From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue May  1 23:38:44 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue May  1 22:39:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Oaxaca Summer Institute 
Message-ID: <043001c78c63$08b6ff10$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Oaxaca Summer Institute (IX)

The Oaxaca Summer Institute is a month-long seminar and field school on 
Modern Mexico. The institute is concerned with analyzing the historical and 
political context of revolutionary, environmental, and local and state 
developments and programs, paying particular attention to ethnic, gender, 
economic and cultural approaches to these and other topics. Applications for 
participation are welcomed from graduate students in history, anthropology, 
political science, sociology, and geography interested in Mexico studies 
from Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The seminar will 
be limited to 10-12 fellows. The institute takes place in Oaxaca City for 
four weeks (July 1 to July 28, 2007) with regular lectures and seminar 
sessions at the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. William H. Beezley and William E. 
French direct the program. Mexican and international scholars have been 
invited to participate.

During the course of the institute, there will be organized visits to the 
state, municipal, judicial, agrarian, and private archives. Visits are also 
scheduled to the major archeological sites and to the workshops of regional 
artisans in surrounding communities. The seminar has a weekly film and 
discussion evening and special presentations on the art, artisanry, and 
music of Oaxaca. Fellows are encouraged, but not required, to make a 
presentation on their thesis or dissertation research to the seminar.

The cost of the program is $2,125, which includes tuition, room and 
breakfast with a family in Oaxaca (other meals are available for a small 
additional fee), five group dinners, and field trips. Limited financial 
assistance is available. Applications for scholarship require a statement of 
need and letter of support from the student's major professor.

Contact:

William H. Beezley
Department of History
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 621-7107
Email: beezley@u.arizona.edu 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  2 15:08:10 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  2 14:10:16 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology
Message-ID: <004e01c78ce5$031ead50$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to thank you for the very useful responses that I received,
regarding the design of a course that looks into the intersections of
urban and rural life.  I received many good tips. The same day that
I posted my query, however, I was notified that, due to budget
cuts, my position wasn't being renewed.  The news was a complete
surprise, and now this proposed course may never be taught, unfortunately.

This is the second time since receiving my Ph.D. that I find myself
in this position, and 2/3-3/4 of the recent anthropology Ph.D.s I know
describe similar situations -- a job market that expects them to
take non-tenure-track jobs, either as adjuncts or in visiting posts,
and to teach heavier work loads for lower wages, while grinning
and bearing the nomadic lifestyle they "chose," when they went
into the profession.

Before I took this position, it had been tenure-track, and was
slated to become so again (of course, there would have been a
national search). But due to the Ohio University administration's
"mismanagement" of the budget, after arriving I was informed that
the tenure-track search had been delayed, and that my 1-yr. post
(a cash cow with a heavier teaching load) would be renewed.
I'd planned to teach here a second year, and go on the market
next fall. But now, in late April, I learn that the job is being cut ...
at a time when the seasonal market is closed.  I'm left with the
prospect of having no job or health insurance for next year,
and a sense of embitterment about the absent leadership role
of tenured faculty who seem too tethered into the ideology of
the university ranking system, and a belief in the inevitability of
market changes (and that, after all, that they had struggled too,
when they were young), to realize the dramatic human costs
that come from empowering a model of disposability. In a field
like anthropology, where the job market is extremely tight, I
believe that the proliferation of such hire-and-fire employment
patterns (along with the 80 hr. work week) is really killing off
the next generation of academia, and the much needed new
critical paradigm that it has been (quite honestly) just too
exhausted to bring to fruitation.

I must say, also, that following a three-decade trend of rising
tuition costs and a poor economy, very few individuals from my
background are making it into academia, and particularly not into
a competitive field like anthropology.  I grew up in inner-city Baltimore,
and am the only of four siblings to complete high school. So
when I research poverty studies and joblessness, it's not just a
"career" for me.  It's a lot more than that.  If you've been there,
and have family and friends who still are, then you know
what I'm talking about.

If it's not entirely taboo, I'd really like to open this issue up to
discussion.  How great of an impact is the corporatization of
universities across the U.S. (and abroad) having upon our
discipline, and how often, or successfully, are our departments
responding to hiring-and-firing practices that are intensifying
sometimes rather arbitrary ranking structures, and which
have normalized the treatment of  recent Ph.D.s, as
disposable, dime-a-dozen work horses?

your moderator,

Angela Jancius

(Urban/social justice anthropologist-for-hire. Please
email to inquire.)


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

***
In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost 
every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.

- Spanish proverb

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  2 15:28:05 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  2 14:29:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 The 2007 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology
Message-ID: <00ad01c78ce7$a3bd61a0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: B. Lynne Milgram <lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca>

The 2007 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology
DEADLINE:  May 31, 2007

The Harold K. Schneider Prize Competition is a student paper competition
established by the Society for Economic Anthropology to honor its first
president and to encourage new scholars in the field of economic
anthropology. Harold Schneider, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana
University, was known for both his path breaking research and his dedication
as a teacher. Each year, the Society for Economic Anthropology invites both
undergraduate and graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of
economic anthropology or economic archaeology. Papers should contain a
central thesis or argument, should be neither wholly descriptive nor wholly
theoretical but, ideally, both and should be edited for clarity.

Manuscripts should be in English only and be no longer than 10,000 words,
including endnotes and in American Anthropologist style. The winners in both
the undergraduate and graduate categories will each receive a cash prize, a
certificate of achievement, a year's membership in the SEA, and the most
recent volume in the SEA series, ?Monographs in Economic Anthropology.? They
will also be invited to make presentations at the annual spring meeting of
the SEA. The winners' sponsors will receive an SEA volume. All students who
submit papers will receive a year's membership in the SEA.

Submissions must include both a single hard copy and an electronic copy. The
electronic submission must be sent as a single file attachment in Microsoft
Word format. Please do not include your name in any headers or footers, but
provide all contact addresses (mail and E-mail) on the title page. All
student submissions must be accompanied by a supporting letter from a
faculty sponsor. Please indicate whether you are applying in the
undergraduate or graduate category.

The submission deadline for the 2007 competition is May 31, 2007. Send hard
copies to Dr. Lynne Milgram, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, Faculty of
Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design, 100 McCaul Street,
Toronto, ON, CANADA, M5T 1W1; and send electronic submissions to:
lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca

For additional information, please contact Dr. Lynne Milgram at
(416) 977-6000 ext. 1680 or lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca.




-- 
B. Lynne Milgram, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Studies
Ontario College of Art and Design
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada  M5T 1W1

Tel: (416) 977-6000  ext. 1680
Fax: (416) 977-6006
E-mail: lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca
        lynne.milgram@sympatico.ca 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  2 22:32:29 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  2 21:33:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology
Message-ID: <005301c78d22$f036b4b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Dimitra Doukas <dimitra.doukas@gmail.com>

I just read your post to URBANTH-L. Corporatization and the dominant market 
ideology loom large in our predicament, but I wanted to mention another 
aspect of the situation.

Four or so years ago I put together some figures on the anthro job market 
for a seminar. My source was figures then published on the AAA website. I 
just counted up PhDs granted and academic hires in the couple of years for 
which data was posted and found, to my surprise, EIGHT times as many new 
PhDs as new hires. These calculations were incomplete as the hire figures 
did not include our casual labor market but they point up something 
interesting.

Bureaucratic status in the academic world as in the business world is based 
on the size of your budget and the number of people you 'supervise.' As the 
number of hires began to shrink (when was the turnaround?), department 
chairs did not accordingly shrink the size of their PhD programs because 
their own and their department's incentives all lined up against that 
sensible move. 10-15 years of chairs' holding onto large programs produced 
the glut of PhDs that made the academic sweatshop possible.

not cheery news but there's no good remedy without good analysis

don't let the bastards get you down!

Dimitra 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu May  3 01:16:12 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu May  3 03:33:54 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology
Message-ID: <00cf01c78d39$cd5f0fc0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: "Eugene McCann" <emccann@sfu.ca>

Angela,

I'm passing on the reference to a paper by a friend of mine that you may 
find interesting (although not of any material help, I'm afraid).

"Skilled, Cheap, and Desperate": Non-tenure-track Faculty and the Delusion 
of Meritocracy

Mark Purcell, Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of 
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; mpurcell@u.washington.edu

Antipode 39 (1), 121-143.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00509.x


Good luck,
Eugene McCann
Geography, Simon Fraser University

(We talked last summer on email -- I mentioned that I'd been at OU on a 
one year contract a few years ago)

From bas.vanheur at metropolitanstudies.de  Thu May  3 10:51:44 2007
From: bas.vanheur at metropolitanstudies.de (Bas van Heur)
Date: Thu May  3 04:06:24 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology
In-Reply-To: <00cf01c78d39$cd5f0fc0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <00cf01c78d39$cd5f0fc0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <46399490.6060007@metropolitanstudies.de>

the Purcell-article really is good - I can only advise everyone to read 
it... also: since the end of February, excellent discussions on the 
topic of education in a neoliberal environment have been taking place on 
the edu-factory mailinglist. This is a list of limited duration - I 
think it ends at the end of May, but it might be interesting for some to 
subscribe. URL:
http://www.edu-factory.org/

Unfortunately, it doesn't have an online archive, but maybe the 
moderators are able to send you all the discussions that have been 
posted so far.

Bas


Angela Jancius wrote:
> From: "Eugene McCann" <emccann@sfu.ca>
>
> Angela,
>
> I'm passing on the reference to a paper by a friend of mine that you 
> may find interesting (although not of any material help, I'm afraid).
>
> "Skilled, Cheap, and Desperate": Non-tenure-track Faculty and the 
> Delusion of Meritocracy
>
> Mark Purcell, Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of 
> Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; mpurcell@u.washington.edu
>
> Antipode 39 (1), 121-143.
> http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00509.x
>
>
> Good luck,
> Eugene McCann
> Geography, Simon Fraser University
>
> (We talked last summer on email -- I mentioned that I'd been at OU on 
> a one year contract a few years ago)
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>
>


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From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu May  3 12:17:04 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu May  3 11:18:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another article on the Temp-Scholar market
Message-ID: <025101c78d96$1da59470$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Radice, Martha <Martha_Radice@UCS.INRS.Ca>

Hallo there, 

Thanks for your powerful posting. Another striking element of how things work at the moment is the time factor - everyone is usually too busy 'keeping up' to get together and fight for better working conditions, let alone an overhaul of the system. 
You may be interested in this analysis of the new university research structure - the research capitalists v. the research proletariat. 
Harvie, D. (2000). Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities. Capital and Class(71), 103-132. http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/doc/dharvie_alienation.pdf
Some of Harvie's other work on the 'commons' and 'enclosure' of the university is avaiable for download from his staff webpage at Leicester http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/academics/dharvie.html He has some interesting ideas for resistance to neoliberal restructuring in the department and the classroom (although they don't necessarily get anyone tenure...). 

Best wishes,

Martha Radice
PhD candidate, Urban studies
INRS Urbanisation, culture et soci?t?
385 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montr?al, QC, H2X 1E3 
T?l. (514) 499 4050
T?l?c. (514) 499 4065
Bureau 7102
www.ucs.inrs.ca 
Page web personnelle http://www.aeucs.org/spip.php?auteur3
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu May  3 12:30:01 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu May  3 11:31:16 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Articles: The Politics of Populations
Message-ID: <029701c78d97$edcf6a80$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: David Valentine valen076@umn.edu

Call for Papers: The Politics of Populations

David Karjanen and Courtney Helgoe, editors.

This edited collection pushes scholarship beyond identity politics and 
critiques of biopower to
examine the practices, ideologies, and forces that forge the very 
populations which are objects of new and
transforming technologies of governance, cultural politics, and practice in 
an era of increasing integration and
conflict.

While neo-liberal global capitalism depends upon the accelerated movement of 
people and goods
across borders and spaces, heightened concerns about such flows--those of 
national security, public health, and
cultural identity-- pose strong resistance to this fluidity. At the same 
time, states are changing, issues of
security and risk are being transformed; new populations "made" and older 
populations "re-made." These
processes cut across all fields of intellectual theory and popular practice: 
politics, public health, demographics,
statistics, immigration control, and so forth, all contribute to the 
changing way populations are conceived,
made, and managed today.

At the center of these processes are institutions, practices, and cultural 
politics that determine who
and what will cross borders, who is appropriate to the nation, who can be a 
citizen, who merits being counted
in government statistics, who is a threat to public health, national 
security, and/or racial and sexual purity.
Such practices deploy both new and old technologies of risk, profiling 
assessments, and policies based on
legislation, fusing cultural and ideological constructs based on race, 
nation, gender, sexuality, religion, class,
and other forms of social differentiation.

Though we might expect globalization to diminish the importance of national, 
ethnic, racial, and
gendered identities, instead new techniques of identification are developing 
or being transformed- in
particular, that new forms of "population" are emerging, and older 
historical "populations" are re-emerging.
This raises a number of questions this volume addresses:

How do global economic and security conditions impact the methods and 
practices through which specific
populations are defined and managed?

How are different political or cultural domains brought together in the 
making of populations: such as public
health and national security, race and the economics of labor migration?
What are the historical and cultural precedents or antecedents to these 
methods?
What are the institutions and practices that forge populations, and with 
what consequences?
In short, how are certain groups "made" and reproduced, both through 
practices of representation and by more
institutional means: bureaucracies, statistics, policies, and so on?

Thematic Topics include:

* Biopolitics, surveillance, and public health
* Sexuality, reproduction, and "risky" populations
* Demographics and census-taking
* Racialization and Racial profiling
* Refugees, "asylum seekers" and economic migration
* Technologies of territory: visas, guest workers, citizenship,
border security
* Risk analysis and security assessment

Prospective chapters should be no more than 25-30 pages.

Please submit all proposals in abstract form to David Karjanen, Institute 
for Global Studies and Department of
American Studies, University of Minnesota.
Karjanen@umn.edu 

From susanmazur at hotmail.com  Thu May  3 11:33:54 2007
From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (susan mazur)
Date: Thu May  3 13:40:58 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of
 Anthropology
Message-ID: <BAY120-W12A2356927378CE09F3234C4410@phx.gbl>

Hi all,
 
Loved both the original article and Dimitri's response to it. 
 
I would say the first step is to warn people away from entering graduate school. Problem is, no one believes that 'it will happen to them.' The Chronicle forums had a wonderful example of this a few years ago when practically the entire set of contributors rose up to warn off a bright young thing from entering graduate school in English.
 
I had good advice, from an independent scholar, which was, not to stay in grad school unless I got money. 
I would amend that to telling students: "Do not enter graduate school unless you have a full ride from a top ten department in your discipline."  Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D. www.susanmazur.com 951.687.8661 "As a realtor said to me, "a house is a wooden box that sits out in the rain and slowly rots. No one would buy in this market if they really thought about how much pain it's going to cause them in the long run. That's why we have to sell them a home, not a house."



> From: jancius@ohio.edu> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:32:29 -0400> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology> > From: Dimitra Doukas <dimitra.doukas@gmail.com>> > I just read your post to URBANTH-L. Corporatization and the dominant market > ideology loom large in our predicament, but I wanted to mention another > aspect of the situation.> > Four or so years ago I put together some figures on the anthro job market > for a seminar. My source was figures then published on the AAA website. I > just counted up PhDs granted and academic hires in the couple of years for > which data was posted and found, to my surprise, EIGHT times as many new > PhDs as new hires. These calculations were incomplete as the hire figures > did not include our casual labor market but they point up something > interesting.> > Bureaucratic status in the academic world as in the business world is based > on the size of your budget and the number of people you 'supervise.' As the > number of hires began to shrink (when was the turnaround?), department > chairs did not accordingly shrink the size of their PhD programs because > their own and their department's incentives all lined up against that > sensible move. 10-15 years of chairs' holding onto large programs produced > the glut of PhDs that made the academic sweatshop possible.> > not cheery news but there's no good remedy without good analysis> > don't let the bastards get you down!> > Dimitra > > _______________________________________________> URBANTH-L mailing list> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
From Rudolf.Gaudio at purchase.edu  Tue May  1 12:46:26 2007
From: Rudolf.Gaudio at purchase.edu (Gaudio, Rudolf)
Date: Thu May  3 15:57:24 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]visiting position at SUNY/Purchase
References: <E1HhpLJ-0005r9-SM@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <B7DBF951A6E8B0479656FD9315A22CEB015F7BF9@SVEXCHBE01.purchase.edu>

The anthropology program at Purchase College, S.U.N.Y. seeks up to three one year replacements at the lecturer or assistant professor level.  Experience teaching Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology is a plus.  Research and teaching interests in one or more of the following areas are also desirable: media cross-culturally, religion, performance studies, African diaspora, Global Black studies, urban anthropology, and fieldwork methods.  Geographic area is open.

Please send a letter of interest and a current curriculum vitae as email attachments to Professor John Forrest at john.forrest@purchase.edu  Applications received by May 15th will receive the full attention of the committee.

Purchase College is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri May  4 15:08:27 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri May  4 14:09:17 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as hero"
Message-ID: <00c501c78e77$40373200$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

In the below message, Dani emphasizes a wonderful point - that the nomadic 
"temp-job" market pulls people away from what drew them into  anthropology 
in the first place -- a desire to have a positive social impact. In the past 
two years, I've been doing research and advocacy work with prisoners, and 
funding it out of pocket (www.prisonersolidarity.org).  When I lose this job 
and leave the region, my advocacy work unfortunately also ends. What do 
senior faculty who are activist-anthropologists think about the trend that 
Dani describes below?
-------------------------------------------------

From: Dani Kranz <moewe@gmx.li>

I was really, really touched by your mail. And I was not surprised by 
Dimitra's response.

I am myself in the last steps of finishing up my PhD in St Andrews, and have 
been self-financing throughout, as most of my friends who entered PhD 
programs in the UK. On that matter, Susan is right that the matter of 
finances needs to be appreciated much more. Being on the brink of bankruptcy 
throughout is nerve wrecking, fear inducing and frustrating.

