From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  1 15:18:49 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  1 14:19:15 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
Message-ID: <004f01c685a7$da58e790$90058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Melanie E. L. Bush <melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com>

Please circulate...thanks!

Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education (EMME)
CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/about.html

As an open-access electronic journal for scholars, practitioners and 
students of multicultural education, Electronic Magazine of Multicultural 
Education (EMME) publishes a variety of writings:  (1) original (and 
occasionally reprint) scholarly articles, (2) practitioner essays, (3) 
instructional ideas, and (4) reviews of visual arts, professional and 
juvenile books, and multimedia resources.  Reviews are generally solicited.

Since the inception of the publication in 1999 each issue has focused on a 
particular theme of multicultural education (go to 
http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/previous.html for back issues). 
Any paper broadly related to multicultural issues is considered for 
publication in the Open Forum section.   Currently over 5,000 readers visit 
the journal site each month from the United States and other countries. 
Since 1999 readers from over 48 different countries have freely accessed 
EMME.

Multiculturalism in Higher Education
Theme Guest Editor: Dr. Melanie E. L. Bush, Adelphi University
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2006
Publication Date: December 31, 2006


Over the last several decades significant changes have been made to 
curriculum within institutions of higher education in response to demands by 
traditionally marginalized communities for representation, inclusion and 
balance in perspective, content, pedagogy and program. Within the scope of 
the broad theme of "Multiculturalism in Higher Education," articles and 
instructional ideas may include, but not be limited to: narratives about the 
curricular transformation process, current status at particular 
institutions, analysis about where we stand today and commentary about the 
future, critical perspectives about the social and political context of 
multicultural education, efforts to increase faculty diversity, pedagogical 
strategies and practice, and research conducted about the current state of 
diversity in higher education and the implications. How does the study of 
and engagement in projects for social justice fit within the academic 
project? Articles related to academia in the United States and globally are 
welcome.


If you would like to submit a paper to EMME on this theme, please click here 
for more details.
http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/submission.html

Questions?  Please contact: melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  1 15:20:32 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  1 14:20:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]QUERY: Worker Factory Takeovers in Argentina
Message-ID: <005a01c685a8$167e1740$90058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Paul McDowell <paulanthropus@cox.net>

I'm looking for recent sources, in Spanish or English,  on the recuperacion movement, or the worker takeovers of shut down factories in Argentina, and especially its spread to other Latin American countries. Could anyone refer me to articles or other sources, including websites,  on the subject? Has anyone done research on this movement?

Many thanks,

Paul McDowell
Instructor in Anthropology
Santa Barbara City College
paulanthropus@cox.net 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun  2 14:49:47 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun  2 13:50:19 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: McMullen on Mazur-Strommen, _Engines of Ideology:
	Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany_
Message-ID: <008401c6866c$f8840770$b2058696@Maulwaurf>

[forwarded from H-German]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu (June 2006)

Susan Mazur-Stommen. _Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany
1990-2000_. European Studies in Culture and Policy. M?nster: LIT Verlag,
2005. xi + 226 pp. Map, photograph, notes, index, bibliography. EUR 29.90
(paper), ISBN 3-8258-6892-3.

Reviewed for H-German by Shannon McMullen, Department of Sociology,
University of California, San Diego

Rostock: Post-Socialist Urban Renewal in Profile

According to the jacket blurb, Mazur-Stommen's study "explores the
relationship between ideology and specific architectural forms, the role of
revitalization programs with external funding in this process, and possible
conclusions regarding the future of other small cities in the Baltic
region." This intended focus of Mazur-Stommen's book, based on her
dissertation, is a valuable contribution to a very small literature on
twentieth-century urban renewal in Germany in the context of reunification
and post-socialism. In particular, her focus on the eastern city of Rostock
helps widen the English language discussion of urban issues beyond Berlin.
The ethnographic approach promises to provide a rich account of Rostock as a
"particular place and time, rather than a collection of impressions elicited
from a set of its inhabitants" (p. vii). In other words, it is the form and
meaning of Rostock's built environment the author wishes to explain. In this
way, the book is an addition to a growing literature on the social
significance of architecture.

Mazur-Stommen's main argument is that "local ideologies and vernacular
architecture" (that is, diverse and "authentic") are being replaced by
repetition and a German urban uniformity in the context of reunification and
Europeanization, which results from what Mazur-Stommen calls
"corporatization." This term is defined as "the wholesale construction of
landscapes and environments where the long-term, collective efforts of a
culture are replaced by rapid, streamlined decisions made by a few people"
(p. 2). Furthermore, these few people, as experts or "specialists," often
come from outside of Rostock. Mazur-Stommen argues that their status as
outsiders means they have their own agendas, which do not always overlap 
with
the community's best interests. Community participation, often a stated goal
of federal or EU programs, is given lip service, but does not materialize in
practice.

At the same time, Mazur-Stommen finds evidence of an underdeveloped civil
society that lacks experience and organization to resist or counter
well-funded and powerful corporatism. Mazur-Stommen's experience with the EU
Interreg IIc program "Integrated Urban Planning and Management" outlines
this dynamic in Rostock (see her chapter entitled "Altstadt--The Historic
City"). Frustration--that both of residents and the author--comes
across in quotes from interviews and in excerpts from field notes based on
participant-observation in urban renewal programs. The book is at its
strongest when it gives insight into these issues and the ways in which they
intersect with a municipal planning system grappling with the legacy of
socialism and the demands of capitalism.

Influenced by the work of Brian Ladd on Berlin, a second related hypothesis
in Mazur-Stommen's study is that historic preservation as part of urban
revitalization and the development of tourism in Rostock leads to the
promotion of historical buildings and periods with a high level of cultural
acceptance, and the lowest potential for conflict.[1] Mazur-Stommen expected
a focus on the Hanseatic past (pp. 31-32). Here the focus is trained most
directly on the relationship between ideology and architecture alluded to in
the title of the book. While such a focus does not constitute a new
argument, the details of such a process in Rostock would have added to our
knowledge of how competing social visions and power differences affect urban
form. Although Mazur-Stommen claims that "a subtle favoring of traditional
forms does run throughout the decisions made about handling restorations and
reconstructions," the book does not systematically explain just how history
and architecture are intertwined in urban renewal efforts (p. 60). On the
other hand, we do receive a better description of the processes of
gentrification with their positive and negative effects (pp. 154-170).

In general, empirical findings specific to Rostock that are promising in
their significance remain underdeveloped in relation to the larger issues
the book purports to discuss. These analytical problems are compounded by an
unclear, confusing structure and organization, which tends to disconnect
related ideas and arguments. Why, for example, if the "researcher who wants
to deal with the complexity of cities must first deal with the tangle of
literatures that attempt to explain the origin, function, form, history,
meaning and experience of cities," does the chapter that could help
contextualize and position the author's work come at the end, right before
the conclusion (p. 182)? Chapter divisions often seem to separate rather
than gather related material. Perhaps this organization accounts for the
significant amount of repetition that runs through the text. (The repetition
could also be the result of inadequate editing, of which there is also
evidence.)

Mazur-Stommen's book will be appreciated for providing an anthropological
approach to the built environment and exploring the relationships between
ideology, architectural form and the differing social experiences of those
forms. Additionally, the book is a good introduction to the many issues
relating to inter-regional and post-socialist urban development in reunified
Germany as seen through the case study of Rostock.

Note

[1]. Brian Ladd, _The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the
Urban Landscape_ (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997).




