From emg27 at georgetown.edu  Sun Apr  1 19:40:52 2007
From: emg27 at georgetown.edu (Elzbieta M Gozdziak)
Date: Mon Apr  2 00:00:38 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
Message-ID: <29e82e29ec63.29ec6329e82e@imap.georgetown.edu>

These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of course they understand better anthropological methodologies and ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.  On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work, psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they should be to enter a workforce. 

At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

Elzbieta

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes

> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years -
> I 
> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of 
> all 
> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist 
> (Vol.33, 
> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and 
> Academic 
> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by 
> Deborah 
> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the 
> ways 
> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be 
> useful 
> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists 
> who may 
> have difficulty understanding.
> 
> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by 
> Edward 
> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to 
> work 
> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The 
> goal 
> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on 
> your 
> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social 
> science 
> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social 
> science 
> expertise is needed on the board.
> 
> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes 
> social 
> scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of 
> social 
> science research. I find that I still have to adapt the 
> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - 
> many 
> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In 
> those 
> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and 
> then I 
> answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application 
> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question, 
> such 
> as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that requiring 
> signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research 
> "subjects." 
> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e. 
> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
> 
> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources 
> you 
> can draw upon.
> 
> Patty Gray
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 
> 
> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger)
> I am running into problems with our Institutional Review Board for 
> gettingmy research proposal approved. My institution, which has no 
> social science
> faculty on its board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and
> technology research proposals, regards participant observation as 
> a 
> research
> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This 
> is of
> course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing field
> research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing that 
> theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological 
> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
> 
> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other 
> anthropologists have
> dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have 
> managed to 
> not
> let the IRB stiffle their research.
> 
> Annegret Staiger
> Clarkson University
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Graduate Coordinator
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 312B Eielson Bldg.
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Tel. (907) 474-6188
> Fax (907) 474-7453
> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html
> 
> 
> 
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Apr  2 12:15:13 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr  2 11:16:25 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Architechture of War and Peace
Message-ID: <006a01c77539$b9f8e270$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>



                    CALL FOR PAPERS
                for a Special Issue of

            The Journal of Urban Technology

                           on

            THE ARCHITECTURE OF WAR AND PEACE
Urban artefacts and social practices in contested spaces


A large, and even growing, number of cities around the world is
characterised by ethnic, ideological, religious, linguistic or other
forms of diversity. Unfortunately, in many cases, this diversity is not
embraced as an asset but results in tensions, competing claims,
polarisation and seclusion. As can be seen in cities like Belfast,
Beirut, Berlin, Mostar, Jerusalem, Nicosia, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur
and many others, such contestations have massive spatial, architectural
and infrastructural implications in the form of clear-cut segregation, a
patchwork of enclaves, an array of walls and fences, no-go areas, street
blockades, the duplication of services and infrastructures, or - more
subtly - painted curbstones as territorial markers.

In other words, the material make-up of a "contested city" is to a large
extent the result of its social conditions. One purpose of the special
journal issue is therefore to highlight how the built environment
(building designs, street patterns, public spaces, infrastructures,
etc.) reflects the social reality around it. Ideal contributions will
provide examples of this social construction of artefacts but also help
to conceptualise, theorise and categorise the types of planned and
unplanned physical interventions; be it the prevention of violence, the
provocation of 'the others', the facilitation of friendly encounters,
the "outsourcing" of morality into artefacts or any other motivation.

The second and equally important purpose of this special issue is
exactly reverse: In what ways does the shape of the man-made physical
environment exert an intended and/or unintended gravitational pull upon
social practices? The mere existence of fences, paintings, specific
buildings, bridges and other non-human "actors" can condition and
solidify the way daily lives are acted out, for example, the route
someone takes to go shopping, the preference for a child's playground,
the likeliness of meeting 'others', the accessibility to employment etc.
Contributions are therefore invited that present examples and analytical
reflections of such causal links from the physical to the social.

Taken together, both conceptual halves of the special issue should avoid
the dangers of both physical determinism and na?ve voluntarism. The
former sees human beings as determined by technologies and
infrastructures whose obduracy implies a massive obstacle on the path
towards a more amicable future. The latter claims that human beings
retain the ultimate primacy over the design of artefacts, the shape of
their social relations and thus over their future in general.
Empirically, both mechanism can be observed and it is therefore
mandatory to focus on both of them simultaneously. In other words: The
causal arrow between artefacts and the social is double-headed.
This theoretical angle has been applied to refrigerators, planes, GMOs,
sewerage and highway systems but not to the cases of contested spaces.

This is not to say that contested cities have never been the focus of
conceptually sophisticated research; in fact a large body of literature
exists that investigates contested cities primarily from political
perspectives. There is, however, a materiality gap in the literature on
contested cities. This is especially deplorable because planning and
design can definitively ameliorate as well as (inadvertently) accentuate
divisions in contested spaces. What we need, then, to make careful
interventions is a thorough understanding of the gears in the
socio-technical engine room of contested cities.

Being convinced that no single discipline is exclusively useful  for the
understanding of contested cities we encourage submissions from all
disciplinary fields as long as they focus on mundane urban artefacts in
contested spaces, their construction, perception and interpretation,
their user-enrolment through behaviour-petal and -fugal affordances or
"scripts", their appropriation, reproduction and subversion. Possibly
useful explorations could, for example, highlight the role of
institutions for the production of artefacts or for the definition of
their meaning. Especially welcome are descriptive and analytical
accounts of attempts to deliberately shape urban artefacts in order to
ease tensions, facilitate positive encounters and move towards a more
peaceful future. Interesting contributions could also describe the
mutual shaping of artefacts and social conditions in estates and places
that were explicitly designed to accommodate non-sectarian life and on
the socio-technical dynamics in not violently diverse cities like
Brussels, Montreal, Fribourg. In addition to such empirical studies we
invite papers that help us think conceptually and systematically about
materiality in contested cities. We are convinced that different
concepts are different mental tools and allow us to see different things
without being more or less true.


GUEST EDITORS:

Dr. Ralf Brand
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
ralf.brand@manchester.ac.uk

Dr. Rachid Chamoun
Lebanese American University
Beirut, Lebanon
rchamoun@lau.edu.lb


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Interested authors should prepare a one-page abstract and submit it by
June 1 2007 to both editors at <ralf.brand@manchester.ac.uk> and
<rchamoun@lau.edu.lb>. All abstracts will be reviewed by the editors for
their fit with the theme of the special issue as specified in the call
for papers. Depending on the outcome of some pending funding
applications, the editors will invite 5-8 authors for a workshop in the
autumn of 2007, most likely to take place in Beirut. It is intended to
provide some financial support for at least those participants who
cannot fully source their own funding. By the time of the workshop,
drafts of full papers are required which will form the basis of the
discussion during the workshop. Final versions of full papers2 are
expected by December 31 2007. They will then be reviewed by at least two
peers in a double-blind peer-review process. The reviews are expected to
be returned to the authors by March 1 2008. Revisions will have to be
submitted by April 15 2008 which should permit a publication date of
late 2008 or early 2009.



= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Ralf G. Brand, Ph.D., Lecturer

Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)
www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/research

phone: +44 / 161 / 2750317
email: ralf.brand@manchester.ac.uk
skype: brandrg

publications: www.b-r-a-n-d.de/pub
consultancy:  www.coevolution.info
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Mon Apr  2 09:00:28 2007
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Mon Apr  2 11:17:37 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB vows and woes
In-Reply-To: <012401c772dc$7aa08420$5d1c9980@snell.clarkson.edu>
Message-ID: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A18881CAF@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu>

This is a problem I, my colleagues and our students all run into as
well. At Syracuse U, there are no exceptions to filing an IRB
application. Anyone working with a human population anywhere in the
world is required to file. All of us have gone through multiple drafts,
when the IRB office has been dissatisfied with the kinds of answers
we've given -- they're not full enough, they don't cover all points, and
so on. I was on the doctoral committee of an international student doing
field research in his home country, who went to the field before
approval came through and whose application was in fact not approved
until he was returning from the field. The problem here is the same
posed on the listserve -- those sitting on the IRB often don't have a
clue about anthropological fieldwork. Particularly aggravating to me is
the insistence on a consent letter, primarily because in most of my
field research I have dealt with non-literate populations and the letter
makes no sense. (Although it is also the case that when I, and I assume
any of my colleagues of students, introduce myself, I do tell the
interviewee what my project is about. This, it seems to me, is the
spirit of the process.)Call it cynical, call it pragmatic: I do the
letter, just as all of us in anthropology do the application, for the
sake of the insitutional vetting process and because we are required to
do so. 


Deborah Pellow
Professor of Anthropology
The Maxwell School
Syracuse University
209 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse NY  13244
(315) 443-4216

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Annegret Staiger
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:03 AM
To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB vows and woes

I am running into problems with our Institutional Review Board for
getting 
my research proposal approved. My institution, which has no social
science 
faculty on its board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and 
technology research proposals, regards participant observation as a
research 
method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is of 
course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing field 
research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing that their 
IRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological research, 
unless it deals with vulnerable populations.

Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists
have 
dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have managed to
not 
let the IRB stiffle their research.

Annegret Staiger
Clarkson University 



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From dlrh at uvm.edu  Mon Apr  2 10:15:49 2007
From: dlrh at uvm.edu (David Houston)
Date: Mon Apr  2 11:18:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
In-Reply-To: <29e82e29ec63.29ec6329e82e@imap.georgetown.edu>
References: <29e82e29ec63.29ec6329e82e@imap.georgetown.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0704020913330.16228@jngrefuvc.hiz.rqh>

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Elzbieta M Gozdziak intoned:

EMG:At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a 
EMG:session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

I presume this refers to 2008 AAA - I think this is a terrific idea!!!!  I 
note more or  less parenthetically that there are big differences (TOO 
big) between universities.  I am at McGill and the process there was 
somewhat onerous!

Thanks for a great discussion.  I look forward to a session in 08.

	David Houston



From alewinson at berry.edu  Mon Apr  2 10:47:25 2007
From: alewinson at berry.edu (Lewinson, Anne)
Date: Mon Apr  2 12:02:18 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
In-Reply-To: <29e82e29ec63.29ec6329e82e@imap.georgetown.edu>
Message-ID: <90EBFAB52E54964391A2D2031B15D71A648987@fsmail1.AD.Berry.edu>

Hello everyone, 

I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the only
reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have developed
a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
(only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
board). 

Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for ethnographic
research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly want
to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants and
this is how I will make sure my research does so without written consent
for everything...'), it can be an amicable process. 

Best wishes to all,

Anne

Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
Gozdziak
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
To: Patty A. Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject

These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of
course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from
doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they
should be to enter a workforce. 

At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

Elzbieta

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes

> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years -
> I 
> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of 
> all 
> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist 
> (Vol.33, 
> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and 
> Academic 
> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by 
> Deborah 
> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the 
> ways 
> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be 
> useful 
> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists 
> who may 
> have difficulty understanding.
> 
> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by 
> Edward 
> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to 
> work 
> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The 
> goal 
> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on 
> your 
> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social 
> science 
> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social 
> science 
> expertise is needed on the board.
> 
> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes 
> social 
> scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of 
> social 
> science research. I find that I still have to adapt the 
> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - 
> many 
> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In 
> those 
> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and 
> then I 
> answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application 
> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question, 
> such 
> as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that requiring 
> signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research 
> "subjects." 
> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e. 
> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
> 
> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources 
> you 
> can draw upon.
> 
> Patty Gray
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 
> 
> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger)
> I am running into problems with our Institutional Review Board for 
> gettingmy research proposal approved. My institution, which has no 
> social science
> faculty on its board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and
> technology research proposals, regards participant observation as 
> a 
> research
> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This 
> is of
> course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing field
> research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing that 
> theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological 
> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
> 
> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other 
> anthropologists have
> dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have 
> managed to 
> not
> let the IRB stiffle their research.
> 
> Annegret Staiger
> Clarkson University
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Graduate Coordinator
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 312B Eielson Bldg.
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Tel. (907) 474-6188
> Fax (907) 474-7453
> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From ffpag at uaf.edu  Mon Apr  2 11:46:22 2007
From: ffpag at uaf.edu (Patty Gray)
Date: Mon Apr  2 17:55:37 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
In-Reply-To: <E1HYOx1-0003nT-Sl@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1HYOx1-0003nT-Sl@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <61071.216.67.46.185.1175539582.squirrel@ffpag.email.uaf.edu>

Just a clarification: for IRB purposes "exempt" does not mean you are
avoiding the IRB. ALL *research* must be cleared through the IRB. "Exempt"
status means you undergo an expedited review. There was a recent ruling
that oral history does not constitute "research" and therefore is not
subject to any IRB review at all (see Anthropology News November 2003).
Oral history projects are not "exempt" - they are "excluded" from IRB
review. Some have argued have argued that this is not a helpful trend,
because it could render oral history as something trivial, not as serious
as "real" research. Others have tried to use it as a precedent to make
ethnographic research excluded from IRB review. I don't think ethnographic
research should be excluded, and I do not mind undergoing IRB review. The
main issue, I believe, is the wide-ranging and sometimes errant
interpretations of federal regulations made by some IRBs at some
institutions - as was pointed out in one of the responses. That is why it
is so important for we as researchers to be well-educated about these
matters, and to proactively educate our own IRBs.

Patty Gray


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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Eielson Bldg.
Fairbanks, AK 99775
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fax (907) 474-7453
http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/

From gmcdonog at brynmawr.edu  Mon Apr  2 14:01:52 2007
From: gmcdonog at brynmawr.edu (gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu)
Date: Mon Apr  2 17:57:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
Message-ID: <44793.219.79.23.111.1175533312.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu>

Deborah Pellow's comments reminded me of my own doctoral IRB review, which
didn't actually seem to care much about the people involved, but insisted
that my letter had to be in English for work in a non-English speaking
area.  The originals in Castilian and Catalan were sent back....

But this discussion also raises a question that I would like to know more
about from colleagues.  I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate
program that deals with issues of both built form and socio-cultural
issues.  Because of the latter interest, ALL of our students need to file
at least initial forms for "low-level" scrutiny on their senior thesis. In
the end, we indicate to them that certain kinds of research are impossible
without starting the approval process months in advance (and generally, I
have agreed with imposing such limits on undergraduate adventures).  in
fact, this has become a good learning opportunity for them to think about
research and responsibility, and we am not sorry that future architects
and planners have been dragged into the discussion.  Yet, I am struck that
students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked faculty
about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects involving
interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
review whatsoever.  Deborah said Syracuse had no exceptions -- does this
apply to the humanities as well?  This might also be a point of
leverage/discussion in terms of the biomedical dominance of so many IRB
boards.

Gary McDonogh
Professor/Chair
Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
Bryn Mawr College


From kathleennadeau at adelphia.net  Mon Apr  2 10:55:09 2007
From: kathleennadeau at adelphia.net (Kathy Nadeau)
Date: Mon Apr  2 20:39:53 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]clarification IRB at my school
Message-ID: <4611356D.9000807@adelphia.net>

Hello, colleagues

My IRB has provided some clarification for how we work here at Cal. State San Bernardino.  Hope this helps.  Kathy

Not quite Kathy.

The key term is Human Subjects and as a respected former board member, I know that you appreciated the distinctions when you were making decisions.  Sorry if I sound pompous.

Our IRB is extremely efficient and supportive of all faculty research.  However, the issue is the question of risk to the subject, and the knowing acceptance of risk to the subjects.  We of course emphasize protection to vulnerable populatons, but we do request that faculty submit all human subject protocols to the IRB so that we may declare them exempt, deal with them as expedited, or require full board review.  Most expedited reviews are handled within 1-2 days if we have sufficient information (the faculty member took us a bit seriously) expedited usually take 2-5 days at the most, and full board reviews take 7-14 days for a full board review and recommendations. 
 
We have faculty doing oral history projects, classroom exercises, and business survey research submitting their projects and they have not had any significant delay beyond the above times. And most appreciate a positive comment, or a recommendation or two to tighten up the work--exempt or not.  

The basic question in social research we ask ourselves is always, if the information was to get out with the individual's name attached would there be a serious and (not understood) risk to the subject that would cause damage.  And the reciprocal for those in vulnerable situations is whether they are truly free to decline or answer honestly.  It is a poor research project that doesn't care if a subject feels that they have to answer the way that the boss, or the caretaker wants, at the risk of retaliation.  But we see far too many of those.

I am familiar with someone doing work studying/doing participation observation on websites used by criminal actors to recruit and disseminate plans for violent action.  His IRB is attempting to force him to inform these persons of what he is doing and what the consequences might be if he reports them.  I feel that that IRB is wrongheaded and a bit foolish.  However they might be correct in calling on him to discuss the possibility of someone unthinkingly playing with fire and getting caught by his study.  I don't think that someone who is advocating (and/or attempting) murder, destruction, and such over the public media is vulnerable.  The act of taking up arms (and to use the words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes "Calling fire in a crowded theatre.") is to understand the consequences.

Enough said.  Our IRB will not be an obstruction to serious research and we will not stand in the way of anthropologists and other social researchers who clearly value the lives and privacy of their objects of study--if the release of the information is of potential significant damage.  We just ask them HOW they are going to ensure that salutary objective.  If they can tell us that is one thing.  If they cannot, that is another.

Yes, my terms are ambiguous.  So are all such terms--privacy, safety, freedom, justice, liberty, etc.  We do our best.  And we always try to remember that we are at a university whose business is to teach research, do research, and support research, to bring forth information and hopefully knowledge.  And if we are very lucky, we do it with wisdom.

Regards,
Sid

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From lknauer at umassd.edu  Mon Apr  2 12:49:30 2007
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Mon Apr  2 20:40:43 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
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i have also had some IRB "issues" concerning assignments in 
undergraduate classes ... and maybe we can have a strand of discussion 
regarding this. how do structure assignments in undergraduate classes 
(where students have less than a semester to do the work, esp. in an 
introductory class)? i (and i imagine many others) fly under the radar 
screen, but this limits my ability to publish anything about my teaching 
(including developing a website with student projects).
to respond to david's comment on elzbieta's suggestion: i think there is 
still time to submit WORKSHOP proposals for AAA 2007, so if someone were 
ambitious, we could have a first round of conversation in DC.

David Houston wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Elzbieta M Gozdziak intoned:
>
> EMG:At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a 
> EMG:session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.
>
> I presume this refers to 2008 AAA - I think this is a terrific idea!!!!  I 
> note more or  less parenthetically that there are big differences (TOO 
> big) between universities.  I am at McGill and the process there was 
> somewhat onerous!
>
> Thanks for a great discussion.  I look forward to a session in 08.
>
> 	David Houston
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From Martha_Radice at UCS.INRS.Ca  Mon Apr  2 12:39:00 2007
From: Martha_Radice at UCS.INRS.Ca (Radice, Martha)
Date: Mon Apr  2 20:43:17 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes / news from Canada
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Dear all, 

In response to the "IRB woes" discussed on the list lately, I'd like to add an interesting article to the references: Haggerty, Kevin D. 2004. "Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics." Qualitative Sociology 27(4):391-414 (plus response articles in the same issue).

In Canada, research ethics are overseen by the Tri Council Policy Statement (the three councils in question being federal research councils). This is an interesting resource in itself, e.g. definitions of minimal risk, observation in natural setting, etc. http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/policystatement/policystatement.cfm 
Having realised that ethics procedures are usually pretty maladpated to qualitative research, the three councils have recently produced a consultative memo on Qualitative Research in the Context of the Tri Council Policy Statement http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/workgroups/sshwc/consultation_instructions07.cfm
which begins to address and calls for comments on some of the inadequacies of current REB (Research ethics boards, Canadian name for IRB) procedures. All Canadian colleagues are encouraged to respond with comments. 

I think the key things for anthropologists to address are notions of minimal risk and expectations of privacy (e.g. for justifying observation in public or semi-public spaces) as well as informed consent. As for tools, to obtain consent during my urban fieldwork I have been using a combination of research presentation letter (headed paper, contact details for me, my supervisor, and the IRB chair) with written consent, research presentation letter with oral consent, and a less formal leaflet (photos, user-friendly, contact details for me only) about the research with oral consent, depending on who I'm talking to and what kind of conversation/interview we're having. One of the 'problems' for anthropologists is that participant observation entails very varied kinds of conversations with people, only some of which are likely to be construed by either party as 'proper' research interviews. This is why I'm finding the leaflet useful - I can give it to someone who is curious about what I'm doing, someone who is having a quick chat with me, or someone I'm approaching for a more in-depth interview. It accounts for what I'm doing and gives my contact details without making them feel like they've signed their life away. People seem to really appreciate having the info, whether they'll be talking to me at length or not. Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of identifying the moment at which it is appropriate to "reveal" oneself as a researcher instead of just a typical participant (in my case, it's not obvious from the start, since I'm doing research "at home"), but it does offer more fine-grained levels of information and involvement in the research. (The leaflet tool has also been useful when doing past research in an institutional setting, to give to people who work there but are not the subjects of the research.) 

That said, we need to try to convince ethics boards that what really matters is how one conducts one's research, not whether one has the 'right' bits of paper. From teaching ethics, I have noticed that students all too easily confuse the *process* of obtaining free and informed consent with the form that supposedly proves it! 

Martha Radice
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From wolfe at cas.usf.edu  Mon Apr  2 17:46:39 2007
From: wolfe at cas.usf.edu (Wolfe, Alvin)
Date: Mon Apr  2 20:44:29 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
In-Reply-To: <90EBFAB52E54964391A2D2031B15D71A648987@fsmail1.AD.Berry.edu>
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Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field diplomacy to
convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB members
seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
the 'subjects.'

--Alvin
Alvin W. Wolfe
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794


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To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
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Hello everyone, 

I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the only
reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have developed
a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
(only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
board). 

Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for ethnographic
research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly want
to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants and
this is how I will make sure my research does so without written consent
for everything...'), it can be an amicable process. 

Best wishes to all,

Anne

Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu]
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
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Gozdziak
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
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These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of
course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from
doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they
should be to enter a workforce. 

At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

Elzbieta

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
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Suite 3100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes

> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years - I 
> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of all 
> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol.33, 
> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic 
> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by Deborah 
> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the ways 
> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be useful 
> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists who 
> may have difficulty understanding.
> 
> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by Edward

> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to work 
> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The goal 
> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on your 
> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social science 
> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social science 
> expertise is needed on the board.
> 
> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes 
> social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of 
> social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the 
> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - many 
> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In those

> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and then 
> I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application 
> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question, 
> such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that 
> requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research

> "subjects."
> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e. 
> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
> 
> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources you 
> can draw upon.
> 
> Patty Gray
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 
> 
> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems 
> with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research proposal 
> approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on its 
> board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology 
> research proposals, regards participant observation as a research 
> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is 
> of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing 
> field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing 
> that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological

> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
> 
> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists 
> have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have 
> managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
> 
> Annegret Staiger
> Clarkson University
> 
> --
> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Graduate Coordinator
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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From trhasina at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  2 10:45:54 2007
From: trhasina at yahoo.com (Tricia Redeker Hepner)
Date: Mon Apr  2 22:21:27 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB vows and woes
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Does anyone know whether or not there has been a 'movement' of sorts to revise or amend IRB procedures in ways that are more consistent with social scientific research? I am talking about something more extensive than having a social scientist or two sitting on an IRB, although obviously that is enormously helpful. 
   
  I came through the process at U of Tennessee just recently and it was considerably complex. Frankly, my impression was that the procedure was designed not so much to protect my research 'subjects' (who fall into a more-vulnerable-than-usual category) but rather to protect the university itself; the IRB was much more concerned with how data would be stored and moved around and for how long, than with the kinds of questions I would ask and for what purposes. The consent form has become so long and cumbersome that I'll be amazed that people will even read it. I even had to provide translations which the committee will send out for back translations. The IRB also wanted privacy laws and consent procedures from institutions I am affiliated with in Germany and South Africa -- my colleagues there were quite shocked at what is required in the US of anthropologists, although certainly biomedical research is carefully vetted in those locations. As one colleague in Germany put it
 rather flatly, 'IRBs [as constituted in the US] are the death of ethnographic research.' 
   
  This discussion is enormously important, and I do hope we see something at AAA and other associational meetings. But more importantly, I'd like to see a concerted movement spearheaded by AAA, in coalition with other social science organizations using similar methods as anthropologists, to develop a parallel IRB or set of IRB regulations, that is not dominated by biomedical and hard sciences. Does such a movement exist?  If not, how could we get one started?


