From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar  1 18:10:25 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar  1 18:11:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Policy Connect Fellowships
Message-ID: <00e901c63d85$57ca7ab0$a2058696@toshibauser>

Applications are now being accepted for the Policy Connect Fellowships

Subject line: International Fellowship Opportunities
Application Deadline: April 1, 2006

Grant Award: Up to $30,000
Duration: Up to 12 months

IREX is pleased to announce the 2006 competition of the Policy Connect
Collaborative Fellowship (PC) Program. Policy-Connect provides fellowships
to US scholars and professionals for overseas research on contemporary
political, economic, historical, or cultural developments relevant to US
foreign policy.  Fellowships support collaborative teams of two or three US
scholars and professionals for up to 12 months.
Policy Connect applications and supporting materials are available on the
IREX website at http://www.irex.org/programs/policy-connect/application.asp

Eligibility: Fellowships will be awarded to applicants and collaborators who
hold a PhD or other professional graduate degree (MA, MS, MFA, MBA, MPA,
MLIS, MPH, JD, MD).

The countries eligible for research:

Southeast Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro

Eurasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan

Cross-regional: Countries of Eurasia (see above) and Algeria, Afghanistan,
Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman,
Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West
Bank/Gaza, and Yemen

Questions may be addressed to the Policy Connect Program Staff at
202/628-8188.

You may find a list of all IREX International Fellowship opportunities on
the website: http://www.irex.org/programs/grants.asp


Lilly Dornic
Program Associate
Education Programs Division
IREX, www.irex.org
2121 K Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC. 20037
Phone: (202)-628-8188 x140
Fax: (202)-628-8189
Email: ldornic@irex.org


From nfs203 at nyu.edu  Wed Mar  1 09:53:48 2006
From: nfs203 at nyu.edu (Nina F Siulc)
Date: Wed Mar  1 18:11:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]job posting Vera Institute of Justice
Message-ID: <e568acd42a6c4.2a6c4e568acd4@nyu.edu>

Please post. 

Director of Research
Vera Institute of Justice 
New York, New York

The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization founded in 
1961, is dedicated to improving the services and processes the public 
relies on for safety and justice. Widely recognized for the central 
role research has played in the Institute?s work since its inception, 
Vera conducts research and evaluation of key systemic and emerging 
justice issues as well as current policy and programmatic responses to 
those problems.  High quality, timely research is important to the 
Institute?s mission to develop, operate and study affordable programs 
and policies and to communicate that knowledge to constituents 
positioned to use it effectively. Located in the Woolworth Building 
across from City Hall in Manhattan, and with New York City as its 
research and programmatic base, the Institute also works extensively 
at the national and international level, providing assistance to 
local, state, federal, and international public officials and to 
policy, community and nonprofit leaders to advance justice and 
safety.  In the next three to five years, Vera?s work will emphasize 
sentencing and corrections, youth justice, immigrants and the justice 
system, child welfare and domestic violence.

Director of Research: The Vera Institute seeks an experienced, senior 
researcher to serve as its Director of Research.  This position 
reports directly to the Director of the Institute.  The Research 
Director develops the Institute?s research program; oversees its 
research portfolio and the development of research funding 
applications; deploys, manages and supervises all research staff, and 
is responsible for overseeing all research designs and products. The 
Research Director position is supported by a full-time Administrative 
Director.

Some research staff in the Institute are located in subject matter 
centers, conducting research in close collaboration with experienced 
Vera planning, technical assistance and program staff on specific 
projects, and developing new initiatives in these substantive areas.  
Research staff also work outside subject matter centers on research 
and development in other areas of interest, including, for example, 
substance abuse and mental health.  Overall coordination of Vera?s 
research with the programmatic work of the Institute is the 
responsibility of the Research Director and the Institute?s Chief 
Program Officer who also reports to the Vera Director.

Qualifications: Candidates are required to have a PhD in a relevant 
field of research, substantive expertise in several areas in which the 
Institute is working, and familiarity with justice and criminal 
justice issues generally.  This expertise should be reflected in a 
candidate?s record of scholarship and publications in peer-reviewed 
journals.  Equally as important, a candidate?s background should 
exhibit an enthusiasm for intellectual exchange with practitioners, 
public officials, and policy planners seeking practical reforms as 
well as with other scholars and researchers. Candidates should be able 
to maintain a non-partisan and effective collaboration with public 
officials, community groups, funders, and government officials.

Candidates should have demonstrated skills leading, developing, and 
managing social science research; an ability to sustain a diverse and 
respectful work environment; experience managing research and 
organizational budgets, and a record of successful competition for and 
fulfillment of government and philanthropic research grants and 
contracts.  Excellent oral and written communication skills are 
important as is an ability to adapt scientific materials for policy 
and general audiences.  

Salary: Highly competitive; excellent benefits.
 
Availability:  Immediate

Contact:  Send curriculum vitae, cover letter and salary requirements 
to:

                        Sally T. Hillsman, PhD, Chair, Search Committee

                        Vera Institute of Justice

                        233 Broadway, 12th floor

                        New York, NY 10279

                        Fax: 212-941-9407

                        Email: job.res.director@vera.org

The Vera Institute of Justice values diversity and is an equal 
opportunity employer.

www.vera.org

02/06

Nina Siulc
Senior Research Associate
Immigration and Justice Program
Vera Institute of Justice
233 Broadway, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10279
(212) 376-3130
nsiulc@vera.org
www.vera.org



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar  3 12:08:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar  3 12:19:04 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Eighth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Message-ID: <009501c63ee6$7a699da0$54058696@toshibauser>

The Eighth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference is now open for
registration.
http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ethnography


Saturday, April 15, 2006
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago
1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.


With keynote speeches by:


Harvey Molotch
Professor of Metropolitan Studies and Sociology,
New York University

Malika Zeghal
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion,
University of Chicago Divinity School

The Chicago Ethnography Conference is an interdisciplinary graduate student
conference with an emphasis on field observation, in-depth interviews, focus
group interviews, auto-ethnography, visual ethnography, and other forms of
qualitative research. Several dozen papers will be presented on a wide range
of topics including culture, ethnicity, gender, globalization, methodology,
and politics.


Register by March 31 at:
http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ethnography


Conference sponsors include:
DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University,
Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, University of
Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Prentice Hall, and American
Journal of Sociology.


Please circulate this announcement to all who may be interested.


Inquiries may be directed to ethnoconf2006@gmail.com.


--
Chicago Ethnography Conference

http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ethnography


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar  3 12:21:52 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar  3 12:22:35 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: UNESCO Fellowships in Support of Priority Program Areas
Message-ID: <00bf01c63ee6$fdd54310$54058696@toshibauser>

UNESCO Fellowships Program in Support of Priority Programme Areas
(2006-2007)

Awards up to $15,000
Deadline:  April 30, 2006

The fellowships offered under this scheme are of short term duration, from
one to six months for completion between September 1 2006 and December 31
2007, and are intended for specialized training at the post-graduate level.
Candidates should be promising and qualified specialists who seek to
undertake advanced research or to upgrade their skills and knowledge of
state-of-the-art developments in their field of study or work.

Principal priority areas are:
*  Education - basic education for all, with special attention being given
to literacy, HIV/AIDS prevention and education, and teacher training in
sub-Saharan Africa
*  Sciences - water and associated ecosystems
*  Social and Human Sciences - ethics of science and technology, with
emphasis on bioethics
*  Culture - promoting cultural diversity, with special emphasis on the
tangible and intangible heritage
*  Communication and Information - empowering people through access to
information and knowledge with special emphasis on freedom of expression

Applications will be accepted from graduate and post-graduate candidates for
study abroad wishing to pursue training, undertake advanced research,
upgrade skills, or attend specialized or refresher courses.  Priority
attention will be given to women, and those from the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs).  Candidates must have a university degree, be not more
than 45 years of age, and have demonstrated that they possess outstanding
potential that would enable them to make a significant contribution to their
country upon their return.  The maximum cost should not exceed USD $15,000
to cover, either partially or fully, expenses related to the study program.
Should the proposed study program need additional funds, other sources must
be sought.

Contact:
Chief, Fellowships Section, UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
Paris 07 SP
75352
France
Tel:  +33 (0) 1 45 68 13 13
Fax:  +33 (0) 1 45 68 55 02/03
fellowships@unesco.org

http://www.comminit.com/funding2006/fellowships2006/awards-1336.html

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Social Science Research Council Predissertation Fellowship for International
Collaboration
Awards up to $7,000 for International Research and/or Training
Deadline:  March 31, 2006

The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the
Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration (PFIC [see
attached flyer]).  Graduate students from the humanities or social sciences
who are currently enrolled in a PhD program at an accredited university in
the United States are eligible to apply.  Applicants must remain at the
predissertation level throughout the fellowship tenure.  Fellowships may
include up to three months of dedicated research and/or training outside of
the United States.

PFIC specifically emphasizes the importance of international collaboration
on dissertation projects that involve international field research.
Selected fellows will be expected to conduct their research and/or training
under the supervision of a scholar in a country of their choice outside of
the United States.  This collaboration will provide valuable insights on the
viability of the proposed dissertation project and on its relevance,
salience, and reception in the region of study.  PFIC will also provide
fellows with a network of professional contacts in preparation for future
dissertation field work, equally emphasizing regional knowledge and
approaches, alongside the training provided by the fellow's home university
and primary advisor.

Applicants need not have worked previously with colleagues in the proposed
country of research; however, they must make arrangements to work with a
relevant scholar prior to submitting their application.  The SSRC encourages
students to rely upon existing networks of and recommendations from their
advisors, professors, and/or fellow graduate students when searching for a
potential colleague with whom to collaborate abroad.

As a condition of these awards, each fellow is expected to attend two
workshops - the first in May 2006 and the second in late fall 2006 (the
first workshop will be held at the SSRC offices in New York City, and the
location of the second workshop will be determined at a later date).

Full funding for this fellowship and related activities is provided by the
Ford Foundation.

For more information regarding these fellowships and/or to access the SSRC's
on-line application system, please consult the following website:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/PFIC, or contact program staff at
pfic@ssrc.org.

Contact:
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Phone:  (212) 377-2700
Fax:  (212) 377-2727


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar  3 16:11:38 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar  3 16:12:44 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Interrogating Diaspora (EASA Conference, Bristol)
Message-ID: <001801c63f07$1c5e7070$4e058696@toshibauser>

Interrogating Diaspora

Call for papers for a workshop at the EASA-Conference, Bristol, 
18th-21st September 2006

Convenors: Martin S?kefeld (University of Bern) & Erik Olsson 
(University of Link?ping)

The concept of Diaspora has become very popular within the social and 
cultural sciences in recent times. The proliferation of the diaspora 
concept, as it has been shaped in contemporary research, has been marked 
by its separation from paradigmatic cases of "old diasporas" like those 
of Jews and Armenians. The "new" focus is rather on the questioning of 
essentialised boundaries of communities, cultures and nations. In the 
fields of ethnicity, migration and postcolonial studies, "diaspora" has 
been acclaimed as a concept that facilitates the accommodation of 
hybridity, movement, permeability of borders and the fluidity of 
identification. The initial euphoria of "diaspora" seems to have given 
way to certain reservations, however. It has been argued that, contrary 
to theoretical intentions, the concept has served to essentialise 
communities by attaching them to particular places of origin, and that 
the meaning of diaspora has been stretched to such an extent that it has 
lost much of its analytical power by largely equating diaspora with 
migrant communities.

Against the background of such criticism, the intention of this workshop 
is to interrogate the empirical and theoretical usefulness of the 
diaspora concept and the specific empirical questions it raises. Three 
main issues will be in focus. The first refers to the general conceptual 
question of how to conceptualise diaspora in a way that shuns 
essentialism and avoids equating it solely with migrant communities, but 
at the same time secures its analytical and comparative value. The 
second issue refers to questions that arise once we abstain from 
essentialising diaspora. We need to ask why and how diaspora communities 
are formed and how people are mobilized for diaspora. Why are people 
attracted to ideas of diaspora? How are different diasporas maintained 
and inter-generationally reproduced? How are diasporas transformed in 
the process of reproduction? A third issue of interest refers to the 
transnationality that is claimed to be a central feature in diasporic 
contexts. What does such transnationality signify, and how does it 
manifest itself in diasporic practices?

We cordially invite the submission of 1-page abstracts for theoretically 
focused and empirically well-grounded presentations (20 minutes + 10 
minutes discussion) that address these particular questions. Please send 
your abstract by end of April, 2006, to: 
martin.soekefeld@anthro.unibe.ch
and
erik.olsson@isv.liu.se

For more information on the conference see:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/



-- 
Prof. Dr. Martin S?kefeld
Institut f?r Sozialanthropologie
Universit?t Bern
L?nggassstrasse 49a
CH-3000 Bern 9

Tel. +41(0)31-6318963

http://www.anthro.unibe.ch/mitarbeiterinnen/soekefeld.html
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Mar  3 13:34:59 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Mar  3 16:35:51 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Mar. 1-3, 2006
Message-ID: <1141421699.4408b683359a0@webmail.sfsu.edu>

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1. Qualitative Research, Education and Information Studies, Visiting Professor, UCLA

2. Migration, Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
[please note early deadline - ed.]
*******************************************************

1. Qualitative Research, Education and Information Studies, Visiting Professor, UCLA
            The Social Research Methodology Division at the Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
invites an experienced practitioner and teacher of qualitative research
methods as a visiting professor for the academic year  2006-2007.  GSE&IS is
a vibrant intellectual community with an emphasis on issues of urban
education and equity in education.  The visiting professor will teach one
course each term in a sequence of qualitative research methods in education,
a sequence in which doctoral students are primarily enrolled.   (Fall
Quarter,  Introduction;  Winter Quarter, Fieldwork Practicum;  Spring
Quarter,  Data Analysis and Reporting) and will also be available to
students for research mentoring.  Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or Ed.D. in
education or in a social science discipline and must have research methods
teaching experience at the associate or full professor level  (or at an
equivalent level in a research agency or firm,  with experience in teaching
graduate students).

The candidate will be affiliated with the Division of Social Research
Methodology.  The division honors a wide range of methodologies and
interests, and strives to incorporate multiple methodological perspectives
into research and teaching. The  Division of Social Research Methodology
supports mixed methods and has a strong commitment to qualitative work.
TO APPLY:   Send an application letter describing your research and teaching
interests, along with a vitae, sample syllabi, and the names of three
references to the address below:

Sandra Graham, Chair
Department of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1521

SALARY:  Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

STARTING DATE:  September 2006

FOR MORE INFO:  Contact Marilyn Salinger,
staff assistant (salinger@gseis.ucla.edu), Professor Frederick Erickson
(ferickson@ucla.edu) or Professor Kris Gutierrez (gutierrez@gseis.ucla.edu).
Please include "SRM Visiting Prof Search" in the subject line.

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2. Migration, Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) is seeking to hire an
experienced researcher in migration issues.

International migration is an increasingly important aspect of international
relations and has implications for the dynamics of armed conflict and
peacebuilding. Furthermore, migration management is in itself increasingly
conflict-ridden. Growing tensions between migration control measures and desires
for migration has grave humanitarian consequences. Existing migration expertise
at PRIO is in high demand, and the institute is seeking to further develop this
area of research.
 
PRIO was one of the first centres of peace research in the world when it was
founded in 1959. Today it is an independent multi-disciplinary research
institute with approximately 50 researchers. PRIO hosts the Centre for the Study
of Civil War (CSCW), Norway's only Centre of Excellence in the social sciences.
Two international peer-reviewed journals are edited at PRIO (Journal of Peace
Research and Security Dialogue). The institute is located in attractive premises
in central Oslo. For more information about the institute, see www.prio.no
<http://www.prio.no/> .

The candidate would have a key role in developing PRIO's research in the area of
migration.

Research at PRIO is funded by external grants on a project basis. Candidates
must therefore have the ability and willingness to actively develop research
projects and secure funding. Projects in the area of migration will ideally be a
combination of long-term academically oriented projects and short-term
policy-oriented projects. PRIO encourages publishing of research results at the
highest international level.

Candidates should have research experience in some or all of the following areas:

-- Transnationalism and migration-development linkages

-- Conflict-related aspects of migration management (human smuggling, control
measures, migration pressure, migration and security)

-- Linkages between migration, armed conflict and peacebuilding

Candidates must meet the following requirements:

-- Proven ability to develop and achieve funding for research projects

-- A track record of publishing in international peer-reviewed journals

-- Written and spoken fluency in English

Candidates are expected to hold a PhD in a social-science discipline. Highly
qualified candidates without a PhD may be considered if the above requirements
are clearly met. Familiarity with Norwegian or another Scandinavian language is
an advantage but not a requirement. Skills in non-European languages which
facilitate communication with migrant groups are an asset.

Deadline: 10 March 2006

Contact person: Assistant to the Director, Damian Laws (Damian@prio.no)

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar  4 13:12:03 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar  4 13:13:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Tourism and Consumption in Socialism (Paris)
Message-ID: <008901c63fb7$27929240$48058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers: 'Tourism and Consumption in Socialism'
Abstract Deadlines: March 28, 2006

The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and
Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the Fourth
International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility,
to be held in Paris and Marne-la-Vall?e between 28th September and 1st
October 2006. Papers of the panel 'Tourism and Consumption in Socialism'
should address the historical relationship between tourism and transport,
traffic and/or mobility linked to specific characteristic of socialist
systems. Proposals exploring theoretical or methodological issues as well as
those of a more empirical nature are very welcome. In this way we should be
able to analyse the genesis, development and interaction of different
cultures of travel in order to illuminate the various historical meanings of
tourism. For more detailed information on the conference itself, please
follow:  http://www.t2m.org.

The conference language is English (only).The deadline for abstracts and a
short cv (max. 1 page each; Word or rich text format only) is Tuesday 28th
March 2006. Send proposals to wolter_heike@yahoo.de. I will forward all
documents to T2M after designing a concise overview of what the session is
about, why it matters, and how the papers each address the panel's theme.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 30 April 2006. The full text of
papers accepted must be submitted by 15 July 2006 if they are to be included
on the conference CD-ROM sent in advance to all participants and if they are
to be eligible for T2M Awards. All participants are absolutly required to
register before the 1st September, in order to secure the conference
programme. The socialist societies in Middle and Eastern Europe were not
only ,economics of shortage' (J?nos Kornai). Firstly this means, there were
differences in the dimensions of shortage. Secondly it means, that the
socialist countries developed a specific socialist type of mass consumerism
or consumer culture (Stephan Merl, Ina Merkel). This type does not conform
to John Brewer's six criteria of 'modern or western consumer society' (offer
of a broad variety of goods, sophisticated communications system,
development of distinguishing groups of objects, spheres of taste, of vogues
and of style). Rather it followed a discrete logic that is on the one hand
marked by shortage, but on the other hand characterised by a more or less
apparent imitation of a western understanding of consumerism as well as by
the forming of a specific socialist concept of consume and luxury.

As far as tourism history is considered one aspect of the whole history of
consumption is extracted. Basing either on one case study or on comparative
perspectives, the central questions are: To what extent was tourism a
socio-political task and/or a consumistic desire of the population in
socialist countries and how far did the governance understand tourism as
economic factor? Are there any criteria for a socialist type of consumption?
Which values cause this understanding of tourism?

In the session, the single contributions should result in a vivid exchange
about so far largely unconnected research efforts. Heike Wolter
(wolter_heike@yahoo.de).


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar  5 13:46:57 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar  5 13:57:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Education Scholarships in Human Rights for Women
Message-ID: <01bf01c64085$3323f3a0$32058696@toshibauser>

* Graduate Education Scholarships in Human Rights for Women *

The Native Leadership Scholarship (NLS) program creates educational
opportunities for women around the world who are grassroots leaders,
organizers, and activists demonstrating financial need.  NLS invests in
women's leadership and leadership development by supporting non-doctoral
graduate education in human rights, sustainable development, and public
health.

GOALS:  NLS supports study, research, and leadership training, to assist
women in their pursuit of solutions to the critical social, environmental,
health, and economic problems facing their countries and communities.  By
granting scholarships to remarkable women who demonstrate effective
leadership, innovative solutions, and commitment to their communities, NLS
helps develop and advance local expertise and community-based, culturally
appropriate solutions.  NLS endorses non-traditional leaders who are
modeling change and using imaginative methodologies.  Academic study,
research, and leadership training should be based on the scholarship
recipient's present or prior experience working with her community.

COURSE OF STUDY:  Scholarship recipients enroll in programs of study that
cover a range of human rights and development issues at the non-doctoral
graduate level including gender, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, child
exploitation, human and drug trafficking, infant and maternal mortality,
microbial diseases, conflict resolution, environmental justice, global fair
trade, agroecology, and sustainable development.  NLS is a secular program
and does not support programs of study that promote specific religious
beliefs.

SCHOLARSHIPS:  The NLS awards four to six scholarships annually, up to
US$25,000 per academic year for a maximum of two years.  The awards help the
recipients meet the costs of tuition, fees, books, educational supplies,
housing, maintenance, and travel to and from the home country and the
educational institution.  NLS awards are paid directly to the institution in
a student's account.  For women intending to study at U.S. universities, NLS
funding for expenses other than tuition and books is subject to a 14% U.S.
tax.

LOCATION OF STUDY:  Candidates may use NLS funding for non-doctoral graduate
study at accredited institutions worldwide.  The NLS is committed to
promoting the strengthening of research and of institutions of higher
learning in the Global South.  The NLS encourages students to study in their
home country or region provided that the educational institution is
accredited for higher education.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:  An eligible candidate is a woman leader who:
*  is committed to grassroots organizing and the needs of her community or
indigenous group;
*  has proof of a bachelor's or a higher degree;
*  has at least three years of work experience dealing with critical human
rights concerns and other social, educational, environmental, health, or
economic conditions that threaten life or social stability, that
discriminate, or that destroy or deplete her country's or community's
resources;
*  is accepted into a non-doctoral graduate program at an accredited
university for full-time study/research related to her work experience;
*  can show evidence of financial need for educational support;
*  intends to return to her home country to work, utilizing training and
research acquired in the study program.

PRE-APPLICATIONS:  All applicants are invited to fill out pre-applications
(available January 1 through March 25, 2006) on our website or by request
from:  info@nativeleaders.org

DEADLINES:  NLS pre-applications for the 2006-07 academic year will be
available through March 25, 2006 on the website or by request.  After the
pre-application period ends, all candidates will be notified about their
application status.  Incomplete pre-applications will not be considered for
review.  Unsolicited additional documents provided by the pre-applicant will
not be reviewed.  Only a small group of candidates will be invited to
complete a full application.

For more information please visit:  http://www.nativeleaders.org

CONTACT:
Aline Carton, Program Manager
Native Leadership Scholarship
Channel Foundation
603 Stewart St., Suite 415
Seattle, WA 98101, USA

Tel:  (00)1-206-621-5447
Fax:  (00)1-206-621-2664
Email:  info@nativeleaders.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar  5 14:03:26 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar  5 14:05:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 SSRC Eurasia Training Seminar for Policy Research (Public Health,
 Social Welfare Systems, HIV/AIDS)
Message-ID: <021701c64087$8473c4e0$32058696@toshibauser>

Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Training 
Seminar for Policy Research "Public Health, Social Welfare 
Systems, and HIV/AIDS in Eurasia" 

New York City and Washington, D.C. June 6-9, 2006
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 22, 2006

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council 
invites applications for the first annual Training Seminar for
Policy Research, "Public Health, Social Welfare Systems, and 
HIV/AIDS in Eurasia." The seminar will be held June 6-9, 2006 
at the SSRC offices in New York City and the Kennan Institute 
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 
Washington D.C. Advanced graduate students and junior 
faculty in the social sciences, humanities and other relevant
disciplines who are working on health-related and/or other 
relevant topics with respect to Eurasia are encouraged to apply.

Candidates need not be working exclusively on topics of 
HIV/AIDS in Eurasia; their work may address issues of 
public health, welfare systems, governance, population
change, family networks and community dynamics, risk behaviors, 
and other topics related to the broad rubric of the seminar.

Each participant will be tasked with re-examining his/her own 
research from the perspectives of both interdisciplinarity and
policy relevance. During the four-day seminar, participants will 
discuss their individual paper submissions and research approaches 
with three senior resource persons.  Broader issues will be addressed 
by guest speakers from a cross-section of academia, non-profit, 
government, business and international organizations. Participants 
will benefit from discussions of their own research, expand their 
networks within both academic and non-academic circles, and gain 
the skills and vocabularies to better tailor their work to a broader 
audience of academics, practitioners, and policymakers.

