From Andrea_Maldonado at brown.edu  Mon Mar  3 03:31:55 2008
From: Andrea_Maldonado at brown.edu (Maldonado, Andrea)
Date: Mon Mar  3 11:23:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP for AAA panel: Engaging Meanings and Movements of Middle-Class
 Latinos, Latin Americans, and Caribbeans
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Call for Papers: American Anthropological Association (AAA), 19-23 November, 2008

Proposed Session: Engaging Meanings and Movements of Middle-Class Latinos, Latin Americans, and Caribbeans

Maureen O'Dougherty, Chair

Andrea Maldonado and Sarah Muir, Co-Organizers

 

Recent decades have seen far-reaching political-economic and social shifts in Latin America and the Caribbean. This panel will explore the implications of these changes for the middle class in Latin America, among Latinos, and in the Caribbean. We invite submissions that employ a wide range of approaches and questions that may include but are not limited to the following.

 

How have the "lost decade" of the 1980s, the structural reforms of the 1990s, and more recent shifts in political leadership-epitomized by Lula, Morales, Ch?vez, and others-affected ideologies of progress and upward social mobility, so strongly associated with the middle class? How do the ways middle-class people remember and narrate these epochal shifts inform the ways they imagine and plan for personal, familial, and national futures? How should we analyze the-real or perceived-threats (such as crime, corruption, or economic crisis) that often seem to consolidate people's identification with the middle class? In what contexts does the middle class emerge as a relatively unified political actor?

 

In political speeches, academic treatises, mass media and everyday conversations, the middle class often figures-implicitly or explicitly-as the normative class. How should we investigate the processes that allow the middle class to occupy this position? What ideals and standards of practice orient the aspirations, strategies, and projects of middle-class people in the region? And what constitutes the failure or loss of that goal? 

 

Despite its normative status, the boundaries of the middle class are often decidedly vague. Who counts as middle-class and how are middle-class norms configured and reconfigured in any given situation? How does the meaning of middle-class membership shift in response to changes not only at the public level of political-economic disruptions, but also at the intimate level of life transitions?

 

The panel will also investigate the practical performance of middle-class identity in a variety of contexts-including interactions middle-class people have with one another and/or with those of other classes. What might patterns of attention and avoidance tell us about the performance, solidification, or contestation of class differences? How should we map the interior contours of this traditionally heterogeneous class? How should we conceptualize the interplay between class norms and those governing other dimensions of social difference (such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion)? What forms of identification and subjectivity emerge out of the interplay among these differing performances? 

 

Across the region, practices of middle-class distinction and segregation are incorporating relatively new building styles-such as gated communities and malls-as well as gentrifying popular residential areas, and, in the process, reshaping social geographies and reconfiguring social relationships. What social relationships and exclusions do these novel social geographies entail? What are the implications of these shifts in the built environment for the role of the public sphere, for conceptions of the common good, and for opinions concerning public institutions?

 

 

Please send abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute papers to Sarah Muir (muir@uchicago.edu) by Saturday, March 15, 2008.

 

 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Mar  3 11:20:02 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar  3 11:28:51 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: New Worlds, New Sovereignties: A Cross-Community
 Interdisciplinary International Conference (Melbourne)
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New Worlds, New Sovereignties
A cross-community interdisciplinary international conference
Melbourne, 6th-9th June 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS

Which human groups have possessed sovereignty and who has been  
excluded? Can different sovereignties overlap and coexist? Is  
sovereignty's ultimate sanction violence? Should nation-states refuse  
to interfere in each other's affairs regardless of the treatment of  
minorities? In what ways are sovereignties gendered? Are settler  
democracy and Native sovereignty compatible?

Our conference will address questions such as these with a view to  
bringing history to bear on the problems of the present. The  
conference's standpoint is from below. We will be focusing on  
sovereignty's consequences for those whom the prevailing order  
excludes or diminishes. We will be exploring the possibilities for  
change and redress.

Abstracts, in English, should be submitted by APRIL 4th 2008 or  
earlier. Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be made within one  
week of submission. The Early Bird deadline for conference  
registration is April 11th 2008. To submit, please go to the Abstract  
section of the conference website at www.newsovereignties.org

An edited collection of papers from the conference will be published  
by a major international publisher.


Conference themes will include:

?      Indigenous concepts and practices of sovereignty

?      Historical genealogies of Western concepts of sovereignty

?      Limits and contradictions of sovereignty

?      Sovereign subjecthood - human rights, gender and the nation-state

?      Plural sovereignties: Natives, minorities, and the nation-state

?      Sovereignty and the new global order

?      Sovereignty, land and nation

?      Refugees, asylum seekers and national borders

?      Sovereignty and the internet

?      Sovereignty regained


Nations and Homelands will include:

?      Aboriginal Australia/Torres Strait Islands

?      Native North America

?      Palestine

?      Timor Leste

?      Aotearoa/New Zealand

?      Hawai'i

?      Kurdistan

?      Post-Soviet Europe

?      Samiland


          We now invite submissions of abstracts for papers relating  
to these or related topics. Abstracts related to research or practice  
are welcome.  Abstracts should describe original, completed work.  
Responsibility for copyright issues rests with authors. At least one  
author of an accepted abstract must register for the conference and  
attend to present the paper.

Convenors
  Julie Evans (University of Melbourne)
  Patrick Wolfe (La Trobe University)

Host organisations
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology, University of  
Melbourne

Supporting organisations
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University
Victoria University


This conference is taking place on Wurundjeri land. We pay our  
respects to Wurundjeri elders past and present.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Mar  4 12:14:15 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  4 12:15:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Half New Orleans Poor Population Permanently
	Displaced
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Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or
Success?

By Bill Quigley
Submitted to portside
March 3, 2008

Government reports confirm that half of the working
poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans
before Katrina have not returned.  Because of critical
shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of
thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to
return home.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH)
reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind,
disabled and low-wage working families, is down 46%
from pre-Katrina levels.  DHH reports before Katrina
there were 134,249 people in New Orleans on Medicaid. 
February 2008 reports show participation down to 72,211
(a loss of 62,038 since Katrina).  Medicaid is down
dramatically in every category: by 50% for the aged,
53% for blind, 48% for the disabled and 52% for
children.

The Social Security Administration documents that fewer
than half the elderly are back.  New Orleans was home
to 37,805 retired workers who received Social Security
before Katrina, now there are 18,940 - a 50% reduction.
 Before Katrina, there were 12,870 disabled workers
receiving Social Security Disability in New Orleans,
now there are 5350 - 59% less.  Before there were 9425
widowers in New Orleans receiving Social Security
survivor's benefits, now there are less than half,
4140.

Children of working class families have not returned. 
Public school enrollment in New Orleans was 66,372
before Katrina.  Latest figures are 32,149 - a 52%
reduction.

Public transit numbers are down 75% since Katrina. 
Prior to Katrina there were frequently over 3 million
rides per month.  In January 2008, there were 732,000
rides.  The Regional Transit Authority says the
reduction reflects that New Orleans has far fewer
poorer, transit dependent residents.

Figures from the Louisiana Department of Social
Services show the number of families receiving food
stamps in New Orleans has dropped from 46,551 in June
of 2005 to 22,768 in January 2008.   Welfare numbers
are also down.  The Louisiana Families Independence
Temporary Assistance Program was down from 5764
recipients (mostly children) in July 2005 to 1412 in
the latest report.

While there are no precise figures on the racial
breakdown of the poor and working people still
displaced, indications strongly suggest they are
overwhelmingly African American.  The black population
of New Orleans has plummeted by 57 percent, while white
population fell 36 percent, according to census data. 
The areas which are fully recovering are more affluent
and predominately white.  New Orleans, which was 67
percent black before Katrina, is estimated to be no
higher than 58 percent black now.

The reduction in poor and low-wage workers in New
Orleans is no surprise to social workers.  Don Everard,
director of social service agency Hope House, says New
Orleans is a much tougher town for poor people than
before Katrina.  "Housing costs a lot more and there is
much less of it," says Everard.  "The job market is
also very unstable.  The rise in wages after Katrina
has mostly fallen backwards and people are not getting
enough hours of work on a regular basis."

The displacement of tens of thousands of people is now
expected to be permanent because there is both a
current shortage of affordable housing and no plan to
create affordable rental housing for tens of thousands
of the displaced.

In the most blatant sign of government action to reduce
the numbers of poor people in New Orleans, the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is
demolishing thousands of intact public housing
apartments. HUD is spending nearly a billion dollars
with questionable developers to end up with much less
affordable housing.   Right after Katrina, HUD
Secretary Alphonso Jackson predicted New Orleans was
"not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if
ever again."  He then worked to make that prediction
true.

According to Policy Link, a national research
institute, the crisis in affordable housing means
barely 2 in 5 renters in Louisiana can return to
affordable homes.  In New Orleans, all the funds
currently approved by HUD and other government agencies
(not spent, only approved) for housing for low-income
renters will only rebuild one-third of the pre-Katrina
affordable rental housing stock.

Hope House sees four to five hundred needy people a
month.  "Most of the people we see are working people
facing eviction, utility cutoffs, or they are already
homeless" reports Everard.   The New Orleans homeless
population has already doubled from pre-Katrina numbers
to approximately 12,000 people.

Everard noted that because of FEMA's recent
announcement that it was closing 35,000 still occupied
trailers across the gulf, homelessness is likely to get
a lot worse.

United Nations officials recently called for an
immediate halt to the demolitions of public housing in
New Orleans saying demolition is a violation of human
rights and will force predominately black residents
into homelessness.  "The spiraling costs of private
housing and rental units, and in particular the
demolition of public housing, puts these communities in
further distress, increasing poverty and homelessness,"
said a joint statement by UN experts in housing and
minority issues.  "We therefore call on the Federal
Government and State and local authorities to
immediately halt the demolitions of public housing in
New Orleans."  Similar calls have been made by Senators
Clinton and Obama.  Despite these calls, the
demolitions continue.

The rebuilding has gone as many planned. Right after
Katrina, one wealthy businessman told the Wall Street
Journal, "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want
to see it done in a completely different way:
demographically, geographically and politically."  
Elected officials, from national officials like
President Bush and HUD Secretary Jackson to local city
council members, who are presumably sleeping in their
own beds, apparently concur.  Policies put in place so
far do not appear overly concerned about the tens of
thousands of working poor, the elderly and the disabled
who are not able to come home.

The political implications of a dramatic reduction in
poor and working mostly African American people in New
Orleans are straightforward.  The reduction directly
helps Republicans who have fought for years to reduce
the impact of the overwhelmingly Democratic New Orleans
on state-wide politics in Louisiana.  In the jargon of
political experts, Louisiana, before Katrina, was a
"pink state." The state went for Clinton twice and then
for Bush twice, with U.S. Senators from each party. 
The forced relocation of hundreds of thousands, mostly
lower income and African-American, could alter the
balance between the two major parties in Louisiana and
the opportunities for black elected officials in New
Orleans.

Given the political and governmental officials and
policies in place now, one of the major casualties of
Katrina will be the permanent displacement of tens of
thousands of African Americans, the working poor, their
children, the elderly, and the disabled.

Those who wanted a different New Orleans rebuilt
probably see the concentrated displacement as a
success.  However, if the test of a society is how it
treats its weakest and most vulnerable members, the
aftermath of Katrina earns all of us a failing grade.
==
Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor
at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans.  He
can be reached at quigley77@gmail.com  Interested
persons can contact Hope House through Don Everard at
deverard@bellsouth.net 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Mar  4 12:18:01 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  4 12:19:35 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Family Dynamics in Transnational Migration among African Migrants
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The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on
Family Dynamics in Transnational Migration among African migrants

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

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

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

The special issue will be guest edited by Marina de Regt (International 
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Eva Evers Rosander, (Department of 
Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden), Reinhilde K?nig (Department 
of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam).
All communication regarding the special edition should be directed to Dr. 
Marina de Regt (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), by 
e-mail: marina.deregt@planet.nl

Informal enquiries are most welcome, and the Guest Editors will be happy to 
discuss individual questions.

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

Dr. Marina Deregt
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Telephone + 31 20 6685866
Fax + 31 20 6654181
Email: marina.deregt@planet.nl 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Mar  4 12:26:15 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  4 12:27:11 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: ICA Simposio, "Proyectos urbanos y cultura urbana" (Mexico)
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53 ICA. Simposio "Proyectos urbanos y cultura urbana"
Submission Deadline: 2008-05-31

Estimados colegas.

Hacemos presente la invitaci?n a participar en el Simposio "Proyectos
urbanos y cultura urbana en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Desde mediados
del siglo XIX hasta hoy" en el 53

CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS que tendr? lugar en el Centro
Hist?rico de la CIudad de M?xico, del 19 al 24 de julio de 2009.

Los interesados en participar deben enviar un abstract de hasta 500 palabras
y cinco palabras claves, indicando su nombre, correo electr?nico y
afiliaci?n institucional antes del 10 de marzo de 2008 a ambos
coordinadores, respetando las l?neas tem?ticas trazadas en la propuesta del
Simposio.

Coordinadores:
Mg. Rosa Aboy, Candidata de Doctorado. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
rosaboy@gmail.com
Dr. Ricardo Hern?n Medrano.Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Brasil.
hmedrano@gmail.com
Simposio: Proyectos urbanos y cultura urbana en las ciudades
latinoamericanas. Desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta hoy.

Presentaci?n:
Los estudios sistem?ticos sobre los fen?menos urbanos latinoamericanos
surgieron en la d?cada de 1960 y desde ese entonces, estuvieron presentes en
los Congresos Internacionales de Americanistas; en especial a partir de 1966
con los seminarios promovidos por Jorge Enrique Hardoy, Richard Schaedel y
Richard Morse. En aquel momento, prevalecieron las investigaciones que
estudiaban el proceso de urbanizaci?n, lo cual implicaba situar aquellos
fen?menos dentro de un marco general, "desde sus or?genes hasta nuestros
d?as". Paralelamente, en Brasil, Nestor Goulart Reis realiz? trabajos en la
misma direcci?n y en la Argentina, Jos? Luis Romero desarroll? sus
interpretaciones sobre la sociedad urbana latinoamericana.

Estos estudios pioneros se caracterizaron por la b?squeda de explicaciones
que permitieran construir una visi?n conjunta de Latinoam?rica. Estos
abordajes persistieron hasta los a?os setenta, cuando perdieron vigor y las
investigaciones se orientaron hacia an?lisis m?s espec?ficos, como el
enfoque de ciudades o pa?ses. Esto permiti? entender mejor las
particularidades, pero se dej? de lado la b?squeda de un entendimiento del
panorama general latinoamericano. Los aportes anclados en realidades urbanas
espec?ficas contribuyeron al desarrollo de un fruct?fero campo de
investigaciones. Desde entonces, hemos asistido al afianzamiento de la
historiograf?a urbana, que a trav?s de diferentes interrogaciones y
abordajes ha ampliado el conocimiento de las ciudades latinoamericanas,
entendidas como artefactos complejos, desde el punto de vista social,
pol?tico y cultural.

En la definici?n de las ciudades de Latinoam?rica, en tanto realidad
material y discursiva, ha intervenido un conjunto de actores, que incidieron
de modos diversos, de acuerdo a su posicionamiento, en el entramado social e
institucional. De este modo, las grandes ciudades del continente pueden
pensarse como el fruto de diversas dosis de planificaci?n, consensos,
pr?cticas y negociaciones, por parte de diferentes participantes,
asim?tricamente ubicados en el espacio social y pol?tico de la ciudad.

El objetivo de este seminario es promover un intercambio de ideas,
abordajes, visiones te?ricas y estudios de caso, con el objetivo de
construir un marco de referencia actual que permita entender los fen?menos
urbanos en Latinoam?rica en sus diferentes escalas y aspectos, de los
espec?ficos a los gen?ricos. El Simposio propone abordar los diferentes
aspectos que confluyeron en la definici?n de las ciudades latinoamericanas
en su dimensi?n material y simb?lica, tal como quedaron definidas entre
mediados del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, desde un enfoque que integre
diferentes perspectivas de an?lisis. En tal sentido, las ponencias abordan
aspectos como el an?lisis de los planes urbanos, la vida social en la
ciudad, los aspectos demogr?ficos y los estudios de las cambiantes
configuraciones sociales. Asimismo se analizan algunos aspectos de la
cultura urbana, como las representaciones sobre la ciudad a partir de
fuentes cinematogr?ficas o literarias, y tambi?n los estudios cuyo objeto es
un colectivo social, t?cnico ? pol?tico espec?fico, en relaci?n con sus
efectos sobre la ciudad. Por ?ltimo, ser?n especialmente bienvenidos los
trabajos comparativos que involucren a diferentes ciudades, campo todav?a
poco transitado por la historiograf?a latinoamericana.

La aceptaci?n del Simposio ser? definida por la Comisi?n Cient?fica del
Congreso y transmitida a los coordinadores antes del 31 de myo de 2008.
Para informaci?n adicional sobre el Congreso, puede consultarse
http://www.53ica.com/

Rosa Aboy
Profesora Adjunta
Historia de la Arquitectura
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Rosa Aboy
Universidad de Buenos Aires
rosaboy@gmail.com

Ricardo Hern?n Medrano
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
hmedrano@gmail.com


From CFish at bmcc.cuny.edu  Tue Mar  4 14:42:25 2008
From: CFish at bmcc.cuny.edu (CFish@bmcc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Mar  4 15:13:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: Nature Ecology & Society Colloquim March 7
In-Reply-To: <E1JWaV0-0000hS-TK@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
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Please post and announce to colleagues and students! 

