From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  1 12:22:43 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  1 12:42:18 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Summer Institute on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (Bolivia)
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[forwarded from H-Human-Rights]

From: "Craig Zelizer" <czelizer@yahoo.com>

Summer Institute on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) June
14, 2008 - July 12, 2008 Santa Cruz and La Paz, Bolivia

The Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT), in partnership with Nur
University, is pleased to announce the Summer Institute on
Peacebuilding & Conflict Resolution (IPCR) in Bolivia, June/July 2008.
The course will  be held in Santa Cruz and include a one-week trip to
La Paz and surrounding communities.

IPCR is an intensive 4-week, 6-credit residential program intended to
build the capacity of current and future professionals in a variety of
fields to make a critical difference in furthering peaceful relations in the
world.

IPCR is for English speaking professionals, graduate and upper-level
undergraduate students in peace and conflict resolution, international
affairs, political science, Latin American studies, anthropology,
development  and related fields. AT IPCR, students enjoy a supportive
learning environment where experienced trainers and faculty combine
brief lectures, case studies, field trips, role-plays, simulations, and
field work with the experiences of local and international peacebuilding
practitioners.

IPCR offers a stimulating integration of theory and practice, bringing
together innovative academic analysis with practical, hands-on
training and skills development.

OBJECTIVES

IPCR will help participants achieve the following objectives:

.. Improve conflict analysis skills to design effective interventions
.. Develop practical skills to implement peacebuilding and conflict
resolution programs
.. Increase capacities for cross-sectoral work
.. Highlight 'best practices' in the field
.. Develop ongoing professional networks between participants, program
staff and guest speakers to support personal and career development

SUMMARY OF COURSE TOPICS

The course will provide an overview of the theory and practice of
conflict resolution and peacebuilding with a focus on providing concrete
skills participants can use in the field. The course includes the following
topics:


.. Conflict analysis & assessment
.. Conflict resolution and peacebuilding practices
.. Cross-sectoral approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution
(i.e., with development, human rights, etc)
.. Post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation
.. Skills development in negotiation
.. Case studies - community, intra-state and international conflict
.. Career opportunities in peacebuilding and conflict resolution

"My main objective for attending the course was to equip myself with
practical knowledge on conflict resolution, peace building, post-
conflict transition and reconciliation, and to strengthen my skills in
negotiation, mediation and dialogue facilitation which all are useful within
a human rights context. I strongly believe the IPCR course met these
objectives. I highly recommend the course to anyone interested in these
areas." Poul Fenger, Associate Expert, UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva (IPCR 2005)

APPLICATION DEADLINE

* Early-bird Deadline to receive $250 discount - March 15, 2008
* Final Deadline - April 16, 2008

For more information and online application, see the ACT website:
http://www.conflicttransformation.org


Contact Person:
Nike Carstarphen, Ph.D.
Co-Founder/Senior Partner
Alliance for Conflict Transformation, Inc.
PO Box 9117
Alexandria, VA 22304
Phone: (703) 461-3650
Email: ipcr@conflicttransformation.org 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb  2 12:42:34 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb  2 12:43:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP:  Workers, Families and Communities in Local and
	Global Struggles (Pomona, CA)
Message-ID: <009001c865c3$00b0e440$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-Labor]

Southwest Labor Studies Association
34th Annual Conference May 15-17, 2008
California  Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND PRESENTATIONS

Working and Organizing Everyday:  Workers, Families, and Communities in 
Local and Global Struggles

Featuring:  Plenary Sessions on The State of Working Families in the Inland 
Valley and The Struggle for a Continental Living Wage

Global economic transformations coupled with U.S. imperial policies have 
radically transformed the working and living conditions in communities 
across the globe.  We invite proposals from scholars and community activists 
for panels, interactive workshops, performances, displays, art, film, and 
music that explore the local and global impacts of these processes and how 
workers and communities are challenging them.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Historical and contemporary discussions of working class movements
- Organizing in the Inland Valley
- Immigrant worker organizing
-Global resistance to neoliberalism
-Impact of NAFTA and CAFTA on workers and communities
-Labor education
-Nativism and anti-immigrant movements
-Gender, race, and sexuality in organizing
-Youth and student activism
-Prison Labor
-Fair Trade Movements
- War, imperialism, and resistance

Proposal deadline is March 1, 2008.  Please send a short (1-2 paragraph) 
proposal and the name and contact information of the participants to Enrique 
C. Ochoa at ecochoa@csupomona.edu at CLASS Dean's Office, Cal Poly Pomona, 
Pomona, CA 91768.  For further information contact Enrique Ochoa at (909) 
869-3115 or ecochoa@csupomona.edu. 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb  4 19:04:39 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb  4 19:06:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Ethnic Culture as a Transformational and Global Process (Ukraine)
Message-ID: <012001c8678a$c4e2ba00$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Viktor Pylypenko <viktor_pylypenko@yahoo.com>

Department of Ethnology and Local History

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University plans to conduct an
International scientific-theoretical conference on issues relating to the
development of modern ethnologic ideas

?The development of ethnic culture as a transformational and global 
processes?

on September 26-27, 2008

Eight sections are planned:

- the historiographic study of transformation processes in the 20th and 21st 
centuries
- debatable problems of ethnogenesis. Complex researches
- the methods and methodology of modern ethnologic science
- migratory processes and adaptations to the culture of foreign environments
- the forming and functioning of subcultures in modern society
- elements of traditional ethnic culture in the modern urbanized environment
- urban anthropology
- processes of transformation in traditional village culture.

Please apply for participation in the conference and send conference papers
(12 pages, 1,5 spacing) by May, 15, 2008 in an electronic and printed 
format.
Papers must have citations at the end of text (not in square handles), 
annotation
and keywords in Ukrainian, Russian and English. The organizational committee
preserves the right to select and edit sent materials. According to the 
decision
of the editorial board papers will be published before the beginning of the
conference in the scientific digest which is included in the list of 
professional
editions of VAK of Ukraine (historical disciplines), ?Ethnic History of 
European
Nations?.

Conference participants will be provided with a residence in a hotel on 
their
own account.  The members of conference organizational committee are Dr.
Irene Kolodyuk and graduate student Volodymyr Hordienko. For more
information please contact: Department of Ethnology and Local History,
Historical faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University,
Volodymyrska st., 60, Kyiv, Ukraine 01033. Tel. (044) 239-33-18
E-mail ethnology@univ.kiev.ua

The Organizational Committee 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb  5 19:59:02 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb  5 20:31:11 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: 2008 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology
Message-ID: <000201c8685f$dbbede40$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

The 2008 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology

DEADLINE:  May 30, 2008

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

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

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

The submission deadline for the 2008 competition is May 30, 2008. Send hard 
copies to Dr. Katherine R. Metzo, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of North Carolina 
at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC, 28223; and send 
electronic submissions to: kmetzo@uncc.edu.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Katherine R. Metzo, at (704) 
687-4077.

 


From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Fri Feb  8 12:53:27 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Feb  8 15:53:38 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Article in The Journal of American Folklore
Message-ID: <34ec80c40802081253o24859733ncdf168dfb171ee29@mail.gmail.com>

New Article Published in JAF -- of Interest to the Society for Urban,
National, and Transnational Anthropology List

Dear List Members,

The Journal of American Folklore has recently published an article
that may be of interest to members of the Society for Urban, National,
and Transnational Anthropology discussion list:

"Distanciation and the Recontextualization of Space: Finding One's Way
in a Small Western Community," by Lisa Gabbert. Journal of American
Folklore 120(476): 178-203

Abstract:
In the 1990s, the city of McCall, Idaho, and the surrounding region
implemented the Rural Addressing System. The system assigned a name to
every street and a number to every house and erected visible signage
for both. Although a seemingly minor bureaucratic operation, the Rural
Addressing System is a concrete example of Anthony Giddens's concept
of space distanciation, and as such, it is a significant component of
modernity and globalization. By investigating the impact of the Rural
Addressing System on this region?particularly on the ways in which
people give directions and think about space there?this article sheds
light on how abstract processes such as modernization and
globalization actually manifest in everyday life, the effects of those
processes, and how people respond to them.

The article is available through the print journal, and also in full
text at Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/).


The Journal of American Folklore is the journal of the American
Folklore Society.  Information about JAF can be found at:
http://www.afsnet.org/publications/jaf.cfm.

With best regards,

Jesse Rester
Editorial Assistant
Journal of American Folklore

From V.Simoni at leedsmet.ac.uk  Mon Feb  4 19:11:10 2008
From: V.Simoni at leedsmet.ac.uk (Simoni, Valerio)
Date: Sun Feb 10 12:30:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Interdisciplinary Workshop Series Key Concepts in Tourism Research
Message-ID: <E8133127467BDA41B6DDD966E99A88631D29DB@leedsmet-exch1.leedsmet.ac.uk>

Centre fo Tourism and Cultural Change

Interdisciplinary Workshop Series Key Concepts in Tourism Research

 

PhD Researchers at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, are organising this interdisciplinary workshop series and would be grateful if you could circulate the announcement. 

With kind regards

Valerio

Valerio Simoni 
PhD Researcher 
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change 
Leeds Metropolitan University 
Old School Board 
Civic Quarter 
LS1 3ED 
Leeds, UK 

Tel:  +44 (0) 113 283 2600 Ext: 29017 
Fax: +44 (0) 113 283 8544

 

 

Call for Contributions: 


 


Interdisciplinary Workshop Series "Key Concepts in Tourism Research"


March to May 2008

Leeds/ UK

 

Much research in the field of tourism addresses at least one of the following concepts: Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience. Although these concepts are very popular, it is not always clear what they actually refer to, and how we may grasp them in, or through, our research. Therefore, the PhD-students at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University took the initiative to organize a workshop series on key concepts in tourism research. During the spring term of 2008, four two-day workshops will focus, respectively, on Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience. 