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar  6 12:12:20 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar  6 12:13:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Wilson on Connerly, _The Most Segregated City in
	America_
Message-ID: <003001c64141$29497f00$64058696@toshibauser>

[cross-posted from H-Urban]

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

Charles E. Connerly. _The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning 
and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980_. Center for American Places 
Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xvi + 360 
pp. Maps, notes, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8139-2334-4.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Bobby M. Wilson <bmwilson@bama.ua.edu>, 
Department of Geography, University of Alabama

Race and Planning Practices in Birmingham

For the first time, in _The Most Segregated City in America_ , an 
historical connection is delineated between civil rights and planning 
practices in Birmingham. Author Charles Connerly demonstrates in detail 
how planning practices were used to maintain the racial status quo.  It 
is not coincidental that a city that became known as the most segregated 
city in America and the place for one of the most significant battles 
for civil rights in America, also was the South's most industrial city. 
For the early part of the twentieth century, a significant part of 
Birmingham's labor force consisted of blacks who migrated from the black 
belt region of the South to work in the coal and ore mines. These new 
inhabitants needed housing and Birmingham planners made sure that white 
housing was segregated from that for black people.

Birmingham had applied the logic of protecting property values (that 
propelled the zoning movement in America) to the legal separation of 
black and white neighborhoods. In the 1940s, black homeowners launched 
the struggle for civil rights by violating the city's racial zoning 
ordinance, which had been adopted in 1926. Not until 1951 was 
Birmingham's racial zoning declared unconstitutional by the Supreme 
Court, resulting in "the South's longest-standing racial zoning law." (p 
.3).

Connerly poses a critical question: why did it take so long to declare 
the city's zoning law unconstitutional, when the courts had already 
declared racial zoning in many southern cities, including Atlanta, 
unconstitutional?  In answering this question, Connerly distinguishes 
the planning practices in Birmingham from other southern cities. Racial 
zoning ordinances were often prepared by planners. To challenge 
Birmingham's racial zoning was to challenge the city's comprehensive 
plan. But more important, black citizens of Birmingham who wanted change 
were impaired by the intimidating strength of the white power structure, 
the organizational weakness of the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the absence of black voting 
power. Not until after World War II did the NAACP take up the zoning 
issue. The city also made wide use of the "separate but equal" doctrine, 
which remained legally intact until the 1954 _Brown_ decision. By 
invoking a "separate but equal" clause in its zoning enabling statute, 
the city took advantage of the fact that the Supreme Court had not ruled 
that doctrine unconstitutional.

Although the city invoked the "separate but equal" clause in its zoning 
statute, there was no equality in racial zoning. The uniqueness of lots 
and neighborhoods made them inherently unequal, reinforcing inequality 
between black and white neighborhoods. Black neighborhoods were more 
likely than white neighborhoods to be located in or near flood-prone 
areas and industrial sites and were four times more likely than white 
neighborhoods to contain heavy industry. Birmingham argued that its 
racial zoning only restricted access to the property, not the purchase 
and ownership of the property, and therefore the rights of an individual 
to participate in the marketplace were not violated. But such legal 
reasoning on the part of Birmingham was not consistent with what the 
court said in _Buchanan v. Warley_ (1917), which tied the right of 
ownership to the use and occupation of the property.
 
Connerly argues that racial zoning undermined urban housing markets and 
this eventually led to its downfall. The 1926 zoning code provided only 
one black neighborhood for single-family housing and little or no new 
housing opportunities for black citizens. There was no "filtering" or 
"trickle down" of houses and neighborhoods from whites to blacks. As 
early as 1923, Birmingham prevented the entry of blacks into white 
neighborhoods, resulting in a dual housing market, one black, one white. 
After 1945, neighborhoods zoned for blacks could not accommodate the 
growth of the black population.  
 
Urban renewal provided Birmingham with the means to relocate blacks (p. 
103), a capability that racial zoning had not offered. The city had no 
problem in identifying neighborhoods with blighted conditions that fit 
the federal government's requirement for urban renewal. Highway 
development reinforced racial boundaries. Interstate 65, for example, 
became a buffer between the city's west side black neighborhoods and the 
central business district. Connerly is quick to note, however, that 
there is no evidence that city leaders, including Bull Connor, 
deliberately used highways as buffers between black and white 
neighborhoods. Yet, the effect of highway development was to reinforce 
some of the boundaries on the 1926 racial zoning map, such as part of 
the I-65 corridor. Due to significant dislocation of the city's black 
population by urban renewal and highway development, racial change in 
neighborhoods began to take place in the 1960s. By 1980, the majority of 
the city's inhabitants were black, the opposite of what white residents 
wanted.
 
The black community did not remain passive toward these racialized 
planning practices. As agents, blacks were capable of doing things that 
made a difference, that is, to exercise some sort of power and 
self-reliance. In his discussion of the black planning tradition and 
neighborhood empowerment in Birmingham, Connerly might have found Michel 
de Certeau's _The Practice of Everyday Life_ useful to put his 
historical discussion into a theoretical framework [1]. In analyzing 
everyday practices, de Certeau made a distinction between "strategy," 
which requires its own space, and "tactic," which lacks its own space. 
Black citizens in Birmingham often did not have the means to keep to 
themselves, to withdraw and plan a general strategy. Blacks were 
intimidated in their neighborhoods and churches. There was no space to 
withdraw to for strategizing.  In exercising power, blacks, therefore, 
had to operate tactically, manipulating and diverting the space of the 
other, the white-dominated space. We learn that Birmingham's history of 
terrorist bombing began with blacks' tactical resistance to racial 
zoning. Connerly explains that black leaders and the NAACP waited for 
the right test case to end racial zoning, the legalized landscape of 
segregation. De Certeau would have called this a tactical move, playing 
by the rules to divert the white-dominated space for one's own use.  

In exercising power, blacks also attempted to produce their own space, 
where they could strategize responses to threats from the white power 
structure. According to de Certeau, to have a strategy is to postulate a 
place that can be delimited as one's own and serve as a base from which 
targets or threats from the outside can be managed.[2] 
Neighborhood-based civic leagues, which had existed in Birmingham since 
the 1920s, provided this space for blacks. These civic leagues chiefly 
relied on two strategies for improved services: petitioning local 
government and self-help.

With adoption of the 1974 Citizen Participation Plan, Birmingham 
developed one of most comprehensive neighborhood-based citizen 
participation programs in America, reversing "the city's longtime 
tradition of denying its black citizens the opportunity to participate 
in the planning process" (p. 241). From these Citizen Participation 
Program neighborhood associations, blacks were able to develop a 
political strategy that led to the election of Richard Arrington as the 
first black mayor of Birmingham.

Readers not familiar with the local history of Birmingham may get lost 
in some of the details provided in this work, but students of race and 
planning will come away with a better understanding of how planning 
practices constructed and reinforced race-connected practices in 
Birmingham, "America's Johannesburg."

Notes

[1]. Michel de Certeau, _The Practice of Everyday Life_, trans. Steven 
F. Rendall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), p. 36.

[2]. Ibid.


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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar  7 22:41:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  7 22:42:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with
 the Urban Realm
Message-ID: <005901c64262$36e0d3d0$be058696@toshibauser>

From: Rachel Esner <R.Esner@uva.nl>

Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm

11-12 May 2006
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Het Trippenhuis
Kloveniersburgwal 29
1011 JV Amsterdam

Since 1945, the world's metropolises have undergone both growth and decline.
These developments have brought not only economic and social change, but
also cultural transformations that have found their reflection in all
artistic media. The physical and mental city has proven a fertile breeding
ground for the visual arts, film, graphic design, and the written word.
Furthermore, while cities continue to generate and project a unique
identity, they have also become globalized commodities in themselves. The
products of these interactions and their precise mechanisms are the subjects
of this conference. How have artists, filmmakers, designers and writers
dealt with the singularity, complexity and diversity of their surroundings?
In what ways does the metropolis contribute to their work? How have they
absorbed and transformed their various environments? And how do these works
alter the city and our perception of it? What role does contemporary "city
branding" play and how does a city "remember"? Art and the City: A
Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm will bring together
around 40 international scholars for a two-day symposium on this important
topic, among them Malcolm Miles (UK), M. Christine Boyer (US), and Thomas
A.P. van Leeuwen (NL).

Organizers:

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Institute of Culture and History, UvA
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), UvA
Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte/Rietveld Academie

A conference website will be launched at the end of March:
www.artandthecity.nl


Conference Program:

Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm

Please note that this program is subject to change

Thursday, 11 May

9.00-9.30Registration
9.30-9.40Welcome by organizing committee
9.40-10.30Keynote lecture: Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth Recreating
a Public Sphere?
Tea/coffee break

Session 1: City Branding (Moderator: To be announced)

10.45-11.10     Roemer van Toorn, Berlage Instituut, Amsterdam Towards a
practice of dissensus. Aesthetics as form of politics

11.10-11.35     Venda Louise Pollock, University of Glasgow Cultivating the
Past for a Changing Present: Public Art in Urban Regeneration

12.00-12.25 Michael Wintle, Universiteit van Amsterdam Brussels: Visualizing
the EU

12.25-12.50 Ward Rennen, Universiteit van Amsterdam Programming the City:
The European Capitals of Culture

12.50-13.00 Discussion

Session 2: New York into Art (Moderator: Rachel Esner, Universiteit van
Amsterdam)

10.45-11.10     Robert S. Mattison, Lafayette College Robert Rauschenberg:
Urban Diversity and Crisis in New York during the 1950s

11.10-11.35     Joshua A. Shannon, University of Maryland Donald Judd and
the Postmodernization of New York

12.00-12.25 Royce W. Smith, Wichita State University "What Attracts You to
Dark Things?": Imagining Urban Queerscapes in the Art of David Wojnarowicz

12.25-12.50 Susanne Stemmler, Center for Metropolitan Studies-Berlin City,
Music, Text: Jean-Michel Basquiat's New York in the 1980s

12.50-13.00 Discussion

Session 3: Citygraphy (Moderator: Margriet Schavemaker, Universiteit van
Amsterdam)

14.15-14.40 Andri Gerber, ETH Z?rich The City as Poetical Text: Isidore Isou
and Lettrism

14.40-15.05 Caroline Igra, University of Haifa The Individual Revealed:
Narrative vs. Descriptive Cityscape in the Twentieth Century

15.30-15.55 Sabine van Wesemael, Universiteit van Amsterdam The Physical
City and its Mental Spaces Since 9/11

15.55-16.20 Ari Ofengenden, University of T?bingen The Grammar of the City:
Religion and Urban Experience

16.20-16.30 Discussion

Session 4: Cinematic Cities (Moderator: Wanda Strauven, Universiteit van
Amsterdam)

14.15-14.40 Mark Shiel, King's College-London "Celtic Tiger": Dublin and its
Imaging

14.40-15.05 Anna M. Dempsey, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Cinematic Los Angeles: Architectural Landscapes and Dreamscapes of Dystopia

15.30-15.55 Caroline Philipp, Humboldt University Horizontality/Real-Time
vs. Simultaneity of Time and Space: Gordon Matta-Clark's Filmic Interactions
with the City

15.55-16.20 Floris Paalman, Universiteit van Amsterdam Cinematic
Proliferation of a City: Rotterdam in the 1960s and 1970s

16.20-16.30 Discussion

20.00-22.00

Club 11, Stedelijk Museum. Program to be announced

Friday, 12 May

9.15- 9.45 Keynote lecture: M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University New
Orleans: La Ville fatale

9.45- 10.15 Keynote lecture: Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen, Amsterdam Artistic
Blasting

10.15-10.30 Discussion

Session 5: (The) Street (and) Art (Moderator: Jeroen Boomgaard, Universiteit
van Amsterdam/Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academie)

10.45-11.10     Shelley Hornstein, York University-Toronto Curating Place
for Museums-Without-Borders

11.10-11.35     Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University Art During War: The
Street, The City, and the Nation in "La France D?chir?e"

12.00-12.25 Hanna Harris, University of Helsinki Moving Between Streets and
Screens: Urban Spaces and the Italian Telestreet

12.25-12.50 Lara Schrijver, Delft From New Babylon to an Aesthetic
Collective

12.50-13.00 Discussion

Session 6: City Graphics (Moderator: Esther Cleven, Universiteit van
Amsterdam)

10.45-11.10     Miguel Antunes, New School University- New York Visual
Disobedience in New York City

11.10-11.35     Christoph Ribbat, University of Basel Glowing Cities: The
Cultural History of Neon

12.00-12.25 Daniel van der Velden, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht Logo
Parc: Economy, Symbol and
Architecture on the Amsterdam Zuidas

12.25-12.50 To be announced

12.50-13.00 Discussion

Session 7: Urban Memory (Moderator: Leen Engelen, Universiteit van
Amsterdam)

14.15-14.40 Lanfranco Aceti, Univeristy College London Imaged Cities: War
Times and Spaces of Peace

14.40-15.05 Danielle Leenaerts, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles The
Photographic Missions and the Construction of City Identity: The Case of
Brussels

15.30-15.55 Carolyn Loeb, Central Michigan University The City as Subject:
Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin

15.55-16.20 Richard D. Lloyd, Vanderbilt University Sitting on the Barstools
of Giants:
Place Aura and the Contemporary Production of Culture

16.20-16.30 Discussion

16.30-17.15 Closing discussion (with all keynotes and chairs)

Dr. Rachel Esner
Assistant Professor - Art of the Modern Period
Art History Institute
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Herengracht 286
1016 BX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (20) 525 3101
r.esner@uva.nl




From af31 at nyu.edu  Mon Mar  6 21:26:45 2006
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Tue Mar  7 22:57:33 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 The Global City and Media Ethnography: Practice-led Transcultural
 Research  and Media Practice June 12-30, 2006
In-Reply-To: <021701c64087$8473c4e0$32058696@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <C0325995.283D%af31@nyu.edu>

The Global City and Media Ethnography:
Practice-led Transcultural Research
and Media Practice
June 12-30, 2006
Temple Bar, Dublin Ireland
Note: This course is open to graduate degree students and advanced
upper-level undergraduate outside of New York University.

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
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.

 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).

 
 
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,

Contact:
Allen Feldman
af31@nyu.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University



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


Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University



From ecastellanos at gmail.com  Wed Mar  8 08:13:52 2006
From: ecastellanos at gmail.com (Erick Castellanos)
Date: Wed Mar  8 12:15:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: "Immoral Geographies": Corrupting Spaces and Mapping
	the Spaces of the Corrupt
Message-ID: <144f0ec30603080513p7ce5db16qea7f2631ef1ace48@mail.gmail.com>

CFP: "'Immoral Geographies': Corrupting Spaces and Mapping the Spaces of the
Corrupt"

105th AAA meeting in San Jose, CA

(November 15-19, 2006)

Deadline for abstracts: March 16, 2006

Please email abstracts of 250 words or less, in AAA format, to
ecastellanos@gmail.com

"Immoral Geographies": Corrupting Spaces and Mapping the Spaces of the
Corrupt

Organizers: Sara M Bergstresser, Harvard Medical School and Erick
Castellanos, Tufts University

This session addresses the spacialization of risk and danger and the ways
that risk, impurity, and corruption have been constructed in relation to
spatial and geographic contexts.  Physical locations have long been
associated with groups of people; a salient example is the use of "race" as
a categorical marker of geographic origin.  Similarly, the marking of
"dangerous" and/or ethnically-marked parts of the city, or areas associated
with certain economic classes (e.g. the "inner-city"; "Chinatown"; "the
wrong side of the tracks"), provides an ongoing means of social
control.  Infectious
agents can be associated with or named after alien origin or acquisition
(Asian flu; West Nile virus; "Montezuma's revenge"), but they can also
suggest local spaces of danger (Lyme disease, Connecticut).  Along with this
ongoing categorization comes the potential manipulation of spaces and
populations through mapping, neighborhood engineering, and a variety of
labels applied from person to place ("Little Italy"; the "barrio"; the
"madhouse") or place to person ("hillbillies"; "trailer trash"; "fresh off
the boat").

The purposing of space has been carried out under the pretext of containing
supposed corruption by mapping its boundaries.  For example, from the 1930s
to the 1960s, the US government set up a national neighborhood appraisal
system, explicitly tying mortgage eligibility to race. Integrated
communities were deemed a financial risk and made ineligible for home loans.
This policy became known today as "redlining" because both the government
and private lenders categorized integrated and African-American communities
"red areas" or areas where loans were not to be made.  Current debates
surround "gentrification" and conversely the engineered economic devaluation
of property through manipulation of populations and attitudes towards
particular spaces.  There are both special and social dimensions of racial
profiling, commercial zones, red light districts, parks and the homeless, or
prostitutes and street corners. These examples may be pointing to instances
of matter-out-of-place, where people are the matter and neighborhoods are
the place, or where stigmatized neighborhoods are the matter and the city is
the place.

 Children, and societal concerns about preserving their purity often surface
in debates of demoralized spaces.  One can read about concerns with keeping
certain images and activities a particular length of space away from schools
(smoking; advertisements for cigarettes or alcohol; "suspicious"
individuals; kidnappers, drug dealers, and sex offenders; pollution;
"inappropriate" images and businesses).  This spacialization of risk also
reiterates itself conceptually in the emerging practice of mapping internet
"spaces" and marking dangerous online locales.  News programs report on how
parents must keep children away from sexual predators in internet chat-rooms
by monitoring "where they've been."  Mundane manifestations of immoral
spaces appear as neighborhood-level panics about pollution, radioactivity,
molds, lead paint, asbestos, mosquitoes, radon gas, methadone clinics, and
halfway houses. There are continued suspicions surrounding the safety of
areas affected by terrorism or natural disasters ("ground zero"; certain
areas of New Orleans).  Finally, the mechanism of haunting becomes a way for
notions about space and its pasts to remain attached as an immoral haze or
as suggestions of unspoken indelible danger (houses where crimes have
occurred; grave yards; ghosts; and "Indian burial grounds").
From samuel.veissiere at mcgill.ca  Wed Mar  8 12:15:54 2006
From: samuel.veissiere at mcgill.ca (Samuel Veissiere)
Date: Wed Mar  8 12:25:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Invitation to McGill University Conference on Social
	Justice
Message-ID: <20060308121554.q0v8pdrpk0gwgwkc@webmail.mcgill.ca>


Dear Friends,  The McGill University Education Graduate Students 
Society (EGSS) invites you to join us for our 5th Annual 
Multidisciplinary Conference from March 17-18, 2006.? This year we host 
scholars, artists, activists, educators, and learners from all over the 
world and from all walks of life to come together to address the theme: 
?Engaging Social Justice: Opening Transformative Dialogues/ Engager la 
Justice Sociale: Dialogues et Changements?.? The conference features 
two days of presentations and workshops on topics such as community 
art/environmental education, critical development studies, peace 
studies, gender/queer studies, critical media literacy, diaspora 
studies, and more.  The keynote address:? 'Deep Democracy: Social 
Justice in the "Web of Life"' will be given by Dr. Edmund O?Sullivan,? 
Professor Emeritus from the University of Toronto.? He is actively 
involved with the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE and his most 
recent books, apart from "Transformative Learning: Educational Vision 
for 21st Century" include "Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative 
Learning" (edited with Mary Anne O'Connor and Hamish Morrell, 2002) and 
"Learning toward Ecological Consciousness" (edited with Marilyn Taylor, 
2004).

The welcome and plenary address, "The End of Social Justice:  
Privitatization, Corporatization, and Deprofessionalization" will be 
given by by Dr. Joe Kincheloe, our Canada Research Chair. Joe L. 
Kincheloe is professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center 
and Brooklyn College. He is the author of more than 30 books and 
hundreds of articles. His most recent works include "Critical Pedagogy: 
A Primer", and "The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of 
Power". Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg, editors of "Kinderculture: The 
Corporate Construction of Childhood" have recently finished "19 Urban 
Questions: Teaching in the City". Dr. Shirley Steinberg will also be 
participating in the conference
  Registration information is available online and at the conference 
(3700 McTavish).? A schedule is attached for your review.? Please see 
our website for additional information: 
http://www.education.mcgill.ca/egss/conference/2006/.  We hope to see 
you.? Change in the exchange! Rebecca Houwer, Conference coordinator

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 10 14:38:02 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 10 14:39:54 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Grassroots Communication, Power and Political
	Cultures in Latin America & the Caribbean
Message-ID: <029e01c6447a$2a253c20$bf058696@toshibauser>

From: Andrew Carey <acarey1@unm.edu>

A panel proposal:

GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATION, POWER AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CARIBBEAN

For the American Anthropological Association Meeting,
San Jose, CA, 11/15/06-11/19/06

We want to build a panel of presentations on communication and political
culture change in Latin America.  We are especially interested in research
on community media projects (radio, television, theater, etc.).  However, we
are also interested in papers on grassroots transformation projects that
focus their analysis on the connection between communication and political
culture in a local setting.

In his recent review article on the study of political culture in Latin
America, Barry Levitt starts out with a quote from Geertz:

"One of the things that everyone knows, but no one can quite think how to
demonstrate is that a country's politics reflect the design of its
culture.Above all, what the attempt to link politics and culture needs is a
less breathless view of the former and a less aesthetic view of the
latter.The two being thus reframed, determining the connection between them
becomes a practicable enterprise, though hardly a modest one."

(Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973; 311-312.  In
"Political Culture and the Science of Politics," Latin American Research
Review, vol. 40, No. 3, Oct. 2005, 365-376.)

Levitt's conclusion in this article, however, is that recent attempts by
political scientists to make this link are not quite successful.  He also
notes that while anthropologists are doing among the most interesting work
on political culture in Latin America, "culturalist" work is often dismissed
by political scientists,

"for being vague about the object of study and the units of analysis; for
blurring the line between culture and other categories such as behavior and
institutions; and for failing to explain political change.  What is more,
causal mechanisms-how and why a given cultural attribute leads to one
political outcome and not another-are often indiscernible" (Levitt 366).

While dominant modes of analysis in political science may be preserving
conceptual boundaries at the cost of insight, we recognize the validity of
the overall critique: cultural anthropologists' penchant for portraiture and
the gestalt may limit the cross-disciplinary usefulness of our work.

We also feel that one of the crucial missing links in both political science
approaches and anthropological approaches to political culture-and political
culture change-is communication.  Indeed, in Latin America, this link has
been crucial in the past half-century.  Generations of promotores were
persuaded by Freirean theories that communication dynamics were at the heart
of political culture, and that, moreover, macro political cultures could be
changed, one micro-dynamic at a time.

However, the significance of teniendo la palabra is much deeper than that;
its resonance as an indicator of power in both sacred and civil realms in
cultures throughout Latin America suggests that patterns of communication
may map (albeit indirectly) onto patterns of political culture, in very
specific ways according to ethnicity, region, nation, time frame, etc.
Likewise, changes in communication patterns among group members may indicate
shifts in how power operates in a given cultural setting; we might be
inclined to ask whether cultural rules and institutions have changed as
well, and what caused the changes.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to BOTH Leslie L?pez
(leslilo@yahoo.com.mx) and Diana Agosta (dagosta@igc.org), no later than
March 28, 2006.  Papers submitted as part of the panel must be accompanied
by meeting registration fees; see AAA's website (aaanet.org) for details.

(Below is the paragraph from the AAA's general CFP for this year's meeting.)

"Anthropology has reached a critical intersection in its history and
heritage as a discipline. This year's theme, "Critical
Intersections/Dangerous Issues," provides opportunities to explore and
evaluate both new and established links among increasingly specialized areas
within the field. Two standard definitions of the term "critical" are
particularly apt: "characterized by careful analysis" and "designating a
point at which change occurs." We invite papers that showcase collaborative
efforts to analyze pressing issues of archaeological, biological, cultural,
biocultural, medical and linguistic concern by producing new intersections
of knowledge. We also invite explicit critiques of such collaborations by
those who are familiar with the potential dangers of crossing conceptual,
institutional, pedagogical and political boundaries."


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Mar 10 11:52:19 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Mar 10 14:53:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Mar. 6-12, 2006
Message-ID: <4411D8F3.4020001@sfsu.edu>

*********************************************
1. Anthropology/Ethnology, Assistant Professor, University of Neuchatel
(Switzerland)
2. *Two* posts in Migration and Mobility, Professor, University of Neuchatel
(Switzerland)
*********************************************

1. Anthropology/Ethnology, Assistant Professor, University of Neuchatel
(Switzerland)

Un poste complet de Professeur-e assistant-e en ethnologie/anthropologie 
est mis
au concours par la Facult? des lettres et sciences humaines de 
l?Universit? de
Neuch?tel (Suisse)

Description du poste : La dur?e de nomination est pr?vue pour une 
p?riode de 4
ans, avec prolongation possible de 2 ans.
La personne titulaire sera appel?e ? assurer ses activit?s aupr?s de 
l?Institut
d'Ethnologie de l?Universit? de Neuch?tel.

Exigences : titre de doctorat, exp?rience de la recherche et de 
l?enseignement
dans le domaine concern?

Entr?e en fonction : 1er f?vrier 2007 ou date ? convenir

D?lai pour le d?p?t des candidatures : 30 avril 2006. Ce d?lai peut ?tre 
prolong?.
L?Universit? de Neuch?tel encourage les candidatures f?minines.

Les candidatures doivent ?tre accompagn?es d?un curriculum vitae d?taill?
comprenant les activit?s d?enseignement et de recherche, des copies des 
titres
obtenus, d?une liste de publications (pri?re de ne pas les envoyer pour le
moment), d?une vision scientifique et de trois lettres de recommandations.