Seventh Annual Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium
Scales of Environmental Justice
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Friday, March 7, 2008
Free
 
10:00 ? 10:15 Welcome
David Chapin, Jason A. Douglas and Tsai-Shiou Hsieh, PhD Program in 
Environmental Psychology, GC, CUNY

10:15 ? 10:30 Opening Remarks
Tom Angotti, Center for Community Planning and Development, Hunter College

10:30 ? 11:30 Educating for Just Stewardship
Chair: Cheryl Fish, English, Borough of Manhattan Community College 
William D. Solecki, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College
Annette Williams, B.E.S.T. Program Director, Sustainable South Bronx
Kimberly Libman, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center

11:30 ? 11:45 Break and View Research Posters

11:45 ? 12:45 Environmental Justice New York
Chair: Judith Kimerling, CUNY School of Law, Queens College 
Juliana Maantay, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences, 
Lehman College
Philip Silva, Campaign Coordinator, Southern Bronx River Watershed 
Alliance
Tom Angotti, Center for Community Planning and Development, Hunter College

12:45 ? 1:30 Lunch & Discussion 
Global Identity: How to Encourage Concerns on a Planetary Level / Leanne 
Rivlin, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center
Human Dimensions of Climate Change / Janis Roze, The Americas Center, 
Graduate Center
Curriculum Development in Sustainability at CUNY / William D. Solecki, 
CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College
Environmental Regulation, Pollution Trading Schemes and Social Justice / 
Rebecca M. Bratspies, CUNY School of Law, Queens College
Sustainable CUNY / Yehuda Klein, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 
Graduate Center

1:30 ? 1:45 Student Comments on the Research Posters*

1:45 ? 2:45 Just Climate
Chair: Hari Pant, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences, 
Lehman College
Radley Horton, Center for Climate Research, Columbia University
Cecilia McHugh, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College 

Jingwu Wang and Hari K. Pant, Environmental, Geographic, and Geological 
Sciences, Lehman College

2:45 ? 3:00 Break and View Research Posters

3:00 ? 4:00 Constructing Green
Chair: Elizabeth Housley, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center
Kenneth Gould, Sociology, Brooklyn College
Peter Marcotullio, Urban Planning/Geography, Columbia University and 
Hunter College
Rob Crauderueff, Sustainable Alternatives Coordinator, Sustainable South 
Bronx

 
*  There will be 13 research posters presented.
 
Please visit our website for further information - 
http://www.nature.cuny.edu
 
   To register or for further information, please contact 
nature@gc.cuny.edu 



Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Borough of Manhattan Community College
City University of New York
From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Mar  5 10:03:06 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar  5 10:04:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 JOB: Assistant Professor, Community and Regional Development (UC Davis)
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University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor, Community and Regional Development
Director, Center for the Study of Regional Change

Position Description: The Community Studies and Development Program, and the 
Center for the Study of Regional Change (CSRC), both within the College of 
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, 
Davis, are seeking to hire a new tenure track faculty member and Director of 
the CSRC, whose research and teaching will contribute to an emerging area of 
emphasis on regional governance of community and regional developmental 
processes. The candidate hired for this position will also be expected to 
provide intellectual and administrative leadership for the Center for the 
Study of Regional Change by economic, policy, environmental and planning 
opportunities and challenges associated with regional change. Located on the 
UC Davis campus, the Center is in close proximity to the California state 
capitol, a state governmental seat that presides over the sixth largest 
economy in the world. Center researchers have opportunity to interface 
directly with governmental and non-governmental entities working on regional 
issues. UC Davis is in the heart of the Central Valley, which is the fastest 
growing region of the state with a population likely to triple in 40 years. 
Although the Center's primary focus will be on California's Central Valley 
and Sierra Nevada, it will also facilitate comparative studies of regional 
dynamics.

The position is 50% as Director of the Center, and 50% tenure track faculty 
member (hired at the Assistant Professor level) in the Community Studies and 
Development Program; The faculty position is an academic year (9-month) 
appointment; fiscal year (11-month) term appointments in the Agricultural 
Experiment Station (AES) to be offered and continued based on academic 
personnel review. Faculty members who hold AES appointments have a 
responsibility to conduct research and outreach relevant to the mission of 
the California Agricultural Experiment Station.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. degree in city and regional planning, environmental 
planning, landscape architecture, political science, public policy, public 
administration, sociology, economics, geography, or anthropology or a 
related academic discipline. Candidates will be expected to develop a strong 
research program and the ability to teach courses at the undergraduate and 
graduate levels. Candidates should also demonstrate experience or the 
potential ability to run a research, policy, and outreach organization 
related to the following goals of the CSRC.

Salary: Commensurate with experience and achievements within the Assistant 
Professor and Academic Administrator ranks at the University of California.

Appointment Date: Applications will be reviewed with the expectation that 
the appointee will be available for service on or about July 1, 2008.

Applications: Candidates should begin the application process by registering 
online at https://secure.caes.ucdavis.edu/Recruitment/. Inquiries should be 
directed to the chair of the recruitment committee:

                        Chris Benner, Associate Professor, Community Studies 
and Development
                        (530) 754-8799, ccbenner@ucdavis.edu

Applicants should submit the following information online: curriculum vitae; 
statement of research and teaching interests  and background; statement on 
leadership experience or potential relevant to directing the CSRC, copies of 
relevant manuscripts, publications, and reports and names, addresses, 
telephone numbers, and email addresses of four references. The position will 
remain open until filled. To ensure consideration, applications should be 
received by April 30, 2008.

UC Davis is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and is 
dedicated to recruiting a diverse faculty community. We welcome all 
qualified applicants to apply, including women, minorities, veterans, and 
individuals with disabilities. 


From Fincke at Zeit-Stiftung.de  Wed Mar  5 12:36:51 2008
From: Fincke at Zeit-Stiftung.de (Fincke Gunilla)
Date: Wed Mar  5 12:59:56 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CfA: Ph.D. Scholarships
Message-ID: <7A0E39F22559144CB6F8B04D0CDC00F201F5600B@server.zeit.local>

 
The German ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is calling for
applications for "Settling Into Motion" - The Bucerius Ph.D.
Scholarships in Migration Studies. The scholarship program seeks to
address the ongoing transformations in societies where migration is just
one factor among others generating change. For 2008 applications
relating to migration and urban transformations are especially welcome.

 

Within this international program, the ZEIT-Stiftung grants six to eight
pre-doctoral scholarships per year. Applicants must be Ph.D. students of
- in a broad sense - social sciences. The scholarships involve a monthly
stipend of 1.200 Euros as well as yearly conferences and workshops. The
deadline for applications is 31 March 2008. 

Scholarships are granted for up to 36 months. They can be used for
research and writing periods but not for course work. 

 

The world is in motion: people and ideas, products, technologies as well
as diseases are travelling between regions and continents. Cities and
cultures as well as family and labour market relations are changing in
these processes of globalization. Regulatory competencies of nation
states are also in question. The movement of people is only one factor
among others generating change, but one whose importance will rise over
the next years. 

 

Migrants are settling into societies that are themselves transforming.
Thus the meaning of integration is increasingly hard to pinpoint.
Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace change. Some migrants will also
keep multi-stranded relations with their countries of origin, thereby
building transnational spaces; others will after little time move on to
third countries. All of them settle into motion. 

 

How can migrants and their receiving and sending countries

reap the benefits of this movement of people? Which structural and
procedural conditions have to be in place to take advantage of
diversity? And what are the challenges for the individual, the migrant
family, the regions and countries migrants come from as well as the
places of reception? The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Program "Settling
Into Motion" seeks to address these questions, each year focusing on a
different topic.

 

 

For 2008, applications to study "Migration and Urban Transformations"
are especially welcome. The majority of migrants live in urban areas.
For a long time, cities were regarded as "integration machines" because
of their capacity to incorporate people of different backgrounds in a
functionally differentiated system. At the same time, cities are
themselves focal points of economic, social and cultural
transformations.

Applications for scholarships under this topic could study the following
questions of (but are not limited to): 

*	Super-diversity and the effects of rapid diversification on
neighbourhoods 
*	Housing careers of migrants 
*	Policing and anti-discrimination policies 
*	(Informal) economy and development of innovation 
*	Governance issues at local level (including provision of welfare
services) 
*	Urban sprawl 
*	Social and political participation at local level and the role
of religious communities 
*	Local school choice and the school-neighborhood nexus

 

Innovative approaches both in methodology and in research questions are
highly encouraged.

 

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is one of the major private
foundations in Germany sponsoring academic research. Among other things,
it founded and continues to financially support the Bucerius Law School,
a Hamburg-based private law school that combines innovation in teaching
with renowned research.

 

Please find further information as well as the online application at
www.settling-into-motion.de <http://www.settling-into-motion.de/> 

 
 
From susanmazur at hotmail.com  Tue Mar  4 13:48:01 2008
From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (susan mazur)
Date: Wed Mar  5 13:02:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ideas for a globalization reader?
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I'd like to consult the anthro hive mind - does anybody have suggestions for course reader in a class on Globalization and Culture Change? I'd love to include a gamut from older robust theory to latest cutting edge. The class is upper division, but I'd like the material to be more accessible than not. Please email me at susanmazur@hotmail.com
 
Thanks!  Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.  PrincipalIndicia Consulting: Measurable results for your business951.687.8661
From johnschaefer at mail.utexas.edu  Wed Mar  5 14:20:52 2008
From: johnschaefer at mail.utexas.edu (John Schaefer)
Date: Wed Mar  5 15:28:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ideas for a globalization reader?
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Susan, if you could compile the results and repost them to the list I think many
of us would be interested. For example, I had dismissed this one by Inda and
Rosaldo as being outdated, but now that it's in its 2nd edition, what's the
verdict from the hive mind?

http://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Globalization-Reader-Blackwell-Readers/dp/140513612X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204748187&sr=1-3

Thanks,
John.

Quoting susan mazur <susanmazur@hotmail.com>:

> I'd like to consult the anthro hive mind - does anybody have suggestions for
> course reader in a class on Globalization and Culture Change? I'd love to
> include a gamut from older robust theory to latest cutting edge. The class is
> upper division, but I'd like the material to be more accessible than not.
> Please email me at susanmazur@hotmail.com
>
> Thanks!  Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.  PrincipalIndicia Consulting: Measurable
> results for your
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From mathangi at mail.utexas.edu  Wed Mar  5 16:48:48 2008
From: mathangi at mail.utexas.edu (Mathangi Krishnamurthy)
Date: Wed Mar  5 18:07:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAA 2008: People in Motion, Things in Motion
Message-ID: <1204757327.47cf2350038dd@webmailapp6.cc.utexas.edu>


Call for Papers&#8232;
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA),
Nov. 19-Nov. 23, 2008&#8232;, San Francisco&#8232;&#8232;

Proposed Panel:
People in Motion, Things in Motion: Flexible labor, mobile identity and other
incommensurables

Mathangi Krishnamurthy and Elizabeth LeFlore, The University of Texas at Austin

	Labor forces are increasingly mobile in a world rendered smaller by technology,
infrastructure and global business interests. On the one hand, apocalyptic
theories of global imperialism would have us believe that locality is being
deterritorialized and subjects rendered into productive and flexible
transnational labor by the onslaught of capitalist modernity. Agentive notions,
on the other hand, overdetermine the position of the speaking subject and claim
the reterritorialization of the local in specific instances of cultural
resistance.
	This panel problematizes the spaces of the transnational as easily identifiable
within one or the other discourse. Alternatively, it tracks mobile subjects and
objects as a means to rethink and reevaluate the prevailing narratives and
analytical frames of an inside and outside, ostensibly separated by boundaries
of nation, time, orientation and difference and arguably connected by the
notion of the transnational. Who are these multiply positioned subjects and how
do they reconcile the impermanence of the spaces they inhabit? What allegiance
do they bear to the objects found in the spaces they move between? What makes
these objects local, global, national or transnational and how do they in turn
forge new desires and practices?
	We contend that ethnographic research makes transparent the contingent,
changing and emerging strategies of labor subjects that traverse the
transnational. It exposes not only the travails but also the pleasures and the
desires imbricated in the process of transnational movement. We invite papers
from scholars whose work explores people and things in motion by posing sites,
events, objects and life histories that simultaneously contest and inform the
normalized ?scapes? (Appadurai 2001) of the global economy. A strong
ethnographic focus will be given preference.

Questions can include but are not limited to:

(1) Defining/ Re-defining mobility

(2) The role of mobility in constructing and/or contesting identities

(3) The relationship between technology and the ability to be mobile

(4) Gendering mobility

(5) Media discourses on the lives of mobile subjects

(6) The objects that sustain and energize mobile life

(7) The role of mobility in the stories people tell

Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words and a brief CV to Elizabeth
LeFlore (ehleflore@gmail.com) or Mathangi Krishnamurthy
(mathangi@mail.utexas.edu) by Monday, March 17, 2008.

-----------------------------------------
Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Doctoral Candidate, Dept.of Anthropology
The University of Texas at Austin
-----------------------------------------

From elw9 at stanford.edu  Wed Mar  5 12:33:01 2008
From: elw9 at stanford.edu (Erica Lorraine Williams)
Date: Wed Mar  5 18:08:52 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP LASA 2009: Globalization, Race and Sexuality Panel
Message-ID: <20080305123301.1jy7654f4g4ow0gw@webmail.stanford.edu>

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

LASA 2009 Congress: RETHINKING INEQUALITIES
XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
June 11-14, 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Session Organizers: Aisha Beliso-De Jesus (Stanford University) and
Erica Lorraine Williams (Stanford University)

Panel:
Epistemologies of "The Global": Racing and Sexing the Transnational

This panel interrogates discourses of "globalization" that divide the
world into binaries of "the local" and "the global," and configure
these as separate entities in threat of colonization and in need of
rescue.  These discursive formations that conform to raced and sexed
meta-narratives of globalization challenges our work as ethnographers
and effectively silences the material violence and inequalities in the
daily lives of the people with whom we work. Racialized and sexualized
discourses are often glazed over when dealing with transnational
practices such as sex tourism, the circulation of culture and, the
commodification of spiritual/religious practices, which are depicted
as "symptoms" of global capitalism.  As ethnographers, we seek to
unsettle the dichotomies that are produced by these global
meta-narratives that would like to neatly place certain countries in
Latin America as "successful" examples of global restructuring, and
Others as "failures." This is especially urgent in the contemporary
moment, when Latin American countries are expected to follow scripted
programs of economic development and neoliberal markets that produce
new "global" consumers based on racial and sexual hierarchies and
historical relationships.  By bringing together diverse sites of
fieldwork in Latin America, we explore how the shaping of these
meta-narratives produces new technologies of power in specific
locations.  How are subjects inhabiting our field sites represented
and disciplined by the very discourses that produce them?  How do
their subjectivities and lived experiences of inequalities contest
master narratives of political economy, and globalization?  Our work
seeks to disrupt dichotomies that produce "agents" and "victims" of
"the global" through transnational ethnographic approaches.


For more information about LASA 2009, see
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/congress/about.html

Please send no more than 150 word abstracts, together with the
following information to either AISHA BELISO-DE JESUS, and ERICA
WILLIAMS by MARCH 20, 2008.

Name
Contact details (email and phone)
Institutional affiliation
Brief description of relevant research experience, if applicable

Panel Organizers:
Aisha Beliso-DeJesus (PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology,
Stanford University) AND Erica Williams (PhD candidate, Department of
Anthropology, Stanford University) and

mail to: elw9@stanford.edu AND aishab@stanford.edu



-- 
Erica Lorraine Williams
Ph.D Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad, Building 50
450 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-2034
elw9@stanford.edu

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Mar  6 11:16:47 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar  6 11:17:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management:
 The Case of Israel/Palestine
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CALL FOR PAPERS
States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management:
The Case of Israel/Palestine

Social science research and legal studies of surveillance in Western 
countries have been on the increase in the last couple of decades, in 
particular after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. There is, however, a dearth 
of comparative, empirical research that includes the Middle East. The 
purpose of this call for papers is to examine surveillance practices in 
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a conflict zone. The case 
study provides an appropriate venue for examining surveillance and its 
associated technologies at several levels: (1) social sorting of population 
through discursive practices involving people counting and census 
construction; (2) spatial control, urban warfare, and territorial 
sovereignty; (3) geographic mobility; (4) use of technology in its various 
forms to manage people and violence in conflict situations; (5) discourses 
of state securitization, biopolitics, and states of exception that are 
deployed as means of surveillance; (6) role of the 
military-industrial-surveillance complex in promoting surveillance; (7) 
extent to which existing privacy and other related laws protect against 
intrusiveness by the state, private sector, and third-parties in the 
collection and dissemination of personal information; and (8) how the 
practice of social sorting in Israel/Palestine has influenced and in turn 
been influenced by global considerations related to the discourse on 
security and terrorism.

Focus of the Proposed Workshop
            The proposed workshop will have three main foci: one, to situate 
studies of surveillance and population management in the context of 
theorizing about security and states of exception; second, to analyze the 
assemblages of surveillance techniques ranging from traditional forms of 
face-to-face contact to the use of various types of technologies in the 
gathering of personal information; finally, through a political economy 
perspective, to analyze state securitisation and the relationship between 
the military-industrial complex and the production of surveillance 
technologies. While twenty possible topics which address these foci are 
listed below, potential participants are encouraged to suggest for possible 
considerations other topics that fit within the overall framework of the 
workshop.

Suggested Topics
1.      Theorizing states of exception and suspension of the law in conflict 
zones. Examples should include Israel/Palestine and other regions.
2.      Use of maps and censuses as discursive surveillance tools in the 
construction of citizenship, identity boundaries, and borders.
3.      The logic of biopolitics in Israel/Palestine as a case study or in 
comparison with other regions.
4.      Colonialism and states of exception in the analysis of population 
management and surveillance in British colonial Palestine.
5.      Face-to-face surveillance (role of informants and collaborators in 
pre- and post-1948 Israel/Palestine).
6.      Surveillance as a prelude to Palestinian refugee exodus in 1948.
7.      The checkpoint experience from the points of view of (a) the 
Palestinians and (b) Israeli soldiers.
8.      The passport and the ID as markers of citizenship criteria.
9.      Urban design, urban warfare and technologies of control.
10.  The Israeli military-industrial-surveillance complex (a political 
economy approach).
11.  Israel and other states of exception: surveillance in the 
securitisation of the state (role of military, police, and other security 
agencies).
12.  Surveillance by the private sector (internet service providers, retail 
enterprises, commercial databases, etc.).
13.  Use of CCTV (as for example in Jerusalem, on Road 6, or other public 
places in Israel and the OPT).
14.  Profiling of individuals at crossing points.
15.  The Wall a means of surveillance/security and a tool of land/border and 
population management.
16.  The technological fix to counter surveillance and privacy protection: A 
critical assessment.
17.  Citizen knowledge and awareness of surveillance/privacy laws and their 
impact on human rights, freedom of information, etc.
18.  The extent to which Israeli policies of social sorting have influenced 
and been influenced by other conflict zones.
19.  Analysis of social sorting and its impact on issues of social justice 
and human security.
20.  Modes of resistance to surveillance techniques.

