
>> has seen
>> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out 
>> vehicles
>> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to 
>> dialogue'.
>> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to regain 
>> the
>> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up 
>> plans
>> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris mosque, 
>> Dalil
>> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
>> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting 
>> with De
>> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's 
>> outbursts, in
>> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
>> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 'stop 
>> at
>> nothing' in their attacks.
>> _______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sun Nov  6 16:25:07 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sun Nov  6 19:25:20 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Oct. 29 - Nov. 6, 2005
Message-ID: <1131323107.436e9ee3f2c68@webmail.sfsu.edu>

URBANTH-L Job Postings, Oct. 29 - Nov. 6, 2005
*******************************************************************
1. University of Massachusetts, Boston, Sociocultural Anthropology, Assistant
Professor
2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Urban/Community Sociology, Associate Professor
3. Michigan Technological University, Industrial Archaeology, Tenure-Track
*******************************************************************

1. Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology,  University of Massachusetts
Boston

The University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure-track
position in Sociocultural Anthropology at the Assistant Professor level, to
begin September 1, 2006, specializing in ethnographic study of contemporary
globalization and its impacts on local communities.
We would expect the successful applicant to have analytical expertise in one or
more of the following areas: the influence of global capitalism on the political
economy of states and local communities; labor forms in global markets and their
impact on household organization and gender roles; and, the environmental
consequences of economic development and the commodification of natural
resources.  We would give special consideration to an applicant whose primary
research area was located in the Caribbean or Latin America, but are open to
other areas of the world, especially those with growing immigrant communities in
the Boston area.  Experience teaching in urban public institutions with diverse
student bodies is desirable.
Ph.D. in Anthropology must be in hand by August 31, 2006.  Candidates should
send a description of research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, and
names of three references to: Search Committee, Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393.
 Fax (617-287-6857). Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2005,
continuing until position is filled. For inquiries,
contact: Prof. Tim Sieber (tim.sieber@umb.edu).  An Affirmative Action, Equal
Opportunity, Title IX employer.

**********

2. Associate Professor in Urban/Community Sociology

The Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites
candidates with exceptional records of scholarship and teaching to apply for a
full-time, 9-month position at the rank of Associate Professor. Primary
specialization is in urban sociology. The successful candidate will be
responsible for teaching two graduate courses annually that reflect our
increased emphasis on urban sociology (theories of urban forms and development
and methods of urban analysis). Other responsibilities include teaching related
undergraduate and graduate courses (e.g., urban inequalities, urban politics,
contested urban space, urban demography, urban ethnography, urban crime, urban
race and ethnic issues), establishing a research program leading to important
publications and external funding, advising graduate students, and
participating in professional and university service activities. Required
qualifications include an earned doctoral degree in sociology or related field
from an accredited college or university, and documented excellence in
scholarship, teaching, and service. Salary is competitive; contingent on the
labor market. Position is contingent upon funding. Applicants must submit a
letter of interest, current vitae, a sample of recent publications, evidence of
teaching experience, and three letters of reference. Application materials
should be addressed to Dr. Kate Hausbeck, Search Committee Chair, and are to be
submitted via on-line application at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu. Review of
applications will begin January 31st, 2006, and continue until the position is
filled. For assistance with UNLV??Ts on-line applicant portal, contact Anthony
Guinan at (702) 895-3886 or email hrsearch@ccmail.nevada.edu. The University of
Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) only accepts resumes for this position via the on-line
application system at the above address. 

**********

3. Michigan Technological University?s Program in Industrial Archaeology 
and History anticipates filling a tenure-track position for an 
industrial archeologist to begin academic year 2006-07.  The ideal 
candidate will possess a research record and demonstrated scholarship 
related to the archeology of industry, as well as experience in field 
investigations related to the standing remains and material culture 
of industrial sites, and/or the organization of industrial 
communities.  Duties will include (1)  expanding an active field 
program involving graduate students through the development and 
acquisition of external funding from public and private spo 
nsors;(2) contributing to undergraduate and graduate teaching 
(two classes per semester);(3) active writing and scholarly 
publications in the areas of industrial archaeology/industrial 
heritage; and (4) the advising of graduate students. PhD required; 
women and members of under-represented minority groups are strongly 
encouraged to apply.  

The Program, situated in the Department of Social Sciences and 
comprising an outstanding group of multidisciplinary scholars and 
students in archaeology, anthropology, history, history of science/ 
technology, and architectural history, awards the MS and Ph.D.  The 
scholarly emphasis is on the understanding of global industrial 
heritage remains and issues, both within the United States and 
abroad.   Department website:  http://www.social.mtu.edu/  Please 
submit a detailed letter of interest, c.v., and names of three 
references to Chair, Industrial Archaeology Search Committee, 
Dept of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 
1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton MI 49931-1295. The Department will 
begin reviewing applications about November 15.  Interviews may be 
scheduled at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical 
Archeology in Sacramento, CA. Questions or queries should be  
addressed to the address above or to Dr. Patrick Martin, Program 
Director (pemartin@mtu.edu). 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Nov  7 12:57:55 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov  7 12:59:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Benson on Foner, _American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the
 New Immigration_
Message-ID: <006a01c5e3c4$cff062e0$84058696@toshibauser>

[a new book review from The Anthropology Review Database]
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2269

 Foner, Nancy (ed.)
2003 American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration. Advanced
Seminar Series. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

 Reviewed for ARD by Janet E. Benson <janet@ksu.edu>,
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, Kansas, USA

 A product of the School of American Research's advanced seminar on
"Anthropology and Contemporary Immigration", held in October 2001, American
Arrivals presents an overview of anthropologists' attempts to understand
international migration and growing cultural diversity in the US. The
authors present a case for the central role of ethnography in studying
immigration, one of the most important US social issues, and one of the most
important global issues today. Though not attempting an exhaustive review of
the literature, the editor does bring together a broad range of
anthropological concerns and highlights contributions that anthropologists
can make to this area of research.
     Unlike many edited volumes, American Arrivals contains high-quality
work by well-known anthropologists (Caroline Brettell, Leo Chavez, Nancy
Foner, Nina Glick Schiller, Jennifer Hirsch, Patricia Pessar, Richard
Shweder, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick, and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco).
They attempt to place anthropologists' engagement with migration (what Foner
calls "migration anthropology" ) in historical and theoretical perspective
while suggesting future research and activist agendas. Each chapter takes a
particular theme: globalization, gender, transnational migration, education,
urban contexts, medical concerns, and the ethical and legal issues posed by
incommensurable values.
     Sociologists often give the impression that they have a prior claim on
the subject or are the only social scientists qualified to research it. In
her introductory essay, Foner goes to some lengths to argue that
anthropology has a long history of interest in immigration to the United
States (e.g. Boas' refugee research) and rural-to-urban migration (e.g.
British social anthropologists in Africa). She also points out that the
first major work on transnationalism was done by anthropologists (Basch,
Glick Schiller and Szanton Blanc, 1994). However, even today, domestic
anthropological research is often viewed as "inauthentic" or marginal and
confers less status than research conducted abroad. This is unfortunate,
because the best insights often come from experienced anthropologists who
apply the lessons of foreign research to fieldwork with immigrant groups in
the United States. It is even more unfortunate in light of urgent social
needs, including resettlement of the recent Hurricane Katrina victims.
Firsthand, in-depth, accurate information on displaced people is essential
for policy-makers, and this is something that anthropologists are
particularly qualified to provide. At the same time, for both intellectual
and practical reasons, anthropologists must be willing to take a broader
theoretical and comparative stance than they have up to now. This implies
more collaborative research in the future, either with other anthropologists
or on interdisciplinary teams. I would make an even stronger argument than
Foner regarding this point.
     The following chapters elaborate some of Foner's arguments.
Suarez-Orozco offers a global perspective on large-scale immigration, while
Pessar examines work on migrant women from a feminist perspective. Nina
Glick Schiller's essay is particularly rich in its discussion of theory and
methodology. In addition to arguing that ethnography is the most appropriate
methodology for migration studies, she reviews the concept of transnational
migration itself and discusses how it has evolved. For example, she notes
that not all migrants are equally "transnational," that is, embedded in more
than one locale, and that individuals may publicly identify with only one
location. Regarding epistemology, she counters criticisms of anthropological
methods by analyzing the differences between ethnographic and survey
approaches, arguing that anthropologists use constantly evolving formative
theory while the nature of their data differs fundamentally from that used
by sociologists. She further warns against "methodological nationalism" (p.
112) or nation-state bias in contrast to a social network approach used by
researchers focusing on transnationalism. Alex and Carol Stepick follow up
on her comments, after reporting how discrimination leads to complex
identity changes among immigrant children, by illustrating the importance of
direct observation. They argue cogently that ethnographic methods underlie
good survey methods (and in fact their own work epitomizes the very best
research of this type). Brettell discusses the city as context, illustrating
how variation in structure and ethos conditions migrant adaptations. Chavez
and Hirsch critique medical anthropology approaches in their respective
chapters, arguing that culture is only one factor affecting migrant health.
An overemphasis on culture as an explanatory device masks structural
inequalities that carry much greater determining force. Finally, Shweder
raises questions about the scope and limits of tolerance in an increasingly
multicultural society.
     American Arrivals does not cover refugee issues, practically a field in
itself, nor does it discuss the recent impact of immigration on rural areas
throughout the US. However, even though it is somewhat uneven in coverage,
this book still presents an excellent introduction to the topic as well as a
good review for those familiar with the field. I highly recommend it.

Works Cited
     Basch, Linda; Nina Glick Schiller and Christina Szanton Blanc.1994
Nations Unbound. Langhome, PA: Gordon and Breach.

To cite this review, the American Anthropological Association recommends the
following style:

Benson, Janet E.
2005 Review of American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration.
Anthropology Review Database. October 24. Electronic document,
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2269, accessed October
7, 2005.


From af31 at nyu.edu  Mon Nov  7 11:35:46 2005
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Tue Nov  8 19:20:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
Message-ID: <560e1ff560c3d3.560c3d3560e1ff@nyu.edu>

To assert that the only function of ethnographic inquiry into political
violence, "rioting" state counterinsurgency and related violations of
human rights and economic justice is a

\' 
> contribution to the
> rise of the very systems the Parisians are trying to burn down was due
> to the need for sovereign and disciplinary powers to understand and 
> then control the hows and whys of people raising hell, through the 
> productionof the very "disciplined knowledge" we tend to value so 
> highly...

is reductionist and implies that the history of the discipline came to a
halt somewhere in the mid 1960s. Since then ( and even before) many
anthropologists have witnessed and cogently written against state
violence and economic and racial injustice, and in a few locales such as
Guatemala and the (ex)Soviet Union have actually been imprisoned and or
 killed for their research activities against the state. It also assumes
a artificial isolation of the so-called rioters as  a isolated discrete
and reified passive analytic object, when surely any ethnographic
inquiry here would have to engage the state apparatus and the media to
be holistic and would  also require the active consent of the
community-based  stake holders and role players.

>Do we really believe that some sort of "disciplined knowledge" is what
> is needed?
Oh yes, to counter and to contest the disciplined knowledge of the
police system the legal system, media system, the counterinsurgency
techniques,  the systems of incarceration/interrogation, and  of the
rehabilitative social service/ clinical discourses that  are politically
arrayed  against such actions from below.
 and that will  monopolize the discourse on the riots and the rioters 
in the public culture creating even more violence and social erasure.

>The people
>in rioting in Parisian suburbs and housing projects are not the same as
>the people studying in US universities. It is best not to confuse
>writing a dissertation with burning a car. Different endeavours,
>different audiences, different goals, different effect


 Can we add French universities here and for a moment recall May 1968,
in which both students( academics) and workers "rioted."  Further
ethnographic inquiry has always arisen from cultural and class  racial,
religious differentials not withstanding  local and/or indigene
anthropologist who may share culture and language with informants but
rarely  class. In any case ethnographic access to the communities and
experience of the protesters will only take place with their permission
and cooperation if they see it as advancing their interests-getting
their story out, one cannot impose such research on resistance
communities. Cultural and class differentials will also characterize the
volunteer human rights monitors, the legal advocates and medical people
who will be  urgently needed in that community to deal with the effects
of  anti-state and state violence on the community  whether the victims
were "rioters" or not. Should they abstain from their work simply
because they are "different" from the community in which these actions
are taking place? In a Gramscian war of position the formation of
counter hegemony requires different audiences, tactics, goals and effects.


Allen Feldman
Culture and Communication
New York University



----- Original Message -----
From: OlatokunboAdeola Enigbokan <enigbo01@newschool.edu>
Date: Sunday, November 6, 2005 4:45 pm
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned

> Do we really believe that some sort of "disciplined knowledge" is what
> is needed to "solve issues of deprivation that have been festering for
> decades?" 
> 

> It seems counter-productive to try to incorporate (and thereby defuse)
> the concentrated, visceral response of people trying to effect some 
> sortof real change in a crippling and crippled system into "important
> avenues of research." I highly doubt that there has been a dearth of
> "important research" into when people "raise holy hell." In fact I 
> wouldsay that a significant part of the social sciences' 
> contribution to the
> rise of the very systems the Parisians are trying to burn down was due
> to the need for soveriegn and disciplinary powers to understand and 
> thencontrol the hows and whys of people raising hell, through the 
> productionof the very "disciplined knowledge" we tend to value so 
> highly.
> To propose that more studies are what are needed is to totally
> misunderstand, and possibly even disrespect the impulse to 
> dramaticallyaddress the injustices in everyday life. It is also to 
> assume that the
> people rioting do not themselves possess the necessary tools and
> knowledge to resolve the problems of which they themselves bear the
> brunt. Do they really need more social scientists and policymakers to
> make more studies of what's wrong with their situations? 
> 
> The riots in Paris are immediate, local, aimed at a particular system.
> The machinery of academic discipline is hardly comparable.  The people
> in rioting in Parisian suburbs and housing projects are not the 
> same as
> the people studying in US universities. It is best not to confuse
> writing a dissertation with burning a car. Different endeavours,
> different audiences, different goals, different effects.  
> 
> Assuming that anthropologists can do more than "argue the finer points
> of postmodernism," is to misunderstand one's own position within a
> powerful institution, and to disregard the importance of "arguing 
> finerpoints." Arguing amongst ourselves is what we do best, and to 
> greatesteffect. Anthropologists, as is true for most academics, 
> WRITE. The power
> of the academy lies in its support for the activities of reading,
> talking and most of all, writing. Am I sounding too postmodern? 
> This is
> not my aim. The postmodern moment was before my time. Please bear with
> me...
> 
> Changing how we write, to whom we write and from where we write are
> among the most important interventions that can be made from the
> positions we occupy. I am unclear on what Mr. Macdowell means by
> "applied tasks," but I am in support of anthropologists doing high
> quality research and writing, which does not presume to speak for or
> about people, but aims to open up avenues through which people can 
> beginto speak to each other, before they have to burn each other's 
> cars.
> Sincerely,
> Adeola Enigbokan
> PhD candidate, The New School for Social Research
> 
> >>> "Paul" <paulanthropus@cox.net> 11/06/05 1:43 PM >>>
> These riots have threefold implications. First, it is a harbinger of
> things
> to come if the basic needs of the world's majority are not met. The
> globalization advocates had better deliver the goods if their "trickle
> down
> theory" holds any water. Second, this provides an important avenue of
> research--when do people say "basta" and raise holy hell? Third, it
> warns
> anthropologists and other social scientists to stop arguing the fine
> points
> of postmodernism or some other theory du jour and start applying a
> disciplined knowledge to solving the issues of deprvation that have 
> beenfestering for decades, indeed centuries.
> 
> In short, it's time to get on with the research and applied tasks that
> really matter.
> 
> Paul McDowell
> Instructor
> Santa Barbara City College.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:31 AM
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
> 
> 
> > Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
> >
> > Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
> > Sunday November 6, 2005
> > The Observer
> >
> > France was reeling from a 10th night of violence yesterday as 
> riotingswept
> > from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
> >
> > In towns and cities across the country, youths armed with gasoline
> bombs
> > torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets. 
> Policesaid
> > that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half
> outside
> the
> > Paris region.
> >
> > The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 'exercise
> extreme
> > care in the affected areas'.
> >
> > The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior 
> Minister> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He 
> said setting
> cars
> > on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that the
> government
> was
> > 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which many are
> describing
> > as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student revolts.
> >
> > Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to call a
> crisis
> > meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as the rioting
> continued
> > to spread.
> >
> > Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty Nursery School in
> Grigny,
> > in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames as well 
> as two
> > classrooms at another school.
> >
> > In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the government, Yvan
> Lemaitre,
> > the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty school, told
> French
> > radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who lit the 
> fireis
> > Sarkozy.'
> >
> > By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 13 of them
> inside
> > Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by daybreak.
> >
> > The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as arson attacks 
> were> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, many 
> known for
> their
> > calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and 
> theresort
> > cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
> >
> > In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste to at least
> 50
> > vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and two schools,
> said
> > Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
> >
> > He added that five police officers and three firefighters were 
> injured> battling the blazes.
> >
> > Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in Lille and
> Rennes
> in
> > the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In
> the
> > eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full 
> daylight,police
> > said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
> >
> > Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris region to 
> bolster> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a 
> recycling factory
> was
> set
> > on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
> >
> > Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, 
> northeast
> > of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys were
> accidentally
> > electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently thinking they were
> being
> > pursued. French authorities have denied that police were to blame.
> >
> > France-Info radio reported residents catching two 14-year-olds 
> tryingto
> > light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning them 
> over to
> > police.
> >
> > Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by fire in the
> Republique
> > section, north east of City Hall.
> >
> > Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined marches in
> Paris
> > suburbs to protest against the violence. In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which
> has
> seen
> > some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out
> vehicles
> > and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to
> dialogue'.
> >
> > De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to attempt to 
> regainthe
> > momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers to speed up
> plans
> > for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the Paris 
> mosque,Dalil
> > Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
> >
> > But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After his meeting
> with De
> > Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's
> outbursts,
> in
> > which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
> >
> > Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the rioters would 
> 'stopat
> > nothing' in their attacks.
> >
> >
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From bridgman at cc.umanitoba.ca  Tue Nov  8 10:11:41 2005
From: bridgman at cc.umanitoba.ca (RAE BRIDGMAN)
Date: Tue Nov  8 19:23:22 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and antipoverty
	efforts
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511081009470.7446@antares.cc.umanitoba.ca>

I've just received the following query from a student in my department.
Can anyone suggest some useful leads?  Much appreciated---Rae Bridgman

****


"I am writing a paper which explores antipoverty efforts and whether
advocacy planning and citizen participation in the past have been
successful in incorporating concerns of the poor (including the homeless)
into some form of action. I will probably look at examples that have been
unsuccessful and successful.  I was wondering if you would know of any
good sources (articles or books) that would be useful."

From olds at geography.wisc.edu  Mon Nov  7 08:35:42 2005
From: olds at geography.wisc.edu (Kris Olds)
Date: Tue Nov  8 19:24:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
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I use La Haine in my Intro to the City class - an 
email text version of some of my assignment is 
pasted below. If you have not seen it I highly 
recommend that you do so. My students are 
wide-eyed right now...best to show it in a room 
with a proper projector and a powerful sound 
system though.