Les candidats sont invit?s ? adresser leur dossier par courrier postal et
fournir une version ?lectronique ? la pr?sidente du comit? de 
recrutement, Mme
Ellen Hertz, professeure, Institut d?ethnologie, 2-4 Saint Nicolas, CH-2000
Neuch?tel (t?l. + 41 32 718 17 17). ellen.hertz@unine.ch . M?me adresse 
pour les
demandes de renseignements.

Pour plus de d?tails, visitez notre site http://www2.unine.ch/lettres, puis
onglet ? emploi ?

----------

2. *Two* posts in Migration and Mobility, Professor, University of Neuchatel
(Switzerland)

Deux postes de Professeur- e ordinaire en analyse des processus sociaux 
sont mis
au concours par la Facult? des lettres et sciences humaines de 
l?Universit? de
Neuch?tel (Suisse).

Description des postes
?	Un poste : Analyse des processus de migration et de mobilit? des 
populations
(mouvements, mobilit?s et circulations des personnes et des populations).

?	Un poste : Analyse des processus sociaux ? une ?chelle internationale ou
mondiale (mobilit? et circulation des connaissances et des comp?tences).

Exigences : titre de doctorat, exp?rience de la recherche et de 
l?enseignement
dans le domaine concern?

Entr?e en fonction : 1er f?vrier 2007 ou date ? convenir.

D?lai pour le d?p?t des candidatures : 15 avril 2006. Ce d?lai peut ?tre 
prolong?.
L?Universit? de Neuch?tel encourage les candidatures f?minines.

Les candidatures doivent ?tre accompagn?es d?un curriculum vitae d?taill?
comprenant les activit?s d?enseignement et de recherche, des copies des 
titres
obtenus, d?une liste de publications (pri?re de ne pas les envoyer pour le
moment), d?une vision scientifique et de trois lettres de recommandations.

Les candidats sont invit?s ? adresser leur dossier par courrier postal et
fournir une version ?lectronique ? la pr?sidente du comit? de 
recrutement, Mme
Ellen Hertz, professeure, Institut d'ethnologie, Facult? des lettres et 
sciences
humaines de l?Universit? de Neuch?tel, 2-4 Saint-Nicolas, CH-2000 Neuch?tel,
(t?l.+41 32 718 17 17) e-mail : ellen.hertz@unine.ch.
M?me adresse pour obtenir des renseignements.

Pour plus de d?tails, visitez notre site http://www.unine.ch/lettres 
puis onglet
? emploi ?


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 10 23:25:05 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 10 23:26:45 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Migration and Citizenship 1500-2000 (graduate
	symposium)
Message-ID: <003301c644c3$c8bfc3c0$82058696@toshibauser>

Call for papers:  Migration and Citizenship 1500 - 2000
Date of Conference:  October 19, 2006

The History Department of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)  
and the Transatlantic History Student Organization (THSO) are  
sponsoring the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium on  
Transatlantic History. Since 1999, this symposium has proved to be a  
venue for the discussion of comparative and transnational/ 
transcultural character of the interrelations and interactions  
between peoples of the Atlantic World.

Since North and South America have been populated by migrants from  
Europe, Africa and Asia, millions of people have relocated to this  
"New World." These migrants, arriving voluntarily or involuntarily on  
the new continent, brought with them their cultures, customs, and  
languages. Throughout the past these new citizens contributed to a  
distinctive merging of societies in North and South America. We  
invite papers that deal with the multitude of social, cultural,  
linguistic, economic, and political aspects of migration while  
incorporating definitions of citizenship. Students are encouraged to  
use a broad and imaginative interpretation of this topic.

Graduate students from history and other disciplines are invited to  
submit a 300-word abstract and abbreviated curriculum vitae by May  
31, 2006. Authors of papers accepted for a 20-minute presentation  
will be notified by June 30, 2006. Selected participants will be  
awarded a small travel stipend to help offset expenses. Please e-mail  
your abstract to: Paul Rutschmann at <prutsch@uta.edu> and Dr. Thomas  
Adam at <adam@uta.edu>.

Note:  Be sure to include your e-mail and regular mailing address to  
ensure that you can be reached during the summer of 2006.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 10 23:37:03 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 10 23:38:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Global Integration: Toward a Conceptualization
Message-ID: <007f01c644c5$73a7ca20$82058696@toshibauser>

AAA Panel Proposal


From: Paul McDowell <paulanthropus@cox.net>

I would like to field a panel on Global Level of Integration: Toward a
Conceptualization that would extend Steward's and Service's model to the
worldwide level. My own paper would draw on William R. Robinson's model of
corporate transnational integration, which critiques Wallerstein's
nation-centric framework. It might be interesting to have another paper that
supports Wallerstein et als' model and some case studies. (I would reference
Guatemala's indigenous economy in that regard.)

Anyone interested? Please reply through this Listserv or contact me at
paulanthropus@cox.net or at Santa Barbara City College.

Sincerely,

Paul McDowell,
Instructor in Anthropology
Santa Barbara City College
721 Cliff Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
1-805) 962-1961 (home) or
1-805-252-6978 (cell)


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar 11 14:01:39 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar 11 14:04:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Global Integration and the Supranational (Alvin Wolfe)
Message-ID: <006a01c6453e$408c6730$b2058696@toshibauser>

From: Alvin Wolfe <wolfe@cas.usf.edu>

Those interested in Paul McDowell's subject "Global Integration" and the
planned AAA panel on Global Level Integration will also be interested my
work under the rubric "Supranational" published from 1962 to 2005,
citations in the attached Word document [see text below].  I look forward
to hearing more about all such work.
--Alvin

Alvin W. Wolfe, PhD
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida

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Wolfe articles on the Supranational System, with links to copies on the web.


In the early 1960s my studies of the problems of new African states in
central and southern Africa led me to appreciate the importance of
multinational enterprises in the mining and metals industries -- not so much
in their individual actions as in their systematic organization at a
supranational level.

My 1962 paper, "The Team Rules Mining in Southern Africa," was the first
presentation of the network of corporations that is the "team" of the title.

A 1963 paper, entitled "The African Mineral Industry: Evolution of a
Supranational Level of Integration," is the first where I recognize the
development of a supranational system as a major evolutionary saltation, a
significant extrapolation from Julian Steward's evolutionary theory.  As I
described it:

"I found the mineral extraction industry of southern Africa to be organized
in an intricate social system based more on overlapping membership of a
variety of groups than on a bureaucratic centralization of administrative
power. The network binds groups that are different both structurally and
functionally, some business corporations, some states, some families, in a
modern supranational structure that is more than just international. ...The
several hundred mining companies operating in southern Africa are integrated
through a series of relationships that focus on some of the larger among
them. ... Then, in a variety of ways, these corporations are linked with
governments" (Wolfe 1963:153-54).

My interpretations upset American financial interests and the United States
government which were at that time obsessed with the "Cold War" and  thought
I was maligning the West. Papers published in 1966 (Capital and the Congo),
1967 (Economies in Bondage: An Essay on the Mining Industry in Africa), and
1970 (Tanzania-Zambia Railway: Escape Route from Neocolonial Control?) are
case histories, detailing the political and economic consequences for
African development of this supranational organization.

Dropping the issue for a few years, I focused on other studies -- adaptation
of urban families to poverty in St. Louis and the social structural bases of
art in Africa, and then developing internships as a modality of training
applied anthropologists.

In 1975, I was asked to present a paper in the 141st annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York, January 1975,
as part of the symposium "The Mode of Production: Method and Theory." My
paper was the capstone of the symposium which traced human "modes of
production" from primate tool use through a number of stages "upward" to my
supranational system, seen as the latest "mode of production."

I developed that paper into "The Supranational Organization of Production,"
published in Current Anthropology in 1977.  This article presents the
theoretical aspects pretty well, but it was widely misunderstood -
capitalists still thought I was bringing down the West,  and Marxists
thought I was being too kind to the corporations.

In 1980, "Multinational enterprise and urbanism" argues that as the
supranational system develops, states are weakened while cities (and private
corporations) grow relatively stronger.  A 1986 paper, The Multinational
Corporation as a Form of Sociocultural Integration above the Level of the
State," presents considerably more detail on the system, but it is poorly
titled, the title impling that a multinational corporation is itself a form
of integration above the level of the state whereas the "form" referred to
is the system generated by the interaction of multinational corporations,
families, states, cities, etc.

A 1987 paper, "Supranational Networks: States and Firms," remains
unpublished even though it deals with a question that has fascinated me:
Why have so few scholars recognized the supranational system as something
that is truly above the level of the state? I argue that my anthropological
colleagues are, like others, bound by our own culture and traditions to such
an extent that they are unable to study these phenomena with the same
"objectivity" and "relativism" with which they study the institutions of
cultures with which they are less familiar. See especially the section on
"Difficulties of Thinking Anew."

A paper published in 2005, "Connecting the Dots Without Forgetting the
Circles," in Connections expresses my concern that network analysts too
often deal only with the connections and thus fail to see the importance of
the systems at various levels, represented in that article as circles,
clusters, equivalencies, etc., new structures generated by the interactions.
Understanding those new structures is best achieved by using the comparative
and emic/etic perspectives characteristic of anthropology. If one prints the
2005 paper, one must be sure to print it in color because the color is
meaningful, especially for the last figures.

References Cited

1962    "The Team Rules Mining in Southern Africa," Toward Freedom, Vol. II,
No. 1, January.  http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1962TF.pdf

1963    "The African Mineral Industry: Evolution of a Supranational Level of
Integration," Social Problems, Vol.11, No.2 (Fall), pp. 153-164.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1963.pdf

1966    "Capital and the Congo," in Southern Africa in Transition, edited by
John A. Davis and James K. Baker. New York: Praeger.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1966-Capital.pdf

1967    "Economies in Bondage: An Essay on the Mining Industry in
Africa," Africa Today, Volume 14, No. 3, pp. 16-20.

nd(1967)"An Essay on the Mining Industry in relation to the African
Revolution," Paper presented at a Conference on Africa (Session on
Neocolonialism) at Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, April 1967.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1967-Mining

1970   "Tanzania-Zambia Railway: Escape Route from Neocolonial
Control?" In Nonaligned Third World Annual, 1970. St. Louis: Books
International of D.H.-T.E. International (pp. 92-103).
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1970.pdf

1977   "The Supranational Organization of Production," Current
Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 615-636.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1977.pdf

1980   "Multinational enterprise and urbanism." In Thomas W.
Collins, ed., Cities in a Larger Context. Proceedings of the 14th Annual
Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. Athens, Ga.: University of
Georgia Press. Pp. 76-96. http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1980.pdf

1982   Sociocultural integration above the level of the state.
Cultural Futures Research 7(1): 9-16, 22.

1986  "The Multinational Corporation as a Form of Sociocultural
Integration above the Level of the State." In Hendrick Serrie, Ed.,
Anthropology and International Business. Studies in Third World Societies,
Publication Number Twenty-Eight. Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and
Mary.   http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1986.pdf

n.d.(1987) "Supranational Networks: States and Firms." [This document is an
expanded version of papers presented at the Sun Belt Social Network
Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, February, 1987, and at the 86th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Chicago,
November 20, 1987.    http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1987.pdf

2005  Connecting the Dots Without Forgetting the Circles. Connections 26(2).
http://www.insna.org/Connections-Web/Volume26-2/10.Wolfe.pdf


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar 11 15:40:56 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar 11 15:43:24 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Research Assistantship in Latino Immigrant Education
	at Cornell University
Message-ID: <012801c6454c$1e98f6d0$b2058696@toshibauser>

From: Sofia Villenas <sav33@cornell.edu>

Research Assistantship in Latino Immigrant Education at Cornell University
 
Earn a Ph.D. in the field of Education at Cornell University with a research assistantship in Latino Immigrant Education in the state of New York.  This two-year assistantship beginning FALL 2006, with probable extended funding, requires an interest in cultural/anthropological and ethnographic perspectives, ability to speak Spanish, and experience in Latino communities.  Cornell provides a unique learning experience with an individualized course of study emphasizing inter- and multi-disciplinary research and collaboration, including affiliation with the programs in Latino/a Studies and Latin American Studies. The DEADLINE for application is APRIL 10, 2006.  Notification of admission will be made by the first week of May.  Please send a letter of application detailing your background experience and interests, a curriculum vitae or resume, college transcripts, and three reference letters to the address below:  
 
Dr. Sofia Villenas
418 Kennedy Hall
Department of Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853   
Email:  sav33@cornell.edu
Phone:  607-254-5263
http://latino.lsp.cornell.edu/staff.asp




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 12 15:29:22 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 12 15:32:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Interdisciplinary Colloquium: National Scholarship
	and Transnational Experience (North Carolinal)
Message-ID: <01f801c64613$ada5b940$a0058696@toshibauser>

Interdisciplinary Colloquium: National Scholarship and Transnational
Experience: Politics, Identity and Objectivity in the Humanities and Social
Sciences

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
April 6th-8th, 2006

This upcoming colloquium will bring together scholars and graduate students
from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the relationship between
nationalism and transnationalism in the development of the humanities and
social sciences in Europe. The presenters will place new transnational
approaches in historical perspective and will consider how transnational
experience, ideas, and contacts have influenced the production of 'national'
knowledge. The participants will cover a wide range of fields, including
anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, history, literature,
philology, and philosophy. The public is invited and welcome to attend!

In the last two centuries, the nation has been a guiding concept in the
practice of the humanities and social sciences. Nations have constituted not
only institutionalized categories and topics of study, but also the dominant
sites of specialization within many of the disciplines. At the same time,
however the same scholars working in national or even nationalist contexts
have invariably engaged colleagues, ideas, and issues beyond the frontiers
of the nation-state. Whether grappling with far-reaching world events or
confronting cleavages in their own societies, these scholars have found
their national frameworks consistently under threat by transnational
impulses. The result has been a complex and problematic relationship that
remains salient today, even as some scholars recognize that nationally-based
research does not fit the contemporary reality of intellectual, human, and
capital flow among countries.

In response, a number of humanities and social science scholars have begun
adopting various global or comparative ways of thinking about their
respective disciplines. While there are some clear differences among these
approaches, they all share a more transnational orientation that is critical
of the biases and limits of national categories and that makes the national
perspective itself an object of study. Both the shape and scope of these
trends may be relatively new, but the relationship between "national"
scholarship and its transnational context has long been a crucial factor in
the development of the disciplines.

While the national influence upon these disciplines has received in-depth
attention from scholars in a number of fields, the transnational component
remains underexplored, even as it informs much recent scholarship on the
history of the humanities and social sciences. This interdisciplinary
colloquium, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Center
for European Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Kenan Fund of the
Department of History at UNC Chapel Hill, considers the relationship between
national scholarship and transnational experience.

We are pleased to have Martin Jay (Professor, Department of History,
University of California, Berkeley) delivering the Opening Address: "Can
There be National Philosophies in a Transnational World?" Other participants
include Karen Hagemann, Richard Handler, J. Laurence Hare, Jr., Jonathan
Hess, Young-Sun Hong, Johanna Jacobsen, Konrad Jarausch, Philip Kohl, Kader
Konuk, Lloyd Kramer, Suzanne Marchand, Patricia M?zon, Michael Meng, David
Pan, Damani Partridge, H. Glenn Penny, Jennifer Schacker, Justin Stagl,
Philipp Stelzel, Katie Trumpener, and Till van Rahden

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~johannaj/nationalscholarship
CONTACT: hare@email.unc.edu or johannaj@sas.upenn.edu
J. Laurence Hare, Jr. and Johanna Micaela Jacobsen
Department of History
Hamilton Hall, CB #3195,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone: (919) 962-2115
Fax: (919) 962-1403
Email: hare@email.unc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~johannaj/nationalscholarship


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 12 15:38:01 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 12 15:40:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: New New York University Fellowship: Impact of the Cold War
 on the U.S.
Message-ID: <01fe01c64614$de2ba3d0$a0058696@toshibauser>

Center for the Study of the Impact of the Cold War on the United States

New York University is pleased to announce a new Center for the Study of the
Impact of the Cold War on the United States. We will be offering
dissertation and post-doctoral fellowships and a number of summer stipends
over the next five years. The Center's mission is to encourage research on
how the Cold War and the red scares shaped domestic political culture and
foreign policy. We are particularly interested in proposals that deal with
civil liberties, civil rights, academic freedom, political repression, and
resistance. Other topics may include: gender relations, internal security,
labor relations, foreign policy, and political economy. We also look forward
to supporting projects that see the central issue of these years as the U.S.
response to revolutionary nationalism and decolonization in Asia, Latin
America, and Africa.

The Center is a joint project of Faculty of Arts and Science and the
Tamiment Library, a special collection at NYU documenting the history of
Labor and the Left. We encourage applications from scholars whose work draws
on the collections of the Tamiment Library
http://www.nyu.edu/library/research/tam.

The application deadline is March 31, 2006. In order to apply, please send
the information listed below to Dr. Marilyn Young and Dr. Michael Nash
(co-directors), Center for the Study of the Impact of the Cold War on the
United States, Tamiment Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square
South, New York, N.Y. 10012.

1. Copy of curriculum vitae.
2. Short project description (five pages maximum).
3. Statement concerning the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment
Library to the project.
4. Two letters of recommendation.
5. Writing samples are also welcome.

Applicants for dissertation fellowships must have passed their comprehensive
examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two years.

This year we expect to offer one dissertation fellowship, one post-doctoral
fellowship, and two summer stipends. Dissertation fellows will receive
stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for
post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and summer fellowships are $2,000 per
month. One-semester fellowships will be offered at half of the above
stipend. Health insurance is also available. Office space will be provided
and all fellows will have a formal affiliation with New York University.

For more information applicants are encouraged to contact either Marilyn
Young (Marilyn.Young@nyu.edu; 212-998-8610) or Michael Nash
(Michael.Nash@nyu.edu; 212-998-2428).

Michael Nash
Tamiment Library
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, N.Y. 10012
telephone 212-998-2428; fax 212-995-4225
Email: michael.nash@nyu.edu
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 13 13:08:40 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 13 13:09:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Eminent Domain in Detroit
Message-ID: <00d801c646c9$2b735f70$b7058696@toshibauser>

Detroit houses may be razed for a new bridge

By Joel Kurth
The Detroit News
Published March 5, 2006

DETROIT -- Michigan is forming plans to use eminent domain to seize as many as 300 houses to build a bridge to Canada through a neighborhood once labeled one of America's worst white slums.

Even though a controversial $25 million study of a bridge is nearly two years from completion, state transportation agents for weeks have discussed buying or condemning houses with residents of Delray, a onetime Eastern European enclave that's become one of Detroit's poorest, most polluted and forgotten corners.

The plans, outlined in state draft reports, have divided residents of the neighborhood anchored by Historic Ft. Wayne and smokestacks that has a long, proud history, but 30-year string of bad luck.

Some residents view state buyouts as the only way out of an area where homes sell for as little as $8,000. Others aren't ready to declare dead a community so rich in memories.

"What's always hurt Delray is that too many people are always too ready to write it off," said Thomas Cervenak, director of the Delray Neighborhood House, a recreation center amid a $1 million renovation. Next to an Interstate Highway 75 overpass, the center overlooks a burned-out drug house, the city's wastewater treatment plant and a home with a dozen refrigerators in the front yard.

Less than a mile away, at Kovacs Bar, owner Bob Evans is ready to leave. His tavern--once featured in the movie "Hoffa"--hosted one patron at noon on a recent Tuesday. Sitting alone at a mahogany bar, Evans said all he needs is a fair offer--maybe $170,000.

He's tired. Tired of the talk that Delray somehow can come back. Tired of streets that have as many weedy lots or shells of houses as occupied ones. Tired of the cars dumped inside a gutted and graffiti scrawled medical center across the street.

There is no neighborhood, Evans said. "People keep talking about people building houses here. Who's going to want to live next to a wastewater treatment plant?"

Eminent domain--taking of private property for the public good--is always controversial. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down efforts to take land for private property, but upheld Michigan laws that allow it to be used for public projects. While the Ambassador Bridge is privately held, the state has said it prefers public ownership for a new bridge.

The state zeroed in on Delray--named in the 1990s as one of the worst ghettos by U.S. News and World Report--when planners amid a study of a third crossing ruled out richer areas, such as Wyandotte or Belle Isle near Grosse Pointe.

A bi-national commission of state, federal and provincial transportation officials has concluded that, without another link, border congestion will grow so bad by 2020 that Michigan and Ontario will lose nearly $29 billion annually and 49,000 jobs.

The governments are studying the 2-mile-long neighborhood of Delray, but don't know how many houses would need to be demolished because the exact footprint for a bridge won't be finalized until late 2007, said Bill Shreck, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.

State buyouts wouldn't begin until 2008, he said. Bridge construction would last through 2013.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 13 13:16:17 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 13 13:16:41 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 AAA CFP: Dangerous Intersections of Indigeneity in Latin America
Message-ID: <012d01c646ca$3b0c5580$b7058696@toshibauser>

From: Jason Pribilsky <pribiljc@whitman.edu>

Call for Papers:

American Anthropological Association Meeting,
San Jose, CA, 11/15/06-11/19/06


Proposed Panel: Dangerous Intersections of Indigeneity in Latin America

Patrick Wilson, University of Lethbridge
Jason Pribilsky, Whitman College

The rise of indigenous movements in different parts of Latin America has
taken shape in recent decades at critical points of convergence between
indigenous leaders, human rights and environmental activists, church
leaders, and academics, among others.  These movements, rooted in cultural
politics and the articulation of expressions of indigeneity that reflected
these interconnections have also been heralded for strengthening subaltern
voices, working against the frequently violent repression of Latin American
states, deepening democracy, and contributing to the formation of a
grassroots environmentalism.  Yet, as these early studies of indigenous
movements demonstrated, indigeneity is produced both globally and locally,
and as with any element of identity politics, it is co-opted and used for a
variety of political purposes, not all of which may be seen as progressive
or working in the interests of "indigenous peoples" as an
artificially-created monolithic group.  This panel will examine other
intersections in the global and local cultural politics of indigeneity,
including the co-optation of indigeneity by development specialists, medical
practitioners, landed elite, or in the context of the sometimes divisive
politics of local and regional indigenous movements.

While there has been considerable theoretical treatment on the ways
multiculturalisms "menace" and how neoliberal agendas at times skillfully
co-opt multicultural and intercultural social movements, ethnographic
accounts of the ways these maneuvers affect and "endanger" indigenous groups
are still lacking. Asking the question, do indigenieties endanger, we seek
ethnographically rich papers that approach this question from various
angles.

If you are interested in participating, please send a preliminary abstract
(of approximately 250 words) to co-coordinators Patrick Wilson, Assistant
Professor of Anthropology University of Lethbridge [patrick.wilson@uleth.ca]
and Jason Pribilsky, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Whitman College
(pribiljc@whitman.edu) by no later than March 25. Once a group of potential
papers has been selected, we will write a more focused panel abstract to
reflect the common themes addressed in the abstracts.


Finally, below is a blurb from the AAA's CFP to help you construct your
abstract to reflect this year's theme of "Critical Intersections/ Dangerous
Issues."

"Anthropology has reached a critical intersection in its history and
heritage as a discipline. This year's theme, "Critical
Intersections/Dangerous Issues," provides opportunities to explore and
evaluate both new and established links among increasingly specialized areas
within the field. Two standard definitions of the term "critical" are
particularly apt: "characterized by careful analysis" and "designating a
point at which change occurs." We invite papers that showcase collaborative
efforts to analyze pressing issues of archaeological, biological, cultural,
biocultural, medical and linguistic concern by producing new intersections
of knowledge. We also invite explicit critiques of such collaborations by
those who are familiar with the potential dangers of crossing conceptual,
institutional, pedagogical and political boundaries."


From migration at ssrc.org  Tue Mar 14 10:34:00 2006
From: migration at ssrc.org (migration)
Date: Tue Mar 14 14:25:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 SSRC Korean Migration and Development Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Message-ID: <6AE7EEC3D4BE2E44B6907916A5841E1F04E3463F@mail.ssrc.org>

*** Please forward ***

Korean Migration and Development

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

<
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/intmigration/fellowships/koreanprf/index.pa
ge >

The Social Science Research Council announces a competition for
postdoctoral fellowships to support research on Korean International
Migration and Development.  Fellowships are available for research and
writing to be conducted between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007.
Applications are due April 10, 2006.  

 

Funding to support these fellowships has been provided by the Korea
Research Foundation.

 

Goals and Topics:

The purpose of this fellowship program is to foster innovative research
that will improve understandings of the relationship of international
migration to economic development and related social, political, and
cultural processes.  Research will be supported that focuses on Korean
international migration and its developmental implications in Korea
and/or in the country receiving migrants.  Research topics that might be
proposed include but should not be limited to:

 

*         The international transfer of migrants' remittances and their
developmental impacts through consumption, education, savings,
investment, loans, and other activities related to economic and social
development.

 

*         The developmental implications of the movement of unskilled
and skilled workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs for the welfare
and growth of families, communities, and national markets within Korea
and countries of migrant reception.

 

*         The relationship between migration and international trade
between Korea and migrant receiving countries.

 

*         The roles of international networks and organizations - such
as churches, professional associations, extended families, hometown
associations, trade and business groups, political coalitions, etc. - in
shaping economic activities, development processes, and their outcomes.