I have been asking myself especially on the last few months why I'm pursuing 
this degree - taking all of the risks to maybe never get into academia, or 
on one or two year contracts, at the same time being forced to work outside 
academia as market analyst to make ends meet (one could say as an applied 
anthropologist, though I shy away from this).. But the risk is not what 
actually bothers me - besides a lucky two of my friends, all of us work in 
jobs we were either not trained for or just do in order to make ends meet 
(that goes alike for my friends in Germany, Britain, Israel, the US and 
various other countries). What bothers me much more is that I am not sure if 
what I am doing will ever have any effect on any social policy as I'd hoped 
for. As you, I have been working with a group of people I do care about a 
lot and for very personal reasons, Jews in Germany. I gave a paper last week 
which looks at what happens when a dual citizen (Germany and Israel) enters 
Germany, where he is then just counted as a German, with all connotations 
that carries. That as a descendant of German Jews who fled Germany his 
family history and thus the passing on of any tradition or German language 
is notably different from millions of 'other'  Germans is not appreciated in 
the legal framework, besides the reinstatement of the citizenship that is 
part of the constitution. During my fieldwork, I managed to get him on a 
German language course, and left all papers that could help people like him 
with one my participants - if I was not to have an impact on social policy, 
I wanted at least to give back, and help as much as I could. It is these 
moments I realized that make me do what I'm doing, and pursue this degree. 
It's the hope that maybe I will manage to change things and make this world, 
idealistic as it might sound, a better place. Not going into grad school and 
giving into the 'forces of the market' I know I would have regretted, it 
would have made me feel dead. Margaret Mead I think it was once mentioned 
that it takes a small group of determined individuals to make changes if 
there are supposed to be any.

Dani 

From blackche at yahoo.com  Fri May  4 06:08:56 2007
From: blackche at yahoo.com (FaDi S. Shayya)
Date: Fri May  4 14:09:29 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CITY DEBATES 2007 "Cities after Disaster: Filling the
	Voids"
Message-ID: <858470.72660.qm@web60025.mail.yahoo.com>

CITY DEBATES 2007 "Cities after Disaster: Filling the Voids"
The Graduate Program in Urban Planning & Policy and Urban Design (MUPP/MUD) cordially invites you to the CITY DEBATES 2007 conference entitled: "Cities after Disaster: Filling the Voids". On May 8, 9, 10 & 12, 2007 in the Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH). 
 For info, please e-mail visiting assistant professor Barbara Drieskens at bd05@aub.edu.lb
Tuesday, May 8 & Wednesday, May 9
Tuesday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m. (ALH) 
Walid Sadek (AUB) "Mourning in the Presence of the Corpse" 
Mona Harb (RU/AUB) "The Politics of Reconstruction in Post-War Haret-Hreik" 
Franck Mermier (IFPO) discussant 

Wednesday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. (ALH) 
Rabi Shibli (RU/AUB) "Beit bil Janub: The Rebuilding of Destroyed Houses in the South of Lebanon" 
Jala Makhzoumi (RU/AUB) "The Case of Qlaile and a Landscape Approach to Reconstruction" 
Serge Yazigi (ALBA) discussant
 
Thursday, May 10 & Saturday, May 12
Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. (ALH) 
Caecilia Pieri (EHESS) "Baghdad, a Palimpsest: What is at Stake in Cyclic Destruction/Reconstruction?" 
Habib Debs (RU/AUB) "The Reconstruction of Bint Jbeil: Social and Economic Urgency vs. Memory and Identity Concerns" 
Yasmine Makaroun (LU) discussant 

Saturday, May 12 at 10:00 a.m. (ALH) 
Samuel Bordreuil (CNRS) and Anne Lovell (INSERM) "New Orleans post Katrina: Rebuilding a City and/or an Urban Society?" 
Aita Group (RU/AUB) "Aita Shaab: Village Debates" 
Barbara Drieskens (AUB) discussant 
12 p.m. 
Maher Abi Samra and Mansour Aziz (Sinamayat) "Documenting the Voids: Photographs and Videos" 
12:45 p.m. 
Eric Verdeil (CNRS) "Reconstruction in Perspective: Conclusion and Debate"
 
 
ALH: Architecture Lecture Hall 
RU: Reconstruction Unit 
AUB: American University of Beirut 
IFPO: Institut Francais du Proche-Orient 
ALBA: Association Libanaise des Beaux Arts 
EHESS: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 
LU: Lebanese University 
CNRS: Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique 
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri May  4 22:33:49 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri May  4 21:35:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Political Economy of Academia (especially with regard to
	Social Sciences and Humanities)
Message-ID: <002301c78eb5$75e5aec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[note: post directly to the list by sending to: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu]


From: Eric Charles Thompson <socect@nus.edu.sg>

Political Economy of Academia (especially with regard to Social Sciences
and Humanities)

Here is the story:

Academia - specifically universities - expanded rapidly in the mid-20th
century (certainly in the US, with the post-WWII "GI Bill" and general
move toward tertiary education as a social norm; plus Cold War
imperatives, etc.).

With the dominance of neo-liberal economic hegemony (as opposed for
example to state-mediated distribution of and support for social goods,
such as education and medicine), the problem faced by social sciences
and humanities in particular is that there is not a clear economic
market for anthropologist or English literature majors or PhDs.

The business model of social science and humanities (and it may be true
of other disciplines; but not sure about that) is as follows:

1. Shift the bulk of undergraduate teaching to Temporary Visiting
Fellows and Teaching Assistants (who are PhD students; entailing
substantial expansion and over production of PhD's). Basically employing
people under similar conditions to the female factory labor force in the
contemporary "global assembly line"; in which young women are employed
from their late teens to early twenties, but the expectation is that
they will leave the workforce upon marriage, before they gain
substantial experience or demand higher wages. (The insidious difference
is that while third world factories make this model fairly explicit, the
university system pretends that the PhD is actually a step toward a
better job within the system; which increasingly it is not).

2. Maintain a skeleton crew of mid-career "associate professors". The
glut of PhD's produced effectively suppresses salaries in general, but
especially at the assistant professor level, with knock-on effects for
associate professors. And if there is any truth whatsoever to
neo-liberal, rational-choice economic theory the downward pressure on
salaries will degrade the quality of the workforce as well (smart people
will go elsewhere where they are better compensated).

3. While one large amount of resources (money) is put toward employing
many, many cheap teaching assistants, at the other end, very large
amounts of money are spent on buying the CV's of "superstars". (Job ads
in the British system now explicitly state that they are looking for
candidates who will make the department look good in the nationalized
research evaluation system). Whether good scholarship and teaching is
sustainable in a system made up primarily of a relatively small numbers
of "superstars" and a very large number of amateur apprentices (i.e.
TA's) with fewer and less qualified "working class" academics in between
(i.e. Assistant and Associate Professors) is questionable? (Literally -
maybe it is, maybe it isn't).

So there is a shift from the use of tenured, life-long staff to
non-tenured, temporary staff. Specifically, very large numbers of young,
cheap Teaching Assistants are substituting for more expensive Assistant,
Associate and Full Professors. These Teaching Assistants are under the
illusion that they have a reasonable chance of a tenure-track job. But
they (not as a personal intention, but as a systematic process) are
eliminating the very jobs they hope to obtain by out competing the
tenure-track professoriate economically (because they are willing to do
the same work - standing in front of undergraduate masses, babbling
about any old thing - for far less money). Roughly, I would guess that a
university can hire 3 teaching assistants for 1 tenure track professor.
In the absence of any substantial 'quality control' on the content of
classroom teaching (other than student-driven popularity contests; which
probably favor the dashing, personable, easy-going, closer-to-my-age
TA's in any event), there is little or no incentive for universities to
hire tenure track professors. The system as such itself perpetuates the
"glut" of PhDs.

Eventually (now?), it will become apparent that university academic jobs
are not viable professional jobs for highly skilled "knowledge workers".
It will only be viable for those who (A) have very minimal material
aspirations or (B) those who can do it as a "hobby" (such as individuals
who are independently wealthy; the return of the 19th century 'gentlemen
scholar') or those who can do it on a second income basis.

It will probably take a generation or two for a whole-scale
transformation, but systemically this will degrade university education
and scholarship. These are powerful systemic forces. As I see it, there
are two main avenues to resist these forces (neither of them
particularly strong at the moment). One is so-called "unionization".
Leftist academics like this idea, because it brings to mind romantic
images of working class solidarity. But the reality is that we are not
talking about a working class Internationale; we are really talking
about an elite professional guild, similar to the American Medical
Association (AMA). The purpose of such a guild is to protect
professional standards as well as the profession in general (and
protection here in large part means keeping wages high by setting high
standards and barriers to entry into the profession). I think one can
make a reasonable case (self-serving, but still reasonable) that this is
important for maintaining quality education and scholarship. The other
mode of resistance to the systemic downgrading of university education
is ongoing political lobbying on behalf of education in general as a
social good, which like medicine, food, housing and other social
necessities, is not served well by a neoliberal market system (which,
although it creates certain efficiencies, systemically concentrates
wealth - and whatever goods are entailed, such as we see with worldwide
real estate property markets - in the hands of very few people). In a
sense it is fine if only a few people have access to all the Rolex
watches and BMWs in the world; it is not so useful for only a few people
to have access to all the education, medical care, housing and food.


----------------------------------------------
Dr. Eric C. Thompson
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
AS1 #03-06, 11 Arts Link
Singapore 117570
Tel: +65 6516-6070
Fax: +65 6777-9579

Profile: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/socect/index.htm
Unsettling Absences: http://www.nus.edu.sg/sup/9971-69-336-4.html

From mccreery at gol.com  Sat May  5 13:11:15 2007
From: mccreery at gol.com (John McCreery)
Date: Fri May  4 23:17:05 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Political Economy of Academia (especially with regard
	to Social Sciences and Humanities)
In-Reply-To: <002301c78eb5$75e5aec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <002301c78eb5$75e5aec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <8659f5a00705042011w7c436a5ewb17189f96e237e4b@mail.gmail.com>

>
> From: Eric Charles Thompson <socect@nus.edu.sg>
>
> With the dominance of neo-liberal economic hegemony (as opposed for
> example to state-mediated distribution of and support for social goods,
> such as education and medicine), the problem faced by social sciences
> and humanities in particular is that there is not a clear economic
> market for anthropologist or English literature majors or PhDs.



Eric's analysis is certainly consistent with my own experience and
observations of academia since my own booting out of the Ivory Tower in
1976.  What surprises me is still, however, the lack of reference, except
for the now obligatory buzzword "neoliberal," to the larger processes of
which the situation of untenured faculty is only one of numerous examples.
The underlying process of increasing polarization of winners and losers in
free market economies has been well-understood economist Vilfredo Pareto
conceived the Pareto curve sometime around 1906. The proposition that
post-Fordist organizations are tending toward the configuration of a core
group of managers and a floating periphery of temporary workers to whom
tasks are outsourced is the heart of David Harvey's argument in _The
Condition of Postmodernity_(1990). The exacerbation of this tendency and its
effects on U.S. workers in particular is analyzed in former Labor Secretary
Robert B. Reich's _The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century
Capitalism (1991). Essentially the same argument appears in George Ritzer
_The McDonaldization of Society_ (revised edition, 2000). To which I can add
a fading memory of an article a few years back in the Chronicle of  Higher
Education in which the author observed that American higher education was
going the way of American department stores, with a few high-prestige places
(Neiman-Marcus, Saks, Nordstroms=Harvard, Yale, Berkeley) doing well on the
high end and a proliferation of community colleges (=discount malls/fast
food outlets) on the low end, while the state universities and colleges
(=Sears, Montgomery Wards) created to serve the mass middle-class baby
boomers get squeezed from both sides. The question is, when will academics
caught on the wrong side of these growing divides look beyond the academy
and discover  solidarity with other workers who find themselves in similar
situations.

-- 
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
From mccreery at gol.com  Sat May  5 21:10:45 2007
From: mccreery at gol.com (John McCreery)
Date: Sat May  5 11:18:00 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Political Economy of Academia (especially with
	regardto Social Sciences and Humanities)
In-Reply-To: <95FC32E2DB27F84EB4F7B31EE18273CA02A69690@BONHAM.AD.UWS.EDU.AU>
References: <002301c78eb5$75e5aec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
	 <8659f5a00705042011w7c436a5ewb17189f96e237e4b@mail.gmail.com>
	 <95FC32E2DB27F84EB4F7B31EE18273CA02A69690@BONHAM.AD.UWS.EDU.AU>
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On 5/5/07, George Morgan <george.morgan@uws.edu.au> wrote:
> I agree completely with John McCreery's observation the creation of an academic underclass parallels what is happening more broadly in contemporary Western societies,

Thanks, George. It's a rare day, indeed, when one reads an "agree
completely" on any email list.

Turning again to my own experience, I wonder how far the difficulty
young academics have in addressing this situation depends on

(1) the traditional role of education as a meritocratic means of
escaping a working class or lower middle class background, making it
especially galling when the escape turns out to be another dead end;
or

(2) schooling along lines that makes it hideously difficult for anyone
who does well  in school and wants to be a scholar to contemplate
doing anything else, especially when the schooling in question affirms
a radical gulf between the sacred space of academe and the worlds of
business and government, depicted as fundamentally evil; or

(3) the horrific combination of feeling betrayed and feeling a failure
that threatens all those who have set their hearts on the Ivory Tower
and now find themselves confined to sweeping out its stables; or

(4) bitter disillusionment with the grand progressive dream that if
only everyone were better educated the world would be a richer, more
rational, and far more pleasant place, instead of a grim battlefield
for economic survival, where academic credentials have been inflated
to nearly worthless?


John

-- 
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/

From george.morgan at uws.edu.au  Sat May  5 15:03:21 2007
From: george.morgan at uws.edu.au (George Morgan)
Date: Sat May  5 11:18:48 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Political Economy of Academia (especially with
	regardto Social Sciences and Humanities)
References: <002301c78eb5$75e5aec0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
	<8659f5a00705042011w7c436a5ewb17189f96e237e4b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <95FC32E2DB27F84EB4F7B31EE18273CA02A69690@BONHAM.AD.UWS.EDU.AU>

I agree completely with John McCreery's observation the creation of an academic underclass parallels what is happening more broadly in contemporary Western societies, including my own (Australia). There is one aspect that has not yet been broached in this thread. In many cases it is tenured staff who use casual workers as sandbags against the erosion of their own working conditions. As funding for higher education declines, particularly in peripheral/ second tier institutions, so there are increasing pressures place on tenured staff. The decision to employ short term/ casual staff to alleviate the growing burden (ie those who are cheaper and a offer something much-prized by human resources managers: flexibility) alleviates those pressures. 

Higher education is unsual in that there is no clear line between who is management and who is a worker. Tenured academics might see themselves as workers by most perform some functions of managers. The decision to replace a retired tenured colleague with academic pieceworkers might make budgetary sense but does little to enhance the prospects of those in the secondary labour market. This is a complex industrial question for academic trade unions, many of which are dominated by tenured staff and have not fully addressed the complexities of the dual academic labour market.

regards

George Morgan
University of Western Sydney

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat May  5 13:22:01 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat May  5 12:23:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Visual Production and Social Disaster
Message-ID: <00b501c78f31$84ed9280$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Pelin Tan <pelintan@gmail.com>

Dear All,

Please feel free to apply with related proposals or forward the announcement 
:

International Visual Sociology Conference, New York

10-11. August. 2007
www.visualsociology.org

Session: Visual Production and Social Disaster

Chairs:  Pelin Tan (Istanbul Technical University-Institute of Social 
Sciences) and Dee Britton (Colgate University)

Social disasters are events that that cause collapse of anticipated social 
protections and therefore transform the normative public/private division. 
Social disasters alter human actions, interactions, social institutions and 
community narrative. This session will examine how visual representations of 
social disasters are produced and how those representations impact social 
interaction, social structure, and the establishment of a collective memory 
of the disaster.

For further information or to send abstracts or completed papers please 
contact: Pelin Tan (Istanbul Technical University-Institute of Social 
Sciences-Art History Dept.) Email: pelintan@gmail.com and Dee Britton 
(Colgate University) Email: dbritton@mail.colgate.edu 

From andenance at comcast.net  Sat May  5 15:51:08 2007
From: andenance at comcast.net (Nance)
Date: Sat May  5 13:10:32 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another article on the Temp-Scholar market
Message-ID: <050520071451.2424.463C99DC0003D93A0000097822007637040A0C020E020A0B020E@comcast.net>

Hi all,

Prepare, this is a long email as I have a lot to say about this issue.  S=
ome may apply to you and some may piss you off.  Either way, I encourage =
your responses.  Thanks to those of you who will actually read it and I a=
m sorry to all, but specifically skimmers or the uninterested for filling=
 up your inbox. =20

I would like to offer the perspective of one with only a Master's in Cult=
ural Anthropology.  Although I qualify for teaching positions at a number=
 of community colleges, I have to compete with many unfunded, or under-fu=
nded graduate students who are willing to drive 2 hours to teach, daily a=
nd work for peanuts.  I too was willing to work for peanuts, but was not =
given the opportunity outside of being a research assistant for my mentor=
 as a graduate student.  I was not hired due to the overflowing pool of a=
pplicants who are either more qualified, or will work for less - and who =
are often both, more qualified and will work for less.  The job market fo=
r an MA is very difficult as I am not only competing with the grad studen=
ts, but I am also competing with PhDs who are grossly underemployed.=20

As for earning an M.A., I did so through more sweat and tears than many o=
f my cohort.  Despite dyslexia and dyscalcula, I kept to my spirit and ov=
ercame many insults and demoralizations by certain faculty members who I =
recognized felt that the only reason I was in the program was due to a qu=
ota, or a "dumbing down of the program.  I was told by one professor to q=
uit thinking about a PhD and go get a job.  He stated that I had too much=
 debt to continue on this path, especially since he did not expect me to =
make it in academia.  He added that I was too immature to handle the pres=
sure of a PhD.  This was not the first time I experienced this sort of sn=
obbery.  After all, I was passed along in school to the 5th grade when fi=
nally a teacher recognized that I could not read.  I also have had to end=
ure the stereotype experienced by many Native Appalachians, aka "hillbill=
ies, mountain folks, poor white trash," and the list continues (I have cr=
eated a corrective response to these stereotype
s with the self classification of "poor white recycled").  The education =
system in my state was ranked number 49 the last I heard and probably sti=
ll is in bottom five.  While many teachers in this area are foreign and o=
f course sympathetic to "these people," they are indeed influenced by the=
 stereotype and often rationalize their efforts based on the "generationa=
l poverty" excuse.  While I know full well that my college career was an =
anomaly as it was never expected of me to attend college, I proved otherw=
ise.