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From JerryKrase at aol.com  Thu Jun  1 13:53:26 2006
From: JerryKrase at aol.com (JerryKrase@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jun  2 14:38:29 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Compiling a list of Urban Studies Related Events -
	2006
Message-ID: <2d9.784eeb0.31b07586@aol.com>

1. There is a UrbEurope "Urban Europe Between Identity and  Change" Visual 
Sociology Summer School at the University  of Urbino, Italy in July in which I 
and a number of other urban  sociologists will be giving lectures and then 
students will travel to  Amsterdam to do research. Here is the link where the full 
information is  available. They do this every year. 
_http://www.urban-europe.net/SUMMER/summerschool.htm_ 
(http://www.urban-europe.net/SUMMER/summerschool.htm) 
 
2. They also have an on-line seminar in which I have also participated  
called EUREX. Here is that link as well. _http://shiva.uniurb.it/EUREX/_ 
(http://shiva.uniurb.it/EUREX/) 
 
 
3. Eyes on the City, 2006 Conference of the International  Visual Sociology 
Association,July 3, 4, 5. University of Urbino ?Carlo Bo?  Urbino, Italy: 
_http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html_ 
(http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html) 

From JerryKrase at aol.com  Thu Jun  1 14:08:52 2006
From: JerryKrase at aol.com (JerryKrase@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jun  2 14:38:35 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L] sense of place/enactment/tourism/town revitalization
	("Bavari...
Message-ID: <464.2744645.31b07924@aol.com>

Here is link to my own article which talks about many contrived Little  
Italies as "Ethnic Theme Parks" and which follows a similar line or reasoning  but 
more along the lines of commodification and symbolic and semiotic analyses.  
_http://www.brooklynsoc.org/semiotics/v1n1/index.html_ 
(http://www.brooklynsoc.org/semiotics/v1n1/index.html) 
This was a first attempt at this article as an on-line journal which has  
subsequently been published in much larger and various forms, but this version I  
think is best for focusing on the argument at hand. The photos are better  
on-line also. The other references in order of development of the argument are  
set below FYI.
Ironically, there was an article in the La Repubblica today about newly  
constructed  American towns which try to simulate the architecture and  
streetscapes of older "naturally" evolved traditional American small towns.  Jerry Krase
 
"Visualizing Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes," in Race and Ethnicity in New York 
City,  edited by Krase and Hutchinson. Volume Seven, Research in Urban 
Sociology, JAI  Press. 2004: 1-24.   
"Italian  American Urban Landscapes: Images of Social and Cultural Capital." 
Italian Americana, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Winter  2004: 17-44. 
 
 
"Navigating  Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes Then and Now," Journal of 
Architecture and Planning  Research.  19: 4 (Winter) 2002:  274-281. 
"Traces  of Home," Places: A Quarterly Journal of  Environmental Design 
(Summer) Vol. 8, No. 4, 1993:  46?55.
From alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it  Fri Jun  2 20:51:01 2006
From: alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it (Alessandro Camiz)
Date: Fri Jun  2 14:38:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Compiling a list of Urban Studies Related
  Events - 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060531070926.85830.qmail@web32814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <20060531070926.85830.qmail@web32814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <200606021951010190.00B81B77@mail.iol.it>

Dear Rahul,

The International Study Centre for the History of Cities, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
directed by Prof. Enrico Guidoni, can contribute to Your list.
All the scientific events we organized are online www.storiadellacitta.it

I would outline in particular the conference series: I punti di vista e le vedute di citt? (city views and observation points)

Roma. Accademia dei Lincei   
via della Lungara, 230 
I punti di vista e le vedute di citt?. Parte prima: Italia, XIII-XV sec.
Gioved? 27 maggio 2004 
 

Roma. Facolt? di Architettura "Valle Giulia" , Aula "Bruno Zevi"   
Convegno Nazionale. I punti di vista e le vedute di citt?. Parte seconda: XVI secolo 
Venerd? 10 dicembre 2004. 


Roma. Universit? "Roma Tre", Facolt? di Architettura 
Convegno Nazionale. I punti di vista e le vedute di citt?. Parte terza: secoli XVII e XVIII 
27-28 gennaio 2005


Roma. Palazzo delle piscine, Foro italico.
Convegno Nazionale. I punti di vista e le vedute di citt?. Parte quarta: secolo XIX / Parte quinta: secolo XX
5 aprile 2005 
 

and the 

Associazione Storia della Citt? - Roma
con
Universit? degli Studi di Cagliari - Dipartimento di Architettura
Centro Studi per la Storia dalla Citt? e del Territorio - Sardegna 
La citt? europea del Trecento. Trasformazioni, monumenti, ampliamenti urbani
Convegno Internazionale - Cagliari 9-10 dicembre 2005

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

Universit? degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"- Facolt? di Architettura "Valle Giulia" - Comune di Castel Madama
Associazione Storia della Citt?

I MUSEI DELLA CITT? E DEL TERRITORIO PER LO STUDIO E LA TUTELA DEI CENTRI STORICI E DEL PAESAGGIO

Convegno di Studi / 24-25 novembre 2005
Sala Baronale del Castello Orsini
Castel Madama (RM)
Sede del Polo di Ricerca e Alta Formazione della Facolt? di Architettura ?Valle Giulia?




all the programs are online on


www.storiadellacitta.it


best regards


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From rseverson at fieldmuseum.org  Fri Jun  2 16:34:02 2006
From: rseverson at fieldmuseum.org (Rebeca Severson)
Date: Fri Jun  2 16:45:21 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]looking for qualitative, ethnographic workshop or
	conference
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060602152550.032007c8@mail.fmnh.org>

Dear all,
         I'm looking for a conference or workshop on qualitative 
and/or ethnographic methods. Not just for beginners but for 
mid-career folks who want to keep up with the latest methods and 
issues. I'm doing applied anthro in community development and 
environmental stewardship arenas.
         I'm considering the workshop at university of alberta 
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/index.cfm. Has anyone ever been 
to their workshops or conference?
Thanks
[]

[]

[]




Rebecca

Rebecca Severson
Manager, Urban Research Programs
Center for Cultural Understanding and Change
Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60605
fax 312 665 7482
rseverson@fieldmuseum.org
Phone 312 665 7480 
From steph243 at msu.edu  Tue Jun  6 23:29:39 2006
From: steph243 at msu.edu (Piers Howard Guy Stephens)
Date: Wed Jun  7 00:15:13 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 2ND CFP: Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice 
In-Reply-To: <000401c67ea6$475f80f0$96058696@Maulwaurf>
References: <000401c67ea6$475f80f0$96058696@Maulwaurf>
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2ND CALL FOR PAPERS - ADDED SPEAKER & NEW CONFERENCE WEB SITE LAUNCHED 


Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice 

International Conference, 24th-28th August 2006, 

Organized by Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University 

Registration & further details now at: http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/geeej 

Papers are invited for the following interdisciplinary conference, to be 
held at Michigan State University, East Lansing and focused on unfolding 
environmental developments. As globalization advances and the global 
character of many environmental problems become more manifest, wider 
perspectives are stimulated in local environmental traditions. In North 
America, a burgeoning environmental justice movement makes links between 
environmental damage, poverty and race that strongly recall longstanding 
political concerns in Europe and the South. In Western Europe, scepticism 
and mistrust of GM and other new deep technologies raises questions about 
the character of ?nature? long discussed in relation to the American 
wilderness tradition. About the globe, environmental activists grapple with 
new problems of human impacts, risk, technology, consumption and just 
distribution, and articulate new visions of the future. This conference aims 
to bring together a range of disparate voices across the globe and the 
disciplines, broadening these new international discussions by bringing 
distinctly American traditions of environmental ethics into dialogue with 
international concerns in environmental politics, philosophy, literature, 
sociology, history and economics. The conference is organized by the Lyman 
Briggs School of Science, which has long pioneered research co-operation 
right across the disciplines between arts and sciences at Michigan State 
University, the USA?s first land-grant University. Workshop topics will 
include: 

Environmental Citizenship 

Economy and Ecology 

Nature, Culture and Artifact 

Ecofeminism 

Ecology and Utopia 

Environmental Justice 

Risk and Technology 

Ecological Restoration 

Environmental Movements 

Animals and Speciesism 

The Land Ethic 

Environmental History 

Literature and Ecology 

Climate Change & Disasters 

 


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 


John Barry (Queen?s University Belfast, UK) 

Dale Jamieson (New York University, USA) 

Arthur Mol (Wageningen University, Netherlands) 

