From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Oct  1 20:32:20 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct  1 19:32:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 IAEP Philadelphia session on Christopher Alexander's NATURE OF ORDER
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Reminder: Philadelphia Conference Session on Christopher Alexander's "Nature 
of Order"

The annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental 
Philosophy (IAEP) will include a special session on architect Christopher 
Alexander's four-volume The Nature of Order, to be held Monday, 16 October, 
at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, One Dock Street, Philadelphia. The 
session begins at 9 am in the Shippen Room and is co-sponsored by the 
Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Network. Session paper titles 
and presenters are as follows:

?     "The Human Capacity for Creating Beauty," Karen Kho, Alameda County 
Planner, San Leandro, California.
?     "Grasping the Ineffable," Jenny Quillien, New Mexico University at 
Highlands, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
?     "Structures of Wholeness: A Study of Carl Nyr?n's Brahe School 
Library, Visings?, Sweden," Gary Coates, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 
Kansas.
?     "The Architecture of Living Thought," Tim Quick, Independent Scholar, 
Victoria, British Columbia.
?     "'The Hazard of Emergence': Christopher Alexander's Theory of 
Wholeness as Genuine Belonging," David Seamon, Kansas State University, 
Manhattan, Kansas.

Contact David Seamon for information on the session at triad@ksu.edu. For 
information on the conference, go to: www.environmentalphilosophy.org/. EDRA 
members and other interested parties are welcome to attend.

Dr. David Seamon
Architecture Department, Kansas State University
211 Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2901
785-532-1121
triad@ksu.edu 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Oct  1 21:17:08 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct  1 20:17:18 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Immigration activists get decree from mayor (San
	Diego)
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20061001-9999-1m1natcity.html

Immigration activists get decree from mayor
By Elizabeth Fitzsimons
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
October 1, 2006

NATIONAL CITY - Mayor Nick Inzunza declared National City an immigrant
sanctuary in a proclamation he presented to immigrants rights activists
during dueling rallies that brought about 400 people to City Hall yesterday.

The San Diego Minutemen, and immigrants rights supporters faced off on
National City Boulevard with about 130 peace officers in riot gear between
them to keep the crowds from mixing. The crowds appeared to be near even in
number.

Inzunza didn't leave City Hall, for fear of inciting violence. Instead, he
invited immigration rights activist Enrique Morones inside to receive the
proclamation.

"We're still a nation of laws. We still have a constitution that protects
us. That's what we're saying," Inzunza told reporters.

Early last month, Inzunza announced his plan to declare the city a sanctuary
for immigrants, though a majority City Council vote is required to
officially establish it.
In a sanctuary city, municipal funds cannot be used for enforcing federal
immigration laws, which is already the case in National City.

Inzunza said yesterday that the proclamation was a way of memorializing
National City policies, such as the Spanish translation for council meetings
and the city's acceptance of the Matricula Consular identification cards,
issued by the Mexican government through its consulates, as an official ID.
The card shows that the bearer is a Mexican citizen who is living outside of
Mexico.

The proclamation also notes how Inzunza has denounced any efforts to break
constitutional law and violate civil liberties, and rejected "the hysteria
being created to align immigrants with terrorists, homeland security, or any
other threat to our nation."
Inzunza said he hoped the proclamation would "let the community know we are
on the right side of the law."

The rallies, which began about 11:30 a.m. and lasted until 2 p.m., went more
smoothly than similar demonstrations last week, when one person was
arrested, said National City police Capt. Manuel Rodriguez. No one was
arrested yesterday.

Rodriguez said police learned from last time not to let people into the
street. So yesterday, each group was kept on its respective sidewalk. Law
enforcement from each agency in the county was represented, including
mounted police from San Diego and El Cajon and a sheriff's helicopter, which
circled overhead.

In preparation for the protests, the city canceled events at Kimball Park
and closed the library for the day.

Morones, the immigrants rights activist who organized the rally, said more
than 1,000 signatures had been collected in support of the mayor's
declaration.

National City's proclamation was only the beginning, Morones said. He hoped
other cities would follow.

"This proclamation tells our people they're welcome here," Morones said.
"We're all the same race - the human race."

Across the street, the anti-illegal immigration side called for Inzunza to
come outside.
"The people of this community are countering Nick Inzunza's declaration with
our own declaration that this is not a sanctuary city," said Jeff Schwilk,
founder of the San Diego Minutemen, which started out as volunteers
patrolling the border in search of illegal immigrants.

"The drug dealers and the human smugglers cannot come here and hide."
By about 1:30 p.m., Minutemen supporters began leaving. Close to 2 p.m. one
man was left, waving an American flag while the crowd across the street
chanted "Go home! Go home!"

He finally did when a police officer offered him an escort down the block.
With him gone, the immigrants rights group started drifting away.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Oct  2 16:08:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  2 15:13:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Divided Cities (Transatlantic Graduate Research Program, Berlin)
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From: "Florian Urban" <florian.urban@metropolitanstudies.de>

You are cordially invited to an international conference "Divided Cities"
Second Annual Conference Of The Transatlantic 
Graduate Research Program Berlin ? New York: "History and
Culture of the Metropolis in the 20th Century"

A cooperation of Columbia University, New York 
University, Technische Universit?t zu Berlin,
Freie Universit?t Berlin and Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin

5 ? 7 October 2006, New York City

Thursday, October 5
Room 1501, International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, 420 West 118th St., NYC

5:30 pm. Welcome by Volker Berghahn (New York) and Heinz Reif (Berlin)
Keynote Lecture by Thomas Bender (NYU): "History, Theory, and the Metropolis"

7:00 pm. Reception


Friday, October 6
Room 1512, International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, 420 West 118th St., NYC

8:30 am. Registration, Coffee

9:00 am.-10:30 am.           Panel I: Urbanization and Suburbanization
Chair: Oliver Schmidt (Berlin)
Presenters:
Harald Bodenschatz (Berlin), Kenneth Jackson (New York)

10:45 am.- 12:15 pm.                Panel II: Socio-Economic Inequalities
Chair: Gerhard Braun (Berlin)
Presenters: Jens Dangschat (Vienna), Peter Marcuse (New York)

12:15 pm. - 1:30 pm.                Buffet Lunch
Lunchtime Talk by Neil Brenner (New York): "Rethinking the Logic of
Comparison in Urban Studies: Promises and Pitfalls of the Globalization
Debates"

1:45- 3:15 pm.                         Panel III: Ethnic Divisions
Chair: Marion Kaplan (New York)
Presenters: Wolfgang Kaschuba (Berlin), Hasia Diner (New York)

3:15- 4:45 pm.                         Panel IV: Controversies over Memorials
Chair: Mary Nolan (New York)
Presenters:
Adrian von Buttlar (Berlin), Andreas Huyssen (New York)
Commentator:
Barry Bergdoll (New York)

4:45-5 pm.                               Coffee

5-6:30 pm.                               Panel V: Local and National Politics
Chair: Cordula Grewe (New York)
Presenters:
Margit Mayer (Berlin), John Mollenkopf (New York)

6:30-7 pm.                               Concluding Thoughts:
Erhard Sch?tz (Berlin) - Harvey Molotch (New York)

7:30 pm.                                  Dinner (By Invitation)


Saturday, October 7
Room 1512, International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, 420 West 118th St., NYC

9:00 - 10:45 am.                      Panel I: 
"Negotiating Conflicts Over Public Space"
Chair: Deike Peters (Berlin)
Presenters:
Jenny K?nkel (Berlin): "The Limits of Sex in Public Space ? Prostitution
Regimes at the Neighbourhood Level"

Gregory Donovan (New York): "Repurposing The Square: Digital Symptoms of a
Park's Privatization"

Claire Colomb (London): "Urban Renaissance, public space and social cohesion
in contemporary British cities. An emerging politics of 'Revanchist
Urbanism' or a socially sustainable renaissance of the inner city?" (working
title)

10:45 - 11:00 am.                      Coffee

11:00 am. - 12:30 pm.                Panel II: "Places of Creativity"
Chair: Doreen Jakob (Berlin)

Presenters:
Susanne Stemmler (Berlin): "Rap music ? the sound of a divided city?"

A.Scott Currie (New York): "Putting the Lower East Side on the Map: Creative
Music Festivals and the Consolidation of an Avant-Garde Jazz Scene"

William Aguado: Executive Director Bronx Council on the Arts, BCA

Carolina Pe?afiel: Local Project, Long Island City, New York

12:30 - 1:30 pm.                                Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 pm.                        Panel III: "Tourism and the City"
Chairs: Michelle Standley (New York) and Johannes Novy (New York)
Presenters:
Johannes Novy (New York): "Urban Tourism Beyond the 'Beaten Path' ? Effects
on Neighborhoods In Disrepair"

Jonathan R. Wynn (New York): "Festival City: Preliminary Thoughts On
Studying Nashville's 'Signature Event'"

Michelle Standley (New York): "From Bulwark of Freedom to Cosmopolitan
Cocktails: Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase, 1960s to 1970s"

Ignacio Far?as (Berlin): "Divided 'Divided' Berlin: Interpretative
Discrepancies In English-Speaking And German-Speaking Tours On The Berlin
Wall"

2:45 - 3:30 pm.                        Final Discussion and Closing Words

Please register for the conference at katja.sussner@metropolitanstudies.de

Information on the Presenters:

  Jenny K?nkel (Berlin):
"The Limits of Sex in Public Space ?Prostitution 
Regimes at the Neighbourhood Level"

Despite (limited) recongnition of prostitution as work in Germany of
gentrification and inner city renewal is even seen to be rising a against
the background of increased interurban competition. This paper takes a look
at the other side of the coin: how & where sex work is integrated in the
divided city. Focusing on street sex work in two contrasting sites of a
major German city ? the touristic night life center and a marginalized
neighborhood ? it analyzes the factors that lead to the constitution
of specific prostitution regimes at the neighbourhood level. Exploring the
role of social space in this process it makes the claim that the perception
of the social space is just as important a factor for the way sex work is
regulated as the framing of sex work itself.

Jenny K?nkel is a PhD candidate in political science at the Freie
Universit?t Berlin. In 2004 she received a degree in urban planning at
'Technische Universit?t Berlin'. Since then she takes part in the Berlin ?
New Yorker PhD programm 'History and Culture of the 20th Century City'
writing a thesis about the local politics of sex work.

Gregory Donovan (New York):
"Repurposing The Square: Digital Symptoms of a Park's Privatization"

This paper explores the role privatization has played in the repurposing of
New York -City's Union Square Park from an organizational space for
collective action to a 'passing-through-park' for tourists, commuters
and wireless communication. Tracing a shift from public to private
governance, beginning in the 1930s and culminating with the park's current
public/private  management, a decline in collective action at Union Square
can be found alongside an increase in individual wireless
communication, a displacement of union offices by anti-union retail stores,
and a privileging of 'tourist attractions' and 'marketing initiatives'
over public services for the local community. This paper concludes by
examining attempts by certain groups to reclaim the park for collective
action. By utilizing the organizational affordances of virtual space, these
groups are developing ways to overcome the barriers to waging collective
action in Union Square.

Gregory Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a
Certificate candidate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy at The City
University of New York Graduate Center as well as a fellow at the
Stanton/Heiskell Telecommunications Policy Center. He received his Bachelor
of Arts from Marymount Manhattan College in psychology with a minor
and professional certification in industrial/organizational psychology.
Located in New York City's Lower East Side, Gregory's writing and research
interests concern human-environment interactions, virtual space/place,
technology in educational environments and the privatization & governance of
public space. He is currently involved in projects regarding residential
private communities in New York City, the production of educational media
within the New Media Lab environment at CUNY, collective action in public
spaces and children's media research.



Claire Colomb (London):
"Urban Renaissance, public space and social cohesion in contemporary British
cities. An emerging politics of 'Revanchist Urbanism' or a socially
sustainable renaissance of the inner city?" (working title)

Since 1997 the New Labour government in the UK has put cities at the core of
its agenda, championing a new agenda for the 'Urban Renaissance' of British
cities and encouraging a 'back to the city' movement from the middle-class.
This contribution will examine the tensions and contradictions surrounding
the role of 'public space' in the Urban Renaissance agenda. Whilst public
space is at the heart of that agenda, in practice 'renaissance' strategies
geared at attracting middle-class consumers or residents have often been
associated with an increase in new mechanisms of social control and
surveillance. Whilst most UK authors recognise that the phenomenon of gated
communities and the dismissal of public space experienced in the US have no
equivalent in Europe, they all highlight the emergence or strengthening of
practices of control and regulation of public space in UK cities.

In contradiction with New Labour's social inclusion rhetoric, the practical
processes of social control associated with the physical regeneration of
urban space can therefore actually stimula processes of exclusion and
marginalisation. A number of academics have therefore associated the Urban
Renaissance agenda with Neil Smith's notion of 'Revanchist Urbanism'
(developed in the New York context). This contribution will conclude by
discussing the relevance and usefulness of this American concept for the UK
(and European) context.

Claire Colomb is Lecturer (assistant prof.) in European Spatial Planning and
Urban Sociology at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College
London. She trained as a sociologist and an      urban planner in Paris,
London, and Berlin. Her research interests cover the governance of planning
and urban policies in a European comparative perspective; the links between
collective memory, urban cultures, identities and the development of new
urban landscapes in cities in transformation; European spatial planning and
the impact of the EU on spatial planning practices across     Europe.

Susanne Stemmler (Berlin):
"Rap music ? the sound of a divided city?"

Hip hop culture with its different musical, visual and corporeal artistic
styles emerged in a segregated urban context. The lyrics of rap music as
well as the music itself refer to racial and social exclusion. Still today,
there are underlying symbolic divisions within urban practice and music
business. On the other hand hip hop with its expressive power has a
communicative and expressive force     which goes far beyond territorial
boundaries - and even the urban context. By analyzing examples from Berlin
and New York my contribution will discuss the transgressive character rap
music in the urban context.

Susanne Stemmler is a Post Doc Fellow in the Transatlantic Graduate Research
Program Berlin ? New York, working on a comparative project on Hip Hop in
Berlin, New York and Paris.

A. Scott Currie (New York):
"Putting the Lower East Side on the Map: Creative Music Festivals and the
Consolidation of an Avant-Garde Jazz Scene"

A doctoral candidate in the ethnomusicology program of New York University's
GSAS Music Department, Scott Currie is now completing a comparative
dissertation study of avant-garde jazz scenes in New York and Berlin, based
on ethnographic participant-observer field research with artist collectives
in both cities. He is currently teaching jazz, world music, and
African-American music at the Eastman School of Music, and has previously
taught at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and New York
University. He gratefully acknowledges the support of the German Marshall
Fund, which provided a fellowship grant for his field research.

William Aguado (New York)
Executive Director ,Bronx Council on the Arts', Bronx, New York.

BCA is celebrating over 40 years as a private, non-profit membership
organization that is the official cultural agency of Bronx County.
Recognized nationally as a leading arts service organization in providing
cultural services and arts programs, BCA serves a multicultural constituency
in excess of 1.2 million residents. Their mission is to encourage and
increase the public's awareness and participation in the arts, and to
nurture the development of artists and arts and cultural organizations.

Carolina Pe?afiel (New York)
Founding member & organization coordinator of ,Local Project', LIC.

Local Project is a non-profit organization committed to building a forum for
artists, creating synergy between their art work and the public. LP supports
all forms of self-expression by providing an open space for artists without
concern to their genre, medium, or provenance. In using diversity as the key
to growth, both the artist and the community collaborate towards a richer
and fuller development of both.

Raised in Chile, Carolina at the age of 20 moved to New York City where she
worked a myriad of jobs. She began her work as a serious photographer in
1998. More recently she taught black and white photographic techniques to
Latin American immigrants and organized collective shows for her students.
She has shown her own photographic work as installations at Local Project
collective shows and served as judge and curator for community artistic and
expression contests in Brooklyn and Queens.

Johannes Novy (New York):
"Urban Tourism Beyond the 'Beaten Path' ? Effects on Neighborhoods In
Disrepair"

Written in collaboration with Dr. Sandra Huning, my paper deals with the
question of how urban scholarship should evaluate the growing influx of
tourists into marginalized neighborhoods in cities in advanced countries.
Examining the cases of Berlin-Kreuzberg and Harlem, NYC, it will be argued
that the recent growth of tourism in neighborhoods "off the beaten path"
represents a complex, and sometimes even contradictory phenomenon that
despite its many risks and pitfalls deserves attention as a potential means
of neighborhood regeneration because it can not only bring about benefits in
terms of neighborhoods' local economy or built environment but also involves
potential benefits for communities that are related to their stock of social
and cultural capital.

Johannes Novy studied Urban Planning in Berlin and is currently working on
his PhD in Urban Planning at New York City's Columbia University. His
research interests include urban development in a cross-national
perspective, planning theory and urban tourism. Novy is an affiliated fellow
at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin, and recently became a
member of the RTN UrbEurope.

Jonathan R. Wynn (New York):
"Festival City: Preliminary Thoughts On Studying Nashville's 'Signature
Event'"

Since Richard Florida's groundbreaking study The Rise of the Creative Class
(2004), social scientists across the U.S. have focused on how cities
attract, nurture, and reinforce an image of creativity.  Festivals have been
identified as one such way, yet there has been little research to date on
how music festivals work in this capacity. This presentation will offer
preliminary findings on research conducted at this year's Country Music
Association Music Festival,  with a particular focus on how this city's
signature event' has a complex relationship with Nashvillians and the city
government.

Jonathan R. Wynn recently obtained his PhD in Sociology at CUNY with a
dissertation entitled The Walking Tour Guide: Cultural Workers in the
Disneyfied City, focusing on how tour guides both practice and produce
culture in New York City. Currently, he is a lecturer at Smith College and
is working on a research project on the relationship between festivals,
tourism, and urban culture.

Michelle Standley (New York):
"From Bulwark of Freedom to Cosmopolitan Cocktails:
Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase, 1960s to 1970s"

This paper will examine how West Berlin was marketed and repackaged as a
tourist destination in the decades following the construction of the Berlin
Wall in 1961. It will explore attempts by various organs of the tourist
industry to shape a Cold War tourist         gaze of West Berlin as a
counter model to communist society and as a worthy representative of the
best capitalist democracies had to         offer. I argue that
advertisements for the western half of the divided         city reflected
the tension between the ongoing need to promote West Berlin's status as the
frontline of the Cold War and the desire to package West Berlin as a
quintessentially "modern experience," firmly planted in the future and as
such disconnected from past and present political struggles.

Michelle Standley is a PhD candidate in modern European history at New
York University. She has spent the past two years as a research fellow with
the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst and the Berlin Program at the Freie
Universit?t in Berlin. Her dissertation, entitled "The Cold War Traveler:
Travel Dreams and Practices in East and West Germany, 1960s-1970s", looks at
the politics of leisure and mass tourism in the two Germanies. She is also
the book review editor of H-Travel, an academic discussion network devoted
to the history of tourism and travel.



Ignacio Far?as (Berlin):
"Divided 'Divided' Berlin: Interpretative 
Discrepancies In English-Speaking and
German-Speaking Tours On The Berlin Wall"

The history of the Berlin Wall constitutes a central motif for every single
Berlin tour. Nevertheless, as my ethnographic work shows, the ways in which
the history of the division of the city is presented, performed and
interpreted significantly vary between English-speaking and German-speaking
tours. Simply put, touring the Wall in German is to a great extent about the
tragedy of the German division; meanwhile touring the Wall in English is
mainly about the Cold War and the political opposition between Allies and
Soviets. Starting from these observations, it will be argued that these
discrepancies are less related to differences between both tourist groups
than to the ways tour companies and tourist guides cope with tourists.

Ignacio Far?as studied Sociology in Santiago de Chile and conducted
post-graduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology in Barcelona.
Currently he is a PhD Student in European Ethnology at the Humboldt
University Berlin and DFG Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at
the Technical University Berlin. His current main research interests are
social theory, particularly systems theory and Actor-Network Theory, and
urban studies, focusing on urban tourism and city-marketing.

The Saturday Conference is organized by Nicole M?nnich,
nicole.muennich@metropolitanstudies.de

Prof. Dr. Florian Urban
Center for Metropolitan Studies
Technische Universit?t Berlin
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Oct  2 16:15:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  2 15:15:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Nation, Community, and the State (ASN, 2007)
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ASN 2007 CONVENTION CALL FOR PAPERS
"NATION, COMMUNITY, AND THE STATE"

12th Annual World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
12-14 April 2007

***Proposal deadline: 2 November 2006***

Contact information:
proposal submission: darel@uottawa.ca
[backup address: darelasn@gmail.com]
exhibitors, advertisers: gnb12@columbia.edu

100 panels on the Balkans, the Baltics, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine,
Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkey, Greece, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Kurdistan, China, and Mongolia

**INCLUDING a Special Section on
Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism**

THEMATIC panels on
Islam and Politics, Genocide and Ethnic Violence, Anthropology of Identity,
Citizenship and Nationality, Conflict Resolution, Autonomy, Gender, EU
Integration, and many more

AWARDS for Best Doctoral Student Papers

AND the screening and discussion
of new ** Films/Documentaries**

The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary
scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of
topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict,
state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented
include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, economics,
geography, socio-linguistics, psychology, and related fields.

For a fifth consecutive year, the 2007 Convention will feature a section
devoted to theoretical approaches to nationalism, from any of the
disciplines listed above. The papers in this section need not be grounded in
an area of the former Communist bloc usually covered by ASN, provided that
the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative understanding of
nationalism-related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming theory-focused
and comparative proposals, rather than specific case studies from outside
Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate
studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers in five
sections: Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe,
Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2005 Convention were
Kelly O'Neill (Harvard U, History, Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus), Yuriy Malikov
(History, U of California, Santa Barbara, Central Asia/Eurasia), Andrew
Demshuk (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History, Central Europe), and
Tamara Pavasovic (Harvard U, Sociology, Balkans). Doctoral student
applicants whose proposals will be accepted for the 2007 Convention, who
have not defended their dissertation by 1 November 2006, and whose paper is
delivered by the deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards.