Workshop Sponsors and Venue
            The workshop is part of The New Transparency: Surveillance and 
Social Sorting project that is funded by the Social Science and Humanities 
Research Council through its Major Collaborative Research Initiative. The 
project involves  an array of international scholars working in surveillance 
studies. For more information click on 
http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance
            The workshop will be held either at Queen's University in 
Kingston, Ontario or somewhere in the Middle East, depending on where the 
majority of participants are likely to come from. Cost is a consideration 
here. At this stage, the workshop is scheduled to be held from 8-9 December 
2008 at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
            Those who are interested in submitting a proposal to participate 
in the workshop, should send their enquiries and a 500-word abstract to Elia 
Zureik (zureike@queensu.ca), Yasmeen Abu-Laban 
(yasmeen.abu-laban@ualberta.ca)  , or David Lyon (lyond@queensu.ca) by April 
1, 2008. Participants are encouraged to seek funding from their 
institutions. Some funds may be available for economy travel and local 
accommodation for those who indicate that their institutions or funding 
councils have turned down their request for funding. 


From susanmazur at hotmail.com  Wed Mar  5 16:15:09 2008
From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (susan mazur)
Date: Fri Mar  7 00:18:55 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Compiled List of Globalization Suggestions
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Thanks to all who took the time to respond. Several people asked for me to compile the suggestions so here they are. ...Anyone who wants to see my syllabus when it is done just email me and I will send you a copy. 
 

Big Fave (Mentioned by several folks):
 
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo's The Anthropology of Globalization
 
Silver Star (couple of mentions):
 
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud The Anthropology of Development and Globalization for a moreadvanced reader (grad level).
 
Honorable Mention (one apiece):
 
George Spindler and Janice Stockard's Culture Change and Globalization (which I am already using as my textbook). 
 
James C. Scott's _Domination and the Arts of Resistance_ (1990)
 
Globalization and Culture: Global Melange 
by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
 
The Globalization Reader Third Edition Edited by: Frank Lechner (Emory University) and John Boli (Emory University
 
Alan Smart's List (That looks quite fun if fun is the word I am looking for)
 
Readings in Urban Theory, 2nd ed., Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell, eds. offers a broad spectrum of abridged versions of useful classics.
 
Friedman, T.L. 2002. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Anchor Books. Pp xi-xxi and 28-39
 
Harvey, David. 2002. Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp 121-127.
 
Smith, Michael Peter. 2001. Transnational urbanism. New York: Blackwell. Pp 23-29.
 
Hannerz, Ulf. 1987. The World is Creolisation. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 57 (4):546-559.
 
Appadurai, Arjun. 2002. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, edited by J. X. Inda and R. Rosaldo. New York: Blackwell. Pp 46-65.
 
Wolf, Eric. 1982. Europe and People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 1-35.
 
Leach, Edmund. 1964. Political Systems of Highland Burma. London: Athlone Press.
Pp 4-11.
 
Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 1-9 and 321-329.
 
Mintz, Sidney W. 1998. The Localization of Anthropological Practice: from area studies to transnationalism. Critique of Anthropology 18 (2):117-33.
 
Watson, James L. 2000. China's Big Mac Attack. Foreign Affairs 79 (3):120-134.
 
Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs 72 (3):22-49.
 
Trocki, Carl A.  1999. Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950, Asia's Transformation Series. New York: Routledge. Pp 166-173.
 
Prahalad, C.K. and Allen Hammond. 2002. Serving the World's Poor, Profitably. Harvard Business Review, 4-11.
 
Mintz, Sidney W. 1985. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books. Pp xv-xxviii and 44-61.
 
Ferguson, James. 2002. Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism. In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, edited by J. X. Inda and R. Rosaldo. New York: Blackwell. Pp 136-149.
 
Collins, Jane L. 2000. Tracing Social Relations in Commodity Chains: The Case of Grapes in Brazil. In Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by A. Haugerud, Stone, M. P. and P. D. Little. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pp 97-109
 
Milgram, B. Lynne. 2004. Refashioning Commodities: Women and the Sourcing of Secondhand Clothing in the Philippines. Anthropologica 46:189-202.
 
Robbins, Richard H. 2002. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Pp 32-47.
 
Smart, Alan and James Lee. 2003. Housing and Regulation Theory: Domestic Demand and Global Financialization. In Housing and Social Change, edited by R. Forrest and L. J. London: Routledge. Pp 87-104.
 
Boo, Katherine. 2004. The Best Job in Town: The Americanization of Chennai. The New Yorker, July 5 2004, 56-62. 
 
Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer. 2005. Flexibility for Whom?: Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico. In Petty Capitalists and Globalization, edited by A. Smart and Smart. J. New York: State University of New York Press. Pp 67-79.
 
Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton-Blanc. 1992. Transnationalism: a new analytical framework for understanding migration. In Towards a transnational perspective on migration, edited by N. G. Schiller, L. Basch and C. Szanton-Blanc. New York: New York Academy of Sciences. Pp 1-24.
 
Bredin, Marian. 1996. Transforming Images: Communication Technologies and Cultural Identity of Nishnawbe-Aski. In Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities, edited by D. Howes. New York: Routledge. Pp 161-177.
 
Green, Sarah, Penny Harvey, and Hannah Knox. 2005. Scales of Place and Networks: An Ethnography of the Imperative to Connect through Information and Communications Technologies. Current Anthropology 46 (5):805-817.
 
Merry, Sally Engle, and Rachel E. Stern. 2005. The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface. Current Anthropology 46 (3):387-402.
 
Lee, Kelley. 2003. An Introduction to Global Health. In Globalization and Health: An Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp 12-27.
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: The Penguin Press. Pp 239-261.
 
Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.  PrincipalIndicia Consulting: Measurable results for your business951.687.8661
 
 
From marky at umail.ucsb.edu  Thu Mar  6 09:10:50 2008
From: marky at umail.ucsb.edu (Mark A. Schuller)
Date: Fri Mar  7 00:19:05 2008
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Hi all,

Damn I hate doing this, but I'm one of the editors of a new volume  
that just came out last Friday that discusses the theme of  
globalization within a framework of disaster capitalism...  apologies  
for the self-promotion.


ANNOUNCING A NEW EDITED VOLUME

Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction
Alta Mira Press
Globalization and the Environment Series

Edited by Nandini Gunewardena & Mark Schuller
Foreward by Alex de Waal
February 2008

In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and  
professionals critically examine how local communities around the  
world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's  
principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector  
to deal with natural disasters and other forms of large-scale  
devastation, from hurricanes and tsunamis to civil wars and industrial  
accidents. Called "disaster capitalism" by its critics, the tendency  
to contract private interests to solve massive, urgent public problems  
may be inevitable but is extremely problematic--especially with  
respect to peoples who need help the most. Can private relief groups  
give the highest priority to potential and actual victims of large  
disasters, for example, if that means devoting fewer resources to  
protecting tourism and other profitable industries? The high-profile  
contributors to this volume straightforwardly tackle such timely and  
difficult questions of great public concern. Cases include Hurricane  
Katrina, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, military intervention in  
Afghanistan, tropical storms in Caribbean nations such as Honduras and  
Belize, political turmoil in Haiti and Guatemala, the 9/11 attacks,  
and the Bhopal gas leak.

List of Contributors
Sara E. Alexander, Gregory Button, Bettina Damiani, Antonio Donini,  
Elizabeth Guillette, Nandini Gunewardena, Wahneema Lubiano, Anthony  
Oliver-Smith, Adolph Reed Jr, Anna Belinda Sandoval Gir?n, Mark  
Schuller, Susan Stonich


"Moralized discourse served as a protective bubble that provided  
immunity from rigorous analysis. That bubble has burst, but only on  
the top floor of the ivory tower. The overwhelming majority of media  
coverage and academic writing remains entrapped in an untheorized  
consensus that relief and rehabilitation are good things beyond  
rebuke. Capitalizing on Catastrophe is an important exercise in  
scholarship. It brings the phenomenon of neoliberal disaster  
capitalism into sharp focus, defining the field in a theoretical and  
comparative manner and exploring some important case studies. This  
book is also an essential exercise in framing an emergent public  
policy issue." ?Alexander de Waal, Harvard University, from the Foreword

"Capitalizing on Catastrophe critically examines the motivations and  
agendas that fuel the political will to act in the name of  
humanitarian assistance to the large-scale crises and human tragedies  
of our times. Using diverse examples of disaster from around the  
world, the authors tease apart the complex continuum of causality,  
response, and consequence--asking the basic questions of who pays, who  
profits, and to what effect. In so doing, they put a human face to  
disaster response, and that face is not a pretty one. Nandini  
Gunewardena and Mark Schuller have pulled together an incredibly  
strong collection of case studies, framed in a sharp and clear  
analysis with pragmatic suggestions for change. In a world of  
escalating chaos and misery, this collection offers the reader a  
useful tool to assess recent experiences. More importantly,  
Capitalizing on Catastrophe offers pragmatic strategies to emphasize  
human needs in humanitarian response." ?Barbara Rose Johnston, Center  
for Political Ecology, Santa Cruz

"This is a stunning book that builds on, and extends, previous  
research on disaster, social vulnerability, and reconstruction. The  
contributors discuss social vulnerability and neoliberalism, disaster  
capitalism, humanitarian issues, and cultural data sets from around  
the world. The book provides a rich combination of ethnography and  
theory." ?Linda M. Whiteford, University of South Florida


The book is now in print, being processed in the warehouse.  If people  
want the 25% discount, they can pre-order the book now by visiting the  
website:

http://www.altamirapress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0759111030&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]


p.s. I find Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's "Friction" really useful as well.


John Schaefer <johnschaefer@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Susan, if you could compile the results and repost them to the list   
> I think many
> of us would be interested. For example, I had dismissed this one by Inda and
> Rosaldo as being outdated, but now that it's in its 2nd edition, what's the
> verdict from the hive mind?
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Globalization-Reader-Blackwell-Readers/dp/140513612X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204748187&sr=1-3
>
> Thanks,
> John.
>
> Quoting susan mazur <susanmazur@hotmail.com>:
>
>> I'd like to consult the anthro hive mind - does anybody have suggestions for
>> course reader in a class on Globalization and Culture Change? I'd love to
>> include a gamut from older robust theory to latest cutting edge.   
>> The class is
>> upper division, but I'd like the material to be more accessible than not.
>> Please email me at susanmazur@hotmail.com
>>
>> Thanks!  Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.  PrincipalIndicia Consulting: Measurable
>> results for your
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From RJaffe at fsw.leidenuniv.nl  Fri Mar  7 15:00:36 2008
From: RJaffe at fsw.leidenuniv.nl (Jaffe, Rivke)
Date: Fri Mar  7 09:00:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Marginalization and Popular Culture, EASA 2008
Message-ID: <D2A7BE6B6BD7A64385398556F8948A5C018598B5@FSWEXC01.fsw.leidenuniv.nl>

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

Urban marginalization and popular culture

Since the groundbreaking work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham school
of cultural studies, popular culture and the specific urban experience
of marginalization and contestation have been leading themes within the
social sciences. In this panel, we seek to build upon and extend that
critical work by investigating empirically the manner in which youths in
cities worldwide employ popular culture to frame and negotiate social
and spatial marginalization, often critiquing 'common sense'
understandings of propriety and the social order. In the narration and
contestation of specific urban identities and spaces, we see the linking
of popular globalized representations of youth, cities and exclusion to
social practices at different levels of scale. We are specifically but
not exclusively interested in the global dissemination and appropriation
of black popular culture - including hiphop, reggae, dancehall and
reggaeton - and the emergence of discursive spaces such as the 'hood,
the barrio, the ghetto and the street. In this, we seek to explore
whether spatially constructed identities may eclipse a specifically
racialized understanding of blackness, and what role capitalism and
culture industries play in this process.

Workshop convenors:
Rivke Jaffe (Leiden University, The Netherlands),
RJaffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Francio Guadeloupe (Radboud University Nijmegen/KITLV, The Netherlands),
f.guadeloupe@maw.ru.nl  

To propose a paper please submit an abstract (max. 250 words) at
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=378 
The deadline for paper proposals is March 31, 2008.

For more on the conference see
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Mar  7 15:38:30 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar  7 15:39:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: 'Irrational' Reproduction: Population Politics and Practices
 at the Intersections of North and South
Message-ID: <021f01c88093$36b923f0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Milena Marchesi (milena@anthro.umass.edu)

Proposed Session: "Irrational" Reproduction: Population Politics
and Practices at the Intersections of North and South

Organizer: Milena Marchesi
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
milena@anthro.umass.edu

Chair: Silvia De Zordo
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
silvia@de-zordo.it

Over the past couple of decades, feminist anthropologists have
highlighted the centrality of gender and reproduction to the
political projects of the nation-state, have traced how the
heteronormative family often comes to stand as synecdoche for
the "imagined political community" (Anderson 1992) of the nation,
and have come to understand reproductive politics as biopolitics.
Ethnographic research has examined the selective deployment of
reproductive policies, discourses, and practices in political
projects of inclusion/exclusion.

The dangers of "irrational reproduction," usually associated with
marked populations, whether racially, ethnically, or by class more
recently has extended to include white Europeans who are not
reproducing themselves. In the global South, the logics of
international population politics have tended to place the burden
of responsibility for poverty on populations practicing "irrational"
reproduction rather than on the systematic inequities of globalization.
Thus, most family planning practices have been concerned with reducing
the birth rate in the name of social and economic development, of the
wellbeing of children and families and, more recently, of women's  
rights.

On the other hand, in some European countries fertility rates below
replacement levels are increasingly described as a threat to social
cohesion and to the survival of European civilization, particularly
as they coincide with significant migration of populations who are
perceived to bring with them high fertility rates. In response to
the perceived threat of low fertility of white Europeans to European
societies a range of state policies in support of families, including
a European Alliance for the Family, have emerged and strong anti-
abortion campaigns are being carried out even where abortion has
been legal for decades. These policies tend to reward white European,
heterosexual families while they neglect or undermine the family-making
and reproductive rights of migrants and gays and lesbians.

This panel aims to examine and compare reproductive politics across
the North-South divide as well as the discourses, practices and
subjectivities they have produced over the past decades at the
level of the social body, the individual body, and the body
politic and to compare the rationalities and consequences of
disciplining the reproduction of populations.

We seek papers based on ethnographic research that attends to
the subjectivities and experiences of groups and populations
whose reproduction is construed as dangerous to the nation-state.
What logics drive reproductive politics in these different context?
How do these projects play out on the ground and what are their
consequences?  What practices, subjectivities, and forms of
resistance manifest around the often-contested politics of
reproduction? What discourses and practices are available
to counteract these projects?

Please submit abstracts (250 words limit) to Milena Marchesi
(milena@anthro.umass.edu) by March 20th.
From susanmazur at hotmail.com  Fri Mar  7 09:53:12 2008
From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (susan mazur)
Date: Sat Mar  8 00:49:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]More compiled Globalization stuff
Message-ID: <BAY120-W24D9A85E2C4D96F74E8C8FC4130@phx.gbl>

Seems to be a hot topic for a lot of us right now!
 
More people replied, so here is the updated version of the list. Also, I went to the library yesterday and found these to be very interesting and readable (i.e. I will probably assign a chapter from each):
 
Jody Heymann, Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy ? probably chapter one, ?Who cares for preschool children?? (I am concurrently designing a cross-cultural child rearing course and updating my Community Design and Social Change course, so some overlap is a dire necessity. I?ll take suggestions on the Child rearing course as well).
 
The Global Activist?s Manual: Local Ways to change the world edited by Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond, intro by Naomi Klein (I like to give my students real options for action)
 
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Steiglitz (probably assign last chapter, ?The Way Forward?)
 
and World on Fire: How exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability by Amy Chua (chapter ?The ?Ibo of Cameroon?: Market Dominant Minorities in Africa?, looks interesting). 
 
Big Fave (Mentioned by several folks):
 
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo's The Anthropology of Globalization
 
Silver Star (couple of mentions):
 
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud The Anthropology of Development and Globalization 
(grad level).
 
Honorable Mention (one apiece):
 
George Spindler and Janice Stockard's Culture Change and Globalization (which I am already using as my textbook). 
 
James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance(1990)
 
Globalization and Culture: Global Melange by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
 
The Globalization Reader Third Edition Edited by: Frank Lechner (Emory University) and John Boli (Emory University)
*This looks really good to me. 
 
Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford (eds). 2005. Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity. School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Scott Sernaus Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace, and Sustainability
 
David Maybury-Lewis Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic  Groups, and the State
 
Jeffry Sachs The End of Poverty
 
A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
 
M. Steger A very short intro to globalization
 
Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction Alta Mira Press, Globalization and the Environment Series Edited by Nandini Gunewardena & Mark Schuller, Foreward by Alex de Waal, February 2008
 
Alan Smart's List (That looks quite fun if fun is the word I am looking for)
 
Readings in Urban Theory, 2nd ed., Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell, eds. offers a broad spectrum of abridged versions of useful classics.
 
Friedman, T.L. 2002. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Anchor Books. Pp xi-xxi and 28-39
 
Harvey, David. 2002. Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp 121-127.
 
