From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan  3 16:05:23 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  3 16:06:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Mathiason on Foster, International Refugee Law and
 Socio-Economic Rights...
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[cross-posted from H-Human-Rights]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Human-Rights@h-net.msu.edu (January 2008)

Michelle Foster. _International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic
Rights: Refuge from Deprivation_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007, 387 pp., $105 (ISBN: 978-0-521-87017-7)

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by John Mathiason, Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Connecting the Conventions: Refugees, Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and Due Diligence

There are different causes for global migration, but probably the two
greatest are flight from conflict zones as refugees, and movement from
country to country searching for better economic opportunities. In
most cases in the last twenty years, determining refugee status has
been fairly easy. The individuals concerned have crossed a border as a
group and have been placed in a camp under the authority of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as mandated by the United
Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its
1967 Protocol. UNHCR makes the determination of status, sometimes on
a collective basis. For other persons who cross borders and claim
refugee status, determining whether the person is a bona fide refugee
or an economic migrant has become increasingly difficult, particularly
when the person has left the proximity of the country of origin and
has reached a country that grants asylum on the basis of the Refugee
Convention. Michelle Foster's thorough study of the issue examines the
legal aspects of determining refugee status for individuals who have
already reached a developed country. Her focus is on the use of
economic, social and cultural rights to determine status rather than
the civil and political rights that are usually used.

Foster begins her analysis, which is thoroughly footnoted to case law,
with an exploration of why a human rights framework should be used to
interpret the refugee convention. That human rights are relevant is
set out in the first paragraph of the preamble to the Refugee
Convention. But which rights apply, or how, is not established in the
Convention. She discusses the arguments made for and against using
human rights protection as a ground for granting refugee status, and
concludes that it is incontrovertible. She then examines whether socio-
economic claims can provide grounds for status. Here the grounds
become somewhat more murky, but she argues that although some consider
economic, social and cultural rights less than civil and political
rights, there is a clear integration of all of the rights and no
realistic hierarchy of importance among them. She does note that some
States, including particularly the United States, consider economic
and social rights aspirations rather than rights in the same sense as
civil and political rights (and for this reason have only ratified the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).

She then examines the meaning of "persecution" as defined in the
Refugee Convention. Here the application of economic and social rights
again is less clear, since often violation of rights is because of
neglect rather than a formal act, and it is sometimes difficult to
separate the situation of the individual from the general conditions
in his or her country of origin. She notes a number of cases where
there is an intersection between group membership and access to
education or to health. These are linked, in part, to her discussion
of what constitutes a social group for the purposes of the Refugee
Convention. Here there is a body of case law that links situations of
individuals to human rights conventions that define groups, like the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on
Migrant Workers and their Families and the new Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She notes that there are other
groups, defined by common features that lead to discrimination, like
persons suffering with HIV/AIDS. She analyzes the existing cases and
concludes that there is an increasing, but by no means constant, body
of law that has found deprivation of economic and social rights,
including especially the right to work, to education and to health, to
be a ground for conceding refugee status.

I read Foster's analysis not from the perspective of an international
lawyer, but as someone who was involved in different ways with several
of the key conventions that she cites. While the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is the
direct translation of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, much
of the case law cited refers to the group specific conventions. I
worked with the CEDAW Convention when I was Deputy Director of the
UN Division for the Advancement of Women, as well as when the UN
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was
negotiated. I also had an input at an early stage of the negotiations
of the Disability Rights Convention. The ICESCR sets out the rights
and some obligations of States to protect them, but the other
conventions were negotiated because governments and civil society
believed that while States accepted the rights (even as aspirations),
the issue for the groups was whether the rights could be enjoyed. The
group-specific conventions contain a standard set of policies that
States should adopt in order to guarantee enjoyment. The focus was on
whether the States actually established policies as part of their
compliance with the obligations and how effectively they implemented
them.

The dilemma with economic, social and cultural rights is that if a
State fails to provide for them for the whole population through
policies and programs, it is difficult to make a case for individuals
on the basis that the rights are not enjoyed. As Foster points out,
the strongest case individuals can make is that, because of their
political views - or their ethnic or other group affiliation, States
act to deprive them of work, or education or health services as a
matter of policy. The key here is that the States act against the
individual and that this constitutes persecution. Less clear is when
there is no act, but rather neglect. States can argue that resources
are not sufficient to enable the State to protect certain rights, as
some have done regarding persons with HIV/AIDS.

This argument came up in the context of negotiating the UN Declaration
on the Elimination of Violence against Women (VAW). The Declaration
itself was one response to the fact that the CEDAW convention was
completely silent on the violence, because the convention had been
negotiated before the violence issue had come to the fore. The
definition of violence against women in the Declaration is, in fact, a
tautology ("violence against women 'means any act of gender-based
violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual
or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such
acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring
in public or in private life."-- United Nations Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence Against Women, Article 1 (General Assembly
resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993) It specifies a range of acts
that constitute this type of violence. Because much of this occurs in
non-public space, the issue of using a well founded fear of violence
as a woman's basis of a claim for refugee status has to do with the
role of the State. Here the negotiators of the Declaration agreed that
State responsibility was not merely to avoid committing violence
itself, but rather to "Exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate
and, in accordance with national legislation, punish acts of violence
against women, whether those acts are perpetrated by the State or by
private persons." (United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of
Violence Against Women) Under this understanding, if a State failed to
exercise due diligence to protect a group - in this case women - it
could be said to permit persecution. When the VAW was being negotiated
I remember some of the participants noting that the addition of due
diligence was a breakthrough in defining State obligations for acts
that did not occur in public space. It is interesting that due
diligence is not something highlighted in the analysis. In some
respects, this is an instance of the emerging international notion of
responsibility to protect, one of the innovations of Kofi Annan's
tenure as U.N. Secretary-General and one now being promoted by his
successor Ban Ki-Moon.

Foster bases most of her analysis on judicial decisions in common law
countries. This makes sense since judicial reasoning in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (as well
as some countries in the Commonwealth like South Africa) is how
international law develops. While her arguments are cogent, I did note
that in some places she noted that the application of economic and
social rights was accepted by courts because the discrimination was
directed toward groups, like the Roma, who could be shown (because of
the Nazi concentration camps) to have been historically targeted. The
same case often cannot be made for persons who are not part of those
groups.

The real issue is whether, if violation of economic and social rights
becomes a major basis for granting refugee status, this will open the
floodgates to inter-state movements. One could envisage, for example,
persons from the United States fleeing to Canada and claiming refugee
status because the United States government has not been able to
provide them with affordable health insurance. More apt is the current
move of persons to leave their own countries in search of a better
life, but where, depending on how economic and cultural rights are
interpreted, they could claim that economic opportunities were not
provided in their home countries. Applying the due diligence test
might be one way of dealing with this. If the State of origin has
tried to improve the economic and social lot of its population without
discrimination, there would be no grounds for claims of persecution.
However, if it failed to exercise due diligence for a part of its
population, based on discrimination against a coherent group, a claim
might be made.

Foster notes that there is an evolution of practice, and that she has
not addressed the issue of whether the Refugee Convention needs to
be revisited in the light of a broader human rights approach. Such a
reexamination would be a positive development, as would a further
exploration of due diligence as a criterion. In the meantime, this
book should be of considerable use to everyone dealing with the
complexities of refugee law or the practical evolution of economic,
social and cultural rights.

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan  3 16:17:46 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  3 16:30:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: (De)Constructing Urbanities: Opportunities and Challenges in
 African Cities (Los Angeles, CA)
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 (De)Constructing Urbanities: Opportunities and Challenges in African Cities

Call for Papers for Spring conference at UCLA

Location: Los Angeles, California
CFP Deadline : February 15, 2008

Submissions: To encourage discourse on the challenges and opportunities 
facing Africans in the post-colonial context of urbanization, the African 
Activist Association at UCLA is hosting a symposium to examine new 
configurations of African cities. Possible topics could include: public 
policy and administration, public health, demography and mobility, 
architecture and art of the city, youth culture and music, film and 
performance art, religion and spirituality, or law. Abstracts or 
descriptions of the presentations should be no longer than 250 words and 
should include contact information, name, mailing address, telephone number, 
affiliation, department, and email address. Participants will have the 
option of submitting, at a later date, copies of their presentations to be 
considered for publication in Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies.

Eligibility: Although we strongly encourage graduate students, we also 
welcome submissions from undergraduates, professionals, post-doctoral 
researchers, lecturers, professors, activists, and practitioners. Papers and 
presentations on topics related to Africa in ALL DISCIPLINES and from ALL 
INSTITUTIONS, PROGRAMS and ORGANIZATIONS will be considered.

African Activist Association
The James S. Coleman African Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles
10244 Bunche Hall
PO Box 951310
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310

Email: africanactivists@gmail.com 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan  3 16:12:18 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  3 16:30:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin
 America (Mexico)
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Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America

Audiences: Film scholars and area scholars (Latin America and Asia); 
sociology; philosophy' anthropology.
Date: Deadline is 1 april 2008
Venue: Conference will be held in Mexico in August 2008

Description:
If cinema was instrumental to nation building processes during the twentieth 
century, it has been equally central to their challenging, interrogation and 
sometimes reaffirmation in the twenty-first. This is especially true for 
Asian and Latin American cinemas, as present conditions variously described 
as 'globalisation' or 'flexible accumulation' have wrought tremendous social 
change, both rising standards of living and increasing inequality; allowing 
for reverse cultural flows and also exposing the mediascapes of countries in 
these two regions to unprecedented contact with 'the West'; reducing their 
film production while also increasing availability of films made there. We 
invite papers addressing the relationship between these cinemas and 
(post)national identity, cinema and modernity/postmodernity, exilic cinema, 
diasporic and border filmmaking, the effects of digital technology on 
filmmaking and viewing in Asia and Latin America and, more generally, on the 
impact of globalisation on film industries in these two regions.

The following topics would be especially welcome:
* Contemporary issues of audience reception
* The role of co-productions
* Cross-fertilisation of genre across Asian/Latin American Cinemas
* The role of festivals in the construction and promotion of Asian and Latin 
American transnational cinemas
* Diasporic cinema
* Asian and Latin American directors and contemporary auteur theory
* The Cultural construction of Stars and Fandom in Internet communities
* Alternative versions of modernity in Asian and Latin American cinema

Send 300 word abstract to the organisers, Armida de la Garza and Claudia 
Magallanes, by 1 April 2008 to the following address: 
Armida.Delagarza@nottingham.edu.cn

Dr Armida de la Garza
Lecturer in International Communication
University of Nottingham, Ningbo
199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo, China 315100
+86 (0) (574) 88180993
+86 (0) (574) 88180125
Email: armida.delagarza@nottingham.edu.cn
Visit the website at http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/ 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan  3 18:44:04 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  3 18:45:12 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: Giving Birth Becomes the Latest Job Outsourced to India as
 Commercial Surrogacy Takes Off
Message-ID: <02f301c84e62$8aec6990$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Dr. Virginia Cornue <cornue@rci.rutgers.edu>

FYI, and what a subject for research.

Virginia Cornue


Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:07:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Families With Children From China Greater NY GreaterNYFCC@aol.com



http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4066719
World Outsources Pregnancies to India
Giving Birth Becomes Latest Job Outsourced to India As Commercial Surrogacy 
Takes Off
By SAM DOLNICK
The Associated Press
ANAND, India


Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for 
sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession 
of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.