The 2007 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or
feature films made within the past year and available in VHS or DVD format.
Most videos selected for the convention will be screened during regular
panel slots and will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic
expert.

The 2007 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A
panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a
discussant. Proposals using an INNOVATIVE format are also particularly
encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, in
which the author is being engaged by three discussants; a debate between two
panelists over a critical research or policy question, following rules of
public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the
number of discussants is equal or greater than the number of presenters.
Other innovative formats are also welcome.

The 2007 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a
panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper
proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be
self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.

There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the
convention. All proposals must be sent by email to Dominique Arel at
darel@uottawa.ca (backup address: darelasn@gmail.com).

INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name, email and affiliation of
the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title of the paper, a
500-word abstract and a 100-word biographical statement that includes full
bibliographic references of your last or forthcoming publication, if
applicable (graduate students must indicate the title of their dissertation
and year of projected defense. They can also submit the full bibliographic
references of a recent or forthcoming publication).

PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of the panel, a chair, three
paper-givers with the title of their papers, and a discussant; the name,
affiliation, email, postal address and 100-word biographical statements of
each participant and include full bibliographic references of their last or
forthcoming publication, if applicable (graduate students can indicate the
title of their dissertation and year of projected defense).

PROPOSALS FOR FILMS OR VIDEOS must include the name, email and affiliation
of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title, a 500-word
abstract of the film/video and a 100-word biographical statement.

PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the panel,
the names, emails, affiliations, postal addresses, 100-word biographical
statements of each participant (same specifications as above) and a
discussion on the proposed format.

INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS TO SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name, email,
affiliation, postal address, and areas of expertise of the applicant, and a
100-word biographical statement (same specifications as above).

All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL. Attachments
will be accepted only if they repeat the content of an email
message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A SINGLE
ATTACHMENT.

Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation
costs. ASN has no funding available for panelists.

An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of
proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2006 or early January
2007. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical
questions will be communicated afterwards.

The full list of panels from last year's convention, for the geographical
and thematic sections, and the section on Theories of Nationalism, can be
accessed at http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_final_Program.pdf. The
film/video lineup can be accessed at
http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_final_film_lineup.pdf. The programs
from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online.

Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised
in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space,
advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For
information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos
(gnb12@columbia.edu).

Participants are invited to join ASN by logging in to
http://www.nationalities.org/member_Info.asp. A yearly membership to ASN is
$65 ($35 for students). Members receive the journal Nationalities Papers
quarterly, a subscription discount to ASN's new journal, Ethnopolitics, a
registration discount at the ASN Annual World Convention, and other perks.

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

The Convention organizing committee:
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair

Deadline for proposals: 2 November 2006 (darel@uottawa.ca, backup address:
darelasn@gmail.com)

The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:

Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
212 854 8487 tel
212 666 3481 fax
gnb12@columbia.edu
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Oct  2 16:15:24 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  2 15:15:48 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships, Princeton
	University
Message-ID: <008101c6e657$1f2af510$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Erum A. Syed (erum@Princeton.EDU) 

 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships

The University Center invites applications from all disciplines for Laurance
S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships. These fellowships will be awarded for
the academic year 2007-08 to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in
devoting a year in residence at Princeton writing about ethics and human
values. 

A central activity for the Fellows is participation with University Center
faculty members in a Fellows Seminar to discuss work in progress. Fellows
are also invited to participate in other activities, including seminars,
colloquia, and public lectures. Fellows enjoy access to Firestone Library
and to a wide range of activities throughout the University. Applicants
typically have a doctorate or a professional postgraduate degree and cannot
be in the process of writing a dissertation.

Fellows normally receive stipends of up to one-half their academic year
salaries (not exceeding a maximum stipend set each fall) for the fellowship
period, which extends from September 1 to July 1. The Fellows' home
institutions are expected to provide at least half of their salaries in
addition to all benefits. A selection committee of University Center faculty
evaluates applicants on the basis of:

* The significance of their proposed  research and its relevance to
the purposes of the University Center;   
* The quality of their previous  research and their ability to benefit
from the activities of the University  Center; 
* The contribution they are likely to make to higher education in the
future through teaching and writing about  ethics and human values. 

For some fellowships preference may be given to applicants with research
interests in the broad area of the Democracy and Human Values Project; see
www.princeton.edu/~uchv/dhvp.html  . 


How to apply:


For Fellowships beginning in September 2007, applicants must submit all of
the following to be received by November 1, 2006:

1. A curriculum vitae; 
2. A scholarly paper written in the past  three years; 
3. A statement (no more than 1,500  words) describing the proposed
research project; 
4. An online information summary  form; 
5. Three letters of reference (at least  one from someone who was not a
dissertation supervisor) sent directly to the  University Center by November
1, 2006; 
6. A confidential statement on a  separate sheet that indicates the
applicant's salary for the current academic  year, what financial support
their home institution and other sources are  likely to provide, and what
support they are likely to need from the  University Center.  This
confidential information will not be presented  to the faculty committee. 

All materials, including letters of reference, must be received by November
1, 2006. The Selection Committee begins reviewing applications immediately,
and incomplete applications may be at a disadvantage. Decisions will be made
by March 1, 2007.   


All application materials must be mailed to:
Rockefeller Fellowships
University Center for Human Values
Princeton University
5 Ivy Lane 
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 

Princeton University is an equal employment opportunity, affirmative action
employer.  For information about applying to Princeton, please link to:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm  .
From zr23 at columbia.edu  Wed Oct  4 00:58:25 2006
From: zr23 at columbia.edu (Zoe Reiter)
Date: Tue Oct  3 18:23:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Crash/Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City
Message-ID: <6439F14A-85D3-4221-B85A-6B6FF2C8FD71@columbia.edu>

The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) and the
Columbia Journal of American Studies (CJAS) are proud to announce

Crash/Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City

Saturday, October 28th, 2006, 9:00a.m.-6:30p.m.

Columbia University
Alfred Lerner Hall, Rooms 568-569, 2920 Broadway (at West 115th Street)

This one-day conference will examine the U.S. city as contact zone and
site of multiple collisions?of race, class, ethnicity, generations,
desires, fears, and expectations. Interdisciplinary panels include:
Traffic Flows; Urban Spectacle: Power, Performance and the Public;
Living in/for the City; Water, Steel, Rust and the Urban Environment;
Consuming the Urban Other; and Case Studies in Urban Transformation. A
plenary roundtable will feature Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (editor,
American Studies Beyond Exceptionalism), geographer Rupal Oza (The
Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of
Globalization), anthropologist Roger Sanjek (The Future of Us All:
Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York), photographer Mel
Rosenthal (In the South Bronx of America), and Puerto Rican & Latino
Studies scholar Alan Aja. Registration: $20 ($10 students/unemployed).
For more information, a detailed program of events, or to register,
please contact Sarah Chinn at sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu, or visit
our website at www.nymasa.org.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Oct  4 18:52:39 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Oct  4 17:52:51 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Harvard Civil Rights Project -- expert feedback needed
	on school desegregation policies
Message-ID: <003001c6e7ff$6a8e5f70$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Cross-posted from "COMM-URB" <COMURB_R21@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:38:02 -0400

-----Original Message-----

Colleagues,
The Harvard Civil Rights Project has drafted a social science statement,
which will be appended to an amicus brief for the cases being argued before
the U.S. Supreme Court this fall regarding the future of voluntary school
desegregation policies.  They are asking that social scientists and
historians either at the professor, or researcher level (not students)
sign-on, and they will then file the brief on behalf of all who agree to
become signatories.  Could you please help us in circulating this to your
respective departments, and anyone else you think might be relevant in
academia. Also if there are organizations or other listservs you could
distribute this through, that would be great. The deadline is rather tight
they need all signatures of support by THURSDAY, OCT 5th (1pm EST)
-- the deadline has been extended, so please adhere to the new OCT 
5th date.

Please visit http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/sss/ for more information 
to learn more and to add your signature to the statement. Thanks for your 
assistance, we are looking to build a wide base of support, and we cannot 
tell you how instrumental your help could be.

While the Harvard Civil Rights Project has tried to be as thorough as
possible in compiling the names of social scientists and lawyers with
expertise on issues of desegregation, diversity, affirmative action, and
race relations in schools, they have undoubtedly missed many individuals who
would be interested.  For these reasons, they ask that you please forward
this information immediately to scholars and individuals whom you think may
be interested in adding their names to this list; otherwise, please do not
distribute this information.

Below is a letter with more information from Gary Orfield at the Harvard
Civil Rights Project:

Dear Colleague:

We've been working on a Social Science Statement with fellow researchers for
several months on the urgently important cases being argued before the U.S.
Supreme Court this fall regarding the future of voluntary school
desegregation policies.  The outcome of these cases may well affect
voluntary race-conscious policies in many arenas.  As you know, there is a
great deal at stake here, not only for K-12 education but, potentially, for
higher education as well.  At this time, we are inviting you to sign-on to
this social science statement, a draft of which is available at the
following link:
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/sss

This statement is the result of input from many social scientists familiar
with the relevant research. While there are many ways to present this
information and there are many issues that could be discussed, we chose
those that were most central to the case and where social science evidence
was both available and obviously relevant.  We have had contributions from a
number of the nation's leading scholars and reviewed it carefully.   If you
believe, however, that there is a serious error contained within the
statement or a crucial missing source, please let us know immediately at
crp@gse.harvard.edu.

This statement will be appended to an amicus brief that will be filed in the
cases.  We are also inviting you to sign-on to the brief. The brief will
simply address why the Court should consider the social science evidence
discussed in the statement and succinctly track the points made in the
statement within the legal framework of the case.  We will file the brief on
behalf of all scholars who agree to become signatories.

We need your response to these requests no later than Friday, September 29th
so that we can meet the deadline established by the U.S. Supreme Court. If
you agree to add your name to these critical documents, please email The
Civil Rights Project at crp@gse.harvard.edu.  In your email, please include:

1)         "I agree to sign the statement and the brief" in the subject line;
2)         The complete spelling of your name; and
3)         Your institutional affiliation

Your signature on the statement will include your institutional but not
departmental affiliation.  The brief will simply list the names of those
filing it.

While we have tried to be as thorough as possible in compiling the names of
social scientists with expertise on issues of desegregation, diversity,
affirmative action, and race relations in schools, we have undoubtedly
missed many individuals who would be interested.  For these reasons, we ask
that you please forward this information immediately to scholars who you
think may be interested in adding their names to this list, but do not
otherwise distribute it.  We wish to include younger scholars and to have
the widest geographic, institutional and racial diversity. We ask that you
please limit it to scholars who are social science and history faculty at
academic institutions or research centers.

If you have any questions, please email us at crp@gse.harvard.edu. We look
forward to hearing back from you no later than Friday, September 29th.  The
collaboration among scholars has been quite amazing and we hope to show the
nation that the research community has vital contributions to make.  We plan
to publicly release the names of the signers and the document itself when it
is filed in the Court on October 10 and you will be free to distribute it at
that time.  We hope that it will inform public discussions as well as
judicial debates and believe that it will be of great interest to many
students.

Thank you again for your consideration of this request.

Gary Orfield

Professor of Education & Social Policy
Harvard University
Director, Civil Rights Project
Gutman 442, 6 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-4824
Gary_Orfield@harvard.edu

Assistant: Jennifer Blatz
617-495-1898
blatzje@gse.harvard.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Oct  4 21:56:47 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Oct  4 20:57:00 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Encuentro Entre los Pueblos Zapatistas y los Pueblos del Mundo
 (Comision Intergalactica)
Message-ID: <006501c6e819$249b45e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Samuel Veissi?re <samuel.veissiere@mcgill.ca>

COMUNICADO DEL COMIT? CLANDESTINO REVOLUCIONARIO IND?GENA-COMANDANCIA
GENERAL DEL EJ?RCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACI?N NACIONAL.

M?XICO.

COMISI?N INTERGAL?CTICA-COMISI?N SEXTA.

2 DE OCTUBRE DEL 2006.

A LOS PUEBLOS DEL MUNDO.

A LOS Y LAS ADHERENTES A LA ZEZTA INTERNACIONAL DE LOS CINCO CONTINENTES

COMPA?EROS Y COMPA?ERAS:

EL EZLN, A TRAV?S DE SU COMISI?N INTERGAL?CTICA Y SU COMISI?N SEXTA, CONVOCA
A: ENCUENTROS DE LOS PUEBLOS ZAPATISTAS CON LOS PUEBLOS DEL MUNDO.

EL PRIMERO SER? PARA EL 30, 31 DE DICIEMBRE DEL 2006 Y 1 Y 2 DE ENERO DEL
2007. CELEBRARLO EN EL CARACOL DE OVENTIK. CON LOS SIGUIENTES OBJETIVOS:

UNO- CON EL FIN DE QUE LAS DIFERENTES ORGANIZACIONES, GRUPOS, COLECTIVOS E
INDIVIDUAS, INDIVIDUOS DE OTROS PA?SES, QUE LUCHAN, RESISTEN EN LOS CINCO
CONTINENTES QUE LUCHAN POR LA HUMANIDAD Y CONTRA EL NEOLIBERALISMO, QUE
CONOZCAN LAS EXPERIENCIAS DE LUCHA Y COMO SE ORGANIZAN CON SU GOBIERNO DE
LAS COMUNIDADES IND?GENAS ZAPATISTAS, QUE ELLAS Y ELLOS PLATIQUEN
DIRECTAMENTE LOS CINCO JUNTAS DE BUEN GOBIERNO, CON
LOS Y LAS PRESENTES A ESE ENCUENTRO.

DOS-QUE LOS PUEBLOS ZAPATISTAS Y SUS AUTORIDADES CONOZCAN CON SU PROPIA VOZ
DE LAS EXPERIENCIAS E HISTORIAS DE LUCHA DE OTROS PA?SES DE LOS CINCO
CONTINENTES QUE LUCHAN Y RESISTEN POR LA HUMANIDAD Y CONTRA EL
NEOLIBERALISMO.

TRES- QUE LOS PUEBLOS ZAPATISTAS Y LAS ORGANIZACIONES, GRUPOS, COLECTIVOS E
INDIVIDUAS, INDIVIDUOS, DE OTROS PA?SES, QUE LUCHAN Y RESISTEN EN TODO EL
MUNDO CONTRA EL NEOLIBERALISMO Y POR LA HUMANIDAD SE PUEDAN RELACIONAR
DIRECTAMENTE SIN INTERMEDIARIO PARA BRINDARSE APOYO Y SOLIDARIDAD
MUTUAMENTE.

CUATRO-PROPONER Y ACORDAR MEDIOS, MODOS Y FORMAS DE COMUNICACI?N  ENTRE LAS
ORGANIZACIONES, GRUPOS, COLECTIVOS E INDIVIDUAS, INDIVIDUOS QUE LUCHAN Y
RESISTEN EN LOS CINCO CONTINENTES.

QUINTO-DAR UN MENSAJE DE ALIENTO A LAS LUCHAS QUE, CONTRA EL PODER DEL
DINERO, ACTUALMENTE SOSTIENEN PUEBLOS EN DIVERSOS PUNTOS DEL PLANETA.

SEXTO- HACER Y DISCUTIR PROPUESTAS PARA EL PR?XIMO ENCUENTRO INTERGAL?CTICO,
INCLUYENDO FECHAS Y LUGARES.

EL SEGUNDO ENCUENTRO SER? PARA EL 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,30 Y 31
DE JULIO DEL 2007.

CELEBRARLO EN LOS CINCO CARACOLES. CON LOS MISMOS OBJETIVOS.

21 DE JULIO EN CARACOL OVENTIK. INAGURACI?N.

22 DE JULIO TRABAJO.

23 DE JULIO TRASLADARSE AL CARACOL DE MORELIA.

24 DE JULIO TRABAJO.

25 TRASLADARSE AL CARACOL DE ROBERTO BARRIOS.

26 TRABAJO.

27 TRASLADARSE AL CARACOL DE LA GARRUCHA.

28 TRABAJO.

29 TRASLADARSE AL CARACOL DE LA REALIDAD.

30 TRABAJO Y CLAUSURA.

31 REGRESO A SAN CRIST?BAL

EN CADA CARACOL PARTICIPARAN, AUTORIDADES DE LOS MAREZ Y LA JUNTA DE BUEN
GOBIERNO, COMPA?ERAS COMANDANTAS, COMPA?EROS COMANDANTES. DONDE CONTARAN
EXPERIENCIAS DE LUCHA CON SUS GOBIERNOS AUT?NOMOS, PERO SOBRE TODO PARA QUE
VAYAMOS DISCUTIENDO PROPUESTAS PARA EL MERO PR?XIMO
ENCUENTRO INTERGAL?CTICO, INCLUYENDO FECHAS Y LUGARES.

Desde las monta?as del Sureste Mexicano.

Por el Comit? Clandestino Revolucionario Ind?gena- Comandancia General
del Ej?rcito Zapatista de Liberaci?n Nacional.

Teniente Coronel Insurgente Mois?s.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Comisi?n Intergal?ctica del EZLN.
     Comisi?n Sexta del EZLN.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Oct  4 22:20:35 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Oct  4 21:20:45 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ARD Review: Rogozen-Soltar on Kabir, Muslims in Australia
Message-ID: <00aa01c6e81c$7752a0f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Anthropology Review Database
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2454

Nahid Afrose Kabir. _Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and
Cultural History_. London: Kegan Paul, 2004.

Reviewed 28 Sep 2006 by Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar <mikaela@umich.edu>,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Nahid Kabir's Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations, and
Cultural History is an ambitious text that addresses an under-studied topic:
Muslim immigration in Australia from 1860 to 2002. Kabir traces historical
shifts in the nature of prejudice against Australian Muslims, suggesting
that early immigrants were discriminated against based on race and
ethnicity, while in later years, questions of nationality and religion
played a more decisive role. Kabir employs a methodology influenced by
historical sociology, which as she states, "examines both the past and the
present and seeks to analyze reasons for the continuity or discontinuity of
the social structure and its impact on the population" (p. 34). Kabir uses
archival and census data, interviews, questionnaires, and a multi-city,
comparative approach in which she contrasts not only geographic regions of
Australia but also the experience of Muslims with those of other minority
and immigrant groups. The book provides a broad picture of the history of
Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, India, Turkey, Albania, Java, Lebanon,
Bangladesh and elsewhere.
     Kabir examines five historical periods. First she describes early
Muslim immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing
on Afghan immigrants who arrived as camel drivers to help with exploration.
Noting that this period saw the height of the "White Australia" policy,
which encouraged immigration of "whiter" populations and assimilation of all
immigrants, Kabir shows how the advent of scientific views of racism helped
foster fear of Afghans as a racial contamination risk. Institutionalized
racism manifested in prohibitions on intermarriage, forced segregation, and
ultimately the "Camel Destruction Act" that legislated the mass slaughter of
one of the Afghans' only economic resources.
     While in this period the author suggests that Muslims were positioned
outside mainstream Australian society, due to their race and ethnicity, in a
section on the period spanning the two world wars, Kabir suggests that a new
discourse of national security prompted Australians to fear anyone with ties
to "enemy aliens", thus shifting discrimination toward Germans, Muslim
Turks, and Albanians (who were interned) rather than Muslims or Arabs in
general. Kabir argues that in the years between WWII's end and the Gulf War,
religion became the criterion for social categorization, and Muslims as a
group suffered discrimination in economic and social arenas even as they
came to form a larger percentage of the overall population. A new government
policy of multiculturalism and new laws protecting minorities did not stem
these rising levels of bias.
     In the last two sections of the book, Kabir examines the increasing
role of religious-based persecution during the Gulf War and following the
events of September 11, 2001 in the United States. As the specter of
"Islamic terrorism" became an internationally recognized media trope, Kabir
argues that increased international focus on ties between Islam and
terrorist groups led to fear and ostracization of Muslims in Australia.
However, she discounts Muslim activists' claims that sensationalist domestic
media incited a backlash against Muslims, maintaining that media
representations of Muslims and Arabs were "reasonably objective" (p. 208).
She argues that a more likely cause of increased graffiti and bomb threats
at mosques, violence toward women choosing to wear veils, and discrimination
toward Muslims in the workplace was the rising visibility of Muslims in
Australia and a natural human tendency to fear difference.
     Kabir's use of multiple research strategies, the long time-span she
analyzes, and the comparisons she draws with other minorities such as
Chinese and Irish Catholics provides a broad context for understanding the
questions she raises. However, at times this breadth hinders her ability to
provide detailed analysis of the data presented, and some sections include
more reporting than analysis of findings. Somewhat abrupt transitions
between sections occasionally require that readers work to draw their own
connections between the various issues raised.
     The author does a thorough job of citing relevant theories on race,
ethnicity, and national security, but does not always provide analysis of
their corresponding theoretical debates nor discuss them in relation to the
impressive amount of data compiled in her text. Thus, Kabir's main
suggestion, that discrimination was caused by increasing numbers of
immigrants, seems only a partial explanation. Empirically, the rise of
anti-immigration sentiment and discrimination does not always parallel the
number of immigrants present in a nation (see Suarez-Navaz, 2004). Kabir's
data do show a higher number of anti-Muslim incidents in suburbs of
Melbourne and Sydney with substantial Muslim populations. Yet, by
continually emphasizing that humans have always discriminated against one
another and thus portraying discrimination toward Muslims in Australia as an
inevitable expression of primordial human behavior, the author sidesteps
meaningful engagement with the particular ways that discrimination has
played out in the Australian context. Why, for example, did religion
eventually come to displace ethnicity as a key factor in discrimination?
     The text would also benefit from a discussion of the ways in which
social categories of race, ethnicity, religion, and nationality may overlap
and inform one another. By treating these social dimensions as discreet
categories, the author fails to theorize how, for example, skin color and
gendered dress serve to mark individuals as members of particular religions
or "national enemy" groups even when anti-immigrant discourse seems to
center around issues other than race or gender. Such intersections of race,
gender, religion and citizenship status are clear in many of the book's
examples, despite their absence from the final analysis. Nevertheless,
Muslims in Australia is a book that provides useful information for anyone
interested in the history of Muslim immigration to Australia, and may be
useful for students of history, sociology, and cultural studies more
generally, especially those interested in how discrimination progresses over
time and relates to shifting state policy and international events. A great
strength of the book is its sheer breadth of information; the comparative
approach in particular allows for a thorough view of the history of
minorities in Australia. Another strength is the book's accessibility to
both academics and interested readers outside of academia; the writing is
free of jargon and most theoretical terms are explicitly defined.