Ariel Salleh (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 

Karen Warren (Macalester College, Minnesota, USA) 

Laura Westra (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) 


Abstracts should be received by 16th June 2006, and should be sent to: 

Dr Piers H.G. Stephens,
Lyman Briggs School,
Michigan State University,
35 E Holmes Hall,
East Lansing
MI 48825-1107
USA 

Email: steph243@msu.edu
Tel: (517) 353-4878 




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  8 00:30:56 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun  7 23:31:19 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Ethnos, The Anthropology of Unemployment, Vol. 71,
	Nr. 2 
Message-ID: <019901c68aab$f97ac090$91058696@Maulwaurf>

Ethnos,  Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue:   Volume 71, Number 2 / June 2006
The Anthropology of Unemployment

http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0014-1844&volume=71&issue=2

The anthropology of unemployment 
pp. 141-142
Angela Jancius
http://tinyurl.com/kd3k6

Out of work and house and home: Contested youth in an english homeless 
hostel                       pp. 143 - 163
Tom Hall
http://tinyurl.com/fva42

Unemployment and disposable workers in Philadelphia: Just how far have the 
bastards gone?         pp. 165 - 190
Robert T. O'Brien
http://tinyurl.com/ptzh5

Gendering unemployment in postsocialist Germany: 'what I do is work, even if 
it's not paid'             pp. 191 - 212
Elizabeth Rudd
http://tinyurl.com/ftxtl

We are not alone: Anthropology in a world of others 
pp. 233 - 264
Fred Myers
http://tinyurl.com/erkxy

Cultural contagion in a new key 
pp. 265 - 272
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
http://tinyurl.com/s493z

Book reviews 
pp. 273 - 285
http://tinyurl.com/qfznc


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  8 13:02:14 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  8 12:02:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Dearborn on Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?
Message-ID: <006e01c68b14$ef5af440$020aa8c0@Maulwaurf>

[forwarded from H-Urban]

H-NET BOOK REVIEWS
Published by H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu                       (June, 2006)

Anthony Marcus. _Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking
of a Crisis_. Berghahn Dislocations: Anthropologies of Labor, Place and
Displacement. Volume 1.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. x +  168 pp.
Notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 (hardback), ISBN 1-84545-050-7, $22.50
(paperback), ISBN 1-84545-101-5.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Lynne M. Dearborn, Ph.D. School of Architecture,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Politics And The Under Housed

The book _Where Have All the Homeless Gone?_ provides a rare and
well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City
during the late 1980s and early 1990s.  In taking the reader inside this
world, Anthony Marcus dissects the homeless crisis of the late 1980s and
demonstrates that the making and unmaking of a crisis does not depend on
actually addressing the linked underlying stimuli of rising housing costs,
declining employment opportunities, and reduced social services.  These
are the stimuli that continue to create conditions leading to
under-housing for more than 50 million Americans at the lower ranges of
the wage and skill ladder.  Marcus very skillfully reveals how the mass
loss of housing that became so visible in urban America in the 1980s, came
to be deemed a crisis as a result of ideological conflicts between the two
major political parties.  At the national level, the Democrats used the
visibility of those wandering the streets to denounce the neo-liberal
policies of the Reagan and Bush presidencies and bring Bill Clinton to the
White House.  At the local level of New York City politics, the concern
for everyday quality of life generated by those wandering the streets and
panhandling as well as the skillful framing of the situation by mayoral
candidate David Dinkins provided the advantage over Republican candidate
Rudolph Giuliani at the end of the 1980s.

Through his analysis of five years of participant observation fieldwork
among under-housed nonwhite populations living in extreme poverty in New
York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Anthony Marcus negatively
appraises studies, policies, and programs created under the munificently
funded McKinney Homeless Act.  He likewise critiques the frameworks of
poverty studies and social and psychological pathologies that have
historically been employed to examine and address issues of homelessness,
poverty, and the dystopian shelter environment.  Marcus' presentation of
his ethnographic study demonstrates the centrality of race, gender, and
poverty in assumptions about who the homeless are and why they are
homeless.  Using the words of his study informants, he reframes the debate
about homelessness as an issue linked to "peculiarly American
misunderstandings about poverty, race and social difference" (p. 2), and
limited connections of specific societal problems, such as under housing,
to the larger constructs guiding the organism which is overall American
society.  Through this reframing, Marcus suggests that the general public,
as well as policy makers in the United States, should concern themselves
with the need to address homelessness not out of the
Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition that claims godliness in caring for
those in need, nor to reduce the public expense, nuisance, and health
threat posed by homelessness, but rather because the outcomes for
society's weakest members are indicative of general weaknesses in American
society.  The homeless become a "social barometer" (p. 151) for the
health of American society.

This book captures the reader's attention with a clear and scholarly
style.  The author skillfully weaves together issues of public rhetoric,
politics, policy, social thought, and stereotyping.  He contrasts these
outsider viewpoints with the insider perspectives provided by his
informants who felt that "homeless" was not a useful or easily definable
category.  Throughout the book, these contrasting viewpoints provide an
insightful discussion of the major issues that went into the making and
unmaking of the homeless crisis.   One of the major strengths of the book
is its focus on very detailed aspects of the lives and perspectives of
nonwhite men in New York City's shelter system in the late 1980s and early
1990s.  In contrasting the definitions and solutions applied by outsiders
and insiders, Marcus clearly identifies the web of issues that converge to
maintain conditions that result in a lack of long-term shelter.  Further,
by reference to the prevailing political ideologies from that time to the
present, Marcus reveals that the unmaking of the homeless crisis, did not
in fact substantively improve the quality of life for those who were and
continue to be under housed in the United States.

The ethnographic style which provides a glimpse into the private worlds of
those who are within the shelter system is a strength but also a weakness.
 The details of daily lives, struggles, and outlooks provides a compelling
picture of the issues for this group of non-white under-housed men but
gives little reference to other groups who are without a permanent place
to call home.  Are the readers to assume that the problems are worse for
non-white poor men than for others?  Are the problems more intractable? Or
should readers assume that similar conditions combine to keep others under
housed as well?

While the contents, analysis, and reflections provided in _Where Have All
the Homeless Gone?_ give a fresh perspective on the problems of non-white
men who lack adequate, affordable, long-term housing, the book could
benefit from reference to a broader literature base.  Early in the book
Marcus refers to the underlying failure of the policy and research
perspective which focuses on homelessness as an isolated issue of poverty
and shelter. However, throughout the book he continues to refer primarily
to historical and current literature on the homeless, e.g., _Private
Lives/Public Spaces: Homeless Adults on the Streets of New York City_, [1]
and to such seminal works on poverty as Daniel Patrick Moynihan's _The
Negro Family: The Case for National Action_ [2] and Michael Harrington's
?-_The Other America: Poverty in the United States_ .[3]  Marcus suggests
that the United States could have successfully alleviated the problems of
the under housed if in the response in the 1980s and early 1990s had been
framed within a broad policy addressing the need for: affordable housing,
job creation for those at the lower end of the economic and educational
spectrum, and social programs that increase the safety net.  Thus,
reference to literature such as the recently published _A Right to
Housing: Foundations for a New Social Agenda_ could have broadened the
discussion and usefulness of the conclusions of Marcus' work.[4]

_Where Have All the Homeless Gone?_ is an interesting and convincing book.
 The clear and scholarly writing style suggests that it will provide a
useful complement to graduate urban problems coursework as well as an
often-referenced resource for housing and urban studies scholars.  Anthony
Marcus had commendably contrasted outsiders' and insiders' views of who
the homeless are, and why and how they came to be inadequately housed
during the period of his study.  The findings of this study as it concerns
the making and unmaking of a crisis and the continuation of the issues of
under housing, even as the crisis receded from public view and policy
focus, have the same currency in 2006 as they did during the period of
public outcry.  The problems described and discussed by Marcus are still
with us and have yet to be successfully alleviated precisely because the
public and policy makers in the United States have failed, even twenty
years later, to understand that the visible problems of the homeless are
linked to larger and more systemic weaknesses in the structure of U.S.
society.

