From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Dec  3 12:49:15 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Dec  3 12:50:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place Conference
Message-ID: <014001c9556f$79455ed0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers:
Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place Conference

With support from the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs
and The Ohio State University, we are organizing the Communicative Cities:
Integrating Technology and Place Conference.

We invite planners, designers, city officials, policy-makers, communications
professionals and others to submit proposals for presentations.

Join us in Columbus, Ohio June 25-26, 2009. The conference will have a
distinguished set of keynote speakers. The theme: "Communicative Cities"
encompasses a variety of areas (design, public policy, journalism) across
different scales and settings (downtowns, city/regional, global), and seeks
to address questions such as:
o What makes a communicative city?
o How do cities facilitate communication?
o How can technology and face-to-face communication be integrated in a
global world?
o What are the challenges from the exponential rise in communication
technology?
o What are the potential impacts on place and community?
o How can global connectivity and data accessibility be achieved?

The submission Abstract proposal DEADLINE is January 20, 2009. We will
notify you by March 15 if your presentation is accepted.

We welcome three kinds of presentations: Traditional papers; Presentations
of designs or plans; Symposium on a single topic with 3-4 presenters and a
moderator. Awards will be given for the best student paper and best student
design or plan.

Jack L. Nasar, & Kate Terzano, co-chairs Communicative Cities.
The Ohio State University

Columbus is a short drive from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Indianapolis and Knoxville. Local entertainment includes the Arena District,
near downtown, home to the Nationwide Arena, professional hockey,
restaurants, bars, and live entertainment; the Short North Gallery District,
between two historic districts, and home to restaurants, coffee houses, and
art galleries; The Brewery District with its microbreweries and fine German
restaurants, bars, and live entertainment venues; and the historic German
Village.

How to submit your proposal:
On-line submittal at: http://tinyurl.com/6AHHVZ
For mail, e-mail or fax submissions see next page.
Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place 
June 25-26, 2009

Jack Nasar
The Ohio State University
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Dec  3 13:21:47 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Dec  3 13:22:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Fragment and Fluid Urbanities (Leipzig, Germany)
Message-ID: <023001c95574$0b4cf550$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Colleagues,

I am organizing a panel on "Fragment and Fluid Urbanities" at the 
European Conference on African Studies to be held in Leipzig 4-7 June 
2009.  I would like to invite innovative papers that contribute to 
theorizing urban spatialities in African cities beyond dominant accounts 
of socio-spatial fragmentation. The full panel description is copied 
below. I have also attached some general information on the conference 
and on how to submit an abstract. Please review the panel description 
and consider providing a paper or pass this call for papers to other 
interested colleagues. Abstracts need to be uploaded to the conference 
website by December 31, 2008.  

For a list of the approved panels and further information please see: 
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/approvedpanels
(Panel 56)

For questions regarding the panel please contact me.
 
Yours sincerely,

Christine Hentschel



Fragmented and Fluid Urbanities

This panel seeks to foster a new understanding of urban spatialities in 
African contexts. It contrasts common accounts of fragmentation, 
polarisation, and 'new segregation', with more dynamic, fluid 
understandings of contemporary urban space.
Dominant accounts of postcolonial or post-apartheid cities emphasize 
their deep-rooted or newly created morphologies of social and spatial 
fragmentation. According to these depictions of contemporary urban 
realities, the city, as such, does not exist (anymore) and is divided 
into bubbles of gentrification and forgotten slums, into islands of 
safety and hotspots of fear and terror. Wealth and spatial disparities 
correlate with governance disparities, triggering new forms of exclusion.
This panel encourages urban scholars from a variety of disciplines (e.g. 
geography, sociology, political science, urban planning and 
criminology), to challenge the concept of the fragmented city with more 
dynamic, fluid theories of urban space, governance and everyday life, 
using temporality, movement and informal productions of space.


Christine Hentschel
Department of African Studies
University of Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
04107 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 (0)30 21229163
Cell +49 (0)1702121392

From FBhimji at uclan.ac.uk  Fri Dec  5 15:25:52 2008
From: FBhimji at uclan.ac.uk (Fazila Bhimji)
Date: Fri Dec  5 21:01:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2009 (Call for abstracts)
Message-ID: <493947FF.91A1.0036.0@uclan.ac.uk>

Dear Colleagues,
 
I am organizing a panel on "Ethnographic and Theoretical Perspectives on Resistance and Activism at Borderscapes" for the AAA meeting to be held in Philadelphia in December 2009. I would like to invite papers that contribute to developing theoretical and empirical perspectives on this topic. Please send me your abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 1, 2009. The full panel description is attached.
 
Many thanks
 
Fazila
 
Fazila Bhimji, Phd
Senior Lecturer
University of Central Lancashire
Film and Media Studies
School of Journalism, Media, and Communications
Fylde Building 407
Preston
PR1 2HE
U.K. 
Phone (44) 1772893036
From critplan at ucla.edu  Thu Dec  4 13:21:11 2008
From: critplan at ucla.edu (Critical Planning Journal)
Date: Fri Dec  5 21:04:04 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 **Reminder**CALL FOR PAPERS:Urban Restructuring: Process and Action
Message-ID: <3a698e340812041321o57d7317elcabff65dc4141217@mail.gmail.com>

**Reminder**

CALL FOR PAPERS
Urban Restructuring: Process and Action

Critical Planning
UCLA Journal of Urban Planning
Volume 16, Summer 2009

Deadline: December 31, 2008

Urban restructuring "is an integral part of the crisis-induced
reorganization of capital and labor" (Soja, Morales, and Wolff 1983).
The concept -- sometimes used interchangeably with "economic
restructuring" and "industrial restructuring" -- came into widespread
use among theorists following the 1970s energy crises and recession,
which decimated America's manufacturing sector, drove up unemployment
and inflation levels, and brought cities to the brink of bankruptcy
(Fainstein and Fainstein 1986, Beauregard 1989, Mollenkopf and
Castells 1991, et al). This period saw the acceleration of
contemporary globalization processes, and gave rise to profound
spatial and social transformations that extended beyond the realm of
production to influence the division of labor, state strategies, the
physical form of cities, and everyday life.

Currently, we face an economic future described by the IMF as
"exceptionally uncertain" -- on the heels of the American subprime
mortgage collapse, in the midst of the global financial crisis, and
with food and oil prices predicted to reach a twenty-year high. The
present therefore seems to be a strategic moment for reconsidering the
question of urban restructuring. If restructuring "involves active
struggle and conflict under conditions of crisis, with no
predetermined outcome," what roles do collective and individual agents
play in such struggles (Soja, Morales, and Wolff 1983)? What
opportunities exist for rethinking, complicating, and transforming the
structure from within? What relationships between states and
communities do recent urban restructuring processes reflect, and how
might these relationships change in the future? For its 16th volume,
Critical Planning invites articles that explore the process of urban
restructuring empirically, historically, and theoretically in
different sociopolitical and geographic contexts around the world. We
welcome papers that address urban restructuring in relation to:
Post-Fordism and the "new economy," climate change and the post-peak
oil production decline, political rescaling and urban citizenship,
place-making and resistance, displacement and migration, and theories
of justice and ethics, among other topics.

---

Critical Planning is a double-blind peer-reviewed publication. Feature
articles are generally between 5,000 and 7,000 words, while shorter
articles are between 1,000 and 3,000 words. We encourage submissions
that incorporate cross-disciplinary, multi-scalar, transnational,
and/or mixed-method approaches. We also welcome submissions of
photographs, maps, and other art/design projects related to the issue of
urban restructuring for publication in the journal.

The 2009 Edward W. Soja Prize for Critical Thinking in Urban and
Regional Research will be awarded to the best article published in the
16th volume of Critical Planning. The prize celebrates the lifetime
achievements of this critical thinker whose work continues to open new
research directions for the theoretical and practical understanding of
contemporary cities and regions. Preference will be given to authors
speaking to critical issues outside the research agendas of
traditional funding agencies and institutional donors. A cash prize of
$1,000 will be awarded to the author of the winning article.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, and early submissions
are especially encouraged. Feel free to contact us by email to discuss
your ideas. All submissions should be written according to the
standards of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Please follow
the journal's additional style guidelines for submissions at
http://www.spa.ucla.edu/critplan/. Manuscripts should be submitted by
5 PM PST on December 31, 2008 as .doc attachments via email to
critplan@ucla.edu and two hardcopies (postmarked by December 31)
should be mailed to:

Critical Planning
c/o Elise Youn and Stephen Brumbaugh, Managing Editors
UCLA Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Policy Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
USA
Email: critplan@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.criticalplanning.org <http://www.spa.ucla.edu/critplan/>


-- 
Critical Planning
UCLA Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Policy Building
Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
USA
critplan@ucla.edu
www.criticalplanning.org

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Dec  5 21:10:04 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Dec  5 21:10:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Beyond Southern Borders (Southern Anthropological
	Society)
Message-ID: <004301c95747$c2c27c30$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

BEYOND SOUTHERN BORDERS
Meeting Dates: 03/12/2008 - 03/14/2008

PLACE: Hilton Wilmington Riverside, 301 North Water Street, Wilmington, NC 
28401
Reservations: 910-763-5900

Abstract submission deadline: December 16, 2008

What is, where is, "the South?" We are the Southern Anthropological Society, 
but, what does that mean? One possibility is, clearly, an anthropology -- in 
its broadest 4-fields meaning -- of the Southern United States. If so, then 
where are those boundaries? There is the invisible, yet quite sturdy, 
Mason-Dixon Line, the very real Mississippi River and Ohio River, the Gulf 
of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and a chain-link fence at the Texas-Mexico 
border that is also the Rio Grande. There are multiple versions of "the 
South" depending on your worldview. Another possibility is to define 
ourselves as Southern Anthropologists. Again, questions of meaning arise. 
Does this mean an anthropologist who resides in "the South?" Or , perhaps, 
an anthropologist whose research is centered there? And what of the 
researcher who was born in "the South," identifies as a Southerner, and 
therefore being a Southern Anthropologist, yet lives and works in another 
region or even another country? Further still, when we consider American 
Indian populations, then the reaches of Southern Anthropology may well lead 
to the Caribbean or California. When we also consider immigration and 
emigration to and from "the South," we reach on to Mexico, Central and South 
America, to the entire world. But, being human and in need of classificatory 
systems, we have put parameters on the definition.

In 2009, the Southern Anthropological Society looks toward the future of the 
possible terrains encompassed with the borders of "Southern Anthropology." 
Papers, panels, and posters are invited that explore any and all aspects of 
the South, Southern Boundaries -- both actual and imagined -- Southern 
Culture, and who comments on and investigates the pieces of this puzzle. 
Some possible topics for consideration include but are not limited to: south 
of the borders borders of the south contemporary "southerners" regional 
differences in migration to and from the south southern culture in 
"un-southern places" tourism and the south finding the "exotic" in southern 
climes linguistic differences in the "southern drawl" Appalachia and the 
south from key to shining key the gold coast -- Miami to West Palm Florida 
as south, Florida as Caribbean, Florida as New York Africa influences the 
contemporary south Southeastern Indian nations outside of the South.

For further information: http://www.southernanthro.org/meeting-submit.htm

Contact Information:
Christina Beard-Moose
Suffolk Community College
533 College Rd. H205
Selden NY 11784 USA
Phone: 631-451-4336
Email: beardmc@sunysuffolk.edu
URL: http://www.southernanthro.org 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Dec  6 19:11:28 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Dec  6 19:11:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS (2009 AAA)
Message-ID: <01c801c95800$5d5f9800$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>



From: Carrie M. Lane <clane@fullerton.edu>

CALL FOR PANELISTS

2009 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

PANEL: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS


I am interested in organizing a panel on the global economic crisis for the 2009 AAAs in Philadelphia (Dec 2-6). My own work, based in the US, concerns competing cultural narratives of the crisis, particularly with regard to blame, accountability, and government intervention. I'd like to connect with ethnographers studying the crisis in other regions and from other angles. If you'd be interested in joining this panel, or have any questions, contact me at clane@fullerton.edu. At this very early stage of planning, there's no need to send formal abstracts. 

Please forward this call along to others who might be interested.

Thank you,

Carrie M. Lane

Assistant Professor of American Studies
California State University, Fullerton

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Dec  6 19:11:52 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Dec  6 19:12:55 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space (Budapest)
Message-ID: <01d801c95800$68db3310$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Please submit your paper proposal (theme and short description
ca.500-750 words) to the following address
(b.cope@zacheta.art.pl  and/or bodo@mokk.bme.hu) not later then 1
February 2009.


Call for papers
"Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space"

This conference, organized in cooperation with the International
Alternative Culture Center (IACC/NAKKA, Hungary) and the Laboratory of
Critical Urbanism (EHU, Lithuania) will be held 2-3 April 2009 in
Budapest, Hungary.

The conference seeks to take alternative culture in a wide sense to
invite a broad series of reflections on the way in which culture or
cultures impact on the space of cities or on the ways in which
city-space is used.

We understand alternative culture as that produced by all sorts of
cultural producers: from artists, musicians and event organizers to
bar-owners, drinkers, dancers, informal traders, dog-owners, the
homeless, etc. In addition, we understand alternative cultures as
including cultures neglected by the dominant national and media
discourses: that perhaps of the Jewish community disappeared from much
of Eastern Europe or of the migrants and/or exiles living and trading in
various markets in the region in constantly changing configurations, or
of sexual, gendered and class minorities. What can we learn from
considering the space of the cities in our region from the perspective
of these alternative cultures?

A major focus of our interest is on the possibilities of culture for
creating alternative spaces in an era when culture itself has become a
major part of the economies of contemporary cities. This is particularly
intriguing in relation to the cities of the post-communist zone, given
that the whole region is often connoted as itself being somehow
alternative. However, we are also interested in the way alternative
spaces function differently in changing historical periods: for
instance, the cartography, meaning and social impact of alternative
spaces in communist society might be very different from that of
contemporary societies, or alternative spaces might work differently in
Baku than in Prague. In addition, culture has been and is increasingly
used by urban researchers as both a tool and end-product of research:
urban researchers often hope their work can itself propose an
alternative; more community orientated urban culture in opposition to
the prevailing norms. We therefore envisage our seminar as moving
towards a reflection as to what strategies, both artistic and academic,
can be used in the post-communist region to impact on and explore the
alternative production and uses of space given the socio-economic
configurations of capitalism in which we function.

Organizers:

Benjamin Cope b.cope@zacheta.art.pl
Balazs Bodo bodo@mokk.bme.hu
Olga Zaslavskaya  zaslavsk@ceu.hu

Please submit your paper proposal (theme and short description
ca.500-750 words) to the following address (b.cope@zacheta.art.pl
and/or bodo@mokk.bme.hu) not later then 1 February 2009. 
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Dec  7 19:26:29 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Dec  7 19:26:50 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Urban Activist Job: Community Organizer (Yonkers, NY)
Message-ID: <003701c958cb$a086bd40$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

JOB POSTING: Community Organizer - Yonkers, NY

DATE OF POSTING: December 1, 2008

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is seeking an experienced organizer to 
continue building the Yonkers Chapter (20 minutes north of NYC) of our 
successful New York Economic Justice Organization. The position will 
involve committee, leadership, and campaign development.
CVH is a 14 year-old membership organization of low-income people across 
New York State. We currently have organizing projects in New York City, 
Yonkers, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. We work on economic justice, job 
creation, welfare, public housing, economic development, and access to 
education and training services. CVH uses base-building, leadership 
development, direct-action, grassroots-driven research, voter 
mobilization and coalition building to lead campaigns to win benefits 
for our membership of low-income families.

CVH's Yonkers Chapter has been in operation for two years. Our Yonkers 
Chapter has 2 leaders that serve on our Board of Directors, 25 Vanguard 
Leaders, 205 Trailblazers (people that have come to at least 1 event), 
and over 2,000 individuals that we have contacted through outreach efforts.

The Yonkers Chapter's current campaign is focused on influencing the 
downtown (Getty Square) development process and assuring that low-income 
families' interests are incorporated into this development. Yonkers 
members are also interested in preserving and expanding low-income 
affordable housing options in the community and have begun work to 
promote a progressive housing ordinance for the City of Yonkers. A 
subset of Yonkers members is focused on welfare and workforce 
development issues. In addition to the Yonkers based campaign worked, 
there will likely be an opportunity for broader regional organizing work 
across Westchester County and collaborative work statewide with other 
CVH chapters.

The responsibilities of the position will include:

** Base Building & Mobilization: Conducting base building activities 
(and coordinating members and leaders to do the same) at local public 
housing developments, social service agencies, community organizations, 
welfare centers, and by door-knocking and organizing house-meetings; 
moving individuals met to participate in meetings, trainings, actions, etc.