Refernces:
     Su?rez-Navaz, Liliana 2004 Rebordering the Mediterranean: Boundaries
and Citizenship in Southern Europe. New York: Berghahn Books.


From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Oct  6 17:34:39 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Oct  6 16:35:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Wall-mart Phenomenon: Resisting neo-liberalist
	power through art, design and theory
Message-ID: <000301c6e986$dc1c4ed0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

THE WAL-MART PHENOMENON:
Resisting neo-liberalist power through art, design and theory

A one-day colloquium on:

POWER and RESISTANCE following Robert Greenwald's film,
WAL-MART The high cost of low price.

Where: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
When: Friday 3 November 2006

Robert Greenwald's film "WAL-MART The high cost of low price" will be used 
as critical platform to discuss the workings of neo-liberalist power and 
possible strategies of resistance during a one-day colloquium. The focus 
will both be on the media used to reflect upon these phenomena and the 
actual socio-political and economic processes underlying them.

The following issues will be addressed:

1. the nature of neo-liberalist power and the possibility of resistance from 
a philosophical point of view;
2. its various incarnations in and effects on the social and urban landscape 
(built environment and public space);
3. the effects of economic processes on spatial development from the 
perspective of social geography; and
4. the complexity of documentary approaches in visual arts production.

10:00 Registration
10:30 Introductory lecture by BENDA HOFMEYR, organizer and researcher, 
Theory Department, Jan van Eyck Academie: The Wal-Mart Phenomenon: 
Power/Knowledge/Resistance
11:00 Film showing: Robert Greenwald's documentary film: WAL-MART. The High 
Cost of Low Price (short version: 20")
11:20 Coffee Break
11:30 Lecture by HITO STEYERL, filmmaker and theoretician: The Role of the 
Documentary Film Today: From Art to Politics and Back
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Lecture by ERIK SWYNGEDOUW, social geographer: Assessing the Wal-Mart 
Phenomenon from the Perspective of Social Geography
14:30 Lecture by Matthias Pauwels & Gideon Boie (BAVO)
It's about Taking the Utopian Promise of Shopping Seriously, Stupid! On 
Walter Benjamin, Wal-Mart and Creative Destruction
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Lecture by DANI?L VAN DER VELDEN (advising researcher, Design 
Department, Jan van Eyck Academie)
Can a Creative Engagement with Present Day 'Public Space' also be Critical?
17:00 Discussion
17:30 Drinks & Snacks
19:00 Dinner

Admission: Free
Language: English
Organization: Benda Hofmeyr
bhofmeyr@janvaneyck.nl mail

Advance booking and online registration are recommended.  For info and 
bookings please contact Madeleine Bisscheroux

madeleine.bisscheroux@janvaneyck.nl
+ 31 (0)43 350 37 29
Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
www.janvaneyck.nl 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Oct  6 17:50:47 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Oct  6 16:54:06 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: New Funds to Help Fight Human Trafficking
Message-ID: <000901c6e989$23f75180$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

 New Funds to Help Fight Human Trafficking

 Posted on Friday, 06-10-2006

Ecuador - The provision of new funds from the US government's development 
agency USAID will allow IOM to contribute in the implementation of a 
national plan of action on countering human trafficking and other forms of 
violence.

In addition to providing technical support to the commission in charge of 
the development and implementation of the plan, the donation of US$250,000 
will allow IOM to promote the 101 national police helpline as part of 
efforts to provide greater protection and assistance to victims of human 
trafficking.

Recognizing the importance of public/private alliances in 
counter-trafficking efforts, IOM will also sign a cooperation agreement 
between USAID, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ricky Martin Foundation, 
the Inter-American Development Bank and the National Institute for Child and 
Family in a bid to raise public awareness of the issue through a campaign 
called 'Call and Live'.

Ecuador has decided to use the 101 national helpline to address human 
trafficking issues, such as the prevention of the crime, the protection of 
and assistance to victims, and the prosecution of traffickers.

Using its experience in setting up counter-trafficking helplines elsewhere 
in the region, IOM will provide technical assistance in the adaptation of 
existing police software.
These measures are part of IOM efforts in the country to support the work of 
the authorities in countering human trafficking and follow the signing of an 
agreement with the Specialized Department for Children and Adolescents of 
the National Police and a tripartite agreement with the National Institute 
for Child and Family and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

For further information please contact:
Nadia Zelisko
Tel: +593.2.4449.28/29
E-mail: nzelisko@oim.org.ec 

From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Sat Oct  7 16:57:07 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Sat Oct  7 11:21:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA in Tampa
Message-ID: <f7fbc28f59b42.4527ce53@gmu.edu>

Update on SUNTA at SfAA in Tampa

Various of the planned sessions for Tampa
next spring are coming along well. So it
looks like we will have an interesting
time for our first trial of an alternate
spring SUNTA meeting.

The deadline for submissions is October 15.
Remember to check the SUNTA boxes both on
the web-based registration form (that gives 
you the base SfAA registration rate) and on
the panel and program forms (that ensures
that materials will be routed to SUNTA for
review and scheduling). 

If you are not already involved in a panel, 
do consider an individual paper submission.
This meeting will provide a more relaxed
approach to paper presentation and thus
better opportunity for discussion and
interaction--whether for organized panels or
for combinations of individual papers.

Hope to see you then.

Best regards,

-- David Haines, SUNTA Program Chair

P.S. The link for the SfAA annual meeting is:

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


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Oct  8 16:57:12 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct  8 15:58:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Ph.D. Opportunities (Tourism, Festivals, Cultural
 Heritage), Leeds Metropolitan University
Message-ID: <001701c6eb13$fbe0fd90$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Ph.D. Opportunities, Leeds Metropolitan University

Leeds Metropolitan University is currently recruiting 100 PhD students as
part of our centenary celebrations for Leeds Metropolitan University's
presence in Headingley. So if you are an enthusiastic high achieving
individual who would welcome the opportunity to complete a full time funded
PhD in a vibrant and supportive research environment in one of the research
areas. For more information please visit
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/research/100_phd_students.htm

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) is coordinating
applications in tourism as well as responsible tourism. Each studentship
will have a bursary of ?12,300 per annum, together with payment of fees of
?3120 per annum and will be for a period of three years subject to
satisfactory progress. The closing date for applications is Friday 27th
October 2006.

Leeds Met PhD Studentships -Tourism

Research studentships in Tourism are being coordinated through the Centre
for Tourism and Cultural Change in the Faculty of Arts and Society by
Professor Mike Robinson.

Applications are welcome for the following research projects or for
proposals from the applicant that address the Centre's research themes set
out below, and for projects that cross the boundaries of any of the
identified research agendas:

1. Diaspora Communities, Cultural Festivals and Tourism

This project focuses on diaspora community festivals in contexts of
inter-culturalism, community cohesion, cultural change and tourism. Recent
work in this area has been in connection with Chinese community festivals
in British cities.

2. Tourism and Cultural Policies in European Union Accession States

This research project focuses on the connections and discontinuities
between cultural policies and tourism in the 'new' accession European Union
member states. The supervisory team have an established track record of
research in this area of research and appropriate links with collaborating
agencies.

3. The Role of the Archaeologist in Tourism Development

In various economies where archaeological remains are mobilised as heritage
attractions, or hold potential to be so, the archaeologist has a role to
play. However, the type and extent of such a role is varied in scope and
influence. This project will examine the changing role of the
archaeologist, and of archaeology, in the processes of contemporary tourism
development, policy and management and will have particular reference to
the Levant.

4. Tourism and Changing Ideas of Englishness

The variety of rituals, practices, materialities and discourses which feed
the intangible notion of Englishness is widely assumed as a major
attraction for international visitors. This project examines the contested
notion of contemporary Englishness as it is harnessed by various tourism
organisations and is received by an increasingly diverse and dynamic body
of tourists.

5. Music in the Tourist Experience

Music shares a close relationship with travel and tourism as forms of
expression, anticipation and representation and also as an attraction in
itself. This project examines the nature and extent of this relationship as
it unfolds within different settings, genres and groups.

6. The Politics of Festival and Event Tourism

Little is understood about the process of policy formation and change that
generates festival and event tourism as an important focal point for local
celebration and economic development.  This project will contribute to
understanding the exercise of power at a local level in the generation of a
particular kind of public policy.

7. SMEs and Tourist Destination Development

Numerous public policy interventions claim to support the development of
SMEs in the tourism sector.  These usually relate to skills and employment
issues or measures aimed at enhancing local supply chains. This project
will examine one of these policy fields, providing a significant
contribution to an under-theorised area of research.

Applications are also welcomed based on proposals to study in any of the
following areas relating to the broad and exciting research programme of
the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. These areas include:

Heritage tourism - tangible and intangible heritage; Tourism and cultural
landscapes; Symbolic cultural economies and tourism; Tourism aesthetics;
Mobilisation of material cultures in tourism; Cultural tourism development;
Tourist behaviours, encounters, exchanges and contact zones;
Tourist/tourism narratives; Tourism and performance - ritual,
festivals/festivity, liminality and play; Tourism, the media and popular
culture; Tourism and visual culture - photography, film etc.; Ethics of
tourism - global mobilities, exclusion, development politics etc.

Leeds Met PhD Studentships - Responsible Tourism

The International Centre for Responsible Tourism is led by Professor Harold
Goodwin and Dr. Xavier Font, with links within the Leslie Silver
International Faculty and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (led
by Prof Mike Robinson). This centre is at the forefront of action research
and consultancy to change industry behaviour and policy development.

Applications would be welcomed for the following specific research projects
or for proposals from the applicant that address the research agendas set
out for the research active staff listed below or for projects that cross
the boundaries of any of the identified research agendas :

1. Online market led responsible tourism development
Dr Xavier Font with support from Dr. Janet Cochrane and Prof. Harold
Goodwin have won a three year monitoring and evaluation of a World Bank
project delivering online bed booking system in developing countries that
aims to promote responsible tourism. As part of this project they have
identified the need for academic research on market-led responsible tourism
development, the specifics of which would be negotiated according to the
actual expertise and interest of candidates. The supervisory team have an
established track record of research in this area of research with a range
of international links and the guarantee from the International Finance
Corporation/World Bank and the service provider Worldhotel-link.com to
facilitate access to data.

2. Pro-poor tourism policy and micro-enterprise development

Tourism can be used as a policy tool to contribute to poverty alleviation,
particularly in areas where policy can be used to stimulate
micro-enterprise development in a responsible way. However, much research
is needed to ensure that policy responses are adequate and support
sustainable local economic development. Prof. Harold Goodwin (contributing
on pro-poor tourism) and Prof Rhodri Thomas (expert in small firms) are
hoping to attract a high level doctoral candidate to support their
international research and contribute to a range of projects, particularly
in least developed countries.

3. Corporate social responsibility in travel and tourism

Corporate Social Responsibility principles and practices should change the
way the travel and tourism industry operates. Key areas of interest are
social and environmental accounting, auditing and reporting; responsible
business behaviour and ethics (particularly implementation in large firms);
and responsible marketing. Projects linked to trans-national corporations
or outbound tourism most welcomed as these link to current projects from
Prof. Harold Goodwin and Dr. Xavier Font, including work done for the
Federation of Tour Operators, UNEP, EU and UNWTO amongst others.

4. Fair trade tourism certification

Fair trade certification aims to promote the rights of workers in
developing countries to make a fair living. Studying the feasibility of a
fair trade tourism label will wrestle with the challenges of implementing
WSSD goals in practice and considering the suitability of market-led
instruments to ethical consumption and sustainable production. The actual
scope of the project is open, drawing from the extensive expertise of Dr.
Xavier Font in sustainable tourism certification and particularly his
recent contract with the Fair Trade Labelling Organization to develop a
fair trade tourism standard and related work for UNCTAD. This is combined
with the hands on experience of Prof. Harold Goodwin to deliver actions
towards responsible and pro-poor tourism in developing countries.

Length of Studentship

Each studentship is for a period of 3 years full time study subject to 
satisfactory annual progress.

Opportunity for teaching experience

All PhD students will be expected to take advantage of the opportunity to 
engage with some teaching experiences in an area of their expertise. The 
maximum amount of teaching related activity that a student could be expected 
to undertake is 3 hours per teaching week for each semester. Teaching 
related activity would include preparation of teaching materials, delivery 
of seminars, practical, tutorials and lectures as appropriate to the 
expertise and experience of the student.


Contact:

Professor Mike Robinson
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts & Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Old School Board
Calverley Street
Leeds LS1 3ED
UK

email: m.d.robinson@leedsmet.ac.uk
phone +44 (0)113- 283 8540
fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544
www.tourism-culture.com 

From chris.caruso at gmail.com  Mon Oct  9 18:09:42 2006
From: chris.caruso at gmail.com (Chris Caruso)
Date: Mon Oct  9 17:23:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]$ for student travel to AAAs
Message-ID: <180723F0-1259-44D7-A774-AF7673B78C2C@gmail.com>

The Society for the Anthropology of North America

St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grants Award

For Travel to the 2006 AAA Meetings

To apply, submit your paper abstract, university affiliation, and  
contact information to: sanatravelgrant@yahoo.com

** The application deadline is: October 15, 2006

No additional materials are needed. The student travel grant will be  
awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised  
of members from the SANA board.

See guidelines here: http://sananet.org/studenttravel.html

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct  9 18:49:05 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  9 17:50:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Delivering and Sustaining the Urban Renaissance
	(graduate)
Message-ID: <004601c6ebec$c4308080$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

DELIVERING AND SUSTAINING THE URBAN RENAISSANCE: Graduate research on the reconstitution of local governance, built environments and public spaces

Organisers: Ian R. Cook and David Christoffer Lier, University of 
Manchester 

NOTE: We are having two sessions and we've had eight fantastic abstracts 
so far and would like two more papers. If you would like to present please 
send an abstract of 250 words or less to Ian R. Cook 
(ian.cook@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk) ASAP and no later than Wednesday 
October 18th 2006. 

http://www.wun.ac.uk/rcc/pdfs/Urb_Renaissance.pdf

Delivering and/or sustaining an urban renaissance seem to be the core 
objectives for local governments across towns and cities throughout 
Western and Eastern Europe, North America and beyond. In order to do this, 
local government services, public spaces and built environments of towns 
and cities are been reconstituted and refunctionalised. In some senses, 
towns and cities and their elites are following similar strategies and 
undergoing similar processes. Government services are becoming 
entrepreneurial, efficiency-driven and business-led; public spaces are 
being cleansed, secured and privatised; and the built environment is 
increasingly catering for gentrified upper-middle class residency and 
consumption practices. Indeed, these services, spaces and buildings are 
often increasingly geared towards actual and potential visitors, investors 
and upper-middle class citizens and consumers. Seducing these groups and 
unlocking their finances, it is argued by policymakers, will facilitate 
the beginning or continuation of urban renaissance. This session, 
sponsored by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), will examine the 
particular strategies utilised to (hopefully) deliver and sustain an urban 
renaissance in various towns and cities throughout the world. Papers 
within this session can explore any one (or more) of the following 
empirical and theoretical issues:

- What is meant by an 'urban renaissance'?
- Who governs, delivers and finances the urban renaissance?
- What regeneration and social control policies and tactics are used?
- How and why has local governance, public spaces and built environments 
been reconstituted and refunctionalised?
- How have urban elites sought to continue an urban renaissance?
- What opposition, contestation, negotiation and contradictions are 
bounded up in the urban renaissance?
- How successful has the urban renaissance been? Who has benefitted and 
who has not?
- How adequate are existing academic theorisations of these 
transformations?
From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct  9 20:11:41 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  9 19:12:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SAW Call for Submissions: Eric Wolf Prize (graduate
	research on anthropology of work)
Message-ID: <000d01c6ebf8$4d43bee0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: anthwork-l@lists.towson.edu

Calling for submissions for the Eric R. Wolf Prize awarded by the Society 
for the Anthropology of Work to honor graduate research on the subject of 
the anthropology of work.

The graduate student submitting the paper awarded the Eric R. Wolf Prize 
will receive a cash prize and the winning paper will be published in the 
Anthropology of Work Review.

To submit an unpublished paper for consideration by the Eric R. Wolf Prize 
committee, please attach a Word document of 25 pages or less, double-spaced, 
with no identifying information to a message (containing your name and 
contact information) sent to Ann Kingsolver, General Editor of the 
Anthropology of Work Review and chair of the Eric R. Wolf Prize committee, 
at aekingso@gwm.sc.edu.

Submissions received by November 1, 2006, will be considered for the 2006 
Eric R. Wolf Prize. Graduate students need not be members of the Society for 
the Anthropology of Work to have their work considered for this prize, but 
SAW student memberships are available at the reduced cost of $20. 

From l_guevarra at ucpress.edu  Tue Oct 10 12:51:02 2006
From: l_guevarra at ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Tue Oct 10 15:26:57 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: The Devil behind the Mirror
Message-ID: <p06230917c1519c163ba5@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L:


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

The Devil behind the Mirror: Globalization and 
Politics in the Dominican Republic

<B>Steven Gregory, </B>Associate Professor of 
Anthropology and African American Studies at 
Columbia University, is author of _Santer?a in 
New York City: A Study in Cultural Resistance 
_and _Black Corona: Race and the Politics of 
Place in an Urban Community. _He coedited _Race 
_with Roger Sanjek.

http://go.ucpress.edu/GregoryDevil

"In his stunningly vivid picture of communities 
grappling with the demons of economic 
globalization, Gregory shows how peoples' 
livelihoods are devalued and torn asunder when 
they are exposed to the rough justice of the 
market. An absorbing case study and an 
ethnographic tour de force."-Andrew Ross, author 
of _Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the 
Consequences of Free Trade _


In _The Devil behind the Mirror, _Steven Gregory 
provides a compelling and intimate account of the 
impact that transnational processes associated 
with globalization are having on the lives and 
livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. 
Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 
the adjacent towns of Boca Chica and Andr?s, 
Gregory's study deftly demonstrates how 
transnational flows of capital, culture, and 
people are mediated by contextually specific 
power relations, politics, and history. He 
explores such topics as the informal economy, the 
making of a telenova, sex tourism, and racism and 
discrimination against Haitians, who occupy the 
lowest rung on the Dominican economic ladder. 
Innovative and beautifully written, _The Devil 
behind the Mirror _masterfully situates the 
analysis of global economic change in everyday 
lives.

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


-- 
Lolita Guevarra
Electronic Marketing Coordinator
University of California Press
Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127
lolita.guevarra@ucpress.edu


From karjanen at umn.edu  Mon Oct  9 19:45:44 2006
From: karjanen at umn.edu (David Karjanen)
Date: Tue Oct 10 15:29:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]call for papers 
Message-ID: <000001c6ebfd$0a3f9470$6401a8c0@DF50J891>

Call for Papers: The Politics of Populations
 
An edited volume
Abstracts due January 15th, 2007
 
 
While an increasingly neo-liberal global capitalism depends upon the
accelerated movement of people and goods across borders, heightened
concerns about national border security pose a strong resistance to this
fluidity. At the center of this contradiction sit the institutions,
practices, and cultural politics that determine who and what will cross
the border, who is appropriate to the nation, who can be a citizen, who
merits being counted in government statistics, and by what means. Such
practices deploy both new and old technologies of risk, profiling
assessments, and policies based on legislation, fusing cultural and
ideological constructs based on race, nation, gender, sexuality,
religion, and class. Though we might expect these processes associated
with a global political economy to diminish the importance of national,
ethnic, racial, and gendered identities, what we find instead is that
new techniques of identification have come into play - in particular,
that new forms of "population" are emerging, and older historical
"populations" are re-emerging. This raises a number of questions that we
would like this volume to address:
 
How are the methods by which populations are defined affected by global
economic and security conditions? How are global conditions reciprocally
affected by various approaches to population? What are the historical
and cultural precedents or antecedents to these methods? What are the
institutions that forge populations, and with what consequences?  In
short, how are certain groups "made" and reproduced, both through
practices of representation and by more institutional means:
bureaucracies, statistics, policies, and so on? 
 
At the center of this inquiry is the unifying concept of a "population."

"Population" itself is a term with decidedly ambiguous origins, but real
political impact. In this volume we seek to move beyond a traditional
discussion of population politics -- demographic policies, reproductive
rights debates, or immigration policy -- to delve deeper and interrogate
the ideologies, politics, and cultural forces that shape the making and
unmaking of populations within these and other fields. We encourage an
interdisciplinary and accessible approach to these questions, such that
the volume will be broadly useful to a number of disciplines.
 
 
Thematic Topics include:
 
*	Immigration debates in a neo-liberal economy
 
*	Demographics and census-taking
 
*	Racial profiling
 
*	U.S. Homeland Security and civil liberties
 
*	Refugees, "asylum seekers" and economic migration
 
*	Technologies of territory: visas, guest workers, citizenship,
border security
 
*	The role of non-governmental institutions in border security
 
*	Public health policy and immigration
 
*	Risk analysis and security assessment
 
 Prospective chapters should be no more than 25-30 pages. 
 