Smith, Michael Peter. 2001. Transnational urbanism. New York: Blackwell. Pp 23-29.
 
Hannerz, Ulf. 1987. The World is Creolisation. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 57 (4):546-559.
 
Appadurai, Arjun. 2002. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, edited by J. X. Inda and R. Rosaldo. New York: Blackwell. Pp 46-65.
 
Wolf, Eric. 1982. Europe and People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 1-35.
 
Leach, Edmund. 1964. Political Systems of Highland Burma. London: Athlone Press.
Pp 4-11.
 
Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp 1-9 and 321-329.
 
Mintz, Sidney W. 1998. The Localization of Anthropological Practice: from area studies to transnationalism. Critique of Anthropology 18 (2):117-33.
 
Watson, James L. 2000. China's Big Mac Attack. Foreign Affairs 79 (3):120-134.
 
Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs 72 (3):22-49.
 
Trocki, Carl A.  1999. Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950, Asia's Transformation Series. New York: Routledge. Pp 166-173.
 
Prahalad, C.K. and Allen Hammond. 2002. Serving the World's Poor, Profitably. Harvard Business Review, 4-11.
 
Mintz, Sidney W. 1985. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books. Pp xv-xxviii and 44-61.
 
Ferguson, James. 2002. Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism. In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, edited by J. X. Inda and R. Rosaldo. New York: Blackwell. Pp 136-149.
 
Collins, Jane L. 2000. Tracing Social Relations in Commodity Chains: The Case of Grapes in Brazil. In Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by A. Haugerud, Stone, M. P. and P. D. Little. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pp 97-109
 
Milgram, B. Lynne. 2004. Refashioning Commodities: Women and the Sourcing of Secondhand Clothing in the Philippines. Anthropologica 46:189-202.
 
Robbins, Richard H. 2002. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Pp 32-47.
 
Smart, Alan and James Lee. 2003. Housing and Regulation Theory: Domestic Demand and Global Financialization. In Housing and Social Change, edited by R. Forrest and L. J. London: Routledge. Pp 87-104.
 
Boo, Katherine. 2004. The Best Job in Town: The Americanization of Chennai. The New Yorker, July 5 2004, 56-62. 
 
Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer. 2005. Flexibility for Whom?: Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico. In Petty Capitalists and Globalization, edited by A. Smart and Smart. J. New York: State University of New York Press. Pp 67-79.
 
Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton-Blanc. 1992. Transnationalism: a new analytical framework for understanding migration. In Towards a transnational perspective on migration, edited by N. G. Schiller, L. Basch and C. Szanton-Blanc. New York: New York Academy of Sciences. Pp 1-24.
 
Bredin, Marian. 1996. Transforming Images: Communication Technologies and Cultural Identity of Nishnawbe-Aski. In Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities, edited by D. Howes. New York: Routledge. Pp 161-177.
 
Green, Sarah, Penny Harvey, and Hannah Knox. 2005. Scales of Place and Networks: An Ethnography of the Imperative to Connect through Information and Communications Technologies. Current Anthropology 46 (5):805-817.
 
Merry, Sally Engle, and Rachel E. Stern. 2005. The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface. Current Anthropology 46 (3):387-402.
 
Lee, Kelley. 2003. An Introduction to Global Health. In Globalization and Health: An Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp 12-27.
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: The Penguin Press. Pp 239-261.Thanks to all who took the time to respond. And thanks to those of you who sent me your own papers and articles, I will print them out and look them over.
   Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.  PrincipalIndicia Consulting: Measurable results for your business951.687.8661
From jhowell at csulb.edu  Fri Mar  7 15:47:15 2008
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Sat Mar  8 00:50:07 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REQUEST -- SUNTA COLUMN SUBMISSIONS
Message-ID: <2B78B923-6D65-4084-B47E-8A5BEED58767@csulb.edu>

Hello SUNTA members:

If you have any news, photos short (500-600 word) research reports   
or commentaries for the SUNTA column, please send them to editor   
Jayne Howell at jhowell@csulb.edu.  Thanks.

Jayne 

From gardner at ups.edu  Sat Mar  8 14:57:52 2008
From: gardner at ups.edu (Andrew Gardner - amgardner)
Date: Mon Mar 10 15:14:46 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP/AAA 2008 Consumerism, Culture and the City
Message-ID: <C3F859F0.4ED0%gardner@ups.edu>

***CALL FOR PAPERS***

Consumerism, Culture and the City

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

Co-Chairs: Andrew Gardner (Puget Sound) and Rylan Higgins (Arizona/CET)
 
This panel explores both emergent and established consumer cultures in urban
contexts outside Western Europe and North America. In general terms,
consumer culture is frequently portrayed as a significant congeries of
practices, meanings, and relations, forged in the ambit of western
modernism, and bound to that modernism?s foundational notion of the free and
rational individual actor. This portrayal aligns itself with the colonial
and civilizing western discourse that, over the intervening decades, now
finds critical expression in the portrayal of consumer culture as a
homogenizing and western facet of globalization. In short, the tidiest logic
of this portrayal suggests that becoming a modern consumer means becoming
more western. Our session seeks papers that unpack and challenge the
premises of that argument or, put another way, that critically examine the
emergence of a consumer culture untethered from its purported western
mooring. We seek ethnographically informed papers attentive to the role of
gender, class and ethnicity within these consumer cultures. We also
encourage submissions that explore these issues in an urban context, and
particularly those that speak to the city as a site of consumption.

We hope to build a session around a geographically diverse set of papers.
Rylan?s paper will examine the emergence of a consumerist ethic in
contemporary Vietnam, while Andrew?s paper explores consumer culture in the
petroleum-rich states of the Arabian Peninsula.

Please send 250 word abstracts, ASAP, to Andrew Gardner at gardner@ups.edu.

Andrew Gardner
University of Puget Sound
gardner@ups.edu

Rylan Higgins
University of Arizona/CET Vietnam
rylan@email.arizona.edu


-- 
Andrew M. Gardner, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Comparative Sociology
University of Puget Sound
1500 North Warner Street
Tacoma WA 98416-1092

(253) 879-3490



From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Sun Mar  9 12:33:40 2008
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Mon Mar 10 15:15:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Africa panel for AAA 08
Message-ID: <7E900F354244104B973354F36A46572B012B1F10@SUEXCL-01.ad.syr.edu>

The Inclusive City: African Imaginaries

African cities are notable for their historically constituted
multiplicity: spatially, a legacy of the colonial order in the urban
plan, divisions that incorporate the stranger quarter packed onto and
the old villages with the European business district nearby; socially,
the village character of neighborhoods, the Western imprint on suburbs,
and the reconstitution of ethnic identities and village structures.
 
These cities have always been contact zones; cutting across and bringing
together completely different spaces, fields of intercultural production
take form - in the arts, the tourism and music industries, markets,
ngo's or local-global partnerships around health, governance, etc.  
 
These spheres of activity bring together foreign, migrant, and local
ideologies, workers, goals, and desires.  In these different arenas,
Africans (local and migrant) and non-Africans come together and through
their exchanges "create" the African city: site of differently-centered
cosmopolitanisms, nexus within different transnational imaginaries.
 
This panel  looks at urban intercultural spheres  as a means toward new
mappings of the African city.  We seek papers that explore such
intercultural spheres from a variety of perspectives.  Papers with a
historical or spatial lens are particularly welcome.

Contact Ruti Talmor ruti.talmor@nyu.edu or Deborah Pellow
dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu.





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

From pribiljc at whitman.edu  Mon Mar 10 13:46:51 2008
From: pribiljc at whitman.edu (Jason Pribilsky)
Date: Mon Mar 10 17:35:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Andean Worlds and American Imaginations/American Anthro. Assn
 Meetings
Message-ID: <20080310124651.jsg2bn5vk04c4kkc@webmail.whitman.edu>


Call for Papers American Anthropological Association Meetings
November 19-23, 2008
San Francisco, California

"Andean Worlds and American Imaginations"
co-organized by Jason Pribilsky (Whitman College) and Mary Weismantel 
(Northwestern University)

We are seeking a few papers to round out an emerging panel
addressing, quite broadly, a host of post-World War II American
scientific, development, and medical activities in the Andes region.

The post WWII period has proven to be a time of immense cultural interest
in the Andes for American researchers, industrialists, and development
practitioners. A number of factors drove this interest,
including Andean collaboration with the Allied war effort, international
development, industrialization, Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, and 
the growth of Andean universities and research institutes. 
Concurrently, this era saw
the once-artistic and literary focus of indigenista movements give
way to the liberal promises of social science research.

We seek engaging papers that look at this period with fresh
perspectives shaped by, though exclusively, by research interests in 
science studies,cultural studies, and the new Cold War studies tapping 
once classified
archival materials.

We should stress that this panel is still emerging and the addition of new
papers will be critical to shaping the overall theme. Already committed 
papers will address Alfred Kinsey and Moche (Northern Peru) erotic art, 
imagining science in the Cornell-Peru Project, and medical and social 
scientist interest in Kallawaya (Highland Bolivia) medical expertise in 
the the early twentieth century.

If interested, please contract Jason Pribilsky (pribiljc@whitman.edu) 
with a 250-word abstract or inquiry.

-- 
Jason Pribilsky
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Tel: 509-301-0115 (cell)
pribiljc "at" whitman "dot" edu

Visiting Scholar
Latin American Studies Program
Cornell University (Spring '08)

From shodzic at gmu.edu  Sun Mar  9 15:33:28 2008
From: shodzic at gmu.edu (Saida Hodzic)
Date: Mon Mar 10 17:38:44 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAA 2008: Transnational Medical Research
Message-ID: <f5a7cf935f016.47d3f538@gmu.edu>

CFP AAA 2008
Field of Frictions:  The Practice and Politics of Transnational Medical 
Research

We invite submission of ethnographically grounded paper proposals that
analyze the productive aspects of transnational medical and public health
research. We are interested in papers that address research collaboration
across disciplines and national boundaries and that focus on contemporary
social and public health problems. Papers focusing on Africa are
particularly welcome.

Anthropology of medical research in international health has traditionally
focused on
ethics and political economy in the encounter between ?Western? 
bioscience and subjects/patients in the global South. The rise of 
clinical trial sites
sponsored by foreign governments and/or corporate entities in low and
middle-income countries has provoked us to ask who benefits from this new
knowledge and to rethink the epistemological possibility of consent.
Parallel to this line of inquiry, anthropologists are moving to a wider
field of analysis focused on the complex and uncertain subjectivities,
relationships, and predicaments of persons involved in the transnational
production of bioscientific knowledge.

This field of frictions ? the ?unequal, unstable, and creative qualities of
interaction across difference (Tsing) ? is shaped by legacies of colonialism
and current structures of neoliberalism. Yet, postcolonial subjects occupy
the roles of researchers, experts, and social engineers as well as patients.
How are knowledge, rights, capital, and survival negotiated as non-profit
and profit industries forge alliances and pharmaceutical industry comes
together with development industry and university researchers? What kinds of
frictions develop in interdisciplinary and transnational research projects
in which epistemes, cultures, and interests converge?

Possible foci include: Representations ? of expertise, suffering
Production ? of pathologies, cures, treatments, subjectivities, forms of
sociality
Social constructions ? of new categories of disease
Collaboration in the context of a donor/recipient relationship
Medical and scientific ?capacity building?

If interested, please email us your abstract draft ASAP. The final abstract
is due March 14.

Organizers:
Johanna Crane Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
jtc223@cornell.edu

Saida Hodzic; Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University
shodzic@gmu.edu


From twpear at gmail.com  Tue Mar  4 21:49:03 2008
From: twpear at gmail.com (Thomas Pearson)
Date: Mon Mar 10 17:40:30 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP/AAA: Social Movements and Intellectual Property
	Rights: Building a New Intellectual Commons
Message-ID: <d72ea49a0803041949pe65c8c7j67ed03202ded66ac@mail.gmail.com>

Please circulate

Call for Papers / Proposed Session
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association
San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 2008

*"Social Movements and Intellectual Property Rights: Building a New
Intellectual Commons"*

This panel features research on social movements and Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) to examine how movements resist or utilize IPR while creating
alternatives to private control over intangible goods. Recent years have
seen the extension of legal monopolies to areas of life once considered
beyond the private property system, ranging from software codes to genetic
codes. These monopolies seek to "protect" intellectual property by granting
the "right" to exclude others from using, exchanging, transforming,
improving, or at times even understanding the intellectual property in
question. Such "enclosures of the mind" occur through copyright, patents,
trademarks, and industrial designs, for example, all of which fall under the
rubric of IPR. These rights to exclude are secured through a growing web of
national laws, free trade accords, international treaties, and supranational
institutions.

The underlying processes of privatization, commodification, and
monopolization that accompany the expansion of intellectual property rights,
however, have not gone uncontested. Examples could include such diverse
movements and collective experiments as the Free Software Movement; the
Creative Commons licensing project; the Wikipedia collective; music and file
sharing collectives; pirated CD/DVD vendors' movements; campaigns for
affordable, generic pharmaceuticals; opposition to bioprospecting; movements
against patents over seeds, biodiversity, genetically modified and synthetic
organisms; and struggles against corporate control over genetic information.
Some of these movements seek to carve out a space to promote the exchange
and development of knowledge, often utilizing IPR mechanisms such as
copyright in the process, while others seek to fundamentally challenge the
logic of intellectual property altogether, perhaps struggling to keep "life
itself" beyond the reach of commodity exchange. Still others, such as
informal vendors of pirated DVD movies, sometimes organize to confront the
enforcement of IPR laws.

This panel brings together research that on the surface may appear to treat
different topics, but which ultimately address similar underlying processes.
What insights do we gain into the privatization and monopolization of
knowledge, for instance, by studying the diverse array of movements that
challenge IPR? Under what circumstances do social movements take shape to
reject, utilize, or change IPR in the construction of a new intellectual
commons? In what ways do social movements challenge not only IPR but
concepts such as "rights," "property," and "protection"? What new languages
and strategies are being developed to resist dominant IPR regimes or to
design less restrictive mechanisms for exercising claims over intangible
goods? Does anthropology contribute to such movements, or is the discipline
limited by increasingly corporate academic settings that encourage IPR and
advance enclosures of the mind?

Please send proposed abstracts of up to 250 words to Tom Pearson at
twpear@gmail.com by March 17th.

Thomas Pearson
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York, Binghamton
pearson@binghamton.edu / twpear@gmail.com
From grosas2 at uiuc.edu  Sat Mar  8 13:16:45 2008
From: grosas2 at uiuc.edu (Gilberto Rosas)
Date: Mon Mar 10 17:51:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP For AAA Panel: The New Borders of Mexican Anthropology
Message-ID: <3B1600CC-9FFD-493A-B7BB-751EFEB530E5@uiuc.edu>

The Shifting Borders of Mexican Anthropology: Beyond Exclusions,  
Inclusions, and Collaborations

As the country that reputedly inspired by E.B. Tylor?s science, the  
discipline of anthropology in Mexico would seem to be inextricably  
coupled to imperialism and globalization. Indeed, several histories  
and anthropologies map the centrality of the discipline in the  
formation of the state and its asymmetrical positioning in the global  
economy and relations of empire. They also chart the discipline's  
centrality in the formation of a cohesive, modern, national mestizo  
community, a common citizenship that indigenizes modernity and  
modernizes the indigenous. Many anthropologists have documented  
historically specific techniques of inclusion and exclusion, based on  
race, class, gender, and ethnicity, cognizant of the discipline's  
close association with genealogies of state formation and extra- 
territorial forms of power-knowledge. Others have sought to document  
and analyze both everyday struggles and widespread mobilizations.   
Many have sought to disrupt theses aforedescribed power-knowledge  
relations through innovative exercises of social theory,  
representational practices, and new methodologies. Such critical  
scholarships emerge from specific critiques of the discipline both  
from within Mexico and beyond.

The scholars on this panel---both Mexican and non-Mexican---revisit  
the tensions of anthropological knowledge production in Mexico.  We  
seek a wide-range of innovative papers exploring the shifting politics  
of anthropological knowledge production in this country from the  
revolutionary moment through the Calderon government and across  
disciplinary and international borders. What new subjects of analysis  
and locations become unveiled under distinct if simultaneous regimes  
of power-knowledge relations? How do migrant and other post- 
territorial subjects complicate the politics of knowledge production?  
How do new ethnographies of Mexico speak to the new configurations of  
power? What do activist inspired ethnographies tell us about the  
shifting nature of power and knowledge?

Dr. Rosalva A?da Hern?ndez Castillo of the Centro De Investigaciones y  
Estudios Superiores en Antropolog?a Social (CIESAS) has graciously  
agreed to be the discussant.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 20 to



--------------------------------------
Gilberto Rosas
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
and Latina/o Studies Program
University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall
607 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-4117
grosas2@uiuc.edu
-- 





From bchap at ku.edu  Sat Mar  8 10:26:29 2008
From: bchap at ku.edu (Ben Chappell)
Date: Tue Mar 11 11:57:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Crucial Globalization Reading
Message-ID: <aad507450803080826j30e64f41j49f8693c39794003@mail.gmail.com>

For teaching about globalization, there are some crucial pieces taking on
Samuel Huntington, Thomas Friedman, and others in the U. California volume
Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back. These are
also really helpful for modeling critique-- I have had a good time assigning
the original piece and then the chapter from this volume critiquing it.
----------------
Ben Chappell
Program in American Studies
University of Kansas
AIM: cultcrit
From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Mar 12 11:21:43 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 12 10:25:30 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Weston on Wolff/Cipolloni, eds., _Anthropology of the Enlightenment_
Message-ID: <006a01c8844c$c3c92760$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-German@h-net.msu.edu]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu (March 2008)

Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni, eds. _The Anthropology of the
Enlightenment_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvii + 414
pp. Notes, index. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-5202-2; $29.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-8047-5203-9.