** Leadership Development: Building the skills of active membership to 
understand the political underpinnings of the campaign (i.e. legal & 
policy context, power analysis, etc.) and to take on more and more roles 
in the campaign (i.e. giving testimony, facilitating meetings, 
conducting outreach, etc.) through both one-on-one development and 
workshops.

** Committee Development: Pulling together and staffing an organizing 
committee of local leaders to determine the focus of a campaign and then 
make ongoing decisions regarding the campaign's direction; providing 
critical background information to leadership team so as to facilitate 
strategic decision-making. Work includes managing both a main committee 
(around affordable housing and development issues) and a sub-committee 
(focused on welfare and workforce development issues).

** Campaign Development, Planning, & Implementation: Facilitating issue 
identification, campaign planning and campaign development processes to 
develop a local campaign with leadership including demands, strategies, 
tactics, etc.; facilitating campaign planning process and subsequent 
implementation.

** Campaign Research: Conducting background research on topics (e.g. 
zoning regulations, development approval processes, community benefits 
agreements, etc.) and targets pertinent to the campaign.

** Coalition & Stakeholder Work: Working with ally organizations in the 
region to move forward campaign goals and demands. Working 
collaboratively with the CVH base in New York City to move forward 
statewide campaigns.

This is a full-time position that begins on January 1, 2008 (or shortly 
thereafter). The Yonkers Organizer will work as part of a staff team 
that includes the Senior Organizer and Executive Director. The position 
is based physically out of our office in the Yonkers Community Action 
Program (YCAP) building on Ashburton Avenue, and is currently the sole 
position in the Yonkers office. Staff members from organizing sites 
external to our main office in NYC, however, work out of our NYC office 
in East Harlem once a week on Fridays.

QUALIFICATIONS:

** Minimum 1 year community organizing, political organizing,
legislative issue advocacy, and or project development management
experience required.

** Experience in base building, door knocking, leadership
development, mobilization, and strategy development essential.

** Ability to work independently, yet take direction, according to
goals of the organization.

** Strong commitment to relational membership/community led
organizing, conducting one-on-one meetings with individuals, and
ability to identify non-traditional and community-based leaders
and people who want to be community leaders.

** Applicants must be committed to ideology of building community
power & share our commitment to membership grassroots
decision-making, radical politics & our analysis of power.

** Spanish language skills are strongly desired, but not required.

** Residency in Yonkers or Westchester County is preferred, though
not mandatory.

** Access to car and/ or drivers license is recommended, though not
required. [There is a good bus system in Yonkers and a Metro
North train that can be taken from Yonkers to NYC on Fridays.]

TO APPLY:

Please send resume and cover letter to Sondra Youdelman, Community 
Voices Heard 115 East 106^th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10029 or 
email them to sondra@CVHaction.org <mailto:sondra@CVHaction.org>. If 
emailing, make sure to put "Community Organizer: Yonkers" in the subject 
line.

CVH is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, GLBT 
individuals, and people with experience on public assistance are 
strongly encouraged to apply. For more information please check out our 
web page at: www.CVHaction.org <http://www.cvhaction.org/>. Resumes will 
be accepted until the position is filled.

SALARY/ BENEFITS:

Depends on experience (DOE); hire will likely be a Level 1 or 2 
Organizer (salary range: $30-39K). Excellent benefits include health 
insurance, sabbatical, 403(b) retirement program, generous vacation 
leave, and holiday time off. Transportation is reimbursed at ? of a 
monthly metro card (valid in both Yonkers and NYC), 1 RT Metro North 
ticket per week (when Organizer is expected to be in NYC office), and 
mileage reimbursement when vehicle used for work.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Dec  8 13:49:34 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Dec  8 13:50:55 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: Barack Obama in World Politics
Message-ID: <025901c95965$ddee22f0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Submissions

Barack Obama in World Politics

President-elect Barack Obama's campaign for the American presidency seemed 
to have generated more global interest than any other national presidential 
election in the history of contemporary world politics. From the estimated 
two hundred thousand people who converged on Berlin, Germany, to hear his 
address, to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former 
President Nelson Mandela, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, President Jalal 
Talabani, President Hamid Karzai, former President Fidel Castro, and 
President Hugo Chavez, unrelenting drumbeats of change resounded throughout 
the 2008 election campaigns. In his face, language, and politics the global 
community sees in Obama the inevitable multicultural hybridity of the 
future. Scholars and the general public are invited to submit essays on any 
aspects of the life and work of the President-elect Barack Obama for a book 
that is scheduled for immediate publication, entitled "Barack Obama in World 
Politics." Topics for consideration may include, but not limited to, any of 
the following:

I. Professions and Civil Society: Obama and Sports, Obama and Hollywood, 
Obama and Community Service, Obama and Education, Obama and Politics, Obama 
and the Law, Obama and Literature, Obama and the Press, Obama and 
Fatherhood, Obama and Marriage, Obama and Women, Obama and Children, Obama 
and Race, Obama and Religion, Obama and John F. Kennedy, Obama and the 
Politics of Sexuality, Obama and the Post-Baby Boom Generation, The Age of 
Barack Obama.

II. Globalization: Obama and the Global Economy, Obama and Global Recession, 
Obama and Human Rights, Obama and the HIV/AIDS, Obama and the War on 
Terrorism, Obama and Poverty, Obama and Genocide, Obama and War Crimes, 
Obama and the Politics of Prisoner Interrogation, Obama and Migration, Obama 
and Citizenship, Obama and the Environment, Obama and Global Warming, Obama 
and Diplomacy, Obama and the Americas, Obama and Europe, Obama and the 
Middle East, Obama and Africa, Obama and Asia, Obama and Space, Obama and 
Globalization, Obama in World Politics.

Deadline for Submission of Essays: December 31, 2008
Length of Essays: 1,500 - 3000 words.

Address for Submission: Bobook09@gmail.com. Essays should be mailed as MS 
Word attachment and may include references where necessary. Please, include 
your name, email address, institutional/independent affiliations, telephone 
number, and a 50-word biodata with the essay. You may submit up to TWO 
different essays.

Contact: Editors, Room L15 Henderson Hall, Center for Teaching, Learning, 
and Retention, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio 45384, United 
States. Telephone: 1 (937) 838-3116.

Editor
Room L15 Henderson Hall
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Retention Central State University, 
Wilberforce, OH 45384 United States
Telephone: 1 (937) 838-3116
Email: bobook09@gmail.com 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Dec  8 13:55:21 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Dec  8 13:55:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: City Futures (Madrid)
Message-ID: <027801c95966$86551930$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Brian L Adams-Thies  <Brian.Adams-Thies@drake.edu>

Call for Papers: City Futures '09 International
Conference, Madrid, 4-6 June 2009

Call for Papers - Your invitation to participate

What does the future hold for cities in a rapidly globalising world?

Please consider contributing your knowledge and insights on this theme
to a multi-disciplinary, international conference on City Futures.

The European Urban Research Association (EURA) and the Urban Affairs
Association (UAA) hold their second Joint Conference on City Futures in
Madrid on 4-6 June 2009. By building on the success of the first such
conference, held in Chicago in 2004, the conference aims to focus
sharply on international exchange.

Urban scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have created a five-track
structure for this forward-looking conference:

. Climate change, resource use and urban adaptation

. Knowledge and technology in urban development

. Community development, migration and integration in urban areas

. Urban governance and city planning in an international era

. Architecture and the design of the public realm

Several universities in Madrid are working closely with the Mayor's
Office to create an unforgettable programme. As well as having the
opportunity to interact with leading scholars from across the world, you
will be able to take advantage of a variety of study tour opportunities.

For more details, including guidance on how to submit your proposal,
please visit:

http://www.cityfutures2009.com

The website contains more information on the tracks as well as the
contact details of the Track Co-Chairs.

Act now

We anticipate that this conference will be oversubscribed so we
encourage you to act now if you want to participate. The Closing Date
for proposals for Abstracts or Panels is 10 January 2009.

We thank you for your interest and we hope to see you in Madrid!

Professor Manuel Arenilla Saez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
Professor Ed Goetz, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Professor Robin Hambleton, University of the West of England, Bristol
Co-Presidents of the City Futures Madrid 09 International Conference

Brian L. Adams-Thies, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor - Anthropology
Department for the Study of Culture and Society
Drake University
Des Moines, IA
Email: Brian.Adams-Thies@drake.edu
Phone: 515.271.2936

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Dec 10 11:29:42 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Dec 10 11:29:59 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Diasporas, Migration and Identities (Guildford, UK)
Message-ID: <00ab01c95ae4$84bc5c30$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
(CRONEM)

AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference
2009

Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
11-12 June 2009

'Diasporas, migration and identities <http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/> ' has
been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its
central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre
for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM).
The aim of this international conference is to examine the past and
present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity
and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion,
politics, law and values. 

Confirmed speakers:
Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of West Sydney,
Australia Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Sociology, University of
Oxford / Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick, UK Peggy
Levitt, Associate Professor, Wellesley College, USA Ato Quayson,
Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and
Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada 

We invite abstracts that address the following themes in the UK and
beyond:
* Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms 
* Representation, performance, discourse and language 
* Subjectivity, emotion and identity 
* Objects, practices and places 
* Beliefs, values and laws 
* The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and
identities 
* Diasporic economics and labour markets 
* The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness 
* The politics of immigration and integration 
* Public opinion and public policy 
* Ethnic identity politics 
For more information and submission forms,  please visit
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm
The closing date for abstracts is 2 February 2009. 
****************************************
Mirela Dumic
Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
(CRONEM)
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
21 AC 05
Post Box I4
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
E-mail: m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 682365
www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/cronem 
From Charlotte.Linde at nasa.gov  Tue Dec  9 17:42:42 2008
From: Charlotte.Linde at nasa.gov (CHARLOTTE LINDE)
Date: Wed Dec 10 13:58:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Book on Narrative and Institutional Memory
Message-ID: <C5645E92.29BE%Charlotte.Linde@nasa.gov>

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: Working the Past:
Narrative and Institutional Memory (Oxford University Press).  This book
looks at how stories work within institutions, helping to define not only
the institution itself, but also its individual members.  It is based on an
ethnographic study of how narratives are used in a large insurance company
to construct both collective and individual identity and memory.  The book
also looks at silences, and how stories not told also convey their version
of the past.
 
It is available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Working-Past-Narrative-Institutional-Memory/dp/0195140
29X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228094866&sr=1-1
<http://www.amazon.com/Working-Past-Narrative-Institutional-Memory/dp/019514
029X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228094866&amp;sr=1-1>

-- 
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Socio-RocketScientist
Computational Sciences
MS 269-3
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Dec 10 13:56:21 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Dec 10 14:01:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Blekinge Institute of Technology's Sustainability and
 Leadership Master's Degree
Message-ID: <019901c95af9$b9905410$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Master's Degree in Sustainability and Leadership

The Blekinge Institute of Technology is pleased to announce that
applications are now open for the sixth class within the Master's
Programme Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability.

DEADLINE: February 1, 2008

The programme lasts for one academic year and is intended specifically
for career professionals who wish to combine their undergraduate and
prior training with a specialised sustainability and leadership
competence.

The program is taught in English and tuition is sponsored by the
Swedish government.

For more information visit our website: www.bth.se/msls
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Dec 11 13:45:25 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Dec 11 13:50:32 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Scale in Anthropological Time and Space
Message-ID: <01b301c95bc1$4cad2080$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Apologies for cross-posting.

2009 SASCI meeting - February 18-21, Las Vegas
"Scale in Anthropological Time and Space"

Scale helps define the domain of questions about the human experience. We
welcome papers that explicity engage issues of scale, as well as papers
that do not.

Register, submit paper and panel proposals, and pay online for 5th Annual
Society for Anthropological Sciences Meeting - at www.anthrosciences.org.

Paper and Panel submissions should be submitted by December 31. Please
contact the program committee with any questions and preliminary panel 
ideas:
Eric C Jones (ecojones@uncg.edu)
Amanda Stronza (astronza@ag.tamu.edu)
Victor DeMunck (demunckv@newpaltz.edu)
Tom Abel (ta.chh@MSA.HINET.NET)

The 2009 meeting is being held jointly with the Society for Cross Cultural
Research at the Hilton Garden Inn, Las Vegas Strip
South. The conference rate is available until January 11. Further hotel
information can be found on the SCCR website
(http://www.sccr.org/sccr2009/hotel.html).

Eric C. Jones, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1003 Spring Garden St, 426 Graham Bldg
Greensboro NC 27412-5001
office: 336-334-4133
fax: 336-334-5674
ecojones@uncg.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Dec 11 14:59:04 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Dec 11 14:59:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Migrations and Diasporas
Message-ID: <025401c95bca$ed7096b0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers

The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) will hold its 2009 meeting at 
the University of Miami, Coral Gables Campus on August 12-15, 2009. The main 
themes of the conference are Migrations and Diasporas.

Scholars in any discipline are invited to submit presentation proposals and 
panels. Presentations are not limited to examine the Caribbean or its 
Diaspora. We are also interested in the "global south" at large. Send 
submissions for panels and abstracts of individual presentations by February 
15, 2009, by email to caribphil@yahoo.com. Abstracts should succinctly state 
the problem(s) addressed and identify the sources used in one paragraph to 
one page per individual presentation. All titles must include the name of 
the presenter, the highest university degree obtained, and the current 
institutional affiliation, if any. We will review proposals in English, 
French, and Spanish and will create panels for presentations in those three 
languages.

Contact Information
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
University of California
Berkeley
Email: nmt@berkeley.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Dec 13 17:12:00 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Dec 13 17:20:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The City from Below (Baltimore)
Message-ID: <000501c95d71$02386df0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The city from below: call for participation

March 27th-29th, 2009
Baltimore

http://cityfrombelow.org

The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for 
many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's 
a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes 
against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and 
class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the 
micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to 
metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site 
of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and, 
most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and 
strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater. 
In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being, 
hidden histories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are 
being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so 
to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our 
stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink 
the city from below. To that end, a group of activists and 
organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader, 
campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling 
for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in 
Baltimore during the weekend of March 27,28,29, 2009 at 2640, a 
grassroots community center and events venue.

Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our 
own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very 
often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting 
for. To take a particularly salient example from Baltimore, it is 
increasingly the case that labor struggles, especially in the service 
sector, need to confront not just unfair employers, but structurally 
disastrous municipal development policies. While the financial crisis 
plays out in the national news and in the spectacle of legislative 
action, it is at the level of the urban community where foreclosures 
can be directly challenged and the right to a non-capitalist relation 
to housing can be fought for. Our right to an autonomous culture, to 
our freedom to dissent, to public spaces and to public education all 
hinge increasingly on our relation to the cities in which we live and 
to the people and forces in control of them. And our cities offer 
some truly inspiring and creative examples of resistance - from the 
community garden to the neighborhood assembly.

We are committed in organizing this conference to a horizontal 
framework of participation, one which allows us to concretely engage 
with and support ongoing social justice struggles. What we envision 
is a conference which isn't just about academics and other 
researchers talking to each other and at a passive audience, but one 
where some of the most inspiring campaigns and projects on the 
frontlines of the fight for the right to the city (community anti-
gentrification groups, transit rights activists, tenant unions, 
alternative development advocates) will not just be represented, but 
will concretely benefit from the alliances they build and the 
knowledge they gain by attending.

At the same time, we also want to productively engage those within 
the academic system, as well as artists, journalists, and other 
researchers. It is a mistake to think that people who spend their 
lives working on urban geography and sociology, in urban planning, or 
on the history of cities have nothing to offer to our struggles.  At 
the same time, we recognize that too often the way in which academics 
engage activists, if they do so at all, is to talk at them.  We are 
envisioning something much different, closer to the notion of 
"accompaniment". We want academics and activists to talk to each 
other, to listen to each other, and to offer what they each are best 
able to.  Concretely, we're hoping to facilitate this kind of dynamic 
by planning as much of the conference as possible as panels involving 
both scholars and organizers.

THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED
0.            Gentrification/uneven development
0.            Policing and incarceration
0.            Tenants rights/housing as a right
0.         Public transit
0.         Urban worker's rights
0.            Foreclosures/financial crisis
0.         Public education
0.            Slots/casionos/regressive taxation
0.            Cultural gentrification
0.            Underground economies
0.            Reclaiming public space
0.         The right to the city
0.            Squatting
0.         Urban sustainability

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Please share with us your proposal for workshops or presentations. We 
hope to host 15-25 sessions with a mixture of formats and welcome 
proposals from groups and individuals. The conference is geared 
towards discussion and participation. People are welcome to bring 
papers andother resources with them, but this conference is not 
oriented to the presentation of papers. There will be 50 and 110 
minute sessions. We welcome self organized workshops but will also 
work to incorporate individual proposals into panels with others. In 
your proposal please indicate how your proposal relates to the themes 
of the conference, expected participants, organizing partners and 
session format (training, panel, open discussion, video, etc.) and 
how long the session will be. We are especially interested in 
proposals which combine critique of the urban environment with 
discussions of new strategies for its reclamation.