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From quetzil at osea-cite.org  Mon Apr  2 19:55:19 2007
From: quetzil at osea-cite.org (quetzil castaneda)
Date: Mon Apr  2 22:21:34 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
In-Reply-To: <44793.219.79.23.111.1175533312.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.e
 du>
References: <44793.219.79.23.111.1175533312.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu>
Message-ID: <200704022255.l32Mtk2E017613@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

At 12:01 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote:
>  Yet, I am struck that
>students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked faculty
>about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects involving
>interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
>review whatsoever.

HAH!  GREAT Point!
however much I would like to say yes, lets make 
them suffer this process as well, I would rather 
focus my own concerns on a different aspect of 
the IRB.  What has also always disturbed me is 
the absolute authority over the "life or death" 
of students, their research projects and their 
ability to succeed in their projects.

I am familiar with one masters student who had 
designed an ethnographic research project 
involving interviewing homosexuals and fieldwork 
in bar/club settings for observation of 
sexuality/dating (I forget what else, it was 10 
years ago).  The homophobic reactionary chairMAN 
(a sociologist) of the IRB that year determined 
that it would be far to "dangerous" to conduct 
interviews with such persons in such locations 
and strictly forbid this as part of the 
research.  The risks apparently to the subjects 
and to the researcher (who was also a gay man) 
were too huge .... The chairman of the 
anthropology dept., who also happened to be gay 
-- who lived in this "dangerous" part of town and 
even ran a consulting/social work enterprise in 
the neighborhood -- was totally ineffective in 
reversing this arbitrary, absurd, discriminatory, 
and ultimately violent decision.  finally the 
student was unable to conduct his research as 
conceived. He was only allowed to do research in 
a totally mangled and virtually non-ethnographic 
manner on issues that had nothing to do with what 
he was interested in or that had any 
relevance.  The project was reduced to a 
sociological survey (which happened to fit the 
intellectual-theoretical paradigm of this quantifying sociologist).   .

If this man had not been on the board, this 
problem would not have existed. Certainly, this 
is not the first time that any one has 
encountered zealots on the IRB --- that is 
persons who dispense their task with iron-clad 
compliance to rules without any recognition 
whatsover of special situations/contexts. Further 
such persons typically combine this with an 
irresolute discrimination against particular 
projects (precisely because of their "special" 
circumstances) that manifests in excessive and 
debilitating scrutiny, demands for rewrites of 
protocols, and even the re-designing of 
research.   My only surprise in the case that I 
mention is that this sociologist has not since 
conducted a research project based on the 
student's initial proposal.  (Indeed, what 
mechanisms are there to prevent THAT?!)

the arbitrary and total control of any given IRB 
committee in any given year is way out of 
control.  Faculty have the ability to protest and 
put pressure on a committee by calling in favors 
here and there or figure out other ways to fill 
out the forms to the letter while conducting 
research in a completely ETHICAL manner (even if 
at variance to IRB technicalities).  sTudents on 
the other hand can be viciously destroyed, their 
projects mutilated by threats that the 
institution will with hold stipends, tuition waivers, degrees, grades, etc..

What kinds of administrative oversight and 
management exist -- or, can be created -- to 
counter balance this capriciousness of 
IRBs?   This is a slightly different but related 
point made about the need to educate one's own 
institutional boards.  Certainly that is 
necessary, yet the lessons learned may only have 
a shelf life based on the tenure of specific 
committee members.  it seems that a system needs 
to be created that can protect students from 
having their projects dismantled -- or worse, stolen!

Quetzil



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From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Tue Apr  3 11:03:47 2007
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Tue Apr  3 14:16:18 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
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Appropos of what both Anne and Gary have written in: we in anthropology
HAVE tried to educate the IRB people about our work, the contexts within
which we work, and so on, and sometimes it's successful. It's certainly
better today than it was 15 years ago. When I was going off to do
research in N Ghana last year, the IRB insisted upon a letter of
consent. I gave them one in English and since much of my work would be
in Dagbani, they wanted it in that language. Once in the field I got
help translating it into Dagbani. But as I said the other day, it really
was pro forma.

As for exceptions: this is interesting, because the IRB make such a big
deal about students getting clearance before doing work with human
subjects. As it turns out, they no longer require students doing
interviewing for class projects to hand in an IRB application the
application (I think because their office is short-handed). I asked the
IRB office if it covers all fields and they said any MA/PhD students or
faculty, in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and so on, doing
field  research are required to do the application.
 
Deborah Pellow

-----Original Message-----
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gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:02 PM
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Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB

Deborah Pellow's comments reminded me of my own doctoral IRB review,
which
didn't actually seem to care much about the people involved, but
insisted
that my letter had to be in English for work in a non-English speaking
area.  The originals in Castilian and Catalan were sent back....

But this discussion also raises a question that I would like to know
more
about from colleagues.  I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate
program that deals with issues of both built form and socio-cultural
issues.  Because of the latter interest, ALL of our students need to
file
at least initial forms for "low-level" scrutiny on their senior thesis.
In
the end, we indicate to them that certain kinds of research are
impossible
without starting the approval process months in advance (and generally,
I
have agreed with imposing such limits on undergraduate adventures).  in
fact, this has become a good learning opportunity for them to think
about
research and responsibility, and we am not sorry that future architects
and planners have been dragged into the discussion.  Yet, I am struck
that
students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked
faculty
about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects involving
interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
review whatsoever.  Deborah said Syracuse had no exceptions -- does this
apply to the humanities as well?  This might also be a point of
leverage/discussion in terms of the biomedical dominance of so many IRB
boards.

Gary McDonogh
Professor/Chair
Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
Bryn Mawr College


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From MBrand at wooster.edu  Tue Apr  3 12:33:17 2007
From: MBrand at wooster.edu (Mieka Brand)
Date: Tue Apr  3 14:38:16 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
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Message-ID: <46123B7D0200005B00008F10@mailgate.wooster.edu>

I think if we are honest we would have to admit that it is much more insidious than just "some IRB members" trying to protect the institution.  The very structure of IRB suggests quite clearly that the real concern is not so much protecting "subjects" from researchers as it is protecting the institution from law suits.

If protecting "human subjects" were a real concern in this process, I suspect we would be having much more enlightened conversations about what, precisely, it is that we are trying to protect (and according to who's definitions), and how one might go about achieving such goals.  Questions about 'physical or psychological risks to the participants' would be replaced with terminology that is relevant to the participants themselves (not to biomedicine) and might perhaps include attention to 'cultural risks' or to offending--on any level--the people with whom we are interacting.

Most importantly, if IRB was really looking out for the participants, the whole question of consent would evolve around ensuring that they (participants) actually understand the project and its objectives and are willing to be part of it, rather than on finding ways to obtain physical (written or recorded) proof that is legally binding.  Signing a form that in effect protects the institution from legal action by participants is, in many cases, totally meaningless from the perspective of participants.  In most other cases participants are left with the distinct impression (which is correct, in my opinion) that IRB is designed to protect everyone *but* themselves.

------------------------------
Mieka Brand
Visiting Assistant Professor
The College of Wooster
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
mbrand@wooster.edu



>>> "Wolfe, Alvin" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu> 4/2/2007 4:46 PM >>>
Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field diplomacy to
convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB members
seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
the 'subjects.'

--Alvin
Alvin W. Wolfe
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:47 AM
To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu 
Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject

Hello everyone, 

I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the only
reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have developed
a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
(only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
board). 

Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for ethnographic
research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly want
to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants and
this is how I will make sure my research does so without written consent
for everything...'), it can be an amicable process. 

Best wishes to all,

Anne

Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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Gozdziak
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
To: Patty A. Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu 
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject

These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of
course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from
doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they
should be to enter a workforce. 

At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

Elzbieta

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes

> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years - I 
> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of all 
> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol.33, 
> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic 
> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by Deborah 
> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the ways 
> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be useful 
> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists who 
> may have difficulty understanding.
> 
> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by Edward

> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to work 
> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The goal 
> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on your 
> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social science 
> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social science 
> expertise is needed on the board.
> 
> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes 
> social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of 
> social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the 
> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - many 
> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In those

> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and then 
> I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application 
> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question, 
> such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that 
> requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research

> "subjects."
> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e. 
> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
> 
> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources you 
> can draw upon.
> 
> Patty Gray
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 
> 
> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems 
> with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research proposal 
> approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on its 
> board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology 
> research proposals, regards participant observation as a research 
> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is 
> of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing 
> field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing 
> that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological

> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
> 
> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists 
> have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have 
> managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
> 
> Annegret Staiger
> Clarkson University
> 
> --
> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Graduate Coordinator
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 312B Eielson Bldg.
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Tel. (907) 474-6188
> Fax (907) 474-7453
> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html 
> 
> 
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From ffpag at uaf.edu  Mon Apr  2 21:04:02 2007
From: ffpag at uaf.edu (Patty Gray)
Date: Tue Apr  3 14:39:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
In-Reply-To: <E1HYX7a-0003K0-1v@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
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Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues surrounding
IRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.

About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I think is
a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval for all
student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. In other
words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
students are doing is in compliance.

Patty Gray


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University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Eielson Bldg.
Fairbanks, AK 99775
tel (907) 474-6188
fax (907) 474-7453
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From mvesperi at earthlink.net  Tue Apr  3 10:03:14 2007
From: mvesperi at earthlink.net (mvesperi@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Apr  3 17:20:18 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
Message-ID: <16614669.1175608995034.JavaMail.root@elwamui-lapwing.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

I am a member of the New College of Florida IRB. We don't have much trouble with the ethnographic proposals. Most of them fall into the "expedited" category rather than exempt, because they involve audio-visual documentation of subjects or research in a foreign language/country. Our director of research is outstanding and the site she has developed is a really good one: 

http://www.ncf.edu/orps/index.html

Click on Institutional Review Board to see the details. There is a category "Ethnographic Research," and here is a detail from the "Frequently Asked Questions" page: 

"we are asked many questions regarding anthropological and ethnographic research.  The American Anthropological Association has adopted a statement on Ethnography and IRB review.  It is well worth the read.
http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/irb.htm. 

Good luck. We have found that overall, the IRB process has improved the quality of research on our campus. Maria Vesperi


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Wolfe, Alvin" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu>
>Sent: Apr 2, 2007 3:46 PM
>To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu, "Lewinson, Anne" <alewinson@berry.edu>, Elzbieta M Gozdziak <emg27@georgetown.edu>, "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
>Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
>
>Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
>'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field diplomacy to
>convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
>that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
>Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB members
>seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
>the 'subjects.'
>
>--Alvin
>Alvin W. Wolfe
>Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
>Department of Anthropology
>4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
>University of South Florida
>Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
>[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Lewinson, Anne
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:47 AM
>To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
>Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>
>Hello everyone, 
>
>I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the only
>reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
>institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have developed
>a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
>important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
>doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
>the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
>(only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
>board). 
>
>Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
>science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for ethnographic
>research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly want
>to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants and
>this is how I will make sure my research does so without written consent
>for everything...'), it can be an amicable process. 
>
>Best wishes to all,
>
>Anne
>
>Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu]
>Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>Berry College
>495010 Mount Berry Station
>Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
>Phone: (706) 236-5094
>Fax: (706) 236-2205
> 
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
>[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
>Gozdziak
>Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
>To: Patty A. Gray
>Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>
>These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
>applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of
>course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
>ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
>On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from
>doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
>psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
>through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
>applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
>are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they
>should be to enter a workforce. 
>
>At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
>session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.
>
>Elzbieta
>
>Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
>Research Director
>Editor, International Migration
>Georgetown University
>Harris Building
>3300 Whitehaven St NW
>Suite 3100
>Washington, DC 20007
>Tel: 202-687-2193
>Fax: 202-687-2541
>e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
>Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
>Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
>
>> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years - I 
>> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of all 
>> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol.33, 
>> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic 
>> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by Deborah 
>> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the ways 
>> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be useful 
>> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists who 
>> may have difficulty understanding.
>> 
>> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by Edward
>
>> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to work 
>> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The goal 
>> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on your 
>> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social science 
>> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social science 
>> expertise is needed on the board.
>> 
>> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes 
>> social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of 
>> social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the 
>> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - many 
>> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In those
>
>> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and then 
>> I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application 
>> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question, 
>> such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that 
>> requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research
>
>> "subjects."
>> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e. 
>> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
>> 
>> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources you 
>> can draw upon.
>> 
>> Patty Gray
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> 
>> 
>> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems 
>> with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research proposal 
>> approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on its 
>> board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology 
>> research proposals, regards participant observation as a research 
>> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is 
>> of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing 
>> field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing 
>> that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological
>
>> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
>> 
>> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists 
>> have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have 
>> managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
>> 
>> Annegret Staiger
>> Clarkson University
>> 
>> --
>> Dr. Patty A. Gray
>> Assistant Professor
>> Graduate Coordinator
>> Department of Anthropology
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> 312B Eielson Bldg.
>> P.O. Box 757720
>> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
>> U.S.A.
>> Tel. (907) 474-6188
>> Fax (907) 474-7453
>> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
>> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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From rosewishall.ediger at gmail.com  Tue Apr  3 21:41:45 2007
From: rosewishall.ediger at gmail.com (Rose Wishall Ediger)
Date: Tue Apr  3 20:41:49 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and undergraduate students
Message-ID: <e98cbcfe0704031741m36f2e661u89fe914710a13c73@mail.gmail.com>

As an undergrad taking an upper level anthropology course I was required (by
our instructor, who was given the directive by the university IRB) to take
an online tutorial about protection of human subjects. Here is the tutorial
I was required to take for my later PhD research, offered for free by the
NIH, at
http://cme.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections.asp.
I think that it could be a valuable tool for undergraduates before they do
fieldwork.

I agree that this discussion has been very good!

Rose Wishall Ediger


On 4/3/07, Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
> participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
> response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues surrounding
> IRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
>
> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I think is
> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval for all
> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. In other
> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
> students are doing is in compliance.
>
> Patty Gray
>
>
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> >    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
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> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 310 Eielson Bldg.
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
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From art_murphy at uncg.edu  Tue Apr  3 15:40:24 2007
From: art_murphy at uncg.edu (Arthur D. Murphy ADMURPHY)
Date: Tue Apr  3 23:36:52 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
In-Reply-To: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A18881CC2@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <OFA1915D20.A95A322B-ON852572B2.0066861B-852572B2.00669462@uncg.edu>

Having served as Associate Vice President for Research where part of my 
portfolio was compliance I may have a slightly different take on much of 
this.  I would say that a major solution too many of these problems would 
be if more Anthropologists would serve on University IRB boards.  We tend 
to let others sit on the boards because it is too much trouble or only 
involves ?our? field now and then.  All of the above are true, but the 
best way to educate IRB boards is to sit on them so they see Anthropology 
in action when reviewing other proposals.  Also more Anthropologists 
should attend Office of Research Integrity workshops so we know what the 
requirements of law are.  Many who sit on IRB boards do not really know 
and as such make decisions on what they ?think? their role is.  I am not 
trying to blame the victim here it is just that IRB is now a fact of life 
and we must learn to work with it not against it.  I for one have found 
little difficulty dealing with the IRB for research in the US, Mexico and 
Bolivia.

Arthur D. Murphy, PhD
Professor and Head
Department of Anthropology
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro NC 27412-5001
admurphy@uncg.edu
Tel (336) 334-5132
fax (336) 334-5674



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Appropos of what both Anne and Gary have written in: we in anthropology
HAVE tried to educate the IRB people about our work, the contexts within
which we work, and so on, and sometimes it's successful. It's certainly
better today than it was 15 years ago. When I was going off to do
research in N Ghana last year, the IRB insisted upon a letter of
consent. I gave them one in English and since much of my work would be
in Dagbani, they wanted it in that language. Once in the field I got
help translating it into Dagbani. But as I said the other day, it really
was pro forma.

As for exceptions: this is interesting, because the IRB make such a big
deal about students getting clearance before doing work with human
subjects. As it turns out, they no longer require students doing
interviewing for class projects to hand in an IRB application the
application (I think because their office is short-handed). I asked the
IRB office if it covers all fields and they said any MA/PhD students or
faculty, in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and so on, doing
field  research are required to do the application.
 
Deborah Pellow

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of
gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:02 PM
To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB

Deborah Pellow's comments reminded me of my own doctoral IRB review,
which
didn't actually seem to care much about the people involved, but
insisted
that my letter had to be in English for work in a non-English speaking
area.  The originals in Castilian and Catalan were sent back....

But this discussion also raises a question that I would like to know
more
about from colleagues.  I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate
program that deals with issues of both built form and socio-cultural
issues.  Because of the latter interest, ALL of our students need to
file
at least initial forms for "low-level" scrutiny on their senior thesis.
In
the end, we indicate to them that certain kinds of research are
impossible
without starting the approval process months in advance (and generally,
I
have agreed with imposing such limits on undergraduate adventures).  in
fact, this has become a good learning opportunity for them to think
about
research and responsibility, and we am not sorry that future architects
and planners have been dragged into the discussion.  Yet, I am struck
that
students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked
faculty
about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects involving
interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
review whatsoever.  Deborah said Syracuse had no exceptions -- does this
apply to the humanities as well?  This might also be a point of
leverage/discussion in terms of the biomedical dominance of so many IRB
boards.

Gary McDonogh
Professor/Chair
Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
Bryn Mawr College


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From emg27 at georgetown.edu  Tue Apr  3 22:59:04 2007
From: emg27 at georgetown.edu (Elzbieta M Gozdziak)
Date: Tue Apr  3 23:37:32 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
Message-ID: <34e150349559.34955934e150@imap.georgetown.edu>

Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has to give approval for the research. 

Elzbieta
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students

> Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
> participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
> response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues 
> surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
> 
> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I 
> think is
> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval 
> for all
> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. 
> In other
> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
> students are doing is in compliance.
> 
> Patty Gray
> 
> 
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> >    2. IRB woes (Patty Gray)
> >    3. IRB
> >    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
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> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 310 Eielson Bldg.
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
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From ats35 at cornell.edu  Wed Apr  4 12:18:30 2007
From: ats35 at cornell.edu (Amanda Snellinger)
Date: Wed Apr  4 12:53:34 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
In-Reply-To: <OFA1915D20.A95A322B-ON852572B2.0066861B-852572B2.00669462@uncg.edu>
References: <OFA1915D20.A95A322B-ON852572B2.0066861B-852572B2.00669462@uncg.edu>
Message-ID: <6A36B876-9060-40BA-81FF-8A703CE3D84A@cornell.edu>

I have not been reading through the details of everyone's woes with  
IRB so I felt hesitant to contribute at the risk of repeating someone  
else's point.

After reading Dr. Murphy's perspective,  I realize it has taken  
awhile for the response I had all along to be raised. I completely  
agree with him.

I myself had problems getting human subjects approval to work with  
student activists, some of whom are under 18. With a few back and  
forths with the IRB committee and support from my advisor, my  
research was eventually cleared without the requirement that my  
informants or their parents must sign an informed consent agreement.   
At the time the critiques and concerns of the IRB committee  seemed   
completely off base to me.  I soon found out, as you all have, that  
no anthropologists or sociologists sit on Cornell's IRB committee.   
In discussing this with the IRB head administrator she said it is not  
as if they don't try to solicit the participation of those from the  
social sciences, they do have but  have been unsuccessful in  
convincing anyone to give their time.  She admitted that  
participating on the IRB committee is a thankless job.  It does not  
manifest in any monetary gain, nor does it bolster your c.v. or add  
to your chances of getting tenure.  She figured unless professors had  
an ethical stake in participating, then it was only added work to an  
academic life that is probably spread too thin.

In a nutshell, anthropologists and other social scientists have to  
make a choice.  Either they volunteer to be on these committees with  
no substantial benefit in return or we continue to struggle through  
the process of cross-discipline misunderstandings in order to gain  
institutional approval to do our research.

All that aside,  I found if you are tenacious enough you can get the  
approval you need.

Amanda Snellinger
Ph.D. Candidate
Anthropology Department
Cornell University
ats35@cornell.edu



On Apr 4, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Arthur D. Murphy ADMURPHY wrote:

> Having served as Associate Vice President for Research where part  
> of my
> portfolio was compliance I may have a slightly different take on  
> much of
> this.  I would say that a major solution too many of these problems  
> would
> be if more Anthropologists would serve on University IRB boards.   
> We tend
> to let others sit on the boards because it is too much trouble or only
> involves ?our? field now and then.  All of the above are true, but the
> best way to educate IRB boards is to sit on them so they see  
> Anthropology
> in action when reviewing other proposals.  Also more Anthropologists
> should attend Office of Research Integrity workshops so we know  
> what the
> requirements of law are.  Many who sit on IRB boards do not really  
> know
> and as such make decisions on what they ?think? their role is.  I  
> am not
> trying to blame the victim here it is just that IRB is now a fact  
> of life
> and we must learn to work with it not against it.  I for one have  
> found
> little difficulty dealing with the IRB for research in the US,  
> Mexico and
> Bolivia.
>
> Arthur D. Murphy, PhD
> Professor and Head
> Department of Anthropology
> The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
> Greensboro NC 27412-5001
> admurphy@uncg.edu
> Tel (336) 334-5132
> fax (336) 334-5674
>
>
>
> "Deborah Pellow" <dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu>
> Sent by: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
> 04/03/2007 10:03 AM
>
> To
> <gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu>, <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> cc
>
> Subject
> RE: [URBANTH-L]IRB
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Appropos of what both Anne and Gary have written in: we in  
> anthropology
> HAVE tried to educate the IRB people about our work, the contexts  
> within
> which we work, and so on, and sometimes it's successful. It's  
> certainly
> better today than it was 15 years ago. When I was going off to do
> research in N Ghana last year, the IRB insisted upon a letter of
> consent. I gave them one in English and since much of my work would be
> in Dagbani, they wanted it in that language. Once in the field I got
> help translating it into Dagbani. But as I said the other day, it  
> really
> was pro forma.
>
> As for exceptions: this is interesting, because the IRB make such a  
> big
> deal about students getting clearance before doing work with human
> subjects. As it turns out, they no longer require students doing
> interviewing for class projects to hand in an IRB application the
> application (I think because their office is short-handed). I asked  
> the
> IRB office if it covers all fields and they said any MA/PhD  
> students or
> faculty, in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and so on,  
> doing
> field  research are required to do the application.
>
> Deborah Pellow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of
> gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
>
> Deborah Pellow's comments reminded me of my own doctoral IRB review,
> which
> didn't actually seem to care much about the people involved, but
> insisted
> that my letter had to be in English for work in a non-English speaking
> area.  The originals in Castilian and Catalan were sent back....
>
> But this discussion also raises a question that I would like to know
> more
> about from colleagues.  I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate
> program that deals with issues of both built form and socio-cultural
> issues.  Because of the latter interest, ALL of our students need to
> file
> at least initial forms for "low-level" scrutiny on their senior  
> thesis.
> In
> the end, we indicate to them that certain kinds of research are
> impossible
> without starting the approval process months in advance (and  
> generally,
> I
> have agreed with imposing such limits on undergraduate  
> adventures).  in
> fact, this has become a good learning opportunity for them to think
> about
> research and responsibility, and we am not sorry that future  
> architects
> and planners have been dragged into the discussion.  Yet, I am struck
> that
> students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked
> faculty
> about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects  
> involving
> interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
> review whatsoever.  Deborah said Syracuse had no exceptions -- does  
> this
> apply to the humanities as well?  This might also be a point of
> leverage/discussion in terms of the biomedical dominance of so many  
> IRB
> boards.
>
> Gary McDonogh
> Professor/Chair
> Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
> Bryn Mawr College
>
>
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From alewinson at berry.edu  Wed Apr  4 10:41:23 2007
From: alewinson at berry.edu (Lewinson, Anne)
Date: Wed Apr  4 12:54:06 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject
In-Reply-To: <34e150349559.34955934e150@imap.georgetown.edu>
Message-ID: <90EBFAB52E54964391A2D2031B15D71A6489C5@fsmail1.AD.Berry.edu>

In the last couple years, our IRB also developed a 'blanket' approval
application for undergraduate class research projects which is very
similar to what Elzbieta describes. As well, since my institution has a
graduate program in education, we developed a set of criteria and
procedures specifically for students conducting educational research. We
felt a need to do so because inevitably they are working with minors (a
'vulnerable' population), and thus their proposals should receive the
most thorough review, however the projects often focused on students in
their own classrooms and much of what they were doing was more along the
lines of trying out different pedagogical techniques (warranting the
lowest level of review, if any at all). Our colleagues in Education
voiced their concerns to the Board often enough that the IRB Coordinator
and Board decided to re-evaluate the procedures and came up with a
compromise.  