A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies 
would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of 
Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of 
infertile couples from around the world.

The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local 
women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them 
afterward. Anand's surrogate mothers, pioneers in the growing field of 
outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies.

More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of 
couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn 
more than many would make in 15 years. But the program raises a host of 
uncomfortable questions that touch on morals and modern science, 
exploitation and globalization, and that most natural of desires: to have a 
family.

Dr. Nayna Patel, the woman behind Anand's baby boom, defends her work as 
meaningful for everyone involved.

"There is this one woman who desperately needs a baby and cannot have her 
own child without the help of a surrogate. And at the other end there is 
this woman who badly wants to help her (own) family," Patel said. "If this 
female wants to help the other one ... why not allow that? ... It's not for 
any bad cause. They're helping one another to have a new life in this 
world."

Experts say commercial surrogacy or what has been called "wombs for rent" is 
growing in India. While no reliable numbers track such pregnancies 
nationwide, doctors work with surrogates in virtually every major city. The 
women are impregnated in-vitro with the egg and sperm of couples unable to 
conceive on their own.

Commercial surrogacy has been legal in India since 2002, as it is in many 
other countries, including the United States. But India is the leader in 
making it a viable industry rather than a rare fertility treatment. Experts 
say it could take off for the same reasons outsourcing in other industries 
has been successful: a wide labor pool working for relatively low rates.

Critics say the couples are exploiting poor women in India a country with an 
alarmingly high maternal death rate by hiring them at a cut-rate cost to 
undergo the hardship, pain and risks of labor.

"It raises the factor of baby farms in developing countries," said Dr. John 
Lantos of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Mo. "It comes 
down to questions of voluntariness and risk."

Patel's surrogates are aware of the risks because they've watched others go 
through them. Many of the mothers know one another, or are even related. 
Three sisters have all borne strangers' children, and their sister-in-law is 
pregnant with a second surrogate baby. Nearly half the babies have been born 
to foreign couples while the rest have gone to Indians.

Ritu Sodhi, a furniture importer from Los Angeles who was born in India, 
spent $200,000 trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization, and 
was considering spending another $80,000 to hire a surrogate mother in the 
United States.

"We were so desperate," she said. "It was emotionally and financially 
exhausting."

Then, on the Internet, Sodhi found Patel's clinic.

After spending about $20,000 more than many couples because it took the 
surrogate mother several cycles to conceive Sodhi and her husband are now 
back home with their 4-month-old baby, Neel. They plan to return to Anand 
for a second child.

"Even if it cost $1 million, the joy that they had delivered to me is so 
much more than any money that I have given them," said Sodhi. "They're 
godsends to deliver something so special."

Patel's center is believed to be unique in offering one-stop service. Other 
clinics may request that the couple bring in their own surrogate, often a 
family member or friend, and some place classified ads. But in Anand the 
couple just provides the egg and sperm and the clinic does the rest, drawing 
from a waiting list of tested and ready surrogates.

Young women are flocking to the clinic to sign up for the list.

Suman Dodia, a pregnant, baby-faced 26-year-old, said she will buy a house 
with the $4,500 she receives from the British couple whose child she's 
carrying. It would have taken her 15 years to earn that on her maid's 
monthly salary of $25.

Dodia's own three children were delivered at home and she said she never 
visited a doctor during those pregnancies.

"It's very different with medicine," Dodia said, resting her hands on her 
hugely pregnant belly. "I'm being more careful now than I was with my own 
pregnancy."

Patel said she carefully chooses which couples to help and which women to 
hire as surrogates. She only accepts couples with serious fertility issues, 
like survivors of uterine cancer. The surrogate mothers have to be between 
18 and 45, have at least one child of their own, and be in good medical 
shape.

Like some fertility reality show, a rotating cast of surrogate mothers live 
together in a home rented by the clinic and overseen by a former surrogate 
mother. They receive their children and husbands as visitors during the day, 
when they're not busy with English or computer classes.

"They feel like my family," said Rubina Mandul, 32, the surrogate house's 
den mother. "The first 10 days are hard, but then they don't want to go 
home."

Mandul, who has two sons of her own, gave birth to a child for an American 
couple in February. She said she misses the baby, but she stays in touch 
with the parents over the Internet. A photo of the American couple with the 
child hangs over the sofa.

"They need a baby more than me," she said.

The surrogate mothers and the parents sign a contract that promises the 
couple will cover all medical expenses in addition to the woman's payment, 
and the surrogate mother will hand over the baby after birth. The couples 
fly to Anand for the in-vitro fertilization and again for the birth. Most 
couples end up paying the clinic less than $10,000 for the entire procedure, 
including fertilization, the fee to the mother and medical expenses.

Counseling is a major part of the process and Patel tells the women to think 
of the pregnancy as "someone's child comes to stay at your place for nine 
months."

Kailas Gheewala, 25, said she doesn't think of the pregnancy as her own.

"The fetus is theirs, so I'm not sad to give it back," said Gheewala, who 
plans to save the $6,250 she's earning for her two daughters' education. 
"The child will go to the U.S. and lead a better life and I'll be happy."

Patel said none of the surrogate mothers has had especially difficult births 
or serious medical problems, but risks are inescapable.

"We have to be very careful," she said. "We overdo all the health 
investigations. We do not take any chances."

Health experts expect to see more Indian commercial surrogacy programs in 
coming years. Dr. Indira Hinduja, a prominent fertility specialist who was 
behind India's first test-tube baby two decades ago, receives several 
surrogacy inquiries a month from couples overseas.

"People are accepting it," said Hinduja. "Earlier they used to be ashamed 
but now they are becoming more broadminded."

But if commercial surrogacy keeps growing, some fear it could change from a 
medical necessity for infertile women to a convenience for the rich.

"You can picture the wealthy couples of the West deciding that pregnancy is 
just not worth the trouble anymore and the whole industry will be farmed 
out," said Lantos.

Or, Lantos said, competition among clinics could lead to compromised safety 
measures and "the clinic across the street offers it for 20 percent less and 
one in Bangladesh undercuts that and pretty soon conditions get bad."

The industry is not regulated by the government. Health officials have 
issued nonbinding ethical guidelines and called for legislation to protect 
the surrogates and the children.

For now, the surrogate mothers in Anand seem as pleased with the arrangement 
as the new parents.

"I know this isn't mine," said Jagrudi Sharma, 34, pointing to her belly. 
"But I'm giving happiness to another couple. And it's great for me."


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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Jan  4 23:56:24 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan  4 23:57:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Message-ID: <000601c84f57$56908500$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

(forwarded from H-Urban)

From: Jose Luis Arguello <jlar@mit.edu>

2008-2009 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA@MIT) is
pleased to announce its postdoctoral fellowship program for the
academic year 2008-2009. The fellowship program is intended for
scholars with Ph.D. in any field related to architecture - including
architectural, art, and urban history, design, technology,
computation, urban planning, anthropology, and archeology - who are
engaged in research on an Islamic topic. One to three fellowships
will be granted. The fellowship duration can range from two months to
a maximum of two semesters, or nine months, of residency, that will
have to fall within the academic year. Fellows are expected to pursue
their own research, give at least one public lecture, and participate
in the program's scholarly and academic activities during their stay
at MIT. The fellowship award consists of monthly stipend not to
exceed the amount of $3,000 (before taxes) per month and one
roundtrip ticket for the fellow from his/her place of residence.
Fellows will be responsible to find their own housing and health
insurance during their fellowship period. AKPIA will provide library
cards and email accounts at MIT.

Deadline for application is March 1, 2008. Results will be announced
by April 20, 2008. Applicants should send a C.V., a research proposal
specifying the desired period of stay and other sources of funding if
available, one substantial writing sample or a portfolio, and two
letters of recommendation. No electronic applications will be
accepted. Applicants are encouraged to seek other sources of funding
to supplement the fellowship award. Scholars with their own financial
resources or who are on sabbatical and wish to apply to AKPIA
fellowships are also welcome. AKPIA reserves the right to prorate its
fellowship when combined with another grant or fellowship.

Please send all application material to:
Prof. Nasser Rabbat
2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT, Room 10-390
Cambridge, MA 02139
For further information please send email to <akpiarch@mit.edu> or visit the
web at
http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/fellowshipsreq.htm
--
Jose Luis Arguello
Administrative Assistant
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT, 10-390
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139  USA


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Jan  6 14:28:21 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan  6 16:02:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: 18 Scholarships for urban studies in Germany,
	Italy, France and Spain
Message-ID: <06b401c850a7$5f99e1e0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

(forwarded from URBGEOG)

Dear  colleague,

This is to  communicate to you a generous scholarship opportunity for urban
studies focusing  on countries of the South. We will be grateful if you 
could
widely disseminate  the news summarized below in order to attract the best
possible applicants in  the relatively short period remaining until the 
deadline
in mid-January.

Thank you for your  co-operation
Prof. Dr. Kosta  Math?y
PAR / Technische Universit?t Darmstadt
mathey@par.tu-damstadt.de

18 Scholarships available  for urban studies in Germany, Italy, France and
Spain.

The Erasmus Mundus Program offers scholarships to non-European students and
scholars to  participate in the interdisciplinary Advanced Master's Course 
in
International Co-operation and Urban  Development. The English taught 
program
is jointly offered by the Technische  Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany), the
Universit? Tor Vergata in Rome, the  Universitat Internacional de Catalunya 
in
Barcelona and the Universit? Pierre  Mend?s France in Grenoble and leads to 
a
double degree. Applicants for student  scholarships (value ? 42.000,- over 
two
years each) should have concluded  previous studies of a minimum of 4 years
with excellent results in a career  related to urban development and have
professional working experience of a  minimum of one year. Scholars from
outside Europe may apply for  short term bursaries (?4000,- per month) to
teach and conduct research at one of  the above mentioned  universities. In 
both
cases the deadline for applications is  January 15th, 2008 for the 2008-2010
cycle. Further information: http://www.mundus-urbano.eu .



-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Eugene McCann
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6
Canada

Email:  emccann@sfu.ca
Phone (Direct):  778.782.4599
Phone (Departmental Office):  778.782.3321
Fax:  778.782.5841
http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/Faculty_sites/EugeneMcCann/index.htm 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Jan  6 14:36:26 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan  6 16:02:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Dissertation Workshop: Times of Trouble: Violence in Eurasia, From
 Past to Present
Message-ID: <06b501c850a7$602b4c70$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Dissertation Development Workshop - Times of Trouble: Violence in Eurasia, 
from Past to Present

Eligibility Requirements: Graduate students at any stage of their 
dissertation process (from proposal to write-up) and from any disciplinary 
or interdisciplinary program in the humanities or social sciences are 
eligible. Applicant's projects must adress the theme of the workshop and 
relate as a whole or in part to one or more of these regions in their 
current or historical context: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, 
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

US Citizen/Permanent Resident Requirement: Yes

Non-monetary Fellowship Award: Workshop participants will be brought 
toegether with approximately 10 of their peers and 5 faculty members for 2-3 
days of intensive discussions; all participation costs will be covered.