 

Submit abstracts of 300 words or less with contact information to:
Karjanen@umn.edu 

 
 
 
David Karjanen
Assistant Professor
Institute for Global Studies and Department of American Studies 
104 Scott Hall
72 Pleasant St
Minneapolis, MN 55455 
(612) 626-7267 (phone)
(612) 624-3858 (fax)
Karjanen@umn.edu 
 
 
 
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Oct 10 19:40:36 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 10 18:41:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: University Seminar on the City (Our REITS and Rights, Columbia U)
Message-ID: <002601c6ecbd$1eb106d0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Janina Franco <jaf2126@columbia.edu> 

INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON THE CITY October 10, 2006

Speaker: Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University
Talk: "Of REITS and Rights: Looking at Contemporary Real Estate
Developments"

DRINKS: 5:30 pm
DINNER: 6pm ($22 buffet at the DeWitt Clinton Dining Room)
SPEAKER: 7pm to 9pm
Place: Faculty House, 400 West 117th Street, New York, New York
Chair: Lisa Keller, SUNY-Purchase

Please rsvp for dinner and the talk via e-mail (jaf2126@columbia.edu). Thank
you!
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Oct 10 19:44:36 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 10 18:45:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Cultural Identity of European Cities (London)
Message-ID: <004201c6ecbd$b0cc2220$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Jane Lewin <Jane.Lewin@SAS.AC.UK>

Our lecture series on

The Cultural Identity of European Cities

continues this year with Madrid, Mantua and Naples, Paris, Berlin, and 
London in the spotlight. Lectures, which are open to all, are held at the 
IGRS, in Room ST 273 on the second floor of Stewart House, Russell Square, 
London WC1E 7HU. For location details, please see 
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/location.htm


Thursdays, 5.30 for 6 pm
19 October 2006
Paul Julian Smith (Cambridge):
The Madrid Movida and Urban Theory: Comic Book and Film

9 November 2006
Iain Fenlon (Cambridge):
Sounding out the City: Music, Monteverdi, and the Myth of Mantua
30 November 2006
Godela Weiss-Sussex (London):
Berlin - A City 'Condemned to Forever Become and Never to Be'?
18 January 2007
Michael Sheringham (Oxford):
City of Names: Parisian Dimensions aand Trajectories
15 February 2007
Mariano d'Amora (London):
Naples and its Twentieth-Century Playwrights (title to be confirmed)
15 March 2007
Derek Keene (London):
London: Forging an Identity

A L L  W E L C O M E

For further information, contact: Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (email: 
mailto:godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk, tel: 020 7862 8968)

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST282, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8970
E-mail: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk
Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Oct 11 11:49:34 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Oct 11 10:49:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING/ANN: Young Leaders Summit on Global Health
Message-ID: <000501c6ed44$77e0d460$c5d2eb84@SOCBA021>

Young Leaders Summit on Global Health

The NYU Global Health Review and Americans for Informed Democracy are 
hosting a Young Leaders Summit on Global Health with the theme "Innovative 
Solutions to Healthcare in Low Resource Settings."  The summit will bring 
together young professionals and students from across the world for a series 
of panels, discussions, and workshops aimed at examining the unique 
opportunities for young leaders to promote better health care infrastructure 
in developing countries through innovative global partnerships and social 
entrepreneurship.  Confirmed speakers at the summit include:

* Ira Magaziner, Chairman of the Policy Board, The Clinton Foundation
* Aleya Hammad, Former Executive Director/Assistant Director General, World 
Health Organization
* Paul Zeitz, Co-founder and Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance
* Carolyn Makinson, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women 
and Children
* Andre Neusy, Director, The Center for Global Health, New York University
* John Sexton, President, New York University
* Derek Yach, Director, Global Health Program, Rockefeller Foundation

Thanks to the generous support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open 
Society Institute, and Ford Foundation, the summit is free for selected 
participants, including tuition and food.  Travel to the conference is at 
the participant's expense, but Americans for Informed Democracy will do its 
best to set up car pools for participants coming from the Northeast and 
mid-Atlantic region.

TO LEARN MORE AND APPLY, VISIT: www.aidemocracy.org/globalhealth.cfm 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Oct 13 18:00:03 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Oct 13 17:01:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Applying Anthropology to Nature and Heritage
	Conservation (Guatemala field school)
Message-ID: <005701c6ef0a$981c49e0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Ethnographic Field School-Natural Res Conserv-Guatemala

NC State University announces the Fourteenth Annual 

Ethnographic Field School, Summer 2007
Lake Atitl?n, Guatemala
May 18 - July 8, 2007

Applying Anthropology To Nature and Heritage Conservation 

field school website: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~twallace
Objectives: Students learn how to do ethnographic fieldwork, design a
research project, carry out independent research and study the effects of
tourism and change on the local environment and communities. During the
seven week program students live with local, Maya families in the Lake
Atitl?n area of the Western Highlands, a region with an ancient and rich
cultural heritage. The effects of globalization and tourism growth are
having an significant impact on their way of life. In this fourth summer of
research in Guatemala we will focus on the political, economic and
environmental impacts of tourism, religion and globalization on the
indigenous Mayan communities around Lake Atitl?n. Students will study how
these Tzutujil and Kaqchikel Maya are adapting to changing demographics, the
effects of the global economic slowdown on the export of coffee and
traditional textiles, as well as on the continuing presence of more and more
tourists and foreign residents. The program is designed for 10-12
undergraduate and/or graduate anthropology majors or minors or students in
related fields wishing to learn applied ethnographic field methods. Students
will be encouraged to develop an applied component to their research
projects that will complement the 2002-2005 applied research efforts. Some
of  the participants will be Guatemalan undergraduate anthropology students.
The program is also affiliated with the Universidad del Valle-Guatemala City
(UVG) and the Universidad del Valle-Altiplano (Solola).

The Research Site

Lake Atitlan is one of the most majestic and scenic spots in all of Latin
America. Ringed by dormant volcanoes and about a mile in elevation, Lake
Atitlan was formed out of an ancient volcanic basin. Dotting the shores of
the Lake are about a dozen small villages inhabited by the contemporary
descendants of the ancient Maya. Panajachel (pop. 9000) is the largest town
and will be the headquarters for the program. The view of the lake from
Panajachel is magnificent, and its attractive sunsets and views daily lure
many tourists, which in turn has transformed the town into a tourist Mecca
with small hotels, delightful restaurants and plentiful souvenir stores.
Yet, the town and the other communities in the region have retained much of
their traditional Mayan heritage. Each student is free to choose any topic
for his or her independent ethnographic research project, but environment
and tourism inevitably will play at least some role in nearly all potential
topics. Guatemala has the largest indigenous population in Mexico and
Central America. There are approximately 23 different languages spoken in
Guatemala and three of them are spoken around lake Atitlan (Kaqchikel,
Tzutujil and Quiche). Despite conquests and civil wars, the Mayans have
survived for nearly two millennia. Lake Atitlan is one of the best places in
the country to learn about this amazingly durable and vibrant culture.

Six Course Credits (graduate or undergraduate):

Prerequisites are two courses in anthropology, one of which must be in
Cultural Anthropology. No previous experience in ethnographic fieldwork
required. Priority will be given to students who have completed at least two
semesters of Spanish. 

ANT 419 Ethnographic Field Methods. (3 cr.) This is a field methods course
that emphasizes practical training in ethnographic fieldwork and ethics.
Applied research methods such as focus groups and rapid assessment
procedures will also be demonstrated. Students learn research design,
systematic observation, interviewing, fieldnote-taking, coding, ethics data
analysis and report writing. 

ANT 431 Tourism, Change and Anthropology (3 cr.) This course focuses on
tourism and the role of culture as it affects the interactions between hosts
and guests. Students learn through seminar discussions and field work the
problems underlying the achievement of sustainable tourism and maintenance
of cultural traditions. 

Graduate students will be enrolled in ANT 610 Independent Study in
Anthropology (6cr).

Note: English is the language of instruction, but Spanish is an invaluable
tool for a full experience. The focus of all course work is the design,
implementation and write- up of an independent research project with an
applied focus.

Housing

Each student will be housed with a local Mayan family in one of ten
communities around Lake Atitlan. Each student will receive room, breakfast,
lunch and dinner and laundry services. Families also will help students
learn Spanish and establish networks in the community.

Program Costs 

The cost of the seven-week program is $2995. Other than airfare, the fee
covers all expenses including:

-room, board (three meals/day), laundry 
-in-country excursions (Antigua, Chichicastenango, Quetzaltenango, Patzun,
Tecpan and Iximche among others)
-local transportation costs and transfer fees
-national park entrance fees
-program fees and instruction
-tuition for six credits in anthropology
-full coverage health insurance during stay abroad
-research supplies and free rental of a cellphone. 

Airfare from most US cities is approximately $500-600. Students are strongly
encouraged to bring a laptop word processor to the field. Other than a valid
passport, US and Canadian citizens need no other documents to enter
Guatemala for a stay of up to 90 days.

Applications

Students from any university or country, regardless of major - graduate,
undergraduate or post-graduate - may apply.  Applications may be accessed
through the field school website: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~twallace or through
the NC State University Study Abroad Office website
http://studyabroad.ncsu.edu/ .  Please feel free to contact Dr. Tim Wallace,
the program director, for additional information or any type of inquiry
about the program at 919-815-6388 (m) or 919-515-9025 (o). Fax
no:919-515-2610; E-mail: tmwallace@mindspring.com.  All applications must be
accompanied by a $200 registration fee, applicable to the total program
cost. The registration fee will be refunded to students who are not accepted
for the program. In previous years the program was full by mid-January, so
acceptance is more likely the earlier the application is received. The
applications are submitted online, but if you have any problems, please
contact Deirdre OMalley at the NCSU Study Abroad Office, Box 7344, NC State
University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7344, deirdre_omalley@ncsu.edu, 919-515-2087.
The official deadline is February 9, 2007, but applications received after
that date will be considered if there are spaces still available.  A copy of
the application for the brochure is attached.


Tim Wallace
Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Box 8107, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
919-515-9025
919-515-2610 (Fax)
919-815-6388 (Mobile)
website: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~twallace 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Oct 13 18:18:51 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Oct 13 17:19:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Diasporic Counterpoint: Africans, Asians and the
	Americas
Message-ID: <000801c6ef0d$2fcee7a0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Symposium Convenors:
 
Center for African American History Darlene Clark Hine, Director and the Program in Asian American Studies Ji-Yeon Yuh, Director Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, 60208 U.S.A. April 20 and 21, 2007 

The Center for African American History and the Program in Asian American Studies invites paper proposals for "Diasporic Counterpoint: Africans, Asians, and the Americas." The third annual conference of the Center for African American History to focus on diaspora, this conference will explore intersections among African and Asian diasporas. The conference particularly welcomes papers with a comparative focus, but papers concentrating on either African or Asian diasporas are also welcome. 

The following are some broad themes to be included in the conference. This list is merely a starting point, and proposals on other themes related to the conference are encouraged. 

-labor 
-social movements and organizing 
-migration patterns 
-spirituality and religion 
-cultural expression 
-creolization and authenticity 

Proposals should include the following: 
-a one-page abstract 
-a one-page vita 
-full contact information for the paper presenter 

Proposals should be sent by email to asianamerican@northwestern.edu and/or k-jaffer@northwestern.edu under the subject header "African/Asian Diaspora Conference." Proposals should be submitted by Nov. 1, 2006. Decisions will be announced by Dec. 15, 2006. Questions regarding the conference should be directed to: asianamerican@northwestern.edu
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Oct 16 10:57:41 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Oct 16 12:58:01 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Guide, Sept. 21 - Oct. 16, 2006
Message-ID: <001b01c6f144$330e4080$992ac180$@edu>

**********
1. U Mass Boston, Anthropology, Asst. Prof.
2. U of Illinois at Springfield, Sociology/Anthropology and Women?s Studies,
Asst. Prof.
3. San Diego State U, Anthropology, Asst. Prof.
4. UT Arlington, Anthropology, Asst./Assoc. Prof.
**********

1. U Mass Boston, Anthropology, Asst. Prof.

Tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
specializing in issues of immigration, transnationalism, and ethnicity among
Latino populations in the US, with preferred regional focus in urban New
England or Northeast, to begin September 1, 2007.

We seek an individual with an active program of scholarly research and
publication, and the ability to collaborate in local research with the
university?s Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and
Public Policy, and other campus research initiatives such as the Center for
Urban Cultural History.

Teaching duties will include both undergraduate and graduate Anthropology
courses, service teaching in campus general education programs, and
mentoring of Latino and other students.

Position is state-funded and fully benefited.

To apply:

Ph.D. must be in hand by September 1, 2007. Please send cover letter
explaining research and teaching interests, a writing sample, CV, and three
letters of reference by November 3, 2006, to: Tim Sieber, Chair, Search
Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100
Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA, 02125-3393.  We will begin reviewing
applications on November 3, 2006.  For questions, contact
tim.sieber@umb.edu.

UMass Boston is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Title IX employer.

----------

2. U of Illinois at Springfield, Sociology/Anthropology and Women?s Studies,
Asst. Prof.

The Women?s Studies Program and the Sociology/Anthropology Department at the
University of Illinois at Springfield seek to fill a joint tenure-track
position for an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar in gender and
globalization whose teaching and scholarship is firmly grounded in feminist
scholarship that focuses on the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity,
nationality, class and sexuality. 
 
Possible teaching and scholarship areas include gender and global
transformations in: labor and work, including migration and migrant labor;
family roles and structures; sexuality; distribution of wealth and resources
among and within the  global south and north; and transnational economic
processes, organizations, and movements. We prefer candidates who take
comparative approaches to systemic challenges posed by globalization.  

The new hire will develop and teach comparative societies and global
awareness courses for the new general education curriculum, teach other new
and existing undergraduate courses, participate fully in program and
curriculum development, and advise and mentor students in both programs. We
will prefer candidates who can teach the women?s studies intro and feminist
theory courses, as well as Socio-Cultural Theories, and who are able or
willing to teach some courses on-line.
 
Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to interdisciplinary
undergraduate teaching, and must have a Ph.D. (completed by time of
appointment) in sociology, anthropology, women?s studies, international
studies, or a discipline appropriate for appointment between the two
programs.

To apply please send vita, letter describing teaching and research
interests, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Pat Langley,
Women?s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Springfield, 1 University
Plaza MS UHB 3038, Springfield, IL 62703. The cover letter should describe a
course unit on some aspect of gender and globalization, including  content,
pedagogy and goals for student learning. Review of applications will begin
on October 16, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. 

For more information see our web page at http://www.uis.edu/. The University
of Illinois at Springfield is located in the state capital and is the third
campus of the University of Illinois. UIS serves approximately 4500 students
in 20 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs. The curriculum stresses a
strong liberal arts core with outstanding professional programs. UIS is an
Affirmative Action / EOE employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons
with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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3. San Diego State U, Anthropology, Asst. Prof.

San Diego State University, Department of Anthropology seeks a tenure-track
cultural anthropologist at the assistant professor level with a regional
specialization in Latin America and a research focus on community
development and sustainability, to begin Fall 2007. A PhD in Anthropology is
strongly preferred. The successful applicant will have demonstrated
experience working in communities and with outside agencies (e.g., NGOs) on
ecological issues that may include: coastal, forestry, water, or
agriculture-related natural resource management and/or eco-tourism. A strong
record of research, publications, collaborations within and outside the
academic community and acquisition of external funding should be evident.
The successful candidate should show evidence of success in working with a
diverse student population and will be expected to teach at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels in his/her sub-field, geographic region,
and area of specialization. We are especially interested in candidates who
can involve our students in research and who share the department's
commitment to the four-field approach to anthropology. 

The search committee will begin screening applications on December 13, 2006.
Salary commensurate with experience.

Applications, including letter stating qualifications, vita, three letters
of recommendation, and the most recent semester?s teaching evaluation
numeric scores and written comments should be sent to: 

Cultural Anthropology Search Chair
Department of Anthropology
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-6040

SDSU is a Title IX, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate
against individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, marital status, age, disability or veteran status,
including veterans of the Vietnam era.

----------

4. UT Arlington, Anthropology, Asst./Assoc. Prof.

The Program in Anthropology at The University of Texas at Arlington invites
applications for a tenure track or tenured appointment at the assistant or
associate professor level in social/cultural anthropology. Although area of
research specialization is open, we seek a scholar whose research interests
will complement and strengthen those of our cultural anthropology faculty
(i.e., globalization, international migration and medical anthropology);
applications are particularly invited from scholars in public anthropology,
political anthropology and development anthropology. Preference will be
given to candidates with an active research agenda in Africa, Asia or Latin
America. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach undergraduate
and graduate courses in anthropological theory as well as in his/her topical
areas of expertise. The Anthropology Program emphasizes a four-field
approach and currently includes a permanent faculty of five, with two
cultural anthropologists, two archaeologists and one biological
anthropologist. The University of Texas at Arlington, a public
Doctoral/Research Extensive institution, is a part of the University of
Texas System, enrolling approximately 25,000 students in 81 undergraduate,
73 master?s and 35 doctoral programs. It is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex, a vibrant and growing region of north Texas. Arlington, a city
with a suburban feel and a pleasant and affordable place to live, has an
ethnically and culturally diverse population. Its proximity to both Dallas
and Fort Worth provides outstanding cultural and recreational opportunities,
including world-renowned museums, symphony, opera and ballet and
professional sports. Arlington is conveniently located near DFW
International Airport. Applicants must have PhD in hand by the beginning of
the Fall 2007 semester. Review of applications will begin immediately, and
will continue until the position is filled. Applications (including cover
letter, curriculum vitae and three letters of reference) should be sent to
Dr. Shelley L. Smith, Chair, Anthropology Search Committee, Program in
Anthropology, Box 19599, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
76019. Applications from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.
UT Arlington is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct 16 21:19:55 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct 16 20:20:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Slums Separate Bombay from its Future
Message-ID: <000d01c6f181$facb4ae0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Slums separate Bombay from its future
Struggle over plans for redevelopment slows city's progress

Sudhin Thanawala, Chronicle Foreign Service
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Many Indian authorities here proudly claim this seaside metropolis -- the 
nation's largest -- as an Asian financial hub on par with Shanghai and 
Tokyo.
But critics quickly point out that India -- touted as an international 
powerhouse in the 21st century along with China -- will never become an 
economic success story until it eradicates its many urban slums. More than 
40 million people, or 14 percent of the nonrural population, live in 
shantytowns, according to the 2001 Indian census.
India, which has 1.1 billion people, is expected to expand its urban 
population to 575 million by 2030 from 285 million today, making an increase 
in slums one of the nation's most pressing problems. Urban blight is most 
evident in Bombay, more than half of whose 16.4 million inhabitants reside 
in shantytowns. Also known as Mumbai, Bombay is often called "Slumbai."
"With so many people living in slums, we can't take baby steps anymore. 
Unless we take dramatic leaps, we will not be able to make a difference," 
said Bombay architect Mukesh Mehta.
Mehta, a former New York real estate developer, has created a seven-year 
plan to turn Bombay's Dharavi neighborhood -- Asia's largest slum -- into a 
middle-class area that some experts say could become a model for slum 
redevelopment in other Indian cities. This former fishing village of about 
600,000 residents is a bustling maze of ramshackle homes of corrugated iron 
and cement, tiny shops and open sewers prone to flooding during the monsoon 
season.
Just last month, state officials began seeking corporate partners for 
Mehta's $2.1 billion plan, which would raze neighborhood homes and shops. In 
its place would rise a new town complete with modern apartment buildings, 
parks, schools, markets, clinics, industrial parks, and even a cricket 
museum and an arts center.
"What is unique about this plan is its attempt to provide new, on-site 
housing for such a large number of families," said Vinit Mukhija, assistant 
professor of urban planning at UCLA.
Iqbal Chahal, the state official overseeing the massive project, said 
Dharavi's 535-acre marshland will be transformed mainly by private 
developers. In exchange for land, they will be required to build 
225-square-foot apartments for families. Profits will come later by selling 
additional apartments at market rates. Until the new homes are complete, 
slum dwellers will live in free temporary housing.
"I can assure you that seven years from now, Dharavi will be one of the best 
places to live in Bombay," Chahal said.
But critics call the plan simplistic and suspect its real aim is to 
appropriate land that has become extremely valuable given the slum's 
proximity to Bombay's domestic and international airports and a new, 
emerging business district.
Social activists also cite the lack of involvement of slum dwellers in the 
project.
"Development will be successful if you have a bottom-up approach," said 
Arputham Jockin, head of the National Slum Dwellers Federation, a community 
organization that has helped Dharavi's residents build apartments in the 
past. "But in this project, everything is imposed from the top."
To be sure, Dharavi residents who oppose the plan could stop the project, 
observers say.
The slum is home to thousands of cottage industries, ranging from 
embroidered skirts and snack foods to belt buckles and pottery items. The 
slum generates between $330 million and $670 million annually, according to 
the Hindu, a Bombay daily. Many locals worry how their businesses will fare 
under the proposed plan.
But Mehta said slum entrepreneurs will be given new jobs at gem, jewelry, 
leather and ceramics factories built at five proposed 7-acre industrial 
parks.
On a recent morning, about 60 potters met under a tarp near the only paved 
road running through the slum. With smoke billowing from nearby kilns, they 
agreed to form a committee to stop the project. Unlike the project's 
proposed small apartments, their homes are expansive, with ample space for 
kilns.
"Our forefathers developed Dharavi when it was a jungle with no drinking 
water, no electricity, no place to live," said potter Ranchhod Tank, 40. "We 
know what we want. We can do it (build homes) ourselves" through their own 
housing association.
"They say they will give us apartments to live in," added Abdul Ansari, 70, 
who makes belt buckles and other metal items and has lived in Dharavi for 
more than 30 years. "But if we can't work, how can we afford to live here?"
Ansari said he saw similar development projects in the 1980s and 1990s when 
thousands languished in a transit camp for years without seeing new homes 
promised by government officials.
"How can we trust anyone now?" Ansari said. "This plan looks good on paper, 
but we don't have faith it will become reality." 