Please send proposals to:

cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org

Email is preferred, but you can also send a proposal to:

City from Below
c/o Red Emma's
800 St Paul St.
Baltimore MD 21202

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Dec 14 09:51:41 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Dec 14 09:51:56 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: European City Seminars
Message-ID: <004901c95dfb$7db68d60$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for participants: European city seminars

1) Bruxelles and Charleroi (Belgium), 13 - 16 March 2009.

2) Chemnitz, Chomutov and the Czech-German borderland, 10 - 20 July 2009.

It has been argued that there is something distinctive about a European City 
when compared to, for instance, an American city. The ?European City? as a 
sociological concept relies on the idea that cities in Europe have 
demonstrated their power and willingness to make interventions for the 
prevention of social conflict and the good of it inhabitants. Often, these 
interventions took place against the strict financial logic or current 
global trends. In the 19th century, sewage systems and street lighting were 
first installed into the poor neighbourhoods and local councils choose to 
house people who weren't able to afford buying or renting property. The rise 
of the national (welfare) state to its strongest position somewhat reduced 
the power of cities, as many of the social institutions were transferred to 
the state. However, today, with pan-continental institutions and global 
economic forces coming to the fore, national governments have been weakened 
to a certain extent. The partial withdrawal of the welfare state again 
leaves local decision makers in an interesting position. What can and what 
will they do? How large is the space for independent policies? Are they 
forced to restructure the European City according to market principles, or 
will it become a corrective counter-force, which seeks to maintain social 
cohesion in places where the social fabric has been destroyed by economic 
changes?

With these statements in mind, the websites European City and Plotki and the 
Centre Bruxellois d'action interculturelle invite researchers, journalists 
and artists to participate in a unique project that will deal with social 
cohesion in European cities affected by de-industrialization.

Selected participants will participate at the following research seminars:

1) A three day-long research seminar in Bruxelles and Charleroi (Belgium), 
13 - 16 March 2009.

2) A ten day-long 'travelling' research seminar in the 'ex-industrial' areas 
of the Czech Republic and Germany. Focusing mostly but not exclusively on 
the two old-industrial cities of Chomutov and Chemnitz, researches will 
present and discuss their own papers and participate in field research in 
Chemnitz, Chomutov and the Czech-German borderland, 10 - 12 July 2009.

The programme is open for everyone living in a EU member state with good 
knowledge of English. Researchers (senior researchers, PHD and MA students 
in the widest range of social science including but not limited to 
sociology, geography, anthropology, history, cultural studies), journalists 
and artists (photographers and film-makers) are especially encouraged to 
apply.

Please express your interest by sending us your professional CV and a short 
motivation letter by email to europeancity@mkc.cz.Tato adresa je chr?nena 
proti spamov?n?, pro jej? zobrazen? potrebujete m?t Java scripty povoleny 
The deadline is 31 January 2009. Thanks to support by the European Union, 
funding for travel and accommodation is available. Chosen participants will 
be informed by the 15 February 2009.

Ondrej Daniel, project coordinator,
europeancity@mkc.czTato adresa je chr?nena proti spamov?n?, pro jej? 
zobrazen? potrebujete m?t Java scripty povoleny
www.europeancity.cz

The Project is organised by the Multicultural centre Prague, the Centre 
Bruxellois d'action interculturelle and Rejs e.V.. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Dec 14 10:09:33 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Dec 14 10:09:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Ctr for US-Mexican Studies Visiting Fellows Program (UC San Diego)
Message-ID: <009a01c95dfd$faa29d80$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego

Visiting Fellows Program

2009-2010 Competition

Ver esta pagina en Espa?ol: 
http://usmex.ucsd.edu/programs/visiting_fellows_program_esp.shtml
Apply Online via the Center's website: http://usmexapp.ucsd.edu/

The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San 
Diego invites applications for research fellowships and non-stipendiary 
Guest Scholar affiliations for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The Center's Visiting Fellows Program is the largest residential fellowship 
program in the United States for research on Mexico.  Each year the program 
brings together scholars from the social sciences, history, and related 
fields. The Center's current research interests focus on economic 
development and social policy. Specific issues include regional divergence 
and inequality; infrastructure and public goods; local government 
accountability, corruption, and civil society; social insurance and poverty 
alleviation.

The majority of Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars are expected to be at 
the postdoctoral level. PhD candidates who are ABD and have completed a 
substantial portion of their dissertations will also be considered.  Senior 
scholars are encouraged to apply.  The majority of the fellowship awards are 
for residential periods between 4 and 10 months in duration.  Stipends are 
commensurate with experience and academic rank.

Awards support research on any aspect of contemporary Mexico, Mexican 
history, and U.S.-Mexican relations.  Comparative studies with a substantial 
Mexico component are especially encouraged. The Center also encourages 
proposals from groups of two or more scholars working on a common project. 
Additional funding may be available for workshops or short-term visits by 
other scholars relevant to the project area.

The majority of the funds are earmarked for individuals who are (1) Mexican 
citizens, (2) residents of Mexico of any nationality, or (3) advanced 
graduate students, recent PhD recipients, or faculty from any campus of the 
University of California system.

In addition to the Visiting Scholars program, the Center's activities 
include research projects related to policy and policymaking in Mexico, 
conferences and workshops, and a weekly series of research seminars.

PLEASE NOTE:

1. Applications will ONLY be accepted via the Center's Online application 
website. Please CLICK HERE (http://usmexapp.ucsd.edu/index.php) to apply or 
to log in to an existing application.

2. Visiting Scholars Program applicants will need to upload the following 
supporting documents AS A PDF FILE:

A. A complete and up-to-date curriculum vitae.
B. An abstract of proposed research project (250-word maximum).
C. A research proposal (3000 word maximum) OR a dissertation chapter/job 
paper if you are applying for the Post Doctoral fellowship.
D. One copy each of no more than 3 of your publications or unpublished 
papers that relate directly to the proposed research project.

3. Letters of recommendation (minumum of 3) can be uploaded on the Center's 
online application site or mailed directly to the Center.
Review of complete applications (including letters of recommendation) will 
begin on December 19.  The final deadline for receipt of all applications 
and supporting materials is January 31, 2009.

For additional information, please contact:
Graciela Platero, Director of External Affairs
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
Tel: (858) 534-4503, Fax: (858) 534-6447
E-mail: gplatero@ucsd.edu

For questions regarding the online application process, please contact:
usmex-applications@ucsd.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Dec 14 10:16:38 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Dec 14 10:16:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: MacArthur Global Migration and Human Mobility
	Grants
Message-ID: <009e01c95dfe$f74413c0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

MacArthur Foundation

Global Migration and Human Mobility
Grantmaking Guidelines

Purpose: In 2006, the Foundation began grantmaking under a new Initiative on 
Global Migration and Human Mobility. Through this initiative, the Foundation 
will support a small number of institutions and projects, with the aim of 
advancing three main objectives: 1) to develop improved understandings of 
global migration through support of policy-relevant empirical research and 
improved sources of data on migrant flows; 2) to encourage better governance 
of migration at global, regional, and national levels; and 3) to stimulate 
new thinking on broader issues of global human mobility.

Strategies: MacArthur will be providing a limited number of grants in the 
following areas:

? Governance of global migration;
? Migration and development;  and,
? Re-conceptualizing global human mobility.

Governance of global migration

The Foundation will seek to contribute to an improvement in the norms and 
institutions for governance of international migration at the global, 
regional, and national levels.  MacArthur funding will concentrate on four 
sub-themes: 1) principles, norms, and standards; 2) institutions; 3) data; 
and 4) national policy.  Grantmaking in this area will be aimed at raising 
the profile of global migration issues on national and international 
agendas, helping to develop norms and standards for the effective governance 
of migration, facilitating the inclusion of civil society voices in policy 
deliberations at the national and international levels, and disseminating 
migration research to policymakers at various levels of government.

Migration and development

The Foundation will seek to foster better understandings and policy-relevant 
analyses of the relationship between the movement of people and economic 
development in sending and receiving countries.

Under the broad rubric of migration and development, the Foundation will 
concentrate primarily on three main channels through which the global 
movement of people affects the economies of sending countries and receiving 
countries: 1) worker remittances; 2) labor mobility and concomitant brain 
drain (and "brain gain");  and 3) diaspora networks.  In addition to 
examining migration from an international perspective, synergies are sought 
in MacArthur's focus countries of Nigeria, Mexico, Russia, and India.

Re-conceptualizing global human mobility

The Foundation will also support a limited number of projects aimed at 
re-examining current ways of thinking about global human mobility.  This 
includes work that re-evaluates the distinction between migration and other 
forms of population movement, and that offers new ways of conceptualizing 
the social, cultural, economic, political and/or security dimensions of 
global human mobility.

Funding

To pursue the goals of the Initiative on Global Migration and Human 
Mobility, the Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations, 
including research institutes and universities. Grants are awarded for 
research and policy studies, dissemination and related activities in the 
strategy areas listed above. The Foundation is particularly interested in 
supporting projects that reflect diverse national, institutional, 
professional, and cultural perspectives on global migration.
An organization wishing to approach the Foundation may submit a letter of 
inquiry informing the Foundation of the proposed project. There are no fixed 
deadlines. The format for these letters can be found in the section How to 
Apply 
(http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.913959/k.BB2A/How_to_Apply.htm). 
Based on this information, the Foundation may invite proposals from 
prospective projects and organizations.

If you have further questions or would like additional information, please 
email us (4answers@macfound.org). 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Dec 16 12:57:36 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Dec 16 13:00:46 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: In Berlin's Boar War, Some Side with the Hogs
Message-ID: <018c01c95fa8$138d1f90$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

In Berlin's Boar War, Some Side With the Hogs
City Appoints Urban Hunters to Track Streetwise Swine; Three Pigs in Day Care
By MARCUS WALKER, The Wall Street Journal
DECEMBER 16, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122937877627908421.html

BERLIN -- Gabriele Klose simply couldn't let the hunter kill the wild
boar running around her flower store. Not after it looked up at her
with big, innocent eyes.

The hairy beast was one of thousands of wild boars that have
discovered the charms of urban living in Germany's leafy capital city.
When the creature trotted out of rush-hour traffic one morning last
month to root around the flower store, Ms. Klose's first thought was:
"That is one ugly dog."

After a second glance, Ms. Klose phoned the police for safety -- and a
local tabloid for publicity. The police called in Matthias Eggert, one
of a crack band of hunters with license to kill hogs in urban areas.
But Mr. Eggert's plan to dispatch the boar appalled Ms. Klose. The
hunter says the tabloid reporter brandished a camera and warned him
he'd have the whole of Berlin on his case if he pulled the trigger.
Mr. Eggert sensed a PR debacle, so he phoned around until he found an
animal sanctuary 40 miles from Berlin that granted the boar asylum and
named the swine "Amanda."

The Battle Over Boars in Berlin

Thousands of wild, tusked ancestors of domestic pigs have discovered
the charms of urban living in Germany's capital city. Some humans are
happy to coexist, while others see the boars as a pest that should be
eliminated.

Mr. Eggert, a 55-year-old forestry official, fumes at Berlin's "vegans
and whatnot" who are, he thinks, too sentimental about the city's
pesky boars. "If we don't get brutally pragmatic, the problem is going
to get totally out of hand," he says. Berlin's wooded parks, suburbs
and increasingly mild winters make it Europe's capital city for sus
scrofa, the wild, tusked ancestor of the domestic pig. The booming
population of porkers has Germans on the run, reversing the natural
order of things.

Boars like to dig up worms and grubs with their snouts, churning
manicured gardens into muddy battlefields. They've plowed up parks,
cemeteries and even the training ground of Berlin's major-league
soccer team, Herta BSC.
Police Protection

The swine are an obstacle on Berlin's streets, where 211 have died in
traffic accidents in the past eight months. But despite the porcine
problem, part of Berlin's human population is siding with the boars
against those who shoot them. Urban hunters have been beaten with
sticks, called "murderers" and had their tires slashed. Mr. Eggert
once had to call for police protection when a crowd of young
partygoers, enraged after he shot a boar that had been wounded by a
car, threatened to beat him up.

The boars are usually peace-loving. But 250-pound adults armed with
sharp, upward-curving tusks can be dangerous if they think they're
cornered. In October, when hunters shot a tusker in a cornfield south
of Berlin, the wounded animal counterattacked, killing one man and
injuring another who'd come to finish it off. Every year in Berlin
several dogs are gored to death after rashly challenging boars to a
fight. On one occasion, three boars got lost in a day-care center on
Alexanderplatz in the heart of Berlin and panicked. The children
hadn't arrived for the day yet, but the boars nearly gored the
janitor.
[Eggert]

Matthias Eggert

The growing threat to life, limb and lawns has led Berlin to take
extraordinary measures. In 2002, City Hall began appointing special
Stadtj?ger, or "urban hunters." Some are police by day, others are
veterinarians. A couple, like Mr. Eggert, are foresters. Their quarry
is streetwise.

"Some swine know the city better than we do," says Mr. Eggert. "They
know every gap in a fence, every abandoned building they can hide in."

Firing a hunting rifle in the city is a tricky business. Hunters have
to decline risky shots: A bullet that ricochets off cobblestones can
fly a long way. But hunting in the forests around Berlin isn't enough
to control boar numbers. Too many boars live in town full-time because
they've figured out it's safer, says Derk Ehlert, City Hall's special
commissioner for wildlife. Other boars relocate to the suburbs only on
weekends during the hunting season, returning to the forests on
Mondays when the hunters and dogs have gone.

"Boars are extremely smart," says Mr. Ehlert, a trained biologist. "If
they weren't so smart, they wouldn't be so successful."

Hunters have shot over 500 boars in urban areas since April, but boar
numbers keep rising. Up to 7,000 now live in the city, Mr. Ehlert
estimates. "There is no way that hunting can get rid of them all," he
says. "Ultimately we must learn to share the city with the swine." The
key to peaceful coexistence is no fraternizing, says Mr. Ehlert.

One pack (called a "sounder") of boars took to hanging out at a
playground in Berlin's posh Dahlem district. The chief sow sunbathed
on the warm tarmac of a main road, holding up traffic, while her
striped sucklings played with children.

"If one piglet had squealed because a kid had held it wrongly, the sow
would have attacked," says Mr. Ehlert. He had police cordon off the
playground while hunters gunned down the entire sounder in front of
shocked residents.

On a recent snowy evening, Mr. Ehlert stopped his van near a derelict
U.S. listening station on a hilltop in former West Berlin. During the
Cold War, the U.S.'s National Security Agency eavesdropped on the
Soviet bloc from here. Now the hill is crawling with boars. One by
one, they emerged from the trees, grunting in expectation, until 15
plump hogs surrounded the van. "Someone is clearly feeding them," says
Mr. Ehlert. That's illegal, because it leads to inappropriate
boar-human mingling.
Pig Food

Some Berliners are defying the law every night, bringing boars food
out of affection for the beasts. Unemployed truck driver Michael
Gericke opened the trunk of his white Mercedes and tossed corn onto a
parking lot. A score of hogs scrimmaged over the spoils. One tried to
climb into the trunk.

Mr. Gericke says he has been feeding boars here every night for 12
years, making him the doyen of Berlin's boar-loving underground. Every
two weeks he spends ?15, or about $20, of his jobless benefits on a
110-pound sack of corn. "Feeding them corn diversifies their diet," he
says.

Only a handful of people have come out to feed the foragers on this
December night. In summertime, says Mr. Gericke, hundreds of Berliners
show up.

Berlin's forestry officials say they're filing charges against Mr.
Gericke that could lead to a hefty fine. Mr. Gericke says that won't
stop him, because he can't pay anyway. "Even if they send me to prison
instead, I won't stop."

His loyalty to boars stems from an epiphany he had years ago, when he
opened his car door and a large tusker he'd been feeding hopped in. "I
thought he was going to bite my leg off," says Mr. Gericke.

Instead, the boar put his head in Mr. Gericke's lap. "It was as if he
was saying, 'Thank you,'" Mr. Gericke says.

Mr. Eggert, the hunter, thinks it's time Berlin's authorities got
tough. He says: "We should just gather hunters at the these feeding
sites, make the civilians stand aside, and feed the swine with lead."

Write to Marcus Walker at marcus.walker@wsj.com
From sveissiere at ucn.ca  Wed Dec 17 00:44:45 2008
From: sveissiere at ucn.ca (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Veissi=E8re=2C__Samuel=2C_Dr=2E?=)
Date: Wed Dec 17 15:18:28 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Transnational Masculinities in the New Contact Zones
	of Empire: CASCA/AES Vancouver 2009
Message-ID: <442081E5774CF34C840BF71B1B221DAD027BD41C@tp-b31-9370.keewatincc.ca>

 

Hi all, 

 

I am hoping to put together a panel for the CASCA/AES Conference on Transnational Anthropologies to be held in Vancouver, May 13-16, 2009

 

http://www.anth.ubc.ca/CASCA_AES_2009.11928.0.html 

 

We have a little over a month before the CFP deadline of January 31, so I hope to get responses soon. 