Description: The Eurasia Program Dissertation Development Workshops bring 
together 10-12 doctoral students and 5-6 faculty participants for 2-3 days 
of intensive critical discussion of the students' dissertation projects as 
well as larger theoretical and methodological issues. These workshops serve 
as a valuable and effective way to strengthen expertise on Eurasia and help 
shape the field by promoting a sense of community among, and fostering 
intellectual exchanges between, students and scholars at different levels 
and from different disciplines. This multidisciplinarity allows for 
refreshing insights into their topics and encourages a wider discussion of 
the region as a whole. The following types of issues will shape this years 
discussions: Tsarist-era pogroms, the brutalities of the Stalinist period, 
the fame of the Russian mafia, contemporary human rights abuses in Central 
Asia, and ongoing conflicts across the Caucasus suggest only some of the 
best known concerns of the past 100 years. What kind of norms or values have 
governed the use of violence in the territory once covered by the Russian 
empire and the Soviet Union, now by the Russian Federation and other 
successor states? To what extent have scholars focused appropriately or at 
times excessively, on these most sensational aspects of former Soviet space? 
What have been the responses from individuals, groups, and states from 
within and outside the region to violence and repression?

Contact Information:
Hollly Danzeisen
810 Seventh Avenue
31st Floor
New York NY 10019
Email: eurasia@ssrc.org
URL http://http://programs.ssrc.org/eurasia/Title8_Dissertation_Workshops/ 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jan  7 13:50:16 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan  7 14:07:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AES/SANA 2008 (Deadline extended)
Message-ID: <002f01c85160$6faedc20$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: A. Fox <aaf19@COLUMBIA.EDU>


PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS AND PANELS FOR AES/SANA 
2008 HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FEB. 8th, 2008. Please circulate this message 
widely among colleagues and students.
____________________________________


Advanced online registration for the AES/SANA spring meeting is now 
avaliable at  aesonline.org/AESSANA2008.


The conference, titled "Democracy, Disorder and Discontent,  will take place 
in Wrightsville Beach, NC (April 3-5, 2008).  Additional information, along 
with conference registration and paper/panel submission forms are available 
on the AES web site and below this message.


Please send all panel and paper submissions to aes.sana08@gmail.com by 
FEBRUARY 8th (please note the extended deadline).


Direct questions to Lesley Gill (lgill@american.edu).


___________________________________


AES/SANA 2008 - Call For Papers.


Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent

The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) and the American 
Ethnological Society (AES) announce a joint meeting for 2008:

SANA/AES Spring 2008 Meeting
Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent
April 3-5, 2008
Wrightsville Beach, NC


Submission deadline for panel and paper proposals: Febr. 8, 2008 (deadline 
extended)


Deadline for advance registration: March 13, 2008


Information and forms for paper/panel submission and conference registration 
are available at:
http://aesonline.org/AESSANA2008

The 2008 SANA/AES conference seeks panels and papers that creatively engage 
the discrepancies between the idea and the practice of democracy and that 
explore the forms of disorder and discontent engendered by these 
contradictions. What is democracy? Democracy is often understood as an 
expansion of individual freedoms, the spreading out of economic equality 
through participation in the market, and an alternative to excessive 
government regulation. Yet despite these optimistic claims, there remains an 
inherent tension between economic inequality and democratic politics. 
Emergent social and political orders in many parts of the world are 
characterized by growing inequality, and they are neither democratic nor 
secure. Furthermore, established rights, entitlements, and democratic 
principles in the United States itself have eroded, and wealth is 
increasingly redistributed upwards.

We seek participants who address the tensions inherent in democratic 
processes and the disorder and discontent that arise from these 
disjunctures. Key questions include, but are not limited to, the following: 
How do race, gender, class, citizenship, and sexual orientation shape the 
ways that different kinds of people understand democracy and democratic 
participation in the age of neoliberalism? Within emergent and long-standing 
democracies, how is citizenship linked to new forms of inclusion and 
exclusion? How and to what extent do democracies justify incarceration, 
police brutality, military and paramilitary activities and other forms of 
violence, even as they create political opportunities to critique them? What 
are the possibilities and pitfalls of new oppositional discourses that focus 
on individual, social, and human rights? What sorts of alternative political 
projects are currently imaginable and unimaginable?

__________________________________________


Keynote Speakers

    * AES Keynote: Ida Susser, AES President (2005-2007)
    * SANA Keynote: Hilary Cunningham (University of Toronto)

Plenary Panel Sessions

    * "War, Impunity, and Accountability"
    * "Race and Justice"



Further Information:
http://www.aesonline.org 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jan  8 14:16:30 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan  8 14:24:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Graduate Fellowships in Ecological Anthropology
Message-ID: <00df01c8522b$fef3efd0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Jamon Halvaksz <Jamon.Halvaksz@UTSA.EDU> 


Graduate Fellowships in Ecological Anthropology
 
The University of Texas at San Antonio's Ph.D. program in Ecological
Anthropology will offer two-year graduate fellowships to qualified incoming
doctoral students. Awards of $20,000 per year are provided to cover in-state
tuition and living expenses. Recipients are classified as in-state residents
for the duration of their appointment. Recipients are expected to TA one
course per term. Teaching fellowships and other forms of financial aid are
available on a competitive basis following the two-year appointment.
 
Please find application procedures at:
http://colfa.utsa.edu/ant/PhDinAnthropology.htm.
 
Deadline: February 1.
 
For further information contact Dr. Thad Q. Bartlett, Doctoral Advisor
(thad.bartlett@utsa.edu).


-- 
Jamon Alex Halvaksz, II
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at San Antonio

210.458.6905

http://politicsofnature.wordpress.com/

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 10 00:00:02 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 10 00:01:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: International Action Day to Shut Down Guantanamo
Message-ID: <006301c85345$b024f500$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

ANN: International Action Day to Shut Down Guantanamo

This Friday, JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the
first arrival of prisoners at Guant?namo Bay.

On January 11, the ACLU is calling on everyone opposed to torture and
indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and
disgust with the national shame that is Guant?namo Bay.

When someone asks why you're wearing orange, tell them, "Because I
believe in habeas corpus and fair trials; because I believe torture is
immoral, illegal, and un-American; and because Guant?namo is damaging
our country's reputation in the world."

Want to take more action? Download the CLOSE GUANT?NAMO
Toolkit now to find out how you can organize for January 11 at
home, in your office, in your community, and online:
http://tinyurl.com/2pto6d

If you're busy this Friday, that's ok - you can still sign the pledge, tell
your friends, or download a factsheet.  You can click here to learn
more about Guant?namo Bay: http://www.aclu.org/gitmo

Stand up, get active, and spread the word.  I'll be wearing orange
this Friday, will you?

 Shut Down Guantanamo: January 11, 2008

"Immediately close the detention center at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and either release its
inmates or bring them before an impartial
tribunal."
- United Nations Human Rights Commission

CALL TO ACTION

We declare January 11, 2008, six years after the first
prisoners arrived at Guantanamo, an International Day
of Action to Shut Down Guantanamo. In Washington, DC we
will hold a permitted demonstration at the National
Mall followed by an orange jumpsuit procession to the
Supreme Court. There will also be solidarity
demonstrations in Chicago, Miami, London and Paris,
with more being added every day. We invite you to come
to Washington and participate, or else join or plan an
action in your own community. We also encourage people
around the world to wear orange t-shirts, armbands or
other orange clothing on January 11th to mark the date.

JOIN US IN WASHINGTON, DC
Friday, January 11, 11:00am. (National Mall).
Map of the location:  http://tinyurl.com/ynn3te

The day involves several elements:

Demonstration at the National Mall. Witness Against
Torture has teamed up with Amnesty International and
the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to hold
a permitted demonstration on the National Mall at
11:00am. (Gather at 12th street NW between Madison Dr
NW & Jefferson Drive SW - near the Smithsonian Metro
Stop.)

"Prisoners of Guantanamo March."
A provocative street theater performance involving
people wearing orange jump suits and black hoods. We
will march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court
in an orderly silent procession hauntingly evoking the
moral disgrace that is Guantanamo. With your help, we
will form a prisoner contingent including as many
protesters as there are prisoners.

Funeral Ceremony at the Supreme Court: Following the
procession to the Supreme Court, we will hold a Funeral
Ceremony to remember the four men who died in custody
at Guantanamo and to mourn the death of Habeas Corpus.
Like last year, some may choose to risk arrest.

To participate, please consider attending an
orientation meeting on Thursday, 4pm, at St. Stephen
and the Incarnation Church (1525 Newton Street, NW) or
come early to the National Mall for an orientation and
rehearsal at 10:00am.

Please let us know in advance if you are willing to
participate in either the Prisoners Contingent, Nonviolent
Direct Action, or both. Email jan11@witnesstorture.org
or call Matt Daloisio at 201-264-4424.

For up-to-date details as well as information about
housing, food, rides and directions, legal support and
much more, please visit our web site at
www.WitnessTorture.org .

WEAR ORANGE ON JANUARY 11TH!
Wherever you are on January 11th, we encourage you to
wear orange to raise public awareness and strengthen
the movement to demand an end to torture and indefinite
detention. Consider wearing one of Witness Against
Torture's Orange "Shut Down Guantanamo" T-shirts,
<http://www.caebuttons.com/guantanamo.php> an ACLU
arm band, <http://tinyurl.com/2c4mnu> or even an orange
jump suit.<http://www.witnesstorture.org/jumpsuit>

JOIN THE GROWING NUMBER OF LOCAL VIGILS -
ATTEND OR ORGANIZE AN ACTION IN YOUR
COMMUNITY If you can't join us in Washington D.C.,
please consider attending or organizing a vigil, march or a
public forum in your community. Actions are currently
planned in London, England; Paris, France; Miami, FL;
Boise, Idaho; Philadelphia, PA; Saratoga Springs, NY;
San Francisco, CA; Ft. Huachuca, AZ; and New York
City, NY.

Visit www.WitnessTorture.org for up-to-date details
about solidarity events, as well as to find ideas for
actions, to post to our calendar, or to download flyers
and other resources.

WHO WE ARE
Two years ago Witness Against Torture drew
international attention after it walked to Guant??namo
to visit the prisoners. Upon its return, the group has
organized vigils, marches, nonviolent direct actions
and educational events to expose and decry the
administration's lawlessness, build awareness about
torture and indefinite detention, and forge human ties
with the prisoners at Guantanamo and their families.

Some of the organizations endorsing the Jan 11 Day
of Action include:

American Civil Liberties Union
Act Against Torture
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
The Catholic Worker
Center for Constitutional Rights
CodePink
Declaration of Peace
International Federation of Human Rights
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
Network of Spiritual Progressives
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
School of the Americas Watch
Torture Abolition and Survivors Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
Voices For Creative Nonviolence
War Resisters League
World Can't Wait
...and more. See a full list of endorsers.
<http://www.witnesstorture.org/jan11_endorsers>

DONATE
Please make a contribution to help cover the costs of
the January 11th event. You can donate online
<http://www.witnesstorture.org/donate>
or send a check made out to "Witness Against Torture"
to Mary House Catholic Worker, 55 E. Third Street, New
York, NY 10003.


www.WitnessTorture.org

Our website has all the tools you need to restore lost liberty.
Check it out at www.acluohio.org.