 

*         The role of international migrants in forming national and
local policies to reinforce overseas Koreans' national identities and
the impact of such policies on economic, political, social, and cultural
aspects of development.

 

*         The implications of migration for culturally based trade and
consumption - e.g. exports of traditional consumer goods to Koreans
abroad; tourism for returning migrants and their children; exchanges of
music, art, cinema and other cultural forms - as related to economic
growth and social development.

 

Applications to research these or other aspects of Korean migration and
development of a contemporary or historical nature are welcome.

 




The Awards:

Four fellowships of $25,000 each will be awarded to support research and
writing that can begin as early as June 1, 2006 and must be completed by
May 31, 2007.  Fellowship funds can be used to cover salary and/or
research expenses.  Applicants are encouraged to seek supplemental
financial support as useful. 

 

Pairs of scholars are encouraged to submit joint applications for a
single fellowship. For example, two scholars based in different
disciplines can propose to examine an aspect of migration and
development from cross-disciplinary perspectives or two scholars based
in Korea and the United States can propose to examine a transnational
aspect of migration and development linking Korea and a migrant
receiving country.

 

Scholars who accept a fellowship will be required to participate in two
meetings with the other fellows and members of the Fellowship Selection
Committee to consider how to link and enhance the collective
contributions of their research.  The meetings will take place June 6-8,
2006 prior to the initiation of research and May 28-30, 2007 after
research and writing-up of results have been completed.

 

Eligibility and Selection Criteria:

Scholars who are based in Korea or the United States and who hold a PhD
in any of the social sciences (including history) are eligible to apply
for a fellowship.  Applicants must be professionally proficient in
English.  

 

Priority will be given to applicants who propose to research significant
questions, will employ appropriate methods of research and analysis,
have backgrounds of prior research accomplishment, and whose project
promises to contribute new understandings of migration and development
specific to Korean migration but with theoretical implications for the
advancement of migration and development studies more broadly.  

 

Application Process:

Applications must arrive at the offices of the SSRC on or before the
deadline of April 10, 2006 and include five copies of the following
documents:

 

1.          Application form;

2.          Project description;

3.          Two letters of recommendation;

4.          Curriculum Vitae;

5.          Demonstration of English proficiency.

 

For application materials and instructions click here
<http://www.ssrc.org/programs/intmigration/fellowships/koreanprf/index.p
age> .


Applications must be written in English and mailed to:

 

Korean Migration and Development Fellowships

International Migration Program

Social Science Research Council

810 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY  10019

 

Awards will be announced and applicants notified by May 15, 2006.

 

For further information contact the SSRC International Migration
Program:

Email:  migration@ssrc.org

Tel: (212) 377-2700 ext. 604

 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 14 18:20:51 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 14 18:21:06 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 AAA CFP: The Global Child: Bridging Developmental and Migration Literatures
Message-ID: <008301c647bd$f27b5d80$71058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Heather Rae-Espinoza <heather_rae1@hotmail.com>

I am writing to seek involvement for a panel at the upcoming AAA in 
November.  I have pasted the panel abstract below.  We are seeking 
individuals who have research that addresses both migration and human 
development.  The main focus of the panel addresses the changing ideologies 
of the family.
I am also seeking a second discussant.  I have a few options, but have 
decided that the panel would best be served in the process of originating 
new ideas and approaches if we found a migration scholar who does not work 
with development.  The reason for purposely seeking someone who does not 
conduct the same work as others on the panel is because then the individual 
would be able to offer ideas/constructive criticism as to how our papers fit 
into an overall literature of migration versus just the segment of migration 
literature that addresses families.

While there has been some outstanding work which blends developmental and 
migration literature, we hope that this panel will serve to address the 
psychological after-effects of migration on societal value systems. 
Developmental literature has tended to focus on static societies and 
migration literature has tended to address the descriptive context of the 
individual or macrosocial forces, rather than internal psychological 
processes.  By focusing on the changing ideology of the family with a 
discussant from the developmental literature and migration literature, we 
hope to establish a union with the research that approaches migration and 
development in this manner.  This will serve to ameliorate our feeling that 
we are straddling two disciplines.

Once the panel is completed (we would like one more paper and a discussant 
at the least), we will be seeking invitation from both SUNTA and the Society 
for Psychological Anthropology.

I appreciate either your involvement or suggestions of individuals who may 
have volunteered papers that could be incorporated.  Thank you.

The Global Child: Bridging Developmental and Migration Literatures
Organizer: Heather Rae-Espinoza (University of California, San Diego)
Session Abstract

This session bridges the recent research on migration and the longstanding 
research on human development through addressing the conceptions of the 
family in contexts of migration to benefit both disciplines.  Migration 
research often describes causality without focusing on the after-effects on 
society, whereas developmental research often analyzes the effects of 
childcare behaviors without focusing on the diverse, dynamic sets of 
influences children experience.  We hope to incorporate the research on 
human movements and on human development to address the after-effects of 
migration on the ideology of the family.

A trend in the increasing attention to transnational communities is to focus 
primarily on the push and pull factors that lead to migration and the 
description of the situational characteristics.  This type of migration 
research helps us to understand the factors that affect modern societies 
undergoing tumultuous change in demography, economy, and socio-political 
structure with globalization.  However, research often overlooks how the 
changing relationships and values have psychological ramifications on those 
who are involved in the migration journey.  The relation of the ?migr?s' 
strategies for their journeys to others' cultural values in the 
collective-at an intimate and public level-merits analysis.  Different 
actors within the migration scenes may blindly accept, partially share, or 
intensely contest all or part of the migrants' cultural values.  Such 
censure or confirmation from home affects the migrant in the diaspora as 
well.  The changing cultural values along with the changing demography has 
led to differences in childcare, which can lead to differences in children's 
personality, cognitive, and gender development.

The papers on this panel bring together these two disciplines which are 
normally treated separately.  Each paper looks at the causal factors of 
migration and addresses how migration alters the conceptions of children's 
needs, capabilities, and natural inclinations.  Rivas's work addresses the 
manner in which the public media, which is influenced by and influences the 
intimate sphere, has participated in reconstituting the family 
post-emigration.  Her positive images of ?migr?s in the media contrast 
drastically with Rae-Espinoza's paper.  Children learn to psychologically 
and socially adapt to the contrasting values of their ?migr? parents through 
culturally constituted and idiosyncratic defense mechanisms.  Horton's paper 
completes the picture of the alteration of family roles from the opposite 
perspective.  While Rae-Espinoza's paper focuses on children's methods for 
coping with parental emigration, Horton focuses on U.S. migrant mother's 
methods for coping with leaving their children behind.  The women express 
distress in an idiom of cultural-bound syndromes.

Two discussants will comment on the papers' combination of developmental and 
migration literature.  Lancy's work, including his ethnography Playing on 
the Mother-Ground in the Culture and Human Development Series, qualifies him 
to critique the papers' attempts to utilize perspectives from developmental 
literature.  xxx will provide critique from the migration literature 
perspective based on xxx.

In addition to work from the migration and developmental literature with a 
psychological perspective, this panel also offers research based on textual 
and ethnographic analysis, attention to broad cultural phenomenon and 
individual psychological processes, and US and foreign-based research with 
established anthropologists and developing graduate students.  This variety 
will provide the opportunity for innovative challenges and insights to 
further this important research on the changing, complex worlds of the 
"Global Child."









Heather Rae-Espinoza
Ph.D. Candidate
U.C.S.D. Anthropology Department



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From lhubbard at uclink.berkeley.edu  Tue Mar 14 15:40:43 2006
From: lhubbard at uclink.berkeley.edu (Laura Hubbard)
Date: Tue Mar 14 19:25:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA San Jose CFP: The enchantment of infrastructures/ The
 infrastructures of enchantment
Message-ID: <web-39581066@calmail-be2.berkeley.edu>

Dear all,

Please consider the following call for papers for the next AAA meeting -- we seek creative 
enagement and dialogue on the anthropology of infrastructures...

Looking forward to hearing from interested participants.

CFP: The Enchantment of Infrastructures/The Infrastructures of Enchantment
American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Jose, 2006


This panel brings together ethnographic explorations of infrastructures as simultaneously 
concrete, analytic and enchanted.  In doing so it seeks to deepen recent inquiries into ?Cultures 
of Circulation? and the ?transfiguration? of forms (cultural, economic, technological, etc) that 
they constrain and enable.  We are especially interested in work that explores the consonance and 
dissonance between infrastructural forms in the world and the forms and modes of affect, 
belonging, consumption and theorizing that they enable, regulate, and mediate.

Glossing infrastructure as both subject of analysis and mode of theoretical inquiry we aim to 
foreground the sometimes difficult movement between ?the seductive sparkle of the ?thing?? and the 
quiet work of the generative matrix in both our theoretical approaches and ethnographic cases. We 
seek to shift scholarly attention from the assumption of smooth and efficient transfers of images 
and information to the messy, haphazard productivity of being struck by the ways infrastructural 
?flows? are subject to the friction of contingency and emergency creating possible alternate sets 
of relations to capital, nation, diaspora etc.

We take enchantment here as deriving from a notion of a ?demanding environment? a la Gaonkar and 
Povinelli and from Jane Bennett?s provocative formulation of ?the agency of assemblages? in which 
persons are ?always engaged in an intricate dance with non-humans, with the urgings, tendencies 
and pressures of other bodies, including air masses, minerals, microorganisms and for some people 
the forces of divine will or karma?.  Enchantment is thus not limited to the sacred or 
phantasmagoric but instead has primarily to do with the notion that non-human materialities should 
be figured less as social constructions and more as actors/actants with material impacts.

This panel offers work that looks at the politics, pragmatics and analytics of infrastructure and 
interconnection beyond world cities, the sclerosis inherent in Cultures of Circulation and the 
failures, distortion and piracy that humble and reshape the infrastructures of anthropological 
theory. We seek examinations of what Larkin has termed ?pirate infrastructures?, of quotidian 
conditions of technological failure and the aesthetic forms and cosmopolitanisms such corruptions 
and para-sites produce. We ask: how are breakdowns in infrastructure recoded, lived, mediated in 
practice and how are these ?failures? productive of alternative modes of organizing time, space, 
and economy?

Paper topics might include: The modes of subjectivity, politics and aesthetics enabled by the 
force, affect and materiality of infrastructures of the internet, mobile phone networks, portable 
audio devices, the built and building world of suburbs or edge cities, road or wall construction 
or destruction, ?automobility,? public service administration, media regulation, the networks of 
distribution of pirated goods, forms and images, the notions of property and ownership utilized in 
varied nodes of circulation, and other instances where failure enables a moment of unexpected 
mobilization.

This panel will be submitted to the American Anthropological Association for presentation at the 
2006 annual AAA meetings in San Jose, CA. Paper abstracts are due asap in order to meet the March 
31st deadline set by the AAA.  Interested panelists should review AAA guidelines or presenters to 
be sure they can fulfill those requirements.

Please forward abstracts to co-organizers:
Chris Vasantkumar, UC Berkeley Anthropology: cvasantkumar@yahoo.com
Laura Hubbard, UC Berkeley Anthropology: lhubbard@berkeley.edu






Laura Hubbard
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar 15 23:56:23 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 15 23:56:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: U.S. Immigration Debate Heats Up
Message-ID: <016501c648b5$fccf6ad0$7d058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Dr. Rachel H. Adler <radler@tcnj.edu>

Hi Urban Anthropologists,

For those of us who study immigration, (and for those of us who do not,)
please read the following and take action.  As scholars we have a
responsibilty to speak out for humane immigration policy.  Thank you for
your consideration.

Best,
Rachel Adler


Subject: Immigration Debate Heats Up! ACTION: Call Sen. Specter on March 15
From:    SIUHIN@aol.com
Date:    Wed, March 15, 2006 5:11 am
To:      info@immigrantsolidarity.org


Immigration Debate Heats Up! ACTION:  Call Sen. Specter on March 15

An appeal from National Immigrant Solidarity  Network
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org

All across the country, immigrants and their allies are making their
voices   heard as the debate on immigration reform heats up! Just last
week, 100,000   people marched in Chicago; 40,000 gathered on the West
Lawn of the U.S.  Capitol;  over 3,000 lobbied in the halls of Congress;
and tens of thousands called  their  Senators during a National Call-In
Day.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT SENATE MEMBERS CONTINUE
TO HEAR OUR VOICES!  The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue
to review and revise Senator Specter's  (R-PA) draft immigration bill
("Chairman's Mark") this Wednesday and   Thursday. Call Senator Specter,
the Judiciary Committee Chair, on Wednesday,  March 15  and let him know:

** I support realistic, humane comprehensive  immigration reform.   ** I
oppose legislation that creates a permanent,  second-class of workers  who
will never have a meaningful path to citizenship;  the "Gold Card"
proposal  is unacceptable.

** I believe the Judiciary Committee should not  have to work under an
arbitrary deadline set by Senator Frist (R-TN) and should  have all the
time it  needs to bring forth a REAL comprehensive immigration  reform
bill.   You can contact Senator Specter's Judiciary Committee office  at:
(202)  224-5225

Useful Information:
2/24:  Draft Senate Immigration Bill Released:

http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0441
2/24:  Partial Summary of Select Provisions in Senator Specter's February

23  Draft  Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0438

Talking Point: Myths about Undocumented  Immigrants _English_
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/CommonMyths-Immigrants-FINAL.pdf

and Spanish: 
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/CommonMyths-Immigrants-SP-FNL(2).pdf

Useful Tools

Tool kit on fighting  state/local police enforcing immigration laws:
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Immigration reform is a big agenda item for Congress this session and
Senate and House leadership seem committed to passing legislation that
includes   stronger border protection and an expanded guestworker program.
The national   tone for immigration reform was set in December when the U.
S. House of Representatives passed HR 4437 making it a felony for
immigrants to be in the  United  States without proper documentation. Also
known as the Sensenbrenner  bill, HR  4437 makes it a crime for any person
to assist an undocumented  immigrant. Contact  the Senate Judiciary 
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http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/IWJ/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3030
 .
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee began considering reform of the
nation's immigration laws by debating various components of numerous
pieces of   immigration reform legislation combined into one bill by Senator 
Arlen
Spector, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This combination bill 
is known
as  the "Chairman's Mark", but its official title is the Immigration Reform 
Act  of
2006. After mark up in committee the bill is scheduled, on March 27th, for
consideration by the full Senate. It has two major guestworker or temporary
worker components and it does not provide a path to permanent residency or
citizenship in the U.S. Spouses and children of the workers would be 
permitted
to come  to the United States, but they would be denied any legal 
opportunity to
work!  Many if not most of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants 
in the
U. S. could apply to stay and work after meeting certain criteria. And an 
unlimited
number of new guestworkers would be permitted to enter the country and work 
for
a total of six years, but the legislation contains no mechanism to   enforce
any violation of their workplace rights.

Tell Your Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee to Say No to the 
Immigration
Reform Act of 2006
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

http://tinyurl.com/ek4wz

Immigrant workers need a real path to citizenship. U. S. workers should
not   be forced into unfair competition for jobs and wages with an 
inherently
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rights
and  a real voice on the job. The legacy of indisputable abuses suffered by
post-World War II workers in the bracero program continue in today's modern
guestworker programs. The U.S. should not expand its guestworker 
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new
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and create an undemocratic,   two-tiered society.

Tell  Your Senator to Support

    *   Enforceable remedies against companies that violate employment and
labor laws for all workers regardless of immigration status
    *   A clear path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million 
undocumented
 workers who have paid taxes and contributed to their communities
    *   Requirements for employers to offer all jobs at prevailing wage and
to  attest (under penalty of law) that hiring foreign workers will not
adversely  affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed
workers in  the  U.S.


=====================================================
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
No Immigrant  Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!
webpage: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

mail:  info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org
New  York: (212)330-8172
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Washington D.C.:  (202)544-9355

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Please join our following listservs:
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-- 
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The College of NJ
Ewing, NJ 08628
609-771-2626 


From bspringer at fmg.uva.nl  Thu Mar 16 13:09:37 2006
From: bspringer at fmg.uva.nl (Bettina Springer)
Date: Thu Mar 16 09:38:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CALL FOR PAPERS - International Conference Urban
	Conditions and Life Chances
Message-ID: <93C44E44-AB70-453E-8A11-8A319E6AA472@fmg.uva.nl>


CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference Urban Conditions and Life Chances

6th - 8th July 2006

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


This is an international conference of the Amsterdam institute for  
Metropolitan and International Development Studies, co-organized by  
the Research and Training Network UrbEurope.

The conference will be an interdisciplinary meeting, open to  
geographers, political scientists, sociologists, economists,  
anthropologists, planners and other social scientists.

Conference Format

The conference will be organized in two types of sessions:

-      Plenary sessions in the morning where invited keynote speakers  
will debate recent research developments and questions related to  
various aspects of the conference theme.

-      Workshops in the afternoon will be focused on issues proposed  
by participants to expose different dimensions of urban conditions  
and life chances; selected participants will present their papers for  
discussion.

Workshops

-    Social interactions and dynamics in the urban region

-    Life courses and time-space behaviour

-    Urban conditions for creative knowledge

-    Area-based urban programmes and new local governance

-    The urban context and exclusion


How to participate?

Participants should register by email in order to have access to the  
conference venue. This can be done online at www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/ 
conference.cfm




How to submit a paper

By filling out the registration form, tick the workshop you are  
interested to participate in and copy/ paste your abstract under  
point 12.

Deadlines

-       Sending abstracts (April 3rd, 2006)

-       Sending papers (June 1s, 2006t)

-       Final program (June 1st, 2006)

-       On-line Registration (June 1st, 2006)








From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Mar 16 06:39:41 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Thu Mar 16 09:40:28 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 SUMMER SEMINAR: Livable Cities in Pacific Asia, East-West Center,
 U of Hawaii
Message-ID: <441978AD.209@sfsu.edu>

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce the Summer Seminar on "Livable Cities in Pacific
Asia: Research Methods for Policy Analysis to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii,
from 30 May to 29 June 2006.  Urban planners, urban scholars and qualified
private and non-government researchers and practitioners interested in
augmenting their skills in planning for livable cities are invited to apply.
The 2006 training program is the third in a series sponsored by the
Globalization Research Center and the East-West Center.  Through a generous
grant from the Ford Foundations a select number of candidates from Vietnam
will have all costs covered.

Please see the EWC web page at  below for further information and
application forms.  If you have further questions about applying, please
contact us at either GRC (global@hawaii.edu) or the East-West Center
(AlexandE@EastWestCenter.org).
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events-ce-detail.asp?conf_ID=563

Yours sincerely,

James (Jim) H. Spencer

Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii
and the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

James H. Spencer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Department of Political Science
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
jhs@hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8928 (ph)
(808) 956-6870 (fax)

http://www.publicpolicycenter.hawaii.edu/
http://www.durp.hawaii.edu/durp/
http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/
http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/Faculty/spencer/spencer.htm

From jhemment at anthro.umass.edu  Thu Mar 16 16:50:21 2006
From: jhemment at anthro.umass.edu (Julie Hemment)
Date: Thu Mar 16 16:54:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: CFP/AAA: Toward a Feminist Public Anthropology
References: <016501c648b5$fccf6ad0$7d058696@Maulwaurf>
Message-ID: <008b01c64943$9fd4d5c0$429e7780@dhcp.umass.edu>

Please post. Many thanks.
> CFP
> -----------------
> Toward a feminist public anthropology: ethnographies of method,
collaboration
> and activism
>
> Public anthropology strives to link research and action, to bring
> anthropological knowledge to broader audiences, whilst promoting social
justice
> and social change.  This panel explores how feminist thought contributes
to
> public anthropology agendas. Feminist work has directed particular
attention to
> our ethnographic practice - it has urged us to critically examine issues
of
> power in the ethnographic encounter, and to consider the politics and
ethics of
> fieldwork in new ways.  Particular attention has been focused on the
> relationships we forge in the context of field- based research and the
> challenges and possibilities of reconstituting our subjects as friends,
> comadres, or collaborators. At a time when many of us are exploring ways
to
> achieve a more socially engaged anthropological practice, these issues are
> especially relevant.
> Important contributions to this discussion might include:
> - The implications of departure from the field and from fieldwork
> relationships; reconstituting relationships with/in the field
> -Relationships within activist anthropology; competing loyalties and
> responsibilities
> - The politics of the writing and representational process
> - Writing collaboration; how to write ethnographically about collaborative
> research processes or activist forms of engagements
> -Issues of reflexivity
>
>
> Please send abstracts of 250 words, along with your name, email and
affiliation
> to Julie Hemment (jhemment@anthro.umass.edu) or Michele Rivkin-Fish
> (mrivk2@email.uky.edu) by March 22.
>
>
>
> Julie Hemment
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> UMass, Amherst
> Tel 413 577 1104
> Fax 413 545 9494
>



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 16 19:57:11 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 16 19:57:45 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Refashioning Urban Spaces in Paris and New York
Message-ID: <001401c6495d$bca98410$76058696@Maulwaurf>

REFASHIONING URBAN SPACES IN PARIS AND NEW YORK FOR THE 21st CENTURY

April 28-29, 2006

A conference co-sponsored by the Urban Studies Program of Fordham
University, La Maison Fran?aise of NYU and the Institute of French 
Studies of NYU

Some of the most ambitious redevelopment plans in recent memory, from 
the makeover of Les Halles to the reconstruction of the World Trade 
Center site, are transforming Paris and New York. This conference will 
analyze the most current urban design initiatives as innovative 
representations of urban space and landscape. The significance of these 
projects and the astonishing public interest in them provide an 
unprecedented opportunity for reflection. They bring into focus all the 
strengths and weaknesses of global capital cities and the unique 
qualities of urban life in Paris and New York. They challenge us to 
enhance our understanding of these two extraordinary places and their 
possibilities for the future.

*Friday, April 28, 9:30am-12:30pm: Principal Design Projects in Paris
and New York*

Nicolas Michelin (Ecole d'architecture de Versailles), Philippe Panerai 
(Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais), Kent Barwick (Municipal Art 
Society), Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham)

*Friday, April 28, 2:00-5:00pm: Connecting City and Metropolis*

Chair: Annie Fourcaut (Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XX? si?cle, Paris 
I), Kent Barwick (Municipal Art Society), Jean-Louis Cohen (NYU), Susan 
Fainstein (Columbia), Philippe Panerai (Ecole d'architecture 
Paris-Malaquais), Thierry Paquot (Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris)

*Saturday, April 29 , 9:30am-12:30pm: Public Space and the Uses of the
City*

Chair: Sharon Zukin (CUNY Graduate Center), Ayala Fader (Fordham), 
David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center), Patrice Higonnet (Harvard), 
Thierry Paquot (Institut d'urbanisme de Paris), Richard Sennett (NYU & LSE)

*Saturday, April 29 , 2:00-5:00pm: Beyond Postmodernism in Urban Design*

Chair: Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union), Colin Cathcart (Fordham), David 
Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center), Nicolas Michelin (Ecole d'architecture 
de Versailles), Gwendolyn Wright (Columbia)

Participants:

Jean-Louis Cohen, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? de Paris VII, 
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of 
Fine Arts, New York University
Annie Fourcaut, Professeur d'Histoire contemporaine, Director, Centre 
d'histoire sociale du XX? si?cle, Universit? de Paris I
Patrice Higonnet, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, 
Harvard University
Nicolas Michelin, Architect & Urban Designer, Director, Ecole 
d'architecture de Versailles
Philippe Panerai, Architect & Urban Designer, Professeur des 
universit?s, Ecole d'architecture Paris Malaquais
Thierry Paquot, Professeur des universit?s, Institut d'urbanisme de 
Paris, Paris XII, Editor, Revue Urbanisme

Kent Barwick, President, Municipal Art Society
Colin Cathcart, Associate Professor, Pre-Architecture & Visual Arts, 
Fordham University
Ayala Fader, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Fordham University
Susan Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning Chair, Graduate School of 
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, City University 
Graduate Center
Richard Sennett, Professor, University Professor of the Humanities 
Sociology, New York University
Anthony Vidler, Dean and Professor, Irwin S. Chanin School of 
Architecture, Cooper Union
Gwendolyn Wright, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning 
and Preservation, Columbia University
Sharon Zukin, Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College and 
City University Graduate Center

La Maison Fran?aise of NYU
16 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
212-998-8750

*Free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first come 
first, served basis*

Conference Organizers:
Herrick Chapman
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Institute of French Studies, New York University
15, Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003-6694
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/frenchstudies/
herrick.chapman@nyu.edu <mailto:herrick.chapman@nyu.edu>

Rosemary Wakeman
Associate Professor, Director
Urban Studies Program, Fordham University
113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023
http://www.fordham.edu/urbanstudies
rwakeman@fordham.edu <mailto:rwakeman@fordham.edu>


Fr?d?ric Viguier
Assistant Director
Institute of French Studies
New York University
<fv6@nyu.edu>
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 17 14:43:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 17 14:44:41 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Orton Family Foundation Fellowship (Social Planning, Ecosystems,
 and "Bridging the Divide")
Message-ID: <00e101c649fb$25edacb0$ac058696@Maulwaurf>

Foundation Fellow: Orton Family Foundation
Deadline: April 14, 2006

The Orton Family Foundation and David and Lucile Packard Foundation are 
pleased to announce a novel partnership to develop new tools and resources 
to help communities in the U.S. better understand and protect the natural, 
cultural and economic resources vital to their long-term success, especially 
in sensitive high-growth coastal areas. Over the next two years, Packard 
will invest $250,000 to help Orton undertake this new initiative, called the 
"Bridging the Divide" project. These funds, combined with Orton's staff and 
technology resources, allow the partners to hire an Orton-Packard Fellow to 
assist in research and other project activities and to develop a pilot 
program for implementing new planning tools and processes in select 
"showcase" coastal communities where growth pressures are competing with 
ecological health.