Notes

[1]. Ellen Baxter and Kim Hopper, _Private Lives/Public Spaces: Homeless
Adults on the Streets of New York City_ (New York: Community Service
Society, Institute for Social Welfare Research, 1981).

[2]. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, _The Negro Family: The Case for National
Action_ (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965).

[3]. Michael Harrington, _The Other America: Poverty in the United States_
(New York: Macmillan, 1962).

[4]. Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman (eds.), _A
Right to Housing: Foundations for a New Social Agenda_ (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2006).

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copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the
author and the list.  For other permission, please contact
H-Net@H-Net.Msu.Edu. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun  8 13:09:28 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  8 12:10:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC (correction): Ethnos, Volume 71, Number 2
Message-ID: <00a601c68b15$fd1a9670$020aa8c0@Maulwaurf>

Dear Colleagues,

Please forgive me for the re-posting. There was a missing article in the
previous posting of this table of contents.   - AJ

Ethnos,  Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue:   Volume 71, Number 2 / June 2006
The Anthropology of Unemployment

http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0014-1844&volume=71&issue=2

The anthropology of unemployment
pp. 141-142
Angela Jancius
http://tinyurl.com/kd3k6

Out of work and house and home: Contested youth in an english homeless
hostel                       pp. 143 - 163
Tom Hall
http://tinyurl.com/fva42

Unemployment and disposable workers in Philadelphia: Just how far have the
bastards gone?    pp. 165 - 190
Robert T. O'Brien
http://tinyurl.com/ptzh5

Gendering unemployment in postsocialist Germany: 'what I do is work, even if
it's not paid'      pp. 191 - 212
Elizabeth Rudd
http://tinyurl.com/ftxtl

Unemployment, deindustrialization, and 'community economy' in eastern 
Germany  pp. 213 - 232
Angela Jancius
http://tinyurl.com/on6jm

We are not alone: Anthropology in a world of others
pp. 233 - 264
Fred Myers
http://tinyurl.com/erkxy

Cultural contagion in a new key
pp. 265 - 272
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
http://tinyurl.com/s493z

Book reviews
pp. 273 - 285
http://tinyurl.com/qfznc 


From l_guevarra at ucpress.edu  Fri Jun  9 16:01:42 2006
From: l_guevarra at ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Fri Jun  9 19:47:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: The Tenants of East Harlem
Message-ID: <p0621021dc0afa0468d54@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L:


Dear Collective Behavior Listserv:


The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:

The Tenants of East Harlem

Russell Leigh Sharman is Assistant Professor in 
the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at 
Brooklyn College.

http://go.ucpress.edu/SharmanTenants

"An excellent contribution to the history of East 
Harlem, history of ethnic immigration and social 
inequality in the United States, and finally to 
understanding the phenomenon of the ethnically 
and class segregated U.S. inner city."-Philippe 
Bourgois, author of _In Search of Respect: 
Selling Crack in El Barrio_

Rich with the textures and rhythms of street 
life, _The Tenants of East Harlem _is an 
absorbing and unconventional biography of a 
neighborhood told through the life stories of 
seven residents whose experiences there span 
nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic 
distinctions that divide the community, the book 
portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one 
of the last Italian holdouts; Jos?, a Puerto 
Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by 
side with these representatives of a century of 
ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an 
undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African 
entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and 
landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a 
reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell 
Leigh Sharman deftly weaves these oral histories 
together with fine-grained ethnographic 
observations and urban history to examine the 
ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, 
gentrification, race, class, and gender have 
affected the neighborhood over time. Providing 
unique access to the nuances of inner-city life, 
_The Tenants of East Harlem _shows how roots sink 
so quickly in a community that has always hosted 
the transient, how new immigrants are challenging 
the claims of the old, and how that cycle is 
threatened as never before by the specter of 
gentrification.

Full information about the bookis available 
online: http://go.ucpress.edu/SharmanTenants


From bmm202 at nyu.edu  Mon Jun 12 12:52:28 2006
From: bmm202 at nyu.edu (Blagovesta Momchedjikova)
Date: Mon Jun 12 12:16:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Culture (6/25/06; MAPACA, 10/27-10/29/06)
Message-ID: <d4d6bf681f3f.448d557c@mail.nyu.edu>

CFP: Urban Culture (6/25/06; MAPACA, 10/27-10/29/06)

The focus of this year?s Urban Culture area is the city of the future. 
We seek presenters who explore how political unrest, new technologies, 
travel, preservation initiatives, street performances, and 
architectural experiments affect how we imagine and plan the cities of 
tomorrow. Historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic 
accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of 
highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated 
areas in the city are encouraged. If interested in participating in a 
workshop on ?writing the urban,? in addition to presenting a paper, 
please, indicate so. Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-
paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta 
Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 25th, 2006. This year, the Mid-
Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in 
Baltimore, MD, October 27-29th, 2006. For more information, check: 
http://webhosting.its.psu.edu/mapaca/

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


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun 12 13:21:41 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 12 12:22:21 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Desert Cities are Living on Borrowed Time, UN warns
Message-ID: <009c01c68e3c$59fc80a0$98058696@Maulwaurf>

Desert cities are living on borrowed time, UN warns

? Climate change threatens conditions for 500 million
? But report points to huge solar energy potential

John Vidal, environment editor
Monday June 5, 2006
The Guardian

[The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and 
clarifications column, Tuesday June 6 2006: In the article below, we said 
that "a 310-square mile area of the Sahara could ... generate enough 
electricity for the whole world". Alas no. What the UN environment report 
said was that an area of the Sahara 800km x 800km (800km squared, not 800 sq 
km) could do that: 640,000 sq km, or in square miles 250,000 (not 310). The 
total area of the Sahara is more than 9,000,000 sq km.]

The 500 million people who live in the world's desert regions can expect to 
find life increasingly unbearable as already high temperatures soar and the 
available water is used up or turns salty, according to the United Nations.

Desert cities in the US and Middle East, such as Phoenix and Riyadh, may be 
living on borrowed time as water tables drop and supplies become 
undrinkable, says a report coinciding with today's world environment day.

Twentieth-century modernist dreams of greening deserts by diverting rivers 
and mining underground water are wholly unrealistic, it warns.

But the report also proposes that deserts become the powerhouses of the next 
century, capturing the world's solar energy and potentially exporting 
electricity across continents. For instance, a 310-square mile area of the 
Sahara could, with today's technology, generate enough electricity for the 
whole world.

The problem now facing many communities on the fringes of deserts, says the 
UN environment programme report, is not the physical growth of deserts but 
that rising water tables beneath irrigated soils are leading to more 
salinisation - a phenomenon already taking place across large tracts of 
China, India, Pakistan and Australia. The Tarm river basin in China, it 
says, has lost more than 5,000 square miles of farmland to salinisation in a 
period of 30 years.

The report suggests that Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia have 
used water from the desert very unwisely. Rather than growing staple crops 
such as wheat or tomatoes, it suggests that precious water should be used 
only for high value crops such as dates and fish farming.

The mining "fossil" water, laid down many millions of years ago, was once 
believed to have the potential to green deserts, but is now not thought to 
be a solution - except in Libya, where opinion is divided as to whether 
supplies may last 100 or 500 years.

But the greatest threat to people and wildlife living anywhere near deserts 
is climate change, which is already having a greater impact on desert 
regions than elsewhere. The Dashti Kbir desert in Iran has seen a 16% drop 
in rainfall in the past 25 years, the Kalahari a 12% decline and Chile's 
Atacama desert an 8% drop.

Most deserts, says the report, will see temperatures rise by 5-7C by the end 
of the century and rainfall drop 10-20%. This will greatly increase 
evaporation and dust storms, and will move deserts closer to communities 
living on their edges.

The problems of more heat and lower rainfall are being compounded by the 
melting of glaciers in mountainous regions. These waters sustain life in 
deserts but would be perilously close to drying up if global warming 
continued as expected.

The glaciers in the mountains of south Asia are expected to decline by 40% 
to 80% in the next century with profound effects on large populations in 
Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China.

