From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov  2 10:12:38 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov  2 10:13:01 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Spatial Planning and Cities of the Global South (Belgium)
Message-ID: <003c01c93cfd$72b4e520$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear Colleagues,

Three Ph.D. fellowships on the topics listed below are available at  
the K.U.Leuven (Belgium):

- Water Infrastructure Consumptions in Indonesian Cities
- Integrated Area Development in Metropolises of the Global South
- A reappraisal of spatial planning practices in Africa

Outstanding Ph.D. candidates with a Scientific Master degree in a  
spatial planning or development discipline from any country in the  
Global South can apply. The PhDs will be carried out under supervision  
of professor Frank Moulaert.

More information is available at:  
http://phd.kuleuven.be/set/voorstellen_iro.php

Please feel free to contact prof. Frank Moulaert if you are  
interested. <Frank.Moulaert@asro.kuleuven.be>


-- 
Stijn Oosterlynck
Post-doctoral research associate Research centre Space and Society
Post-doctoral research associate SP2SP (Spatial Planning to Strategic  
Projects)
Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning (ASRO)
KU Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 51
B 3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Phone 0032 16 328678
E-mail Stijn.Oosterlynck@asro.kuleuven.be
From sveissiere at ucn.ca  Tue Nov  4 11:14:10 2008
From: sveissiere at ucn.ca (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Veissi=E8re=2C__Samuel=2C_Dr=2E?=)
Date: Wed Nov  5 12:03:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Northern Heterotopias
In-Reply-To: <000e01c93b75$bb144510$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <000e01c93b75$bb144510$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <4457772EE3EF604E8A33D82D5F60B857026AD1E2@it-9287.keewatincc.ca>

 

 

Call for Papers: Northern Heterotopias

 

Fourth annual Aboriginal and Northern Studies Conference, The Pas, Manitoba (Canada), Thursday,  June 4 to Friday, June 5, 2009.

 

 

 

In a 1967 lecture entitled 'Of Other Spaces' [Des espaces autres] Michel Foucault elaborated on his lifelong fascination with space and spatial metaphors and presented the idea of heterotopia(s) through which he challenged dominant, unilateral ways to think about space and place. Foucault called our attention to the many "counter-sites", or multiple imaginations, experiences and inscriptions of space and identity, that can be found beyond the "fundamentally unreal" discourse of dominant utopias that seek to define, regulate, and confine particular places and people. In contrast to utopias, then, heterotopias "juxtapos[e] in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible." (Foucault, 1986 [1967] p25).

 

Digressing from Foucault's original coinage of the term to re-conceptualize specific sites and places (cemeteries, cinemas, boats, brothels, etc), we interpret the idea of heterotopia, and the mapping logic of heterotopology, as an alternative way to think of the experience of space as a whole, and a conceptual lens through which to analyze and bring to light the multiple imaginations, experiences, embodiments, and inscriptions of space and place that are inherent in all sites.

  

What, then, would a heterotopology of the (idea of) North look like?

 

For this conference, we invite scholars, artists, storytellers, writers, poets and activists to examine different ideas, imaginations, experiences, and inscriptions of the North beyond hegemonic conceptions (the Great "White" North; hegemonic articulations of indigenism; the North and its 'untapped resources', etc.).

 

We leave it up to participants to navigate through that contested space (discursive, physical, human) that is the North, and to identify both Northern utopias (or hegemonies) and the counter-sites they have silenced.

 

Thus, we hope to bring together a broad range of voices and experiences that highlight the fundamentally plural (contradictory? cacophonic? contrapuntal? heteroglossic?) and heterotopic nature of the North.

 

We are particularly interested in papers that address the following issues: 

 

*         Identity 

*         Migration, diaspora and metissage 

*         Critical Indigenous perspectives 

*         New epistemologies 

*         Race, gender and sexuality 

*         Queer Issues 

*         Globalization and transnationalism 

*         Art as Resistance 

*         Critical pedagogies 

 

 

Deadline

 

To be considered, an abstract or paper must be received no later than January 15th, 2009.





Submission Detail

 

The abstract or title page must include:

*          the name, affiliation, email address and telephone number of the principal presenter 

*         name(s) of co-presenters/co-authors 

*         a brief biography of each author/presenter 

 

Submissions using one of the following methods:

  

 

Email  attachment (PDF or Word) to:

 

 

sveissiere@ucn.ca <mailto:sbarber@ucn.ca> 

 

 

 

Fax to:

 

 

Attn: Dr. Samuel Veissiere
(204) 677-6589

 

 

 

Mail to:

 

 

University College of the North
Attn: Dr. Samuel Veissiere
504 Princeton Drive
Thompson MB R8N 0A5





From critplan at ucla.edu  Mon Nov  3 21:46:53 2008
From: critplan at ucla.edu (Critical Planning Journal)
Date: Wed Nov  5 12:05:49 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Restructuring (Critical Planning, December 31,
	2008)
Message-ID: <3a698e340811032146g6f5fed32k9b5105d384905172@mail.gmail.com>

Please forward widely:

CALL FOR PAPERS
Urban Restructuring: Process and Action

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

Deadline: December 31, 2008

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

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

---

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

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

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

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

From mahlers at fiu.edu  Thu Nov  6 10:30:05 2008
From: mahlers at fiu.edu (mahlers@fiu.edu)
Date: Thu Nov  6 11:10:44 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants'
 dual frame of reference
Message-ID: <20081106103005.DSY02736@mailstore3.fiu.edu>

Colleagues,

A student of mine is having difficulty finding articles/references on 1.5 generation immigrants (ones appropriate for undergraduate paper) and also if anyone has written about immigrants' dual frame of reference especially regarding 1.5 generation.  Please help by sending references to me.

Thank you!  Sarah Mahler

===================================
Sarah J. Mahler
Director, 
Transnational & Comparative Studies Center
 and Associate Professor, 
Dept. Sociology/Anthropology
DM 368
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
(o) 305.348.6561
(fax) 305.348.6562
email:  mahlers@fiu.edu

From alee at jjay.cuny.edu  Thu Nov  6 01:10:55 2008
From: alee at jjay.cuny.edu (Anru Lee)
Date: Thu Nov  6 11:12:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Society for East Asian Anthropology 2009 Conf., Taipei,
 Taiwan, July
Message-ID: <99C7D96B03288841B7AECEA0CF3277D505C2250E78@JJAYEXCH.jjay.cuny.edu>

Apologies for cross-postings.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEAA Taipei 2009
Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association

East by Southeast:
Multiple Perspectives on Asia

2-5 July 2009

        You are invited to participate in ?East by Southeast: Multiple
 Perspectives on Asia,? a conference of the Society for East Asian
 Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be
 held in Taipei, Taiwan, on 2-5 July 2009.  We encourage submissions of
 both organized sessions and individual papers on issues of interest and
 passion in the anthropology of East and Southeast Asian societies.  We
 particularly welcome panels that bring together comparative studies of a
 common topic from different parts of the region.

        Peoples in East and Southeast Asia have historically enjoyed
 intricate relationships.  The unprecedented rate and spread of
 globalization since the late 20th century onward have occasioned new modes
 of economic integration with attendant flows of people, commodities, and
 popular culture that knit the region in new and complex ways.  At the same
 time, people in different parts of the region face similar challenges with
 respect to new class formations and lifestyles, new ways of performing
 gender, contestations between local and national identities, and expanding
 horizons of consumption. The region is also a site of post- and
 neo-colonial tensions.  This meeting provides a unique opportunity for
 East and Southeast Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East and
 Southeast Asia to learn about current research in their areas (both
 geographic and theoretical) and to create links with researchers in other
 countries.  The conference will include a diverse and multicultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars,  and academic and applied anthropologists.

This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored
by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Taiwan Association for
Anthropology and Ethnology, the Graduate Institute of Anthropology at
National Tsing Hua University, the College of Hakka Studies at National
Chiao Tung University, and the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica .

 Deadline for submission of panel and paper abstracts: 28 February 2009
 Deadline for conference registration and housing application: 30 April 2009

 Please check the SEAA Website
 (http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/index.html) for the SEAA 2009 Taipei
 Conference update.  If you have any questions, you can also contact Anru
 Lee, the chair of the program committee at: alee@jjay.cuny.edu.


Anru Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
899 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(TEL) (212) 237-8571

From p.mortenbock at gold.ac.uk  Thu Nov  6 00:45:08 2008
From: p.mortenbock at gold.ac.uk (Peter Moertenboeck)
Date: Thu Nov  6 11:15:19 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Networked Cultures - Politics of Connectivity (AAH Conference 2009)
Message-ID: <86DBC1FC73794A778AF12BFDA307C16D@Peter>

Call for Papers

One-Day Session at AAH Conference 2009, Manchester, UK
(The 35th Association of Art Historians conference will be held at the Manchester Metropolitan University, 2nd - 4th April 2009)

Networked Cultures: Politics of Connectivity
Session convenors: 
Peter M?rtenb?ck, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College 
Helge Mooshammer, Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology

Against the background of global structural transformation, networks have become one of the most prominent concepts relating to the search for new forms of social cohesion and solidarity. The question as to what forms such connectivity should take is not only theoretical in nature but above all a question that points to the self-induced multiplicity of spaces that is continually generated by connectivities throughout the world. Networks both structure and constitute an operational field for these proliferating global entanglements of people, places and interests. They become incorporated in space in different ways: in the form of translocal zones of action, community support structures, expanded spheres of influence, spatial superimpositions and intensive contacts and contaminations.

The engagement with these developments on the part of art and architecture in recent years has resulted in a new form of praxis founded on collective production, process-guided work and transversal project platforms. Such a 'disciplineless' praxis of unsolicited intervention in spatial contexts renders legible the dysfunctional rules of planned spatial and cultural containment and creates an avenue for generating new forms of circulation amidst the political efforts to conceal this failure. It makes use of existing networks, expands and changes them, gives rise to new circuits and thereby sketches a mobile geography of self-determined utilisations of space and culture. Through practical and theoretical work involved in the parameters of networked art production, this session interrogates the meanings of this politico-aesthetic landscape together with the meanings of artistic, architectural and cultural engagement in these dynamics.

Proposal forms (please see http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/session.php?id=13 for more details) including an abstract of your proposed paper should be emailed to Peter M?rtenb?ck p.mortenbock@gold.ac.uk or Helge Mooshammer helge.mooshammer@tuwien.ac.at by 10th November 2008.

http://www.networkedcultures.org

From vincent.lyon-callo at wmich.edu  Wed Nov  5 11:40:33 2008
From: vincent.lyon-callo at wmich.edu (Vincent Lyon-Callo)
Date: Thu Nov  6 11:18:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers--Rethinking Marxism 2009: New Marxian
	Times
Message-ID: <7d1bc04c31a9.49118631@wmich.edu>


Below is the call for papers for the next international conference organized by the editors of the journal Rethinking Marxism.  If anyone has any questions about the conference, please feel free to contact me as I am the lead organizer for the conference (vincent.lyon-callo@wmich.edu).  As you can see from the call from papers, this conference brings together several hundred left scholars and activists from throughout the world.  We would be very welcome to participation from Urban Anthropologists.

Vin Lyon-Callo


Call For Papers
RM09: New Marxian Times

RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of economics, culture & society is pleased to announce its 7th international conference, to be held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on 5-8 November 2009.

RETHINKING MARXISM's six previous international conferences have each attracted more than 1000 students, scholars, and activists. They have included keynote addresses and plenary sessions, formal papers, roundtables, workshops, art exhibitions, video presentations, activist discussions, and cultural performances. Similar events are planned for the next international conference, RM09: New Marxian Times.

RM09: New Marxian Times is dedicated to exploring the possibilities and challenges of Marxism for understanding and engaging with the contemporary world.  Neoliberal capitalism, long criticized by Marxists and others on the Left, is now going through its own long-term economic and social crises. What new possibilities do these crises create for Marxist and other progressive ideas and visions? How does Marxism, and left-wing thought more generally, need to be rethought to respond to these challenges?