Reviewed for H-German by Nathaniel P. Weston, Department of History,
University of Washington, Seattle

Enlightenment Encounters in Anthropology

Scholars who contribute to a growing historiographical genre that might
be termed "encounter studies," which finds its heritage in travel
literature, anthropology, colonial history, and their study, originate
in a similar vein to that of the texts from which they argue. Since the
unmatched impact of Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) on the study of
(particularly colonial) cultural encounters as an unparalleled influence
on the construction of the Other, scholars from diverse academic
backgrounds have turned to the question of "the encounter." Some of them
have identified anthropology as a rich source of inquiry for traces of
cross-cultural engagement. This parallel between Said's recovery of "the
Other" and scholars' general reconsideration of anthropological texts
from the past has run concurrent to further questioning of the roles of
social science in colonial enterprises. Even so, anthropology as a
discipline has become a self-conscious beneficiary of greater attention
to moments of encounter, as have history, literary criticism, and
cultural studies, to name only the most prominent fields.

The collection reflects the next generation of scholarly work on
encounters that has continued to attend to questions surrounding
anthropology and in this instance, how the field's genesis intersected
with the intellectual aims of the Enlightenment. Scholars from a variety
of fields provide the sixteen essays contained in the book. In this
interdisciplinary endeavor, the work carries forward the spirit of Denis
Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's _Encyclopedia_ (1751-72), possibly
the central text of the Enlightenment, in its engagement with experts
from differing backgrounds collaborating for the common project of the
progression of knowledge. The editors, Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni,
provide the introduction and conclusion respectively with the remaining
chapters arranged in three parts: "Philosophical History and Enlightened
Anthropology ," "Ethnography and Enlightened Anthropology," and "Human
Nature and Enlightened Anthropology." What is "Enlightened
Anthropology"? As Wolff remarks in his introduction, "Enlightened
Anthropology" may be understood as "proto-anthropology" (p. 21). Wolff's
introduction provides a straightforward general overview of the
intellectual roots of anthropology, which he locates in the
Enlightenment engagement with cultural perspective.

Part 1 of the book addresses several eighteenth-century thinkers and the
ways their ideas grappled with questions surrounding cultural
perspective. J.G.A. Pocock examines the concept of "barbarism" (p. 35)
as discussed in Edward Gibbon's third volume of _The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ (1776). Anthony Pagden analyzes
selected philosophes' parallel constructions of Europe and Asia, while
Sunil Agnani looks at D iderot's writings about "the Indies" (p. 65),
both East and West. Christian Marouby writes about Adam Smith's
assessments of economic growth based on particular ethnographic texts,
whereas Neil Hargraves dissects William Robertson's _History of America_
(1777) for its treatment of Aztecs, Incas, and the subsequent Spanish
conquest. The section concludes with Nicholas A. Germana's investigation
of Johann Gottfried Herder's interest in "Morgenland" (p. 119), a
figurative space interchangeable with India.

Part 2 focuses more on ethnographic rather than philosophical writings
involving European encounters with non-Europeans. John Gascoigne
examines the work of Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George, German
naturalists who traveled to the Pacific on Captain James Cook's second
global circumnavigation; Michael Harbsmeier studies Danish involvement
with the inhabitants of Greenland. Giulia Cecere observes Russian
imperial ethnographies of Russia's subject peoples; Jean-Philippe E.
Belleau researches French ethnographies of Haiti. The book's final part
concerns itself with Enlightenment authors who confronted questions
related to human nature. Mary Baine Campbell writes on dreams as
constructed on both the European as well as the American sides of the
Atlantic; Michael Kempe assesses the theory of natural law of German
scholar Samuel Pufendorf. Philippe Huneman excavates the origin of
psychiatry in the eighteenth-century notion of the "animal economy" (p.
262), a construction of the body as an interconnected system; Jonathan
Lamb traces metropolitan narrative representations of colonial societies
during the Enlightenment. The volume concludes with Cipolloni's
discussion of the movement to Enlightenment cultural perspective via its
foundation in Renaissance discoveries.

This collection is well suited for a variety of graduate seminars. The
feeling after moving through this text could be called a "cosmopolitan
effect," due to the numerous areas of Europe represented and active in
"enlightened" anthropological projects. This cosmopolitanism seems
appropriate for a study eighteenth-century Europe, considering that
nations were less stable entities than they would aspire to be in
subsequent centuries. Conjuring the figure of the nation-state suggests
future possibilities for inquiries pursued in this text: namely, the
conjunction of ideas about anthropology with the formation of nations.
Other potentially fruitful questions aim in the opposite direction: for
example, how did ancient and medieval authors, writing about
trans-cultural encounters, presage anthropological thought? Whatever the
specific directions encounter studies eventually adopts in the future,
the paths to and from this genre will continue to demonstrate a
cosmopolitanism that seeks sources closer to the encounter.


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the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From bozorth25 at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 12 12:33:14 2008
From: bozorth25 at hotmail.com (Rowan EditClass)
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:36:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Suggestions: "SongScapes"
Message-ID: <BAY103-W25188EB2BD5E255B18499EBE080@phx.gbl>


  I am seeking suggestions for a new feature at my blog, Eclectic Pedestrian (http://eclecticpedestrian.blogspot.com/). Titled SongScapes, this regular feature will offer for conversation a variety of popular songs that deal largely - or specifically - with land use, sprawl, planning, development, etc.
  While popular music, particularly in America, sometimes has dealt with big-picture social-justice topics in which planning/sprawl issues play a part, but less well-known are songs that deal more precisely with this issue.
   Just up on the blog is my first post in this area, about the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone." It includes a brief commentary from me and comments I found by songwriter Chrissie Hynde about the song and her love of her hometown of Akron, Ohio. 
  I have other songs lined up for future posts, but I'm eager to hear others' suggestions. Please visit my blog and join in the conversation about "My City Was Gone," and please send your suggested songs to Eclectic Pedestrian at the address listed at the blog. Whenever possible, please include the lyrics and/or a link to the music. I'll give consideration to all submissions and even will try to include guest commentaries on my blog.
Thanks,
Deb
 
==Deborah WoodellAdjunct Professor, journalism
GIS studentRowan UniversityGlassboro, N.J.
_________________________________________________________________
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From gdaniecc at cms.hu-berlin.de  Tue Mar 11 12:58:39 2008
From: gdaniecc at cms.hu-berlin.de (gdaniecc@cms.hu-berlin.de)
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:38:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]cfp: Cultural diversity between staging and everyday
	practices 
	=?iso-8859-1?q?=96_Managing_cultural_diversity_in_cities_in_Eastern_Europ?=
	e  
Message-ID: <1349.87.187.251.83.1205233119.squirrel@webmail.cms.hu-berlin.de>

Cultural diversity between staging and everyday practices ?
Managing cultural diversity in cities in Eastern Europe


Call for papers:
Anthropology of East Europe Review, special issue, spring 2009

Guest editors:
Cordula Gdaniec, Humboldt University Berlin
Eszter Gantner, ELTE University Budapest / Touro College Berlin


In this collection of articles we aim to present case studies of
qualitative ethnographic research in a variety of cities in central, east
and south-east Europe on the theme of (diverse) cultural practices and
their spatial manifestation in the city, which we define here as urban
culture (cf. Hannerz 1993 and 2000, Zukin 1995). The focus is on different
perspectives of cultural practices such as ethnicity, lifestyle /
(post-)subcultures, gender or consumption.

Cities are built on and develop through cultural diversity. This implies
that urban culture is necessarily diverse, multi-faceted, often
contradictory, even conflicting. Every city manages this ethnic and
cultural mix in a different way: While most cities are spatial
manifestations of their multicultural society, representing a
heterogeneous urban landscape as well as a politics of multiculturalism /
cultural diversity some actively foster this cultural capital. Other
cities merely tolerate the existing multitude of different lifestyles and
groups, where certain groups are forced to carve out their own, separate
spaces within the city, forming an urban cultural mosaic.

In an age of cultural and economic globalisation and increasing
transnationalism of people?s lives, cultural diversity in the city is
becoming an ever more important topic within certain branches of the
economy, in politics, and, not least, in the everyday lives of the city?s
inhabitants. On most city administrations? agendas cultural diversity
plays a key role in city marketing and urban policy, they cultivate a
rhetoric of diversity as a positive and profitable aspect of urban
culture. Beneath a discourse of multiculturalism and tolerance on the one
hand there lies, of course, a reality of everyday experience with
intolerance and racism on the part of members of ?non-mainstream? cultural
groups. It is also an increasingly urgent item on policy agendas as city
authorities and public discourse perceive social and economic problems as
stemming from an influx of (labour-) migrants, thus racialising urban
problems and ?Others?.

This special issue proposes to address the following questions: Firstly,
how do city governments and public discourses deal with this increasing
multiplicity of urban culture, especially where it results in higher
fragmentation of the urban landscape and, secondly, how are the different
cultures inscribed into the urban landscape; when and where are they
present in public space; where and how do they (have to) carve out their
private spaces? The interaction between city governments and diverse
cultural groups and the interaction between the appropriation of public
and private spaces, which involves negotiations about contested spaces and
cultures, is a crucial element of urban culture and the development of the
social, economic and spatial fabric of the city.

While there is a large body of literature on the subject concerning west
European and North American cities there appears to be a dearth of
research in and of east European cities. We welcome papers from (urban)
anthropologists and cultural geographers to collate analyses of these
issues in Eastern Europe.


Please send abstracts of 700-1000 words by e-mail to the two editors
by May 5th 2008
Accepted texts must be completed by Oct. 31st, 2008
The editors reserve the right of article selection.

Cordula Gdaniec c.gdaniec@gmail.com
Eszter Gantner gantneresz@gmail.com


From j_leinaweaver at umanitoba.ca  Thu Mar  6 21:09:08 2008
From: j_leinaweaver at umanitoba.ca (Jessaca Leinaweaver)
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:52:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2008 AAA CFP: ANTHROPOLOGY OF GRATITUDE
Message-ID: <001101c88000$a3c3c290$6901a8c0@JBLLaptop>

Please post (with pre-emptive apologies for cross-postings):
 
2008 AAA CFP: ANTHROPOLOGY OF GRATITUDE
 
Paul Ricouer has argued that intersubjective actions are laden with
evaluations and negotiations of social standing in which expectations may or
may not be met. When actors do not meet expectations, they are perceived as
ungrateful. When they exceed expectations, gratitude is an appropriate
response.  Thus, to properly understand gratitude is to consider how,
through appraising others' actions, people constitute social relationships
of mutual responsibility that cross-cut relations of inequality. 
 
Thus, taking gratitude seriously is a useful way to invigorate Maussian
studies of the gift and to explore the complex social actions that produce
inequality alongside mutual indebtedness.  This panel considers the
emotional states engendered by the gift: gratitude, ingratitude, and the
relationship between the two.  Papers are invited that address the
negotiation of gratitude and ingratitude, particularly but not exclusively
in connection with the conference themes of inclusion, collaboration, and
engagement.  Under what conditions does gratitude come to be expressed in
the context of a "gift"?  Do the perceived intentionality of the giver or
the absence of a duty to give inform these evaluations? How can ethnographic
accounts illuminate the ways that "generosity" is performed and interpreted?
Papers may address the social relations glossed by indebtedness, the
sociolinguistics of expressions of gratitude and accusations of ingratitude,
the relationship between the gift and appreciations thereof, and subjective
states of gratitude, indebtedness, entitlement, or ingratitude that
characterize relationships between anthropologists and their (potential)
interlocutors, among other possibilities.

 

Please send a 250-word abstract by March 21, 2008 to Jessa Leinaweaver at
j_leinaweaver@umanitoba.ca.

 

 

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

436 Fletcher Argue Bldg.

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 CANADA

204-474-7649 (Office)

204-474-7600 (Fax)

j_leinaweaver@umanitoba.ca

 

From tocantins512 at mac.com  Mon Mar 10 16:33:43 2008
From: tocantins512 at mac.com (Ariane Dalla D=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=a)
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:54:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP - Radical Theater Plays AAA 2008
Message-ID: <C3FB0557.14D5%tocantins512@mac.com>

Call For Proposals - Radical Theater Plays ? AAA 2008


RADICAL THEATER AS CULTURAL INTERVENTION: Exploring art and politics
in anthropology?s center-stage.


This is a call for short, one-act plays that address contemporary
social issues in a
globalizing world. We invite you to read or perform a 10-minute act
exploring the effects
of drama on the AAA 2008 theme of "Inclusion, Collaboration &
Engagement.? We propose using the potential efficacy of radical, open
theater to broaden audiences and engage community participation in a
more public and active anthropology. We blur conventional distinctions
between text and performance, stage and auditorium, performer and
spectator, action and dialogue, and art and life. Theater has the
potential to stir debate with our many publics both within the
humanities and the natural and social sciences, and outside of
academia because of the performatic and symbolic efficacy of applause,
laughter, tears, and indignation! As anthropologists and  theater
practitioners, we use radical theater to affect public policy and
create social change, transforming future actions of our audiences,
communities, and research partners. Democracy, education,
environmental justice, health equity, peace-making, and human rights
are core matter of story lines we enunciate. Our theatrical visions
are inhabited by characters whose diverse voices, gazes, and epistemic
perspectives enlarge our center stage, empowering communities and
making anthropology increasingly relevant to the global community.
Theater and anthropology collaborate to engage the general public into
a dialogue for dramatic change. Please send your 250-word abstract,
including title of play and your affiliation to: Mariana Ferreira
marianaf@sfsu.edu or Ariane Della D?a tocantins512@mac.com as soon as
possible. Thank you!

From d.r.rajak at sussex.ac.uk  Wed Mar 12 18:02:11 2008
From: d.r.rajak at sussex.ac.uk (Dinah Rajak)
Date: Fri Mar 14 11:08:01 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2008 CFP: Corporate Social Responsibility: A Paradigm
	for International Reciprocity?
Message-ID: <8699772D0A6A8E7B0BE74D6F@apd44052.staff.uscs.susx.ac.uk>

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

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A PARADIGM FOR INTERNATIONAL RECIPROCITY?

Catherine Dolan (University of Oxford) and Dinah Rajak (University of 
Sussex)

Concerns about mutuality and reciprocity lie at the heart of
contemporary practices and discourses of corporate social
responsibility.  Through company codes of conduct, international labour 
standards, community development projects, and a range of certification and 
labelling initiatives, corporate sector actors seek to engage in new forms 
of reciprocity with producers, consumers and non profit
organisations.

This panel aims to address at least three key areas of interest
around CSR from an anthropological perspective.  1) How can CSR be
conceptualised as a form of exchange and reciprocity?  In which ways does 
CSR resonate with other practices and forms of gift giving, charity and 
philanthropy? 2) How is CSR implicated in post-colonial efforts to imbue 
markets and market relationships with moral sensitivities?  Do CSR 
practices blur the boundaries between moral and market forms of exchange? 
How do fair-trade or ethical consumption provide us with a new angle to 
look at the 'morality of exchange'?  3) What sorts of relationships are 
constructed between donors and beneficiaries through CSR practices?  Does 
CSR offer a tool to challenge existing patterns of inequality and 
exclusion, or is it implicated in the reproduction of power inequalities 
and dependency (between countries, producers, etc?)

The panel aims to discuss a variety of ethnographically-inspired
and/or theoretically innovative contributions to any of the above (and 
related) themes in order to improve our understanding of the meanings, 
dynamics and impacts of CSR across social and cultural contexts.

Please send abstracts (250 words) to either Dinah Rajak 
(d.r.rajak@sussex.ac.uk) or Catherine Dolan(Catherine.Dolan@sbs.ox.ac.uk) 
by Friday, March 21, 2008.



Dr Dinah Rajak
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9SJ
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1273 678561
Fax: +44 (0)1273 673563
Email: D.R.Rajak@sussex.ac.uk

From ivanfleischer at hotmail.com  Thu Mar 13 17:09:48 2008
From: ivanfleischer at hotmail.com (David I. Rezende Fleischer)
Date: Fri Mar 14 11:09:43 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP For AAA Panel: Recent Perspectives on Ecotourism
Message-ID: <BAY131-W1147331DA42443FFF2C540B6090@phx.gbl>


Please circulate
 
Call for Papers / Proposed Session
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association
San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 2008


Recent Perspectives on Ecotourism: questions of territory, identity and environmental conservation.