Kris



GEOG/URPL 305 (Fall 2005)
La Haine Exercise

La Haine is a now famous film that portrays a 
side of Paris rarely discussed in books and 
magazines, nor seen on American TV or in popular 
films though this week (with the ongoing riots) 
is an exception. Here are several reviews of the 
film to get you going:

http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_La_haine_rev.html
http://www.film.u-net.com/Movies/Reviews/La_Haine.html
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/contemp1/lahaine.htm
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960419/REVIEWS/604190301/1023
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-2/sussman.html

The film follows one day in the lives of three 
unemployed young men (Vinz, Sa?d, and Hubert) who 
live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of 
Paris. But suburb is perhaps an inappropriate 
term. These youths are actually living in what it 
known as a banlieue. A good review of this 
spatial concept, as examined in La Haine, is 
contained in Fielder's chapter from a book titled 
Cinematic Cities.  In this article, which is 
available on the 305 eReserves site (see 
'Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones 
in French Banlieue Films'), Fielder (2001: 
270-271) notes:

The current meaning of the term emerged in the 
years following World War Two, when immigrants 
from former French colonies (especially North 
Africans) began erecting shantytowns (or 
bidonvilles) on the margins of French cities in 
which they comprised the labor force for the 
Reconstruction efforts?. Starting in the 
mid-1960s, low-rent, high-rise apartment 
complexes called HLM (Habitations ? Loyer Mod?r?) 
were built on the sites of these squatter 
communities, which were thus effectively 
displaced.  These new neighborhoods became known 
as les banlieues, since they are located outside 
the 'urban periphery' in cities such as Paris, 
Lyon, and Marseille, and today they are home to 
the majority of immigrant families living in 
France.  In the last two decades, socially- and 
spatially-marginalized subjects in the banlieues 
have been obliged to cope with a faltering 
educational system, extremely atrophied 
vocational training, and an unemployment crisis 
of epic proportions."

Or, as Sarah Sussman notes in the last internet 
site noted above, banlieue are "planned housing 
developments for the working classes who can no 
longer afford to live in the city."

We are watching this film in 305 as it does a 
great job of conveying a range of development 
issues associated with cities including:

o	Social exclusion and the city
o	The governance of people in the city
o	Public housing in the city
o	Mobility in the city
o	Diverse imaginings of the city (compare 
La Haine to, for example, Am?lie)

Here are some key issues, in random order, for 
you to think about as the film unfolds:

1.	Close your eyes and imagine Paris. 
Reflect upon the Paris of your dreams, of your 
imagination.

2.	Are Vinz, Sa?d, and Hubert controlled, 
managed, identified, or categorized (i.e., 
governed) by anyone in Paris? On a related note, 
in which ways, if any, do they interact with arms 
of the state?

3.	Cities can be both easy and difficult 
places to move through (i.e., walk, drive, travel 
via public transit, bike). The nature of the 
places that are traversed, distance, time of the 
day, and also the identity of the person moving 
through the city shape the movement process. 
Discuss how Vinz, Sa?d, and Hubert move through 
Paris - the technologies they use, their 
interaction with other people on the street and 
in forms of transport, and any difficulties they 
might (or might not have) as (respectively) young 
single French males (Jew, Arab, and African).

4.	How does urban density and architecture 
shape the nature of social interaction in Paris 
(as represented in this film)?  Is density a 
positive or a negative force, or neither? Is the 
aesthetics of Parisian urban and suburban 
landscape conveyed in a a positive or a negative 
way, or neither?

5.	 Vinz, Sa?d, and Hubert seem to be 
unemployed. How does Mathieu Kassovitz (the 
director and Amelie's beau in the next film) 
convey the social effects of long-term 
unemployment in the Parisean banlieue? Does he 
lay the blame for le fracture sociale (social 
exclusion) on anyone in particular?

6.	How is social life in the banlieue 
gendered?  In other words, how do gender roles 
and identities shape social life in this part of 
the city (as conveyed in the film)?  Do you think 
such gender roles would apply equally well in all 
parts of Paris?

7.	There is a quasi-documentary (? la 
Berlin) element in La Haine.  This film 
highlights the role of individual subjectivity 
and social identity in shaping perceptions of the 
city (in this case Paris). Which of the 'lenses' 
I spoke about in the class earlier on is this 
film closest to: positivist, structuralist, 
poststructuralist or humanist?

8.	Contrast this film with ideas of the 
'post-Fordist city' (which we have been 
discussing).  Is it possible to relate the 
challenging nightmare world of Vinz, Sa?d, and 
Hubert, to the grinding world of urban 
restructuring under 'post-Fordism'?

9.	Can you detect any differences between 
the conditions conveyed in this film vis a vis 
the conditions portrayed in the news stories 
about the ongoing riots?


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kris Olds
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
550 N. Park Street, Science Hall
Madison, WI 53706
USA
Tel: 1-608-262-5685
Fax: 1-608-265-3991
Email: olds@geography.wisc.edu
Email: oldskris@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/olds/welcome.html
SIEG 2006: http://www.wun.ac.uk/economicgeography/Madison06/madison06.html
EHEA Symposium: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/CKS/index.htm
From wnicholl at csulb.edu  Tue Nov  8 00:59:25 2005
From: wnicholl at csulb.edu (Walter Nicholls)
Date: Tue Nov  8 19:25:45 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
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Dear Readers,

Mustafa Dikec wrote an interesting article on riots as 
social movements in France.

The references is: Mustafa Dikec(2004) 'Voices into 
noises: Ideological determination of unarticulated justice 
movements', Space & Polity, 8(2): 191-208.

Also, regarding OlatokunboAdeola'smessage: The idea that 
the analysis of inequalities and disadvantaged places only 
makes things worse is problematic. It is true that such 
studies can contribute to legitimating existing 
articulations of power but, they can also identify 
important contradictions in existing power structures 
which can be used advantageously by the powerless and 
potential allies in the state.  While it is certainly 
important to remain critical of our own positioning within 
a power/knowledge matrix, this does not mean that we 
should not study the underlying causes of injustices and 
transfer our intellectual resources to progressive 
political projects.

Also, the idea that these are localized resistances with 
distinct impulses that cannot be sufficiently understood 
seems to reflect essentialist thinking. These are 
certainly localized instances of resistance arising from a 
particular set of circumstances but these particularities 
are nevertheless embedded in larger processes that can be 
understood and acted on. People riot in Paris, Los 
Angeles, London, etc. for many of the same reasons 
(poverty, police repression, racism, etc.) Arguing that 
this particular form of collective action is simply a 
reflection of localized (irrational) passions that cannot 
be explained by social scientists is off the mark.

Regards,

Walter Nicholls


On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:45:58 -0500
  "OlatokunboAdeola Enigbokan" <enigbo01@newschool.edu> 
wrote:
> Do we really believe that some sort of "disciplined 
>knowledge" is what
> is needed to "solve issues of deprivation that have been 
>festering for
> decades?" 
> 
> It seems counter-productive to try to incorporate (and 
>thereby defuse)
> the concentrated, visceral response of people trying to 
>effect some sort
> of real change in a crippling and crippled system into 
>"important
> avenues of research." I highly doubt that there has been 
>a dearth of
> "important research" into when people "raise holy hell." 
>In fact I would
> say that a significant part of the social sciences' 
>contribution to the
> rise of the very systems the Parisians are trying to 
>burn down was due
> to the need for soveriegn and disciplinary powers to 
>understand and then
> control the hows and whys of people raising hell, 
>through the production
> of the very "disciplined knowledge" we tend to value so 
>highly.
> 
> To propose that more studies are what are needed is to 
>totally
> misunderstand, and possibly even disrespect the impulse 
>to dramatically
> address the injustices in everyday life. It is also to 
>assume that the
> people rioting do not themselves possess the necessary 
>tools and
> knowledge to resolve the problems of which they 
>themselves bear the
> brunt. Do they really need more social scientists and 
>policymakers to
> make more studies of what's wrong with their situations? 
> 
> The riots in Paris are immediate, local, aimed at a 
>particular system.
> The machinery of academic discipline is hardly 
>comparable.  The people
> in rioting in Parisian suburbs and housing projects are 
>not the same as
> the people studying in US universities. It is best not 
>to confuse
> writing a dissertation with burning a car. Different 
>endeavours,
> different audiences, different goals, different effects. 
> 
> 
> Assuming that anthropologists can do more than "argue 
>the finer points
> of postmodernism," is to misunderstand one's own 
>position within a
> powerful institution, and to disregard the importance of 
>"arguing finer
> points." Arguing amongst ourselves is what we do best, 
>and to greatest
> effect. Anthropologists, as is true for most academics, 
>WRITE. The power
> of the academy lies in its support for the activities of 
>reading,
> talking and most of all, writing. Am I sounding too 
>postmodern? This is
> not my aim. The postmodern moment was before my time. 
>Please bear with
> me...
> 
> Changing how we write, to whom we write and from where 
>we write are
> among the most important interventions that can be made 
>from the
> positions we occupy. I am unclear on what Mr. Macdowell 
>means by
> "applied tasks," but I am in support of anthropologists 
>doing high
> quality research and writing, which does not presume to 
>speak for or
> about people, but aims to open up avenues through which 
>people can begin
> to speak to each other, before they have to burn each 
>other's cars.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Adeola Enigbokan
> PhD candidate, The New School for Social Research
> 
>>>> "Paul" <paulanthropus@cox.net> 11/06/05 1:43 PM >>>
> These riots have threefold implications. First, it is a 
>harbinger of
> things
> to come if the basic needs of the world's majority are 
>not met. The
> globalization advocates had better deliver the goods if 
>their "trickle
> down
> theory" holds any water. Second, this provides an 
>important avenue of
> research--when do people say "basta" and raise holy 
>hell? Third, it
> warns
> anthropologists and other social scientists to stop 
>arguing the fine
> points
> of postmodernism or some other theory du jour and start 
>applying a
> disciplined knowledge to solving the issues of 
>deprvation that have been
> festering for decades, indeed centuries.
> 
> In short, it's time to get on with the research and 
>applied tasks that
> really matter.
> 
> Paul McDowell
> Instructor
> Santa Barbara City College.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:31 AM
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
> 
> 
>> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
>>
>> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
>> Sunday November 6, 2005
>> The Observer
>>
>> France was reeling from a 10th night of violence 
>>yesterday as rioting
> swept
>> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
>>
>> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed 
>>with gasoline
> bombs
>> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other 
>>targets. Police
> said
>> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more 
>>than half
> outside
> the
>> Paris region.
>>
>> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 
>>'exercise
> extreme
>> care in the affected areas'.
>>
>> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from 
>>Interior Minister
>> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He 
>>said setting
> cars
>> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that 
>>the
> government
> was
>> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which 
>>many are
> describing
>> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student 
>>revolts.
>>
>> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday 
>>forced to call a
> crisis
>> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as 
>>the rioting
> continued
>> to spread.
>>
>> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty 
>>Nursery School in
> Grigny,
>> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames 
>>as well as two
>> classrooms at another school.
>>
>> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the 
>>government, Yvan
> Lemaitre,
>> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty 
>>school, told
>French
>> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who 
>>lit the fire
> is
>> Sarkozy.'
>>
>> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 
>>13 of them
> inside
>> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by 
>>daybreak.
>>
>> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as 
>>arson attacks were
>> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, 
>>many known for
> their
>> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern 
>>France and the
> resort
>> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
>>
>> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste 
>>to at least
> 50
>> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and 
>>two schools,
> said
>> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
>>
>> He added that five police officers and three 
>>firefighters were injured
>> battling the blazes.
>>
>> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in 
>>Lille and
> Rennes
> in
>> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east 
>>of Paris. In
> the
>> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in 
>>full daylight,
> police
>> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
>>
>> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris 
>>region to bolster
>> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a 
>>recycling factory
> was
> set
>> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
>>
>> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis 
>>region, north
> east
>> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys 
>>were
> accidentally
>> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently 
>>thinking they were
> being
>> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were 
>>to blame.
>>
>> France-Info radio reported residents catching two 
>>14-year-olds trying
> to
>> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning 
>>them over to
>> police.
>>
>> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by 
>>fire in the
> Republique
>> section, north east of City Hall.
>>
>> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined 
>>marches in
> Paris
>> suburbs to protest against the violence. In 
>>Aulnay-sous-Bois, which
> has
> seen
>> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past 
>>burnt-out
> vehicles
>> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 
>>'Yes to
> dialogue'.
>>
>> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to 
>>attempt to regain
> the
>> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers 
>>to speed up
> plans
>> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the 
>>Paris mosque,
> Dalil
>> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
>>
>> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After 
>>his meeting
> with De
>> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the 
>>minister's
> outbursts,
> in
>> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 
>>'louts'.
>>
>> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the 
>>rioters would 'stop
> at
>> nothing' in their attacks.
>>
>>
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From asteiner at mail.utexas.edu  Mon Nov  7 13:57:44 2005
From: asteiner at mail.utexas.edu (Audrey Steiner)
Date: Wed Nov  9 13:44:20 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
Message-ID: <p06200702bf9562193bfc@[192.168.0.100]>

>I agree with Paul that applying information gleaned from 
>empirically-founded anthropological research could be highly 
>fruitful in raging conflicts.  Although, as Adeola Enigbokan points 
>out, the people who are battling in Paris are responding 
>"viscerally," "systems the Parisians are trying to burn down" cannot 
>be burnt down.  Rather than material, the action is intrinsically 
>symbollic, flailing at symbollic "systems," and is the kind of 
>action that governments have lots of experience in controlling.  I 
>don't hold much hope for its success in fomenting real change on the 
>level needed.

On the other hand, the qualitative properties of diligent 
anthropology lend themselves to uncovering effective strategies of 
assertion on multiple scales and on multiple planes.  The 
possibilities for anthropologists to contribute to alleviation of 
suffering due to class conflict are endless.  For example, as 
Hartigan illustrates in Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of 
Whiteness in Detroit, discourse analysis can divulge the fact that 
there are contests in which, although there is a common language, 
there is "no neutral language, short of saying nothing at all, 
through which ... differences and interests could be framed and 
discussed" (246).  If there is no way to speak, communication is all 
but severed.  Anthropologists can seek to first recognize and uncover 
societally-imposed limitations then locate examples of people's 
creative solutions to these.

Researching how a people has successfully translated scalar 
differences, such as between a large international bureaucracy, 
public or private, and a group of individuals is another contribution 
with potential for direct application.  When Dr. Martin Luther King, 
Jr. carried out non-violent civil disobedience, it was an effective 
tool, but now peaceful protests and even armed skirmishes are 
virtually ignored by those in power.  What other strategy has worked 
to throw off oppressors?  To what degree can terrorism succeed?  How 
specifically do mortal enemies join to become allied in a larger 
fight?  What is the role of a charismatic leader now?  If any, what 
kinds of symbols affect oppressors now?  Etc.

>Adeola Enigbokan states, "Assuming that anthropologists can do more 
>than 'argue the finer points of postmodernism,' is to misunderstand 
>one's own position within a
powerful institution, and to disregard the importance of 'arguing 
finer points.' Arguing amongst ourselves is what we do best, and to 
greatest effect.  Anthropologists, as is true for most academics, 
WRITE. The power of the academy lies in its support for the 
activities of reading,talking and most of all, writing."  This 
generalizing definition of what anthropologists are and do does not 
address the fact that the academy is not the only site of 
anthropologists, nor does it recognize the strong and vibrant 
movement of activist anthropology.  More fundamentally, it does not 
address the relevance of sharing knowledge with those outside the 
ivied ivory towers, and it ignores the activity "the power of the 
academy" is traditionally rumored to support most of all - free 
thinking.

Best,
Audrey Steiner
Anthropology Graduate Student
University of Texas at Austin






From Brinda.Dalal at parc.com  Tue Nov  8 17:17:42 2005
From: Brinda.Dalal at parc.com (Brinda.Dalal@parc.com)
Date: Wed Nov  9 13:44:50 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and
	antipovertyefforts
Message-ID: <D87E71FFDA66A34B8DA5CEFEB30793AB2AEB8B@goldeneye.ad.parc.com>

Rae,

The following might provide some insight in regard to women,
micro-credit, and housing and shelter issues in Bombay, India.

Arjun Appadurai's paper on Deep Democracy might be a useful start. A
draft version may be found here: http://www.sdinet.org/reports/r10.htm 

Appadurai discusses the work of the Non-Governmental Organization called
SPARC and affiliated organizations. SPARC's publications, which go back
to 1984, can be found here:
http://www.sparcindia.org/Frame/fpublications.html (Note that these do
not provide a critique as such)

In a similar vein, grassroots efforts on issues around shelter in South
Africa:
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/planning/forum/vol9PDFs/wilsonlowery.pdf 

Brinda Dalal

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of RAE BRIDGMAN
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:12 AM
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and
antipovertyefforts

I've just received the following query from a student in my department.
Can anyone suggest some useful leads?  Much appreciated---Rae Bridgman

****


"I am writing a paper which explores antipoverty efforts and whether
advocacy planning and citizen participation in the past have been
successful in incorporating concerns of the poor (including the
homeless)
into some form of action. I will probably look at examples that have
been
unsuccessful and successful.  I was wondering if you would know of any
good sources (articles or books) that would be useful."

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From enigbo01 at newschool.edu  Wed Nov  9 05:03:09 2005
From: enigbo01 at newschool.edu (OlatokunboAdeola Enigbokan)
Date: Wed Nov  9 13:45:18 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
Message-ID: <s3718317.072@TEMP.NEWSCHOOL.EDU>

Sorry for the long email, but I feel my initial post was misunderstood.
To clarify:

My aim was not to imply that the Paris riots stem from a place that
"cannot be understood" or from "irrational" passions. My use of "local"
does not necessarily mean "localized," and localized does not equal
irrational.  I understand, for example, that one of the reasons rioters
have been so successful in eluding police, is their savvy use of text
messaging to communicate, plan attacks and quickly disperse. This is
hardly irrational behavior and I never suggested it was. They are naming
specific government officials, such as local police, and the Paris
Police Chiefs as main culprits in a local system of exclusion. This is
not a WTO protest in Seattle, nor is it a repeat of the LA riots.

By describing the Paris riots as "local" I mean they are immediate,
happening now, in a specific place in the world, where, it seems, most
of us on this email list are not.  I am trying to imagine myself in the
place of someone living in the banlieus of Paris, where would I be?
Locked in my home, or outside lighting things on fire? Would my first
response, in this moment, be to go to the library and write a good paper
about it? Academic research is often caught in the lag time of funding
prosals, approval, sabbaticals, write-ups, defenses, etc. It takes years
sometimes. By the time we arrive, and finally figure out what to say or
do, the fires have all been put out, only ashes are left.  How do we
develop a language and method to deal with what's happening as its
actually happening? To contribute in meaningful ways, now, before the
cities are all smoldering ruins?

Allen Feldman pointed out the contributions of Situationist university
students of May 1968, to the Paris uprisings. I just want to note that
these students were in the streets with everyone else lighting stuff on
fire. In that moment they were not writing "disciplined" papers. They
were trying to be the opposite of disciplined, to resist discipline.

I am not advocating moving to Paris this week to light things on fire,
nor am I saying that ALL academic research into issues of social justice
is useless. All I'm trying to say is that we need to recognize the
differences between what people are doing in Paris, and what we do in
universities under the protection of our disciplines. These are not the
same activities. In many ways they are at odds. The spaces we occupy are
necessarily differentiated from those that lay people occupy because we
aim to be experts. How use this space, without undermining other spaces,
is of utmost importance. 

Respectfully,

Adeola Enigbokan
PhD Candidate, New School for Social Research


>>> "Walter Nicholls" <wnicholl@csulb.edu> 11/08/05 3:59 AM >>>

Dear Readers,

Mustafa Dikec wrote an interesting article on riots as 
social movements in France.

The references is: Mustafa Dikec(2004) 'Voices into 
noises: Ideological determination of unarticulated justice 
movements', Space & Polity, 8(2): 191-208.

Also, regarding OlatokunboAdeola'smessage: The idea that 
the analysis of inequalities and disadvantaged places only 
makes things worse is problematic. It is true that such 
studies can contribute to legitimating existing 
articulations of power but, they can also identify 
important contradictions in existing power structures 
which can be used advantageously by the powerless and 
potential allies in the state.  While it is certainly 
important to remain critical of our own positioning within 
a power/knowledge matrix, this does not mean that we 
should not study the underlying causes of injustices and 
transfer our intellectual resources to progressive 
political projects.