Much of the water used for farming the south-west US, central Asia and 
around the Andes is drawn from rivers that originate in snow-covered 
mountains, says the report.

Development in the next 100 years is largely contingent on what happens to 
the climate. However, the report envisages that deserts will become more 
popular tourist destinations and that some of the plants that grow there 
could be "crops of the future".

"Deserts are threatened as never before by climate change, overexploitation 
of water and salinisation," said Professor Andrew Warren of University 
College London, one of the report's authors.

"We risk losing not only astounding landscapes and ancient cultures but also 
wild species that may hold keys to our survival." 


From levinger at earthlink.net  Wed Jun 14 07:46:15 2006
From: levinger at earthlink.net (David Levinger)
Date: Wed Jun 14 10:20:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Research Question in Japanese Context
Message-ID: <DF313AA4-C53C-4FB3-B474-73A085E242E9@earthlink.net>

There is a new movement in the United States to get more children  
walking to school.  There has been a decline from over 60% walking 30  
years ago to under 14% walking today.  Most of the work in this area  
has focused on European initiatives.

Despite the Eurocentric orientation of the US movement, there is much  
to be learned from Japan.  In Japan, there is a very organized, yet  
normative practice of having children walk to school in self-managed  
groups.  Unfortunately, I have found no documentation of this  
practice in English.

Fortunately, I currently have a temporary employee who is Japanese  
and herself led such a "Walking School Bus" when she was in primary  
school in Japan.  Shoko is a recent Masters in Public Health graduate  
and will be returning to Japan in July.  I have been trying to  
determine who in Japan one might be able to tap for funding to  
document this phenomenon in English.

We are looking for:
(1)  a cultural anthropologist, urban studies, or sociologist in  
Japan who might be available to discuss the context of such research  
there;
(2)  travel grants for presenting the results of this research at an  
international conference on walking and bicycling here in the US in  
the fall;
(3)  and possible sponsors for future research in Japan

If anyone on this list has urban anthropology contacts in Japan, that  
would be greatly appreciated.

A meta question that arises from this work relates to the slower  
transfer of cultural learning from Asian to the United States.  I  
wonder whether there are any good papers on this topic folks might  
point me to?

Thank you in advance,

David Levinger, PhD, PE
Executive Director
Feet First
1402 Third Ave, Suite 1121
Seattle, WA  98101
david@feetfirst.info
(206) 390-8118 (cell)



From JerryKrase at aol.com  Wed Jun 14 14:43:55 2006
From: JerryKrase at aol.com (JerryKrase@aol.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 18:28:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Program: European Master in Comparative Urban Studies
Message-ID: <26a.b724d43.31c1a4db@aol.com>

 
submitted by Jerry Krase (_jerrykrase@aol.com_ (mailto:jerrykrase@aol.com) ) 
for Yuri Kazepov _yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it_ (mailto:yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it) 
 
Dear Colleagues (sorry for cross-posting)

we are looking for  brilliant candidates who have just finished their BA and
are interested in a  highly innovative, international and challenging  
learning
experience.

For this reason, we would like to draw your  attention to E-Urbs, the new
European Master in Comparative Urban Studies  that has been organised
for the academic year 2006-2007  (www.e-urbs.net).

E-Urbs is based on the long lasting experience of a  group of scholars of
nine prestigious European Universities and Research  Institutions, who
jointly designed the curricula and are involved in its  teaching activities 
(see
list below).

Main objective of E-urbs is to  create a truly &ldquo;international virtual
campus&rdquo;
for the  study of urban issues from a multidisciplinary and comparative
perspective  using innovative learning techniques and instruments.

E-urbs develops a  learning approach, based on the integration of virtual
and physical mobility  and the use of ICT devices, supporting new
interaction methodologies.  Face-to-face lectures are complemented by
online teaching.

IMPORTANT:  The Master lasts one year and provides 60 ECTS credits
and this years' EU  funding will allow to cover the tuition fees for this 
first
year. Detailed  info on the MA syllabus, application procedures, etc. are to
be found at  www.e-urbs.net

Please distribute this to potentially interested  candidates. Deadline for
enrollment: July 30th 2006. Earlier applications  would be appreciated.

Thanks and keep in touch for any question you may  have on the project.

Yuri Kazepov
Director of the Master

E-Urbs  Partner Universities

University of Urbino (Italy)
University of  Amsterdam (Netherlands)
University of Barcelona (Spain)
Humboltd  University at Berlin (Germany)
University of Birmingham (United  Kingdom)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Catholic University of Leuven  (Belgium)
University of Milan Bicocca (Italy)
Polish Academy of Sciences  (Poland)

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

Prof.  Yuri Kazepov
Director of the E-Urbs Master
University of Urbino "Carlo  Bo"
Via A. Saffi, 15
61029 Urbino (PU)

Tel (39) 0722-305739  (direct)
Tel (39) 0722-305732 (secretary)
Fax (39)  0722-305731

Virtual Fax (39)  02-700449274

http://www.sociologiaonline.net
http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/eurex
http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/rc21
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New Book
_http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=14051213_ 
(http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=14051213) 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 15 11:09:49 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 15 10:10:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Second CFP: What is a City? (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Message-ID: <006601c69085$64f4e920$70058696@Maulwaurf>

Second Call for Papers (proposals will be accepted until July 15th)

What is a City?

Western Humanities
25th Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2006

Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


For over 5000 years, cities have been a primary forum for meaning-making and 
place-making.  They have been studied in artifacts, literature, and history, 
expressed in texts,  visual and performing arts, and they have been analyzed 
in their social and physical settings.  Cities have inspired imagination, 
signified aspirations, and they have demonstrated human limitations.

The world is rapidly moving to a new context characterized by profound 
influences of cities.  Indeed, for the first time in history, over half of 
the world lives in urban centers.   No country is preventing urban migration 
and it is likely that populations will continue to grow in scale and 
complexity.

The Urban Age - a cooperative initiative by the London School of Economics 
dealing with the future of cities - notes that after decades of neglect, 
cities in the 21st century are at the center of economic growth, and are 
focal points of social, political and cultural innovation.  The city is now 
viewed as an agglomeration of opportunities, a promising milieu, and as a 
resource rather than a liability.

To know and understand cities - built or imagined - is to know and 
understand ourselves.

Proposals are invited for the 25th Annual Conference of the Western 
Humanities Alliance on the theme: "What Is A City?"

In the spirit of the Western Humanities Alliance mandate to foster 
disciplinary
and interdisciplinary scholarship - researchers from diverse fields of study
are invited to present papers addressing the question "what is a city?"

Submissions are welcome from the arts and humanities, from architecture
and urban design, from sociology, anthropology and geography -
from all disciplinary or interdisciplinary settings able to engage the 
question.


Proposal submissions should be sent by June 15**, 2006 to:

WHA Conference Committee
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4, Canada
cih@ucalgary.ca

** Proposals submitted during June 15 - July 15 will be considered for the 
program.

Additional information on the conference is available on the Calgary 
Institute for the Humanities web-site:  www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH

Proposals should be submitted electronically, be no more than 500 words in 
length, and also include a short biography of each author or participant.

Proposals for individual papers or for complete sessions are encouraged. 
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special journal 
issue of the Western Humanities Review.

For information on the Western Humanities Alliance: http://wha.ucdavis.edu

The Western Humanities Alliance maintains limited funds for graduate 
students from member institutions to assist with travel expenses for 
presenters at the conference.  Eligible graduate student participants who 
wish to apply for travel funding should indicate their intent to do so in 
the proposal.