From hosorto at messiah.edu  Mon Oct 16 05:01:29 2006
From: hosorto at messiah.edu (Hierald Osorto)
Date: Mon Oct 16 22:20:34 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]US Social Form June 27-July 1 2007
Message-ID: <45330419020000A300008E2A@gwia.messiah.edu>

US Social Forum 2007

Progressive forces in the United States have not been able to mount an effective national response to issues such as the Gulf Coast tragedies, corporate scandals, government corruption, war, attacks against migrants, deregulation, corporate welfare, a widening gap between the rich and poor, a deteriorating education system, monopolization of the media, privatization of public resources, a ballooning federal deficit and attacks on our civil liberties. In the face of these enormous challenges the progressive movement remains fractured along geography, race, class and issues. The nation?s largest labor federation split, and union membership is at its lowest point in decades. Churches, once a backbone of the civil rights, peace and environmental justice movements, have lost strength due to scandal within the Catholic church, declining membership and the rise of the religious right. Grassroots community-based organizations represent a growing sector, but are severely under-resourced. This lack of political strength demonstrates the clear need for greater convergence among progressives and for spaces in which progressives can begin to come together and articulate our vision for ?another world.?

The US Social Forum will provide this space. It will be the largest gathering of progressives in over a decade, drawing participants from different regions, ethnicities, sectors and ages. Community-based organizations, Indigenous nations, unions, academics, policy and advocacy organizations will be able to come together for dialogues, reflection and to define future strategies.

The purpose of the USSF is to effectively and affirmatively articulate the values and strategies of progressive civil society in the United States. Those who build towards and participate in the USSF are no longer interested in simply stating what social justice movements ?stand-against,? rather we see ourselves as part of new movements that reach beyond national borders, that practice democracy at all levels, and that can articulate the world we want. The USSF provides a first major step towards such articulation by bringing together the new movements.

For more information go to http://www.ussf2007.org/

Hierald E. Osorto
Multicultural Programs Intern
Messiah College
One College Ave.
Box 3050
Grantham, PA 17027
Phone: (717) 796-1800 ext. 6930
Fax:      (717) 796-5241
HOsorto@messiah.edu


"This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that will one day grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities."
- Archbishop Oscar Romero 
From G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk  Wed Oct 18 18:33:04 2006
From: G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk (gbp)
Date: Wed Oct 18 13:29:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS:Call for Papers: Urban identity, Power and
	Space...
References: <000d01c6f181$facb4ae0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <009801c6f2d3$168739e0$c8690c81@ad.kent.ac.uk>

Annual Conference of the Commission on Urban Anthropology
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

CALL FOR PAPERS

Urban Identity, Power and Space:
The Case of Trans-European Corridors
Tirana,  27-31 August 2007

The programmes for the reconstruction of post-Communist Europe, such as the 
Stability Pact for South-East Europe, have been compared to the Marshall 
Plan implemented after WWII. These programmes, however, are having a 
significant impact not only on post-Communist countries but also on the rest 
of Europe and on other areas worldwide. These programmes aim at fostering 
peace, democracy, respect of human rights and economic prosperity, through a 
shared strategy of stability and cooperation among the involved countries. 
To this extent, the construction of the so-called Trans-European Corridors, 
also known as Multimodal Transport Network, seems to be playing a central 
role in such a strategy.
      The 'Trans-European Corridors' aim at making exchange of goods, 
people, oil and other energy supplies easier between the EU, the East and 
South-East European states and other areas of the world. They also aim at 
improving stability in historically troubled regions of Europe.
      The conference will address the changes that are occurring throughout 
Europe in relation to the construction of the Corridors. In particular, it 
will focus on urban change, old and new identities and the methodological 
issues raised by carrying out research in this new geo-political situation.

The conference will be structured around three main sessions: 1) Corridors 
of Power; 2) History and Memories; 3) Anthropology, Research and Local 
Spaces. The sessions will follow a sequential order, focusing on specific 
aspects of the conference?s overall theme. Each session will bring together 
papers that speak to each other and stimulate constructive discussion among 
the participants..


Session 1. Corridors of Power - Convenor: Dr Italo Pardo, University of 
Kent, UK.
E-mail address: i.pardo@kent.ac.uk

The progressive enlargement of the European Union and the subsequent 
?restructuring? has led to a redefinition of identities and boundaries, 
including, political, economic and symbolic boundaries. Such ongoing process 
of redefinition poses disciplinary challenges and the question of how to 
link academic research to responsible and legitimate policy.
      The construction of the Trans-European Corridors has brought to a head 
critical aspects of this problematic. While the dominant political rhetoric 
has portrayed the Corridors as an opportunity for economic development and 
integration, they and their ramifications have been either hailed or 
vilified at grassroots level, often with equally strong feelings. 
Environmental and cultural concerns have been voiced. Economic development 
and sometimes conflict have been stimulated, particularly by the growing 
participation of the private sector in urban affairs. Legal problems remain 
unsolved in highly significant fields, such as the regulation of 
international business deals, citizenship rights and cultural conflict. Such 
complexity has raised both fundamental issues of legitimacy at the various 
levels of the decision-making process and significant questions on how this 
process is experienced at the local level, particularly in urban areas; on 
how it is affecting urban change and expansion; on what impact the internal 
and international demographic movement, particularly, though not only from 
outside the European Union, is having on urban life and identity; on the 
attendant competition; on whether the new social, economic and spatial 
situation is contributing to entrenching or to solving existing problems and 
on whether new forms of inequality and exclusion or new opportunities and 
forms of integration are instead taking shape. The mixture of graded 
timidity and political determinism with which the ruling ?lite in various 
countries have addressed this problematic has visibly compounded on their 
difficult relationship with citizenship.
      An anthropological approach based on a contested understanding of the 
empirical situation at the local level illuminates key methodological and 
theoretical issues with specific reference to relations of power among 
different States and between governing ?lite groups (national and 
international) and the rest of society.


Session 2. History and Memories: Roads of Power-Roads of Exchange and how we 
came to remember them - Convenors: Gerda Dalipaj and Armanda Hysa, Albania 
Academy of Sciences. E-mail addresses: ethno_studies@yahoo.com; 
armanda_hysa@yahoo.com

The development of huge communication networks has been historically linked 
with the expansion of empires. Communication through roads has been central 
to economic, political and cultural unification, as well as to military 
domination. Over time, these roads have affected and have been affected by 
the changes in economic and political relations. However, although initially 
built to serve military purposes for the acquisition of new areas and the 
control of those already conquered, they turned out to be roads of exchange, 
linking these areas to each-other and to the centre, while reshaping 
existing borders. These roads became the source of livelihood for many 
communities, also generating a new sense of belonging. People who lived near 
them, or made use of them, transformed their space while, in turn, being 
transformed by it. These roads encouraged new trades, movement of 
population, the creation of new urban settings and the reconfiguration of 
existing ones. The changes that they brought about were also reflected in 
people?s lifestyles, especially as people adjusted to the new circumstances 
either through resistance or through cultural, economic and political 
adaptation.
      The Trans-European Corridors, which are now being built along ancient 
itineraries, are presented as corridors of power and to power. The history 
of the old itineraries is being used to stress a past identity and a 
re-discovered belonging, or to legitimise the new politics of the involved 
states in opposition to those who stress the original military purposes 
ignoring the impact they had on economic development and cultural exchange.
      This session addresses historical, social and political issues. It 
asks, who built the old roads of communication and why? What were their 
itineraries? What were their primary purposes and how have they changed over 
time? How did they affect people?s life and sense of belonging through new 
trading centres, movement of population, new urban settings and the changes 
they brought to existing ones, and the reshaping of borders? The session 
also addresses the ways in which history and social memory are politically 
used, and the extent to which our understanding of ?roads of power? affects 
our scientific approach to the study of history, culture and society.


Session 3. Anthropology, research and local spaces: Spatial connections and 
representations - Convenor: Dr Manos Spyridakis, University of the 
Peloponnese, Greece.
E-mail address: maspy@otenet.gr

Social anthropology has been historically founded on the primacy of 
participant observation, which has undeniably shaped the epistemological 
?autonomy? of the discipline.
      Participant observation takes place in a specific geographic space, 
the field. Space has traditionally been seen as portioned, as divided up 
into localities, places, regions. An isomorphism was assumed between 
culture/society and place. Cultures had their own places, and the 
differences between place-based cultures were believed to be internally 
generated and preconstituted. This created a picture of identification of 
space with the culture that it ?included? and vice-versa. ?Territorialized? 
data gave a sense of ?real? world and a certainty that what one needed to 
know about the field could be found in a limited space. Therefore, the field 
as a limited space predetermined the information and its interpretation.
      Many anthropologists see this notion of ?enclosed?, ?isolated? field 
as obsolete. Today, places are seen to function more as palimpsests within 
which the game of identity, multiplicity and relations are in an incessant 
process of embeddedness and recreation in social, economic and political 
terms. Therefore, the anthropological field as a space through which the 
social action exists constitutes a means for bringing about the variety of 
practices and not their ending, because social action is also affected by 
processes that take place outside the anthropological field.
      Through discussion of several contributions, this session intends to 
challenge fixed views about space through anthropological work in urban and 
other contexts, keeping in mind that space as such is not a neutral entity; 
it is, instead,  an interactive entity involving social practices, which in 
turn affect the notion of field and of anthropological practice and theory. 
The challenge is to see place and space in a way which is not defined in 
terms of exclusivity, of contraposition between an inside and an outside and 
which is independent of false notions of internally-generated authenticity.
      This session proposes three stimuli for discussion:
1. Space is a product of interrelations. It is constituted through 
interactions; from the immensity of the global to the intimately tiny.
2. Space encompasses multiplicity. If space is indeed the product of 
interrelations, then it must be predicated upon the existence of plurality. 
Multiplicity and space are co-constitutive.
3. Because space is the product of relations, which are necessarily embedded 
in actions that have to be carried out, it is always in a process of 
becoming; it is always being made. It is never finished, never closed.

Paper proposals should be submitted both to the Session?s and the 
Conference?s Convenors by 31 January 2007. Proposals should include the 
paper title, an abstract of 250 words, the author?s name, institution, 
address and a brief biography. The working language of the Conference will 
be English. Paper proposals from scholars from related disciplines are 
encouraged. Accepted papers will be notified by the end of February.

Registration Fee: The Conference registration fee will be 20 Euros.
There will be no registration fee for postgraduate students who wish to 
attend the Conference.

Output: A selection of revised papers will be published in edited volumes 
and in academic Journals.

More information on the Conference can be obtained from Dr Giuliana B. 
Prato, Co-Chair of the Commission on Urban Anthropology and Conference 
Convenor. E-mail: g.b.parto@kent.ac.uk

Dr Giuliana B. Prato
Co-Chair, Commission on Urban Anthropology
IUAES
Department of Anthropology
Marlowe Building, University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR
UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1227 700366
From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Oct 18 15:04:02 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Oct 18 14:07:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Urban Identity, Power and Space: The Case of Trans-European
 Corridors (Commission on Urban Anthropology), Tirana
Message-ID: <003101c6f2df$cb135b30$c5d2eb84@SOCBA021>

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

Annual Conference of the Commission on Urban Anthropology
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

CALL FOR PAPERS

Urban Identity, Power and Space:
The Case of Trans-European Corridors
Tirana,  27-31 August 2007

The programmes for the reconstruction of post-Communist Europe, such as the
Stability Pact for South-East Europe, have been compared to the Marshall
Plan implemented after WWII. These programmes, however, are having a
significant impact not only on post-Communist countries but also on the rest
of Europe and on other areas worldwide. These programmes aim at fostering
peace, democracy, respect of human rights and economic prosperity, through a
shared strategy of stability and cooperation among the involved countries.
To this extent, the construction of the so-called Trans-European Corridors,
also known as Multimodal Transport Network, seems to be playing a central
role in such a strategy.
      The 'Trans-European Corridors' aim at making exchange of goods,
people, oil and other energy supplies easier between the EU, the East and
South-East European states and other areas of the world. They also aim at
improving stability in historically troubled regions of Europe.
      The conference will address the changes that are occurring throughout
Europe in relation to the construction of the Corridors. In particular, it
will focus on urban change, old and new identities and the methodological
issues raised by carrying out research in this new geo-political situation.

The conference will be structured around three main sessions: 1) Corridors
of Power; 2) History and Memories; 3) Anthropology, Research and Local
Spaces. The sessions will follow a sequential order, focusing on specific
aspects of the conference's overall theme. Each session will bring together
papers that speak to each other and stimulate constructive discussion among
the participants..


Session 1. Corridors of Power - Convenor: Dr Italo Pardo, University of
Kent, UK.
E-mail address: i.pardo@kent.ac.uk

The progressive enlargement of the European Union and the subsequent
'restructuring' has led to a redefinition of identities and boundaries,
including, political, economic and symbolic boundaries. Such ongoing process
of redefinition poses disciplinary challenges and the question of how to
link academic research to responsible and legitimate policy.
      The construction of the Trans-European Corridors has brought to a head
critical aspects of this problematic. While the dominant political rhetoric
has portrayed the Corridors as an opportunity for economic development and
integration, they and their ramifications have been either hailed or
vilified at grassroots level, often with equally strong feelings.
Environmental and cultural concerns have been voiced. Economic development
and sometimes conflict have been stimulated, particularly by the growing
participation of the private sector in urban affairs. Legal problems remain
unsolved in highly significant fields, such as the regulation of
international business deals, citizenship rights and cultural conflict. Such
complexity has raised both fundamental issues of legitimacy at the various
levels of the decision-making process and significant questions on how this
process is experienced at the local level, particularly in urban areas; on
how it is affecting urban change and expansion; on what impact the internal
and international demographic movement, particularly, though not only from
outside the European Union, is having on urban life and identity; on the
attendant competition; on whether the new social, economic and spatial
situation is contributing to entrenching or to solving existing problems and
on whether new forms of inequality and exclusion or new opportunities and
forms of integration are instead taking shape. The mixture of graded
timidity and political determinism with which the ruling ?lite in various
countries have addressed this problematic has visibly compounded on their
difficult relationship with citizenship.
      An anthropological approach based on a contested understanding of the
empirical situation at the local level illuminates key methodological and
theoretical issues with specific reference to relations of power among
different States and between governing ?lite groups (national and
international) and the rest of society.


Session 2. History and Memories: Roads of Power-Roads of Exchange and how we
came to remember them - Convenors: Gerda Dalipaj and Armanda Hysa, Albania
Academy of Sciences. E-mail addresses: ethno_studies@yahoo.com;
armanda_hysa@yahoo.com

The development of huge communication networks has been historically linked
with the expansion of empires. Communication through roads has been central
to economic, political and cultural unification, as well as to military
domination. Over time, these roads have affected and have been affected by
the changes in economic and political relations. However, although initially
built to serve military purposes for the acquisition of new areas and the
control of those already conquered, they turned out to be roads of exchange,
linking these areas to each-other and to the centre, while reshaping
existing borders. These roads became the source of livelihood for many
communities, also generating a new sense of belonging. People who lived near
them, or made use of them, transformed their space while, in turn, being
transformed by it. These roads encouraged new trades, movement of
population, the creation of new urban settings and the reconfiguration of
existing ones. The changes that they brought about were also reflected in
people's lifestyles, especially as people adjusted to the new circumstances
either through resistance or through cultural, economic and political
adaptation.
      The Trans-European Corridors, which are now being built along ancient
itineraries, are presented as corridors of power and to power. The history
of the old itineraries is being used to stress a past identity and a
re-discovered belonging, or to legitimise the new politics of the involved
states in opposition to those who stress the original military purposes
ignoring the impact they had on economic development and cultural exchange.
      This session addresses historical, social and political issues. It
asks, who built the old roads of communication and why? What were their
itineraries? What were their primary purposes and how have they changed over
time? How did they affect people's life and sense of belonging through new
trading centres, movement of population, new urban settings and the changes
they brought to existing ones, and the reshaping of borders? The session
also addresses the ways in which history and social memory are politically
used, and the extent to which our understanding of 'roads of power' affects
our scientific approach to the study of history, culture and society.


Session 3. Anthropology, research and local spaces: Spatial connections and
representations - Convenor: Dr Manos Spyridakis, University of the
Peloponnese, Greece.
E-mail address: maspy@otenet.gr

Social anthropology has been historically founded on the primacy of
participant observation, which has undeniably shaped the epistemological
'autonomy' of the discipline.
      Participant observation takes place in a specific geographic space,
the field. Space has traditionally been seen as portioned, as divided up
into localities, places, regions. An isomorphism was assumed between
culture/society and place. Cultures had their own places, and the
differences between place-based cultures were believed to be internally
generated and preconstituted. This created a picture of identification of
space with the culture that it 'included' and vice-versa. 'Territorialized'
data gave a sense of 'real' world and a certainty that what one needed to
know about the field could be found in a limited space. Therefore, the field
as a limited space predetermined the information and its interpretation.
      Many anthropologists see this notion of 'enclosed', 'isolated' field
as obsolete. Today, places are seen to function more as palimpsests within
which the game of identity, multiplicity and relations are in an incessant
process of embeddedness and recreation in social, economic and political
terms. Therefore, the anthropological field as a space through which the
social action exists constitutes a means for bringing about the variety of
practices and not their ending, because social action is also affected by
processes that take place outside the anthropological field.
      Through discussion of several contributions, this session intends to
challenge fixed views about space through anthropological work in urban and
other contexts, keeping in mind that space as such is not a neutral entity;
it is, instead,  an interactive entity involving social practices, which in
turn affect the notion of field and of anthropological practice and theory.
The challenge is to see place and space in a way which is not defined in
terms of exclusivity, of contraposition between an inside and an outside and
which is independent of false notions of internally-generated authenticity.
      This session proposes three stimuli for discussion:
1. Space is a product of interrelations. It is constituted through
interactions; from the immensity of the global to the intimately tiny.
2. Space encompasses multiplicity. If space is indeed the product of
interrelations, then it must be predicated upon the existence of plurality.
Multiplicity and space are co-constitutive.
3. Because space is the product of relations, which are necessarily embedded
in actions that have to be carried out, it is always in a process of
becoming; it is always being made. It is never finished, never closed.

Paper proposals should be submitted both to the Session's and the
Conference's Convenors by 31 January 2007. Proposals should include the
paper title, an abstract of 250 words, the author's name, institution,
address and a brief biography. The working language of the Conference will
be English. Paper proposals from scholars from related disciplines are
encouraged. Accepted papers will be notified by the end of February.

Registration Fee: The Conference registration fee will be 20 Euros.
There will be no registration fee for postgraduate students who wish to
attend the Conference.

Output: A selection of revised papers will be published in edited volumes
and in academic Journals.

More information on the Conference can be obtained from Dr Giuliana B.
Prato, Co-Chair of the Commission on Urban Anthropology and Conference
Convenor. E-mail: g.b.parto@kent.ac.uk

Dr Giuliana B. Prato
Co-Chair, Commission on Urban Anthropology
IUAES
Department of Anthropology
Marlowe Building, University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR
UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1227 700366 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Oct 19 16:30:38 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct 19 15:33:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Hidden Hands in the Market ... (Sussex)
Message-ID: <007501c6f3b5$2cb88c40$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for papers


Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographic explorations of the production-consumption nexus in a globalised economy

 

Workshop to be held at the University of Sussex on 12-13 April 2007

 

 

We invite papers for a workshop that will explore a range of anthropological
contributions to the study of global networks of production and trade.  

 

Across the world, producers, middlemen and consumers as well as activist
groups of various sorts, such as consumer movements, form increasingly dense
and complex networks of exchange.  In these networks it is not only goods
and commodities that move across the globe at ever increasing speed but also
values and moralities are circulated and given new meanings, while politics
and relations of power are constantly being reshaped.  In contrast to
mainstream ways of doing business, fair trade networks, ethical trade
initiatives and corporate social responsibility agendas represent just some
of the new movements that have begun to engage with the moral, social and
political implications of market exchange that remain largely hidden in
economists' studies of the changing global economy.  In the workshop we
intend to explore how anthropologists can study these new phenomena, unveil
what shapes consumer-producer networks, and contribute to an understanding
of the moralities and politics 'behind the label'.   

 

Global value chain analysis has become an influential framework used by
economists to gain insight into the ways in which commodities and their
value emerge across the production chain, and to study the global
connections between consumers, middle-people and producers/workers (Gereffi
1994; 2001).  While this global value chain framework has certainly provided
us with a better understanding of the organisation of the global economy, it
is of much less use to address issues that go beyond the economics of 'Who
wins from globalisation?' (Kaplinsky 2001) and 'Who can upgrade their
activities within a commodity chain?' (Dolan and Teewari 2001).  We
therefore aim to extend this approach to think of exchange and interaction
in much broader terms (social and political rather than just economic,
networks rather than just chains, and so on) and suggest that our
understanding of global economic behaviour will benefit precisely from
prioritising an analysis of the social, ethical and political.

 

The issues we would like to address therefore include an expanding and
critical rethinking of value to include not only economic value but also
political and ideological values (such as authenticity value).  Values - as
a source of meaning-making - cannot be grasped within a narrowly economistic
paradigm but need to be located within the wider framework of human
interaction and exchange (Appadurai 1986; Graeber 2001). Yet, values shape
social and economic behaviour and increasingly travel across boundaries and
between consumers and producers. So, what constitutes 'value' as a much
wider term than that found in global value chain analyses?  How do values
shape the form and content of exchange? And how can we study them?