Also, the idea that these are localized resistances with 
distinct impulses that cannot be sufficiently understood 
seems to reflect essentialist thinking. These are 
certainly localized instances of resistance arising from a 
particular set of circumstances but these particularities 
are nevertheless embedded in larger processes that can be 
understood and acted on. People riot in Paris, Los 
Angeles, London, etc. for many of the same reasons 
(poverty, police repression, racism, etc.) Arguing that 
this particular form of collective action is simply a 
reflection of localized (irrational) passions that cannot 
be explained by social scientists is off the mark.

Regards,

Walter Nicholls


On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:45:58 -0500
  "OlatokunboAdeola Enigbokan" <enigbo01@newschool.edu> 
wrote:
> Do we really believe that some sort of "disciplined 
>knowledge" is what
> is needed to "solve issues of deprivation that have been 
>festering for
> decades?" 
> 
> It seems counter-productive to try to incorporate (and 
>thereby defuse)
> the concentrated, visceral response of people trying to 
>effect some sort
> of real change in a crippling and crippled system into 
>"important
> avenues of research." I highly doubt that there has been 
>a dearth of
> "important research" into when people "raise holy hell." 
>In fact I would
> say that a significant part of the social sciences' 
>contribution to the
> rise of the very systems the Parisians are trying to 
>burn down was due
> to the need for soveriegn and disciplinary powers to 
>understand and then
> control the hows and whys of people raising hell, 
>through the production
> of the very "disciplined knowledge" we tend to value so 
>highly.
> 
> To propose that more studies are what are needed is to 
>totally
> misunderstand, and possibly even disrespect the impulse 
>to dramatically
> address the injustices in everyday life. It is also to 
>assume that the
> people rioting do not themselves possess the necessary 
>tools and
> knowledge to resolve the problems of which they 
>themselves bear the
> brunt. Do they really need more social scientists and 
>policymakers to
> make more studies of what's wrong with their situations? 
> 
> The riots in Paris are immediate, local, aimed at a 
>particular system.
> The machinery of academic discipline is hardly 
>comparable.  The people
> in rioting in Parisian suburbs and housing projects are 
>not the same as
> the people studying in US universities. It is best not 
>to confuse
> writing a dissertation with burning a car. Different 
>endeavours,
> different audiences, different goals, different effects. 
> 
> 
> Assuming that anthropologists can do more than "argue 
>the finer points
> of postmodernism," is to misunderstand one's own 
>position within a
> powerful institution, and to disregard the importance of 
>"arguing finer
> points." Arguing amongst ourselves is what we do best, 
>and to greatest
> effect. Anthropologists, as is true for most academics, 
>WRITE. The power
> of the academy lies in its support for the activities of 
>reading,
> talking and most of all, writing. Am I sounding too 
>postmodern? This is
> not my aim. The postmodern moment was before my time. 
>Please bear with
> me...
> 
> Changing how we write, to whom we write and from where 
>we write are
> among the most important interventions that can be made 
>from the
> positions we occupy. I am unclear on what Mr. Macdowell 
>means by
> "applied tasks," but I am in support of anthropologists 
>doing high
> quality research and writing, which does not presume to 
>speak for or
> about people, but aims to open up avenues through which 
>people can begin
> to speak to each other, before they have to burn each 
>other's cars.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Adeola Enigbokan
> PhD candidate, The New School for Social Research
> 
>>>> "Paul" <paulanthropus@cox.net> 11/06/05 1:43 PM >>>
> These riots have threefold implications. First, it is a 
>harbinger of
> things
> to come if the basic needs of the world's majority are 
>not met. The
> globalization advocates had better deliver the goods if 
>their "trickle
> down
> theory" holds any water. Second, this provides an 
>important avenue of
> research--when do people say "basta" and raise holy 
>hell? Third, it
> warns
> anthropologists and other social scientists to stop 
>arguing the fine
> points
> of postmodernism or some other theory du jour and start 
>applying a
> disciplined knowledge to solving the issues of 
>deprvation that have been
> festering for decades, indeed centuries.
> 
> In short, it's time to get on with the research and 
>applied tasks that
> really matter.
> 
> Paul McDowell
> Instructor
> Santa Barbara City College.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Angela Jancius" <acjancius@ysu.edu>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:31 AM
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: the week Paris burned
> 
> 
>> Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
>>
>> Alex Duval Smith in Paris and David Smith
>> Sunday November 6, 2005
>> The Observer
>>
>> France was reeling from a 10th night of violence 
>>yesterday as rioting
> swept
>> from the suburbs of Paris to become a nationwide crisis.
>>
>> In towns and cities across the country, youths armed 
>>with gasoline
> bombs
>> torched scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other 
>>targets. Police
> said
>> that at least 607 vehicles were set alight, with more 
>>than half
> outside
> the
>> Paris region.
>>
>> The Foreign Office yesterday warned British tourists to 
>>'exercise
> extreme
>> care in the affected areas'.
>>
>> The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from 
>>Interior Minister
>> Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments. He 
>>said setting
> cars
>> on fire could 'cost dear in terms of sentences' and that 
>>the
> government
> was
>> 'unanimous' about standing firm against violence, which 
>>many are
> describing
>> as France's worst civil unrest since the 1968 student 
>>revolts.
>>
>> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday 
>>forced to call a
> crisis
>> meeting of his ministers and a top Muslim official as 
>>the rioting
> continued
>> to spread.
>>
>> Last night five classrooms at the Sleeping Beauty 
>>Nursery School in
> Grigny,
>> in the Essonne region south of Paris, went up in flames 
>>as well as two
>> classrooms at another school.
>>
>> In a measure of public dissatisfaction with the 
>>government, Yvan
> Lemaitre,
>> the parent of one of the pupils at the Sleeping Beauty 
>>school, told
>French
>> radio: 'Burning a school is unacceptable but the man who 
>>lit the fire
> is
>> Sarkozy.'
>>
>> By 1am this morning, at least 607 vehicles were burned - 
>>13 of them
> inside
>> Paris. The overall figures were expected to climb by 
>>daybreak.
>>
>> The troubles threatened to spiral out of control as 
>>arson attacks were
>> reported in cities to the north, south, east and west, 
>>many known for
> their
>> calm, like the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern 
>>France and the
> resort
>> cities of Nice and Cannes, where cars were torched.
>>
>> In the Normandy town of Evreux, arson attacks laid waste 
>>to at least
> 50
>> vehicles, part of a shopping centre, a post office and 
>>two schools,
> said
>> Patrick Hamon, spokesman for the national police.
>>
>> He added that five police officers and three 
>>firefighters were injured
>> battling the blazes.
>>
>> Arson was also reported in Nantes, in the south west, in 
>>Lille and
> Rennes
> in
>> the north and Saint-Dizier, in the Ardennes region east 
>>of Paris. In
> the
>> eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in 
>>full daylight,
> police
>> said. In Toulouse, there were 30 arson attacks.
>>
>> Some 2,300 police were being brought into the Paris 
>>region to bolster
>> security. In the Essonne area south of the city, a 
>>recycling factory
> was
> set
>> on fire and at least 35 vehicles torched.
>>
>> Twenty-eight cars were torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis 
>>region, north
> east
>> of Paris, where the riots erupted after two teenage boys 
>>were
> accidentally
>> electrocuted as they hid from police, apparently 
>>thinking they were
> being
>> pursued. French authorities have denied that police were 
>>to blame.
>>
>> France-Info radio reported residents catching two 
>>14-year-olds trying
> to
>> light a fire in Drancy, north-east of Paris, and turning 
>>them over to
>> police.
>>
>> Even in the heart of Paris three cars were damaged by 
>>fire in the
> Republique
>> section, north east of City Hall.
>>
>> Meanwhile, earlier yesterday, hundreds of people joined 
>>marches in
> Paris
>> suburbs to protest against the violence. In 
>>Aulnay-sous-Bois, which
> has
> seen
>> some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past 
>>burnt-out
> vehicles
>> and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 
>>'Yes to
> dialogue'.
>>
>> De Villepin called the emergency cabinet meeting to 
>>attempt to regain
> the
>> momentum and show a united front. He called on ministers 
>>to speed up
> plans
>> for urban renewal and asked the influential imam of the 
>>Paris mosque,
> Dalil
>> Boubakeur, to appeal for calm.
>>
>> But it was Sarkozy who again came in for attack. After 
>>his meeting
> with De
>> Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the 
>>minister's
> outbursts,
> in
>> which he called the disaffected young men on estates 
>>'louts'.
>>
>> Police trade union official Gilles Petit said the 
>>rioters would 'stop
> at
>> nothing' in their attacks.
>>
>>
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From greenbau at chuma1.cas.usf.edu  Wed Nov  9 05:33:56 2005
From: greenbau at chuma1.cas.usf.edu (Greenbaum, Susan)
Date: Wed Nov  9 22:52:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and
	antipovertyefforts
Message-ID: <D043610742C4AD46BD1BF098093370BD056E65@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu>

The Dudley Street Initiative in Boston, which has a website that can be found on Google by keying in the name, is a good example of a long term project.  The book, Streets of Hope, by Holly Sklar and Peter Medoff, tell the story very effectively.

________________________________

From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu on behalf of RAE BRIDGMAN
Sent: Tue 11/8/2005 11:11 AM
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and antipovertyefforts



I've just received the following query from a student in my department.
Can anyone suggest some useful leads?  Much appreciated---Rae Bridgman

****


"I am writing a paper which explores antipoverty efforts and whether
advocacy planning and citizen participation in the past have been
successful in incorporating concerns of the poor (including the homeless)
into some form of action. I will probably look at examples that have been
unsuccessful and successful.  I was wondering if you would know of any
good sources (articles or books) that would be useful."

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From smaack at earthlink.net  Wed Nov  9 11:42:49 2005
From: smaack at earthlink.net (Stephen C. Maack)
Date: Wed Nov  9 22:53:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation
	andantipovertyefforts
In-Reply-To: <D87E71FFDA66A34B8DA5CEFEB30793AB2AEB8B@goldeneye.ad.parc.com>
Message-ID: <HHEFJBBKHGCCLAHLEJAECEJJCOAA.smaack@earthlink.net>

Rae,
What has the student done already besides the easy turn to the professor and
the SUNTA list?  Enlist the help of a good reference librarian.  (IMHO, this
should always be the first line of recommendation before sending out an
appeal to a professional list....).

There are a number of books and articles out on homelessness that the
student should search for and consult.  The Rand Corporation has done a
great deal of policy relevant research and evaluation on homelessness
projects, particularly in regards to the large homeless population of Santa
Monica, CA.  Anthropologists have been involved with some of that work.  See
http://www.rand.org and follow the links to Rand's online and for-purchase
papers and books.

Is the student looking for current or any and all cases to examine?  In the
1970s and 1980s "advocacy anthropology" was in its heyday and it was
specifically geared toward empowering low income people and community
organizations and providing help in citizen participation and action.  To
probably oversimplify, the stance of advocacy anthropology is that the
"professional" anthropologist is simply someone with certain kinds of
expertise and the leaders and poor people had other kinds of expertise.  The
anthropologist let the leaders decide on strategy and such and was not so
worried about unbiased research and reporting the way an academic would be.
The point was to help move forward a cause or case -- i.e., move into some
form of action (and try to make the action "successful" according to the
terms and approaches of the poor and community people wanting the actions
done).

There is a great deal written on poverty in the United States and around the
world.  The edited book "Poor People's Movements" might be of interest.
Look at the extensive literature concerning the Lyndon Johnson era "war on
poverty" and its aftermath, the "underclass" debate, and so forth.  The
literature on peasants will include examples of antipoverty efforts
(including the Vicos Project, if you will...).  The World Bank, USAID,
non-profits and other aid providers have for years worked on various
projects, some of which espouse "advocacy planning" and "citizen
participation" (Brinda Dalal's recommendations are the tip of a big
iceberg...).  Is there any particular theoretical and pragmatic stance that
the student is taking or looking for literature that takes that kind of a
stance?

If I were you, I would advise the student that, as relayed to us, this topic
is way too broad for a term paper, and likely even be too broad for a
Masters or Doctoral thesis.  Whole swaths of applied anthropology literature
deal with this topic.  Also, big chunks of urban and rural community
organizing literature touch on it.  And much development anthropology
literature.  Did you try to work with the student to narrow down the topic
to something more reasonable?  If so, could you and/or the student be more
specific in the request?  Again, a good reference librarian would ask key
questions to try to get a student to be more specific and get the student
started on the paper research.

Best Regards,
Steve

Dr. Stephen C. Maack
DBA REAP Change Consultants
2872 Nicada Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90077-2024
U.S.A.
E-Mail: consultant@reapchange.com or smaack@earthlink.net
Telephone: 310-384-9717
FAX: 310-474-4161

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu]On Behalf Of
Brinda.Dalal@parc.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:18 PM
To: bridgman@cc.umanitoba.ca
Cc: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: RE: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation
andantipovertyefforts


Rae,

The following might provide some insight in regard to women,
micro-credit, and housing and shelter issues in Bombay, India.

Arjun Appadurai's paper on Deep Democracy might be a useful start. A
draft version may be found here: http://www.sdinet.org/reports/r10.htm

Appadurai discusses the work of the Non-Governmental Organization called
SPARC and affiliated organizations. SPARC's publications, which go back
to 1984, can be found here:
http://www.sparcindia.org/Frame/fpublications.html (Note that these do
not provide a critique as such)

In a similar vein, grassroots efforts on issues around shelter in South
Africa:
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/planning/forum/vol9PDFs/wilsonlowery.pdf

Brinda Dalal

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of RAE BRIDGMAN
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:12 AM
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and
antipovertyefforts

I've just received the following query from a student in my department.
Can anyone suggest some useful leads?  Much appreciated---Rae Bridgman

****


"I am writing a paper which explores antipoverty efforts and whether
advocacy planning and citizen participation in the past have been
successful in incorporating concerns of the poor (including the
homeless) into some form of action. I will probably look at examples that
have
been unsuccessful and successful.  I was wondering if you would know of any
good sources (articles or books) that would be useful."

_______________________________________________
URBANTH-L mailing list
URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l

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From mattcoll at temple.edu  Thu Nov 10 11:05:26 2005
From: mattcoll at temple.edu (mattcoll@temple.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 10 19:57:25 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen
 participation	andantipovertyefforts
Message-ID: <f45f15ee.59163af5.820de00@po-f.temple.edu>

While I agree with all the points Mr. Maack has presented, 
Vincent Lynn-Callo has done some excellent work on 
homelessness.  Also, the Judith Goode and Jeffrey Maskovsky 
book "New Poverty Studies", is another great starting point 
concerning poverty research.

Matthew Coll
Research Associate
Branch Associates, Inc.
123 S. Broad Street, Suite 1910
Philadelphia, PA  19109
215-731-9980
215-731-9987 (fax)
www.branchassoc.com


From hmustaf at LearnLink.Emory.Edu  Thu Nov 10 14:03:38 2005
From: hmustaf at LearnLink.Emory.Edu (Huda N. Mustafa)
Date: Thu Nov 10 19:58:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]the week Paris burned/ Parisian Publics??
In-Reply-To: <web-4947945@romulus.csulb.edu>
References: <s36e334b.034@TEMP.NEWSCHOOL.EDU><web-4947945@romulus.csulb.edu>
Message-ID: <fc.00249f0f287847f73b9aca00d07a9105.28784ec2@LearnLink.Emory.Edu>

Does anyone have any references, ideas, films, etc. that might help us
understand and teach about 
not only the riots and broader context but the parameters of (counter-)
publics/ public spheres/ 
democratic deliberation the absence of which (at least the latter) the riots
"speak." 

thanks, Hudita

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Nov 10 19:58:42 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Nov 10 20:00:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Gender and the City
Message-ID: <00e301c5e65b$147e2170$a7058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers: Gender and the City
Deadline: 2005-11-25

The London Conference for Canadian Studies and the Institute for the 
Study of the Americas at the University of London invite proposals 
for papers for a one day conference which will take up this issue of 
the relation between gender and the city in Canada. This one-day 
conference will be held Friday 24 February 2006 at Canada House in 
London.

The organisers are open to papers in a variety of fields including 
history, geography, cultural studies and literature. Possible topics 
include, but are not limited to:

- Gender and urbanisation
- Gender in Canadian literature about the city
- The spatial dynamics of gender in Canadian cities
- Masculinity and/or femininity and the modern city
- Gender and architecture
- The urban and gender dynamics of Canadian politics and society
- Gender history of particular Canadian cities

Christopher Dummitt
Lecturer in Canadian Studies
Institute for the Study of the Americas
University of London, School of Advanced Study
tel: +44 (0) 207 862 8689
fax: +44 (0) 207 862 8886
Email: christopher.dummitt@sas.ac.uk

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Nov 10 20:20:29 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Nov 10 20:22:13 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Edited Volume: Social Justice and Hurricane Katrina
Message-ID: <012201c5e65e$226250b0$a7058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers 

Edited Volume: Social Justice and Hurricane Katrina
Deadline: December 15, 2005

We invite contributions from communication, economics, ethnic studies,
political science, sociology and related fields for a proposed edited
volume on the topic of social justice as it relates to Hurricane Katrina.
We seek broad coverage of these topics representing an interdisciplinary
justice studies or social justice perspective and are soliciting both
empirical and theoretical papers.

Hurricane Katrina has been called one of the worst natural disasters on
U.S. soil. The aftermath of the storm uncovered man-made disasters of equal
magnitude. As the world watched, the economic, political, and social
systems of the U.S. were exposed and amid this chaos glaring questions
about social justice arose. This volume proposes to examine those
questions.

Deadlines for prospectus submission: Please send a 1-2 page prospectus of
your proposed chapter, including a brief biographical sketch about the
author(s) to Richelle Swan rswan@csusm.edu or Kristin Bates
kbates@csusm.edu by December 15, 2005.

Richelle S. Swan
California State University San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road
San Marcos, CA 92096
Phone:(760)750-4633
Email: rswan@csusm.edu

From rkheshti at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 10 17:13:20 2005
From: rkheshti at yahoo.com (Roshanak Kheshti)
Date: Fri Nov 11 16:19:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]the week Paris burned/ Parisian Publics??
In-Reply-To: <fc.00249f0f287847f73b9aca00d07a9105.28784ec2@LearnLink.Emory.Edu>
Message-ID: <20051111011320.26791.qmail@web50804.mail.yahoo.com>

Ella Shohat's excellent article "Post-Third-Worldist
Culture" (found in Feminist Geneologies, Colonial
Legacies, Democratic Futures) covers a very broad
range of films that would be very appropriate. I've
seen The Silences of the Palace, which is set at the
end of colonial rule in Tunisia. This might be a great
film to show.

Roshanak

--- "Huda N. Mustafa" <hmustaf@LearnLink.Emory.Edu>
wrote:

> Does anyone have any references, ideas, films, etc.
> that might help us
> understand and teach about 
> not only the riots and broader context but the
> parameters of (counter-)
> publics/ public spheres/ 
> democratic deliberation the absence of which (at
> least the latter) the riots
> "speak." 
> 
> thanks, Hudita
> 
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
> 


Roshanak Kheshti, Ph. D.