             The institutional members of the Western Humanities Alliance 
are:

Arizona State University - University of California, Riverside - Claremont 
Graduate University - University of California, San Diego - Reed College - 
University of California, Santa Barbara - Stanford University - University 
of California, Santa Cruz - University of Arizona - University of Colorado, 
Boulder - University of Nevada, Las Vegas - University of California, 
Berkeley - University of Oregon - University of California, Davis - 
University of Southern California - University of California, Irvine - 
University of Utah - University of California, Los Angeles - University of 
Washington - Utah State University - University of British Columbia - 
University of Calgary - Simon Fraser University 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jun 15 11:03:34 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 15 10:30:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Agenda journal on Human Trafficking
Message-ID: <004501c69084$83bea4f0$70058696@Maulwaurf>

Call for Writers to send contributions for the upcoming Agenda journal on 
Trafficking

Deadline:  1 July 2006

At the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for almost 20 years, 
the Agenda journal raises debate, questions, challenges around women's 
rights and gender issues.  The journal provides its readers with a fresh, 
challenging, and thought-provoking read.

Virtually every country in the world is affected by the crime of human 
trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and many other reasons. 
More than 700,000 people are trafficked across international borders every 
year.  Its main victims are women and children.

Agenda intends to publish a journal in December 2006 focusing on the topic 
of human trafficking.  While we, as a feminist media project, will mainly 
focus on the trafficking of women and girl-children, the content of the 
journal should portray that also men and boys are affected by this crime.

Although many women and girl-children are trafficked for purposes of sexual 
exploitation (prostitution, mail order brides, pornography, etc.), this 
issue should work against the common misconception that people are only 
trafficked for sexual reasons.  Common motives for trafficking people 
include sales of organs for transplants and traditional medicines, drug 
dealing, child labor, sweatshops/forced labor, adoptions, begging, etc.

We are particularly seeking writers from the African continent, but also 
from other parts of the South.  The journal wants to give a voice in 
particular to writers of color.

Contributions should cover one or more of the following key areas:
- Sexual exploitation
- Illegal sweatshops
- Child labor
- Sales of body parts for transplants or traditional medicines
- Trafficking of babies for adoption
- Abduction of children for begging and drug-dealing
- Trafficking of girl-children and young women as brides
- Debt bondage
- International/national law and law enforcement
- Relationship between human trafficking and poverty
- What NGOs do to stop trafficking, e.g. the global coalition of NGOs called 
the War Against Trafficking Alliance or The Coalition Against Trafficking in 
Women (CATW)
- How patriarchal values and socialization foster trafficking 
(commodification of sex)
- National and international legislation and its implementation
- (Barriers to) reintegration of human trafficking victims
- Case studies

Contributions need to be written in English language, and in a style 
accessible to a wider audience.  Please submit show of interest, overviews, 
or abstracts to editor@agenda.org.za

All submissions must contain the following:
* Specify the specific key area (as identified above) you would like to 
write on
* Provide a 200-300 word overview/abstract
* Provide full contact details: your name, institution/organization, 
telephone, e-mail, and the country in which you reside/country of origin

Deadline:  Please submit by 1 July 2006.

Background on Trafficking
Many factors have contributed to the drastic increase of human trafficking 
in the past decade, including rapid and varying economic and political 
developments, globalisation, gender relations, improvements of transport 
infrastructures across borders and widening economic disparities.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has researched countries affected 
by trafficking and identified 127 countries of origin, 98 transit countries, 
and 137 destination countries.  Yet, there remains an absence of reliable 
and accurate global data, which hampers global efforts to combat 
trafficking.  Many governments remain unwilling to acknowledge the level of 
trafficking happening in their countries, which leads to a lack of 
systematic reporting by authorities.

Efforts to counter trafficking on a global scale have so far been 
uncoordinated and inefficient.  Traffickers capitalize on weak law 
enforcement and poor international cooperation.  To make matters worse, 
victims are often treated as criminals who may face charges for violating 
immigration or anti-prostitution laws.

Human trafficking is a US$7 billion trade a year, which involves 143 (74.4%) 
of the world's 192 nations.  Just 45 of Africa's 54 countries account for 
31.4% of the global sex business.  These impoverished African nations, 
overburdened by large populations, external debt, civil strife, and heavy 
military spending, which account for only 2% of the World Foreign Direct 
Investment (FDI), account for the supply of about 300,000 women a year.

Global trafficking hot spots
According to a report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 
trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation is a significant 
problem in Southern Africa.  Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Mozambique, 
Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia are source 
countries for trafficking activities in Southern Africa.  Thailand, China, 
and Eastern Europe are the extra-regional sources for victims trafficked to 
South Africa.  Many other victims are trafficked to Europe, the UK, and 
Canada.

Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe 
are transit countries for trafficking activities, while South Africa is the 
destination country for regional and extra-regional trafficking.

Human trafficking is the fastest growing profit source for organized crime 
worldwide, second only to guns and drugs.  The advantage of human cargo was 
that it could be 'reused', unlike drugs, a crime expert explained.  In many 
parts of the world, human trafficking is considered to be dominated by 
organized crime.  Essentially, the presence of organized crime depends on 
there being illegal markets, the existence of which directly relates to the 
actions and policies of governments (law enforcement).

Legislation
Although the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in 
Persons (2000) specifically calls upon nations to address protection of the 
human rights of victims and to provide measures for the physical, 
psychological, and social recovery of victims of trafficking, some 
countries, such as South Africa, have no specific legislation prohibiting 
trafficking as a crime in its own rights, but rely on arresting traffickers 
on other, related criminal offences, e.g. relating to drugs, prostitution, 
violence, immigration, theft, etc.  The South African Law Reform Commission 
is working on legislation, however.

Although many countries have adopted the Convention Against Transnational 
Organized Crime and subsequent protocols with regards to trafficking and 
migration, many southern African countries still have to ratify the 
protocol.

Globalization
Globalization has encouraged new routes and new methods to exploit women and 
children for profit.

Globalization is characterized by a move to more competitive markets and the 
more or less unfettered movement of capital, technology, and information. 
The move to more competitive markets is likely to increase disparity between 
and within nations, providing the stimulus for rapidly increased migration. 
Much of this migration is illegal or irregular, placing migrants in a highly 
vulnerable position and leading to exploitation and trafficking.  Rather 
than alleviating the situation, moves to minimize migration can add to this 
vulnerability by pushing migrants into more and more dangerous methods of 
migration, characterized by the involvement of trans-national, organized 
crime.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) described human trafficking for 
forced labor as being the 'underside of globalization'.  Women and children 
are the worst victims of this.  In forced economic exploitation of labor, 
56% of the victims are women and girls, while 44% are men and boys.  In 
forced commercial sexual exploitation, 98% of the victims are women.  But 
the most shocking fact is that children account for 40% to 50% of all 
victims. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jun 16 11:53:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 16 10:53:43 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Urban Anthropology Book: Alan Smart, The Shek Kip Mei
	Myth
Message-ID: <008201c69154$a3fc7730$020aa8c0@Maulwaurf>

Alan Smart. _The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, fires and colonial rule in
Hong Kong, 1950-1963_.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.

http://www.hkupress.org/book/9622097936.htm paperback
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9622097928.htm hardback

Alan Smart raises serious questions about the standard view that Hong
Kong?s mass public housing programme was a direct and humane response by
the Government to the Shek Kip Mei fire. Rather he argues that the
Government?s response to that fire was grudging and incremental rather
than a sharp and radical turning point, and that the security and
stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the
decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. His research shows
that a whole sequence of major fires after Shek Kip Mei, and the political
costs of the Mainland sending comfort missions to fire victims both before
and after were needed to bring about the final commitment to provide mass
public housing. In his critical examination of the conventional position,
Professor Smart bases his case on a thorough reading of government records
and provides a careful investigation into the origins of the public
housing policy in Hong Kong.

This volume makes an important contrarian contribution to the postwar
history of Hong Kong and is a significant addition to the study of its
modern development.

Alan Smart is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of
Calgary, Canada. His previous book on Hong Kong?s housing was Making Room:
Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies,
1992).

