From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan  1 23:54:19 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  1 23:54:30 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: an Anthology of Urban/Hip Hop Literature
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CFP: an Anthology of Urban/Hip Hop Literature
Deadline: February 23, 2009

This is an invitation to submit critical essays and short stories (or novel 
excerpts) for inclusion in an anthology of Urban /Hip Hop literature. The 
book will explore the genre of hip hop literature, specifically fiction, 
through essays that focus on and examine its: origin, its validity as a form 
of literary text, thematic commonalities, validity as social text, and 
style. A portion of the book will be comprised of examples (previously 
published and unpublished works) of the genre.
Urban or Hip Hop Literature has been defined in many ways by many different 
people and groups. For the purposes of this anthology, the editor defines 
the genre as any work of fiction (short-story or novel) that is written by 
an African American author between 1990 and the present and that examines 
the life and lifestyle of "the street" and its denizens. One of the works 
that helped lay the groundwork for the genre is Steve Cannon's 1967 book, 
Groove, Bang and Jive Around, although Sister Soulja's 1997 book, The 
Coldest Winter Ever is often cited as being its first and seminal work. Some 
critics admonish offerings within the genre as being poorly written, badly 
edited, one dimensional and lacking in style. While this may be true of some 
of the work, as it is in any genre, is it indicative of all the writers and 
books that have been published in the genre over the past decade? The 
anthology will explore this question as well as present work by both 
published and un-published authors.

Deadlines: Submissions for the anthology will be accepted from December 30, 
2008 until February 23, 2009. Two types of submissions will be accepted for 
review and possible inclusion in the anthology:

1) Critical Essays on one of the topic areas mentioned above. Essays about 
other topics may be considered but should critically analyze some aspect of 
the genre.
Some topics essays might address include:
. Character Archetypes
. Setting
. Diction and Language
. Evolution of the genre
. Plot(s)
. Imagery and Symbolism
. Form

Essays that compare and contrast Urban/Hip hop literature with those from 
other literary genres in terms of the above topics (or other topics) will be 
considered.
Length: 10 to 15 pages - page numbers should appear on each page in the top 
right corner with the author's last name and essay title.
Format: Single sided, dbl spaced, 12 pt font (preferably Arial), 1 inch 
margins

Include a 200 word abstract and a brief (no more than 100 words) bio of the 
author as a cover page. In the top left corner of the cover page include the 
author's:

. Essay Title
. Name
. Address
. Phone
. Email

2) Fiction in the form of short stories or novel excerpts. Length: 15 to 25 
pages - page numbers should appear on each page in the top right corner with 
the author's last name and essay title

Format: Single sided, dbl spaced, 12 pt font (preferably Arial), 1 inch 
margins
Include a brief (no more than 100 words) bio of the author as a cover page. 
In the top left corner of the cover page, include the author's:

. Submission Title
. Name
. Address
. Phone
. Email

Please submit publication ready pieces only. No proposals or rough drafts 
will be accepted.

All submissions will be reviewed by the editor, but only those accepted for 
inclusion in the anthology will be contacted. Previously published work may 
be considered but it is not necessary for the submission to have been 
published elsewhere. If a work was previously published, please include all 
publication information with the submission as a part of the cover page.

File types:
*.pdf and *doc files types only preferably, *.pdf

Lisa Gray
Mills College
lgray@mills.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Jan  2 00:03:58 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan  2 00:04:08 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Religion and Globalization in Asia:Prospects, Patterns, and
 Problems for the Coming Decade
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Religion and Globalization in Asia: Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for 
the Coming Decade

March 13 &14, 2009
University of San Francisco, Lone Mountain Campus

Presented by The Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at the USF Center 
for the Pacific Rim

Join us in beautiful San Francisco as keynote speakers Mark Juergensmeyer 
(UC Santa Barbara), Saskia Sassen (Columbia), Nayan Chanda (Yale)-and nine 
other presenters -- explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the 
established and emerging religions of South and East Asia.  One of our 
central concerns will be to understand "the dialectical tension of 
codependence and codeterminism between religion and globalization."   How do 
communication technologies, capital flows, security issues, 
transnationalism, immigration and migration, and identity politics 
contribute to social conditions in which some kinds of religious belief and 
practice prosper and proliferate, while others are adversely affected?

Conference Description:

Few scholars or policy makers twenty years ago could have imagined that the 
first decades of the 21st century would be a time of explosive and 
wide-spread religiosity. As modernity progressed and societies became more 
secular and democratic, religion was supposed to loosen its hold on the ways 
men and women envisioned their place in the world. On the contrary, the 
dynamics of globalization-such as communication technologies, immigration 
and migration, capital flows, transnationalism, and identity politics-have 
contributed to social conditions in which religious belief and practice not 
only survive but prosper and proliferate.
A growing body of scholarship and reportage has documented this phenomenon 
in the western hemisphere, but are these patterns applicable to Asia as 
well? With an estimated 300 million religious adherents in China (home also 
to the world's fastest growing Christian population), the world's largest 
and most diverse concentration of Muslims in Indonesia, and the rise of a 
more assertive and nationalistic Hinduism among India's 1.3 billion people, 
the role of religion in globalizing processes in Asia requires sustained 
analysis and elucidation rather than a mention in passing.

The objective of this conference is to muster the intellectual resources and 
research of experts in a variety of fields to better understand the 
prospects, patterns, and problems of religion and globalization in Asian 
societies in the near future. As noted in the recent edited volume 
Religions/Globalizations, how can we better understand the dialectical 
tension of codependence and codeterminism between religion and 
globalization? With a focus on the populations of South and East 
Asia--densely concentrated, increasingly well-informed and 
technologically-sophisticated--the conference participants and its keynote 
speakers will reference and address the following questions and themes:

Prospects
- How can religious pluralism and tolerance be promoted and practiced?
- What social, economic, and political scenarios contribute to peaceful 
religious proliferation in Asia?
- Can global trends and dynamics increase the range of choices for 
individuals to determine their own religious and cultural identities?

Patterns
- Are there identifiable characteristics for situations where religion is 
(or could become) a strategic political resource in Asian nations?
- How can we better understanding the codependent and codeterminative 
dynamics and patterns of religion and globalization?
- Does religious conservatism always compromise the more positive 
characteristics of globalization that are egalitarian, diverse, hybrid, and 
cosmopolitan?

Problems
- Are there substantial differences in how we regard religious 
fundamentalism in Asia and in western nations, especially concerning the 
belligerent kind that resorts to violence?
- Does the globalizing character of religion impede human rights in Asia?
- Are there regional conflicts that, aided by globalizing forces and 
religious ideologies, might grow into large-scale wars?
Conference Structure
- Friday, the conference will start with a keynote lecture, then break for 
paper sessions. After lunch, a second paper session will follow, with a 
concluding lecture preceding a general reception.
- Saturday will start with paper sessions, then conclude with a final 
lecture before lunch and adjournment.

Outcomes
The end result of the conference will be a strategically edited volume that 
will appeal to courses in history, religious studies, political science, 
sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. We will also develop a 
website that summarizes the conference proceedings, details the key 
contributors and their work, and provides links to organizations and 
institutions that promote the study of globalization.

Please visit the conference website: 
http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/religionandglobalization.html

For additional information or questions, contact:

John Nelson, Conference Chair
Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
nelsonj@usfca.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Jan  3 12:21:32 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan  3 12:21:43 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 COMMENTARY: Gaza: Bad Politics Needs Blood: Islam, Muslims and an
 Anthropologist
Message-ID: <000e01c96dc7$bbd5cbc0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

(Dr Gabriele Marranci is an anthropologist by training, working on religion 
with a specialisation in Muslim societies.)

Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist
Prof. Gabriele Marranci

Gaza: bad politics needs blood
http://marranci.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/gaza-bad-politics/
December 30, 2008

Palestinians in Gaza are again living another nightmare. The world, however, 
appears less interested than usual.  Dead Palestinians are common products 
on the international political markets at least last since 1967. As many may 
have observed, I have rarely commented or written about the 
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I am not a political scientist and I think 
that too much has been said and too little done. This post is intended to be 
just a reflection provoked by the sight of innocent people suffering and 
trapped in an endless conflict. I wish to tackle the current situation with 
a practical, and perhaps Machiavellian, question: who gains from this 
massacre? Certainly it will be neither the people of Palestine nor those of 
Israel, who will face, inevitably, the return of suicide operations that 
leave still more innocent people dead or mutilated. People gain from peace, 
not war. Yet war is a very profitable business.

Let me be clear about some points regarding Hamas and the Israeli 
government.  First we must look at Hamas for what it really is, and not for 
the Robin-hood many would rather it were. Hamas has great and grave 
responsibilities for what is happening and for the suffering that people in 
Gaza are facing. The decision to increase  (indeed they never stopped) the 
number of rockets fired into Israel was a clear provocation aimed to achieve 
a violent response by the Israeli government (which also never respected the 
ceasefire).  Hamas has demonstrated its disunity and level of oppression 
towards the Palestinians in Gaza.

Hamas is not a party; it is a movement with much in the way of internal 
conflict. Many Palestinians in Gaza or from Gaza, when speaking freely, are 
extremely critical of Hamas, and the violence and oppression used to subdue 
whomever disagrees with their politics and methodology, which is often 
brutal.
Hamas has more interest in its own gain than the destiny of Palestinians, 
and for this reason it is ready to sacrifice them to the altar of money and 
power. Indeed, this is the ultimate motivation behind an organization which 
has changed deeply and become controlled more by mafia interests  than by 
any real political agenda for a prosperous Palestine.

Indeed, Hamas, as it is today, can only offer to the Palestinians of Gaza 
two words: war and hate; war against the Israeli and hate for its political 
rival, Fatah. People cannot live in an eternal struggle, yet Hamas can only 
exist in such a context because it was born out of that very context.

Unfortunately,  to remain in  business, Hamas needs to maintain control and 
fight both dangerous internal challenges and external pressure. Peace is an 
enemy for Hamas even more than the Israeli army; peace and stability will 
bring scrutiny from the inside, from the Palestinian people, and with that, 
political decadence.
War, destruction and desperation help, though at high cost, to maintain 
control and popularity, at least outside Gaza. Hamas is more popular among 
Palestinians, and in general Muslims, whom have not lived in Gaza and are 
shielded from the most brutal aspects of  this movement which has lots much 
of its original identity and leadership.

Unfortunately, many Muslims live with a myth of Hamas as the 'freedom 
fighter' but are simultaneously ignorant of Hamas as capable of being 
power-money hungry, abusing human rights, exerting excessive control over 
private life, and even oppressing innocent Palestinians. Many Muslims see 
Hamas as a unitary, monolithic paladin of Palestinian rights. It is not. 
Some Palestinians have even suggested that their condition was better under 
Israeli occupation. Do Palestinians in Gaza have a choice? They can only 
choose between the brutality of Hamas and the brutality of Israel. As usual, 
between two brutalities, normally people prefer their own.

Now, it is important, when we speak of Israel, like when we speak of any 
other country, to remember that decisions are taken by governments which, 
after elections, respond more to political parties than the people (some may 
notice that even in the UK, the current PM was elected by a party, not by a 
real democratic vote!).

The Israeli government, controlled by the  triumvirate  Prime Minister Ehud 
Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has 
decided to embark on a total war against Hamas not only because of the 
rockets fired by the latter, but also because of a political opportunism 
linked to the forthcoming elections  in February.

Few have noticed that  polls were indicating that Kadima  has fallen far 
behind Likud. Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Likud, represents very well 
the stagnation of Israeli politics - linked to the past and unable to 
provide a real future to many young Israelis. However, Netanyahu had better 
support than Tzipi Livni because of his campaign promised to deal, once and 
for all, with the rockets and threats from Gaza.

It is not difficult to see  why the  the  triumvirate have decided to 
sacrifice Palestinians' lives. They are going to remove the winning card 
from Netanyahu's hands, moreover, with operations which will go on for 
weeks, they will destabilize the region, increase the possibility of suicide 
attacks, and the Kadima trio can hope that the well worn adage about not 
changing government during war will hold true and give them an electoral 
victory, despite the corruption endemic within the party.
The lives of Palestinians, for the Israeli governments, have never been 
relevant.  It is as if Palestinians, leader after leader, are an annoyance 
that, despite all efforts to get rid of them, are rather like ants, 
endlessly reappearing despite the destruction. Of course, although the 
ethnic cleansing temptation runs through some of the leaders of Israel, 
today that option cannot be proposed even in the most secret of ominous 
bunkers. Yet the attitude towards the lives of Palestinian has not changed: 
they are seen as less than human, however this is not dissimilar from how 
Hamas, and some Palestinian resistance movements, likewise see the Israeli 
people.

And here lies the main issue: both parties, the Israeli and Palestinian 
leaders, share at least something in common: an immoral and unethical view 
for which political gain are more important than innocent lives, including 
those of women and children.

Hamas has no problem to sacrifice Palestinian lives in the name of an 
impossible mission (to remove Israel from the Middle East), and the Israeli 
government has no issue with endangering the lives of innocent Israelis with 
the inevitable retaliation of suicide bombing and killings.

Although history is important and certainly injustices are difficult to 
accept, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be resolved without 
pragmatism. To look back to the past, in this case, means to deny the future 
and perpetuate the circle of killing. Yet this is not only an issue that 
Palestinians and Israelis have.

The conflict has become globalized and has been transformed into a kind of 
'religious' confrontation, when of course, it is not. For as long as the 
past continues to interfere with the future, and so long as people go on 
killing each other in order to establish whom is right and wrong, there will 
not be peace. Palestinians and Muslims have to accept one simple fact: 
Israel is here to stay. Israel and its supporters have likewise to accept 
that sophisticated forms of ethnic cleansing will not be sustainable nor 
sucessful. Palestinians are, generation after generation, there to stay, and 
if a solution not found, to fight.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict needs an innovative approach which, in my 
opinion, has to start from below; from the people themselves. The real 
issue, and the reasons for which Palestinians find themselves with movements 
such as Hamas and Fatah, and the Israelis with one of the most incompetent 
and corrupt governments that a democratic country can have, is that the 
people of Palestine and Israel have given up much of their  hope of living 
in peace.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of course, has some clear historical 
reasons. Yet the fact that it is still one of the most deadly conflicts 
affecting civilians is due to extremely bad politics, and bad politics, akin 
to a kind of cancer,  requires innocent blood in order to perpetuate itself. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Jan  4 13:21:40 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan  4 13:21:51 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: IAF Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Latin America
 and the Caribbean
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 The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a United States government agency that 
funds the self-help initiatives of the organized poor in Latin America and 
the Caribbean, is accepting applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowship cycle.

Application deadline: January 16, 2009

http://www.iie.org/Website/WPreview.cfm?WID=187

IAF Fellowships support dissertation research in Latin America and the 
Caribbean undertaken by students who have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in a 
university in the United States. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or citizens 
of the independent Latin American or Caribbean countries. Proficiency in the 
language(s) appropriate to the research proposal is required.

Awards are based on development and scholarly criteria. Proposals should 
offer a practical orientation to field-based information. Among topics 
currently of interest to the IAF are the following:

-Organizations promoting grassroots development among poor and disadvantaged 
people;
-the financial sustainability and independence of development organizations;
-trends affecting historically excluded groups;
-transnational development;
-the role of corporate responsibility in grassroots development;
-the impact of globalization on grassroots development;
-the impact of grassroots development activities on the quality of life of 
the poor.

The Fellowship includes
-round-trip international travel to the research site,
-a research allowance of $3,000,
-a monthly stipend of $1,500 for up to 12 months,
-health insurance, and
-expenses related to required attendance at a mid-year conference.

For more information on this exceptional grant opportunity, including 
additional requirements for eligibility, and for application instructions, 
visit www.iie.org/iaf. For information on the Inter-American Foundation, 
visit www.iaf.gov. All inquiries should be directed to 
iaffellowships@iie.org.