 

Similarly, there is a need to explore where and how concepts of ethics and
morality emerge, circulate and blend within global networks, and how they
are at times shared between social actors while at other times imposed by
some onto others.  Ethical trade and corporate responsibility are both
concerned with issues of morality and fairness - often directly emanating
from consumer activism - but we still know very little about how these
concerns come about, where they are generated and what their impact is on
groups of consumers and producers across the globe.  We therefore aim to
examine attempts to reintroduce concerns with morality and ethics in to the
world of exchange. What concepts of ethics and morality do we find in fair
trade initiatives?  What sense of morality forms the basis of CSR activity?
How are these concepts integrated into trade practices and policies?  Who is
affected by them and how?

 

There is also a need to unravel the 'politics behind the label'.  While
global value chain analysis has introduced the concept of governance to
address the distribution of power along the commodity chain (Humphrey and
Schmitz 2001), we would like to relocate power within wider social and
political networks and consider the ways in which it is embedded in social,
ethical and moral values.  We thus conceive of politics not as an add-on but
as internal to (while often hidden within) processes of neo-liberal
globalisation. To what extent are power relations shaped by the moralities
and values of the western consumer? To what extent and in what ways do
western corporations and their social responsibility impact on governance in
producing countries? Is the power of corporations challenged or reproduced
by recent concerns and practices of corporate responsibility, fair trade and
other forms of consumer activism? What form does resistance take in these
new, networked contexts of production and trade. 

 

In the contemporary economy, the consumer no longer appears merely as an
economic and social agent who consumes, but increasingly also as a political
activist involved in critical reflection on the politics of trade and
exchange.  This is reflected in consumer concerns about ethics and fair
trade as well as in their drive for corporate social responsibility.  There
is a need to research this binary role through a political economy approach
that combines both economic and cultural analyses.  Otherwise, as Ben Fine
has warned, we risk being left with neo-classical economics which leaves
everything to the market, or postmodernism which leaves everything to the
imagination (Fine 2002: 24).

 

In sum, the workshop aims to explore anthropology's potential contributions
to the study of commodity chains, of flows of goods, moralities and values,
and of the politics that shape the global world of exchange. We welcome
papers on any of the above and related themes, and would like to receive
short abstracts by 30 November 2006.  

 

Please send abstracts to: 

Dr Geert de Neve, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
G.R.De-Neve@sussex.ac.uk

 

 

 

Lois Stanford
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
MSC 3BV, Box 30001
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

phone: 505-646-6092
fax: 505-646-3725

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Oct 19 21:06:40 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct 19 20:09:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Film Review: Radiant City, directed by Gary Burns
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FILM REVIEW: "RADIANT CITY" FAILS TO SHINE

A sprawling documentary of our times
Oct 16 2006 -- The Globe & Mail
TREVOR BODDY


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061013.VANBODDY13/TPStory/?query=calgary

Among the many documentaries at this year's Vancouver International Film 
Festival is an 86 minute feature that takes on one of the most important 
issues before our cities: suburban sprawl. The distractingly named Radiant 
City was jointly written and directed by feature director Gary Burns 
(Kitchen Party, A Problem With Fear), and CBC radio talking head Jim Brown, 
both of Calgary --Canada's largest city by area, and a place that knows 
something about sprawl.
"We took all the specific references to Calgary out of the film in the 
editing," says co-writer-director Mr. Burns in an interview after the VIFF 
screenings, clearly wanting to generalize the film's argument about endless 
instant developments, "we even digitally altered a license plate, so you 
couldn't see it was Alberta."
Consequently, the critique of suburbia here is generic, maybe too much so, 
with the film-makers rounding up a squad of talking heads, planting them 
beside freeways, in schoolyards, and alongside real estate billboards that 
could be anywhere, then letting them rip.
Among Radiant City's opinionizers are American urban journalist William 
Howard Kunstler, Calgary architecture school head Marc Boutin, even the 
terminally over-exposed Toronto philosopher of everything, Mark Kingwell.
Print Edition - Section Front
  Enlarge Image

But this suburban show-and-tell is stolen by two grade school kids, sardonic 
yet wise commentators on the phenomenon that shape their lives -- the big 
box houses, new schools under construction, parental overprogramming of 
their lives, not to mention the finer points of paint ball etiquette.
One statistic brings home what it is to be a suburban kid (and chauffeuring 
parent) these days -- half of us walked to school in the 1950s, while only 
10 per cent do so now.
Interspersed between the kids and the expert interviews are animated little 
commercials with lots more juicy factoids about North American suburbia: the 
average house was 800 square feet in 1950, 1,500 by 1970, and a staggering 
2,266 by the year 2000; the average driver spends the equivalent of 55 
working days a year commuting by car (four times as long as the average 
annual holiday); traffic injury and death rates are three times higher in 
suburbia as downtown; people who live in city centres are 6.3 pounds 
lighter, on average, than their suburban cousins; and so on.
The best feature of Radiant City is cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin's 
fresh visual documentation of the textures and streetscapes of brand new 
neighbourhoods, and his images are the film's most eloquent critique of 
sprawl. Using rich autumnal light recalling Sven Nykvist's lens work for 
Ingmar Bergman, crane shots of new subdivision signs make them look like 
Broadway sets, and telephoto views of clumsy new houses reveal them as 
variations on military barracks.
Mr. McLaughlin's camera skills and the dab hand at interviewing possessed by 
CBC radio journalist Mr. Brown combine to spark some hilarious clips, 
especially Mr. Kunstler's riff on the pointless over-use of chain link 
fencing. Mr. Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency, the latest in his 
long string of books criticizing American energy waste and linked suburban 
sprawl, putting it bluntly in the film: "This way of living is coming off 
the menu."
The film is short on analysis -- finding the invisible forces that create 
and extend sprawl such as our extravagant public subsidies for suburban 
infrastructure and transportation, for one.
For another, there is the skewing of property taxes onto businesses, 
artificially lightening the load for ever more bungalows, while also 
displacing jobs to ever more remote (and hence low tax and low rent) 
municipalities, the deadly recipe that is firing sprawl around Vancouver, 
and leading to the Campbell government's current mania for bridge-building 
and freeway construction.
Radiant City is scarcely better when it comes to solutions for this 
continent's addiction to sprawl, ever more questionable in an era of 
permanently higher energy costs. The only talking head who has an agenda is 
New Urbanism co-founder Andres Duany of Miami, who was recently engaged to 
lead an urban design workshop for Vancouver's East Fraserlands.
Pointedly, the film does not show the too-cute, mock-New England Calgary 
suburb of Mackenzie Towne -- for which he and wife Elizabeth Playter-Zyberk 
provided the initial idea fifteen years ago. If the future of suburbia is 
mild versions, like Mackenzie Towne, of New London, Connecticut or other 
faves from Duany and Zyberk's student days at Princeton, we are in real 
trouble indeed.
I guess only a native Albertan and ex-Calgarian like me can relay this 
difficult message: What is most missing from Radiant City is Vancouver 
itself, the most radical critique of conventional suburban thinking in North 
American. Burns and Brown needed to get out of their closed loop of 
bungalows and strip malls to find viable alternatives.
Long before Larry Beasley, Vancouver had Canada's densest neighbourhood in 
the West End, then pioneered mixed income, mixed housing tenure zones such 
as the South Shore of False Creek, and demanded and got ever more from our 
downtown developers.
Yes, I know it is not 'all about us,' but spending nearly an hour and a half 
criticizing suburbia without showing a key alternative just over the Rockies 
is not, as both CBC Radio and Fox News agree, fair and balanced.
Produced by Burns Films and the National Film Board, Radiant City will have 
a theatrical release in the spring, with an airing on CBC late next year.
German cultural critic Walter Benjamin once said that "Architecture is best 
appreciated in a state of distraction." In other words, it is best 
appreciated and understood not as the head-on object of consciousness, but 
incidentally, in the ordinary comings and goings of daily life.
In his head-on examination of sprawl in Radiant City, Gary Burns did not 
achieve the sly analysis of urban phenomenon which are crucial to his 
previous narrative features like Way Downtown. Mr. Brown, keep those stats 
and interviews coming for your radio documentaries, and Mr. Burns, tell us 
about cities through characters, not characterizations. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Oct 22 16:18:27 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct 22 15:19:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Imperial Curiosity: Objects, Representations, Knowledges (Australia)
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Imperial Curiosity: Objects, Representations, Knowledges

Alongside economic, political, and strategic motivations, curiosity spurred 
the spread of empire. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars and 
curators to explore imperial curiosity with the University of Tasmania 's 
Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath. We want to bring together those 
working in various historical, literary, ethnographic, and cultural 
collections with scholars from diverse disciplines: literary studies, 
geography, Asian studies, history, indigenous studies, art history, 
architecture, legal studies, museum studies, gender studies, cultural 
studies, and anthropology, amongst others.
We welcome papers which address the following topics, and others which might 
surprise us:

Imperial inquisitiveness &/or acquisitiveness
Imperial wonder & awe
Resisting imperial curiosity
The cultural industries of imperialism
Imperial florilegium
Textual economies of curiosity: reading, travels, and travails
Imperial networks and/or the imperial archive
The gendering of imperial curiosity
The psychological terrain of imperial estrangement
Imperial affect (curiosity, fear, awe, pleasure)
Cabinets of curiosities: collecting & classification
The objects of empire
The erotics of empire

250 word abstracts should be submitted no later than 1 December, 2006 and 
should be accompanied by a 100 word biographical note.

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
School of History and Classics
University of Tasmania
Hobart 7005
Australia

Email: caia@utas.edu.au
Visit the website at http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imperialcuriosity/ 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Oct 22 16:20:28 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct 22 15:21:05 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS: PERMANENT CATASTROPHES? (Hamilton, NY)
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FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS: PERMANENT CATASTROPHES?

An international and Interdisciplinary Academic Workshop Colgate University. 
14-15 April, 2006

"A 30-year-old impoverished refugee population, tens of thousands of 
settlers, a 1,000-mile wall, a stalled peace process."

So begins a recent survey of politics as usual, not in Israel or Palestine, 
but in what has been described as the "world's most forgotten conflict" in 
the Western Sahara. Indeed, so "forgotten" is this most forgotten of crises 
that media sources only ever remember it as such. Variously calling it a 
'Forgotten Palestine,' 'a forgotten desert fight,' or 'forgotten land grab' 
affecting a 'forgotten people,' news accounts of the longstanding 
catastrophe affecting the Sahrawi nation in the Western Sahara give priority 
to our forgetfulness over much else.

The curious fate of the Western Sahara in mass media demands critical 
reflection on the political status of "forgotten conflicts": from those that 
we remember to forget to those that we forget to remember. 'Critical,' in 
the sense that any analysis worthy of the name would have to address the 
political relation between the phenomenon of 'forgotten conflicts' and their 
interpretation as such. In other words, the forgotten conflicts we wish to 
examine are not solely the particular instances that live on at the extreme 
margins of an 'attention economy,' but rather, the ones that are advanced in 
the belief that concepts like an 'attention economy,' or 'disaster fatigue,' 
are sufficient to explain forgotten conflicts to begin with. The working 
premise of this workshop, then, is that as a contemporary political 
phenomenon the 'forgotten conflict' is not reducible to a catalogue of its 
occurrences. Consequently, the 'Forgotten Conflicts' project aspires to 
treat conflicts and their forgetting as reciprocally related historical 
phenomena.

Advanced as a joint initiative of Colgate University's Peace and Conflict 
Studies Program [P-CON] and the University of Durham's 'Politics-State-Space' 
Research Group, the "Forgotten Conflicts" meeting will bring together 
approximately 15 scholars from around the globe in order to address the 
epistemological, historical, ethical, and political implications of this 
phenomenon. Our aim is to develop and publish an important dialogue between 
scholars representing an array of disciplines, focusing in particular on the 
way that the very existence of 'forgotten conflicts' shapes contemporary 
understandings of the politics of violence. We therefore invite applications 
from key researchers in geography, international politics, sociology, 
philosophy, anthropology, politics, history, and law, who are developing 
research into the role of a tradition of forgetting (as opposed to 
collective memory) in the understanding of the modern history of conflict.

Organization of the Workshop
The 2-day workshop will privilege thorough and substantive interaction, with 
the aim of facilitating engaged and critical responses to the topic. To this 
end, papers will be submitted in advance of the workshop and posted on a 
firewalled web site for participants to read before the event; at the 
workshop itself short presentations by each speaker will be followed by 
extended in-depth discussion of the issues addressed. To keep the event 
focused and intimate, the workshop will be limited to 15 participants, all 
of whom will submit papers.

Practical details regarding the venue, program, costs, timetable, 
accommodation and transport will be sent to all accepted participants. The 
charge for the event will be nominal. Because the budget for the event is 
limited, participants will be expected to cover their own transport and 
accommodation arrangements using information provided by the organizers. We 
anticipate that we will be able to provide a number of subventions for the 
travel and accommodation of graduate students.

Submission of Abstracts
Please email abstracts of 250 words to all three of the organizers by 10 
November 2006.
David.Campbell@durham.ac.uk
nries@mail.colgate.edu
dmonk@mail.colgate.edu
Publications

Select papers from the event will be published in an edited volume or, 
possibly, a journal special issue.

Sponsored by P-CON, The Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Colgate 
University, U.S.A, and the Politics-State-Space Research Group, University 
of Durham, England.

Location: Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

Nancy Ries, Colgate University. USA
Daniel B. Monk, Colgate University. USA
David Campbell, Durham University. UK
Email: dmonk@mail.colgate.edu;
Visit the website at http://www.colgate.edu 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Oct 22 16:25:45 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Oct 22 15:26:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: HYPER-TOURISM: RE-THINKING TRADITION IN TOURISM AND TRAVEL (Thailand)
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HYPER-TOURISM: RE-THINKING TRADITION IN TOURISM AND TRAVEL
Hyper-Traditions Conference

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

As part of this international conference, the Centre for Tourism and 
Cultural Change is, in association with IASTE, inviting papers which address 
the way that the concept of tradition is being transformed in and by tourism 
and tourists, around the three axes of the conference - From Simulated Space 
to "Real" Tradition, Hyper-Traditions and "Real" Places, and Identity, 
Heritage, and Migration.

The concept of tradition is embedded in the very nature of travel and 
tourism. Long standing customs and patterns of behaviour, together with 
tangible manifestations of continuity, consistency and inheritance, form an 
essential part of the tourist search for difference and distinction dressed, 
to varying extents, in romanticised narratives. In this vein, tradition has 
become strategically and tactically mobilised within the global political 
economy, circulating as images, imaginings and ideals that fuel tourism 
development and touristic practice. Furthermore, over the years tourism 
itself as a product and project of modernity has generated its own 
traditional practices which allows us to speak of 'tourist identity' and 
which feeds into conventional binaries of tourists and the 'other' and, 
'here' and 'there'. At the same time tourism constantly challenges and 
changes our received notions of the traditional through its constant 
abstractions, reductions and packaging of social realities, and through 
their consumption as experiences. What does the transformation of tradition 
mean for the tourist? Do we have to re-configure tourism as a way of 
experiencing hyper-traditions?

We welcome perspectives on such questions from a wide range of disciplines 
including those of: anthropology, sociology, history, folkloric studies, 
literature and critical theory, linguistics, human/cultural geography, 
psychology, and urban studies etc. Indicative themes of interest include:

? The real, unreal and surreal tourist destination;
? Touristic experiences of hyper-heritages;
? Dislocation of tourists from the travel process;
? Mindscapes and mediascapes - communicating hyper-traditions to tourists;
? Celebrating the changing of tradition - festivals, tourism and 
hyper-events;
? The new economies of hyper-tourism.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Interested colleagues are invited to submit a short, one-page abstract, not 
to exceed 500 words. Do not place your name on the abstract, but rather 
submit an attached one-page curriculum vitae with your address and name. All 
authors must submit an electronic copy of their abstract and short CV via 
e-mail. Abstracts and CVs must be placed within the body of the e-mail, and 
also as attachments.

E-mail this material to Professor Mike Robinson - mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk no 
later than February 17, 2006. All papers must be written and presented in 
English. Following a blind peer review, papers may be accepted for 
presentation in the conference and/or publication in the conference Working 
Paper Series.

Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must preregister for the 
conference, pay registration fees of $375 (which includes a special 
discounted $25 IASTE membership fee), and prepare a full-length paper of 
20-25 double-spaced pages. Registered students may qualify for a reduced 
registration fee of $175 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE 
membership fee). All participants must be IASTE members. Please note that 
expenses associated with hotel accommodations, travel, and additional 
excursions are not covered by the registration fees and have to be paid 
directly to the designated travel agent. Registration fees cover the 
conference program, conference abstracts, and access to all conference 
activities including receptions, keynote panels, and a short tour of nearby 
sites.

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

International IASTE Conference, participants are invited to investigate a 
new dimension of the transformation of tradition: hyper-traditions.

For further details please visit the Conference website:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste/2006%20conference.htm

Professor Mike Robinson
Chair of Tourism Studies
Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB
UK

Tel. +44 (0) 114 225 2928
Fax. +44 (0) 114 225 3343


Email: mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.tourism-culture.com or 
arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste/2006%20conference.htm 

From critplan at ucla.edu  Fri Oct 20 16:06:36 2006
From: critplan at ucla.edu (critplan)
Date: Sun Oct 22 17:56:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Spatial Justice, Critical Planning Journal
Message-ID: <001401c6f494$02d3a600$6c3243a4@sppsr1387>

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Volume 14, Summer 2007: Spatial Justice 

"Spatial justice" is an emergent concept, variously explored in fields
as diverse as urban planning, architecture, sociology, geography, and
others. Provisionally, we define spatial justice as the "fair and
democratic distribution of societal benefits and burdens across spaces
of various scales." Spatial justice strengthens concepts of social
justice by recognizing that space is socially produced, and that space,
in turn, shapes social relations. Volume 14 will bring together articles
from academics and practitioners to theorize and examine the application
of spatial justice as a framework for action. We welcome papers that
address a wide variety of topics -- regional democracy, transit and
environmental justice, anti-gentrification efforts, and resistance to
public housing redevelopment, among many others. We welcome manuscripts
from all disciplines and using various methodologies. We intend to
publish a combination of case studies, theoretical analyses, research
and policy briefs, design conceptualizations and personal accounts; feel
free to contact us by email to discuss your ideas.

Critical Planning, the Journal of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning,
aims to provide in-depth, innovative and critical analysis of topics
pertaining to the planning field. As a peer-reviewed publication,
Critical Planning welcomes original, high quality submissions.

Feature articles are generally between 5,000 to 7,000 words, while
shorter pieces are between 1,000 to 3,000 words. All submissions should
be written according to the standards of the Chicago Manual of Style,
15th Edition. Footnotes should be placed at the end of the document.
Please double-space all parts of the manuscript and leave one-inch
margins on all sides. Tables and images should be separated from the
text. Images should be provided in .TIF format, not exceeding a width of
5 inches and a resolution of 600 dpi (a width of 3000 pixels). Include a
cover sheet with the title of the article, the author's name, phone
number, email address and a two-sentence biographical statement.

Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to:

Critical Planning
C/O Gregory Morrow, Deirdre Pfeiffer 
and Ava Bromberg, Managing Editors
UCLA Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Policy Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Early submissions are
encouraged. The deadline for submission is December 15, 2006.

Email: critplan@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.sppsr.ucla.edu/critplan/ 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct 23 19:52:28 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct 23 18:53:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Spaces and Self in Early Modern Europe, 2007-08 Conference Series
Message-ID: <001801c6f6f5$edd02760$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: David Sabean <dsabean@history.ucla.edu>

Subject: CFP: Clark conferences on space and self in Early Modern 
Europe

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Seventeenth and 
Eighteenth-Century Studies Center and Clark Library

A Series of Clark Conferences on "Space and 'Self' in Early Modern Culture" 
2007-2008


Prof. David Warren Sabean (History) and Prof. Malina Stefanovska (French)

Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and 
represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and 
social places or between material and representational ones. In Europe in 
the early modern period, places as diverse as the court, the cabinet of 
curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing 
individual identities. A year-long series of conferences will be dedicated 
to five key places in Western Europe and the Mediterranean between the late 
sixteenth and the late eighteenth century. We invite scholars in 
literature, philosophy, history (including art, music and intellectual 
history) and other disciplines who will reflect on the cultural differences 
and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as 
representation of human exchanges, relationships, hierarchies, values, and 
subjectivities.

1. CIRCLES OF SOCIABILITY (October 26-27, 2007): study of the material 
place of sociability in court treatises, novels, theater, or salon 
discussions of appropriate behavior. Relationship between the practices 
that sociability fosters (reciprocity, exchange, hierarchy, circulation, 
r?partie, wit, flattery, or aggression) and individual identity. Symbolic 
underpinnings of the "circle" figure in ritualized societies such as the 
Freemasons, or in emerging notions of the "public sphere," or the "social 
contract" etc.

2. SITES OF EXTERIORITY (November 30 - December 1, 2007) : connection 
between the development of travel and maps, the birth of landscape in early 
modern art, and a new way of situating oneself in the world. Relations of 
baroque, classical, or English gardens to the spatial organization of the 
self or to notions such as the sublime or the infinite, personal 
perspective, point of view, etc. Gardens and landscape as remodeled 
imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations, or places of self 
exploration and self discipline, or, conversely, of an encounter with the 
Other.

3. THE "INNER SELF" (February 22-23, 2008) : interiority in representations 
of the self and its relationship to otherness. Spatial metaphors for 
discussing the mind, the soul, or rhetorical memory, images of interiority 
or, conversely, of physical nature contrasted to an inner abode, in 
fiction, medical or religious writings, and philosophy. Connections between 
space and meditation, or between concealment, truth or lying, crucial for 
conceptualizing subjectivity.

4. SPACES OF SACRALITY (March 14-15, 2008): interrelatedness between the 
spatial configurations of religious sites and conceptions of authority, 
sacrality and the individual. Places of cult, religious retreats, convents, 
pilgrimage routes and sites, sacralization of Absolutist or Republican 
political space, battles over the private confessional, combining 
sociability and religious retreat, reconfigurations of church interiors. 
Mystical experience and withdrawal to spaces for meditation, practices of 
self construction in which older ways of marking the sacred are adapted to 
mark off the emerging "secular" cultural forms.