 

13/14 March 2008 Workshop "Experience"

Keynote: Claudio Minca, University of London

"After the Island: the hard work of being (with) tourists"

 

3/4 April 2008 Workshop "Exchange"

Keynote: Keith Hart, Goldsmith College London 

"On commoditization: exchange in the human economy"

 

17/18 April 2008 Workshop "Memory"

Keynote: Sharon MacDonald, Manchester University

"Memory, Materiality and Tourism"

 

8/9 May 2008 Workshop "Representation"

Keynote: David Crouch, University of Derby

 "The Problems with Representation: Consumption, Space and Images"

 

This workshop series is open to PhD-students from all disciplines.  Its philosophy is to generate an interdisciplinary dialogue based on short paper presentations by the workshop participants.. The contributions do not necessarily have to be polished conference papers; contributors may also present ideas, work in progress or critical reviews. To promote lively and engaged discussion, draft copies of all presentations shall be circulated among the workshop participants ten days in advance. Each workshop will be jointly led by a team of CTCC PhD students and an invited academic with wider expertise in the respective topic. This invited expert will also give a keynote address situating this topic and opening the discussion. Based on these introductions, we will explore different meanings and approaches to the concepts in question. By bringing together PhD students and leading academics from different academic institutions and disciplinary backgrounds, this workshop series constitutes a unique opportunity to get feedback on theoretical reflections and work in progress. It will allow the exchange of ideas, the clarification of epistemological stances and the building of networks among PhD-students.

 

Cost: ?20.00 for one workshop. You can also register for all four workshops for ?60.00.

 

Please register for one single workshop or the whole series not later than 17 February 2008 by either sending an abstract of no more than 200 words explaining how you intend to relate to the topic of the workshop. Please note that the deadline for submission of the papers and contributions for the first workshop is 29 February 2008. E-Mail: C.Mueller@leedsmet.ac.uk <mailto:C.Mueller@leedsmet.ac.uk>  

 

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds LS1 3ED 

UK

 



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From FDEMISSI at depaul.edu  Sun Feb 10 10:24:54 2008
From: FDEMISSI at depaul.edu (Demissie, Fassil)
Date: Sun Feb 10 12:30:40 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Paper - Family Dynamics in Transnational African Migration
Message-ID: <AC670F9F493B9449AAB61622EF153690050658E5@XVS03.dpu.depaul.edu>

The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on Family Dynamics in Transnational Migration among African migrants.

The flotilla of dingy open boats bringing African migrants across the Atlantic Ocean to Spanish territories such as the Canary Islands, as well as to the Italian islands of Lampedusa, Sicily and Malta, symbolize the perilous journey of many postcolonial African migrants today. The recovery of bodies of migrants washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean or more recently on those of the Red Sea, and the countless men and women whose bodies never made it to safety, speak to a new encounter between Europe and Africa long informed slavery and colonialism.

Transnational migrants have received considerable attention in the last three decades as part of a wider scholarly concern to critically examine the complex phenomenon associated with the international circulation of capital, goods, people, and commodities. However, much of the literature about transnational migrants is devoid of concern related to the logics of their families, their constitution, everyday practices, dynamics and mobility in all their complexities, both in the country of origin and in the country of arrival. By focusing on transnational African migrants, the special issue explores the multiple tensions and conflicts that arise from gender roles and generational pressures as well as from movement, separation and reunion.

Prospective contributors are invited to send proposals for articles in the form of a 200-word abstract by March 31, 2008. Authors of accepted proposals will be asked to submit articles in final form (in English) by July, 30, 2008.

The special issue will be guest edited by Marina de Regt (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Eva Evers Rosander, (Department of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden), Reinhilde K?nig (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam).

All communication regarding the special edition should be directed to Dr. Marina de Regt (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), by e-mail: marina.deregt@planet.nl. <mailto:marina.deregt@planet.nl.>  Informal enquiries are most welcome, and the Guest Editors will be happy to discuss individual questions.

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

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754~db=al <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754~db=al> 

 

 

Dr. Fassil Demissie
Associate Professor 
Public Policy Studies, DePaul University 
2352 N. Clifton Ave, Suite 150.1 
Chicago, IL 60614 
 
Editor: African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754 <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754>  
 
Series Editor: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
 
Tel: 773-325-7356 
Fax: 773-325-7268 
 
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb 11 09:02:13 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 11 09:03:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Genocide and Human Rights Summer Institute for
	Teachers
Message-ID: <003c01c86cb6$c0ad7520$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-Human-Rights]

Northern Illinois University is pleased to announce the third annual
Genocide and Human Rights Summer Institute for Teachers, June 16-27,
2008.  The first eight days will be spent on campus at NIU in three
daily sessions covering the span of case studies, theories, and
teaching.  The final five days will be spent in Washington, D.C.
meeting with various government agencies, international officials,
ngos representatives, and prominent scholars in the field of genocide
and human rights.  Sessions will include examinations of on-going
discussions within the field, film, primary sources, electronic
resources, literature, and more.

Complete information and details can be found at:
http://www.niu.edu/clasep/conferences/institutes/genocide2/index.shtml

The Institute also maintains a website that provides lesson plans,
teaching materials, and a bi-monthly electronic newsletter, E-
wareness! to facilitate collaboration and approaches to teaching.  To
view the newsletter and other resources, visit the following site:
http://www.niu.edu/history/teacher_certification/Professional%20Dev/Genocide.shtml

J.D. Bowers
Assistant Professor
Department of History, Zulauf Hall 701
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-6655
jbowersi@niu.edu

"Genocides don't end with the last killing, their implications play
down through the generations."
Professor Roger Smith, 2006

"There's a universe of people outside, and you're responsible to it."
Arthur Miller, All My Sons, 1947.

"Uncertain times call for uncertain leadership."
Capitol Steps, 2006 


From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Mon Feb 11 09:47:19 2008
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Mon Feb 11 10:50:36 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Submission of papers,posters and panels for 2008 AAA meeting -- a reminder
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TO:		SUNTA members
FROM:	Deborah Pellow, Program Chair
RE:	Call for papers and panels, 2008 AAA meeting, San Francisco CA

The following is the basic information for panel, paper and poster
submissions for the San Francisco AAA meeting in November  19-23 2008.
The call for papers is in the January Anthropology News while the hard
copy submission forms can be downloaded from the AAA web site at
www.aaanet.org.  The forms will be posted in early February.  The
Association would appreciate program participants submitting their
proposals and registering online via the AAA's secure website.  

There are two stages of review: by SUNTA and by the AAA, thus there are
two different deadlines:
1) For those of you who want to have a panel considered for "invited"
status, the deadline for submission to SUNTA is March 1. Some relevance
to the theme is advisable.  2) The deadline for submission for
individual papers, panels, and posters to AAA is April 1, 5 pm EST.
After you have submitted your proposal, please let me know for the sake
of later tracking. 

Individual papers: While anyone can volunteer a paper, the likelihood of
its acceptance is greater if it is part of an organized session. By the
same token, together with my Program Committee, I will make every effort
to combine individually volunteered papers into panels. 

We invite groups of students to submit panels. These will be judged
along with all of the submissions. The top-ranked of the student panels
will be rewarded $1000 to offset the costs of transportation, hotel fee
and so on of its participants.

Requirements: To participate in the program, one must 1) be a member of
the Association in good standing, and 2) register for the meeting at the
time of submitting the completed proposal. Individuals are permitted
only one paper presentation and one other role (organizer, discussant or
chair) on the scientific program. Panel abstracts can be up to 500
words, individual paper abstracts up to 250 words.

Presentation: Sessions on the scientific program can be submitted as a
single (1.75 hours) session, or as a double (3.75 hours) session, but no
more. Volunteered papers are allotted a maximum of 15 minutes each.
Poster sessions are 1.75 hours with 7 presenters per session.

Alternative presentation formats: These include a single panel followed
by a poster session; simultaneous roundtables as a relaxed form of
session; or a workshop. 





From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Mon Feb 11 12:24:22 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Feb 11 15:24:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: CUNY Baruch College, Soc./Anth., Asst. Prof.
Message-ID: <34ec80c40802111224x7fe75e63lc6ee4d53bcc37930@mail.gmail.com>

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College

Assistant or Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Tenure Track
Appointment Beginning Fall 2008
Closing Date: 3/1/2008

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is seeking a sociologist
to teach introductory and advanced levels courses, including
quantitative methods. The candidate must demonstrate expertise in one
or more of the following fields: economic sociology, globalization,
and inequality.

A Ph.D. degree is required for an appointment to all professoriate
ranks. Rank depends upon qualifications. The successful candidate will
be expected to pursue a scholarly agenda, and engage in other
professional activities and service to the Baruch Community.

Please send curriculum vitae, cover letter and three letters of
references, by the above closing date, to: Search Committee:
Assistant/Associate Professor - Sociology and Anthropology, Department
of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College - City University of New
York, One Bernard Baruch Way, Box B4-260, New York, New York 10010.

Baruch College is an AA/EO/IRCA/ADA employer, and encourages
applications from minorities and women.

From FDEMISSI at depaul.edu  Mon Feb 11 16:01:36 2008
From: FDEMISSI at depaul.edu (Demissie, Fassil)
Date: Wed Feb 13 16:58:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Launching of a new book series, Routledge Studies on African and
 Black Diaspora
Message-ID: <AC670F9F493B9449AAB61622EF153690050658F5@XVS03.dpu.depaul.edu>

Routledge is pleased to announce the launching of a new book series, Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora. The Editors are Fassil Demissie (DePaul University), Sandra Jackson (DePaul University) and Abebe Zegeye (University of South Africa). The Series Editors are affiliated with the Centre for Black Diaspora, DePaul University. 

Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora marks a critical development in publishing theoretically and historically significant works on the lived experiences of people of the African decent in all parts of the world. The series publishes works of the highest quality from across the broad disciplinary fields of social sciences and humanities with a strong emphasis on theoretically informed and empirically grounded texts. Focus issues include the centrality of power, knowledge, gender, race, class and other forms of social identity in exploring different boundaries (cultural, geographic, political, social and psychological) through which people of the African decent have moved in the context of globalized and transnational spaces. 