	
		
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Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Nov 11 16:35:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Nov 11 16:44:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]POSTDOCS: Children' and young people' experiences of
 immigration/integration in contemporary Ireland
Message-ID: <00b501c5e708$d11e0f90$93058696@toshibauser>

Three postdoctoral research posts available

A Marie Curie Excellence Team project, Department of Geography, University
College Cork

Migrant Children: Children' and young people' experiences of immigration
and integration in contemporary Irish society

Closing date for applications: 18th November 2005
Duration: April 2006-September 2009 (42 months)
Salary: 40,440 per annum (plus EU mobility allowances where applicable)

Three postdoctoral researchers are sought to work as part of a team in the
Department of Geography UCC, on a Marie Curie funded research programme
exploring the immigration and integration experiences of children and young
people in contemporary Ireland. Each researcher will have responsibility for
designing and conducting a research project which will contribute to the
overall coherence of the programme as a whole. The methodology will be
primarily qualitative, with particular emphasis on child-centred
methodological approaches. The research team will be interdisciplinary and
international. The likely structure is that Post A will focus on
children/young people in African/refugee/asylum-seeker migrant communities
in Ireland, Post B on migrant children/young people from eastern Europe and
Post C on migrant children/young people from other parts of the world (eg.,
Chinese, Philipinne, Indian, Brazilian, or others).

All three successful candidates will have a PhD or a minimum of four years'
full-time postgraduate research experience, and will have experience in
conducting research on migration/ethnicity/migrant communities, and/or
childhood/youth studies. They will have the ability to design and manage
their own research projects, while working within a team. Appropriate
language skills and empirical research skills would be an advantage.

Nationals of EU Member States and Associated States are eligible to apply.
Non-EU (or non-Associated State) nationals can apply, but a maximum of one
post can be filled be a non-EU (or Associated State) national.

Application by way of CV, cover letter and one/two page outline research
proposal to:

Dr. Caitr?ona N? Laoire, Department of Geography, University College Cork,
Ireland.  c.nilaoire@ucc.ie / Tel: + 353 21 4903656, including the names and
email addresses of three academic referees. Informal enquiries to same.

Please specify for which post(s) you are applying.

Further details:
http://hr.ucc.ie/docs/Marie_Curie_Posts_further_info.docGeography.doc


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Nov 11 16:37:01 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Nov 11 16:44:41 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place
Message-ID: <00b601c5e708$d3210b80$93058696@toshibauser>

[x-posted from SPACE-AND-PLACE@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU]

Apologies for multiple copies.
Please feel free to forward this call to others who might be interested.


**1st Call for Papers**

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue
"Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place"

Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon

Background
Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and -more recently- interaction design has
begun to critically examine the concept of place, its meaning and the
implications for design. Early work by Erickson (1993) and Harrison and
Dourish
(1996) suggested that place, is a more appropriate concept rather
than space is the notion that for providing an appropriate suitable
framework
for understanding people's interaction with their physical environment.
More recently, a consideration of place has been introduced in studies of
particular domains such as geographical technologies, collaborative systems
and interactive environments. In particular, increasing
attention is being paid to the notion of place as a useful conceptual tool
when studying people's interaction with ubiquitous computing environments,
whereby computational power augments and enhances existing features of
actual physical environments.
Place provides a frame for understanding how people relate to complex
environments that include technology, physical and material resources and
especially
other inhabitants.
A debate is emerging regarding different conceptual definitions of place and
on their implications if introduced within the HCI, CSCW and interaction
design areas, particularly in terms of methodological approaches.
The meaning and implications of these different notions needs to be
discussed and analysed, and especially when the notion of place is applied
to understanding social and collaborative activities in a number of locales,
from work environments, to public spaces,. This is even more so as new forms
of collaboration are enabled through ubiquitous computing environments.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

conceptual frameworks for understanding place
methodological approaches for studying interaction and communication in
place
case studies describing the design and evaluation of spatially distributed
and mobile technologies
case studies of human experience of place mediated by technologies



SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 15th April 2006

Submission of manuscripts (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250
words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however
you are invited to follow the layout guidelines given at
http://www.springerlink.com/(odegqt3b3lfjvx45b10mnom1)/app/home/journal.asp?
referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:100250,1


Please **email** your submission (in MS Word or Acrobat PDF format) to
luigina.ciolfi@ul.ie




REVIEW BOARD (more reviewers to be confirmed)

Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow (UK)
Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK)
Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex (UK)
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado (USA)
Mark Perry, Brunel University (UK)

GUEST EDITORS
Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK)
Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland)


Please contact luigina.ciolfi@ul.ie if you have any queries


-----------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Luigina Ciolfi
Interaction Design Centre
Engineering Research Building, ER1 005
University of Limerick, Ireland
Tel. [+353] 061 213530
Fax. [+353] 061 213484
Web: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/
        http://www.idc.ul.ie/
        http://www.shared-worlds.org/
        http://www.idc.ul.ie/nomads/
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From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Nov 12 17:38:17 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Nov 12 20:39:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: "The Privatization of Cities," Critical Planning Vol.
	13
Message-ID: <1131845897.437699095932d@webmail.sfsu.edu>

CFP: "The Privatization of Cities" Critical Planning Vol 13
Call for Papers Date:	2006-01-06

Critical Planning, the Journal of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, aims to
provide in-depth, innovative and critical analysis of topics pertaining to the
planning field. Volume 13, ?The Privatization of the City,? explores the wide
range of issues involving the growing participation of the private sector in
urban affairs.

A century ago, faced with crises in health, sanitation and infrastructure, a
great battle waged between public and private forces to mitigate the impacts of
the industrial city. While the public sector expanded its role in the provision
city services and regulation of urban space, private forces have also remained,
latently exerting their influence. Over the past two decades, with limited
economic resources and within a political climate less hospitable to public
management, cities have increasingly turned to the private sector to provide
subsidized housing, water, sewer and transportation infrastructure, and many
core social services. The ?public? spaces of the city are increasingly privately
financed, built and owned and, especially in Southern California, private
communities (gated communities, condominiums, homeowners associations) have
become the norm for new housing. Indeed, even planning is now largely a private
enterprise ? the domain of the consultant. A century later, the great battle
between public and private is once again being re-enacted. And the outcome is
far from certain.

Volume 13 invites contributions that speak to both the positive and negative
impacts of privatization on cities today. While cutting to deeply held positions
about the role of the state in society, this volume of Critical Planning aims to
assemble a robust collection of articles on both sides in order to critically
examine this understudied phenomenon. With its wide reach, privatization touches
upon virtually all of the fields of planning ? environmental regulation,
transportation, housing and economic development, urban design and the built
environment, international development and social welfare. Critical Planning
also welcomes submissions from other disciplines. Articles may use any method ?
cases or comparative, historical or contemporary, qualitative or quantitative.

As a peer-reviewed publication, Critical Planning welcomes original, high
quality submissions. The Review Board for Volume 13 will bring together UCLA
graduate students and leading academics & practitioners whose work speaks
directly to the privatization of the city.

Feature article submissions should not exceed 6,000 words. Shorter articles,
such as research briefs or student research notes, should not exceed 1,000
words. All submissions should be written according to the standards of the
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Footnotes should be placed at the end of
the document. Please double-space all parts of the manuscript and leave one-inch
margins on all sides. Tables and images should be separated from the text.
Images should be provided in .TIF format, not exceeding a width of 5 inches and
a resolution of 600 dpi (a width of 3000 pixels). Include a cover sheet with the
title of the article, the author's name, phone number, email address and a
two-sentence biographical statement.

Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to:
Critical Planning
C/O Gregory D. Morrow, Editor
UCLA Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Policy Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
critplan@ucla.edu
The deadline for submission is January 6, 2006.
	Gregory D. Morrow
UCLA School of Public Affairs
Department of Urban Planning
gmorrow [at] ucla [dot] edu
Email: gmorrow@ucla.edu

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Nov 12 17:44:18 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Nov 12 20:44:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2005
Message-ID: <1131846258.43769a72740ec@webmail.sfsu.edu>

URBANTH-L Job Postings, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2005
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1. College of Staten Island/CUNY, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, 
Assistant Professor
2. Moravian College, Cultural Anthropology / Human Geography. Post-doc Teaching
Fellowship
3. University of Washington at Tacoma, Urban Studies, Assistant Professor
4. Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT, Ethnographer
*******************************************************************

1. College of Staten Island/CUNY, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, 
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Sociology, or related field. We seek a socio-cultural
anthropologist with a strong record of teaching and an active field research
agenda. Especially interested in candidates whose research interests include
migration, Caribbean and African diaspora, technology & culture, or visual
anthropology. Responsibilities: teaching, curriculum development, department &
college service, engaging in an active and productive research & publishing
agenda. Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of
reference, a writing sample, and one syllabus or course proposal related to the
areas of specialization to: Grace Mitchell, Chair, Sociology Search Committee,
College of Staten Island, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social
Work, 2800 Victory Blvd., Room 4S-223, Staten Island, NY 10314. EEO/AA/ADA
employer. http://www.csi.cuny.edu

Contact Information:

Web Site : http://www/csi.cuny.edu
Prof Grace Mitchell
Chair, Anthropology Search Committee
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd.
Room 4S-223
Staten Island, NY 10314
USA

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2. Moravian College, Cultural Anthropology / Human Geography. Post-doc Teaching
Fellowship

The committee responsible for general education at Moravian College, the
Learning in Common Committee, invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral
teaching fellowship in cultural anthropology or human geography beginning in
Fall 2006. (For more information about the curriculum administered by the
committee, visit: www.moravian.edu/welcome/academic02.htm.) The ideal candidate
will have a clear commitment to the liberal arts and a research focus on
globalization, development, human migration, and/or cultural/political ecology
within the context of non-Western cultures. The fellowship is aimed at
attracting teacher-scholars who intend to pursue careers at primarily
undergraduate liberal arts institutions. Responsibilities include teaching three
courses per semester (based on the candidate's area of expertise) in the
College's interdisciplinary, general education curriculum--which might include
first-year writing, or courses that fulfill the "Cultural Values and Global
Issues" and the "Social Impact of Science" course requirements--pursuing
scholarship, and working actively with students in and outside the classroom.

Besides salary and benefits, the fellowship includes funds for travel to
professional conferences. An earned doctorate by the September 1, 2006 start
date is required. Send curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research
interests, preprints and reprints, and three letters of recommendation to: Dana
S. Dunn, Chair, Learning in Common Committee, Moravian College, 1200 Main
Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018-6650. Review of applications will begin on December
1, 2005 and continue until a successful candidate is identified. The college is
committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and the
curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to
identify their strengths or experiences in this area. Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply. Moravian College is an equal opportunity employer.

Moravian College (www.moravian.edu) is a selective liberal arts and sciences
college in the scenic Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania with 18 academic departments
and 117 full-time faculty. It typically enrolls 1500 students in its regular
session. Founded in 1742, Moravian is the 6th oldest college in the country.
Moravian's proximity to New York and Philadelphia presents unusual opportunities
for professional and cultural enrichment.

Contact Information:
	
E-mail : medsd01@moravian.edu
Dr. Dana Dunn
Chair
Learning in Common Committee
Moravian College
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018-6650
USA

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3. University of Washington at Tacoma, Urban Studies, Assistant Professor

Urban Government and Policy -- Assistant Professor
The Urban Studies Program at The University of Washington, Tacoma invites
applications from individuals with a background in Urban Government and
Policy. The Urban Studies program, established in 2001, takes an
interdisciplinary approach to urban issues, has strong research and service
ties to the local community, and includes an international focus through
faculty research interests and study-abroad initiatives.

The position, to start September 2006, will be filled at the Assistant
Professor level. Teaching responsibilities include US urban policy, urban
politics, and urban studies survey courses. There is also the opportunity to
develop courses in one's area of expertise. The successful candidate will be
expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching, to engage in community
outreach, and to maintain an active research agenda. A Ph.D. in Political
Science, Public Administration, or a related field is required.

One of three University of Washington campuses, UW Tacoma is an urban campus
serving a diverse student population. The campus is located in new
facilities in downtown Tacoma and, since its founding in 1990, it has
steadily increased in size. Faculty and students at the University of
Washington, Tacoma benefit from the many resources of the University of
Washington, Seattle located just 30 miles to the north. The University of
Washington, Tacoma is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The search will remain open
until the position is filled, though screening of applications will begin
December 1, 2005. To apply please send a letter of application, curriculum
vitae, the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three
references, and evidence of excellence in teaching to:


Finance and Administration
Box 358431
Urban Studies Position
University of Washington, Tacoma
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402-3100

Applications may also be submitted electronically to:
tfaculty@u.washington.edu

Questions or requests for additional information may be directed to Kim
Davenport, Program Administrator, kimmd@u.washington.edu, (253) 692-4527.

http://www.washington.edu/admin/eoo/ads/aa1133-ouf-Oct10-05.html

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4. Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT, Ethnographer

Ethnographer: Ethics of Research with Drug Users Project

The Hispanic Health Council (HHC) has an immediate opening for a full-time
Ethnographer in its Center for Community Health Research. The Hispanic Health
Council is a community based health research, service and advocacy agency
concerned with the health and well-being of the Puerto Rican and other low
income populations of Hartford, CT, nationally, and internationally. The HHC
maintains an active research program with multiple social science of health
research projects, as well as various professional and support activities (grant
writing, publication, conference attendance, research collaboration with other
institutions, research library, speakers series, peer review, etc.). The primary
purpose of this position is to participate in a three-year study of ethical
issues which arise in various research projects in the study of illicit drug
users through the use of various data collection methods.
Primary Responsibilities:
1.Participate in the recruitment of study participants and interviewing
community members from a variety of health, research, government, and service
organizations.
2.Conduct interviews and focus groups, and transcribe and code findings 3.Assist
in the development of various data collection methods including surveys, videos,
and in-depth interview questions.
4.Participate in analyzing and writing up findings for conferences, reports, and
publications 5.Participate in Center activities, including the development of
new grant proposals 6.Coordinate the HHC's student internship program 7.Attend
project, Center, and HHC meetings and activities.
8.Make progress over time in taking the lead in new grant proposals and papers.
Qualifications
Ph.D. or equivalent in health or research field; career focus ethnographic
and/or qualitative research; interest in research ethics. Well-organized with
attention to details; self-motivated; good writing ability; good communication
skills; good interpersonal and interdisciplinary skills.
Evidence of commitment to publication and grant writing a plus. Because
interviews may be done in Spanish with some participants full bilingual ability
is a must.
Benefits
Competitive salary; excellent health, disability and retirement benefits; full
vacation and holiday schedule. Excellent working environment in a dynamic and
community-oriented institution. Minority applicants are strongly encouraged to
apply. Opportunities for long-term employment beyond term of the ethics study.
Submit
Resume and cover letter specifying relevant skills, experience, and career goals
to: Maria Martinez, Personnel Officer, Hispanic Health Council, 175 Main St.,
Hartford, CT 06106. Specify: Ethnographer, Ethics Study.

From kmurray at unb.ca  Sat Nov 12 10:13:29 2005
From: kmurray at unb.ca (Karen Murray)
Date: Sat Nov 12 23:27:30 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Advocacy, Planning, Citizenship Participation and
	Anti-Poverty
Message-ID: <1131804809.4375f889dbbc5@webmail.unb.ca>

Not sure if these were on anyone's list but I would add James Jennings, Welfare Reform
and the Revitalization of Inner City Communities; Barbara Cruikshank's chapter on the
War on Poverty in her Will to Empower; and Alice O'Connor's Poverty Knowledge.

Karen B. Murray
Assistant Professor
University of New Brunswick

From wagl2006 at zu.ac.ae  Sun Nov 13 11:21:25 2005
From: wagl2006 at zu.ac.ae (wagl2006)
Date: Sun Nov 13 13:26:38 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: Women as Global Leaders 2006
Message-ID: <s37721be.075@zu.ac.ae>

Women as Global Leaders 2006: Communities in Transition

March 12-14, 2006
Zayed University
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
www.zuglobaleaders.org

Call for Papers
Community forms the basis of social, economic, political, and religious life and it is within communities that we have our most intimate access to and investment in leadership. Often people speak of community as something deeply traditional, evoking ideas of close social relations, entrenched values, and continuity over time. Increasingly, though, as communities across the globe experience significant changes in both population and scope, community is perceived through a uniquely modern lens. Women joining the workforce, people moving for employment or education, poverty rates increasing, global capitalism expanding, and access to healthcare and disease changing all result in communities experiencing deep and significant changes that affect all members. Moreover, many problems or conditions are no longer perceived as specifically global or local as communities across the globe face similar challenges in health, education, social roles, the environment, and leadership-but with different concerns. 

Whether leaders operate on the grassroots level or in formal positions, they must not only manage these changes but also direct them as change agents, envisioning what the future should look like for their constituencies. Women actively take both informal and formal roles within their communities, leading from all levels and not simply from home or positions of authority. Moreover, women find themselves at the center of conversations about transition as changing gender roles emerge as the focal point, catalyst, and consequence of change. For women leaders, communities going through transition significantly influence all levels of daily life.

Several conference subthemes have been identified, and submissions are encouraged to address any theme; submissions across themes are also welcome. 

Subthemes
For a full description of each subtheme, see the conference Web site at www.zuglobaleaders.org.

1.	Service Learning and Volunteerism: Educating Tomorrow's Leaders?
2.	Community Organizations and Networks: Women's Leadership, Roles, and Expectations 
3.	Partnering for Change: Social Capital and Leadership
4.	Community Transformations: Societal Change and Leadership
5.	Leaders as Change Agents: Local Action for Global Problems 
6.	Leading the Future: Vision, Imagination, and New Forms of Community in the Modern World
7.	Women in Public and Private Spaces: Building and Sustaining Community

Conference presentations may be in the form of an academic paper, panel discussion, poster session or workshop.

The conference format will include presentations by prominent world leaders and personalities, and opportunities for participants to interact with these leaders, as well as papers, presentations and workshops. While student participation is limited to female students, leadership practitioners and educators of both genders are invited. Parallel and interactive sessions are planned for all participants, and all sessions will be in English.

Deadline for Program Submissions: January 1, 2006

Submit proposals online at www.zuglobaleaders.org. 

Contact Information

Stephen Brannon
Supervisor of Publications

Elizabeth Faier
Director of Leadership Education

Zayed University
P.O. Box 19282
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
e-mail: wagl2006@zu.ac.ae
phone: 971-4-264-8899



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 15 15:49:25 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 15 15:53:29 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Applied JOBS: Coordinator post with the Zapatista Nework,
 Rebuilding New Orleans (research analyst/policy)
Message-ID: <011301c5ea26$1471b420$b0058696@toshibauser>

The following two positions may interest people working in 
the area of a applied/policy-related urban and transnational
anthropology.  - AJ


Job Opening, National Program Coordinator - Mexico
Solidarity Network

The Mexico Solidarity Network is seeking a full time
staff person for a position that includes both
teaching, as part of a study abroad program in Mexico,
and organizing in the United States around issues
confronted by undocumented workers, Zapatista
solidarity and solidarity with the families of femicide
victims in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua. Starting salary
is $25,000 with a raise to $30,000 after a six-month
probationary period.

Additional Qualifications:The position will be based in
Mexico between 3 and 8 months per year and in
Washington, DC the rest of the time. Orientation and
training will take place in Chicago, IL.

The position requires:
- At least a Master's degree in political science,
economy, Mexican history, development, social movements
or related field.
- Experience in grassroots organizing in the US context.
- Experience in teaching and/or popular education, with
a grounding in the Marxist critique of capitalism and
social movement theory.
- Experience in and knowledge of Mexico.
- A valid drivers license (either US or Mexican) and
the ability to drive a 15-passenger van.
- English and Spanish fluency, including the ability to
teach in English.

How to Apply:The Mexico Solidarity Network will accept
resumes through December 15. The position will begin
January 15, 2006. The position includes health
insurance and four weeks paid vacation per year. Please
forward your cover letter, resume, and writing sample
to msn@mexicosolidarity.org.
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Policy/Research Analyst:  Rebuilding New Orleans

As one element in the follow-up to the ACORN Community Forum on 
Rebuilding New Orleans, we are planning to hire a policy analyst, to be 
based in Baton Rouge or New Orleans, who can assist in a variety of 
research tasks related to the rebuilding effort.  ACORN is looking to 
hire a full time Policy/Research Analyst on a short-term basis to help 
investigate, and produce reports and other written materials on a 
variety of topics related to rebuilding New Orleans in the wake of 
Hurricane Katrina, including: housing, education, insurance, mortgage 
debt, jobs and job training, neighborhood safety and more.
 