Anyway, my point is that IRBs can be convinced to re-think their
procedures so as to adopt something which is more appropriate to our
needs. It will take some work on their part, however ultimately it will
save them time in not needing to bounce proposals back to anthropology
grad students repeatedly and not having a whole slew of ethnographic
proposals to read for a full board meeting. A possible starting point:
I've been forwarding these postings to the IRB Coordinator at my
institution, and she has said they are very interesting reading. For
those whom it might be appropriate, you might want to do the same. While
the composition of IRBs does change yearly, the Coordinator usually is a
staff member who is there for the long haul. S/he might be a good place
to open up the conversation about developing practices which suit
ethnographic research better. 

Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
Gozdziak
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:59 PM
To: Patty Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
subject

Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the
student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students
and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has
to give approval for the research. 

Elzbieta
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students

> Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
> participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
> response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues 
> surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
> 
> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I 
> think is
> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval 
> for all
> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. 
> In other
> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
> students are doing is in compliance.
> 
> Patty Gray
> 
> 
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> >        (Lewinson, Anne)
> >    2. IRB woes (Patty Gray)
> >    3. IRB
> >    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
> >    5. Re: IRB woes (Lisa Maya Knauer)
> >    6. RE: IRB woes / news from Canada (Radice, Martha)
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> 
> -- 
> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 310 Eielson Bldg.
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
> tel (907) 474-6188
> fax (907) 474-7453
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From anwen at mac.com  Wed Apr  4 09:43:37 2007
From: anwen at mac.com (Anwen Tormey)
Date: Wed Apr  4 12:55:00 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB Conversation
In-Reply-To: <E1HYqQf-0002eK-Kt@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1HYqQf-0002eK-Kt@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <A7FC2929-F337-4CFD-9B2E-DBC3C554A574@mac.com>

Hi everyone,

I am no expert on IRB, but its my understanding that the reason in- 
class presentations are not required to have IRB permission is  
because they will not result in documents that enter the public  
domain.  In other words, M.A.s and Ph.Ds are 'published' (which  
represents greater potential risk for human subjects) and therefore  
require IRB.

Thanks everyone for a useful discussion.

a.


On Apr 3, 2007, at 4:20 PM, urbanth-l-request@lists.ysu.edu wrote:

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>    3. IRB and students (Patty Gray)
>    4. Re: IRB woes -
>
>
> As for exceptions: this is interesting, because the IRB make such a  
> big
> deal about students getting clearance before doing work with human
> subjects. As it turns out, they no longer require students doing
> interviewing for class projects to hand in an IRB application the
> application (I think because their office is short-handed). I asked  
> the
> IRB office if it covers all fields and they said any MA/PhD  
> students or
> faculty, in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and so on,  
> doing
> field  research are required to do the application.
> =20
> Deborah Pellow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of
> gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB
>
> Deborah Pellow's comments reminded me of my own doctoral IRB review,
> which
> didn't actually seem to care much about the people involved, but
> insisted
> that my letter had to be in English for work in a non-English speaking
> area.  The originals in Castilian and Catalan were sent back....
>
> But this discussion also raises a question that I would like to know
> more
> about from colleagues.  I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate
> program that deals with issues of both built form and socio-cultural
> issues.  Because of the latter interest, ALL of our students need to
> file
> at least initial forms for "low-level" scrutiny on their senior  
> thesis.
> In
> the end, we indicate to them that certain kinds of research are
> impossible
> without starting the approval process months in advance (and  
> generally,
> I
> have agreed with imposing such limits on undergraduate  
> adventures).  in
> fact, this has become a good learning opportunity for them to think
> about
> research and responsibility, and we am not sorry that future  
> architects
> and planners have been dragged into the discussion.  Yet, I am struck
> that
> students in the humanities (and, to be honest, I have never asked
> faculty
> about their own reviews) can adopt "cultural studies" projects  
> involving
> interviews and observation in sometimes problematic situations with no
> review whatsoever.  Deborah said Syracuse had no exceptions -- does  
> this
> apply to the humanities as well?  This might also be a point of
> leverage/discussion in terms of the biomedical dominance of so many  
> IRB
> boards.
>
> Gary McDonogh
> Professor/Chair
> Program in Growth and Structure of Cities
> Bryn Mawr College
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
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>
>
>
>
>
> If protecting "human subjects" were a real concern in this process,  
> I sus=
> pect we would be having much more enlightened conversations about  
> what, p=
> recisely, it is that we are trying to protect (and according to  
> who's def=
> initions), and how one might go about achieving such goals.   
> Questions ab=
> out 'physical or psychological risks to the participants' would be  
> replac=
> ed with terminology that is relevant to the participants themselves  
> (not =
> to biomedicine) and might perhaps include attention to 'cultural  
> risks' o=
> r to offending--on any level--the people with whom we are interacting.
>
> Most importantly, if IRB was really looking out for the  
> participants, the=
>  whole question of consent would evolve around ensuring that they  
> (partic=
> ipants) actually understand the project and its objectives and are  
> willin=
> g to be part of it, rather than on finding ways to obtain physical  
> (writt=
> en or recorded) proof that is legally binding.  Signing a form that  
> in ef=
> fect protects the institution from legal action by participants is,  
> in ma=
> ny cases, totally meaningless from the perspective of  
> participants.  In m=
> ost other cases participants are left with the distinct impression  
> (which=
>  is correct, in my opinion) that IRB is designed to protect  
> everyone *but=
> * themselves.
>
> ------------------------------
> Mieka Brand
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> The College of Wooster
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> mbrand@wooster.edu
>
>
>
>>>> "Wolfe, Alvin" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu> 4/2/2007 4:46 PM >>>
> Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
> 'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field  
> diplomacy to
> convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
> that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
> Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB  
> members
> seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
> the 'subjects.'
>
> --Alvin
> Alvin W. Wolfe
> Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
> Department of Anthropology
> 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
> University of South Florida
> Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu=20
> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Lewinson, Anne
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:47 AM
> To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu=20
> Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>
> Hello everyone,=20
>
> I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the  
> only
> reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
> institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have  
> developed
> a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
> important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
> doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
> the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
> (only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
> board).=20
>
> Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
> science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for  
> ethnographic
> research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly  
> want
> to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants  
> and
> this is how I will make sure my research does so without written  
> consent
> for everything...'), it can be an amicable process.=20
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Anne
>
> Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu]=20
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Berry College
> 495010 Mount Berry Station
> Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
> Phone: (706) 236-5094
> Fax: (706) 236-2205
> =20
> =20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu=20
> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
> Gozdziak
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
> To: Patty A. Gray
> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu=20
> Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>
> These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
> applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program'  
> so of
> course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
> ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
> On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as  
> from
> doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
> psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
> through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
> applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
> are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that  
> they
> should be to enter a workforce.=20
>
> At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
> session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.
>
> Elzbieta
>
> Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
> Research Director
> Editor, International Migration
> Georgetown University
> Harris Building
> 3300 Whitehaven St NW
> Suite 3100
> Washington, DC 20007
> Tel: 202-687-2193
> Fax: 202-687-2541
> e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu=20
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
> Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
>
>> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years  
>> - I=20=
>
>> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of  
>> all=20=
>
>> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol. 
>> 33,=20=
>
>> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and  
>> Academic=20=
>
>> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by  
>> Deborah=20=
>
>> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the  
>> ways=20=
>
>> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be  
>> useful=20
>> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists  
>> who=20=
>
>> may have difficulty understanding.
>> =20
>> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by  
>> Edward
>
>> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to  
>> work=20
>> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The  
>> goal=20=
>
>> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on  
>> your=20=
>
>> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social  
>> science=20=
>
>> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social  
>> science=20
>> expertise is needed on the board.
>> =20
>> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes=20
>> social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature  
>> of=20=
>
>> social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the=20
>> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes -  
>> many=20=
>
>> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In  
>> those
>
>> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and  
>> then=20=
>
>> I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my  
>> application=20
>> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question,=20
>> such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that=20
>> requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to  
>> research
>
>> "subjects."
>> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e.=20
>> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
>> =20
>> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources  
>> you=20=
>
>> can draw upon.
>> =20
>> Patty Gray
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> =20
>> =20
>> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems=20
>> with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research  
>> proposal=20
>> approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on  
>> its=20=
>
>> board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology=20
>> research proposals, regards participant observation as a research=20
>> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This  
>> is=20=
>
>> of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when  
>> doing=20
>> field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing=20
>> that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for  
>> anthropological
>
>> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
>> =20
>> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other  
>> anthropologists=20=
>
>> have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have=20
>> managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
>> =20
>> Annegret Staiger
>> Clarkson University
>> =20
>> --
>> Dr. Patty A. Gray
>> Assistant Professor
>> Graduate Coordinator
>> Department of Anthropology
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> 312B Eielson Bldg.
>> P.O. Box 757720
>> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
>> U.S.A.
>> Tel. (907) 474-6188
>> Fax (907) 474-7453
>> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
>> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html=20
>> =20
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>
> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I  
> think is
> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval  
> for all
> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me.  
> In other
> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
> students are doing is in compliance.
>
> Patty Gray
>
>
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>>    3. IRB
>>    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
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> Dr. Patty A. Gray
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> 310 Eielson Bldg.
> Fairbanks, AK 99775
> tel (907) 474-6188
> fax (907) 474-7453
> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.ncf.edu/orps/index.html
>
> Click on Institutional Review Board to see the details. There is a  
> category "Ethnographic Research," and here is a detail from the  
> "Frequently Asked Questions" page:
>
> "we are asked many questions regarding anthropological and  
> ethnographic research.  The American Anthropological Association  
> has adopted a statement on Ethnography and IRB review.  It is well  
> worth the read.
> http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/irb.htm.
>
> Good luck. We have found that overall, the IRB process has improved  
> the quality of research on our campus. Maria Vesperi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Wolfe, Alvin" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu>
>> Sent: Apr 2, 2007 3:46 PM
>> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu, "Lewinson, Anne"  
>> <alewinson@berry.edu>, Elzbieta M Gozdziak <emg27@georgetown.edu>,  
>> "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
>>
>> Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
>> 'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field  
>> diplomacy to
>> convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
>> that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
>> Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB  
>> members
>> seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
>> the 'subjects.'
>>
>> --Alvin
>> Alvin W. Wolfe
>> Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
>> University of South Florida
>> Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
>> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Lewinson, Anne
>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:47 AM
>> To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
>> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>> Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in  
>> subject
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and  
>> the only
>> reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
>> institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have  
>> developed
>> a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
>> important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
>> doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
>> the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
>> (only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
>> board).
>>
>> Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
>> science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for  
>> ethnographic
>> research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we  
>> certainly want
>> to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the  
>> participants and
>> this is how I will make sure my research does so without written  
>> consent
>> for everything...'), it can be an amicable process.
>>
>> Best wishes to all,
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu]
>> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
>> Berry College
>> 495010 Mount Berry Station
>> Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
>> Phone: (706) 236-5094
>> Fax: (706) 236-2205
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
>> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
>> Gozdziak
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
>> To: Patty A. Gray
>> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>> Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>>
>> These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
>> applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program'  
>> so of
>> course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
>> ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
>> On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as  
>> from
>> doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
>> psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without  
>> going
>> through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
>> applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
>> are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that  
>> they
>> should be to enter a workforce.
>>
>> At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
>> session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.
>>
>> Elzbieta
>>
>> Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
>> Research Director
>> Editor, International Migration
>> Georgetown University
>> Harris Building
>> 3300 Whitehaven St NW
>> Suite 3100
>> Washington, DC 20007
>> Tel: 202-687-2193
>> Fax: 202-687-2541
>> e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
>> Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
>> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
>>
>>> There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years  
>>> - I
>>> think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of  
>>> all
>>> the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol. 
>>> 33,
>>> No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and  
>>> Academic
>>> Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by Deborah
>>> Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the  
>>> ways
>>> that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be useful
>>> ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists who
>>> may have difficulty understanding.
>>>
>>> There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by  
>>> Edward
>>
>>> Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to work
>>> steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The goal
>>> would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on your
>>> institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social science
>>> protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social science
>>> expertise is needed on the board.
>>>
>>> At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes
>>> social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of
>>> social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the
>>> biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - many
>>> questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In  
>>> those
>>
>>> cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and  
>>> then
>>> I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application
>>> exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question,
>>> such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that
>>> requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to  
>>> research
>>
>>> "subjects."
>>> You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e.
>>> subject only to the minimal IRB review.
>>>
>>> Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources  
>>> you
>>> can draw upon.
>>>
>>> Patty Gray
>>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems
>>> with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research proposal
>>> approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on its
>>> board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology
>>> research proposals, regards participant observation as a research
>>> method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is
>>> of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing
>>> field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing
>>> that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for  
>>> anthropological
>>
>>> research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
>>>
>>> Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists
>>> have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have
>>> managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
>>>
>>> Annegret Staiger
>>> Clarkson University
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Patty A. Gray
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Graduate Coordinator
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>>> 312B Eielson Bldg.
>>> P.O. Box 757720
>>> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
>>> U.S.A.
>>> Tel. (907) 474-6188
>>> Fax (907) 474-7453
>>> http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
>>> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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From emg27 at georgetown.edu  Wed Apr  4 11:00:55 2007
From: emg27 at georgetown.edu (Elzbieta Gozdziak)
Date: Wed Apr  4 12:56:05 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject
In-Reply-To: <90EBFAB52E54964391A2D2031B15D71A6489C5@fsmail1.AD.Berry.edu>
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Hello Everyone,

This is a fascinating discussion and I think should be part of a wider 
discourse. Would anyone like to write a piece--either summarizing this 
discussion and/or setting up a wider discussion--to be published in the 
/Anthropology News/.  I am sure Stacy Lathrop would be interested in 
this kind of thing.  I am thinking of apiece that would be published 
outside the SUNTA column and reaching a wider readership.  The piece 
should be between 1500 to 2200 words.  Contributions to the next issue 
of AN are due by July 15th.

Elzbieta

Lewinson, Anne wrote:
> In the last couple years, our IRB also developed a 'blanket' approval
> application for undergraduate class research projects which is very
> similar to what Elzbieta describes. As well, since my institution has a
> graduate program in education, we developed a set of criteria and
> procedures specifically for students conducting educational research. We
> felt a need to do so because inevitably they are working with minors (a
> 'vulnerable' population), and thus their proposals should receive the
> most thorough review, however the projects often focused on students in
> their own classrooms and much of what they were doing was more along the
> lines of trying out different pedagogical techniques (warranting the
> lowest level of review, if any at all). Our colleagues in Education
> voiced their concerns to the Board often enough that the IRB Coordinator
> and Board decided to re-evaluate the procedures and came up with a
> compromise.  
>
> Anyway, my point is that IRBs can be convinced to re-think their
> procedures so as to adopt something which is more appropriate to our
> needs. It will take some work on their part, however ultimately it will
> save them time in not needing to bounce proposals back to anthropology
> grad students repeatedly and not having a whole slew of ethnographic
> proposals to read for a full board meeting. A possible starting point:
> I've been forwarding these postings to the IRB Coordinator at my
> institution, and she has said they are very interesting reading. For
> those whom it might be appropriate, you might want to do the same. While
> the composition of IRBs does change yearly, the Coordinator usually is a
> staff member who is there for the long haul. S/he might be a good place
> to open up the conversation about developing practices which suit
> ethnographic research better. 
>
> Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Berry College
> 495010 Mount Berry Station
> Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
> Phone: (706) 236-5094
> Fax: (706) 236-2205
>  
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
> Gozdziak
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:59 PM
> To: Patty Gray
> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
> subject
>
> Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the
> student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students
> and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has
> to give approval for the research. 
>
> Elzbieta
> Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
> Research Director
> Editor, International Migration
> Georgetown University
> Harris Building
> 3300 Whitehaven St NW
> Suite 3100
> Washington, DC 20007
> Tel: 202-687-2193
> Fax: 202-687-2541
> e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
>
>   
>> Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
>> participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
>> response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues 
>> surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
>>
>> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I 
>> think is
>> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
>> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
>> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval 
>> for all
>> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. 
>> In other
>> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
>> students are doing is in compliance.
>>
>> Patty Gray
>>
>>
>>     
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>>>        (Lewinson, Anne)
>>>    2. IRB woes (Patty Gray)
>>>    3. IRB
>>>    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
>>>    5. Re: IRB woes (Lisa Maya Knauer)
>>>    6. RE: IRB woes / news from Canada (Radice, Martha)
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>> -- 
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>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Anthropology
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> 310 Eielson Bldg.
>> Fairbanks, AK 99775
>> tel (907) 474-6188
>> fax (907) 474-7453
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>   
From slathrop at aaanet.org  Wed Apr  4 12:18:29 2007
From: slathrop at aaanet.org (Stacy Lathrop)
Date: Wed Apr  4 12:57:20 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject
Message-ID: <73673AD67A72304380D2DC771119F481013292DB@aaa_mail.aaanet.org>

 

 

Elzbieta and All,

 

I would be interested in a summary of this listserv discussion of best
practices in working with IRBs.   I haven't read all of the postings on
this thread, but what I have (below) is good information.  If it hasn't
already been mentioned here, Rena Lederman and others have been posting
interesting comments and suggestions on the Savage Minds blog - See
particularly her "Educate Your IRB (a boilerplate experiment)".   Also,
the AAA Committee on Ethics has been discussing developing resources and
best practices to educate IRB boards and coordinators about
anthropological methods and their relation to ethics review.  

 

As Elzbieta noted, the deadline for the next AN is July 15.  Though AN
commentaries and features are 1000-1500 words. 

 

Stacy Lathrop

 

  _____  

From: Elzbieta Gozdziak [mailto:emg27@georgetown.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:01 AM
To: Lewinson, Anne
Cc: Patty Gray; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Stacy Lathrop
Subject: Re: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
subject

 

Hello Everyone,

This is a fascinating discussion and I think should be part of a wider
discourse. Would anyone like to write a piece--either summarizing this
discussion and/or setting up a wider discussion--to be published in the
Anthropology News.  I am sure Stacy Lathrop would be interested in this
kind of thing.  I am thinking of apiece that would be published outside
the SUNTA column and reaching a wider readership.  The piece should be
between 1500 to 2200 words.  Contributions to the next issue of AN are
due by July 15th.

Elzbieta

Lewinson, Anne wrote: 

In the last couple years, our IRB also developed a 'blanket' approval
application for undergraduate class research projects which is very
similar to what Elzbieta describes. As well, since my institution has a
graduate program in education, we developed a set of criteria and
procedures specifically for students conducting educational research. We
felt a need to do so because inevitably they are working with minors (a
'vulnerable' population), and thus their proposals should receive the
most thorough review, however the projects often focused on students in
their own classrooms and much of what they were doing was more along the
lines of trying out different pedagogical techniques (warranting the
lowest level of review, if any at all). Our colleagues in Education
voiced their concerns to the Board often enough that the IRB Coordinator
and Board decided to re-evaluate the procedures and came up with a
compromise.  
 
Anyway, my point is that IRBs can be convinced to re-think their
procedures so as to adopt something which is more appropriate to our
needs. It will take some work on their part, however ultimately it will
save them time in not needing to bounce proposals back to anthropology
grad students repeatedly and not having a whole slew of ethnographic
proposals to read for a full board meeting. A possible starting point:
I've been forwarding these postings to the IRB Coordinator at my
institution, and she has said they are very interesting reading. For
those whom it might be appropriate, you might want to do the same. While
the composition of IRBs does change yearly, the Coordinator usually is a
staff member who is there for the long haul. S/he might be a good place
to open up the conversation about developing practices which suit
ethnographic research better. 
 
Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
Gozdziak
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:59 PM
To: Patty Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
subject
 
Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the
student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students
and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has
to give approval for the research. 
 
Elzbieta
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu> <mailto:ffpag@uaf.edu> 
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
 
  

	Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I
have ever
	participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up -
each
	response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues 
	surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
	 
	About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I

	think is
	a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial
about the
	history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and
once I
	completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket
approval 
	for all
	student projects carried out in the course of classwork under
me. 
	In other
	words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what
my
	students are doing is in compliance.
	 
	Patty Gray
	 
	 
	    

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From art_murphy at uncg.edu  Wed Apr  4 14:05:37 2007
From: art_murphy at uncg.edu (Arthur D. Murphy ADMURPHY)
Date: Wed Apr  4 22:12:10 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject
In-Reply-To: <73673AD67A72304380D2DC771119F481013292DB@aaa_mail.aaanet.org>
Message-ID: <OFB71F567A.58268419-ON852572B3.005DD7C9-852572B3.005DE5DE@uncg.edu>

When he was at NSF Stu Plattner did a great job of educating on this 
subject.


Arthur D. Murphy, PhD
Professor and Head
Department of Anthropology
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro NC 27412-5001
admurphy@uncg.edu
Tel (336) 334-5132
fax (336) 334-5674



"Stacy Lathrop" <slathrop@aaanet.org> 
Sent by: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
04/04/2007 11:18 AM

To
"Elzbieta Gozdziak" <emg27@georgetown.edu>, "Lewinson, Anne" 
<alewinson@berry.edu>
cc
urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu, Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Subject
RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject






 

 

Elzbieta and All,

 

I would be interested in a summary of this listserv discussion of best
practices in working with IRBs.   I haven't read all of the postings on
this thread, but what I have (below) is good information.  If it hasn't
already been mentioned here, Rena Lederman and others have been posting
interesting comments and suggestions on the Savage Minds blog - See
particularly her "Educate Your IRB (a boilerplate experiment)".   Also,
the AAA Committee on Ethics has been discussing developing resources and
best practices to educate IRB boards and coordinators about
anthropological methods and their relation to ethics review. 

 

As Elzbieta noted, the deadline for the next AN is July 15.  Though AN
commentaries and features are 1000-1500 words. 

 

Stacy Lathrop

 

  _____ 

From: Elzbieta Gozdziak [mailto:emg27@georgetown.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:01 AM
To: Lewinson, Anne
Cc: Patty Gray; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Stacy Lathrop
Subject: Re: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
subject

 

Hello Everyone,

This is a fascinating discussion and I think should be part of a wider
discourse. Would anyone like to write a piece--either summarizing this
discussion and/or setting up a wider discussion--to be published in the
Anthropology News.  I am sure Stacy Lathrop would be interested in this
kind of thing.  I am thinking of apiece that would be published outside
the SUNTA column and reaching a wider readership.  The piece should be
between 1500 to 2200 words.  Contributions to the next issue of AN are
due by July 15th.

Elzbieta

Lewinson, Anne wrote: 

In the last couple years, our IRB also developed a 'blanket' approval
application for undergraduate class research projects which is very
similar to what Elzbieta describes. As well, since my institution has a
graduate program in education, we developed a set of criteria and
procedures specifically for students conducting educational research. We
felt a need to do so because inevitably they are working with minors (a
'vulnerable' population), and thus their proposals should receive the
most thorough review, however the projects often focused on students in
their own classrooms and much of what they were doing was more along the
lines of trying out different pedagogical techniques (warranting the
lowest level of review, if any at all). Our colleagues in Education
voiced their concerns to the Board often enough that the IRB Coordinator
and Board decided to re-evaluate the procedures and came up with a
compromise. 
 
Anyway, my point is that IRBs can be convinced to re-think their
procedures so as to adopt something which is more appropriate to our
needs. It will take some work on their part, however ultimately it will
save them time in not needing to bounce proposals back to anthropology
grad students repeatedly and not having a whole slew of ethnographic
proposals to read for a full board meeting. A possible starting point:
I've been forwarding these postings to the IRB Coordinator at my
institution, and she has said they are very interesting reading. For
those whom it might be appropriate, you might want to do the same. While
the composition of IRBs does change yearly, the Coordinator usually is a
staff member who is there for the long haul. S/he might be a good place
to open up the conversation about developing practices which suit
ethnographic research better. 
 
Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
Gozdziak
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:59 PM
To: Patty Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
subject
 
Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the
student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students
and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has
to give approval for the research. 
 
Elzbieta
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu> <mailto:ffpag@uaf.edu> 
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
 
 

                 Dear all, this is one of the most constructive 
discussions I
have ever
                 participated in. I am grateful that this topic was 
brought up -
each
                 response has added greatly to my understanding of the 
issues 
                 surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
 
                 About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has 
what I

                 think is
                 a good system - I went through a multi-stage online 
tutorial
about the
                 history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, 
and
once I
                 completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket
approval 
                 for all
                 student projects carried out in the course of classwork 
under
me. 
                 In other
                 words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure 
that what
my
                 students are doing is in compliance.
 