 

Hope to see many of you there, 

 

Cheers, 

 

Samuel. 

 

 

 

 

How are old and emerging Masculinities being articulated in the new sexual "contact zones" of Empire?  

 

Here, I borrow Mary Louise Pratt's concept of "contact zones" ("social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination" 2006: p7), and hope to contribute new ethnographic perspectives to her interrogation of how people "on the receiving end of Empire" appropriate and talk back to "Metropolitan modes of representation" (ibid). 

 

In these (as usual) uncertain times of (post?)Late Capitalism, I take for granted that colonial Metropolitan/Peripheral, Dominant/Subordinate, and North/South hegemonies have been scrambled, and am interested in the way old Metropolitan modes of [racialized & sexualized] regimes of representation are being renegotiated and rearticulated through contemporary transcultural encounters. I am interested, therefore, in new (or old) Masculinities being (re)articulated anywhere, by anyone, and am not limiting my inquiry to a scrutiny of white or heteronormative Masculinities, or to an essentializing exploration of "Other" masculinities. 

 

I would be thrilled to bring together papers that explore transnational/transcultural sexual economies in which racialized and essentialized masculinities are being performed

 

My own paper, in which I will discuss the possibilities for a field of "Gringo Studies" will explore the historical continuum between Sex, Conquest and Nation-building, Conquistador frontier masculinities, and present-day Gringo Self-Fashioning. 

 

Other possible papers could explore: 

 

*	Masculinites articulated in the context of transcultural sex-work (presented in a nuanced/ambiguous way that does not reinforce reductionistic discourses on "trafficking" and exploitation)
*	Queer masculinities
*	Masculinities performed in the context of Women sex travel
*	Any suggestion?

 

 

See: Pratt, Mary Louise (2006). Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (2nd ed.). London: Routledge 

 

 

 

Samuel P. L. Veissi?re, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Anthropology                               

Chair, Social Sciences Area

Faculty of Arts, University College of the North

504 Princeton drive, Thompson, MB, R8N 0A5

Tel: (204) 677 8083 / Fax: (204) 677 6589

Toll-free: 1866 677 6450

e-mail: sveissiere@ucn.ca <mailto:sveissiere@ucn.ca> / web: www.ucn.ca <http://www.ucn.ca/>  

https://www.ucn.ca/ics/Programs/Faculty_and_Staff_Pages/SVeissiere/ <https://www.ucn.ca/ics/Programs/Faculty_and_Staff_Pages/SVeissiere/>  

 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Dec 18 12:18:47 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Dec 18 12:19:18 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Cities and the State of Exception/State of Emergency (Berlin)
Message-ID: <00a901c96134$b46a7880$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Please find the CfP for the next Annual Conference at the Center for
Metropolitan Studies, Berlin:

Call for Papers
*Cities and the State of Exception/State of Emergency*

*Ausnahmezustand and the Urban Condition*

Fifth Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Graduate Program, Berlin--New 
York

at the Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin
Berlin, June 4-6, 2009

Cities are central sites where persistent tensions between order and
chaos, political legitimacy and violence, inside and outside, and
sobriety and excess periodically erupt during critical moments of
crisis. Framed in terms of the German notion of /Ausnahmezustand/, these
moments challenge and realign established relations of power and their
concrete manifestations in urban space. The fifth annual conference of
the Transatlantic Graduate Program will explore the urban dimensions of
/Ausnahmezustand/ in its double connotation as both "state of emergency"
and "state of exception."

The aim of this conference is to use the concept of /Ausnahmezustand/ to
illuminate urban conditions and imaginaries and to investigate unveiled
mechanisms and structures in order to gain a deeper understanding of how
power functions in transforming the urban substance.

In the context of a "state of emergency," /Ausnahmezustand/ is widely
understood as an official declaration that temporarily suspends existing
rights, rules and regulations. In order to deal with an immediate
crisis, such as a natural disaster, political emergency, threat of civil
war or popular upheaval, which often have their most profound effect on
cities, the state suspends or alters rules, norms or practices. The
implementation of a state of emergency represents the authority's
attempt to regain control of a threatening situation, affirm and
legitimate its sovereignty, ensure its monopoly on violence and to
reestablish the status quo.

Nevertheless, /Ausnahmezustand/ also connotes a "state of exception"
where existing norms, rules and regulations are challenged and
potentially overthrown, even if only temporarily or locally confined.
Thus, it is equally important to analyze /Ausnahmezustand/ as a "state
of exception" -- a multi-directional process that involves multiple
actors and sites of power and is therefore not reducible to the
application of state force. Instead it may contain a transformative
potential to remodel established urban structures, discourses, social
relations and the built environment itself.

Themes and questions this conference seeks to explore are:

-How can states of emergency/exception be defined, theorized and
conceptualized to understand urban conditions?

-How do political emergencies or natural disasters alter daily life,
institutional responses and the make-up of urban environments?

-What are the consequences and impacts of states of exception/emergency
on urban political institutions, social relations and cultural practices?

-How are states of emergency/exception embedded and anticipated in the
uses and designs of urban infrastructures, architectural paradigms and
urban planning? How are scenarios for urban conditions developed to deal
with future states of emergency/exception?//

-Which actors are involved in evoking, sustaining, challenging and
responding to states of emergency/exception in the urban context?

-How do urban states of emergency/exception affect notions of class,
gender and ethnicity? How can urban conditions of liminality, social
exclusion and otherness be framed in terms of states of emergency/exception?

-How are states of emergency/exception represented in urban space? Are
there places and spaces of exception in the city?

-How are states of emergency/exception imagined in the cultural
production of urban figures and narratives?

We are interested in conceptual and empirical contributions that deal
with the historical and contemporary manifestations of "states of
emergency/states of exception" in the urban political, economic,
socio-cultural, symbolic and built environment. Since this conference
seeks to encourage interdisciplinary discourses, we invite contributions
from all junior and senior scholars who wish to contribute to the field
of urban research.

Please submit a short CV and a less than 300 word abstract in English to
ausnahmezustand@metropolitanstudies.de by February 2^nd , 2009.
Applicants will be notified via e-mail around February 15^th , 2009.
The conference will take place at the Center for Metropolitan Studies,
Technical University Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin,
Germany. The conference language is English.

Unfortunately, the Center for Metropolitan Studies cannot offer travel
grants. Travel and accommodation expenses are responsibility of
individual participants. However, we can support you with
recommendations and information regarding your stay in Berlin.

-- 
Dipl. Geogr. Anne Vogelpohl
DFG doctoral fellow, TGK Berlin - New York
Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS)
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, TEL 3-0
10587 Berlin 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Dec 19 11:38:57 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Dec 19 11:39:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Human Rites and City Lights: Balancing Socio-Cultural, Artistic,
 Tourism and Commercial Dimensions of Festivals (Bratislava)
Message-ID: <004801c961f8$4c73c910$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University
www.tourism-culture.com

International Festivals and Events Association Europe
www.ifeaeurope.com

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & 1st CALL FOR PAPERS

Human Rites and City Lights:
Balancing socio-cultural, artistic, tourism and commercial dimensions of 
festivals

Bratislava, Slovakia 18th - 20th March 2009

Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and 
Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International Festivals and Events 
Association (IFEA), this conference will again bring together international 
researchers with policy makers and practitioners in the festivals and 
cultural events sector. The conference will discuss the complex 
relationships between tourism and festivals, focusing in particular on 
achieving balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of 
festivals. The conference will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia and will 
form the research stream at the 18th Annual Conference of IFEA.

Conference Aims

Festivals and cultural events of all kinds are of growing interest to policy 
makers and practitioners in the arts, community development, regeneration 
and tourism. This interest and involvement gives rise to a number of 
critical questions concerning the relationships between these sectors in the 
development, management and evaluation of festivals and cultural events. The 
conference aims to share the latest research findings and debates in these 
areas of critical concern for researchers, policy makers and practitioners 
alike.

Themes of Interest

Key themes of interest to the conference include:

Economic development policy and regeneration dimensions of festivals and 
cultural events
Partnerships and collaborations in festival planning, management and 
performance
Festivals as product and packaging opportunities for the tourism sector
The contribution of festivals and cultural events to place images
The re-structuring, re-shaping and re-animation of city spaces and new 
communities through festivals and cultural events
Festival and event 'legacies'
Emerging tourist market trends and their implications for festivals and 
cultural events
Service quality management at festivals and cultural events
Economic assessments of festivals and cultural events
Managing risk and visitor behaviour at festivals and cultural events

Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words with full address 
details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long@leedsmet.ac.uk) 
as soon as possible but by January 16th 2009 at the latest. Selected papers 
will be considered for publication in a special edition of the journal Event 
Management.





=====
Daniela Carl
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts & Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Old School Board
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 3ED
UK

phone +44 (0)113- 812 8541
fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544
www.tourism-culture.com 


From hdick at temple.edu  Fri Dec 19 12:23:40 2008
From: hdick at temple.edu (Hilary Dick)
Date: Fri Dec 19 13:27:26 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
Message-ID: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
course in the humanities I will teach this spring.

My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
"humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
your information, I have included a brief course description after my
signature.

Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.

Yours Sincerely,

Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
Center for the Humanities
Temple University

http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
hdick@temple.edu
Phone - 215-204-6386
Fax - 215-204-8371

COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration

Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
the course will consider some of the major economic and political
factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Dec 19 13:26:12 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Dec 19 13:29:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Activist/Applied Jobs with Corporate Accountability International
 (Boston, MA)
Message-ID: <01ea01c96207$49729930$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Jobs Opportunities with Corporate Accountability International, Boston, MA
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org

Corporate Accountability International (formerly Infact) is a membership 
organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns 
challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world.

Since our first campaign pressuring Nestl? to stop irresponsible and 
dangerous marketing of infant formula to children in developing countries, 
Corporate Accountability International has taken on abusive global 
corporations one industry at a time. Now, we're building on our success and 
expanding our work to challenge several industries at once, specifically 
over abuses in the water, food and agribusiness, tobacco and oil industries.

Jobs with Corporate Accountability International
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1444.cfm

We're looking for talented and dedicated staff to be part of this exciting 
expansion. You'll work in our friendly and active Campaign Headquarters 
office in downtown Boston and will be joining a team of passionate staff of 
various ages and backgrounds.

In addition to offering competitive salaries, a generous benefits package 
and national and international travel opportunities, at Corporate 
Accountability International, you'll put your ideals into action every day.

We are currently interviewing for the following positions:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Associate Campaigns Director, Boston

The Associate Campaigns Director will work as a lead member of the Campaigns 
Team to develop and implement Corporate Accountability's organizing 
strategy, with particular emphasis on our Challenging Corporate Control of 
Water Campaign. Through in-person meetings, on the phone, and at actions and 
events, the Associate Campaigns Director will organize activists and 
organizational allies to build the base of power to win our campaigns.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coordinate international, national, regional and local actions and events, 
with a focus on our U.S. and international water campaigning.
Supervise campaign organizers.
Help build, develop and maintain Corporate Accountability International's 
national and international activist and ally base.
Organize activists in person and on the phone, as well as through written 
and e-mail correspondence.
Foster relations and coalitions with allied groups, organizations and 
individuals, and develop activist leadership, with a focus on our campaign 
challenging corporate control of water.

Play a lead role in recruiting new staff.

Help develop and implement strategic campaign plans and accurate budgets.
Maintain comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date files, records and systems.
Help develop and implement fundraising plans.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability, with a global 
perspective.
At least 5 years as a full-time staff organizer in a progressive social 
change organization, including 1-2 years of international organizing 
experience or national field organizing experience.
Demonstrated ability to manage organizing programs, develop and implement 
plans.
Staff management experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong organizational and results tracking skills.
Proven ability to project and stay within budgets.
Experience with effective grassroots fundraising.
Proven ability to work well with a diverse group of people.
Enthusiasm for national and international travel.
Oral and written fluency in Spanish a plus.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The Associate Campaign Director is accountable to the 
Campaigns Director.
SALARY RANGE: $41,300 to $47,800, depending on experience, with a generous 
benefits package.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email letter of interest, r?sum?, and three to five references to 
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
-------------------------------------------------------
Operations Manager, Boston *New Position!

The Operations Manager oversees the development and implementation of plans 
and programs to ensure effective and efficient operations and systems across 
all units and offices of the organization.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Train and supervise receptionist.
Manage the phone system.
Serve as lead staff person on office organization and liaison with building 
management company.
Develop and lead office volunteer program.
Negotiate and manage relationships with outside vendors.
Oversee benefits administration, including FSA, health plans, COBRA and 
pension plans.
Provide support for organizational meetings, including board of directors 
meetings.
Support the financial systems, with a focus on accounts receivable and 
accounts payable.
Manage state registration process, participate in monthly financial 
reporting and support annual budget preparation.
Develop and oversee archiving project and office supply systems.
Oversee and assist with request for information and material orders.
Work with senior leadership, communications, development, and organizing 
units on various projects and events.
Participate in organization-wide planning, fundraising and campaign 
activities.
Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, manuals, and related 
trainings.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Demonstrated commitment to social justice and progressive social change.
At least three years experience managing the office systems of a non-profit 
organization.
Demonstrated success overseeing staff and interns.
Effective verbal and written communication skills and style.
Strong systems analysis, conceptualization and implementation skills.
Familiarity with workstations and network administration.
Highly motivated, with great attention to detail.
Talented with databases, Excel and numbers.
Good organization and ability to juggle several tasks while setting and 
meeting deadlines.
Experience working with financial systems.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The Operations Manager is accountable to the Director of 
Finance and Administration.
SALARY RANGE:  $33,600 - $45,000, depending on experience, plus excellent 
benefits.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email letter of interest, r?sum? and three to five references to 
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
------------------------------------------------

Senior Campaigns Organizer, Boston

The Senior Campaigns Organizer is responsible for developing and 
implementing campaign strategies and tactics, and for mobilizing and 
expanding Corporate Accountability International's base of activists and 
allies in the US and internationally, with particular emphasis on our Think 
Outside the Bottle campaign. The Senior Campaigns Organizer maintains 
in-person, phone, mail and email communication with individual activists and 
allied organizations; recruits new activists and builds new alliances; 
organizes actions and events; serves as a campaign spokesperson, keeps 
accurate, complete and usable records; and raises funds. All organizing is 
overseen by the Campaign Director, involving other staff, activists and 
allies as appropriate.

Major Responsibilities:

Help build, develop and maintain Corporate Accountability International's 
national activist base.
Organize activists in person and on the phone, as well as via written and 
email correspondence.
Coordinate international, national, regional and local actions and events.
Foster relations with allied groups, organizations and individuals, and 
develop activist leadership.
Help develop and implement strategic campaign plans and accurate budgets.
Serve as a campaign spokesperson.
Play a lead role in recruiting new staff.
Maintain comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date files, records, and systems.
Participate in fundraising, including developing and implementing grassroots 
fundraising plans.

Minimum Qualifications:

Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability, with a global 
perspective.
At least 4 years as a full-time staff organizer in a progressive social 
change organization.
Demonstrated ability to manage organizing programs and budgets, develop and 
implement plans.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with databases and MS Word, and at ease with computers overall.
Strong administrative skills.
Experience with effective grassroots fundraising.
Proven ability to work well with a diverse group of people.
Enthusiasm for national and international travel.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The Senior Campaigns Organizer is accountable to the 
Campaign Director.
SALARY RANGE: $33,600 to $38,400, depending on experience, with a generous 
benefits package.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email letter of interest, r?sum?, and three to five references to 
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
----------------------------------------

National Field Organizer, Boston

The National Field Organizer is responsible for implementing campaign 
strategies and tactics, and for mobilizing and expanding Corporate 
Accountability International's base of activists and allies in the US and 
internationally, with particular emphasis on our Think Outside the Bottle 
campaign. The National Field Organizer maintains in-person, phone, mail and 
email communication with individual activists and allied organizations; 
recruits new activists and builds new alliances; organizes actions and 
events; serves as a campaign spokesperson, keeps accurate, complete and 
usable records; and raises funds. All organizing is  overseen by the 
Campaign Director, involving other staff, activists and allies as 
appropriate.

Major Responsibilities:

Help build, develop and maintain Corporate Accountability International's 
national activist base.
Organize activists in person and on the phone, as well as via written and 
email correspondence.
Coordinate international, national, regional and local actions and events.
Foster relations with allied groups, organizations and individuals, and 
develop activist leadership.
Participate in campaign planning and implement strategic campaign plans.
Participate in outreach to recruit new staff.
Serves as a campaign spokesperson.
Maintain comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date files, records, and systems.
Participate in fundraising, including developing and implementing grassroots 
fundraising plans.