Applications for the 2009-2010 cycle must be received by close of business 
1/16/09 to be considered. 


From amelnick at gc.cuny.edu  Mon Jan  5 13:37:20 2009
From: amelnick at gc.cuny.edu (amiel melnick)
Date: Mon Jan  5 14:18:05 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: "In Times of Need"
Message-ID: <F8CD8A89-CC8A-430F-B187-0DC899ACE4E3@gc.cuny.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS
?IN TIMES OF NEED?

MARCH 13, 2009

Students in the Anthropology department at the Graduate Center, City  
University of New York are pleased to announce a conference inviting  
reflection on the politics, genealogies and epistemologies of ?need.?

Need is a politically potent idea. As some notion of ?human need? is  
requisite within most political frameworks, specific needs are often  
bound up with discourses of human rights and tend to be formulated at  
moments of intervention. But need is manifested in many different  
contexts and affixed to all kinds of discourses?from the framing of  
humanitarian goals and health projects, to discourses of the self and  
self-betterment, romantic relationships, and spirituality, to the  
intervention and regulation of family forms. We?re interested in what  
grants coherence to the concept of ?need? across these and other  
frames of reference, and in how to understand the contingency of a  
notion that often presents itself as fundamental and universal.

In questioning the multiple ways that ?need? is mobilized, grounded in  
practice, and thereby understood?we seek to trouble that which appears  
self-evident. How are needs distinguished from the ?un-needed? or  
unnecessary? How are needs typologized, authorized, and  
institutionalized? What work does the concept of need do in erecting  
or maintaining categorical differences and with what tools might we  
then interrogate that work?
We seek a wide range of approaches to this topic, but we?re  
particularly interested in how the tools of ethnographic research can  
help us set aside the question of what is ?true? need by focusing  
instead on how people talk about, practice, and embody needs in a  
variety of different situations.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Life and the politics of need: How are our ideas about what  
constitutes ?basic human needs? formulated and to what end? How do  
political discourses mobilize the concept of need to legitimate or  
justify policies or interventions.

The political economy of need: How have political-economic  
arrangements shifted in tandem with discourses and practices  
surrounding need, at either the global or local level?   How might we  
complicate the privileging of neo-liberal assumptions in framing  
questions of need?

?Higher needs?: How are notions of the ?fully human? embedded in  
?higher needs? discourses of spiritual, emotional, or psychological  
well-being and human potential? How do these models mobilize or  
contest particular understandings of subjectivity and selfhood?

?Things we didn?t know we needed?:  What roles do experts and  
expertise play in defining, determining, and diagnosing need? How are  
needs distinguished from wants, desires, and aspirations?

Need and dependency: How do ideas of material dependence and addiction  
create discourses that valorize the independent individual? Might we  
revisit distinctions between independent and dependent?

Future needs: How are ideas of need both used and formulated in  
planning for the future or in projecting an imaginable future? What  
happens to need at moments of crisis or collapse?

Please send title and 500-word abstract to: needsconference@gmail.com  
by January 20th, 2009. For further information and updates please  
visit: http://demapped.net/need/




Amiel Melnick
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Avenue, NYC 10016
amelnick@gc.cuny.edu


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jan  6 10:05:36 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan  6 10:11:02 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Youth and Social Change Across Borders (Oxford)
Message-ID: <00a301c97010$e9b2da10$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Youth and social change across borders: emerging identities and divisions in 
Eastern and Western Europe

27th - 28th March 2009

St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

Youth studies has traditionally provided a rich, interdisciplinary forum for the 
exploration of a range of social identities and divisions rooted in class, gender, 
ethnicity and place. It has also been the site on which contemporary social 
theory - pointing in recent years to late-modern processes of globalisation, 
individualisation and risk - have received some of their most illustrative 
applications, as well as their most incisive critiques. This conference asks 
what the study of young people in and from post-Socialist Eastern Europe can 
tell us about the emerging dimensions of social inequality and social change 
both in Eastern and Western European societies. Building on youth studies' 
long standing critique of popular discourses constructing youth 'as/in trouble', 
the conference wishes to move debate decisively away from the common 
perception of young people in post-Socialist countries as a 'lost generation'. 
Instead, we invite papers focusing on the active ways in which young people 
negotiate transitions and 'careers' in a variety of life domains -in education, 
work, migration, family, housing, leisure and sexuality - while at the same time 
being sensitive to the structural and cultural processes shaping the resources 
and subject positions available to different young people in different times and 
places. In the context of a wider Europe, it is particularly timely to address 
questions about the lives of young Eastern Europeans, not only in new EU 
member states and in countries bordering the EU, but also in those Western 
European states which are a common destination for migrant workers and 
students.
Papers might address, but should not be limited to, the following themes:
In Russia and Eastern Europe:
. Class, gender, ethnicity, and place in youth transitions to adulthood
. Rural-urban and centre-periphery divisions amongst young people
. Young people and work: informal earning and new forms of 
employment
. Young people's sexualities
. Household and family formation
. (Sub)cultural formations, consumption, and leisure
. Youth-operated NGOs and NGOs working with young people
In Western Europe:
. The ethnicization/racialization of Eastern Europeans in the UK
. Household and family formation amongst Eastern European migrants
. 'Lifestyles' of Eastern European migrants
. Eastern European migrants' labour market participation
. A 'common' identity amongst Eastern European migrants?

Preference will be given to papers which go beyond descriptions of what 
young people 'do', and are able to engage either with contemporary social 
theory germane to their topic of study, or with issues relating to social policy 
and/or the third sector. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to the 
conference organisers Charlie Walker (University of Oxford) and Svetlana 
Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) at 
ceelbasyouthconference@googlemail.com by Friday 30 January.


From kmartine at csusm.edu  Tue Jan  6 11:36:05 2009
From: kmartine at csusm.edu (Konane Martinez)
Date: Tue Jan  6 14:46:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Immigration and Health Syllabus Request
Message-ID: <86BF48E0F11BE44D99952F9FB349BC4B0EA39C72@priority.csusm.edu>

Happy New Year to all,

I'm developing a course on Immigration and Health and would like to put a syllabus together that is comparative, including many different immigration cases.  (Morrocco-Spain, Germany, India etc.) I'm appealing to your expertise for recommendations on readings and references.  If anyone has a syllabus similar to this type of course and are willing to share it would be much appreciated.

Please reply to kmartine@csusm.edu. I'm more than willing to compile all responses to share with group if interested!

Thank you in advance,

Konane Martinez

 

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To lead people walk behind them-Lao Tzu

 

Konane M. Mart?nez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology

Health Projects Coordinator, National Latino Research Center

CSU San Marcos

San Marcos, CA 92096

(760)750-8567

(760)750-4111 Fax

 

From sturm27 at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 14:01:55 2009
From: sturm27 at gmail.com (Daniel Sturm)
Date: Tue Jan  6 14:47:56 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Israel's blonde bombshells and real bombs in Gaza
Message-ID: <dd47c2e50901061101l3f10be69k4e03f0a2ec30bd57@mail.gmail.com>

Israel's blonde bombshells and real bombs in Gaza
Yosefa Loshitzky, The Electronic Intifada
5 January 2009
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10119.shtml

"I reiterate that we will treat the population [of Gaza] with silk gloves"
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

I am not sure that most people understand the meaning of the name
"Operation Cast Lead" chosen by Israel for its murderous and criminal
attack on Gaza. The name is borrowed from a Hebrew nursery rhyme which
was (and may still be) very popular among Israeli children in the
1950s. In this song, a father promises to his child a special Hannukah
gift: "a cast lead sevivon." Sevivon, in Hebrew (A dreidel in Yiddish)
is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of
Hanukkah. Somebody, in the Israeli army, who apparently feels
nostalgic about his childhood, decided that if Israeli kids would
enjoy a sevivon cast from lead there is no reason why Palestinian
children would not appreciate it too. After all Operation Cast Lead is
not the first (and unfortunately, will not be the last) of Israel's
cruel war games.

The cynicism embedded in the name, selected for what Ari Shavit, one
of Israel's most celebrated commentators, called "an intelligent,
impressive operation," is symptomatic to the cold, meticulous and
calculated cruelty with which this attack was "designed," "executed"
and "marketed" to the world. As the perpetrators themselves proudly
boast, Operation Cast Lead is not only a great military victory but
also a success story of Israeli hasbara (meaning in Hebrew,
explanation, but practically referring to misinformation, spin and
lies).

This great victory, as some (but not enough) noticed, prominent among
them, Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is targeted against the
"wretched of the world." They are first, second and third generation
refugees (originating from the area currently being rocketed from
Gaza), the poorest people in the world, crammed in one of the most
densely-populated areas on the planet, already starved and weakened by
months of Israeli blockade. The sanitized language of the western
media calls it "a disproportionate reaction." But the ground zero that
it creates for the Palestinians, who, over the last decades, have
achieved the dubious honor of becoming the world's quintessential
victims, should be a "shock and awe" for any person who has not, as
yet, lost his or her basic humanity and sense of justice.

Israel's oiled propaganda-machine was further lubricated by its
self-acknowledged decision to select women as their masbirim
(misinformation spokespersons) so as "to project a feminine and softer
image." To add some cool glamour to Israel's hot lies, Tzipi Livni,
the state's foreign minister and a natural blonde, announced, in
response to calls for truce: "There is no humanitarian crisis in the
[Gaza] Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian
truce." The blonde offensive, led by the rising star of Israeli
politics, was fortified by a team of peroxide blonde Israeli women,
whose sex, lies and video games decorated TV screens worldwide. They
explained to the sympathetic world the hardships endured by the
nuclear-armed Israelis threatened by the crude rockets. After all, one
Israeli was killed in the last six months, while three other Israelis
(one of them a Palestinian citizen of Israel) were killed by rockets
since Gaza has been turned into a slaughter-house by the silk gloves
of the Israeli army.

Quick to join this sugar-coated team of blonde bombshells were
Israel's most celebrated and translated writers abroad, Amos Oz and
David Grossman. The two project to the international community (i.e.,
the so-called liberal west) what it regards as Israeli political
conscience and moral voice. Both are given a special stage by
prestigious western media platforms to express their opinions
regarding major political events involving Israel. They are Israel's
hamasbirim haleumim (the national spokespersons) a euphemism for
national (or international) deceivers, who whitewash Israel's dirty
laundry in the global launderette.

Grossman (slightly more to the "left" than Oz) has obtained an extra
moral authority after his own tank commander son was killed in
Israel's murderous attack on Lebanon in 2006. In a militaristic
society, centered on the cult of the fallen soldier, a bereaved father
(av shakul in Hebrew) enjoys a special status. One could have expected
Grossman to "cash" in this newly gained status and come out with a
more courageous stance, one that would criticize Israel's immoral
massacre, rather than re-play the eternal Jewish victim, pleading "to
halt" Israeli fire while promising Hamas that: "Even if you continue
to fire on Israel, we will not respond by resuming combat. We will
grit our teeth, just as we did throughout the period before our
attack."

Israelis, in Grossman's self-adulatory discourse, are rahmanim bnei
rahmanim (merciful sons of merciful fathers), dignified and righteous
victims. Perhaps this is what Olmert meant when he talked about the
silky touch of the Israeli gloves caressing "ordinary," non-militant
Palestinians in Gaza.

One could think about a braver bereaved parent, Smadar Elhanan-Peled
for example. A mother who, after losing her daughter in a suicide bomb
attack in Jerusalem, publicly and openly put the blame for her
daughter's death on the Israeli government and its cruel policies
towards the Palestinians. Her teenage daughter, unlike Grossman's son,
was not a tank commander, not even a soldier but just an ordinary
girl.

The well-orchestrated propaganda machinery was also equipped with
Israel's most successful "secret weapons" of mass deception: playing
the role of the victim again. It is not an accident, therefore, that,
as the Israeli spin doctors themselves explained in an interview to
The Jewish Chronicle, that: "The international media were directed to
a press center set up by the foreign ministry in Sderot itself so that
foreign reporters would spend as much time as possible in the main
civilian area affected by Hamas rockets." The scenes of crying,
panic-stricken Israelis added some excessive emotionalism which
counter-balanced, but nicely complemented, the team of the icy blonde
offenders.

The designation of the Gaza Strip and south Israel as a "closed
military zone," and the ban on media coverage of the Gaza carnage
contributes to the sanitized view of the Gaza story as manufactured by
Israel. The real horror and gore is reserved for the Al Jazeera's
spectators, particularly the Arab ones. Ghetto-under-siege Gaza
remains almost silent and partly invisible to the rest of us. We
hardly hear or see in mainstream media, testimonies from the ground.

But we are bombarded by statements and "explanations" given by Israeli
officials and "international experts" who discuss the "situation"
calmly and "logically." After all, unlike the hysterical, always
shouting and crying Gazans, they have not been bombarded by for nine
days straight. They are interviewed in their comfortable (probably
leather-clad) offices. They look and sound like respectable
westerners, just like "us," and their foreign minister is very calm
and cool as her blonde hair obliges.

A pioneering study by the Glasgow University Media Group on media
coverage of conflicts, taught us that if you look respectable and calm
you must be right. The Palestinians, by contrast, usually interviewed
when they are in a state of shock, look disheveled, disoriented,
slightly hysterical. And they are always surrounded by chaos and
disorder. The buildings around are destroyed, debris is scattered
everywhere, and the noise is unbearable (not to mention that they
speak this incomprehensible language). Is something wrong with them?
Also, even when they are not "extremists" they are always on the
defense, almost apologetic, trying to convince us that they are not
terrorists, not even militants, just ordinary people who want to
survive, if not to enjoy this life. This makes them look even more
suspicious.

After all, if they are not terrorists, what are they doing in Gaza?
Gaza, we should remember, was declared as "hostile entity" by Israel
in September of 2007. And since only the powerful have the power to
define, even if their definitions amount to tautologies or oxymorons,
they are still the accepted ones. According to this perverse logic,
produced in Fortress Israel and marketed to the whole world, any Gazan
deserves to die. Furthermore, despite the fact that Israel claims to
attack only Hamas and not the Palestinians (conveniently oblivious to
the fact that, as David Boardman reminds us, the majority of
Palestinians voted democratically for Hamas), it still clings to its
old law of blood, according to which, as John Berger observes: "One
Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives." So if in the
course of the last six months, one Israeli died as a result of a Hamas
rocket attack, it is perfectly logical that in a week 500 Palestinians
will lose their lives and thousands more will be injured. This is what
the Israelis view as a policy of deterrence.

We should not forget, however, that behind this cruel apparatus of
sex, lies and video war games, a more "primitive," "organic," and
tribal cruelty, usually well hidden from the scrutiny of the outside
world, is operating. Most people in the west do not realize the
indifference, and more disturbingly, the joy with which Israelis
receive news about the suffering of Arabs and particularly
Palestinians. It is more common in the west to see Arab and Muslim
crowds "dancing on the roofs" when missiles or rockets hit Israel (as
was the case during the 1991 Gulf War) but it is less common to see or
hear Israelis cheered at the plight of suffering Palestinians and
Arabs. More than once, I have encountered a jovial taxi driver
applauding the good news that he has just heard. "Let them all die in
agony" was a standard reaction that I have become accustomed to hear
on a day-to-day basis while I was still living in Israel.

It was also not uncommon in my Jerusalem neighborhood -- even prior to
the onset of the second Palestinian intifada -- to see Israeli Border
Police brutally harass poor old Palestinians who came to collect some
"valuables" from the garbage bins of the affluent Jews. Time and again
it happened in front of a popular Jerusalem cafe, where people were
sipping their lattes, completely oblivious to the unfolding drama.
Nobody, among these beautiful people, seemed to be bothered by these
scenes, or to suffer from some disturbing reflections on the transfer
of guilt.