The Editors welcome book proposals as well as manuscripts that address issues of the African and Black Diaspora. Single authored manuscripts as well as thematically coherent edited volumes will be considered. Inquiries may be directed to the Series Editors 

Fassil Demissie,
DePaul University, (fdemissi@depaul.edu) 

Sandra Jackson, 
DePaul University (sjackson@depaul.edu) 

Abebe Zegeye, 
University of South Africa (Zegeya@unisa.ac.za) or 

Benjamin Holtzman,
Benjamin.Holtzman@taylorandfrancis.com at Routledge 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. Fassil Demissie 
Associate Professor 
Public Policy Studies, DePaul University 
2352 N. Clifton Ave, Suite 150.1 
Chicago, IL 60614 
 
Editor: African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754 <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754>  
 
Series Editor: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
 
Tel: 773-325-7356 
Fax: 773-325-7268 
 
e-mail fdemissi@depaul.edu <mailto:fdemissi@depaul.edu>  
 
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From hortonsarah at msn.com  Wed Feb 13 12:52:45 2008
From: hortonsarah at msn.com (Sarah Horton)
Date: Wed Feb 13 16:59:01 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP--Transnational Political Participation, North America
Message-ID: <BAY115-W234AE1273185C7AFA5B50AC240@phx.gbl>

CALL FOR PAPERS-AAA panel
DEADLINE: February 28 (ASAP!)
SUBMIT TO:  mrb24@cornell.edu

Seeking panelists whose work addresses the topic of political engagement
by transnational migrants residing in North America (see panel abstract
below).  This panel will be submitted for consideration for invited
session status to the Society for the Anthropology of North America for
the AAA annual meeting on November 19-23, 2008.
Please submit paper proposals of no more than 250 words to Miranda Cady
Hallett at mrb24@cornell.edu by February 28, 2008.

____________________________________________________________________
The turbulence and mobility of the past 30 years have seen the development
of vibrant communities of transnational migrants across North America. 
Many of these diasporic communities have been active politically, both in
the hostland context and in homeland settings.  The response of
nation-states has often been one of exclusion and/or exploitation, though
there are examples of restructuring of political institutions to
facilitate the participation of migrant voices.
This panel explores the practice and signification of transnational
migrant political action.  How are the political practices of migrants
related to their own lived experiences of racialization, ethnicity, class,
and gender?  How are these experiences transforming through the process of
migration itself?  How do various sociolegal institutions, including the
construction of "illegality," impact the lives of (im)migrants residing in
North America?  What practices of signification set the limits-and push
the boundaries-of (im)migrant enfranchisement?  In the case of homeland
politics, how does (e)migrant action impact political practices and
institutional forms?  What is the role of (e)migrant nostalgia, remittance
practices, and legal status in shaping the efficacy and orientation of
homeland-directed political action?  What kinds of international and
transnational institutions are emerging or transforming to engage with
migrant activism?  Finally, what insight can we gain from these practices
into the future of political belonging and participation?  Without
assuming a "post-national" world, how can we re-conceptualize political
participation in the context of multiple geographic orientations?

As organizer I welcome abstracts dealing with migrant communities residing
or sojourning in Canada, the United States, or Mexico.  I seek diversity
of perspective, analytical mode, and methodology.  Activists, students,
first-time presenters, and people with a disciplinary background other
than anthropology are welcome as well.  Please write me at the above email
with any questions.

_________________________________________________________________
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From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Sun Feb 17 18:54:04 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sun Feb 17 21:54:12 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: CORI Panels for 2008 AAA Meeting
Message-ID: <34ec80c40802171854q731f1368nfe0fad6fd9ae8c9@mail.gmail.com>

The 2008 meeting themes provide us the opportunity to critically
examine anthropology's relationships across subfields, disciplines,
and publics, in which the study of immigrant/migrants and refugees has
been central. Please
read the attached for ideas for organizing CORI themed panels and feel
free to send me any panel proposals to distribute to the CORI list.
Also, if you would like to be added to the CORI listserve, please
contact me at
olearya@email.arizona.edu.

Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Ph.D., Chair
Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
Mexican American Studies and Research Center
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
http://masrc.arizona.edu/
Office: C?sar E. Ch?vez Building #207-A
Office Phone: 520-626-8134

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2008 AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco:

"Inclusion, Collaboration and Engagement."

A Call for CORI Panels

Inclusion

This theme highlights research problems and relationships that address
the knowledges and concerns of those who have struggled for full
belonging and recognition by dominant (often host-) societies because
of preconceptions about the seemingly static division of intellectual
labor.  I imagine a panel of papers that show how as anthropologists
we bring immigrant/refugee voices and perspectives into the core of
our research, and how this inclusion democratize the research
endeavour as well as other public spaces. I would invite you to think
about the challenges refugee/immigrants face with inclusion and what
opportunities open up to them with inclusion and based on your work,
address what and how anthropology contributes to the understanding of
transnational/movement processes with cross-disciplinary and
participant inclusion.

Collaboration

Related to inclusion, is the theme of collaboration. Perhaps many of
you already include participatory action research methods that engage
communities into knowledge production process, not only as
"informants" but as research consultants and collaborators.
Contributions might include analyses of outcomes, what works and what
doesn't, how this process contributes to the field of anthropology,
and implications for researching stress on immigrant/refugee
communities brought on by recent politicized resentment to their
presence.

Engagement

How do we increase our engagement with communities, especially with
migrants and refugees in politically volatile areas of the world? How
do we increase our engagement with "undocumented" subject populations
who might prefer to remain out of the public purview, especially in
light of harsher immigrant enforcement policies. In this way, the
nature of research has changed radically over the course of the 20th
century, in large part due to how different governments (local, state,
and national) have responded to public concerns regarding immigration.
For researchers, the challenge is then how we conceptualize the roles
that institutional and social structures play in both destabilizing
and maintaining spatial orders. How are transnational communities then
affected by public policy and policy discourse? How do different
authorities at municipal, state, national, and international levels
conceive of public domains of care and the provision of public
services? How are notions of race, citizen v. non-citizen, taxpayer v.
non-taxpayer, among others, employed discursively?

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb 18 11:05:10 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 18 11:06:23 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private
 Space (Cambridge)
Message-ID: <00d501c87248$0d79ff90$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space

Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social 
Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008

Organisers: Georgina Born and Tom Rice

This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the 
interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at 
the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music 
and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, 
sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new 
practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.

The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, 
it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are 
technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the 
boundaries between the 'public' and the 'private' by individuals, groups and 
institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be 
used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting 
themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries 
between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to 
physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the 
other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and 
social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract 
sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although 
some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, 
they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music's privileged 
relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in 
the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore 
examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become 
integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, 
and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.

Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound 
technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are 
increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are 
being employed to create a 'nesting' of the private and public, while audio 
technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of 
musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual 
'private' environments within the collective, 'private' domestic space of 
the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in 
battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which 
fends off and occludes the 'public', ambient sounds of violent warfare; the 
mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; 
and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by 
virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical 
cognition.

Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual 
tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also 
necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and 
ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings 
together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well 
as those engaged in rich empirical research - historical, contemporary and 
cross-cultural - to debate these developments and outline new perspectives 
to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray 
Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, 
Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.

A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those 
working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, 
some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to 
reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work.  We hope to have 
a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, 
and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new 
soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The 
conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; 
it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a 
number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing 
theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers 
of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to 
produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke 
University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume 
on the acoustic politics of space.

Speakers -
Philip Bohlman, Chicago
Michael Bull, Sussex
Eric Clarke, Oxford
Nicholas Cook, RHUL
Suzanne Cusick, NYU
Tia DeNora, Exeter
Nicola Dibben, Sheffield
John Drever, Goldsmiths



Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:  www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace..html 


From G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk  Thu Feb 14 13:26:37 2008
From: G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk (G.B.Prato@kent.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 18 22:51:35 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: New Book Series - Ashgate
In-Reply-To: <002801c86296$41f4fc50$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>
References: <002801c86296$41f4fc50$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <f983ddb8468a.47b4418d@kent.ac.uk>


LAUNCH OF A NEW BOOK SERIES

 
Ashgate Publishers. Series on Urban Anthropology, Editors: Italo Pardo (i.pardo@kent.ac.uk) and Giuliana B. Prato (g,b,prato@kent.ac.uk)
 
Ashgate Publishers have recently established a Series on Urban Anthropology. This is the first Series of its kind to be established by a major academic publisher.

 In keeping with Ashgate?s reputation, original, ethnographically based works of high calibre will be considered for publication. 

The Editors encourage submission of sole authored or edited manuscripts. 
From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Mon Feb 18 11:18:29 2008
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Mon Feb 18 22:55:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for applications
Message-ID: <002c01c87217$9b5089a0$ef1d7d81@12912529239>

Apologies if you receive this call for applications more than once. Please
forward to anyone you think would be interested in applying for this new
position in The Netherlands.

 

 

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Junior Researcher (1.0 fte)

Initially located at the Verwey Jonker Instituut (VJI), Utrecht and
afterwards at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Vacancy reference: 208057

 

Organization

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences (FRW) at the University of Groningen (RUG)
consists of 75 members and focuses on high quality teaching and research in
the fields of economic and cultural geography, planning and demography. The
Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI) was established in 1999 and
coordinates all research projects in the faculty. Projects, conducted from
the interdisciplinary perspective of geography, planning and demography,
focus on the relationship between urban and regional structures and real
life processes, on the one hand, and human agency and intervention within
urban and regional structures one the other (see
www.rug.nl/ursi/organisation/index).

 

Job description

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at Groningen in conjunction with the VJI
(see www.verwey-jonker.nl/) seeks a Junior Researcher for the EU-7th
Framework Programme FACIT project. This project explores Faith-based
Organizations and Exclusion in European Cities in a number of EU member
states and is coordinated by Prof Jan Vranken (Political and Social
Sciences) at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

 

The research concerns the role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in
matters of poverty and other forms of social exclusion (such as homelessness
or undocumented persons) in cities. From both scientific and policy
perspectives, there is a need for better empirical and comparative data on
what is going on in European cities in these matters and, in particular, the
contribution of FBOs in the reduction (or deepening) of problems. FBOs have
direct entrance to the 'poor side' of cities because of (1) their activities
in deprived urban neighbourhoods and among excluded groups and (2) as in the
case of many FBOs with a non-western background because their members often
belong to these deprived and excluded groups themselves.