5. FAMILY AND WORK SPACE: (April 25-25, 2008) influence of new gender 
relations, or family and kinship structures, on the configuration the 
house. Spatial configurations of places for meditation or reading, or of a 
laboratory, a cabinet of curiosities, a university hall. Drawing or 
blurring of boundaries between masters and servants, men and women, adults 
and children, neighbors and family, nature and culture. Understanding the 
self in relation to material objects of culture, the temporal ordering of 
the day, the shared or gendered use of spaces in the workshop, the 
hayfield, the counting house, or the parlor. Role of space in enabling or 
inhibiting interaction among family members, friends, or professional 
associates.

Scholars interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract to David 
Sabean: dsabean@history.Ucla.Edu.


David Warren Sabean
University of California, Los Angeles
From colin.mcfarlane at durham.ac.uk  Mon Oct 23 10:24:14 2006
From: colin.mcfarlane at durham.ac.uk (Colin McFarlane)
Date: Mon Oct 23 18:55:23 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Spaces of Enclosure, AAG 2007
Message-ID: <031173627889364697C50B3B266CBB8A01A8786E@GEOGMAIL.geog.ad.dur.ac.uk>

Apologies for cross-posting...

With the deadline fast approaching, we have space for one or two
contributors in a sessions entitled 'Spaces of Enclosure' at the annual
Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in San Francisco.
The session seeks to encourage dialogue between Geographers and
Anthropologists, and is linked to an 'author meet critics' panel session
on James Ferguson's 'Global Shadows'...

 

Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, April 17-21, 2007

'Spaces of Enclosure: Neoliberalism-Modernity-Violence'

Organisers: Dr. Alex Jeffrey, Newcastle University; Dr. Colin McFarlane,
Durham University; Dr. Alex Vasudevan, University of Nottingham.

Building on recent critical scholarship by authors such as Retort
(2005), James Ferguson (2006) and Brennan and Ganguly (2006), this
session will explore the inter-articulation of neo-liberal norms and a
resurgent and violent form of geo-politics through the rubric of
'enclosure'.  'Enclosure' serves as an appropriately labile
historico-geographical formation that
speaks not only to the vagaries of primitive accumulation but also to
the recent recrudescence of an aggrandized mode of statist violence.
This echoes Retort's (2005) conception of 'enclosure' as the
'disembedding of basic elements of the species life-world from the
extraordinary matrix of social relations -- constraints, understandings,
checks and balances, rules of
succession [and] kinds of communal sanction against the exploiter'.
Consequently, we believe that this is a crucial moment to identify,
critique and resist acts of enclosure, and the violent modernity through
which such practices are formulated, rationalised and reproduced.

In order to explore this relationship between neoliberalism, modernity
and violence, we are looking to assemble a range of theoretically and/or
empirically sophisticated papers that engage with the notion of
'enclosure'.  As an indication of the potential themes of the session,
papers could:

- Explore the relationship between contemporary geo-political discourse
and primitive accumulation;
- Empirically illustrate the multiple sites and scales of 'enclosure'
including, for example, the role of bio-politics as a technology of
'enclosure';
- Engage historically and/or geographically with 'enclosure' as so many
habitations of the predicament of modernity;
- Re-examine 'enclosure' as a contingent and unstable set of practices
whose efficacy is subject to various forms of resistance. In so doing,
encouraging feminist, post-structural or antiracist critiques of
enclosure;
-  Explore the micropractices through which 'enclosure' comes to be
expressed, consolidated, and contested.

Please direct any enquiries to Alex (alex.jeffrey@ncl.ac.uk), Alex
(Alexander.Vasudevan@nottingham.ac.uk) and Colin
(colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk).  Please send abstracts by November 8th.

Dr. Colin McFarlane

Lecturer in Human Geography

Department of Geography

Durham University

Science Laboratories

South Road

Durham

DH1 3LE

 

Tel: +44 (0)191 334 1959

Fax: +44 (0)191 334 1801

Email: colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk

 

Dr. Alex Jeffrey
Lecturer in Human Geography
The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
The Daysh Building
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU

Dr. Alex Vasudevan
School of Geography
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

 

 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct 23 21:19:45 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct 23 20:20:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: International Fellows in Urban Studies
Message-ID: <001501c6f702$1e81dbe0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS IN URBAN STUDIES
Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is the primary social 
science policy research and teaching arm of the Johns Hopkins University. 
Located on the Homewood campus of the University, IPS straddles the two 
worlds of thought and action.

Junior Fellows

Positions as Junior Fellows are available to graduate students and young 
professionals below the age of 35 who are involved in urban studies 
research. Junior Fellows usually spend eight months (two academic semesters) 
at IPS, beginning in September of each year. Junior Fellows conduct a 
research project with cross-cultural implications related to their specific 
interests in urban studies and to the program's focus on cities' growth, 
decline, revitalization, and the welfare of urban residents. They also may 
audit one or more graduate courses each semester from the offerings of Johns 
Hopkins.

Senior Fellows

Positions as Senior Fellows are open to individuals 30 and over who are 
involved in urban studies research or are senior level practitioners. Senior 
Fellows usually spend a period of four months (one academic semester) at 
Hopkins commencing in either September or late January. Alternative 
schedules can be accomodated, including sabbatical years, summer 
fellowships, and other months. Senior Fellows conduct a specific research 
project with cross-cultural implications related to their specific interests 
in urban studies and to the program's focus on cities' growth, decline, 
revitalization, and the welfare of urban residents. Senior Fellow 
responsibilities may also involve presenting lectures and seminars to the 
University community.

General Eligibility

Candidates must have demonstrated a high degree of experience and 
professional competence in urban studies research or urban policy practice. 
Candidates are expected to have attained a university diploma equivalent to 
the American Bachelor of Arts or Science degree and to be capable of 
carrying out independent research and inquiry. A high degree of English 
fluency is required as demonstrated by a score of 600 or higher on the TOEFL 
exam.

There are no restrictions as to nationality (except that U.S. citizens are 
excluded from eligibility). Fellows are strongly encouraged to attend the 
annual International Fellows in Urban Studies Conference prior to their 
fellowship year and are warmly invited to participate in subsequent annual 
conferences.

Application and Selection

All applicants for the International Fellows in Urban Studies Program should 
complete the application form. Applicants must submit a proposal of no more 
than 2,000 words describing the research project they will undertake while 
at the Institute for Policy Studies. This research proposal is a key factor 
for award. The proposal must cover the following five topics:

the policy issue to be addressed;
the policy significance of the topic;
the relevance of the topic to the city of Baltimore as well as 
cross-nationally;
the methodology; and
the schedule for accomplishing the project within the time frame of the U.S. 
visit. The proposal should be typed, double-spaced, using 12-point typeface.

Applicants are required to submit the research proposal, two letters of 
recommendation from urban policy leaders and/or scholars, a resume or 
curriculum vitae, and a brief statement of career or educational plans. 
Applicants should indicate their intention to compete for either a Senior or 
Junior level position and should also indicate other sources of funding for 
the fellowship. All of these materials should be submitted to the 
International Fellows in Urban Studies Program, Institute for Policy 
Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Wyman Park Building, 3400 N. Charles 
Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. Attention: Marsha R. B. Schachtel.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To be eligible for September 
acceptance, applications should be submitted by April 30. To be eligible for 
January acceptance, applications should be submitted by August 31. 
Applications may also be completed online. Hard copies of recommendation 
letters are required. Applications are available at the IPS website: 
http://ips.jhu.edu/fellows/urban/eligibility.html

This is a competitive award program. Selection criteria include the policy 
relevance and significance of the proposed research, the feasibility of 
completing it within the time frame, and its relationship to the interests 
and expertise of Institute faculty. A committee of urban studies scholars 
will make the selection of fellowship recipients. Applicants will be 
notified within 30 days of submission of all required application materials.

For additional information, please contact:

Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Wyman Building
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218-2696
Telephone: (410) 516-7174
Fax: (410) 516-8233 

From vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz  Wed Oct 25 11:41:19 2006
From: vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Vijay Devadas)
Date: Tue Oct 24 21:29:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP - South Asian Diaspora in Singapore
Message-ID: <4E00EB90-D979-421D-A7C3-E8304BF1FF68@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>

*********CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS******

South Asian Diaspora in Singapore

Vijay Devadas & Selvaraj Velayutham (eds.)

The South Asian diaspora is arguably the fastest-growing diasporic  
community in the world, conservatively estimated at 20 million with  
the largest concentrations in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, North  
America, Southeast Asia, and South Africa. They constitutively make  
up over 50% of the diasporic fraternity with the rest largely  
distributed in Europe (primarily United Kingdom), East Africa, the  
Caribbean, Mauritius (and the Southwest Indian Ocean islands), and  
Australasia. The subject of the South Asian diaspora has been widely  
discussed in academic writings, government circles, economic forums,  
literary writings, film and media productions, and so on and so  
forth. Underwriting these heterogeneous discussions is the general  
trope of a relationship between home and abroad: the foundational  
trope of diaspora studies.

In Singapore, the South Asian Diaspora is currently estimated at 8.4  
% (approximately 300 000) of the total population (3.5 million). In  
terms of historical trajectories of migration, the South Asian  
diaspora in Singapore provides a distinctive case study when compared  
to the more recent diasporic communities in the United States and  
Europe, or those communities linked to indenture as in the case of  
the Caribbean, Fiji or Mauritius. What distinguishes the South Asian  
diaspora in Singapore when compared to the rest is that it is the  
outcome of migration streams that have encompassed both the colonial  
and postcolonial period(s). Studies of the South Asian diaspora in  
Singapore, however, have largely been confined to historically driven  
works that are focused on the colonial period (Sandhu, Arasaratnam).   
These works, alongside others, inform of developments in the  
immediate post-independence period (Sandhu, Mani, Siddique & Pura  
Shotam, etc.), provide the mainstay of the literature on the South  
Asian diaspora in Singapore. However, to date, there are no works  
that focus on the South Asian diasporic communities of Singapore.

This volume seeks to offer an in depth study and analysis of the  
diasporic practices of the Singaporean South Asian communities. We  
invite contributions that focus on specific Singapore South Asian  
community and address the group's diasporic connections, networks,  
relationships, cultural productions & consumption practices. The  
following themes are of interest to us:

- 'Old' diaspora, 'New' diaspora, Skilled Migration, Temporary Migrants

- Gender/Sexuality/Nation/Ethnic/Linguistic/Religious identities

- Economic partnerships

- Food/Rituals/Customs

- Affect/Embodiment/Senses

- Literature/ Language/Media/Cinema

- Youth culture/Popular Culture

- Theatre/Performance/Visual Arts/Sports

- Diasporic spaces/places

- Land, Home and Belonging

- Diasporic Memory

- Nation, nationalism, cultural policies

- Virtual Communities, New Media

Other themes are also welcomed.

Please send a proposed title, a 500-word abstract  and a short bio by  
1 December 2006 to vijay.devadas@stonebow.otago.ac.nz.

  Accepted contributions (7,000 words) will have to be completed by 1  
July 2007 with a view to publication in late 2008/early 2009. We have  
received expression of interest from a couple of publishers.

  For all enquiries, please contact selvaraj.velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au





  
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Oct 26 01:13:59 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct 26 04:27:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Reader on the Racial Implications of Hurricane
	Katrina
Message-ID: <007c01c6f8b5$30791b10$3501a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Trevor Griffey <trevorg@u.washington.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

READER ON THE RACIAL IMPLICATIONS OF HURRICANE KATRINA

Submission Deadline: November 7, 2006

Dr. Manning Marable, Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History and Editor of Souls, invites scholars, students, faculty and researchers to submit an article or essay for a Reader that will provide a critical examination of the racial impact of Hurricane Katrina on African American life, culture and political standing.  This Reader will be published by Palgrave Macmillan and is scheduled for release in 2007.

This unprecedented natural disaster has had, and will continue to have, a deep and profound impact on African American life and culture in the Deep South and beyond.  The forced evacuation and dispersal of hundreds of thousands of Blacks from their homes to other parts of the country has spawned movement patterns that some have come to label the Second Great Black Migration.  Although the immediate impact of Katrina is readily identifiable, the deeper consequences of the forced evacuation and relocation of large numbers of African Americans may not be fully realized for some time.  As a result, Hurricane Katrina will likely produce significant and evolving scholarship in years to come.  Thus, this Reader seeks to document and memorialize the earliest impressions and understandings of Katrina's racial impact.  Indeed, it is critical that the racial implications of Katrina be thoughtfully examined to help set the stage for future public debates and discussions around these iss
ues.

This Reader will provide a rich and comprehensive analysis of the racial impact of Hurricane Katrina by pulling together political scientists who will gauge the impact that the mass evacuation has had on Black political strength in the Gulf region; social scientists who will analyze the impact of mass evacuations on the Black family unit; anthropologists who will discuss the significance of the loss of Black cultural institutions and neighborhoods; ethnomusicologists who will weight the impact of the storm on Black artists and jazz musicians; historians who will offer comparisons between Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of 1927 that spawned the mass migration of Blacks from the Deep South to metropolitan centers around the country and lawyers who will offer their perspective regarding the key issues surrounding the rebuilding process, among others.

Send final articles to Kristen Clarke-Avery at kclarke@post.harvard.edu.  Each article should be accompanied with a cover letter that should include: title, author's name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address.  Proposals with multiple authorships should indicate the person to be contacted.  Final articles must be submitted no later than November 7, 2006.

Trevor Griffey
History Department
University of Washington
From rrotenbe at depaul.edu  Thu Oct 26 20:19:27 2006
From: rrotenbe at depaul.edu (Robert Rotenberg)
Date: Thu Oct 26 20:41:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA Teaching Workshop at AAA
Message-ID: <C166BABF.5EDE%rrotenbe@depaul.edu>

Colleagues, 
With the support of the SUNTA board, I have organized a workshop on teaching
introductory courses using SUNTA-oriented perspectives and materials. The
idea is to offer our students a disciplinarily-engaged introduction that
does not reproduce the "savage-slot." We want our students to understand
anthropology as a social science that helps us make sense of where we are
locally and who our neighbors are, as well as, but neither in the first nor
the last instance, marginalized people around the globe.

I wanted to bring this to the attention of our members because some of us
tend to skip the workshop page of the preliminary program and also to offer
some assurances. I also wanted to offer a bit more detail than AAA allowed
me in my official description. This workshop fee is the cost of the
photocopied materials. I have declined a fee. In the spirit of full
disclosure, I should also say that I have a book of teaching in the
marketplace and that information about that will be available passively in
the room. However, there will be no commercials.

What I really want is a free and frank discussion about our collective
experiences with implementing our interests in introductory courses and
confronting the expectations (resistance?) of departments and curricula to
the challenge posed by a SUNTA-based introductory course. I had a successful
presentation on these issues at a conference on teaching run by graduate
students at the University of Chicago last April and. They told me they got
a lot out of it. I am excited about bringing these ideas to a wider audience
at AAA. 

I also cherish the opportunity to discuss innovative approaches to teaching
introductory courses with colleagues who are just start out and my fellow
greybeards alike. 

I hope you will consider adding attendance at this workshop to your plans
for San Jose. If the interest is strong enough, I will offer it every year
and we will have another recurring SUNTA event to look forward to.

Bob Rotenberg 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Oct 28 13:10:20 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Oct 28 12:11:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Workshop on Surveillance and Inequality (Tempe,
	Arizona)
Message-ID: <005001c6faab$98987e00$0901000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Torin Monahan <torin.monahan@asu.edu>

OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Surveillance & Inequality
March 16-18, 2007; Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona, USA


This workshop will bring together a multi-disciplinary and international 
array of scholars studying the social implications of contemporary 
surveillance with a particular interest in questions of the public sphere, 
equality, civil liberties, privacy, and fairness.  Currently,  questions 
involving the collection of personal data command the attention of 
policymakers and the general public, both within the U.S. and beyond. 
Surveillance has become a key mechanism employed in both public and private 
sectors to contend with the uncertainty raised by threats of terrorism and 
other criminal activities.  Surveillance is also increasingly important with 
respect to issues of commerce, work, and interpersonal relations.  With 
changes in surveillance technologies and practices, public concerns have 
multiplied about potential encroachments upon privacy, civil liberties, and 
public spaces.  These tensions have not gone unnoticed by social scientists 
and humanities scholars studying surveillance, but thus far - especially in 
the U.S. - there have been few opportunities to bring researchers together 
to discuss the many social issues and inequalities surrounding new 
surveillance systems.

We will hold a three-day workshop in March 2007, centered around issues of 
social justice with regard to surveillance.  The objectives are
to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary surveillance issues,
to map core areas of surveillance research to locate collaborative 
opportunities and existing research gaps, and
to facilitate graduate student training.

Given the diversity of scholarly interest in and approaches to surveillance, 
the workshop will be structured around discussion themes that individuals 
from any disciplinary background can participate in.  The central organizing 
question will be "What research projects are needed to better understand and 
mitigate inequalities within a surveillance society?"

In order to examine differential experiences of surveillance, the workshop 
will be organized around several thematic areas, including
privacy/trust
citizenship/governance
mobility/identity
power/control
fear/danger
equality/fairness
The findings of the workshops will be disseminated by means of a special 
issue of the journal Surveillance & Society and possibly as an edited book.

Travel stipends, food, and lodging will be provided for all participants. 
Participants will be chosen to provide a balanced representation of both 
junior and senior scholars, disciplinary training, and international 
perspectives.  Graduate students and participants from outside the U.S. are 
especially encouraged to apply.

Potential participants should submit:


A 500-750 word abstract that discusses how your current and/or future 
research fits with the proposed workshop theme of surveillance and 
inequality, and
A two-page curriculum vitae or resume, listing your relevant publications 
and experience.

Deadline: December 15, 2006
Submit materials to: workshop@publicsurveillance.com

We will select and notify participants by January 15, 2007.  For more 
information, please contact Torin Monahan (torin.monahan@asu.edu) or visit 
http://www.publicsurveillance.com/workshop.html. This project is supported 
by the National Science Foundation under grant #0623122 and by the School of 
Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.

The Workshop Committee
(Torin Monahan, Gary T. Marx, Simon A. Cole, Jill A. Fisher)

Torin Monahan
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
School of Justice & Social Inquiry
torin.monahan@asu.edu | www.torinmonahan.com 

From heffera2 at msu.edu  Sun Oct 29 11:54:58 2006
From: heffera2 at msu.edu (Tara Hefferan)
Date: Mon Oct 30 00:41:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 COSWA Workshop:  Pathways to Becoming a Practicing Anthropologist
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Colleagues,

Please distribute the following Workshop announcement.  Note that this
"special event" is NOT included on the AAA preliminary program's workshop
page.

Apologies for cross-postings.

Thanks!
Tara L. Hefferan, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Alma College
614 W. Superior St.
Alma, MI  48801
Ph:  989-463-7186
Email:  hefferan at alma.edu

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COSWA Workshop
Pathways To Becoming A Practicing Anthropologist
Sponsored by AAA Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology

DATE: 11/17/2006 (Friday)
TIME: 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
ROOM: Meeting Room B4-Concourse-San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COST:  Free

Do you have an interest in working outside the academy?  Have you had
trouble finding practical resources within your department?  Would you like
the opportunity to connect with like-minded students and professionals?  The
Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA) is sponsoring a
special Workshop, where practicing anthropologists will discuss, and address
questions from participants, regarding training, opportunities, and
experiences of women in numerous realms of practitioner anthropology,
including human rights work, forensic anthropology, archaeology and the
corporate world.  Discussion among participants is encouraged.  Both
students and professionals with interests in practitioner anthropology are
invited to attend.  No pre-registration is necessary.

Workshop Leaders

Rita Denny (Practica Group, LLC) specializes in American consumer culture,
focusing on culturally based meanings of products and services in everyday
life, applying these findings to advertising positioning, new product and
brand development, and corporate communication strategies. Her projects have
included a focus on dogs and their owners, book and music lovers, the
integration of hi-tech into home life, the metaphors of computing, the
culture of drugs, meanings of health and the culture of corporate giving.
She, often with Patricia Sunderland, has written about ethnographic methods
and the challenges of doing anthropology in consumer research for audiences
as diverse as commercial practice, academic marketing and anthropology.
(www.practicagroup.com).


Teresita Majewski, Ph.D., RPA is chief operating officer of Statistical
Research, Inc., a cultural resources consulting firm with offices throughout
the western United States and Canada. She is also an associate research
professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona,
where she teaches classes in historical archaeology. For many years, she has
been active in working with graduate students and young professionals to
help them learn the skills necessary to bridge the gap between academic
training in anthropology and careers as practicing anthropologists.


Victoria Sanford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College,
City University of New York.  She is the author of Buried Secrets:  Truth
and Human Rights in Guatemala (2003), Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala
(2003), and La Masacre de Panz?s (2006) as well as co-editor (with Asale
Angel-Ajani) of Engaged Observer:  Anthropology, Advocacy and Activism
(2006).  She has conducted field research on human rights, displacement,
women's human rights, and child soldiers in Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador,
Nicaragua, El Salvador and South Africa.

In this workshop, Dr. Sanford will draw on her experience as an engaged
observer conducting human  rights research with national and international
NGOs to discuss career pathways available to anthropologists outside of
academia.