Decades of declining real wages with rising levels of exploitation and economic inequality, increasingly unaffordable energy costs, and a loss of the illusion of middle-class status characterize large parts of the world, in the North as well as the South.  Declining state support for social welfare programs, privatization and deregulation, record levels of migration of people, growing urban slums, and increasingly authoritarian state interventions in the lives of ordinary citizens have become the norm in the past two decades.  Concurrently, multiple environmental crises (from climate change and global warming to increasing food insecurity, water shortages and health challenges) have been receiving increased attention.  From the anti-elite sentiments expressed in response to the bailout of the financial industries to emerging anti-immigrant and nationalist efforts and ethnic and religious-based movements, average people are feeling both angrier and more insecure in response t
o current conditions.  And the elites have few if any answers to the economic and social crises that beset the existing national and international orders. 

Perhaps coalescing in the financial crisis acknowledged in the autumn of 2008, these dynamics represent both a significant crisis for currently constituted capitalism and modes of governance as well as a set of challenges and possibilities for all of us concerned with working towards a non-exploitative and more equitable world.  In that light, we are seeking intellectual, political, and cultural works that address the possible contributions that Marxist ideas and forms of analysis can make in responding to the challenges of these new times.  Human rights, democracy, environmental concerns, new organizing movements in South America and elsewhere throughout the globe, the growth of social activisms represented as anarchist, anti-imperialist, or in response to globalization, workers subjectivities and movements, contradictions within emerging and transitional economies, emergent nationalisms, and debt and the credit crises all represent possible areas for contributions to new t
hinking about the role of Marxist theories, cultures, and politics in today?s world.  We strongly encourage papers that address these topics in relation to the global south.

Of course, we also understand the vital importance of analyzing history in order to help us to understand and respond to contemporary conditions.  To understand the new, we must reflect upon and learn from the old.  In that light, we are also interested in panels and papers that emphasize historical analysis such as the history of Marxism(s), labor history, historical analysis of academia, histories of social movements and political practices, the historical development of Marxist/Socialist feminism, imperialisms, and the historical relationships between class and race- based movements.  

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE

RM09: New Marxian Times will be held over four days, beginning on Thursday evening, 5 November 2009 and ending on Sunday afternoon, 8 November 2009. In addition to two plenary sessions and an art exhibition, there will be concurrent panels, workshops, and art/cultural events. We invite the submission of organized sessions that follow traditional or non-traditional formats (such as workshops, roundtables, and dialogue among and between presenters and audience) as well as individual presentations. Since Marxism covers a wide variety of fields, from literature to public health and forms of political practice, from environmental organizing to opposing global inequality and envisioning new economic and social practice, anyone engaging with Marxism in any discipline or form of activism is encouraged to submit paper and panel proposals. We encourage those working in areas that intersect with Marxism, such as critical race theory, feminism, political economy, anarchist studies, cult
ural and literary studies, queer theory, working-class and labor studies, postcolonial studies, geography and urban studies, psychoanalysis, social and natural sciences, philosophy, and around issues of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, and disability, to submit proposals. We also welcome video, poetry, performance, and all other modes of presentation and cultural expression.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals for papers, films, or other formats should include:
* Paper title
* Presenter's name and contact information (mail, email, phone, affiliations)
* Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)
* Technology needs for presentation

Proposals for panels should include:
* Panel title
* Name, contact information, and paper title for each presenter
* Brief abstract (no more than 200 words) explaining the panel's focus
* Braiief abstract for each paper (no more than 200 words)
* Names and contact information for any discussant(s) or respondent(s)
* Technology needs of presenters
* Title, contact, and address for any sponsoring organization or journal

The appropriate preregistration fee must accompany all proposal submissions. Unfortunately, any proposal not accompanied by the appropriate preregistration fee cannot be considered. Proposals that are not accepted will have their preregistration fees returned in full. If you are submitting a proposal for an entire panel, please make sure the preregistration fee for all members of the panel is paid.

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2009.

To submit a proposal and to pay the preregistration fee, 
follow the instructions on the conference website:

http://rethinkingmarxism.org/conf


REGISTRATION RATES

______Full Regular Rate $90 (at conference $120)
______Full Low-Income Rate $45 (at conference $60)
______Two-day Regular Rate $75 (at conference $90)
______Two-day Low-Income Rate $30 (at conference $40)
______One-day Regular Rate $50 (at conference $60)
______One-day Low-Income Rate $20 (at conference $30)

LOGISTICS

The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Detailed information on lodging, travel directions, and childcare will be provided on the conference website.

TECHNOLOGY

Conference presentations will take place in the Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  The majority of the rooms now have projectors available, but those wishing to project images or slides will need to provide their own laptop computers.  Please indicate on your registration form if you will need the use of a projector in order to facilitate the proper scheduling of rooms.

PUBLICATIONS
Selected papers, poems, art, and other forms of presentation from the conference may be published in RETHINKING MARXISM and/or in separate edited volumes of contributions.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
All information pertaining to the conference, including paper and panel submission instructions, preregistration and on-site rates, lodging suggestions, travel directions, possible childcare arrangements, cultural events, the conference program, and much else will be posted on the conference website when details become available. The web address is:
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/conf


VENDORS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Literature tables and display areas are available to groups, vendors, and
publishers at reasonable rates. Ad space in the conference program is also available at reasonable rates. All ads must be camera-ready.

Inquiries concerning the conference can be addressed to:

Vincent Lyon-Callo
Department of Anthropology, Moore Hall
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008
Vincent.lyon-callo@wmich.edu


--
Vin Lyon-Callo
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008
269-387-3964


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Nov  7 11:24:31 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Nov  7 11:25:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Mughal on Day and Masciulli, Globalization and Political Ethics
Message-ID: <002c01c940f5$57af9620$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Anthropology Review Database. BOOK REVIEW
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=3054


Day , Richard B. & Joseph Masciulli. 2007 Globalization and Political 
Ethics: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Leiden; 
Boston: Brill.

Reviewed 24 Oct 2008 by Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal <zebi_anthro@yahoo.com>, 
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Richard B. Day (University of Toronto) and Joseph Masciulli (St. Thomas 
University), introduce Globalization and Political Ethics as a demonstration 
of the subjectivity of the term "globalization" with reference to the 
underlying political ethics and evaluate it in normative terms rather than 
as an objective prospect or in the language of economic science, where 
"value" has a "price" (p.ix).

     Globalization and Political Ethics comprises fifteen essays that 
examine the crucial issues of a globalizing world such as terrorism, 
institutional change, the configuration of the world economy, the role of 
the United Nations and international financial institutions, the regimes of 
international trade and technology transfer, the effects of regionalism in 
the European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the failure 
of Russia, and genocide and state-induced famines in Africa, all under the 
microscope of political ethics. Day and Masciulli look into the connection 
between globalization and ethics within a culture facing globalization 
elucidating the link between ethics and market through philosophical tools 
like Aristotle's arguments on ethical life in the city-state, state-centered 
Hegelian ethics, and the universal-cosmopolitan claims of Kantian morality. 
The book not only searches the prospects for global governance but also 
explains why there is a great need to institutionalize the markets at 
various levels of social organizations, as Habermas thinks, so that people 
can define market and society in their own terms.

     The authors are of the opinion that there are asymmetrical implications 
of the so-called universal economy due to the dominance of developed 
countries over the developing countries. They try to convince the reader 
that the trade and technology policies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) 
and its agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 
(TRIPS) exist just to gratify the interests of Western powers and that both 
of these are hurdles in the way of development of the third world (p.129). 
The book argues that globalization has played havoc with Russia because its 
post-communist global economy is largely dictated by the West, and rejects 
the neo-liberal economists' claim that globalization provides economic 
efficiency and human enlightenment (p.175).

     Globalization and Political Ethics, while discussing regionalism, 
stresses it is unclear whether the foundation of the European Union has 
ended barriers to the movement of labor, goods and capital across borders, 
as Europe has been in the front line of favoring "globalization", or whether 
it aims to protect Europe's cultural identity and to save itself from the 
destructive pressures of globalization (p. 185). On the other hand, there 
are some who claim the EU is an ethical undertaking and a denial of market 
fundamentalism (p. 212) choosing the market economy instead of market 
society (p.210). Quoting ASEAN, the book stresses that humanitarian 
intervention, even if well intentioned, has a mammoth potential to be abused 
(p.233).

     The book presents open criticism of the genocide and state-induced 
famine in Africa blaming the West especially for colonial genocide in 
South-West Africa and Congo, and asks for more attention to such issues in 
Africa as part of our global ethics (p.242). It admires the role of the UN 
in security related issues beyond interstate relations (p.267 & 288) and 
also encourages cooperation and understanding in the fight against 
terrorism, conferring certain theoretical issues like relative universality 
of human rights and the prospects for global governance, keeping in view the 
shared risks to humanity.

     The selection of these topics narrows the book's focus to issues that 
are controversial from an ethical point of view and might have undermined 
the positive and moral aspects of globalization. For instance, a world 
without international unions and organizations could reflect a different 
situation as far as political ethics are considered, and that is why the 
volume markedly evaluates the impact of globalization, concluding, not 
always positively, on social justice, and judges the forces bringing 
globalization using political and historical facts to balance the 
philosophical ideals, and suggests models for the implications of political 
ethics in practice under the umbrella of globalization through the dialogue 
of political theory and international relations (p.391).

     At the end, the book gives hope for a better future for humanity 
through global governance fulfilling moral needs. It is a precious work that 
may help research and academic endeavors in the international politics and 
those interested in the moral aspects of change. 


From Davide.Pero at nottingham.ac.uk  Fri Nov  7 15:14:25 2008
From: Davide.Pero at nottingham.ac.uk (Davide Pero)
Date: Sat Nov  8 20:51:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dual
	frame of reference
In-Reply-To: <20081106103005.DSY02736@mailstore3.fiu.edu>
References: <20081106103005.DSY02736@mailstore3.fiu.edu>
Message-ID: <8332517E53F1584EBFE62E2500D2045703FE9AAB@VUIEXCH3.ad.nottingham.ac.uk>

Dear Sarah, 

We just published a paper by Dorothy Zinn in our new Working Papers Series on aspects of their organising in Italy (follow the link in the signature below). 

+ the work of David Parker (in JEMS) in the UK and Susanne Wessendorf (Switzerland) (in Social Anthropology + COMPAS working papers) 
 
Best

Davide 

Dr Davide Per?
Convenor 
Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre
School of Sociology & Social Policy
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
 
T: +44 (0)115 951 5238
E: davide.pero@nottingham.ac.uk 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/identity_citizenship.php  

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PeroInclusionary





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Colleagues,

A student of mine is having difficulty finding articles/references on 1.5 generation immigrants (ones appropriate for undergraduate paper) and also if anyone has written about immigrants' dual frame of reference especially regarding 1.5 generation.  Please help by sending references to me.