Organization:
David Ivan Rezende Fleischer
PhD Program in Anthropology, University at Albany ? SUNY
df681417@albany.edu   


Ecotourism is a recurrent topic in anthropology scholarly production. Ecotourism is an activity that an increasing importance not only in economic discussions but political, social and cultural as well. In the last 10 years, ecotourism projects have been developed in several countries of Latin America as an alternative way to generate income to families and communities; to control and ordinate land use and land tenure; to guarantee protection to specific species of animals and plants; to protect traditional values and technologies of certain communities; to control use of natural resources; and to foment shifts of former extractive livelihoods to conservationist ones. Several of these initiatives have been developed in combination with environmental conservation projects inside and out of national parks; in combination with indigenous and traditional populations; and other times with help of national and foreign organizations and governments. 
Within this scenario of ecotourism development, other more teleological perspectives with regard to the protection and preservation of traditional culture and of nature can conflict with more contemporary arguments that draw on the seductive economic benefits that ecotourism can promote. To foment this discussion of the two-sided effects of ecotourism within contemporaneous situations, this session was organized to discuss ecotourism (a) in territorially defined areas (e.g., indigenous and traditional land, protected areas such as national parks, sanctuaries and reserves); (b) and its possible combinations with environmental conservation projects, traditional (ecological) knowledge and economic benefits; (c) and its interconnections with public and private interests of distinct social actors and institutions (e.g. community associations, NGOs, city and town halls, government departments and agencies, universities, international agencies, etc.). Anthropological data collection and research of nature tourism and ecotourism is growing more and more, and there is a need to have more discussion. The session welcomes wide-range of innovative papers exploring the shifting analytical perspective of anthropological knowledge production of nature tourism, ecotourism and related subjects. 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 20 to 

David Ivan Fleischer 
df681417@albany.edu or
d.ivanfleischer@gmail.com 




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From alee at jjay.cuny.edu  Fri Mar 14 00:15:06 2008
From: alee at jjay.cuny.edu (alee@jjay.cuny.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 14 15:39:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 2008 AAA CFP -- What Do Anthropologists Have to Say about Public Art?
Message-ID: <a13188a117a9.a117a9a13188@jjay.cuny.edu>

Call For Proposals (AAA 2008) -- What Do Anthropologists Have to Say =

about Public Art=3F

Organizers=3A Anru Lee (John Jay College of Criminal Justice=2C CUNY) and=
 =

Helen Regis (Louisiana State University)

This panel began as a question that the panelists asked about their =

own involvements in community (re)building that center on cultural =

activities and artistic creations in urban settings=2E  Viewing public =

art as a venue for civil society and public participation=2C we are =

interested in the following issues=3A What part could=2C or should=2C =

anthropologists play in helping defining the =A1=A7publicness=A1=A8 of a =

public art endeavor=3F  What skills or expertise could anthropologists =

contribute to the process=3F  In their collaboration with artists who =

are essentially the creators of the final (public art) products and =

who are increasingly adopting an ethnographic approach=2C what different =

perspectives could an anthropologist bring to the process=3F  To what =

extent =A1V and in what ways =A1V could or should anthropologists separat=
e =

their roles/identities as researcher/ethnographer=2C concerned citizen=2C=
 =

and community activist or a member of the community=3F  Ultimately=2C wha=
t =

do anthropologists have to say about public art that artists and/or =

grassroots cultural workers and activists cannot say (for) =

themselves=3F  How does ethnographic engagement with public art produce =

new theoretical insights=3F  This panel explores the unique contribution =

that anthropologists can make to the study of public art=2E  We seek to =

go beyond art criticism and narrowly defined political economic =

analysis of social relations of production and consumption=2E  =


Please send your 250-word abstract=2C including title and your =

affiliation to both Anru Lee (alee=40jjay=2Ecuny=2Eedu) and Helen Regis =

(hregis1=40lsu=2Eedu) as soon as possible=2E  Thank you=2E  =



Anru Lee=2C Ph=2ED=2E
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
TEL=3A (212) 237-8571=3B FAX=3A (212) 237-8937

From marckhebert at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 12 09:32:46 2008
From: marckhebert at yahoo.com (Marc Hebert)
Date: Fri Mar 14 15:44:26 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: National Assoc. of Student (NASA)
In-Reply-To: <E1JZ6rV-0001NQ-AK@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <192798.1118.qm@web54005.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Attention grad and undergrad anthro students: Please
consider submitting an article to the new anthropology e-
journal sponsored by the National Assoc. of Student
 Anthropologists (NASA).  The call for papers (pasted below)
is organized around the theme for the AAA 2008 Annual
Meetings.  Completed manuscripts of 1000 words should be
submitted by April 21, 2008 to nasaejournal@gmail.com.
 See below for more information...


The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
will launch its first online publication, The NASA e-
Journal, under the banner of the 2008 American
Anthropological Association conference theme: "Inclusion,
 Collaboration, and Engagement."

We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and
graduate students worldwide about the application of
anthropological theories and methods outside of academia  or
across disciplines for the purpose of exploring,
 problematizing, or addressing social problems. Have you
worked in an internship, co-op or another job as a student
anthropologist and wish to reflect on how you relied on your
anthropological training? Perhaps you collaborated with
 students from other disciplines at a volunteer organization
and seek to describe the value you added from an
anthropological perspective? Is there a paper you submitted
for a service-learning class where you addressed a social
 problem using anthropological methods? Have you done
fieldwork in a community where you sought to create positive
social change in the process of gathering data? Tell us
about it! Scholarly articles should be 1,000 words in length
 and will be subject to a double blind review process.

We also welcome innovative commentary submissions to the e-
Journal. Commentaries are opinion or avant-garde pieces of
work which  are the original work of the authors. These
 submissions are to express the next generation of
anthropologists' ideas, goals and beliefs of the direction
our discipline should head, be it locally, nationally or
globally. We seek a plurality of voices on this issue and
 intend to raise awareness among fellow students as well as
more established anthropologists about the direction our
discipline is heading. Commentary submissions might include
such mediums as written pieces (1,000 words in length),
 photo stories (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in
length) and videos/YouTubeC clips (10-minute maximum in
duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length)

Submission Guidelines:
Please submit a full 1,000 word manuscript for consideration
 by midnight EST on April 21, 2008 along with any
accompanying materials.
.     Authors should complete their submissions according
to the AAA style guide
(http://aaanet.org/pubs/style _guide.htm).
 .     Submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word ".doc"
format with the file title being the first author's last
name and first initial. (example: HebertM.doc)
.     We invite authors to provide drawings, graphs and
 maps to enhance the visual component of each article. These
should be included as separate attachments in the email.
Graphics should be saved as ".jpg" format. The file name
should be the first authors last name, first initial and
 then the number of the photo. (example: HebertM1.jpg) Please
also include reference in your text where graphics should be
placed by inserting the above identifier in the text.
.     Videos should be provided as a link (if located on a
 site such as YouTube) or included as a graphics file in a
readily viewable format  such as QuickTime or Windows Media
Player.
.     Please send submissions to the e-Journal editorial
team with the subject heading "NASA Manuscripts - Vol. 1" at
 nasaejournal@gmail.com.

Authors will be notified regardless if their work has been
selected for publication or not. We look forward to
publishing submissions for Volume 1 of the NASA e-Journal in
 the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009. 
       
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From koptiuch at asu.edu  Fri Mar  7 22:56:49 2008
From: koptiuch at asu.edu (Kristin Koptiuch)
Date: Fri Mar 14 15:50:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Job announcement: Director of interdisciplinary Division
	of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Message-ID: <C3F778B1.2AB3%koptiuch@asu.edu>

Colleagues, Please distribute widely this job announcement for Division
Director / Full Professor.
 
By the way, the division director position is above the chair level and
reports directly to the Dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts
and Sciences. We seek a senior scholar with administrative experience to
lead our unique interdisciplinary department. We would absolutely love it if
we could hire someone with expertise in urbanism and/or migration!

Kristin Koptiuch
 

Position Announcement:

Director, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University at the West Campus, Phoenix
 
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 <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  Mon Mar 17 10:48:09 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 17 09:49:21 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Film Premiere: "NYC Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification"
Message-ID: <001601c88835$8c322580$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: movementforjusticeinelbarrio@yahoo.com

Wednesday, March 26th, 7:00 PM

  Judson Memorial Church

Movement for Justice in El Barrio

Presents

NYC Film Premiere

"NYC Encuentro for Dignity and Against
Gentrification"

Featuring:
CAAAV
FIERCE
Make the Road NY
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
UNYTE
West Side SRO Law Project

With special guest Zapatista historian

Gloria Mu?oz Ramirez

In October of 2007, people from 26 social justice
groups from around the region gathered in our East Harlem
  community for the first-ever historic "NYC Encuentro for Dignity and 
Against Gentrification." We invited groups from around
the city who are fighting against gentrification from
the ground up to come share who they are, what
problems they face, who or what is their enemy and
what are their dreams. This film tells the story of
what was said.

Our special guest, Gloria Mu?os Ramirez, lived with
the Zapatistas for 7 years and wrote a book to share
their story that is now available for the first time
in English. She will speak about the Zapatista
resistance and history. Movement for Justice in El
Barrio will share some of the ways in which they
are inspired by this resistance and organize to achieve
autonomy and self-determination by implementing
urban Zapatismo here in NYC.

Wednesday, March 26th, 7:00 PM
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
[at Thompson St. (equivalent to West 4th &amp; Thompson)]
TRAINS: A, B, C, D, E, F or V to West 4th St.
R or W to 8th St-NYU or #6 to Astor Place

For more information contact Movement for Justice in El Barrio at
(212)561-0555 or movementforjusticeinelbarrio@yahoo.com
From gmcdonog at brynmawr.edu  Sun Mar 16 22:56:22 2008
From: gmcdonog at brynmawr.edu (gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 17 10:36:58 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers for AAA
Message-ID: <60549.141.152.237.134.1205718982.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu>

We are looking to bring together scholars of performance and mass media
through a panel on the spatiality of these phenomena in global cities. 
Studies of media and performance (drawing on disciplines that include
anthropology, performance studies, communication, film and media studies)
have the potential to demarcate different realms of urban experience,
representation and meaning, just as mass media and performance themselves
demand, create and change urban spatiality.  These fields and areas of
inquiry also help us to explore the varied meanings and implications of
public and audience.  By looking at the spaces of media and the spaces of
performance in cities within and across disciplines, cities and case
studies, these papers seek to understand new intersections and
illuminations of urban life and culture. Current topics that we are
exploring are film festivals as both media and performance sites,
dimensions of urban humor, and homeless theater as a lens into the urban
condition.  We are open to any themes or geographic areas that might
contribute to discussion and new perspectives. If interested, please
contact Gary McDonogh (gmcdonog@brynmawr.edu) and Marina Peterson
(petersom@ohio.edu) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND CERTAINLY BY MARCH 24, WITH A
TENTATIVE TITLE AND TOPIC.


From heidi.villikka at nuorisotutkimus.fi  Fri Mar 14 11:15:29 2008
From: heidi.villikka at nuorisotutkimus.fi (Heidi Villikka)
Date: Mon Mar 17 10:39:55 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 The 5th ETMU -days and The 7th Youth research -days 23-24.10.2008
Message-ID: <5B6371C4D2750546B1DD070D8A9173A70130A3F1@allisrv1>

CALL FOR SESSIONS 

Deadline: 30 March 2008

  

Generations in flux- International interdisciplinary conference on ethnicity, integration and family ties

October 23-24, 2008
S??tytalo/ Tieteiden talo, Helsinki, Finland

 

Organised by

The Finnish Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU)

The Finnish Youth Research Society

In cooperation with the Department of Social Psychology, the University of Helsinki

 

There is a growing, and interdisciplinary, interest in migration, integration, multiculturalism and transnationalism. However, relatively little attention has been paid to age, family and intergenerational aspects, although these issues are implicitly present in many migration and integration studies. Life span and age perspectives enable, for example, the examination of not only change and fracture, but also of continuity in the processes of migration, integration and identity formation. It is thus important to promote research in this area.

 

The Finnish Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) and The Finnish Youth Research Society have joined their forces and announce an international interdisciplinary conference "Generations in flux". We invite researchers from different disciplines who address questions of age, life course, identity and migration. The conference offers an interdisciplinary forum for dialogue and exchange of diverse theoretical and empirical traditions. Our main objective is to discuss social and psychological processes, and forms of culture in generational encounters related to migration and new patterns of transmission of "the old to the new".

 

Are we witnessing dramatic social and cultural disruptions, or should we be more sensitive to the continuities, reproduction and even harmony within and between migrant groups and host communities?  By highlighting phenomena such as social memory, individual agency, multiple memberships, acculturation, and personal experiences of past, present and future, we could gain deeper knowledge on what is shared, contested or even denied within and between families, youth cultures and ethnic or cultural communities.  

 

Call for Sessions 

 

Researchers, research groups and students are invited and encouraged to propose sessions that address the conference theme. The length of the session proposal should be no more than 200 words. The Proposal of the session should include: 

?         Title of the session

Describe the subject of the session as accurately and specifically as possible.

?         Coordinator(s) of the session

Provide the full name, title, address, telephone number and e-mail address of the session coordinator(s). Coordinators will be responsible for selecting the papers for the session and they will act as chairs of the session at the conference. 

?         Summary

Describe the objectives of the session in no more than 200 words. 

 

The language of the conference is English. Submit your session proposal by email to heidi.villikka@nuorisotutkimus.fi before 30 March 2008. The organisers reserve themselves the right to choose the final themes of the sessions. These will be announced April 15th.  

 

Please forward this Call for Sessions to colleagues and all others with an interest in study of Ethnic Relations, International Migration and Youth Research. 

 

 For more information on the conference see  <http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/> www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi 



 Tiedon v?litti,

 

Heidi Villikka 
J?rjest?sihteeri 
Nuorisotutkimusseura ry 
Asemap??llik?nkatu 1 (2krs) 
00520 Helsinki 

heidi.villikka@nuorisotutkimus.fi 
p.020 755 2657 

 

 

From DMAKAGON at depaul.edu  Mon Mar 17 10:52:56 2008
From: DMAKAGON at depaul.edu (Makagon, Daniel)
Date: Mon Mar 17 11:29:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Liminalities TOC (Special Issue: the city)
References: <5B6371C4D2750546B1DD070D8A9173A70130A3F1@allisrv1>
Message-ID: <AC670F9F493B9449AAB61622EF1536900766E186@XVS03.dpu.depaul.edu>

We are pleased to announce the release of +Liminalities+ 4.1, a special expanded-length issue on the theme of "The City," guest-edited by Daniel Makagon of DePaul University. This issue includes critical essays, ethnographies, videos, and performance texts.

http://liminalities.net/4-1/

Table of Contents:

I Love Livin' in the City
by Daniel Makagon

Places and Stages: Narrating and Performing the City in Milan, Italy
by Cristina Moretti

"Finders Keepers": Performing the Street, the Gallery and the Spaces In-between
by Luke Dickens

Making Sense of the City: Place, Space, and Rhetoric in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square
by erin daina mcclellan

Unsafe Houses: The Narrative Inversion of Suburban Morality in Popular Film
by Joan Faber McAlister

Space Wars & Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols
by Anders Lund Hansen

Staging and Enforcing Consumerism in the City: The Performance of Othering on the 16th Street Mall
by Richard G. Jones, Jr. & Christina R. Foust

"Full of Proud Memories of the Past, on which Irishmen Love to Dwell": Irish Nationalist Performance and the Orange Riots of 1871
by Stephen Rohs

A Taste of Buffalo: Staging the Lives of U.S. Cities
by David J. Eshelman

Flowing Through the City: An Urban Ethnography
by Renee Human

+Liminalities+ is a peer-reviewed journal for performance studies, theory and praxis. Our goal is to embrace the possibilities for presenting performance studies work by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media. We publish essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects, documentaries, book reviews, interviews, and works about pedagogy & performance. For more information, visit http://liminalities.net

Take care,
Daniel
________________________
Daniel Makagon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Communication
DePaul University
2320 North Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL  60614
(773) 325-7376
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmakagon/
From nbrown at mica.edu  Fri Mar 14 20:41:06 2008
From: nbrown at mica.edu (Nina Brown)
Date: Mon Mar 17 15:57:26 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2008 CFP: Penal Cities and Carceral States: Activism,
 Anthropology and Mass Incarceration
Message-ID: <E67E83DB4EE043BE907ED6F786A7A956@ninaPC>

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

Penal Cities and Carceral States: Activism, Anthropology and Mass 
Incarceration

Kristi Brian (Temple University) and Nina Brown (Maryland Institute College 
of Art)

As the United States continues to outpace the rest of the world in 
incarceration rates with over 2 million people in prison and nearly 5 
million people on parole, probation or house arrest, more North American 
lives are affected by imprisonment than ever before. This panel will 
highlight the convergence and collaboration between activists and 
anthropologists working to uncover the myriad ways in which policies and 
practices of confinement are changing our national landscape.

The papers on this panel will explore Angela Davis' paradoxical notion of 
"the multiple invisibilities of imprisonment" through ethnographic work that 
makes visible the lives disappeared by the workings of penal cities and 
carceral states--the very lives that fuel the profit of the prison 
industrial complex. Because the prison system is one of the clearest 
manifestations of state-based social control, the incarcerated, formerly 
incarcerated and their families inevitably form concrete understandings of 
the state's intervention in their lives. As those social actors most 
affected by the prison system problematize the state, the visible impact of 
the expansion of "get tough" law and order politics, new forms of 
surveillance, and extremely aggressive technologies of confinement serve to 
decenter our understanding of criminality. This panel will consider how 
these conceptualizations of the state and criminality inform the various 
modes of resistance or community activism that emerge both inside and 
outside of prisons.

As anthropologists concerned about the growth and influence of penal 
institutions we are being increasingly informed by incarcerated men and 
women witnessing the prison boom from the inside, ex-offenders turned 
community activists, and the family members left at home during their loved 
ones incarceration. This panel will highlight these perspectives and also 
include papers that illustrate the critical connections prison activists are 
making between the military industrial complex, the prison industrial 
complex and the global export of U.S.-styled warehousing of the condemned.

We invite paper submissions addressing the following or related areas:

- Intersections of imprisonment with gender constructions, hyper masculine 
policies of confinement, or constrained motherhood
- Ex-offender and  environmentalist collaborations addressing the three 
Ps--police, prison and pollution
- Collaborations between prisoner-led initiatives and law enforcement 
personnel or community organizers
- Activist and anthropologist collaborations to address mass incarceration
- Prisoner narratives or prison-based ethnographies
- Urban social policies leading to increased arrests and incarceration
- Populations detained as a result of immigration and homeland security 
policies

Please send 250 word abstracts by March 27th to Kristi Brian
(kbrian@temple.edu) or Nina Brown (nbrown@mica.edu)


From Hendrik.Pinxten at UGent.be  Tue Mar 18 14:43:11 2008
From: Hendrik.Pinxten at UGent.be (Rik Pinxten)
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:04:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]panel for SUNTA -AAA
Message-ID: <01a801c888f5$a05b1d30$14c4c19d@UGent.be>

dear colleagues, 
I want to sound out whether you would be interested to join on a panel about cosmopolitanism for AAA/SUNTA. 
please contact before april 1rst : 

Interculturality: living with identities and borders in Cosmopolis.

 

With a majority of people living as urbanites, the question arises in what ways religious and cultural identities can or will hold a basic status in the emerging socio-political complexes. Can an update of Aufkl?rung-cosmopolitanism offer an avenue to sustainable urban projects of living with diversity? In what ways do religious denominations think about the unalterable diversity in the urban complexes? What tensions or potential fusion processes do we see on the issue of identity dynamics and the building/demolishing of mental and cultural borders between groups? How do anthropology of religion and urban anthropology interact on these particular lines of research?