                 Patty Gray
 
 
 

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                                    3. IRB
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                 University of Alaska Fairbanks
                 310 Eielson Bldg.
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From lknauer at umassd.edu  Wed Apr  4 15:29:42 2007
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Wed Apr  4 22:12:46 2007
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in subject
In-Reply-To: <4613AF97.9020706@georgetown.edu>
References: <90EBFAB52E54964391A2D2031B15D71A6489C5@fsmail1.AD.Berry.edu>
	<4613AF97.9020706@georgetown.edu>
Message-ID: <4613EE96.1060307@umassd.edu>

dear all:
this is a wonderful discussion as well; i have spoken to david haines 
and robert rotenberg and we think that it is still possible to include a 
workshop (sponsored by SUNTA) at AAA 2007. i am willing to help put this 
together, and hilarie was also interested. if anyone else wants to work 
on this (helping figure out what issues can be reasonably covered in a 
workshop session, and where the discussion might go from there), please 
contact me.

cheers,
lisa maya knauer

Elzbieta Gozdziak wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> This is a fascinating discussion and I think should be part of a wider 
> discourse. Would anyone like to write a piece--either summarizing this 
> discussion and/or setting up a wider discussion--to be published in 
> the /Anthropology News/.  I am sure Stacy Lathrop would be interested 
> in this kind of thing.  I am thinking of apiece that would be 
> published outside the SUNTA column and reaching a wider readership.  
> The piece should be between 1500 to 2200 words.  Contributions to the 
> next issue of AN are due by July 15th.
>
> Elzbieta
>
> Lewinson, Anne wrote:
>> In the last couple years, our IRB also developed a 'blanket' approval
>> application for undergraduate class research projects which is very
>> similar to what Elzbieta describes. As well, since my institution has a
>> graduate program in education, we developed a set of criteria and
>> procedures specifically for students conducting educational research. We
>> felt a need to do so because inevitably they are working with minors (a
>> 'vulnerable' population), and thus their proposals should receive the
>> most thorough review, however the projects often focused on students in
>> their own classrooms and much of what they were doing was more along the
>> lines of trying out different pedagogical techniques (warranting the
>> lowest level of review, if any at all). Our colleagues in Education
>> voiced their concerns to the Board often enough that the IRB Coordinator
>> and Board decided to re-evaluate the procedures and came up with a
>> compromise. 
>> Anyway, my point is that IRBs can be convinced to re-think their
>> procedures so as to adopt something which is more appropriate to our
>> needs. It will take some work on their part, however ultimately it will
>> save them time in not needing to bounce proposals back to anthropology
>> grad students repeatedly and not having a whole slew of ethnographic
>> proposals to read for a full board meeting. A possible starting point:
>> I've been forwarding these postings to the IRB Coordinator at my
>> institution, and she has said they are very interesting reading. For
>> those whom it might be appropriate, you might want to do the same. While
>> the composition of IRBs does change yearly, the Coordinator usually is a
>> staff member who is there for the long haul. S/he might be a good place
>> to open up the conversation about developing practices which suit
>> ethnographic research better.
>> Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu] Assistant Professor of 
>> Anthropology
>> Berry College
>> 495010 Mount Berry Station
>> Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
>> Phone: (706) 236-5094
>> Fax: (706) 236-2205
>>  
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
>> [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
>> Gozdziak
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:59 PM
>> To: Patty Gray
>> Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>> Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students - Email found in
>> subject
>>
>> Georgetown has a very similar system/procedure, with one caveat that the
>> student research is for class papers, not for publication.  If students
>> and/or the professor wishe to publish any of the student papers, IRB has
>> to give approval for the research.
>> Elzbieta
>> Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
>> Research Director
>> Editor, International Migration
>> Georgetown University
>> Harris Building
>> 3300 Whitehaven St NW
>> Suite 3100
>> Washington, DC 20007
>> Tel: 202-687-2193
>> Fax: 202-687-2541
>> e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Patty Gray <ffpag@uaf.edu>
>> Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 0:04 am
>> Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB and students
>>
>>  
>>> Dear all, this is one of the most constructive discussions I have ever
>>> participated in. I am grateful that this topic was brought up - each
>>> response has added greatly to my understanding of the issues 
>>> surroundingIRBs and my confidence in dealing with it.
>>>
>>> About undergraduate student research projects: My IRB has what I 
>>> think is
>>> a good system - I went through a multi-stage online tutorial about the
>>> history of the Belmont Report and the whole IRB process, and once I
>>> completed it, I was "certified" by my IRB and had blanket approval 
>>> for all
>>> student projects carried out in the course of classwork under me. In 
>>> other
>>> words, they shifted the responsibility to me to assure that what my
>>> students are doing is in compliance.
>>>
>>> Patty Gray
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Send URBANTH-L mailing list submissions to
>>>>     urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
>>>>
>>>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>>>>     http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>>>     urbanth-l-request@lists.ysu.edu
>>>>
>>>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>>>>     urbanth-l-owner@lists.ysu.edu
>>>>
>>>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>>>> than "Re: Contents of URBANTH-L digest..."
>>>> Today's Topics:
>>>>
>>>>    1. RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject
>>>>        (Lewinson, Anne)
>>>>    2. IRB woes (Patty Gray)
>>>>    3. IRB
>>>>    4. clarification IRB at my school (Kathy Nadeau)
>>>>    5. Re: IRB woes (Lisa Maya Knauer)
>>>>    6. RE: IRB woes / news from Canada (Radice, Martha)
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>       
>>> -- 
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>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>>> 310 Eielson Bldg.
>>> Fairbanks, AK 99775
>>> tel (907) 474-6188
>>> fax (907) 474-7453
>>> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/
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From jmheyman at utep.edu  Thu Apr  5 11:21:32 2007
From: jmheyman at utep.edu (Josiah Heyman)
Date: Thu Apr  5 12:26:37 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB--Plattner article
Message-ID: <C23A7E2C.1FF94%jmheyman@utep.edu>

A version of Stuart Plattner's article on IRBs is one the web at:

http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/culturalanthro.pdf

It was also published in Anthropological Quarterly,

This is courtesy of Dr. Plattner, AQ, and the SfAA Public Policy Committee.
Look at the other links while you are there.

http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/policy.html

Joe Heyman


****************************************************************************
Josiah McC. Heyman
Professor of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968 USA
jmheyman@utep.edu
915-747-7356 (phone)
915-747-5505 (fax)


From ngs at cisunix.unh.edu  Thu Apr  5 14:14:49 2007
From: ngs at cisunix.unh.edu (Nina Glick Schiller)
Date: Thu Apr  5 13:12:41 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB--Plattner article
In-Reply-To: <C23A7E2C.1FF94%jmheyman@utep.edu>
References: <C23A7E2C.1FF94%jmheyman@utep.edu>
Message-ID: <200704051705.l35H5IfR017410@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

Hi,

A broader issue of the IRB debate is the involvement of 
anthropologists in CIA research. Our students are being recruited for 
summer internships as a gateway into the world of secret research. 
Every ethical issue of concern that is raised by IRBs in the name of 
federal regulations is violated by secret research . Yet the AAA 
newsletter announces positions in the CIA and our ethnic code 
apparently no longer talks about our first responsibility to the 
people with whom we work. Why do universities allow our students and 
graduates to be recruited for these positions? Should not this be a 
concern of our IRB's rather than the exact wording of a questionnaire?

Warm regards,

Nina Glick Schiller

At 12:21 PM 4/5/2007, Josiah Heyman wrote:
>A version of Stuart Plattner's article on IRBs is one the web at:
>
>http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/culturalanthro.pdf
>
>It was also published in Anthropological Quarterly,
>
>This is courtesy of Dr. Plattner, AQ, and the SfAA Public Policy Committee.
>Look at the other links while you are there.
>
>http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/policy.html
>
>Joe Heyman
>
>
>****************************************************************************
>Josiah McC. Heyman
>Professor of Anthropology
>Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
>University of Texas at El Paso
>500 W. University Ave.
>El Paso, TX 79968 USA
>jmheyman@utep.edu
>915-747-7356 (phone)
>915-747-5505 (fax)
>
>
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Apr  5 14:32:50 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr  5 13:34:24 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Availability of Urbanth-L Archives, and Possible New Blog
	Site
Message-ID: <011001c777a8$7b3461b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Hi Urbanth-L folks,

In the last few days, several people have asked for a record of this thread.
We've also gotten emails that suggest the creation of a blog for the list.

First, you should know that Urbanth-L does have an archive of all messages
posted since shortly before the meetings were rescheduled, in October
2004. Here is the link: http://lists.ysu.edu/pipermail/urbanth-l/

Secondly, we've been thinking about setting up a blog to accompany the
listserv for some time.  I recently inquired about the possibility of having
such a forum hosted on the AAA server, as I'd heard that such a service
was becoming available.  Server space is not available yet, however. And
so, last night I set up a very rudimentary Urbanth-L Thread Blog, which
archives some of the interesting discussions we've had over the last
few years.  There are still a few more to add.  As we find the time, it
might also be nice to use this blog space to poll our subscribers, in order
to find out something about people's nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds
and interests.  Currently, Urbanth-L has 1,803 subscribers.  Well, here is
the skeletal blog link (not yet a finished product):

http://urbanth.blogspot.com/

Just click on "comments," at the bottom of Annegret Staiger's message,
and you will find the entire thread.  It's easier to read the thread on the
blog than it is in our listserv archives. Feel free to use the blog to 
continue
the IRB discussion, and/or I could also just archive the thread on the blog
in a few days, as I've done with several other threads.

best,

Angela Jancius
Urbanth-L Moderator 

From dk at anthro.umass.edu  Thu Apr  5 20:20:14 2007
From: dk at anthro.umass.edu (Dickie Wallace)
Date: Fri Apr  6 11:04:50 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Availability of Urbanth-L Archives, and Possible New
	Blog	Site
In-Reply-To: <011001c777a8$7b3461b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <011001c777a8$7b3461b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <1175815214.4615842e1f7de@mail-www.oit.umass.edu>

Hello, Thanks very much for putting up this IRB thread as a blog
(http://urbanth.blogspot.com/).  I'd been wanting to use it for my class today
because my students had been fuming about the demands put on them by our IRB
just this week.  It worked out wonderfully because I very hastily was able to
cut & paste it, then divvy it up into a rough powerpoint presentation, a dozen
and half slides with an e-mail on each.  We had perhaps the best class of the
semester as we argued the different points being made in the various
contributions.  Now a number of my students want to get the Smith Anthro Club,
which had been thinking about going down to DC anyway, to be an active
participant in AAA workshop, giving the undergrad ethnographic researcher
perspective on the IRB issue.
Dickie Wallace
Department of Anthropology, Smith College



Quoting Angela Jancius <jancius@ohio.edu>:

> Hi Urbanth-L folks,
>
> In the last few days, several people have asked for a record of this thread.
> We've also gotten emails that suggest the creation of a blog for the list.
>
> First, you should know that Urbanth-L does have an archive of all messages
> posted since shortly before the meetings were rescheduled, in October
> 2004. Here is the link: http://lists.ysu.edu/pipermail/urbanth-l/
>
> Secondly, we've been thinking about setting up a blog to accompany the
> listserv for some time.  I recently inquired about the possibility of having
> such a forum hosted on the AAA server, as I'd heard that such a service
> was becoming available.  Server space is not available yet, however. And
> so, last night I set up a very rudimentary Urbanth-L Thread Blog, which
> archives some of the interesting discussions we've had over the last
> few years.  There are still a few more to add.  As we find the time, it
> might also be nice to use this blog space to poll our subscribers, in order
> to find out something about people's nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds
> and interests.  Currently, Urbanth-L has 1,803 subscribers.  Well, here is
> the skeletal blog link (not yet a finished product):
>
> http://urbanth.blogspot.com/
>
> Just click on "comments," at the bottom of Annegret Staiger's message,
> and you will find the entire thread.  It's easier to read the thread on the
> blog than it is in our listserv archives. Feel free to use the blog to
> continue
> the IRB discussion, and/or I could also just archive the thread on the blog
> in a few days, as I've done with several other threads.
>
> best,
>
> Angela Jancius
> Urbanth-L Moderator
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>


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From heffera2 at msu.edu  Fri Apr  6 09:58:00 2007
From: heffera2 at msu.edu (Tara Hefferan)
Date: Fri Apr  6 11:05:03 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes
In-Reply-To: <002201c7709f$8da9e0a0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <GDELJOJINLKBGHDEHJGCGEINCFAA.heffera2@msu.edu>

Hi all,

The latest issue of "Qualitative Inquiry" focuses on IRBs and related
concerns.

A new issue of Qualitative Inquiry is available online:
1 April 2007; Vol. 13, No. 3

The below Table of Contents is available online at:
http://qix.sagepub.com/content/vol13/issue3/?etoc

Predatory vs. Dialogic Ethics: Constructing an Illusion or Ethical Practice
as the Core of Research Methods
Gaile S. Cannella and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 315-335
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/315

Rethinking Ethics Review as Institutional Discourse
Christine Halse and Anne Honey
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 336-352
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/336

Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun
Carol Rambo
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 353-367
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/353

Canadian University Ethics Review: Cultural Complications Translating
Principles Into Practice
Susan Tilley and Louise Gormley
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 368-387
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/368

The Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Institutional Review Boards
William G. Tierney and Zo? Blumberg Corwin
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 388-398
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/388

The Dark Side of Truth(s): Ethical Dilemmas in Researching the Personal
M. Carolyn Clark and Barbara F. Sharf
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 399-416
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/399

Informed Consent, Deception, and Research Freedom in Qualitative Research
Marco Marzano
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 417-436
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/417

Cultural Continuity as an Ethical Imperative
Clifford G. Christians
Qualitative Inquiry 2007;13 437-444
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/437


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@alma.edu




From dianasantillan at hotmail.com  Fri Apr  6 17:31:01 2007
From: dianasantillan at hotmail.com (Diana Santillan)
Date: Fri Apr  6 16:59:53 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
In-Reply-To: <46123B7D0200005B00008F10@mailgate.wooster.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY114-F156984C56F3B2EA5A33C31C2640@phx.gbl>

I agree--my IRB experience also suggests that there's often more concern=20
about covering the institution's legal ass than protecting human beings. =
=20
And it went something like this:

Me:  "Some of my informants might be illiterate, so they probably wouldn'=
t=20
want to sign something that they can't understand."

IRB rep:  "In those cases, you just give them an information sheet instea=
d. =20
It has all the information in the informed consent form, but it does not=20
require a signature."

Me: "You mean I read the information sheet to them."

IRB rep:  "No, you just give it to them so that there are no problems."


Diana Santillan, MA
PhD Candidate, Human Sciences Program
George Washington University

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Mieka Brand" <MBrand@wooster.edu>
To: "Alvin Wolfe" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu>, <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes -
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:33:17 -0400
I think if we are honest we would have to admit that it is much more=20
insidious than just "some IRB members" trying to protect the institution.=
 =20
The very structure of IRB suggests quite clearly that the real concern is=
=20
not so much protecting "subjects" from researchers as it is protecting th=
e=20
institution from law suits.

If protecting "human subjects" were a real concern in this process, I=20
suspect we would be having much more enlightened conversations about what=
,=20
precisely, it is that we are trying to protect (and according to who's=20
definitions), and how one might go about achieving such goals.  Questions=
=20
about 'physical or psychological risks to the participants' would be=20
replaced with terminology that is relevant to the participants themselves=
=20
(not to biomedicine) and might perhaps include attention to 'cultural ris=
ks'=20
or to offending--on any level--the people with whom we are interacting.

Most importantly, if IRB was really looking out for the participants, the=
=20
whole question of consent would evolve around ensuring that they=20
(participants) actually understand the project and its objectives and are=
=20
willing to be part of it, rather than on finding ways to obtain physical=20
(written or recorded) proof that is legally binding.  Signing a form that=
 in=20
effect protects the institution from legal action by participants is, in=20
many cases, totally meaningless from the perspective of participants.  In=
=20
most other cases participants are left with the distinct impression (whic=
h=20
is correct, in my opinion) that IRB is designed to protect everyone *but*=
=20
themselves.

------------------------------
Mieka Brand
Visiting Assistant Professor
The College of Wooster
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
mbrand@wooster.edu



 >>> "Wolfe, Alvin" <wolfe@cas.usf.edu> 4/2/2007 4:46 PM >>>
Anne Lewinson put it so well, that 'exempt' does not really mean
'exempt,' and that we anthropologists should use our field diplomacy to
convince an ultra-science-oriented reviewer that we are as concerned
that the 'participants' not be harmed in the research as they are.
Actually, we might be more concerned, because some of those IRB members
seem more interested in protecting the institution than in protecting
the 'subjects.'

--Alvin
Alvin W. Wolfe
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC107
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL  33620-8100   813-974-0794


-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Lewinson, Anne
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:47 AM
To: Elzbieta M Gozdziak; Patty A. Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject

Hello everyone,

I would say ditto to everything which has been said so far, and the only
reason I have chimed in is because I'm actually on the IRB at my
institution (and have been for three or four years), so I have developed
a good bit of familiarity with the process. I want to highlight an
important distinction which was pointed out, namely that 'exempt'
doesn't mean that the research doesn't need to be submitted at all to
the IRB, but rather that it is reviewed at a lower level of scrutiny
(only one committee member reads it rather than several or the full
board).

Overall, you may need to 'educate' a behavioral/medical
science-dominated board about the relevant regulations for ethnographic
research, however if done in the right spirit (namely 'we certainly want
to protect the privacy, well-being, and dignity of the participants and
this is how I will make sure my research does so without written consent
for everything...'), it can be an amicable process.

Best wishes to all,

Anne

Anne S. Lewinson [alewinson@berry.edu]
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA  30149-5010   USA
Phone: (706) 236-5094
Fax: (706) 236-2205



-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Elzbieta M
Gozdziak
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:41 PM
To: Patty A. Gray
Cc: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes - Email found in subject

These are wonderful references.  I used them in many of my IRB
applications. One caveat though, NSF has an 'anthropology program' so of
course they understand better anthropological methodologies and
ethnographic methods. A multidisciplinary IRB needs more explanation.
On the other hand, I have learnt a lot from the GU IRB (as well as from
doing multidisciplinary research with collegues from social work,
psychology, etc.) and would not dream of doing a project without going
through an IRB process. I have even incorporated IRB exercises in my
applied and medical anthropology classes because I find that students
are not exposed to questions of research ethics to the extent that they
should be to enter a workforce.

At the SfAAs last week, several of us were talking about organizing a
session for the following AAAs on ethics and IRBs.

Elzbieta

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St NW
Suite 3100
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty A. Gray" <ffpag@uaf.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:11 pm
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB woes

 > There has been a great deal of discussion on this in recent years - I
 > think you will find plenty of support. I would recommend first of all
 > the forum in the November 2006 issue of American Ethnologist (Vol.33,
 > No.4, pp.478-548) titled "IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic
 > Freedom." I would direct you in particular to the article by Deborah
 > Winslow of the National Science Foundation - she demostrates the ways
 > that NSF policy supports ethnographic research, which can be useful
 > ammunition in the face of an IRB dominated by natural scientists who
 > may have difficulty understanding.
 >
 > There is also useful discussions of IRB issues in an article by Edward

 > Bruner in the January 2004 Anthropology News. His advice is to work
 > steadily to educate one's IRB, while remaining cooperative. The goal
 > would be to make sure there is at least one social scientist on your
 > institution's IRB, and indeed if the IRB is reviewing social science
 > protocols, there is a strong case to be made for why social science
 > expertise is needed on the board.
 >
 > At my institution, we are lucky that we have an IRB that includes
 > social scientists and that is very understanding about the nature of
 > social science research. I find that I still have to adapt the
 > biomedically-oriented IRB application form to my own purposes - many
 > questions are simply inappropriate for ethnographic research. In those

 > cases, I first explain what question should have been asked, and then
 > I answer that question. Often what I am proposing in my application
 > exceeds the ethical requirements implied by the original question,
 > such as insisting (with careful and patient explanation) that
 > requiring signed consent forms in some cases would do harm to research

 > "subjects."
 > You are right - most ethnographic studies should be "exempt," i.e.
 > subject only to the minimal IRB review.
 >
 > Hang in there - you really are not alone, and there are resources you
 > can draw upon.
 >
 > Patty Gray
 > University of Alaska Fairbanks
 >
 >
 > 1. IRB vows and woes (Annegret Staiger) I am running into problems
 > with our Institutional Review Board for gettingmy research proposal
 > approved. My institution, which has no social science faculty on its
 > board and is mostly reviewing pscychology, medical and technology
 > research proposals, regards participant observation as a research
 > method that requires a consentforms and a full IRB proposal. This is
 > of course extremely impractical, if not impossible to do when doing
 > field research in a natural setting.  From colleagues I am hearing
 > that theirIRB's are usually providing an exemption for anthropological

 > research,unless it deals with vulnerable populations.
 >
 > Using this forum, I would like to find out how other anthropologists
 > have dealt with their institution's reviewboards and how they have
 > managed to not let the IRB stiffle their research.
 >
 > Annegret Staiger
 > Clarkson University
 >
 > --
 > Dr. Patty A. Gray
 > Assistant Professor
 > Graduate Coordinator
 > Department of Anthropology
 > University of Alaska Fairbanks
 > 312B Eielson Bldg.
 > P.O. Box 757720
 > Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
 > U.S.A.
 > Tel. (907) 474-6188
 > Fax (907) 474-7453
 > http://www.uaf.edu/anthro
 > http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/chukotka.html
 >
 >
 >
 >
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From doug_goldsmith at hotmail.com  Fri Apr  6 05:57:49 2007
From: doug_goldsmith at hotmail.com (Doug Goldsmith)
Date: Fri Apr  6 17:00:29 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]IRB--"ethnic code?"
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Hi Nina,
Good point. But "ethnic code?" If that's not a Freudian slip, maybe it's a 
Boazian, or Malinowskian slip!
All the best,
Doug

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>Hi,
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>A broader issue of the IRB debate is the involvement of anthropologists in 
>CIA research. Our students are being recruited for summer internships as a 
>gateway into the world of secret research. Every ethical issue of concern 
>that is raised by IRBs in the name of federal regulations is violated by 
>secret research . Yet the AAA newsletter announces positions in the CIA and 
>our ethnic code apparently no longer talks about our first responsibility 
>to the people with whom we work. Why do universities allow our students and 
>graduates to be recruited for these positions? Should not this be a concern 
>of our IRB's rather than the exact wording of a questionnaire?
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Nina Glick Schiller
>
>At 12:21 PM 4/5/2007, Josiah Heyman wrote:
>>A version of Stuart Plattner's article on IRBs is one the web at:
>>
>>http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/culturalanthro.pdf
>>
>>It was also published in Anthropological Quarterly,
>>
>>This is courtesy of Dr. Plattner, AQ, and the SfAA Public Policy 
>>Committee.
>>Look at the other links while you are there.
>>
>>http://www.sfaa.net/committees/policy/policy.html
>>
>>Joe Heyman
>>
>>
>>****************************************************************************
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>>Professor of Anthropology
>>Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
>>University of Texas at El Paso
>>500 W. University Ave.
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Apr  6 18:39:19 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr  6 17:41:16 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning
Message-ID: <002f01c77894$0a255460$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning

Location:Ontario, Canada
Deadline: 2007-04-30

Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning
Theme: The Garden in the City
October 18 to 21, 2007

Brock University and Rodman Hall Arts Centre
St. Catharines, Ontario

We welcome submissions for an international and interdisciplinary conference 
on gardens and designed landscapes. Garden space is increasingly recognized 
not only for its horticultural interest, but as an expression of ecological 
and environmental awareness, a venue for social interaction, and a vehicle 
for communicating and disseminating cultural information.

Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning will bring together scholars from all 
disciplines and a wide range of professional landscape architects, urban 
planners, activists and artists to discuss the subject of "The Garden in the 
City." As a living space, the garden is often considered to be the 
antithesis of the urban, built area, yet increasingly cities seek to 
incorporate garden space into their infrastructure as part of their urban 
identity. The conference will explore the ramifications of this development, 
while examining ways in which urban garden space in contemporary and 
historical environments acts a focus for social aspirations and anxieties.

We invite proposals on, but not limited to, the following topics:

.cultural history of urban gardens
.representation and meaning (in text and image) of gardens in the city
.aesthetic and psychological impact of the urban garden
.gardens and urban regeneration (ecology and community)
.programmatic and artists' gardens in the city

The conference will take place at Brock University, nestled in the Niagara 
greenbelt on a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, and Rodman Hall Arts Centre, 
home of the Walker Botanical Garden. Both institutions are located in the 
city of St. Catharines, known as 'The Garden City' and situated near Royal 
Botanical Gardens, the largest in Canada.
Papers will be delivered in English and French. Funds may be available to 
contribute to the expenses of student participants. Selected papers from the 
conference will be published in the peer-reviewed journal, The Brock Review.
Please send abstracts (up to 250 words) and a brief biography to 
greenscapes@brocku.ca by April 30, 2007.