Thank you!  Sarah Mahler

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Transnational & Comparative Studies Center
 and Associate Professor, 
Dept. Sociology/Anthropology
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From ab2792 at columbia.edu  Thu Nov  6 18:20:43 2008
From: ab2792 at columbia.edu (ab2792@columbia.edu A.Busa')
Date: Sat Nov  8 20:53:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 EDITOR FOR URBAN STUDIES ONLINE JOURNAL - position available ASAP
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EDITOR FOR URBAN STUDIES ONLINE JOURNAL - position available ASAPinfo@urbanreinventors.net www.urbanreinventors.net  The Urban Reinventors urban studies magazine is looking for a professional editor asap. You will be credited as a professional editor and enter the editorial staff.The next issue will be released in late November, so we are looking for somebody who can start working with us immediately.This is a pro-bono position (as for now). Your duty will be to review articles of renowned academics and scholars (paying attention to format, footnotes, language, illustrations and captions) and turn them into downloadable PDFs according to a precise template. This position could be expanded in the future as we are looking for a contributing editor for a "news section" we would like to add to the website. Computer skills (Microsoft Word, Photoshop CS3 and PDF writer), good language skills as well as a knowledge on urban studies, urban planning and social sciences are required. This position is open to graduate or postgraduate students in urban planning, geography, environmental psychology, social science, urban sociology, who might benefit from an internship in the editorial board of an urban studies magazine.  
 Alessandro Bus?ab2792@columbia.edu info@urbanreinventors.netwww.urbanreinventors.net
 
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:: DFG Doctoral Fellow 
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From pelintan at gmail.com  Fri Nov  7 10:33:12 2008
From: pelintan at gmail.com (Pelin Tan)
Date: Sat Nov  8 20:55:55 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]LIMINAL ZONES - the Nicosia seminar, 5-7 November
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Sorry for re-posting:

*http://liminalzones.kein.org*

*LIMINAL ZONES  -   the Nicosia seminar,  5,6,7 November 2008*
*organized by Angela Melitopoulos and Socrates Stratis*
*Aristide Antonas, Haim Bresheeth, Celine Condorelli, Armin Linke, Angela
Melitopoulos, John Nassari, John Palmesino, Yiannis Papadakis, Ines Schaber,
Florian Schneider, Eyal Sivan, Pelin Tan, Eyal Weizman, Phillipe Zourgane*

Any attempt to understand the rapid transformation of territories in the
21st century reveals shifting landscapes and moving boundaries, thus a
continuous struggle for their redefinition through conflicts and exclusions.
Different conditions of mobility and migration encouraged by the so-called
'globalised world' inscribe in material environments social and
psychological borders. In this context Cyprus and its inherent division acts
as one of the frontiers to the EU. The aim of this workshop is to explore
such liminal spaces with a particular reference to Cyprus and the Middle
East.

How are liminal spaces constructed and managed and how can one think them
from an interdisciplinary perspective?
What dictates the organization and management of these liminal spaces? What
facts on the ground challenge the actual negotiation of such "zones under
construction"? How do liminal spaces relate to a larger genre of boundaries
present in contemporary urban environments? How do continuous fragmentations
and reconnections in liminal zones shape contemporary urban societies?

This seminar proposes to engage in several roundtable discussions as
productive strategies and tactics encouraging engagement between publics
fragmented by the limit. We would like to explore the interdisciplinary
roles of visual culture and architecture as porous interfaces within such a
territory.

The seminar will take place within the Department of Architecture
(University of Cyprus) and the Goethe Institut Nicosia. It will bring
together scholars and practitioners from Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece,
Israel, Palestine, Turkey and the UK. "Liminal Zones" proposes the creation
of a research platform that will be continued in the future as a  model for
exchange and production of diverse methodologies.




angela melitopoulos
melitopoulos@gmail.com
germany












-- 
Pelin Tan
Ph.D cand. / research assistant
Institute of Social Sciences
ITU Architecture Faculty, Taskisla
34437 - Istanbul
phone: +90 2122456631
www.tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.slowfood.com
www.sulukule.org
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Nov 10 11:21:39 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov 10 11:28:35 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality/Marginalizing Discourses (Toronto)
Message-ID: <01aa01c94351$5ce2f700$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

*** Please forward widely ***


CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
March 12-13, 2009

Lumpen-City:
Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses

Research on marginalized urban residents has been an academic cottage
industry throughout the history of the social sciences - addressing
social problems related to issues such as poverty, crime, youth, race,
ethnicity, gender, health, and employment. To apprehend these notions
of difference, conceptualizations of the poor, the underclass, the
outcast, the ghetto, exclusion, marginality and others have been
developed and applied. Inevitably, research defines and represents a
group and as such influences everyday preconceptions and
politico-administrative strategies, including policies, regulations
and laws.

Contextualizing cultural and behavioural patterns of marginalized
populations, academic and activist research commonly seeks to humanize
an excluded group and/ or suggest alternative strategies of
intervention and modes of engagement by which to remedy the inequities
of a particular situation. However, by virtue of representation fixity
is imposed upon the identified population. Marginalized and excluded
groups are often rendered vulnerable and passive through the
circumscribed dictates of representational inscription. How can
innovative and creative discourses break with this pattern of
subjection?

This conference challenges academics and activist-scholars alike to
reflect upon the realities and potentialities of research on
marginalized urban populations in the context of their struggles. We
invite scholarly contributions which illuminate issues of
representation by exploring multiple axes of identity such as class,
race, gender, ethnicity, age, ability / disability, and sexuality.

The York University Sociology Graduate Students' Association (YSGA) in
conjunction with the City Institute at York University and the
Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL) invite academics and
activist-scholars to participate in the interdisciplinary debates of
this conference on Thursday, March 12th and Friday, March 13th 2009 in
Toronto, Canada.

We accept proposals for:
- Academic papers (Presentation of 20 minutes)
- Short films, art, poetry or other forms of creative dialogue.

The deadline for proposals / abstracts (approx. 250 words) is December 15th.
Submission materials and general inquiries should be addressed to:
LumpenCity2009@gmail.com

Selected papers will be considered for publication.

Travel bursaries may be available.


Possible areas of engagement include, but are not limited to:

1. Methodological engagements:

   The poetics and politics of representation
   Comparing marginality across borders & boundaries
   The description, inscription, and circumscription of research design
   Ethnographic immersions
   Activist alliances
   Methodological alterities: Narratives of inversion/subversion

2. Institutional interrogations:

   Local, extra-local, regional, national, international contextualizations
   Welfare state retrenchment and visions of poverty
   The funding and financing of research
   Fashions, fads and foibles of urban research
   Re-structuring the university
   University-community collaborations

3. Controversies and Contestations:

   Spectacularization of the urban outcast
   Spaces of Struggle: Neoliberal citizenship and representations of
urban marginality
   Post/Colonialism and the metropolis
   The Unrepresentable Multitude in the Lumpen-City
   Public sociology / sociologies
   The marginalized and media discourse

4. Challenges and Change:

   The role of activism in academia
   Critique and the public sphere
   Research, resistance and revolution
   Envisioning the just city: claiming the right to the city
   Social movements, citizenship and critical urban praxis
   Progressive visual and aesthetic engagements


-- 
Roger Keil
Director
The City Institute at York University (CITY)

http://www.yorku.ca/city
http://www.yorku.ca/fes/faculty/keil/index.asp

Co-editor The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR)
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0309-1317

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Nov 10 11:52:34 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Nov 10 11:52:52 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Visiting Research Fellowships, Ctr for
	Comparative Immigration Studies (San Diego, Calif)
Message-ID: <024701c94354$c0867180$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/programs/fellowships.htm

Visiting Research Fellowships
Academic Year, 2009-10
Application Deadline: January 15, 2009

 CCIS will offer a limited number of Visiting Research Fellowships at both 
the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for the 2009-10 academic year. These 
awards are to support advanced research and writing on any aspect of 
international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, 
history, law, and comparative literature. Due to funding constraints, CCIS 
is able to award fellowships only to scholars who have a current or former 
affiliation with a University of California campus (as a graduate student, 
faculty member, or researcher). Self-funded Guest Scholars are not required 
to have a UC affiliation. Fellowships must be held in residence at UCSD 
(commuting from outside of San Diego is not permissible).

Visiting Research Fellows are provided with shared office space and a 
computer, as well as full access to all UCSD academic, institutional, and 
recreational resources. They benefit from interaction in a supportive, 
interdisciplinary community of scholars and have multiple opportunities to 
present their research at seminars. Predoctoral applicants are expected to 
finish writing their dissertations during their fellowship tenure. Recent 
postdoctoral applicants can request support to turn a dissertation into a 
publishable manuscript or to prepare shorter publications based on the 
dissertation project. More senior scholars can propose any research or 
writing project. The duration of the fellowship is usually 9-10 months, 
although shorter stays are also possible. No summer-only fellowships will be 
awarded, but self-funded Guest Scholars may request appointment for summer 
months.

Stipends are $2,250 per month for predoctoral fellows and $3,000 - $4,000 
per month for recent postdoctoral fellows (Ph.D. received within the last 6 
years), depending on seniority. Stipends for more senior scholars are 
negotiable. Fellows will also receive full UCSD employee benefits and an 
allowance for health insurance. CCIS fellowships may be supplemented with 
compensation from other fellowships, research grants, sabbatical leaves, or 
other sources.

Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded in Microsoft Word or PDF. 
All application materials must be received no later than January 15, 2009 
for fellowships to be held during the 2009-10 academic year. Candidates will 
be evaluated by a committee of CCIS faculty research associates and 
finalists will be interviewed by CCIS academic staff. Final decisions will 
be made by early March 2009.

Scholars whose work deals with Mexican migration to the United States can 
apply jointly to CCIS and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (application 
forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the USMEX website at 
www.usmex.ucsd.edu). They should submit separate applications to each 
Center.

Individuals with their own extramural funding may apply to become CCIS Guest 
Scholars. The application form is the same as for a Visiting Research 
Fellowship and may be submitted at any time. Guest Scholars receive the same 
privileges as Visiting Research Fellows. 


From torin.monahan at vanderbilt.edu  Mon Nov 10 00:38:53 2008
From: torin.monahan at vanderbilt.edu (Torin Monahan)
Date: Mon Nov 10 12:11:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Workshop Announcement: Surveillance and Empowerment
Message-ID: <C4FC82BA-08F1-43CD-ABB7-4ED113933AD5@vanderbilt.edu>

OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on Surveillance & Empowerment
March 20-22, 2009
Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee, USA

This workshop will bring together transdisciplinary and international  
scholars studying the social implications of contemporary surveillance  
with a particular interest in the complexities of empowerment.  In the  
surveillance studies literature, there have been significant  
contributions on social sorting, digital discrimination, privacy  
invasion, racial profiling, sexual harassment, and other mechanisms of  
unequal treatment.  In contradistinction, this workshop seeks to  
explore the potential of surveillance for individual autonomy and  
dignity, fairness and due process, community cooperation and  
empowerment, and social equality.  Key to this inquiry will be  
questioning the extent to which surveillance can be designed,  
employed, and regulated to contribute to democratic practices and/or  
the social good.

The very framing of the workshop in terms of ?surveillance and  
empowerment? begs the question of empowerment for whom and for what  
purposes.  Thus, we seek to provoke a broad discussion about the ways  
in which surveillance practices may unfairly embody advantages for  
some groups over others and to explore alternatives.  To this end, the  
workshop organizers seek to include as many different voices as  
possible, from as many different countries as possible.

Given the diversity of scholarly interest in and approaches to  
surveillance, the workshop will be structured around discussion themes  
that individuals from any disciplinary background can participate in.   
Possible research areas might include (but aren?t limited to):

	? Surveillance in post-authoritarian societies ? toward restrictions  
and counters to the unleashed surveillance of former regimes.
	? Ubiquitous computing environments that provide care for the  
dependent and elderly.
	? Social networking tools employed by social movements.
	? Surveillance of environmental toxins and waste management.
	? Monitoring of energy consumption at any level.
	? Surveillance of corporations, government agencies, or political  
parties by watchdog groups.
	? Policies for ensuring privacy, accountability, and transparency  
with video or other surveillance systems.

The findings of the workshops will be disseminated by means of a  
special issue of a journal, such as Surveillance & Society or  
Theoretical Criminology, or as an edited book.

Travel stipends, food, and lodging will be provided for all  
participants.  Participants will be chosen to provide a balanced  
representation of both junior and senior scholars, disciplinary  
training, and international perspectives.  Graduate students and  
participants from outside the U.S. are especially encouraged to apply.


Potential participants should submit:

1.       A 500-750 word abstract that discusses how your current and/ 
or future research fits with the proposed workshop theme of  
surveillance and empowerment, and

2.       A two-page curriculum vitae or resume, listing your relevant  
publications and experience.


Deadline:  January 5, 2009
Submit materials to:  workshop@publicsurveillance.com

Full papers will not be required in advance of the workshop. Article  
submissions for the journal will be requested in the months following  
the workshop (at a date yet to be determined).  Should we decide to  
pursue an edited book as an outcome of this workshop, we will ask  
participants to submit titles, abstracts, and brief biographies.