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Jan 11 15:59:50 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 11 16:01:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Cultures in Transit (Lyon)
Message-ID: <014401c85494$f9b5e6c0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR PAPERS

LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY - JEAN MOULIN UNIVERSITY, LYON
CULTURES IN TRANSIT

Liverpool, 18th-21st JULY 2008
CFP Deadline: January 30, 2008

The inaugural conference of the International Institute for Transcultural
and Diasporic Studies will take place in Liverpool, Europe's Capital of
Culture, in 2008. Future conferences will alternate between Liverpool Hope
University and Jean Moulin University, Lyon.

While focussed primarily on the arts, humanities and social sciences, the
programme will be transdisciplinary and open to all those interested in
transcultural and transdisciplinary discussion, particularly but not
exclusively in fields such as literary and cultural studies, cultural
anthropology and history, cinema studies, music studies, sociology and
sociolinguistics.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome proposals for papers which address the following questions:

. Why have diasporas happened?
. What happens to social and cultural practices (textual, visual,
linguistic, musical) when they are displaced (examples might include
francophone cultures in America, and musical cultures in the Caribbean)?
. What happens to local cultures when external social and cultural practices
confront them?
. What happens to cultures which have experienced extensive emigration?
. Related questions which focus on the central themes of historical
processes of hybridisation/metissage, intertextuality and cultural fusion
brought about by migrations of people, ideas and practices, the impact of
globalization on the production, consumption, diffusion and reception of
cultures and cultural practices, pre-modern nomadism and post-modern
nomadologies. We welcome proposals which approach these themes either from
the perspective of specific communities or that of specific experiences.

Proposals for papers in approximately 150 words should be submitted by 31st
January, 2008. Those submitting proposals will be notified of the outcome of
their submission in early February 2008. Final versions of papers which
should be of 6,000 words should be submitted by 15th June, 2008. Papers
should be in English and will be distributed in advance of the sessions in
order to promote lively and engaged discussion at the conference.
Please send outline paper proposals to Dr Terry Phillips at
phillim@hope.ac.uk or at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, L16 9JD,
United Kingdom.


PUBLICATIONS
A selection of papers will be published in the journal
Transtext(e)sTranscultures and a further selection in a discrete themed
publication


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Brian Castro:  Brian Castro was joint winner of the Australian/Vogel
literary award for his first novel Birds of Passage (1983), which has been
translated into French and Chinese. This was followed by Pomeroy (1990),
Double-Wolf (1991), winner of The Age Fiction Prize and the Vance Palmer
Prize for Fiction, and subsequently After China (1992), which won the Vance
Palmer Prize for Fiction and was also subsequently translated into French
and Chinese. His fifth novel, Drift, was published in July 1994. His sixth
novel Stepper won the 1997 National Book Council 'Banjo' Prize for fiction.
In 1999 he published a collection of essays, Looking For Estrellita
(University of Queensland Press). In 2003 Giramondo published his 'fictional
autobiography', Shanghai Dancing, which won the Vance Palmer Prize, the
Christina Stead Prize and was named the NSW Premier's Book of the Year. His
novel, The Garden Book, was published by Giramondo in 2005.  Brian Castro is
now Professorial Research Fellow in Creative Writing, in the School of
Culture and Communications, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Tejaswini Niranjana: Tejaswini Niranjana is Director and Senior Fellow of
the Centre for the Study of Society and Culture (Bangalore). Among her many
publications are Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the
Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992) and Mobilizing
India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad (Duke
University Press, 2006). Among the awards she has received are the Sephis
Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-99) ; Sawyer Fellowship, International
Institute, University of Michigan (1996); Rockefeller Fellowship, Programme
in Globalization and the Media, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of
Chicago (1996) and the Homi Bhabha National Fellowship (1992-94). She is
also a distinguished translator and has won the Central Sahitya Akademi
Award for Best Translation into English (1993) and the Karnataka State
Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Translation of 1994 (awarded in 1996). She
has lectured at universities in the West Indies, Brazil, South Africa, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the USA, and France, and has taught
at the University of Hyderabad and the University of Chicago.

Stephanos Stephanides. Stephanos Stephanides, Professor of Comparative
Literature and Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Cyprus, poet
and literary and cultural critic with an interest in cultural
translatability and memory who was awarded first prize in the 1988 poetry
competition of the Society of Anthropology and Humanism (USA); author of a
book Translating Kali's Feast: the Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and
Fiction and two documentary films, Hail Mother Kali (1988) and Kali in the
Americas (2003). Hail Mother Kali was nominated for an award for excellence
by the Society for Anlhro-Journalism (USA).

Alain Suberchicot. Alain Suberchicot, Professor of American Literature at
Jean Moulin University, author of a number of books and articles on American
literature including Wallace Stevens and Thoreau; best know for his
Litt?rature Am?ricaine et ?cologie (2002).



Dr Terry Phillips
Liverpool Hope University,
Liverpool, L16 9JD, United Kingdom.
Email: phillim@hope.ac.uk


From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Jan 11 16:14:32 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 11 16:15:18 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Empire and Rebellion: postcolonial perspectives (India)
Message-ID: <014b01c85497$072c0760$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Empire and Rebellion: postcolonial perspectives
CFP Deadline: January 30, 2008

Over the past few decades, the ideas and notions or the cultural wherewithal 
that accompanied colonial conquest have been studied extensively. Attention 
has also been focused on the cultural forms in which anti-colonial 
resistance was articulated. The focus for this conference will be more 
specifically on responses to rebellions, to large-scale, more or less 
organized and violent acts by the colonized to overthrow colonial rule. How 
are rebellions represented? What kinds of questions do they raise about 
colonial rule and colonial policies? In what way does the experience of 
military suppression of rebellions feed into the strategies developed for 
future wars, in Europe and elsewhere? How are these rebellions seen in 
post-colonial times?

It has been argued that the process of establishing colonial control and 
rule across most of Asia, Africa and Latin America was supported 
ideologically by the belief in the civilizational superiority of the 
colonizers over the colonized. Within this general framework, 
representations of colonized peoples and the forms of knowledge produced 
about them tended to project them as distant both in terms of geographical 
space and historical time. They were seen as people without history, without 
the ability therefore to act of their own volition; they required, even 
beseeched domination. Such ideas not only obscured the harsh realities of 
colonial rule but also served to subdue criticism of colonial as well as 
other policies at home. As is well known now, establishing and maintaining 
colonial empires was no peaceful venture, as the colonizers were confronted 
almost everywhere with some forms of resistance that kept escalating into 
armed rebellions.

The conference is a follow-up to a conference held in October 2007 on 
European Responses to the 1857 Rebellion in India. Though it is well known 
that this rebellion generated an enormous amount of literature in Britain, 
little note has been taken so far of the responses in the rest of Europe, 
which took the form of extensive reporting in the newspapers as well as of 
many fictional and non-fictional texts. The varied responses show the keen 
interest across several European nations (irrespective of whether they were 
colonial powers, still to acquire colonies, or belonged to the category of 
'small nations') evoked by such a major threat to British colonial power. 
The gap between the considerable body of material and the lack of any study 
of the area is also a motive for the present conference. Of course, the 
contemporary world provides enough evidence that questions of colonialism, 
imperialism and rebellions aiming to overthrow these modes of domination are 
not just matters of the past.

The conference will bring together interdisciplinary and comparative 
perspectives to explore responses to anti-colonial rebellions in fictional 
and non-fictional texts as well as in film and other art forms.

Shaswati Mazumdar
Department of Germanic & Romance Studies
University of Delhi, D
elhi - 110007, INDIA
Phone: 91-11-27666426

Email: grs.du.in@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://events.du.ac.in/events 


From chesluk at ix.netcom.com  Wed Jan  9 12:57:16 2008
From: chesluk at ix.netcom.com (chesluk@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 15:32:43 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2 Philadelphia events to promote new urban studies book
Message-ID: <24611362.1199901436994.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce 2 upcoming events in the Philadelphia area to promote my book, "Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square."

The first event will be will also be a colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania urban studies program. The Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, January 23, from 9:15 to 10:30 at the Penn Institute for Urban Research in the Conference room.  Penn IUR is at Meyerson Hall, G-12, 210 S. 34th Street.  Meyerson Hall is the School of Design building.  Breakfast will be served.

The second event will be a signing at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore. The signing will be held on January 31st at 7pm at the UPenn Bookstore, which is located at 3601 Walnut St. 

Please feel free to email me back at chesluk@ix.netcom.com if you have
any questions--and of course, also please feel free to forward this information to anyone else you think may be interested!

Best,
Ben Chesluk
chesluk@ix.netcom.com

ps For those who are interested, here is some information about "Money Jungle" (from the Rutgers UP website):

Praise for Money Jungle 
?Alternately Herculean and Sisyphean, the struggle to clean up Times Square has 
never been chronicled with more thoroughness or insight, nor with greater sensitivity
to the ramifications of the attempt.??Charles Ardai, founder and editor of Hard 
Case Crime

"A thousand-yard stare into the machinations of gentrification."-Steve
Powers

?The strength of this book lies in Chesluk?s ability to ground his ethnographic 
inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment
efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important
contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally.??John
Hartigan Jr., Department of Anthropology, University of Texas


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Description: 
For more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle
of its dazzling supersigns, its theaters, and its often-seedy nightlife. New York
City?s iconic crossroads has drawn crowds of revelers, thrill-seekers, and other
urban denizens, not to mention lavish outpourings of advertising and development
money. 


Many have hotly debated the recent transformation of this legendary intersection,
with voices typically falling into two opposing camps. Some applaud a blighted red-light
district becoming a big-budget, mainstream destination. Others lament an urban zone
of lawless possibility being replaced by a Disneyfied, theme-park version of New
York. In Money Jungle, Benjamin Chesluk shows that what is really at stake in Times
Square are fundamental questions about city life?questions of power, pleasure, and
what it means to be a citizen in contemporary urban space.  


Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times
Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of
this grand project in social and spatial engineering: the developers, architects,
and designers responsible for reshaping the urban public spaces of Times Square 
and Forty-second Street; the experimental Midtown Community Court and its Times 
Square Ink. job-training program for misdemeanor criminals; encounters between NYPD
officers and residents of Hell?s Kitchen; and angry confrontations between city 
planners and neighborhood activists over the future of the area. 


With an eye for offbeat, telling details and a perspective that is at once sympathetic
and critical, Chesluk documents how the redevelopment has tried, sometimes successfully
and sometimes not, to reshape the people and places of Times Square. The result 
is a colorful and engaging portrait, illustrated by stunning photographs by long-time
local photographer Maggie Hopp, of the street life, politics, economics, and cultural
forces that mold America?s urban centers. 

 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jan 16 11:38:55 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 16 11:55:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Global Borders, Residential Fellows, Institute
	for Historical Studies (UT-Austin)
Message-ID: <008401c85860$6f5930c0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

"Global Borders" Residential Fellows, Institute for Historical Studies,
UT-Austin


The Institute for Historical Studies at UT-Austin invites applications
for residential fellows for 2008-09.  We will host four external fellows
and will aim to replace their full salaries at their home institutions.
The fellows will include junior, mid-career, and senior faculty.  The
closing date for applications for the fellowships is February 15, 2008.

Our first two year theme is "Global Borders."  Please note that we
conceive of borders very broadly in conceptual (for instance, legal,
cultural, aesthetic, gender and so on) as well as political or
geographic terms.