"A major contribution to our understanding of Hong Kong?s social history,
this very readable study of public housing is highly relevant to
contemporary Hong Kong. Alan Smart writes first class history with great
conviction and, based on his own experience of their living conditions,
with a special sensitivity to the squatter family and its struggle for
shelter.
As he reconstructs in masterly fashion the transition from the squalid
squatter colonies of early postwar Hong Kong to the massive public housing
programmes that have transformed the living standards of so many Hong Kong
families, he reveals the government?s reluctant acceptance of
responsibility for providing decent housing for the community. In the
process, he uncovers the serious handicaps of an unelected colonial
administration. Professor Smart?s work is a remarkable piece of research
into Hong Kong?s most pressing social problem."
-- Leo F. Goodstadt
From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Fri Jun 16 08:39:50 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Fri Jun 16 10:54:55 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA with SfAA in Tampa
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060616073531.05b9e330@att.net>

To all:

This is just to let you know that the information on
the Tampa meeting for Spring 2007 is now on line at:

	http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2007.html

Note that as a SUNTA member, you can register at
the regular member rate (check the regular co-sponsor
member box). Also remember to check the SUNTA
box when submitting papers and sessions.

Once again, I would urge you to think creatively on
what you might want to do. More informal round tables,
for example, are quite fine for this kind of meeting. Also
remember that posters and individual papers are also
encouraged--we will package them into panels as needed.

Best regards,

David Haines
President-elect and program chair


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun 21 01:01:43 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 21 00:02:16 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Pen Humanities Forum Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Message-ID: <004001c694e7$730c9b00$b9058696@Maulwaurf>

PENN HUMANITIES FORUM - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
2007-2008 Topic: ORIGINS

Application Deadline: October 16, 2006

Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for  
untenured scholars, who are invited to submit applications related to  
the umbrella topic of "Origins," the Forum's research topic for the  
2007-08 academic year. Fellows teach one freshman seminar each of two  
terms in addition to conducting research. $42,000 stipend plus health  
insurance. The Fellowship is open to all scholars, national and  
international, who meet eligibility criteria.

Full guidelines, ORIGINS topic description, and application are  
available online only: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu.

Questions? Email or call Jennifer Conway, Associate Director, Penn
Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
humanities@sas.upenn.edu
215.898.8220.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun 21 20:29:25 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 21 19:30:04 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative,
	Two-Year Researcher (Ireland)
Message-ID: <005e01c6958a$91f7a7f0$bf058696@Maulwaurf>

Full-time Researcher/Administrator

One-Year Fixed Term Contract, renewable for a second year
Start date: 1 September 2006

The Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative at UCD has received
funding for a two-year project on developing cross-sector research
collaborations and practices in the areas of immigration and 
integration policy in Ireland.

The successful candidate will have (1) excellent administrative skills
essential for assisting overall project management and supporting
activities involved in conducting several small ?seed? research 
projects addressing a variety of immigration-related topics, the 
delivery of a series of public lectures and specialized training 
workshops and (2) working knowledge of research practices and 
basic research skills necessary for such activities as desk research, 
report/grant writing and publication/website development, and
international research/policy networking in these areas and 
(3) familiarity with the social/policy landscape of immigration 
in the Irish context.

Candidates with relevant previous experience in academic, statutory 
OR civil society sectors are welcome to apply.

We are seeking an individual who has fantastic organizational skills,
great initiative, an impressive ability to work independently and with
people from a variety of different sectors and communities, an
enthusiastic willingness to learn, who enjoys a diversity of
responsibilities and being part of a team.

This post will be demanding, however, the successful candidate 
will not only be well supported by MCRI staff, but s/he will have 
the opportunity to take advantage of numerous training and career 
development activities, depending on the particularities of his/her 
experience and career plans. This post is therefore ideal for an 
individual who is interested in refining her/his existing skills or 
making a transition to a new field or area of expertise.

Salary is in the range of ?30,000.

For further details regarding the project and qualifications for the 
post, see www.ucd.ie/geary/research/mcri.html. For clarifications 
regarding the particulars of the post, contact Dr Mary Gilmartin 
(01-716 8417; mary.gilmartin@ucd.ie; School of Geography, 
Planning & Environmental Policy, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4)

Interested individuals should send a CV, the names and contact 
information for two references, and a covering letter detailing 
her/his qualifications and suitability for the post to Dr Mary 
Gilmartin by 5 July 2006. Interviews will be held mid-July.

Essential

*  Excellent organizational and administrative skills/abilities in
activities planning and coordination, managing project records etc.
*  Excellent written and communication skills
*  Ability to work with people across different academic, policy, and
civil society sectors and in a team environment
*   Ability to work independently, thoroughly and creatively, and 
manage a diverse workload
*  Ability and interest in developing project networks in Ireland and
Europe 
*  Working knowledge of social and policy landscapes and/or
research in relation to immigration in Ireland and Europe

Desirable

*   Working knowledge of research practices and willingness and 
capacity to undertake advanced training in areas of research methods 
and evidence-based policy practices
*   Experience of grant administration, grant-writing and other 
research-related reports
*   Advanced research experience or training in general policy or
    immigration-related areas
*   Interest in pursuing a career in an academic, statutory or civil
society field related to immigration or similar area
From anchrist at hol.gr  Thu Jun 22 01:01:13 2006
From: anchrist at hol.gr (Anastasia Christou)
Date: Wed Jun 21 19:30:20 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]bibliographic inquiry  
Message-ID: <324701c69576$0775ad70$fb19263e@oemcomputer>

Dear Colleagues, 

Apogologies for cross-posting and for the disturbance. 

I am interested in locating sources and publications that have examined the impact of education and lifelong learning on the social and economic inclusion of disadvantaged groups, primarily migrants in rural areas. I would be extremely grateful if you could recommend any of your work or direct me to any literature available on the subject. Very many thanks for your time and assistance. 


Best wishes, 
Dr. Anastasia Christou 
From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Fri Jun 23 18:27:09 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Sat Jun 24 11:09:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for papers
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060623172432.05d109d8@att.net>

Please reply to:

Julia Harrison <mailto:jharrison@trentu.ca>jharrison@trentu.ca or
Susan Frohlick <mailto:frohlick@ms.umanitoba.ca>frohlick@ms.umanitoba.ca


CALL FOR PAPERS:  Special issue of Tourist Studies
Engaging ethnography in tourist research

For quite some time, anthropologists (and other social scientists who 
use qualitative methodologies) have struggled to find research 
strategies to deploy when studying tourists and tourism. Ethnographic 
methodology which relies on prolonged interaction with research 
participants can be problematic. How does a researcher sustain such 
contact with highly mobile tourists? But other problems arise as 
well. All too often, for example, interpretive analyses of tourism 
media do not take into account how tourists, locals, and others 
actually use the materials, or ignore the affective outcomes of 
tourist discourses. Nor do they acknowledge the complexities of 
engaging meaningfully with subjects who are both transient and 
reticent to be distracted from their pursuit of pleasure. 
Ethnographic methodology demands that the researcher make sense of 
these realities through painstaking attention to social and cultural 
context that is always complex and messy. Quick in and out won't 
suffice, yet nor will standard ethnographic practice. Fresh 
approaches must be devised. Papers could address questions such as: 
How does a researcher position themselves as being something other 
than a tourist? Does multi-sited ethnography offer a useful model 
here? Do the research strategies and analytical frameworks of visual 
anthropology offer particular guidance? Does the earnestness of 
ethnography need modification to fully capture the experience of 
'fun' and 'leisure'? Does the experiential moment of touristic 
encounter provide the richest ethnographic context for 
research?  Selected papers on ethnographic methodology and the study 
of tourists and tourism will be refereed for publication in a special 
issue of Tourist Studies.  Submissions must address methodological 
concerns, ideally highlighting innovative and adaptive approaches, 
but fundamentally grounded in the basic parameters of ethnographic 
research. We are particularly interested in papers which highlight 
the tensions and linkages in such research between methodological 
practice, ethics and theory, and which explore the dialectic between 
touristic phenomenon and ethnographic praxis.