We will select and notify participants by January 20, 2009.  For more  
information, please contact Torin Monahan  
(torin.monahan@vanderbilt.edu) or visit www.publicsurveillance.com/workshop.html 
.

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (under  
grant #0623122 and #0853749) and by the Department of Human and  
Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University.


The Workshop Committee
(Torin Monahan, Gary T. Marx, Simon A. Cole, Jill A. Fisher)
Torin Monahan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human & Organizational Development
Associate Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
www.torinmonahan.com

From sveissiere at ucn.ca  Mon Nov 10 11:03:35 2008
From: sveissiere at ucn.ca (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Veissi=E8re=2C__Samuel=2C_Dr=2E?=)
Date: Mon Nov 10 12:14:38 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Job posting: Assist/Assoc. Prof., Sociology; Dean of Arts & Science
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References: <024701c94354$c0867180$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
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Hi all,

 

See available positions below. 

 

Please note that anthropologists with graduate experience in Sociology will be considered for the Soc. position. 

 

Junior candidates with a research background who are looking for admin experience are encouraged to apply for the Dean's position. 

 

Please apply and/or circulate.

 

Best, 

 

 

SV

 

 

ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: SOCIOLOGY

Tenure-Track Faculty Position

Start Date: July 2, 2009

The Pas, Manitoba

Competition No. 2888

The Social Sciences Area at the University College of the North in The Pas, Manitoba, is seeking a full-time, tenure-track

faculty member in Sociology at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor to join a small but vibrant team of

scholars in the Faculty of Arts and Science.

 

The Position: 

The new faculty member will be expected to teach introductory and advanced courses in Sociology

on our main campuses and regional centres through a combination of travel and videoconferencing, and to develop

courses in his or her area of specialization to contribute to the development of majors in Sociology and Anthropology,

and to fast-growing degree programs in Arts and Education.

 

Qualifications: The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Sociology or related discipline at the time of

appointment, and demonstrated potential for excellence in research and teaching, curriculum development and

interdisciplinary dialogues. Area of specialization is open, but preference will be given to candidates with a focus in

one or several of the following areas: criminology, health, family, gender, ethnicity, international development,

globalization, postcolonial studies and Canadian studies. Given UCN's unique geographical and cultural location,

preference will also be given to candidates with demonstrated inter-cultural experience and knowledge and

appreciation of challenges faced by aboriginal students and communities in Canada and/or internationally.

Employment equity is a factor in the selection process. Applicants are invited to indicate in their covering letter or

resume if they are from any of the following groups: Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities,

women. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given

priority.

 

Interested candidates should send a cover letter, up-to-date curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, two

publication or writing samples, and evidence of teaching ability to: University College of the North, Attention: Human

Resources, P.O. Box 3000, The Pas MB R9A 1M7; Fax: (204) 623-4414; Email: hrinfo@ucn.ca (preferred format).

Candidates should arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent directly to UCN Human Resources.

 

For inquiries, please contact Dr. Samuel Veissi?re, Chair, Social Sciences Area, UCN at 1-866-677-6450 or email

sveissi?re@ucn.ca.

 

The deadline for receipt of applications is January 15, 2009 and the position will be expected to commence July 2,

2009.

Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information

and Protection of Privacy Legislation (Manitoba).

 

 

 

 

DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Five-Year Term Position (negotiable to maximum five-year term)

Start Date: July 6, 2009 (or earlier if possible)

Thompson or The Pas, Manitoba

Competition No. 2851

 

University College of the North (UCN), Manitoba's newest post secondary educational institution located in northern

Manitoba is committed to meeting the educational needs of all of our students. With two main campuses (The Pas and

Thompson) and twelve regional centres throughout northern Manitoba, UCN is poised to be a leader in the provision of

quality education in the north. We invite applications from individuals who wish to be part of a dynamic organization and a

leader with the team that is charting a course to improving education of Aboriginal and northern Manitobans.

The Position: UCN is seeking an outstanding and experienced leader to serve as Dean of Arts and Science. The Dean will

have a strong background and experience in teaching, research and academic leadership, including experience with

distributed learning and community-based education. The incumbent will have experience, knowledge and understanding

of Aboriginal and northern Manitoba cultures or be able to transfer relevant knowledge gained in another setting to UCN.

The successful candidate will provide leadership and management for all activities related to the Faculty of Arts and

Science. The Dean will be encouraged to continue their own academic research program to the extent possible, given the

demands of academic administration.

 

Qualifications: The successful candidate will possess a Ph.D. in the Arts or Sciences. Demonstrated experience in a postsecondary

educational environment is required, as is experience building strategic direction and partnerships with

governments, Aboriginal community leaders, educational institutions (including across other academic areas within UCN)

and other key individuals and groups. Demonstrated competence in research, teaching and a commitment to service are

essential. Leadership in program planning and implementation, as well as experience with managing students, staff and

budgets in a multi-site environment is required. Strong communication (oral and written), interpersonal, leadership, problem

solving and decision-making skills are required. The individual must have the ability to use current technology effectively.

Crucial to this position is a demonstrated ability to understand diversity, cultural influences and issues specific to adult

learners in northern communities. Personal experience and/or knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal cultures is

essential. The ability to speak an Aboriginal language is an asset.

 

Applicants are asked to provide a cover letter, C.V., three letters of reference, and copies of transcripts with their application.

Employment equity is a factor in the selection process. Applicants are invited to indicate in their covering letter or resume if

they are from any of the following groups: Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women. All

qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

 

CLOSING DATE: December 19, 2008; however, the competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

Apply in writing to: University College of the North, Attention: Human Resources, P.O. Box 3000, The Pas MB R9A 1M7;

Fax: (204) 623-4414; Email: hrinfo@ucn.ca (preferred format).

Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and

Protection of Privacy Legislation (Manitoba).

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted

 

 

 

 

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

Assistant Professor, Anthropology   

Chair, Social Sciences Area

Faculty of Arts, University College of the North

504 Princeton drive, Thompson, MB, R8N 0A5

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

Toll-free: 1866 677 6450

e-mail: sveissiere@ucn.ca/ web: www.ucn.ca 

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

 

 

 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Nov 12 11:09:58 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Nov 12 11:10:42 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action
Message-ID: <005b01c944e1$1f59f7d0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The Department of History
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Announces
Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action
A Graduate Student Conference
March 27, 2009

Deadline for abstract submission: January, 1 2009

 From the Roman notion of civitas to the Islamic duty of da'wah to
the French colonial mission civilisatrice, universal claims have
been deployed in the service of causes, movements, and ideologies
of all kinds. They attempt to create order, unity, and meaning, yet
thereby give rise to contestation. This conference seeks to address
the following questions: What kinds of universal claims have been
advanced and how have they been transformed over time in different
regions and historical periods? How do such claims take concrete
form in the actions of polities and the practices of communities
from the local to the global? How do they accommodate or resist
particularities or rival universalisms? We wish to consider a range
of entities that promulgate universal claims (such as states,
nations, empires, religions, and social and political movements) in
a multitude of realms (such as law, morality, norms, and
identities). As this conference is presented in conjunction with
the Center for International History's annual theme, 'In the Name
of Humanity,' we are especially, but not only, interested in the
ways in which universal claims have been embodied in the discourses
and politics of human rights and humanitarian intervention.

We invite submissions from all time periods - ancient, medieval,
early modern, and modern - and various geographic regions. Papers
on topics that are broadly transnational or global in scope are
preferred. Additionally, we encourage interdisciplinary research,
and although proposals with a historical perspective are
particularly welcome, we will also consider contributions from the
fields of anthropology, sociology, literary studies, political
science, and economics. Please send an abstract of no more than 300
words and a recent CV as email attachments (Word preferred) by
January 1, 2009 and any inquiries to Simon Stevens at the following
address: sms2236@columbia.edu.

For more information regarding the conference, please refer to the
Center for International History's website (beginning December
15th): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cih

Limited funding for travel and assistance in arranging accommodation
may be available.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Conference: Friday, March 27th, 2009
From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Tue Nov 11 07:00:32 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Wed Nov 12 11:13:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA vote on bylaws changes
Message-ID: <200811111202.mABC2WdO004575@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members:

You will now have received an email asking for your
vote on a series of changes to the AAA bylaws.

By virtue of being SUNTA president, I have been on
the Section Assembly for the past two years, in which
these changes have been discussed and modified
more times than you may wish to know.

So a few thoughts:

If you read these changes and are inclined to support
them, I think you can do so in good conscience.
As these changes expand the role of the Section
Assembly, they represent great hope for better AAA
governance and, perhaps above all, for greater
transparency. The SUNTA Board unanimously
approved this package of changes.

If you read these changes and have reservations about
some of the specific details, I think you are reasonable to
do so. However, I would note to you that, after having
objected to several of the details myself, I did vote for
these changes at the Section Assembly level, and will
vote for them again now. They represent, if not perfection,
then certainly fundamental improvement. And since the
Section Assembly has already once brought this process
to a halt to rethink options, I do not think it is feasible to
do so again. So it is, indeed, time to vote.

I hope that is useful background for you. Please do vote.

With best regards,

-- David Haines (SUNTA president)

P.S. Do not forget our business meeting in San Francisco
on Friday night at 6:15 p.m. in the Lombard room. We
can discuss this then if you wish--or with more animation
at the reception following our meeting. The actual voting
deadline is December 15.



From quetzil at osea-cite.org  Tue Nov 11 00:52:00 2008
From: quetzil at osea-cite.org (quetzil castaneda)
Date: Wed Nov 12 11:16:54 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Ethnography Field School in Yucatan, Mexico, May 17-July 4,
  2009
Message-ID: <200811101755.mAAHtAD3018554@ppoint3.cc.ysu.edu>


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From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Wed Nov 12 15:32:55 2008
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Wed Nov 12 18:55:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dualframe
	of reference
Message-ID: <7E900F354244104B973354F36A46572B01A26614@SUEXCL-01.ad.syr.edu>


Hi sarah --
I've recently become interested in this topic as well. I know of 2 books -- Mary Yu Danico's The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawai'i (U of Hawaii Press, 2004) and Sucheng Chan (ed) The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight and New Beginnings (Temple, 2006).

deborah


Deborah Pellow
Professor of Anthropology
The Maxwell School
Syracuse University
209 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse NY  13244
(315) 443-4216
-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Davide Pero
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:14 AM
To: mahlers@fiu.edu; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: RE: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dualframe of reference

Dear Sarah, 

We just published a paper by Dorothy Zinn in our new Working Papers Series on aspects of their organising in Italy (follow the link in the signature below). 

+ the work of David Parker (in JEMS) in the UK and Susanne Wessendorf (Switzerland) (in Social Anthropology + COMPAS working papers) 
 
Best

Davide 

Dr Davide Per?
Convenor 
Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre
School of Sociology & Social Policy
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
 
T: +44 (0)115 951 5238
E: davide.pero@nottingham.ac.uk 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/identity_citizenship.php  

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PeroInclusionary





-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of mahlers@fiu.edu
Sent: 06 November 2008 15:30
To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dual frame of reference

Colleagues,

A student of mine is having difficulty finding articles/references on 1.5 generation immigrants (ones appropriate for undergraduate paper) and also if anyone has written about immigrants' dual frame of reference especially regarding 1.5 generation.  Please help by sending references to me.

Thank you!  Sarah Mahler

===================================
Sarah J. Mahler
Director, 
Transnational & Comparative Studies Center
 and Associate Professor, 
Dept. Sociology/Anthropology
DM 368
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
(o) 305.348.6561
(fax) 305.348.6562
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From gleeson.shannon at gmail.com  Wed Nov 12 16:45:46 2008
From: gleeson.shannon at gmail.com (Shannon Gleeson)
Date: Thu Nov 13 14:09:01 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants'
	dualframe of reference
In-Reply-To: <7E900F354244104B973354F36A46572B01A26614@SUEXCL-01.ad.syr.edu>
References: <7E900F354244104B973354F36A46572B01A26614@SUEXCL-01.ad.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <491B78BA.6070409@gmail.com>

Hi Sarah:

I *too* am very intersted in this topic myself, especially as it relates 
to undocumented immigrants.