For full details of the fellowships and the theme as well as other
matters, see:

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/

Or contact:

Julie Hardwick
Associate Professor & Director of the Institute for Historical Studies
Department of History
1 Univ Sta B7000
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
(512) 475-7221
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/


About the Institute

Founded in 2007, the Institute provides a dynamic and multi-faceted 
intellectual community. It fosters creative and productive conversations 
within our department, between the Department of History and other UT-Austin 
departments and centers, between our faculty and colleagues nationwide, and 
between the department and our community of alumni and neighbors. The 
Institute explores themes whose historical roots are of critical importance 
for the contemporary world as well as for the historical profession. It 
enhances and expands the Department's long tradition of and continued 
commitment to excellence in historical research through publication and 
programming. It allows our graduate students to interact with a diverse 
group of excellent scholars beyond the department.

The Institute's programming connects the university and its wider community 
in discussions of topics that are central to our discipline and that have 
broad resonance in the individual and collective histories we all share.

Housed in the Department of History's newly renovated, historic home, 
Garrison Hall, at the center of UT's campus, the Institute hosts varied 
programming, organized conceptually around two-year rotating themes, with UT 
faculty, visiting fellows, and speakers from other institutions. It welcomes 
long term visitors as resident fellows at the senior, mid-career, and junior 
levels. We invite research scholars of all historical specialties who visit 
Austin to become associates of the Institute community. 


From esh2110 at columbia.edu  Wed Jan 16 12:08:27 2008
From: esh2110 at columbia.edu (Emily Hawe)
Date: Wed Jan 16 12:57:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Charles H. Revson Fellowship: February 1st application postmark deadline
Message-ID: <478E3A0B.8050109@columbia.edu>

*It's not too late to apply....*

*The Charles H. Revson Fellowship
A Program on the Future of the City of **New York**
at **Columbia** **University**

Application Deadline: **February 1, 2008** (postmark)
www.revson.columbia.edu <http://www.revson.columbia.edu>

What are you doing for the future of **New York City**?*

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From ctgrant at mac.com  Tue Jan 15 23:14:15 2008
From: ctgrant at mac.com (ctgrant@mac.com)
Date: Wed Jan 16 12:58:46 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: Article rings truth even back 20 years
References: <330743E646B1804A93C34A0C92AB5A9C37A9F4@ITS-EXC8.UR.Rochester.edu>
Message-ID: <757ABCDD-B671-43E6-879B-DF9C202A4BAF@mac.com>

An interesting article that echoes some of the threads on this  
listserv from last year. The job market sure is tight... maybe I  
should have followed Mom's advice and become a lawyer. sigh.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/10/bousquet

C. Todd White, Ph.D.

Staff Anthropologist
University of Rochester
River Campus Libraries / Digital Initiatives Unit

Phone: (585) 276-3536
<cwhite@library.rochester.edu>


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 17 17:57:55 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 17 17:59:40 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: New Orleans: The Struggle for Affordable Housing Met With Tasers
Message-ID: <01bf01c8595c$893f00d0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: yippeehioh@yahoo.com

In New Orleans: The Struggle for Affordable Housing Met With Tasers,
Pepper Spray, and Arrests
by Bill Quigley
Special to the NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly

NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - In a remarkable symbol of the injustices of
post-Katrina reconstruction, hundreds of people were locked out of a
public New Orleans City Council meeting addressing demolition of 4500
public housing apartments. Some were tasered, many pepper sprayed and
a dozen arrested.

Outside the chambers, iron gates were chained and padlocked even
before the scheduled start.

The scene looked like one of those countries on TV that is undergoing
a people's revolution - and the similarities were only beginning.
Dozens of uniformed police secured the gates and other entrances.

Only developers and those with special permission from council members
were allowed in - the rest were kept locked outside the gates. Despite
dozens of open seats in the council chambers, pleas to be allowed in
were ignored.

Chants of ''Housing is a human right!'' and ''Let us in!'' thundered
through the concrete breezeway.

Public housing residents came and spoke out despite an intense
campaign of intimidation. Residents were warned by phone that if they
publicly opposed the demolitions they would lose all housing
assistance. Residents opposed to the demolition had simple demands.

If the authorities insisted on spending hundreds of millions to tear
down hundreds of structurally sound buildings containing 4500 public
housing subsidized apartments, there should be a guarantee that every
resident could return to a similarly subsidized apartment.
Alternatively, the government should use the hundreds of millions to
repair the apartments so people could come home.

Neither alternative was acceptable to HUD. A plan of residents to
partner with the AFL-CIO Housing Trust to save their homes was also
ignored. Outside, SWAT team members and police in riot gear and on
horses began to arrive as rain started falling.

Those locked out included public housing residents, a professor from
Southern University, graduate students, the Episcopal Bishop of
Louisiana, ministers, lawyers, law students, homeless people who lived
in tents across the street from city hall, affordable housing allies
from across the country and dozens of others.

Inside the chambers, Revered Torin Sanders and others insisted that
the locked out be allowed to come and stand inside along the walls - a
common practice for over 30 years. No one could recall any City
Council locking people out of a public meeting.

The request to allow people to stand was denied. The Council then
demanded silence from those inside. Those who continued to demand that
the others be let in were pointed out by police, physically taken down
and arrested.

Ironically, some young men were tasered right in front of the
speaker's podium. This was a meeting the council had repeatedly tried
to avoid. It was only held after residents - 100 percent African-
American and nearly all mothers and grandmothers - got an emergency
court order stopping demolitions until the council acted. The U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced long ago
it was going to demolish 4500 public housing apartments despite the
Katrina crisis of affordable housing no matter what anyone said. HUD
had no plans to ask the council or anyone else for approval. The judge
said otherwise, so the meeting was scheduled.

Leaders of the U.S. Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, asked that
the decision be delayed 60 days so they could try to move forward on
Senate Bill 1668 which would resolve many of the demolition problems.
This request was backed by New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson,
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu and Presidential candidates John Edwards
and Barack Obama.

Opponents cited the affordable housing crisis in New Orleans. Homeless
people camped across from City Hall and for blocks under the
interstate. The number of homeless people doubled since Katrina.
Thousands of residents in FEMA trailers across the Gulf Coast were
being evicted.

Solidarity demonstrations opposing demolition were held in Washington
DC, New York, Oakland, Minneapolis, Houston, North Carolina, Maine,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, New Jersey, and Boston.

Thousands of people across the country contacted city council members.
Dozens of community, housing and human rights groups petitioned the
Council not to demolish until there was an enforceable requirement of
one for one replacement of housing.

But hours before the meeting began, a majority of the council publicly
announced on the front page of the local paper that they were going to
approve demolition no matter what people said at the meeting.

The paper, the developers and others were delighted. Residents and
affordable housing allies were not.

Inside, the council started the meeting surrounded by armed police,
National Guard and undercover authorities from many law enforcement
agencies.

Outside, the locked out could see the people who had been arrested on
the inside being dragged away to police wagons. A few of the
protestors then pulled open one of the gates.

The police started shooting arcs of pepper spray into the crowd. A
woman's scream pierced the chaos as police fired tasers into the
crowd. Medics wiped pepper spray from fallen people's eyes.

A young woman who was tasered in the back went into a seizure and was
taken to the hospital. Inside and out, a dozen people were arrested -
most for disturbing the peace.

They joined another dozen who had been arrested over the past week in
protest actions against the demolitions.
The City Council meeting continued.

Supporters of demolition were given careful, courteous attention and
softball questions by council members. Opponents less so.

Despite pleas from displaced residents, dozens of community
organizations and federal elected officials, the New Orleans City
Council voted unanimously to allow demolition to proceed. In their
approval the Council did promise to urge HUD to listen to residents
and to work for one for one replacement of affordable housing. Several
city council members read from typed statements about their reasons to
support demolition: the deplorable state of public housing; the lack
of available money for repair; the oral promises of all, the federal
government and developers, to do something better for the community.

After the meeting, residents vowed to continue their struggle for
affordable housing for everyone and to resist demolitions - putting
their bodies before bulldozers if necessary.

The struggle for affordable housing continues as does the campaign to
stop demolition until there is a real right to return and one for one
replacement of housing. Residents and local advocates applaud and
appreciate the support of allies from across the nation. Critics label
national supporters as ''outside agitators'' - exactly the same charge
leveled at civil rights activists historically. But people understand
that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Public housing residents and local affordable housing advocates
welcome the humble participation of social justice advocates of
whatever age, of whatever race, from whatever place, who join and act
in true solidarity.
Residents vow to make sure that the promises made by the Council and
the Mayor are enforced.

For example, the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, announced that he
would not allow HUD to demolish two of the four housing developments
until HUD gave documentation of funded plans including one for one
replacement of the housing demolished and details of the developments
and their plans.

The Senate will continue to be lobbied to pass SB 1668 - which would
really guarantee one for one replacement of housing. It is currently
stalled in the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
because of opposition by Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter.

Litigation is still pending in state and federal courts to enforce
Louisiana and U.S. laws that should protect residents from illegal
demolitions. Investigations into the legality of locking people out of
a public meeting, the legality of a law passed at such a meeting, the
indiscriminate use of tasers and pepper spray, are all ongoing.

Padlocked and chained gates will only amplify the voices of the locked
out calling for justice. Pepper spray and tasers illustrate the
problems but will not deter people from protesting for just causes.
Bulldozers may start up, but just people will resist and create a
reality where housing is a real human right.

Stephanie Mingo, a working grandmother who is one of the leaders of
the residents, promised to continue the resistance after the meeting:
''We did not come this far to turn back now. This fight is far from
over. We are not resting until everyone has the right to return home.''

Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola
University New Orleans. Bill is part of the team of lawyers
representing displaced residents of public housing. He can be reached
at Quigley@loyno.edu

http://www.blackpressusa.com/News/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=Hot+Stories&NewsID=15014 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 17 18:10:19 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 17 18:11:39 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: North/South Dialogue: Globalization and Human Rights,
 Contradictions and Opportunities
Message-ID: <01f401c8595e$29233430$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: "LaDawn Haglund" <LaDawn.Haglund@asu.edu>

Call for Papers: Thematic panel for Global Division of the Society for
the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)


North/South Dialogue: Globalization and Human Rights, Contradictions and
Opportunities


Deadline: January 31, 2008


Co-organizer John Dale

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University

Ph: 703-993-1444; jdale@gmu.edu


Co-organizer: LaDawn Haglund

School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University

Ph: 480-965-7083; ladawn.haglund@asu.edu


The practice of human rights by its promoters in the North often
reflects ambivalence.  This is due in part to the relationship between
human rights and globalization. Globalization is a contested concept.
Yet, if not reduced to its economic dimensions, we can claim that, to
some extent, globalization has facilitated the spread of values,
discourse, practices, and institutions for promoting human rights.  The
transnational human rights regime investigates violations of human
rights around the world and legally tries states, state leaders,
corporations, and even citizens that some states refuse to indict.
Thus, we might think of human rights as both a product and facilitator
of globalization. At the same time, human rights often conflict with and
challenge many of the processes underlying globalization, such as market
liberalization, migration, dislocation, and innovations in surveillance
and repression.