In light of recent events such as Hurricane Katrina and the looming threat 
of global climate change, Orton and Packard have identified a critical need 
for tools and processes that effectively integrate ecosystem science in the 
development and assessment of community planning scenarios in ways that the 
public and decision-makers can readily understand and act on. Likewise, the 
foundations believe the scientific community would benefit from tools and 
techniques that more effectively engage the public to help build consensus 
around critical ecosystem management measures in the context of broader 
community development objectives.

To support this effort, Orton is seeking to hire a full-time, 2-year 
Orton-Packard Fellow. This new position will work closely with staff from 
Orton and NatureServe, the Washington, DC-based organization that provides 
scientific information and tools for effective conservation, to assess the 
range of tools and techniques available for community planning and ecosystem 
based management; identify opportunities and challenges in integrating 
"social" and "science" tools research; develop methodologies for how to more 
effectively integrate the range of community planning tools with ecosystem 
based management tools; and, initiate a pilot program in select coastal 
communities to integrate and implement a set of conservation/community 
planning tools and methods. The Orton-Packard Fellow will report primarily 
to Orton's Director of Planning Tools and secondarily to NatureServe's 
Science Applications Manager. The Fellow will also work with an Advisory 
Committee set up to provide direction and support for this initiative. The 
position will be based in Orton's Denver, Colorado, office with frequent 
visits to NatureServe's Washington D.C. headquarters.

Position Goals and Responsibilities

Working with Orton and NatureServe staff, the Fellow will help develop and 
implement a new project, Bridging the Divide: Integrating Social Planning 
and Science Planning Tools
to Promote Vibrant and Sustainable Communities. Activities include:

. Establish and maintain a knowledge base of relevant land use planning and 
natural science tools.
. Maintain active and ongoing research of these tools and characterize their 
capabilities, requirements, and limitations relevant to the Packard 
Foundation's ecosystem-based management process framework.
. Collaborate with NatureServe on a strategy to merge and/or integrate 
existing tools databases to create a unified on-line resource adaptable to 
multiple audiences with customized user interfaces and the capacity to grow.
. Work with NatureServe in developing a report listing the prioritized 
tools, performance ratings, and justification of their prioritization. 
Collaborate with NatureServe to ensure high priority tools are described on 
Orton's PlaceMatters website.
. Create outreach products to inform communities of the availability of 
tools to serve their ecosystem-based management needs and groundtruth the 
usefulness of the products.
. Validate outreach product effectiveness through active solicitation of 
feedback and review; modify products in response to feedback.
. Collaborate with other Packard Foundation programs to assess their needs 
and potential contributions relative to the Bridging the Divide Program, and 
incorporate findings into the Tools database and assess the technical and 
practical gaps between "social" tools and "science" tools.
. Research case studies that illustrate these gaps as well as tools and 
projects that have had success in bridging them.
. Work in partnership with NatureServe in their efforts to establish and 
coordinate a network of ecosystem-based management tool developers and users 
.
. Provide training and outreach to help broaden and deepen the understanding 
and use of innovative decision support tools in communities engaged in 
discussions about the future of their region.
. Scope out the objectives and logistics of developing a jointly funded RFP 
for pilot projects in coastal communities.

Key Qualifications

Recognizing this job crosses several disciplines, we will be looking for 
candidates that meet many but not necessarily all of these qualifications.
. Affinity for Orton's and Packard's mission and knowledge of the field
. Commitment to civic engagement, social and economic equity and 
environmental protection
. Strong GIS skills
. Knowledge of ecosystem management modeling tools
. Knowledge of and skill with a range of decision support tools
. Knowledge of database creation and management
. Strong research and writing skills
. Knowledge of and experience with community/land use planning
. Experience with web-based communication technologies
. Excellent communications skills, both oral and written
. Experience working with diverse constituencies and in a variety of 
settings
. Demonstrated team player
. Ability to work independently
. Willingness to travel
. Conscientiousness, dependability and an eye for detail
. A post-doc or highly qualified Master's graduate in planning, 
environmental/public policy or a related field

By April 14th, 2006, email cover letter and resume to:
Mariann Brennan
Administrative Assistant
Orton Family Foundation
email: mabrennan@orton.org

The Orton Family Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.
Salary: Based on education and experience, full benefits
Contact:Mariann Brennan

Email:mabrennan@orton.org

Phone:(303) 964-0903

Fax:(802) 609-0097

Org.:Orton Family Foundation

Web:http://www.orton.org

Dept.:

Address:
Denver, CO 80501
United States 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 17 15:36:33 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 17 15:36:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Chicago Ethnographic Field School
Message-ID: <014d01c64a02$7e178b20$ac058696@Maulwaurf>

Chicago Ethnographic Field School

The Ethnographic Field School is a joint program of the Department of 
Anthropology and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, The Field 
Museum. Through the Ethnographic Field School (EFS), students learn 
ethnographic field methods and conduct a research study in one of the many 
ethnic communities in the greater Chicago area, in collaboration with a 
community-based organization. EFS offers students a field work experience 
with an emphasis on applied anthropology, and immerses them in a local 
community through volunteer service and work with local sponsors. Placements 
are individually negotiated to meet each student's interests. EFS is an 8 
week full-time program. The program runs from Monday, June 19, 2006 to 
Friday, August 11, 2006. Students may enroll for one, two, or three course 
credits. Students will meet once a week for class work in field methods, 
project design, data collection strategies, and data analysis techniques. 
For further information, contact Madelyn Iris, EFS director, at 
miris@northwestern.edu. Permission of the Instructor is required prior to 
enrollment.

Contact Information
Madelyn Iris
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
Evanston IL 60208 U.S.A.
Phone: (773) 343-7809
Email: miris@northwestern.edu
URL http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/fieldstudies/newmex 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 19 20:51:34 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 19 20:51:57 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Internship: NYC ImMigrant Heritage Trail- Summer Research 
Message-ID: <00ae01c64bc0$d4cd0d90$a7058696@Maulwaurf>

NYC ImMigrant Heritage Trail- Summer Research Intern

Project background:
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is to promote tolerance and 
historical perspective through the preservation and interpretation of the 
variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 
gateway to America. Through its tours and programs, the Museum is committed 
to offering history as a tool for addressing contemporary issues, especially 
those relating to immigration.

Currently, the Museum is working on a new project called the NYC ImMigrant 
Heritage Trail. To be first made available on the web, and encompassing all 
five boroughs, this Trail will feature historic sites, museums, and cultural 
centers associated with the City's immigrant/migrant cultures. It will also 
feature contemporary immigrant/migrant neighborhoods and historic and 
contemporary bibliographies of books, articles and music. The NYC ImMigrant 
Heritage Trail may serve as a prototype for a national American ImMigrant 
Heritage Trail.

Task Description of Research Intern:
The intern will assist the ImMigrant Heritage Project Associate to develop 
the NYC ImMigrant Heritage Trail. The intern will:

- Conduct survey of properties in the LES national historic district;
- Research historic, cultural, artistic and culinary sites related to the 
immigrant experience in NYC;
- Expand the database of sites in Manhattan and the other boroughs to be 
featured in the Trail;
- Identify potential partners and generate a list of contacts;
- Develop a list of additional resources on the immigrant experience, such 
as books, videos, activities and events;
- Research public transportation and parking facilities in NYC; and
- Work with museum staff and web designer to develop prototype of website.

Position will run May through September, hours are flexible.

REQUIRED QUALITIES:
Excellent research, communication, organization and writing skills required. 
Possess strong interest in the NYC immigrant experience. Knowledge of 
cultural institutions, service agencies, businesses, and transportation 
systems in Manhattan is helpful. Understanding of web design is highly 
desirable.

APPLYING:
Interested candidates should e-mail a cover letter and resume to Danielle 
Linzer, dlinzer@tenement.org, or fax these materials to her at 212-431-0402. 
No phone calls please. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 19 20:55:53 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 19 20:56:34 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: French Students not to be 'Kleenex Generation' (Youth and the City I)
Message-ID: <00ed01c64bc1$6ef8d390$a7058696@Maulwaurf>

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/61cd8b8e-b55c-11da-aa90-0000779e2340,s01=1.html
Financial Times
March 17, 2006

French poor and students keen not to be 'Kleenex
generation'

By Martin Arnold and Tom Braithwaite in Paris

France's prime minister is facing a crisis of
confidence as criticism of his labour market reforms
spreads from increasingly violent student protesters to
immigrant youth in poor riot-hit suburbs, undermining
his claims to be helping the most disadvantaged.

Dominique de Villepin appealed for calm yesterday and
said he was "open to dialogue" about his "first job
contract", as thousands of high-school and university
students clashed with police in violence reminiscent of
student demonstrations in May 1968. Police in Paris
fired tear gas to disperse protesters, who threw
stones, set fire to a newspaper kiosk and smashed car
windows.

The prime minister argues that the new contract -
allowing employers to dismiss staff under the age of 26
more easily during a two-year trial period - will cut
France's crippling unemployment. But students say it
will bring instability, making them "the Kleenex
generation", used and then discarded. The battle over
the new contract has dragged the prime minister's
popularity to record lows.

Adding to his woes is the growing opposition to the
contract from the poor suburbs, undermining his claim
that it would help people "in most difficulty" in areas
with big immigrant populations who suffer from high
unemployment.

Residents in these run-down areas would like to see the
students marching down the street between Clichy-sous-
Bois and Montfermeil, the decrepit Paris suburbs where
riots first broke out last year among the disaffected
youth of France's poor immigrants.

Sema, a 26-year-old unemployed mother of two inClichy-
sous-Bois, said: "If those students came up here and
saw what it was like, they might still be protesting,
but at least they would have a better idea of why."

Beneath the tower blocks sprayed with graffiti,
surrounded by litter, smashed windows and bricked-up
doorways, there are those who have not heard of the
labour reform plan that triggered the fierce protests
by students and trade unions.

But those who understand it are opposed to its central
principle that gives employers more power to fire
workers in their first two years.

Sema says: "It is unfair. Two years is too long. That
would be too big a risk for people like me to take,
with two babies at home, I could be left with nothing
after two years. The bosses would take advantage of it
to sack people after a few months."

Hostility to the contract from the poor suburbs is a
blow to Mr de Villepin. He had seemed to be telling the
student protesters in central Paris not to worry. As
graduates of prestigious universities, such as the
Sorbonne, they are not the intended recipients of the
new contract. Instead, it is meant for the poorly
educated immigrant children in les banlieues, who set
fire to thousands of cars and buildings across France
last year.

But this argument is being undermined by an increasing
number in the suburbs repeating the criticisms of the
student demonstrators. The important difference is that
the poor of theouter-city ghettos have the added worry
of racial discrimination.

Edilson Monteiro, an 18-year-old school drop-out from
Montfermeil, says: "Before the 'first job contract'
there were enough difficulties for people from the
banlieues, with the difference in our clothes, our
language and our culture, but now they are making
things even more insecure.

"Young people are very worried about entering the world
of work. Now if I make a mistake or upset the boss, he
can just get rid of me without any reason," says
Edilson, whose mother brought him to the local job
centre after he quit as a construction sales agent.

He plans to retrain as a cook's assistant in a six-
month paid training scheme, which, if he passes, will
lead to a full-time contract. He would refuse a "first
job contract" if offered one. "Two years is too long.
I'm with the demonstrators on that."

Many people have a deep distrust of company bosses, and
suspect they are looking for any excuse to fire black
or Arab workers - fears fuelled by recent surveys,
which showed that job applicants with Arab or African-
sounding names, or with addresses in poor suburbs, are
much less likely to be offered interviews than people
with more "traditional" French names.

"If a young black person, like me, finds a job then it
will be the same problem," says Dapton, an accountancy
graduate, queuing at the job centre in neighbouring
Aulnay-sous-Bois

A small minority of people in the area support the new
contract, such as Alexandra, aged 19, who has been
unemployed since leaving school last year. "I think it
could be a plus for young people as it gives them a
chance to get experience, even if they could be sacked
at any time." But she supports the student
demonstrators. "It is their right," she says.

Most people seem to agree with Marie-Ange Bernard,a 30-
year-old unemployed social worker from Aulnay-sous-
Bois, who says thecontract is "a nonsense" as it would
not be accepted by banks or landlords as a sufficiently
secure source of income to get a flat or a bank loan.
"Without a full-time contract in France you cannot get
an apartment, a loan, or anything." 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 19 20:56:46 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 19 20:57:24 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Where Did All the Children Go? (Youth and the City
	II)
Message-ID: <00f601c64bc1$8e9c0a00$a7058696@Maulwaurf>

Where Did All the Children Go? 

In San Francisco and Other Big Cities, Costs Drive Out
Middle-Class Families

By John Pomfret 

March 19, 2006; The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/18/AR2006031801034.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

SAN FRANCISCO -- Monica Burton did not want to leave San
Francisco. Born and raised in the city and a train driver for
the Muni transit system for the past 16 years, she loves her
home town, volunteers in its women's jail and prays weekly at
her church in the Hunter's Point section along the San
Francisco Bay.

But as the main breadwinner for her family, which includes a
22-year-old daughter and two granddaughters, she faced some
hard choices. Stay in San Francisco and abandon the dream of
owning her own home because of skyrocketing housing prices,
or leave. In 2004, Burton left with her grandchildren, buying
a three-bedroom house in what she calls a "Leave It to
Beaver" neighborhood in Sacramento, a 158-mile round-trip
commute from her job in the city of her birth.

People like Burton have been leaving U.S. cities because of
high-priced housing for some time. But according to
researchers and urban leaders, the trend has accelerated in
recent years and is threatening to reshape many of the
nation's major cities. Between 2000 and 2004, all eight
metropolitan regions from Seattle to San Diego lost middle-
class families.

On the East Coast, a similar trend is underway, with middle-
class families fleeing the New York region and Boston for the
South. The District has been in the buffer zone, losing
middle-class families with children to the Sun Belt but
gaining some from the Northeast, said William Frey, a
demographer at the Brookings Institution.

"There's a middle-class flight on both sides of the country,"
said Frey, who has analyzed county-level census data on both
coasts. He has found that real estate costs more than schools
are driving the migration.

The trend has city officials worried about what the loss of
these middle-class families will do to the vitality of their
communities, and they are trying to find ways to stem the
flow.

The departure of families is being felt especially hard in
San Francisco, which is losing children at a rate that
outpaces the rest of the region. Researchers, including Frey,
say the skyrocketing cost of housing, more than the fact that
the city is a center of gay life, is the crucial factor. San
Francisco risks turning into Venice, Italy -- a beautiful
tourist town with few long-term residents and no families,
said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco
Planning and Urban Research Association, which has advocated
changes in zoning and the construction of not just more
subsidized housing but also more market-rate housing.

A recent survey by the Public Research Institute at San
Francisco State University found that respondents with family
incomes higher than $50,000 were almost twice as likely to
say they planned on leaving San Francisco as people from
lower income brackets.

Commuting From Montana

More than half of San Francisco's firefighters, police
officers, emergency medical workers, nurses and teachers live
outside the city, city figures show. Firefighters, who work
24-hour shifts, commute to San Francisco from as far away as
Montana. With median house prices in San Francisco hitting
$780,000 and a similar profile in cities up and down the West
Coast, the California Dream is no longer possible for most
Americans, the report said.

"My two neighbors with kids are leaving, one to Portland and
the other to Virginia," said Holly Shafer, one of the
researchers on the project. "They just want to be able to buy
a place." Shafer predicts that San Francisco, like other West
Coast cities, will soon become home to only the very rich and
the poor.

Blacks Lead Exodus

In San Francisco as on other parts of the West Coast, African
Americans such as Burton are leading the charge, although
white families are not far behind. From 1990 to 2000, San
Francisco lost 45 percent of its black children, according to
U.S. census data. From 2000 to 2004, an additional 15 percent
left the city, bringing the total number of African American
children under 10,000 for the first time in decades.

>From 2000 to 2004, the number of black children fell in the
eight major metropolitan areas from Seattle to San Diego. The
number of white children declined in seven. Immigrant
families -- from Asia and Latin America and generally in the
lower income brackets -- accounted for whatever growth there
was in the number of children along the coast, Frey said.

The middle-class exodus from California's coast is a complex
story. While researchers and politicians say it could have
negative implications for the communities along the Pacific,
it is also a story about people selling their houses, cashing
out of the remarkable housing boom and heading to greener, or
at least cheaper, pastures. Housing prices in heavily black
and Hispanic sections of southern Los Angeles, for example,
grew 50 percent last year, the fastest in Southern
California, prompting thousands of families to cash out and
move. From 2000 to 2004, the Los Angeles metropolitan area
lost 8 percent of its black children and 4 percent of its
whites.

In San Francisco, so many middle-class families with children
younger than 15 have left that the city has the lowest
percentage of children of any major American metropolis.

Mayor Plans Action

Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's popular mayor, has vowed to do
something. "There's a quality of imagination that's very
important for the spirit and the soul of the city to
maintain," he said in a recent interview. "Children bring
that to a city. A city without children has no future."

Newsom said a city needs boisterous schoolyards, young fans
for local sports teams, and zoos and museums filled with
children alive with wonder. It is as important as creating
jobs for a city and, in fact, bolsters the economy, he said.

Still, families with children have been fleeing San Francisco
and other major urban centers for decades. With the growth of
nearby suburbs, San Francisco's big drop came from 1960 to
1980 when the number of children fell from 24.5 percent to
17.2 percent of the city's population. Newsom's mother moved
him and his sister out of the city during that time. Since
then, it has been a slow spiral down to below 14.5 percent.

Newsom said he is eager to study such cities as Chicago and
Vancouver, which have taken measures to stanch the flow.

Late last year, Newsom appointed a well-known children's
advocate, Margaret Brodkin, to head the Department of
Children, Youth and Their Families. He established a council
of leading San Franciscans to study the issue and is pushing
city developers to include more family-friendly and
affordable housing in their projects. Still, Newsom is not
promising anything.

"We're going to have a housing boom in the next five years
the likes of which San Francisco has not seen since the 1906
fire," he said, "and it still won't even be a drop in the
bucket to what we need."

Newsom reeled off a list of programs adopted by San Francisco
to make the city better for families -- an extra, city-funded
working-family tax credit; universal preschool; a school bond
for arts, physical education and libraries; and health
insurance for everyone younger than 24.

"And still they leave," he said. From 2000 to 2004, the
city's child population was virtually unchanged, according to
Frey's data, despite a wave of Asian immigrants and a baby
boom that followed the dot-com bust. Kindergarten enrollment
dropped by 6 percent between 2001 and 2004, and in January
the city's school board decided to close or merge 14 schools
because the public schools are hemorrhaging on average 1,000
children a year.

A 3:30 a.m. Start

To make it to her job driving a train, Burton has to be on
the road by 3:30 a.m. She finds herself driving to San
Francisco almost seven days a week, still spending Sundays at
the True Hope Church of God in Christ, near the old
Candlestick Park. "My cleaners are there," she said. "My bank
is there. I even do my shopping in San Francisco."

At her church, the Rev. Arelious Walker's congregation has
dwindled from more than 400 to fewer than 250 in a few years.
"I'm a natural optimist," Walker said, "but this exodus
really is of biblical proportions."

[Special correspondent Joseph Dignan contributed to this
report.]

? 2006 The Washington Post Company
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 20 14:20:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 20 14:21:34 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA CFP: Transparency and the Global Market
Message-ID: <005801c64c53$7299b3b0$72058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Christina Garsten <christina.garsten@score.su.se>
If you have not yet submitted your individual abstract to the AAA meetings 
in San Jos?, please consider the following:

We would like to organize a panel for the 2006 American Anthropological 
Association Annual Meetings.

The panel is tentatively entitled:

Transparency and the global market: unveiling visions, challenges, 
contestations

Transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favor as 
an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. We note 
calls for greater transparency directed towards states, markets, and 
corporations; in civil service, in local and national political processes, 
and in regard to large agglomerating institutions such as the European Union 
and World Trade Organization. In a wide variety of situations the idea of 
transparency is held up as a panacea for the ills that a concentration of 
power can imply; a way in which citizens can attain a level of justice and 
control vis-?-vis institutions that affect their lives. We observe 
transparency not only in accounting and auditing, but also more widely in 
our changing material world; in architecture, design, and fashion. We 
observe it in organizational policy, and not least in relation to 
discussions of democracy. Yet few attempts have been made to examine the 
actual content and playing-out of transparency, such as, for example, the 
complex negotiations through which it is determined what shall be displayed 
and what shall remain hidden, how power and control enter into the practices 
of transparency, and the processes through which transparency is (or is not) 
achieved. How is the concept interpreted, emulated, practiced, inverted, 
used to achieve particular ends?

This panel explores the ideas and practices of transparency in different 
contexts, with the hope of opening up a discussion of the strengths, 
ambiguities, limitations, and many facets of the term. We aim to shed light 
on the powerful global discourse and practices around the concept of 
transparency by opening up the concept for illumination from a broader 
perspective. In this, we hope to contribute to an understanding of the wider 
organizational, cultural and ideational context in which transparency is 
used and put to work. It will allow us to assess to what extent and in what 
respects the global discourse on transparency is actually transforming 
actual social practices and social relations and ways of thinking about 
these.

We are very short of time, so if you are interested in these themes and a 
possible AAA panel please contact us by Friday March 24, at the latest.

All the best,

Christina Garsten and Monica Lindh de Montoya

Christina Garsten
Senior lecturer, Chair of Department
Department of Social Anthropology
and
Research Director
Stockholm Center for Organizational Research
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Tel. +46 (0)8 16 20 00, fax +46 (0)8 15 88 94
christina.garsten@socant.su.se

Monica Lindh de Montoya
PdD, Director of Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
SE 106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Tel. +46 (0)8 16 20 00, fax +46 (0)8 15 88 94
monica.montoya@socant.su.se

 


From galva835 at newschool.edu  Mon Mar 20 15:11:42 2006
From: galva835 at newschool.edu (Anne Galvin)
Date: Mon Mar 20 15:34:28 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA Panel  on Globalization and "Risk"
Message-ID: <s41ec637.035@IGATE.NEWSCHOOL.EDU>

Hi All,

We are in the process of putting together a panel for the upcoming AAA
meetings based roughly on the abstract pasted into this message below my
signature.

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send us a
paper abstract as soon as possible and by March 29th, at latest. 
Abstracts can be sent to my e-mail address (Galva835@newschool.edu) and
I will then share them with Suzanne.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you.  

Best, 
Anne Galvin, Ph.D., New School for Social Research and
Suzanne Simon, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, School for
International Training

Panel Abstract:

In the contemporary global moment, the withdrawal of
> national states from the public sphere has become
> commonplace as neoliberal ideologies with concomitant
> social policies and economic measures have been
> sweepingly adopted. Under these reforms, the state has
> been forced by international monetary institutions
> such as the IMF and the World Bank, or in the name of
> "global competitiveness," to withdraw provision of a
> social safety net previously provided to citizens by
> various state based regimes including populism, social
> democracies, communism and socialism. Economic
> controls such as import substitution are now, under
> the shadow of free market capitalism, considered
> unacceptable forms of "protectionism".  As the social
> security provisions of previous decades are
> systematically dismantled, or disintegrate, it has
> become common to witness citizens, civil society or
> "traditional" networks step into the public sphere to
> assume the burden of care abandoned by the state. In
> some cases, this produces notions of a vibrant "civil
> society" and in other cases, it looks like a
> resurgence of much celebrated "tradition."  Practicing
> Social Scientists have recently directed significant
> energy toward establishing methods to identify and
> quantify "risk" indicators for populations in jeopardy
> of slipping between the cracks of these privatized
> welfare measures.  Here, the phrase "at risk" has
> become an identifying label for marginalized segments
> of national populations who are usually targeted for
> economic and social self improvement through
> "training" or reincorporation into the general
> population via the establishment of new types of
> "community."    In this session, we seek to
> investigate these changes in the distribution of care,
> as the "redistribution", or possibly, "consolidation",
> of "risk" onto populations saddled with the burdens of
> scarcity as national citizenries are retooled as
> "entrepreneurs of themselves."