Here are some cites that your student might find useful

-Zhou and Bankston talk some about the 1.5 Vietnamese
http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-American-Vietnamese-Children/dp/0871549956

Re:  undocumented students

-Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out
http://www.labor.ucla.edu/publications/books/underground.html

-Leisy Abrego, ?I Can'T Go to College Because I Don'T Have Papers?: 
Incorporation Patterns Of Latino Undocumented Youth, Latino Studies, 
Volume 4, Number 3, 2006 , pp. 212-231(20)

-?Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects 
of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California.? 2008.  in 
Law & Social Inquiry 2008, 33(3): 709-734.

-Gonzales, Roberto G. 2008. ?Left Out but not Shut Down: Political 
Activism and the
Undocumented Latino Student Movement.? Northwestern Journal of Law and 
Social Policy.
Volume 3:2, Spring 2008.

-Gonzales, Roberto G. 2007. ?Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams: the Lost 
Potential of Undocumented Students.? Immigration Policy: In Focus. 
Volume 5, Issue 13. Immigration Policy Center, of the American 
Immigration Law Foundation. Washington, D.C. Fall 2007.


Deborah Pellow wrote:
> Hi sarah --
> I've recently become interested in this topic as well. I know of 2 books -- Mary Yu Danico's The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawai'i (U of Hawaii Press, 2004) and Sucheng Chan (ed) The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight and New Beginnings (Temple, 2006).
> 
> deborah
> 
> 
> Deborah Pellow
> Professor of Anthropology
> The Maxwell School
> Syracuse University
> 209 Maxwell Hall
> Syracuse NY  13244
> (315) 443-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Davide Pero
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:14 AM
> To: mahlers@fiu.edu; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: RE: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dualframe of reference
> 
> Dear Sarah, 
> 
> We just published a paper by Dorothy Zinn in our new Working Papers Series on aspects of their organising in Italy (follow the link in the signature below). 
> 
> + the work of David Parker (in JEMS) in the UK and Susanne Wessendorf (Switzerland) (in Social Anthropology + COMPAS working papers) 
>  
> Best
> 
> Davide 
> 
> Dr Davide Per?
> Convenor 
> Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre
> School of Sociology & Social Policy
> University of Nottingham
> University Park
> Nottingham NG7 2RD
>  
> T: +44 (0)115 951 5238
> E: davide.pero@nottingham.ac.uk 
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/identity_citizenship.php  
> 
> http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PeroInclusionary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of mahlers@fiu.edu
> Sent: 06 November 2008 15:30
> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: [URBANTH-L] Cites needed on 1.5 generation and immigrants' dual frame of reference
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> A student of mine is having difficulty finding articles/references on 1.5 generation immigrants (ones appropriate for undergraduate paper) and also if anyone has written about immigrants' dual frame of reference especially regarding 1.5 generation.  Please help by sending references to me.
> 
> Thank you!  Sarah Mahler
> 
> ===================================
> Sarah J. Mahler
> Director, 
> Transnational & Comparative Studies Center
>  and Associate Professor, 
> Dept. Sociology/Anthropology
> DM 368
> Florida International University
> Miami, FL 33199
> (o) 305.348.6561
> (fax) 305.348.6562
> email:  mahlers@fiu.edu
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From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Thu Nov 13 07:07:45 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Thu Nov 13 14:11:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA business meeting in San Francisco
Message-ID: <200811131243.mADCh1MY027176@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members:

The SUNTA business meeting will be held:

.... on Friday, November 21, 2008
.... from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
.... in Lombard

A joint reception with AES and SCA follows
(cash bar).

Hope to see you then. We have good news
on the budget front and a chance to welcome
in our new president, Deborah Pellow.

I should also note that we had rather bad news
on the acceptance and scheduling of panels
and papers this year. San Francisco is again,
as it was in the past, very, very competitive on
paper and panel proposals. I am very sorry for
that. For the many of you whose papers were
lost to this competition, I can only assure you
that (a) you were in very good company, and
(b) this is not likely to be a problem next year in
Philadelphia.

The draft agenda for this year's business meeting
and last year's minutes from Jayne Howell are at
the url listed below in html or Word (with better
formatting) . If you have additional items, just let
me know.

http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1/2008_business_meeting.htm

http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1/2008_business_meeting.doc


With best regards,

-- David

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
David W. Haines
Professor of Anthropology
George Mason University  SOAN 3G5
Fairfax  VA 22030

President, Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA)
    www.sunta.org

From lindwyer5 at aol.com  Thu Nov 13 10:06:30 2008
From: lindwyer5 at aol.com (lindwyer5@aol.com)
Date: Thu Nov 13 14:13:42 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]response: Cites needed for generation 1.5 
Message-ID: <8CB13B88B4FA930-B28-1BD8@WEBMAIL-DY10.sysops.aol.com>

The originator of the concept of the 1.5 generation is sociologist Reuben Rumbaut. He originated the concept as an honors project while a college student and has elaborated upon that thereafter.? ?Unfortunately, the education establishment, especially in TESOL (teachers of English to speakers of other languages), has popularized the term in a way that distorts its theoretical significance.? I'm in the midst of writing a paper regarding the misappropriation?of the concept in education. 

Having said that, there is some usage of the term in the TESOL??publications--am not sure how useful it is to an undergraduate?student.? It would be helpful to have some mastery of basic linguistic concepts for some of the writing.? A number of doctoral dissertations have been written in the education field.? TESOL has its own online resources for members and publishes a journal, as well.? The utility for an anthropology student may vary due to the sometimes shallow insights into the concepts and methodology (ethnography, for example) that?are used. But it's a start.? 

Best,
Linda Dwyer


From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Sat Nov 15 10:18:38 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Nov 15 13:18:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Harvard, Anthro, Asst. / Assoc. Prof.
Message-ID: <34ec80c40811151018y2c9fcb09l8ca2524a9d1fb1ca@mail.gmail.com>

Harvard University. The Department of Anthropology invites
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Applications will be considered from scholars whose research is firmly
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Send application, including CV, transcripts, the names of three
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From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Sat Nov 15 10:20:37 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Nov 15 13:20:59 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: California Institute of Integral Studies, Anthro
Message-ID: <34ec80c40811151020qd79a446i5ca80cccc99ea40@mail.gmail.com>

California Institute of Integral Studies is an accredited institution
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The Anthropology Department offers a critical, advocacy approach to
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multi-disciplinary frameworks that interrogate the intersections of
culture, history, and power that order present realities. Learning is
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Responsibilities:
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? Student advising and mentoring
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? Participation in extra-curricular culture of the department

Qualifications:
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and environmental justice, e.g. social movements, nationalism,
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politics, colonization, globalization, dynamics of accommodation and
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Salary: To be negotiated, commensurate with experience

Position to be filled no later than May 1, 2009 for appointment
beginning July 1, 2009.

Applications due by January 15, 2009.

To apply: Candidates should copy and paste their letter of application
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Semifinalists to be determined by February 15.: Finalists to be
determined by March 15.

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From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Mon Nov 17 11:37:45 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Nov 17 14:38:04 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 BOOK: Waterson, ed., An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline
Message-ID: <34ec80c40811171137h3e9d749x9567ffeb81114ba6@mail.gmail.com>

New Book Announcement

AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR
Views from the Frontline
Edited by Alisse Waterston

Contributors:
Avram Bornstein, Paul E. Farmer, R. Brian Ferguson, Lesley Gill,
Beatriz Manz, Carolyn Nordstrom, Stephen Reyna, Jose N. Vasquez

It is sobering, but also provocative to look at war from the viewpoint
of anthropologists, especially those who have had the unique
experience of being in zones of war. These essays bring special
insights, but also a passion missing in the usual journalistic
accounts or scholarly reflections. The writers in this volume not only
enlarge our perspective but move us emotionally - a rare and admirable
combination."  -- Howard Zinn

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force,
and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the
prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern
warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and
material infrastructures - have done little to bring an end to armed
conflict. In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide
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at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have
seen and heard in war zones but also what is being read, studied,
analyzed and remembered in such diverse locations as Colombia and
Guatemala, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. In
detailed reports from the field, they reflect on the important issue
of "accountability" and offer explanations to discern causes,
patterns, and practices of war. Through this unique lens, the
contributors provide the insight and analysis needed for a deeper
understanding of one of the greatest issues of our times.

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=WaterstonAnthropology

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Nov 19 12:09:18 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Nov 19 12:18:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (UK)
Message-ID: <000501c94a6a$c5dbe080$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>


Call for Papers and Participation

Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa
23-25th of September 2009 

Wilberforce Institute, Hull, UK

The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation,
University of Hull, and the Forced Migration Studies Programme,
University of the Witwatersrand, invite submissions for an
interdisciplinary conference on 'Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary
Bondage in Africa'. This conference will focus on linkages between the
history of slavery and migration in Africa and contemporary forms of
bondage, such as child labour, chattel slavery, child soldiers, descent
based discrimination, and human trafficking and the exploitation of
migrants. Eight travel bursaries are available for early career scholars
based in and/or from Africa.

Background


The history of slavery and abolition is not confined to the Americas,
but also extends to millions of slaves in Africa, Asia and the Middle
East. When the Trans-Atlantic slave trade finally came to an end in the
1860s, both slavery and slave trading remained widespread across most of
Africa. Prior to the colonial 'scramble' of the late nineteenth century,
African slaves represented more than a third of the population in some
parts of the continent. During this period, the need to abolish slavery
and slave trading featured prominently amongst self-serving
justifications for wars of colonial conquest, but once European
authority was firmly established this anti-slavery rhetoric quickly gave
way to cautious incrementalism. Under colonial rule, slavery in Africa
experienced a 'slow death' that was frequently measured in decades,
rather than years. It remains an open question, however, whether the
legal abolition of slavery can be regarded as a clear break with the
past. Once slave labour was renounced, colonial agents turned to closely
related forms of exploitation, such as forced, bonded and indentured
labour, which could be more brutal and exploitative than indigenous
slave systems. When controls on movement associated with slavery came to
an end, political elites turned to other instruments to take their
place, such as 'vagrancy' laws, migration schemes, and racially and
ethnically defined barriers.

The events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can be
connected to more recent developments in continental Africa in a number
of different ways. In some cases, elements of pre-colonial practices
have persisted to this day. Especially problematic here are countries
such as Mauritania and Niger, where chattel slavery and descent based
discrimination remains an ongoing problem. In a larger number of cases,
contemporary forms of bondage involve an extension and reformulation of
earlier historical models. In many parts of West Africa, human
traffickers have been able to manipulate local traditions based upon the
placement of poor children with friends and relatives. In countries such
as Sudan and Uganda, recent histories of raiding parties and
'abductions' can be traced to earlier historical precedents. When modern
human rights campaigners object to 'slave chocolate' sourced from parts
of West Africa, they are following in the footsteps of earlier campaigns
against the use of forced labour in cocoa production under Portuguese
colonial rule. When modern migrants find themselves in dangerous and
exploitative conditions, their predicament shares a number of features
in common with earlier victims of colonial exploitation. When African
governments seek to restrict and regulate movement, their approaches
routinely draw upon a series of colonial precedents and templates. In
order to fully evaluate both current problems and future prospects, one
must first understand historical practices.


Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa

Interested researchers are invited to submit paper proposals based on
one or more of the following themes:

Governance

* Similarities and differences in the (ab)use of labour: How have
pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial political authorities sought to
organize and regulate labour in Africa?

* Evolving patterns of migration and movement control: How have various
models of political authority sought to regulate, promote and/or
restrict the movement of peoples in Africa?
 

Social and Economic Formations

* Innovation in exploitation: What factors account for the emergence
and/or further expansion of new forms of bondage following the legal
abolition of slavery across continental Africa?