Minimum Qualifications:

Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability, with a global 
perspective.
At least 2 years as a full-time staff organizer in a progressive social 
change organization.
Demonstrated ability to manage organizing programs and budgets, develop and 
implement plans.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with databases and MS Word, and at ease with computers overall.
Strong administrative skills.
Experience with effective grassroots fundraising.
Proven ability to work well with a diverse group of people.
Enthusiasm for national and international travel.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The National Field Organizer is accountable to the Campaign 
Director.
SALARY RANGE: $28,200-$31,800, depending on experience, with a generous 
benefits package.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email letter of interest, r?sum?, and three to five references to 
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
---------------------------------------------

Membership Manager, Boston

For the last 30 years, Corporate Accountability International has 
successfully challenged corporations like GE, Nestl?, and Philip Morris to 
halt abusive practices that threaten public health, the environment and our 
democracy. Think Outside the Bottle, our leading campaign, is currently 
exposing the truth behind bottled water marketing and defending the basic 
human right to water in the face of increasing corporate control of the 
resource. Our ongoing and emerging campaigns also challenge the abuses of 
major tobacco, food and oil transnationals.

The Membership Manager will help build Corporate Accountability 
International's base of members nationwide.  The Membership Manager will act 
as the main point of contact with our members, communicating with them 
primarily over the telephone and through written correspondence, and will 
play a lead role in building Corporate Accountability International's 
monthly giving program, coordinating phone banks, and participating in other 
fundraising efforts as needed.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with an experienced team to develop materials and programs to solicit, 
cultivate and expand Corporate Accountability International's base of 
members.
Lead efforts to build and maintain Corporate Accountability International's 
monthly giving program.
Responsible for budgeting and cash flow for monthly donor program.
Help coordinate Corporate Accountability International's all staff phone 
banks.
Work with Corporate Accountability International's finance and 
administration unit to process incoming donations.
Conduct member service related outreach: including gift acknowledgements, 
welcome calls, and written correspondence.
Maintain comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date files, records, and 
systems.
Conduct the timely processing of changes in member records both within the 
internal database and meeting deadlines for outside processing services.
Participate in planning, organizing, fundraising, research, and other 
special projects as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability, with a global 
perspective.
Organized and diligent about record-keeping and administration.
Highly effective written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work with a creative and hard-working team.
Experienced with Excel and database systems; good facility with numbers and 
analysis.
Minimum 1 year full-time non-profit experience, with particular experience 
in both organizing and fundraising.
Demonstrated ability to acquire and apply knowledge rapidly.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The Membership Manager is accountable to the Membership 
Director.
SALARY RANGE: $27,000 - $34,200, depending on experience, with a generous 
benefits package.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email letter of interest, r?sum?, and three to five references to 
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
---------------------------------------------------

Internships with Corporate Accountability International

If you are looking an internship in a dynamic campaign atmosphere, you may 
be the right person for an exciting internship with Corporate Accountability 
International! Become an integral part of a dynamic team for equality, 
justice and effective social change. We are now accepting applications for 
the fall semester.  Read more about fall internships.

Campaigns/Organizing Internship, Boston

Have you ever wanted to learn how to run an issues-based organizing 
campaign?  Our campaigns internship is a leadership skills-building program, 
in which interns will take on a significant project to advance Corporate 
Accountability International's Think Outside the Bottle Campaign.  The 
position may also include work on our emerging campaigns, including our food 
industry campaign, with a focus on the food industry's impacts on public 
health, marketing practices, and interference in health policy.  Read more 
about fall internships.

Interns will have primary responsibility for significant projects and will 
master a variety of skills, including:
Organizing outreach and educational events.
Recruiting and training volunteers.
Outreach to activists in person and on the phone.
Campaigns Research.

Design of organizing materials.
Ongoing administration to support the work of the campaigns team.

Additional training in fundraising and communications may be included, 
depending on the interests of the intern and needs of the campaign work.
Qualifications:

Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability and social justice.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Basic organizing experience in a high-energy campaign or non-profit setting 
desirable.

Experience with databases desirable, and at ease with MS Word and computers 
overall.
Organizational skills and the ability to juggle several tasks while meeting 
deadlines.
Active in a student group on campus and/or willingness to bring the campaign 
back to campus.
----------------------------------

Development/Member Relations Internship, Boston

The Development/Member Relations Assistant will work with our team of 
fundraisers and membership relations staff as they organize our members 
across the US to support our campaigns. This position requires a commitment 
of 15 - 25 hours per week, with an agreed upon schedule.  Read more about 
fall internships.

Specifically, the Development Assistant will:
Help carry out and track our member outreach and fundraising progress.
Help coordinate and carryout several aspects of an all-staff phone bank.
Help design and coordinate special mailings to specific member groups.
Conduct philanthropy research and generate reports.
Communicate with members and respond to member information requests.
Support administrative systems, including updating member records and 
filing.
Qualifications:
Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability and social justice.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Good organizational skills and a strong attention to detail.
Experience in organizing or fundraising.
-------------------------------------------------------

Research Internship, Boston

The Research Intern will assist our Research team, including the Senior 
Researcher and the Research Director, in conducting analysis and research 
needed to develop and implement our campaigns, particularly our Campaign 
Challenging Corporate Control of Water.  Read more about fall internships.

Specifically, the research intern will:
Help further develop our analysis of the bottled water industry's practices 
and impacts, including water sourcing, quality testing, packaging materials 
and energy use, and groundwater extraction.

Assess and analyze information regarding the various vehicles for water 
privatization, and help analyze World Bank process and projects involving 
water resources management that promote privatization.
The position may also include some work developing our emerging campaigns, 
including our food industry campaign, with a focus on the food industry's 
impacts on public health, marketing practices, and interference in nutrition 
and health policy.   By gathering, analyzing, synthesizing and tracking 
information using a variety of sources and approaches, the Research Intern 
will help deepen our organization's understanding of key issues related to 
water, and will help lay the foundation for the next phase of our campaigns.
The position may also include some work developing our emerging campaigns, 
including our food industry campaign, with a focus on the food industry's 
impacts on public health, marketing practices, and interference in nutrition 
and health policy.   By gathering, analyzing, synthesizing and tracking 
information using a variety of sources and approaches, the Research Intern 
will help deepen our organization's understanding of key issues related to 
water, and will help lay the foundation for the next phase of our campaigns.

Major Responsibilities:
Compiling and analyzing information for our campaigns.
Assisting with research reports, utilizing library, research and internet 
skills to gather needed information.
Maintaining information tracking and monitoring systems, and assisting with 
special research projects.
Outreach to research contacts and targeted constituencies.
Responding to requests for information.
Tracking and monitoring business publications and other information sources 
for developments in the issues.
Providing general support to the Research Unit, as well as overall 
assistance with broader campaign initiatives.

Qualifications:
Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability and social justice.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in research, organizing, and/or advocacy at a campaign-oriented 
organization.
Experience with spreadsheets and database management.
Experience in fact-checking and editing.
Good organizational skills and the ability to juggle several tasks while 
meeting deadlines.
----------------------------------------------------------

Media Internship, Boston

The media assistant will raise visibility for Corporate Accountability 
International and the organization's campaign work.  Areas of focus will 
include the Think Outside the Bottle campaign, the Campaign Challenging Big 
Tobacco, and our emerging campaign focused on the food industry's marketing 
practices and interference in health policy.  The media assistant will work 
with the Press Officer and the communications team.  Read more about fall 
internships.

Specifically, the Media Assistant will:
Conduct outreach to targeted local, regional and national media.

Track and monitor reporters and developments in campaign issues.

Write letters to the editor.

Preparing press kits.

Help with overall administration of the media outreach program.
Qualifications:
Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability and social justice.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Excellent administrative skills.

Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Online Internship, Boston

The Online Assistant will be supporting the Communications Team in updating 
the websites, sending online communications to members and activists, 
updating and organizing on social networking sites. The Online Assistant 
will also be supporting the Communications Team in implementing strategic 
online plans to raise public awareness for Corporate Accountability 
International's campaign work. Read more about fall internships.

Major Responsibilities:

Website editing and maintenance.
Updating and organizing on social networking sites such as Facebook, 
MySpace, Flickr and YouTube.
General outreach to targeted websites and blogs.
Internet research.
Database maintenance.
Graphics & film editing.
Overall assistance with administration of the online program.

Qualifications:

Good computer skills and tech-savvy.
Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.
Active on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.
Website editing experience preferred - training will also be given.
Graphics and multimedia editing experience - training will also be given.
Good organizational skills and detail-oriented.
Able to work in a team but also with initiative to work on your own.
Commitment to progressive social change and corporate accountability issues.
--------------------------------------------------

Recruitment Internship, Boston

Corporate Accountability International is building our team of staff and we're 
seeking a Recruitment Intern to assist in implementing an outreach program 
to identify and hire top-notch organizers, fundraisers, researchers, and 
administrators, from entry-level to senior staff positions. The Recruitment 
Intern will play a key role in the program by ensuring that all new job 
openings are publicized broadly on websites and listserves to reach the best 
potential candidates, and by acknowledging, evaluating, and processing all 
incoming job applications.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Recruitment Intern will post, update, and monitor current job 
announcements on various websites and listserves.
Liaise with support staff of various job websites-asking them questions when 
necessary and keeping records of where and when positions are posted.
Keep organized, updated, and concise records of all website and listserve 
job postings.
Under the supervision of the Recruitment Organizer, the Recruitment Intern 
will organize, evaluate, and process job applications (including cover 
letters and r?sum?s).
Keep organized, updated, and concise records of all job applications.
Correspond directly with applicants.
Participate in campaign activities.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrated commitment to social justice and  progressive social change.
Highly effective written and verbal communication skills.
Organizational skills and the ability to juggle several tasks while meeting 
deadlines.
Experience in a high-energy campaign or non-profit setting preferable.

DETAILS:
15-20 hours/week.
Training: Will receive training from experienced staff and have 
opportunities to participate in campaign actions.
To apply:  Email letter of interest and r?sum? to 
ERohrer@stopcorporateabuse.org.


============================================================== 


From cstanton at tiac.net  Fri Dec 19 13:56:57 2008
From: cstanton at tiac.net (Cathy Stanton)
Date: Fri Dec 19 14:52:32 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ACB5177D-5336-42B8-B113-29769D2DBCB9@tiac.net>

Ted Conover's "Coyotes" is a very good journalistic account of  
Mexican migrant workers in the U.S.  I've used it quite successfully  
in introductory anthro classes.

Cathy Stanton

Cathy Stanton, Ph.D.
Ethnographer and Public History Consultant
Adjunct Faculty, B.A. in Liberal Studies/Union Institute & University
1139 Chestnut Street
Athol, MA 01331-2932
978-249-8299
cstanton@tiac.net
www.cathystanton.net


On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Hilary Dick wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
>
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
>
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
>
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
>
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
>
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
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From Luis.Plascencia at asu.edu  Fri Dec 19 12:56:45 2008
From: Luis.Plascencia at asu.edu (Luis F.B. Plascencia)
Date: Fri Dec 19 17:37:12 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <49BBB0F28D193647A264CCB9CC8E169901EEAAAB@EX07.asurite.ad.asu.edu>

Hilary:
I will review what I have in terms of readings and will forward some suggestions to you.
I teach a Mexico-United States Borderlands course and incorporate the following films:
a) ?De Florida a Coahuila?--Seminole/Mascogos (African-descent/Native Am) who migrated to MX, and then some later migrated to the US;
b) Los Mineros/The Miners--about the recruitment of Mexicans to work in the copper mines in AZ, the labor struggles, and the involvement of some of the leaders in the Cananea, Sonora mining strike)
c) ?Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers?--Chinese migration to Northern Mexico, and US West
d) The Guest Workers--MX migrant agricultural labor in North Carolina
e) El Contrato/The Contract--MX migrant agric labor to Canada
f) Los Trabajadores/The Workers--conflict around MX day labor in Austin, TX---good in moving the viewer from 'seeing' "undocumented/illegal" migrant to seeing the individuals as "persons" (particularly, Ramon, who end up as a man and father who has accepted his role as father with responsibility to provide the best he can for the well-being of his wife and daughters--i..e, family values, personal responsibility, etc.)
g_ The Lion King--coupled with the article by Mart?n-Rodr?guez, "Hyenas in the Pridelands..The Lion KIng'--he argues that the subtext of the film, in the context of CA 1993-94 and Prop 187, is about the xenophobia about informally authorized migration (my term for "undocumented" migration)
h) Crossing Arizona--contemporary issues about post Op Gatekeeper impact on AZ
i) On the Edge--Femicide in Juarez

luis plascencia
arizona state university


-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu on behalf of Hilary Dick
Sent: Fri 12/19/2008 10:23 AM
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
 
Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
course in the humanities I will teach this spring.

My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
"humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
so on-including novels and poetry-are most welcome. Also, if you have
any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
your information, I have included a brief course description after my
signature.

Thank you for your time and help-and Happy Holidays.

Yours Sincerely,

Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
Center for the Humanities
Temple University

http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
hdick@temple.edu
Phone - 215-204-6386
Fax - 215-204-8371

COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration

Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
the course will consider some of the major economic and political
factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.

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From swgina70 at yahoo.com  Fri Dec 19 12:41:18 2008
From: swgina70 at yahoo.com (Regina Gordon)
Date: Fri Dec 19 17:38:54 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <ACB5177D-5336-42B8-B113-29769D2DBCB9@tiac.net>
Message-ID: <997253.12835.qm@web65703.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

Here are a few more suggestions:
?
Martinez, Ruben
2001???? Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York: Metropolitan Books.
?
Stavans, Ilan
2001????????? The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People. New York: Rayo.
?
(Movie) Fast Food Nation, 2006
?
Gina Gordon 
PhD Candidate (ABD) 
Socio-Cultural Program 
Dept. of Anthropology 
Univ. of Oklahoma 
regina.b.gordon-1@ou.edu 
swgina70@yahoo.com


--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Cathy Stanton <cstanton@tiac.net> wrote:

From: Cathy Stanton <cstanton@tiac.net>
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 12:56 PM

Ted Conover's "Coyotes" is a very good journalistic account of  
Mexican migrant workers in the U.S.  I've used it quite successfully  
in introductory anthro classes.

Cathy Stanton

Cathy Stanton, Ph.D.
Ethnographer and Public History Consultant
Adjunct Faculty, B.A. in Liberal Studies/Union Institute & University
1139 Chestnut Street
Athol, MA 01331-2932
978-249-8299
cstanton@tiac.net
www.cathystanton.net


On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Hilary Dick wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
>
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I
would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
>
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
>
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
>
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
>
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l











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From DBeriss at uno.edu  Fri Dec 19 16:32:06 2008
From: DBeriss at uno.edu (David I Beriss)
Date: Fri Dec 19 17:40:31 2008
Subject: FW: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
Message-ID: <D237125C37F0314692CF74CBA63C368F026EE736@mail3.uno.edu>

One really excellent book that puts literature, film and music on the
US/Mexican relationship and on migration into a anthropological  and
historical context is Jose Limon's "American Encounters: Greater
Mexico, the United States and the Erotics of Culture." I'd recommend
using it, but if you take a look at it, you will find many ideas for
the kinds of material that interests you.

That said, among the many movies that deal with the issues you want to
address, two of my favorites are John Sayles' "Lone Star" and Patricia
Cardoso's "Real Women Have Curves."  But there are so many...

David Beriss

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
Phone: 504/280-1071
http://anthro.uno.edu/




From grosas2 at uiuc.edu  Fri Dec 19 16:45:39 2008
From: grosas2 at uiuc.edu (Gilberto Rosas)
Date: Fri Dec 19 19:43:57 2008
Subject: Fwd: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <ec79abdb0812191049q67fc314ay104f1b98370b454e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
	 <ec79abdb0812191049q67fc314ay104f1b98370b454e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ec79abdb0812191445k1b02bd61m87bb09e2f1dfaf5e@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gilberto Rosas <grosas2@uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
To: Hilary Dick <hdick@temple.edu>


Hi Hilary,
a few names come immediately to mind:
Ruben martinez early 2000s text. I believe its entitled Crossing Over.
Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera
Benjamin Saenz has a short story entitled "Exile"

These authors are creative writers of the borderlands condition.

And a great documentary film to show is Farmingville.