Aside from its sometimes antagonistic relationship to globalization, the
use of the language of human rights itself also can be ambivalent.  We
see this clearly when state and non-state actors use human rights as a
disciplinary instrument to regulate the behavior of other nation-states.
Often, this pattern spreads governmental power trans-nationally in ways
that strengthen the hegemony of Northern states over Southern ones.

In short, we are finding that some human rights are under siege while
others are becoming increasingly possible - and sometimes the advance of
certain human rights, in practice at least, comes directly at the
expense of others.

This panel seeks to explore both the discursive ambivalence of human
rights practice and the contradictions between globalizing forces and
the institutionalization of human rights.  We are especially interested
in papers which identify new transnational strategies, campaigns, or
mechanisms that seek to protect or expand human rights norms, and that
link actors in the global North and South.

Papers or extended abstracts (2-3 page summary of the intended
presentation) MUST be sent electronically via the online submission
cover sheet to session organizers no later than midnight (EST) on
January 31, 2008.  You may review the online submission cover sheet by
clicking on the link below.


2008 Global Division Sessions: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/604

2008 SSSP Call for Papers: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/293

2008 SSSP Submission Cover Sheet:
http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageId/591
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 17 18:19:48 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 17 18:21:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Understanding Conflicts, Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Message-ID: <020801c8595f$82d5bd30$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers

Understanding Conflicts--Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Sponsor: University of Aarhus, Denmark
Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2008

This event is the first of a series of large international interdisciplinary 
meetings that will bring together researchers from different cultural 
background working on the analysis and transformation of conflicts due to 
cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity. Our invited speakers are 
international lead figures in conflict research, sociology, political 
science, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, the history of 
ideas, theology, and religious studies. Conflicts are part of human life and 
often a source of innovation. Different cultures not only generate conflicts 
but also impose on agents different 
conflict cultures
 preferences for 
certain types of conflict dynamics (war, settlements, reconciliation) and 
predispositions for certain forms of epistemic approach (rational analysis, 
psychological hermeneutics, deep orientation). Attention to differences in 
cultural images of conflictsthe agentive understanding of sources, 
dynamics, and possible transformations of conflictsis of central 
significance for conflict mitigation in societies with cultural diversity. 
We invite submissions of abstracts on any of the 60 conference sessions, 
including workshop sessions, praxis reports, and panel discussion sessions. 
For tracks and topics see the conference website. Deadline for abstracts: 
March 1, 2008. Conference papers will be published in an anthology and 2 
special issues of international journals.

Contact Information:

Johanna Seibt
Email: filseibt@hum.au.dk
URL http://www.understandingconflicts.net 


From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Thu Jan 17 18:41:26 2008
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Fri Jan 18 17:13:35 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Submission of papers,posters and panels for 2008 AAA
	meeting
Message-ID: <7E900F354244104B973354F36A46572B012B1C44@SUEXCL-01.ad.syr.edu>

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 jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 24 11:53:19 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 24 11:54:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: STS in Urban Development: Networks and the Re-making of Cities
Message-ID: <00bb01c85ea9$a28a8490$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]

Call for papers for Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting in 
Rotterdam, August 20-23 2008

Session:

STS in Urban Development: Actors, Networks and the Re-making of Cities

Until recently, STS studies of the 'City' and 'City-making' have been 
relatively rare. However, a generation of STS researchers have started 
studying architecture, planning and cities with a notable growth in 
published papers and conference sessions, notably at the 2007 4S conference 
in Montreal.  Generally, however, these explorations have tended to neglect 
the long-standing analytical approaches to urbanism developed in wider 
social sciences (e.g. geography, sociology, politics, anthropology). 
Moreover, STS has often positioned itself as providing an alternative, 
improved analytical approach to urbanism as a form of co-evolution of urban 
processes, practices and form.

This session aims to revisit this discussion between disciplines to 
encourage a discussion about the relations between STS and wider urban 
studies as either in tension or as mutually enriching in the study of 
city-making. We welcome papers focusing either on conceptual and 
methodological debate or theoretically informed case-studies, that explore 
how actors and networks co-evolve in the making and re-making of cities.

Those who are interested in this session, please send a 400 word abstract by 
February 10 to:

Simon Guy, University of Manchester, Simon.Guy@manchester.ac.uk
or
Ola S?derstr?m, Universit? de Neuch?tel, Ola.Soderstrom@unine.ch


Ola S?derstr?m
Professeur
Institut de G?ographie
Universit? de Neuch?tel
Espace Louis Agassiz 1
2000 Neuch?tel
Switzerland
T?l.:  +41 32 718 17 97 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 24 11:56:20 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 24 11:57:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: PESO Eric Wolf Prize
Message-ID: <00e501c85eaa$0e52ae50$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Josiah Heyman <jmheyman@utep.edu>

Announcement for the Eric Wolf Prize

The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the Eric Wolf Prize for the 
best article-length paper based on dissertation research.  We seek papers 
based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to 
Political Ecology.  To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be ABD 
or have received their Ph.D. within the two years prior to publication of 
this announcement.  A cash prize of $500 accompanies the award and the paper 
will be published in the Journal of Political Ecology.

The preferred format for papers is electronic, but CDs and paper will also 
be accepted.  Please use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of 
Political Ecology webpage: http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/.  Electronic 
copies should be sent to twcollins@utep.edu and paper and CD copies to Tim 
Collins; Department of Sociology & Anthropology; University of Texas at El 
Paso; 500 West University Avenue; El Paso, TX 79968.  The deadline for 
submission is February 15, 2008. 


From sveissiere at ucn.ca  Wed Jan 23 15:49:27 2008
From: sveissiere at ucn.ca (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Veissi=E8re=2C__Samuel=2C_Dr=2E?=)
Date: Fri Jan 25 17:04:44 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Second CFP: Desire, Performance, and Global Mobility in the Late
 Capitalist Cultural Economy
Message-ID: <442081E5774CF34C840BF71B1B221DAD0161FD37@tp-b31-9370.keewatincc.ca>

Hi all, 
This is a second and last call for participants for a panel I am organizing for the LOVA conference in Amsterdam in July. We have three confirmed participants so far, and would welcome something on Africa and/or the Asia/Pacific region.
Please query first and submit abstracts before February 1st 
 
Cheers, 
 
Samuel Veissi?re, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Community-Based Program, Bunibonibee Cree Nation
Faculty of Arts
University College of the North
Oxford House, MB, R0R1C0
Tel: (204) 538 2270
Toll Free: 1 866 677 6450
Email: sveissiere@ucn.ca 
 
 
Desire, Performance, and Global Mobility in the Late Capitalist Cultural Economy
 
This panel brings together ethnographic inquiries from different corners of the globe that investigate subaltern actors' strategic performances of race-and-gender-based identities for the purpose of global mobility "from below" (from North to South) through transnational marriage or relationships. Papers will examine this phenomenon from the point of view of Southern subaltern men and women's calculated performance of White fantasies of negritude, femininity, and/or masculinity based on their own critical reading of colonial-fetishist and neocolonial-commercialized narratives of identity production. Through these stories of desire and violence at the intersection of Whiteness and Neocolonial Otherness, we document acts of subaltern agency that clearly shatter claims of false consciousness, while keeping open the question of the new transnational hegemonies in which these global characters are entangled. 
 
 
 
From koptiuch at asu.edu  Mon Jan 21 13:13:01 2008
From: koptiuch at asu.edu (Kristin Koptiuch)
Date: Fri Jan 25 17:06:43 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ad for Director, Social & Behavioral Sciences, ASU at the West Campus
Message-ID: <462BF6BD2108874EB31A029DCF1998E1AADAAC@EX07.asurite.ad.asu.edu>


Director, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Advertisement

The newly forming Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University invites applications for Division Director. The division is composed of faculty from the former Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and from related fields. We are seeking exceptional senior candidates for appointment at the rank of Full Professor. The person appointed must have a Ph.D. in a social or behavioral sciences field.

The successful applicant will be expected to engage in research and teaching that complement and add to our strength in social or behavioral sciences and will be expected to contribute to our Division?s interdisciplinary teaching and research missions and provide administrative leadership for the Division. Opportunities exist for participation in University Ph.D. programs.

Candidates must demonstrate a) a research record of excellence warranting appointment as a Full Professor with tenure at ASU; b) an ongoing program of research; c) a history of receiving extramural research funding; d) a record of successful teaching; e) an ability to contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations in research and teaching; f) successful administrative experience at least at the level of chair or the equivalent.

Deadline: February 15, 2008; if not filled, every Monday thereafter until the search is closed. Only electronic applications will be accepted. Send letter of application, a statement describing your research program and teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, a statement describing your administrative philosophy, a writing sample, and three names of references along with contact information to Jamie.Howell@asu.edu.

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the West campus of ASU, in Northwest Phoenix is forming a new division of Social and Behavioral Sciences with faculty from programs with a strong interdisciplinary focus.  Researchers pursue multidisciplinary projects, often with a community embedded focus and emphasis on issues of social justice and metropolitan affairs, health disparities in the context of familial and community environments, and many collaborate with colleagues at other ASU campuses.

As a New American university, Arizona State University is a force for discovery, turning students into leaders who shape the future. In its 22nd year, the West campus of ASU, located in Phoenix, fulfills this mission through interdisciplinary teaching, research, and community engagement. The campus serves more than 8600 students and offers 33 bachelor?s degree programs, 13 master?s degrees, and two doctoral degree programs. Please visit our website at http://www.west.asu.edu. A background check is required for employment. ASU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer in policy and practice.

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Jan 27 12:56:49 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 27 12:57:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AN Theme Issue on Migration, Immigration and
	Emmigration (deadline extended)
Message-ID: <029901c8610e$014848d0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Contributing Editors,

Due to the popularity of the call for article proposals for our thematic 
issue on migration, immigration, and emigration, we are extending the 
proposal deadline. I have received several requests for submitting proposals 
on the Contemporary Public Policy and Global Flows subthemes (whose 
deadlines were earlier this month) and would like to accommodate these 
potential contributors. Proposals for all three subthemes will now be 
accepted through the end of January, including photo essay proposals. Please 
see the attached document for details. I encourage you to circulate this 
announcement within your sections.

Best regards,
Dinah


Dinah Winnick
Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
2200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
703.528.1902 ext. 3005
dwinnick@aaanet.org
 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Jan 27 12:59:12 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 27 13:00:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: In Search of Solutions: Methods, Movements and Undocumented
 Migrants in Africa
Message-ID: <02bf01c8610e$5e2e7b00$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Joel Quirk (j.quirk@hull.ac.uk)

Call for Papers and Participation

In Search of Solutions: Methods, Movements and Undocumented Migrants in Africa

Research and Training Workshops, 1-4th of July, 2008 University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, and the Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, invite submissions for a two part colloquium on methods and informal migration. This event is designed to strengthen and further refine the strategies used to analyse and understand migration patterns in Africa. Since many migrants operate outside official channels, conventional methods and government statistics can often be of limited value in coming to terms with this contentious issue. In the absence of empirically reliable and theoretically sophisticated research methods, speculation and hyperbole have regularly filled the void.