* The persistence of pre-colonial practices: On what terms can
historical practices be connected to current problems, such as child
labour, descent based discrimination, and/or debt-bondage?

The Past in the Present

* Historical parallels with contemporary problems: What can the history
of slavery, migration and colonial rule in Africa tell us about
contemporary developments and future prospects in Africa?

* The legacies of historical slave systems: How has the history of
slavery, migration and colonialism influenced contemporary patterns of
movement and labour exploitation within Africa?

* Repairing historical wrongs in Africa: What avenues are available to
repair past injustices?


Each of these themes invite scholars who specialise in particular issues
and events to reflect upon the broader significance of their field of
expertise to both the broader history and contemporary prospects of
Africa.
 

Submission Information


To submit a paper proposal, please send abstracts of up to 300 words,
together with a current curriculum vitae to wise@hull.ac.uk
<mailto:wise@hull.ac.uk> , by the 28th of February 2009. The organizers
of the conference have also secured eight bursaries for early career
scholars from/based in Africa. These cover flights, accommodation and
conference registration. Applicants for bursaries should apply through
the same procedure outlined above, indicating that they wish to be
considered for a bursary. Final papers of between 6000 and 8000 words
will be expected by the 31st of July 2009. The registration form for the
conference will be available in February 2009. 

Requests for additional information should be directed to either Joel
Quirk at j.quirk@hull.ac.uk  or Darshan Vigneswaran at 
darshan.vigneswaran@wits.ac.za Information on the institutions involved 
be found at http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise and http://www.migration.org.za/ . 
The organizers of the conference plan on publishing a selection of 
conference papers as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition.

 

 
From migug at bluewin.ch  Tue Nov 18 11:38:43 2008
From: migug at bluewin.ch (Michael Guggenheim)
Date: Wed Nov 19 12:38:04 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]cfp: Workshop at ZiF-Bielefeld, 17-19 June 2009.
	Buildings:
	Technologies or Interactions? Exploring the Intersections between
	Architectural Theory and the Social Sciences
Message-ID: <BDE8953A-217B-4BA1-AF15-B4AB188C7A53@bluewin.ch>

Buildings: Technologies or Interactions? Exploring the Intersections  
between Architectural Theory and the Social Sciences


Call for papers for a Workshop on Wednesday June 17th - Friday  
June19th 2009 at the Zentrum f?r Interdisziplin?re Forschung (ZiF)  
Bielefeld.

Workshop organised by Michael Guggenheim, Department of Anthropology,  
University of Z?rich.

Deadline for abstracts: Dec. 15th 2008

The workshop explores the role of buildings as stabilisation of  
society in theoretical and historical perspective. Many disciplines  
engaged with buildings implicitly or explicitly understand buildings  
as a kind of technology that (should) stabilize, form, direct or  
influence interactions and thus society. Whether their impact is  
attributed to the hands or thoughts of designers to enable or hinder  
people do something or whether these are the concepts of architectural  
or social theory: Buildings are not only aesthetic objects from  
different stylistic and regional environments but also objects that  
link to their users. The workshop attempts to theorize these links and  
the different traditions that brought fourth those links.

Theories of buildings can be found in a number of fields, some  
implicit, some more explicit and raising a number of questions that  
have yet to be resolved:

a) Theories of buildings as technologies can be found in social  
theory, as technologies to discipline, to hinder interactions, as for  
example in Michel Foucault?s studies of the prison and the hospital or  
in Bruno Latour?s studies of door openers.
b) They can be found in architectural sociology or psychology and in  
the tradition of ?Environmental Design Research? of the 1970ies, where  
the idea of architecture as technology was employed to create better  
architecture by studying how inhabitants use buildings and then change  
buildings accordingly. Terms such as ?hard architecture? referred to  
different grades of stabilization of different kinds of buildings.
c) In architectural anthropology buildings were understood not only as  
symbolizing key structures of society but also as structuring  
interactions. One notable outcome of these studies was that the  
buildings of pre-modern and primitive peoples more effective in  
stabilizing their interactions than modern buildings, despite the  
latter?s explicit attempts to provide such stabilization.
d) The idea of buildings as shaping interactions has been prominent in  
modern architectural theory, mostly as a normative agenda of  
architects to build houses for specific functions or uses.
e) A fifth version of such a social theory can be found in  
architectural history and theory in the basic classification of  
buildings as building types, understood as generic forms that  
generated specific use patterns.
f) In legal thought, the idea of zones and zoning links buildings with  
uses and identifies use patterns with building forms.
g) In theories of monument protection the worth of a building is often  
measured as the integrity of the building with regard to its usage.  
The underlying idea is that a building should be kept together with  
the use because without this link the building could not be understood.
h) The same idea can be found in different disciplines as themes that  
reflect their architectural foundations. For example educationalists  
are interested in the form of class rooms, theology has an interest in  
the form of churches and business management sought to optimise the  
office and factory. In all these cases the aim was to implement  
foundational values of the disciplines as technologies into buildings  
to improve interactions in those fields.

The workshop invites papers that try to relate the different elements  
to each other. Participants may use the following themes as a basis  
for their proposals:

a) Relate different theoretical positions: How do different  
theoretical and disciplinary traditions relate buildings, technologies  
and interactions? How do they borrow terminologies and theoretical  
elements from each other and to what effect? How do terms such as  
?type?, ?function?, ?use? or ?zone? link buildings and interactions in  
different disciplines? These questions may be the objects of  
contributions in the history of these disciplines but also  
contributions that seek to explore new avenues in theorizing the  
relationship between buildings and interactions.

b) Specifically look at temporal orders of the link between buildings  
and interactions:
To claim a relationship between buildings and interactions leads to  
the question of temporal order. Do new building forms create new kinds  
of interactions or do new kinds of interactions lead to new building  
forms and types? What happens in cases of incongruence of buildings  
and interactions such as in the case of conversion of buildings? And  
how can this be adequately theorised?

c) Historically compare links between buildings and interactions:
Since many of the above quoted theories often observe different  
intensities of buildings and interactions in different environments,  
contributions may explore the empirical basis of such observations and  
their theoretical relevance. How is it possible to measure different  
levels of technicity of buildings? How do different theoretical  
traditions, be it implicitly or explicitly, measure it? Why do  
theories in different times make different claims about the powers of  
buildings?

d) Compare different building types
Since many theoretical traditions have explored specific building  
types, the question arises whether those theories apply to all  
buildings or only to specific building types. Even without an explicit  
theory, it seems that many approaches assume that different building  
types have different powers, that churches for example structure  
interactions differently than prisons or offices. Contributors may  
thus explore why theoretical traditions focus on specific types and  
what the theoretical implications of such focuses are (For example  
Foucault?s focus on disciplinary buildings). Furthermore contributions  
may try to develop theories that explain different links between  
buildings and interactions of different building types.

e) Cross cultural studies
The anthropological tradition implies that in different societies  
buildings perform society in different ways. Contributions might thus  
explore such differences and attempt theoretical explanations.

A limited budget to help with travel expenses is available and  
accommodation is covered by the organisers.
10-15 papers will be accepted and distributed before the workshop. The  
workshop will be reserved for intensive discussion of papers.
Please send an abstract of 300-500 words until December 15th 2008 to gug@ethno.uzh.ch


From rrr28 at drexel.edu  Wed Nov 19 10:34:01 2008
From: rrr28 at drexel.edu (Rachel R. Reynolds)
Date: Wed Nov 19 16:01:24 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]job posting, Asst. Prof., Anthropology
Message-ID: <20081119153402.7F49D225F8E@smtp.mail.drexel.edu>

DREXEL UNIVERSITY, Department of Culture & Communication anticipates 
hiring a full-time tenure-track assistant professor in Cultural 
Anthropology beginning Fall 2009.
The Department of Culture and Communication is an interdisciplinary 
department with research foci in media studies, discourse, the social 
impact of new technologies, theory and methodology. An anthropologist 
specializing in the intersection of digital subjectivities and the 
technological mediation of cultural practices and identity would be 
particularly interesting to the department. Geographic area is open 
but we would prefer a scholar who has done research outside of the 
United States. Dynamic scholars with strong research backgrounds who 
wish to work in a growing interdisciplinary department are especially welcome.

Drexel University is a private, urban university with over 11,000 
full-time undergraduates.  Drexel is well-known for its cooperative 
education program.  The Department of Culture and Communication is 
within the College of Arts and Sciences and comprises faculty in 
Communication and Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, and Modern Languages.

The Department offers BA degrees in Anthropology and in Sociology, BS 
degrees in Criminal Justice and in Urban Environmental Policy, BA and 
BS degrees in Communication, with undergraduate specialties in 
Corporate and Public Relations, Technical Communication, and 
Journalism, and an MS degree in Communication, with concentrations in 
Public, Technical or Science Communication. The Department also 
offers MS degrees in Communication, in Publication Management, and in 
Environmental Policy. In addition, the department is in the final 
stages of approval for a new interdisciplinary Doctoral program in 
Culture and Communication.
Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in 
Anthropology and perhaps graduate courses in communication. Ph.D., 
preferably in Anthropology, must be in hand by the time of appointment.

Review of applications will begin December 1, 2008 and will continue 
until the position is filled.  Please apply through 
<http://www.drexeljobs.com/>www.DrexelJobs.com with letter of 
application, vita, contact information for three references, and 
statement of research program.  Inquiries about the position should 
be addressed to Dr. Wesley Shumar, Chair, Search Committee, at 
<mailto:shumarw@drexel.edu>shumarw@drexel.edu.

Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer 
and encourages applications from qualified women, members of minority 
groups, disabled individuals, and veterans. 
<http://www.drexel.edu/>www.drexel.edu



From raym.unimelb at gmail.com  Thu Nov 20 17:29:52 2008
From: raym.unimelb at gmail.com (Maloti Ray)
Date: Thu Nov 20 03:05:01 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The Neoliberal City Public Forum / Melbourne, Australia.
In-Reply-To: <mailman.232505.1227162285.11444.comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu>
References: <mailman.232505.1227162285.11444.comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu>
Message-ID: <eee65ec40811192229i4af2ba36q3cc832708605aa46@mail.gmail.com>

The Neoliberal City

The Global Cities Institute at RMIT University and the UN Global Compact
Cities Programme invite you to a public forum on The Neoliberal City.

Neoliberalism is today's dominant global ideology. How does it manifest
in our cities?  What happens to civil society when more and more public
space is privatised? How is urban space being reclaimed against a
neoliberal agenda?

Three leading international scholars will discuss neoliberal ideology
and urban landscapes in relation to cities of the Asia-Pacific region.
The forum will be of interest to academics, students, professionals,
policy-makers, community advocates, and others working in
interdisciplinary fields of social science, urban planning and public
policy and interested in the links between public space and ideological
diversity.

Speakers include:
Neil Brenner: Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New
York University.
Michael J. Shapiro: Professor of Political Science at the University of
Hawai'i.
Susan Ossman: Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Studies
Program, University of California-Riverside.

When?   Thursday December 11, 2008.  6.30-8.00pm
Where?  Storey Hall Auditorium, RMIT University. 336 Swanston
St, Melbourne City

We hope you can make it and contribute to the discussion! Light
refreshments will be served after the forum.

For more information and to RSVP (by Friday 5 December), please contact:
Anne McNevin
anne.mcnevin@rmit.edu.au
Tel: 9925 3021


Anne McNevin
Research Fellow
Globalization and Culture Program
Global Cities Institute and Globalism Research Centre
RMIT University
Add: Bldg 37, Level 5, 411 Swanston St, Melbourne 3000
Tel: +61-(0)3-9925 3021
Fax: +61-(0)3-9925 3049
From sdabbous at ndu.edu.lb  Tue Nov 18 11:58:43 2008
From: sdabbous at ndu.edu.lb (Sensenig Dabbous)
Date: Fri Nov 21 20:22:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Christian Social Theory: A European-Middle Eastern
	Dialogue
Message-ID: <195B3925FC5D064EAB3C60E69C078D16024CB7C0@elyssa.ndu.edu.lb>

Please be informed RE the following event with professors from Lebanon,
Germany, Austria and the US dealing with industrialization, urbanization
and Western/Middle Eastern traditions of Christian social theory, with
an emphasis on the Catholic and Protestant traditions in the last half
century. 