Israel's cruelty -- manifested through its use (or rather abuse) of
language, and creative "strategy" of "re-branding" its continuous
assaults on the Palestinians as a war of defense, using their
tautological logic to justify the extermination of an "entity" which
they designate as "hostile" -- should be interpreted in the spirit of
Giorgio Agamben. The influential Italian philosopher argued in
relation to the Nazi death camps that the "correct question to pose
concerning the horrors committed in the camps is, therefore, not the
hypocritical one of how crimes of such atrocity could be committed
against human beings" but what were "the juridical procedures and
deployments of power by which human beings could be so completely
deprived of their rights and prerogatives that no act committed
against them could appear any longer as a crime."

We may well ask the same question today when listening to Israel's
blonde bombshells explain the bombs tearing apart the people of Gaza.

Yosefa Loshitzky is Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at
the University of East London.  Her most recent books are Identity
Politics on the Israeli Screen (2001) and (as editor) Spielberg's
Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (1997).

From abir_sasso at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  6 13:28:56 2009
From: abir_sasso at yahoo.com (Abir Saksouk-Sasso)
Date: Tue Jan  6 16:53:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Gaza Solidarity
Message-ID: <516778.19613.qm@web33007.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear all,
?
I am part of a group of Lebanese, Palestinians and other activists (designers, architects, researchers, media people) who have worked together previously, mainly doing media and mapping work during the summer 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon (I am attaching one of them for your information). We are also working at the moment, among others, on a daily updated map on what is happening in Gaza (and will send it through as soon as it is complete).
?
I am working with this group of activists on a platform that will facilitate the co-ordination between solidarity activities for Gaza, and was hoping that you could help me with some information on that if you have any. 
The idea is to:
(a) Demonstrate in a quick reference that a lot is happening in solidarity with Gaza and that a large group of people is supporting the people there, and 
(b) facilitate information sharing, or at least understanding key trends in the activism work taking place now to allow for coordination & synergy (and thus greater impact). 
?
My questions to you are:

1. Do you know of platforms/websites, etc.. that are facilitating such information sharing and co-ordination? These could be country or region specific (like protest.net for example), or maybe theme specific (like boycott activities, or Israel Arms trade work, etc..)

2. Do you know others who are active and well connected who could easily provide such information in your country (if so then please share their contact information or forward this email to them).

3. How do you usually publicize the activism you are working on (how do people usually know about it?).

4. What do you think would be useful for you to include?

?
Thank you. 



      
From Brinda.Dalal at parc.com  Tue Jan  6 15:27:56 2009
From: Brinda.Dalal at parc.com (Brinda.Dalal@parc.com)
Date: Tue Jan  6 19:06:22 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Gaza Solidarity
In-Reply-To: <516778.19613.qm@web33007.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <516778.19613.qm@web33007.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <522F11EEA3FF264E9B14B1DF2FD01639586A1CC838@GOLDFINGER.ad.parc.com>

Hello Abir,

You might wish to contact or work with the Hub, a citizen media site that uses real time video to highlight human rights issues. Gaza is prominent on their front page. http://hub.witness.org/ 

Regards,
Brinda

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Abir Saksouk-Sasso
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:29 PM
To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Gaza Solidarity

Dear all,
?
I am part of a group of Lebanese, Palestinians and other activists (designers, architects, researchers, media people) who have worked together previously, mainly doing media and mapping work during the summer 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon (I am attaching one of them for your information). We are also working at the moment, among others, on a daily updated map on what is happening in Gaza (and will send it through as soon as it is complete).
?
I am working with this group of activists on a platform that will facilitate the co-ordination between solidarity activities for Gaza, and was hoping that you could help me with some information on that if you have any. 
The idea is to:
(a) Demonstrate in a quick reference that a lot is happening in solidarity with Gaza and that a large group of people is supporting the people there, and 
(b) facilitate information sharing, or at least understanding key trends in the activism work taking place now to allow for coordination & synergy (and thus greater impact). 
?
My questions to you are:

1. Do you know of platforms/websites, etc.. that are facilitating such information sharing and co-ordination? These could be country or region specific (like protest.net for example), or maybe theme specific (like boycott activities, or Israel Arms trade work, etc..)

2. Do you know others who are active and well connected who could easily provide such information in your country (if so then please share their contact information or forward this email to them).

3. How do you usually publicize the activism you are working on (how do people usually know about it?).

4. What do you think would be useful for you to include?

?
Thank you. 



      

From lchavez at uci.edu  Tue Jan  6 12:04:16 2009
From: lchavez at uci.edu (Leo Chavez)
Date: Tue Jan  6 19:09:03 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Immigration and Health Syllabus Request
In-Reply-To: <86BF48E0F11BE44D99952F9FB349BC4B0EA39C72@priority.csusm.ed
 u>
References: <86BF48E0F11BE44D99952F9FB349BC4B0EA39C72@priority.csusm.edu>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20090106120212.02e14688@uci.edu>

HI: Much of my work has been on this topic, see 
below.  I have many of these article on pdf files 
if you'd like to see any.  I've attached one on 
immigration and medical anthropology for you.

Take care,

Leo Chavez


The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, 
Citizens, and the Nation.  Stanford University Press, 2008.

           Academic Articles, Reports, and Book Chapters

(B7)       Chavez, Leo R.  "Doctors, Curanderos 
and Brujas: Health Care Delivery and Mexican 
Immigrants in San Diego," Medical Anthropology 
Quarterly, Vol. 15:31 37, 1984 (refereed).

  (B14)     Chavez, Leo R., Wayne A. Cornelius 
and O.W. Jones.  "Utilization of Health Services 
by Mexican Women in San Diego," Women and Health, 
Vol. 11, No. 2:3 20, 1986 (refereed).

  (B15)     Rumbaut, Ruben, Leo R. Chavez, Robert 
Moser, Sheila Pickwell and Sam Wishik.  "The 
Politics of Migrant Health Care: A Comparative 
Study of Mexican Immigrants and Indochinese 
Refugees," Research in the Sociology of Health 
Care, Vol. 7: 143 202,1988 (refereed).

  (B23)     Hubbell, F. Allan, Howard Waitzkin, 
Shiraz I. Mishra, John Dombrink, and Leo R. 
Chavez.  "Access to Medical Care for Undocumented 
Latinos in a Southern California County."  The 
Western Journal of Medicine 154(4):414 417, 1991 (refereed).

  (B26)     Chavez, Leo R., Estevan T. Flores, 
and Marta Lopez Garza.  "Undocumented Latin 
American Immigrants and U.S. Health Services:  An 
Approach to a Political Economy of 
Utilization."  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6:6 26, 1992 (refereed).

  (B27)     Chavez, Leo R., and Victor M. 
Torres.  The Political Economy of Latino 
Health.  In, The Anthropology of Hispanic Groups 
in the United States, Tomas Weaver (ed.).  Houston: Arte Publico Press 1994.

  (B30)     Chavez, Leo R., F. Allan Hubbell, 
Juliet M. McMullin, Rebecca G. Martinez, and 
Shiraz I. Mishra.  "Understanding Knowledge and 
Attitudes About Breast Cancer: A Cultural 
Analysis."  Archives of Family Medicine 
4:145-152, 1995 (refereed).  [Reprinted 
?Compreendendo o Conhecimento e as Atitudes 
Relativas ao Cancer de Mama:  Uma Analise 
Cultural? in  JAMA/GO, an international journal 
of selected articles from the American Medical 
Association journals, Vol. 3:1714-1732, 1995.]

  (B31)     Chavez, Leo R., F. Allan Hubbell, 
Juliet M. McMullin, Rebecca G. Martinez, and 
Shiraz I. Mishra.  "Structure and Meaning in 
Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk 
Factors:  A Comparison of Perceptions Among 
Latinas, Anglo Women, and Physicians." Medical 
Anthropology Quarterly 9(1):40-74, 1995 (refereed).

  (B33)     McMullin, Juliet M., Leo R. Chavez, 
and F. Allan Hubbell.  ?Knowledge, Power and 
Experience:   Variation in Physicians? 
Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk 
Factors.?  Medical Anthropology 16:295-317, 1996 (refereed).

  (B38)     Rebecca G. Martinez, Leo R. Chavez, 
and F. Allan Hubbell.  ?Purity and Passion:  Risk 
and Morality in Latina Immigrants' and 
Physicians' Beliefs About Cervical 
Cancer.?  Medical Anthropology 17:337-362, 1997 (refereed).

(B39)      Leo R. Chavez, F. Allan Hubbell, 
Shiraz I. Mishra, and R. Burciaga 
Valdez.  ?Undocumented Latina Immigrants in 
Orange County, California:  A Comparative 
Analysis.?  International Migration Review  31(1):88-107, 1997 (refereed).

  (B43)     Leo R. Chavez, F. Allan Hubbell, 
Shiraz I. Mishra.  ?Ethnography and Breast Cancer 
Control among Latinas and Anglo Women in Southern 
California.?  In Anthropology in Public Health: 
Bridging Differences in Culture and 
Society.  Robert A. Hahn (ed.).  Pp. 
117-141.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.  1999.

  (B45)     Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur, Leo 
R. Chavez, Martin Frankel.  ?Health Care Use 
Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants:  Is free 
health care the main reason why Latinos come to 
the United States?  A unique look at the 
facts.?  Health Affairs 19(4):51-64.  2000 (refereed).



(B46)      Chavez, Leo R., Juliet M. McMullin, 
Shiraz I. Mishra, and F. Allan Hubbell.  ?Beliefs 
Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of 
Cervical-Cancer Screening Tests.?  American 
Anthropologist 103(4)1114-1129, 2001 (refereed).

  (B48)     Chavez, Leo R.  ?Immigration and 
Medical Anthropology.?  In American Arrivals: 
Anthropology Engages the New Immigration.  Nancy 
Foner, editor.  Pp. 197-227.  Santa Fe: School of 
American Research, Advanced Seminar Series.  (refereed) 2003.

  (B50)     Chavez, Leo R. ?A Glass Half Empty: 
Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse.?  Human 
Organization  63(2):173-188, 2004 (refereed).

(B53)      McMullin, Juliet M., Israel De Alba, 
Leo R. Chavez, F.Allan Hubbell, ?Influence of 
Beliefs about Cervical Cancer Etiology on Pap 
Smear Use among Latina Immigrants.  Ethnicity and 
Health 10 (1):3-18, 2005 (refereed).

  (B56)     Chavez, Leo R., ?Imagining the 
Nation, Imagining Donor Recipients: Jesica 
Santillan and the Public Discourse of 
Belonging.?  In, A Death Retold:  Jesica 
Santillan, The Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes 
of Medical Citizenship.  Keith Wailoo, Julie 
Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, editors.  Pp. 
276-296.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2006  (reviewed).


















At 11:36 AM 1/6/2009, Konane Martinez wrote:
>Happy New Year to all,
>
>I'm developing a course on Immigration and 
>Health and would like to put a syllabus together 
>that is comparative, including many different 
>immigration cases.  (Morrocco-Spain, Germany, 
>India etc.) I'm appealing to your expertise for 
>recommendations on readings and references.  If 
>anyone has a syllabus similar to this type of 
>course and are willing to share it would be much appreciated.
>
>Please reply to kmartine@csusm.edu. I'm more 
>than willing to compile all responses to share with group if interested!
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Konane Martinez
>
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>To lead people walk behind them-Lao Tzu
>
>
>
>Konane M. Mart?nez, Ph.D.
>
>Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
>
>Health Projects Coordinator, National Latino Research Center
>
>CSU San Marcos
>
>San Marcos, CA 92096
>
>(760)750-8567
>
>(760)750-4111 Fax
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
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From merlyn at bdg.centrin.net.id  Tue Jan  6 03:11:42 2009
From: merlyn at bdg.centrin.net.id (Merlyna Lim)
Date: Wed Jan  7 09:20:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFF: Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural
 City
Message-ID: <49632E5E.6080607@bdg.centrin.net.id>

Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural City April 
24th, 2009
http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com/

More than half of the population in the world now lives in cities, and 
the urban share of the globe will continue to increase dramatically to 
reach 70 percent by 2050. Migration, both from within and among 
societies, is a major source of urbanization, with multicultural cities 
on the rise everywhere.

Call for Documentary Film/Video Entries

In an innovative way toward mutual learning, we invite the submission of 
video and photo documentaries whose emphasis is on exploring 
multicultural cities and processes of place-making. Scholars, teachers, 
students and practitioners alike are searching for alternative methods 
to conventional data analysis and academic writing to be able to capture 
ethnic diversity and multicultural interactions in real world settings. 
The use of documentaries to show the daily practices of multiculturalism 
in the city can make several key contributions to research, teaching and 
action.

Videos not in excess of 15 minutes are requested for submission to 
screenings which will be held at the conference venue at the University 
of Hawai?i Manoa Campus on April 24th, 2009. Selections of videos to be 
included in the seminar will be made by a committee of students and 
faculty who are organizing the event. Artists, video- and filmmakers, 
researchers, writers and others interested in the relation between 
people and places and the making of multicultural cities are invited to 
join the project, participate to the seminar to discuss their ideas and 
work.

Questions, themes, topics and issues to be addressed in the 
documentaries can include, but are not limited to:

* How documentaries by recoding the presence of people of different 
origins over time can reveal ?invisible? minority cultures in a way that 
no other media can.
* The efforts at historic preservation of elements of the city that 
might otherwise have been overlooked but are of high cultural value to 
members of a community.
* How multiculturalism can work well in practice and thus contribute to 
a more positive attitude about and pride in the multicultural city, and 
thereby assist in fostering mutual accommodation and tolerance.
* In an age of global migration in which significant segments of 
multicultural cities do not have citizenship or are otherwise 
marginalized in the city, how documentaries can help identify issues of 
social justice.
* How multiculturalism inscribes itself into the city by everyday uses 
of urban space and lead us to a greater appreciation of the many 
different identities that make up the multicultural Cosmopolis of 
contemporary times.

By combining the reflections and findings emerging around the objectives 
of the conference, and understanding the inevitability of increasing 
diversity in urban places, this conference aims at drawing lessons and 
recommendations as to what makes the creation of ethnic spaces possible, 
and further what helps to form and shape livable cities with healthy 
intercultural relations, namely, cities as multicultural places where 
migrants? place-making is understood and acknowledged as an inherent 
human right to the city.

This conference is sponsored by the Student Equity, Excellence and 
Diversity Initiative (SEED), University of Hawai?i at Manoa.

Submission Deadline and Guidelines

The purpose of the call is a selection of a maximum of eight 
documentaries to be screened in a one-day conference on April 24th, 2009 
at the University of Hawai?i.

Submission deadline: March 1st, 2009

Guidelines

Videos should be short ? no longer than 15.00 minutes. International and 
Domestic submissions are encouraged.
The formats accepted are: DVD
Please include: Synopsis, Bio, CV and Contact Information. All 
submissions will be added to the Diversity in Place Video Library for 
possible inclusion in future projects. If included in other projects, 
artists will be contacted for permission.

Send submissions to:

Vera Zambonelli, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Saunders 
Hall, 2424 Maile Way, 96822 Honolulu HI

Travel and lodging aid:
Pending application, the Project will cover part of travel expenses and 
lodging in a Youth Hostel for participants residing outside of Honolulu. 
If traveling to Honolulu is not an option, we will arrange 
videoconferencing through skype.

For more information: diversityinplace@gmail.com
http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com/


-- 
Merlyna Lim, Ph.D.
School of Justice & Social Inquiry and
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
Arizona State University

mailing address:
CSPO, Arizona State University
PO Box 875603
Tempe, AZ 85287-5603
United States

Email: merlyna.lim@asu.edu
Homepage: Http://www.public.asu.edu/~mlim4
Phone: 480-727-8787
Fax: 480-727-8791



From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  Tue Jan  6 20:53:53 2009
From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman)
Date: Wed Jan  7 09:24:45 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0901062051430.8857779-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>

I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.