Location:  Baton Rouge or New Orleans
 
Qualifications:   Extensive experience in public policy analysis in 
either an academic or advocacy context; strong writing, research and 
communication skills; ability to manage multiple projects; commitment to 
social and economic justice.
 
Please send resume and a (brief) sample of policy analysis work to Lisa 
Donner at acorncampaign@acorn.org
 
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and 
moderate-income families, with over 175,000 member families organized 
into 800 neighborhood chapters in 90 cities across the country.  Since 
1970 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to 
our members.  Our priorities include: better housing for first time 
homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more 
investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better 
public schools. We achieve these goals by building community 
organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct 
action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation. 

ACORN's website is at http://www.acorn.org http://www.acorn.org 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 15 15:59:05 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 15 16:01:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Arab Diaspora Women
Message-ID: <013f01c5ea27$6e28d100$b0058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers: "Arab Diaspora Women"

The summer 2006 "file" (special issue) of Al-Raida (
http://www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/iwsaw/raida.html ) will
highlight Arab women living outside the Arab world, defined as those
countries not members of the Arab League. Al-Raida is published both in
English (hardcopy & online) and in Arabic (exclusively online). 

As the editor of this upcoming file, I am looking for submissions
dealing with the following topics, amongst others:

- employment, social rights, equal opportunities
- Arab minority and immigrant organisations
- culture, education and research activities
- anti-discrimination, legal rights, grass roots mobilisation, coalition
building
- country studies, case studies, testimonials
- historical overviews (highlighting countries of emigration and/or
immigration)
- hybridity, identity overlap or switching, e.g. the diaspora experience
of non-Arab women from Arab countries living abroad
- religious minority women from the Arab world, e.g. Christians and Jews

Please feel free to suggest additional topics.  The summer 2006 issue 
will be divided into a peer-reviewed section, for fully sourced, scholarly 
articles, based on original research, and a non-refereed section containing 
general interest submissions and material that has been reworked, based 
on previous publications. 

Please send an abstract of your proposed article by 15 December 2005.
All articles must be submitted by 31 March 2006. 

Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous/Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC)
Al-Raida editorial board  /  sdabbous@ndu.edu.lb
http://www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/iwsaw/index.html 

To subscribe to this group, send an e-mail to:
lebissues-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 15 18:25:06 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 15 18:27:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: IUAES International Symposium on Cities of the Mediterranean
Message-ID: <004d01c5ea3b$db4fd760$67058696@toshibauser>

The IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology is pleased to announce the:
 1st Call for Papers

International Symposium on
Cities of the Mediterranean:
Old World Modernities in the New Millennium
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/06-15urban.htm

Cadiz, 30th May-2nd June, 2006


During the last years of the millennium a new world and city era has been
heralded. A new cycle prompted by the information technology revolution is
transforming in dramatic ways our understanding of cities. Urbanization has
gained a new and different kind of centrality and has become a reinvigorated
source of anxieties, moral tales and great expectations. The cycle we have
entered seems to be dominated by paradoxical forces. On the one hand, the
rate of urbanization in former industrial communities is declining; on the
other hand, it is accelerating in most underdeveloped countries. It is
widely agreed that such transformations are having two consequences: first,
our concern has shifted from the problems generated by World overpopulation
to the problems posed by the emergence of new and allegedly different urban
milieux; second, this accelerated evolution seems to be constituting a
universal city, or Ecumenopolis, composed of hierarchically ordered urban
forms and urban societies.
            Cities are shaped by the world economy. It is widely believed
that the nation-state is being replaced by the city as the principal domain
of citizenship, whereby the city appears to be a reinvigorated and
transformed citizenship-moulding arena. The city has gained an unexpected
role in the configuration of bounded identities upon specific urban spaces.
            There are also moral narratives of the city. Whereas in many
instances the 'Urban Boom' in the 'South' is portrayed as a risk to
sustainable development, the city of the 'North' is challenged by its new
configuration and future. An in-depth understanding of these new challenges
must take into account cities multiplicities, as ways of life composed of
thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of independent decisions, which
make common sense to people's daily lives, routines, modes of production and
survival strategies that shape, and are shaped by, the cities and make them
not only complex mirrors of modern life, but also densely populated
socio-spatial realms of human interaction.
            Anthropological insight into urban life helps us to understand
these urban processes and, particularly, brings out the fact that the ways
in which scholars, mass-media, and politicians are representing the city has
largely ignored citizens' and urban residents' conceptions about their daily
lives.

            The main aim of the Symposium, 'Cities of the Mediterranean' is
to address such issues from the perspective of citizens and urban residents.
Drawing on comparative analysis, the symposium seeks to achieve an
understanding of the city in a key area of the world, the Mediterranean. The
Mediterranean Sea, once portrayed as the cradle of civilization, is a social
and cultural space the brings together interrelated case-studies that
deserve careful anthropological attention. The Symposium is aware of the
encompassing nature, south to north and north to south, of urban experience
along the shores of the Mediterranean, of the gateway and node functions of
its urban settings, now composed of littoral societies and new communities.
Some of these new communities are conglomerations of 'invisible' immigrants
from Northern Europe, who are generally regarded as tourists or retired
foreigners. Others are made up by what the media have portrayed as menacing
immigrants from Africa. The Northern and Southern shores of the
Mediterranean are both symbolical and lived dimensions of the area. They are
spotted with cities that have undergone interrelated and individually
different processes of modernization. 'Cities of the Mediterranean' will
focus on the multiple nature of the current Mediterranean cities: its varied
modernities, the reach and specific features of cosmopolitanism as well as
the impact of economic neoliberalism, millennial capitalism, religious
belief. It will look at the social and cultural dimensions of the
Mediterranean cities understood as ways of life, devices of social
stratification, economic redistribution and political control, as well as
cityscapes of hybridity, conflict and human creation.


Areas of Interest
The Symposium will pay special attention to:
Sociolinguistics of the Mediterranean Cities
Migration
Intercultural Issues
New Urban Waterfronts

The convenors warmly encourage session proposals and individual paper
proposals related to the aims of the Symposium. Those interested in
organizing a session would also be required to send a brief draft of their
proposal, a short bio and an estimate number of participants (a list of
perspective participants would be welcomed). PLEASE NOTE, THE INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM AIMS AT PROMOTING DEBATE AND INTERACTION AMONG PARTICIPANTS, AS
OPPOSED TO A MERE READING OF PAPERS.

Sociolinguistics of the Mediterranean Cities
The session devoted to 'Sociolinguistics of the Mediterranean Cities' is
convened and organized by the Institute of Islamic and Near East Studies
(University of Zaragoza, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC,
Parliament of Aragon, Spain). There is no doubt that the steep increase in
migration movements has brought about a more intense linguistic exchange
among different peoples. Such phenomenon, directly related to the increased
human contact, has generated new linguistic dimensions that should be
addressed. Mediterranean cities are undoubtedly among the privileged spaces
of language interaction.

Those interested in proposing a paper in the Sociolinguistic session should
contact:  Dra. ?ngeles Vicente mavicen@unizar.es


The Symposium is hosted and organized by the University of Cadiz, All the
activities will be held in Cadiz. The city of Cadiz and its University are
ideally located for an event of this magnitude.

More information, including deadlines for session proposals, paper
proposals, travel and accommodation arrangements, and particulars on the
Institutions involved in this event will be posted in due time. A web page
will be announced as soon as possible.

Those interested in receiving information regarding this Symposium should
contact Dr Fernando Monge, fmonge@ih.csic.es





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Nov 17 17:18:38 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Nov 17 17:51:10 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The City: A Festival of Knowledge (Toronto)
Message-ID: <015301c5ebc8$ff24de40$b6058696@toshibauser>

From: Marc Stein <mrstein@yorku.ca>

Information about the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities
and Social Sciences, scheduled to take place at York University in Toronto 27
May-3 June, can be found at:

http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2006/

The website contains this description of the conference theme:

The City: A Festival of Knowledge

The synergies and complexities of 21st century culture, society, politics,
economics and communications are dominated by the city. While the city in
history has had a profound effect on the civilizations that built them, the
contemporary city is at once local and global. In Canada, it has become the
crucible of the country's future.

As the theme of Congress 2006, "The City" is intended to stimulate discussion,
debate, and exchange across a wide-ranging variety of perspectives and against
the background of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary
research and scholarship. It presents opportunities for Congress delegates and
associations - individually and/or collaboratively - to explore a range of
issues and approaches to "the city".

The subtitle, "A Festival of Knowledge" conveys our hope that Congress 2006
will be a celebration of learning and creativity, which will draw in the many
communities - academic and cultural; multicultural; local, national and
international - of which we are a part. It also acknowledges our intention to
highlight the University's many renowned fine artists and creative activities
which are integral to York's interdisciplinary vision.

John Lennox
2006 Congress Convenor
York University
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Nov 17 17:44:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Nov 17 17:53:24 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Book ANN: Trager, ed., _Migration and Economy_
Message-ID: <015501c5ebc9$0736c170$b6058696@toshibauser>

Lilian Trager, a long-time member of SUNTA, announces the 
publication of a new SEA volume, _Migration and Economy: 
Local and Global Dynamics_. Please see the below book 
description for further details. - AJ

Book Announcement:

Lillian Trager has edited the newest volume in the Society for Economic
Series, Migration and Economy: Local and Global Dynamics (Altamira Press,
Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series #22), 2005.
Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a
dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic,
cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of
international and internal migration, of voluntary migration and forced
movements due to civil conflicts and environmental degradation, and of
macro-level forces and micro-level institutions. The authors investigate a
wide variety of types of mobility, describe transnational and multilocal
networks through which remittances and other flows take place; focus on
migrants as active agents; and examine the impacts of ethnicity and
assimilation. They offer original studies on Mexico, Puerto Rico, West
Africa, Kazakstan, and Mozambique. This new volume will be a valuable
resource for researchers and practitioners in development anthropology,
migration studies, and international planning and policy.  The book
includes an introduction by Lillian Trager which provides an overview and
analysis of recent migration research, and chapters by Ricardo Perez;
Dolores Koenig; Jeffrey Cohen; Meltem Sancak and Peter Finke; Sasha
Newell; Silvia Grigolini; Lillian Trager; Stephen Lubkemann; Robyn
Eversole.

From sana2006nyc at gmail.com  Thu Nov 17 14:31:20 2005
From: sana2006nyc at gmail.com (Julian Brash)
Date: Thu Nov 17 18:14:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP for 2006 SANA Meetings: PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE
Message-ID: <3ee45f440511171131y5d37e802vd03382055dd5d398@mail.gmail.com>

Please Circulate:

Call for Papers:

"Anthropology in an Uncertain Age"
2006 Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of North America

***PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE***

April 20-22, 2006

Newman Conference Center
Baruch College
New York, NY

Deadline for Paper and Panel Submission: February 15, 2006

For submission, registration and other information please visit the
conference website at http://sananet.org/2006conf/papers.html

The Society for the Anthropology of North America invites participants
to discuss the state of anthropology in a period of uncertainty and
change at our 2006 conference, to be held April 20-22 at the Newman
Conference Center of Baruch College in New York City.

If the 1990s were characterized by the ascendance of the twin projects
of neoliberalism and globalization, and if the immediate post-9-11
period was characterized by a forceful American nationalism and
unilateralism, now there is a sense that things are falling apart.
The American political-economic vision that reigned supreme a short
time ago now seems stalled, caught in the dual quagmires of Iraq and
Afghanistan.  Global economic integration and free markets have
produced new rivalries in Europe, North American, China and India, as
well as disastrous economic failures and intensified social suffering
in Latin America, Africa and developing nations across the globe.

Closer to home, the  American national state is now unable  to fulfill
its most basic obligations, as Hurricane Katrina made clear.  As
environmental regulations loosen, tax burdens shift to the middle and
working classes, and wages stagnate, the empire begins to resemble its
poorer neighbors. In this context, it is paradoxical to many of us
that the appeal of radical individualism, crude materialism, and
self-righteous conservatism in American popular culture seem stronger
than ever.

In the midst of all this, the stakes for anthropology are high. Are
things falling apart ? and is this a good thing? Should we view all of
this with distress, or hope? And what is the role of anthropology and
the anthropologist in the early years of an already eventful and
perplexing 21st Century?

The 2006 conference will be held in New York City, which itself
epitomizes the conference's theme.  Despite outward signs of the
city's post-9-11 recovery ? a booming tourism economy and a hot
property market, new development in all five boroughs and the decline
of the racial tensions of recent decades ? there are also signs that
NYC's status as the self-styled "capital of the world" is threatened:
the city's share of the financial industry is in decline; driven by
exorbitant housing costs, the working class and even the middle class
is slowly leaking out of the city, leaving it more and more to the
very rich and the very poor; and immigrants, the key to much of the
city's economic and cultural vitality, are increasingly bypassing this
traditional port of entry and heading directly to the south and west.

Though topics and geographic areas are open, here are some possible
themes for panels and papers:

Pedagogy and Research in an Uncertain Era: For decades we have
struggled to be more than just purveyors of exotic cultures to our
students.  How do new popular cultural and political shifts ? the rise
of fundamentalisms, neo-racism, the movement against gay marriage and
so forth ? affect what we do in the classroom and beyond?  What kinds
of public pedagogies might anthropologists develop and contribute in
the public sphere? How should we respond to shifts in academic life
such as the corporatization of the academy and the rise of think-tank
culture? What is the future of research in an academy regulated by
IRBs and in a policy arena characterized by secrecy?

Governmentality: The rise of neoliberal governance different scales
prompted anthropologists to explore the relations between new
strategies and tactics of governance and new forms of
subjectification.  What is 21st century "government" and who is the
21st century subject?

Sovereignty: In the 1990s, the concept of sovereignty reemerged as a
focus of intense discussion, especially in the context of
globalization and purported decline of the nation-state; Hardt and
Negri's Empire, with its argument that sovereignty had become
dispersed and placeless, typifies this.  How are we to judge this kind
of argument, and how are we to understand sovereignty when the first
decade of the 21st century seems to be characterized by a reassertion
of the power of the nation state?

Imperialisms and Empires: During the past few years, "empire" and
"imperialism" have replaced "globalization" as the new buzzwords of
thinkers concerned with international relations.  Is there a new
imperialism or an old imperialism in new clothes? Or are we seeing
something altogether different?

Restructuring and globalization: The assault on workers' rights,
wages, and standards of living continues, often under the rubric of
"globalization."  Profits remain high, wages remain flat.
"Outsourcing" threatens workers higher and higher in the wage and
status hierarchy.  What is the state of global capitalism five years
past the turn of the century?

(Un)healthy bodies: Concerns about the body and health are everywhere:
from fears of Avian Flu, to the rise of the organic and whole food
industry, to the ubiquity of gyms, to a simmering dissatisfaction with
the state of the US' health insurance and public health systems.  What
is the state of the body, medicine, and health in the early years of
21st century?

Racial Justice:  We see clear evidence of racial injustice in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina.  Yet the only high-profile response to racial
injustice is the Millions More March, itself controversial in a number
of ways.  How does racial injustice ? and the struggle t against it ?
manifest itself in the 21st century?

Gender, Kinship, Feminism, and Queer politics:  The campaign to ban
gay marriage garnered responses from anthropologists ? from a
statement by the AAA, to a special issue of the American Ethnologist,
to articles and the National Review.  Clearly, the idea of "the
family," implicating gender, kinship, and sexuality, is subject to
conflict.  Meanwhile, some women are attaining positions of power in,
ironically, a conservative administration, even as women overall
remain more subject to poverty, low-wages, and the dual
responsibilities of work and home.  How can anthropologists and their
research address and inform discussion of these issues?

Religion: What is the relationship between Islam and terrorism?
Should Intelligent Design be taught in public schools?  What is the
proper relationship between organized religion and politics?  Religion
is at the heart of many cultural and political debates.  What does
anthropology, which has so long had religion, ritual and cosmology in
its purview, have to say about these questions?

We invite the submission of proposals for panels, roundtables, poster
sessions, film and video screenings, and other forms of presentation
on these or other topics.

The Society for the Anthropology of North America would like to thank
the Baruch College Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the
Baruch College Conference Center, and Myrna Chase, Dean of Baruch
College's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences for generously
providing conference space and services without which these meetings
could not be possible.

Please direct all inquiries or questions to Julian Brash, Conference
Chair, at sana2006nyc@gmail.com
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov 19 12:41:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 19 12:53:03 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: IUAES Urban Anthropology Workshop: Citizenship & the
 Legitimacy of Governance in the Mediterranean
Message-ID: <00ca01c5ed31$93eeac40$6a058696@toshibauser>

From: Giuliana Prato <G.B.Prato@kent.ac.uk>

IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology
International Symposium
Cities of the Mediterranean: Old World Modernities in the New Millennium
Cadiz, Spain, 30 May - 2 June 2006

WORKSHOP
Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance in the Mediterranean Region

Convenors:
Italo Pardo (i.pardo@kent.ac.uk ) and Giuliana B. Prato
(g.b.prato@kent.ac.uk)
(University of Kent)

The comparative study of legitimacy has emphasized a growing gap between
citizens and their rulers, both at nation-state level and at international
level. The very nature of urban settings reflects this broader process in a
situation in which urban dynamics significantly influence national (and
international) policies. Rulers are increasingly perceived as unaccountable
and distant from what is needed and expected at grassroots level. They are
perceived to manage power according to their own agenda, and the process of
legislation and economic policies are much too often seen to be determined
by selective interests, to the advantage of powerful political and economic
groups and to the disadvantage of the rest of society. This issue is crucial
to the relationship between state and citizen. For citizens to feel engaged
in the national and local projects, law and politics must steer away, and be
seen to steer away, from obeying some arbitrary morality. They must,
instead, take up the complex cultural, political, economic and juridical
instances of citizenship. The formal aspects of citizenship, such as
political rights, must coincide and be seen to coincide with economic and
civil rights and the fundamental right to justice.

This Workshop addresses this problematic focusing on 'Citizenship and the
Legitimacy of Governance in the Mediterranean Region'. In particular, it
does so taking into account growing scepticism about the project of
'multiculturalism' in established democracies. Of course, the definition of
citizenship across society is inevitably diversified. It could be argued,
however, that in today's world we witness a displacement of citizenship,
which is reflected in three complementary processes: 1) the marginalization
of parts of existing communities; 2) the emergence of localisms; 3) the
growth of transnationalism.

In such a situation, the city has become a crucial arena for the
renegotiation of citizenship, democracy and, by extension, belonging. Across
the Mediterranean Region, recent events have brought out the problematic
that it is not enough for political and economic action to be within the
law, or to be made to fall within the law through ad hoc legislative
changes. It must be seen to be legitimate. The risk is that rulers who fail
in this crucial task, are seen as unreliable and untrustworthy by the rest
of society. Should such a failure become systematic in governance across the
spectrum and particularly the management of economic policy, it would
compound on people's actual or perceived marginality; critically, their
distrust in those who staff the relevant institutions might extend to the
institutions themselves. The consequences for the democratic order are
obvious, ramified and dangerous.

These issues are made more complex by the cultural, political and economic
problems raised by the phenomenon of immigration, visible and invisible, and
by attendant issues of security, integration and legality. Comparative
ethnographic analysis will help to clarify the key issue that it is not
enough for rulers to declare a commitment to encourage multiculturalism in
their countries. However well meant such declarations might have been, in
many cases they have been received at the grassroots as attempts by 'the
powerful' to ride roughshod over citizens' moralities, culture and
interests. Moreover, political choices across the spectrum seem to make more
difficult the coexistence of different cultures, as they de facto underpin
exclusion instead of encouraging integration. The history and tradition of
'integrated' society across the Mediterranean provides a useful background
for an informed assessment of the situation.