 

The successful candidate will be part of the Dutch team, relate to the
Research Nucleus (a unit of researchers on the theme of "Urban Social
Justice" at Groningen) and be stationed at the VJI in Utrecht. He or she
will be supervised by Dr. Justin Beaumont and closely assisted by Dr. Trees
Pels and Drs. Hugo Swinnen.

 

Entry requirements

The following are essential for applicants:

 

-Strong grasp of Dutch language: speaking, reading and writing.

-MA, MSc or MPhil in relevant geographical and social fields of enquiry and/
or cognate disciplines (e.g. social policy; political science; sociology);

-Proven competence in and preference for theoretically informed and
politically relevant empirical research using qualitative methods, with
awareness and some ability to work with quantitative data;

-Conceptual ability; self-confidence; enthusiasm; and drive.

 

These attributes are preferred:

 

-Background in debates on any or all of the following: (1) faith-based
organizations from an international comparative perspective; (2) poverty and
exclusion in cities; (3) urban governance and politics; and (4) welfare
regimes and (localized) social policies;

-Good written and oral communication skills;

-Ability to work productively, independently and collectively in groups;

-Ambition to utilize research findings for an independent but related PhD.

 


Employment conditions


The researcher will be employed by the University of Groningen for a period
of three years, but initially stationed at the VJI in Utrecht, with
possibilities for continuation as a PhD candidate at URSI on the completion
of the FACIT project. The starting salary, conforming to the collective
labour agreement, will be at Scale 10 with a maximum of 2558 euros (gross)
full-time, excluding an 8% holiday bonus. The University of Groningen is
committed to equality of opportunity in its recruitment strategy.

 

Applications

If you are interested in the vacancy you are invited to submit your
application before 07 March 2008, mentioning the vacancy reference.

 

We request the following in your application:

 

1. A covering letter (max. 2 pages) indicating why you should be considered
for the post;

2. An up-to-date CV;

3. A letter of recommendation;

4. An example of your written work (max. 2 papers).

 

You can submit your application by email to:  <mailto:vmp@rug.nl> vmp@rug.nl
or by regular post to:

 

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Afdeling Personeel & Organisatie

Postbus 72

9700 AB Groningen

Nederland

 

Further information

For informal email enquiries please contact Justin Beaumont
(j.r.beaumont@rug.nl).

 

 

----

Faculty of Spatial Sciences

University of Groningen

The Netherlands

Tel: 00 31 50 363 6910/ 3895

Skype: justin9712

Web:  <http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index>
www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index

 

International Conference: Religion, Politics and the Postsecular City,
Groningen, 12-15 November 2008

 

EU-7FP FACIT project: Faith-based organizations and exclusion in European
cities

 

Book Reviews Editor: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
(TESG)

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb 18 23:00:10 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 18 23:01:07 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Postdoc Fellowship in Urban Sociology (African or South
 Asian focus)
Message-ID: <04aa01c872ab$eedaa620$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[cross-posted from Comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu]


POSTDOC FELLOWSHIP IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT 
is planning to host a fresh or recent social science Ph.D. to serve as Paul 
E. Raether postdoctoral teaching/research fellow for 2008-2009.  This 
postdoctoral fellow will teach one undergraduate course in each semester on 
the comparative issues and challenges facing American and world cities, 
preferably involving a main focus on African and/or South Asian cities. The 
successful fellow must have a Ph.D. in hand and already demonstrates strong 
evidence of published or publishable scholarship related to the above broad 
teaching focus.  This fellow is expected to carry out his or her research 
and writing while actively participating in and assisting the Center's 
research activities. The position will carry a very competitive salary and 
good benefits. Interested candidates should consult the Center's website 
(http://www.trincoll.edu/UG/) and contact: Xiangming Chen 
(xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu), Dean and Director, Center for Urban and 
Global Studies, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106, Tel: 
860-297-5175, Fax: 860-297-5172.

All applicants for the Paul E. Raether Postdoctoral Teaching/Research 
Fellowship at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in 
Hartford, CT for the 2008-09 academic year should submit the following 
materials (preferably by email) to Xiangming Chen 
(xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu), Dean and Director, Center for Urban and 
Global Studies, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 by 
March 15, 2008:

1.      A detailed application letter stating teaching and research 
interests and expertise;
2.      A complete Curriculum Vitae;
3.      A writing sample, preferably a published or forthcoming journal 
article, or a crucial chapter of the dissertation;
4.      Two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the primary 
dissertation advisor;
5.      Sample syllabi for two undergraduate courses that relate to and 
reflect the applicant's research interest and expertise: One course could 
focus on the economic, political, and cultural aspects of the American city 
from a comparative perspective, while the other course should deal with 
globalization and cities in the developing world, preferably involving 
African or South Asian cities. 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 19 10:03:00 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 19 10:07:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Message-ID: <008301c87309$034d0be0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: H. Steiner <hs294@cam.ac.uk>

...............
Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
CRASSH - Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Cambridge
22 February 2008

Over the past year, the Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH has
explored diverse and enlivening topics in the study of cities, urban space,
architecture, and visual and material culture. These topics have ranged
widely in time and space, from predictions for the age of the
supermetropolis to the use of digital technology in architectural space to
an analysis of Mussolini's use of Rome's imperial past in the construction
of its present. Out of these encounters emerged an aspiration to allow for
a more intense investigation of a particular area within this field. This
will find its preliminary culmination in a one-day conference to be hosted
by the City Seminar organisers at CRASSH in Lent term 2008. Taking as its
theme the intersection of sound and the city, this seminar seeks to present
theoretical, artistic and empirical accounts of the complex relationships
between acoustics, sensory awareness and performance in the context of
urban space, landscape and the built environment (historic and
contemporary). But the concepts of 'sound' and 'the city' are only intended
to serve as departure points for more creative reflections on, or
interventions into, this theme. A discussion of sound could well include an
account of silence, just as a description of a city or urban space might
well ask where the city ends and its other begins. Consequently, we expect
an eclectic and illuminating discussion stemming from a variety of
differing disciplines and backgrounds and forming previously unimagined
connections.

Confirmed speakers:

    * Janet Cardiff (Installation artist, Berlin & New York)
      via videoconference
      "Noise in the City"

    * Eric Clarke (Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford)
      "Various Realities: Sound, Music, and Ecological Theory"

    * Michael Bull (Media and Film, University of Sussex)
      "Sounding Out Cosmopolitanism - Mobile Technologies and the migration
      of Difference"

    * Graham Jeffery (Institute for Performing Arts Development,
      University of East London)
      "Expanding the learning soundscape: notes from some interventions in
      urban arts education"

    * Juliana Hodkinson (Composer and arts writer, Copenhagen)
      "Instrumentality and the urban instrumentarium: representation and
      agency in urban sound art"

    * Jacob Kreutzfeldt (Arts and Cultural Studies, University of
      Copenhagen)
      "Acoustic territoriality in a Japanese shopping area"

    * Robin Rimbaud/Scanner (Sound artist and composer, www.scannerdot.com)
      "Imaginary Highways: Sound Polaroids in the City"

Organisers:

    * Uta Staiger (Department of German and Dutch)
    * Henriette Steiner (Department of Architecture)
    * Benjamin Morris (Department of Archaeology)

For registration or administrative enquiries, please contact Anna
Malinowska at apm50@cam.ac.uk.

Please visit for more information
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/soundandthecity.html 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 19 11:36:17 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 19 12:08:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Dreaming the Americas / The Body Politic in Performance (CUNY
 Grad Center)
Message-ID: <00db01c87319$edab43e0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

NoPassport presents a one-day conference:

Dreaming The Americas / The Body Politic In Performance


Friday, February 22nd, 10am-9pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Ave. in NYC

The Plan Mexico panel is at 7:05pm and will feature diverse speakers, 
including:


Harry J. Bubbins was a friend and colleague of Indymedia journalist Brad 
Will and is involved in the movement to achieve accountability for his 
murder. See www.friendsofbradwill.org to get involved.

Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program of the Center for 
International Policy. She has worked as a foreign policy analyst and 
journalist in Mexico for two decades and is co-editor of Confronting 
Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. For 
more information visit www.americaspolicy.org

Hector S?nchez is the Policy Education Coordinator for Global Exchange's 
Mexico Program. He represents the program in Washington, DC., where he 
coordinates efforts to inform and organize legislators and key organizations 
in support of new priorities on trade and immigration. See 
www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/

Playwright Jason Grote will moderate the panel. His plays include Box 
Americana and This Storm is What We Call Progress. Visit 
http://www.jasongrote.com 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Feb 20 11:13:27 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 20 11:15:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: VAI-SSRC NY Prize Fellowship in Sustainable Cities and the
 Social Sciences
Message-ID: <00e601c873db$902e88e0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

VAI-SSRC NEW YORK PRIZE FELLOWSHIP IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES 
AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Van Alen Institute in Partnership with the Social Science Research
Council

Application deadline: March 7, 2008. 

 Van Alen Institute and the Social Science Research Council solicit
proposals for a New York-based public program or series of programs that
function to convene social scientists and spatial practitioners in
architecture, design, and related disciplines for debate and dialogue on
the topic of sustainable cities.  The Institute invites applications
from early- to mid-career scholars and practitioners from the arts,
humanities and sciences.

The VAI-SSRC fellowship tenure spans the length of the 2008-2009
fellowship academic year, during which time fellows pursue advanced
independent research and work with the Institute and the SSRC in the
planning and production of their proposed public program. At some time
during the year, in the fall, spring or summer term, fellows take a
three-month residency at Van Alen Institute.  

The fellowship award includes project support up to $10,000, work and
public programming space at the Institute, publication in Public
Practice, and a range of project production, research and programming
resources. The Institute also provides a stipend to fellows for the
residency period ($1500 to New York City residents; $6500 to
non-residents) and may at its discretion contribute toward travel costs
at the beginning and end of the fellowship term.

Information & application guidelines:
www.vanalen.org/nyprize/application_callforfellows.html.