 Barry Wellman
 _______________________________________________________________________

  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
  Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-3963

  Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php

 _______________________________________________________________________



From saabh at queensu.ca  Wed Jan  7 09:15:47 2009
From: saabh at queensu.ca (saabh@queensu.ca)
Date: Wed Jan  7 09:26:45 2009
Subject: Fwd: [URBANTH-L]Gaza Solidarity
In-Reply-To: <200901062333.n06NXiG6026209@rm-rstar.sfu.ca>
References: <200901062333.n06NXiG6026209@rm-rstar.sfu.ca>
Message-ID: <f690a2623ff69.496472c3@queensu.ca>

Hello Abir,
?These are 2 organizations in Canada that could be useful to you.

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME): http://www.cjpme.org/

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights:
http://sphr.org/v3/

Please add me to your mailing list, 
Best,


Hana?Saab
Faculty of Education
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: rna@sfu.ca
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 6:35 pm
Subject: Fwd: [URBANTH-L]Gaza?Solidarity
To: saabh@queensu.ca




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dara?Culhane?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:57:21 -0800
Subject: Fwd: [URBANTH-L]Gaza?Solidarity


i received this through the urban anthropology listserve?and thought  
you might be interested.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Abir?Saksouk-Sasso?
> Date: January 6, 2009 1:28:56 PM PST (CA)
> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Gaza?Solidarity
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am part of a group of Lebanese, Palestinians?and other activists  
> (designers, architects, researchers, media people) who have worked  
> together previously, mainly doing media and mapping work during the  
> summer 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon (I am attaching one of them  
> for your information). We are also working at the moment, among  
> others, on a daily updated map on what is happening in Gaza (and  
> will send it through as soon as it is complete).
>
> I am working with this group of activists on a platform that will  
> facilitate the co-ordination between solidarity activities for  
> Gaza, and was hoping that you could help me with some information  
> on that if you have any.
> The idea is to:
> (a) Demonstrate in a quick reference that a lot is happening in  
> solidarity with Gaza and that a large group of people is supporting  
> the people there, and
> (b) facilitate information sharing, or at least understanding key  
> trends in the activism work taking place now to allow for  
> coordination & synergy (and thus greater impact).
>
> My questions to you are:
>
> 1. Do you know of platforms/websites, etc.. that are facilitating  
> such information sharing and co-ordination? These could be country  
> or region specific (like protest.net for example), or maybe theme  
> specific (like boycott activities, or Israel Arms trade work, etc..)
>
> 2. Do you know others who are active and well connected who could  
> easily provide such information in your country (if so then please  
> share their contact information or forward this email to them).
>
> 3. How do you usually publicize the activism you are working on  
> (how do people usually know about it?).
>
> 4. What do you think would be useful for you to include?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l

Dara Culhane
Associate Professor (Anthropology)
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.  V5S 1A6

telephone:  778-782-5479
fax:  778-782-5799
culhane@sfu.ca








From sbeck at med.cornell.edu  Wed Jan  7 09:42:29 2009
From: sbeck at med.cornell.edu (Sam Beck)
Date: Wed Jan  7 09:59:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>

I understand the difficulty Barry Wellman has with the discussion.
However, this list ought to enable any member to raise ethical/moral 
issues of concern, especially under the conditions that are taking 
place in Gaza.  The deaths, injuries, destruction, and suffering of 
Gaza civilians is unacceptable.  Just about every country of the 
world has asked for a cease fire and the opening of borders to bring 
in aid.  Hospitals are overwhelmed, the situation in Gaza is so dire 
that people are unable to leave their homes, people are bleeding to 
death, and so on.  How can anyone stand by without saying 
something.  There are massive demonstrations against this war taking 
place in Israel by Israelis.

Sam


At 08:53 PM 1/6/2009, Barry Wellman wrote:
>I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>
>  Barry Wellman
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>
>   S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>   Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
>   725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-3963
>
>   Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>URBANTH-L mailing list
>URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l

Sam Beck, Ph.D.
Director
Urban Semester Program
in New York City
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
445 East 69th Street, #324
New York, NY 10021

telephone 212-746-2273
fax           212-746-8312
email        sb43@cornell.edu

Urban Semester Program
email        urbansemester-mailbox@cornell.edu


From robert.lawless at wichita.edu  Wed Jan  7 09:05:16 2009
From: robert.lawless at wichita.edu (Robert Lawless)
Date: Wed Jan  7 11:34:20 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
Message-ID: <4964C4AC.7000900@wichita.edu>

Also Gaza is one of the most urbanized areas of the world, and this is 
an urban anthropology list. And certainly where there is pain and 
injustice anthropologists have every right and a duty to get involved.

Sam Beck wrote:
> I understand the difficulty Barry Wellman has with the discussion.
> However, this list ought to enable any member to raise ethical/moral 
> issues of concern, especially under the conditions that are taking 
> place in Gaza.  The deaths, injuries, destruction, and suffering of 
> Gaza civilians is unacceptable.  Just about every country of the 
> world has asked for a cease fire and the opening of borders to bring 
> in aid.  Hospitals are overwhelmed, the situation in Gaza is so dire 
> that people are unable to leave their homes, people are bleeding to 
> death, and so on.  How can anyone stand by without saying 
> something.  There are massive demonstrations against this war taking 
> place in Israel by Israelis.
>
> Sam
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 1/6/2009, Barry Wellman wrote:
>   
>> I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>> list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>> that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>> hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>>
>>  Barry Wellman
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>   S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>>   Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
>>   725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-3963
>>
>>   Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>>
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>     
>
> Sam Beck, Ph.D.
> Director
> Urban Semester Program
> in New York City
> College of Human Ecology
> Cornell University
> 445 East 69th Street, #324
> New York, NY 10021
>
> telephone 212-746-2273
> fax           212-746-8312
> email        sb43@cornell.edu
>
> Urban Semester Program
> email        urbansemester-mailbox@cornell.edu
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>   
From pelintan at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 17:18:14 2009
From: pelintan at gmail.com (Pelin Tan)
Date: Wed Jan  7 11:34:44 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
Message-ID: <95d66d560901070718w6c71a05aw9c2c08507e72cc44@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Barry,

I think your comment is important but at the same time it brings an
important ethical question for any scientists (sociologists or others): For
whom for what we doing academic research? As we all know we can't seperate
our academic production, process (whatever) from everday life realities and
humanities. This is an old debate since last century which become a breking
point with such scientists as Foucault (and others) when they went also to
streets.

As social scientists, we are concerned with social realities; and the social
realities are severe then ever. I think we should take a position against
human violence that is happening in any geograhpy, helping to defend the
social rights contributing through our practices.

Sorry, from the other list members; I dont want to sound like an activist.
But as scientists we should aware of our social responsibilities. Maybe
stupid to say, but I would like to invite everybody to read again Foucault's
foreword in Anti-Oidepus (Delezue/Guattari) even though you might be not
poststructualist or what ever...

(sorry for keping busy the list with this comments - just I am a member of
this list since year, I feel responsible to write my comment).

best regards
Pelin Tan



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu> wrote:

> I understand the difficulty Barry Wellman has with the discussion.
> However, this list ought to enable any member to raise ethical/moral issues
> of concern, especially under the conditions that are taking place in Gaza.
>  The deaths, injuries, destruction, and suffering of Gaza civilians is
> unacceptable.  Just about every country of the world has asked for a cease
> fire and the opening of borders to bring in aid.  Hospitals are overwhelmed,
> the situation in Gaza is so dire that people are unable to leave their
> homes, people are bleeding to death, and so on.  How can anyone stand by
> without saying something.  There are massive demonstrations against this war
> taking place in Israel by Israelis.
>
> Sam
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 1/6/2009, Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>> I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>> list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>> that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>> hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>>
>>  Barry Wellman
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>>  Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
>>  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>>  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ewellman>           fax:+1-416-978-3963
>>
>>  Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>>
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>
>
> Sam Beck, Ph.D.
> Director
> Urban Semester Program
> in New York City
> College of Human Ecology
> Cornell University
> 445 East 69th Street, #324
> New York, NY 10021
>
> telephone 212-746-2273
> fax           212-746-8312
> email        sb43@cornell.edu
>
> Urban Semester Program
> email        urbansemester-mailbox@cornell.edu
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>



-- 
Pelin Tan
Research Assistant
Istanbul Technical University
Institute of Social Sciences
Architecture Faculty, Taskisla
34437 - Istanbul
phone: +90 2122433181
fax     : +90 2122456631
www.tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.slowfood.com
www.sulukule.org

Pelin Tan
Guestprofessor for Architecture and Urban Research
Bingstr.60, Pavillion 24, 90480, N?ernberg
*www.adbk-nuernberg.de, www.a42.org*
T +49.[0]911.9404 - 135
Fax +49.[0]911.9404 - 150*
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com*
From bwald46 at yahoo.ca  Wed Jan  7 09:16:38 2009
From: bwald46 at yahoo.ca (Barbara Waldern)
Date: Wed Jan  7 13:30:47 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
	<95d66d560901070718w6c71a05aw9c2c08507e72cc44@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <127774.72830.qm@web57614.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

I?saw no?anti-anybody sentiment. I saw a pro-human rights concern, a pro-humanitarian and peace concern.

B. Waldern




________________________________
From: Pelin Tan <pelintan@gmail.com>
To: Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu>
Cc: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>; urbanth list <URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7:18:14 AM
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced

Dear Barry,

I think your comment is important but at the same time it brings an
important ethical question for any scientists (sociologists or others): For
whom for what we doing academic research? As we all know we can't seperate
our academic production, process (whatever) from everday life realities and
humanities. This is an old debate since last century which become a breking
point with such scientists as Foucault (and others) when they went also to
streets.

As social scientists, we are concerned with social realities; and the social
realities are severe then ever. I think we should take a position against
human violence that is happening in any geograhpy, helping to defend the
social rights contributing through our practices.

Sorry, from the other list members; I dont want to sound like an activist.
But as scientists we should aware of our social responsibilities. Maybe
stupid to say, but I would like to invite everybody to read again Foucault's
foreword in Anti-Oidepus (Delezue/Guattari) even though you might be not
poststructualist or what ever...

(sorry for keping busy the list with this comments - just I am a member of
this list since year, I feel responsible to write my comment).

best regards
Pelin Tan



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu> wrote:

> I understand the difficulty Barry Wellman has with the discussion.
> However, this list ought to enable any member to raise ethical/moral issues
> of concern, especially under the conditions that are taking place in Gaza.
>? The deaths, injuries, destruction, and suffering of Gaza civilians is
> unacceptable.? Just about every country of the world has asked for a cease
> fire and the opening of borders to bring in aid.? Hospitals are overwhelmed,
> the situation in Gaza is so dire that people are unable to leave their
> homes, people are bleeding to death, and so on.? How can anyone stand by
> without saying something.? There are massive demonstrations against this war
> taking place in Israel by Israelis.
>
> Sam
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 1/6/2009, Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>> I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>> list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>> that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>> hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>>
>>? Barry Wellman
>>? _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>? S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC? ? ? ? ? ? ? NetLab Director
>>? Department of Sociology? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University of Toronto
>>? 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>>? http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ewellman>? ? ? ? ? fax:+1-416-978-3963
>>
>>? Updating history:? ? http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>>
>>? _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>
>
> Sam Beck, Ph.D.
> Director
> Urban Semester Program
> in New York City
> College of Human Ecology
> Cornell University
> 445 East 69th Street, #324
> New York, NY 10021
>
> telephone 212-746-2273
> fax? ? ? ? ? 212-746-8312
> email? ? ? ? sb43@cornell.edu
>
> Urban Semester Program
> email? ? ? ? urbansemester-mailbox@cornell.edu
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>



-- 
Pelin Tan
Research Assistant
Istanbul Technical University
Institute of Social Sciences
Architecture Faculty, Taskisla
34437 - Istanbul
phone: +90 2122433181
fax? ? : +90 2122456631
www.tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.slowfood.com
www.sulukule.org

Pelin Tan
Guestprofessor for Architecture and Urban Research
Bingstr.60, Pavillion 24, 90480, N?ernberg
*www.adbk-nuernberg.de, www.a42.org*
T +49.[0]911.9404 - 135
Fax +49.[0]911.9404 - 150*
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com*
_______________________________________________
URBANTH-L mailing list
URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l



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From susanmazur at hotmail.com  Wed Jan  7 09:06:00 2009
From: susanmazur at hotmail.com (Susan Mazur-Stommen)
Date: Wed Jan  7 13:32:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
In-Reply-To: 
 <Pine.SGI.4.40.0901062051430.8857779-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>
References: 
 <Pine.SGI.4.40.0901062051430.8857779-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>
Message-ID: <BAY120-W90758169DE3D32DFD6D38C4DF0@phx.gbl>


I am with Barry in that the piece was fairly over the top, however I am also with the other commenters in that I am comfortable taking or leaving anything I find on the boards I read.    Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.Principal/Cultural Anthropologist Indicia Consulting Blog: Small Signs and Omens00+1.951.686.1661 susanmazur (skype)> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:53:53 -0500> From: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu> Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced> > I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this> list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And> that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I> hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.> > Barry Wellman> _______________________________________________________________________> > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director> Department of Sociology University of Toronto> 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963> > Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php> > _______________________________________________________________________> > > > _______________________________________________> URBANTH-L mailing list> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
From cornue at rci.rutgers.edu  Wed Jan  7 17:37:29 2009
From: cornue at rci.rutgers.edu (Dr. Virginia Cornue)
Date: Wed Jan  7 18:30:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0901062051430.8857779-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>
References: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0901062051430.8857779-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>
Message-ID: <49652EA9.7080600@rci.rutgers.edu>

I too am deeply distressed by the hostile polemics that have entered 
this list. Additionally the blatant sexism of the Blond etc...is 
gratuitious and offensive. Not what I expect to be reading on this list.
Virginia Cornue
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Research Associate
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University--NB

Barry Wellman wrote:

>I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>
> Barry Wellman
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>  Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
>  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-3963
>
>  Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>URBANTH-L mailing list
>URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>
>  
>

From DSURREY at spc.edu  Wed Jan  7 15:53:54 2009
From: DSURREY at spc.edu (Surrey, David)
Date: Wed Jan  7 18:32:48 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
In-Reply-To: <95d66d560901070718w6c71a05aw9c2c08507e72cc44@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20090107093604.07e63410@med.cornell.edu>
	<95d66d560901070718w6c71a05aw9c2c08507e72cc44@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A405C0E3E7F4B648A08569CCFCC12B230869A697@exchfast.spc.edu>

Barry is raising a longstanding issue. I thank him for opening the door for us to examine who are as a discipline and as individuals. That being said, I have two comments:

First, I strongly disagree with Barry's premise of what we discuss and do not discuss on this list. Indeed I feel that we have a responsibility to raise issues that affect others, in this case the people in Gaza If this sounds political, then silence is even more political. I do not know how we separate these discussions into discrete lists.

Second, and here I am writing as much as a Jew as an Anthropologist, the comments Barry sees are anti-Israel, are really anti the deplorable actions of the Israeli government. Aside for the horrors of its actions in Gaza, the government has virtually guaranteed that another generation of Israeli's will have missiles, or worse directed at them.

David S. Surrey 
Saint Peter's College 

-----Original Message-----
From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Pelin Tan
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:18 AM
To: Sam Beck
Cc: Barry Wellman; urbanth list
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced

Dear Barry,

I think your comment is important but at the same time it brings an
important ethical question for any scientists (sociologists or others): For
whom for what we doing academic research? As we all know we can't seperate
our academic production, process (whatever) from everday life realities and
humanities. This is an old debate since last century which become a breking
point with such scientists as Foucault (and others) when they went also to
streets.

As social scientists, we are concerned with social realities; and the social
realities are severe then ever. I think we should take a position against
human violence that is happening in any geograhpy, helping to defend the
social rights contributing through our practices.

Sorry, from the other list members; I dont want to sound like an activist.
But as scientists we should aware of our social responsibilities. Maybe
stupid to say, but I would like to invite everybody to read again Foucault's
foreword in Anti-Oidepus (Delezue/Guattari) even though you might be not
poststructualist or what ever...