Conference organizers:

Keri Cronin (Visual Arts, Brock University), David Galbraith (Royal 
Botanical Gardens), Sharilyn J. Ingram (School of Fine and Performing Arts, 
Brock University), Leah Knight (English Language and Literature, Brock 
University), Katharine von Stackelberg (Classics, Brock University)
We acknowledge with gratitude the support of the Humanities Research 
Institute at Brock University.

Greenscapes Conference
c/o Dr. Keri Cronin
Department of Visual Arts
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, ON L2T 4C2
CANADA

Email: greenscapes@brocku.ca
Visit the website at http://www.brocku.ca/greenscapes/ 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Apr  6 19:03:04 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr  6 18:04:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Prisons in Critical Perspective, Two Plays Touring Ohio and
 the U.S. (starring Staughton Lynd)
Message-ID: <004501c77897$5c22d550$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

A Critical Look at the Prison-Industrial Complex

In the tradition of the play The Exonerated comes Lucasville: The Untold 
Story
of a Prison Uprising. However, unlike the former death row prisoners in The
Exonerated, the subjects of this play are still sentenced to be executed, 
still pursuing
their appeals, and still struggling against injustice.

"Lucasville" is a moving and powerful theatre presentation, written with the
cooperation of the five men who were sentenced to death for their alleged 
roles in
the 1993 uprising that rocked the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, 
Ohio.
Civil Rights activist and historian, Staughton Lynd, who is the author of 
book
upon which the play is based, will have a cameo role, as a judge, in this
performance.

"Clarence Darrow: The Search for Justice" will engage our government and
justice system in a presentation that trembles with inescapable timeliness. 
This
Darrow is not always the hero or at his best, but with serious legal 
problems of
his own that scarred and haunted him forever. Famous for his work in the
Scopes "Monkey" Trial, Darrow also fought against the death penalty and 
saved
102 men from execution. Gary L. Anderson is nationally renowned as the
actor portraying Darrow. "Anderson's Darrow is in the same league as
Holbrook's Mark Twain." Eureka Times Standard

Both plays are touring cities in Ohio throughout April.

April 11 Portsmouth
April 14 Cincinnati
April 15 Toledo
April 18 Andover
April 21 Columbus
April 22 Athens
April 28 Cleveland
April 29 Youngstown

Seating Prices:
$15 for each show
$12 for each show for students/seniors
$25 for both shows. No one turned away because of inability to pay.

For more information about the plays, or to purchase your ticket online,
call 216-472-2209, or go to the ACLU Ohio website:
http://www.acluohio.org/calendar/view_entry.php?id=32&date=20070428

These two plays are going to tour nationally, after Lucasville's Ohio debut.
If you're interested in bringing the plays to your city, contact Gary 
Anderson at:
americanlegends@sbcglobal.net 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr  7 17:12:31 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr  7 16:13:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: GLOBALIZATION: MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY (Nigeria)
Message-ID: <002f01c77951$1467b040$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

GLOBALIZATION: MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY
Conference Dates: November 6-9, 2007
Conference Venue:University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Submission of Abstracts:April 30, 2007


Globalization challenges traditional concepts of identity, nationalism, and
democracy. it requires new perspectives on migration, integration,
negotiation, and reaction. Contradictorily, globalization has been linked to
regional integration, conflict, development and starvation, prosperity and
instability.  Aided by advances in technology, globalization has expanded
and accelerated the movement of people, ideas, capital and commodities
worldwide.  Accompanied by unprecedented and dramatic increases in
population, agricultural production, industrialization, and trade, it has
placed severe stress on the natural environment and availability of natural
resources (Global Policy Forum,
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/). And while one-half of
income worldwide is now generated by trade among nations, 1.3 billion people
are living on less than one dollar a day and 3 billion people, or half the
population of the world, live on less than two dollars a day (Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, Globalization: A View from Below).
Inequality inhibits growth and undermines good public policy, collective
decision making, and social institutions critical to healthy democratic
societies. While there is a real need for new and improved global rules and
regulatory arrangements to provide for public goods, protect the global
environment, manage global financial risks, and discourage anti-competitive
processes, global rules have tended to reflect the interests of the rich
rather than give voice or votes to poorer countries and people (Center for
Global Development,
http://www.cgdev.org/doc/commentary/birdsall/WIDERlecture_inequality.pdf)

Is globalization synonymous with the spread of liberal democracy and free
market capitalism? Or is it oppressive, exploitive and a variant of
imperialism? Are local communities helpless against global forces or
empowered by new avenues of access? Globalization challenges traditional
concepts of identity, nationalism, and democracy. It requires new
perspectives on migration, integration, negotiation, and reaction.
Contradictorily, globalization has been linked to regional integration and
conflict, development and starvation, prosperity and instability. There is
an upsurge in the struggle for rights and recognition from groups unsettled
by the rapid changes of this new global era. Everywhere, mobility, identity
and citizenship are generating mounting tensions while untracked and
undocumented migrations are often identified with crime and terrorism.

How are peoples' allegiances aligned? With their country, employer, local
ethnic community, religion? How are the newly emerging cross-national and
cross-generational umbilical relationships serving communities back home in
the migrants' place of origin? Why does a simple piece of cloth, wrapped
around a woman's head (the hijab) evoke strongly different views and
emotions? Is the rush to find ever cheaper goods and services advanced at
the expense of decent living wages?  What is meant by fair trade?

Sharp contrasts exist between the economic gains of globalization and the
social and political problems it has engendered. New conceptual frameworks
are needed that recognize the "loosening" trend of globalization but also
acknowledge the "tightening" pressures experiences by those unable or
unwilling to participate. These and other questions shall be addressed by
this conference.  The organizers welcome cutting-edge research and
insights,and deep reflections from a variety of perspectives.

Sub-themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

Conceptual issues on Globalization, migration, citizenship and identity
Migration, forced migration, and Diasporas
Ethnicity and ethnic studies vs. globalism
Race and migration myths and stereotypes
Legal and illegal immigrations
Religion, religious issues, new religious movements
Nationalisms, patriotism, and exclusion
Citizenship: civic; community; group; ethnic; cultural
Borders, borderland studies
International movement of capital and labor
Homelands, migration, diasporas and multiple identities
International organizations and global trade
Gender issues in Globalization, migration, and identity
National language debates: unilingualism, bilingualism, or multilingualism
Policy issues: national, regional, international
Conflict, civil wars / genocide
Issues in modern economic migrations within nations
Business and economic issues in globalization
Cultural relations/practices
Governments, leadership and governance

Submission of Abstracts

Interested participants are requested to send an abstract of less than 250
words describing the focus of their papers or panel, the central argument
and the methodology employed. If proposing a panel, please submit the title
and abstract for each paper along with the names and institutional
affiliation of panelists. Whether a paper or a panel, all proposals must
have personal information such as name, institutional affiliation, position
or title, contact phone numbers and/or e-mail address.

Abstracts may be submitted in hard copy or electronically. If the latter,
please save your document in Word or RTF format and send as an e-mail
attachment. In the subject line, please type "Globalization Conference."
Abstracts may be sent to the conference organizer by post or e-mail at the
addresses below.  The language of the conference will be English. Accepted
papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Global
Initiatives after presentation at the conference.

Acceptance of Papers: Those whose papers are accepted will be notified by
May 30, 2007.
Preliminary Programme and other details will become available by September
30, 2007.

Partners:
Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Institute for Global Initiatives, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
Southeast World History Association, USA

Conference Contacts:

(1) Dr. Olutayo Charles Adesina, Department of History, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.Phone: 234-8023151255
(Mobile);234-2-7518427 (Office)  Emails: uihistoryconference@yahoo.com,
olutayo27@yahoo.com
(2)Ms. Maggie Scott, Institute for Global Initiatives, Kennesaw State Univ.,
Georgia, USA, GA 30144  Email: vbonill1@kennesaw.edu

Visit the website at
http://www.kennesaw.edu/globalinstitute/globalizationconf.html

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Apr 10 13:10:38 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 10 12:17:58 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Crime and Urban Communities in 20th C. Mexico City (Columbia U)
Message-ID: <006d01c77b8b$893b8b80$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Janina Franco  <jaf2126@columbia.edu>

INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON THE CITY
Thursday April 26, 2007

Speaker: Pablo Piccato, Columbia University
Talk: "Crime and Urban Communities in Twentieth-Century Mexico City"

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
Chair: Lisa Keller, SUNY-Purchase

Please rsvp for dinner and the talk via e-mail
(jaf2126@columbia.edu).

Thank you!

-----

I will attend the dinner on 28 March        Yes___  No___
I will attend the seminar on 28 March       Yes___  No___

****RSVP by Monday 23 April ****
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Apr 10 13:29:03 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 10 12:31:28 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Lukalo, Extended Handshake or Wrestling Match? Youth and Urban
 Culture Celebrating Politics in Kenya
Message-ID: <00c201c77b8d$6acaa8a0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

H-NET BOOK REVIEW

Fibian Kavulani Lukalo. Extended Handshake or Wrestling Match? Youth and 
Urban Culture Celebrating Politics in Kenya. Uppsala: Nordiska 
Afrikainstitutet, 2006. 65 pp. ISBN 91-7106-567-9.

Reviewed for H-Urban by James R. Brennan <jb2@soas.ac.uk>, 
Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, 
University of London.

Youth and Urban Culture in Contemporary Kenya

In this idiosyncratic little book, Fibian Kavulani Lukalo examines how 
urban youth carve out niches of social inclusion within the unwelcoming 
political landscape of contemporary Kenya. The author does this by 
paying close attention to the sorts of cultural innovations in music and 
satirical print media that enable young urban men and women to create 
political space denied them by a heavy-handed and largely corrupt 
government. The music of Kenyan youths in the late 1990s was not simply 
an exercise in hedonism, the author argues, but something that clearly 
addressed and emphasized "the paradoxes in the lives of ordinary 
Kenyans", and worked to create a popular culture "as a counter-hegemonic 
process"(p. 9). Youth agitation thus sought to hold political leaders 
accountable. It is an attractive argument, but one that is asserted 
rather than demonstrated.

Lukalo begins with the observation that much of Africa's political 
protest in the 1990s emerged "primarily in urban settings" (p. 9). The 
author contextualizes this stormy period in Kenya's history, when 
then-President Daniel arap Moi came under withering criticisms for 
endemic corruption and stoking ethnic tensions, with a useful overview 
of the period's grim political history since independence. As media 
controls loosened in the 1990s, the arena for public dissent grew in 
like proportion, providing the new spaces for young urban artists to 
articulate dissent. The book's first and longest chapter provides a 
sharp synopsis of the music scene in Kenya's capital of Nairobi, and the 
decisive role that political patronage played throughout its history. 
Lukalo also shows how youth have driven the city's linguistic 
innovations, in both the regional lingua franca of Kiswahili as well as 
specifically Nairobian "Sheng", a mixture of Swahili grammar with 
several English, Kikuyu, and Luo loanwords. While the material discussed 
here as elsewhere is nearly always interesting, the guiding argument 
generally is not, for it comes down to variations on the manta-like 
assertion that "youth popular culture and music presents [sic] a 
distinct youth identity" (p. 34). This constant retreat into assertions 
about youth identity prevents the reader from judging just what 
significance Nairobi's urban youth culture actually poses to political 
power. The final two chapters offer short portraits of how Christian and 
hip-hop musical artists have increasingly taken up the issue of 
government corruption and ultimately proved themselves willing to 
confront Moi, yet it is not clear what direct role they played in the 
2002 electoral victory against his chosen successor. Nonetheless the 
book does give a strong sense of the ubiquity of urban youth's anger 
with corruption, and the creative and often humorous ways in which this 
frustration gets expressed.

This is a book about urban culture rather than urbanization, with the 
latter mainly understood as an abstract process that precipitates ever 
more interesting cultural and political developments. "Urban" here 
simply refers to geographical location, in this case the city of 
Nairobi. The book is more useful in dissecting the patronage networks 
that create, sustain, and tear apart relationships between Kenyan's 
national political elite and its artists, a subject of great importance 
that calls for more research. The book imparts a flavour of Nairobi's 
vital music and print culture, which hopefully will inspire interested 
readers to pursue this subject further. In summary, this book will be 
useful for those interested in the relationship between popular culture 
and politics in contemporary East Africa, in particular the role and 
work of Kenya's creative young artists.

Copyright (c) 2007 by H-Net, all rights reserved. This work may be 
copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the 
author and the list. For other permission, please contact 
H-Net@H-Net.Msu.Edu <mailto:H-Net@H-Net.Msu.Edu>.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Apr 11 13:37:27 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Apr 11 12:42:26 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants Conference
 (Brussels)
Message-ID: <007101c77c58$3e9f9300$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear colleagues,

PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented 
Migrants, in cooperation with EUROCITIES, will hold an International 
Conference in Brussels on 28-29 June  2007 on Access to health care 
for undocumented migrants in Europe:

This conference, organized within the framework of the EU project 
"Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants", aims to bring 
together NGOs, local authorities, health care providers, policy makers, 
researchers and other professionals to discuss the health care challenges 
facing undocumented migrants. This event will provide a forum to share 
creative examples and strategies to address the problems associated 
with insufficient access to health care for undocumented migrants in Europe.

Draft programs and registration forms are available on PICUM's website 
(www.picum.org). Registration EUR 10 (including lunch & refreshments) is 
open till 15 June 2007. We look forward to your participation in this event 
and we urge you to disseminate this invitation widely among your contact 
network.

Best wishes,

Sara Collantes (Project Officer)
Eve Geddie (Project Assistant)
PICUM - Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
 Gaucheretstraat 164 1030 Brussels Belgium
 tel. +32/2/274.14.58 fax +32/2/274.14.48
email: eve.geddie@picum.org
http://www.picum.org

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

Chers coll?gues,

PICUM,  la Plate-forme pour la Coop?ration Internationale concernant les
Sans-Papiers, organise en coop?ration avec EUROCITIES, une conf?rence
internationale ? Bruxelles les 28 et 29 Juin 2007 sur le th?me de l'acc?s
aux soins de sant? pour les migrants sans-papiers:

Cette conf?rence, organis?e dans le cadre du Projet UE de 'acc?s aux soins
de sant? des migrants sans-papiers', a pour objectif de rassembler des ONGs,
autorit?s locales, fournisseurs de soins, responsables politiques,
chercheurs et autres professionnels pour discuter des d?fis li?s aux soins
de sant? auxquels sont confront?s migrants sans papiers. Cet ?v?nement
offrira un forum pour partager des exemples cr?atifs et des strat?gies
d?velopp?es pour faire face aux probl?mes li?s ? un acc?s insuffisant aux
soins de sant? des migrants sans-papiers en Europe.

Vous trouverez ci-joint le programme provisoire et le formulaire d'
inscription, ?galement disponibles sur le site de PICUM (www.picum.org). L'
inscription ?10 (y compris dej?uner et boissons) restera ouverte jusqu'au 15
Juin 2007. Nous serions ravis que vous participiez ? cet ?v?nement. Nous
vous prions de diss?miner largement cette information.

Bien cordialement,

Sara Collantes (Responsable projet)
Eve Geddie (Assistante projet)
PICUM - Plate-forme pour la Coop?ration Internationale concernant les
Sans-Papiers
Rue de Gaucheret 164 1030 Brussels Belgium
tel. +32/2/274.14.58 fax +32/2/274.14.48
couriel: eve.geddie@picum.org
http://www.picum.org
From veronius at rambler.ru  Wed Apr 11 12:31:34 2007
From: veronius at rambler.ru (Veronica Usachyova)
Date: Wed Apr 11 22:54:43 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AFRICA AND THE WORLD: Intercultural Communication,
 Interpersonal Relations and Governmental Politics
Message-ID: <1140686416.1176276694.159328028.81917@mcgi36.rambler.ru>

CFP: SEEKING PANELISTS FOR 11th CONFERENCE of AFRICANISTS
?AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT: possibilities and constraints?
22-24 May, 2008 Moscow, Russia

If you are interested in participating in the panel below, please 
contact
Veronica Usacheva at veronuis@rambler.ru

AFRICA AND THE WORLD: Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal 
Relations and Governmental Politics

Among the Panel's goals is to reveal the images of Africa and Africans 
in the non-Africans' consciousness on the one hand, and those of the 
non-African countries and peoples in the Africans' consciousness on the 
other, as well as the images' mutual influence. The Panel conveners? 
basic premise is that the images of other cultures influence crucially 
the attitude to those cultures representatives. In particular, the 
images of Africa and Africans play a fundamental part in the shaping of 
public opinion toward immigrants. Owe to them the stereotype visions of 
people of other races are formed and reproduced, they influence directly 
the practice of the relations with them. The role of mediators and 
regulators in the relations between a country's racial majority and 
immigrant communities is to be played by the civil society and the state 
that pursue policy in the legal, economic, cultural, educational, 
information, and other spheres.
Although papers on any country will be considered non-discriminatively, 
those examining the postsocialist states are especially welcomed. The 
Eastern and Central European countries have not got such a long-lasting 
and contradictory experience of interaction with the Africans as the 
West; the experience that by present had resulted in firm establishment 
of diaspora communities there. However, nowadays the process of the 
African diasporas formation is on there, though this process has not 
been pinpointed and studied sufficiently yet. Nevertheless, it does 
deserve special attention, as there are grounds for expecting the growth 
in the inflow of Africans to the postsocialist countries and eventual 
formation (socio-cultural and institutional) of their communities there. 
In the meantime, the ?closed? nature of the socialist societies, the 
difficulties of the transitional period reforms predetermine the 
problems in communication between the Africans and Eastern and Central 
Europeans, the specific features of the situation with the forming 
diasporas in the respective states and of their probable position in the 
accepting societies.
Thus, the basic problems to be discussed in the panel include (but may 
not be limited to):
- The historical backgrounds for the formation of the images of Africa 
and Africans in the world (especially in Eastern and Central Europe) on 
the one hand, and of those of non-African countries and peoples in 
Africa on the other;
- The specific features and historical dynamics of these images in 
different African and world areas;
- The specific features of the African diasporas formation processes, 
the diasporas' socio-cultural integration in the postsocialist states 
compared to those of the West;
- ?White? and ?black? racism in the context of intercultural 
communication and interpersonal relations in contemporary world;
- The role of the civil society, government, and mass media in the other 
cultures images' shaping;
- The ways of, and possibilities for, providing tolerance in the 
relations between a country's population majority and the immigrants;
- The role the other cultures images and the phenomenon of African 
diasporas has been playing in the different nations' foreign policy from 
the time of decolonization to present.

Paper proposals are due on November 1, 2007, and should be no more than 
300 words in English, accompanied  by the information includes full 
name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, 
and fax #. Full papers (up to 5000 words) expected by March 15, 2008. 
The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.


Convenors: Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Dr. Veronica V. Usacheva 
(Department of Cultural Anthropology, Center for Civilizational and 
Regional Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of 
Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka st., 123001 Moscow, Russia; Tel.: + 7 495 
291 4119; Fax: + 7 495 202 07 86; E-mails: dbondar@hotmail.com, 
veronius@rambler.ru)


From torin.monahan at asu.edu  Wed Apr 11 22:28:36 2007
From: torin.monahan at asu.edu (Torin Monahan)
Date: Thu Apr 12 14:07:19 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Surveillance and Inequality (deadline: July 15, 2007)
Message-ID: <20070412043112.PMWM1271.fed1rmmtao104.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>

[appologies for cross-posting]

Surveillance & Society ? Call for Papers
Special Issue on Surveillance and Inequality: Issue 5(4)

(Guest editors: Torin Monahan and Jill A. Fisher)

Publication date: December 2007

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2007

Many domains of social life are being 
transfigured by new technologies of 
identification, monitoring, tracking, data 
analysis, and control.  The lived experiences of 
people subjected to surveillance, however, can 
vary widely along lines of race, class, gender, 
sexual orientation, age, and nationality.  This 
can be seen with the enforcement of different 
types of mobilities for different categories of 
people, whether at borders, on city streets, or 
on the Internet.  It can also be observed with 
the increasingly invasive monitoring and 
discipline of those accessing public services, 
such as welfare, public education, or healthcare, 
especially in the U.S.  It can be perceived in 
security-screening and police-profiling 
practices, which continue to rely upon racial 
markers of ?risk.?  Or inequality can be found in 
the uneven treatment of individuals by insurance 
providers, credit agencies, service centers, or 
other commercial entities.  Regardless of the 
domain, new surveillance systems appear to 
amplify existing social inequalities and 
establish rationales for increased control of marginalized groups in societies.

The journal Surveillance & Society is seeking 
papers that examine issues of surveillance and 
inequality.  The editors are especially 
interested in research papers that address the 
differential effects of surveillance upon 
marginalized and privileged social 
groups.  Whereas surveillance studies inquiry 
often begins with technology as a starting point 
for analysis, we welcome papers that start with 
descriptions of power relations in any social 
settings and then move to illustrate the role of 
surveillance technologies or practices in the 
regulation of those settings.  We further 
encourage contributions that theorize the 
relationship of the political economy to 
surveillance and inequality, whether by attending 
to globalization processes, neoliberal policies, 
or military operations.  Finally, we are also 
quite interested in papers that seek to 
demonstrate or theorize the empowering potential 
of surveillance systems to correct social inequalities.

Possible papers could investigate the role of surveillance in:

    * The regulation of gender or status relations in places of employment.
    * Socio-spatial segregation in cities, 
suburbs, exurbs, or rural communities.
    * The restructuring or elimination of public 
programs and spaces (or citizen rights) by 
neoliberal policies ? which could include a focus 
on schools, welfare, healthcare, voting, etc.
    * Racial or ethnic profiling by police, 
security personnel, or immigration agents.
    * The enforcement of differential mobilities 
(along with inquiry into the relationship of 
mobilities to the life chances and well-being of travelers).
    * The automatic prioritizing of services, 
rights, and mobilities in software-sorted service domains.
    * The control of women?s bodies, especially in regard to reproduction.
    * Monitoring of children or the elderly ? or 
the monitoring of those charged with taking care of them.
    * The militarization of borders and the 
corresponding dangers faced by undocumented immigrants, refugees, and others.

Submissions should be sent electronically to 
Emily Smith, at smithea@post.queensu.ca by 15 
July 2007 with a publication date of December 2007.

We welcome full academic papers, opinion pieces, 
review pieces, poetry, artistic, and audio-visual 
submissions.  Submissions will undergo a 
peer-review and revision process prior to 
publication.  Submissions should be original 
work, neither previously published nor under 
consideration for publication elsewhere.  All 
references to previous work by contributors 
should be masked in the text (e.g., ?Author, 
2007?).  Please see: 
www.surveillance-and-society.org/call.htm for further submission guidelines.

Torin Monahan
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
School of Justice & Social Inquiry
torin.monahan@asu.edu | www.torinmonahan.com  
From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Wed Apr 11 16:38:00 2007
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Thu Apr 12 14:08:01 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Remember to Vote
Message-ID: <200704121025.l3CAPjS1031930@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To: SUNTA members

Please remember to vote. It is now an
online system located right on the main
AAA web page at

http://www.aaanet.org

The one background point I would make
is that the bylaws change noted on the
ballot is one that is unanimously
supported by the full SUNTA board. We
believe it is a better way to manage the
Leeds prize process by having a non-voting
program chair who can focus on ensuring the
timeliness of the review process and also
provide some continuity over a multi-year
period.