From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Mar 20 15:33:33 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Mon Mar 20 16:12:48 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Request for nominations
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060320153230.05d03238@att.net>

2006 Lourdes Arizpe Award
Policy, Anthropology and Environmental Issues

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ? PROFESSIONAL OR STUDENT CATEGORY

The AAA Environment & Anthropology Section, 
through its Lourdes Arizpe Award, has created an 
opportunity to recognize recent outstanding 
achievement in the application of anthropology to 
environmental issues and discourse in 
international or domestic arenas across all 
ecological and policy applications. The creation 
and naming of this award highlights the critical 
need for anthropological knowledge and 
perspective in addressing current environmental 
issues with larger implications for matters of 
global concern.  The scope of the award is broad, 
and includes the government arena, the private 
and the non-profit sectors. The Lourdes Arizpe 
Award combines a practical component (results) 
with a knowledge-base component (advancement of 
knowledge) for outstanding contributions from 
specialists in any recognized field of anthropology.

The Award:
The Lourdes Arizpe Award is a biennial award that 
honors individual anthropologists or anthropology 
students, teams, or organizations involving 
anthropologists, which have made outstanding 
contributions in the application of anthropology 
to environmental issues and 
discourse.  Nominations should focus on the 
contributions and accomplishments of the 
individual, team or organization in the arena of 
practice, policy, and application beyond 
academia. The award can be for work in 
international or domestic arenas across 
all-ecological and policy applications, from 
community-based work to national policy to global 
applications. There must be evidence of impact or 
results of the work within the past three years 
prior to the nomination.  The Lourdes Arizpe 
Award consists of two award categories: 1) for 
post-degree professionals; and 2) for students, 
defined as individuals who were enrolled at an 
academic institution at the time of the work for 
which the award is proposed. It is envisioned 
that both awards will be made biennially in each 
category ? post-degree professional and studennt. 
Those receiving the award are not required to be 
United States citizens or members of the American 
Anthropological Association; they may be 
specialists in any recognized field of 
anthropology.  The deadline for nominations is 
June 12, 2006. The recipients for the 
Professional and the Student categories of the 
Lourdes Arizpe Award will be presented in a 
ceremony and reception at the 2006 meeting of the 
American Anthropological Association, in San Jose, California.

The Award Application Process:
Nominations may be made by any anthropologist, 
including self-nominations. Nomination packages should include four copies of:

1) A cover letter with original signature from 
the nominator indicating the body of work or 
action for which the nominations is being made;
2) Three letters of support from individuals 
knowledgeable regarding the work of the 
nominee(s) and its impact (it would be useful for 
at least two of these letters to be from individuals outside of academia); and

3) Any materials that support the candidacy of 
the nominee. Examples of support materials that 
support the student nominee may include but are 
not limited to: booklets, DVD, video, or news 
articles about the impacts of the activities or 
project. Materials may be submitted either 
electronically or in hard copy, but the 
nomination cover letter must have an original signature.

The Selection Process:
Award nominations will be reviewed and award 
selection made by a four-person committee 
appointed by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the AAA.

Award Venue:
The Lourdes Arizpe Awards will be presented in a 
ceremony and reception hosted by the Anthropology 
and Environment Section at the annual AAA 
meetings. The Professional award consists of a 
certificate of recognition and a handcrafted 
medal symbolic of the human-environment 
relationship. The Student award consists of a 
certificate of recognition and one year???s 
membership in the A & E Section of the AAA.

Who is Lourdes Arizpe?
Lourdes Arizpe is a cultural anthropologist, 
specializing in culture, migration, rural 
development and global environmental change 
through fieldwork research and has also been 
involved in international academic and policy 
activities. Her books include Parentesco y 
Econom??a en una Sociedad Nahua, Antropolog??a 
Breve de Mexico, The Cultural Dimensions of 
Global Change: An Anthropological Approach, and 
Culture and Global Change: Social Perspectives of 
Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest. She 
was a member of the U.N. World Commission on 
Culture and Development. As Assistant Director 
General of UNESCO for culture she directed all 
cultural programs in Unesco and was scientific 
director of the World Culture Reports. She was 
also Director of the Anthropological Research 
Institute of the National University of Mexico. 
She has served as a member of the Advisory 
Committee on the Environment (ACE) of ICSU 
(International Council of Scientific Unions). She 
has served on the Joint Latin American Committee 
of the Social Science Research Council and the 
Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies 
Association. Her honors also include Fulbright 
and Guggenheim fellowships, the medal for 
distinguished activities in the field of culture 
from the Ministry of Culture in Pakistan, and 
membership in the Royal Anthropology Institute in 
England. A founding member of the Academia 
Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, she also has served 
as President of the International Union of 
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. At 
present, she is President of the International 
Social Science Council and a Professor at the 
Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (National University of Mexico).

Please send the materials noted above to the 
Chairperson of the Committee: P.J. Puntenney 
<pjpunt@umich.edu>, 1989 W. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 by June 12, 2006

Previous Awardees

2004	J. Peter Brosius (University of Georgia-Athens)
George M. Guilmet (Cultural Resources Management Consultant)
Carla Guerron-Montero, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of Delaware
46 West Delaware Avenue
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-3362
Fax: (302)831-4002
Email: cguerron@udel.edu


From RROTENBE at depaul.edu  Tue Mar 21 13:56:03 2006
From: RROTENBE at depaul.edu (Rotenberg, Robert)
Date: Tue Mar 21 14:56:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Submissions for the 2006 Leeds Prize in Urban, National
 and Transnational Anthropology
Message-ID: <D594C75C12908E47B87436D3FF6802C00126B925@XVS02.dpu.depaul.edu>

The Leeds Prize is awarded each year by the Society for
Urban/National/Transnational/Global Anthropology (formerly known as the
Society for Urban Anthropology) for the outstanding book in urban,
national and/or transnational anthropology. The prize is named in honor
of the late Anthony Leeds, a distinguished pioneer in urban
anthropology. The Prize Committee is chaired by Robert Rotenberg and
includes Kim Hopper (winner of the 2003 Leeds Prize for his book
"Reckoning with Homelessness" (Cornell University Press), Nancy Abelmann
(winner of the 2004 prize for her book "The Melodrama of Mobility:
Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea" (University of
Hawaii) and the winner of the 2005 prize.  This year's deadline for
submission is June 30, 2006. No books received after that date will be
considered for the 2006 prize. A letter of nomination (from an author, a
colleague, or a publisher) and *four* copies of the book should be sent
to:

Robert Rotenberg
Leeds Prize Committee
c/o Department of Anthropology
DePaul University
2343 N. Racine Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614-3107

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

To be eligible for consideration a book must be relevant to the field of
urban, national or transnational anthropology. The book must have a
publication year of 2005. Textbooks and anthologies will not be
considered, but books of original scholarship by more than one author
may be submitted.
Authors must to be willing to serve on the prize selection committee for
three years if their book is chosen. Authors must be willing to have
their prize acceptance remarks published in *City and Society*, SUNTA's
journal. Please address all questions concerning the prize to Robert
Rotenberg.

Robert Rotenberg
Voice: 773 325-7460
rrotenbe@depaul.edu 


From jung at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Mar 21 16:53:21 2006
From: jung at fas.harvard.edu (Yuson Jung)
Date: Tue Mar 21 16:58:20 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA 2006 - panel on standards and standardization
Message-ID: <1142978001.442075d1e5e12@webmail.fas.harvard.edu>

Please kindly post this CFP. Thanks.

CFP ? AAA 2006, San Jose, California

Panel: The Force of Standards: rules and regulations as imagined and inscribed
commodity

Panel Abstract:
Recent scholarly debates on globalization and neoliberalism have highlighted
issues of governmentality. Standards, often described as ?global standards? or
?international standards,? are instrumental in what scholars have called the
new type of normative governmentality, and present themselves as a hegemonic
force. Standards are channeled through various institutions such as the
International Organization of Standards and/or the European Union as well as
popular and historical understandings and imaginations of the ?West.? They are
charged with values that reflect a global hierarchy and are complicit with the
reproduction of global inequality. Furthermore, paired with ?audit,? standards
and standardization also speak to issues of accountability.
	The panel engages questions regarding the impact of standardization in a global
context in which rules and regulations appear as an imagined and inscribed
commodity. Standards, rules, and regulations have become commodities with
producers and consumers. They are not only created by institutions for
non-profit, but also more increasingly by organizations and communities seeking
profits. In particular, the end of colonial rules and the Cold War has further
facilitated developmental projects (and modernization projects) under the
neoliberal framework triumphing Western capitalism. Countries in postsocialist
or postcolonial environments, for instance, have been facing issues of
standardization to survive and compete in the global market. Under such
circumstances, standards that originate or are believed to originate from the
West have normative power. They have been playing significant roles both in the
level of bureaucratic systems and everyday life. What are the mechanisms in
which ?Western? standards are not only imposed externally (or from the top) and
but also engaged and adopted actively internally (or from the bottom) during
these socio-economic development processes? Who are the producers and consumers
of these standards, and what do they gain from making and following these rules?
At the same time, what are the consequences of not adhering to such standards?
        By drawing from ethnographic research to explore critical intersections
among different geographical foci, the papers in this panel discuss the
voluntary/involuntary imposition and adoption of standards in various local
contexts. In this regard, we explore ideas about the role of ?the West,?
normative governmentality in regard to issues of control, the interplay between
control and circumvention of standards, the consequences when standards are
circumvented or not observed, and issues of accountability under such
circumstances. Through these questions, the panel aims at exploring ways in
which agency can or cannot exercise its power thereby occupying a space in
these processes. Is globalization indeed inevitable as some scholars argue? How
do ideas on standards and standardization relate to ongoing discussions on
globalization and its presumed homogenization process?
	We invite papers that speak to these issues and engage in further discussion on
the ongoing globalization debates.
        If interested, please contact Yuson Jung (jung@fas.harvard.edu) with an
abstract of maximum 250 words by March 27. 2006.


--
Yuson Jung
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: jung@fas.harvard.edu; yusonjung@hotmail.com


From bozorth25 at hotmail.com  Tue Mar 21 00:17:55 2006
From: bozorth25 at hotmail.com (Rowan EditClass)
Date: Tue Mar 21 20:37:55 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Where Did All the Children Go? (Youth and the
	CityII)
In-Reply-To: <00f601c64bc1$8e9c0a00$a7058696@Maulwaurf>
Message-ID: <BAY103-F169BF8ADE6DD6C33C0B98CBED80@phx.gbl>

I saw something similar recently re: the New Jersey shore towns. They are 
even having trouble fielding varsity sports teams, because of the dwindling 
family populations.
Deb


==
Deborah Woodell
Adjunct Professor
Rowan University...home of Major League Soccer, thanks to a deal announced 
Monday between RU and MLS to build a soccer stadium and athletic fields in 
exchange for a playing field on prime real estate.
Glassboro, N.J.

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From teresapc at stanford.edu  Tue Mar 21 14:37:21 2006
From: teresapc at stanford.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Teresa_Pellinen-Ch=E1vez?=)
Date: Tue Mar 21 20:38:18 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Investing in the Future: Marketing, Selling, and
	Buying Kinship (AAA 2006)
Message-ID: <4d4bf6d60603211437w389ed866la36a84ccab72627e@mail.gmail.com>

Investing in the Future: Marketing, Selling, and Buying Kinship

This panel is interested in looking at communities that pro-actively
and pragmatically defy the course of normative kinship through
creative (and often counter-cultural) economic arrangements. Much of
the impetus for engaging in the work of establishing unlikely kinship
bonds is that these offer the possibility of investing in an entirely
new kind of future than what would otherwise be considered possible.
These arrangements include, but are not limited to partnerships,
parenting, intentional communities, and other "chosen family"
configurations. Specifically, we are interested in how people
literally market themselves ? in low- and high-tech ways ? to
potential future partners (and community) both around the corner and
across the globe, and through this process attempt to imagine and
manage future lives that are beyond tradition or convention. We are
interested in projects that advance further connections between
kinship redefinition vis-?-vis economic arrangements and  that
investigate kinship-making through deliberate and strategic affinities
and across geographies and/or temporalities.

Please send us a title, a 250-word abstract, and your academic
affiliations for consideration for a proposed panel for the 2006
meeting of the AAA. Abstracts are due Monday, March 27th.

Please email materials to:

Teresa Pellinen-Ch?vez: teresapc@stanford.edu
Tiffany Romain: tromain@stanford.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar 22 02:04:04 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 22 02:04:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology (Keele, UK)
Message-ID: <004001c64d7e$d1c981e0$90058696@Maulwaurf>

Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology
10th - 13th April 2006 (Monday-Thursday), University of Keele, UK
http://www.theasa.org/asa06/index.html

ASA 2006 Diamond Jubilee

Keynote speakers to include Stuart Hall, Andre Beteille and Elizabeth 
Colson.

Plenary speakers and chairs: Joel Kahn, Jonathan Friedman, Richard Fardon, 
Richard Werbner, Chris Hann, Marilyn Strathern, Richard Wilson, Birgit 
Meyer, Bruce Kapferer, Jonathan Parry, Alan Macfarlane, David Graeber.

Conference venue:
Keele University is located in the Staffordshire countryside. The University 
has excellent conference facilities in a rural setting (it was voted best in 
the country for several years recently). The inclusive price for the 
conference, including full board and ensuite accommodation, is approximately 
?250, but is given in detail on the Registration form.

Main themes:
Anthropology as a cosmopolitan discipline
Normative cosmopolitanism (human rights, global justice, global 
governmentality, NGOs etc.)
'Rooted' Cosmopolitanism
Cosmpolitan spaces (cities, artworlds, pilgrimage centres, factories, mines, 
etc.)
Elite versus demotic cosmopolitanism (especially in the postcolony)
Cosmopolitan institutions (e.g. museums)
Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and cultural hybridity (migration, diaspora, 
occupational travellers, pilgrims, popular culture).
Cosmopolitan subjectivity/consciousness

In the past decade, debates on cosmopolitanism have engaged a wide range of 
disciplines, from political theory to sociology, critical studies and social 
history. The multiplication of collections, edited journal issues and 
readers reflects this growing centrality of the topic in the social 
sciences, as does the list of leading theorists intervening in the debate 
from different disciplinary perspectives.  Among these, anthropologists have 
made from the start original contributions (beginning with Ulf Hannerz, the 
list is growing and includes, among others, Adam Kuper, James Clifford, 
Arjun Appadurai, Richard Werbner, Jonathan Friedman, Bruno Latour, Aiwa Ong, 
Paul Rabinow, Joel Kahn, Pnina Werbner and Steven Vertovec).

Moving away from the dominant stress in globalisation theory on financial 
and media flows, contemporary theorisations of cosmopolitanism reflect upon 
globalisation from an aesthetic and moral perspective. One tendency has been 
to think of cosmopolitanism as transgressing the parochialism or ethnicism 
of the nation-state. In this view, cosmopolitans are travellers who move 
beyond national boundaries, and hence a cosmopolitan social science must 
study these flows and movements, or reflect on issues of global justice, 
human rights and governmentality. This apparently commonsensical view has 
been challenged, however, in a deservedly much cited article by Kwame 
Anthony Appiah, 'Cosmopolitan Patriots', in which he argues that 
cosmopolitanism is equally an argument within postcolonial states on 
citizenship, equal dignity, cultural rights and the rule of law. Appiah 
speaks of a 'rooted' cosmopolitanism, and proposes that cosmopolitans begin 
from membership in morally and emotionally significant communities 
(families, ethnic groups) while espousing notions of toleration and openness 
to the world, the transcendance of ethnic difference and the moral 
incorporation of the other. His vision opens up scope for a cosmopolitan 
anthropology which builds on anthropological strengths of fieldwork in 
particular locales.

Can there be a cosmopolitan anthropology?  One central aim of the conference 
is to reflect back in order to consider the place and contribution of 
British and Commonwealth anthropology to current debates on cosmopolitanism 
and cosmopolitans. An argument can be put that anthropology has always been 
a cosmopolitan social science par excellence. Hence, Kuper has argued 
against postmodern critiques of anthropology that we should aspire to 
contribute 'a comparative dimension to the enlightenment project of a 
science of human variation in time and space. Our object must be to confront 
the models current in the social sciences with the experiences and models of 
our subjects, while insisting that this should be a two-way process' 
(1994:551).

In this spirit, one aim of the conference will be to interrogate critically 
a historiography of modern British social anthropology that has challenged - 
as being western and hegemonic - British anthropology's cosmopolitan 
engagement with the 'other', and its discursive articulation by metropolitan 
anthropologists. A further aim might be to question critically the view that 
imputes to British social anthropology a narrow focus on closed cultures and 
restricted locales. One has only to think of the many studies of 
cross-ethnic engagement by the founding generation of British social 
anthropology, from Malinowski's study of kula, to Nadel's study of a 
multi-ethnic state, Fortes's study of Tallensi ritual extensions beyond the 
local, Schapera's study of civic incorporation of strangers among Tswana, 
Evans-Pritchard's Nuer-Dinka encounter or Leach's complex model of Highland 
Burma. Such examples can be multiplied, and include the extensive studies of 
modern colonial towns, urban ethnicity, mines in Central Africa, regional 
cults, trading diasporas, ethnogenesis, Christian churches, anti-witchcraft 
movements, etc., which all point to the gross distortion of the history of 
social anthropology that has been perpetrated on the subject by its critics.

Convenors
Prof Pnina Werbner, University of Keele
E: P.Werbner@keele.ac.uk
Organiser: Sean McLoughlin, Leeds University
E: conference@theasa.org
Please send all communication regarding the conference to 
conference@theasa.org 


From yjl09 at stanford.edu  Wed Mar 22 23:01:57 2006
From: yjl09 at stanford.edu (Yoon-Jung Lee)
Date: Thu Mar 23 03:03:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA CFP: Natures of Capitalism, Subjects of Democracy
Message-ID: <1143097317.442247e58e03e@webmail.stanford.edu>

Natures of Capitalism, Subjects of Democracy

This panel explores the question of land as a critical juncture where market
capitalism and liberal democracy meet.  With the expansion of global
capitalism and the proliferation of the languages of democracy, the
overlapping of the two triads in classical political economy,
?capital-labor-land? and ?state-subject-territory,? demand more rigorous
academic investigation.  Corporations have increasingly adopted states?
governmental technologies to affect populations, while state governments
have stepped up their efforts to integrate the business model into their
operational logic.  Despite the wide circulation of discourses of
transnational mobility, the tropes of place and community have become
increasingly resilient, challenging us to reconsider the conventional
meaning of land as a mere site of natural resources and human settlement.
    In this context, ?land? emerges as a critical locus of power relations.
On the one hand, it is a source of raw materials for the operation of
capitalism.  On the other hand, it is the ground for practices of the state
and citizens, either as territory or property.  Furthermore, in the wake of
the development of modern environmental thinking and discourses of the
(ine)quality of citizenship, human engagement with land ? whether mining,
logging, tourism, spatial development for the electronics industry ? has
involved the production of intricate power networks and the formation of
subjects of capitalist democracy.  Through different stories of modernity
woven around gold, silicon and other parts of "nature," this panel examines
multiple modes of citizenry that arise from tensions between and within
market capitalism and liberal democracy and from the simultaneous
construction of the local and the global.

Please send us a title, a 250-word abstract, and your academic
affiliations for consideration for a proposed panel for the 2006
meeting of the AAA. The abstracts are due Tuesday, March 28th.

Please email materials to:

Nejat Dinc: dinc@stanford.edu
Yoon Jung Lee: yjlee@stanford.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 23 03:10:31 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 23 03:10:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Journals collection available
Message-ID: <000d01c64e51$44d057e0$6a058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Walter Goldschmidt <walterg@ucla.edu>

I want to donate long runs of anthropology journal and BAE publications to 
an institution that can use them in their library. Contact me for further 
information.

Contact Information
Walter Goldschmidt
978 Norman Place
Los Angeles CA 90049 USA
Email: walterg@ucla.edu 


From david at feetfirst.info  Thu Mar 23 01:12:22 2006
From: david at feetfirst.info (David Levinger)
Date: Thu Mar 23 14:34:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Panel on Transportation Anthropology
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20060323005446.03439448@feetfirst.info>

I am recruiting interest in a panel at the 2006 AAA Annual Meeting on 
the topic of Transportation.

Please let me know if you are interested in and able to present on a 
dimension within this topic area.  Transportation and mobility is a 
rare topic within anthropological research, but it bears great 
promise in understanding and comparing cultures.  A wide range of 
subject matter arises within this category, including:
    * Patterns of the stages of life and cultural roles afforded to 
people of declining independent mobility
    * Cultural meaning of power and the relationships between 
motorized and non-motorized travel
    * Technology and cyborg identity as a way of life
    * Transit use and status
    * The meaning of space and place made possible or impeded by 
various forms of mobility
    * Valorization of life and discounting of accidental death as 
consequences of high-speed street networks
    * Cultures of expertise and speculative urban transformation
    * Meaning, representation, and moving standpoints
My own work lies at the intersection of political anthropology and 
technology studies.  I am executive director of a non-profit 
pedestrian advocacy organization, am affiliate associate professor of 
urban design and planning at the University of Washington, and 
participate in national research networks that are studying 
environmental correlates to physical activity.

I am especially interested in recruiting people for a panel proposal, 
but please also let me know if you are engaged in or interested in 
the topic area so that I might learn more about your work.  At 
present, we have three tentative presenters/discussants and have 
openings for four more.

Thank you for your interest,

David


==========================
David Levinger, PhD, PE
Executive Director
Feet First
1402 Third Ave, Suite 1121
Seattle, WA  98101
(206) 652-2310 (office)
(206) 390-8118 (mobile)
www.feetfirst.info
david@feetfirst.info
========================== 


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Thu Mar 23 06:36:13 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Thu Mar 23 14:34:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA-related sessions at SfAA in Vancouver
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060323063405.05daf390@att.net>

Re: SfAA in Vancouver

This is a rough outline of SUNTA member panels and papers, based
on responses to the prior urbanth listserv inquiry. Apologies for any
omissions or errors. -- David Haines

****************

TUESDAY

10:00-5:20
Balmoral
Four part panel: "Downtown Eastside Vancouver: 
Representations, Communities and Conversations"
Chair, Dana Culhane, Simon Fraser University

10:00-11:50
Part I: Representing and Performing Community History
12:00-1:30
Part II: Visual Arts, Performance and Public Space
1:30-3:20
Part III: Performance, Healing, Audiences and Research
3:30-5:20
Part IV: Reflections, Commentaries and Discussions from Near and Far

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:50
Regency A
Panel: "Wars, Economic and Alternative Development"
Paper: "Working the Edge" by Lisa Citron, Cascadia Community College

8:00-9:50
Regency E
Panel: "Whose Ethnography Is It Anyways?: Ethics, 
Ownership, and Politics in the Context of Anthropological Research"
Paper: "How Applied Is the Anthropology of 
Migrations in Argentina?" by Aranzazu Recalde, 
Anthropology Department, McGill University

8:00-9:50
Oxford
Panel: "Migration and Human Trafficking"
Paper: "Trauma and Resiliency of the Trafficked 
Child: Toward Solutions and Resolutions" by Micah Bump, Georgetown University

12:00 - 1:30
Regency C.
Panel: "Education on the Edge: A Discussion of 
Applied Anthropology of Education"
Paper: "Modeling Alternatives to Neoliberal 
Democracy: A Field Report on the Test Case Using 
Citizen Panels and Interculturality in the U.S." by Greg Tanaka.