 

Contact: 

Jessica Blaustein
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212 924 7000 ext. 5
jblaustein@vanalen.org

From Marcy_Brink-Danan at brown.edu  Tue Feb 19 13:52:24 2008
From: Marcy_Brink-Danan at brown.edu (Brink-Danan, Marcy)
Date: Wed Feb 20 12:24:26 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]call for papers AAA2008 "engaging editors - mediated
	methods" 
References: <E1JGH3E-0004IP-OZ@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <1EF6E5ECC183EA4CB3A2EE41E1F2D20802B0F289@MAIL3.AD.Brown.Edu>

Dear SUNTA Members:
I am putting together a panel for AAA 2008 which deals with the ways news journalists/editors collaborate to produce and mediate knowledge. 
I am particularly interested in the European context (broadly construed) and minority media productions. 
Fitting with the goals of the conference, I prefer paper abstracts from non-US based researchers.
Please contact me at Marcy_Brink-Danan@brown.edu with inquiries.
 
***
Marcy Brink-Danan, Ph.D. 
Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology 
Box 1826, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912-1826 
(401) 863-2750
Marcy_Brink-Danan@brown.edu

***
P     Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing
From michael-chibnik at uiowa.edu  Tue Feb 19 12:20:21 2008
From: michael-chibnik at uiowa.edu (Chibnik, Michael S)
Date: Wed Feb 20 12:26:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]anthropology of work review
Message-ID: <6F972D706464F746A870605073DE96613AAB318D18@IOWAEVS04.iowa.uiowa.edu>

I thought that the following would be of interest to some members of this list:

I am pleased to have the opportunity to be the new editor of the Anthropology of Work Review (AWR), the journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work. The goal of the AWR is to publish articles, photo essays, and book and video reviews about all aspects of work. I encourage  ethnographic, theoretical, applied, and methodological contributions written in a straightforward, readable style. Articles and essays are welcome from those working inside and outside of academia, from all countries and from all subfields and areas of specialization within anthropology and related disciplines. I am also interested in suggestions for theme issues.
Articles and photo essays  may be submitted at any time to the AWR, which is published three times a year. The journal is peer reviewed and available through AnthroSource. Issues ordinarily include thee to five articles or essays and book and video reviews. Because of limited space, manuscripts should not be longer than 25 pages double spaced (including references).  Contributors should format their manuscript according to the style guide of the American Anthropological Association http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm. Please include, as a separate attachment, a one-paragraph abstract and five keywords. Manuscripts should be sent to me electronically at michael-chibnik@iowa.edu<mailto:michael-chibnik@iowa.edu> or by regular mail to Michael Chibnik, editor, Anthropology of Work Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Photographs should be sent as tif files to a separate email address where I have more space mchibnik@gmail.com<mailto:mchibnik@gmail.com.>.
Carrie Lane has generously agreed to continue as the AWR reviews editor. Inquiries about book and visual reviews should be her electronically at clane@fullerton.edu<mailto:clane@fullerton.edu> or by regular mail to Carrie Lane, Department of American Studies, P.O. Box 6868, California State University - Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834-6868. Individual book reviews should not exceed four double-spaced pages; review essays should not be longer than 10 pages.
Right now would be a good time to submit manuscripts to AWR. I can promise quick review of submissions and prompt publication of accepted manuscripts. Please contact me if you have any ideas or questions about potential articles or essays.






Michael Chibnik
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Editor, Anthropology of Work Review
phone: 319-335-0530

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 26 23:23:59 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 27 10:56:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Identity, Representation and Power: Experiencing the
	State from the Margins (Madison, Wisconsin)
Message-ID: <005a01c87959$2e0cf330$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

***CALL FOR PAPERS*** 

Identity, Representation and Power:
Experiencing the State from the Margins

The 37th Annual Conference on South Asia October 16- 19, 2008,
Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

We are inviting the submission of papers on "Experiencing the state
from the margins" from which to build a panel for the Annual South
Asian conference. Please see the panel abstract below this
information.

Applicants should familiarise themselves with the conditions, in
particular the "proposal instructions" on the conference website at:
http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/ and send an abstract NO MORE than
400 words in length to dc323@cam.ac.uk & pjw61@cam.ac.uk.

The deadline for abstracts is midnight of Sunday March 16th, 2008. A
final decision on the panel will be made by March 20th 2008 before the
final submission of the complete panel to the Conference organisers
before 1st April 2008. Applicants should therefore be aware that if
their abstract is accepted the conditions for overall panel submission
requires individual registration and payment of conference fee
(Student $60) by March 24th 2008 to us, so that , so that we can
ensure payment reaches Madison by 1st April 2008.

We really look forward to hearing from you and hope that if you are
interested or have further queries you will get in touch.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Philippa & Deepta

Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
Philippa Williams pjw61@cam.ac.uk
& Deepta Chopra dc323@cam.ac.uk


<<PANEL ABSTRACT>>

Identity, representation and power: experiencing the state from the margins

Experiences of the state by India's marginalised communities are
variously influenced by issues of power and representation. Ethnic
minorities, tribal groups, displaced people, the poor, linguistic
minorities, disabled, gays, unemployed, women etc. have typically
struggled to represent their voices at the state level. Nonetheless
expectations for 'the state' to deliver their citizenship rights
endure, especially as new spaces and modes of protest, pressure and
participation emerge within civil society. The interface between 'the
state' and society may be understood as a complex and 'messy' site of
interactions which are progressively mediated by both formal and
informal civil society institutions. The nature and type of mediation
by civil society raises important questions about the legitimacy of
these actors in representing people at the margins of mainstream
society and how their influence shapes the resulting social policies.
This is not to deny the agency of marginalised groups who implicitly
and actively both inspire and challenge representations of themselves
and notions of citizenship.

In the context of a neo-liberal growth strategy as followed by the
Indian state, a plethora of social policies which aim to address the
needs of the 'common man', for instance the RTI, NREGA, and Tribal
Rights Act, the Sachar Committee report, policies on reservations etc.
at the same time as deeply disputed policies such as the SEZ act have
recently emerged. These then reflect greater contestation and tension
between the promise of citizenship and its actual reflection and
refraction in India's developmental agenda. Given the patchwork of
policies and institutions/ actors that are prevalent in India, and the
zig-zag movement of their interactions, the question is how these
social policies are formulated and enacted through the interplay
between the state and pressures from below, and to what extent are
these processes and outcomes in the interests of the marginalised
groups they claim to represent?

In answer to this, the panel will explore the processes of social
policy making by critically considering, not only how marginalised
groups and their representatives are included and occluded in state
political processes, but the extent to which their responses to state
actions feed reiteratively into the political process. As both
positive and negative impacts of these policies are played out, it is
essential to appreciate not only the interactions between and within
the state, civil society and marginalised people that shape these
policies, but also the power and political dynamics that operate
within these interactions. By exploring these issues within an overall
framework for 'inclusive citizenship', this panel seeks to unpack
issues of identity, representation and power and how they are
differentially experienced through interactions between various
actors.


Papers should be empirically grounded, with case studies from India
exploring the following issues:

1)      Representations of marginalised communities by formal and informal
civil society institutions, including community organisations, NGOs,
state officials, social movements etc., and how these affect and are
in turn affected by the identities of marginalized communities
2)      How marginalised populations are represented within the conception,
formulation and implementation processes of social policy, and how the
politics of power relations influence whose voices are considered
3)      How state actions (policies, interventions, recommendations,
reservations etc.) impact on the livelihoods of marginalised
communities and how their experiences of and reactions to the state
may in turn shape state processes.
4)      Reviews of existing policies and assessments regarding their
suitability to the needs of marginalised communities.

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Feb 27 11:00:45 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 27 11:01:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Transnational Dialogues: De-centering the Academic Debate on
 Global Feminisms
Message-ID: <00c301c87959$ed668bb0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Please forward this e-mail as appropriate

Call for Papers
2008 GLCA Conference on Transnational Feminisms

Transnational Dialogues
De-centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms

September 26-28, 2008
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

The internationalization of local feminisms has significantly impacted how, 
in recent years, research agendas are structured in the U.S. and elsewhere. 
Feminists from all over the globe are addressing how globalization brings 
about new forms of gender inequality that, in many cases, are rooted in 
older histories of colonialism and racism. These transnational approaches 
move across national boundaries to assess political, economical, and 
cultural shifts affecting women's lives, and emphasize connections without 
necessarily creating similarities. Within the U.S., feminists of color who 
had experienced first-hand race and class biases were the first ones to 
create a network that included new social movements and transnational 
alliances. The exclusion that women of color from different racial, ethnic, 
physical, national, or sexual identities experienced created the conditions 
that generated novel coalitional movements.

Academic debates have tended to ignore other overarching issues that have 
produced their internationalization. Local feminisms went global during the 
1990s and produced contentious debates over the goals and strategies of 
feminist politics. These transnational dialogues resist essentialism and 
universalism and propose theories and methods that go beyond the exclusive 
focus on gender to make visible other forms of oppression where issues of 
race, class, culture, and sexual orientation intersect.

This conference seeks to engage scholars from various areas of the globe in 
a dialogue to challenge exclusions and omissions of these debates in 
mainstream academia and college curricula. Papers, panels, and workshops may 
be on, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

* Theories, Methods, and Challenges of Transnational Feminisms
* The Politics of the Global/Local Dynamic in Women's Literary and/or 
Artistic Productions
* Feminist Geographies and Transnational Flows: Globalization, Immigration, 
and Displacement
* Politics of Sexualities
* Women's Movements, State Building, and the Growth of Civil Society
* Community Building through Technology
* Building Academic Alliances Within and Beyond Women's and Gender Studies 
Programs

All individual papers should be limited to 20 minutes reading time. 
Proposals for panel discussion and teaching workshops will receive priority. 
Papers in languages other than English will be considered. Selected 
proceedings will be considered for publication.

Undergraduate research (papers or poster sessions) encouraged, faculty 
approval of final paper is required to assure students' participation. 
Students must submit an abstract by February 29 and paper by May 30.