The major aim of this Workshop is to develop a comparative analysis bringing
together in-depth ethnographic accounts (mainly) of urban settings in the
region in order to expand on the study of the difficult relationship between
established moralities, politics, law and civil society which the convenors
have initiated, and to examine ways to address effectively the present
deficit of legitimacy. The working hypothesis is that the aforementioned
evolving situation in key Mediterranean countries stress the points that
there is often a disconnection between legislation and the application of
law; that when new legislation and policies are implemented they often have
effects unrelated to those intended; and that negotiations of legality
happen across society. Keeping in mind that the obligations of citizenship
are not necessarily confined to compliance with the law, we propose that an
empirical understanding of the situation must address the important process,
whereby the dividing line between legitimate and illegitimate behaviour, and
that between the legal and the moral, are being subjected to continuous
redefinition at various levels of society, which appears to be seriously
undermining the relationships between those who have the power to make
decisions that affect people's lives and those who have to cope with the
practical effects of such decisions. Changes in the rulers' rhetoric of what
is morally appropriate correspond to changes in the rules.

It is hoped that the collective findings of this Workshop will produce an
in-depth understanding of the exact relationship of the current protagonists
in public life to changes in the law, and of the perceived legitimacy of key
policies in the broader society. Given the geopolitical importance of the
Mediterranean Region, such an understanding could have broader theoretical
significance and applicability. The convenors plan to publish the findings
in the form of an edited volume.

Abstracts of paper proposals (250-300 words) should be sent to the Convenors
by 15 January 2006.

Furthers particulars on the Symposium can be obtained from Dr Fernando
Monge: fmonge@ih.csic.es


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov 19 12:46:37 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 19 12:53:12 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Message-ID: <00cc01c5ed31$9862a830$6a058696@toshibauser>

Volume 12 Number 4/October-December 2005 of Identities: Global Studies in
Culture and Power is now available at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

This issue contains:

MARGINALITY, ADVOCACY, AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF MULTICULTURALISM: NOTES ON
ROMANI ACTIVISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE p. 451
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q4V283511388241P
Peter Vermeersch

THE POLITICS OF MOTHERING IN A "MIXED" FAMILY: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC
EXPLORATION p. 479
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=T0191326111125G2
Nora Lester Murad

NEGOTIATING NATIONAL BOUNDARIES: PALESTINIAN AND JEWISH WOMEN'S STUDIES
STUDENTS IN ISRAEL p. 505
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=H1MU854K52872536
Orna Blumen, Sharon Halevi

REPRODUCING NATION, REDESIGNING POSITIONING: RUSSIAN AND PALESTINIAN
STUDENTS INTERPRET UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE p. 539
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M704110363J0LH14
Lauren Erdreich, Julia Lerner, Tamar Rapoport

"EVERYBODY IS IRISH ON ST. PADDY'S": AMBIVALENCE AND ALTERITY AT LONDON'S
ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2002 p. 563
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=L6TV6368023136P8
John Nagle

QUESTIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY: National Identity, Popular Culture and
Everyday Life Tim Edensor (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002). 216 + viii pp.
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q33P407186520760

The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland William
F. Kelleher Jr. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). 257 + xiv
pp.
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q33P407186520760

Identity Parades: Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects Richard
Kirkland (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002). 198 + x pp.
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q33P407186520760

Plural Identities, Singular Narratives: The Case of Northern Ireland M?ir?ad
Nic Craith (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002). 235 + xi pp. p. 585
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q33P407186520760
Robin Whitaker


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From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 19 13:12:26 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Critique of Anthropology
Message-ID: <00e101c5ed34$4a2813f0$6a058696@toshibauser>

Critique of Anthropology
Volume 25, No. 4 2005

Towards a Critical Anthropology of Voice: The Politics and Poets of Popular
Culture, Scotland and Football pp.339-359
Richard Giulianotti
http://digbig.com/4fjca

The End of Welfare As We Know It: What Happens When the Judge is in Charge
pp.361-388
Victoria Malkin
http://digbig.com/4fjcb

Flexible Justice: Neoliberal Violence and 'Self-Help' Security in Bolivia
pp.389-411
Daniel M. Goldstein
http://digbig.com/4fjcd

Violence Performed and Imagined: Militant Action, the Black Bloc and the
Mass Media in Genoa pp.413-432
Jeffrey S. Juris
http://digbig.com/4fjce

Book Review: Caste in Question: Identity or Hierarchy? pp.433-434
Manuela Ciotti
http://digbig.com/4fjcf

Book Review: Children's Places: Cross Cultural Perspectives pp.434-435
Peggy Froerer
http://digbig.com/4fjcg

Book Review: Development and Local Knowledge: New Approaches to Issues in
Natural Resources Management, Conservation and Agriculture pp.436-437
Kathy Rettie
http://digbig.com/4fjch

Book Review: Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
pp.437-438
Heike Drotbohm
http://digbig.com/4fjcj

Book Review: Elusive Consumption pp.439-440
Jason Sumich
http://digbig.com/4fjck

Book Review: An Imagined Geography: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America
pp.440-441
Lu?s Batalha
http://digbig.com/4fjcm

Book Review: The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian
Far East pp.441-442
J. C.H. King
http://digbig.com/4fjcp

Book Review: The Afterlife Is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in
West Africa pp.443-444
Anthony Simpson
http://digbig.com/4fjcn


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Nov 19 13:02:15 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Nov 19 16:03:26 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Nov. 14-19, 2005
Message-ID: <1132434135.437f92d764d90@webmail.sfsu.edu>

URBANTH-L Job Postings, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2005
*******************************************************************
1. University of California, Riverside, Anthropology, Assistant Professor
2. College of Staten Island, Anthropology, Assistant Professor
3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Anthropology and Geography,
Assistant Professor
4. Social Policy Research Centre, London, Research Fellow
*******************************************************************

1. University of California, Riverside, Anthropology, Assistant Professor

Employer: 	University of California, Riverside
Type: 	Full Time - Entry
Required Education: 	Doctorate

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position
in sociocultural anthropology at the assistant professor level, beginning July
1, 2006. Ph.D. in Anthropology is required. Salary will be commensurate with
education and experience. The successful candidate will articulate interests in
transnational (global/local) processes and communities affected or produced by
border crossings. Research approaches to migrations and mobilities may include
political economy, political ecology, identity formation and culture, and
applied anthropology. Expertise in multi-sited or related innovative methods of
ethnographic research is highly desired. US/Latin America connections are
preferred. This person will be expected to teach lower-division as well as
upper-division and graduate courses in his/her field of specialization, and to
participate in the formation of research projects concerned with border issues
in Southern California. Review of applications will begin January 15, 2006 and
will continue until the position is filled. Applications should include a vita,
a letter describing current and future research and teaching directions, copies
of publications, and three letters of reference. Send applications and inquiries
to Professor Sally Ness, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0418. All qualified applicants are
encouraged to apply. The University of California is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University recognizes domestic
partners in its employee benefit packages.

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2. College of Staten Island, Anthropology, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Salary: 	$47,331 - $61,111
Location: 	Staten Island, NY
Employer: 	College of Staten Island/City University of New York
Type: 	Full Time - Middle
Preferred Education: 	Doctorate

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work of the College of
Staten Island, a senior college of The City University of New York, invites
applications for an anticipated tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, beginning September 2006. Responsibilities: teaching introductory
courses in Anthropology and Sociology, developing courses in areas of
specialization, performing department and college service, and engaging in an
active and productive research and publishing agenda. The Department offers a
strong interdisciplinary focus that blends empirical and theoretical work,
emphasizing intersectionality and social justice, transnational studies, health
and well-being, cultural practices, social theory, social policy, and methods.
Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2005 and continue until the
position is filled. Salary range: $47,331 - $61,111, commensurate with
experience and qualifications. Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
three letters of reference, a writing sample, and one syllabus or course
proposal related to the areas of specialization to: Grace Mitchell, Chair,
Sociology Search Committee, College of Staten Island, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Social Work, 2800 Victory Blvd., Room 4S-223, Staten Island,
NY 10314. EEO/AA/ADA employer.

PhD in Anthropology, Sociology, or related field. We seek a socio-cultural
anthropologist with a strong record of teaching and an active field research
agenda. Area of specialization is open, but we are especially interested in
candidates whose research interests include migration, Caribbean and African
diaspora, technology and culture, or visual anthropology, with an area of focus
that is complementary to those represented in the Department.

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3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Anthropology and Geography,
Assistant Professor

MICHIGAN, EAST LANSING, 48824, Michigan State University, Departments of
Anthropology and Geography, cultural geographer/ anthropologist, starting August
2006. This joint position is tenure stream, 9-month AY basis at the Assistant
Professor level, with competitive salary and start-up package. The tenure home
will be in the discipline in which the Ph.D. was earned. Strong records of
research and teaching are desirable. The candidate is expected to conduct
externally-funded research and work collaboratively on campus while teaching
general education courses in the social sciences and specialized courses in
either anthropology or geography.

Specific area of specialization is open, but we are interested in candidates
with broad interests in landscape studies, the environment, the urban context,
social justice, and/ or science and technology studies. Abilities in geospatial,
qualitative, and/or quantitative methods a plus, especially as a means of
bridging the disciplines. Regional interest is open, although research in the
Middle East, Asia or Europe would be preferred. MSU has a long-standing
commitment to international research and teaching, with several U.S Department
of Education Title VI resource centers in which the candidate may participate.

Apply with hard copy of a cover letter, 2-page statement of interest, a current
vita, and the names and contact information for three references. Ph.D. is
expected by the time of appointment. Send materials to Dr. Antoinette
WinklerPrins, chair of the search committee, c/o ANP/GEO Search, The Department
of Anthropology, 354 Baker Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
48824-1118. Review of applications will begin January 6, 2006. The position will
remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Michigan State University is an
affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer. Minority and women candidates
are encouraged to apply. Handicappers have the right to request and receive
reasonable accommodation. 

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4. Research Fellow

Social Policy Research Centre
School of Health and Social Sciences
Closing date: 2 December 2005.

RB1 ?20,509 - ?26,182 inclusive of London weighting. Maximum starting salary
?20,509. 1 year fixed term contract An opportunity to join the Social Policy
Research Centre and to undertake research and fieldwork for the new ESRC funded
project investigating the experiences of recent Polish migrants to London.
Candidates should hold at least a good undergraduate degree in a social science
discipline, have previous research experience, notably in qualitative
methodologies and should be fluent in both Polish and English. Excellent IT and
communication skills are essential. A postgraduate qualification and knowledge
of the literature on migration and social networks would be advantageous.
To apply please download an application pack from www.mdx.ac.uk/jobs/. Or
contact Dr. Louise Ryan, Social Policy Research Centre, Roberts Building,
Middlesex University,  Enfield Campus, EN3 4SA, l.ryan@mdx.ac.uk

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Nov 21 02:13:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov 21 13:27:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 New Deadline: Gendering Transformations: Gender, Globalization &
 State Transformation in Africa & the African Diaspora
Message-ID: <006601c5eec8$85352650$bc058696@toshibauser>

NEW DEADLINE: January 16, 2006
Second International Conference of the Trans-Atlantic Research Group In
association with

THE ECHERUO CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
17 Otamiri Street
Owerri, Imo State
Nigeria

GENDERING TRANSFORMATIONS: GENDER, GLOBALIZATION, AND STATE TRANSFORMATION
IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
VENUE: Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria
DATE: July 28-30, 2006

The Second TARG conference aims to bring together scholars and policy makers
interested in exploring historical, policy, and development phenomena and
their intersection with gender using the methods of the social sciences.
Individual papers or panels are invited from academics, independent
scholars, and postgraduate students. We encourage submissions on a wide
range of themes relating gender to globalization, democratization, and state
transformation in Africa and the African diaspora. Papers should have some
historical context and content. Proposals are welcome but not limited to the
following areas:

Gender and Social Transformation
Transformation of Gender Roles
Gender and Language in Africa
Gender & Economic Transformation
Gender, Crime, Law, and Justice
Gender, War and Peace-making
Trans-Atlantic Encounters & Transformation
Migration\Displacement Experience
Children and Migration Experience
Globalization of Poverty
Trans-Atlantic Relations
Policy Implications of Gender and Globalization

All interested persons and groups are welcome. Those who wish to make
presentations at the conference should submit 300-word long abstracts of
their presentations. Please send abstracts by January 30, 2006 by email to
the conference coordinators:

Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
08028, USA. Korieh@rowan.edu Fax: 856 2564791
Dr. Femi Kolapo, History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, On.
Canada, N1G 2W1. kolapof@uoguelph.ca
Email: korieh@rowan.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Nov 21 20:37:22 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov 21 20:40:33 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Lozada on Guest, _God in Chinatown_
Message-ID: <00a401c5ef05$87ffa440$b2058696@toshibauser>

American Ethnologist Volume 32 Number 4 November 2005
http://www.aaanet.org/aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=3558

Book Reviews On-line

God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant
Community. Kenneth J. Guest. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xi +
225pp. , map, photographs, tables, references, index.

Reviewed by Eriberto P. Lozada Jr., Davidson College

Given the centrality of globalization-economic, political, religious, and
cultural-to current anthropological interests, transnational fieldwork, once
an "experimental" practice, is now common in contemporary ethnographic
research. Kenneth J. Guest's study of Chinese transnational religious
communities is a good example of such ethnography. Guest concludes that
undocumented Chinese immigrants who journey to New York in pursuit of the
good life rely on social networks generated by their participation in
transnational religious communities. By facilitating the exchange of
information and providing financial support, Chinese religious communities
mobilize the social capital necessary for individuals' survival during the
immigration process. Although the scope of Guest's study is ambitious, he
also attends to the detailed particularities of these transnational
processes by presenting the voices of these immigrants who live globally. In
so doing, he demonstrates the heterogeneity of the so-called ethnic enclave
that is usually singularly identified as "Chinatown."

By relating the individual experiences and life histories of recent Fuzhou
immigrants to New York's Chinatown, Guest situates both the contemporary
situation of immigrants (legal and illegal, men and women) from China and
the history of Chinatown in the wider context of U.S. immigration history.
Although the social solidarity of an apparent shared Chinese ethnicity helps
immigrants survive in a foreign land, Guest shows how the internal dynamics
of New York's Chinatown, with its dense networks of social obligations, also
serve to establish a socioeconomic hierarchy-a hierarchy in which recent
immigrants find themselves at the bottom. Chinatown is not a harmonious
place for recent immigrants, a gateway for them to pursue the American
dream; instead, it is a highly stratified community where differences of
regional origin, language, educational background, and other socioeconomic
and political markers serve as mechanisms with which Chinatown's elite
economically exploits vulnerable newcomers.

Guest situates three of the seven chapters of this ethnography in Fuzhou,
describing the local history, diasporic traditions, and religious practices.
Fuzhou has a long history of emigration and economic integration with the
world capitalist system because of its relative distance from the national
capital and its proximity to Taiwan. Guest uses the discourse of orthodoxy
and heterodoxy to review the relationship between the Chinese state and
popular religious organizations, in which orthodoxy is defined by the state
and popular religious organizations provide the source for heterodoxy.
Historically, the Chinese state (either in its imperial form in dynastic
history or as a modern nation-state with the People's Republic) has been
highly circumspect of religiously inspired organizations because of the
politicization of religion in Chinese culture, a phenomenon that Guest
details at the local level through the example of an exorcism. This exorcism
was conducted by two female leaders of a charismatic Chinese Christian
community on a young woman who had developed mental problems after the
murders of her father and older brother (while her husband was away as an
immigrant in the United States). The competition between these two leaders
over exorcising the woman's demons, each exorcist with her own style and
method, led to a conflict that ultimately divided the religious community
and escalated to the point at which the local public security bureau had to
intervene. As a result, the local state bureaucracy declared the teachings
of John Sung, the founder of this charismatic community, heterodox. Although
one woman was removed from the leadership of the local public church, both
women continued to serve in their ministry-one through a locally tolerated
house church, the other more clandestinely because of the attention paid to
her by the public security bureau.

The remaining chapters bring readers back to the religious practices of
Fuzhou immigrants in New York's Chinatown. Here, Guest describes how
immigrants participate in Buddhist, Catholic, and Protestant communities
that build central networks for the immigrants' material and emotional
survival-networks that are both local and transnational. The activities of
the immigrants vis-?-vis China do not merely involve one-way transfers of
money back to China; their return visits to China also provide them with
legitimacy and increased status in New York. As a result of their dependence
on and involvement in religious communities, Fuzhou immigrants translate
their experiences in terms of the larger structures of meaning from
religion.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 22 13:48:01 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 22 13:56:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation/ Steel
 and Tourism
Message-ID: <000201c5ef96$18e9b730$a9058696@toshibauser>

[x-posted from SPACE-AND-PLACE@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU]

From: Mike Robinson <mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk>

 Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

 1st CALL FOR PAPERS

 Sheffield, June 29th - July 2nd 2006

 Steel and Tourism

 The steel rails of the world's railways provided the basic infrastructure
for early modern tourism. Today, old iron and steel works provide
sites for leisure tourism. Steel as both a fundamental, functional, interior
fabric and a symbolic, highly visible substance permeates the structures,
flows, practices and narratives of contemporary tourism. Indeed steel,
though not exclusively, can be viewed as a pre-condition for modern
international tourism.

 As part of the wider programme of the Steel Cities Conference - see
below - we invite researchers from all disciplines to reflect upon the
function, form and emblematic nature of steel within tourism in past,
present and future contexts.  Indicative themes of interest include:

* Material diasporas: trade, tourism and the diffusion of material culture
* Tourism and imaginaries of steel making: Between nostalgia and fantasy
* Technological innovation in the structures and mobilities of international
tourism and hospitality
* Steel 'works' - tourism and the problems and possibilities of urban
regeneration
 * Alchemists, Blacksmiths and Magicians: Travel and the diffusion of
knowledge
* Excalibur or the metaphorical journey from stone to iron: Travel,
popular culture and pragmatic narratives of iron and steel

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by January 13th 2006
to: mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk

 Professor Mike Robinson
Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
(www.channelviewpublications.com)
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB, UK

Please visit Please visit: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/natcect/steelcities
and www.tourism-culture.com

 Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

 For nearly two centuries steel has been the fundamental building block
of modernity, revolutionising the lives of millions. From its use in
building
and construction, in weapons production, to its role in the home kitchen,
the transformative power of steel is undeniable. At all stages of its
life-cycle, steel impacts upon communities, regions and nations. As
China and India race to modernise their economies with imported steel,
many cities across Europe and North America are still struggling to cope
with the transition from productive to consumptive economies. The focus
of this conference is upon the ways in which economies and societies,
lives, landscapes and relationships have been, and continue to be,
transformed by steel.

 The 'Steel Cities' conference will bring together academics and
professionals from a wide range of disciplines to explore the
ways by which steel has impacted upon people, places and pasts and
how it continues to shape lives and relationships in the context of local
and global change. It will take place in Sheffield, England's most famous
'Steel City', and will be led by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield
Hallam University in collaboration with a number of partners who are
interested in discussing their research and sharing and disseminating good
practice. The conference will be multi-disciplinary drawing from
architecture,
history, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, geography,
tourism studies, museum studies, ethnology, linguistics, economics etc.