(sorry for keping busy the list with this comments - just I am a member of
this list since year, I feel responsible to write my comment).

best regards
Pelin Tan



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sam Beck <sbeck@med.cornell.edu> wrote:

> I understand the difficulty Barry Wellman has with the discussion.
> However, this list ought to enable any member to raise ethical/moral issues
> of concern, especially under the conditions that are taking place in Gaza.
>  The deaths, injuries, destruction, and suffering of Gaza civilians is
> unacceptable.  Just about every country of the world has asked for a cease
> fire and the opening of borders to bring in aid.  Hospitals are overwhelmed,
> the situation in Gaza is so dire that people are unable to leave their
> homes, people are bleeding to death, and so on.  How can anyone stand by
> without saying something.  There are massive demonstrations against this war
> taking place in Israel by Israelis.
>
> Sam
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 1/6/2009, Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>> I was distressed reading the extraordinarily anti-Israel comments on this
>> list. I do not believe that such comments are the focus of this list. And
>> that the discussion is not being carried on in our area of expertise. I
>> hope that people will take their discussion elsewhere.
>>
>>  Barry Wellman
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>>  Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
>>  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388                  Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
>>  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ewellman>           fax:+1-416-978-3963
>>
>>  Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>>
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>
>
> Sam Beck, Ph.D.
> Director
> Urban Semester Program
> in New York City
> College of Human Ecology
> Cornell University
> 445 East 69th Street, #324
> New York, NY 10021
>
> telephone 212-746-2273
> fax           212-746-8312
> email        sb43@cornell.edu
>
> Urban Semester Program
> email        urbansemester-mailbox@cornell.edu
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>



-- 
Pelin Tan
Research Assistant
Istanbul Technical University
Institute of Social Sciences
Architecture Faculty, Taskisla
34437 - Istanbul
phone: +90 2122433181
fax     : +90 2122456631
www.tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.slowfood.com
www.sulukule.org

Pelin Tan
Guestprofessor for Architecture and Urban Research
Bingstr.60, Pavillion 24, 90480, N?ernberg
*www.adbk-nuernberg.de, www.a42.org*
T +49.[0]911.9404 - 135
Fax +49.[0]911.9404 - 150*
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com*
_______________________________________________
URBANTH-L mailing list
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From glurie at att.net  Wed Jan  7 17:00:11 2009
From: glurie at att.net (Lurie)
Date: Wed Jan  7 18:35:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]re: Barry Wellman's "this is so unbalanced"
Message-ID: <B994B998CF244A3E89688CCA7E638290@yourb27fb1c401>

Barry Wellman's note raises three points: that the various posts had been (1)"so unbalanced", that they are (2) "extraordinarily anti-Israel, and (3) that "the discussion is not being carried out in our area of expertise". It is unclear whether his call in the first instance is to advance a Rightist Israeli perspective - one which legitimates the current war and denigrates those calling for peace and rapprochement . But his perspective renders moot the various alternative voices of peace and reconciliation - both in Israel itself, and among Diasora Jewry - who speak out against this brutal war. Sadly, today's set of postings are, however, overtaken by current news in the UK's "telegraph.com"which reports that 70 corpses were found by a Palestinian paramedic  near a bombed-out house in Gaza. It is not "anti - Israel" not "unbalanced" to raise moral and ethical concerns with what is happening in Gaza, anymore than was the similar horror and revulsion displayed during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon  by 100,000 Israelis - many of whom were in the military and  who protested the war and Israel's complicity with the massacre in Beirut - was anti-Israeli or unbalanced. The acclaimed Israeli journalist Amira Hass - daughter of Holocaust survivors who knew what it meant to be confined behind barbed wire fences in a small area and to be deprived not only of food and medicine but even of water for five days, who understood well the plight and anguish of  those confined and pummeled in Gaza - writes in today's Ha'aretz how her parents were nauseated by the "language laundromat" that allows those like Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak to contend that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza - who ask - no, demand - that we redefine reality and our moral compass. And they are not alone. In 2005 Prof Zeev Sternhell of the Hebrew University [ who luckily survived a bomb attack by Rightist Israelis only a month or so ago ] wrote in Ha'aretz - quoting Raymond Aron - "We must be true  in everything, even regarding our homeland. Every citizen must sacrifice his life for his country, but no one must lie for it." 

To look away, to parse our analysis, to evoke urban anthropology or sociology as but an "abstract theory" or research program, devoid of ethical and moral moorings, is but a desiccated  evasion. Urban analysis is - and always has been - a martix of inherently political, ethical, and moral domains. It is the sets of diverse voices, networks, and perspectives - alive and in dialog  that collectively constitute the"the city". No one should understand this more that Wellman. As a researcher on the multiple personal/social networks which comprise the "network city, and as the original editor of Social Networks, and an advocate for structural analysis, he knows well the moral undercurrents which constitute the texture of network analysis - [see:Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker's "The Exploit: A Theory of Networks"]. More, he understands the dangers attendant on misusing network analysis for military goals. The last eight years under Bush/Cheney has taught us the danger to our civil liberties and the threat to our very health of securing "total information" via "data mining" - the gathering of multiple data bases and  social networks into a matrix to foster surveilance. Central to the so-called "war on terror" has been the mobilization of network models, analyses, and programs to track and anticipate any possible - or improbable - threats. This has been at the heart of the CIA, Homeland Security, and the RCMP in Canada. But conceptual analysis demands ethical constraints, as well. If it was so with the atomic bomb deriving from early nuclear physics research, it is so with the misuse of network analysis for war and terror on civilians.  Ultimately we must discern just what constitutes our "area of expertise". Ultimately we need to consider more fully the moral underpinnings of urban analysis.



From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan  8 00:03:41 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  8 00:03:54 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Moderator's Note
Message-ID: <038101c9714e$7ade0c10$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Greetings Everyone,

I reflected on whether to approve the article written by Yosefa Loshitzky
(i.e. "Israel's blonde bombshells and real bombs in Gaza"), as the language
was harsh.  However, Loshitzky is a cultural studies scholar and the piece
offered the opportunity to be a catalyst for a broader discussion of the
military events in Gaza and their relevance to anthropology. There is a
dearth of information, and international media are not allowed into the
region.  Perhaps this sets an even greater moral precedent for
anthropologists to document and analyze the recent military attacks,
and the context behind them? Lurie eloquently summarizes the dangers
of sanitizing our discourse (i.e. Ha'aretz' "language laundromat").  The
conflict in Gaza is relevant to this listserv. Gaza is not only one of the
most densely populated urban areas in the world (as Robert Lawless
notes), but also the home to several generations of refugees (and, after
all, The Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology
incorporates CORI, the American Anthropological Association's
Committee on Refugees and Immigrants).

That being said, this is an emotionally-heated topic, so I'd like to propose
that we keep our discussion focused concretely on the subject matter itself,
and not allow it to become personalized.  Barry Wellmen has requested that
he be allowed to opt-out of the debate, and that he not be emailed (either
on or off-list) with requests to discuss his position.

Angela Jancius
Urbanth-L Moderator


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From rnewcomb at Rollins.edu  Tue Jan  6 22:31:43 2009
From: rnewcomb at Rollins.edu (Rachel Newcomb)
Date: Thu Jan  8 12:04:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]List Member: New Publication
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From nubenubenube at gmail.com  Thu Jan  8 09:59:39 2009
From: nubenubenube at gmail.com (Millaray Villalobos)
Date: Thu Jan  8 12:46:40 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: Gaza: Enough is Enough
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From robert.lawless at wichita.edu  Thu Jan  8 08:26:12 2009
From: robert.lawless at wichita.edu (Robert Lawless)
Date: Thu Jan  8 12:49:01 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]re: Barry Wellman's "this is so unbalanced"
In-Reply-To: <B994B998CF244A3E89688CCA7E638290@yourb27fb1c401>
References: <B994B998CF244A3E89688CCA7E638290@yourb27fb1c401>
Message-ID: <49660D04.4030300@wichita.edu>

The cover story of the current Newsweek illustrates the extraordinarily 
biased reporting by the mainstream U.S. media of the Israeli invasion of 
Gaza. The opening pages feature a full-color two-page photograph of the 
burial of a Palestinian civilian killed in ?an Israeli air raid.? The 
next two pages feature a full-color photograph of the burial of an 
Israeli civilian killed by ?a Hamas rocket hit.? You got it? One 
Palestinian down, and one Israeli down. In its first paragraph the 
subsequent story states, ?The recent violence has reportedly cost more 
than 400 lives and left over 2,000 wounded.? There is no information 
here or anywhere else in the story about how many of the 2,400 were 
Palestinians and how many were Israelis. The most recent body count I 
could find from a quick search shows ?500 Palestinians killed, including 
children and women, at least 2,500 other civilians wounded and with 
reports of an estimated dozen Israeli death.? See 
<http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/314992631662005.php>.

Lurie wrote:
> Barry Wellman's note raises three points: that the various posts had been (1)"so unbalanced", that they are (2) "extraordinarily anti-Israel, and (3) that "the discussion is not being carried out in our area of expertise". It is unclear whether his call in the first instance is to advance a Rightist Israeli perspective - one which legitimates the current war and denigrates those calling for peace and rapprochement . But his perspective renders moot the various alternative voices of peace and reconciliation - both in Israel itself, and among Diasora Jewry - who speak out against this brutal war. Sadly, today's set of postings are, however, overtaken by current news in the UK's "telegraph.com"which reports that 70 corpses were found by a Palestinian paramedic  near a bombed-out house in Gaza. It is not "anti - Israel" not "unbalanced" to raise moral and ethical concerns with what is happening in Gaza, anymore than was the similar horror and revulsion displayed during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon  by 100,000 Israelis - many of whom were in the military and  who protested the war and Israel's complicity with the massacre in Beirut - was anti-Israeli or unbalanced. The acclaimed Israeli journalist Amira Hass - daughter of Holocaust survivors who knew what it meant to be confined behind barbed wire fences in a small area and to be deprived not only of food and medicine but even of water for five days, who understood well the plight and anguish of  those confined and pummeled in Gaza - writes in today's Ha'aretz how her parents were nauseated by the "language laundromat" that allows those like Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak to contend that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza - who ask - no, demand - that we redefine reality and our moral compass. And they are not alone. In 2005 Prof Zeev Sternhell of the Hebrew University [ who luckily survived a bomb attack by Rightist Israelis only a month or so ago ] wrote in Ha'aretz - quoting Raymond Aron - "We must be true  in everything, even regarding our homeland. Every citizen must sacrifice his life for his country, but no one must lie for it." 
>
> To look away, to parse our analysis, to evoke urban anthropology or sociology as but an "abstract theory" or research program, devoid of ethical and moral moorings, is but a desiccated  evasion. Urban analysis is - and always has been - a martix of inherently political, ethical, and moral domains. It is the sets of diverse voices, networks, and perspectives - alive and in dialog  that collectively constitute the"the city". No one should understand this more that Wellman. As a researcher on the multiple personal/social networks which comprise the "network city, and as the original editor of Social Networks, and an advocate for structural analysis, he knows well the moral undercurrents which constitute the texture of network analysis - [see:Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker's "The Exploit: A Theory of Networks"]. More, he understands the dangers attendant on misusing network analysis for military goals. The last eight years under Bush/Cheney has taught us the danger to our civil liberties and the threat to our very health of securing "total information" via "data mining" - the gathering of multiple data bases and  social networks into a matrix to foster surveilance. Central to the so-called "war on terror" has been the mobilization of network models, analyses, and programs to track and anticipate any possible - or improbable - threats. This has been at the heart of the CIA, Homeland Security, and the RCMP in Canada. But conceptual analysis demands ethical constraints, as well. If it was so with the atomic bomb deriving from early nuclear physics research, it is so with the misuse of network analysis for war and terror on civilians.  Ultimately we must discern just what constitutes our "area of expertise". Ultimately we need to consider more fully the moral underpinnings of urban analysis.
>
>
>
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From jsone at Princeton.EDU  Thu Jan  8 13:23:57 2009
From: jsone at Princeton.EDU (Jamie Sherman)
Date: Thu Jan  8 14:02:49 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]this is so unbalanced
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References: <E1LKyF2-0001Xj-FW@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <5A844CD2-C564-4599-875F-16480FBAFCB5@princeton.edu>

While I can see the point regarding "sanitized language," and am -  
like so many others - horrified by the actions taken by the Israeli  
government, I found Loshitzky's article offensive and inflammatory  
rather than helpful in promoting critical thinking or analysis. The  
moderator's comment, that Loshitzky used "strong language" does not  
nearly capture the problem. Strong language is less the issue than  
the blurring of the line between analysis, activism, and propaganda.

That Israel has deliberately used attractive female voices as part of  
their propaganda machine is worth pointing out, but Loshitzky's  
rhetoric not only mirrors the sexism of Israel's public relations  
tactics (as Virginia Cornue pointed out)  it even more  
problematically makes absolutely no distinction between Israeli  
governmental policies and the Israeli body politic. In failing to  
make the distinction, what ought to be justifiable outrage against  
the Israeli government and its current and past mistreatments of the  
Palestinian people becomes what others have called "anti-Israel"  
statements. Moreover, such conflations shut down the possibility of  
dialogue between those Israelis (myself among them) who oppose  
Israel's policies by casting any response that does not simply agree  
with her position as more Israeli apologetics and propaganda. In this  
way, I see Loshitzky's writing as not only problematic from an  
intellectual and academic perspective but harmful to what slender  
hope there is for any kind of resolution to the conflict.

In this way, and for that reason, Loshitsky's article points to the  
mechanisms of propaganda, her essay is itself propaganda as much (or  
more than) analysis. Which opens the question here: What is, and how  
do we navigate the line between an ethically engaged anthropology and  
partisan propaganda in emotionally and morally charged contexts? To  
what extent and in what ways can anthropological activism be  
mobilized toward constructive dialogue across religious, ethnic, and  
political affiliations?

Perhaps by way of comparison, while Marranci's commentary was  
extremely critical of Israel, I found it illuminating, deeply  
disturbing, and challenging in the best way. By addressing the  
interplay of power and analyzing the actions of each in terms of  
their respective strategies, he brought new insights without  
demonization and opened a space for analytical and moral discourse  
that - to me - represents the hope of understanding and addressing  
rather than simply continuing to flame the resentments that reproduce  
the conflict.

From Sarah_Willen at hms.harvard.edu  Thu Jan  8 15:37:57 2009
From: Sarah_Willen at hms.harvard.edu (Sarah Willen)
Date: Thu Jan  8 16:18:10 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE: Immigration and Health
In-Reply-To: <E1LKM1G-0006P1-Ol@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <C58BCE55.CD20%Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu>


Dear Konane and colleagues,

Following up on Leo's email, I'm writing to share a bibliography-in-progress
and related working paper on matters of immigration and health that you may
find useful -- and to which you (and other list members) are cordially
invited to contribute. (Some already have; thank you!)

The working paper and bibliography were prepared by Heide Castaneda
(University of South Florida) and myself as part of a new "Take a Stand
Initiative: Undocumented Im/migration and Health" within the Society for
Medical Anthropology's (SMA) Critical Anthropology of Health Special
Interest Group, and they are available for download from the SMA website at
    http://www.medanthro.net/research/cah/caghimmig.html.

As the working paper explains, we are currently assembling a task force (and
a listserv) on this topic, and all interested anthropologists are invited to
take part. (Anyone interested can contact either Heide or me.)