Usual best regards,

David Haines
SUNTA President


From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Apr 13 15:28:00 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 13 14:29:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Land grab puts bounty on fertile farmland
Message-ID: <01da01c77df9$79f13c90$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Land grab puts bounty on fertile farmland
Peace River region building boom leads to selloff of prime agricultural 
locations
HARDY FRIEDRICH
Canadian Press

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. -- The rising value of B.C. agricultural land is 
decreasing the amount of available farmland.
Farm Credit Canada says B.C.'s farmland led the country with an 8.2-per-cent 
increase in value in the latter half of 2006.
The first half of the year saw a 10-per-cent increase.
But the rising prices are also placing uneven pressure on area producers. 
The farmland surrounding Fort St. John and Dawson Creek -- designated as 
class 2 -- is the most fertile of the region outside of the class 1 land in 
the Peace Valley. Land becomes less productive toward class 5.
While land closer to town is fetching a high price for residential living, 
the less-fertile rural land, which cannot be subdivided into quarter 
sections, is losing value.
"The best farmland is divided into quarter sections and is being turned into 
country estates, and we have class 5 land that's very marginal and the 
[Agricultural Land Commission] won't allow that land to be subdivided into 
quarters, when in actuality the land that should be used as the country 
estates is the poor land further out," said Larry Peterson, owner of Peace 
River Farm and Ranch Sales Ltd.
"It's the farmers that are bearing the burden."
Combined with increased costs of production, low commodity prices, last 
year's drought and the ravaging of crops by wildlife, many area producers 
have fallen on tough times.
"A lot of the farmers are just giving up farming, or they have to have 
another job to farm," Mr. Peterson said. "Very few farmers that I know are 
strictly farming for a living."
There are bright spots on the horizon for agriculture in the Peace, 
including a national interest in biofuel production, but the chairwoman of 
the Peace River Regional District worries about having the farmland 
available to capitalize on that.
"I think it is really time to be serious about the protection of agriculture 
land, and I don't think we want to waste any time because we're not making 
any more [farmland]. Are we going to wait until our farmland is gone?" Karen 
Goodings asked.
While the footprint [area of land] the oil and gas industry leaves on 
agricultural land is regulated, the amount eaten up by urbanization is an 
issue that isn't receiving enough attention, she said.
"Let's say you buy a quarter section [65 hectares] of land simply because 
you want to live out in the country and you put that home in a place where 
it makes it more difficult to actually farm around it -- that has an impact 
on agricultural land around it."
Climate change due to global warming is a further concern that could limit 
the amount of available agricultural land in the future, Ms. Goodings said. 

From l_guevarra at ucpress.edu  Fri Apr 13 12:42:38 2007
From: l_guevarra at ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Sat Apr 14 12:47:05 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: Brewing Justice
Message-ID: <p0623091cc2457f9ea17f@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L:



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

Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival

Daniel Jaffee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University.

http://go.ucpress.edu/JaffeeBrewing

"_Brewing Justice_ is a pioneering study of the variety of fair trade 
movements; a prospectus for a more radical vision of fair trade-an 
alternative sort of market; and a vital contribution to contemporary 
debates over free trade, the global agro-food system and the 
so-called 'movement of movements'. A tour de force."-Michael Watts, 
University of California, Berkeley


Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring 
better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the 
world. But is it working? This vivid and detailed study of coffee 
farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the 
social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade.

Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/JaffeeBrewing


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


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 14 13:49:22 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 14 12:57:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Institute for Advanced Study, 2008-09 Fellowships
Message-ID: <001501c77eb5$cf7f3830$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Institute for Advanced Study
2008-2009 Fellowships
Deadline: November 15, 2007

Each year, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study 
in Princeton, NJ, invites fifteen to twenty scholars to be in residence for 
the full academic year to pursue their own research. The School welcomes 
applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology and 
anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an historical and 
humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, 
literary criticism, literature and linguistics. Applicants must have a Ph.D. 
at time of application. Each year there is a general thematic focus that 
provides common ground for roughly half the scholars; for 2008-2009 the 
focus will be Social Norms and Cooperation. The application deadline is 
November 15, 2007. Applications must be submitted through the Institute's 
online application system, which can be found, along with more information, 
at www.sss.ias.edu/applications.


Donne Petito
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
Email: donne@ias.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sss.ias.edu/applications 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 14 13:54:17 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 14 12:57:44 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Sea Change: historical responses to new and renewed urban landscapes
Message-ID: <001601c77eb5$cfd9b440$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers

Sea Change: historical responses to new and renewed urban landscapes

Deadline: June 1, 2007

Sea Change: historical responses to new and renewed urban landscapes
9th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference
Caloundra Qld Australia 5-7 February 2008

Recent demographic shifts from the metropolis to coastal regions give this 
conference its focus. Organisors welcome papers on any aspect of urban or 
planning history but are especially interested in papers which explore 
planning histories of tourist landscapes architectural histories of 
ex-metropolitan growth histories of the 'new' in regional expansion the 
waterfront and post-industrial urbanism.

Send abstracts of 250 words as email attachment:

subject line ABSTRACT: UHPH08   to: cmcconvi@usc.edu.au

For further details contact Chris McConville:

Dr Chris McConville
Environment and Planning
University of the Sunshine Coast
Maroochydore DC
Queensland
Australia
61 7 54915 713
Email: cmcconvi@usc.edu.au 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 14 21:44:00 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 14 20:45:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: William R. Ginsberg Fellowships
Message-ID: <006201c77ef7$2bc4ad00$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Jeffrey Otto <jotto@chpcny.org>

The Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York announces:

The William R. Ginsberg Fellowships

Established in 2007, the William R. Ginsberg Fellowships are designed to
encourage public service and civic engagement for two key groups of
talented professionals: senior practitioners and policy makers, and recent
college graduates or graduate students.

The Fellowships provide support for original research and the opportunity
to explore new ideas and practices. Areas of research and empirical study
should be designed to improve the quality of life in NYC's neighborhoods
by focusing on housing, the urban environment and open space, education,
transportation, land use and zoning, or community development.

William R. Ginsberg was a pioneering environmental lawyer, NYC Parks
Commissioner, teacher, mentor, and tireless advocate on behalf of NYC's
civic life, the built environment, and the preservation of open space. He
served on the board of CHPC for more than four decades.

The Fellowship is supported by a generous gift from William R. Ginsberg
and his family.

Promoting a Prosperous and Livable City Since 1937 70th Anniversary 1937-2007

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT CHPC at info@chpcny.org or download applications
at www.chpcny.org

The William R. Ginsberg Fellowships

William R. Ginsberg was committed to both public service and civic
engagement in his long career in government, law, and academia. The
William R. Ginsberg Fellowship is intended to encourage careers in public
service and to advance research and creative thinking to improve the
quality of life in NYC neighborhoods.

The Senior Practitioner Fellowship

The Senior Practitioner Fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity
for original research and the development of new ideas by experienced
practitioners and policy makers for up to one year.  Practitioners with at
least 10 years experience in government, law, academia or not-for-profit
sector are eligible to apply. Areas of research and empirical study should
focus on housing, the urban environment and open space, education,
transportation, land use and zoning, or community development.

We will work with the selected applicant to finalize a research study and
obtain funding. Technical assistance, office space, archival access and
other support will be provided. The Fellow will have the opportunity to
present the research at a practitioners' forum organized by CHPC or one of
its partners. CHPC will publish the research results and disseminate the
findings to its network of board members and industry associates.

The Student Professional Fellowship

Students who have recently completed undergraduate or graduate work in
public policy, urban planning, environmental studies, architecture, urban
studies, or related subjects or those pursuing a graduate or post graduate
degree may apply. The Fellowship is available for Fall, Spring, or Summer
semester. A stipend will be provided.

The Student Professional Fellowship is intended to encourage public
service and civic participation.  The Fellowship will provide
opportunities to assist our Senior Practitioner Fellow with research, work
on CHPC projects, and will provide exposure to a broad range of
disciplines through contact with our Board of Directors. A research/work
experience program will be created that provides the Fellow with tangible
projects and varied experiences with developers, not-for-profit leaders,
zoning and land use experts, bankers, architects, planners, and lawyers
involved in housing and community development.

CHPC Promoting a prosperous and livable New York since 1937 www.chpcny.org

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

CHPC at info@chpcny.org

or download application at

www.chpcny.org

Founded in 1937, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC) is a
non-profit policy research organization dedicated to improving housing and
neighborhood conditions through cooperative efforts of the public and
private sectors.

CHPC's large and diverse Board of Directors comprises for-profit and
not-for-profit real estate developers, bankers, attorneys, architects,
planners, and academics.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Apr 16 13:20:44 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 16 12:22:57 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Gender Violence Prevention Grants
Message-ID: <001801c78043$3d9927c0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Ms. Foundation for Women Invites Applications for Safety Grants

Deadline: May 24, 2007

The Ms. Foundation for Women (http://www.ms.foundation.org/) has announced a 
call for proposals in the area of gender violence prevention.  The 
foundation is seeking proposals from grassroots groups with an organizing 
approach to gender violence prevention.  Areas of particular interest 
include community-driven strategies that challenge gender violence on a 
systemic level, child sexual abuse/incest prevention, and prevention 
strategies that transform gender roles.  Organizations seeking grant awards 
must utilize community-centered strategies driven by a race/class/gender 
analysis.

Complete grant guidelines are available at the foundation's Web site.
RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10006954/msfoundation
For additional RFPs in Women, visit: 
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_women.jhtml 

From durban2007 at towardanafricawithoutborders.org  Sun Apr 15 20:58:59 2007
From: durban2007 at towardanafricawithoutborders.org (Toward an Africa Without Borders)
Date: Mon Apr 16 12:31:22 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Toward an Africa Without Borders' 3rd International Conference
 - From Theory to Practice
Message-ID: <W670277561292301176667139@webmail28>

Toward an Africa Without Borders Conference? 2007: From Theory to Practice
July 5-8, 2007 - Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

***CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1, 2007***

The Toward an Africa Without Borders organizing committee invites scholars and activists from all disciplines and professions to submit abstracts or panel proposals for consideration for our third international conference to be held in Durban, South Africa July 5-8, 2007. The conference features keynote speakers Horace Campbell, Andile Mngxitama, and Chengiah Rogers Ragaven. Toward an Africa Without Borders is dedicated to opening borders, both physical and metaphorical, and to promoting unity and solidarity between groups in the Diaspora and Africa by facilitating strategic alliances and discussions that lead to partnerships for positive action in the name of Pan-Africanism. 

The conference will consist of various panels and round-table discussions, and will highlight four Featured Panels. 

Featured Panels:**

Activism Across Borders 
How can activism [and scholarship] cross and break down borders, be they geographic borders or borders dividing gender, class, language, ethnicity, religion, age, etc.? What are the benefits or drawbacks of conceptualizing activism in terms of such ?borders??

Africa & the Media: Borders of Perception
How do media affect the perception of Africa in both Africa and the Diaspora? How can international and domestic African media work to expand understanding or facilitate cooperation? What is the role of state and journalist control/censorship in this process?

Pan-Africanism: Theory and Practice
How can Pan-African ideas and theories be put into practice in today?s Africa? How can Pan-African theory facilitate positive action and collaboration throughout Africa and the Diaspora? What are the benefits and/or pitfalls of Pan-Africanism in the context of activism and scholarship?

South Africa?s Role in Africa and the World
How does the idea of "South African Exceptionalism" complement or impair the Pan-Africanist agenda? Is South African Exceptionalism a myth or reality? How does South Africa's role within SADC and the African continent affect issues such as immigration and domestic and foreign policy, in general? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the model of social change employed by South Africa post liberation?

**If you would like your abstract to be considered for one of the featured panels, please clearly indicate that on your submission.

In addition to these featured panels, the conference welcomes scholars and activists to discuss such issues as, but not limited to:

Arts/performance & Pan-Africanism
What role does culture play in today?s Pan-African movement? How can the arts and performance better serve to bridge Pan-African ideology and activism? How effectively does art bring politics to the people and vice versa?

Literature of Africa and the Diaspora
What recent and historical works of African and Diaspora literature contribute to Pan-Africanism? How is contemporary literature mobilizing a new vision of Pan-African identity and politics? What borders are constructed between continental and Diaspora artists regarding these issues? Do writers in Europe and the United States share the same conception of Pan-Africanism as their continental peers? 

African Women: Struggle and Strength
What role do African and Diaspora women play in the struggle toward an Africa without borders? What challenges do they face? What strengths do they contribute?

Language and Africa
How does language factor into the Pan-African debate today? Do linguistic and language barriers pose viable threats to Pan-African possibilities, or should linguistic diversity be embraced? How practical and how problematic is English as the lingua franca of the Pan-African movement? How accessible ? and how relevant ? is Pan-African discourse to the general public?

Globalization, Africa, and the Diaspora
What is Africa?s role in globalization? How has globalization altered Africa and the Diaspora? Has it been for better or worse? Does globalization build or erase borders? Where does Pan-Africanism stand in relation to other models of global identity, nationhood and/or belonging?

Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora
What is the role of religion, ethnicity, and/or identity in erecting or destroying borders in Africa and the Diaspora? How can these concepts contribute or detract from cooperation, understanding, and collaboration between peoples? How can these borders be negotiated to end genocide in Africa?

Africa and Foreign Relations
What is the impact of African nations? foreign policy on cooperation and understanding across geographic borders? How can Africa benefit from improved and continued partnerships with not only the West, but also the Middle East and Asia?

Health and Medicine in Africa
What are the borders affecting improvements in health care and medicine distribution/availability in Africa? How can breaking down these divisions help Africa cope with and eliminate the major health issues affecting the continent?

Africa and the Environment
How can Africa work to improve the environment? What is Africa?s role in the global climate crisis? What is the impact of environmental change on African peoples?

Refugees, Immigration, and Pan-Africanism 
How can applying the ideas and ideals of Pan-Africanism assist the continent and the Diaspora in dealing with refugee and immigration issues?

Government Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Development
What are the roles of these organizations in development projects in Africa? What are the borders that affect their work? How can re-conceptualizing these various borders better facilitate their work?

Emerging Global Powers in Africa
What role do emerging global powers, such as China and India, and their growing economic involvement, play in Africa? How does this new involvement compare with previous involvement of ?traditional imperialists?? What is the impact of this involvement on African-based initiatives for trade, development, social and political advancement?

African Sexuality
Are gender and sexuality the least porous of African frontiers? What are the borders that prevent the acknowledgment or acceptance of homosexuality in Africa? Does Pan-Africanism have a role in eliminating sexualized borders, and if so, what is that role? What affect will South Africa's marriage inclusion law have upon sexual identities across the continent? How does Pan-Africanism benefit or deter the discussion of sexuality in Africa?

Submission of abstracts & activists? proposals for discussion topics: Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, and should include the author's name, title, affiliation, and full address (including telephone, fax, and e-mail). Activists are strongly encouraged to submit proposals for round-table discussions on these and related topics. Please visit our web site - www.towardanafricawithoutborders.org - for more information and to submit abstracts and proposals online. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at Durban2007@towardanafricawithoutborders.org, or call Denise St. Clair at 608-226-0535. If you are unable to access the web site, you can also submit proposals by mailing them to Toward an Africa Without Borders, c/o Denise St. Clair, 4518 Maher Avenue, Madison, WI, 53716. Or, you can fax them to 608-694-4118.

Deadline for submission: MAY 1, 2007




From ucfalbw at ucl.ac.uk  Tue Apr 17 18:43:11 2007
From: ucfalbw at ucl.ac.uk (Lauren Wagner)
Date: Tue Apr 17 14:35:40 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for submissions - New blog on migration
Message-ID: <58C4CAC7-F77E-4211-A9DA-74F2D1624F3F@ucl.ac.uk>

apologies for cross postings.
ANNOUNCING:

INTER-SECTIONS
intersections.wordpress.com

a new blog on migration, past and present, in all its forms -  
refugee, diaspora, exile, return, temporary, labour, tourist - and  
related issues of identity and community organisation

Our mission: to provide a moderated forum for sharing ideas,  
impressions, commentaries, reactions, and announcements from scholars  
alongside community voices. Submissions to Inter-sections might  
include text, sound, images or video and can be any length from one  
paragraph to a working paper (suggested length: 1000-1500 words). The  
site is intended not as a peer-reviewed journal, but as a community  
resource and space for dialogue.

For our inaugural edition, we are inviting Submissions that offer  
reflections on and reactions to Recent Public Events on migration.  
Subjects might include:

RECENT:

- 'Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees', exhibition at the Museum  
of London, 26 October 2006 - 25 February 2007 http:// 
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/Belonging/

- 'Diaspora, Migration and Identities' postgraduate conference in  
Leeds, 13-14 December 2006 http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/Postgrad% 
20Page.htm

- Exhibitions about the slave trade and its abolition (eg. Slave  
Britain Exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral, 'Uncomfortable Truths' at  
the V&A, Re-opening of the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull) http:// 
www.slavebritain.org.uk/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/uncomfortable_truths/index.html

http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/wilberforce_house.html

- 'Neo-colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language and  
Discourse in the Construction of Identities' conference, 23-24  
February 2007, University of London http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/ 
conf_neocolonial1.htm

- Refugee Council conference on the future of asylum in the UK, 7  
March 2007 http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2007/march/ 
20070307.htm

- 'Identity Formation', postgraduate conference, 4 April 2007, School  
of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester  
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Conferences/Identityformation/

FORTHCOMING:

- Symposium on Refugee Narratives, 20 April 2007 http://www.uel.ac.uk/ 
cnr/documents/SymposiumonRefugeeNarratives.doc



Please send all work to intersectionsblog@gmail.com no later than  
Friday 4 May 2007.
If you are submitting larger media files, please compress as much as  
possible or provide a link for viewing.

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Apr 19 14:30:35 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 19 13:32:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Adler on Hackworth, Cities for Sale
Message-ID: <010201c782a8$7fbe6810$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Cities For Sale
A new book takes on neoliberal attempts to revitalize urban centers.
By Ben Adler

American Prospect, Web Exclusive: 04.17.07
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12651

The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology and Development in American 
Urbanism by Jason Hackworth (Cornell University Press, 256 pages)

If you live in or near a big city, you may not realize that neoliberalism is 
fiendishly taking over your environ. No, it's not just the Starbucks by your 
office, or the Gap that just opened in the once-edgy neighborhood. It's also 
the high-rise condominium apartment building going up over the subway 
station, the new sports arena downtown, the industrial loft conversion, and 
even the brownstone getting flipped in that sketchy neighborhood.
Jason Hackworth, an associate professor of geography and planning at the 
University of Toronto, has found a common theme among those trends --  
gentrification, privatization, corporate invasion, and public-private 
revitalization projects -- that have come to symbolize renewal in America's 
urban core in recent years. In his new book, The Neoliberal City, he argues 
they are all manifestations of the international trend towards 
neoliberalism, which he defines as "an ideological rejection of egalitarian 
liberalism in general and the Keynesian welfare state in particular, 
combined with a selective return to classical liberalism."

In the 1970s and '80s many American cities faced fiscal crises due to a 
decimated industrial employment base and large unfunded liabilities for 
public employees. Bond-rating agencies downgraded their bonds, which 
prevented municipal governments from borrowing more money to close fiscal 
shortfalls. Cities had to cut payrolls and scale back public investments. 
Consequently the bond ratings went back up, but the size of public payrolls 
did not. In many cities a neoliberal consensus has since emerged: City 
governments should be lean, major construction should be undertaken by the 
private sector, and gentrification should be encouraged as a means of 
increasing the tax base.

While Hackworth's approach is purely descriptive, it is clear that he 
opposes neoliberalism and looks kindly on attempts to "resist" it. His 
in-depth analysis of gentrification, which he calls "the knife-edge 
neighborhood based manifestation of neoliberalism," is the most telling in 
this regard. Clearly, he takes a dim view of its propensity to displace the 
less affluent. As Hackworth also argues, "Recent economic restructuring 
appears to have altered the real estate industry in such a way as to 
encourage the presence of large corporate gentrifiers more than small-scale 
owner-occupiers."
Hackworth is very critical of the shift away from construction of massive 
public housing projects towards HOPE VI (breaking apart the projects into 
smaller units) and Section 8 vouchers (which enable poor families to live in 
partially subsidized regular housing.) He sees these programs as expressions 
of neoliberalism in the urban environment and as causes of displacement of 
the poor (since there end up being fewer total units of public housing). The 
overall lack of affordable housing, meanwhile, combined with the creep of 
gentrification, is squeezing the middle class out of the city.
Ironically, while he is clearly on the left politically, Hackworth seems to 
find a lot of common ground with neo-conservative urban theorist Joel 
Kotkin, who has argued that "[e]verywhere -- from New Orleans to London and 
Paris -- the middle classes, whatever their colour, are deserting the core 
for safer and more affordable suburbs, following in the footsteps of 
high-tech industries and major corporations."

Kotkin's career has lately been devoted to debunking Richard Florida's 
"creative class" theory of urban revitalization. Where Florida sees hope for 
cities to rescue themselves from post-industrial depression through an 
invigorating influx of young creative professionals, Hackworth, like Kotkin, 
decries the result as a city of only rich and poor and bemoans the loss of 
middle-class families. (It should be noted, though, that Hackworth seems to 
argue for a different kind of urban revitalization, while Kotkin essentially 
argues for suburbanization -- so it's safe to say that they would disagree a 
great deal as well.)

While The Neoliberal City is informative on the subject of privatization and 
corporate involvement in gentrification, it leaves the reader a bit puzzled. 
Hackworth only describes, he does not prescribe. So while it is clear that 
he thinks the neoliberal city is deeply problematic, he presents no 
alternative. He states that "[t]he days of Keynesian urban policy seem to 
have expired -- or at least gone into hibernation -- and city governments 
have adapted to the new conditions." It seems he would agree that pushing 
massive urban public construction projects, such as those associated with 
New Deal and Great Society-era programs and a bygone industrial age, is no 
longer a realistic direction for urban America.
But then what is? The cities that look and feel vibrant today are the ones, 
like New York, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, and Portland, that have done 
precisely what the creative class naysayers oppose. They have welcomed 
white-collar employees by taking measures such as redesigning zoning codes 
to accommodate their desire to live in lofts carved out of former industrial 
buildings. Consequently, these cities have captured much of the yuppies' 
disposable income and developed strong service sectors to support their 
dining and entertainment habits. Yes, this leads to a city of rich 
professionals and the poor who serve them cappuccino. But ask the 
pre-gentrification residents of Harlem and they will tell you that $7 per 
hour is better than nothing. And for many cities, that is the alternative. 
Besides, this stratification is merely a microcosm of national economic 
trends.
Hackworth admits at the beginning that "it is reasonable to ask why the 
inner-city -- particularly the American inner city -- is a useful space 
through which to evaluate the process of neoliberalism." but, he argues,

This book takes the position that precisely because [emphasis in original] 
the United States is such a thoroughly liberalized environment, the 
identification of changes within this context could very likely be 
harbingers of changes globally. That is, while the transition to 
neoliberalism in agriculture-oriented developing countries is easier to 
identify, documenting the influence of neoliberalism on American cities 
likely portends similar changes in other parts of the world.

While it is certainly informative, it is not clear that Hackworth is really 
describing a localized or distinctly urban phenomenon at all. Rather than 
merely looking to local resistance to privatization and gentrification as 
the means of stemming the tide of neoliberalism, it seems that Hackworth 
should be arguing for a larger response to what he accurately describes as a 
more widespread trend.

Many commentators have suggested it's time for a new social contract that 
emphasizes public investment and a commitment to building an egalitarian, 
middle-class society. Michael Tomasky argued in this magazine that liberals 
should frame their beliefs around a commitment to the common good. Thomas 
Kochan and Beth Shulman of the Economic Policy Institute recently proposed a 
new social contract for "restoring dignity and balance to the economy." Key 
points included a living wage, enforcement of labor standards in trade 
agreements, universal health coverage, and "macroeconomic policies that 
support good jobs." Presumably, if enacted, those policies would manifest 
themselves on the local level in the cities Hackworth studies. And then 
Hackworth can be the first in line for a latte at the shiny new unionized 
Starbucks.

Ben Adler is the editor of CampusProgress.org, at the Center for American 
Progress. The views expressed here are his own. 

From Cityscape at hud.gov  Thu Apr 19 12:49:46 2007
From: Cityscape at hud.gov (Cityscape@hud.gov)
Date: Thu Apr 19 13:36:22 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for articles
Message-ID: <OFD4AFEF15.0C61D4D6-ON852572C2.0056DDC0-852572C2.0056F47F@HUD.GOV>

Cityscape, published three times a year by the US Department of Housing and Urban 
Development's Office of Policy Development and Research, is accepting 
submissions to its new Refereed Papers section.  Cityscape is published 
both in hard copy and online.  We welcome high-quality submissions in all 
areas of housing and urban policy, from all relevant disciplines.  Topics 
might include data collection, economic opportunity and self-sufficiency, 
fair housing, home ownership and housing finance, housing technology, 
effectiveness of government programs, international comparative housing 
policy analysis, regulatory barriers to affordable housing, rural housing, 
housing for persons with special needs, subsidized housing, university 
partnerships, urban revitalization and community development, and urban 
trends.  Our referee process is double-blind and timely, and our referees 
highly qualified.  The Managing Editor also will give guidance to authors 
about the suitability of papers proposed in outline form.  Send 
manuscripts or outlines to Cityscape@hud.gov.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Apr 20 14:04:51 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 20 13:06:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP:  International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections (Dubai)
Message-ID: <007301c7836e$08e958a0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org


 The SSRC is pleased to announce a call for proposals for an International
Conference on Inter-Asian Connections.  Please circulate the below
announcement to your colleagues and department.  For more details, the
proper contact information for the program is included.