Heather Walsh-Haney is a forensic anthropologist and visiting instructor at
Florida Gulf Coast University, in the College of Professional Studies,
Department of Justice Studies and full member of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences.  As a DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team)
member, she participated in the recovery of victims from the World Trade
Center attacks and Hurricane Katrina.  Additionally, she is the consulting
anthropologist for the Bermuda Special Crimes Task Force and Florida Medical
Examiner Districts 3, 4, 5, 20 and 21, as well as a Mummy Investigator with
Discovery Channel?s show Mummy Autopsy.  As a mummy investigator, she has
examined ancient remains from Egypt, Scotland and the Wild West. Lastly, she
helped to create and has taught short courses entitle Bugs, Bones, and
Botany? for forensic practitioners, students, and teachers for nearly 10
years.  She has co-authored the edited volume, The Forensic Anthropology
Laboratory with Michael W. Warren for CRC Press.


For additional information please contact co-organizers Patricia Wattenmaker
(paw3u@virginia.edu) or Tara Hefferan (heffera2@msu.edu).



From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Oct 30 21:19:06 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct 30 21:20:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fellowship: The Question of the West (Rutgers)
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Fellowship: The Question of the West

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invites applications for senior and 
post-doctoral resident fellowships, to be held during the academic year 
2007-2008, from individuals engaged in research on topics related to: The 
Question of the West The idea of "the West" animates contemporary public 
discourse. Politicians and journalists deploy it for polemical purposes, 
conjuring up a "clash of civilizations" occurring along an East-West divide. 
This seminar aims to restore critical consciousness to current debates by 
exploring the epistemological status of "the West" from a variety of 
perspectives. We recognize that from many historical, geographical, and 
cultural vantages, "the West" may not exist at all as a meaningful referent, 
or it may exist as a popular fantasy or ideological construction. Yet 
however evanescent "the West" may be as a geographical location, however 
spurious its claims to constitute "civilization" or to be the source of 
"universal" values, the consequences of the idea of the West have been 
profound and lasting. Imperial fictions demand sustained critical attention, 
especially when their impact is more than merely fictional. In 2007-2008, 
the second and final year of this project, the seminar will continue to 
address both historical issues and contemporary debates, exploring the 
significance of an East-West divide in modern thought, ideological uses of 
universalist claims, relationships between narratives of civilization and 
imperial policies, non-Western alternatives to Western metaphorical mapping, 
and related topics. We invite scholars from various disciplines, both within 
and outside the Western academy, to join a wide-ranging discussion of 
history, economic, politics, geography, cartography, literature, and the 
arts. Applicants need not be U.S. citizens. AA/EOE.

Contact Information:
Professors Ann Fabian and Jackson Lears
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers--The State University of NJ
88 College Avenue
New Brunswick NJ 08901 U.S.A.
Email: rcha@rci.rutgers.edu
URL http://rcha.rutgers.edu 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Oct 31 17:22:45 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 31 17:23:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Unnatural Disasters, SANA Spring 2007 Conference (New Orleans)
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From: David I Beriss <DBeriss@uno.edu>

Society for the Anthropology of North America Spring 2007 Conference

Unnatural Disasters

April 19-21, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana

University of New Orleans Downtown Conference Center
Conference Chair: David Beriss, Chair, Department of Anthropology, 
University of New Orleans
Email: SANA2007NOLA@gmail.com

Deadline for paper and session submission: January 15, 2007.

The Society for the Anthropology of North America invites participants to 
join a discussion about the unnatural disasters unfolding around us, in 
North America and beyond.  This conference, located in a city and region 
that has recently experienced one of the most dramatic unnatural disasters 
to occur in North America in decades, will provide an unusual blend of 
scholarly discussion and opportunities to directly observe the impact of 
that ongoing disaster.

We at SANA feel it particularly important to host our annual conference in 
New Orleans this year.  The floods that followed hurricane Katrina in New 
Orleans killed over 1500 people, destroyed thousands of homes, and shattered 
the city's social fabric.  It made explicit many of the contradictions and 
conflicts that simmer beneath the surface much of the time.  Katrina makes 
visible what is often taken-for-granted or overlooked in everyday life. 
Recognizing widespread interest in what is happening in post-Katrina New 
Orleans, this conference will go beyond those typical academic conferences 
that are housed in conference centers and hotels in stark isolation from the 
locales where they take place.  In addition to research presentations, we 
will organize a series of events and activities where conference 
participants will be able to visit different neighborhoods, learn about 
grassroots efforts to rebuild the city, and engage in dialogue with 
activists and others who are fighting against the displacement, poverty, and 
racism that have sadly become the hallmarks of New Orleans's post-Katrina 
economic recovery.

For this conference, we seek papers that analyze the genesis, meaning and 
consequences of unnatural disasters.  We juxtapose these terms precisely to 
encourage participants to raise questions about the processes of 
naturalization-and normalization-through which human agency is rendered 
visible and invisible first in naming some events as disasters, in deeming 
disasters as worthy of both prevention and remediation, and in defining 
other events as not disastrous or even viewing them as serendipitous.  From 
this stance disasters can include large scale environmental events, such as 
floods, hurricanes, oil spills and earthquakes; the everyday struggles of 
ordinary people in marginalized communities; ongoing disasters such as AIDS 
and illiteracy.  What, exactly, constitutes a disaster has become one of the 
central questions raised by recent events in the Gulf South, the Middle 
East, and elsewhere. Indeed, Katrina, like many other 'natural' 
catastrophes, put poverty, racism, and the lengths many women must go to 
care for their families into the public eye.  It highlighted the terrible 
consequences of inadequate investments in public infrastructure and services 
in one US city.  And it is already clear that the response to Katrina-a 
mixture of failed efforts to help evacuees and successful creation of crony 
capitalist opportunities for business-has remade the political, social, 
economic and cultural landscape of an iconic city.

Large scale disasters often lead to calls for fundamental social and 
cultural change, but even more often they seem to result in the 
reaffirmation of the previous social order.  This conference will occur at a 
moment when the calls for change at the site of recent disasters have not 
(yet) ceded to the return of "order" and thus provides a useful context to 
examine what disasters reveal about our understandings of the personal and 
the political, the public and the private, the distant or remote and the 
intimate, the natural and the cultural, the innocent and the guilty, the 
inevitable and the avoidable.  In the wake of recent disasters, it seems 
that a great deal more than simply rebuilding homes and businesses is at 
stake.  Papers at this conference might raise questions about the 
relationship between disasters of all sorts and the privatization of 
government services, disinvestment in infrastructure, increasing inequality, 
environmental degradation, the undermining of democratic institutions, 
racism and heightened ethnic tensions.  Research that focuses on the role of 
academe, the social sciences and anthropology in the context of disasters 
will also be welcome.  By confronting our own research with the reality of a 
city in the midst of recovery, we will be able to consider whether or not 
the unnatural disaster in New Orleans represents the future of North 
America.

Topics and geographic areas for panels are open, however, here are some 
possible themes for panels and papers:

Disaster cultures:  How do communities and governments define, prepare 
for.or ignore disasters?  What kinds of conflicts are there over who and 
what should be protected?

Natural/Unnatural Disasters:  How do disasters force people to reconsider 
divisions between nature and culture?  Who or what is held responsible for 
disaster?

Disaster and human rights:  What happens to the rule of law in emergency 
situations?  What do violations human rights-often by the people charged 
with enforcing the law-indicate about deeper conflicts in society?

Race/Class/Gender disasters:  What do disasters reveal about ongoing 
inequalities and conflicts rooted in race, class and gender?

Imprisoning disaster:  What is the relationship between the policing of 
society, justice and the prison-industrial complex?  How has the 
privatization of security services in American cities challenged fundamental 
ideas of justice?  What are the consequences of the militarization of 
justice in the context of disaster?

Disaster Education:  What constitutes a disaster in education? 
Privatization?  Neglect of children and public services?  Floods and 
earthquakes?

Producing/Mediating Disaster:  What role does the media play in making a 
disaster?  How have local groups and activists used new media to challenge 
dominant views of disaster?

Disaster and migration:  How does the arrival of new immigrants-rescue and 
relief workers, construction workers, new residents-transform a community?

Disaster diaspora:  Do exiled residents become a diaspora after a diaspora? 
What do terms like "refugee," "exile," "displaced person," etc. mean in the 
context of diaspora?  What becomes of culture in exile?

Economies of Disaster:  How does disaster allow business and government to 
reconfigure the economy of a region?  What are the consequences of disaster 
for affordable housing, jobs, wages, worker safety, etc.?  What gets rebuilt 
and what gets redeveloped in the wake of disaster?

Governmentality and disaster:  How do governments and leaders understand all 
kinds of disasters?  Who do they see and who is invisible?  How does 
government reconstruct population in the wake of disaster?  How can 
activists and residents remake government?

Please visit the SANA web site, www.sananet.org, for further information 
about the conference, instructions for submitting paper and panel proposals, 
registration and travel information. Or send an email to: 
SANA2007NOLA@gmail.com 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Oct 31 17:24:50 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 31 17:26:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Spatializing the Missionary Encounter (Belgium)
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From: Bram Cleys <Bram.Cleys@asro.kuleuven.ac.be>

Call for papers: Spatializing the Missionary Encounter.  The Interaction between Missionary Work and Space in Colonial Settings.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 22-24 November 2007

While research on colonial architecture and space has found a broad academic interest during the past several decades, research on the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of religion has found much less concern. Nonetheless, the development of colonial empires in the nineteenth and twentieth century went hand in hand with a missionary revival sending Christian missionaries to every corner of the world. As those missionaries generally were in closer contact with the local population than colonial officials, studying their spatial practices and strategies offers high potential for analysing the dynamics of intercultural interaction in the imperial encounter.

However, up until today only a small number of the studies attempting to interpret these missionary spaces have fully realised this potential. First of all, missionary architecture is in general studied as an isolated phenomenon, ignoring the manifold ties it had in the nineteenth and twentieth century with colonial, and later national, regimes. Secondly, the analyses of this architecture often are based on rather obvious or one-sided interpretational schemes. Sometimes for example missionary spaces are merely read as products of the thoughtless export of Western models (neo-gothic, modern, etc.) Other researchers then have investigated how missionaries have formally adapted Christian art in an effort to open up a dialogue with the groups they tried to convert.

Yet, in both approaches, with their focus on the formal language and decoration of architecture, missionary space is only analysed as a d?cor for human action. With this workshop we want to explore the possible lines of a more nuanced analytical scheme to study this interaction between missionary work and space. Critical in this scheme is an approach to missionary architecture and space not so much as a backdrop for the missionary encounter, but as an essential part of this encounter in itself. Moreover, we explicitly call for papers that explore the roles of the different actors involved in creating meaning and performing practices in these spaces.  Instead, most studies up until today have almost exclusively attributed agency in these spaces to the missionaries. Only seldomly are converts, converts-to-be or other 'non-missionaries' discussed as co-producers of this architecture.

More specifically, we see three main fields of enquiry. The first questions how and with what intent missionary work brought about spatial and architectural structures. The second research question around which we want to bring together papers, focuses on the both everyday and extraordinary practices that missionary spaces dictated or made possible. A third line of analysis will be concerned with the both received and contested meaning(s) revealed and created by missionary spaces. 

In general, the scientific committee welcomes all papers that shed light on the complex and plural realities surrounding the interaction between missionary work and space in colonial settings. The workshop focuses on missionary work of all denominations in colonial settings between roughly 1800 and 1960. We aim at bringing both an overview of existing research and exploring new ways of studying this interaction. Papers exploring new methodologies are particularly encouraged. We explicitly strive to include research coming from a multitude of disciplines (architectural history, history, mission history, anthropology, geography, cultural studies). Based on the proceedings of this workshop a publication will be prepared.
 

Please submit a 250 words abstract along with a c.v. by 31 December 2006 to Bram.Cleys@asro.kuleuven.be. If your proposal is accepted, final papers are due for pre-circulation on 31 October 2007.

Scientific Committee:

Prof. dr. Bruno De Meulder (Dept. of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Prof. dr. Jan De Maeyer (KADOC - Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Prof. dr. Nicholas Bullock (Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

Dr. Sabine Cornelis (Department of History, Royal Museum of Central Africa)

Prof. dr. Johan Lagae (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University)
 
Bram Cleys
Dept. Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
From FDEMISSI at depaul.edu  Tue Oct 31 13:16:35 2006
From: FDEMISSI at depaul.edu (Demissie, Fassil)
Date: Tue Oct 31 17:29:52 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Journal 
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The Founders and Editors, Fassil  Demissie (DePaul University), Sandra Jackson (DePaul University) and Abebe Zegeye (University of South Africa) and Routledge - an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group -  will be launching a new international peer reviewed journal, African and Black Diaspora Studies scheduled for publication in 2008.  The Editors will be supported by a distinguished panel of international Editorial Board. 

The African and Black Diaspora Studies is devoted to a critical interrogation of the trans/national movements, locations and intersections of subjectivity within the African and Black Diaspora in the context of globalization as well as in different discourses, practices and political contexts. The journal maps and navigates the theoretical and political shifts imposed by the nation state to provide a counter-narrative of subject positions of people of the African descended populations grounded in cultural and political responses. 

The aim of the journal is to advance the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute the distinctive and interdisciplinary field of African and Black Diaspora Studies in the production of knowledge of the deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African diaspora. Moving beyond essentialist modes of theorizing, the journal locates the movement of African and Black Diaspora (geographic, cultural, political and psychological) in the context of globalized and transnational spaces. 

The journal seeks to broaden and deepen African and Black Diaspora Studies by providing a forum for new historical and theoretical interventions to map out the intersections and multiple narratives with other diasporas in all part of the globe.  The journal seeks to historicize these diasporic dis/locations, movements and intersections, analyze their relationality across fields of social relations, subjectivities and identities across time and space.

The African and Black Diaspora Studies will expand its engagement with the rapidly widening circle of African and Black Diaspora scholars and other researchers throughout the world in the production and dissemination of cutting edge scholarship that situates Africa and its diaspora actively within the discourse of knowledge production.

The Editors are pleased with our continued association with Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group which is a leading international academic publisher with offices in London, Brighton, Basingstoke and Abingdon in the UK, New York and Philadelphia in the USA and Singapore and Melbourne in the Pacific Rim.  Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.  

For more information about the new journal contact one of the Editors: Fassil Demissie 
(fdemissi@depaul.edu), Sandra Jackson (sjackson@depaul.edu, Abebe Zegeye, (Zegeya@unisa.ac.za
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Oct 31 22:25:52 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 31 22:29:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Obituary of Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
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http://www.ias.edu/Newsroom/announcements/Uploads/view.php?cmd=view&id=354

CLIFFORD GEERTZ 1926-2006

PRINCETON, N.J., October 31, 2006 -- Clifford Geertz, an eminent scholar in 
the field of cultural anthropology known for his extensive research in 
Indonesia and Morocco, died at the age of 80 early yesterday morning of 
complications following heart surgery at the Hospital of the University of 
Pennsylvania. Dr. Geertz was Professor Emeritus in the School of Social 
Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he has served on the 
Faculty since 1970. Dr. Geertz's appointment thirty-six years ago was 
significant not only for the distinguished leadership it would bring to the 
Institute, but also because it marked the initiation of the School of Social 
Science, which in 1973 formally became the fourth School at the Institute.

Dr. Geertz's landmark contributions to social and cultural theory have been 
influential not only among anthropologists, but also among geographers, 
ecologists, political scientists, humanists, and historians. He worked on 
religion, especially Islam; on bazaar trade; on economic development; on 
traditional political structures; and on village and family life. A prolific 
author since the 1950s, Dr. Geertz's many books include The Religion of Java 
(1960); Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia 
(1968); The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (1973, 2000); 
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth Century Bali (1980); and The 
Politics of Culture, Asian Identities in a Splintered World (2002). At the 
time of his death, Dr. Geertz was working on the general question of ethnic 
diversity and its implications in the modern world.

Peter Goddard, Director of the Institute, said, "Clifford Geertz was one of 
the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century whose presence at 
the Institute played a crucial role in its development and in determining 
its present shape. He remained a vital force, contributing to the life of 
the Institute right up to his death. We have all lost a much loved friend."

"Cliff was the founder of the School of Social Science and its continuing 
inspiration," stated Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor in the 
School of Social Science at the Institute. "His influence on generations of 
scholars was powerful and lasting. He changed the direction of thinking in 
many fields by pointing to the importance and complexity of culture and the 
need for its interpretation. We will miss his critical intelligence, his 
great sense of irony, and his friendship."

Dr. Geertz's deeply reflective and eloquent writings often provided profound 
and cogent insights on the scope of culture, the nature of anthropology and 
on the understanding of the social sciences in general. Noting that human 
beings are "symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animals," Geertz 
acknowledged and explored the innate desire of humanity to "make sense out 
of experience, to give it form and order." In Works and Lives: The 
Anthropologist as Author (1988), Geertz stated, "The next necessary 
thing...is neither the construction of a universal Esperanto-like 
culture...nor the invention of some vast technology of human management. It 
is to enlarge the possibility of intelligible discourse between people quite 
different from one another in interest, outlook, wealth, and power, and yet 
contained in a world where tumbled as they are into endless connection, it 
is increasingly difficult to get out of each other's way."

Dr. Geertz was born in San Francisco, California, on August 23, 1926. After 
serving in the Navy from 1943 through 1945, he studied under the G.I. Bill 
at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he majored in English. His 
internship as a copyboy for The New York Post dissuaded him from becoming a 
newspaper man. "It was fun but it wasn't practical," he said in an interview 
with Gary A. Olson ("Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social 
Construction," 1991), so he switched to philosophy, partly because of the 
influence of philosophy professor George Geiger, "the greatest teacher I 
have known."
"I never had any undergraduate training in anthropology [Antioch didn't 
offer it at the time] and, indeed, very little social science outside of 
economics," Geertz told Olson. "Finally, one of my professors said, 'Why 
don't you think about anthropology?'"

After receiving his A.B. in philosophy in 1950, Geertz went on to study 
anthropology at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from the Department 
of Social Relations in 1956. It was a heady time, according to Geertz. 
"Multi- (or 'inter-' or 'cross-') disciplinary work, team projects, and 
concern with the immediate problems of the contemporary world, were combined 
with boldness, inventiveness, and a sense that things were, finally and 
certainly, on the move."
Geertz recounted that he was exposed to a form of anthropology "then called, 
rather awkwardly, 'pattern theory' or configurationalism.' In this 
dispensation, stemming from work before and during the war by the 
comparative linguist Edward Sapir at Yale and the cultural holist Ruth 
Benedict at Columbia, it was the interrelation of elements, the gestalt they 
formed, not their particular atomistic character that was taken to be the 
heart of the matter."

At this point, Geertz became involved in a project spearheaded by cultural 
anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, who headed Harvard's Russian Research 
Center. Geertz was one of five anthropologists assigned to the Modjokuto 
Project in Indonesia, sponsored by the Center for International Studies at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and it was one of the earliest 
efforts to send a team of anthropologists to study large-scale societies 
with written histories, established governments, and composite cultures.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, anthropology was torn apart by questions 
about its colonial past and the possibility of objective knowledge in the 
human sciences. "For the next fifteen years or so," Geertz wrote, "proposals 
for new directions in anthropological theory and method appeared almost by 
the month, the one more clamorous than the next. I contributed to the 
merriment with 'interpretive anthropology,' an extension of my concern with 
the systems of meaning, beliefs, values, world views, forms of feeling, 
styles of thought, in terms of which particular peoples construct their 
existence."

Dr. Geertz began his academic career as a Research Assistant (1952-56) and a 
Research Associate (1957-58) in the Center for International Studies at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also served as an Instructor in 
Social Relations and as a Research Associate in Harvard University's 
Laboratory of Social Relations (1956-57). In 1958-59, he was a Fellow at the 
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, 
California.

>From 1958 to 1960, he was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the 
University of California at Berkeley, after which time he was Assistant 
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago (1960-61), and was 
subsequently promoted to Associate Professor (1962), and then Professor 
(1964). He was later named Divisional Professor in the Social Sciences 
(1968-70). At Chicago, Dr. Geertz was a member of the Committee for the 
Comparative Study of New Nations (1962-70), its Executive Secretary 
(1964-66), and its Chairman (1968-70). Geertz was also a Senior Research 
Career Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1964 to 1970.

Consultant to the Ford Foundation on Social Sciences in Indonesia in 1971, 
he was Eastman Professor at Oxford University from 1978 to 1979, and held an 
appointment as Visiting Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Department of 
History at Princeton University from 1975 to 2000.

In 1970, Geertz joined the permanent faculty of the School of Social Science 
at the Institute, and was named Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science 
in 1982. He transferred to emeritus status in 2000.
Dr. Geertz is the author and co-author of important volumes that have been 
translated into over twenty languages and is the recipient of numerous 
honorary degrees and scholarly awards. He received the National Book Critics 
Circle Prize in Criticism in 1988 for Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as 
Author, and was also the recipient of the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize 
(1992) and the Bintang Jasa Utama (First Class Merit Star) of the Republic 
of Indonesia (2002). Over the years, he received honorary degrees from 
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton universities, from Antioch, Swarthmore, and 
Williams colleges, and from the University of Cambridge, among other 
institutions.

He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on 
Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy 
of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a 
corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; and an Honorary Fellow of the 
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr. Geertz was 
a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Dr. Geertz's fieldwork was concentrated in Java, Bali, Celebes, and Sumatra 
in Indonesia, as well as in Morocco. In May 2000, he was honored at 
"Cultures, Soci?ti?s, et Territoires: Hommage ? Clifford Geertz," a 
conference held in Sefrou, Morocco, where he had conducted work for a 
decade. It was particularly gratifying, commented Geertz, because 
"Anthropologists are not always welcomed back to the site of their field 
studies."

Dr. Geertz is survived by his wife, Dr. Karen Blu, an anthropologist retired 
from the Department of Anthropology at New York University; his children, 
Erika Reading of Princeton, NJ, and Benjamin Geertz of Kirkland, WA; and his 
grandchildren, Andrea and Elena Martinez of Princeton, NJ. He is also 
survived by his former wife, Dr. Hildred Geertz, Professor Emeritus in the 
Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.

A Memorial will be held at the Institute for Advanced Study. Details will be 
announced at a future date.

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