Good luck with your course, and look forward to hearing what you find,
~Sarah Willen

-- 
Sarah S. Willen, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Medicine
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu


At 11:36 AM 1/6/2009, Konane Martinez wrote:
>Happy New Year to all,
>
>I'm developing a course on Immigration and
>Health and would like to put a syllabus together
>that is comparative, including many different
>immigration cases.  (Morrocco-Spain, Germany,
>India etc.) I'm appealing to your expertise for
>recommendations on readings and references.  If
>anyone has a syllabus similar to this type of
>course and are willing to share it would be much appreciated.
>
>Please reply to kmartine@csusm.edu. I'm more
>than willing to compile all responses to share with group if interested!
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Konane Martinez



From bburke at email.arizona.edu  Thu Jan  8 14:57:28 2009
From: bburke at email.arizona.edu (bburke@email.arizona.edu)
Date: Thu Jan  8 19:24:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Symposium on War and Social Sciences
Message-ID: <20090108145728.0qas0c4ww44kswwc@www.email.arizona.edu>


As we all know, what we see now in Israel and Gaza is one of many manifestations
of war and militarization. Processes of war-making and militarization are
important topics for anthropological investigation and also often form an
inescapable context for social science work.

Those interested in discussing in greater depth the possibilities and
responsibilities (as well as the dilemmas) of social science in the context of
war may be interested in a symposium that we are hosting at the University of
Arizona on Jan 24 (description below). Students interested in attending from
out of town can arrange free lodging and (possibly) airport transport by
contact radonic@email.arizona.edu

best,
brian



Symposium on War and Social Sciences

Saturday, January 24, 2009, 1-4PM, with post-symposium reception to follow
Kiva Auditorium, Education 211
University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

Opening Address
David Price, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, St.
Martin's University

Panelists
Jesse Ballenger, PhD Candidate, Deparment of Anthropology, UA
Laura Briggs, PhD, Department of Women's Studies, UA
Leila Hudson, PhD, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UA
Maggy Zanger, LLM/MA, School of Journalism, UA

Closing Address (approx 2:45pm)
Kelly Moore, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati

Abstract:
War has given rise to both employment opportunities and ethical debates within
the social sciences for at least a century.  US operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan currently rely upon diverse social science human resources and
techniques, ranging from embedded ethnography, historical and psychological
analyses, mapping, linguistics and demographical statistics. Presently, the US
Defense Department not only integrates these methodologies into
counter-insurgent field strategies abroad, but also influences the funding, and
in turn the research priorities, of an increasing number of social science units
in US universities.  As students preparing for careers in these disciplines, it
is important to explore the challenges, opportunities, and ethics of scholarly
engagement with the military and national security agencies.  This symposium is
meant to provide information on the history, contemporary context, and
implications of being social scientists during wartime in the United States. 
It is intended to provide a platform for various arguments to be made on this
topic, and to encourage students and faculty to consider their own position
drawing from the breadth of expert commentary that will be presented by this
multidisciplinary panel.


Sponsored by:
UA Department of Anthropology and AGUA (Anthropology Graduate Students at the
University of Arizona)

For more information, contact Jacob Campbell at jacob@email.arizona.edu


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan  8 19:33:06 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan  8 19:34:43 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Of sowing and harvests: Subcomandante Marcos' speech on
	Gaza 
Message-ID: <045f01c971f2$07da2150$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Of sowing and harvests: Subcomandante Marcos' speech on Gaza

http://mywordismyweapon.blogspot.com/2009/01/of-sowing-and-harvests-subcomandante.html

Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza 
Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the 
Palestinians' fault, due to their violent nature.

The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, 
but they sing the same song.

And the one we hear now is one of war and pain.

Not far from here, in a place called Gaza, in Palestine, in the Middle East, 
right here next to us, the Israeli government's heavily trained and armed 
military continues its march of death and destruction.

The steps it has taken are those of a classic military war of conquest: 
first an intense mass bombing in order to destroy "strategic" military 
points (that's how the military manuals put it) and to "soften" the 
resistance's reinforcements; next a fierce control over information: 
everything that is heard and seen "in the outside world," that is, outside 
the theater of operations, must be selected with military criteria; now 
intense artillery fire against the enemy infantry to protect the advance of 
troop to new positions; then there will be a siege to weaken the enemy 
garrison; then the assault that conquers the position and annihilates the 
enemy, then the "cleaning out" of the probable "nests of resistance."

The military manual of modern war, with a few variations and additions, is 
being followed step-by-step by the invading military forces.

We don't know a lot about this, and there are surely specialists in the 
so-called "conflict in the Middle East," but from this corner we have 
something to say:

According to the news photos, the "strategic" points destroyed by the 
Israeli government's air force are houses, shacks, civilian buildings. We 
haven't seen a single bunker, nor a barracks, nor a military airport, nor 
cannons, amongst the rubble. So--and please excuse our ignorance--we think 
that either the planes' guns have bad aim, or in Gaza such "strategic" 
military points don't exist.

We have never had the honor of visiting Palestine, but we suppose that 
people, men, women, children, and the elderly--not soldiers--lived in those 
houses, shacks, and buildings.

We also haven't seen the resistance's reinforcements, just rubble.

We have seen, however, the futile efforts of the information siege, and the 
world governments trying to decide between ignoring or applauding the 
invasion, and the UN, which has been useless for quite some time, sending 
out tepid press releases.

But wait. It just occurred to us that perhaps to the Israeli government 
those men, women, children, and elderly people are enemy soldiers, and as 
such, the shacks, houses, and buildings that they inhabited are barracks 
that need to be destroyed.

So surely the hail of bullets that fell on Gaza this morning were in order 
to protect the Israeli infantry's advance from those men, women, children, 
and elderly people.

And the enemy garrison that they want to weaken with the siege that is 
spread out all over Gaza is the Palestinian population that lives there. And 
the assault will seek to annihilate that population. And whichever man, 
woman, child, or elderly person that manages to escape or hide from the 
predictably bloody assault will later be "hunted" so that the cleansing is 
complete and the commanders in charge of the operation can report to their 
superiors: "We've completed the mission."

Again, pardon our ignorance, maybe what we're saying is beside the point. 
And instead of condemning the ongoing crime, being the indigenous and 
warriors that we are, we should be discussing and taking a position in the 
discussion about if it's "zionism" or "antisemitism," or if Hamas' bombs 
started it.

Maybe our thinking is very simple, and we're lacking the nuances and 
annotations that are always so necessary in analyses, but to the Zapatistas 
it looks like there's a professional army murdering a defenseless 
population.

Who from below and to the left can remain silent?

Is it useful to say something? Do our cries stop even one bomb? Does our 
word save the life of even one Palestinian?

We think that yes, it is useful. Maybe we don't stop a bomb and our word 
won't turn into an armored shield so that that 5.56 mm or 9 mm caliber 
bullet with the letters "IMI" or "Israeli Military Industry" etched into the 
base of the cartridge won't hit the chest of a girl or boy, but perhaps our 
word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and 
perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that 
they hear in Gaza.

We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how 
important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words 
of encouragement.

I don't know how to explain it, but it turns out that yes, words from afar 
might not stop a bomb, but it's as if a crack were opened in the black room 
of death and a tiny ray of light slips in.

As for everything else, what will happen will happen. The Israeli government 
will declare that it dealt a severe blow to terrorism, it will hide the 
magnitude of the massacre from its people, the large weapons manufacturers 
will have obtained economic support to face the crisis, and "the global 
public opinion," that malleable entity that is always in fashion, will turn 
away.

But that's not all. The Palestinian people will also resist and survive and 
continue struggling and will continue to have sympathy from below for their 
cause.

And perhaps a boy or girl from Gaza will survive, too. Perhaps they'll grow, 
and with them, their nerve, indignation, and rage. Perhaps they'll become 
soldiers or militiamen for one of the groups that struggle in Palestine. 
Perhaps they'll find themselves in combat with Israel. Perhaps they'll do it 
firing a gun. Perhaps sacrificing themselves with a belt of dynamite around 
their waists.

And then, from up there above, they will write about the Palestinians' 
violent nature and they'll make declarations condemning that violence and 
they'll get back to discussing if it's zionism or anti-semitism.

And no one will ask who planted that which is being harvested.

For the men, women, children, and elderly of the Zapatista National 
Liberation Army,

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Mexico, January 4, 2009.


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From Yasmina.Katsulis at asu.edu  Thu Jan  8 17:30:58 2009
From: Yasmina.Katsulis at asu.edu (Yasmina Katsulis)
Date: Fri Jan  9 00:58:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Book Release
In-Reply-To: <20090108145728.0qas0c4ww44kswwc@www.email.arizona.edu>
References: <20090108145728.0qas0c4ww44kswwc@www.email.arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <5E1A4B6A-B098-4799-867D-3600ACB50E60@mimectl>

Sex Work and the City
The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico
By Yasmina Katsulis

A gateway at the U.S.-Mexico border, Tijuana is a complex urban center
with a sizeable population of sex workers. An in-depth case study of the
trade, Sex Work and the City is the first major ethnographic publication
on contemporary prostitution in this locale, providing a detailed
analysis of how sex workers' experiences and practices are shaped by
policing and regulation.

Contextualizing her research within the realm of occupational risk,
Yasmina Katsulis examines the experiences of a diverse range of sex
workers in the region and explores the implications of prostitution,
particularly regarding the spheres of class hierarchies, public health,
and other broad social effects. Based on eighteen months of intensive
fieldwork and nearly 400 interviews with sex workers, customers, city
officials, police, local health providers, and advocates, Sex Work and
the City describes the arenas of power and the potential for
disenfranchisement created by municipal laws designed to regulate the
trade. Providing a detailed analysis of this subculture's significance
within Tijuana and its implications for debates over legalization of
"vice" elsewhere in the world, Katsulis draws on powerful narratives as
workers describe the risks of their world, ranging from HIV/AIDS and
rape (by police or customers) to depression, work-related stress, drug
and alcohol addiction, and social stigma. Insightful and compelling, Sex
Work and the City captures the lives (and deaths) of a population whose
industry has broad implications for contemporary society at large.

YASMINA KATSULIS is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
at Arizona State University in Tempe. A medical anthropologist with
postdoctoral training at Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on
AIDS, she has garnered research support from the National Institutes of
Health and the National Science Foundation.

Inter-America Series
Duncan Earle, Howard Campbell, and John Peterson, series editors

January 2009
196 pp., 16 b&w photos
ISBN 978-0-292-71886-9, $50.00, hardcover
www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/katsex.html
Order through the above link or by calling 1-800-252-3206



Dr. Yasmina Katsulis
Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies Program
Honors Faculty and Faculty Honors Advisor
Arizona State University
PO Box 874902
Tempe AZ 85287-4902
(480) 727-6354 (office)
(480) 965-2357 (fax)
(480) 677-9461 (cell)
From mayerdane at hotmail.com  Fri Jan  9 15:17:27 2009
From: mayerdane at hotmail.com (Danila Mayer)
Date: Fri Jan  9 11:28:56 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Urban visions of the Middle East
In-Reply-To: <045f01c971f2$07da2150$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <045f01c971f2$07da2150$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <COL111-W3630A7BD0A3130CAF6A02AA3DD0@phx.gbl>


Dear All!
As an urban anthropologist who is especially concerned
with the Near and Middle East, I find much consolidation in the visions which two Austrian architects (Siegfried Alleneder and Lorenz Potocnik) have
produced, and which are exactly up our veins, so to say. They draw the
map WITHOUT national borders and simply concentrate on the cities'
network, the "East Mediterranean City Belt 2050". Please have a look at


http://www.hummus2050.org

It
is absolutely amazing how this densely populated area could again be
one of the world's most important and beautiful centers if the cities
and metropoles would work together - from the Nile delta to the
wonderful South-Eastern Anatolian plains, from the Mediterranean Sea to
the desert, from Jerusalem to Gaza, and on along the Mediterranean coast, to Durres, Palermo, Marseille, Conil, Tanger, Carthago, and whichever millennium-old city names might come to our minds ...

Let us strive at making this future possible.

Best and peace to all,
Danila Mayer
Vienna/Austria
p-f-p
people for peace




_________________________________________________________________
Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. 
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From mu81169 at hotmail.com  Thu Jan  8 22:04:34 2009
From: mu81169 at hotmail.com (Thomas Knoll)
Date: Fri Jan  9 11:31:43 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE: Immigration and Health
In-Reply-To: <C58BCE55.CD20%Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu>
References: <E1LKM1G-0006P1-Ol@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
 <C58BCE55.CD20%Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <COL104-W215E647E0AB3ED34B525F0E0DD0@phx.gbl>


Hello all,
My name is Tom Knoll and I am Founder and Co-Director of Pathways To Empowerment, an NGO working on community development in all of its facets with a number of communities and organizations globally. In the past year we initiated a project looking at food and fitness issues with minority and newly migrated communities in the US midwest, specifically African-Americans, Latinos and Lao/Hmong communities.  In the next year we will include newly migrated Iraquis and Bhutanese.  One of the more interesting aspects that we are evolving is work within Bhutanese refugee camps on the Eastern border of Nepal and then tracking some of these refugees as they migrate to the US.  We work directly with the UN World Food Programme and the UN High Commission for Refugees, with Will Allen, urban agriculture expert and recent MacArthur Genius Award recipient, a team of medical experts and participatory development specialists.  Related work includes community theatre and oral history projects around food and nutrition history and extensive nutrition surveys and assessments with these communities.  I know this doesn't exactly contribute to your syllabus, but we would really be interested in having some rigorous anthropological analysis of this work.  Also, it could serve as an opportunity for field-work in your course. 
Please feel free to contact me and good luck with what sounds like a great course,
Regards, 
Tom
 
Tom Knoll
Founder/Co-Director
Pathways To Empowerment
www.pathwaystoempowerment.org
tom@pathwaystoempowerment.org
 
p.s. Please forgive the status of our website as it is presently being revamped.> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:37:57 -0500> From: Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu> To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu> Subject: [URBANTH-L]RE: Immigration and Health> > > Dear Konane and colleagues,> > Following up on Leo's email, I'm writing to share a bibliography-in-progress> and related working paper on matters of immigration and health that you may> find useful -- and to which you (and other list members) are cordially> invited to contribute. (Some already have; thank you!)> > The working paper and bibliography were prepared by Heide Castaneda> (University of South Florida) and myself as part of a new "Take a Stand> Initiative: Undocumented Im/migration and Health" within the Society for> Medical Anthropology's (SMA) Critical Anthropology of Health Special> Interest Group, and they are available for download from the SMA website at> http://www.medanthro.net/research/cah/caghimmig.html.> > As the working paper explains, we are currently assembling a task force (and> a listserv) on this topic, and all interested anthropologists are invited to> take part. (Anyone interested can contact either Heide or me.)> > Good luck with your course, and look forward to hearing what you find,> ~Sarah Willen> > -- > Sarah S. Willen, PhD, MPH> Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Medicine> Lecturer, Department of Anthropology> Harvard University> Sarah_Willen@hms.harvard.edu> > > At 11:36 AM 1/6/2009, Konane Martinez wrote:> >Happy New Year to all,> >> >I'm developing a course on Immigration and> >Health and would like to put a syllabus together> >that is comparative, including many different> >immigration cases. (Morrocco-Spain, Germany,> >India etc.) I'm appealing to your expertise for> >recommendations on readings and references. If> >anyone has a syllabus similar to this type of> >course and are willing to share it would be much appreciated.> >> >Please reply to kmartine@csusm.edu. I'm more> >than willing to compile all responses to share with group if interested!> >> >Thank you in advance,> >> >Konane Martinez> > > > _______________________________________________> URBANTH-L mailing list> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. 
http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009
From dmonk at mail.colgate.edu  Fri Jan  9 18:27:51 2009
From: dmonk at mail.colgate.edu (Dan Monk)
Date: Fri Jan  9 19:01:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]'Sanitized Language'
Message-ID: <C58D47A7.266AE%dmonk@mail.colgate.edu>

Dear Colleagues: Like Jamie Sherman, I've been following these exchanges on Gaza with interest and, I have to admit, also with a measure of concern.  At the risk of triggering another episode in the dynamic I'm trying to address: I cannot help but to get the impression that calls for reflexive speculation on our own critical engagement -what I consider to be the hallmark of criticism in good faith - are too easily dismissed as a cynical or misguided pleas for symmetry or balance in a strategic context where none exists.  It is important for us to distinguish between the ideological dimensions of calls for 'evenhanded' portrayals of what is taking place in Gaza and southern Israel, and reasoned and reasonable calls for critical scrutiny of the assumptions that 'go without saying' in our exchanges.   If we can define 'sanitized' language as the stuff that normalizes untruth in the form of unquestioned 'truths' about the conflict, then let's make sure we don't assume our own insights to be potentiated by anything other than certain types of blindness.  If nothing else, perhaps it might help us to diminish the performances of indignation -like the bombshell piece, or the moderator's defense of its good bits about 'sanitized language'--  that have been taking place on these pages.   Indignation  may have origins in heartfelt feelings but it subtly transforms us into the subject of suffering, rather than those bound within a horrific reality of war and terror.  Hundreds of thousands -if not millions-- groan as we perform such mischief.   The talk of sanitized language in itself sanitizes. Subjugating criticism to blame,  bombshells about bombshells turn the victims of this conflict into nothing more than a collective
'first cause for what is said about them,' to paraphrase Edward Said.  Facile criticism about the IDF's spokespersons' hair and Ha'aretz's sanitized language actually constitutes an abrogation of responsibility to perform a criticism worthy of the name.  By contrast, Ha'aretz itself does a lot better: refusing to consider mere indictment enough, its columnist Gideon Levy examines in exactly what ways the ethos of this operation in Gaza  coincides with the sentiments of the nation as a whole. (in this, his project complements the admirable efforts of Professor Marranci, whose contributions I also appreciated). I don't present Levy's essay as a model of what academics on Urbanth should be doing in the face of this crisis, but as a caution to those who might think that in dismissing his efforts as anything other than heavy lifting, we're doing any better.   (See: Gideon Levy, "The Time of the Righteous," http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054158.html).