Hendrik.Pinxten@ugent.be
From mrieker at geographies.net  Wed Mar 19 05:45:45 2008
From: mrieker at geographies.net (Martina Rieker)
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:06:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP for panel proposal to AAA 2008: Urban Geographies of Conflict
References: <0A04022C-4685-487E-B885-CF8DE3274730@geographies.net>
Message-ID: <FE189E3E-0F45-4446-AC51-25D94CCB14F5@geographies.net>

CALL FOR PAPERS: Urban Geographies of Conflict

This is a call for papers for a panel proposal to be submitted to the  
American Anthropological Association annual meetings to be held this  
year in San Francisco (November 19-23, 2008).

 From war-torn to defiled cities our vocabularies have strained to  
capture the everyday life of urban landscapes in many parts of the  
contemporary Middle East, South Asia and Africa. The promise of the  
modern city is giving way to ethnic, religious, economic violence. Be  
it the product of externally or internally authored conflict, much of  
the language of urban geographies of conflict is a priori premised on  
a notion of abnormal space that can only be remade into a canonical  
modern city. The panel seeks to explore these arguments from the  
location of the "troubled" or "perverse" urban geographies of the  
Global South by pursuing a number of questions: If what Chatterjee  
(2005) calls the bourgeois city always already has a fractured  
history, then how might this inflect upon our understanding of the  
violent unmaking of urban projects? With the collapse of welfare  
economies and state sponsored employment, and the postcolonial  
national ideologies that gave rise to them, how do contemporary  
transnational flows of ideas and resources shape responses to  
contemporary forms of deprivation and marginality that are specific to  
these histories of the forever non-bourgeois city? How might we think  
of the everyday life of cities not as transitions between conflict,  
crisis and normality, but rather as cities with histories of different  
intensities? What new forms of subjectivities, notions of public  
socialities are produced in cities that are the site of incessant  
violence? How people survive in their private and work life in  
expanding cities in the global south are perhaps stories and histories  
that are yet to be told or written.
This panel is being organized by the Shehr Network, a comparative  
urban landscapes project that seeks to further a social-historical and  
critical understanding of contemporary cities and urban practices in  
the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. It examines the efficacy of  
the category of the city in modernist discourse and seeks to chart  
this spatial imagination and its effects through an exploration of the  
complex processes through which gendered, classed and raced citizen- 
subjects have negotiated and been the object of urban projects in  
these regions. Attuned to both the legacy of modernist conceptual  
grammars and their inadequacy for understanding the remaking of space  
and place in the neo-liberal present, the panel will focus on arenas  
which seek to address the particular positioning(s) of contemporary  
urban landscapes and urban practices.

Please send your abstracts to Martina Rieker (American University in  
Cairo)  mrieker@aucegypt.edu or Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas,  
Austin) asdar@mail.utexas.edu by March 27, 2008. Paper abstracts for  
the AAA are limited to 250 words.



From mdehart at ups.edu  Wed Mar 19 16:59:51 2008
From: mdehart at ups.edu (Monica DeHart)
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:08:51 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2008 CFP
Message-ID: <2E2CF0B76EC3AD469C1F9703B373472002D716B6@EXCH2.pugetsound.edu>

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

CALL FOR PAPERS / AAA 2008

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

 

FROM REMITTING MIGRANTS TO MARKET-SAVVY ENTREPRENEURS: 

RECONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA AND DEVELOPMENT

 

Hailed for the potency of their economic, social, political, and
professional contributions, transnational migrants are increasingly cast
as ideal arbiters of development. Experts, policy makers, and scholars
have debated the role that these diasporic individuals might play at
"home;" while some have indexed their participation as a sort of
development "from below," others have regarded organized efforts to
"harness" migrants' development potential with great suspicion. 

This panel provides a global perspective on the re-imagination of
diasporic subjects and their relationship to development through the
discourse of entrepreneurism.  In doing so, it aims to complicate
scholarly assumptions about the shifting relationships between diasporic
populations, governing bodies, and global circuits of money, labor, and
knowledge. The panel takes as its point of departure the important roles
that states, international institutions, non-governmental organizations,
and scholars have played in producing diasporic communities as
development agents.  Drawing on diverse contexts, actors, and
experiences, the papers explore important shifts in how migrants, their
skills and diasporic knowledges, and the money they send home have been
conceptualized, especially by those entities who would seek to profit
from them.  To this end, the papers interrogate how migrants have been
redefined as entrepreneurs or investors whose rational, self-interested,
and future-oriented decisions are thought to have the potential for
generating change.  Additionally, they analyze remittances, not just as
artifacts of transnational movement, but rather as the product of
diverse institutional efforts and discourses, as well as fertile
investments with long-term productive implications in and of themselves.
Through this focus, the panel seeks to illuminate patterns and
contradictions in the re-imagining of diasporic subjects and objects, as
well as discern their implications for differently situated global
actors.  

We seek contributions that interrogate the perceived "logics" of
transnational migration and development and that trace how subjects and
objects are refashioned as migration and development are tied together
through expert analyses, economic and social policies, and scholarly
discourse.  Papers included in the panel already include a focus on
Senegalese and pan-Latino transnational initiatives.  We welcome papers
that will further reinforce and extend the global scope of this
discussion.     

Please send an abstract of your paper proposal for the panel to
co-organizers:

Caroline Melly (UC Irvine) carolinemelly@gmail.com and Monica DeHart
(University of Puget Sound) mdehart@ups.edu

 

 

Monica  DeHart

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Comparative Sociology Department

University of Puget Sound

1500 N Warner St

Tacoma, WA 98416-1500

(253) 879-3491

mdehart@ups.ed

 

From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Wed Mar 19 09:22:46 2008
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:10:37 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for papers: The postsecular city
Message-ID: <CPSMTP-EML114BOSfmC00091692@cpsmtp-eml114.kpnxchange.com>

Apologies if you receive this call more than once. Feel free to forward to
anyone who might be interested in these themes.

 

 

-----

CALL FOR PAPERS

The postsecular city

 

A paper session of the ISA-RC21 Conference, Landscapes of Global Urbanism:
power, marginality, and creativity, Tokyo, Japan, 17-20 December 2008

 

Justin Beaumont, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands, j.r.beaumont@rug.nl

 

This proposed session addresses new and innovative approaches for theorizing
and conceptualizing the postsecular city. The primary focus is relations
between public religion, deprivatization of religion and theorizations of
modernity and modernities, with the newly emergent focus on postsecular
urbanism. The starting point is what might be referred to as "postsecular
society" following Habermas or what Taylor (2007) calls the "secular age",
with the closely related focus on faith-based organizations (FBOs) as actors
for social justice in cities across the globe. A number of recent events
reveal a growing recognition of these hitherto distinct realms but while
important in their own right suggest limited theorization in the academic
literature. In exploring the ambiguous and contested role of religion in
urban life in the contemporary context of neoliberalization, the session
relates to a number of pressing concerns among theorists across disciplines:
the mutually constitutive relations between the "social" and the "spatial",
especially the "urban", as well as new approaches to religion, modernity and
modernities, critical social theory, urban theory and political action in
theory and practice. Prospects for a new international research agenda will
be an underlying factor throughout the discussions.

 

The proposed session seeks theoretical enrichment and empirical advance
through paper presentations and discussion in the context of one or more of
the following themes:

 

(1) innovative relations between urban theory, on the one hand, and theories
of religion, faith and belief in a postsecular context on the other;

(2) links between religion, politics and postsecular urban society at the
political economy and humanist nexus in the current era of
neoliberalization;

(3) connections between neoliberalization, deprivatization of religion,
reenchantment of the real, the Weberian secularization thesis and the
revalorization of FBOs and religions more generally in the social and
political processes of cities;

(4) relations between religion, modernity and modernities and postsecularism
in contemporary urban societies;

(5) new governance and politics amid changing roles of religions and diverse
FBOs in the socio-political processes within cities; and

(6) shifting interfaces between church (and FBOs more generally) and state
at a variety of scales for social and political processes in urban areas.

 

Please send the title and abstract of your paper to me (j.r.beaumont@rug.nl)
and the ISA-RC21 Tokyo Conference Organizing committee
(rc21-tokyo@mbe.nifty.com) by May 15, 2008. The abstract of your paper
should be limited to 150 words and include your name, affiliation and email
address.

 

 

 

 

----

Faculty of Spatial Sciences

University of Groningen

The Netherlands

Tel: 00 31 50 363 6910/ 3895

Skype: justin9712

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

From gabrielle at buscada.com  Thu Mar 20 11:51:20 2008
From: gabrielle at buscada.com (Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani)
Date: Thu Mar 20 11:11:33 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Conference: Urban Encounters: Photography, Ethnography and the City
 @ Goldsmiths, University of London, May 16 & 17, 2008
References: <AC96FD6FC0E1A5787689577C@SO224>
Message-ID: <3A036E29-D530-4514-B8F4-D283FEE5A48C@buscada.com>

We are pleased to announce the first in a series of interdisciplinary  
conferences at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Please forward this announcement to photographers and urbanists of  
all kinds who may be interested.

Thanks,
Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths) & Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (The Graduate  
Center, CUNY)
Conference co-founders


(apologies for any cross-posting)


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Urban Encounters:
Photography, Ethnography and the City
conference / exhibition / workshops


This two-day conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, will  
bring together international
photographers, artists and academics researching the city. The  
speakers reflect an interdisciplinary
range of photographic, theoretical and research areas, and through  
six panels will explore
the nature of past and contemporary photographic approaches to the  
representation and
evocation of city life.  The theme of 'the encounter' is explored,  
not only in the way
photographers experience the city, but also through discursive  
encounters between
urban social science and visual practice.  There is an associated  
exhibition, photographic
workshop and curated urban walks programme coordinated by Photofusion  
and the
Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR).


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

Conference 16th & 17th May 2008

Panel themes include:

* Urban landscapes: mapping memories

* Architecture and photography

* Street photography

* Urban portraiture and identities

* Visual ethnographies and the urban encounter

* Emerging forms


Confirmed speakers:

Liam Kennedy / Paul Reas / Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani / Daniel  
Meadows / Michael Keith /
Les Back / Othello de Souza / Caroline Knowles / Michael Tan / Susan  
Schwartzenberg /
Gary Van Zante / Simon Rowe / Ben Gidley / Kirsten Campbell / Mandy  
Lee Jandrell /
Paul Goodwin /  Ingrid Pollard / Paul Lowe / Theresa Mikuria / Paul  
Halliday / Rosy Martin /
Gregor Stephan / Isidro Ramirez / Melanie Manchot / Britt Hatzius /  
Peter Coles



Cost:  ?120 (?80 students, Photofusion and LIP members)

Further information:

Conference details and booking from  http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/
Exhibition and workshop details available at  http:// 
www.photofusion.org/

?

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Photography -:- Curation -:- Environmental Psychology
www.buscada.com

From delfint at rhodes.edu  Mon Mar 24 23:18:17 2008
From: delfint at rhodes.edu (Teresa E. P. Delfin)
Date: Tue Mar 25 11:35:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2008 CFP: "Transnational Intimacies"
Message-ID: <080D1879-64C8-4AE4-BE03-A275EC69FA55@rhodes.edu>

I am organizing a panel on "Transnational Intimacies" for the 2008  
AAA meeting. AAA's submission and registration deadline is April 1.  
If you are interested in participating in this panel, please email me  
a title, abstract, and your academic affiliations by Monday, March  
31st. Your AAA registration must also be up to date by the April 1  
deadline. Please forward widely.



Transnational Intimacies

Globalization is dissolving historical boundaries. Free-trade  
agreements remove borders for jobs, investment, and goods, while ever- 
improving communications technologies enable the creation and  
maintenance of intimacy on a global scale. Yet this liquidity of  
information, commerce, and even cultural capital has not translated  
into personal mobility. On the contrary, the dissipation of  our  
virtual borders has been accompanied by an increasing rigidity of  
political boundaries. This panel seeks to explore this tension by  
focusing on the intimate, embodied, and romantic liaisons that take  
place within the intersections of expansive global cultures and rigid  
national security. We are interested in papers that consider  
intimacy, sexuality, romance, courtship, and kinship against the  
backdrop of global culture, transnational mobility, and state security.




Teresa E. P. Delfin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Rhodes College
Clough 105
2000 N. Parkway
Memphis, TN 38112
901.843.3931
delfint@rhodes.edu



From dgeary at interchange.ubc.ca  Thu Mar 20 15:21:27 2008
From: dgeary at interchange.ubc.ca (David Geary)
Date: Tue Mar 25 12:03:05 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Call for Papers - Incredible !ndia
Message-ID: <33529405.26991206048087038.JavaMail.myubc2@brahms.my.ubc.ca>

CALL FOR PAPERS: 107th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association,San Francisco, CA, Nov 19?23, 2008

SESSION: Incredible !ndia: Tourism, Place-making and the Imagination in South Asia
Co-organizers, Tapoja Chaudhuri (University of Washington) and David Geary (University of British Columbia)

In 2002 the Ministry of Tourism launched a massive global brand campaign through the slogan 'Incredible !ndia.' This branding exercise aligned with provocative and alluring images has been touted as a major achievement in helping increase foreign tourist arrivals, as well as boosting domestic tourism. At the same time the traffic of images in contemporary Indian tourism has brought to the foreground the wedding of a postcolonial legacy of Orientalist imageries with that of the new ageist imaginations of spirituality and nature consciousness. In this session we seek to investigate these recent trends and cultural practices at the intersection of place-making and the imagination. As one of the fastest growing industries, tourism has become a key facet and expression of globalization where images traverse and circulate across national boundaries in competitive ways. Travel agencies, brochures, websites, travel programs, magazines and itineraries conjure images and position destinations as part of the marketing of difference at the global level. To this effect specific sites are being transformed, manufactured and harnessed by distinct social actors and institutions (eg. local communities, NGOS, marketing specialists, state and international agencies). This session welcomes a wide-range of innovative papers that draw upon the anthropological theory of tourism and address some of the following questions. What role do images and advertising have in creating, catering and soliciting specific experiences and desires? How do host societies receive, participate and resist regimes of place-making for tourist consumption? Lastly, in what ways might fieldwork and ethnography shed light on the multivocality of tourism and the contingent relationships over shared resources? 

In this session we will bring together a range of ethnographic studies with a geographical focus on India. Central to our interrogation of the imaginative geographies of tourism in South Asia are the shifting power relations and contingent historical and contested domains where stakeholders interact at various scales.  Drawing on the theme of ?inclusion, collaboration, and engagement? we also invite participants to explore the voices of anthropologists in public debates surrounding tourism, destination branding and the active and complex responses of place-making.  

Please send your abstract to tapoja@u.washington.edu and dgeary@interchange.ubc.ca before March 27th, 2008. We look forward to hearing from you. Paper abstract for the AAA are limited to 250 words.
--
David Geary
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Mar 26 09:55:04 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 26 09:00:43 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Berlin, Divided City 1949-89 (U Texas at Austin)
Message-ID: <013d01c88f41$4b70f7c0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Berlin, Divided City (Workshop)

28-29 March 2008 University of Texas at Austin

On March 28 and 29, 2008, the Department of Germanic Studies is
hosting the Second German Studies Workshop on Berlin, Divided City,
1949-89. The workshop includes interdisciplinary panels on the history,
politics, photography, film, and literature of Cold War Berlin, as well as
keynote lectures by Greg Castillo (University of Sydney) on "The Liminal
City: Cold War Berlin as a Cultural Transfer Station" (3/28, 4-5 PM, ACE
2.402) and Barbara Hoidn (UT Austin/Berlin): "Berlin, the Urban
Palimpsest" (3/29, 4-5 PM, ACE 2.402). For the program, please visit the
workshop website:

http://laits.utexas.edu/berlin/conference/program.html

The event is free and open to the public. For further information,
please contact Sabine Hake at hake@mail.utexas.edu.
From zipolite at interchange.ubc.ca  Thu Mar 20 01:30:54 2008
From: zipolite at interchange.ubc.ca (Ana Vivaldi)
Date: Wed Mar 26 09:04:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP/AAA
Message-ID: <ba1dcebc0803200030x2093131cy688b5553dd9d5d0a@mail.gmail.com>

Call for papers for a Volunteered Session at 2008 AAA Meeting in San

*Francisco*

*Gendered Spaces: Beyond the Public and the Private*

Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan (PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia)

Tal Nitsan (PhD Student, University of British Columbia)

Ana Vivaldi (PhD, Student University of British Columbia)

* *

The critique to the division between public and private spaces
as respectively masculine and feminine spheres has been widely addressed in
social sciences and the humanities. This is only one of the dimensions in
which attention to the gendered dimension of space has been drawn. It has
been claimed that space (and movements in between places) are not just a
side-product of gendered social interactions but active elements in their
production and reproduction.  No longer conceived of as enclosed, bounded,
or self-contained, spaces are conceived of as fluid, shifting, flexible and
as constituted by encounters, movements, and coexistence of difference. In
other words, space, and by extension places, are always in tension between
their boundaries and their permeability and are simultaneously constituted
by social relations and constitutive of them. Gender, as one of the most
significant markers of differences in social relations, plays a critical
role in "making spaces" and in being made by spaces. In this panel, we want
to reflect on gendered spaces, considering these complex tensions as they
unfold in everyday spatial practices that are deeply gendered.  We want to
discuss not only the ways places get genderized and gender spacialized, but
also how can an ethnographic approach help us understand the particular ways
in which these processes unfold in the experience of people involved in
them.



We would like to address, among other themes,

-       Spaces, the body, and mobility: how particular spaces articulate
different gendered bodily practices, and how are these in turn transformed
by mobility?

-       Public spaces, private spaces: beyond the private as feminine and
the public as masculine

-       Cyber spaces and gender: the internet and the intimate and
translocal relations.

-       Gendered Fields: territory sovereignty, land distribution and access
to natural resources.

-       Migration and gender

-       Landscapes of sexual and racial difference.



Please send your 250-word abstract, including your title and institutional
affiliation to both addresses below, before the 27 of March.