Best wishes,
The IDRF Program

________________________________

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, June 1, 2007

 International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections


Dubai, UAE: February 21-24, 2008

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce an open
call for proposals from faculty members at accredited universities and
colleges in any world region, to organize and direct a 4-day thematic
workshop at an international conference on "Inter-Asian Connections."
Workshop directors selected by the SSRC will be expected to help recruit and
select 8 international workshop participants from across relevant
disciplines in the social sciences and related fields.

To be held in Dubai, February 21-24, 2008, the conference will host multiple
workshops showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and
related disciplines, on themes of particular relevance to Asia,
reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical,
and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and
South Asia, to East Asia. This expanded understanding should bring to the
fore new and unanticipated research themes and cross-regional/trans-regional
connections and formations. The conference theme of "Inter-Asian
connections" is flexible enough to encompass a wide range of projects, from
explorations of inter-regional historical and material connections (for
instance, trade and migration flows; Asian international relations; the
diffusion and exchange of ideas and ideologies), to cross-national and
comparative investigations of contemporary political, socio-cultural, and
economic processes.

We invite researchers to apply to organize a workshop on a theme of their
choice. Each workshop may have one or two directors and will include 8
participants (graduate students, junior faculty, other researchers and
scholars) chosen competitively. Workshop directors should have sufficient
research experience on the region and themes of their proposals. The
deadline for application submissions is Friday, June 1, 2007.

The full text of the call for proposals, along with information on the
application process and selection criteria, is available at:
http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/
<http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/> .



For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org <mailto:intl_collaboration@ssrc.org> . 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 21 00:22:29 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 20 23:23:13 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: the Commission on Urban Anthropology
Message-ID: <000401c783c4$510acf00$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for papers
Two Academic Sessions for the Commission on Urban Anthropology


International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES):
Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity, Kunming, China, July 15-23,
2008


Session 1: Cities in Conflict and Cities of Conflict - Convenors: Dr Vesna
Vucinic-Neskovic (University of Belgrade), e-mail: vvucinic@f.bg.ac.yu; Dr
Giuliana B. Prato (University of Kent) - e-mail: g.b.prato@kent.ac.uk 

This Session addresses conflicts that arise from cultural diversity and that
affect humanity worldwide; that is, beyond the interaction of the specific
groups involved in the conflict. It will focus on Cities in Conflict and
Cities of Conflict at three different, but complementary levels: The
expression Cities in Conflict aims at exploring cities that have experienced
or are experiencing conflict for religious, ethnic or cultural reasons.
However, Cities in Conflict also include cities that are competing among
themselves in the new geo-political situation of their Region. This may be
the case with cities in post-Socialist Europe, or cities that are directly
or indirectly affected by the emerging economies of some Asian Countries.
These cities appear to be competing to attract capital investment, as well
as human resources. Cities of Conflict addresses cities that are themselves
symbolic or actual targets of violence. These may be cities of religious and
symbolic significance - such as Jerusalem, or Rome - or cities that are
identified with specific economic, political and cultural powers - recent
attacks on New York and London are fitting examples. 
The Session will bring together a geographically varied number of
empirically based contributions on these complex topics. The Convenors wish
to stimulate debate and ethnographically informed comparative analysis on
this increasingly important topic that will contribute significantly to
disciplinary debate and to the advancement of anthropological knowledge.
There is a strong possibility to produce an edited volume that brings
together revised and expanded versions of selected contributions to the
Session in the context of extended and up-dated discussion.
 

Session 2: Socialism, Liberalism and the Urban Question - Convenor: Dr Italo
Pardo (University of Kent, U.K.) - e-mail: i.pardo@kent.ac.uk 
This session aims at stimulating debate on issues of substantive
citizenship, identity, social and ethnic interactions in the project of
multiculturalism, the relationship between the public and the private, and
that between the rulers and the ruled, also raising issues of legitimacy and
responsibility in the management of power and political decision-making.
Different political ideologies, such as Socialism and Liberalism, have
influenced notions of citizenship and the ways in which people's
participation in the decision-making process has been either encouraged or
frustrated. These two ideologies have been portrayed, respectively, as a
modified version of the Jacobean nationalist project and as a servant of
market capitalism. Similar to the Jacobean project, which rejected rival
loyalties to the nation-state, the Communist version of Socialism does not
accept rival loyalties to their god, proletarian dictatorship. In such
contexts, citizenship has become an abstract concept based on a formal,
rather than substantive, definition that apparently granted political rights
while aiming at affirming a superior 'neutrality' of values and lifestyles
and at manufacturing people's unquestioning loyalty to their rules. On the
contrary, Liberalism advocates the individual's entrepreneurial role in the
political, cultural and economic development of society. Classical
Liberalism has been concerned with urban problems, such as poverty, housing
and education, arguing for minimum state intervention to give individuals an
opportunity to develop their potentialities and improve their social
position, thus benefiting society. The geo-political events of the
late-twentieth century, have brought about a resurgence of neo-Liberal
approaches based on tolerance, pluralism, individual freedom and opportunity
for all. However, as exemplified by the ill-thought-out multicultural
project, not always the Liberal ideals of tolerance, respect of human
rights, and freedom have produced positive results. In such a situation, the
city has become a crucial arena for the renegotiation of citizenship and of
the democratic process. This complex situation increasingly affects urban
and national life across the world and needs to be urgently understood and
addressed specifically and comparatively. Given their commitment to in-depth
and detailed empirical research, anthropologists are particularly well
suited to offer invaluable insights into such a complexity. This session
will bring together ethnographically varied contributions in an attempt to
build up an informed comparative understanding. There is a strong
possibility to produce an edited volume that brings together revised and
expanded versions of selected contributions to the Session.
 
Please send your paper proposals to the Session convenors, including the
proposer's name and institutional affiliation, the paper's title and
abstract (250 words), four key-words.
 
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 30th  June 2007. For more
information about the ICAES conference see: http://www.icaes2008.org

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 (personal)
         +44 (0)1227 823942 (Dept. Secretary)
Fax.: +44 (0)1227 827289



From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 21 00:24:39 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 20 23:25:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: URBAN ARTEFACTS : TYPES, PRACTICES, CIRCULATIONS
Message-ID: <000501c783c4$9e5ea560$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: g.b.prato@kent.ac.uk

URBAN ARTEFACTS?: TYPES, PRACTICES, CIRCULATIONS
Interdisciplinary Seminar ? University of Neuch?tel ? Switzerland

THEME :

Globalization extends to the circulation not only of goods and persons, but
also of seemingly irremovable spatial artefacts and building types.
Chinatowns and mosques spread in Western cities, and skyscrapers,
parliaments and office towers are erected in Asia. The seminar assembles
scholars from various disciplines to discuss the worldwide circulation of
urban artefacts and the related problems of local adaptation. The different
panels address how in different societies buildings such as skyscrapers,
mosques or parliaments are imported and adapted to the local context or how
they are designated and marketed as exotic. The presenters discuss how
architects, planners and real estate developers deal with circulating
artefacts and they look at local controversies surrounding specific
buildings.

PROGRAMME:

Thursday, 14th of June 2007 :

1.00 pm - 1.30 pm : Introduction
Michael Guggenheim (University of Z?rich, CH) & Ola S?derstr?m (University
of Neuch?tel, CH)

1.30 pm - 3.45 pm : Selling Built Form with Texts and Images

Chair: Janine Dahinden (University of Neuch?tel, CH)
Ute Lehrer (York University, CA): 
The Urban Artefact as a Prototype for Lifestyle Changes: Sales Offices,
Billboards and Advertisement Strategies for Condominium Towers in Toronto
Monika Grubauer (Technical University Vienna, AT): 
The High-Rise Office Tower as a Global ?Type?: Exploring the Architectural
World of Getty Images
Jennifer Leeman & Gabriela Modan (George Mason University & The Ohio State
University, US): 
The Spatial Commodification of Language in Washington DC?s Chinatown

4.15 pm - 5.45 pm : The Location of Modernism

Chair: Laurent Stalder (ETH Z?rich, CH)
Paul Anderson (University of Edinburgh, GB): 
The Manifestation of a Building Event: Organising the Translation of
Architecture and the Case of the Singapore Highrise
Habib Sayah (EPFL, CH): 
The Origin of Adaptation in Modern Architecture: an Example from Lebanon

6.15pm - 7.15 pm : Invited lecture
Anthony King (State University of New York, Binghampton, US): 
Notes Towards a (Historical) Sociology of Building Types (or Spatial
Artifacts)

7.15 pm - 8 pm : Aperitif sponsored by STS-CH, followed by a Conference
Dinner at 8.30 pm 

Friday, 15th of June 2007 :

9 am - 11.15 am : Recreating Space and Memory

Chair: Ellen Hertz (University of Neuch?tel, CH)
Ralf G. Brand (University of Manchester, GB): 
The Make-Up of Malaysia
Petra Kuppinger (Monmouth College, US):
Negotiating Muslim Spaces and Spatialities in Stuttgart, Germany
Mary Hancock (University of California, Santa Barbara, US): 
The Future of ?Living History? in a South Indian Suburb

11.30 am - 12.30 pm : Invited lecture
Lynda Schneekloth (University of Buffalo, US): 
Water and the Imagination of Public Infrastructure

2.00 pm - 2.30 pm : 
Presentation of the European Research Networking Programme ?Socio-Technical
Studies of Architecture and Urbanism?
Simon Guy (University of Manchester, GB)

2.30 pm - 4 pm : The Mountains and the City

Chair: Sylvain Malfroy (University of Neuch?tel, CH)
Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, GB): 
Cities and Stone
Bernard Debarbieux (University of Geneva, CH): 
Urban Artificial Mountains and the Staging of Civilisation

4.30 pm - 6pm : Engagement and Orientation in the City

Chair: Stephanie Hering (University of Basel, CH)
Luca Pattaroni & Vincent Kaufmann (EPFL, CH): 
Toward a Pragmatic Approach of Territory
Claudio Coletta (University of Trento, IT):
Where the Streets Have No Names: Toponymy Practices and the Performing of a
Territory

6 pm - 6.30 pm : Concluding remarks 
Ola S?derstr?m & Michael Guggenheim


INFORMATION & CONTACT :

The seminar is organised by Ola S?derstr?m and Michael Guggenheim. It is
held at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuch?tel, Espace
Louis-Agassiz 1, 2000 Neuch?tel. The Institute of Geography is part of the
Maison d?Analyse des Processus Sociaux (MAPS), which aims at studying the
circulation of knowledge, people and capital.

For further information

http://www.unine.ch/maps 
http://www.unine.ch/geographie 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 21 13:19:50 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 21 12:20:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image
Message-ID: <004101c78430$e70bdf00$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Conference 2008

City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image

An International Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Liverpool, 26-28th March 2008

Organised by the School of Architecture / School of Politics and 
Communication Studies

INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
'City in Film' will explore the relationship between film, architecture and 
the urban landscape drawing on interests in film, architecture, urban 
studies and civic design, cultural geography, cultural studies and related 
fields. The conference is part of University of Liverpool's contribution to 
the European Capital of Culture 2008, and aims to foster interdisciplinary 
dialogues around architectural and film history and theory, film and urban 
space, and to point towards new intellectual frameworks for discussion. It 
seeks to draw on the work of theorists and practitioners engaged in ideas in 
these areas, examining film in the context of urban design and development 
and exploring in particular the contested social, cultural and political 
terrain that underpins these practices. We particularly welcome 
contributions on non-fiction film, documentaries, actuality and amateur 
film, the influence of film on urban and architectural design, and the role 
of film in the construction of virtual environments and spaces of memory. 
Potential speakers are invited to submit abstracts that relate to any aspect 
of the general subject area, but the main focus of conference is expected to 
be around the following strands and suggested themes in relation to the 
moving image:

Film, Place and Urban Identity
Localism, regionalism; peripheries and boundaries
Iconography, landscape and urban form
Transculturation and migration
Industrial and post-industrial landscapes
Tourism, heritage and city branding
Contested spaces


Mapping Filmic Space
Cognitive mapping
Psychogeographies: reverie and urban drift
Spaces of affect
Stasis and mobility
Habitus and place
Everyday life and rhythmanalysis


Time, Memory, and Urban Form
Role of archives in architectural, filmic and curatorial practice
Perception and aesthetics in early film actualities
Narrative and expressive spaces in film
Historiographies of cities in film
Presence and absence: spectral cities, ghosts and spaces of
   dereliction
Monuments and spaces of memory
Virtual Environments
Digitality and spatiality
Screen-based technologies - electronic billboards, interactive facades

Haptic spaces and architextures
Educational environments

Design in Architectureand the Moving Image
Set design
Embodiment, performance and urban space
Mobile spaces
Interactive environments
Participatory environments
Film influenced architectural designs
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Charlotte Brunsdon, University of Warwick
Patrick Keiller, Royal College of Art
James Sanders, architect, filmmaker, writer
For further enquiries, please contact Dr Richard Koeck or Dr Les Roberts

Please submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to 
cityinfilm@liverpool.ac.uk by 1 September 2007.

Information on booking and registration will be posted to the website 
shortly: www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 21 17:47:42 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 21 16:48:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: the Anti-War Movement and its Discontents
Message-ID: <000e01c78456$53babf70$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

-----Submissions Call Out-----
The AntiWar Movement and its Discontents
a reader on social movement theory and practice

Four years into the Iraq war public opinion is dead-set against it.
Yet does the antiwar movement really deserve the credit? Some of the
movement's discontents say that it is "toothless behemoth", a farce of
spectacle actions and ineffectiveness, racked with the baggage of
party politics and isolated-issue activism. Others suggest that the
movement's preference for tightly scripted and permitted marches and
top-down organizing has come at the expense of youth self-empowerment,
diversity of tactics, decentralization, participatory democracy or
other successful models of mass actions and movements.

The purpose of this reader is to stimulate a discussion on movement
theory and practice because a better movement is possible. We
especially want to hear the voices of activists on the front lines as
we combine theory, politics, analysis, and stories of experience and
application of various movement principles to form a body of work that
can move us foreword.

We are calling for articles on any of the following:

. Centralization vs. de-centralization in social movement organizing.
. Transparency, openness and accountability in coalitions and networks.
. Bureaucracy and hierarchy in national coalitions.
. The antiwar movement's relationship to socialist and communist
parties and vice-versa.
. The effect of the mainstream antiwar movement has had on the global
justice movement and vice-versa.
. The meaning of "mass" and its implications.
. Movement strategy and tactics, as well as antiwar stories and experiences.

Other related topics are welcome.

Deadline: June 1, 2007

Submissions should be between 1,000 and 4,000 words and include a
brief bio (around 75-100 words). Send your submissions to
antiwarmovement@gmail.com
From us209 at cam.ac.uk  Mon Apr 23 12:36:09 2007
From: us209 at cam.ac.uk (U. Staiger)
Date: Mon Apr 23 09:42:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Conference: InEvidence, 12-14 July, Cambridge
Message-ID: <Prayer.1.0.18.0704231136091.5549@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>


*** Conference announcement ***

InEvidence: Witnessing Cities and the Case of Berlin
12-14 July 2007, University of Cambridge

This major international conference focuses on the contemporary city as a
witness to changing political topographies and socio-economic
transformations, which is in turn witnessed by a multitude of cultural
undertakings. The conference brings together top scholars working on the
city from a variety of disciplines and practitioners engaging with urban
environments through diverse media. The first afternoon features keynote
contributions from Daniel Libeskind and Richard Sennett. Day two is devoted
to exploring questions of (in)evidence in contemporary cities, with speakers
to include: Victor Burgin, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Levin, Henrik Reeh, and
Karen Till. Day three has a particular focus on Berlin, with speakers to
include: Thomas Elsaesser, Mary Fulbrook, Charity Scribner, and Janet Ward.
Leading Berlin artists will also present/perform: Stih & Schnock
(Public/installation art), Martin Nachbar and Jochen Roller (choreography),
and Stefanie B?rkle (photography). 

For further details, see: www.inevidence.net. 

Registration from end of April.


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Apr 23 11:04:49 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 23 10:06:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Message-ID: <00c701c785b0$62c16bd0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Conference

Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
21-23 June 2007
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg

Research on migration, diasporas and exile suggests that the specific 
trans-national situation with which exiles are confronted, frequently leads 
to the emergence and development of nationalist or cosmopolitan attitudes 
towards other 'nations' or ethnicities, political and social groups. 
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century national historiography suggests 
that, during the process of nation building and the formation of national 
identities in western Europe, tendencies to develop rival national 
identities in exile were much stronger than in the so-called 'cosmopolitan 
age' of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. In the case of 
the Italian Risorgimento exile in France reinforced those exiles' 
'nationalism', other groups in diaspora, including the Huguenots, who 
migrated to different European and overseas destinations between 1548 and 
1787, are identified as 'cosmopolitans'. However, closer assessment of 
diasporic groups and of exile makes evident that exiles frequently developed 
attitudes that would be identified as simultaneously both cosmopolitan and 
nationalist.

This conference seeks,

1)To discuss different forms of exile to approach a more differentiated 
perspective on exile and its consequences for groups living in a 
trans-national context. These groups reacted to their circumstances by 
creating a new political, social, economic and/or cultural identity.
2)To define and explain 'nationalism' and the so-called 'rise of the 
nation-state' in the context of 'exile' and diasporic movements.
3)To define and explain cultural, political or social 'cosmopolitanism' in 
the context of 'exile' and Diasporas.

Programme

Thursday, 21 June
10.00 Welcome: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Sch?ler-Springorum (Hamburg), Prof. Dr. 
Claudia Schnurmann (Hamburg)
Introduction: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (Hamburg)
10.30 - 12.00 The Cosmopolitan Age? Chair: Dr. Angelika Epple
Prof. W. Douglas Catterall (History, Lawton/Oklahoma):
Nations, Ethnicity, and the Swedish Nation in the Age of Freedom 
(1730-1760).
Dr. Liam Chambers (History, Limerick):
'Une Maison Particuli?re et Isol?e' ?: Migration, National Identity and the 
Irish Colleges (Paris) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
14.00 - 16.00 Cosmopolitanism, Chair: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Sch?ler-Springorum
Dr. Kate Daniels (Oriental Studies, Cambridge):
'The Song of Everyone without a Homeland': A Palestinian Writer in 
'Cosmopolitan' Beirut.
Prof. Dr. Harald Hagemann (Economics, Stuttgart-Hohenheim):
Cosmopolitanism and Aerial Roots. Emigr? Economists in Britain and the 
United States after 1933
Dr. Frank Gr?ner (East-European History, Heidelberg).
Nationalism and Anti-cosmopolitanism in Russian and Soviet Ideology
16.30 - 18.30 Revolution and Exile, Chair: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Dr. Maurizio Isabella (History, London):
A Nationalism of the diaspora: Italian Risorgimento and
Cosmopolitanism (1796-1848)
Dr. Michael M. Miller (Nationalism Studies, Budapest):
>From Liberal Nationalism to Rootless Cosmopolitanism:
Simon Deutsch and 1848ers in Exile
Niall Whelehan (History, Florence):
Paris, New York, and the Role of Exile in Irish Nationalism
1860-1885
19:00
Lecture: Prof. Dr. Bertrand van Ruymbeke (History, Paris): Diaspora, Exile, 
Identity: Le Refuge huguenot in a global and comparative perspective
Chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther

Friday, 22 June
10.00-13.00 From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Chair: Prof. Dr. Claudia 
Schnurmann
Dr. Bartosz Awianowicz (Classics, Torun):
Two Poets in Exile: Ovid and Philip Callimachus Buonaccorsi
Dr. Heleni Porfyriou (Urban History, CNR -ICVBC -Rome):
Greek Diaspora in the Italian peninsula, between nationalism and 
cosmopolitanism
Dr. Daniel S. Murphree (History, University of Texas at Tylor): 
Cosmopolitanism and Paradise: French Exiles, Racialization, and National 
Identity in the Colonial Floridas, 1564-1573
Michael Studemund-Hal?vy (Hamburg):
Forced Expulsion in the 17th Century: Hamburg' s Portuguese Community
15.00 - 16.30 Jewish Identity, Chair: PD Dr. Andreas Br?mer
Dr. Markus Bauer (School of Languages and Area Studies, University of 
Portsmouth)
Galuth - A debate on Nationhood and Exile in Eastern and Western European 
Jewry
Anne-Christin Sa? (East-European History, Berlin):
Life in Transition - East European Jewish Migrants in Berlin
1918-1933
17.00 - 18.30 (20th c.) Nationalism, Chair: Prof. Dr. Frank Golczewski
Beatrice Penati (History, Pisa):
Exile and Transformation of Nationalist Discourse: The Case of Russian 
Muslim Emigr?s to Western Europe between the two World Wars
Anna Holian (History,Tempe):
Between Nationalism and Internationalism:
Displaced Persons at the UNRRA University of Munich, 1945-1948

Saturday, 23 June
10.00 - 11.30 Structuring Space - Structuring Identity, Chair: PD Dr. 
Kirsten Heinsohn
Dr. Samuel D. Albert (Art History, New York):
Constructing Identity: Jewish, Arab, and British Architectures in Mandate 
Palestine (1918-1948)
Anne Hass (Landscape Architecture, Munich):
The Chicago School. How to justify social discrimination and exclusion by 
transforming the bio-ecological Monoclimax theory into a theory of city 
development
12.00 - 14.00 Postcolonial Perspectives, Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert
Dr. William O'Reilly (History, Cambridge):
The Oxford Cosmopolitan Club and the Migration of Nationalism: Oxford, 
Berlin, Harvard
Birte Timm (History, Erfurt):
Migration and the Decolonisation of Jamaica - The "Jamaica Progressive 
League" in New York and Kingston
Dr. Baz Le Cocq (African Studies, Berlin):
Teshumara: exile and nationalism in late 20th century Tuareg society
Conference fees: ? 15 (students ? 7.50).
Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Historisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Germany
Email: slachenicht@yahoo.com 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Apr 24 14:37:21 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 24 13:38:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Urban Systems International Scholars Series on Infrastructure
 and the Environment (CUNY)
Message-ID: <01c001c78697$3a010ec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(forwarded from URBGEOG@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU)

CUNY Institute for Urban Systems International Scholars Series On
Infrastructure and the Environment

will be held on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
at John Jay College, 1st Fl. North Hall Building, Room 1311 North,
445 W. 59th Street (between 9th & 10th Ave.) New York, NY

The feature speaker will be Dr. Aharon Kellerman, professor emeritus of
geography at the University of Haifa and the president-designate of the
new Academic College for Israel.

Dr. Aharon will discuss the topic of "Personal Mobilities, Contemporary
Cities, and Urban Life"

Registration is FREE. Register today online at http://www.utrc2.org or

email it to seminars@utrc2.org.

For more information and registration, visit our website 
http://www.utrc2.org
Click on EVENTS.

Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. 

From kanacker at vt.edu  Mon Apr 23 13:59:28 2007
From: kanacker at vt.edu (Katrin Anacker)
Date: Tue Apr 24 13:51:00 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]third/final call for abstracts: A Suburban World? Global
 Decentralization and the New Metropolis
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20070423125651.03f0bd08@vt.edu>

***Apologies for multiple postings
Call for abstracts (due by April 30, 2007 May 15, 2007)

International conference
Reston, Virginia, USA
April 6-April 8, 2008

A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

Hosted by
Dr. Juliann Allison (Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development),
Dr. Edward Blakely (University of Sydney and University of New Orleans),
Dr. Paul Knox (Virginia Tech),
Dr. Robert Lang (Metropolitan Institute),
Dr. Arthur C. Nelson (Metropolitan Institute)

We have entered a new era where the areas outside worldwide core
cities are forming different settlement systems. In Europe, even
tight building controls have not curbed the appetite of households to
move out of the central cities. China and India, with fast-growing
middle classes, are witnessing a startling expansion of their urban
areas with rapid auto-dependent growth on the fringe. Mexico and
Indonesia are beginning to adapt American-style suburban development
patterns. As urban form changes, new research and policy have to be
created to address the challenges of sprawl, congestion, and
affordable housing. This conference will explore these and other
issues in the American as well as international context.