 Themes of interest to the conference include:

 * Labour relations and working environments in the steel sector
* The uses of steel in contemporary life
* Histories and ethnographies of steel communities
* Identity and belonging in 'steel cities'
 * Representations of steel and the steel industry in the 'popular' media
* The role of the cultural industries (arts, sport, tourism, etc.) in the
regeneration of 'steel cities'
* The languages of steel cities
* Heritages of the steel industry
* Symbolic economies of steel - iconography, art and design

 Dr David Picard
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Owen Building, Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom

 Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
E-mail: d.picard@shu.ac.uk
Web: www.tourism-culture.com


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 22 14:49:43 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 22 14:51:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]POSTDOC: Family Research Consortium (FRC) 
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Family Research Consortium (FRC)

IV POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Application Deadline: Postmarked by January 13, 2006

The Family Research Consortium (FRC) IV announces the availability of four
(4), two-year postdoctoral positions beginning July 1, 2006. The program
provides research training in theoretical, methodological, and substantive
issues concerning transitions, family processes and mental health, and the
burden of mental illness and psychiatric disorders, in ethnic/racial and
socio-economically diverse populations.

Four types of transitions are emphasized:
* life course, including biologically-rooted and stage-related change
* traumas, including loss and unusually stressful events
* geographical, including immigration and migration
* economic, including poverty and job change or loss

The training is multi-disciplinary in content, involves mentoring from a
diverse faculty across the United States, and emphasizes multiple levels of
investigation from the biological correlates of individual adjustment to the
social context of family functioning. Each trainee will have a primary
appointment at one of eleven (11) universities represented by Family
Research Consortium IV faculty. Trainees will also be involved in the Summer
Institutes held annually by the FRC IV, as well as research workshops,
seminars, research initiatives, and coursework consistent with their
professional objectives. Descriptions of the FRC IV, postdoctoral fellowship
program, faculty and research sites, as well as application forms, are
provided on the website: http://cultureandhealth.ucla.edu/frc4/ All eligible
applicants must be either a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. Inquiries
may be directed to: FRC4@ucla.edu

Contact Information
Marisa
Lamorande
Email: FRC4@ucla.edu
URL http://cultureandhealth.ucla.edu/frc4/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Nov 25 19:55:47 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Nov 25 20:08:11 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2006 International Essay Competition, Foundation for Urban
	and Regional Studies
References: <009f01c5f1ea$10d17190$443f9f88@tri.ucalgary.ca>
Message-ID: <014001c5f225$c9175b30$7b058696@toshibauser>

From: Alan Smart <asmart@ucalgary.ca>


Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies
2006 International Essay Competition
Prize for the best essay on urban and regional themes by young authors

In collaboration with the International Journal of Urban Regional Research
and Blackwell Publishing, the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies is
organising a fourth international essay competition for the best essay on
urban and regional themes by young (under 35) scholars.

A prize of ?1,000 will be awarded to the overall winner, three second prizes
of ?500 and three third prizes of ?250 will be awarded respectively for: 1)
essays written in English by native English speaking authors; 2) essays
written in English by non-native English speaking authors; and 3) essays
written in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Essays which
reach the final round of judging but which are not awarded one of the first
three prizes will share Blackwell book prizes totalling ?700. The first
prize essay will be published in the International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research subject to any changes required by the Editor and will be
translated if necessary.

For more information, including how to enter and details of previous winning
essays visit:

http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/furs/events/essay/index.php



Rebecca Wray
Marketing Controller
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
9600 Garsington Road
Oxford OX4 2DQ
Direct Tel: +44 1865 476300
Direct Fax: +44 1865 471300
Rebecca.wray@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
www.blackwellpublishing.com


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov 26 15:38:03 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 26 15:45:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African labour history
 in  international context
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From: "Lucien van der Walt" <vanderwaltl@social.wits.ac.za>

INVITATION TO SCHOLARS OF LABOUR

Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African labour history in  international context  

A conference from Friday 28th to Monday 31st July 2006, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 
South Africa.  Organised by the History Workshop and the Sociology of Work Unit, at the University of the 
Witwatersrand.  

Scholars of labour are invited to the upcoming "Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African labour 
history in international context" conference, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from the 28th to the 
31st July 2006.  

The aims of the conference are to  

1. Promote a transnational and regional view of labour history, with reference to southern Africa, and to 
comparisons of the less developed and semi-peripheral regions of the global "South"  

2. To reflect on the implications of the "first" globalisation of the 1870s to the 1930s for the "second" 
globalisation that started in the 1970s  

3. To foster collaborative work between scholars, particularly those based in Africa, Asia and Latin 
America  

International perspectives

Although the southern African region is a core area of interest, the conference organisers welcome papers 
on aspects labour history in other regions that lend themselves to comparative and transnational analyses. 
Scholars from other regions of the global "South" are therefore especially welcomed.  

It is anticipated that the conference will provide the basis for new and collaborative work on comparative 
and regional labour history, and the panels will be structured to draw together different themes in a 
stimulating manner.  

With best wishes

The organising committee
Peter Alexander, Andries Bezuidenhout, Phil Bonner, Jon Hyslop, Noor Nieftagodien, Nicole Ulrich, and 
Lucien van der Walt.  

Do not hesitate to contact us with any queries.
<history-workshop@social.wits.ac.za

Online conference web page
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/conferences.htm


Rethinking Worlds of Labour:
Southern African labour history in international context.

CALL FOR PAPERS

A conference from Friday 28th to Monday 31st July 2006, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 
South Africa.  Organised by the History Workshop and the Sociology of Work Unit, at the University of the 
Witwatersrand.  

Introduction Labour history has traditionally been structured around national labour histories. It is a merit of 
the current interest in "globalisation" that it directs attention towards the transnational dimensions of labour 
history, and of labour movements. If the limitations of a purely national focus on labour are highlighted by 
current international changes, so too are the limitations of national labour histories.  

A transnational perspective has significant implications for the study of labour history, and the analysis of 
its core concerns with labour organisation, ideology and leadership.  

It points to the need to examine the transnational dimensions of labour history, to look at labour history 
through a regional lense, and to undertake comparative and regional labour histories of the less developed 
and semi-peripheral regions that make up the global "South."  

It draws attention to the "first" globalisation of the 1870s-1930s, a period characterised by huge 
international flows of capital and labour.  

It underscores the transnational history and character of labour politics, organisation and tradition, a 
history that includes the anarchist, Communist, nationalist and socialist currents of the nineteenth and 
twentieth centuries.  

And, finally, it provides the basis to foster ongoing collaborative work between scholars based in, or 
otherwise researching, the trajectory of the global "South."  

Southern Africa and the global "South" Such concerns are of particular relevance to southern Africa, 
where national labour histories exist alongside a working class that has never been neatly bounded by the 
borders of States. South Africa industrialised in the context of the "first" globalisation, becoming the nexus 
through which the region was integrated into the global political economy. Flows of capital and labour into, 
within, and from southern Africa welded the region together. Transnational imperial structures linked a 
range of countries. The mines on the Witwatersrand and the central African Copperbelt provided key 
nodes of accumulation, and cross-border infrastructure channelled these flows.  

The labour force, flowing within, and into, and out of, the region, from Africa, from Australia, Europe, and 
from the Americas, was both multi-national and transnational. It was racially structured around two poles, 
in a pattern that replicated itself throughout the region. African labour was unfree, migrant, unskilled and 
subject to racial discrimination and prejudice. White labour was divided between unskilled, but free, poor 
Whites, and the layers that dominated skilled and supervisory positions across the region. Coloured and 
Indian workers occupied an uncomfortable intermediate position as free labour facing racial barriers.  

Each of these sectors of the emerging working class developed its own labour traditions; many of these 
traditions flowed within class and racial conduits, and cut across State boundaries within the southern 
African region. At the same time, international diasporas, and flows of people and ideas, influenced the 
political positions of each sector. Australia, Jamaica, India, Lithuania, and Cornwall are part of these 
histories, as are the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zambia and the Congo.  

Southern Africa therefore provides an excellent starting point for rethinking labour history in a transnational 
manner. It underlines the importance of international processes on national labour histories, suggesting 
the importance of connections and comparisons between national labour markets and movements and 
politics.  

If Southern Africa can be examined as a region, in which the working class cannot be neatly confined to a 
single country and national narrative, its labour history must be rethought at a regional level. Likewise, 
research on Southern African labour history would benefit greatly from comparison with economic 
development in other regions, and of the formation of other regional working classes.  

A transnational approach, in which labour history is rethought at a regional level, at a comparative level, 
and as a part of a broader global history, has potentially enormous implications for historical studies and 
contemporary concerns.  

If current debates on "globalisation," then, direct attention to the experiences of working classes and 
labour movements in the era of the  "first" globalisation, these experiences are, in turn, highly relevant to 
contemporary debates on labour and other social movements in the today's era, the "second" 
globalisation.  

Current debates can reshape our thinking about labour's past; rethinking the past opens new perspectives 
for thinking about labour's future.  

Broad aims and outcomes 

The proposed conference has several aims, in light of the above:  

    * To foster transnational and regional studies of labour
    *  To rethink the "givens" of South African 
and southern African labour historiography in 
light of international processes and linkages, 
with particular reference to the emergence of labour as a regional
process and
    * force and movement in southern Africa, the 
importance of imperial context and the 
international flow of ideas and workers, and 
labour diasporas, and of comparisons with other regions.
    * To promote develop comparative labour 
histories with reference to southern Africa, and 
to comparisons between southern Africa and other 
regions of the global "South."
    * To introduce new approaches and debates 
within labour history more generally into the 
field of South African and southern African labour history.

Possible themes
Within this broad aim, there are a number of possible areas of interest, including, but not restricted to:  

?        International labour markets and labour migration 
?         Transnational and international trade unionism and labour activism  
?        Labour diasporas and labour politics
?        Race, gender and nation in a transnational labour history
?        Labour migration, gendered labour and the sphere of reproduction  
?        Gender, identity and the labour movement
?        Labour radicalism and internationalism in comparative perspective  
?        Labour biography and the transnational history of labour
?        Comparative analyses of Southern Africa and South Asia
?        The Indian diaspora and the Indian working class
?        Workers, war, politics and militarisation
?        Labour under, against, and after colonialism
?        Labour in the Southern African region: connections, conflicts and conduits  
?        Comparative labour radicalism in Southern Africa
?        Comparing labour radicalism in the global "South"
?        Labour, communism and labour parties
?        Anarchism, syndicalism and working class internationalism
?        International labour federations and Southern labour
?        Labour movements and the Cold War
?        Labour and the multiple meanings of racial identity
?        Working class literary cultures and consciousness
?        The geography of labour movements
?        Race, space and place in comparative labour histories
?        Labour movements and the "first" and "second" globalisation
?        Reflections on the pasts and futures of labour history

Registration

We welcome proposals for presentations on specific aspects of these themes, suggestions for related 
themes, and for panels.  

The deadline for submitting abstracts for proposed papers, or panels is 30 November 2005.  

The online conference web page contains more information, including a basic timetable, a schedule of 
registration fees. <http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/conferences.htm  

You can pre-register your proposed paper, or panel, online here: 
<http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/prereg.htm  

Acceptance of papers
Please note that in order to maintain the conference focus and to minimise parallel sessions, acceptance 
of proposals for papers or panels is not automatic. Applicants will, however, be informed of the organising 
committee's decisions by no later than 30 January 2006.  

Accepted papers must be submitted in electronic form to the organisers by no later than 30 May 2006  

Opening night
The conference will be opened with a public meeting and a lively public debate on "Labour 
Internationalism and Worker Rights: trade unions, China and Zimbabwe."  

Labour History Tour
The conference organisers will also be organising a unique labour history tour of Johannesburg and its 
environs. This will be open to delegates on the last day of the conference for an additional charge. Details 
of other tour options in South Africa will be made available on request.  

Final registration
Accepted papers must be submitted in electronic form to the organisers by no later than 30 May 2006.  

All accepted participants are required to finalise their registration by arranging their full conference 
payment before 15 June 2006.  

If you wish to attend the conference, but will not be presenting a paper, you must nonetheless pay the full 
conference fee before 15 June 2005.  

The organising committee is made up of Peter Alexander, Andries Bezuidenhout, Phil Bonner, Jon Hyslop, 
Noor Nieftagodien, Nicole Ulrich, and Lucien van der Walt.  

Do not hesitate to contact us with any queries.
history-workshop@social.wits.ac.za

Click for the online conference web page.
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/conferences.htm

History Workshop
University of the Witwatersrand
Central Block 44
Tel: 717 4281/2Fax: 717 4289
E-mail: history-workshop@social.wits.ac.za 
Postal address: History Workshop, Wits University, Private Bag
3, Wits 2050, SOUTH AFRICA
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov 26 15:42:18 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 26 15:45:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Space as a Category of Analysis: Interdisciplinary Graduate
 Student Conference at Brown University
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Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University

Space as a Category of Analysis: New Perspectives with keynote address by
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, City
University of New York

Date: Friday April 7 and Saturday April 8, 2006
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University is
calling for papers for its second annual conference entitled "Space as a
Category of Analysis: New Perspectives" on April 7-8, 2006. This conference
seeks to bring together graduate students from diverse fields by discussing
a common research theme from multiple disciplinary angles. We welcome
scholarship from history, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies,
environmental studies, area studies, gender studies, media studies, and
others.
Some of the critical questions conference papers may consider are:

How are spatial categories historically constituted, and how do historical
projects reify and challenge spatial categories?

How do spatial relationships guide the growth and development of individual
communities, informing human understandings of nationality, ethnicity,
gender, race, class, and the environment?

How are categories such as urban, rural and wilderness constituted, and how
are they informed by technology and their inhabitants?

How does space shape decision-making processes of individuals and
institutions, and in what ways has space been used to assert power?

Under what conditions has space been transnational?

The conference features a keynote address by internationally renowned
scholar David Harvey. Widely considered to be the founder of modern critical
geography, Dr. Harvey's wide-ranging explorations of the ways in which space
and time have underpinned capitalism, post-modernity, and imperialism speak
directly to the spirit of intellectual breadth and inclusion to which the
conference is committed.

Please submit a 250-word abstract, curriculum vitae, and pertinent contact
information via email by January 15, 2006 to:

Interdisciplinary_Conference@brown.edu
Graduate Student Conference committee
Department of History
Box N, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

Email: interdisciplinary_conference@brown.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Nov 26 15:51:38 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Nov 26 15:52:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Idea of a Failed State: Interdisciplinary
	Theories and Applications
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The Idea of a Failed State: Interdisciplinary Theories and Applications
Deadline: February 18, 2006

In the post-Cold War era, it has become increasingly evident that one of the
most pressing challenges for the world community is that posed by so-called
"failed states." Many serious problems with highly significant intra- and
international ramifications are laid at their door: savage, prolonged wars;
global terrorism; persecution; organized crime; the spread of disease; the
impoverishment of local populations; and illegal immigration, to name only
some of the most obvious. If these are caused or at least exacerbated by the
very existence of failed states - by the fact that they have 'failed' - then
solving them requires us to confront them in their specific failings. But at
this point, the question naturally arises: what, exactly, are failed states?
Scholars of the phenomenon do not all seem to have the same thing in mind
when using the term "failed state," since attempts to define the term often
seem to have little in common. Many consist of little more than strings of
examples, with no clear statement of principle to show what those examples
are taken to have in common. More theoretically-developed definitions are
usually extremely brief, or assert principles that seem to lead to the
conclusion only that a state has failed in certain respects, but not
necessarily across the board. What theoretical concepts are behind these
differing definitions? Could different concepts augment, improve, or even
disqualify others? Is it quixotic to think that scholars could together
develop an all-purpose concept? Or are we forced to conclude that "failed
state" is irretrievable as an analytic and moral concept from the morass of
ideological posturing?
In order to begin answering these (and many other) questions, we are
inviting proposals on the issues raised by the concept of a 'failed state.'
Perspectives from any relevant academic discipline are welcome. The main aim
of the collection will be to understand, from as many different points of
view as possible, what would make it true to describe a state as failed, in
the hope of developing a more complete understanding of this multi-faceted
phenomenon in order to help fashion the tools needed to tackle it. Hence,
the primary focus of proposals (and the resulting papers) should be that of
clearly stating, explaining and justifying fundamental theoretical
principles. Application of theory is, of course, often necessary and always
desirable, but should serve the purpose of illuminating the principles. The
treatment should be scholarly but as easily comprehensible as possible to
those outside your specific disciplines. So, for instance, literature
surveys and fairly extensive bibliographies are a good idea, but overly
technical language should be either avoided or, if unavoidable, clearly
defined.

Questions you might address include, but are by no means limited to the
following:

(I) Is the very idea of a failed state a sound one? That is, does it even
make sense to describe any state as 'failed'? This question might be
approached by asking:

(a) How can we distinguish a failed state from a successful one? What
technical/functional and/or moral criteria might be used for this purpose?
(b) Must a state fail 'across the board' to be a 'failed state', or is it
sufficient to fail only in certain aspects of its functioning to pass the
threshold of overall failure?
(c) Is the notion of a failed state relative in some way? For example, can a
state that is deemed to be a failure in, say, one cultural context be deemed
to be successful (or at least not a failure) in another?
(d) Is state failure always absolute, or is it a matter of degree? That is,
can one failed state be a worse failure than another? And, if so, how do we
tell which is which?
(e) Is there any significant difference between a failed state and a failing
one?

(II) What are the paradigmatic cases of state failure? Are there failed
states which have not so far been recognized as such, and what case can we
make for classing them thus?

(III) Can failed states be turned into successful ones? If so, are there any
general strategies for doing this, or must such transformation be carried
out on a case-by-case basis? If failed states cannot in principle be thus
"repaired," is there a case for "liquidating" them? If so, who should be the
liquidator, and what should happen to the "assets"?

(IV) From the answers to the questions which can be asked about the concept
of a failed state, what might be implied or inferred with respect to the
nature, functions and responsibilities of the international order?
The intention is that this call will solicit proposals from which a volume
will emerge and, if feasible, a conference at which draft contributions can
be presented and discussed. It is hoped to plan the volume, and submit a
proposal to publishers, early in 2006. To establish the feasibility of this,
proposals of about 500 words long are therefore invited.

Liam Harte,
Department of Philosophy,
Westfield State College,
Westfield, MA 01085
USA
Email: lharte@wsc.ma.edu


From af31 at nyu.edu  Sat Nov 26 16:04:23 2005
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Sat Nov 26 22:11:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP: The Global City and Media Ethnography:
	Practice-led Transcultural Research
In-Reply-To: <007801c5f2ca$4e159500$89058696@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <BFAE3807.1862%af31@nyu.edu>

Temple Bar, Dublin Ireland
The Global City and Media Ethnography:
Practice-led Transcultural Research
and Media Practice
June 12-30, 2006
 
The Department of Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Education,
in collaboration with The Centre for Transcultural Research and Media
Practice, Dublin, Ireland, presents a study abroad program in practice-led
media research. Through theory-building seminars, project development
clinics, multi-media lab instruction, and 1:1 advisement, students will be
enabled in the design and development of  practice-based M.A. and Ph.D.
level research projects, combining text and visual-audio media artefacts
across a variety of platforms. including video, photography and digital
imaging and networked environments.
 
The curriculum is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students from
diverse disciplines who want to explore creative media practice as a
research methodology. The curriculum is grounded on media lab instruction in
tandem with seminars/workshops and readings on transcultural issues and
theory. Students will also  participate in guided site visits and/or
field-site placement in ongoing Dublin-based research projects mapping the
transcultural city.
 
The Summer School is located at the Irish Photographic Centre in Dublin's
Temple Bar Cultural Quarter, comprising 28 acres of historical architecture
dedicated to arts, media, culture and entertainment along with some of
Dublin's leading restaurants, cafes, pubs, hotels and shops, in one of the
world's most rapidly globalizing cities with expanding multi-cultural
communites and identities.
 