As the market for the anthropologist (esp. cultural anthropologists) seem=
s to be limited, I am constantly getting emails about archaeology positio=
ns and the need for cultural resource management positions.  This flood o=
f positions makes me only wish I had focused on cultural resource managem=
ent and learned to dig a square hole.  I have learned that while I am not=
 a professional cultural anthropologists being paid, recognized, publishe=
d, etc. as such, I am a practicing cultural anthropologist working under =
the disguise of a social worker/investigator.  I took the first job that =
was offered to me after a year and a half of applying to everything (from=
 pharmaceutical rep positions to the FBI).  I did lots of crying and peri=
ods of self doubt.  I worked full time with three employers, and applying=
 and accepting food stamps and going without any health care.  I know tha=
t the only way I was able to attend college was due to the Federal Financ=
ial Aid Program or FFSA.  Since neither of my p
arents were high school graduates, I was able to receive funding.  Since =
the TAs and Profs have to report back on those students receiving aid, it=
 was obvious to the snobocracy, that I was a local who would at best, gra=
duate.  Very little effort was made to support my efforts.  In fact, the =
only place that I ever received any feed back on my academic performance =
(grammar, mentoring, etc) was from the African and African American Studi=
es program.  This was the only place in which I received any quality inst=
ruction on how to correct errors in my writing as an undergraduate.  With=
 class sizes so large, the attention I received was limited, but I lost p=
oints for misspelled words on a hand written essay exam.  In my English c=
lasses, this was never the case.  The major difference here was the quali=
ty of the instructors.  In the A&AA Studies program, I was educated by ex=
perienced tenured faculty who demanded more from their students.  This pr=
ogram did not have grad students at its disposa
l and given the history of the program, the faculty members from a variet=
y of departments who cross-lectured in this program, genuinely invested i=
n these students.   The English classes I took were taught by first year =
graduate students.  In the A&AA program,  I was often the only white girl=
, but I felt that in these classes, I actually was welcomed and treated a=
s a person deserving of a chance.  I also felt jealous of this particular=
 student body as I could see that there were some very dedicated professo=
rs actually wanting to educate their students -- an experience I rarely f=
elt outside of this program.  Also, my hillbilly status was never an issu=
e or under-tone as not having a right to be there.

Back to the job market - One hurdle I found while trying to make ends mee=
t is that having an MA is actually a curse.  I received dozens of rejecti=
ons letters stating that I was over qualified for their position.  I rece=
ived fewer rejection letters stating that I was under-qualified, but that=
 they had elected to go with someone with more experience.  In other word=
s, a PhD.  While a GRA in grad school, I worked on the side as a bartende=
r.  Bartending and other food service positions are what I lived on throu=
gh out undergrad.  After obtaining my grad degree, people would not hire =
me stating I was "too smart for them" as they assumed I would not stay an=
d be reliable.  I was often asked, "why do you want to work here?"  My an=
swer was 9 out of 10 times, I need a job and you are hiring.  Finally, I =
filled out an application at a hotel for an auditing position.  Yes, the =
dyslexic was applying for an auditing position - I was desperate!  I list=
ed my education on the application in a truthfu
l way, but as limited as possible.  I was actually hired.  I worked there=
 for 9 months until I finally was offered a position with the State of Te=
nnessee.=20

I was hired by the State of Tennessee to be a Case Manager I  (Child Prot=
ective Services Investigator) for the Department of Children's Services (=
publically they identify this position as a Case Manager so as not to see=
m too invasive, but really I am an investigator applying social work).  D=
espite having an MA in a field which has been consulted for much of the w=
ork, theories, applications the dept. uses, I was not offered the positio=
n that was mandated for those with Master's degrees a Case Manager II pos=
ition.  I did not care, as I took the job that only required a BA.  The j=
ob is exactly the same, only with a $300 a month pay difference.  My supe=
rvisor does not have a Master's degree and neither does her supervisor.  =
On many occasions, I have had to explain word usage to my supervisor.  Fo=
r example, when I wrote something like (John and Mary, dates of birth: xx=
xxxx and xxxxx, respectively.) I had to explain what "respectively" meant=
.  I have to thank my graduate school mentor fo
r being so hard on me with my grammar.  Although, I still struggle with w=
riting and reading in English, (vs Appalachian), I have superior writing =
skills to my co-workers.  In fact, I am the only Case Manager (despite be=
ing the lowest paid) who has not had to redo a report for the juvenile ju=
dge.  Some of my co-workers have to make corrections weekly.  Having had =
to read other's case recordings, I have found only disgust for the educat=
ion system in my state and a recognition of hardships people face with an=
 inadequate education, one in which the state universities perpetuate.  H=
aving said this, it is quite shocking that the teaching positions at coll=
eges and universities that reach the most students, especially those who =
may not finish UG and will certainly not go to grad school, are filed by =
those with incomplete educations, the graduate students.  It is not to sa=
y that they are not capable, it is to point out that as an attempt to use=
 cheap labor, the universities are hiring not o
n qualifications and experience, but on supply and demand principles.  Be=
cause there is someone who is willing to work for peanuts out of understo=
od desperation, the universities and colleges by default lower their expe=
ctations and therefore lower the quality of education their student body =
receives.  Furthermore, the GTAs are far less supported when a student ch=
allenges their authority to assign grades, enforce rules, and expect more=
 of the students.  Since the GTA does not want to loose funding, she or h=
e is more willing to be relaxed in their standards so that the student ev=
aluations will be positive and thus ensure another year of funding. =20

As is, I am actually happy in my position with the State.  If I do someth=
ing wrong, I am in a position to always blame the higher ups with less fo=
rmal education.  I know that when I have to make a "genogram" that it is =
actually a "kinship chart." I know that the quick investigations are actu=
ally rapid ethnographic fieldwork that is at a micro level.  I also know =
that I am not just identifying a problem, but doing so with offering supp=
ort to families, and resources to help with the issue that brought on the=
 investigation and any thing else the family identifies as a need.  There=
 are down sides to it as well as sometimes the legal stuff is frustrating=
 and all that is available is "band-aiding the problem" as we lowbies at =
work call it as we know that the families who receive band-aids will be b=
ack with in weeks for surgery.  I also know that while I am investigating=
 severe and sexual abuse against children, I am taking a stand for their =
rights as a child.  In this way, I am able to p
ractice in the area of human rights.  There are indeed times when I objec=
t to the policy that invades the private lives of those falsely accused, =
but in the end as many of these falsely accused admit and support, it is =
for the safety of the child that matters as they are without a voice.  Up=
on introduction to a family, I often get a door slammed in my face or cur=
sed out, but at the end of the process, I am always thanked by either the=
 children, or by a parent or other relative for helping a family in crisi=
s. =20

Although, I am accused of being a Social Worker, I am not.  I am, in the =
best way possible under the circumstances, applying anthropology.  For ex=
ample, I have been faced with a number of families that are refugees from=
 several countries in Africa.  I have had to remove children from these f=
amilies for physical abuse and for medical mal-treatment.  I have had to =
testify that cultural relativism is not an excuse for beating a child.  T=
his testimony was supported by the head representative of this refugee NG=
O as this behavior was not accepted back home despite the attorney's atte=
mpts to make it seem common practice to beat a child in this African coun=
try.  In this case, it was Liberia.  Another situation called on me to re=
fer back to my MA research on Obeah and later when at home and preparing =
for court,  look up info on Voodoo.  This refugee from Sierra Leon felt h=
er child had been sent an illness and that at the hospital her baby was g=
oing to die.  She stated that her neighbors had
 worked voodoo on her child.  This mother was very compliant and returned=
 to the hospital with her severely sick baby.  I was able to talk with he=
r about her fears.  I understood clearly her fear of having a "sent illne=
ss" and since I was not treating her like she was a devil worshiper, she =
was very honest with me.  I was faced with trying to delineate between a =
statements that my child takes the form of a snake, with statements that =
"voices tell me to keep feeding the baby and they told me to leave the ho=
spital," and that the "mattress was talking to me" and that "computers ar=
e trying to clone me."  While I have no doubt that the baby may have take=
n the form of a snake, "wiggling about, back and forth like a worm" as sh=
e stated, is related to voodoo, I had to figure out if a mattress talking=
 to her and the fear of cloning was voodoo.  In the end, this sweet lady =
was institutionalized for two weeks.  She is now out of hospital, has giv=
en birth to her second child, and her children=20
are healthy and living with her sister.  Unfortunately, this mother is il=
l, but is also now living with her sister and raising her children under =
the supervision of the relative.  I still receive random phone calls at 4=
 in the morning from this mother asking me how to turn on the heat, despi=
te having a relative in the next room.  Nonetheless, as there are many cr=
itics of the work CPS does, there are many rewards when you see a child g=
et a meal for the first time in days, a bath the first time in weeks, fre=
edom from a sexual predator for the first time in often years, go see a d=
octor for the first time since birth.  Unfortunately, in East Tennessee t=
here is a very high rate of child neglect/abuse and a very high rate of c=
hild sexual abuse.  Maybe this too is influenced by the stereotypes of Ap=
palachia and "generational poverty" which is often equated with "abuse, n=
eglect, incest, and ignorance," but then again, maybe our education syste=
m is mostly responsible. =20

Your thoughts and experiences?
--
Nancy R. Anderson M.A.=20


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From: "Angela Jancius" <jancius@ohio.edu>=20

> From: Radice, Martha=20
>=20
> Hallo there,=20
>=20
> Thanks for your powerful posting. Another striking element of how thing=
s work at=20
> the moment is the time factor - everyone is usually too busy 'keeping u=
p' to get=20
> together and fight for better working conditions, let alone an overhaul=
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From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (susan mazur)
Date: Sat May  5 15:37:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as hero"
Message-ID: <BAY120-W6A20C940E1E2526F4587CC4470@phx.gbl>

 
Fantastic conversation, everybody.
 
I'd add, that there are personal reasons for getting a PhD, which may well outweigh economic ones. I personally put myself through school, with much of my BA being funded by my then-employers in Silicon Valley. Having gained skills, experience, and a social network in marketing (which I maintain to this day) I felt relatively safe in going to graduate school, even though my then-advisor told me to go to law school instead ("You'd make a fabulous litigator.") I wanted the PhD to prove to myself that I could finish what I started. I used to say, "It doesn't matter if I blow my head off the day after I get my doctorate - they'll have to announce the funeral of DR Susan Mazur." 
 
I did get (some) funding, and I won prestigious fellowships, but I still ended up w 50G in student loans. Relatively cheap, BTW, I met someone who had already racked up 60Gs and wasn't even finished with his master's (and there was a great article recently about what a cash cow THOSE are). 
 
What gets interesting is how much we then buy into the schtick of academia. I entered with nary a thought in my head of becoming a professor. I wanted to work in applied anthro, and go into government, NGOs, whatever (all touted as places anthros make careers). Yet somewhere along the line I started 'chasing the bunny' of tenure like a whipped greyhound. Feeling like a failure even though I calculated the odds of getting a job at every stage along the way and the news was grim.
 
It was only last year, when what I had essentially been told was a sure bet fell through (much like Angela's story) at a place I didn't even want to be, that I started to really ask myself, "How did I get here?" (cue Talking Heads). 
 
To finish, yes, I am adjuncting, no I don't mind it so much seeing as I am in SoCal and the pay is decent (anybody get that newletter from the Dept of Education recently?) and I get to teach upper division courses with about as much regularity as anyone else. My husband's job provides health insurance, and the state of CA provides a pension and other retirement bennies. I also started my own consulting firm (www.indiciaconsulting.com) and I figure I may as well continue to make my own path, seeing as five years on the job market has nothing to show for it but some very close calls at some very good schools. I quip, "Every year I find myself getting rejected by better and better schhols!"
 
But as of this Fall? I am off the market. If they want me, they'll have to come and find me. 
I can't play Charlie Brown to their Lucy any longer. 
 
 
PS - I have attached an oped I submitted to LA Times on this issue. 
  Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D. www.susanmazur.com 951.687.8661 "It's gonna get nerd nasty." Amanda on Ugly Betty



> From: jancius@ohio.edu> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:08:27 -0400> Subject: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as hero"> > In the below message, Dani emphasizes a wonderful point - that the nomadic > "temp-job" market pulls people away from what drew them into anthropology > in the first place -- a desire to have a positive social impact. In the past > two years, I've been doing research and advocacy work with prisoners, and > funding it out of pocket (www.prisonersolidarity.org). When I lose this job > and leave the region, my advocacy work unfortunately also ends. What do > senior faculty who are activist-anthropologists think about the trend that > Dani describes below?> -------------------------------------------------> > From: Dani Kranz <moewe@gmx.li>> > I was really, really touched by your mail. And I was not surprised by > Dimitra's response.> > I am myself in the last steps of finishing up my PhD in St Andrews, and have > been self-financing throughout, as most of my friends who entered PhD > programs in the UK. On that matter, Susan is right that the matter of > finances needs to be appreciated much more. Being on the brink of bankruptcy > throughout is nerve wrecking, fear inducing and frustrating.> > I have been asking myself especially on the last few months why I'm pursuing > this degree - taking all of the risks to maybe never get into academia, or > on one or two year contracts, at the same time being forced to work outside > academia as market analyst to make ends meet (one could say as an applied > anthropologist, though I shy away from this).. But the risk is not what > actually bothers me - besides a lucky two of my friends, all of us work in > jobs we were either not trained for or just do in order to make ends meet > (that goes alike for my friends in Germany, Britain, Israel, the US and > various other countries). What bothers me much more is that I am not sure if > what I am doing will ever have any effect on any social policy as I'd hoped > for. As you, I have been working with a group of people I do care about a > lot and for very personal reasons, Jews in Germany. I gave a paper last week > which looks at what happens when a dual citizen (Germany and Israel) enters > Germany, where he is then just counted as a German, with all connotations > that carries. That as a descendant of German Jews who fled Germany his > family history and thus the passing on of any tradition or German language > is notably different from millions of 'other' Germans is not appreciated in > the legal framework, besides the reinstatement of the citizenship that is > part of the constitution. During my fieldwork, I managed to get him on a > German language course, and left all papers that could help people like him > with one my participants - if I was not to have an impact on social policy, > I wanted at least to give back, and help as much as I could. It is these > moments I realized that make me do what I'm doing, and pursue this degree. > It's the hope that maybe I will manage to change things and make this world, > idealistic as it might sound, a better place. Not going into grad school and > giving into the 'forces of the market' I know I would have regretted, it > would have made me feel dead. Margaret Mead I think it was once mentioned > that it takes a small group of determined individuals to make changes if > there are supposed to be any.> > Dani > > _______________________________________________> URBANTH-L mailing list> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
From kpoblocki at gmail.com  Sat May  5 22:58:37 2007
From: kpoblocki at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Kacper_Pob=B3ocki?=)
Date: Sat May  5 16:11:34 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]the dark sides of the academia
Message-ID: <6032dc170705051258s617a99a9j5996d7c70a7120c1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Angela,

I think there is yet another problem that emerges from the current situation
on the academic labor market - i.e. the absolute discrepancy between theory
and practice. Academic papers are plagued by arrogant disdain towards other
professions, and many of they have a 'we know it better' undertone, and
assume that academics are there to save the world. The practice is radically
different. The quality of academic writing, let alone it's 'applicability',
accessibility to wider publics, and interest in taking parts in such
debates, has radically fallen over the last decades. In my own research I
have to read a lot of academic work published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s,
and - as compared to what has been published recently - it's often of much
higher scholarly quality, only because the bulk of what is published now is
a recycled good, and refers to what others (in the 1990s and 2000s) have
been writing 'on the subject', it's mainly preoccupied with flogging dead
horses or fighting straw men, it's more and more detached from reality. The
reasons are simple: nothing can be taken for granted any longer, and
academic have to put as much effort into arguing that they have something
interesting to say than into actually saying it. Interdisciplinary, in other
words, so much cheered for in the 1990s, is a nice word for brutal
competition where the winner takes it all. The fact that anthropologists
have been criticizing so harshly neo-liberalism, yet at the same time they
were (and actually still are) practicing neo-liberalism themselves is the
best proof for this growing breach between words and deeds. What I mean here
is that just as academic jobs have become proletarianised and dominated by
the global free market, also academic knowledge has become commoditized, and
is of increasingly lower value for both and the 'outside world' and for
academics (who read less and less - not in terms of volume, because we have
to read more and more, but in terms of the actual content - many people gave
up reading whole books, but read articles that expire within a couple of
years, or even only scan paper abstracts, because they don't have the time
to actually read things properly). Phd projects are no longer book projects,
but people are expected to write 3-4 articles from their 3 year long
research, of which 2 years are spend at an academic institution that have
become much more isolated and hermetic too. Research is often
theory-oriented, and what it actually means is that theory is fetishised and
is turned into to a thing ? let's take this notorious academic habit of
juggling with 'concepts' as if they were things, and 'borrowing ideas' from
big shots as if they were producing commodities, or projects of fishing out
indigenous 'ideas' that they are supposed to contribute to the scientific
tool-kit. Then such ideas-things are sold on the market, for example during
huge conferences where speakers exchange business cards and have 10 minutes
to 'make their point' in a Powerpoint presentation (this is still maybe not
so in anthropology, but in geography for example it is already commonplace).