Researchers in this challenging field can only go so far by raising doubts about exaggerated figures and tenuous claims. What is required is a deeper and broader understanding of migration, incorporating both i) improved research heuristics, methods and procedures for generating data; and ii) the capacity to effectively and sensitively integrate available data within larger political and sociological perspectives. With this in mind, the colloquium brings together researchers for two separate yet related events:



Research Workshop (3rd and 4th of July 2008)

Scholars of migration are continually refining the methods used to study various aspects of informal migration. This workshop seeks to capitalise upon this ongoing innovation and methodological experimentation, providing researchers with a targeted forum to disseminate their findings, further refine their techniques, and reflect upon the larger relationship between methodology and informal migration in an African context.

Both scholars and practitioners are invited to submit paper proposals addressing one or more of the following themes:

The Moving Target: sampling mobile populations;
Revealing the Illicit: corrupt immigration enforcement and subterranean migrant economies;
Enumeration and Extrapolation: connecting anecdotal and case-specific evidence to larger patterns;
Weapons of the Weak: conceptualising and documenting resistance;
The Vulnerable Researcher: working in threatening and insecure field sites;
The Past in the Present: linking historical and contemporary migration;
Documenting the Undocumented: ethical quandaries in migration research;
Methodology and Public Policy: research, activism and political change.

The complete proceedings from the workshop will be edited and published online in late 2008. Selected workshop participants will be invited to revise their papers for submission to a special issue of a peer reviewed journal.

Interested researchers should send abstracts of up to 300 words, together with a current curriculum vitae [by e-mail only] by the 22nd of February 2008. Applicants will be notified by the 10th of March whether they have been accepted. Final papers of around 6000 words will be expected by the 1st of June 2008. The organisers have secured funds through the British Academy to cover travel and maintenance for eight scholars and practitioners. Priority funding for attendance will go to early career researchers from and/or based in Africa.



Training Workshop (1st and 2nd of July 2008)

In order to address the longer term challenges of research on undocumented migration, we need to develop a new generation of skilled researchers. With this in mind, the research workshop will be preceded by a two-day training workshop focusing upon methodology and migration. This workshop, which includes a visit to a field site in Johannesburg, has been designed to help emerging scholars develop the specialized strategies and skills required to conduct first-class research in this challenging field. The training programme is designed for postgraduate students who are currently designing research proposals, implementing fieldwork strategies and analysing data. The main topics that will be explored are:

Sampling and survey design;
Qualitative and key informant interviews;
Freedom of information legislation and archival research;
Participant observation procedures;
Comparative analysis and historical context.

Interested applicants should submit an outline of around 400 words explaining how the workshop would benefit their research plans, together with a CV and a short reference from a supervisor - to be delivered separately - by e-mail before the 22nd of February 2008. Applicants will be notified by the 10th of March whether they have been accepted. In order to prepare for the workshop, students will be asked to write a brief paper of around 1500 words reflecting upon the influence of methodological issues upon their research. These will be expected by the 1st of June 2008. The best papers will be published online through the FMSP Methods and Field Notes series. Doctoral candidates are invited to apply to attend both workshops. Ten bursaries are available to cover/contribute to the cost of travel and accommodation for participants from Southern Africa.


Submission Information

Please send submissions by email - with subject heading either: 'Training Workshop Submission' or 'Research Workshop Submission - to: darshan.vigneswaran@wits.ac.za. Requests for additional information should be directed to Dr Joel Quirk (j.quirk@hull.ac.uk).

The Forced Migration Studies Programme (http://migration.org.za/ ) is Southern Africa's premier centre for the academic study of migration. This workshop will form a part of a multi-faceted training and dissemination agenda for 2008, including a conference on the State of Migration in Southern Africa in March, and a Statistics Institute later in the year. 
 
The Wilberforce Institute (http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/) is dedicated to the pursuit of world class research in the areas of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and social justice. The institute seeks to improve academic knowledge and public understanding of both historical practices and contemporary problems, and to inform public policy and political activism.

This event has been made possible through a UK-Africa partnership grant from the British Academy. The Wilberforce Institute and Forced Migration Studies Programme have also received support for two further colloquia. Over time, the best submissions will be compiled into an edited collection focusing on Migration and Forced Labour in Africa.


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jan 28 11:57:41 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 28 11:58:21 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP REPOST: Migration, Immigration and Emigration
Message-ID: <022601c861ce$e8b3bdb0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Dear All,

The Anthropology News CFP message sent to the list yesterday was missing the 
announcement details. They attachment was removed by our listserv software 
(fyi: Urbanth-L's listserv software does not process attachments or html 
documents). As mentioned in the previous message, the deadline for proposals 
has been extended until the end of January.  SUNTA will help to coordinate 
this AN theme issue.  Contact SUNTA's new AN column editor, Jayne Howell 
(mbc@umn.edu) for background information.  -AJ


Call for Article Proposals

Migration, Immigration, and Emigration

CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC POLICY

What can anthropology contribute to the understanding and design of public 
policy on (im)migration? How have different governments responded to 
(im)migrants and public concerns regarding (im)migration? How are 
(im)migrants and transnational communities 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 employed in 
(im)migration policy discourse?


GLOBAL FLOWS

The transnational movement of people and capital is a popular theme among 
contemporary social scientists examining international development, seasonal 
migration, and various other topics. In what ways has population movement 
impacted or inspired the kind of work anthropologists do and how 
anthropologists conceive of their subjects? How have anthropologists 
examined flows of information, raw materials, food, medicine, power, and 
capital alongside population flows? How have indigeneity, locality, 
citizenship, and nationality been articulated within and alongside 
discourses of global flows?

How are historic human migratory patterns discussed in the different 
subfields of anthropology? How have scientific innovations (e.g. genetics 
research technologies) affected the ways in which anthropologists examine 
and understand historic migration?


CONCEPTUALIZING BORDERS

Borders and boundaries provide a rich but challenging site for 
anthropological research. How do anthropologists engage with contested 
notions of social and geographic borders/boundaries? How has work on 
migration affected anthropological methods and the ways in which scope and 
scale are articulated in ethnography? How do individuals and social groups 
re-imagine their identities in temporary and permanent situations of forced 
migration, refuge, and asylum?


Email a 200-300 word proposal or draft commentary if available (800-1400 
words) to Anthropology News Associate Managing Editor Dinah Winnick, 
dwinnick@aaanet.org. Proposals for photo essays are also welcome and should 
include five photographs and a 200-300 word description. Due to popular 
demand, the deadline for all proposals has been extended to January 31, 
2008. 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jan 29 11:43:55 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 29 11:45:21 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Terror: The Human Condition Series (Ontario, Canada)
Message-ID: <002801c86296$41f4fc50$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers: TERROR: The Human Condition Series
Ontario, Canada

Call for Papers Deadline: February 15, 2008-02

This conference is part of a larger series of ongoing, international, 
multidisciplinary conferences--run under the banner of The Human Condition 
Series--that brings together people from a variety of disciplines to assess 
a singular topic from artistic, cinematic, literary, ethical, social, 
political, philosophical, psychological and religious perspectives. We 
encourage you to share innovative ideas and new ways of thinking and acting. 
Proposals will be considered on any related theme and we especially welcome 
papers, reports, works-in-progress, workshops and sessions. This year's 
theme is Terror.

The concept of Terror is often found safely hidden and un-thought in diverse 
cultural, philosophical, and religious traditions and ways of life. One can 
see these safe havens extending from the divine mythologies of religious 
experience to the seemingly opposed rationalized life of contemporary 
high-tech societies. With respect to religious experience, it is clear that 
we have to seriously reconsider the dynamics of organized religion in the 
face of rising religious fundamentalisms and terrorist activity.

But terror in the highly rationalized world of technological societies can 
also impose its existing logic as a way of maintaining the order of things. 
We give it various positive names that conceal its potency and negative 
effects. At precise moments in history, terror's potency has appeared in 
benign terms such as "child welfare," "residential schools," the "founding 
nation," the "developed world," the "hysterical woman," the "mentally ill," 
the "social and sexual deviant," the "immigrant problem," the "disposable 
income," and the "democratic liberation of other peoples."

It is the absurd rationalizations of these terms in the face of concrete 
realities that covers over terror's effects and keeps it intact. This 
conference will investigate what role Terror has in maintaining the 
contemporary condition of humanity--and what hope there is of envisioning a 
condition in which Terror is natural and organic rather than strategic and 
imposed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please send a 250-300 word abstract or proposal as an email attachment (MS 
Word Format) to TerrorProposal@ideologiesofwar.com
The Organizing Committee also welcomes pre-formed panel proposals.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 15, 2008.

For more details about the conference go to:
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/speakers-08/ or
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/past-conference-07/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is an important, exciting conference and we hope you will participate 
by sending us your abstract.

It is one of the most significant meetings of the year on the sources and 
meanings of political and cultural violence.

We welcome proposals from people in the fields of psychology, anthropology, 
sociology, history, religious studies, cultural studies, social theory, 
psychoanalysis and political psychology.

We look forward to receiving your proposal.

Best regards,
Orion Anderson

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The Laws of State-Terror

* Non-sovereign Peoples Subjected to the Authority of the Privileged
* Structures that Organize, Control, Punish, and Reward Subjects
* Denial to Total Self-Governance
Communications of Terror
* Propaganda, Public Relations and other Communication Management in the 
Opinion Industry.
* Overt and Covert Representations of Terror
* The Centrality of Spin and Lobbying in Communicating Terror
* The Role of the PR Industry in Creating Terror
* Think Tanks and Policy Communications
* Global Media Management and Terror

The Manufacture and Management of Terror

* The Marketing of Terror
* Falsified News Coverage and the Intelligence Industry
* Techniques of Generating and Maintaining Terror through the Medical 
Industry's Management of 'Outbreaks'
* The Relationship of Terror to the Modern Malaise: Anxiety, Disorders, 
Disease
* Terror as Pleasure

Designating Terror

* The Construction of the Transnational Terrorist
* Deconstructing and Reconstructing

Designations: "Terrorism", "Freedom Fighter", "Peacekeeper", "Organized 
Crime", "Legality", and "Human Security"

* Delegitimation of Claims of Origin in Land-Ownership

Terror and the Transformation of States and Nations

* Legitimacy of Landownership.
* Public and Private Responses to Political Violence
* Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Conflicting Agendas in Counter-Terrorism 
and Counter-Crime Policies
* Forces in Society which Resist Terror via Fighting, Politics, Activism or 
Critical Journalism.

Spaces of Terror

* The International Political Economy of Corporate Power as Terror
* Hospitals, Clinics and the Medical Industry as Terror
* Education and Terror

Gender, Sexuality and Terror

* Otherness as Terror
* Patriarchy and the Violence of Gender Performance
* Gendering Terrorism

Recreational Terror

* Terror Pornography
* Horror Genres
* The Commodification of Fear
* Ritualistic Terror

Terror as Text

* Artistic Expressions of Terror
* Imagining Terror
* Literature and Terror
* Discourses and Counter-Discourses of Terror
* Historic Perspectives on Terror
* Linguistic Evolutions of Terror

The Doxas of Terror

* The Terror of Morality
* Market Terror
* Techno-Scientific Terror
* The Terror of Fundamentalisms
* Military Logic as Terror
* The Culture Industry as Terror
* The Terror of Reason
* The Metaphysics of Terror
* Racial Knowledge as Terror
* Faith and Terror

Orion Anderson
(718) 393-1104
Email: terrorproposal@ideologiesofwar.com
Visit the website at http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/ 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 31 12:32:46 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 31 12:33:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Commodities in Evolution: Historical Change in Different Ages
 of Globalization (London)
Message-ID: <010001c8642f$51e5bbf0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

'Commodities in evolution: historical change in different ages of
globalisation, 1800-2000'

The 2nd Annual Workshop of the Commodities of Empire project

Council Room, the British Academy, London
11 - 12 September 2008


First Call for Papers

Please submit an abstract of 300 words by 14 March 2008 to:

Dr Jonathan Curry-Machado, Coordinator, Commodities of Empire project: 
j.currymachado@londonmet.ac.uk

The workshop will explore the long-term evolution of commodities in the
modern era, particularly from the perspectives of regions subjected to
colonial rule in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. While
commodity chains were a major factor in promoting interrelations between
different parts of the world, this focus on the world outside Europe and
North America is designed to question dominant periodisations of
'globalisation'. Even when not identified purely with near contemporary
processes, many accounts still tend to privilege late nineteenth century
economic convergence between the nation states of the North Atlantic as
the most significant benchmark of a 'globalising' world.