Send a one-page abstract (300 words) submission by February 29, 2008 to:
Prof. Clara Rom?n-Odio and Prof. Marta Sierra at 
tnr.callforpapers@kenyon.edu. 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb 28 22:45:12 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb 28 22:46:09 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Plaza in Peru may be the America's Oldest Urban Site
Message-ID: <029801c87a85$826ade60$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Plaza in Peru may be the America's oldest urban site

A circular plaza unearthed at the ruins of Sechin Bajo, 230 miles north of 
Lima, may have been a site for gatherings and ceremonies, archaeologists 
say.
The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500 years old, 
archaeologists report.

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 26, 2008

LIMA, PERU -- An ancient stone plaza unearthed in Peru dates back more than 
five millenniums and is the oldest known urban settlement in the Americas, 
according to experts here.

Archaeologists say the site, uncovered amid a complex of ruins known as 
Sechin Bajo, is a major discovery that could help reshape their 
understanding of the continent's pre-Columbian history.

Carbon dating by a German and Peruvian excavation team indicates that the 
circular plaza is at least 5,500 years old, dating to about 3,500 BC, said 
Cesar Perez, an archaeologist at Peru's National Institute of Culture who 
supervised the dig.

That would make it older than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Sechin Bajo, 230 miles north of the capital, Lima, thus eclipses the ancient 
Peruvian citadel of Caral, some 5,000 years old, as the New World's oldest 
known settlement.

"This has tremendous importance, both in Peru and internationally," Perez 
said by cellphone from the area. "We think it's the oldest urban site found 
in the Americas."

Word of the discovery was first published Sunday in the Peruvian daily El 
Comercio.

"The findings in Sechin Bajo, especially in the buried circular plaza, have 
demonstrated that there is construction from 5,500 years ago," Peter R. 
Fuchs, a German archaeologist who worked at the site, told the newspaper. 
"Whoever built Sechin Bajo had a good knowledge of architecture and 
construction."

Much of the hidden plaza was uncovered this year, and a great deal of 
excavation remains to be done, Perez said. Relatively little is known about 
the people who lived there.

The plaza, 33 to 39 feet across, may have been a site for gatherings, 
perhaps a kind of ceremonial center. It was built of rocks and adobe bricks.

Successive cultures lived in the area and built over the site.

Earlier finds in the Sechin Bajo area, in the Casma Valley of Peru's Ancash 
region, had been dated at more than 3,000 years old. But the circular plaza 
pushes the area's settlement date back considerably.

Peru is perhaps best known to outsiders as the cradle of the Inca empire, 
which stretched from modern-day Chile to Ecuador. But the Incas were 
relative latecomers in Peru's long history of human settlement, rising to 
prominence in the 15th century before being conquered by the Spanish in the 
early 16th century.

Before the Inca, Peru was home to various civilizations that left a rich 
legacy of ruins, pottery, tombs and artifacts. Teams of archaeologists are 
at work throughout the country, including the bustling capital.

Scientists say settlements were beginning to grow in Peru about the time of 
urbanization in such cradles of civilization as Mesopotamia, Egypt and 
India.

patrick.mcdonnell@latimes.com 


From zgursel at berkeley.edu  Mon Feb 25 15:24:25 2008
From: zgursel at berkeley.edu (Zeynep Gursel)
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:14:21 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2008 CFP: External Forms Internal Norms
In-Reply-To: <E1JD0lz-0006wx-6s@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1JD0lz-0006wx-6s@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <a06240836c3e870eda916@[192.168.2.2]>

Call for Papers
Proposed Session
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Nov. 19-Nov. 23, 2008
Hilton Park and Towers, San Francisco

EXTERNAL FORMS, INTERNAL NORMS: Investigating 
critical terms of inclusion, engagement and 
collaboration

Elif M?yesser Bab?l, Stanford University & Zeynep 
Devrim G?rsel, University of Michigan

Anthropologists have long investigated processes 
of inclusion and exclusion, whether based on 
race, class, gender, ethnicity or nationality. In 
relation to key issues of our times (social 
identity, economic growth, cultural preservation, 
peace-making, social justice) a widespread 
assumption is that collaboration and engagement 
should be promoted with an ideal situation being 
expressed in terms of maximum inclusion.  Yet, 
what are the specific processes enabling maximum 
inclusion?  What kinds of mechanisms come into 
play in an idealized inclusion?  In realms as 
diverse as politics, humanitiarianism, art, 
journalism and energy distribution, collaboration 
begins with an assumption that a certain 
commensurability is feasible and desirable. 
Inclusions are often determined in terms of 
compliance to certain terms and conditions 
defining the criteria for admission. Forms are 
developed as supposed precursors or prerequisites 
to collaboration and inclusion, imagined as means 
of establishing commensurate (thus legitimate) 
grounds of engagement. Hence despite the ideal of 
maximum inclusion, everyday practices often 
emphasize compliance rather than inclusion or 
partnership.

What if we turn our attention to forms 
themselves?  What are the kinds of inclusion that 
are precluded in the imposition of 
outside/external/foreign/international forms in 
an attempt to shape the 
inside/internal/domestic/national norms? How do 
established forms/formats/formalities determine 
and/or negate developing 
norms/normals/normativities?

This panel attends to how forms presented as 
prerequisites for admission, collaboration or 
engagement themselves function as processes of 
inclusion or exclusion. This panel broadly 
examines the mutually constitutive relationship 
between forms/formations/formalities and 
norms/normalities, and how an approach focusing 
on this relationship might enable us to rethink 
processes of inclusion, collaboration and 
engagement. Paying specific attention to the 
institutional practices (of the state, civil 
society, inter/supranational formations, capital, 
markets, communities, subjectivities, etc.) of 
determining the conditions of possibility for 
inclusion/integration, the panel will address the 
widespread consequences, intended or otherwise, 
of certain forms determining the grounds on which 
inclusion and exclusion can be negotiated.

Tweaking classic dichotomies between form and 
content, and arguing that the criteria of 
inclusion are equally defined in formal terms 
along with normative ones, the panel will attend 
to the specific practices of inclusion/exclusion 
employed by both the selectors and the selected 
in various processes of admission/integration in 
diverse ethnographic settings.  The importance of 
such forms has led to a development of formal 
expertise and individuals who are considered 
formal experts who can inform others.  Focusing 
on the power relations that emerge when forms 
themselves are made into a topic of expertise by 
casting the knowledge of form/formal knowledge as 
essential for inclusion, the panel will also 
explore the types of access that are implied in 
those inclusions, often imagined in the form of 
access to resources (linguistic, intellectual, 
financial etc.) and opportunities (for dialogue, 
understanding, wealth etc.).

We invite paper submissions to address these 
issues through any of the following sets of 
questions:

What are the kinds of norms/normalities that are 
produced/incited via compliance to certain 
forms/formalities?

How does a perspective focusing on the 
constitutive aspect of the form enable us to 
rethink processes of 
inclusion/exclusion/collaboration/integration?

What kinds of subjects/objects are called forth 
through the casting of multi/uni-formalities?

What are the kinds of power relations that are 
inherent in different practices of 
admission/integration?

What are the kinds of institutional practices 
that define the forms that need to be complied 
with in order to achieve or demonstrate certain 
norms?

What kinds of negotiations happen during processes of selection?

Are there any possible sites of resistance to 
those selective processes of inclusion/exclusion, 
admission/integration?

Parallel to the way in which formalities are 
constitutive of normalities, can we think of any 
informalities constitutive of abnormalities?

How can we think of forms and norms as mutually constitutive of each other?

What would the possible promises/shortcomings of 
an anthropology of the form be?

Please send abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute 
papers and a brief bio or cv to Elif M?yesser 
Bab?l, embabul@stanford.edu, or Zeynep Devrim 
G?rsel, zgursel@berkeley.edu by by Friday, March 
14, 2008.

-- 
Zeynep Devrim G?rsel, PhD.
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
From zerilli at unica.it  Tue Feb 19 08:18:36 2008
From: zerilli at unica.it (filippo zerilli)
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:16:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: 'Soft Law' Practices, EASA 2008, Ljubljana
Message-ID: <C3E0415C.8F77%zerilli@unica.it>

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Workshop at the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of
Social Anthropologists (EASA) Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26 - 30 August 2008

?SOFT LAW? PRACTICES, ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND LEGAL SCHOLARS

'Soft law' has undoubtedly acquired a prominent position in the making of a
global legal order. Designating quasi-legal instruments, such as 'principles
of conduct', 'guidelines', 'code of practices', 'declarations', it is widely
used by non-state actors such as the IMF and the WTO and by transnational
political institutions such as the UN, the EU and even the G8. This panel
invites empirical (ethnographic) case studies of its concrete functioning
within any politicised social field (migration policies, trade agreements,
bioethics, security and anti-terrorism strategies, human rights etc).
Relevant questions include: how does soft low operate in the realm of social
relations, how is it concretely fabricated and by whom? From which sites do
its principles and codes of practices emanate? What is the interconnection,
if any, between hard and soft law? What is the social logic of their often
unquestioned separation? To which extent can soft law be considered the
product of a paradigmatic shift from the sovereignty of state law to the
supranational legal order of 'fast capitalism'? Is soft law an expression of
an increasing economisation of the juridical typical of neoliberal ideology?
Who benefits from it and why? We also very much wish the panel to be taken
as an opportunity to reflect upon the diversity and mutuality which exist
between the disciplines of law and anthropology today, asking how they
respectively contribute to the understanding of the contemporary
transformation of law (and anthropology) and the production of a global
legal order.

Workshop convenors (contact information):
Filippo M. Zerilli (University of Cagliari) zerilli@unica.it
Marie-Benedicte Dembour (University of Sussex) m.dembour@sussex.ac.uk

To propose a paper submit an abstract (up to 250 words) at
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=237

Conference details at
http://www.easa2008.eu/en/informacija.asp?id_meta_type=13

Deadline for paper proposal is March 31st, 2008


From radams9 at depaul.edu  Wed Feb 27 11:25:33 2008
From: radams9 at depaul.edu (Robert Adams)
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:19:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers--Special Issue of African and Black
	Diaspora
Message-ID: <C3EAF92D.520B%radams9@depaul.edu>

Call for Papers
Reframing the African Diaspora
in the Americas 
 
The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal announce
a Call for Papers for a special issue on Reframing the African Diaspora in
the Americas.
 