Please send a 250-word abstract to Julia Harrison 
(jharrison@trentu.ca) and Susan Frohlick (frohlick@ms.umanitoba.ca) 
by August 31, 2006. Full papers will be needed by October 15, 2006.
From wolf0358 at umn.edu  Sat Jun 24 12:35:36 2006
From: wolf0358 at umn.edu (M Wolf-Meyer)
Date: Sat Jun 24 16:01:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Threatening Bodies
Message-ID: <002401c697ac$393520b0$6601a8c0@SLEEPER>

Please Forward... deadline approaching.

 Call for Papers: Special theme issue of 'Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture'

 'Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture' is an open access, electronic, peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing cultural studies work from emerging and established scholars worldwide.

 We now invite submissions for our special-theme issue tentatively titled, "Threatening Bodies: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race"

 Different types of bodies threaten the status quo, through their physical forms, bodily practices, or embodied identities. Such bodies, when read as text, are seen as dangerous to the institution of heterosexuality, gender stability, racialized identities, the nation, and the reproduction of future citizenry. Often, for safety purposes, these bodies must move through spaces undetected. This collection seeks to examine how various bodies both threaten the nation and are simultaneously threatened by the nation. We invite papers that theorize the body through varied frameworks: as readable texts, as lived bodies, as systems, as cultural constructions, etc.  Ultimately, we want to investigate how bodies threaten, trespass, spy, pass, "terrorize" and/or subvert the nation and dominant ideas of citizenship.

 Possible topics may include:

 ? transsexed and transgendered bodies
 ? passing while pregnant bodies
 ? sex working bodies
 ? bodies that have aborted fetuses
 ? racialized bodies
 ? closeted bodies
 ? spy/stealth operative bodies
 ? mental health survivors' bodies
 ? imperceptibly physically impaired bodies
 ? self-cutting bodies
 ? undocumented and illegal bodies
 ? modified and manipulated bodies

 **We are also accepting book reviews and review essays on fiction and non-fiction texts that suit the theme of the special issue.**

 Completed papers must be submitted by August 1, 2006 to threateningbodies@yahoo.com. Inquiries can be made to the same address.

 Final journal to go online in January 2007.

Submission guidelines can be found here:
 http://reconstruction.eserver.org/guidelines.shtml

 Co-editors:
 Jennifer Musial and Emily van der Meulen
 School of Women's Studies, York University
 4700 Keele St, Toronto ON, Canada, M3J 1P3

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jun 26 12:12:57 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 26 11:18:51 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FILM ANN: The New Homeless: Preventing Mass Evictions on the Gulf Coast
Message-ID: <001101c69933$418561c0$89058696@Maulwaurf>

From: David Holtzman <davidh@nhi.org>

THE NEW HOMELESS: PREVENTING MASS EVICTIONS ON THE GULF COAST

While national attention has been focused on the recovery efforts in
New Orleans and concerns surrounding the hurricane season that has
just started, a new, little noticed disaster is in the making as
thousands face eviction and homelessness.

A short documentary on this underreported crisis, "The New Homeless:
Preventing Mass Evictions on the Gulf Coast," tells the stories of
low-income tenants threatened with evictions by their landlords in
Southern Mississippi. The combination of unscrupulous landlords and a
shortage of affordable rental housing has been devastating for
thousands of renters on the Gulf Coast.

The video, produced by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, can be viewed, along with an article on the evictions crisis at:
www.nhi.org/online/issues/thenewhomeless.html



Contact David Holtzman at dholtzman@nhi.org with questions.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jun 27 13:08:54 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 27 12:13:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Resident Scholar Fellowships, School of American Research
Message-ID: <001601c69a04$8a805250$ac058696@Maulwaurf>

Resident Scholar Fellowships, The School of 
American Research (SAR)

Application Deadline: November 15, 2006

http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/description.htm

The School of American Research (SAR) awards six
Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who
have completed their research and analysis and who
need time to think and write about topics important to
the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may
approach their research from the perspective of
anthropology or from anthropologically informed
perspectives in such fields as history, sociology,
art, law, and philosophy. Both humanistically and
scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to
apply.

In addition to its traditional fellowships, SAR, in
partnership with the Social Science Research Council
(SSRC), is now offering up to three fellowships per
year in Religion, Science, and Public Life. Social
scientists and humanities scholars who have a Ph.D. at
the time of application are invited to submit
proposals that examine patterns and changes in
religion as they relate to scientific knowledge and
public debate or action in civil society. The program
seeks to create among scholars conversations that will
further historically-informed, interdisciplinary, and
global perspectives on this topic. Fellows will be
expected to coordinate a capstone symposium on this
topic at a 2008 SSRC symposium in New York City.

SAR provides Residents Scholars with an apartment and
office, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance,
and other benefits during a nine-month tenure, from
September 1 through May 31. SAR Press may consider
books written by resident scholars for publication in
its Resident Scholar Series.

In addition to SAR, several organizations provide
support for the Resident Scholar program: the
Weatherhead Foundation, the Social Science Research
Council, and the Katrin H. Lamon Endowment for Native
American Art and Education.

CATEGORIES OF SUPPORT

Three types of fellowships are available:

SAR/Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Fellowships
in Religion, Science, and Public Life Three
fellowships are available to scholars who have a Ph.D.
at the time of application and whose work focuses on
religion within the context of science and civil
society.

Weatherhead Fellowships.  Two fellowships are
available for either Ph.D. candidates or scholars with
doctorates whose work is either humanistic or
scientific in nature.

Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship.  One fellowship is
available for a Native American scholar, either pre-
or post-doctoral, working in either the humanities or
the sciences

Fellowships for Native Americans

For information about the Resident Scholar Program
contact us at scholar@sarsf.org.

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue Jun 27 16:54:21 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue Jun 27 18:54:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Resident Liaison Manager, Field Museum, Chicago
Message-ID: <44A1B71D.8020309@sfsu.edu>

Resident Liaison Manager
Mixed Income Housing
Field Museum

Job Description:
Resident Liaison Manager/Mixed Income Housing; Center for Cultural 
Understanding and Change at The Field Museum

Responsibilities and Duties: Assist with applied anthropology project at 
Lake Park Crescent (LPC) Mixed-Income housing development in order to 
meet the goals of resident cohesion, resident integration into the area 
and vice versa, and family stability. This will involve coordinating the 
LPC collaborative meetings and activities such as newsletter and website 
for residents, overseeing arts and other community building activities 
including supervision of two full time employees. Duties will include 
conducting ongoing interviews, focus groups, and participant 
observations, rapid qualitative and quantitative research and data 
analysis; writing reports in accessible formats; planning and 
coordinating trainings and workshops for social service providers, 
property managers and collaborative members, providing data-based 
feedback to team and collaborative partners so that programs can be 
adjusted, gathering and compiling attendance data and providing reports 
on program participation, documenting program progress, and assisting 
with grant writing.

Reports to: Director, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change

Requirements: Ability to work flexible schedule, including some evenings 
and weekends. Job includes off-site work for which a car will be 
helpful. Ability to work collaboratively with other researchers, 
community activists, neighborhood groups, and other partners such as 
social workers, property managers, and residents.

Qualifications: Minimum 5 years of experience doing applied research. 
Skilled and experienced with qualitative research design, data entry, 
analysis, and report generation.   Urban and team research experience 
and experience working in African American community preferred helpful. 
MA or PhD in social anthropology or sociology.

To apply: Email resume and cover letter to ccuc@fieldmuseum.org and type 
?RLM? in the Subject line.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jun 28 15:50:02 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 28 22:46:52 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Third Int'l Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic
 and Social Sustainability (Chennai, India)
Message-ID: <000201c69b26$3b59a0f0$7e058696@Maulwaurf>

Subject: Conference on Sustainability, University of Madras, Chennai, India,
4-7 January 2007

Dear Colleague,

We are writing to you on behalf of the Conference Organising Committee to
inform you of the:

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
University of Madras, Chennai, India, 4-7 January, 2007
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

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

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

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short
abstract) is 31 July 2006. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of
submission. Full details of the conference, including an online call for
papers form, are to be found at the conference website -
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join
us in Chennai in January 2007.

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. John Fien
Innovation Professor of Sustainability
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