That modes and areas of production as well as patterns and places of
consumption of commodities such as tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar and
cochineal underwent radical transformation during this period is not in
doubt. However, few accounts have focused on these changes over the
longue duree, which would open up exciting possibilities of identifying,
comparing and assessing the various mechanisms, both local and
international, that historically produced the major shifts. This may
also offer the promise of a more refined periodisation of
'globalisation', even though we need perhaps to bear in mind that
commodities, like other interconnecting forces, were always uneven and
limited in their 'globalising' capacities and that they generated
resistance, conflicts and inequalities as well as convergence.

The workshop will critically explore the following propositions:
* How significant were changes in political regimes (e.g. from colonial
to postcolonial) in the evolution of commodity chains between 1800 and
2000?
* How far did the movement of commodities help bring about changes in
the technological and infrastructural environment?
* What was the ecological and social impact (e.g. in terms of the
distribution of wealth) of export crops over the long term?
* What factors promoted changes in the perception of, and demand for,
particular commodities?
* What promoted and how significant were changes in labour regimes?
* Can local experiences and changing histories of commodities help us
towards a more refined periodisation of 'globalisation'?


A British Academy Research Project, Commodities of Empire is a
collaboration between the Caribbean Studies Centre at London
Metropolitan University and the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian
Studies at the Open University. Further details can be found on the
project website, at
www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire.


Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 31 12:40:18 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 31 12:41:23 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Navigating Maps (grad student conference, UC Santa
	Cruz)
Message-ID: <010c01c86430$5ffb1f40$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

CFP: Navigating Maps
Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Santa Cruz

Ho do we navigate: Treasure Maps -- Flight Maps -- Weather Maps The graduate 
students of the anthropology department at the University of California, 
Santa Cruz, invite submissions for an evening of creative expression and 
engaged conversation about the lives of maps. How do we experience: 
Topographic Maps -- Anatomic Maps -- Nautical Maps Connected to and inspired 
by the graduate student conference "Emerging Geographies: Mapping, Tracking, 
and Tracing" to be held the same day at UCSC, "Navigating Maps" will provide 
a chance for students to share stories about their encounters with maps or 
to help rethink the ways we interact with them. How do we encounter: Subway 
Maps -- Kinship Charts -- Floor Plans

We encourage submissions from students and faculty across disciplines as 
well as from a wide range of mediums-a short talk, performance, photography, 
or film-that are willing to consider maps in playful and imaginative ways. 
The deadline for submissions for Midnight University has been extended to 
February 20, 2008. Please email a one-page abstract, small proposal, or 
artist statement to: emerginggeographies@gmail.com The conference on 
"Emerging Geographies" is affiliated with Midnight University.

Contact Information:
Fred Deakin
Email: emerginggeographies@gmail.com
URL http://emerginggeographies.googlepages.com 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jan 31 12:52:42 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 31 12:53:12 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Sow's Ears to Silk Purses
Message-ID: <011801c86432$1cdd32a0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers: Sows' Ears to Silk Purses

ETHNOLOGY: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology

ETHNOLOGY: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology 
welcomes papers for a special issue on the creative use of trash foods; that 
is, provisions used by poor people and enhanced by them, and not food taken 
from garbage cans and city dumps. The proposed theme issue is about 
stratified societies having institutionalized differences of wealth and 
power, whose populations have unequal access to quantities and varieties of 
food because of the organization of commodity distribution. This results in 
ranking food and food ingredients based on their desirability, and 
encourages the emergence of haute cuisine as a culinary art. Admiration of 
artistic creativity is extended to chefs (men), and the cooks (women) are 
not appreciated for their innovations with low cuisine, although they can 
turn trash into treasure. It seems there is a lack of awareness of how poor 
people create what become popular dishes from rejected foods and 
ingredients, such as the parts of a butchered animal that are despised or 
considered inedible or garbage. The focus here is on culinary creativity 
with limited resources. Examples include scrapple, chitlins in various forms 
around the world, head cheese, and aspic. It also is interesting that ideas 
about preferred foods and dishes move not only from the top down, but 
also trickle up. Manuscripts should be about 30 pages, double spaced, with 
an abstract and several key terms. Manuscripts may be sent in email 
attachments or by regular mail.

Contact Information
Leonard Plotnicov, Editor-in-Chief
University of Pittsburgh
3310 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
Phone: 412-648-7503
Email: ethnolog@pitt.edu
URL http://www.pitt.edu/~ethnolog 
From koptiuch at asu.edu  Thu Jan 31 22:50:51 2008
From: koptiuch at asu.edu (Kristin Koptiuch)
Date: Fri Feb  1 12:41:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Announcement: new MA in Social Justice & Human Rights
Message-ID: <462BF6BD2108874EB31A029DCF1998E1AADAFF@EX07.asurite.ad.asu.edu>

****Master?s Program in Social Justice and Human Rights*****

Arizona State University is proud to announce that its new MA program in Social Justice and Human Rights is now accepting applications for Fall 2008.  

The Master of Arts in Social Justice and Human Rights (MASJHR) in ASU?s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences is an innovative new degree designed to offer social justice and human rights approaches to such issues as health, education, labor, international development, migration, child and family issues, and the environment.

The MASJHR offers two tracks of study ? Social Justice and Human Rights Research and Non-Governmental Organizational Management.  The research track will prepare students for careers requiring research skills in governmental agencies and non-governmental agencies, as well as preparing them for doctoral programs in the social sciences and law.  The NGO management track brings together training in the substantive area of social justice and human rights with intensive practical training in non-profit management that will prepare graduates for leadership positions in the rapidly growing NGO sector.  

Program Highlights
 
?	Learner-centered curriculum ? Students will benefit from an innovative curriculum focused on engaging the community and working with faculty on interdisciplinary research. Such a curriculum not only brings university expertise to real-world community problems, but it also creates engaged interdisciplinary research teams of faculty and graduate students tied together by a common social concern.  The curriculum will also be enhanced by the infusion of virtual lectures via videoconferencing from scholars, attorneys, activists, government officials, and others from around the world.  

?	Problem-based and community-embedded seminars ? Problem-based seminars will examine current problems in social justice and human rights from different theoretical perspectives in team-taught interdisciplinary seminars.  Community-embedded seminars will combine classroom instruction with student placement in local agencies during the semester.  These seminars will bring much-needed applied knowledge to the seminar classroom and also benefit the community. 

?	Grant writing and development ? All students in this program will be required to successfully complete a course in grant writing and development in their second year.  By then the students should be prepared with the research and management skills to write successful proposals and they will be required to complete a grant proposal as part of this course.  

Program Requirements

Full-time students can complete the MASJHR degree within 18 months.  The program is structured so that current practitioners in NGOs and other non-traditional students are able to complete their degree requirements by spending two semesters on campus and completing the remainder of their degree requirements (individualized instruction, thesis credits, etc.) back at their place of work in whatever location or country that may be.  We also expect many students to remain on campus for their entire program of study. 

The Faculty

The interdisciplinary program faculty conduct research on such varied issues as violence against women, social movements, globalization, new digital technology, democratic transitions, environmental and developmental ethics, social justice and art, slavery, genocide, metropolitan studies, urban culture and social space, citizenship, migration, and human rights law.  They actively conduct research across many areas of the globe including in West Africa, Ethiopia, China, Bosnia, Mexico, Latin America, Germany, and Spain.

For more information, see our website at:  http://newcollege.asu.edu/programs/social_justice/

Or contact, 


William Paul Simmons, Ph.D. 
Director, MA in Social Justice and Human Rights
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University
602.543.6089
william.simmons@asu.edu




From browns2 at pobox.upenn.edu  Thu Jan 31 13:58:19 2008
From: browns2 at pobox.upenn.edu (Stephanie Brown)
Date: Fri Feb  1 12:41:42 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Aceh, Indonesia -- a New Book from Penn Press
Message-ID: <47A21A4B.7000906@pobox.upenn.edu>

The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the release of 
/Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State/ by Elizabeth F. Drexler.

Penn Press <http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/>
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*New in Political Science | Anthropology*
Aceh, Indonesia* Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State* 
<http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14373.html>
Elizabeth F. Drexler
296 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4057-3 | $59.95 | ?39.00
A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence 
<http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/EPV.html> series

"A needed critique of the often-romanticized vision of 'reconciliation 
through truth commissions' for nations caught up in historical cycles of 
violence."--Susan Rodgers, College of the Holy Cross

"Elizabeth Drexler's sensitive treatment of Aceh's recent history is an 
invaluable contribution to the debate."--Goenawan Mohamad, author 
of ///Conversations with Difference/

In 1998, Indonesia exploded with both euphoria and violence after the 
fall of its longtime authoritarian ruler, Soeharto, and his New Order 
regime. Hope centered on establishing the rule of law, securing civilian 
control over the military, and ending corruption. Indonesia under 
Soeharto was a fundamentally insecure state. Shadowy organizations, 
masterminds, provocateurs, puppet masters, and other mysterious figures 
recalled the regime's inaugural massive anticommunist violence in 1965 
and threatened to recreate those traumas in the present. Threats 
metamorphosed into deadly violence in a seemingly endless spiral. In 
Aceh province, the cycle spun out of control, and an imagined enemy came 
to life as armed separatist rebels. Even as state violence and 
systematic human rights violations were publicly exposed after 
Soeharto's fall, a lack of judicial accountability has perpetuated 
pervasive mistrust that undermines civil society.

Elizabeth F. Drexler analyzes how the Indonesian state has sustained 
itself amid anxieties and insecurities generated by historical and human 
rights accounts of earlier episodes of violence. In her examination of 
the Aceh conflict, Drexler demonstrates the falsity of the reigning 
assumption of international human rights organizations that the exposure 
of past violence promotes accountability and reconciliation rather than 
the repetition of abuses. She stresses that failed human rights 
interventions can be more dangerous than unexamined past conflicts, 
since the international stage amplifies grievances and provides access 
for combatants to resources from outside the region. Violent conflict 
itself, as well as historical narratives of past violence, become 
critical economic and political capital, deepening the problem. The book 
concludes with a consideration of the improved prospects for peace in 
Aceh following the devastating 2004 tsunami.

*Elizabeth F. Drexler* teaches anthropology at Michigan State University.

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