1:30-3:20
Regency D
Panel: "Community Is Not a Metaphor: 
Understanding the Forces of Communal Identity
in Constructing the Mexican Citizen"
Chair: Ramona Perez, San Diego State University

1:30-3:20
Constable
Panel: "Stemming the Rise of Disaster Capitalism"
Chair: Mark Schuller, UC-Santa Barbara

3:30-5:20
Kensington
Panel: "Development Theory and Praxis"
Chair: Constance P. deRoche, Cape Breton University

THURSDAY

12:00-1:30
Plaza A
Panel: "Timing and Spacing Development"
Paper: "NGO Implementation in a Successfully 
Failed State" by Mark Schuller, UC-Santa Barbara

3:30-5:20
Kensington
Panel: "Wind over Water: Understanding East Asian Migration"
Chairs: David W. Haines (George Mason University) 
and JEONG Jong-Ho (Seoul National University)

FRIDAY

8:00-9:50
Regency E
Panel: "Gender, Migration and Health"
Chairs, Dianna Shandy (Macalester College) and 
Elzbieta Gozdziak (Georgetown University)

10:00-11:50
Plaza C
Panel: "Making Family at the Margins: Localized Studies of Gender and Power"
Chairs: Elisabeth Golub and Dianna Shandy, Macalester College

12:00 - 1:00
Place to be announced
SUNTA program planning meeting--open to all
Chair: David Haines, George Mason University

1:30-4:00
Plaza
Poster: "La Solidarit? Africaine est Encore une 
R?alit?:  A Study of Urban Migration in B?nin" by 
Marcy Hessling, Wayne State University

1:30-3:20
Prince of Wales
Panel: "Double Oppression: Displacement, 
Involuntary Relocation and Controlled Exclusion"
Paper: "The Hunters Redux: Applied Visual 
Strategies with the Botswana Xo" by Matthew Durington, Towson University

3:30-5:20
Lord Byron
Panel: "Cultural Aspects of Violence and Torture, Crime and Punishment"
Paper: "Engulfed: Indian Guestworkers, Bahraini 
Citizens and the Structural Violence of the 
Kafala System" by Andrew M. Gardner, University of Puget Sound

SATURDAY

8:00-9:50
Constable
Roundtable discussion: "Community Building for the Twenty-First Century"
Discussants include Julie Adkins and Van Kemper

10:00-11:50
Brighton
Panel: "Class and Collective Action Part II (PESO)"
Paper: "Class in the Academy: Our Achilles Heel" 
by Angela Jancius, Youngstown State University

1:30-3:20
Regency C
Panel: "Is Homelessness Chronic?"
Paper: "Shelter Where There Was None - Or, Who Is 
a More ?Worthy' Victim?" by Julie Adkins, Southern Methodist University

1:30-3:20
Brighton
Panel: "Embodiment of Place and Time: 
Intergenerational Continuity and Divergence"
Paper: "Living off the Fat of the Land or Getting 
Fat in the Promised" by Erick Castellanos, Tufts University 


From ADMChoby at aol.com  Thu Mar 23 15:22:13 2006
From: ADMChoby at aol.com (ADMChoby@aol.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 16:32:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA Meetings Theorizing Mid-level Mobility in Society
Message-ID: <299.7dddec3.31545d75@aol.com>

 
Theorizing Mid-level Mobility in Society: Routinized  Flows, Modes of 
Transit, Passages. 
Theories of modernity have attended to the ways that configurations of  space 
localize and refract power to produce subjectivities.  Simultaneously, 
anthropologists have  detailed transformations of social forms and values produced 
by ?global?  mobility, with ensuing debates over standardization of (liberal) 
values and  practices, or the emergence of particular, local transformations 
and  configurations.  Less attention,  however, has been paid to the ways that 
local bureaucracies and politics  configure space to enable, block, or shape 
the possibility for more mundane,  routine and local forms of mobility 
facilitated by automobiles, busses,  bicycles, trains, or public-transit--or how the 
possibilities for routine, local  mobility shapes social worlds.   Mid-level 
moments of transit  have historically been ?invisible? as fruitful objects of 
anthropological  investigation. This panel invites submissions related to the 
synergism between  social, political and bureaucratic, and technical dimensions 
of middle-level  mobility.  
Submissions might attend to questions such as: how are notions of risk  and 
danger linked not only to different modes of transit, but also to different,  
potentially mobile, populations?  What are the various histories of 
technologies of middle-level  mobility?  How have they been  integrated into different 
landscapes?  What are the political, social, infrastructural, and technical 
processes  and agreements necessary to support various forms of mid-level 
mobility?  How does middle-level mobility construct  social worlds, and produce 
subjectivities and value(s)?  What can an analysis of various forms of  mobility in 
terms of its typical users tell us about the social and political  commitments 
of particular societies?  How have governments conceptualized and planned for 
the middle-level  mobility of its populations?  Who is  entitled to mobility, 
and in what forms?   
I am a doctoral candidate in the joint Medical Anthropology program at  UCSF 
and UC Berkeley.  My own work  examines the interstices of automobility and 
the production of diagnostic  knowledge for patients with suspected seizure 
disorders in the contemporary  U.S.  I examine how doctors use their  
State-mandated roles to participate in regulation of automobility for these  patients to 
mitigate various forms of clinically based, diagnostic  uncertainty.  Priority 
will be given  to papers that examine specific, concrete ethnographic cases 
where middle-level  mobility is at stake over papers that attempt to theorize 
mobility more  generally.  Please submit an  abstract that conforms to American 
Anthropological Association specifications to  Alex Choby at 
_ADMChoby@aol.com_ (mailto:ADMChoby@aol.com)  asap.  The  panel must be submitted by March 31 
deadline, and will convene at the 2006  Meetings of the AAA in San  Jose, 
California.  
From mbrand at virginia.edu  Thu Mar 23 17:13:35 2006
From: mbrand at virginia.edu (Mieka Brand)
Date: Thu Mar 23 19:37:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Critical Time: Remembering at the Intersections of
 History and Power
Message-ID: <web-191711698@cgatepro-3.mail.virginia.edu>

*** please forward ***

Proposed Panel for 2006 American Anthropological Association
CFP: Critical Time: Remembering at the Intersections of History and Power

Abstract:
As ethnographically salient concepts, both History and Memory have recently 
been critiqued by scholars who lament their overextension and question their 
precision. In this panel, we seek to sharpen the understanding of the issues 
at stake by exploring contexts in which both historical discourse and social 
memory are in play. What happens to memories when, as Pierre Nora might say, 
they pass through history--as when visitors engage with their own 
representations in a historical museum? Conversely, how are state-sanctioned 
histories transformed when they are articulated to everyday experiences and 
spaces? Papers for this panel should focus on sites of historical production 
(archives, exhibits, monuments, museums, neighborhoods, etc.) and on those 
who remember and act "in their shadow." Our aim is to focus on the 
relationship between history and memory and enhance their analytical reach 
by exploring how subjects of history remember and how remembering agents 
historicize.

Papers should concentrate on ways in which agency is expanded, transformed, 
or restricted through actors' mnemonic/historicizing activities. Exploring 
the changing nature of discourse in sites that the state deems "historic" we 
ask, what kinds of ideologies, moralities, agencies, and identities are 
reified in local and collective memories? What are the micropractices of the 
shifts that these sites enable (or undermine)? Once state-sanctioned 
histories become prominent, in what ways are local and collective "memories" 
transformed? What elements of such histories are incorporated into actors' 
understandings and experiences, and which elements are left out? When 
competing historical narratives exist, how do some cease to be acceptably 
"historical," demoted to "fiction" or mere "memories"? Through what specific 
acts of remembering (or forgetting) does a museum visitor invest herself 
with the attributes of historical agency? Whether articulating "personal" 
memories or historicizing a previously "ahistorical" sphere of activity, 
actors engage in a temporal-izing of the world, a cultural production that 
articulates, shifts, or translates different registers of social life as 
marked with time. Underlying these topics is thus a shared appreciation of 
the critical stakes of temporalization, since characterizing the movement 
and shape of time, and situating the self relative to these flows and 
intervals, are often acts with profound political implications.

We welcome papers that pertain to any part of the world and which ask 
questions about history/memory, power, and identity.  Interested panelists 
should email abstracts (maximum 250 words) no later than March 27, 2006 to 
session organizers Marc David (University of North Carolina) or Mieka Brand 
(University of Virginia).  Be sure to include in your email your name, 
affiliation and the title of your paper.

Marc David: mdavid@email.unc.edu
Mieka Brand: mbrand@virginia.edu


--
Mieka Brand
University of Virginia
Department of Anthropology,
Carter Woodson Institute for
   African American & African Studies
mbrand@virginia.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 24 13:30:15 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 24 13:30:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the
 Muslim World
Message-ID: <00a001c64f71$02414ad0$ba058696@Maulwaurf>

Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World


Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program aims at promoting understanding of 
Islamic civilization and the history, politics, and culture of today's 
Muslim world by people in the U.S. and at strengthening resources for 
enriched understanding of relevant issues.
The program offers a unique opportunity for U.S. colleges and universities 
to host specialists from countries with a significant Muslim population for 
short-term (3 to 6 weeks) programs of intensive lecturing, public outreach, 
and consultation. The Fulbright Visiting Specialists will lecture on and off 
campus on a variety of humanities and social science disciplines, including 
the arts, with some relevance to Islamic society or civilization.

The Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program also promotes interfaith dialogue 
through on-campus and off-campus activities. They will also work together 
with the U.S. host institution on projects with longer-term benefits such as 
curriculum consultation, faculty development, and institutional 
linkage-building.  Institutions with few or no Islam-related or relevant 
area studies programs/courses are encouraged to apply. Institutions that 
have well-established Islam-related or area studies programs should clearly 
indicate that their proposed program for the Fulbright Visiting Specialists 
Program is in a field/subject that is not currently supported at the 
institution.

Community colleges and minority-serving institutions, such as Historically 
Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Tribal 
colleges and universities, are encouraged to apply and will receive 
preference for an award. Visit 
www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists/us_institutions.htm to view the diverse 
representation of previous U.S. host institutions. Institutions that have 
already hosted a Fulbright Visiting Specialist are no longer eligible. While 
more than one application may be submitted by the same institution, more 
than one award to the same institution will not be offered.

For more information visit: http://www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists/ 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 24 13:45:36 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 24 13:45:57 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Undergraduate Internship: Human Rights Watch
Message-ID: <00b201c64f73$26ece310$ba058696@Maulwaurf>

Human Rights Watch
Arms Division Summer Internship

INTERNSHIP OPENING
Arms Division
Washington, DC
Spring 2006
Apply Immediately


Since its founding in 1978, Human Rights Watch has become the largest 
U.S.-based international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization, 
known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, 
its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in 
changing the human rights-related policies of the U.S., other influential 
governments, and international institutions.

Internship Description:
Undergraduate internships are primarily administrative and clerical in 
nature, but other projects can be assigned as they arise and match the 
student's interests and abilities, including research, drafting documents, 
translating, and helping researchers prepare for missions. Internships are 
generally unpaid, although work-study funds are available. Students are 
often able to arrange academic credit, as HRW internships offer direct 
exposure to the workings of an international human rights organization, 
close supervision by the HRW staff, interaction with other U.S. and 
international organizations and foreign and domestic government officials, 
and opportunities to attend lectures, trainings, and special events relating 
to human rights.

Qualifications:
Applicants should be well-organized, self-motivated and reliable, with a 
strong interest in international human rights. Relevant coursework is highly 
desirable, and knowledge of foreign languages is a plus. Computer skills 
(i.e., Microsoft Office, Internet applications) are required. Applicants 
must be available to intern for at least 10 hours per week.

How to Apply:
Please apply immediately by emailing a letter of interest, resume, and names 
of reference (no calls or email inquiries, please) to goodr@hrw.org. Please 
use "Arms Internship Application" as the subject of your email. Only 
complete applications will be reviewed.

Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer. 


From ptaber at anth.ucsb.edu  Fri Mar 24 11:02:38 2006
From: ptaber at anth.ucsb.edu (Patricia Taber)
Date: Fri Mar 24 14:16:23 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L] AAA Panel on middle class
Message-ID: <20060324110238.xqm5k0g4kk0csgkw@secure.lsit.ucsb.edu>

Session proposal for 2006 American Anthropological Association

Shifting Sands:  Middle Class Identity and Globalization

Abstract:

This year?s AAA theme reminds us that we are at a critical juncture in this
historical moment. The curtain that fell in the crossroads of the century?s
turn has taken with it any illusions of stability we may have held in our
professional or personal lives. The rapid blend of new technologies and global
capitalism has destabilized cautiously-kept boundaries between ideas, values,
practices and identities across the world.
Our purpose in this panel is to open a discussion on the emergence of new class
identities.  More specifically, we interrogate the expanding boundaries of the
middle class that both play a part in, and result from, these transformations.
Our focus is both on the experiences of the people with whom we do research and
on the analytical concept of middle class we employ in our ethnographies. As
instances of global capitalism become effective elements in people?s daily
experiences, and as they look for new opportunities to improve, maintain or
transform their lives and lifestyles, they may find themselves balancing
precariously at the intersection, or pushing at the limits of class boundaries.
It is precisely the instability brought with rapid transformations, which brings
new prospects, desires and hopes, that can also endanger the very sense of
stability that undergirds middle class identity. How do people negotiate such
risks? Do they fall, do they rise, or do they revise the elements that
constitute these limits in order to maintain or enhance their positions? People
construct their models of middle class membership in different ways, taking into
account a multitude of objects, values and practices that are contextual and
contingent. Therefore, we ask, how do they adapt their models to the changes?
At the same time, we ask ourselves as researchers, how can we use the concept
of middle class as an analytical tool to help us understand the formation and
reformulation of social, economic and cultural boundaries? Has it lost its
analytical strength as its limits blur, or will its protean character now help
us to observe situations that are themselves volatile?

Organizers:

Angela Torresan, PRODOC
Departamento de Antropologia/PPGAS
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
RN, Natal, Brasil
angelainthesky@yahoo.com

Patricia Taber, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
ptaber@anth.ucsb.edu


Please send 250-word abstract to:  Patricia Taber at:  pattimail@mindspring.com
by March 27.  Please include your name and university affiliation.  We also
welcome interested discussants for this panel.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar 25 14:49:38 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar 25 14:49:59 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Last Call for Papers on Global Level of Integration
Message-ID: <002101c65045$43c30e60$76058696@Maulwaurf>

Dear Colleagues:

Please consider contributing a paper or your services as a discussant to the 
session on the global level of integration and its relationship to the 
local. You may send your title and abstract to me at paulanthropus@cox.net.

Here is the abstract for the session.

Linking the Global Level of Integration with the Local:: Definition, Theory, 
and Practice

The papers of this panel address the conceptualization of a worldwide level 
of integration identified by various rubrics: supranational level of 
integration, global capitalism, globalization, global level of integration. 
However termed, the papers presented here acknowledge a supranational 
formation beyond the state level of integration conceptualized by Steward 
and Service. The first paper synthesizes existing literature on the 
supranational level of integration and goes on to conceptualize power with 
network analysis connecting actors at all levels of integration. In the 
second paper, the author examines the role played by information and 
communication technology in linking local informal economies with the global 
one, using the tourist trade as an example.  The third paper examines Indian 
women workers' status and role in a Nike factory in Delhi, partly as a 
product of local conditions, but also as one of company policy.  The 
creation of a global space for resistance and alternative economies brought 
about by corporate capitalism forms the topic of the fourth paper, which 
illustrates the process with the recuperaci?n movement of closed factories 
in Argentina and seven other Latin American countries, and touching on other 
resistance movements elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Paul McDowell, Organizer
Instructor in Anthropology
Santa Barbara City College 


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Sun Mar 26 11:30:14 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Sun Mar 26 15:44:55 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA-related events at SfAA in Vancouver
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060326112728.05cba670@att.net>

Note to SUNTA members: The following is a revised
list of events in Vancouver. Note especially that there
will be an open planning meeting for SUNTA events
at the SfAA in Tampa in 2007. It will be on Friday at
12:00 on the 14th floor of the Fairmont in the Royal
Parlor Suite. -- David Haines

**************************************************************

SfAA in Vancouver: SUNTA-related panels and papers
(based on urbanth listserv responses as of 3/24/06)

TUESDAY

10:00-5:20
Balmoral
Four part panel: ?Downtown Eastside Vancouver: 
Representations, Communities and Conversations?
Chair, Dara Culhane, Simon Fraser University

10:00-11:50
Part I: Representing and Performing Community History
12:00-1:30
Part II: Visual Arts, Performance and Public Space
1:30-3:20
Part III: Performance, Healing, Audiences and Research
3:30-5:20
Part IV: Reflections, Commentaries and Discussions from Near and Far

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:50
Regency A
Panel: ?Wars, Economic and Alternative Development?
Paper: ?Working the Edge? by Lisa Citron, Cascadia Community College

8:00-9:50
Regency E
Panel: ?Whose Ethnography Is It Anyways?: Ethics, 
Ownership, and Politics in the Context of Anthropological Research?
Paper: ?How Applied Is the Anthropology of 
Migrations in Argentina?? by Aranzazu Recalde, 
Anthropology Department, McGill University

8:00-9:50
Oxford
Panel: ?Migration and Human Trafficking?
Paper: ?Trauma and Resiliency of the Trafficked 
Child: Toward Solutions and Resolutions? by Micah Bump, Georgetown University

8:00-9:50
Plaza A
Panel: "Perspectives on Ethnomedicine and Healing in South America"
Paper: "Sending Energias from the Andes: 
Smoothing the Edges of Migrant Relationships 
through the Social Efficacy of Medicine" by Jason Pribilsky, Whitman College
12:00 - 1:30
Regency C
Panel: "Education on the Edge: A Discussion of 
Applied Anthropology of Education"
Paper: "Modeling Alternatives to Neoliberal 
Democracy: A Field Report on the Test Case Using 
Citizen Panels and Interculturality in the U.S." by Greg Tanaka.

1:30-3:20
Regency D
Panel: ?Community Is Not a Metaphor: 
Understanding the Forces of Communal Identity
in Constructing the Mexican Citizen?
Chair: Ramona Perez, San Diego State University

1:30-3:20
Constable
Panel: ?Stemming the Rise of Disaster Capitalism?
Chair: Mark Schuller, UC-Santa Barbara

3:30-5:20
Kensington
Panel: ?Development Theory and Praxis?
Chair: Constance P. deRoche, Cape Breton University

THURSDAY

12:00-1:30
Plaza A
Panel: ?Timing and Spacing Development?
Paper: ?NGO Implementation in a Successfully 
Failed State? by Mark Schuller, UC-Santa Barbara

3:30-5:20
Kensington
Panel: ?Wind over Water: Understanding East Asian Migration?
Chairs: David W. Haines (George Mason University) 
and Jeong Jong-Ho (Seoul National University)

FRIDAY

8:00-9:50
Regency E
Panel: ?Gender, Migration and Health?
Chairs: Dianna Shandy (Macalester College) and 
Elzbieta Gozdziak (Georgetown University)

8:00-9:50
Constable
Panel: ?Materialism, Garbage and Urban Development?
Chair: G. Alexander Moore, University of Southern California

10:00-11:50
Plaza C
Panel: ?Making Family at the Margins: Localized Studies of Gender and Power?
Chairs: Elisabeth Golub and Dianna Shandy, Macalester College

12:00-1:00
Royal Parlor Suite
14th floor of the Fairmont-- across the street from the Hyatt
SUNTA program planning meeting--open to all
Chair: David Haines, George Mason University

1:30-4:00
Plaza
Poster: ?La Solidarit? Africaine est Encore une 
R?alit?:  A Study of Urban Migration in B?nin? by 
Marcy Hessling, Wayne State University

1:30-3:20
Prince of Wales
Panel: ?Double Oppression: Displacement, 
Involuntary Relocation and Controlled Exclusion"
Paper: ?The Hunters Redux: Applied Visual 
Strategies with the Botswana Xo? by Matthew Durington, Towson University

3:30-5:20
Lord Byron
Panel: ?Cultural Aspects of Violence and Torture, Crime and Punishment?
Paper: ?Engulfed: Indian Guestworkers, Bahraini 
Citizens and the Structural Violence of the 
Kafala System? by Andrew M. Gardner, University of Puget Sound

SATURDAY

8:00-9:50
Constable
Roundtable discussion: ?Community Building for the Twenty-First Century?
Discussants include Julie Adkins and Van Kemper

10:00-11:50
Brighton
Panel: ?Class and Collective Action Part II (PESO)?
Paper: ?Class in the Academy: Our Achilles Heel? 
by Angela Jancius, Youngstown State University

1:30-3:20
Regency C
Panel: ?Is Homelessness Chronic??
Paper: ?Shelter Where There Was None - Or, Who Is 
a More ?Worthy? Victim?? by Julie Adkins, Southern Methodist University

1:30-3:20
Brighton
Panel: ?Embodiment of Place and Time: 
Intergenerational Continuity and Divergence?
Paper: ?Living off the Fat of the Land or Getting 
Fat in the Promised? by Erick Castellanos, Tufts University 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 26 15:50:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 26 15:50:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Faier on Yamashita et al, The Making of Anthropology in East
 and Southeast Asia
Message-ID: <003d01c65116$e5666060$9a058696@Maulwaurf>

[x-posted from CAELIST@LISTSERV.VT.EDU]

Yamashita, Shinji, Joseph Bosco, and J.S. Eades, eds.  The Making of 
Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia.  New York, NY:  Bergham Books, 
2004. 374 pp. ISBN 1571812598, $27.00

Reviewed for the Anthropology and Education Quarterly by Lieba Faier, 
University of California, Los Angeles

Given recent scholarly attention to the politics of producing 
anthropological knowledge, surprisingly little consideration has thus far 
been given to the connections and inequalities among anthropologies on a 
global scale.  This edited volume addresses this oversight by inviting us to 
think about the discipline in both cross-cultural and transnational terms. 
Bringing together eminent anthropologists in and from East and Southeast 
Asia, the collection asks several questions:  Why have anthropologists in 
the West consistently overlooked anthropological traditions in East and 
Southeast Asia?  How can attention to these projects help us build a better 
anthropology?  The 14 chapters in the book respond to these questions by 
exploring the development and distinctive characteristics of the discipline 
in these regions.  In doing so, they consider both the diversity and status 
of anthropologies in East and Southeast Asia and their historical and 
present-day relationships to each other and to traditions in the West.

In a self-conscious sense, the volume is an exploration of the discipline's 
margins-and a call to pay attention to them.  In an early chapter, Takami 
Kuwayama discusses the problem of Western hegemony in the "world system of 
anthropology."  He challenges scholars in the West, and particularly the 
United States, to pay attention to their relationships with their colleagues 
abroad, just as he urges scholars within East and Southeast Asia to avoid 
the pitfalls of parochialism and nationalism.  Yet, the collection also 
complicates any easy categorization of anthropologists as insider/outsider 
or native/indigenous/exoticist.  Whereas previous discussions have primarily 
focused on relationships between ethnographers and their interlocutors, the 
editors of this volume insightfully argue the importance of paying attention 
to questions of audience.  Doing so, they instruct, complicates how we can 
understand both our locations as ethnographers and our anthropological 
projects.  As a result, questions of audience have serious implications for 
how we understand not only relations of power among us as scholars, but also 
anthropology's contributions in an increasingly interconnected world.

While as a whole the book makes an interesting and useful addition to recent 
discussions of the politics of institutionalized knowledges and historical 
and contemporary global flows, the primary contributions of most chapters 
are historical: They offer detailed sketches of the development of 
anthropology in various countries in East and Southeast Asia, discussing 
these countries one by one.  The chapters are sometimes redundant-and some 
are more sophisticated and focused on the volume's themes than others-but 
overall they are instructive.  For example, David Askew and Shinji Yamashita 
productively examine the development of anthropology in Japan in the context 
of imperialist projects; their chapters will be useful to studies of 
comparative colonialisms.  Other contributors focus on the relationships 
between anthropology and nationalist projects in China, Taiwan, Korea, 
Malaysia, and the Philippines, considering what indigenizing anthropology 
has meant (and might mean) in these countries.

Although the structure of the book is comparative, it also begins tracing 
links between anthropologies in East and Southeast Asia and those in the 
United States, Britain, France, and Australia.  Xin Liu's exploration of 
"Two Moments in the History of Chinese Anthropology" importantly reminds us 
that there is considerable variation in regional anthropological traditions 
and that anthropologies in China and the West are not easily dichotomized. 
Other of the chapters, however, might have more imaginatively traced global 
inter-anthropological connections.  The introduction maintains that most 
anthropologies in the region developed in conversations more with the West 
than with each other; yet in some cases even these links might have been 
more carefully explored.

The collection as a whole also has a couple gaps.  First, it is unbalanced 
in its geographic foci, and most countries in Southeast Asia, including 
Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, 
are omitted completely.  Readers will likely wonder why discussions of these 
countries are minimalized or altogether excluded.  Second, while the volume 
draws careful attention to the national, colonial, and racial politics of 
anthropologies in both Asia and the West, scant attention is paid to gender, 
notably all but one of the 14 contributors are men.  Gender, we know, has 
played central roles in shaping both nationalist and colonial projects and 
anthropology as a discipline.  Given the collection's interest in the 
politics of knowledge and questions of academic hegemony and elitism, this 
oversight, and imbalance, is striking.

More than anything, however, the collection's gaps only suggest the need for 
more research along the lines these scholars introduce, and thus the new and 
important questions this edited volume opens up.  The collection is also 
very accessibly written.  It will be useful not only for graduate seminars, 
but also for undergraduate courses both on East and Southeast Asia and on 
themes of nationalisms, colonialisms, or transnationalisms.  It also 
could-or, rather, should-be used to add cross-cultural perspectives to 
classes on anthropological theory and the history of the discipline.

? 2005 American Anthropological Association.  This review will appear on the 
web site http://www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq.html, will be cited in the December 
2005 issue (36.4) of the Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and will be 
indexed in the December 2005 issue (36.4).

The Anthropology & Education Quarterly publishes reviews of current books in 
the anthropology of education and related fields.  The Book Review Editor 
identifies the books to be reviewed and solicits each review from an 
appropriate scholar.  The Book Review Editor may also consider reviews 
submitted voluntarily at his or her discretion, but volunteered reviews are 
rare.  The Book Review Editor makes the decision whether to accept the 
review for publication.  This policy has applied and continues to apply to 
all book reviews, whether published on the AEQ web site or in the paper 
journal. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 26 15:53:50 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 26 15:54:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A.
Message-ID: <006901c65117$6608aca0$9a058696@Maulwaurf>

Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A.

By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Thousands of immigration advocates marched though downtown Los
Angeles in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S.
history.


More than 500,000 protesters - demanding that Congress abandon attempts to
make illegal immigration a felony and to build more walls along the border -
surprised police who estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and
other techniques, police Cmdr. Louis Gray Jr. said.
Wearing white T-shirts to symbolize peace, the demonstrators chanted
"Mexico!" "USA!" and "Si se puede," an old Mexican-American civil rights
shout that means "Yes, we can."