 

Eugen Dabbous 

Political Science Dept.

 

http://www.ndu.edu.lb/newsandevents/current/cst.htm 

Faculty of Humanities Announcement

The Faculty of Humanities 
and
The Faculty of Political Science, Public Adminstration & Diplomacy
Present

A Panel Discussion on 

Christian Social Theory: A European-Middle Eastern Dialogue

WHEN: November 27, 2008 at 1:30-3:30
WHERE: Pierre Abou Khater Auditorium 

Agenda

1:30    Introduction: Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (NDU)

1:40    Dr. Edward Alam (NDU): Overview of Catholic Social Theory

1:55    Dr. Thomas Scheffler (DAAD/NDU): Christian Social Theory in
Germany

2:15    Dr. Theodor Hanf (CISH/AUB): Social Justice - European-Middle
Eastern Dialogue

2:35    Discussion

3:20    Summary: Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous





 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov 23 12:12:55 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 23 12:13:21 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Zapatistas Call for Worldwide Festival of Dignified
	Rage
Message-ID: <002301c94d8e$bb07b8b0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>


Zapatistas Call for Worldwide Festival of Dignified Rage

http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/2008/10/zapatistas-call-for-worldwide-festival.htm

Mexico
September of 2008

To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:

To the adherents of the Zezta Internazional:

To the People of Mexico:

To the Peoples of the World:

Compa?eras and Compa?eros:

Brother and Sisters:

Once again we send you our words.

This is what we see, what we are looking at.

This is what has come to our ears, to our brown heart.

I.

Above they intend to repeat history.

They want to impose on us once again their calendar of death, their
geography of destruction.

When they are not trying to strip us of our roots, they are destroying them.

They steal our work, our strength.

They leave our world, our land, our water, and our treasures without
people, without life.

The cities pursue and expel us.

The countryside both kills us and dies on us.

Lies become governments and dispossession is the weapon of their
armies and police.

We are the illegal, the undocumented, the undesired of the world.

We are pursued.

Women, young people, children, the elderly die in death and die in life.

And there above they preach to us resignation, defeat, surrender, and
abandonment.

Here below we are being left with nothing.

Except rage.

And dignity.

There is no ear for our pain, that is not like what we are.

We are no one.

We are alone, alone with our dignity and our rage.

Rage and dignity are our bridges, our languages.

We must listen to each other then, learn to know each other.

So that our courage and rage grows and becomes hope.

So that our dignity takes root again and births another world.

We have seen and heard.

Our voice is small to be the echo of that word, our gaze small for so
much dignified rage.

The process of seeing each other, looking at each other, speaking to
each other, listening to each other, is still lacking.

We are others, the other.

If this world does not have a place for us, then another world must be made.

With no tool other than our rage, no material other than our dignity.

We still must encounter each other more, know each other better.

What is missing is yet to come.

II.

Now, three years after the Sixth Declaration of the Lacondon Jungle,
the EZLN has undertaken a collective reflection, nourished by the
broad horizon that our compa?eros of the Other Campaign in Mexico and
in the Zezta Internazional across the world have given to us.

It is not little that we have seen and heard, sometimes directly,
sometimes through the words and the gaze of others.

The rage that we felt and the dignity that we found was so great that
we think now that we are smaller then we thought before.

In Mexico and on the five continents we have found what we intuited
when we began our sixth step: there is another world, there is another
path.

If the catastrophe that is coming can be avoided and humanity is to
have another opportunity, it will because these others, below and to
the left, not only resist, but are already drawing the profile of
something else.

Something different than what is occurring above.

In the impossible geometry of political power, the fundamentalists are
distributed evenly: the right becomes ultra-right and the
institutional left becomes the impossible cultured right. Those who
make up the progressive media complain that the fanatics of the
mainstream press censure them, twist their words and slander their
cause, but they at the same time censure, twist the words, slander,
and silence any movement that hasn't bowed down to the dictates of
their ringleaders. And without shame they condemn and acquit to the
rhythm of a senseless media rating. Fanatics on all sides fight over
lies dressed as truths and crimes are measured by the media time that
they occupy. But this is nothing other than a pale reflection of what
is happening in politics.

Weariness of the cynicism and incompetence of the traditional
political classes has been converted into rage. Sometimes this rage is
oriented toward hoping for change in the same paths and places as
always, and it is there immobilized by disillusionment or trampled by
an arbitrary force. The unsettled and brutal north goes back to its
old ways. When it is not sponsoring electoral fraud (like in Mexico),
it is promoting, encouraging, and financing state coups (as attempted
now in Bolivia and Venezuela). War continues to be its primary and
favored form of international diplomacy. Iraq and Afghanistan burn,
but, to the despair of those above, are not consumed.

The impositions of hegemony and homogeneity on a global scale find in
nations, in regions, and in small locales, their witches' apprentices
that try for that impossible historic return to a past where
fanaticism was law and dogma science. Meanwhile, the governing
political classes have found in the world of bright lights an adequate
disguise to hide their full participation in organized crime.

Sickened by so much greed, the planet begins to pay the unpayable bill
of its destruction. But "natural" disasters are also class issues and
their devastation is felt most by those who have nothing and are no
one. Faced with this, the stupidity of Power has no limits: millions
and millions of dollars are dedicated to manufacturing new weapons and
installing more military bases. The Power of capital does not worry
about training teachers, doctors, engineers, but rather soldiers. It
doesn't prepare constructors, but rather destructors.

And those who opposed this are the pursued, incarcerated, murdered.

In Mexico, farmers who have defended their land are in prison (San
Salvador Atenco); in Italy those who opposed the installation of
military bases are pursued and treated as terrorists; in the France of
"liberty, equality, and fraternity," humans are only free, equal, and
brothers if their papers say so; in Greece being young is a vice that
must be eradicated; again in Mexico, but now in that city of the same
name, young people are criminalized and murdered and nothing is done
because it is not on the agenda that those above dictate. Meanwhile, a
legitimate referendum is converted into a shameful way for an
assassin-governor to wash his hands of a situation. In the Spain of
the modern European Union, publications are closed and a language,
Euskera, is criminalized-they think that by killing the word they can
kill those who speak it; in that Asia that is so close, the peasant
demands are answered with armored injustices; in that arrogant
American Union, born in the blood of migrants, the "other colors" that
work there are pursued and killed; in the long wound that is Latin
America, the brown blood that sustains it is despised and humiliated;
in the rebellious Caribbean, a people, the Cuban people, are forced to
live under an imperial embargo that is nothing other than a punishment
without crime.

And in all of the corners of the world's geography, and in all of the
days of its calendars, those that work, those that make things run,
are plundered, despised, exploited, and repressed.

But sometimes, many times, as many times as a smile sets it off again,
rage looks for its own paths, new paths, other paths. And the "no"
that these multiple rages raise now not only resists, but begins to
propose, to become.

Since our appearance in public, now almost 15 years ago, it has been
our goal to be a bridge on which the many rebellions in the world can
walk back and forth.

Sometimes we have achieved this, sometimes we haven't.

Now we see and we feel not only the rebellious resistance that, as
sister and comrade, stays at our side and encourages our steps.

Now there is something that before wasn't there, or that we weren't
able to see before.

There is a creative rage.

A rage that paints all of the colors of the paths of below and to the
left on the five continents..

III.

FOR THESE REASONS, AND AS PART OF THE ACTS COMMEMMORATING THE 25TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL
LIBERATION, THE 15 YEARS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST
FORGETTING, THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOOD GOVERNMENT COUNCILS, AND
THE THIRD YEAR OF THE OTHER CAMPAIGN AND THE ZEZTA INTERNAZIONAL, THE
MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND ELDERLY OF THE EZLN CONVOKE ALL OF THE
REBELLIOUS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD TO THE:

FIRST GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF DIGNIFIED RAGE

WITH THE THEME OF:

ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER PATH: BELOW AND TO THE LEFT

TO BE CELEBRATED ON THE FOLLOWING PLACES AND DATES

THE OTHER MEXICO CITY, FEDERAL DISTRICT, December 26, 27, 28, and 29,
2008. IN LIENZO CHARRO OF THE ASSOCIATION LOS CHARROS REYES DE
IZTAPALAPA, Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente-UNOPII,
Avenue Guelatao # 50, Colonia ?lvaro Obreg?n, Delegaci?n Iztapalapa,
close to the metro station Guelatao, where an exposition will be
presented. AND IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF UN?OS, Dr. Carmona y Valle
street #32, colonia Doctores, close to the metro station Cuauhtemoc,
where other activities will be held.

THE CITY OF SAN CRIST?BAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, IN CIDECI, located
on the Camino Real de San Juan Chamula s/n, Colonia Nueva Maravilla.

SOME OF THE SUBTHEMES OF THE FESTIVAL WILL BE:

AN OTHER COUNTRYSIDE
AN OTHER POLITICS
AN OTHER CITY
AN OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENT
AN OTHER COMMUNICATION
AN OTHER HISTORY
AN OTHER ART
AN OTHER CULTURE
AN OTHER SEXUALITY

THE FESTIVAL "ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER PATH: BELOW AND TO THE LEFT" WILL HAVE 
THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS:

1. In Mexico City, a national and international exposition will be
installed where every struggle, every experience, every rage, will
have a space where it can set up and show its struggle and its
courage. This way we can all see, hear, and know each other.

2. In zapatista territory, dignity and rage will become art and
culture, music and song, because rebellion also dances. And with
words, pain will become hope.

3. In San Crist?bal de Las Casas, Chiapas, the word will go back and
forth in order to give birth to new words and give strength and reason
to rage.

4. The national and international groups, collectives, and
organizations that participate in the festival will be only those who
are invited to do so. To this end, the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
has initiated consultations with political and social organizations,
as well as with groups and collectives of anarchists, libertarians,
alternative communication workers, human rights defenders, sexworkers,
intellectuals, social activists, ex political prisoners, all adherents
of the Sixth Declaration; and with groups, collectives, and
organizations of other countries, all part of the Zezta Internazional.
The criteria for invitations and participations will be made after
these consultations.

5. For the roundtables, the EZLN will invite social organizers,
thinkers, and leaders of anticapitalist projects from Mexico and
around the world. The list of invitees will be released later.

6. More details about what we are thinking the festival of dignified
rage could be will be made known at earliest convenience (that is,
when we have an approximate idea of the problem we have gotten
ourselves into).

That's all for now.

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ATENCO!

>From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General
Command, of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.
Mexico, September of 2008.
 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov 23 13:59:47 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 23 14:00:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2nd CFP: Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging
Message-ID: <008601c94d9d$ab18c020$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Colleagues,

We have extended the session submissions deadline for a 2009 Sao 
Paulo conference till December 7th, 2008. We'd like to encourage you 
to send your session proposal to Eduardo Marques. The world economy 
is under recession. You may be facing a hard time as resources and 
budgets that you could rely upon to attend international conferences 
may be rapidly shrinking. Nonetheless, if you can, your contribution 
would be greatly appreciated. If you can't, would you encourage your 
colleagues and friends to do so? I have attached the session call below.
Thank you.

Best,
Kuniko Fujita
President ISA-RC21

The conference theme is Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging.
Rationale: Cities have experienced considerable cultural, political 
and economic change during the past few decades. The roles performed 
by social actors and by the state have diversified rather than 
weakened, as was predicted by some in academic debates. Spatial 
segregation has changed less than was forecast in the literature but 
the social meaning of segregation varies depending upon demographic 
and social structure. The idea of polarization remains strong but it 
is now clear that this is too simple a concept to grasp the diversity 
of urban situations. Nevertheless, inequality remains a central 
feature of societies, although inequality is now more fragmented, and 
more associated with specific groups. Class identities have also 
changed, and in a broader sense, so too has the way people understand 
their participation in society. Social inclusion remains a key 
material, symbolic and political issue in a variety of national 
situations, although also marked by local features in each case. In 
countries where the issue of inclusion was considered to be resolved, 
at least politically, some social groups have experienced a declining 
sense of involvement in society, reposing the problem of social 
belongingness. Social configurations have become significantly more 
heterogeneous, combining local historical, spatial and political 
factors with economic and political elements of broader amplitude. 
This conference intends to address these issues in a 
transdisciplinary way, focusing mainly on their association with 
social inequalities and with the identities that mark contemporary cities.