Of course this is a snow ball effect - nobody is really personally
responsible for that, it's mostly the sheer volume of increased
communication that is to blame. But our responses to this also do not help
to solve the problem, since most people react to the increased competition
and declining working conditions by working harder and harder, but not on
their actual projects, but on things that will keep them 'in the game'. I
see it from my own colleagues, who invest a significant amount of their
energies into finding grants that will allow them to finish their PhD, but
once they actually get to doing the research, they might not have enough
energies for it as much as they could, or they can do it only for 12 months,
and in fact the biggest bulk of their research is spend at academic
institutions and in libraries where they work on their militant literature
reviews. I am also struggling with this, since I protracted my research
period from the 12 month that I was given the money for to 3 years that I
had to somehow fund. And in order to do that, I had to accept for example a
fact that I do not have a health insurance, I had to move back to live with
my parents for a while and so on. And I did it only because I was unable to
continue jumping from one academic institution to another ? I left my home
country at the age of 17, and 10 years of nomadic life was really enough for
me at this stage of my life.

But all this means that it fighting harder and harder to keep 'in the game'
might be less and less worthwhile - since even if I manage to find a job in
the academia, it might be just entail an extremely tedious, isolated, and
bureaucratic work, that it might be a much better idea to try to 'make the
difference' (and this is why many of us decided to embark on an academic
project, right?) by some other means. I was told during my comprehensive
exam that I should enjoy my PhD research to the fullest, because it might be
the last time I have a chance to conduct a thorough empirical project -
simply because after getting a job at the academia, all other activities
(that you have to undertake in order to keep in the game) are so time and
effort consuming and there will be no time for actually doing what we all
came to the academia for. I for me personally this is the most disheartening
aspect of this issue.

But thanks for bringing it all up - I think it's time to start talking about
the nuts and bolts of academic life and practice openly.

Kacper Poblocki

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun May  6 14:32:59 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun May  6 13:34:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Migration Matters: Immigration, Homelands, and Border
 Crossings in Europe and the Americas
Message-ID: <008701c79004$9a5243e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

6th MESEA Conference

June 25-28,  2008
Leiden University
The Netherlands

Call for Papers
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies:
Europe and the Americas

6th MESEA Conference

MIGRATION MATTERS: IMMIGRATION, HOMELANDS, AND BORDER CROSSINGS IN
EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS


Largely driven by economics,  migration today is a global and  
globalizing phenomenon that renders , national borders obsolete and  
calls into question the viability of nation states and national  
identities. Yet , precisely because it undermines national  
structures,  migration also has contributed to the reinvention of ,  
the historically highly problematic concept of "homelands" and the  
reconstruction of increasingly , impenetrable borders. It is,   
moreover,  in local situations and contexts that the impact of global  
migration is , experienced,  debated,  and contested most directly  
and urgently. This conference,  then,  aims to focus on , the ways in  
which migration matters locally as well as transnationally and  
globally,  in the realms of , politics and culture,  history and  
sociology,  economics and law,  language,  literature and the arts in  
Europe , and the Americas. The following list of topics is meant to  
be suggestive rather than restrictive:

* Migration and the reinvention of (national and transnational, real  
and imaginary) "homelands" and/or , the reconstruction of  
(external and internal, national, ethnic and racial, cultural and  
mental, political and
economic) borders
* Global migrations and fluid geographies in terms of physical  
mappings and shifting , populations
* Migration and national/ethnic/cultural/aesthetic border crossings
* Migration and , modernization
* Immigration debates in various national contexts
* Images of the host countries in , countries/continents of  
migratory origin
* Immigration restrictions and human rights; legal and extra- ,  
legal status of immigrants
* Circulation and impact of migrant peoples and cultures in specific  
rural and , urban spaces; cultural diversity in local societies
* New immigrant literatures as world and/or national , literature;  
representation in and impact on regional cultures,  literatures,   
media,  and arts
* Macrosociological analyses of migration and globalization  
processes; rethinking the sociology of literature ,
* Cultural production (literature, film, visual art, performance,  
music, blog-culture, web-art) by or about , migrants
* Migration and the reinvention of religious identities
* Emerging identities/identity , fashioning; ethnic refashioning:  
conflict and/or reconciliation
* Historical case studies of migrancy and , diaspora; evolving  
diaspora cultures
* Migration and gender
* Migration and race/racialization
* Forced migration and historical/contemporary slavery or bonded  
labor
* Migration and linguistic , diversity
* Immigration and educational reformation(s)

Please submit three hard copies of a 300-word abstract (including a  
maximum of five keywords) or full , panel proposals (including a  
description of the panel, chair, respondents, and individual  
abstracts) as well , as an electronic copy to MESEA's Program  
Director,  Yiorgos Kalogeras,  Department of English,  Aristotle ,  
University,  54124 Thessaloniki,  Greece by November 15,  2007:  
(kalogera@enl.auth.gr).

Inter/transnational and inter/transdisciplinary proposals and panels  
will be given preference.

Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards.

For more information: http://www.mesea.org ,

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun May  6 22:00:03 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun May  6 21:01:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Political Economy of Academia (especially with regard
	toSocial Sciences and Humanities)
References: <95FC32E2DB27F84EB4F7B31EE18273CA082B7FAC@BONHAM.AD.UWS.EDU.AU>
Message-ID: <00a101c79043$11f81cb0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: George Morgan <george.morgan@uws.edu.au>

I've just read Eric's original posting, much of which I agree with but
some I do not. There is certainly the creation of a secondary academic
labour market and the market model means that more PhDs are being taken
on than can reasonably expect to achieve the genuine academic careers to
which most aspire. Universities are being turned into academic
sweatshops with much teaching being done by pieceworkers who are treated
abysmally. As John says, the academic glass ceiling prevents many
working class kids from achieving their ambitions.

I don't agree with Eric's unequivocal criticism of academic unionism. It
is certainly true that unions can (and in many places do) operate like
professional guilds, working in the interests of tenured staff. Those
interests are served by perpetuating the dual labour market. But it is
not quite so monolithic as Eric implies. In Australia there has been a
concerted effort by the academic union to disproportionately improve the
entitlements of untenured staff, and to seek greater job security. This
has been frustrated by the conservative Federal government's recent
industrial legislation but it is not completely true to say that
academic unions will always favour the interests of the academic elite.
We have had clauses restricting the proportion of casual staff
universities can employ inserted in enterprise agreements. We've also
seen those staff receiving salary increases disproportionately higher
than those secured by tenured staff - a strategy to price
pay-by-the-hour employment out of the market. There have also been
clauses compelling universities to convert long-term contract employees
to tenure (sadly, now annulled by the new industrial laws). These have
all been secured by academic union action.

So I think Eric is unduly pessimistic about indictment of collective
action. What else is there??

George Morgan

Dr George Morgan
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities/ Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
p 9772 6529
f  9772 6688
e george.morgan@uws.edu.au
 
http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/ccrpeople/morgan#4
 
Recent Publications
 
Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation in New South Wales
(Wakefield Press, 2006) 
 
http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/books/unsettledplaces.html
 
Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia (ACYS Press, 2007) - co-edited
with Scott Poynting
 
http://www.acys.info/publications/acyspublishing
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of
Einstein's brain than in the near-certainty that people of equal talent
have died in cotton fields and sweat shops.

Stephen Jay Gould


From hecky at email.arizona.edu  Mon May  7 13:44:46 2007
From: hecky at email.arizona.edu (Ronald Hector A. Villanueva)
Date: Mon May  7 17:34:25 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE temp jobs, scholars
In-Reply-To: <E1HkQ4J-0005KX-6c@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1HkQ4J-0005KX-6c@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <20070507124446.jakokowc0k44g4go@www.email.arizona.edu>



   insightful comments and articles posted. thanks.

   life is too short to only play one role, an academic.? a PhD need not
necessarily lead to an academic position as some related.? education is an end
in itself if it makes one a more humane person (and votes for the right
person!).

   with change rapidly occurring everywhere, with info. and communication
technologies (ICT) rearranging how we live, communicate, and manage info, with
the mobility of capital dictating socio-economic relations; how can academics
or would be academics hope to enter and maintain an idyllic existence in
campus? the academe is a flight from reality. funding for state u. reflect the
political economy of the state and nation.? faculty and staff worry with the
annual budget.? the pie is shrinking and everyone sees it as a zero-sum game.
?it is.? why the surprise??

   a libertarian discussion group commented that the VT massacre was inevitable
because universities have become so big and monolithic, yet people are 
so alone
in this crowd.

   there are so many cracks in the academe model that it's surprising that new
models have yet to grab the imagination of the student market and young
scholars.? there must be new models out there...enlarging the pie is the
solution, but it may have to be done outside of academe.

   actually, there is.? applying anthro offers many opportunities.? think
thanks. consulting.? fact-finding and evaluation teams...setting up on-line
resources. smaller, independent schools...in the Philippines, some of the
biggest newspapers have anthropologists as their more?popular and sometimes
more influential editorial columnists...news models for addressing poverty,
health crises, failed states, private-public sector partnerships, environment,
etc.? are needed along with imaginative anthropologists.? young scholars will
have to wear many hats at one-time or simultanaeously.? that is life. that is
what individuation?leads to...outside of america, this is what scholars do
anyways...

   there will always be people who want to learn and there are people with a
passion for teaching.? getting them together in a setting that is 
conducive and
affordable? is the challenge and the killer app.

   on a personal note. i am pessimistic about the academe (too many
disappointments), but look forward with excitement at the opportunities 
outside
of it.

--
Hecky Villanueva
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
U. of Arizona

Quoting "f:
>
From moewe at gmx.li  Mon May  7 19:37:21 2007
From: moewe at gmx.li (Dani Kranz)
Date: Mon May  7 17:41:21 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as hero"
In-Reply-To: <BAY120-W6A20C940E1E2526F4587CC4470@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY120-W6A20C940E1E2526F4587CC4470@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20070507163721.254610@gmx.net>

Having worked in market research and consultancy for so long, as much as Susan I have contacts which I am keen to maintain for the simple reason to have a second leg, and as I think now a more stable one than my academic one. Unfortunately that is from my idealistic point of view, but as my boyfriend likes to stress "You can make so much cash as a consultant, why do you dislike it that much?!"
However, through the conversation on the temp market and economic issues I have been wondering if there is any change in the academic employment market to come as the discussants, and I would guess many more of the readers are so dissatisfied with the hiring (and firing) politics of academia. How is a change to the more 'humane' supposed to be brought about?

Dani




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Datum: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:05:45 -0700
Von: susan mazur <susanmazur@hotmail.com>
An: Angela Jancius <jancius@ohio.edu>, urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Betreff: RE: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as hero"

>  
> Fantastic conversation, everybody.
>  
> I'd add, that there are personal reasons for getting a PhD, which may well
> outweigh economic ones. I personally put myself through school, with much
> of my BA being funded by my then-employers in Silicon Valley. Having gained
> skills, experience, and a social network in marketing (which I maintain to
> this day) I felt relatively safe in going to graduate school, even though
> my then-advisor told me to go to law school instead ("You'd make a fabulous
> litigator.") I wanted the PhD to prove to myself that I could finish what
> I started. I used to say, "It doesn't matter if I blow my head off the day
> after I get my doctorate - they'll have to announce the funeral of DR Susan
> Mazur." 
>  
> I did get (some) funding, and I won prestigious fellowships, but I still
> ended up w 50G in student loans. Relatively cheap, BTW, I met someone who
> had already racked up 60Gs and wasn't even finished with his master's (and
> there was a great article recently about what a cash cow THOSE are). 
>  
> What gets interesting is how much we then buy into the schtick of
> academia. I entered with nary a thought in my head of becoming a professor. I
> wanted to work in applied anthro, and go into government, NGOs, whatever (all
> touted as places anthros make careers). Yet somewhere along the line I
> started 'chasing the bunny' of tenure like a whipped greyhound. Feeling like a
> failure even though I calculated the odds of getting a job at every stage
> along the way and the news was grim.
>  
> It was only last year, when what I had essentially been told was a sure
> bet fell through (much like Angela's story) at a place I didn't even want to
> be, that I started to really ask myself, "How did I get here?" (cue Talking
> Heads). 
>  
> To finish, yes, I am adjuncting, no I don't mind it so much seeing as I am
> in SoCal and the pay is decent (anybody get that newletter from the Dept
> of Education recently?) and I get to teach upper division courses with about
> as much regularity as anyone else. My husband's job provides health
> insurance, and the state of CA provides a pension and other retirement bennies. I
> also started my own consulting firm (www.indiciaconsulting.com) and I
> figure I may as well continue to make my own path, seeing as five years on the
> job market has nothing to show for it but some very close calls at some
> very good schools. I quip, "Every year I find myself getting rejected by
> better and better schhols!"
>  
> But as of this Fall? I am off the market. If they want me, they'll have to
> come and find me. 
> I can't play Charlie Brown to their Lucy any longer. 
>  
>  
> PS - I have attached an oped I submitted to LA Times on this issue. 
>   Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D. www.susanmazur.com 951.687.8661 "It's gonna
> get nerd nasty." Amanda on Ugly Betty
> 
> 
> 
> > From: jancius@ohio.edu> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu> Date: Fri, 4 May
> 2007 14:08:27 -0400> Subject: [URBANTH-L]temp jobs vs. "the anthropologist as
> hero"> > In the below message, Dani emphasizes a wonderful point - that
> the nomadic > "temp-job" market pulls people away from what drew them into
> anthropology > in the first place -- a desire to have a positive social
> impact. In the past > two years, I've been doing research and advocacy work with
> prisoners, and > funding it out of pocket (www.prisonersolidarity.org).
> When I lose this job > and leave the region, my advocacy work unfortunately
> also ends. What do > senior faculty who are activist-anthropologists think
> about the trend that > Dani describes below?>
> -------------------------------------------------> > From: Dani Kranz <moewe@gmx.li>> > I was really,
> really touched by your mail. And I was not surprised by > Dimitra's response.>
> > I am myself in the last steps of finishing up my PhD in St Andrews, and
> have > been self-financing throughout, as most of my friends who entered
> PhD > programs in the UK. On that matter, Susan is right that the matter of >
> finances needs to be appreciated much more. Being on the brink of
> bankruptcy > throughout is nerve wrecking, fear inducing and frustrating.> > I have
> been asking myself especially on the last few months why I'm pursuing >
> this degree - taking all of the risks to maybe never get into academia, or >
> on one or two year contracts, at the same time being forced to work outside
> > academia as market analyst to make ends meet (one could say as an
> applied > anthropologist, though I shy away from this).. But the risk is not what
> > actually bothers me - besides a lucky two of my friends, all of us work
> in > jobs we were either not trained for or just do in order to make ends
> meet > (that goes alike for my friends in Germany, Britain, Israel, the US
> and > various other countries). What bothers me much more is that I am not
> sure if > what I am doing will ever have any effect on any social policy as
> I'd hoped > for. As you, I have been working with a group of people I do
> care about a > lot and for very personal reasons, Jews in Germany. I gave a
> paper last week > which looks at what happens when a dual citizen (Germany
> and Israel) enters > Germany, where he is then just counted as a German,
> with all connotations > that carries. That as a descendant of German Jews who
> fled Germany his > family history and thus the passing on of any tradition
> or German language > is notably different from millions of 'other' Germans
> is not appreciated in > the legal framework, besides the reinstatement of
> the citizenship that is > part of the constitution. During my fieldwork, I
> managed to get him on a > German language course, and left all papers that
> could help people like him > with one my participants - if I was not to have
> an impact on social policy, > I wanted at least to give back, and help as
> much as I could. It is these > moments I realized that make me do what I'm
> doing, and pursue this degree. > It's the hope that maybe I will manage to
> change things and make this world, > idealistic as it might sound, a better
> place. Not going into grad school and > giving into the 'forces of the
> market' I know I would have regretted, it > would have made me feel dead.
> Margaret Mead I think it was once mentioned > that it takes a small group of
> determined individuals to make changes if > there are supposed to be any.> >
> Dani > > _______________________________________________> URBANTH-L mailing
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From marky at umail.ucsb.edu  Tue May  8 12:15:42 2007
From: marky at umail.ucsb.edu (Mark A. Schuller)
Date: Tue May  8 18:46:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ICAES 2008 - Call for Papers
Message-ID: <20070508111542.lgwj5cr8i68kk8sg@webaccess.umail.ucsb.edu>

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the Committee for Human Rights and Social Justice of SfAA,
we invite you to submit an abstract to participate in the 2008 meeting
of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences.  The Congress will meet in 2008 in Kunming, China and our
panel topic is: Water Ethics ? Water Rights, Water Equity and Global
Disparities.

The deadline for submission is May 31st, 2007 and applicants are
requested to confirm their ability to travel to China for the meeting.
We encourage submissions from all interested panelists, but particularly
from those outside of the US.  We have 15 positions available and they
must be filled by contributors from at least 3 different countries.

Please note further instructions included in the attachment with the
abstract for the proposed session.

Submitted by the Organizing Committee (Carole Nagengast, Linda
Whiteford, Jason Simms, Mark Schuller, and Jason Miller) on behalf of
the SfAA Committee on Human Rights and Social Justice, Art Hansen, Chair.

-- 
Jason L. Simms, M.A.
Ph.D. / M.P.H. Student
Departments of Anthropology and Global Health
University of South Florida



----- End forwarded message -----


-Mark Schuller
From catey at ufl.edu  Tue May  8 08:46:50 2007
From: catey at ufl.edu (A. Scott Catey)
Date: Tue May  8 18:47:37 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of
 Anthropology
Message-ID: <1704292123.34471178624810427.JavaMail.osg@osgjas02.cns.ufl.edu>

[the following was a reply to the original posting angela set 
round.]

angela:

kudos on a thoughtful and passionate articulation of a problem 
that besets our discipline and the academy generally. you have my 
compassion for the loss of job and benefits, as well. i'd like to 
take a moment to comment on your observations.

the commitment to the ideology of hierarchy is wide spread, as you 
know. i was speaking with two of my graduate school (soon to be 
phds) colleagues just yesterday and both of them are willing to 
conform to the politics of ideology of hierarchy in the interest 
of self-interest, and in the interest (explicitly) of reproducing 
the developing status quo. when i suggested alternate relational 
practices that we as students and early career professionals can 
enact, or try to enact, in order to subvert hierarchical norms and 
to bring others into the discipline for much needed infusion of 
fresh ideas and energy, they scoffed. it seems, perhaps, that the 
drive to succeed and attain the academy position is more important 
than the effort to change what is and to struggle to transform the 
organization and practices of our field for the better. i am 
continually disappointed by the lack of interest among my peers to 
put theory to work in our own backyard, as it were, and their 
preference to capitulate to the demands of management and 
competitive work models that are forced upon us through regimes of 
'governance' and reliance upon contractual obligations and 
corporate organizational priorities.

we here at the university of florida are experiencing a similar 
budget "crisis" (manufactured, it seems) and the concomitant and 
continuing proletarianization of knowledge workers in favor of 
higher teaching loads, higher numbers of seats occupied, 'dumbing 
down' of courses, and the elimination, or attempted elimination, 
of assistantship positions and student employment. i speak only 
for myself, as a doctoral student at UF, but the neoliberalizing 
governance model is firmly entrenched here, and it sounds as if 
your experience is compatible with some faculty here, both in 
anthropology and in other disciplines.

i hope that your call to begin a conversation takes hold. i for 
one am very interested to hear what others have to say, and to 
begin to think collectively about how we can mobilize our 
knowledge and our social relationships in order to transform the 
current trend, and maybe attain a model of teaching that is 
actually concerned with teaching, mentoring, and providing for 
students somnething more than a client-driven model of 'service'; 
and instead equip them with the intellectual and cognitive skills 
that education, normatively, ought to aspire to provide.