In Denver, more than 50,000 people protested downtown Saturday, according to
police who had expected only a few thousand. Phoenix was similarly surprised
Friday when an estimated 20,000 people gathered for one of the biggest
demonstrations in city history, and more than 10,000 marched in Milwaukee on
Thursday.

"We construct your schools. We cook your food," rapper Jorge Ruiz said after
performing at a Dallas rally that drew 1,500. "We are the motor of this
nation, but people don't see us. Blacks and whites, they had their
revolution. They had their Martin Luther King. Now it is time for us."
Many protesters said lawmakers were unfairly targeting immigrants who
provide a major labor pool for America's economy.

"Enough is enough of the xenophobic movement," said Norman Martinez, 63, who
immigrated from Honduras as a child and marched in Los Angeles. "They are
picking on the weakest link in society, which has built this country."

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make it
a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who
hire illegal immigrants, require churches to check the legal status of
people they help, and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican
border.
The Senate is to begin debating the proposals on Tuesday.

President Bush on Saturday called for legislation that does not force
America to choose between being a welcoming society and a lawful one.
"America is a nation of immigrants, and we're also a nation of laws," Bush
said in his weekly radio address, discussing an issue that had driven a
wedge into his own party.

Bush sides with business leaders who want to let some of the estimated 12
million undocumented immigrants stay in the country and work for a set
period of time. Others, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, say
national security concerns should drive immigration reform.

But many protesters rejected claims the national security claim, noting that
the legislation would hurt Hispanics the most.
"When did you ever see a Mexican blow up the World Trade Center? Who do you
think built the World Trade Center?" said David Gonzalez, 22, who marched in
Los Angeles with a sign that read, "I'm in my homeland.'"

Between 5,000 and 7,000 people gathered Saturday in Charlotte, carrying
signs with slogans such as "Am I Not a Human Being?" In Sacramento, more
than 4,000 people protested immigration legislation at an annual march
honoring the late farm labor leader Cesar Chavez.
The demonstrations are expected to culminate April 10 in a "National Day of
Action" organized by labor, immigration, civil rights and religious groups.
___
Associated Press writers Bob Jablon and Kim Nguyen contributed to this
report.


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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 26 20:05:56 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 26 20:06:18 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAA panel: Transnationalism and the US Military
Message-ID: <007d01c6513a$9d963de0$66058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Rebecca Forgash <rforgash@hotmail.com>
Subject: CFP AAA panel: Transnationalism and the US Military

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
November 15-19, 2006
San Jose, California

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PROPOSED PANEL:

Session Title: "Off Limits": Transnationalism and the US Military

With more than 5500 sites worldwide, the United States Department of Defense
coordinates vast transnational flows of personnel, equipment, and other 
goods,
as well as culturally and historically specific ideas concerning power,
gender, nation, race, and class.  A topic historically and politically "off
limits" as a dangerous zone of discussion, this panel encourages approaches 
to
investigating the critical intersections of the U.S. military that are
sensitive to cultural production that spans the barbed wire fences
distinguishing on-base from off-base space.  At issue are far-reaching
processes of "militarization" that shape not only the interactions and
relationships between on-base and off-base persons, but more broadly,
understandings of citizenship, entitlement, and belonging that emerge in
specific localities and/or circulate throughout the global U.S. military
community.  International security treaties, status of forces agreements, 
and
immigration procedures place important legal parameters on the negotiation 
of
personal identity.  Where bases are a legacy of war and/or colonialism, 
active
duty service personnel relate to local persons within a sociopolitical
framework defined by reference to nation, race, and class difference.  All 
the
while, intimate social and economic relationships between U.S. service
personnel and local persons blur the boundaries of acknowledged social and
legal categories, giving rise to new racial, gendered, and class
subjectivities that are situated within complex and shifting fields of 
power.

The panel will explore these processes with reference to theories of
citizenship (broadly conceived), globalization, and governmentality, as well
as recent anthropological approaches to militarization and
American "empire."  "Empire" although referring to colonialism, in this
context also refers to the "geographical reach of U.S. military power and 
its
ability to assert that power/impose their will on any adversaries" (Lutz
2004). Few scholars in anthropology have approached the U.S. military as a
transnational institution, despite its national and global reaches.  We
specifically ask, how does a focus on the U.S. military challenge current
models of citizenship and transnationalism and demand novel analytical
frameworks?

Our own papers focus on the US military in Okinawa and Korea.  We invite
proposals/papers that strengthen or complement our larger focus on Asia and
the Pacific (including the United States).

Deadline for 250-word proposals and/or drafts of papers: March 29, 2006

Please send a copy of proposals/drafts to both:

Rebecca Forgash
Eaton Humanities 240
279 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0279
Email: Rebecca.Forgash@colorado.edu

Sue-Je Gage
701 East Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-7100
Email: slgage@indiana.edu 


From bridgman at cc.umanitoba.ca  Mon Mar 27 10:40:12 2006
From: bridgman at cc.umanitoba.ca (RAE BRIDGMAN)
Date: Mon Mar 27 14:51:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]other urban anthropologists writing fantasy? (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603271027320.3826@antares.cc.umanitoba.ca>


My debut fantasy novel for young people, "The Serpent's Spell" (Great
Plains Publications, 2006) is due out soon...mid-April. The book is set in
a "secret city" within Winnipeg's own Exchange District and was inspired
by the snakes of Narcisse, Manitoba. It also features my pen-and-ink
drawings. For more information, you can check <www.raebridgman.ca>.

The novel follows on the footsteps of my scholarly book "StreetCities:
Rehousing the Homeless" (Broadview Press, 2006)---an experimental
ethnography documenting two generations of an alternative housing model to
help rehouse chronically homeless women and men. The book features
photographs, handwritten fieldnotes, screenplay format and residents'
personal narratives.

Are there any other urban anthropologists who have been living "parallel
lives" and writing/illustrating fiction? I'd be interested in hearing from
you!



Rae Bridgman


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	Rae Bridgman, Associate Dean (Research)
	and Professor, Department of City Planning
	Faculty of Architecture
	UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
	201 Russell Building
	Winnipeg, Manitoba  R3T 2N2
	--
	Tel: 204/474-7179	Fax: 204/474-7532
	Email: bridgman@cc.umanitoba.ca
	Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~bridgman

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


From samuel.veissiere at mcgill.ca  Mon Mar 27 12:08:10 2006
From: samuel.veissiere at mcgill.ca (Samuel Veissiere)
Date: Mon Mar 27 14:51:35 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Search for Panel: Heterotopias Bahianas:
	Street-children,
	middle-class youth, and the struggle for public space in urban Bahia,
	Brazil
Message-ID: <20060327120810.gm3opsn01wksw0ww@webmail.mcgill.ca>


Hi all,

I am looking for a panel to present my paper at the 2006 AAA Meeting.

keywords: Urban Brazil; Space and Place; Public Space; ?Street 
Children?; Gated Communities; Participatory Ethnography; Critical 
Pedagogy; Social Change ?from below?.

Heterotopias Bahianas: Street-children, middle-class youth, and the 
struggle for public space in urban Bahia, Brazil.

	In their project on the city, the architect Rem Koolhaas and his 
graduate students noted that in postindustrial late-capitalist America 
where shopping is the only remaining ?public? activity, shopping malls 
symbolize the last vestiges of public space. Teresa Caldeira?s 
ethnography of violence and urban segregation in S?o Paulo reminded us 
that Brazil?s affluent classes live and experience ?public? life in 
similarly?but more aggressively?hyper-controlled air-conditioned 
spaces, while the majority of the population struggles for survival in 
violently disintegrating ?public? spaces.

	Set against the background of unprecedented disparities in the 
allocation of space, resources, and services, and the creeping 
diffusion of a commercially revitalized racial hegemony that muffles 
the gendered and racialized aspects of this politics of exclusion, this 
ethnography explores the ways in which public urban space is imagined 
and experienced by street-children and middle to upper-class youth in 
Salvador, Bahia.

	Veissi?re investigates the disintegration of public space and the 
emergence of new patterns of segregation and experiences of urban space 
(eg. gated communities, high-security shopping malls, shantytowns, 
crumbling working class neighbourhoods, territorial street life, ritual 
pilgrimages to Disneyworld for the affluent, etc) from the point of 
view of ?children? situated at opposing extremes of the Brazilian 
social pyramid.

	 This study hopes to shed light on asymmetrical experiences of the 
city and its new privatized and ?public? spaces by different actors, 
and expose the gendering and racialization of these spaces and of the 
very practice of domination and exclusion in this postindustrial 
Brazilian context.

	By examining and giving voice to radically different experiences of 
?childhood? and how they are constructed in different socio-economic 
spheres, this study also seeks to move beyond the dominant positivist 
view of childhood (Steinberg & Kincheloe, 2004) professed by most 
educators, psychologists, NGOs, and policy-makers concerned with ?the 
street-children question? (Hecht, 1998), and expose their failure to 
take into consideration the emancipatory power of the resilient modes 
of livelihoods and survival developed by these youngsters.

	In an effort to make the process of ethnographic research 
participatory and emancipatory, informants were invited to produce 
their own narratives and interpretations of their lived experience of 
space through a variety of media. As the project develops, street kids 
and middle-class informants/participants will be invited to participate 
in critical pedagogy sessions in which they can share their ?findings? 
and critically explore the paradoxical co-construction of their 
realities. It is hoped that this will enable the more privileged ones 
to re-imagine their realities, priorities, and allegiances, while 
assisting the street kids in identifying the structures that oppress 
them and drawing upon organizing themselves to take action.

	Thus, this project is concerned with structural and symbolic aspects 
of the human crisis in which the visible presence of ?street children? 
is only the tip of the iceberg, and seeks to address some of its 
cultural and cosmological foundations by engaging young social actors 
from different dimension of these interrelated realities and in 
Freirian tradition, to enable them to become critical readers and 
re-shapers of their worlds.

Thank you,

Samuel

------

Samuel Veissiere

Joint PhD Program in International Development Education and Anthropology
Vice President (Multicultural Affairs), Education Graduate Students Society
McGill University
Room 533 Education Building
Tel: +1 (514) 398-5699
Fax: +1 (514) 398-4529


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 27 15:05:12 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 27 15:05:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Crash/Landings: Friction and Flow in the American
	City
Message-ID: <00b401c651d9$c22278f0$b2058696@Maulwaurf>

From: Sarah Chinn <sarah.chinn@hunter.edu>

The New York Metro American Studies Association
(NYMASA) invites papers for our annual one-day conference:

Crash / Landings: Friction and Flow in the American
City. Saturday, October 28, 2006

Deadline for  abstracts:  Monday, May 1,  2006

As we've seen from the New Orleans flood, the NYC
transit strike, and the Oscar-winning film "Crash,"
the U.S. city is a site of multiple  collisions--of race, 
class, ethnicity, generations, desires, fears, and  
expectations.  It is also, as Mary  Louise Pratt and others 
have argued, a contact zone--an improvisational space 
of often surprising cultural exchange and creativity.  To 
explore these contradictions, the  2006 NYMASA 
conference invites papers on the sometimes violent but 
always  productive juxtapositions that occur in urban 
spaces. We are interested in presentations  that address 
the American city as a site of contact, collision, and
community.  What kinds of movements--of peoples,
capital, knowledge, and culture--distinguish the city?
  
What instant or enduring intimacies  are generated from the 
friction of crowded streets, subways, freeways?  How is 
the eco-system of the city  reshaped by gentrification or 
zoning disputes--and enriched by aesthetic and political 
responses to specific socio-economic conditions?  How 
have urban social movements shaped  American
cities historically, and how are they remembered,
memorialized,  replayed, and recast?  How do  images,
narratives, histories, maps and other representations
make urban  friction and flow (in)visible?

We also invite considerations of  American Studies as a 
site of collision, friction and flow.  Are there zoning 
restrictions implicit  in American Studies as an (inter)discipline,
and how are they being  contested?  What methodologies
and  theoretical approaches are required to grasp the
complexities of the city as a  contested zone?  How do
urban challenges enable us to rethink the objects of
study in American Studies?

We particularly encourage  submissions that discuss urban 
spaces before the 20th century, and presentations that 
cross historical and disciplinary boundaries.  We welcome 
presentations on transnational topics, but papers should 
demonstrate some connection to the study  of the United  
States.

Possible topics include, but are not  limited to:

--Landing in the city:  migration/immigration, city as
refuge and  asylum, city as "mecca"
--Diaspora and the global city:  transculturation,
appropriation,  tourism
--Imperialism, policing,  surveillance and the
occupied city
--The economics of urban  "flow":  labor and capital
in the  city
--Aesthetics of urban experience:  fashion, art,
music, dance,  theatre
--Culture clashes, subcultural  frissons: hip hop,
reggaeton, graffiti; drag, genderqueer
--Geographies of urban culture and  motion
--Final landings:  urban burial sites, memorials, landfills
--City as landscape or  ecosystem:  wildlife,
community  agriculture, pollution
--Zoning disputes:  defining and arranging city space, 
demolition, rebuilding, gentrification
--Catastrophe, disaster,  violence
--Political frictions:  tensions between local and
national  politics
--Urban social/political  movements:  riots, strikes,
demonstrations, rebellions
--Crashing the party:  social climbing, scandal and
gossip, physical/economic accessibility
--Cities in transit:  walking in the city, biking as
resistance, commuting, car culture
--Urban  intimacies:  sex clubs, red light  districts,
queering the city, new domesticities
--Imagination or  reality?  Representations versus
experiences of the urban environment
--Sensory experience  and urban affect:  feeling (in)
the  city
--Theoretical contact zones:  intersectionality,
activist theory,  collisions of theory/practice
--Documenting urban flow:  ethnography, journalism,
film, indie  media, activist video

Abstracts (300 words) for proposed  presentations are
due Monday, May 1, 2006 via email to Sarah Chinn
(_sarah.chinn@hunter.edu)

Please note: The conference will  take place in New
York  City; exact location will be announced at a later date.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 28 20:49:51 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 28 20:50:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Reebok Human Rights Award
Message-ID: <006d01c652d3$2a8898d0$71058696@Maulwaurf>

The REEBOK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD
Deadline: May 31, 2006

The REEBOK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD recognizes young activists who have made 
significant contributions to human rights causes through nonviolent means. 
The Award aims to generate positive international attention for the 
recipients and to support their efforts. Since 1988, more than 60 recipients 
from over 35 countries have received the award. Honorees, who are 30 years 
of age or younger, receive a $50,000 grant from the REEBOK HUMAN RIGHTS 
FOUNDATION to further their work.  Nominees are submitted from around the 
world by prominent individuals in the human rights community and by 
non-governmental organizations.

At the request of the Reebok Human Rights Award Board of Advisors, you are 
invited to nominate a candidate for the 2007 Reebok Human Rights Award. 
Established in 1988, the Reebok Human Rights Award recognizes young people 
who are on the forefront of the fight for human rights in the United States 
and around the world.  In addition to a $50,000 grant, the Award brings 
national and international attention to each recipient's work, gives moral 
support to the recipient, and connects them to a network of 84 women and men 
from 38 countries.

Past Reebok Human Rights Award recipients have worked on protecting 
children's rights in Sierra Leone; monitoring human rights violations in 
Mexico; protecting the rights of indigenous peoples; protesting human rights 
abuses in Tibet; fighting the trafficking of women and children into sexual 
exploitation; fighting discrimination in the criminal justice system; and 
curbing unlawful police practices in the United States.

Candidates must be 30 years of age or younger, must not advocate violence or 
belong to an organization that advocates violence, and must be actively 
working, often against great odds, on some aspect of human rights as defined 
by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

For more information about the award and the nomination process, please 
visit: http://www.reebok.com/x/us/humanRights/text-only/awards/ The 
completed nomination form and all supporting material must be received by 
the Reebok Human Rights Award Program no later than May 31, 2006. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 28 21:01:33 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 28 21:02:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Irregular Migration in Asia
Message-ID: <010301c652d4$bee52330$71058696@Maulwaurf>

[forwarded from H-MIGRATION@H-NET.MSU.EDU]

Dear Colleagues,

The Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong will be organisng 
a workshop on contemporary irregular migration in Asia in December 2006. The 
detailed announcement is as follows.

Please direct any queries to Ms Louise Mak at: lypmak@hku.hk

With warm regards,

James K. Chin

Dr James K. Chin
Centre of Asian Studies
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong


CENTRE OF ASIAN STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG CALL FOR PAPERS

Irregular Migration in Asia

The Centre of Asian Studies (CAS), at the University of Hong Kong, is 
convening a new phase of workshops focused on Asian regionalism. These 
workshops build on the highly successful China-ASEAN and China-India 
Roundtables that have been running since 1998 and 2001, respectively; with 
the overall objective of fostering and enhancing regional academic dialogue 
and policy exchanges. The first workshop was held in Hong Kong in December 
2005 on the topic of Governance and Regionalism in Asia.  The second 
workshop will be held on the 7th and 8th of December 2006 in partnership 
with the Asian Center, University of the Philippines.

The second workshop in this series aims to explore the emerging forms and 
modalities of contemporary irregular migration in Asia, with a focus on the 
patterns and substance of illegal migration, people smuggling and human 
trafficking.  As the East Asian region has integrated for the greater good 
of its peoples, markets and states new challenges have emerged.  The 
increased intra-regional movement of people for work or pleasure is one 
manifestation of closer ties between the countries of Asia.  But just as the 
1997 Asian financial crisis was a negative manifestation of closer economic 
ties between regional states, so too the illegal movement of peoples across 
national borders is a challenge arising from the closer links between 
regional peoples and societies.

We are now calling for paper abstracts for this workshop.  Papers should be 
interdisciplinary in nature and could explore (but are not limited to):

-      Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Irregular Human Flows in 
Asia

-      Comparative Domestic Approaches to Illegal Migration

-      Case studies of Northeast, Southeast and South Asian Patterns

-     Extra-regional Flows

-   Role of Regional Institutions and International Organisations

More information on these topics and what subthemes are being sought can be 
found at: http://www.hku.hk/cas/imia/imia.html.

Successful applicants will be invited to participate in the Workshop to be 
held in Manila. Dependent on final confirmation of funding, travel and 
accommodation expenses will be covered by the organisers. It is intended 
that the papers will be published either as a special issue of a major 
academic journal or an edited volume and so will be expected to be in the 
order 7-9,000 words.

The co-organisers invite the submission of Paper Proposals on the above 
themes. Proposals should not exceed 1500 words. A one-page CV, including a 
list of recent relevant publications, should also be submitted at the same 
time. The closing date is 15 April 2006.   E-mail applications are 
preferred.

Please send paper proposals and CV to:

Asian Regionalism Project
 Centre of Asian Studies
The University of Hong Kong,

Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong SAR
E-mail: Ms Louise Mak lypmak@hku.hk Web Site:  www.hku.hk/cas/ 


From bambam at anthro.umass.edu  Tue Mar 28 22:37:35 2006
From: bambam at anthro.umass.edu (bambam@anthro.umass.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 29 00:04:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: AAA panel - Information Wars: Propaganda, Political Conflict
 and Hegemonic Struggle
Message-ID: <1143603455.442a00ffe3567@mail-www2.oit.umass.edu>

Apologies for the last minute nature of our query. We are near completion of a
panel proposal for the AAA?s that will be examining propaganda, hegemonic
struggle and warfare. The panel is titled, Information Wars: Propaganda,
Political Conflict and Hegemonic Struggle.

Currently, we have someone working on information warfare in a historical
context (US), British propaganda in the service of state legitimacy (Northern
Ireland), information warfare in the service war and peace (former Yugoslavia)
and the propaganda around the drug wars (US). We need one more paper. 

Feel free to view this panel proposal creatively. 

If you are interested, please reply to Tom Taaffe at taaffet@fpc.edu. 




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar 29 12:24:12 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 29 12:24:37 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma Housing Damage Database
Message-ID: <00b601c65355$9c7310b0$7b058696@Maulwaurf>

[forwarded from URBGEOG@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]

From: seth_r._marcus@HUD.GOV

The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding at the 
Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development have compiled data to assess the full 
extent of housing damage due to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

Detailed tables on the extent of damage, type of damage, tenure, insurance 
status, and housing type are provided for Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, 
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http://www.huduser.org/publications/destech/GulfCoast_HsngDmgEst.html

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Wed Mar 29 12:53:17 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Wed Mar 29 15:53:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: Steven McKay, "Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?"
Message-ID: <1143665597.442af3bdbbacc@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the
Philippines. 2006. Ithaca and London: Cornell University/ILR Press

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4433
 
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? challenges the myth of globalization’s
homogenizing power, arguing that the uniqueness of place is becoming more, not
less important. Steven McKay documents how multinational firms secure worker
control and consent by reaching beyond the high-tech factory and into local
labor markets. He also traces the rise of a new breed of privatized export
processing zones, revealing the state’s—in these cases, the Philippines—revamped
role in the wider politics of global production. Finally, McKay gives voice to
the women workers themselves, as they find meaning, identity, and agency on and
beyond the “new” shop floor.
 
This book deftly weaves together three critical strands of global studies:
Southeast Asia as a key site of global production, the organization of work in
advanced electronics, and working-class conditions under globalization. Drawing
on the author’s rich analysis of four multinational electronics firms—from their
boardrooms to boarding houses—Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? makes a unique
contribution to the study of work, labor, and high-tech production.
 
 Reviews:
"This important and original book addresses workplace and labor issues of global
significance. To my knowledge, there has not previously been an in-depth study
of the developmental strategy or high-tech industrial production in the
Philippines. Steven McKay's comparative case-study design is admirable and shows
the variation across four firms in a single industry. His discussions of the
more technical aspects of high-tech production are readily comprehensible to
general readers. This book's firm-level data and worker narratives are rich,
revealing, and at times moving."—Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan
 
"Working in the best traditions of industrial ethnography Steven McKay shows how
globalization, far from being the clichéd homogenizing force, fans out into a
variety of production regimes. There's no best practice, but a wide range of
locally sensitive managerial strategies to elicit worker commitment. Satanic
Mills or Silicon Islands? is a must-read for all those who study work and
politics."—Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

From ZhengT at cortland.edu  Fri Mar 31 19:25:06 2006
From: ZhengT at cortland.edu (Tiantian Zheng)
Date: Fri Mar 31 19:55:23 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Message-ID: <FB52992D1F2AC642950C4EAF2835B47A05CA3282@sawteeth.cortland.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS AND/OR VISUAL/AUDIO TAPES

"Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice"
Special issue for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender
Studies. SUNY Cortland.

This special issue of Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and
Gender Studies aims to explore the life experiences, agency, and human
rights of the women who are involved in a variety of activities that are
characterized as "trafficked" terrains in a deterritorialized and
reterritorialized world, in order to shed light on the complicated
processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are
intersected.  While previous studies have highlighted popular
discourses, national and international policies, and the victimization
and struggles of the trafficked women, few studies have centered on the
stories of the migrant subjects themselves to offer a critical reading
of the recent competing definitions of trafficking and the complex ways
in which the intertwined configurations of gender, race, ethnicity, and
nationality complicate the contemporary hegemonic discourse on
trafficking.  This special issue will fill this lacuna through
theorizing and conceptualizing the intersecting discourses on
anti-trafficking, human rights, and social justice from the perspectives
of the transnational migrant populations.  Specifically, this issue will
include articles and/or visual/audio tapes that will rearticulate the
trafficking discourses away from the state control of immigration and
the global policing of borders, and reassert the social justice and the
needs, agency, and human rights of migrant and working communities.
Some of the topics of investigation may include:

a critical analysis of the conflation of trafficking with sex work in
international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women;

effects on the vulnerable population as a result of the
anti-prostitution policy and a denial of human rights of sex workers;

suggestions of more effective anti-trafficking interventions that will
ameliorate social justice and human rights of the migrant populations;

the sociocultural effects on the migrant population as a result of the
global and national laws against trafficking, immigration and smuggling;

the debate between the recognition of women's human rights to migrate
and work as sex workers and the anti-trafficking policy that classifies
sex workers as trafficked victims and slaves;

a critical analysis of the global anti-trafficking policy and the root
causes for the undocumented migration and employment;

the relationship between the human rights of the vulnerable population
and the state approaches to trafficking;

the effects upon the migrant population as a result of the ways in which
the state and international policies define "trafficked persons" and
"undocumented migrants;"

the complicated intersections of forced and voluntary labor and
migrations at the national and international level.


Please send abstracts (75 words) in English (June 1, 2006) and complete
essays (approximately 5,500-7,500 words) and/or visual/audio tapes by
August 1, 2006.  Submissions should be sent electronically in MLA or APA
format to zhengt@cortland.edu.

Tiantian Zheng 
Sociology/Anthropology
State University of New York, College at Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
Office phone number: 607-753-2478
Fax: 607-753-5973
Email: zhengt@cortland.edu


Tiantian Zheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Co-ordinator of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Sociology/Anthropology
State University of New York, College at Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
Office phone number: 607-753-2478
Fax: 607-753-5973