Best Wishes and Good Luck,

Gilberto Rosas
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
University of Chicago

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
and Latina/o Studies Program
University of Illinois

(773) 834-8736
grosas@uchicago.edu




On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Hilary Dick <hdick@temple.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
>
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
>
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
>
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
>
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
>
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>
From jmheyman at utep.edu  Fri Dec 19 18:09:30 2008
From: jmheyman at utep.edu (Josiah Heyman)
Date: Fri Dec 19 21:14:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C57193DA.2ED26%jmheyman@utep.edu>

People have made many great suggestions.  Wow!

I'm glad to see lots of mentions of Ruben Martinez's Crossing Over.  A truly
superior work of reportage.  One minor note: he treats Cheran, Michoacan, as
if it were newly impacted by out & return migration, but in fact people have
been migrating from there to the U.S. since the beginning of the 20th
century.  But this is a small hesitation about a great book.

Art: Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey's Miracles on the Border, which has
many wonderful illustrations.  It is about retablos, which are a commercial
folk art in Mexico often used for mandas, purposeful prayers & vows,
including for loved ones crossing to or inside the United States.  Some of
the stories behind the retablos will break your heart.

Music: besides researching the recordings themselves (see Arhoolie records),
you might want to look at the work of Maria Herrera-Sobek, especially
Northward Bound, a book about migration corridos.  Does anyone know if
Arhoolie issued a record of migration corridos?

Commercial imagery: while we are looking at migration, it might be
interesting to look at images of resistance to migration & change, in the
magazine covers and other mass media images found in Leo Chavez's two
important books, The Latino Threat and Covering Immigration.  Break your
heart also, but in a different way.

Folk expression: a regrettably little noticed book is Between the lines:
letters between undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants and
their families and friends, edited by Larry Siems.

Does anyone know of any other books of letters or direct reminiscences by
migrants themselves (there is Gamio's book of interviews from the 20s, which
is invaluable, but I wonder if there are other more recent works in the
words of migrants themselves)?

Joe


On 12/19/08 10:23 AM, "Hilary Dick" <hdick@temple.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
> 
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
> 
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
> 
> Yours Sincerely,
> 
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
> 
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
> 
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
> 
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
> 



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


From cristianolanzano at libero.it  Sat Dec 20 02:56:49 2008
From: cristianolanzano at libero.it (cristianolanzano@libero.it)
Date: Fri Dec 19 21:20:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
Message-ID: <KC5K2P$B4A064408B4A0DB88DC2CC3D6545115C@libero.it>

I suggest the documentary "De nadie" by Tin Dirdamal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451698/
http://www.lasamericasfilms.org/films/Denadie.htm
http://www.mediarights.org/film/no_one_de_nadie.php

C. Lanzano

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>From      : urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
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Cc          : 
Date      : Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:23:40 -0500
Subject : [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration







> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
> 
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on-including novels and poetry-are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
> 
> Thank you for your time and help-and Happy Holidays.
> 
> Yours Sincerely,
> 
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
> 
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
> 
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
> 
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
> 
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From bchap at ku.edu  Fri Dec 19 19:44:37 2008
From: bchap at ku.edu (Ben Chappell)
Date: Fri Dec 19 21:24:06 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <ec79abdb0812191445k1b02bd61m87bb09e2f1dfaf5e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
	 <ec79abdb0812191049q67fc314ay104f1b98370b454e@mail.gmail.com>
	 <ec79abdb0812191445k1b02bd61m87bb09e2f1dfaf5e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <aad507450812191744h69329a5dqd967bec9707760e2@mail.gmail.com>

I second many of the suggestions, especially Crossing Over and Farmingville.
One that I have not read, but would be interested to see this list respond
to, is Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway. A couple of other
documentaries that are really good include Heather Courtney's Letters from
the Other Side (http://www.sidestreetfilms.com/) and Natalia Almada's Al
Otro Lado (http://www.altamurafilms.com/). For teaching material, it can be
interesting to poke around in the "interactive documentary" 9500 Liberty (
youtube.com/9500liberty).
Good luck!
----------------
Ben Chappell
Program in American Studies
University of Kansas
bchap@ku.edu
From hugos at umail.ucsb.edu  Sat Dec 20 18:02:03 2008
From: hugos at umail.ucsb.edu (Hugo Santos-Gomez)
Date: Sun Dec 21 12:12:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081220180203.19297hktu8jqaisk@webaccess.umail.ucsb.edu>

I would add:

Juan Rulfo?s short story: Paso del Norte (in The Burning Plain)

Jorge A. Bustamante: Cruzar la Linea, the chapter on Don Chano is a  
vivid and well written ethnography of the challenging trek to go  
across the border. This text has a literary value that transcends its  
ethnographic character; it is Bustamante?s dissertation in book format  
(Mexican Immigration and the Social Relations of Capitalism)

Maria Novaro?s film: El Jardin del Eden (The Garden of Eden) The  
border, the migrants and people in between.



--
Hugo Santos-Gomez
PhD Candidate
Dept. of Anthropology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210


Quoting Hilary Dick <hdick@temple.edu>:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
>
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
>
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
>
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
>
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
>
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>



From fbhimji at uclan.ac.uk  Sun Dec 21 14:01:46 2008
From: fbhimji at uclan.ac.uk (Fazila Bhimji)
Date: Sun Dec 21 12:14:57 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]References Request--MX-US Migration
Message-ID: <494E4C4A0200003600080BD2@gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk>

Second the documentary De Nadie-quite original since it looks at Central Americans crossing into the Mexican Border. Also  be of relevance and interest might be  Bobby Byrd's Puro Border and The Late Great Mexican Border. He does some poetry as well.  Worthwhile checking out Cinco Punto Press-located in El Paso and they come out with interesting stuff.

Best

Fazila


>>> "Ben Chappell" <bchap@ku.edu> 20/12/08 1:44 AM >>>
I second many of the suggestions, especially Crossing Over and Farmingville.
One that I have not read, but would be interested to see this list respond
to, is Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway. A couple of other
documentaries that are really good include Heather Courtney's Letters from
the Other Side (http://www.sidestreetfilms.com/) and Natalia Almada's Al
Otro Lado (http://www.altamurafilms.com/). For teaching material, it can be
interesting to poke around in the "interactive documentary" 9500 Liberty (
youtube.com/9500liberty).
Good luck!
----------------
Ben Chappell
Program in American Studies
University of Kansas
bchap@ku.edu
_______________________________________________
URBANTH-L mailing list
URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Dec 21 11:34:17 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Dec 21 12:25:19 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Ph.D. Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability (Munich)
Message-ID: <00c601c96391$12b9bd20$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(forwarded from eanth-l@listserv.uga.edu)

Call for Applications

Munich Re Foundation and United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security proudly announce the fourth annual
Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability

Tipping Points in Humanitarian Crises
26 July - 01 August 2009
at the historic Hohenkammer Castle (Schloss Hohenkammer)
in the countryside outside of Munich, Germany

Chair/Director of the 2009 Academy: Thomas E. Downing
Co-director: Mohamed Hamza

Accepting applications until 15 January 2009

We invite qualified PhD candidates who have an interdisciplinary
focus and are working on dissertations related to environment,
social vulnerability, disaster risk reduction, resilience and
institutional management and change, to apply for the 2009 Summer
Academy by 15 January 2009. Most participants are expected to be
PhD students, ideally in their second or third year.  However, a
few places will be reserved for practitioners who wish to take a
step back from their operational work to engage with young
researchers on this strategic issue. Applications are submitted
online at www.ehs.unu.edu.

Purpose

The summer academy provides a platform for around twenty
outstanding PhD candidates from all over the world to present and
discuss their research with leading international experts and
scholars in social vulnerability, as well as senior scientists
from the United Nations University and Munich Re Foundation. The
summer academy is designed to advance the science of social
vulnerability by discussing "state of the art" research needs and 
strategies to address academic, policy and practical challenges 
and knowledge gaps.

Tipping points in humanitarian crises

The multiple stresses of dynamic vulnerability are embedded in
coupled socio-ecological systems. The tendency has been to assume
that one complex of vulnerability persists into the future without
causing structural and functional changes in societies. Neither
would it lead to a shift to a different complex of vulnerability.
Yet, the literature recognises that vulnerability (and even more
so resilience) is dynamic; the outcomes of interactions between
social agents and the environment, across scales.

The topic of the 2009 Summer Academy builds on the first three
academies, which focused on water-related (2006-Ursula Oswald
Spring, Director) and mega-cities (2007-Hans Georg Bohle,
Director) social vulnerabilities and resilience-building, and the
interplay of environmental migration and social vulnerability
(2008-Anthony Oliver-Smith, Director). The academy will integrate
the role of environment and the managed landscape, socio-economic
processes of displacement and migration, and the institutions that
mediate between sustainability and collapse. Further on, the
academy will explore plausible futures where a complex of
vulnerability tips into a humanitarian crisis. Conversely, we also
intend to explore the potential for scaled up improvements in
livelihoods, those plausible futures that achieve sustainability
and a substantial reduction in vulnerability. With the focus in
2009 on the run-up to COP15, climate change will be a central
issue.

Academy format and programme

The 2009 Summer Academy is designed to maximize interaction and
encourage innovative problem-solving among participants. Instead
of classical teaching we planned our academy to be discursive and
participative. We expect participants to provide their active
inputs in the working sessions facilitated by an expert team.

The entire working week will be devoted to a simulation
representing a real-world situation. Participants will be assigned
various tasks and the outcome of the exercise is expected to be
presented to international stakeholders. Therefore, participants
must come prepared to work together in a demanding context; their
output will be evaluated in a final 'town hall' hearing at the
academy. Among other academic activities, a briefing to the
Adaptation Fund Board  recommending an annex to their handbook on
how to design and fund projects that reduce the risk of large
scale tipping points, economic collapse and humanitarian crises,
will be prepared. Participants would work in groups on the various
sections, from rationale to project templates and monitoring and
evaluation.


For questions please contact:

Ms. Xiaomeng Shen
Associate Academic Officer a.i.
Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
United Nations University                                UN
Campus
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
53113 BONN Germany
email: shen@ehs.unu.edu

From nbsalazar at gmail.com  Mon Dec 22 12:47:00 2008
From: nbsalazar at gmail.com (Noel B. Salazar)
Date: Mon Dec 22 11:27:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP - Theorizing (im)mobilities: Anthropological takes on
	an emerging metanarrative
Message-ID: <494F7E34.8000003@gmail.com>

This is a call for papers for an invited session at the 2009 AAA Annual 
Meeting.

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

CALL FOR PAPERS
Theorizing (im)mobilities: Anthropological takes on an emerging 
metanarrative
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, December 2-6, 2009

Organizer: Dr. Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven)

Mobility, noun:
(1) ability to move or to be moved;
(2) ease or freedom of movement; and
(3) tendency to change easily or quickly.

It is fashionable to imagine today?s world as being in constant motion, 
with people, cultures, goods, money, businesses, diseases, images, and 
ideas flowing in every direction across the planet. The scholarly 
literature is replete with concepts and metaphors attempting to capture 
altered or intensified spatial and temporal realities: 
deterritorialization and scapes, time?space compression, the network 
society and its space of flows, cosmopolitanism, and the possibility of 
leading bi-focal and multi-focal lives in several locations 
simultaneously through transnational migration. Sociologists and 
geographers enthusiastically talk about the ?mobility turn? in the 
social sciences, stressing the breaching of boundaries by migration, 
mass communication, and trade, and suggesting the emergence of novel 
forms of identity, economy, and community. For the self-critical 
discipline of anthropology, which has accused itself in the recent past 
of representing people as territorially, socially, and culturally 
bounded, this perceived new reality is thought to be theoretically and 
methodologically challenging.
If mobility is the new mantra to be chanted, the chorus line might be 
older than most scholars want to acknowledge. The idea that everything 
is in constant motion was already developed by the Greek philosopher 
Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca. 540-480 BCE), who became known for his 
doctrine that change is central to the universe and that ?all things 
flow?. Long before globalization, transnationalism, or cosmopolitanism 
became academic buzzwords, anthropologists already knew about such 
mobilities as experience experts (although they not necessarily 
acknowledged them in their writings). With the present hype over global 
fluxes and flows, we tend to forget that many of anthropology?s founding 
scholars, including Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, were themselves 
migrants and that the latter put transcultural mobility at the heart of 
ethnographic practice. Not only the experience of ?being there? produced 
invaluable insights that shaped the discipline, but also the act of 
traveling ?out of place? played a determining role. At the same time, 
critically engaged ethnographers have been among the first to point out 
that the very processes that produce global movements and linkages 
promote immobility, exclusion, and disconnection.
In line with the 2009 Annual Meeting?s general theme, ?The End/s of 
Anthropology?, this panel aims at discussing the analytical purchase of 
(im)mobility as an overarching conceptual framework to study and 
understand the current human condition. Individual papers will advance 
anthropological theorizing by addressing the following questions: Why 
has the distinction between mobilities and immobilities, in their 
various forms, gradually become one of the central dichotomies in social 
theory (with the former usually being a priori positively valued)? Which 
role do conceptualizations of (im)mobility play in anthropological 
theories, both today and historically? How are anthropology (as a 
discipline) and anthropologists (as ethnographic practitioners) 
positioned in relation to issues of (im)mobility? Why is mobility (not) 
the next grand narrative in anthropology or the social sciences at large?


If you are interested in participating in this panel, contact Dr. Noel 
B. Salazar (noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be) by January 3, 2009 
(negotiations are underway to have this panel accepted as an executive 
or invited session).
Please submit your name, your affiliation, a title, and an abstract 
limited to 250 words. High-quality papers will be selected for 
publication in an edited volume.
Following AAA rules, all participants must register for AAA membership 
or receive a waiver; participants who receive waivers must pay the 
meeting registration fee.
More information about the conference in general will soon be available 
online:
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/

--
Dr. Noel B. SALAZAR obtained his PhD from the Department of Anthropology 
at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is currently a Postdoctoral 
Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) 
and a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural 
Change, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK). His research interests 
include anthropologies of mobility, the local-to-global nexus, 
discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture brokering and contact, 
and public interest ethnographies. More information about his projects 
and publications is available online:
http://kuleuven.academia.edu/NoelBSalazar
-- 
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Noel B. Salazar, Ph.D.
Marie Curie Fellow (EC, FP7-PEOPLE-IRG)
Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
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IMMRC, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45 (AV 03.06), bus 3615, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)475 53.73.13, Fax +32 (0)16 32.59.02
http://kuleuven.academia.edu/NoelBSalazar
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Dec 22 21:34:02 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Dec 22 21:34:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Zapatista World Festival of Dignified Rage
Message-ID: <00ae01c964a6$ec58ef90$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

>From RJ <rj@riseup.net>

Dear Friends and Compa?eros,

The first World Festival of Dignified Rage is just around the corner --
beginning this Friday in Mexico City.

Whether or not you are planning on going, I definitely recommend this
updated piece just finished by Kolya Abramsky that I've posted here:
http://zapagringo.blogspot.com/2008/12/gathering-our-dignified-rage.html

It's both a primer on the organizing that has taken place over the past
three and a half years since the Zapatistas released their Sixth
Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and a proposal on where we need to head
in the context of our global crises... a rewrite of an earlier piece
updated for the current context and in preparation for the First Global
Festival of Dignified Rage, which begins in Mexico City at the end of this
week.

Enjoy,
RJ


*Zapatista-inspired rebellion on Turtle Island and throughout the
galaxy...http://zapagringo.com

*Slingshot Hip Hop, the first feature-length film from Palestine's
emerging hip hop scene...http://slingshothiphop.com 


From hdick at temple.edu  Mon Dec 22 16:49:24 2008
From: hdick at temple.edu (Hilary Dick)
Date: Mon Dec 22 21:54:33 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: References Request--MX-US Migration
In-Reply-To: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <352291310812221349r44d9d39cj747ae9dcdc818ea@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues:

I wanted to write to thank everyone for the helpful suggestions for
readings, movies, and other materials for my spring course on
Mexico-US migration.

I greatly appreciate you all taking the time to think about this and
lend a hand.

Thank you -- and Happy Holidays!