Scott Catey
Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

... sed fieri sentio et excrucior

-catey..


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  9 03:34:23 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  9 04:05:27 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: Urban Studies:  Volume 44 Issue 4
Message-ID: <020a01c79204$166598f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Urban Studies:  Volume 44 Issue 4 is now available 
online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Splintering Urban Populations: Emergent Landscapes of Reurbanisation in Four European Cities p. 651
Authors: Stefan Buzar; Philip Ogden; Ray Hall; Annegret Haase; Sigrun Kabisch; Annett Steinf?hrer
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601185544
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=651&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Does Residential Density Increase Walking and Other Physical Activity? p. 679
Authors: Ann Forsyth; J. Michael Oakes; Kathryn H. Schmitz; Mary Hearst
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601184729
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=679&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Constructing Racism in Sydney, Australia's Largest EthniCity p. 699
Authors: James Forrest; Kevin Dunn
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601185676
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=699&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Do Two-earner Households Base Their Choice of Residential Location on Both Incomes? p. 723
Authors: Diana Mok
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601184745
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=723&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Allocating Pupils to Their Nearest Secondary School: The Consequences for Social and Ability Stratification p. 751
Authors: Rebecca Allen
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601184737
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=751&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Producing Elite Localities: The Rise of Gated Communities in Istanbul p. 771
Authors: serife Genis
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601185684
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=771&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Social Capital and Localised Learning: Proximity and Place in Technological and Institutional Dynamics p. 799
Authors: Mark Lorenzen
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601184752
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=799&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

The Bottom-Up Mandate: Fostering Community Partnerships and Combating Economic Distress in Chicago's Empowerment Zone p. 819
Authors: Deirdre Oakley; Hui-Shien Tsao
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601185668
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=819&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Civic Culture and Public Service Failure: An Empirical Exploration p. 845
Authors: Rhys Andrews
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601184760
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=845&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Signal Extraction with Kalman Filter: A Study of the Hong Kong Property Price Bubbles p. 865
Authors: Qin Xiao; Gee Kwang Randolph Tan
DOI: 10.1080/00420980601185650
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=865&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Book Reviews p. 889
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701238045
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=889&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Books Received p. 897
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701238052
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=897&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Acknowledgement of Referees, 2006 p. 899
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701238102
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0042-0980&volume=44&issue=4&spage=899&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email


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From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  9 03:31:11 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  9 04:07:22 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market, Follow-up Remarks
Message-ID: <01d501c79203$bbf71d80$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

I'd like to thank everyone for their messages of support, and 
for this very interesting discussion.

SUNTA's Past President, Bob Rotenberg, would like to set up 
a listserv or blog focusing on the issue of contingent faculty. Bob 
will notify us with an announcement when something is prepared.  
It's clear from this discussion that we've only peeled the first 
layer of the onion.

A few closing remarks ...

I was impressed by the completely international dimension of 
contributions.  The increase of Ph.D.s, the corporatizing university, 
and the continued nationalization and internationalization of the 
academic labor market has led to a large surplus of anthropology 
Ph.D.s, despite retiring baby boomers and the expectation that all 
young people should attend college. In alignment with this, niche-
marketed hiring practices give preference to Ph.D.s who are
just the right theoretical and geographic match, to the demise, 
perhaps, of the holistic thinkers and good writers, and all of the 
talented young scholars whose ideas and aspirations just weren't 
on a search committee's radar. Elite school hiring practices are 
an exception, here.  But then, just as a Berkeley Ph.D.'s application 
to an open-enrollment university might be dismissed as "inauthentic," 
so too, the non-elite school Ph.D. knows her application to the Ivory 
Tower will likely fall into the recycling bin, unread.  In 1893 Franz 
Boas illustrated "the genius of all races" at the Chicago World Fair.  
But in 2007, we're further than ever from celebrating the genius 
of every individual human being.  Schools and programs dedicate 
an enormous effort to the recruitment of "a better pool" of students.  
Likewise, as both Thompson and Poblocki note, faculty are now
earmarked as either low-wage workhorses or very well-paid 
superstars. And in the midst of the rat race, Nancy Anderson's 
insistence that she is not "white trash," and without potential, falls 
on deaf ears. And it becomes neither the government's, nor the 
university's, nor her mentor's, responsibility that, in order to prove 
her potential, she has taken out $136,000 in student loans. The 
blame is squarely placed on Nancy's own shoulders, for having 
gambled for the dream of self-realization, when the stakes were 
too high.

What makes anthropology so inspiring, to me, is that the 
discipline tends to attract people who want to "make the world 
a better place."  We teach people to think outside of the box. 
But have you ever tried to emulate Paulo Freire in a lecture 
course with 200 students and no t.a.?  I cannot entirely blame 
students for citing Wikipedia as their main source on research 
reports, or demanding spoon fed knowledge in the form of 
illustrated textbooks and bulleted visuals.  For they are only 
following cues.  And the visiting or adjunct professor must succumb, 
because to do otherwise (or to fall ill, or have a death in the family, 
or a wise-cracking athlete in row thirty-six) could lead to poor 
student evaluations, and the end of one's teaching career.  
Anthropologists pay attention to the flow of metaphors and 
cultural norms in daily life.  When I observe the proliferation of 
the temp-scholar market, I think of Donald Trump's reality show, 
The Apprentice, and recognize discomforting parallels. 

Thanks again for all of your responses.   

Angela Jancius


From marky at umail.ucsb.edu  Wed May  9 09:52:25 2007
From: marky at umail.ucsb.edu (Mark A. Schuller)
Date: Wed May  9 14:29:13 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]resend - call for papers
Message-ID: <20070509085225.qhj7vg4kggs8cwc0@webaccess.umail.ucsb.edu>

Sorry for re-sending but some people couldn't read the attachment.   
Here it is again:

Title:  Water Ethics: Human Rights, Water Equity, and Global Disparities.

Abstract:

Water, the ?blue gold? of the globe, is being moved, manipulated,  
dammed, polluted, commodified, and transformed from a human right to a  
capitalized commodity. The Committee for Human Rights and Social  
Justice (HR&SJ) of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)  is  
sponsoring  a panel focusing on the ethics of water ? its  
distribution, redistribution, and non-distribution; the social justice  
consequences of damming rivers and relocating communities; the  
changing epidemiology of water-washed and water-borne diseases and the  
human consequences of those changes; and the political, economic,  
social, and ecological consequences of  unequal water management.

While more than 70% of the earth's surface area is covered by water,  
less than 1% of the world's water is available for human consumption.  
This scarcity is unevenly distributed; marginalized populations are  
more vulnerable to illness as result. The World Health Organization  
reports that 25,000 children die daily from illnesses associated with  
drinking water. Approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhea occur each  
year, killing more than 2.2 million people, and some 1.7 billion  
people, more than a third of the world's population, live without  
access to a safe water supply.

Water procurement, treatment, storage, and delivery too often  
reinforce the disparities extant in society.  This results in the  
continuation of unequal access, increased morbidity and mortality for  
the most marginalized members of society through water-related  
diseases, such cholera, amoebic dysentery, schistosomiasis, and  
onchocerciasis. Water insecurity may result from a history of water  
shortages and may cause people to adopt behaviors counter to hygiene  
practices recommended by the WHO, resulting in diseases like scabies,  
trachoma, pinworm, tinea, conjunctivitis, skin sepsis, and ulcers.   
The disposal of water from households also is implicated in the spread  
of disease where sanitary systems are incomplete or absent.  Gray  
waters and black waters - waters containing household waste, some  
including feces - may flow unchecked into streams and rivers.  These  
water run-offs provide breeding grounds for other disease vectors, the  
contamination of downstream water sources, and the spread of parasitic  
and vector-borne diseases.

Global disparities in access to reliable and clean water exacerbate  
existing inequalities and are increasing due to global trade  
agreements that remove water from local communities. Extensive pumping  
of groundwater, the increasing corporate purchase of water, urban and  
agricultural divertissement of water, and water-related development  
and displacement.  Policies from multinational organizations such as  
the World Trade Organization and the World Bank have transformed water  
into a commodity that is quickly becoming out of reach for the  
majority of the world?s poor.  The needs of a growing population and  
major agribusiness drain aquifers and divert water at an alarming  
rate, such as in the American Southwest.  Globally, dam projects alone  
account for at least 40 percent of development-induced displacement  
every year ? over 4 million people.

All of these issues bring the intersection of water, inequality,  
health, culture, human rights, and social justice into stark  
perspective.

Panelists are invited to discuss human rights and social justice  
implications of water, including (but not limited to): reflections of  
global practices and policies shaping access to reliable and clean  
supplies of water; to the forced relocation of communities due to the  
creation of dams on rivers traditionally used for livelihoods and  
sustainable aquaculture; models and methods of water distribution at  
the local, regional, national, and supra-national scales; water and  
disease; water and migration; and water and community sustainability,  
among others. We invite participants to consider ?the moral economy of  
water? and how to translate it into equity and practice. We seek to  
create an international panel of scholars and practitioners from the  
applied sciences: anthropology, geography, sociology, political  
science, public health, and others.  We especially invite applications  
from colleagues outside of the U.S. to participate.


This panel is for the 2008 International Congress of Anthropological  
and Ethnological Sciences, which will be held July 15-23 in Kunming,  
China.  We need 15 panelists to confirm their ability to participate  
before we can submit the formal application.  And we must have  
participants from at least 3 different countries.  For further  
information about the conference, please see this website:

http://www.icaes2008.org/

For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact  
Jason Simms (jsimms2@mail.usf.edu).  If you would like to participate  
on the panel, please submit your name, institution, and a short,  
informal abstract (one paragraph) to Jason at the above email address.  
  The deadline for submission is May 31, 2007.


-Mark Schuller


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May  9 15:35:57 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May  9 14:37:18 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Home, Migration and the City: Spatial forms and practices in a
 globalising world
Message-ID: <00a401c79268$e9b7f630$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

 Home, Migration and the City: Spatial forms and practices in a globalising 
world

OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Home, Migration, and the City: Spatial forms and practices in a Globalising 
world

The study of globalisation as the increasing interconnectedness between all 
aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political space has seen an 
unprecedented interest across social and political sciences, humanities, and 
urban studies. Seen as the direct result of globalisation, migration is now 
at the forefront of this investigation of cross-border connections, but this 
interest has predominately focussed on poor migrants' experiences in their 
host countries. Studies of globalisation have been silent on the connections 
between migration and built environments. On the one hand, it is suggested 
that the unprecedented movement of people in a globalising world will put 
particular emphasis on cities (in ways that they seek to attract particular 
types of people); and on the other hand, it is argued that such movement has 
led to a death of 'home' as a fixed place. Can cities be understood as dense 
agglomerations of built forms, which are also 'home' to those who live 
there? If so, what does the death of 'home' in a globalising world mean for 
the future of place, of built forms, and of cities?

In this call for papers, we would like to invite a range of 
interdisciplinary explorations from academics and practitioners alike, who 
can offer new perspectives and new insights, explore alternative theoretical 
models, and offer proposals that construct new meanings of 'home', 
migration, and the city in a globalising world. For this special issue, we 
lay particular emphasis on globalising cities of the South that are 
undergoing rapid social, cultural, and economic changes and can no longer be 
seen simply as the 'lands of origin' of migrants but increasingly as 
destinations. Similarly, there are those elite transnationals in the global 
South, whose mobilities challenge migration as a linear movement, and whose 
presence is increasingly felt in cities through the rise in luxury housing. 
On the other hand, the recent expansion of the European Union has meant the 
increased presence of post-socialist subjects in the global North, which has 
led to changes in the geographies and identities of public space in Northern 
cities. We want to ask how the everyday lives and subjectivities of such 
migrant subjects are represented in the cities through built forms. How are 
places and built forms re-appropriated, re-negotiated, and transgressed 
through such diverse forms of mobility? How does mobility produce 
spatialised struggles for migrant identities in cities? What are the various 
ways that built forms and spatial practices become new markers of a 
globalising world?

We are interested in fostering dialogue between academics and practitioners 
and in spatialising the notion of home and migration in both the North and 
the South. Our goal is to contribute to a new articulation of theory, 
practice, and ethics that help us better understand and deal with the 
conditions of globalisation and mobility through an examination of place, 
built forms, and spatial practice in cities across the world. The full 
length of the manuscripts is 4000 words. The Special Issue guest editor is 
Dr Ayona Datta, Lecturer, London School of Economics, UK. Please submit a 
1000 word abstract and a 150 word author bio by 31st July 2007 in the first 
instance by email to a.datta2@lse.ac.uk.

Open House International is a refereed scholarly journal concerned with 
housing, design, and development in the built environment. It is interested 
in articles on theories, tools, and practices with special emphasis on the 
local scale. Since 2006, Open House International has been selected for 
coverage in Thomson's ISI Citation index products- The Social Science 
Citation Index, The Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Scisearch, 
Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Current Contents/Arts & 
Humanities and Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition.

Dr Ayona Datta
Department of Sociology
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE
Email: a.datta2@lse.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.openhouse-int.com 

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Wed May  9 13:11:02 2007
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Wed May  9 15:11:33 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CONFERENCE: Refugees and the End of Empire, De Montfort U, Leicester
Message-ID: <002801c7926d$c9e72dd0$5db58970$@edu>

Refugees and the End of Empire
Location:	United Kingdom
Conference Date:	2007-06-29

One of the most negative legacies of the twentieth century was the
development of the refugee, a person who emerged during the inter-War years,
as nationalism, fascism and communism gripped the European continent. While
scholars have recognized the importance of war and the arrival of intolerant
regimes in the construction and expulsion of refugees, little attention has
focused upon the consequences of imperial collapse. All of the major Empires
(broadly interpreted) which ended during the twentieth century, led to
successor states which developed new forms of exclusivist national
ideologies which identified, and often expelled, sectors of their
populations, which did not possess the right ethnic credentials. The purpose
of the conference is to examine the relationship between imperial collapse,
the emergence of successor nationalism, the exclusion of ethnic groups with
the wrong credentials, and the refugee experience.

Margaret Barton
Short Course & Conference Co-ordinator
De Montfort Expertise Ltd
Innovation Centre
49 Oxford Street
Leicester LE1 5XY,
UK.
Tel: +44116 250 6213
Fax: +44116 257 7982

Email: dmccc@dmu.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://dmu.ac.uk/empire/

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun May 13 15:04:50 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun May 13 14:06:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: SSRC Inter-Asian Connections, Call for Proposals
Message-ID: <000a01c79589$3a00af10$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, June 1, 2007 

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. 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 full text of the call for proposals is available at: http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/. For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at intl_collaboration@ssrc.org.

Contact Information
Shabana Shahabuddin 
Email: intl_collaboration@ssrc.org 
URL http://http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/
From rrotenbe at depaul.edu  Sun May 13 17:18:55 2007
From: rrotenbe at depaul.edu (Robert Rotenberg)
Date: Sun May 13 17:19:02 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA Teacher Blog Site Now Available
Message-ID: <C26CEAEF.B42D%rrotenbe@depaul.edu>

At the suggestion of the membership at the SUNTA business meeting in Tampa,
last March, I have initiated and will moderate a blog on university-level
teaching. This blog is especially intended for our members, but
contributions will be welcome from any university-level teaching
professional. To stay abreast of what I hope will be a lively discussion,
please add this blog ( http://suntateacher.blogspot.com) to your RSS or Blog
reader (Goggle Reader is a convenient for those new to the medium).

I hope that this blog will prove especially useful to graduate students,
adjunct faculty, visiting faculty and newly hired faculty. While "old dogs",
like me, still have much to learn, the discussion of teaching is
particularly crucial in the first few years of full teaching loads. And no,
you will not become a good teacher just because you were a good student or
are a good researcher. It's a different skill set.

Every two weeks or so, I will start a thread on a different teaching topic.
I'll tie most of these threads to what I happen to be doing at that point in
time in my own practice. If anyone else wants to start a thread, that's
fine. Do it. I'm merely trying to keep the conversation going, not dominate
it.

Since most of the courses I teach are connected in some way to the research
tradition embodied by the Society for Urban, National and
Transnational/Global Anthropology, my threads will try to make the
connection between research and teaching (and service) as often as possible.

Some of the newer members of SUNTA may not know who I am or why I would do
something like this. I have been both secretary and president of SUNTA. I
have also conducted several workshops on teaching, including one last
November in San Jose that was sponsored by SUNTA. I am a member of the
Professional and Organizational Development Network, the professional group
for directors of faculty development centers around North America. At my own
school, I'm a sort of ninja-faculty developer. That is, I do it, but I don't
get the title. I also wrote a book on teaching for new professors and
graduate students.

So, please visit the site: http://suntateacher.blogspot.com and subscribe.
Then, contribute! This is the place to ask, answer, comment, vent, complain,
celebrate, and share your experiences in the classroom; the site of the most
complex, the most compelling intellectual problem you will ever face:
teaching!