Tal Nistan sharshafil@hotmail.com

Ana Vivaldi: zipolite@interchange.ubc.ca
From jsone at Princeton.EDU  Thu Mar 20 23:15:57 2008
From: jsone at Princeton.EDU (Jamie Sherman)
Date: Wed Mar 26 09:09:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAA 2008: ROTFL? Humor Within and Out of Bounds
Message-ID: <765E9CCC-5315-4282-B0EC-E4EA708C6DDE@princeton.edu>

CFP AAA 2008: ROTFL? Humor Within and Out of Bounds

ROTFL? Humor Within and Out of Bounds


Humor, perhaps more than other forms of human interaction, rests on  
the collaboration of participants in maintaining what Gregory Bateson  
called ?the play frame.? Yet it can also be used in the service of  
aggression, or resistance, and can result from feelings of  
degradation, pain, hurt, and anger. Likewise, responses to humor can  
be as diverse as a beautiful melodic laugh or a menacing wheeze. This  
panel explores frameworks of humor, broadly conceived, in a range of  
use-contexts. In what contexts do the framing(s) of humor and joking  
themselves become objects of play? How are such frames established  
and maintained (or broken) in contextually specific ways? What is  
enabled through the marking and unmarking of humor as such? How are  
power, pain, resistance, aggression and collaboration used in a given  
comedic context? What kinds of sociality are managed and/or enabled  
through the use humor? What is precluded? Is there such a thing as  
funny just for the sake of pleasure? And finally, when does humor  
enable speech, and when does it cover silence?


We welcome submissions of papers that address humor, jokes, and  
comedic contexts from a broad range of theoretical and disciplinary  
perspectives.

Please send 250 word abstracts to Jamie Sherman: jsone@princeton.edu
From ats35 at cornell.edu  Wed Mar 26 12:11:50 2008
From: ats35 at cornell.edu (Amanda Snellinger)
Date: Wed Mar 26 09:12:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]aaa panel call for paper posting request
Message-ID: <E56DDDFC-AFF0-482B-BCB8-BA6ECB75771D@cornell.edu>

Can you please post the following message:

If anyone would be interested in participating in the following  
panel,  we have a spot or two left. Those interested, please send me  
an email as soon as you can and we would need your abstract by this  
Saturday, March 29th so that we can appropriately frame the panel  
abstract around all the contributing papers.  ---Thanks, Amanda  
Snellinger(ats35@cornell.edu)

Panel Description:

Representations of communities in a language of social demographics  
are a familiar enough thing. Systems of enumerating populations along  
lines of ethnic, national, and religious composition, lines of  
economic status and mobility, lines of social transition and  
violence, etc., both justify and shape all kinds of large projects.  
It'd be hard to imagine in this day and age techniques for producing  
national policies, international development schemes, business  
feasibility studies (and so on) that didn't rely on census bureaus  
and statisticians. Few people would deny the incredibly powerful  
influence that the study of demographics exerts at a macro level,  
producing and instantiating categorical boundaries that --  
practically speaking -- have a monopoly on legitimate knowledge in  
state and economic institutions. These are positivist epistemologies  
that have grown up in tandem with the ascendence of political  
economics in, say, the last 150 years. They are moreover often  
exactly the frames of knowledge to which anthropological  
representations try provide an alternative.

I think it's fair to say that the majority of social anthropology is  
at least agnostic and at most hostile to positivist descriptions of  
the social world, preferring instead a framework that takes  
categories of knowledge as context-specific and largely  
untranslatable from one sphere to another without considerable  
justification about why such a re-application is warranted. This gets  
characterized by anthropology's critics as a rejection of truth and  
science in favor of an uneasy faith in relativity, but a more  
sympathetic reading would say that anthropology regards social facts  
as existing across an ontological break with the material world,  
i.e., that symbolic interactions get to operate according to rules  
that are undetermined by an ostensibly larger and universal reality.  
Having a masterly understanding of the properties of wood doesn't  
make a carpenter an expert at chess, so to speak, because even though  
a chessboard might be made out of wood, the rules of the game have  
nothing to do with the physical traits of the pieces. Anthropology  
has tended to maintain the width of this gap with pick-axes and  
shovels, something I'm not necessarily opposed to lest we all turn  
into sociologists, but it'd be interesting to think about what kind  
of social forms exist at precisely this boundary between positivism  
and symbolic relativity, where two mutually irreconcilable forms of  
knowledge bump into each other.

On the ground, of course, irreconcilable category paradigms are  
constantly reconciled by groups of people who must move between them.  
So such here. All the papers in this panel deal with groups of people  
that shift between multiple frameworks of self-identification. Rather  
than sit around and mutter about why any one framework is more  
representative than another, which would just be another name for  
identity politics however sophisticated, we're interested in figuring  
out what kinds of social dynamics are in play as people circulate  
between different contexts of recognition, what kinds of meta- 
categorical specificities are to be seen in a world of regimented  
categorical generalisms. This offers, I think, an interesting out  
from the feud between the disambiguating tendencies of the  
structuralists and the radical embrace of ambiguity by post- 
modernism. As much as anthropologists are generally tired of that old  
battle, I don't think we've every really escaped the weight it puts  
on our brains. Moreover, I think will allow us to take positivist  
analytics seriously, something that's important considering just how  
damn influential they are, without relegating them to "over there  
with the electrons and gravitational bodies" (or, worse, just  
translating it into the social world as a site to witness "resistance  
to power").

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

"Scientists have suggested that certain hypothetical properties of  
space-time, predicted by certain ?theories of everything? and thought  
to be undetectable by currently achievable experimental means, might  
have already influenced experiments, but without anyone noticing."

?Harpers, December 2006 pg 96




From egrama at umich.edu  Sun Mar 23 21:00:10 2008
From: egrama at umich.edu (egrama@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 26 09:15:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP AAA 2008 The panel AESTHETIC REGIMES AND THE POLITICS OF THE
	SENSORY
Message-ID: <20080323200010.g4r12niko4g040g8@web.mail.umich.edu>


CALL FOR PAPERS for AAA 2008

The proposed panel

AESTHETIC REGIMES AND THE POLITICS OF THE SENSORY


This panel will focus on the political dimensions of creating and 
legitimizing aesthetical gazes and forms.  Such a framework makes 
possible the excavation of political ideologies that legitimize 
concepts ranging from heritage and the craft of a cityscape, to global 
missionary movements working to move medical supplies to areas of need, 
to war zones like Iraq that struggle to define a singular state.  Our 
panel strives to make these ideological tensions explicit by engaging 
them through the visually powerful metaphors that are planned to 
encapsulate and move these discourses through regimes of beauty and 
elegance.  We examine the nodes in which political values coalesce to 
solidify particular doctrines of governance, at both state and 
international registers.  These prime loci are in essence what have 
been called ?dense transfer points of power,? places that are 
themselves highly fraught as different communities battle for the right 
to self-determination.

Collectively, we examine in a variety of social and historical settings 
the ways that aesthetic experiences, historical formations in 
themselves, contribute to forms of historical consciousness. The panel 
builds upon scholarly approaches that call for a finer examination of 
the sense politics of the everyday in social analysis. Walter 
Benjamin?s distinction between the contemplation and distraction 
cultivated by technologies of modern life reveals an ideology of 
sensory relations within each aesthetic experience. Sensory perception 
is embedded in historical ways of relating to the world, as well as 
imagining the social person. Michael Taussig has warned that approaches 
to studying people?s daily life might presuppose an astutely perceptive 
individual rather than examine the perhaps less contemplative sociality 
of sensing. In this panel, we strive to investigate how ideologies of 
sensory relations in daily life shape representational forms that are 
moral, temporal, and political. How do ?aesthetic regimes,? or 
ideologies of sensory relations, mediate particular representational 
forms? In what ways do these sensory relations become known?

Building upon Ranci?re who argued for a consideration of aesthetic acts 
as experiential modalities so commonplace as to be a priori sensical, 
we not only consider how imaginaries of beauty are conceived to mirror 
political realities (and vice versa) but also how art and
architectural forms are themselves ideological strategies that anchor 
claims in political struggles.

We welcome submissions that seek to answer in various ways some of the 
following questions:

What is it about the pursuit of an aesthetic regime that is so 
compelling in the struggle of competing political values?

If distributions of aesthetic sensibilities are not only insidious 
markers of agency, what productive value do they contribute to 
struggles for statehood, citizenship, and the colonial legacy?

What types of aesthetic forms and practices become privileged over 
others and what criteria are called upon in such acts of legitimization?

In what ways do such institutional practices rely upon ideologies of 
aesthetic representation in order to implement novel forms of 
historical consciousness, through attempts to redefine ?distance? (as a 
process of constructing both an aesthetic gaze and a relationship with 
history)?


We are looking for the fourth presenter to complete our panel. Please 
send a 250 word abstract, a short bio, and email address to Emanuela 
Grama, egrama@umich.edu, by Thursday, March 27. The deadline for 
abstract submission to AAA is April 1st, and according to the AAA, each 
person must submit their own abstract via the online submission process.

Thank you!

Panel co-organizers:
Emanuela Grama, PhD Candidate, the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and 
History, University of Michigan
Bridget Guarasci, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan
Britt Halvorson, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan

From af31 at nyu.edu  Tue Mar 25 18:59:50 2008
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Thu Mar 27 09:50:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Registration extension: The Global City and Media Ethnography:  On
 Transcultural Practice-led Media Research
Message-ID: <78F18259-4D51-4A72-81FA-78B9D724B236@nyu.edu>

The Global City and Media Ethnography:

On Transcultural Practice-led Media Action Research

New York University Summer Study Abroad Program at the American  
University  of Paris

June 15-28, 2008.

Registration by April 16, 2008

4 graduate credits, 10 days; 14 seminars 6  media lab and media  
practice mentoring sessions, intensive 1:1 advisement

Fees and Costs: $1097 per credit  + $200 activities fee +  NYU  
registration fees + student housing $1125 (15 nights)

Open to  non-NYU Students
Practice-Led Media Research engages social science and humanities  
inquiry through  lens-based, networked and tele-presencing media.  
This course focuses on the theories and methods of  media/sensory  
ethnography, visual culture, and media archeology, through the linked  
topics of transcultural and trans-local processes, diaspora  
identities, the post colonial and human rights. The curriculum is  
aimed at graduate  students from diverse disciplines who want to  
explore creative media practice as a research methodology. This  
course provides students with theoretical and practical grounding in  
multi-sited action research in trans-cultural and transnational  
settings. Through social historical and trans-cultural ethnographic  
perspectives practice-led pedagogy promotes a self-reflexive  
contextual and critical understanding of the use of media for the  
conduct and dissemination of research and the creation of social  
knowledge through participatory cultural production. Practice-led  
research bridges  divisions between social theory and action- 
research, and between creative practice and evidence-based research.

Topics: Politics of Multi-Sited Fieldwork/ the Transcultural and the  
Transnational/ Politics of the Gaze/ Sensory Formation of Modernity/  
Subject Positioning and Lens Based Research/ Negotiating Images and   
Access/ The Aesthetics and Ethics of Evidence/ Human Rights and  
Structural Invisibility/ Reading and Performing the  Archive/ Outputs  
and Transcribing Multisensory Fieldwork/ Reversioning and Curatorial  
Strategies

Allen Feldman, Director:Media Ethnography/Visual Culture/  
Anthropology of Violence/Action Research. Associate Professor  
Department of Media Culture and Communication,  and Visual Culture  
Program, New York University.  Rossela Raggazzi, Director:  
Ethnographic Film, Migration and Diasporic Studies,  Senior Lecturer  
at Visual and Cultural Studies Unit at Institute of Social  
Anthropology the University of Troms?. Benjamin Kafka, Visiting  
Faculty: Archive Theory and Practices, Assistant 	Professor  
Department of Media Culture and Communication, New York University.  
Amanda Ravetz, Visiting Faculty: Aesthetics and Ethnographic  
Practice, Arts and Humanities Research Fellow, Manchester  
Metropolitan University,Manchester Institute for Research &  
Innovation in Art & Design (MIRIAD), Roshini Kempadoo, Visiting  
Faculty: Photography and Imaging, Archival Curation, Interactive  
Media Practices, Senior Lecturer in Media Production. Programme  
leader for Interactive Media Practice School of Social Sciences,  
Media and Cultural Studies, University Of East London. Mark Curren  
Visiting Faculty, Photography and Visual Ethnography, Media Lecturer  
in Photography, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,  
Dublin Institute of Technology, and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art,  
Design &  Technology.

Allen Feldman
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
239 Greene Street
New  York, NY 10003
tel: 212 998 5096
af31@nyu.edu



From hduschinski at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 13:28:33 2008
From: hduschinski at gmail.com (Haley Duschinski)
Date: Thu Mar 27 09:52:36 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 AAA 2008 CFP: Impunity, Complicity, and the Exception: Rethinking
 Arenas of Sovereignty Beyond the State
Message-ID: <ca20f85e0803210928u2a0ce1dfi3c01c1e9fc54e81c@mail.gmail.com>

American Anthropological Association (AAA), 19-23 November, 2008

Impunity, Complicity, and the Exception: Rethinking Arenas of Sovereignty
Beyond the State

Co-Organizers: Haley Duschinski (Ohio University) and Ken MacLean (Clark
University)

Session for Submission: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
(APLA)

Please note: we are particularly looking for submissions at this point that
focus on Latin America.


PANEL ABSTRACT

Sovereignty, Agamben reminds us, resides in the exception - a
double-movement that exempts the sovereign from the field of rule and then
defines the parameters of "bare life," i.e. those who can be killed but not
sacrificed. It is this "state of exception," he argues, which defines what
forms of human life the sovereign will protect and those it will not. In
recent years, a significant body of scholarship has emerged around this
provocative re-definition of sovereignty, which intersects and productively
extends prior work by Schmitt, Arendt, and Foucault, among others. This
critical engagement with the question of how sovereign power is
operationalized has refocused attention on the continued relevance of the
nation-state and its boundary-making practices in the globalizing present.
However, many questions remain as to the applicability of Agamben's insights
in other cultural contexts given the constitutive role Western political
philosophy, jurisprudence, and historical experience plays within his
arguments regarding sovereignty. This panel explores these concerns by
turning an anthropological eye towards the making and unmaking of
impunityspecific local contexts in Central America, Africa, South
Asia, and
Southeast Asia.

Impunity, in human rights discourse, refers to a condition in which those
responsible for ordering or carrying out acts of violence are immune to or
exempt from punishment. The guilty parties are, quite literally, placed
outside the law because the state is either unwilling or unable to prosecute
them for their actions. To better understand this from an anthropological
perspective, we approach impunity as a set of cultural practices that
categorizes certain populations as being excluded from the domain of
citizenship and thus, to varying degrees, expendable. At the same time these
practices also define their mirrored other: the formal and informal security
forces that enact state-sponsored forms of violence and, in doing so,
demarcate the boundaries of "bare life."  Together, these practices help
produce culturally specific regimes of impunity that raise challenging
questions concerning how zones of exception?the space between nature (zoe)
and culture (bios)?are constituted, maintained, and challenged in other
settings of sovereign power.

The papers on this panel address a series of questions that seek to
elucidate and expand Agamben's work on sovereignty by examining what happens
when the foundational categories and their concomitant cultural practices
are "provincialized" and "internationalized" in contemporary arenas of
sovereignty.  In what ways do existing international human rights,
humanitarian, and refugee frameworks structurally produce or reproduce
regimes of impunity at both the sub-national and transnational scales? Do
these "zones of exception," which may or may not be spatially contiguous
with existing political boundaries, differ from those described by Agamben?
What changes when the primary focus of our attention broadens or shifts to
include corporations, international financial institutions, private security
firms, and/or third-party states that are complicit in human rights abuses?
In what ways do contemporary efforts to assert regulatory authority over
entities that produce their own "state effects" challenge us to rethink what
sovereignty is becoming?

Please send abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute presentations to Ken MacLean
(KMacLean@clarku.edu) or Haley Duschinski (duschins@ohio.edu) as soon as
possible, by Monday March 24 at the latest.

-- 
Haley Duschinski
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ohio University
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Mar 27 10:53:23 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 27 09:55:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Join us to celebrate the FIFTH IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK in NYC!
Message-ID: <04f701c89011$fe2d3b00$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Anah? Viladrich <aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu>


Join us to celebrate the FIFTH IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK in NYC!

ADVOCATING HEALTH FOR ALL:
A FORUM TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF ALL NEW  YORKERS BY REDUCING THE HEALTH BURDENS OF  IMMIGRANTS

Thursday, April 17, 2008
>From 5 PM to 6:45 PM
Reception to follow

Hunter College School of Social Work
Auditorium
139 East 79th Street, Manhattan

Moderator: Dr. Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor, Sociology

Opening Remarks: Dean Laurie Sherwen, Schools of the Health Professions

Presenters:
Dr. Marianne Fahs, Professor, Urban Public Health
& Rose Dobrof Acting Director at Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging & Longevity
Healthy Aging among Immigrants? A Reality Waiting to Unfold

Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg
Distinguished Professor, Urban Public Health & Interim Director CUNY DPH Program
Why Improving the Health of Immigrants Benefits All Americans

Dr. Lina Newton
Assistant Professor, Political Science
State-Level Initiatives on Immigration and Health:
Current Political Trends and the 2008 Presidential Election

Dr. Anah? Viladrich
Associate Professor, Urban Public Health & Director, Immigration & Health Initiative
Reframing the Debate on Immigrants' Access to Health Care:
Beyond the First Decade of the (Un) Welfare Reform

THIS EVENT IS FREE
For more information e-mail Dr. Viladrich at: aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu


This forum is sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and Hunter College, and is organized by the Hunter's Office of External Affairs and by the Immigration and Health Initiative at Hunter College. Special thanks to the CUNY Doctoral Program in PH, the CUNY Transdisciplinary Urban Health Research Collaborative and the Latino Health Fellowhip Initiative at Hunter College.