The call for session proposals: We'd like to solicit session 
proposals related to the conference theme. We also welcome other 
urban topics. Followings are some examples. Please send your session 
proposal with its title and short description (within 150 words) to 
the Sao Paulo conference committee (isasp2009@cebrap.org.br) with a 
copy to Eduardo Marques (ecmarq@uol.com.br) by December 7th, 2008. 
We'll start the call for papers on January 10 and ends on April 30, 2009.

* The new direction in urban inequality and poverty
* The new interpretation of urban inequality
* Comparative perspective on poverty
* The sense of belonging to neighborhoods and cities
* The state and urban inequality and poverty
* Urban mixed policies
* Comparative urban policies on inequality and poverty
* Urban justice and public policies
* Urban environment
* Urbanism and urbanization in history
* Configuration of urban spaces
* Territory, culture and identities
* Actors and political conflicts
* Space, networks and scales
From esh2110 at columbia.edu  Tue Nov 25 15:51:11 2008
From: esh2110 at columbia.edu (Emily Hawe)
Date: Wed Nov 26 23:07:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Revson Fellowship Open House
Message-ID: <492C653F.1070008@columbia.edu>

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

www.revson.columbia.edu <http://www.revson.columbia.edu>

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

The Charles H. Revson Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for 
self-development in mid-career for urban leaders who have made 
significant contributions to New York City. Each year, the program 
selects ten Fellows of diverse backgrounds and fields of achievement. 
Established in 1979, the Revson program has welcomed over 300 leaders to 
the University, providing tuition and financial support ($28,000 stipend 
and health insurance), academic guidance, and access to University 
resources. Revson Fellows engage in weekly seminars together while also 
pursuing individually designed programs of intellectual enrichment.

*Open House for Applicants*
Monday, December 1, 2008
7-9 p.m.
420 W. 118th Street, Room 1501
Columbia University
Reservations required. Register here <http://revsonopenhouse.eventbrite.com>

*2009-2010 Fellowship Applications
*Deadline: February 1, 2009
For more information about the Fellowship and to access the online 
application, visit www.revson.columbia.edu <http://www.revson.columbia.edu>

*Contact Information: *
revson@columbia.edu
212-854-6029

-- 
Emily Hawe
Associate Director
The Charles H. Revson Fellowship
A Program on the Future of the City of New York
www.revson.columbia.edu

International Affairs Building
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Mail Code 3355
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From Alahyo.Young at uphs.upenn.edu  Tue Nov 18 10:05:25 2008
From: Alahyo.Young at uphs.upenn.edu (Young, Alahyo)
Date: Sat Nov 29 14:53:28 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FW: American University Urban Transformations Conference
	CFP
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Subject: American University Urban Transformations Conference CFP

 

	 

	 

Graduate Leadership Council 

American University 

Monday, November 17, 2008 

   

Dear Faculty and Friends: 

  

The Graduate Leadership Council is organizing the first American University Urban Transformations: Public, Private Practices of Social Change conference scheduled for March 20th & 21st 2009.  We are currently calling for presentation proposals, papers, posters, films and alternative research forms from now until January 29th 2009. 

  

Urban Transformations is an interdisciplinary conference intended to bring faculty, students, and all agents of change from around the country into a critical discussion of the state of local, national and international cities. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research on panels with active and engaging audiences within the following themes: Gentrification and Urban Renewal; Public and Private Governance; Language, Sexuality & Citizenship; Public Health and Environmental Justice. For further information, we invite you to access the conference website it at http://auglc.com/urbantranformationsconference, where you may find detailed abstracts on the themes, a preliminary program, accommodation information, and submission and registration guidelines.  

  

The success of this conference will be largely based upon support received from you. As such, we are asking that you please identify students who have submitted work fitting into one of the themes listed above, and encourage or facilitate the submission of their work. In addition, we also ask that if any of the themes fit into your course work, that you include attendance to the event as part of this coming Spring's coursework. 

  

If you have any other specific questions about the conference, please contact Kalfani Ture, Conference Chair, at ture_k@yahoo.com <mailto:ture_k@yahoo.com> . Please see the attachment. 

  

Thank you in advance for your support of this ambitious endeavor. 

  

Yours Truly,



Kalfani N. Ture'

Doctoral Student, Anthropology

American University, Washington, DC
Concentration in Race, Gender and Social Justice
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From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Fri Nov 28 08:04:39 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Sat Nov 29 14:54:57 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Asia anthropology in Taipei
Message-ID: <200811281428.mASESGSd010581@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members and friends:

The Society for East Asian Anthropology
is holding its biennial meetings in Taipei
on July 2 - 5, 2009. This would be an
excellent opportunity to better integrate
the work of SUNTA and anthropologists of
an East Asia that is a model of  alterna-
tive kinds of cities and modes of trans-
nationalism. Note that this conference
specifically includes Southeast Asia as
well as East Asia.

If there are SUNTA members who are
interested in participating, please send
me a quick note to that effect. If there is
interest, I will try to help put together
a panel (or two) for that meeting.

See meeting details at:

http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/index.html

-- David Haines


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David W. Haines
Professor of Anthropology
George Mason University  SOAN 3G5
Fairfax  VA 22030
    http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1
    703-993-3600


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Fri Nov 28 08:12:27 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Sat Nov 29 14:56:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]The gavel has passed
Message-ID: <200811281428.mASESHsk015783@ppoint3.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members:

The SUNTA gavel has now passed to
Deborah Pellow as your president. As
I ascend to the ancestors, I would just
like to thank Deborah for her good
work in pulling together the SUNTA
program the past two years, and thank
outgoing officers Susan Greenbaum
(who has now completed the six-year
sequence from president-elect through
past-president) and outgoing councilor
Russell Leigh Sharman. I would also
like to welcome in Don Nonini as
president-elect and Jeff Maskovsky
at councilor.

More generally, thanks to the SUNTA
board and the general membership. It
has been a privilege to serve.

Best regards,

-- David

SUNTA Past President

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
David W. Haines
Professor of Anthropology
George Mason University  SOAN 3G5
Fairfax  VA 22030
    http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1
    703-993-3600


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov 30 13:39:19 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 30 13:39:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Nutopia: Exploring the Metropolitan Imagination
	(Cardiff)
Message-ID: <016701c9531a$fc110a00$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Nutopia : Exploring The Metropolitan Imagination
2/3 April 2009

Call for speakers
Deadline for application 30th November 2008

"Each epoch dreams the one to follow"
Michelet, Avenir! Avenir!


A multi disciplinary platform for artists/ archaeologists/ social scientists/ 
architects/ urban planners/ developers/ environmentalists/ activists and 
regeneration/ housing, to meet and make visible their perspectives on the 21c 
city; the nature of community, the human narrative, the new - utopia's which 
we may be able to find present amongst contemporary town planning and 
architecture.


The symposium will be set in Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian Arcades, home 
to a host of independent shops and against the backdrop of Saint Davids 2, 
the city's under- construction shopping centre, which has been designed for 
larger retailers, primarily multi + national chains. Both architectural 
manifestations speak variously of social, economic and cultural shifts and 
provide a lens through which to explore a multiplicity of perspectives, framing 
our position as individuals and communities within the model of the 'global' 
or 'regenerated' city. The aim of the symposium is to create a map of 
perspectives revealing our thoughts on the 21c metropolitan 'imagination'.
  

Submissions are invited for a 20 minute paper / to host a break out discussion 
or run a workshop or event in response to the above. Please feel free to 
respond with a short abstract outlining an area of research or as a project 
which befits the idea or possibility or new- utopia's. 


Symposium Format: Working in response to submitted abstracts/ proposals, 
your presentations will be located in different places in the city eg. Floor 5 of 
NCP Carpark, Arcade basement, in a cafe/ pub, or in shopping centre's/ 
arcades/ office spaces etc in order to contextualise the discussion and to 
create a dynamic between what is being discussed and a physical place. The 
audience will be small and all presentations will be documented in location then 
made available online please state in your proposal if you need to show images.


Please send 1 side of A4 outlining your responses in relation to your practice/ 
field, a CV and links to website/ blogs.


All speakers will have the option of having their paper included in the Museum 
Of The Moment Archive* and also be featured in "The Arcades Project: A 3D 
Documentary" Publication (Jan 2010).


UK travel costs will be covered/ free entrance and lunch provided during the 
event participation fee to be agreed.


To make a submission email jennie@arcadesproject.org
To find out more about The Arcades Project : A 3D Documentary go to 
www.arcadesproject.org



*The Museum Of The Moment Archive will be a multi media archive which will 
be installed in the city centre as 'permanent' legacy of the project.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov 30 13:41:30 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 30 13:42:02 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Governing the 21st Century City: Lessons from New York (Columbia U)
Message-ID: <017f01c9531b$4b787e20$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Megan Scanlon <mms2162@columbia.edu>

INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON THE CITY

Monday December 8, 2008
Columbia University

Lehman Center for American History
Rm. 406 International Affairs Building
(For both dinner and seminar)

****RSVP by WEDNESDAY DEC 3 at 4 pm ****

SPEAKER:  Esther Fuchs, Columbia University

TALK: "Governing the 21st Century City: Lessons from New York"

DINNER: 6pm --$25 Dinner at the Lehman Center. RVSP required. Dinner
will be a choice of two hot entrees. *Please note change in price of dinner*

REQUIRED dinner payment at the Seminar (in cash, or check to Columbia
University, "#459A dinner" in the memo line).

SEMINAR TIME: 7 pm to 8:30 pm

PLACE: Dinner and talk at the Lehman Center, (406 International
Affairs Building - 420 West 118th Street); directions attached

CHAIR: Lisa Keller, SUNY Purchase

RAPPORTEUR: Abigail Joseph

**Please rsvp for dinner and/or talk via e-mail to Megan Scanlon 
at  mms2162@columbia.edu
(Please RSVP by phone to 212-854-3060 **only** if unable to respond via email.)
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Nov 30 13:44:26 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Nov 30 13:44:44 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Free Online Issue of Cultural Anthropology, with
	Urban Anthropology Focus
Message-ID: <01a201c9531b$ae334db0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

A free, virtual issue of Cultural Anthropology 
focused on Cities and Urbanism is now available. 
The issue includes 5 essays published over the last few years.

Cultural Anthropology is the journal of the 
Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of 
the American Anthropological Association. 
Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic 
writing informed by a wide array of theoretical 
perspectives, innovative in form and content, and 
focused on both traditional and emerging topics. 
The journal is one of more than 20 publications 
featured in AnthroSource, the American 
Anthropological Association's online portal.

Access essays in the virtual issue by clicking on the titles below.
Supplemental material for each essay is available 
on the journal website: http://culanth.org/?q=node/181

Other Cultural Anthropology essays focused on 
Cities and Urbanism are listed here: http://culanth.org/?q=node/60

CA VIRTUAL ISSUE: CITIES AND URBANISM

The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monrovia, and the 
Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities
Danny Hoffman

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178869/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0


Beyond the Glitter: Belly Dance and Neoliberal Gentrification in Istanbul
?yk? Potuoglu-Cook

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178855/PDFSTART


Streets Not Named: Discursive Dead Ends and the 
Politics of Orientation in Intercommunal Spatial Relations in Norther Greece
Olga Demetriou

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178835/PDFSTART


"Visible Signs of a City Out of Control": Community Policing in New York City
Benjamin Chesluk

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178783/PDFSTART


Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational 
Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires
Emanuela Guano

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178735/PDFSTART