Over a half century after Melville Herskovits published his Myth of the
Negro Past (1941), James Clifford in his 1994 article ?Diasporas? posed the
probing question, ?What is at stake, politically and intellectually, in
contemporary invocations of diaspora?? It is a pivotal question today as
scholars explore the link among and between African transnational
communities.
 
The concept of diaspora has been associated with historical events of forced
migration or dispersal whose profound effects have become to be inscribed in
narratives of dislocation.  As a specific historical and contested process
embedded in a set of cultural and social relations  across time and space,
the concept of diaspora as James Clifford (1994) and sociologist Avtar Brah
(1996) remind us, is not limited to a historical experience.  Rather, it
functions both as a theoretical concept and a complex analytic discourse
that ?invites a kind of theorizing that is always embedded in particular
maps and histories.?  Indeed, Brah contends that we conceive of diasporas as
?an ensemble of investigative technologies that historicise trajectories of
different diasporas, and analyse  their relationality across fields of
social relations, subjectivity and identity.?
 
The study of the African diaspora in the Americas has been reinvigorated in
recent decades by a robust debate as scholars shift their inquiry from the
explicit study of cultural ?survival? or ?creolization?, towards an emphasis
on placing Africans and their descendants at the center of their own
histories.  Going beyond the notion of cultural ?survival? or
?creolization?, scholars now explore different sites of power, resistance
and the various social and cultural networks and institutions that Africans
and their descendants have created and developed in an array of cultural
richness and diversity.
 
The African diaspora in the Americas first took root in the hemisphere?s
Portuguese and Spanish colonies. The Iberian colonial regimes? extensive
dependency on African labor created numerous Afro-Latin American communities
across the Americas. Afro-Latin Americans played crucial roles in building
their respective nation-states, while being denied full equal rights.
Afro-Latin Americans actively used diaspora as an important historical
reference as well as a tool for political mobilization.
 
The special issue is seeking contributions that demonstrate how the renewed
debates are reshaping the theorization and investigation of Afro-Latin
communities and cultures in the Americas. Using diaspora as an organizing
framework, we invite contributions to illuminate the linkages, networks,
disjunctions, sense of collective consciousness, memory and cultural
imagination among the peoples of African descent in the Spanish and
Portuguese speaking communities of the Americas.
 
Prospective contributors are invited to send proposals for articles in the
form of a 200-word abstract by June 30, 2008. Authors of accepted proposals
will be asked to submit articles in final form (in English) by December 30,
2008. 
 
All communications regarding the special edition should be directed to the
Guest Editor, Professor Robert Adams (International Studies, DePaul
University), by e-mail: radams@depaul.edu.  Informal enquiries are most
welcome, and the Guest Editor will be happy to discuss individual questions.
 
African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal is devoted to a
critical interrogation of the trans/national movements, locations and
intersections of subjectivity within the African diaspora in the context of
globalization as well as in different discourses, practices and political
contexts. The journal maps and navigates the theoretical and political
shifts imposed by the nation-state to provide a counter-narrative of subject
positions of people of the African diaspora, grounded in cultural and
political responses.
 
General Question about the journal should be directed to:
 
Fassil Demissie 
Public Policy Studies
DePaul University 
2352 N. Clifton Ave Chicago, IL 60614
fdemissi@depaul.edu

Sandra Jackson Center for Black Diaspora
DePaul University 
2320 N. Kenmore Ave Chicago, IL 60614
sjackson@depaul.edu

Abebe  Zegeye, 
The School for Graduate Studies,
University of South Africa
PO Box 392, Pretoria 0003
South Africa 
zegeya@unisa.ac.za 
 
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754~db=al
<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t777764754~db=al> 


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Fri Feb 29 07:34:02 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Fri Feb 29 11:21:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA prizes and awards for students
Message-ID: <200802291239.m1TCdumC010365@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members and friends:

I would just like to remind you that SUNTA now has
three distinct awards for students:

-- a graduate student paper prize (deadline of August
    1, 2008)

-- an undergraduate student paper prize (deadline of
    August 1, 2008)

-- a prize for the best student-organized panel for the
    AAA annual meeting in San Francisco (deadline of
    April 1, 2008)

All of us on the SUNTA board are extremely pleased
to be expanding our recognition of both undergraduate
and graduate students. So do consider applying. Full
details are on the SUNTA web site at:

      http://www.sunta.org/student_awards.htm

Best regards,

David Haines
SUNTA President


From peter699 at msu.edu  Mon Feb 25 18:30:13 2008
From: peter699 at msu.edu (Brandt Peterson)
Date: Sat Mar  1 23:18:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP for AAA panel: Illegibility, ambivalence, and the
	political
Message-ID: <D6CC6273-DB78-4F35-A165-60E42C132FB0@msu.edu>

Illegibility, ambivalence, and the political

Anthropologists have documented with increasing precision and insight  
the ways in which technologies of measurement, identification, and  
inclusion define certain social subjects as knowable and known,  
legible and registered, and as objects in need of intervention.  
Emanating from dispersed sites throughout ?civil society? and  
transnational networks, as well as traditional locations within the  
state, these technologies work by idetnifying the characteristics of  
particular groups, defining the meaning of social problems and  
conceivable remedies, and so containing the space of the political.

This panel explores instances when subjects exceed or elude  
strategies of institutional knowledge production and the technologies  
of exclusion/inclusion and regulation they authorize. Through  
concrete ethnographic and geographic studies, can we understand  
uncertainty and ambivalence as a form of the political, rather than a  
condition of being incompletely or insufficiently ?political??

We seek to move away from the too-familiar celebrations?and  
condemnations?of hybridity, multiplicity, and liminality, on the one  
hand, or fixity, identity, and essence, on the other, that typically  
attend discussions of what we think of here as illegibility or  
ambivalence. To identify hybridity as a condition of political  
possiblity risks minimizing the traumatic injuries or political  
immobility that may attend or produce ambivalent attachments.  
Likewise, blanket assertions that ?some essentialism is necessary?  
for politics risk separating a limited space of political  
authenticity from the complexity of real lives, and so reinscribing  
the authority of experts and diminishing or silencing those who  
exceed essentialist boudaries. Sensitive to these risks, this panel  
turns to concrete ethnographic investigations of illegibility,  
uncertainty, and ambivalence, keeping in mind that that these may be  
conditions of injury and abjection as well as possibility, and may  
attend rooted identities or places as well as fluid or unstable  
locations. What are the conditions of illegibility? What are the  
consequences for subjects who trouble or elude institutional modes of  
knowing, or who reside within or alongside illegible or ambiguous  
spaces? Finally, what are the politics of anthropological practice in  
these conditions? What models of collaboration or activism can we  
imagine to address the terrain of multiple political attachments,  
ambivalent identifications, and uncertain spaces?

We seek papers addressing a broad range of sites, subjects, and  
locations, organized around the questions we pose about ambivalence  
and the political. In order to meet the AAA deadline of April 1, we  
need to receive abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 20,  
2008. Please send abstracts to Brandt Peterson at peter699@msu.edu.




Brandt Gustav Peterson
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
312 Baker Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-7136
peter699@msu.edu



From maganarocio at gmail.com  Tue Feb 19 22:38:29 2008
From: maganarocio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rocio_Maga=F1a?=)
Date: Sat Mar  1 23:36:33 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA '08: "Ethnographies of the Record"
Message-ID: <1d517e9c0802191938m138276bsadd68fa46987f1b5@mail.gmail.com>

Please distribute.

*************************************************************************************************************************
*CALL FOR PAPERS *

"Ethnographies of the Record: The Codes of Collaboration and Inclusion"

2008 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
November 19-23, 2008
San Francisco, California

Paper abstracts are invited for this panel to be submitted to the Society
for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) and the Society
for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) for invited status
consideration for the 2008 AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.
Papers addressing issues of social and political counting, categorization,
and standardization practices, regardless of regional emphasis, will be
considered.

DUE DATE: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Panel Description:

"Ethnographies of the record: The codes of collaboration and inclusion"

As scholars, activists, governmental agencies, and subjects work together to
identify, understand and solve social imperatives and everyday problems,
forms of coding, standardization, and quantitative subjection emerge as part
of a lingua franca of intervention.  In an effort to triage needs and
problems, social phenomena are measured, codified and recorded in ways that
make them manageable and intelligible to all intervening actors.  Thus,
people are counted and categorized; situations, assessed and codified; and
the social is construed into data. Yet processes of accounting are far from
being straightforward technologies of management or governance. Nor are they
one-way vectors of subjectification. Rather, they also produce their own
logics, alliances, artifacts, conceptual categories, sensations, emotional
commitments and forms of sociability that effectively establish the
conditions of social inclusion. This panel  examines the sociopolitical
implications of the quantification and categorization of social phenomena
through ethnographically diverse cases that consider sites and registers
that have emerged through accounting procedures.  We chart how records are
made and circulated within life worlds, and in turn, shape and constrain
those life worlds themselves.

In a world ever more mediated by the production and circulation of reports
and snappy soundbites, the quantification, classification, and codification
practices give rise to "social facts" which, as highly synthesized and
mobile forms of knowledge provide the bases to discriminate and generate
concern, solicit collaboration, and design interventions.  As we consider
discipline's potential to generate inclusion, collaboration, and engagement,
first it is critical to examine the regimentation of knowledge at the core
of ethnographic practice and anthropological analysis. Concerns about how
people classify and categorize their world as a way to make sense of it, to
shape it, and control it have long preoccupied anthropologists, standing at
the center of seminal anthropological studies from Durkheim and Mauss to
Douglas. By no means a dated topic of inquiry, scholars have tracked the
manifestations and effects of classificatory practices in the context of
colonialism (e.g. Bernard S Cohn), development (e.g., James Scott), and
modernity (e.g., Bruno Latour). Anthropologists continue not only to
encounter, but also to appropriate and produce categories and codified forms
of knowledge to order the social and cultural context we study.

This panel brings together a variety of recent approaches and ethnographic
examples from the contemporary world, emerging in both highly localized and
translocal contexts. It tackles, for example, cases that range from the
production and circulation of birth and fecundity statistics and migrant
death tolls on the U.S.-Mexico border, to the calibration of progress away
from "welfare need" in post-Projects Chicago.  In doing so, we aim for a
renewed discussion of contemporary political legitimization through
enumeration processes, the unexpected forms that accounting practices take,
the ongoing life and circulation of such forms, and the exigencies or
ambivalences surrounding demands for accountability.