Bob Rotenberg


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon May 14 19:40:03 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon May 14 18:41:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Urban Dystopias (Princeton U)
Message-ID: <002101c79678$d20826e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Jennifer Houle <jhoule@Princeton.EDU>

URBAN DYSTOPIAS
A Conference at Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Princeton University, May 18-19, 2007
http://dav.princeton.edu/events/e37/conference.html

Friday, 211 Dickinson Hall

10:00-12:30
Gyan Prakash, Director, Davis Center, Introductory Comments
James Donald, University of New South Wales
Sounds like Hell: Dystopian Urban Aurality
Ruben Gallo, Princeton University
Modernist Dystopias: Mexico City, a Case Study
 
2:00-4:00
David Ambaras, North Carolina State University
Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930
Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, Delhi
Imaging Urban Breakdown: Delhi in the 1990's

4:30-6:00
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Liberal Dystopias: Race, Class, and the Limits of Diversity in Civil Rights Era America

 

Saturday, 010 East Pyne

10:00-12:00
Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
Phantasms of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity
Mark Shiel, King's College London/Davis Center Fellow
A Regional Geography of Film Noir: Urban Dystopias On- and Off-screen

 1:30-3:30
Bill Tsutsui, University of Kansas
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture
Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Friction, Collision and the Grotesque: the Edge in Bombay Cinema
 
4:00-6:00
Li Zhang, University of California, Davis
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia: A View from the Margins
Jenny Robinson, The Open University, UK
Living in Dystopia: Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary Urban Development

Jennifer Houle 
Davis Center
Princeton University

H-Urban:  http://www.h-net.org/~urban/ (including logs & posting guidelines)
Posting Address:  h-urban@h-net.msu.edu / mailto:h-urban@h-net.msu.edu (Click)
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue May 15 12:43:20 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue May 15 11:44:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Labor migration and Europeanization Process after 1989/91 (Poland)
Message-ID: <001b01c79707$c927ea30$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers

Labour migration and Europeanization processes after 1989/91 K.U.Leuven,
second half of January 2008

The fall of the Communist regimes and the difficult transition to a free
market economy stimulated many people in Central and Eastern Europe to
leave their country. Most of them moved to Western Europe and found a
job as domestic workers (cleaning woman, building worker, plumber,
etc.). In several European cities, big Central European communities
arose. Some of them, for instance the ones in London and other British
cities, count hundreds of thousand people since the EU enlargement of
2004.

These migration waves have not only influenced economy, but have also
stimulated contacts between different European ethnic and national
groups. The immigrants themselves face new social structures, values,
principles, and behaviour patterns. Since they also keep in touch with
their homeland (their movement is often considered as a pendulum
migration), they share some of their experiences with their compatriots
staying at home. Also Western Europeans have been influenced by this
migration. The employment of a Central European worker was often the
first direct contact with an individual from the Eastern part of the
continent.

At the conference, we want to analyze to what extent these migration
waves had and have an influence on the construction of a European
identity. How have contacts between employers and employees changed
mutual perception and classic stereotypes? Are the identification
processes negligible and what are the reasons (e.g. the confirmation of
each other's otherness or the lack of intense contacts and a common
language)? Or have they led to the discovery of common features and, if
so, which ones and which frameworks are they put in (geographical and
other ones)? Special attention will be paid to the European context and
the representations, perceptions and divisions of the continent. This
can include questions concerning, for instance, the influences of these
contacts on the classic East-West division and the role of the 2004
enlargement on the political structuralization of strictly speaking
illegal contacts. The research will focus on both hosts (employers) and
guests (employees) and analyze if and how Europeanization processes have
differed between these groups.

This conference is organized in the framework of a research project at
the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) and the K.U.Leuven, that is
subsidized by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. It
will present the first results of the analyzis of dozens of in-depth
interviews concerning the Europeanization processes among Polish
migrants in Belgium and their employers. However, the subject will be
put in a broader context and other questions are welcomed. Do Western
Europeans have other perceptions of Eastern European immigrants than of
other migrant groups, for instance from the Far East or the Maghreb
countries? How have these processes developed the last fifteen years:
recent immigrants seem to have a different profile than the ones who
migrated in the 1990s, children are sometimes raised in Western Europe,
and these new groups must have another stance towards their
Europeanization. How should we assess the influence of this labour
migration on the homeland regions: next to financial input, it also
causes difficult social situations, such as split families and disturbed
neighbour relations. Which roles do immigrants play in other cases of
geopolitical identification and perception?

Proposals (counting ca. 300 words) dealing with such research questions
can be sent before 31 June to uzniedzw@cyf-kr.edu.pl or
idesbald.goddeeris@arts.kuleuven.be. A selection will be made before the
end of August. Part of the conference proceedings will be published. 
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue May 15 13:06:58 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue May 15 12:08:15 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Common Ground, Converging Gazes: Integrating the Social and
 Environmental in History (Paris)
Message-ID: <00ab01c7970b$13fe3610$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

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

From: "Mosley, Stephen" <s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk>

Common Ground, Converging Gazes: Integrating the Social and Environmental in 
History


International Conference

?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales

Paris, 11-12-13 September 2008

Recently, several scholarly articles have focused on the nature of 
environmental history, its purposes, and its relationships with other close 
fields of research - particularly social history. The conference aims to 
open up this discussion further, to demonstrate that it is both possible and 
necessary to cast an 'environmental gaze' on social history's growing 
agenda, and to make clear that social history has much to offer to 
environmental history.

In short, given that climate change, biodiversity loss and other ecological 
problems pose an enormous challenge to humanity now, and for the future, we 
do not think it desirable to write social and economic history which does 
not incorporate an environmental dimension. At a time when societies are 
confronted with the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the 
fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanization, 
consumption and other areas, we need a history that casts more light on the 
ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into being. This 
means reconsidering many of the older emphases of social and economic 
history, and encouraging stronger connections with environmental history.

Conversely, we cannot content ourselves with an environmental history which 
focuses mainly on nature's agency, the evolution of human attitudes to and 
understandings of 'nature', or even on humankind's role in global warming or 
in the disappearance of species. Whatever the legitimacy of these topics may 
be, we also need research that takes into greater account the social and 
economic dimensions of environmental problems. Environmental change or 
pollution, for instance, does not affect people equally: men and women, 
young and old, white and black, low and high-income communities - all have 
different experiences. But how environmental issues play out along the lines 
of class, gender, race, and ethnicity is rarely just a matter of chance, and 
more often the result of long-term social, cultural, and economic forces. We 
still have a good deal to learn about how power, resources and risks have 
been distributed across both rural and urban landscapes, which calls for 
socio-economic
history know-how.

It is clearly time for environmental history to engage more fully with the 
tools, methods and concepts of social and economic history - and vice versa. 
This is not to say that there has been no progress in establishing common 
ground, but we still need to bring these fields into closer communication, 
for their mutual benefit.

Proposals may deal with any research area in social or environmental 
history, so long as they address the issue of interconnections between the 
two sub-disciplines. The following list gives a number of suggested topic 
areas, but it is not comprehensive. Themes of sessions will be defined 
according to received proposals.

-                  Gender, class, race and ethnicity issues

-                  Population and migration

-                  Sites of resistance; struggles against environmental 
inequality

-                  Landscape and memory; environment and identity

-                  Housing, planning, sanitation and public health

-                  Industry, consumption and business

-                  Natural resources, energy, and transportation

-                  Risks, catastrophes, air, water and land pollution

-                  Labour, the workplace, and occupational illnesses

-                  Agricultural practices, land-tenures, and enclosure of 
commons

-                  Recreation and tourism

-                  Sources and methods

New researchers and doctoral students are particularly welcome. A limited 
number of grants will be available to encourage their participation.

One page proposals and a brief CV should be sent by 30 September 2007 to 
both the conference organizers:

Genevi?ve Massard-Guilbaud: massard@ehess.fr

Stephen Mosley: s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk


Proposals will be examined by a scientific committee composed of:

Patrice Bourdelais, ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Mich?le Dagenais, Universit? de Montr?al

Chlo? Deligne, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles

Patrick Fridenson, ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Marjolein 't Hart, University of Amsterdam

Genevi?ve Massard-Guilbaud, ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales

Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University

Simone Neri Serneri, University of Siena

Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh

Sverker S?rlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Verena Winiwarter, University of Klagenfurt at Vienna


The conference is organised by the Centre de Recherches Historiques (unit? 
mixte de recherche CNRS/EHESS), in partnership with the journals Les Annales 
des Mines and the Annales de D?mographie Historique (to be confirmed), and 
the Association Le Mouvement Social (to be confirmed), and supported by the 
European Society for Environmental History and Leeds Metropolitan 
University.

Participants will be notified by 15th January 2008. The conference will 
focus on the discussion of pre-circulated papers (6,500 words or 30,000 
characters) to be sent to the conference organizers in the form of email 
attachments by 15th June 2008. The languages of the conference will be 
French and English. Proposals will be accepted in either language. 
Pre-circulated papers in French must include a summary in English.

A preliminary programme will be produced, further practical information 
given and registration opened in February 2008. For any other information, 
please write to massard@ehess.fr or s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk

Stephen Mosley
Leeds Metropolitan University
England 

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue May 15 12:09:19 2007
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue May 15 14:09:22 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Female Labor Migration in Globalizing Asia, Nat'l U of Singapore
Message-ID: <002e01c7971c$28c36140$7a4a23c0$@edu>

Female Labor Migration in Globalizing Asia: Translocal and Transnational
Identities and Agencies
Location:	Singapore
Call for Papers Date:	2007-05-10 (Archive)

This workshop aims to explore the mutual interactions of global and local
discourses and practices that shape female migration and labor in and across
Asia, particularly in East and Southeast Asia, as well as Asian migrant
women workers' experiences, identities and agencies. The organizers seek
insightful perspectives grounded in original empirical research that can
effectively capture the dynamism of these gendered processes unfolding on
the ground and in the lives of social actors they involve. Contributions
from anthropology, gender studies, human and cultural geography, political
economy, and sociology are especially welcome. Selected workshop papers will
considered for publication in a special journal issue(s). Limited funding
may be available for participants with demonstrated financial hardship.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE WEB LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS
DIRECTLY.

Dr Arianne Gaetano, Asia Research Institute, National U. of Singapore:
ariamg@nus.edu.sg
+65-6516-7788 (Tel.) or +65-6779-1428 (Fax)
Ms Shamala Sundaray, Asia Research Institute, National U. of Singapore:
arisss@nus.edu.sg
+65-6516-7170 (Tel.) or +65-6779-1428 (Fax)

Email: ariamg@nus.edu.sg
Visit the website at
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=61
3

From wagner.laru at gmail.com  Tue May 15 09:40:23 2007
From: wagner.laru at gmail.com (Lauren Wagner)
Date: Tue May 15 14:13:45 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]May Submissions on the Inter-sections blog and Launch
	Party (London, 20 May)
In-Reply-To: <CRONEM%200705120003510980.434A@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
References: <CRONEM%200705120003510980.434A@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Message-ID: <3AADA9C9-E851-484D-B978-B06FEE0D4A9E@gmail.com>

Please distribute, apologies for cross-postings
-------------------------
http://intersections.wordpress.com/


Deadline for your essays, ideas, visuals and comments on ?Inter- 
sections?:
6 June 2007

Each month, ?Inter-sections? issues a new Call for Submissions  
focussed on a theme chosen by the editors. The theme for May is: Food  
and Migrating Cultures.

Through nutrition and food we form and express ways of thinking about  
health and the body. Food preparation and consumption are important  
social events and the way we cook, eat and talk food says a lot about  
how we place ourselves in the world and how we relate to others.  
Migrants bring their food to a new place, adapt it, fuse it, re- 
invent it and rename it. Migration thus impacts on eating habits and  
can completely change food preferences and lifestyle choices.

This month?s topic is inspired by the LIFT Eat London event that was  
held recently - on the 28th of April, 2007 -  in Trafalgar Square,  
bringing food artists who collaborated with communities from east and  
south-east London to create one of fifteen edible sections of a map  
of London.  This project?s mission statement was to ?reflect the many  
diverse cultures, histories and origins that give the capital its  
identity?. Coming from this angle, we are hungry, craving your  
comments about diverse food experience in relation to culture,  
migration, and identity!

We would like to see your pictures, articles, interviews, films,  
thoughts, impressions on food. We are interested in your personal  
experiences as well as the results of your research or work practice.  
Themes might include: food and its cultural value, the food  
industries, representation of the ?cultural other? through food  
(visual arts, film, television, satire, comedy), food as ritual/ 
performance, food and health/survival, food and sexuality, food  
language/terminology, ?food ethnocentricism? and anything else that  
relates to food as a cultural phenomenon in relation to migration. Do  
you have any personal memories about food that you want us to know?  
Do you have your own cross-over/fusion recipes? Send us these as  
well, perhaps accompanied by a yummy picture!

Send us your contributions at intersectionsblog@gmail.com (max 1,500  
words) no later than 6 June 2007. After that, we will be starting a  
new theme for June, look for our next announcement.

Conference calls, comments to existing posts and links to related  
websites/blogs are published as we go along.

________________

If you're in or around London, we welcome you for non-alcoholic  
refreshments at our Launch Party this weekend!!

Date:        Sunday, May 20th
Time:        7pm-11pm
Where:     Coffee, Cake and Kink
Location:  61 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9AJ
Tube: Covent Garden
Tel:            +44 (0) 20 7419 2996
Website:    www.coffeecakeandkink.com
From juris at temple.edu  Fri May 11 10:36:19 2007
From: juris at temple.edu (Juris)
Date: Thu May 17 02:32:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Design + Livable Communities
Message-ID: <972E9901-BE94-4325-9693-C47394F4D0AF@temple.edu>


Interdisciplinary Design and Research e-Publication (IDRP)

http://www.idrp.wsu.edu/



Call for Papers and Projects for IDRP Volume II


Topic: Design + Livable Communities

The Interdisciplinary Design and Research e-Publication (IDRP) issues  
this call for papers and projects for its second volume, to be  
released January, 2008.



The theme of IDRP Volume II is Design + Livable Communities.  In  
keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry, we welcome  
the broadest possible range of interpretations for what ?Design? and  
?Livable Communities? can mean.  We invite submissions from the  
following disciplinary domains:

the natural sciences, the social sciences, health care/public health,  
the arts, the design disciplines, from the academic and business  
worlds, and from public and private sectors.  All submissions will be  
considered for peer review, provided that the submission interweaves  
design and livable communities in a well-defined way.



Topics can include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:



             Cultural factors influencing livable environments

             Livability and the Arts

Public heath/policy and built environments

Community livability versus globalization

             Sprawl, New Urbanism, and downtown centers

Lessons on community livability from history and vernacular traditions

Collaboration and livability
Sustainability and a less automobile-dependent future
Livability in the age of the internet


Papers are limited to a maximum of 5,000 words, double spaced, 12 pt  
Garamond font preferred.  Deadline: May 31, 2007, by email  
transmission in WORD (see below).



Projects can be designs of a built (or un-built) form of any scale,  
so long as an accompanying narrative explains how the project  
addresses design and livable community.  Initial submission shall be  
a one page document providing an image of the project with a  
narrative explanation of sufficient length to fit on the same page.  
Deadline: May 31, 2007, by email (see below).



All submissions must include contributor(s) name, affiliation, and  
contact information on a separate page in WORD.  Submission shall be  
by email only to David Wang, davewang@wsu.edu.  Please contact same  
with any questions.







Juris Milestone, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu May 17 03:30:41 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu May 17 02:56:35 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Funding: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
	Fellowships
Message-ID: <004a01c7984c$e7b0f960$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards 
approximately 45 fully funded fellowships each year. Radcliffe Institute 
fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and 
writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment, who wish to 
pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. 
Applicants must have received their doctorate or appropriate terminal degree 
by December 2006 in the area of the proposed project. Radcliffe welcomes 
proposals from small groups of scholars who have research interests or 
projects in common. Please check the Web site for more information. The 
stipend amount is $70,000. Fellows receive office space and access to 
libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship 
year, which extends from early September 2008 through June 30, 2009, 
residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the 
Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress 
and to attend other fellows' events. Applications must be postmarked by 
October 1, 2007. For more information, visit our Web site at 
www.radcliffe.edu. Write, call, or e-mail for an application: Radcliffe 
Application Office 34 Concord Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 ph: 617-496-1324 fax: 
617-495-8136 fellowships@radcliffe.edu


Contact Information
Jeff Potts
34 Concord Ave.
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
Phone: 617-495-8237
Email: jpotts@radcliffe.edu
URL http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply/index.php 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri May 18 13:39:59 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri May 18 12:42:40 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: UCD Egalitarian World Initiative
Message-ID: <00b201c7996b$31b20850$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Are you based in a non-governmental organisation and actively working
for social change on issues relating to poverty, social exclusion and
social justice?  Would you like to have research `time out? to
reflect on your work at an intellectual level?

The UCD Egalitarian World Initiative, supported by the Combat Poverty
Agency, is offering a Civil Society Research Scholarship for the
2007/2008 academic year.  It is designed to offer a scholar, time,
space and the intellectual environment to engage in research and
reflection on their work. Scholars will spend up to three months full
time in UCD working on a research project of their choice.  They will
also be able to avail of activities and courses offered under the
umbrella of the Egalitarian World Initiative during their time in
UCD.

The scholarship is worth EUR10,000.  Scholars are typically seconded by
their organisation or given leave to take up the scholarship and to
locate, on a full time, basis to the Egalitarian World Initiative in
UCD.