Yours,
Hilary Dick

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Hilary Dick <hdick@temple.edu> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing to ask for suggestions on non-social science readings on
> Mexico-US migration. These suggestions are for an interdisciplinary
> course in the humanities I will teach this spring.
>
> My syllabus already covers the key anthropological and sociological
> literature on Mexico-US migration, but I need to include more
> "humanistic" readings. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar as I would
> like with the literature on Mexico-US migration in the humanities, so
> any recommendations on readings from literature, cultural studies, and
> so on?including novels and poetry?are most welcome. Also, if you have
> any favorite movies to recommend, I am interested in that as well. For
> your information, I have included a brief course description after my
> signature.
>
> Thank you for your time and help?and Happy Holidays.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
> Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
> Center for the Humanities
> Temple University
>
> http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
> hdick@temple.edu
> Phone - 215-204-6386
> Fax - 215-204-8371
>
> COURSE TITLE--Words of Passage: Interpreting Mexico-US Migration
>
> Using the tools of narrative and discourse analysis, this course will
> examine the motifs, themes, and ideological frameworks that recur in
> discussions and representations of Mexico-US migration. In so doing,
> the course will examine images and ideas about migration found not
> only in scholarship, but also in non-fiction essays, novels, poetry,
> visual art, the news, and movies. These materials are selected in
> order to make the experiences of migrants palpable. As part of this,
> the course will consider some of the major economic and political
> factors that shape migration patterns, placing contemporary Mexico-US
> migration in its historical context. It will also investigate the
> socio-cultural beliefs and practices inform migration processes.
> Finally, it will use art and literature that captures the affective,
> psychological, and spiritual aspects of migration to convey the
> traumas and exhilarations that accompany it.
>



-- 
Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
Humanities Fellow, 2008-2009
Center for the Humanities
Temple University

http://www.temple.edu/humanities/
hdick@temple.edu
Phone - 215-204-6386
Fax - 215-204-8371

From kdonahue at plymouth.edu  Fri Dec 26 11:49:57 2008
From: kdonahue at plymouth.edu (Katherine C. Donahue)
Date: Fri Dec 26 12:18:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE: Claude Levi-Strauss
In-Reply-To: <00ae01c964a6$ec58ef90$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <00ae01c964a6$ec58ef90$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <003401c9677a$008d96c0$01a8c440$@edu>

Dear Colleagues,
In light of the fact that Claude Levi-Strauss had his 100th birthday in
November, 2008, Deborah Reed-Danahay and I are putting together a session
for the 2009 AAA meetings that will explore his contributions to the field
of anthropology. Please contact me, Kate Donahue, if you would be interested
in participating.
Happy New Year to you all,
Kate Donahue
kdonahue@plymouth.edu
Katherine C. Donahue
Professor, Anthropology
MSC 39
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264




-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu
[mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Angela Jancius
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:34 PM
To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Zapatista World Festival of Dignified Rage

>From RJ <rj@riseup.net>

Dear Friends and Compa?eros,

The first World Festival of Dignified Rage is just around the corner --
beginning this Friday in Mexico City.

Whether or not you are planning on going, I definitely recommend this
updated piece just finished by Kolya Abramsky that I've posted here:
http://zapagringo.blogspot.com/2008/12/gathering-our-dignified-rage.html

It's both a primer on the organizing that has taken place over the past
three and a half years since the Zapatistas released their Sixth
Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and a proposal on where we need to head
in the context of our global crises... a rewrite of an earlier piece
updated for the current context and in preparation for the First Global
Festival of Dignified Rage, which begins in Mexico City at the end of this
week.

Enjoy,
RJ


*Zapatista-inspired rebellion on Turtle Island and throughout the
galaxy...http://zapagringo.com

*Slingshot Hip Hop, the first feature-length film from Palestine's
emerging hip hop scene...http://slingshothiphop.com 


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From monterescu at hotmail.com  Sun Dec 28 18:07:34 2008
From: monterescu at hotmail.com (Daniel Monterescu)
Date: Sun Dec 28 14:36:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Publication: Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities
In-Reply-To: <352291310812221349r44d9d39cj747ae9dcdc818ea@mail.gmail.com>
References: <352291310812190923q146a61a8h60bd4515bb291c9e@mail.gmail.com>
 <352291310812221349r44d9d39cj747ae9dcdc818ea@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BLU146-W30D9FF9EF16884D385967FC0E90@phx.gbl>


 
 
Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities:
Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and
Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns
 
Editors: Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz
Series: Re-materialising Cultural Geography
 
Ashgate Publishing.http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=8863&edition_id=9433
 
Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial
configurations. In many ways, their enduring success and vitality
lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange
of economic goods, cultural practices, political ideas and social
movements. This mixture, however, is rarely harmonious and has
often led to violent conflict over land and identity. Focusing on
mixed towns in Israel/Palestine, this insightful volume theorizes
the relationship between modernity and nationalism and the social
dynamics which engender and characterize the growth of urban
spaces and the emergence therein of inter-communal relations.
 
For more than a century, Arabs and Jews have been interacting in
the workplaces, residential areas, commercial enterprises,
cultural arenas and political theatres of mixed towns. Defying
prevailing Manichean oppositions, these towns both exemplify and
resist the forces of nationalist segregation. In this
interdisciplinary volume, a new generation of Israeli and
Palestinian scholars come together to explore ways in which these
towns have been perceived as utopian or dystopian and whether
they are best conceptualized as divided, dual or colonial.
Identifying ethnically mixed towns as a historically specific
analytic category, this volume calls for further research,
comparison and debate.
 
 
Contents
 
Preface; Introduction: the transformation of urban mix in
Palestine/Israel in the modern era, Dan Rabinowitz and Daniel
Monterescu; Part 1 History, Representation and Collective Memory:
Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city, Salim Tamari; 'They
just left': Israeli Haifo'im grapple with the memory of
Palestinian Haifawi'yye, Dan Rabinowitz; 'We were living in a
different country': Palestinian nostalgia and the future past,
Jasmin Habib; Cross-national collective action in Palestine's
mixed towns: the 1946 civil servants strike, David de Vries; How
is a mixed city to be administered? Haifa's municipality at the
end of the British Mandate, Tamir Goren. Part 2 Spatial Dynamics:
Ethnic Urban Mix and its Contradictions: From urban panopticism
to spatial protest: the case of the 'mixed town' of Lydda, Haim
Yacobi; Heteronomy: the cultural logic of space in Jaffa, Daniel
Monterescu; A nixed not mixed town: social, cultural and
political trends in the Nazareth/Nazerat Illit conurbation,
Laurie King-Irani; Haifa: the politics of seeing, Ra'ef Zreik.
Part 3 Gendered Perspectives on Mixed Spaces: Contested contact:
proximity and social control in pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv,
Debbie Bernstein; Mixed towns as places of choice: residential
preferences of Palestinian women, Hanna Herzog. Part 4 Cultural
Encounters and Civil Society: Ethnicized civil society:
discursive motifs in Jewish-Arab grassroots activism in Jaffa,
Amalia Sa'ar; Nationalism, religion and urban politics in Israel:
struggles over modernity and identity in 'global' Jaffa, Mark
Levine; Mixed as in pidgin: the vanishing Arabic of a bilingual
city, Anton Shammas; Index.
 
Reviews
'This excellent volume opens up an entirely new angle of vision
on relations among Jews and Palestinians in Israel. By exploring
the connections between urban space, nationhood, and modernity,
it treats so-called "mixed towns" as both a metaphor for and an
expression of the tensile sociology of the country at large.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the Middle East, past
and present.' Professor John Comaroff, University of Chicago, USA
 
 
 
About the Editors
 
Daniel Monterescu, Department of Sociology and Social
Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest. Dan
Rabinowitz, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University.
 
 
 
 
 
 
--
Daniel Monterescu
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Central European University
& Marie Curie Fellow, EUI
 
http://web.ceu.hu/soc_ant/faculty/monterescu.htm
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From athena.tan at gmail.com  Mon Dec 29 10:27:01 2008
From: athena.tan at gmail.com (Athena Tan)
Date: Mon Dec 29 14:27:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Media Fields 2: Infrastructures / UC Santa Barbara, April 9-10, 2009
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Media Fields 2: INFRASTRUCTURES

A conference hosted by graduate students in the Department of Film and
Media Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 9-10, 2009


Keynote Speaker: Brian Larkin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Columbia University


The 2007 Media Fields conference gathered students and scholars to
reflect upon how their projects related to the idea of the field in
the epistemological and environmental registers of the term. In April
2009, a second Media Fields conference will hone in on the more
specific idea of infrastructures. If a field is an expanse of space,
infrastructures are skeletal and map out interactions, relations, and
orders of elements in such a space.


The OED defines infrastructure as "a collective term for the
subordinate parts of an undertaking; substructure, foundation; spec.
the permanent installations forming a basis for military operations,
as airfields, naval bases, training establishments, etc." With the
proliferation of media objects in everyday spaces, media increasingly
shape, are shaped by, and form parts of infrastructures.  Recent work
on media by scholars such as Brian Larkin, Lisa Parks, Jonathan
Sterne, and Zhang Zhen points to the import of infrastructures in
relation to the study of material spaces, representations, and
practices related to filmgoing, piracy, satellite footprints,
globalization, and urbanization. Media Fields: Infrastructures aims to
build upon such work and to consider how the term infrastructure
offers a rubric in which to extend the conceptual radius of film and
media studies in different directions. How might perspectives from the
humanities inform thought about media and infrastructures? And how
might media and cultural studies benefit from perspectives generated
in social sciences and environmental design?


You might consider the following types of projects and ideas:

--Opening up the metaphoricity of infrastructures. How might media
studies be able to appropriate concepts, languages, and practices
related to infrastructures? What are infrastructures of media
(scripts? shots?), what infrastructures of language do we use to
understand media, and how might these questions lead to new
disciplinary trajectories?

--Media as they serve as infrastructures of the nation (national
monuments, icons, and media spectacles), of global transitions (call
centers, satellite footprints, media industries and regulations), of
developmental paradigms (the IMF, World Expos) of the body (medical
imagery, x-rays), of travel (in-flight entertainment, billboards), and
of security (emergency services, the Patriot Act).

--Examinations of the material infrastructures of media systems such
as wired and wireless networks, routers, DVD cases, archives, or movie
theaters, as well as infrastructures which support media practices.
For example, how might understanding the infrastructures of media
piracy entail considerations of databases, undersea cables, copyright,
code, and/or video stores? How are media infrastructures such as these
represented or visualized?

--In expanding the notion of infrastructure beyond material objects,
one can consider how social and cultural practices might function as
media infrastructure?think for example of film exhibitions, public art
demonstrations, as well as the role of less material infrastructures
(grammar, code). How might one study infrastructures of a text or a
website? How might one define an aesthetics of infrastructures?


The scope of this conference is interdisciplinary. We invite paper
submissions and project proposals (eg., films, models, installations)
from graduate students, scholars and practitioners.


**Please submit abstracts or project proposals of 300 words or less to
ucsb.media.fields@gmail.com by January 30, 2009.**


--
Athena Tan
PhD Student
Department of Film and Media Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
atan@umail.ucsb.edu

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Dec 30 01:09:18 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Dec 30 02:53:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: An Israeli in Gaza - Interview with Anthropologist Jeff Halper
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Interview with Anthropologist Jeff Halper

"An Israeli in Gaza" Interview with Jeff Halper from ICAHD (Israeli 
Committee Against House Demolitions)
Frank Barat, peace activist, interviews Jeff Halper on Palestine, Free Gaza, 
the upcoming Israeli elections and more...

Agoravox Network - The Citizen's Media
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=9057

by Frank Barat   Friday 19 December 2008

1-Hi Jeff. You recently took part in the Free Gaza movement (1) and 
successfully reached Gaza by boat with others activists, journalists and 
human rights workers from around the globe. How did you get involved in such 
an initiative and why was it important for you to take part?

As an Israeli and the head of an Israeli peace organization (ICAHD - The 
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions), I was asked by the Free Gaza 
Movement organizers to take part in their action to Break the Siege of Gaza 
by sailing two boats from Cyprus to Gaza City port. I agreed because this 
was a non-violent political action; breaking the siege and by implication 
highlighting Israel's responsibility for it (which it tries to shrug) fit 
into ICAHD's mission, to end the Israeli Occupation completely. Had this 
been defined as a humanitarian mission I would not have participated, since 
the so-called "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza is not the result of some 
natural calamity, but of a deliberate policy of Israel - plus the US, Europe 
and Japan, it must be said, and aided by Egypt - to break the will of the 
Palestinians to resist and to replace the democratically elected government 
of Hamas by a collaborationist regime more amenable to Israeli control.

2-What was the goal of this initiative and has it been reached?

The goal of this initiative, as I mentioned, was to break the Israeli and 
international siege on Gaza - although we were careful not to disconnect 
Gaza from the wider Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, 
of which it is a part. In an important sense we succeeded. One successful 
action gives tremendous hope and encouragement to the people the world over 
that civil society initiatives can shame governments to relent and even 
change policy, as well as express solidarity with oppressed people. But in 
order to genuinely break the siege, regular boat traffic must be 
established. In that we have partially succeeded. So far five FGM boats have 
reached Gaza (the last one on December 9th, as I write this), although a 
Libyan ship was turned away and a boat of Palestinian-Israeli parliament 
members was prevented from sailing. I am in the midst of a campaign, with 
European supporters, to organize maritime trade unions in ports around the 
Mediterranean to express solidarity with Gaza, which hadn't seen a foreign 
vessel in 40 years before ours arrived. One of our goals is that on 
appointed day in the spring or summer one or more boats will depart to Gaza 
from every port on the Mediterranean. Imagine what a scene, what a gesture 
of solidarity and resistance that would be!

3-As an Israeli Jew, what type of welcome did you get from the Gazans? Did 
you meet anyone from Hamas?

We all received a tremendous welcome from the Palestinian Gazans - 40,000 
came out to greet us as we entered the port! As, unfortunately, the only 
Israeli Jew (two more have since sailed to Gaza), I was sought out by Gazans 
who wanted to communicate with me - in Hebrew - how much they yearned for a 
just peace in which all the inhabitants of the country could live together 
in peace. I was struck by how non-political their discourse was. No 
accusations, no political programs, just a deep desire to get beyond this 
superfluous conflict to a life good for everyone. This, it seems to me, is a 
solid foundation upon which a just peace can be built.

I was invited for dinner with Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister 
from the Hamas party, together with the rest of our group. I decided not to 
attend so as not to deflect the public discussion, especially in Israel, 
from our action's main focus, breaking the siege, to side issues such as the 
connection of the Israeli peace camp to Hamas. This is just what the Israeli 
authorities would have wanted: a discussion over my attending a Hamas dinner 
instead of over its own responsibility for Palestinian suffering and 
oppression. I refused to play into their hands. Nonetheless, I am proud to 
note that I received Palestinian citizenship, including a passport, from the 
Palestinian government.

4-Why did get you arrested by the Israeli forces at the Erez crossing on 
your way back to Israel?

I decided, after three days in Gaza visiting friends and participating in 
solidarity visits to Palestinian communities and organizations, to return to 
Israel by way of the Erez crossing rather than by boat. I wanted to make the 
point that the siege existed on the other three sides of Gaza, not only by 
sea. I knew I would be arrested, but I saw that as part of the action, of 
our civil disobedience. And in fact, when I went through the Erez 
"checkpoint" - actually a huge, intimidating metal terminal that reminded me 
of a cross between the Emerald City of Oz that suddenly appeared before 
Dorothy (in this case out of a barren landscape of demolished homes, 
uprooted fruit trees, scorched earth and the ever-present Wall) and an 
Orwellian scene from some totalitarian nightmare - I was arrested. The 
charge: violating a military order forbidding Israelis from being in Gaza 
(or the Palestinian cities of the West Bank). After a difficult night in 
prison, where I was physically threatened by right-wing Jews but protected 
by Palestinian prisoners, I was released on bail. I am still waiting to hear 
if the state will press charges.

5-You founded the Israeli Committee Against House demolitions (ICAHD)(2) in 
1997. What was the goal of this organization at the time? What is it now and 
what is ICAHD going to focus on in the next few months?

I was one of the founders of ICAHD in 1997, in the wake of Benjamin 
Netanyahu's election and the final collapse of the Oslo peace process. After 
several years of dormancy, ICAHD's formation was part of the re-engagement 
of the Israeli peace camp in resisting the Occupation, which emerged from 
the Oslo process much more entrenched than it has been at the start.

ICAHD is an Israeli political organization dedicated to resisting the 
Israeli Occupation until its total end, and to a seeking of just peace with 
the Palestinians, in one state, two states, a regional confederation or 
whatever political arrangement best serves our two peoples. Since 
"occupation" is such an abstract concept to most people, we decided to take 
the issue of Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian homes - almost 
20,000 in the Occupied Territories since 1967 - as the focus of our 
activities. ICAHD activists and members of other Israeli peace groups, 
together with Palestinians and international activists, resist demolitions 
and rebuild homes demolished by the Israeli authorities - 162 in the past 
decade. Since we rebuild as political acts of resistance and not as 
humanitarian gestures, 162 such acts of Israeli and Palestinians against the 
Occupation (so far) is significant.

Acts of resistance alone will not end the Occupation, however. Activism has 
to be balanced with strategic advocacy. The grassroots has to be mobilized 
and effective lobbying done among political decision-makers. The Israeli 
public, for many reasons I will not go into here, has taken itself out of 
the political equation: it is apathetic vis-a-vis the Palestinians and 
refuses to take responsibility (indeed, Netanyahu will likely come back as 
Prime Minister in February). The focus of ICAHD's advocacy, then, is 
international, towards peace and human rights groups, trade unions, 
universities, churches, Jewish peace groups and other grassroots 
constituencies, as well as towards government officials and parliamentarians 
(Americans being the most influential and the most difficult to reach).