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

Please submit the following information to Roc?o Maga?a (magana@uchicago.edu)
by Tuesday, February 26, 2008 for consideration:

* Name
* Institutional affiliation
* Paper title
* 250-word abstract
* Contact information


Panel Organizers:
Cassie Fennell, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago (ckf@uchicago.edu)
Roc?o Maga?ana, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago/Dissertation Fellow,
Dartmouth College (magana@uchicago.edu)
From HeimanR at newschool.edu  Mon Feb 25 20:17:42 2008
From: HeimanR at newschool.edu (Rachel Heiman)
Date: Sat Mar  1 23:40:52 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Re: Teaching Possibilities, Eugene Lang College, The New
	School
In-Reply-To: <bc4ce8ab0802181546i5a1b79cfpcf30c1f39cfb2365@mail.gmail.com>
References: <bc4ce8ab0802181546i5a1b79cfpcf30c1f39cfb2365@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47C32266.6CA1.0029.0@newschool.edu>



>>> "Joseph Heathcott" <jheathcott@gmail.com> 2/18/2008 6:46 PM >>>
Dear Colleagues,

We are trying to overhaul our offerings in urban studies at Eugene Lang
College, The New School.  To this end, we want to develop several areas with
new coursework, and I am casting a net among colleagues to see if anyone
knows good people to whom we could offer adjunct positions to staff these
courses.  Instructors must have a terminal degree (MFA, PhD, etc) or be near
to receiving such degree, and also must have some teaching experience.  My
preference is to find people who consider themselves urbanists and who work
in areas such as art and architectural history, material culture studies,
visual and critical studies, etc.

Examples of the kinds of courses we hope to offer include (but are by no
means limited to):

1. Dwell: The Culture and Design of Urban and Suburban Housing since 1900
2. Subway: Moving the City's Millions (exploration of the history, design,
articulations, uses of the NYC subways)
3. The Material City (material culture of cities such as urban furniture,
hardscape, architecture, streetscape, etc)
4. The Civic Landscape (design and use of libraries, hospitals, parks, post
offices, monuments, etc)
5. Industrial New York (exploration of industrial and postindustrial
landscapes, factories, docks, warehouses, canals, dumps)
6. The Visual Culture of the City (urban imagery in film, tv, advertising,
maps, tourism; images circulating within urban spaces)

Any names that you might suggest would be welcome.  Or, please feel free to
have interested individuals get in touch with me directly.

Thanks for your time, and have a great week.

Joseph Heathcott

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From ahenne at uga.edu  Wed Feb 20 14:59:21 2008
From: ahenne at uga.edu (Adam Henne)
Date: Mon Mar  3 11:25:03 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]iLAB - A Collaborative Residency Program
In-Reply-To: <33074.192.168.0.2.1203540118.squirrel@webmail.secure.aluminati.net>
References: <33074.192.168.0.2.1203540118.squirrel@webmail.secure.aluminati.net>
Message-ID: <af0e4d830802201259j158c4509m5486122b8a416c97@mail.gmail.com>

FYI:

---------- Forwarded message ----------


iLAB - A Collaborative Residency Program between Movement Based Artists
and Scientists, Environmentalists and other disciplines.

=
Dear colleagues:
Below please find information on an exciting opportunity to create
connections between conservation scientists and movement artists in the
New York City area.  As a member of the Board of Trustees for iLAND, I
would be more than happy to connect any interested scientist with a
movement artist as we have many more interested dancers than scientists.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at pdukus@yahoo.com with the
subject "iland grant".
Many thanks!
Phaedra Doukakis, Ph.D.

==
iLAB - A Collaborative Residency Program between Movement
Based Artists and Scientists, Environmentalists and other
disciplines.
2008 Residency Schedule: May ? October 2008.
Applications due: 5 pm, March 30th, 2007.
Acceptance Notification: April 20th, 2007.
Contact: info@ilandart.org or 917-860-8239

ILAB Collaborative Residency
iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists
and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects,
architects and others that integrate creative practices within their
different
fields and disciplines.
The goals of iLAB are:
- to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and
the urban environment through kinetic experience,
- to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance,
art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we
create and investigate innovative approaches to science,
infrastructure, urbanisms, and architecture within a performative
context,
- to support the development of process in engagement over product
such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

Honoraria
For each residency iLAB will provide up to $1,000 honorarium for each
artist/collaborator, $300 towards materials, administrative support
including publicity, public outreach, and consultation with other
organizations, and contributors.

Residency Schedules
Schedules can be flexible to accommodate the team's needs but must be two
weeks minimum and one month maximum during the months of May through
October 2008.

Proposals
Proposals should include an outline of the goals and plans for
implementation
of the collaborative process envisioned and should include a clear format
for engaging the public in the project. The proposed collaborative
projects may
include but are not limited to performances, fieldwork, experiments,
exhibits,
installations, workshops, restoration projects or any combinations there of.

Each proposal MUST include some form of public interactions/engagement
with the creative process of the collaboration.

Selection Criteria
Proposals will be selected based on the projects ability to provide a clear
collaborative process, its engagement with the ecology of New York City and
it's ability to engage the public in some way with the creative process of
the collaboration. Emerging artists/collaborators are encouraged to apply.
The
selection committee will place an emphasis on innovation, experimentation
and long-term lifespan of the collaboration or project.

More Information
For more information please contact info@ilandart.org or 917-860-8239.
We would be happy to assist applicants in suggesting collaborators for
projects. Application guidelines are available at
www.ilandart.org/residencies.cfm?id=1&subPage=2

Application Guidelines iLAB 2008
A complete proposal includes the following 3 items: a project narrative,
biographies, and work samples. Please include 2 copies of both the
narrative and the collaborator bios.
1. 1-2 page project narrative that addresses the following:
a. Description of your project
b. Names and background information on project collaborators
c. Description of the public engagement that will take place
during the project
d. Discussion of the long-term sustainability of the collaborations
or of the project as a whole
e. Description of the level of engagement with the New York City
urban environment
2. Biographies of each of the collaborators. Please limit to two pages per
collaborator.
3. Work samples (one per collaborator)
a. Work samples can include videos, DVDs, drawings, CD's,
slides, writings, research studies or reports.
b. The selection committeee will spend up to 20 minutese on
each collaboration collection of samples. Please prepare a
work sample presentation that represents the collaboration
c. Submit a WORK SAMPLE SHEET that guides the committee in
the best way to view/experience your materials. We highly
suggest that you cue videos, indicate chapters for DVDs,
indicate tracks for CDs, viewing order for slides and drawings,
and mark selections from writings, studies and reports.
d. Please label work samples clearly with collaborator name,
year of work and title of work.

If you would like your work samples returned, please include a
selfaddressed,
stamped envelope with your proposal package. All submissions
must be received by 5pm on March 30, 2007. Please send applications via
e-mail and regular mail to:
info@ilandart.org
and to:
iLAND 2008 Artist-in-Residency RFP
I40 Second Ave. #501
NY, NY 10003

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-- 
Adam Henne, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA  30602
http://ahenne.myweb.uga.edu
From reenvisioningsocialism at yahoo.com  Thu Feb 28 19:25:35 2008
From: reenvisioningsocialism at yahoo.com (Reenvisioning Socialism)
Date: Tue Mar  4 11:33:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Requested Posting for March 9 Event: What Is Bob Avakian's New Synthesis?
Message-ID: <460463.97966.qm@web45801.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Hi,

I am writing to request that you post the announcement (at the end of this email, below the astericks) to your list. My buddy and I have been poking around on the Internet, trying to get beyond "the usual suspects" (i.e., political activists) who might normally come to an event like this -- we feel that there are far broader numbers of people who need to be part of this conversation.

This is a very unusual event -- it will be the first major public presentation and discussion of Bob Avakian's New Synthesis anywhere in the U.S., and it is aimed at kicking the question of communist revolution as a viable road to liberation for all of humanity back into the political debate. Avakian has spent literally 30 years struggling to sum up the mainly postive experience of the revolutions of the 20th Century, while also looking very hard at the serious shortcomings, and has brought forward a scientific reenvisioning of the process of revolution that will be more liberating and more viable than the initial experiments of the last century.

 This kind of discussion is urgently needed; over the last few decades the existing capitalist world order has been trumpeted as the best possible for humanity, even while the actual nightmare of globalization, war, environmental destruction and more has overwhelmed people's hopes for something better. People's dreams have been so crushed that a horrific fundamentalist like Bin Laden can present himself as a positive alternative to U.S. imperialism, and the U.S. in turn claims to be the only salvation from an Islamic Caliphate. Meanwhile, in the U.S. many progressive people are at the point where a candidate who won't promise to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of his term, won't rule out using nuclear weapons against Iran, and publicly speculates on military intervention in Pakistan is seen as "fresh" and "exciting".

And who more than anthropologists would want to learn about and contribute to the discussion of a possible radically different future for humanity?

Please let us know if you have any questions, criticism, ideas, or complaints about the announcement, or the content of the links it contains (which we urge you to explore.) Please post the announcement (below) and popularize the event in whatever other ways you can think of.

Revolutionary regards,

Gary Andale.

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

Sunday, March 9th - 4:00 p.m. 

Revolution Books presents: 

"Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: 
WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN'S NEW SYNTHESIS?" 

A major presentation, followed by freewheeling discussion.

Agonizing about the direction of society? The world? Think communism is dead, but hope that another world is possible? You need to hear this. Presentation followed by discussion of how Bob Avakian has re-envisioned socialism which is both visionary and viable. How he has tackled a whole realm of questions, including how a new revolutionary power could maintain power and maintain it as a power worth keeping. 

St. Paul & St. Andrew Church 
Corner of West 86th St & West End Ave 
1 train to 86th Street, walk 1 block west to West End Ave 
$10 sliding scale 
Further info: 212-691-3345 

www.revolutionbooksnyc.org 

www.bobavakian.net

Please circulate and/or forward this announcement widely.


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