The Scholarship is jointly administered by the UCD Egalitarian World
Initiative and the Combat Poverty Agency under its Poverty Research
Initiative.  For information and application form see:
www.ucd.ie/ewi
www.combatpoverty.ie/research

Application form and proposal to be submitted by June 29th 2007 to Dr
Pauline Faughnan, Coordinator, UCD Egalitarian World Initiative,
Equality Studies Centre, UCD School of Social Justice, Belfield,
Dublin 4.

best,
John Baker
UCD Equality Studies Centre http://www.ucd.ie/esc/
UCD School of Social Justice http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice
University College Dublin
Dublin 4 Ireland
tel +353-1-716 7872
fax +353-1-716 1107


From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri May 18 13:49:45 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri May 18 12:50:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: AIDS in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural History of
 AIDS: AIDS and Otherness (Mexico City)
Message-ID: <00bf01c7996c$8ff27de0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

 Call for Papers:
Aids in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
M?xico City, 9 - 13 December 2007

Focus for the 4th edition of the conference cycle "Aids in Culture: 
Explorations in the Cultural History of Aids: Aids and Otherness and Aids in 
Narratives of Identities

Deadline for abstract Submissions: August 15, 2007
Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
Homepage: http://www.aidsinculture.org

AIDS is not simply an illness or a biomedical phenomenon. The conference 
cycle "AIDS in Culture" organised by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City and the 
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in 
cooperation with CENSIDA (The National Mexican AIDS Council) and CNDH (The 
National Human Rights Commission in Mexico) seeks to examine cultural 
responses to AIDS in different cultures and societies across a wide range of 
perspectives. The conference will explore the processes by which AIDS is 
constructed as a cultural phenomenon and how different societies in their 
encounters with AIDS attempt to create meaning in health, illness and 
disease. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in all 
relevant disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, 
and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and 
dialogue.

AIDS in Culture has already developed into an annual tradition and will be 
organised for the fourth time in 2007 in Mexico City. In 2004 Aids in 
Culture took place in the National Center for Human Rights (CNDH) in Mexico 
City and had artistic and aesthetic responses to AIDS/HIV as a special 
focus. The Artist of the Conference was Rolando de la Rosa -Mexican sculptor 
and painter-. In 2005 AIDS in Culture II was held in the Archivo Hist?rico 
Santamar?a in the city of Papantla in the Mexican Federal State of Veracruz. 
The second edition of the conference cycle had Indigenous knowledge and 
conceptions of AIDS in Latin America, Africa and New Guinea as its core 
theme. The Artist of the Conference was Morgan Alexander -American 
photo-ethnographer-.

In 2006 AIDS in Culture III returned to Mexico City. The conference was 
organised in a large number of special thematic sessions covering a diverse 
series of topics extending from "The History of AIDS Activism", 
"Representations of Aids in Literature", "Aids in Education" to "The 
Politics of Aids and Aids in Politics" and "Perceptions of Aids in Lesbian 
Sub-Cultures in Mexico". The artist of the conference was Arturo Ramirez 
Ju?rez, Mexican painter, who died of AIDS in 1987.

This year the conference will have a special focus on Aids and Otherness and 
Aids in narratives of identities. Papers addressing related issues as well 
as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of 
cultural identities in one way or another in relation to AIDS and HIV are 
particularly welcome. However, also in 2007 the conference will follow a 
similar model as in the previous year with several different thematic 
sessions addressing several different issues. Papers are welcomed on 
virtually all related topics and themes, independently of time, period and 
space, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. Also papers of comparative 
phenomena will be considered.

Among the themes of interest are the following:
AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation.
Representations of AIDS in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and 
literature from the 1980s until today.
Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS.
Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and fetishism.
Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS
AIDS and collective and individual identities: Race, Class, Gender etc
AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and 
Activism.
Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political, faith and ideology 
based discourse, legal issues and policy making throughout the world: Who 
has the authority to speak and who is silenced?
AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, 
History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all related 
disciplines. How do we theorize and analyse experiences and the meaning of 
illness?
The ,significance' of AIDS for individuals and communities; the cultural 
factors influencing our perceptions of health and illness experiences.
AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.
Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS
Stories and Histories about AIDS
AIDS and Oral History

Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of 
perspectives. Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since 
all these topics in themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, 
literary studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, 
ethnology, anthropology, sociology...  Graduate and postgraduate students 
are encouraged to attend and present papers. Selected papers from the 
conference will also this year be published in book form.

DISABLED PARTICIPANTS
We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials that will be 
distributed during the conference, also will be available in large print or 
Braille on request. If you require sign language interpretation during your 
session, or you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in 
Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in the registration 
form.
Registration Form for Participants with disabilities: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/disca.htm
Participants with disabilities are recommended to fill in this form if they 
require any special support or assistance during the event or during social 
and cultural activities before or during the conference.

PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in 
English, Castilian, German or French by 15, August 2007. The conference 
languages will be English and Castilian. Interpretations of the conference 
theme ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.
Papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 
pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates 
and poster sessions will be considered on request.

PROPOSALS FOR PANEL SESSIONS
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers 
and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 2 hours allowing 
for 30 minutes for each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and 
discussion.
Proposers should submit:
(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) Paper titles,
(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 
words),
(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.

If you would like to propose a panel session, and want assistance in finding 
speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for your 
panel session on the conference web site and distribute it in our 
newsletter. If you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like 
us to publish a call for papers on the conference website, please send us a 
proposal by e-mail to info@enkidumagazine.com

PROPOSALS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Abstracts are to be submitted by 15th of August 2007, along with the 
presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation. 
It is recommended to use the form here: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/registration_en.htm when 
submitting an abstract. However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail 
attachments to info@enkidumagazine.com.

All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. You will 
be notified by the 15th of September 2007 whether your proposal has been 
accepted or rejected. Full conference papers should be submitted by the 1st 
of November 2006. Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be 
made available at the conference web page from August 2007. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun May 20 22:11:48 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun May 20 21:12:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Submissions: Becoming Urban? Investigating the P-S Landscape
Message-ID: <003001c79b45$044332f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

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


Call For Papers

Becoming Urban?: Investigating the P-S Landscape

We are calling for contributions in the realms of culture studies, social
studies, urban studies, media studies, architecture and anthropology to
the volume Becoming Urban?: Investigating the P-S Landscape. This
volume aims to explore the metamorphosing urban, rural, social and
media landscapes in the geographical space usually referred to as
'post-socialist', i.e. potentially from the Balkans to Vladivostok,
including all that lies between.

However, we are acutely aware that, especially in terms of an
investigation of questions related to urban forms, this territory was
constituted as other in relation to the developed urban territory of the
Western world well before the advent of communism. In addition, it is far
from certain that socialism or communism was a distinct form of urban
organisation or whether it just represented one branch of the modernist
urban project. Also, not only was the experience of socialism lived very
differently in the different countries usually grouped under the heading
'post-socialist', but we have now had at least 15 years of something
different: is it therefore accurate to label this territory under the
heading 'socialist' even in conjunction with the epithet 'post'?

Thus, we have chosen to opt for the title "P-S" which, although
representing the first letters of Post-Socialist, also reflects our
hesitation as to whether this specific historical legacy is really the
dominant influence on the region. For P-S might equally stand for
Post-Soros, and thus suggest that it is the way in which the urban societies
of this region now plug into global flows of capital and knowledge that,
at least intellectually, plays the dominant role in fashioning this 
geographical
space as a coherent region. Another sense of P-S which plays an important
role in our thinking is that of Post-Scriptum as a challenge to Francis
Fukuyama's controversial assertion that the liberal urban democracies of the
West constitute the end of history; in this sense, are the urban forms
emerging in the P-S landscape simply footnotes to this conclusion or are
they significant enough to suggest that there is more to history than we
have yet understood? In addition, P-S has a further connotation which might
help in interpreting this uncharted landscape, since P-S is also the German
abbreviation for horse-power (in German, Pferd-Sterke). Might it be that the
absence of stable urban structures and the difficulty of understanding what
is happening in this region gives the cities here a specific dynamism of
their own?

So are the P-S civilisations at last becoming urban, in the sense of
catching up with the western and only model of urban civilisation, or does
the relationship to the legacies of history here open up new forms of urban
interaction? Or is it, in the age of the post-metropolis or post-modernity,
too late to become urban: what kind of urban forms are emerging in the
age of the domination of the global media village? Or do these societies
remain obdurately rural - or perhaps the 'rural' elements in the P-S cities
give them a special form of urban energy? Or are there also radical
changes happening in provincial and rural settlements, and in the
countryside, which are also linked to changes in urban life and the
dominant modes of economic production?

We see all these questions as being open and requiring new theoretical
and empirical approaches to try to map this confusing cultural space. For
simply importing Western urban theories seems inappropriate to map a
space which is itself being produced by a distorting/distorted encounter
with forces from the West?  Equally, while Marxism is appealing in a
context where the questions of who owns what and where does the profit go
are complicated and urgent, returning to Marx as a tool for analysing the
ruins of communism also seems questionable. Thus, to try to bring thinking
closer to what is really happening in  P-S societies, an anthropological
turn might seem a fruitful direction to take, but what then might be the
role of thinking in seeking to build models to explore this experience?

Articles, therefore, are expected be based on empirical evidence
from a city, cities, or the countryside in the region, but will also seek to
open up new theoretical avenues for dealing with the complex socio-cultural
organisation of this region.

Contributions should be in Russian and preceded by an abstract and
keywords in Russian, and followed by an abstract and keywords in
English. Please also attach short biographical information: i.e. institution
where you work and a brief mention of books/articles already published.
Articles should be submitted to us in electronic form before July 1st 2007,
but it would be helpful if those wishing to contribute an article could
signal their intention to do so earlier.

The publication is a product of an International Higher Education Support
Programme and will be published through the European Humanities University
Publishing House in Minsk. It is also planned that the best articles from
this volume will form the core of a publication in English under the same
title, scheduled for 2008.


For further information, please feel free to contact either Nerijus Milerius
(nerijus_miler@yahoo.com) or Benjamin Cope (b.cope@zacheta.art.pl )

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon May 21 13:43:36 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon May 21 12:44:13 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: City Vol 11: 1 (with Schartz, Neoliberalism on Crack: Cities
 Under Siege in Iraq)
Message-ID: <007601c79bc7$2f045a00$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Michael Schwartz's Article Published in City:
NEOLIBERALISM ON CRACK: CITIES UNDER SIEGE IN IRAQ

City, published by Routledge is pleased to publish Michael Schwartz's 
article entitled 'Neoliberalism on Crack: Cities Under Siege in Iraq' (in 
volume 11, issue 1, 2007), in which Schwartz turns attention away from the 
spectacular glitz of the war and instead focuses on the evidence culled from 
alternative media, the back pages of the daily press, and from U.S. 
government sources to document the darker and ultimately more damaging 
corrosion of the paradoxically entitled "reconstruction". In effect a 
comprehensive dismantling of the economic and social infrastructure of Iraq, 
which once boasted the most advanced, medical, educational and 
transportation system in the Middle East.

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon May 21 13:52:12 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon May 21 12:53:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Sex and the City, Pregnancy and the Suburb?
Message-ID: <009301c79bc8$62c37690$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

PLANETIZEN NEWSWIRE
http://www.planetizen.com/


Sex and the City, Pregnancy and the Suburb?

21 May 2007 - 7:00am
Author: Sriram Kh?, PhD
If a correlation exists between birth rates and urbanization, does the post 
World War II baby boom owe its existence to urban sprawl?

Earth Day was an opportunity to think about a number of issues, including 
about urban sprawl and population growth. And I kept coming back to the same 
question: would birth rates and, therefore, population growth rates in the 
US have been lower if we did not have the post-WWII urban sprawl?
I was a graduate student at USC many, many years ago when I first came 
across studies by people like Richard Easterlin -- research that examined 
the relationship between economic development, urbanization, and changes in 
demographic patterns. Well, one of the lessons there was that the economic 
transformation that societies underwent was accompanied by massive changes 
in the spaces where people lived, so much so that rural population in 
developed countries is now a very small percentage of the overall 
population. The global story is not very different either; the Executive 
Director of UN-Habitat, Anna Tibaijuka, recently remarked about the change 
in spatial distribution of population: "2007 is a year when human beings 
will become an urban species, homo urbanus. From now on the majority of 
people will no longer be rural but urban. And there is no going back for 
this demographic shift and transition is irreversible."
As the population moved to cities, people immediately recognized the costs 
of having children. As opposed to the rural life where children might have 
contributed to a family's earnings by working on the farm, for instance, 
urban children required parents to invest both money and time in them. And 
as adults became more and more engaged in modern economic activities in 
urban areas, they found it increasingly difficult to invest the time and 
money in children. Further, in the cities there was a premium to pay for 
larger dwelling sizes too. To top it all, as women entered the workforce, 
the opportunity cost of having children dramatically increased, which then 
contributed to further decreases in fertility rates.
So, in this context, what if the post-war suburban growth had not happened 
the way it did? What if the returning GIs had married, yes, but had 
continued to live in densely populated cities? Of course, it is not easy to 
estimate counterfactual historical scenarios that Niall Ferguson seems to 
enjoy in his profession. Yet, it is difficult to resist speculating whether 
the absence of suburban growth and urban sprawl might have changed the 
recent demographic history of the US.
Studies that criticize urban sprawl often point at Western European 
countries or Japan as examples of compact cities and smart growth. In these 
countries, families and households live in units that are significantly 
smaller than the average American dwelling unit. About two years ago, I 
asked a visiting Japanese faculty from Saitama what according to her was the 
biggest difference between Japan and the US. Without hesitation she replied 
that it was the amount of space here in the US. Later in her guest lecture 
in my class, my students could not believe that she and her son lived in an 
800-square feet apartment.
Japan and Western European countries are also places where fertility rates 
have steadily decreased since the end of WWII, to levels that are 
significantly below replacement-levels. Interestingly enough, some of the 
other areas with very low fertility rates -- such as Taiwan, Singapore, and 
Hong Kong -- are also characterized by metropolitan areas with high 
population densities.
On the other hand, birthrates in the US did not precipitously fall after 
WWII, as it did in Western Europe and Japan. The typical story of the 
post-war years is one of GIs returning home, getting married, moving to the 
Levitttowns across the US, and raising children. Immigration to the US and 
their fertility rates do affect the story, no doubt, as does the withdrawal 
of women from the workforce and back to the traditional roles of homemakers.
Counterfactually though, if there were no Levittown and no suburban 
expansions, and if the young families had stayed back in the cities, then 
would the cost of urban life have dampened the propensity to procreate, 
particularly with the simultaneous technological advancements in family 
planning and birth control? Was urban sprawl then a reason why the US did 
not go the European route when it comes to birth rates? After all, even now 
it appears that the more compact New England areas have lower birthrates 
compared to the sprawling cities in the South and the West.
If such a counterfactual scenario is true, then it could imply that the 
higher fertility rate in the US, compared to other developed countries, is 
the unintended consequence of government subsidies in the form of freeway 
and road building, low gas tax and, hence, relatively inexpensive gas, 
deductibility of home mortgage interests from income taxes, etc. These 
helped disperse the population from dense population settlements and led to 
low density suburban settlements -- urban sprawl -- where fertility rates 
are higher than rates in Western Europe.
Every once in a while, in the introductory geography class that I teach, I 
ask students to collect fertility rate data on their respective families 
going back to at least their grandparents and preferably back to their 
great-grandparents. A typical trend that we then observe later in the class 
discussions is that fertility rates have, as a class average, decreased over 
the generations. The other trend we observe from their data is a correlation 
between fertility rates and whether or not their mothers and grandmothers 
lived in cities or the rural areas -- almost always students from large 
families came from rural areas. Even these "micro" case studies highlight 
the possibility that if Americans had stayed in cities in large numbers, 
instead of moving to the suburbs, then the birthrates may have been much 
lower. So, yet another reason to praise, or vilify, urban sprawl?

Sriram Kh? is an Associate Professor of Geography at Western Oregon 
University. Prior to this, he taught at California State 
University-Bakersfield, and was an Associate Planner with the Kern Council 
of Governments.

From af31 at nyu.edu  Fri May 18 20:17:00 2007
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Mon May 21 23:35:50 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FW: The Global City and Media Ethnography:  Registration extended
 to April, 10,2007
In-Reply-To: <C22AE80F.153B%af31@nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <C273AC2C.1DE6%af31@nyu.edu>

Due to a last minute cancellation we still have one slot currently open from
our 15  student enrollment limit.


The Global City and Media Ethnography: Practice-led Research and  the
Critical Ethnography of the Senses.

Summer  Study Abroad

Location: Dublin, Ireland
Dates: June 17 - July 7, 2007
Application Deadline: extended

The Department of Culture and Communication, in collaboration with the
Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Faculty of Applied
Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, present a three-week study abroad
program in practice-led media research and the political /critical
ethnography of the senses. The curriculum is aimed at graduate students from
diverse disciplines who want to explore creative media practice as a
participatory research methodology. The summer school brings together a
multi-national cohort of core and visiting scholars/practitioners/artists
who engage the theories and methods of multiplex media and sensory
ethnography, visual culture, performance studies, through the linked topics
of transcultural and trans-local processes, diaspora identities, the post
colonial and human rights. This course provides students with theoretical
and practical grounding in multi-sited action research in trans-cultural and
transnational settings. Through social historical and trans-cultural
ethnographic perspectives practice-led pedagogy promotes an historically
self- reflexive contextual and political  understanding of the use of media
for the conduct and dissemination of research and the creation of social
knowledge.  Practice-led research overcomes divisions between social theory
and action-research, and between creative practice and evidence-based
research.

Through theory-building seminars, project development clinics, multimedia
lab instruction, and one-to-one advisement, students are enabled in the
design and development of practice-based M.A.- and Ph.D.-level research
projects, combining text and visual-audio media artifacts across a variety
of platforms, including video, photography and digital imaging, and
networked environments.

The Summer School is located at the Irish Photographic Centre in Dublin's
Temple Bar Cultural Quarter, comprising 28 acres of historical architecture
dedicated to arts, media, culture, and entertainment.