In the next few months ICAHD will concentrate on developing working 
relations with the Obama Administration. We are also involved in launching 
an anti-apartheid campaign. With Jimmy Johnson, a long-time ICAHD activist, 
I am also writing a book on Israel's involvement in the world's arms 
industry. Though we must continue to look "down" at Israel's actions in the 
Occupied Territories, we must also start to look "up" at Israel's role in 
what we call the Pacification Industry to understand why it receives the 
support from the US and other governments that it does.

6-How being a peace activist fighting for Palestinian rights in Israel feels 
like? Also, could you give us an overview of the Israeli peace movement 
today?

Although ICAHD cooperates with other critical Israeli peace and human rights 
organizations, I stand somewhat apart from many activists for several 
reasons. Unlike most of my comrades, I do not think that activism by itself 
can achieve political results. The Israeli peace movement in general seems 
to think it cannot influence policy or events, and if it is limited merely 
to protest and symbolic solidarity acts, then there is no need to even try 
and participate in the political process. ICAHD considers itself an actor, a 
political player. We believe we can influence events, and so we seek to work 
with international partners, governments and civil society alike. I do not 
think it is worthwhile to try and reach the Israeli public. Unlike most 
Israeli peace activists, again, I again prefer to dedicate ICAHD's limited 
energy and resources to international advocacy. Finally, I define myself 
politically as an Israeli; an ideology like Zionism cannot determine the 
life of a country. Thus we at ICAHD belong to a small coterie of Israeli 
peace groups - together with the Alternative Information Center, the 
anarchists and '48 Palestinians - who can envision Israeli national 
expression within a single political entity shared with the Palestinians.

The Zionist peace movement is largely paralyzed today. Peace Now, the 
largest and best known of this camp, is non-functional except in its 
important monitoring of settlement activity. The Zionist left party, Meretz, 
has only five seats in the parliament out of 120. The critical (or 
 "radical," if you like) left of the Israeli peace movement to which ICAHD 
belongs is, it is true, even smaller in numbers and unable to elect a single 
member to the parliament. Nevertheless, we do unflinching actions and 
analysis from the ground and make our voices heard in many international 
forums.

7-What do you make of the recent Jerusalem attacks by Palestinians living in 
East Jerusalem? (3, 4, 5)

In fact, Palestinian violence against Israelis ("terrorism" in our parlance; 
Israeli violence against Palestinians is "legitimate military operations") 
has been virtually eliminated - except limited rocket attacks coming 
periodically out of Gaza. Israelis are feeling great personal security, 
which removes much of the motivation for peace, which for Israelis means 
only concessions and becoming vulnerable to our permanent enemies. The Wall 
might have something to do with this, but incessant Israeli military 
activity throughout the Occupied Territories - today bolstered by 
military/police operations of the Palestinian Authority against Hamas and 
those "wanted" by Israel

provides a better answer. The only actual attack in recent years was that 
carried out against the yeshiva in Jerusalem, and it stands out as an 
exception to the rule.

8-On the 17th of September 2008, Tzipi Livni was elected leader of the 
Kadima party. What could bar her from being the next Israeli prime minister? 
In what way could she been different than Ehud Olmert?

Israel's four major parties - Likud of Netanyahu, Kadima of Olmert and 
Livni, Labor of Barak and Shas of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Eli Yishai - are 
all right-wing and have members (especially generals and former security 
agents) who frequently cross over from one to the other. Tzipi Livni is 
merely another right-wing politician, and it is a mistake to consider Kadima 
a "centrist" party (it was, in fact, Sharon's personal political vehicle). 
Still, Livni is the most popular candidate for Prime Minister, but she 
cannot win because in Israel we do not have representative democracy. Voters 
vote only for parties, not for candidates, and citizens have no 
representation by district. The only way to get Livni, then, is to vote 
Kadima, but it is not a popular party and people would rather vote Likud, 
meaning they will get Netanyahu even though few want him, even in his own 
party. See what I mean by a disempowered Israeli electorate?

9-Gideon Levy said that as long as the Israeli public will have no problem 
with the occupation, it will not stop. He also said that in most polls 
Israelis showed strong support for peace (up to 70%), but then voted for 
people like Benjamin Netanyahu (who will win the next Israeli election in 2 
months according to Levy). Would you like to comment on this?

Three things disempower Israelis and neutralize them as a positive, 
pro-active political force: (1) the fact that although most Israelis are 
willing to support a two-state solution, they have been convinced by their 
political and military leaders that there is no political solution, there is 
no "partner for peace," and therefore they have no choice but to let the 
government do whatever it wishes (which is to strengthen the Occupation); 
(2) as I've mentioned, they have no political representation and no ability 
to influence government decision, and so do not even try; and (3) as long as 
life is good - which it is inside the Israeli bubble - then who thinks of 
Arabs? So the issue of peace is way down the list of electoral priorities, 
and since candidates are dictated by parties, Israelis end up voting for the 
least evil choice. Thus Netanyahu.

10-In the last few years, unemployment rates in the West Bank and Gaza have 
reached new heights. In Nablus for example, which used to be a commercial 
centre for Palestine, more than 50% of its inhabitants are now without a 
job. The Palestinian Authority, in close collaboration with the World Bank 
and the British Department for International Development, has drawn up a new 
plan to be implemented in the West Bank called the Palestinian Reform and 
Development Plan (6).In your opinion is this the right plan?

I don't believe - together with the World Bank and DIFID, in my opinion - 
that development is possible under occupation. In fact, it ends up enabling 
occupation, since Israel can destroy Palestinian infrastructure at will and 
besiege Palestinians to the point of starvation knowing full well that the 
"development" and relief agencies will pick up the clack and keep the 
Palestinians' heads just above water. This in Operation "Defensive Shield" 
in 2002 Israel destroyed $350 million of urban infrastructure, airports and 
ports, exactly the amount the international community had invested during 
the previous year. To paraphrase Clinton: "It's the Occupation, Stupid!"

11-Barack Obama's election as President has been celebrated all over the 
world as a proof that America had changed and was ready to stop the 
warmongering Bush years and start anew. Any chance that this will apply to 
Israel/Palestine?

I wrote an article entitled "A Bone in America's Throat" which was published 
on Nov. 10, 2008, in Counterpunch . In it I argue that Obama is entering 
into a wholly different international reality than Bush did, in which 
America is militarily over-stretched and economically weakened and the world 
is more multi-polar. Rather than a "War on Terror," the US will have to 
rejoin, rather than browbeat, the community of nations. To do that - and to 
leave Iraq and Afghanistan while stabilizing relations with Iran and 
Pakistan, plus trying to prevent the fall of Egypt, Jordan and other 
American "allies" to Islamic fundamentalists - it will have to find an 
accommodation, if not reconciliation, with the Muslim world. And it will not 
get to first base without addressing the Palestinian issue, which for the 
world's Muslims is emblematic, a conflict more symbolically significant than 
Iraq. The Palestinians' clout is that they are the gatekeepers. Until they 
signal to the Arab/Muslim world that the conflict with Israel is over, that 
they have reached a political solution acceptable to them and that now is 
time to normalize relations with Israel and its US patron, the conflict is 
not over, and the US cannot move ahead. My hope is not in Obama per se but 
in that he will recognize that it is in America's interest to end the 
Israeli occupation, and will then move forcefully to do so. So I'm 
optimistic. I don't believe Israeli control of Palestine is sustainable.

12-Noam Chomsky told me that "What current advocates of a one-state 
(binational) settlement don't seem to fully appreciate is that the choices 
are nottwo-states versus one-state with an internal civil rights 
(anti-apartheid) struggle, but rathertwo-states versus continuation of 
current US-Israeli programs, which take no responsibility for Palestinians 
outside of the areas Israel expects to incorporate, so that they can rot or 
leave". He also said that "I presume that's why binationalistproposals that 
were anathema when they were feasible (roughly '67-'73)are treated much more 
gently today, even approved in the mainstream, now that they can be 
exploited by the right to undermine a two-state first stage in the process." 
What is your position on this issue and what is your vision for the future 
of Palestine/Israel?

I think mathematically there are only three solutions: one state, either 
bi-national (most likely) or a unitary state like South Africa; two states, 
which is still preferred by the vast majority of Palestinians in Palestine, 
who seek national self-determination (although they expect the eventual 
evolution of a single state); or apartheid - a "two-state solution" 
envisioned by Israel in which the Palestinians are shoved into a Bantustan 
on a truncated 15% of historic Palestine and Israel controls the rest, 
including borders, movement, water, Jerusalem and even the airspace. I 
believe that Israel has eliminated the two-state solution by its settlement 
project, and only an assertive US Administration can force Israel to 
withdraw to a meaningful degree, which is possible if US interests are at 
stake but unlikely. Since apartheid is not an option, we are left with a 
one-state solution, which I think is difficult - the history of bi-national 
states is not a happy one - but do-able if both peoples go into that project 
in good faith (very unlikely on the part of Israel). The one-state solution 
also enjoys no support today either in Israel or in the international 
community. It appears, then, that we have a conflict with no apparent 
solution at the moment.

I have advanced what I call a "two state-plus" solution based on the idea of 
a loose regional economic confederation involving Israel, Palestine, Jordan, 
Syria and Lebanon. Key to that is the freedom of all the residents of the 
confederation to live and work anywhere among its member states, as in 
Europe. This would eliminate the issue of how big the Palestinian is, 
neutralize the Occupation (since the settlements and Israel proper would be 
fully integrated), resolve the refugee issue and shift the burden of 
economic viability from a tiny Palestinian state to the entire region. But 
that's a big vision whose time has not yet come.
Jeff Halper's new book "An Israeli in Palestine" is out now.

Frank Barat is a peace activist living in London. His book of interviews 
between Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, "Le champ du possible" is out now. He 
can be reached through is blog "Life under occupation".

http://www.freegaza.org/index.php
http://www.icahd.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7630534.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/n...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7485022.stm
http://www.mop.gov.ps/en/publishing/detail.asp?recordID=169.
Also read Adam Hanieh article: 
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/hanieh190708a.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7634894.stm
http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32177
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20615.htm 


From tuomas.martikainen at abo.fi  Wed Dec 31 14:36:48 2008
From: tuomas.martikainen at abo.fi (Tuomas Martikainen)
Date: Wed Dec 31 10:36:50 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration 3/2008
Message-ID: <495B6760.1090809@abo.fi>

Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration 3/2008

http://www.etmu.fi/fjem/downloads.html
http://www.etmu.fi/fjem/pdf/FJEM_3_2008.pdf

CONTENTS

Editorial

* Tuomas Martikainen: Nordic Migrations ? Past and Present. The 4th Etmu 
Days in Turku/?bo, 26?27 October, 2007

Articles

* Diana Mulinari: Gendered Spaces: Women of Latin American Origin in Sweden
* Garbi Schmidt: Transnational Families among Turks and Pakistanis in 
Denmark: Good Subjects, Good Citizens and Good Lives
* Jeanette Lauren & Sirpa Wrede: Immigrants in Care Work: Ethnic 
Hierarchies and Work Distribution
* Pirkko Pitk?nen: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Public Sector Work 
in Finland

Project Reports and Essays

* Kielo Brewis: Stress in the Multi-Ethnic Customer Contacts of the 
Finnish Civil Servants
* Laura Schw?bel: Highlights of the Sixth Biennial MESEA Conference in 
Leiden

Book Reviews

* Tuomas Martikainen: Singla, Rashmi (2008) Now and Then. Life 
Trajectories, Family Relationships, and Diasporic Identities
* Gail Hopkins: Julios, Christiana (2008) Contemporary British Identity

ABOUT FJEM

Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration (FJEM) is a scholarly and 
professional journal, published by the Society for the Study of Ethnic 
Relations and International Migration (ETMU). It aims to promote and 
advance the circulation of the multidisciplinary study of ethnic 
relations and international migration that is conducted in Finland and 
its neighbourhood, especially the other Nordic countries. The Journal is 
trilingual (English, Finnish, Swedish) and published twice a year.

From abelpolese at hotmail.com  Tue Dec 30 11:29:19 2008
From: abelpolese at hotmail.com (abel polese)
Date: Sat Jan  3 14:56:27 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Panel on Informal Economies, ICCEES 2010
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Dear members, 



I am a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography of the Univesity

of Edinburgh.

I am trying to put together a panel on informal economies for the next

ICCEES World Congress (I attach the call below).



In my current research project I look at the way under-the-table

practices have a role in the economic development of Ukraine and Turkey. 

If anybody working on:

-social and economic informal networks

-bribe/gift giving, corruption, favours

-fiscal frauds, taxes, smuggling

-remittances, border crossing

or any other related topic 



wants to attend the ICCEES I would be glad to hear from him/her



you contact me at



abelpolese@hotmail.com

abel.polese@gmail.com



Thank you and best wishes 

Abel



CONF./CFP- ICCEES World Cong. - Int'l Council for Central & East Eur.

Studies

 

Posted by: Henry Wathen <henry.wathen@gmail.com>

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

We have the honour to invite the international academic community to

the VIII ICCEES World Congress in Stockholm 2010, to participate in a

wide scholarly discussion with the overriding theme:

 

Eurasia: Prospects for Wider Cooperation

 

Call for Proposals

 

The VIII World Congress of the International Council for Central and

East European Studies will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on 26-31

July 2010.

 

The Swedish Society for the Study of Russia, Central and Eastern

Europe and Central Asia invites all interested scholars to submit

proposals for panels, papers and round-table discussions. These

proposals should reflect the results of new research in the study of

developments in the cultural, political, social and economic processes

underway in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

 

While acknowledging the ongoing European integration processes, the

VIII World Congress is convened at a time when the international

situation poses new security challenges, requiring the elaboration of

new strategies. The Congress seeks to organize a wide scholarly

discussion of these developments. The processes of European

integration and wider cooperation across Eurasia not only impact upon

geographical spaces but also leave their mark upon cultural spaces.

These processes make communication between languages, histories,

religions, traditions, legacies and memories more complex. Humanities

and social science scholars are therefore invited to reflect on how

local cultural contexts react to, engage in, or resist globalization.

 

For more information about the general themes of the Congress, please see:

www.iccees2010.se

 

Deadline for panel proposals: 28 February 2009 Address for proposals:

proposals@iccees2010.se Abstract submission: 1 March ? 30 October 2009

Registration: Beginning 1 July 2009

Address for abstracts and registration: www.iccees2010.se

 

Procedures for Proposals

 

1. Only proposals submitted electronically will be considered for

   inclusion in the Congress. Proposals must be submitted in English -

   irrespective of the language to be used by the panelists at the

   Congress. Proposals should be directed to: proposals@iccees2010.se.

2. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2009. The International

   Academic Committee encourages proposals to be sent as early as

   possible.

3. The International Academic Committee will meet in the spring 2009 to

   make a decision on the composition of the final Congress programme.

4. The International Academic Committee will send all scholars whose

   proposals have been accepted, an official letter of invitation, which

   can be used to apply for funding and/or obtaining a visa, by 1 July

   2009.

5. Once a proposal for a panel/paper has been accepted, one half-page

   abstract in English should be submitted through an on-line abstract

   system at www.iccees2010.se, for each of the panel's papers, no later

   than 30 October 2009. A paper without an abstract will not be included

   in the program.

6. Please note that the abstracts will be published without editing.

   The authors therefore have to ensure that they are satisfied with

   their abstract.

7. Each abstract must indicate the language in which the paper will be 

   presented.

8. Each abstract has to include contact details, at least an e-mail

address.

 

For further guidelines for panel proposals, see the Congress webpage.

 

Registration Fees by 31 December 2009:

Registration fee: 290 euros

Residents of Eastern European and Central Asian states: 230 euros

Students: 125 euros

 

Registration after 1 January 2010:

Registration fee: 350 euros

Residents of Eastern European and Central Asian states: 290 euros

Students: 150 euros

 

On-Site Registration:

Registration fee: 375 euros

Residents of Eastern European and Central Asian states: 300 euros

Students: 160 euros

One-Day Admission: 55 euros

One-Day Admission for Students: 25 euros

 

For further information about payments, accommodation, registration,

tours, and the scholarly aspects of the congress, see the Congress

webpage.

 

Welcome!

Hjartligt valkomna!

 

http://www.iccees2010.se

 

 

Tova H?jdestrand, Ph.D.

General Secretary ICCEES 2010

S?dert?rn University College

CBEES / F901

S-14189 Huddinge

Sweden

Phone: +46 8 6084035

Cell phone: +46 73 6463567

tova.hojdestrand@iccees2010.se

 

through

Henry Wathen

Folke Bernadotte Academy

henry.wathen@folkebernadotteacademy.se

 
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