Tracks:
* Immigration/Changing Demographics of the Suburbs
* Special Segregation by Lifestyle/Economics; Gated Communities
* Megapolitans/Metropolitan Form
* Transportation
* Energy Consumption/Sustainable Environment
* Disasters/Adaptation
* Transnational Communities/Residential Tourism
* Governance & Regulation
* Business of Suburbia/Economic Development/Economic Space
* Suburban Decline
* Urban Form at the Neighborhood Level
* Newburbia/Newtowns
* History

Conference Website:
<http://www.mi.vt.edu/>http://www.mi.vt.edu/

Katrin B. Anacker, Ph.D.
Acting Managing Editor Housing Policy Debate
Post Doctoral Fellow Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
Suite 100
1021 Prince St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
e. kanacker@vt.edu
ph. 703.838.8320
fx. 703.518.8009
www.mi.vt.edu
Conference "A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis"
(Reston, VA, April 6-8, 2008; abstracts due May 15, 2007)
http://www.mi.vt.edu/index.asp?page=23&id=58

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Apr 24 15:28:14 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Apr 24 14:29:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Query on course development, exploring the relationship of urban
 and rural life
Message-ID: <01e701c7869e$5491e230$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Colleagues,

I have been thinking about developing a course that explores the
relationship between urban and rural life. Themes might include
migration/transnationalism, demographic change, subsistence/making
ends meet, boundary spaces (i.e. suburban communities, "shantytowns,"
tourist spots, globalized food), and a critical look at social science's
(and social policy's) polarization of urban vs. rural life, as embodied in
Toennies' portrayal of Geminschaft vs. Gesellschaft, and Redfield's
folk-urban continuum.  I wonder if anyone is teaching such a course
and, if so, how you've chosen to name it. Current anthropology
curriculum highlights urban studies and rural studies/peasant studies. But,
as the saying goes, it seems that "neither the twain shall meet"...

Please feel free to email me directly (jancius@ohio.edu). Or, if you'd like
to enter into a discussion on this topic, you may also email the listserv.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Angela


++++++++++++++
Angela Jancius, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ohio University
jancius@ohio.edu

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Apr 26 17:29:02 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 26 16:30:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Ritual and Spirituality in the African Diaspora
Message-ID: <005701c78841$8a361380$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Ritual and Spirituality in the African Diaspora: An Exploration of the Zora 
Neale Hurston Legacy

Description: Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for the Zora Neale 
Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, Eatonville, FL Jan. 24-Feb. 3, 
2008. Its theme is "Ritual and Spirituality in the African Diaspora: An 
Exploration of the Zora Neale Hurston Legacy."

Papers should explore religion, ritual, and symbol in the African Diaspora, 
using Hurston's life or work as a point of departure. Papers may address any 
area of the African Diaspora and any religious institution or spiritual 
tradition. The theme may be approached from several disciplines, and 
 "ritual" may be explored in non-religious and metaphorical contexts. The 
selection committee invites a broad range of topics, e.g. : music in 
Afro-Cuban Santeria, history and exile in the rise of Nova Scotia Black 
independent churches, Garifuna ancestor rites in Belize, Haitian Vodun in 
Miami, West African spirit possession legacies in Sanctified Churches, or 
dance in the veneration of the Black saint Bava Gor by Gujarat Sufis in 
India. Papers focused on Hurston might explore engendered rituals of 
everyday life in the Seraph of the Suwanee, or ways Zora negotiated literary 
rites of passage in her writing career in America. Publication By-Product: 
Arrangements have already been made to publish selected papers in a 
conference-focused issue of a refereed academic journal. Deadline and 
Submission: A 250 word abstract is due June 1, 2007:E-mail to 
deidre_crumbley@ncsu.edu subject line "ZORA papers 2008" AND post to: 
Hurston Papers 2008, PEC, 227 East Kennedy Blvd., Eatonville, FL 32751. For 
more information, visit our website.


Contact Information:
Deidre Helen Crumbley
3613 Anclote Place
Apt. B
Raleigh NC 27607 United States
Phone: 919-787-8153
Email: deidre_crumbley@ncsu.edu
URL http://http://www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com/festivalabout.html 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Apr 26 20:29:24 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Apr 26 19:30:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Spatial Turn: Literature, Film, Geography
Message-ID: <00ba01c7885a$c0ca0e10$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(Forwarded from: H-GERMAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU)


CFP: The Spatial Turn: Literature, Film, Geography (6/1/07;1/15/08; 
edited volume)

Submission Deadlines:
Proposal: 6/1/07, Full essays; 1/15/08

The phrase "spatial turn" signals the growing importance of space as an 
analytical as well as representational category for culture. Migrating 
from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new 
centrality of space and spatially inflected approaches has transformed 
social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and 
psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space 
increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular 
culture, and the visual arts.

We (Jaimey Fisher of UC Davis and Barbara Mennel of the University of 
Florida) are planning a volume that addresses these emerging modes of 
inquiry and are seeking articles that engage with this spatial turn, 
spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both.  While the spatial 
turn is cutting across numerous national cultures, this Call For Papers 
is seeking a particular engagement with questions of space and 
spatiality in the context of German culture, history, and theory. In 
Germany, recent bestsellers like Daniel Kehlmann's _Die Vermessung der 
Welt_ make geographers their heroes; films like Hans-Christian Schmid's 
_Lichter_ portray the dynamic spaces of Europe's border areas, while 
others like Fatih Akin's _Im Juli_ unfold a new European imaginary. In a 
related development, films like Peter Kahane's _Die Architekten_, 
Hubertus Siegert's _Berlin Babylon_ and Hito Steyerl's _Die leere Mitte_ 
engage with novel urban spaces, including cityscapes and architecture. 
Academic debates, led by scholars like Aleida Assmann, have helped 
reconfigure both historical and memory studies, fields more and more 
illuminated by theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre, Edward W. Soja 
and David Harvey.

We are particularly interested in essays that apply a spatial analysis 
to German literature and film (in that order of preference), but are 
also open to work on memory, architecture, geography, philosophy, and 
queer and feminist theory. We imagine other relevant proposals that 
might engage with specifically German theorizations of space (including 
figures like Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin), or that create a 
theoretical dialogue between Germany and the United States.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Please send abstract (250 words maximum) and a short CV to both editors: 
Barbara Mennel at mennel@ufl.edu and Jaimey Fisher at jrfisher@ucdavis.edu

Final essays will be due January 15, 2008. We have engaged in 
preliminary discussions about the volume with a press that has 
articulated a desire to see a full proposal with committed authors and 
their abstracts by June 1, 2007.

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Apr 27 13:53:47 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Apr 27 12:54:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Globalizing lifestyles between McDonaldization and
 sustainability (Bremen, Germany)
Message-ID: <008b01c788ec$a28b8360$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Lars Meier <lars-meier@web.de>

Please send our call for papers via the Urbanth-L mailing list. The aim of 
the workshop "Globalizing lifestyles between McDonaldization and 
sustainability perspectives.  The case of the "new middle classes" is to 
discuss the globalization of consumerist lifestyles in newly industrialised 
countries under a sustainability perspective. It would be great if you could 
spread the following text.

Many thanks for your help.

On behalf of Prof. Hellmuth Lange
Best regards,

Lars Meier
University of Bremen
ARTEC Institute

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


Call for papers

International Workshop:"Globalizing lifestyles between McDonaldization and 
sustainability perspectives": The case of the new middle classes

4.-5. October 2007, University of Bremen, ARTEC Institute

The world-wide spread of extremely resource-intensive lifestyles is one of 
the most important challenges on the way towards a more sustainable future. 
Despite the epochal dimensions of this challenge, there is not only a dearth 
of sustainable policy concepts, but also a lack of socio-scientific 
approaches which come anywhere near an adequate analysis of the issues at 
hand. In particular, it is still an open question whether and, if so, under 
what conditions lifestyles really are becoming globalised and how this can 
be politically influenced in a sustainability perspective.
It is from such a perspective that the symposium aims to contribute to the 
international research debate on consumption and sustainability. The main 
focus lies on the globalisation of lifestyles and on related consumption 
patterns.
To come to a more comprehensive understanding of the issue, pertinent 
inquiries and findings from other fields of research will be reviewed in the 
workshop. These include the socio-economic characteristics exhibited by the 
promoters of specific consumption patterns (?new middle classes?), the 
infrastructures and political frameworks impacting on consumption patterns 
(?systems of provision? and ?transition management?) and societal 
?modernisation? as a framework of socio-cultural homogenisation and/or of 
differentiation.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the globalisation of lifestyles and of 
related consumption patterns from different academic perspectives. Here we 
intend to promote the discussion between strands of thinking that seem to be 
rather unconnected up to now. Such a combination of multidisciplinary 
analytical perspectives is expected to give rise to new empirical and 
theoretical perspectives on consumption patterns and globalisation. Thus, 
the workshop is to provide a contribution to the research on sustainable 
consumption with a view to the level of global challenges and change 
processes, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

The objective is:
- to contribute to a conceptual framework in which the relation between 
sustainability and consumption is analysed under the conditions of 
globalisation with a reasonable of social-scientific complexity.
- to enhance the scientific discussion about sustainability and consumption 
by relating current research on societal change in a globalised world with 
research on sustainable consumption.

The workshop is structured in four panels:
- The characteristics and the development of the ?new middle classes?
- The importance and the dynamics of lifestyles in these milieus
- The impact of systems of provision and of governance systems
- Convergence and divergence of societal paths of modernisation

Abstracts from a wide variety of disciplines are welcome. These include 
sociology, geography, economy, political science and anthropology. The 
conference language is English. We are planning to publish the outcome as an 
edited volume. Travel expenses will be covered.

We appreciate a 700-word abstracts by June 15, 2007, as a Word or Rich Text 
document to:
Andrea Meier, email: ameier@artec.uni-bremen.de

The abstracts should touch the methodological background, the empirical 
basis and the panel which fits to your presentation. Please add a short CV 
including your current scientific work focus.


Hellmuth Lange
Professor - Sociologist
artec | Research Center for Sustainability Studies
University of Bremen
Enrique Schmidt-Strasse 7
28359 Bremen (Germany)

www.artec.uni-bremen.de 

From l_guevarra at ucpress.edu  Fri Apr 27 16:00:48 2007
From: l_guevarra at ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Fri Apr 27 18:28:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: Global Outlaws
Message-ID: <p06230918c258230ffbd0@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L:


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

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World

Carolyn Nordstrom is Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame and 
author of several books including _Shadows of War: Violence, Power, 
and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century _and 
_Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture,_ 
both from UC Press; and _A Different Kind of War Story._


http://go.ucpress.edu/Nordstrom

"A deeply insightful book that connects the dots of the hidden 
systems that have subverted democracy and caused the type of 
desperation and anger that result in a 9/11. A book that opens our 
awareness."-John Perkins, author of The New York Times bestseller 
_Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man_


Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this 
stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we 
think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years 
traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States 
investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world-from 
blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like 
food and oil. _Global Outlaws _peels away the layers of a vast 
economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola selling Marlboros on 
the street to powerful transnational networks reaching across 
continents and oceans. Nordstrom's extraordinary fieldwork includes 
interviews with scores of informants, including the smugglers, 
victims, power elite, and profiteers who populate these economic war 
zones. Her compelling investigation, showing that the sum total of 
extra-legal activities represents a significant part of the world's 
economy, provides a new framework for understanding 
twenty-first-century economics and economic power. _Global Outlaws 
_powerfully reveals the illusions and realities of security in all 
areas of transport and trade and illuminates many of the difficult 
ethical problems these extra-legal activities pose.

Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Nordstrom


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


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Apr 28 19:04:55 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Apr 28 18:05:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FILM REV: Kelo v. City of New London
Message-ID: <004a01c789e1$42f4e0e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(forwarded from H-Urban)

H-NET MEDIA REVIEW
Published by H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu (April 2007)

_Kelo v. City of New London_. DVD Video produced by Distinctive 
Aspects of American Law Video Project, Duke University Law School, 2006. 
Available from DistinctiveAspects@law.duke.edu. $35.00.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Carl Abbott <d3ca@pdx.edu>, Portland State University

At the turn of the twenty-first century, New London, Connecticut, was a city in trouble. Hammered by deindustrialization and the closure of military facilities, it suffered from high unemployment. Locked into its boundaries by surrounding towns, it had a high proportion of tax-exempt land despite its reliance on property taxes.

In 1998, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer began to construct its Global Research Facility adjacent to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, a waterfront district of 90 acres with 115 residential and commercial parcels including a sewage treatment plant and junkyard. The city directed the New London Development Corporation, a development agency under city control, to develop redevelopment plans for Fort Trumbull that could capitalize on Pfizer's investment and presence. The plans included a resort hotel and conference center, office and retail space, a new state park, and residences. The Development Corporation purchased 100 of the parcels from willing sellers, but needed to use the power of eminent domain to acquire the other 15 parcels. New London's effort depended on $70 million in state money, and it was the state that suggested the city should acquire Fort Trumbull under legislation authorizing economic development efforts, rather than a different statute relating to removal of blight.

Homeowner Susette Kelo and several other reluctant property owners challenged the acquisition with the argument that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibited the city and its agents from forcibly acquiring property from one private owner simply to transfer it to another private owner or entity (the New London Development Corporation and any future owners who might purchase from it). The argument hinged on the proper definition of "public use" (as possibly distinct from "public purpose"). The case made its way through the Connecticut Supreme Court to the Supreme Court of the United States, which heard arguments on February 22, 2005, and issued a five-to-four decision upholding the city on June 23, 2005.

The decision unleashed a wave of criticism, since the majority sided with large impersonal institutions rather than individual property owners. The decision became an organizing point for property rights advocates. President George W. Bush in 2006 issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies from using eminent domain "merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interests of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken." Several states--including New Hampshire, Florida, and Oregon--moved quickly to prohibit such takings within state law, whether or not there was a record of abuse.

The DVD being reviewed very effectively provides background on the case, although it does not analyze the Supreme Court decision. It uses interviews with city officials, Development Corporation staff, neighborhood activists, Susette Kelo, and her attorney from the Institute for Justice (a libertarian public interest law firm). The background shots convey a sense of the city and the neighborhood. Graphics utilizing aerial photographs do a good job of conveying the dimensions of the site, its relation to Pfizer, and the locations of its various uses. There is a twenty-six minute case narrative which includes voices from all sides, a shorter sixteen-minute version of the case narrative, and an eleven-minute "party narrative" in which Kelo tells her own story (repeating some material from the longer narratives). The primary audience is law students, but the DVD and case are of considerable interest to urban historians and policy historians because of the multiple ways in which it revisited and utilized urban history.

The majority decision (John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer) was judicially conservative. It relied on precedent, particularly the landmark case _Berman v. Parker_ from 1954. In that case, a small business owner in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., challenged the use of eminent domain to acquire his property as part of a massive urban renewal project that turned a mixed neighborhood into middle-class housing, L'Enfant Plaza, and new federal office buildings (ironically for HUD and DOT), and made Washington a national example of the possibilities and pitfalls of large scale clearance and redevelopment projects. As Clarence Thomas noted in dissent on _Kelo_, the overwhelming majority of residents affected by the _Berman_ decision were African Americans.[1]

In _Berman_ the Court unanimously accepted an expansive view of public use. "It is within the power of the legislature," wrote William O. Douglas, "to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well-balanced as well as carefully patrolled." Fifty-one years later, a very different Supreme Court membership declined to break from the precedent and articulated the view that a carefully prepared and comprehensive redevelopment plan was strong evidence that a local jurisdiction, such as New London, had adequately defined a public purpose justifying the application of eminent domain.

Although property rights advocates attacked the majority decision as "judicial activism," it was anything but. It was judicially conservative not only in deferring to frequently reiterated precedents, but also in its deference to the states. The Court declined to second guess the local and state policy-making process in its particulars. At the same time, the majority showed some unease with the substantive results of the New London policy by inviting states to put their own houses in order: "Nothing in our opinion precludes any State from placing further restrictions on its exercise of the takings power. Indeed, many States already impose 'public use' requirements that are stricter than the federal baseline."

The minority (Sandra Day O'Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas) were in this case the judicial activists. It is likely that the Court took _Kelo_, its first major eminent domain case since _Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff_ (1984), because some members hoped that it would an opportunity to probe behind the surface of plans and precedents to scrutinize the _content_ of New London's actions. In effect, they were hoping to do for property rights what _Brown_ did for school integration by looking at the real world effects behind legal formulations.

Although they failed to shake loose a fifth vote, the minority were vigorous in mobilizing the examples of urban history. They made the argument--in a nutshell--that the use of eminent domain to promote private land development almost inevitably favors big government and big business, and victimizes poor people and minorities. Jane Jacobs offered an "amicus" brief that reiterated her belief in the problems of large-scale planning schemes. John Norquist, former mayor of Milwaukee and now executive director for the Congress for the New Urbanism, argued that subsidies to attract corporate investment into distressed cities were nearly always flawed interventions in the market. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference argued that urban renewal had a long record of burdening the poor and disrupting their lives, and that current neo-renewal efforts have the same very strong tendency. The policy debates of the 1960s lived again with citations to Martin Anderson and Herbert Gans.[2]

The most frequently cited comparison was to Poletown, the low-income neighborhood that the city of Detroit leveled in order to create an in-city site for a new Cadillac plant for General Motors. The goal of the city, of course, was to bring living-wage jobs back to the city and to increase its tax base. The project cleared 1500 homes, sixteen churches, and 144 businesses. The long, failed resistance by the neighborhood has been well-documented in books and documentary film and has long been a staple topic in urban studies classes.[3] Dissents in the Michigan Supreme Court case upholding the action, _Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit_, have been a fertile source for property rights analysis, now expanded by its use as an example by Justices O'Connor and Thomas in an additional dissenting opinion.

New London, of course, is a victim of its context. The effort to redevelop Fort Trumbull is one more example of the distorting effects of tax-base competition. Where cities rely on property taxes, they seek to replace low-value and high-cost uses (i.e., rundown neighborhoods with lots of children) with high-value, low-cost uses (i.e., offices, and condos for empty nesters). Where they depend on sales taxes, every city wants a new shopping center just inside its boundaries, where tax revenue flows to city hall but traffic crowds streets in the adjacent town.[4] In the New London case, city officials were trying to rebalance a regional development pattern that has put the growth of tax base outside the city but burdens the inside (for the education of children of low-wage service workers.)

For urban policy specialists, the _Kelo_ case illustrates the concept of an urban regime, or alliance of elected and appointed officials with a specific set of private economic interests.[5] As Justice O'Connor recognized, in most comparable property takings, "the beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms." The redevelopment plan clearly met Pfizer's needs for a hotel and condos to house visitors and employees, for removing eyesores, and for "doing something" about the low-income neighborhood. In the regime context, big projects such as large new mixed-use developments or convention centers not only benefit large private interests, but also make the reputations of public professionals and give elected officials something to point to in re-election campaigns. They are like playing Earl Weaver baseball, always waiting to be saved by a home run rather than playing for singles, steals, and bunts.

This video effectively grounds the abstractions of property rights in the everyday community life. Even in those parts that consist of neutrally contrasted interviews, however, the format reverses the normal power relationships. Public officials may have expertise and information on their side, but they remain talking heads behind office desks or in front of law books (Kelo's own lawyer comes off just the same). In contrast, Susette Kelo tells her story with the help of emotionally powerful language and imagery. She grew up in the neighborhood and returned to her roots in mid-life. She speaks from the comfortable interior of her home, which she bought and fixed up and describes herself as a "working class person." She describes how the city struck deals with absentee owners, started clearing off houses, and then "went after the elderly" to persuade them to sell, out of fear. She has special animosity toward the president of Connecticut College, who stated a desire to make New London a hip city (meaning a place for high-income people, in Kelo's version). Kelo had repainted her house pink as she fixed it up, bringing to mind John Mellencamp's populist lyrics in "Pink Houses": "Oh but ain't that America for you and me / Ain't that America somethin' to see baby / Ain't that American home of the free / Little pink houses for you and me"(on the 1983 album, _Uh-Huh_, remastered by Island/Mercury, 2005.)

To return to the interests of H-Net members, there is much to ponder in the way that both the majority and minority on the Supreme Court understood and mobilized urban history. The majority used legal precedent, deferred to local judgment, and presumably saw a range of quality in the actual projects: they were conservative and non-activist. The minority were more fully steeped in the troubled history of urban renewal and revitalization efforts, and less willing to cut slack for one more big redevelopment project with ambitious goals to "reinvent" part of a city.[6]

Notes

[1]. Howard Gillette Jr., _Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C._ (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

[2]. Martin Anderson, _The Federal Bulldozer: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949-1963_  (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964); Herbert Gans, _The Urban Villagers: Groups and Class in the Life of Italian Americans_ (New York: Free Press, 1962); and James Q. Wilson, ed., _Urban Renewal: The Record and the Controversy_ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966).

[3]. Armand Cohen, _Poletown, Detroit: A Case Study in "Public Use" and Reindustrialization_ (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1982); _Poletown Lives_ (Detroit: Information Factory, Inc., 1992); and Jeanne Wylie, _Poletown: Community Destroyed_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Poletown even makes an appearance in Elmore Leonard's crime novel _Split Image_ (New York: Harper Torch, 2002).

[4]. William Fulton, _The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Growth in Los Angeles_ (Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books, 1997).

[5]. Clarence Stone, _Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1968_ (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989).

[6]. For more on _Kelo_ from legal perspectives, see Dwight H. Merriam and Mary Massaron Ross, eds., _Eminent Domain Use and Abuse: "Kelo" in Context_  (Chicago: American Bar Association Section of State and Government Law, 2006).

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From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Apr 30 11:57:47 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Multiculturalism, Racism and Citizenship (Nottingham)
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From: Davide Per? <davide.pero@nottingham.ac.uk>


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ICMiC - The Identity Citizenship and Migration Centre
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Nottingham

Invite you to the Inaugural Lecture
by Prof. John SOLOMOS (City University):

"MULTICULTURALISM, RACISM & CITIZENSHIP"

Tuesday 8 May 2007
4:30 pm

B63 Law&Social Sciences Building
University of Nottingham

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research-citizenship.php

for further info: esther.bott@nottingham.ac.uk; 
christian.karner@nottingham.ac.uk; davide.pero@nottingham.ac.uk 

From tmartika at abo.fi  Mon Apr 30 14:10:01 2007
From: tmartika at abo.fi (Tuomas Martikainen)
Date: Mon Apr 30 12:45:34 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Nordic Migrations: Past & Present
Message-ID: <4635C079.1000005@abo.fi>

1st Call for Papers

Nordic Migrations: Past & Present

4th ETMU DAYS


October 26-27, 2007
?bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland


The theme of the fourth annual ETMU Days is Nordic Migrations from 
historical and contemporary perspectives. The theme can be approached 
from following directions: ethnicity, international mobility, 
multiculturalism, integration, indigenous and national minorities, 
minority rights, citizenship, national-ism, racism, refugees, education, 
upbringing and comparable topics.

The keynote speakers at the conference are Professor Thomas Hylland 
Eriksen (University of Oslo), Professor Charles Westin (University of 
Stockholm), Dr Diana Mulinari (University of Lund), Dr Ali Najib 
(University of Uppsala), Dr Garbi Schmidt (Danish National Institute of 
Social Research), Professor Max Engman (?bo Akademi University) and 
Professor Martin Scheinin (?bo Akademi University).

The preferred language of the conference is English. Presentations are 
also possible in Finnish and Swedish.

Several workshops dealing with the above mentioned themes will be held 
at the conference.

Researchers, research groups and students of the field may suggest 
abstracts for these workshops. The length of the paper abstract is ca. 
200 words and the proposals can be sent to either directly to the 
session organizers or to the conference organisers. The abstract should 
also include the name of the participant, contact information, 
organisation and the name of the workshop, if known. The organ-isers 
reserve themselves the right to move papers between sessions. 
Suggestions should also specify the language of the paper to be used and 
are to be submitted by 15th September 2007.

Workshops

? Citizenship and civic culture
? Cultural policy and cultural diversity
? Family, gender and generations: How migration reconfigures intimate 
relations?
? Housing, cities and ethnic minorities
? Living, working and studying in lingua francae in the Nordic 
countries: the case of migrants
? Migrant labour in rural areas
? Migration and Ethnicity in Nordic History
? Moving beyond nations ? anthropological perspectives on migration and 
transnationalism
? Position of immigrants in the labour market
? Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives on the Nordic Countries
? Refugees, transnationalism and diaspora
? Religion, migration and diaspora

For further information: http://www.etmu.fi.
Paper proposals: etmu2007@etmu.fi
Contact person: Gabi Limbach, gabi.limbach@abo.fi

Organizers

ETMU: The Finnish Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and 
International Migration
?bo Akademi University: Departments of Comparative Religion, Ethnology, 
Folkloristics and Sociology
Institute of Migration, Turku

The conference is supported by

Kulturfonden f?r Sverige och Finland, Nordic Culture Fond, Regional 
Council of Southwest Finland,
Stiftelsen f?r ?bo Akademi