Seminar and Media Lab topics include:
?      Transcultural and Globalization Theory

?      The Politics of  the Gaze and  the Senses

?       Human Rights and  Mediated Visibility/Invisibility

?      Mapping Mediascapes

?      Soundscapes

?      Space and Place as Performance

?      Media Practice: Politics and Ethics of Multi-Sited Fieldwork

?      Cultural Memory, New Media and Audible Pasts

?     Photography and the Aesthetics of Evidence

?     Documentary Video/Film and Visual Ethnography

?      Media-led Research: Artefacts and Outputs

?      Reading/Performing the Archive

?      Mixed Methodologies: Creative Media Practice and Research Methods

Course: The Global City and Media Ethnography: E59: 2401___________ 6 points
 
Note: This course is open to graduate degree students and advanced
upper-level undergraduate. Interested students outside of New York
University may inquire about special visiting student eligibility.
 
 
 
Global City Faculty:
 
Allen Feldman, Co-director, (MA. Ph.D, Cutural Anthropology), Associate
Professor Department of Culture and Communication, New York University:
Research Interests: Visual Culture, the Anthropology of the Senses,
Ethnography of Media, Performance Studies.
 
?ine O?Brien Co-director, (Ph.D. Modern Studies Programme, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Director: Centre for Transcultural Research and
Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests: Visual
Culture, Documentary Media Practice; Experimental Ethnography, Globalisation
and Migrant Identities.
 
Nicholas Mirzoeff, (PhD Art History University of Warwick); Professor,Visual
Culture Program, Arts and Arts Professions, New York University:
postdoctoral fellowships from UCLA, the J. Paul Getty Center for the History
of Art, Research Interests:  Visual Culture, Bodyscapes, Disability Studies,
Diaspora, and Human Rights.
 

Arvind Rajagopal (Ph.D, Sociology University of California Berkely),
Associate Professor Culture and Communication New York University. Research
Interests:  Ppolitical economy of culture, contemporary South Asia,
audiences and reception theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Media Religion,
Secularism and globalization.

 
Roshini Kempadoo, Senior Lecturer in digital media University of East London
(Research Associate: Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology). Research Interests digital media and art,
networked environments, the Black Atlantic, critical race theory, Diaspora,
cultural memory, gender and resistance.
 
Anthony Haughey, (MA. Visual Media, National College of Art and Design,
Dublin); Head: Department of Media Technologies, School of Media and
Research Associate: Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests: Documentary Photography
and Installation Practice, Visual Culture; Public Culture and Post-conflict
Landscapes, Migration.
 
Alan Grossman, (Ph.D. Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of
Cardiff, Wales); Senior Researcher, Centre for Transcultural Research and
Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests:
Ethnographic Media Practice, Ethnographic/Documentary Film, Cultural
Politics of Migration/Diasporic Formations across Infra/Transnational
Contexts. 
 

Martin McCabe (MA Film and Television, Dublin City University, Postgraduate
Diploma Third Level Learning and Teaching, Dublin Institute of Technology);
Programme Chair, BA Honours Photography, Associate of the Centre for
Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology;
Research interests; Visual Cultural Studies, Modernity and Photographic
Archives, the politics of pedagogy.

Rossella Ragazzi (MA Ethnographic Documentary, Centre Sperimentale di
Cinematografia, Rome; MA. Art Sciences, University of Paris, La Sorbonne,
2001). Doctoral Scholar, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media
Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology.  Lecturer Visual Anthropology,
University of Tromso, Norway. Research interests: Visual Ethnography and
Filmmaking, Memory and Childhood,
 
 
 
 
Frequently Asked Questions: Global City and Media Ethnography, Dublin,
Ireland, 2006:
 
Which course do I take for this program?
 
The Global City and Media Ethnography: E59: 2401___________ 6 points
 
Do I need special language skills?
 
English is the main language of Ireland.
 
How many points do I take the course for?
 
Students register for six points. NOTE: This course fulfills DCC?s Mass
Media and Global Communication requirements and also qualifies as an upper
division elective in your program (undergraduates only).
 
How much does the course/program cost?
 
Tuition: $872 per credit point x 6 points: $4,962, plus registration fees.
 
Accommodation: Griffith College, Dublin, Approximately $860 ($43 x 20 days)
(Large fully furnished 2 and 3 bedroom apartments with kitchens and
bathrooms; 15 minute walk from Summer School, 10 minute walk to City
Center), two-minute walk to mass transit. (Meals not included) Residency at
Griffith College is required.
 
Can I get financial aid for the course?
 
Financial aid is available for students taking the course for six (6)
points. Contact NYU Financial Aid Office and apply as early as you can.
 
How much would the round-trip plane tickets  cost?
 
Travel: Round-trip airfares to New York City and Dublin approximately
$500-$700 (students make reservations and fly  individually. (Depending  on
fuel prices student tickets could be less than $500 roundtrip).
 
What do I need to pay for while in Dublin:
 
You will need money to pay for all meals and optional entertainment not
covered by scheduled receptions*, for mass transit, for non-scheduled
personal trips, and souvenirs. [*There are some scheduled receptions/meals
for which you do not need to pay.)
 
 
 
 
 
What are the course?s main academic requirements?
 
This summer school is meant to build students' research, fieldwork and media
skills that will contribute to producing a BA. MA or PhD thesis. During the
three weeks students are expected to design and develop an investigative
project that uses creative media practice as a research methodology.
 
The proposed  research does not have to be focused on Dublin. We expect that
some students, prior to arrival will have a project idea in mind that they
will want to develop while other students will  discover their project with
faculty help during the summer school. To enable project development
students are required to attend all thematic seminars, assigned media labs
and assigned site visits.. Students are responsible for assigned readings in
the course reader. Evening cultural activities are optional.
 
The culminating experience of the course will be submission of a final
project design/proposal to NYC-based NYU faculty 6 weeks after the course is
completed.  NYU-based faculty will grade the research proposal in
consultation with Dublin-based faculty.  Actual execution of the proposed
project occurs after the summer as an enhancement of students'  B.A., M.A.
or Doctoral thesis process.  Summer school faculty from both New York and
Dublin will be available for student advisement for selected stages of the
thesis research process.
Do I need to have extensive prior experience with media production to take
the course?

No.  The media lab trainings will accommodate different levels of media
production skills and knowledge from beginner to advanced.

Will I have access to the Internet in Dublin?

There is Internet access at the Summer School, at the Griffith College
Residences and numerous Internet cafes in the Temple Bar area where the
Summer School is located.

 
Will I have personal time in Dublin and can I extend my travel after the
program is over? 
 
You will have ample personal free time (some afternoons, most evenings, and
all weekends) for non-scheduled activities and field research. You may also
extend your stay for more domestic travel in Ireland or other European
destinations after the program is over in Dublin on June 30th.
 
When is the program?s application deadline?
 
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 (but feel free let us know if you need a little
more time to send in your application).
 
For Further Information (or if you?re interested but can?t attend the Info
session) contact Professor Allen Feldman, Department of Culture and
Communication, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, NY
10003-6680: 212-998-5096; email: af31@nyu.edu
 
 

Allen Feldman
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Nov 27 21:33:35 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 27 21:36:16 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING opportunities with the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies
Message-ID: <004501c5f3c4$55cdfdf0$b2058696@toshibauser>

Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies

1. FURS Research Grants  within the field of urban and regional studies
2. FURS Studentships within the field of urban and regional studies
****************************************************
Deadline: January 31, 2006

1. FURS Research Grants  within the field of urban and regional studies

FURS is concerned to promote urban and regional research and within this
broad field it is particularly keen to encourage an understanding of the
interconnection between social, economic and political processes and of the
broader causes and effects of these processes. This means for example that
research which examines policies critically and focuses on their unintended
as well as intended consequences is more likely to be supported than
research on managerially defined questions. Conversely research which takes
a 'technical' approach to urban and regional questions and does not place
them within wider contexts of understanding is unlikely to be given
priority. Although these concerns are likely to lead to social scientists
such as sociologists, political scientists, geographers, economists and town
planners predominating among applicants, others such as lawyers, cultural
theorists, anthropologists and historians should not be discouraged from
applying.

Applications are invited for a number of research grants. These may be held
in any university. The Trustees are anxious to encourage newly graduated
researchers or junior colleagues of established researchers who have
difficulty in getting funds to support research.

Applications must be received by 31 January. Late applications will not be
considered under any circumstances. Each application will be
acknowledged and successful applicants will be informed by mid April.
Funding is only offered to those students who are within the field of urban
and regional studies.

The research grants can be used to help pay for research, which is:

  1.. carried out as part of a higher degree, or
  2.. not part of a higher degree.
Eligibility: From 2005, priority will be given to applicants from countries
in Groups B and C of the World Bank classification. For details see
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/table_c.htm

The normal value of FURS research grants is up to ?2,000. But in addition to
research grants of ?2,000 value, a limited number of higher value research
grants (maximum ?5,000) may be awarded where this is justified by the nature
of the work to be carried out and the strength of the application. The
research grants can be used to help pay for research, which is:

carried out as part of a higher degree, or
not part of a higher degree.

You will be expected to supply:
*A brief account of your training and qualifications on the application form
provided.
*An outline of your proposed research. This should explain the significance
of the topic, and refer to the research questions to be investigated,
relevant theoretical debates or hypotheses, and the methods of research to
be used (including any problems of data access).
*A precise account of how the grant is to be spent and over what period.
Please indicate whether alternative sources of funds are available.
*A statement from a senior scholar who is familiar with your work and who
can confirm that you are able to carry out the work proposed. The Trustees 
would expect an academic tutor, Head of department or research team, or 
the equivalent to write such a letter.
*The name of a person who can be contacted to report on the progress of your
research.

Application:
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/furs/funding/grants/docs/res-app.doc
*****************************

2.  FURS Studentships within the field of urban and regional studies

Applications are invited for a number of studentships within the field of
urban and regional studies. Applications must be received by 31 January. 
Late applications will not be considered. Each application will be 
acknowledged and successful applicants will be informed by 1 May. 
Funding is only offered to those students who are within the field of 
urban and regional studies.

Eligibility: From 2005, only applicants from countries in Groups B and C 
of the World Bank classification will be eligible to apply. For details 
see http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/table_c.htm

FURS is concerned to promote urban and regional research and within this
broad field it is particularly keen to encourage an understanding of the
interconnection between social, economic and political processes and of the
broader causes and effects of these processes. This means for example that
research which examines policies critically and focuses on their unintended
as well as intended consequences is more likely to be supported than 
research on managerially defined questions. Conversely research which 
takes a 'technical' approach to urban and regional questions and does not 
place them within wider contexts of understanding is unlikely to be given 
priority. Although these concerns are likely to lead to social scientists such 
as sociologists, political scientists, geographers, economists and town 
planners predominating among applicants, others such as lawyers, 
cultural theorists, anthropologists and historians should not be 
discouraged from applying.

Studentships are intended to permit students, generally from low and middle
income countries, to pursue postgraduate research degrees. In recent years
studentships have been awarded to students from countries including 
Argentina, Cameroons, Chile, Nepal, South Africa, Turkey, Uruguay and 
Zambia.

The value of the studentships will normally be up to ?9,300 per annum and
they will be for one or two years' duration (subject to satisfactory progress).
The Trustees have the discretion to increase this in the light of special
circumstances or hardship. No support can be given towards travel 
expenses. A third year extension may be granted subject to a further 
application. The studentship can be spent on living expenses or fees but 
is not intended to cover the full costs of being a student, and applicants 
will need to apply to other sources of funding.

Students who wish to apply for a one year grant only (eg because they have
already completed part of their degree) are encouraged to do so.

FURS studentships may be held in any department where the Trustees are
satisfied with supervisory arrangements for research on urban and regional
subjects. In general, these will be departments with a tradition of 
supervision in these areas, but if you wish to study in a department where 
this is not the case, you will need to supply evidence regarding the 
appropriateness of the department.

All studentships are conditional on acceptance by the university department.
If an offer of a place has been received by the time of application this should
be included. Successful candidates will be asked to provide a copy of a 
letter of acceptance from their chosen institution before the award of a 
studentship can be confirmed and any monies dispensed.

The Trustees regret that no correspondence can be entered into in relation
to their decision, which must be taken as final. However, unsuccessful 
candidates may apply one more time in a future year. 

The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies is a Charitable Trust directly
linked to the Company which produces the International Journal for Urban and
Regional Research. The Trust is managed by a group of Trustees who are, in
turn, responsible to the British Charities Commission for the appropriate
use and allocation of its funds.

Application:
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/furs/funding/studentships/docs/applic.doc
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Nov 27 23:23:07 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 27 23:24:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Committee on Refugees & Immigrants (CORI) Business
	Meeting
Message-ID: <004e01c5f3d3$72ebeb40$93058696@toshibauser>

>From Ted Hamann <ehamann2@unl.edu>

The Committee on Refugees & Immigrants (CORI) focuses on the global problems
of forced dislocation, the provision of asylum and resettlement to refugees,
and the adjustment of immigrants. CORI is part of the American
Anthropological Association's Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). The CORI Business Meeting is held
separately from the main SUNTA business meeting and this year will convene
on Friday December 2, 2005 from 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM (location should be in the
AAA program book).

Topics on the draft agenda include:
* Further discussion of two of SUNTA's Dec. 2 invited sessions: "Immigrants
and the Practice of "Citizenship": Perspectives from Europe and the U.S."
and "Global Childhood: The Use of Child Fostering among Transnational
Migrants";
* Sharing current recent projects (for the explicit purpose of networking
and welcoming graduate students and other newcomers);
* Revisiting what we want CORI to be and laying out a two-year agenda;
* Attending to housekeeping details like considering whether to create a new
CORI listserv or whether SUNTA's listserv sufficiently meets our needs.


Please email Ted Hamann (ehamann2@unl.edu) with any suggested additions.

If there is sufficient interest, we can head out to dinner together after
the meeting.

--

Ted Hamann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
118 Henzlik Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-2285


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Nov 28 19:34:51 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov 28 19:37:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Photography and the City
Message-ID: <019a01c5f47c$d1bccaa0$65058696@toshibauser>

Photography and the City
University College, Dublin, Ireland

Conference Date: June 29, 2006

This conference will examine the relationship between the city and
photography. We welcome proposals analysing historical, cultural,
socio-economic, and technical aspects of this relationship.
Practising photographers are encouraged to submit proposals. The
conference will bring together academics and practitioners to examine
and illustrate the role of photography in representing urban life and
landscapes, and in shaping urban ways of seeing.


Catherine Carey
Clinton Institute for American Studies
University College Dublin
Dublin 4
Ireland
++353 1 716 1560
Email: catherine.carey@ucd.ie
Website at http://www.ucd.ie/amerstud
From mroaf at temple.edu  Mon Nov 28 22:44:17 2005
From: mroaf at temple.edu (mroaf@temple.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 28 23:19:10 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AFA and SOLGA Cash Bar Invite at AAA
Message-ID: <d981ed01.629b7b56.81f5000@po-c.temple.edu>

Everyone (members and non-members alike) is welcome to join a 
cash bar sponsored by the Association for Feminist 
Anthropology and Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. 
Conme exchange ideas, stories and interests. Also, feel free 
to attend the AFA Business Meeting immediately preceding the 
Cash Bar from 6:15pm-7:30pm.

Date: December 1, 2005, Thursday
Time: 7:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Room Delaware A
Mary Roaf
Temple Anthropology Department
mroaf@temple.edu

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Nov 28 22:22:43 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue Nov 29 01:23:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: Robert Alvarez Jr., "Mangos, Chiles and Truckers"
Message-ID: <1133245363.438bf3b31fcaa@webmail.sfsu.edu>

MANGOS, CHILES, AND TRUCKERS: The Business of Transnationalism
Robert R. Alvarez Jr.
Foreword by George Lipsitz
University of Minnesota Press | 168 pages | 2005
ISBN 0-8166-4507-8 | hardcover | $53.95
ISBN 0-8166-4508-6 | paperback | $17.95
Critical American Studies Series

Robert R. Alvarez Jr. analyzes how the produce and trucking industries in Mexico
affect the organization of work, community, and social space for miles on either
side of the international border. Emphasizing the importance of the nation-state
in the global process, Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers demonstrates how people make
meaning as they struggle with the economic circumstances of their lives.

?This pathbreaking work brings rare genealogical depth to anthropological
research on the U.S.-Mexico border.? ?Leo Chavez

For more information, visit the book?s webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/alvarez_mangos.html

For more information on the Critical American Studies Series:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/CAS.html

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Nov 29 17:17:07 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Nov 29 17:19:14 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: National Alliance to End Homelessness
Message-ID: <000e01c5f532$a514f070$a8058696@toshibauser>

The National Alliance to End Homelessness invites you to join us for the National Conference on Ending Family Homelessness on January 26 and 27, 2006.  The conference will be held at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, CA.  For a complete conference agenda, online conference registration and hotel information, please click the link below.

http://www.naeh.org/FamConf2006/

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Family Housing Providers * Family Transitional Housing Providers * Family Supportive Housing Providers * State Government Officials * Local Government Officials * Homeless People * AIDS Housing Providers * Advocates * Federal Officials * Service Providers * Employers * Researchers

REGISTER TODAY!

* Early registration rate available until January 19, 2006
* Reserve hotel by January 4, 2006 to receive the special conference rate - limited offer - first come, first serve basis.
From priscillasong at hotmail.com  Wed Nov 30 06:44:49 2005
From: priscillasong at hotmail.com (Priscilla Song)
Date: Tue Nov 29 17:44:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]List of East Asian anthropology papers at AAA 2005
In-Reply-To: <s38b0240.026@gwiaweb.it.luc.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY101-DAV2CB3547DF04DB94D723ECA94B0@phx.gbl>

Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Board of the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) has
put together a list of papers related to East Asian anthropology issues at
the 2005 American Anthropological Association Meetings in DC (November 30 to
December 4, 2005). We hope that this list will help facilitate interaction
and collaboration among anthropologists working on East Asian anthropology
issues!

You can access the EA @ AAA2005 list in both Excel and PDF file formats at
the following website:

http://seaaterm.wjh.harvard.edu/

We have tried to include as many papers as possible. We apologize if we
inadvertently missed your paper. We will continue to update the list after
the 2005 Meetings to create as comprehensive of a record as possible, so
please email me (psong@fas.harvard.edu) if you would like to include or
update your information.

Thanks very much for your help in putting together this list.  I'm looking
forward to seeing many of you in DC this week!

Best regards,

Priscilla Song
(psong@fas.harvard.edu)

SEAA Graduate Student Councilor
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard Department of Anthropology
Visiting Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences


-----Original Message-----
From: East Asia Anthropologists' discussion
[mailto:EASIANTH@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:12 AM
To: EASIANTH@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: SEAA Events at AAA

Dear Colleagues, 
	This week I'll look forward to seeing everyone at the AAA in
Washington D.C. Priscilla Song will soon be circulating a list with an
impressive number of papers on East Asian related issues that are on the
program this year (more than 100!).

Don't forget to come to our two big SEAA Events at the AAA:

Business Meeting and Cash Bar Reception, Saturday evening
The general Business Meeting and Cash Bar Reception is open to everyone and
is an important site for you to meet with and celebrate with other SEAA
members. Join us Saturday December 3 from 6:15 pm. in the McKinley Room,
where we will toast the recipients of the Francis Hsu Book Prize, the Plath
Media Award and the Bestor Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper.
Come learn more about our SEAA Conference in Hong Kong, "East Asian
Anthropology/Anthropology in East Asia," 13-16 July 2006 at The Chinese
University of Hong Kong. 


Digital Materials Training Session, Thursday evening
	Mark your calendars for the Digital Materials Training Session, an
electronic resource training workshop led by two experienced and dedicated
East Asian librarians, Eiichi Ito and Yuan Zeng. Training will be given on
how to access online databases and library holdings of Chinese, Japanese and
Korean materials. Attendance is free and open to members of SEAA. Please
join us on Thursday December 1, 6:15:00pm to 7:30:00pm in the Taft Room. 

Best,
Laura