Themes and Topics

?     Transcultural Geographies of the Gaze and the Auditory
      
?     Politics and Ethics of Multi-Sited Fieldwork

?      Mapping Mediascapes

?      Sensory Formations of  Modernity

?      Cultural Anesthesia, Human Rights and Structural
Visibility/Invisibility

?      Body, Mediacy and Violence

?       New Media, Memory and the Politics of the Virtual

?      The Aesthetics  and Ethics of Evidence

?      Reading/Performing/Politicizing  the Archive

?     Translating/Transcribing Cross-Sensory Fieldwork

6 Points. Offered through the Department of Media, Culture and
Communication, New York University

Selected Core  Faculty:
Allen Feldman, Co-director, (MA PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Graduate
Faculty, New School for Social Research), Associate Professor Department of
Culture and Communication, New York University.
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/steinhardt/db/faculty/1346

?ine O?Brien Co-director, (PhD, Modern Studies Program, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Director: Centre for Transcultural Research and
Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology.
http://www.dit.ie/DIT/news/events/2005/26-09-05.html\
http://update.dit.ie/12-06-06/01calendar1506b.php

Glenn Jordan, (PhD,  Anthropology, University of Chicago) Reader in Cultural
Studies in the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/english/crew/transatlanticexchange/keynote.htm

Roshini Kempadoo MFA, Senior Lecturer In Media Production Media and Cultural
Studies, University of London.
http://www.roshinikempadoo.co.uk/

Advisory Faculty

Susan Buck Morss (MA, Yale University, PhD,  European Intellectual History,
Georgetown University), Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory
in the Department of Government, and a member of the graduate fields of
German Studies and History of Art, Cornell University.
http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sbm5/Buck-Morss.html

Nicholas Mirzoeff (PhD ,Art History, University of Warwick) Professor,
Visual Culture Program, New York University
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/steinhardt/db/faculty/1399

C. Nadia Seremetakis, (MA, Sociology New York University,  MA PhD, Cultural
Anthropology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research) Anthropology
Editor, New Sociology, Athens, Greece.
http://www.seremetaki.com/en/
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13095.ctl

Paul Stoller (MA, PhD Anthropology, University of Austin, Texas), Professor
of Anthropology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.cawc.muohio.edu/documents/Stoller%20Bio.pdf.

Costs:

Tuition: $992 per credit point (6 points) plus registration fees.

Accommodations: approximately $1550, Trinity College, Dublin (breakfast
included)

Activities: approximately $250

Travel: Round-trip airfares to New York City and Dublin approximately
$500-$800 (students make reservations individually)

Thank you for your inquiry; most of your questions are discussed below in
the FAQ section below.

I have attached a schedule of seminars, media labs and events from last year
that will give  you an idea of the curriculum and structure of the summer
school. There will be some minor sequencing and staff changes this summer.
This years dates are June 17 to July 7th, 2007.


For More Information:
Professor Allen Feldman, Department of Culture and Communication, The
Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, NY 10003-6680:
212-998-5096; email: af31@nyu.edu.
http://www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/steinhardt/db/summer/149
From RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu  Mon May 21 14:31:01 2007
From: RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu (Russell Sharman)
Date: Mon May 21 23:36:01 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REMINDER - SUNTA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Message-ID: <C2774F95.2614%RSharman@brooklyn.cuny.edu>

SUNTA UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE

The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology is
pleased to announce its first annual undergraduate student paper prize
competition. We are seeking submissions from faculty on behalf of their
undergraduate students for papers that address issues pertaining to urban,
national, and transnational anthropology, and/or any of the topical areas of
interest to SUNTA, including space and place, poverty and homelessness, and
refugees and immigrants.
 
The deadline for submitting papers for the 2007 SUNTA Undergraduate Student
Paper Prize ($100 award) is July 15, 2007. Students (and their nominators)
need not be SUNTA members, but submissions will only be accepted from
faculty. Students may not submit papers on their own behalf. Page limit
should be no more than 25 pages, and there are no rules about formatting,
though authors should be consistent throughout. The winner will be announced
at the 2007 AAA meetings.


We would prefer all submissions by email: RSharman@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Other
arrangements may be made by contacting Russell Sharman at the above email
address. 
_____________________________________
Russell Leigh Sharman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.951.5000 x3799
http://www.russellsharman.com



From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue May 22 13:11:42 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue May 22 12:12:15 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE: Sex and the City
Message-ID: <008e01c79c8b$e4373900$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: "David Babson" <DBabson@maxwell.syr.edu>

Fascinating analysis.  I have often looked at the post-World War II 
transformation of U.S. society from the perspective of technological and 
social history--specifically, the transition from mass transportation based 
upon railroads to individually-oriented transportation based upon 
automobiles as driving many of these effects--perspective of an 
archaeologist, who would emphasize material culture.  That may be, more, the 
technical aspects of the story--this desire to move to the country, to have 
more space to have a family and to better fit into a cultural pattern that 
would "allow" a larger family, may be more of a direct, cultural cause. 
And, this in reaction to the unprecedented destruction of World War II, and 
the nuclear confrontations of the Cold War.  The information on the 
different course taken by Europe and Japan were new to me, but they make 
sense--as a technological coda, to that, I have read that intercity 
passenger transport in Europe, today, is largely by rail or air, while 
freight transport is by truck and road, exactly the opposite of the 
situation in the U.S.  Great and far-reaching world effects of these 
differences--global warming, and the current series of wars over oil, also, 
perhaps, why the Europeans and Japanese are much more reluctant than is the 
U.S. to fight for oil, thus avoiding disasters like the present war in Iraq.

Has Dr. Sriram Khe published this work? [Moderator's Note: Does anyone 
know? Reply to Babson. The interview was published in Planetization.]

D. Babson.
From l_guevarra at ucpress.edu  Fri May 11 16:47:20 2007
From: l_guevarra at ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Thu May 24 20:19:42 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: Public Sociology
Message-ID: <p06230937c26aa2f8020b@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L:


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

Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists 
Debate Politics and the Profession in the 
Twenty-first Century

Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi 
Gerstel, Randall Stokes, and Douglas L. Anderton 
teach in the Department of Sociology at the 
University of Massachusetts. Michael Burawoy, 
former president of the American Sociological 
Association, is Professor of Sociology at the 
University of California, Berkeley.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Clawson


"Once we acknowledge the sharp divisions in our 
society, we have to decide which publics we want 
to work with. I propose ? that we strive to 
address the public and political problems of 
people at the lower end of the many hierarchies 
that define our society."-Frances Fox Piven, 
president of the American Sociological Association


In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president 
of the American Sociological Association, 
generated far-reaching controversy when he issued 
an ambitious and impassioned call for a "public 
sociology." Burawoy argued that sociology should 
speak beyond the university, engaging with social 
movements and deepening an understanding of the 
historical and social context in which they 
exist. In this volume, renowned sociologists come 
together to debate the perils and the potentials 
of Burawoy's challenge.

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


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From lknauer at umassd.edu  Wed May 23 17:18:50 2007
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Thu May 24 20:20:01 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2007 SUNTA Graduate student prize
Message-ID: <4654A1AA.1050604@umassd.edu>

2007 SUNTA GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE

The deadline for submitting papers for the 2007 SUNTA Graduate Student 
Paper
Prize ($250 award) is July 15, 2007. Papers should address issues 
pertaining to urban, national, and transnational anthropology, and/or 
any of the  topical areas of interest to SUNTA, including space and 
place, poverty and homelessness, and refugees and immigrants.
Guidelines:  Papers must be based on original ethnographic research and 
must not have been published elsewhere. Submissions from all graduate 
students, international students as well as U.S. residents, are welcome. 
Co-authored papers are acceptable although winners would have to split 
the cash prize. Papers should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages 
(as with most journal articles). There are no rules about formatting, 
although authors should be consistent throughout.  The competition is 
not limited to SUNTA members, nor to papers presented at the 2007 AAA 
meetings. Professors and practicing anthropologists are urged to 
nominate worthy candidates. The winner will be announced at the 2007 AAA 
meetings. The winning paper will be considered favorably for publication 
in City and Society.
We would prefer all submissions by email: lknauer@umassd.edu

For further information or to submit entries contact Lisa Maya Knauer: 
lknauer@umassd.edu


From nekst4 at pitt.edu  Mon May 21 20:23:02 2007
From: nekst4 at pitt.edu (Neringa Klumbyte)
Date: Thu May 24 20:20:42 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 the CES conference/call for contributors to the panel on
  consumption
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20070521191827.0202d580@imap.pitt.edu>


We invite contributions to the panel "Consumer Regimes and Cultures in the
Enlarged Europe" for the Council for European Studies Conference which will
take place in Chicago, March 6-8, 2008. We welcome paper proposals from
scholars and graduate students who conduct research in the new member 
states of the European Union: namely, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, 
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,Romania, Slovakia, and 
Slovenia.
Please send an abstract of 250 words by May 29, 2007 to Neringa Klumbyte
(<mailto:nekst4@pitt.edu>nekst4@pitt.edu) or Yuson Jung 
(<mailto:yusonjung@post.harvard.edu>yusonjung@post.harvard.edu).


Consumer Regimes and Cultures in the Enlarged Europe

Consumption studies in post-socialist and post-EU enlargement contexts 
illuminate the ways in which individuals are vested not only with juridical 
competences, obligations, and entitlements (or lack of them) bestowed by 
the state, but also with particular modes of status, authority, prestige, 
and power endowed by the market. Moreover, consumption is an arena where 
interests, ideologies, and practices of the markets, states, and the EU 
collide and collude. In these intersecting spaces, producers, lobbyists, 
state officials, and policy makers as well as consumers rearticulate and 
recirculate identities, values, and meanings to create political and 
economic orders.
This panel explores the dynamics of consumer regimes and consumer cultures
of the new member states which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Rather than 
privileging either the EU, the state, or the market, it attends to the 
interchanges among them, and how they influence consumer citizenship 
broadly defined. The papers in the panel investigate how consumption is 
involved in the making of subjectivities and public identities, shaping 
sociability, belonging, tastes, needs, and desires, editing official state 
and EU ideologies, trans/national histories and geopolitical orders. 
"Europeanization" and the formation of the EU market necessarily involve 
processes of domestication of the EU-wide consumption regimes. By 
renegotiating neoliberal values and engagements of the enlarged EU, the 
various local consumers remake Europe as Europe remakes them.





From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon May 28 00:14:29 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun May 27 23:16:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: What Makes a Refugee?
Message-ID: <005a01c7a0d6$5185fed0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Mansoor Hassan <mansoorhashmi@gmail.com>

Colleagues,

This conference would be very high profile in which civil society 
members of NGOs, charities, Statutory and non statutory organizations, 
foreign offices, home departments of different countries, academics, 
journalists would be part of it. send your interest if you would like to
participate.

What makes a refugee?

An international conference during Refugee Week 2008 bringing together
Human Rights and Refugee Practitioners, Researching Academics, Policy
Makers and Activists from the different parts of the world to explore,
advance and share understanding about the range of factors that can
explain why, where and how refugees exist. 

Manchester UK 19th-21st June 2008 

Contact for more information: 

Dr.Rhetta Moran: email: admin@rapar.org.uk

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue May 29 09:44:38 2007
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue May 29 11:45:37 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 BOOK: Cinar and Bender, eds., URBAN IMAGINARIES: Locating the Modern City
Message-ID: <00a601c7a208$44fa9760$ceefc620$@edu>

New global perspectives on urban life.

URBAN IMAGINARIES: Locating the Modern City
Alev ??nar and Thomas Bender, Editors
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4801-6 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4802-3 | paperback | $25.00

The essays in Urban Imaginaries focus on how social and physical space is
conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this
space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers
case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as
well as in the United States and France, and in doing so blends social,
cultural, and political approaches to better understand the contemporary
urban experience.

"A distinctively interdisciplinary collection that pointedly avoids a
Eurocentric focus. Many of the cities studied are situated outside the North
Atlantic, with a strong concentration on the 'Islamic world,' such as the
geopolitically important Middle Eastern cities of Tel Aviv and Beirut."
-Pheng Cheah

Contributors: Margaret Cohen, Camilla Fojas, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Anthony D.
King, Mark LeVine, Srirupa Roy, Seteney Shami, AbdouMaliq Simone, Maha
Yahya, Deniz Y?kseker.

For more information, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/cinar_urban.html


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May 30 00:30:40 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue May 29 23:31:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-09, Penn Humanities Forum
Message-ID: <002101c7a26a$e7b57350$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009
Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Research Topic: CHANGE

Deadline: October 15, 2007

Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are 
available for the 2008-2009 academic year from the Penn Humanities Forum of 
the University of Pennsylvania for untenured junior scholars who are no more 
than eight years out of their doctorate.

The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly 
topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. The Forum has set 
CHANGE as the topic for the 2008-2009 academic year. Research proposals on 
this topic are invited from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all 
areas of humanistic study except educational curriculum-building and the 
performing arts. Candidates from all humanistic disciplines are eligible, as 
well as those in allied areas such as Anthropology and History of Science.

Fellows teach one undergraduate course each of two terms in addition to 
conducting research. Stipend: $42,000 plus health insurance. The fellowship 
is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet eligibility 
criteria.

Full fellowship guidelines, topic description, and downloadable application 
are available online only: http://www.phf.upenn.edu

Jennifer Conway, Associate Director
Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
3619 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213
Phone: (215)898.8220

Email: humanities@sas.upenn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.phf.upenn.edu 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed May 30 14:45:57 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed May 30 13:47:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Expat: Places, Spaces, Baggage (Interstices)
Message-ID: <000d01c7a2e2$665d07f0$0200a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[cross-posted from h-urban@h-net.msu.edu]

Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts Issue 09:

Call for Papers: Expat: Places, Spaces, Baggage

Our present is marked by intense human displacement. For some, nomadism is a 
choice made possible by global hyper-connection; while others are forced 
into nomadism. Expatriates take up residence away from home. This residence 
is always viewed as temporary, even though it may become permanent. Multiple 
residencies may suspend people between homes. Architectural practice is not 
alone in having been transformed by the hybridities of expertise and 
location brought about by expanded networks.

"A new geography is established by the multitude as the productive flow of 
bodies define new rivers and ports. The cities of the earth will become... 
temporary residences and networks of the mass distribution of living 
humanity" [Negri and Hardt, Empire (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University 
Press, 2000), p397].

In Deleuze and Guattari's nomadology the nomad inhabits a milieu rather than 
a place; which is to say the nomad lives relationally rather than 
territorially, interested primarily in the mobilisation of paths. Similar 
displacements are observable in other theories of mobility and the outside: 
Bhabha's postcolonial unhomeliness; Aug?'s non-places of supermodernity; 
Kristeva's experience of foreignness. Expatriation might also serve as a 
diagram for all journeys away from the interior to take up residence in the 
exterior.

What are the spaces and structures of the expatriate? What are the 
consequences for architecture and urbanism of a world defined by flows, 
circulation and temporary alliances? Is this a purely contemporary 
condition, or one with historical precedents? What is it to refuse home? How 
does an experience of the outside inform architectural works?
Issue 9 of Interstices invites contributions examining the spatiality of 
expats and their baggage.
Interstices 09: Submission Instructions

Refereed papers must not exceed 5000 words (including endnotes; excluding 
bibliography), non-refereed full papers 2500 words, and reviews 1000 words 
(longer papers are only accepted in special circumstances and with prior 
negotiation). Text must be formatted in accordance with the APA's 
Publication Manual (5th edition; notes for contributors will be sent out to 
authors whose contributions have been accepted). Spelling should follow UK 
English and quotations must be translated into English. All papers must be 
submitted electronically in MS Word or RTF format, initially with .jpg image 
files of 300dpi (approx. 10% larger than the intended size of reproduction). 
Figures should be numbered clearly in the text, and image captions and 
credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the 
author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A 
brief author bio of approx. 150 worlds must also be included.

Deadline for submissions: 5 December 2007.

Submit to: The Editors, Interstices 09
Helene Furjan furjan@design.upenn.edu
Julia Gatley julia.gatley@auckland.ac.nz

For Notes for Contributors, please visit our website 
http://www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz and download from the page 
Publications.

Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is an open forum for 
the dissemination of thought and practices in architecture and related arts. 
It is a non-profit journal published jointly once a year by the School of 
Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, and the School of Art 
and Design, AUT University. 

From publicityuk at berghahnbooks.com  Wed May 23 16:33:45 2007
From: publicityuk at berghahnbooks.com (Berghahn Books Publicity UK)
Date: Fri Jun  8 08:15:13 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Now Available from Berghahn Books: Sustainability and Communities
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Contributors: Janet E. Benson, Karla Caser, Snjezana Colic, Angela Ferreira,
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From pelintan at gmail.com  Thu May 31 02:15:33 2007
From: pelintan at gmail.com (Pelin Tan)
Date: Fri Jun  8 08:15:30 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 New Book: Spatial products, practices and politics in the Middle East
Message-ID: <95d66d560705301615x43bdd8fbmffbd5c932435c828@mail.gmail.com>

New Book:
With/Without: Spatial products, practices and politics in the Middle East


Book details:
Editors: Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, Markus Miessen
Managing editor: Antonia Carver
Design: Jana Allerding, 9714
Format: 15?22 cm, 265 pages
Publisher: Bidoun/Moutamarat
Price: $25 / Dhs90
ISBN: 978-9948-03-453-7


Called With/Without, the book contains a collection of critical essays
discussing subjects ranging from the redevelopment of Martyr's Square in
Beirut; the residential "satellite cities" surrounding Cairo; gated
communities in Istanbul; and the creation of a new Iraqi flag in the wake of
the second Gulf War.

Featuring: Mauricio Guillen, Yto Barrada & Simona Schneider, Brian Ackley,
Issandr El Amrani, Pelin Tan, Richard Allenby-Pratt & Celia Peterson, Kevin
Mitchell, Hugh Macleod, Deena Chalabi, Dr Saad Bashir Eskander, Rem
Koolhaas, Kai Friese, Ursula Lindsey, Senan Abdelqader, Clare Davies,
Stephan Tr?by, Markus Miessen, Shumon Basar, Erandi de Silva, Antonia
Carver, L.E.FT, Nader Vossoughian, Keller Easterling, Lara Almarcegui,
Philipp Misselwitz, Susanne Schuricht, Armin Linke, George Katodrytis,
Fawwaz Traboulsi

Published by Bidoun and Moutamarat
( www.bidoun.com) and Moutamarat (www.moutamarat.com)

www.dezeen.com/2007/05/30/withwithout-launched-at-idf/#more-2814
www.studiomiessen.com/with_without.shtml



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Lecturer at Art History -  Berlin Technical University
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