Respectfully,
Dan

--
Daniel Bertrand Monk
George M. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program [P-CON]
Professor of Geography
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
315-228-7806
dmonk@mail.colgate.edu





From jaida at hawaii.edu  Fri Jan  9 10:54:55 2009
From: jaida at hawaii.edu (Jaida Samudra)
Date: Sat Jan 10 16:27:13 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Immigration and Health Syllabus Request
In-Reply-To: <86BF48E0F11BE44D99952F9FB349BC4B0EA39C72@priority.csusm.edu>
References: <86BF48E0F11BE44D99952F9FB349BC4B0EA39C72@priority.csusm.edu>
Message-ID: <fc5ca76213ed7.49672cff@hawaii.edu>

Here are a few more you might want to look at:


?Hanna, J. M.
1998??????????? Migration and Acculturation among Samoans: Some Sources of Stress and Support. Social Science and Medicine 46:1325-1336.
Jenkins, C. N. H., T. Le, S. J. McPhee, S. Stewart, and N. T. Ha
1996??????????? Health Care Access and Preventive Care among Vietnamese Immigrants: Do Traditional Beliefs and Practices Pose Barriers? Social Science and Medicine 43:1049-1056.
Marks, L., and M. Worboys
1997??????????? Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies. London: Routledge.

----- Original Message -----
From: Konane Martinez <kmartine@csusm.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:49 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Immigration and Health Syllabus Request
To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu

> Happy New Year to all,
> 
> I'm developing a course on Immigration and Health and would like 
> to put a syllabus together that is comparative, including many 
> different immigration cases.? (Morrocco-Spain, Germany, 
> India etc.) I'm appealing to your expertise for recommendations 
> on readings and references.? If anyone has a syllabus 
> similar to this type of course and are willing to share it would 
> be much appreciated.
> 
> Please reply to kmartine@csusm.edu. I'm more than willing to 
> compile all responses to share with group if interested!
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Konane Martinez
> 
> ?
> 
> ?
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> To lead people walk behind them-Lao Tzu
> 
> ?
> 
> Konane M. Mart?nez, Ph.D.
> 
> Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
> 
> Health Projects Coordinator, National Latino Research Center
> 
> CSU San Marcos
> 
> San Marcos, CA 92096
> 
> (760)750-8567
> 
> (760)750-4111 Fax
> 
> ?
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Jan 10 17:26:57 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 10 17:27:10 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Dissertation Development Workshop: Resources in
 Eurasia:Wealth, Scarcity, or Curse?
Message-ID: <02bd01c97372$8f8565c0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

DISSERTATION DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

Resources in Eurasia:Wealth, Scarcity, or Curse?


April 16-18, 2009
Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian,
Russian and East European Studies (CERES)


THE EURASIA PROGRAM of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
invites proposals for a dissertation development workshop focusing on
resources-ranging from oil and natural gas, to water and land, to
science and industry, to human health and education and beyond-in
Eurasia. Graduate students at any stage of the dissertation process
(from proposal to write-up) and from any disciplinary or
interdisciplinary program in the humanities or social sciences are
eligible to apply. We particularly encourage applicants who propose
fresh theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and whose work speaks
to a wide scholarly audience.

Eurasia is widely considered to be rich in a variety of resources:
natural, technological, and human. Scholars across disciplines are
asking theoretically-grounded, potentially policy relevant questions
about the existence, histories, politics, impact, and future
trajectories of resource exploration, development, and exploitation
across the region. Sociologists and public health specialists, for
example, lament the degradation of human capital and the impact of
"brain drain" during the transition years. Anthropologists and
geographers study the meanings and impacts of various kinds of natural
resources for local communities who may or may not benefit from their
presence. Political scientists and scholars of international relations
examine the impact of cross-border disputes over the harvesting and
transportation of resources. Historians consider the impact of resource
consumption in the context of economic, political and social movements.
Economists debate whether Russia is afflicted with a resource "curse."

What are the historical, cultural, political, social, geographic,
technological, and economic factors that determine how and when various
kinds of resources are extracted, developed, traded, and used? How are
resources implicated in the cultural practices and social relations that
shape institutions? How are relations within and between states and
sub-national groups affected by conflicts over control of resources? How
is the future of the region as a whole, and of various groups in the
region, likely to be affected by the ways in which resources are
developed and allocated? How have scholars constructed the meanings and
impacts of resource scarcity and availability throughout the region?


INSTRUCTIONS & ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are
currently enrolled in an accredited PhD program and working at some
stage on their dissertation projects. Regions and countries currently
supported by the program include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, and the applicant's work must
relate as a whole or in part to one or more of these regions in their
current or historical context. All applicants are required to submit the
following:



* A five page, double spaced summary of the dissertation project,
highlighting the dissertation's relationship to the themes and
objectives of the workshop
* A 500-word abstract of the project
* One letter of academic recommendation from the applicant's primary
advisor or other relevant individual
* Curriculum Vitae
All materials should be submitted electronically to eurasia@ssrc.org
with the exception of the letter of recommendation, where the original
should be mailed to the SSRC, attn: Eurasia Program and received by the
extended January 19, 2009 deadline.

Alisha Kirchoff
Eurasia Program Coordinator
Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza | 15th  Floor |
Brooklyn, NY 11201 | www.ssrc.org <http://www.ssrc.org/>  |
Tel: (212) 377-2700 | Fax: (212) 245-4232 | kirchoff@ssrc.org
<mailto:kirchoff@ssrc.org>  | Direct line: (718) 517-3663 


From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Sun Jan 11 09:05:31 2009
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Sun Jan 11 13:06:17 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Enquiry: postsecular cities/ urban spaces
Message-ID: <AD13B899E205457BAACEF433AEAA65FF@Jus>

**** Apologies if you receive this enquiry more than once ****

 

I would be very grateful if people could reflect upon, provide insights and
recommend literature to help me along with my research.

 

The focus is postsecular cities (or more accurately postsecular urban spaces
given the exchange on the Comurb mailbase a few months ago) at the
theoretical and empirical intersection between (1) political economy of
neoliberal urbanism and (2) state-civil society relations and faith-based
political and ethical praxis in cities.

 

There is currently little or no systematic engagement with this emergent
topic in the geographical literature, despite a postsecular turn in
sociology via the work of critical theorists such as Habermas, liberal
communitarians like Taylor and critical commentators such as McLennan, among
others.

  

While a limited number of contributions to the literature recently  (e.g.
TESG; Urban Studies) reflect a tide of change within urban scholarship a
great deal more needs to be done to capture, sharpen and deepen the
conceptual and analytical implications of these inquiries for urban theory
in general and postsecular urbanism (theory, empirics, politics) in
particular.

 

Your insights, reflections and literature suggestions would be warmly
received.

 

 

Justin Beaumont

Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of
Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

Tel: 0031 (0)50 363 6910/ 3895

Fax: 0031 (0)50 363 3901

Skype: justin9712

Facebook: "Justin Beaumont"

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

 

 

From baxstrom at gmail.com  Sun Jan 11 18:47:57 2009
From: baxstrom at gmail.com (Richard Baxstrom)
Date: Sun Jan 11 15:30:14 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Writings on postsecular cities
Message-ID: <ed9c29c70901111047u114abff2p27db7d7169a28787@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Justin and all interested in the topic of postsecular cities:

My apologies for the bit of self-promotion, but I have recently published on
book on this very topic. The citation is:

Baxstrom, Richard (2008). *Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the
Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia*. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

For a fuller explanation of the book, please see the following link:

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=12146

So perhaps a little bit of engagement over this issue is starting to happen.
Hope it helps.

Best,
Richard Baxstrom
Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

**** Apologies if you receive this enquiry more than once ****



I would be very grateful if people could reflect upon, provide insights and
recommend literature to help me along with my research.



The focus is postsecular cities (or more accurately postsecular urban spaces
given the exchange on the Comurb mailbase a few months ago) at the
theoretical and empirical intersection between (1) political economy of
neoliberal urbanism and (2) state-civil society relations and faith-based
political and ethical praxis in cities.



There is currently little or no systematic engagement with this emergent
topic in the geographical literature, despite a postsecular turn in
sociology via the work of critical theorists such as Habermas, liberal
communitarians like Taylor and critical commentators such as McLennan, among
others.



While a limited number of contributions to the literature recently  (e.g.
TESG; Urban Studies) reflect a tide of change within urban scholarship a
great deal more needs to be done to capture, sharpen and deepen the
conceptual and analytical implications of these inquiries for urban theory
in general and postsecular urbanism (theory, empirics, politics) in
particular.



Your insights, reflections and literature suggestions would be warmly
received.





Justin Beaumont

Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of
Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

Tel: 0031 (0)50 363 6910/ 3895

Fax: 0031 (0)50 363 3901

Skype: justin9712

Facebook: "Justin Beaumont"

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





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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jan 12 14:15:04 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 12 14:15:43 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Gentrification and Social Mix (Edinburgh)
Message-ID: <021c01c974ea$1f7fac80$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

ESRC Seminar Series
"Gentrification and Social Mix"

Organisers:

Tom Slater (University of Edinburgh)
Loretta Lees (King's College London)
Tim Butler (King's College London)
Gary Bridge (University of Bristol)

SEMINAR 3:

FEBRUARY 19TH and 20TH 2008

The Old Library, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, 
Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP

Seminar Summary

For some time now there has been a lack of integration of conceptual 
approaches to the popular urban policy of "social mix" with theoretical 
debates in gentrification research.  This integration could be greatly 
enhanced by international comparisons of gentrification dynamics, types 
of social mix and the relevant institutional and policy contexts. 
Social mix has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a 
healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under 
fire from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too 
one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class 
neighbourhoods where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of 
wealthier and/or middle-class residents. Very rarely is social mix 
planned for wealthier neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the 
motivations and the politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind 
of social mixing actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? 
Despite a significant amount of research taking place that addresses 
these issues, there has been no organised debate/interaction among 
researchers, and this seminar series proposes to bring people together 
to discuss these issues in depth.  The purpose of this particular 
seminar is to make these conceptual connections through an international 
dialogue between researchers of gentrification and social mix.




PAPERS:


Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago:

"Mixed-income Schools and Housing Policy in Chicago: A Critical 
Examination of the Gentrification/Education/"Racial" Exclusion Nexus."

Talja Blokland, Technische Universit?t Berlin:

"Everyday interactions and robust identities: a hypothesis on the 
underestimated relevance of gentrifiers for an inclusive public space." 

David Manley & Joe Doherty, University of St. Andrews:

"Neighbourhood social mix and transitions into and out of employment in 
Scotland."

Alan Walks & Martine August, University of Toronto:

"From social mix to political marginalization? The dilution of tenant 
power in Canada's Regent Park."

Sarah Glynn, University of Strathclyde:

"Gentrifying a peripheral Scottish city."

Marie-Helene Bacque, UMR Louest, Universite d'Evry: 
"Social mix as a smokescreen for gentrification."


DISCUSSANTS:

Gordon MacLeod University of Durham

Libby Porter University of Glasgow


CHAIR:

Tom Slater University of Edinburgh


SCHEDULE



THURSDAY 19TH FEBRUARY

11.30-12.00: Coffee/tea

12 - 12.15: Introduction and welcome: Tom Slater

12.15 - 1: Paper: Pauline Lipman

1 - 2.15pm: Lunch

2.15 - 3: Paper: Talja Blokland

3 - 3.45: Paper: David Manley & Joe Doherty

3.45 - 4pm: Coffee/tea

4 - 4.45: Discussant: Gordon MacLeod

4.45 - 5.30: General Discussion

Evening: Dinner



FRIDAY 20TH FEBRUARY

10 - 10.45: Paper: Alan Walks and Martine August

10.45 - 11am: Coffee

11 - 11.45: Paper: Sarah Glynn

11.45-12.30: Paper: Marie-Helene Bacque

12.30 - 2pm: Lunch

2 - 2.45: Discussant: Libby Porter

2.45 - 3.30: General discussion

3.30 - 3.45pm: Summing up: Loretta Lees





-- 
Dr. Tom Slater
Institute of Geography,
University of Edinburgh
Drummond Street,
Edinburgh EH8 9XP, U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 9506

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/tslater

Read the IJURR debate on my article "The Eviction of Critical 
Perspectives from Gentrification Research" here:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119403655/issue

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
From juris at temple.edu  Sun Jan 11 19:58:31 2009
From: juris at temple.edu (Juris Milestone)
Date: Mon Jan 12 14:21:32 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Enquiry: postsecular cities/ urban spaces
In-Reply-To: <AD13B899E205457BAACEF433AEAA65FF@Jus>
References: <AD13B899E205457BAACEF433AEAA65FF@Jus>
Message-ID: <A0A0B983-3BF7-40E8-A6D6-07381E5F9A46@temple.edu>

This comes from a special issue on faith-based orgs (Urban  
Anthropology & Studies of Cultural Systems & World Economic  
Development, Summer-Fall 2006 v35 i2-3 p203(34):
Faith-based organizations in Philadelphia: neoliberal ideology and the  
decline of political activism.  by Judith Goode



you may find more of interest in that issue.



Best,

Juris



Juris Milestone, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
juris@temple.edu





On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Justin Beaumont wrote:

> **** Apologies if you receive this enquiry more than once ****
>
>
>
> I would be very grateful if people could reflect upon, provide  
> insights and
> recommend literature to help me along with my research.
>
>
>
> The focus is postsecular cities (or more accurately postsecular  
> urban spaces
> given the exchange on the Comurb mailbase a few months ago) at the
> theoretical and empirical intersection between (1) political economy  
> of
> neoliberal urbanism and (2) state-civil society relations and faith- 
> based
> political and ethical praxis in cities.
>
>
>
> There is currently little or no systematic engagement with this  
> emergent
> topic in the geographical literature, despite a postsecular turn in
> sociology via the work of critical theorists such as Habermas, liberal
> communitarians like Taylor and critical commentators such as  
> McLennan, among
> others.
>
>
>
> While a limited number of contributions to the literature recently   
> (e.g.
> TESG; Urban Studies) reflect a tide of change within urban  
> scholarship a
> great deal more needs to be done to capture, sharpen and deepen the
> conceptual and analytical implications of these inquiries for urban  
> theory
> in general and postsecular urbanism (theory, empirics, politics) in
> particular.
>
>
>
> Your insights, reflections and literature suggestions would be warmly
> received.
>
>
>
>
>
> Justin Beaumont
>
> Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of
> Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
>
> Tel: 0031 (0)50 363 6910/ 3895
>
> Fax: 0031 (0)50 363 3901
>
> Skype: justin9712
>
> Facebook: "Justin Beaumont"
>
> Website: www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index
>
>
>
>
>
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From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 21:21:18 2009
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue Jan 13 02:53:03 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: Vergara, Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly
	City
Message-ID: <34ec80c40901122121g1188c65dne1ca58b3b7ca94fc@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1920_reg.html

Pinoy Capital
The Filipino Nation in Daly City
Benito M. Vergara, Jr.

Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California,
located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy
Capital of the United States." In this fascinating ethnographic study
of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly
City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community.

Vergara challenges rooted notions of colonialism here, addressing the
immigrants' identities, connections and loyalties. Using the lens of
transnationalism, he looks at the "double lives" of both recent and
established Filipino Americans. Vergara explores how first-generation
Pinoys experience homesickness precisely because Daly City is filled
with reminders of their homeland's culture, like newspapers, shops and
festivals. Vergara probes into the complicated, ambivalent feelings
these immigrants have?toward the Philippines and the United States?and
the conflicting obligations they have presented by belonging to a
thriving community and yet possessing nostalgia for the homeland and
people they left behind.

Reviews

"Pinoy Capital is a colorful and nuanced ethnographic foray into the
social institutions and quotidian lives of Filipino Americans living
in Daly City. Vergara is a gifted writer and his work delves closely
on the affective and reciprocal relationships and practices of
Filipino Americans as immigrants. This is a welcome and important
study, and Vergara puts forward important and innovative assertions
and arguments that will have repercussions on debates about Filipinos
in the United States."
    ?Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and
editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America

"Pinoy Capital is a landmark text?an exciting, refreshing, and
critical ethnography that continues, but revitalizes, ongoing
conversations regarding Filipino immigrant/transnational life in the
United States. There have been very few ethnographies of this group,
and I think this one not only offers a much-needed and provocative
study, it complicates arguments and discussions about the
specificities of Filipino immigration to the U.S. Vergara provides
solid and rigorous engagement with his objects of study, and he is
especially attuned to the clarities and complexities of everyday life
in a particular site that is touted as a quintessential one for
Filipino American settlement."
?Rick Bonus, Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic
Studies, University of Washington

About the Author

Benito M. Vergara, Jr. is the author of Displaying Filipinos:
Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th-Century Philippines. He
lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

232 pp
6x9
3 tables 2 map(s)

paper: $25.95, Jan 09
EAN: 978-1-59213-665-0
ISBN: 1-59213-665-6


cloth: $74.50, Jan 09
EAN: 978-1-59213-664-3
ISBN: 1-59213-664-8

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jan 13 20:09:42 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 13 20:10:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 BOOK ANN: Social Spatialization in a Turkish Squatter Settlement
Message-ID: <040c01c975e4$cd981820$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Demirtas, Neslihan <em1.izmirekonomi.edu.tr>

My book has just been published. I would like to share information about it 
with the
Urbanth-L list members.

Best Regards,
Neslihan Demirtas

Book Details:
Neslihan Demirtas. "Social Spatialization in a Turkish Squatter Settlement:
The Dualism of Strategy and Tactic Reconsidered" Peter Lang Publishing
House Series: Europaeische HochschulschriftenReihe 22: Soziologie Vol.
427. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford,
Wien, 2009. 248 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-57887-2 pb.

This book aims to expose an alternative local historical reading of the
formation of a gecekondu space, a settlement of irregularly
self-constructed habitats built by former peasants randomly over night.
The social construction of the neighborhood space is narrated by means of
insider perspectives and using qualitative techniques. In this reading, it
will be made explicit that the dynamics of strategic interventions in
local space, and tactical acts of the migrants in producing their locality
are intertwined processes. The ethnic identities through sectarian and
hometown affiliations have constituted the main means by which the
migrants have developed certain tactics in dealing with the strategical
acts on the vertical level (relations with the actors of urban planning
and local politics) and other tactical acts on the horizontal level
(relations with other sectarian and hometown groups in the locality).

Contents
Contents: Turkish Gecekondu (Squatter) History - Representation of
Gecekondu Settlements - Modernist Urban Strategy - Tactics of Migrants -
Spontaneous Spaces - Neoliberal Urban and Identity Politics - Spatial
Contingency - Islamist Local Governments - Alevi and Sunni Identities -
Power Relations on the Vertical and Horizontal Level.

About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Author: Neslihan Demirtas mainly works on urban politics. Her research
interests are politics of space/identity, neoliberal urban policies and
peripheral low-income settlements. She completed her Ph.D. studies at
Bilkent University (Turkey), Department of Political Science and has been
a member of Izmir University of Economics (Turkey), Department of Media
and Communication since 2005. 


From diane.king at uky.edu  Tue Jan 13 09:46:28 2009
From: diane.king at uky.edu (King, Diane E)
Date: Wed Jan 14 14:55:24 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: "Dilemmas of Citizenship," due 22 Jan.
	2009
In-Reply-To: <032930FDEFDB584FAC4EC8D54CE2C7ED0100436335@EX7SM02.ad.uky.edu>
References: <032930FDEFDB584FAC4EC8D54CE2C7ED0100436335@EX7SM02.ad.uky.edu>
Message-ID: <032930FDEFDB584FAC4EC8D54CE2C7ED010043633D@EX7SM02.ad.uky.edu>

Call for Papers: "Dilemmas of Citizenship," due 22 Jan. 2009

Abstracts are invited for a panel on citizenship to be considered for Presidential Session status at the 108th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia from 2-6 December 2009. Abstracts must be received by Thurs., 22 Jan. 2009 (note that this is SOON).

A more specific and lengthy panel abstract, and likely a more specific title, will be possible once the paper abstracts are gathered, but for now, here are some guiding ideas for the panel:
The modern state, which emerged in most parts of the world during the twentieth century, was full of promise for its constituents, who were citizens not subjects. The state lent form to the nation and articulated visions of progress, prosperity, collective dignity and individual rights. In the twenty-first century the state is both triumphant, covering most inhabitable parts of the globe, and tragic, in many cases failing to deliver and even actively harming citizenries both within and beyond its borders. This panel will offer critical analyses of citizenship in an age of human rights, problematic sovereignties, states of exception, contested borderlands, and elusive justice.

The proposed panel is an outgrowth of conversations between members of the Human Rights and Social Justice (HRSJ) committee of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and the Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) of the AAA (though neither is an official sponsor); authors are encouraged to give special consideration to issues of rights and justice.

The theme of the 2009 Annual Meeting is "The End/s of Anthropology," and authors are encouraged to incorporate it into their abstracts and papers.

Please submit your 250-word abstract to Diane King at deking@uky.edu. More information can be found on the AAA website: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/Proposal-Types.cfm

Since time is short, you are encouraged to send a brief email indicating your interest, followed by the abstract when it is finished (both of which must happen by Thurs. 22 Jan.)



--------------------------------
Diane E. King, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology
University of Kentucky
206 Lafferty Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0024
USA

01-859-257-7313
http://www.as.uky.edu/anthropology/
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From sim-ishss at uva.nl  Wed Jan 14 15:39:19 2009
From: sim-ishss at uva.nl (sim-ishss)
Date: Wed Jan 14 14:57:41 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Prog: Black Europe: Exploring Dimensions of Citizenship, Race and
 Ethnic Relations
Message-ID: <31FD92373131284CA2726A37EDDF3BF652D3FD@korteweg.uva.nl>

Dear Colleagues- The National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) is pleased to announce the second annual Summer School on Black Europe entitled:

 

Black Europe: Exploring Dimensions of Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations.  

June 14th-25th 2009

This course will examine the multiple constructions of the term Black Europe and the social, economic and political implications within.  Students will be able to earn 3 US (5 ECTS) credits for their participation.  The content and the description of the summer school are listed below.  If you are interested in hearing more about the course, please send a request for additional information via email to a.abdou@ninsee.nl

Or visit the website, http://www.ninsee.nl/?pagina=196&parentID=83&level=2 <http://www.ninsee.nl/?pagina=196&parentID=83&level=2> 

 

Please feel free to share this information. 

Kind Regards, Amy Abdou  

 

This course is a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and NiNsee, the National institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy. 

 


Course Description


 

A multitude of discourses have emerged relative to the internationalism of Blacks worldwide and particularly in the Americas, but the prominence and impact of the Black presence in Europe has not been adequately explored. This seminar will examine the multiple constructions of the term Black Europe and the social, economic and political implications within.  We will look specifically at anti-discrimination laws as they have arisen in various European countries; comparing the history of regulation and management of race and ethnic relations and the discourse surrounding the concept of Blackness and self-identification. 

 

The seminar will begin with a historical overview of social and civil conflict in Europe leading to the formation of laws and antidiscrimination legislation within the EU.  We will trace the chain of events following social and civil conflicts that prompted these policies and analyze the legislative and intellectual discourse produced in the aftermath.   

  

We will also explore the notions of blackness as; a categorization, employed in Britain to demark all non-natives; as a social construction, employed by natives to indicate (non) belonging; as a Diaspora living within Europe; and as a contestation of the dominant (White) paradigm.  We will focus on the historical and colonial legacies of European countries to discuss the origins of Black Europe and investigate the impact of these legacies on policies and legislation.    

 

This course will also seek to address the dimensions of race and ethnic relations that are unique to Europe; examining the ways in which conceptions of the "other" are institutionalized and reproduced; the rise of xenophobia in various EU countries; the legal definitions and discourse surrounding the conceptualized "other"; and examining the ways in which each country has dealt with issues of race and national identity. 

 


Following the programme, students are welcome to participate in a two-day conference (June 26th and 27th) in Paris on "Racism Against People Without States" as part of the annual conference series (2006-2009) at the Maison des Science de l'Homme (MSH) organized by Dr. Ramon Grosfoguel.


 


Students are also welcome to participate in a two- day symposium following the Summer School on Black Europe and the Paris Conference in Amsterdam entitled, Trajectories for Emancipation and Black European Thinkers (June 29th and 30th).  Keynote speakers include Lewis Gordon, Walter Mignolo and Allison Blakely.  The symposium will be followed by the National Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery on July 1st.  NiNsee will plan a full day of events to commemorate this historic event.  See the website for more details. www.ninsee.nl <http://www.ninsee.nl/> 


 

 

Instructors for 2009

 

?        Dr. Dienke Hondius, VU University Amsterdam 

?        Dr. Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley

?        Dr. Kwame Nimako, Universiteit van Amsterdam

?        Dr. Philomena Essed, Antioch University

?        Dr. David T. Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute

?        Dr. Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley

?        Dr. Thomas Spijkerboer,  VU University Amsterdam

 

 

The Summer School on Black Europe is open to advanced undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Preference will be given to students based on the following criteria:

?        Undergraduate and graduate students with a background in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, economics and/or the humanities;

?        Post-graduate students who have begun a research project in the field; 

?        Professionals with an MA Degree and who are working or want to work in a field related to the topic of the Summer School. 

 

Students are accepted on the basis of i) their previous qualifications, ii) the level of knowledge of English, and iii) an essay on their motivation.  The Admissions Committee will take account of coherence, feasibility or relevance of the student's career objectives and proposed program of study, as well as excellence in prior academic accomplishment, especially in coursework and experience related to the Summer School on Black Europe. 


 


Tuition


 

The regular tuition is EUR 1600. The tuition for students who wish to receive course credit is EUR 1850.  These costs include VAT which is refundable to students living outside the Netherlands.  Students may reserve accommodation through the Unverisiteit van Amsterdam for a cost of EUR 350.  Student housing is available from June 14th -June 28th.   Students who wish to remain for the symposium may extend their stay for a nominal fee. 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan 15 15:00:44 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 15 15:01:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Teach in and Film Showing (Los Angeles)
Message-ID: <01a601c9774b$f4569fa0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Ron Gochez <mexicanoatucla@aol.com>

Uni?n del Barrio invites the Southern California community...

END the OCCUPATION NOW!!
1848 (Mexico) and 1948 (Palestine):
Two People's; ONE STRUGGLE!!
(Teach-in and Video Presentation)

>From Venezuela to Los Angeles,
Raza shows its solidarity with the people and struggle of Palestine!

Saturday, January 17, 2009
6:00 - 8:00PM

Centro Cultural Francisco Villa
2100 Maple Ave. LA, CA 90011
(Corner of Maple Ave and 21st Street)

Come learn about the Palestinian people's struggle for liberation.

Speakers:
Christian Ramirez, American Friends Service Committee:
Will speak about his experience from his 2008 visit to Palestine (will
include a video segment)

Daniel Montes, Union Del Barrio: Will speak on UdB's analysis and historical
similarities between the liberation struggles of Palestinians and Mexicanos

Palestinian Students, Speak on the situation in Palestine

Film Screening: Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority

Documentaries, food and drinks will be available for a small donation!

For more information:
udbla@aol.com
323-602-3480


www.centropanchovilla.com


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan 15 15:11:43 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 15 15:12:53 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Panelists, "Technology, Urbanism, and Social Life (Taipei)
Message-ID: <022701c9774d$7ea43e50$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Anru Lee <alee@jjay.cuny.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

We are looking for panelists for the Conference of the Society for East
Asian Anthropology (SEAA) to be held in Taipei, 2-5 July 2009.  The topic of
our panel is "Technology, Urbanism, and Social Life."  Please see below for 
our tentative panel abstract.  Anyone interested please contact:

Anru Lee (CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice) at <alee@jjay.cuny.edu>
and Janet Ng (CUNY College of Staten Island) at <Dudleyng@rcn.com>

Panel Title: "Technology, Urbanism, and Social Life"

In their pursuit of globalization and urbanization from the late 20th 
Century to the early 21st Century, many cities in East Asia have dedicated 
tremendous public resources in developing and upgrading their mass 
transportation and communication systems. Successful entry to the status 
of a world-class city depends on the availability of highly efficient transit 
and communications infrastructures. For the citizens, access to high 
mobility in turn signifies class and cultural privilege. High speed 
technology thus becomes a definer of urban identity and a measure of 
a polity of cultural sophistication. The efficiency of mass transit and 
logistics and communication systems, and more importantly, the 
activities and deportment of the citizens in, and the relationships 
structured through, the deployment of such technology have all 
become necessary indicators of urbanization.  In this panel, we 
propose to explore the intersection between technology and the 
experiences of urban life. We will examine how technology affects 
the social life of the people and how it captures and inspires particular 
social discourse and imaginations.


Best,
Anru Lee

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

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From sshankar at northwestern.edu  Tue Jan 13 20:05:28 2009
From: sshankar at northwestern.edu (Shalini Shankar)
Date: Thu Jan 15 15:15:45 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]List Member: New Publication
Message-ID: <C592A488.10AA4%sshankar@northwestern.edu>

Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
Shalini Shankar

Duke University Press
264 pages (October 2008)
Paperback - $22.95
Cloth - $79.95

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

Desi Land is Shalini Shankar?s lively ethnographic account of South Asian
American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot com boom. Shankar
focuses on how South Asian Americans, or ?Desis? define and manage what it
means to be successful individuals and community members in a place brimming
with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001, Shankar spent many
months ?kickin? it? with a diverse range of Desi teenagers at three Silicon
Valley high schools and has since followed the lives and stories of these
teens. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims,
Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs from South Asia and other diasporic locations;
they include first- to fourth-generation immigrants whose parents? careers
vary from assembly-line workers to engineers and CEOs. Shankar uses this
heterogeneity to illustrate how teens differently understand what it means
to be ?Desi? and accordingly organize themselves into social cliques.
Whether discussing instant messaging or arranged marriages, ?Desi bling? or
the pressures of the model minority myth, Shankar foregrounds the teens?
voices, perspectives, and stories. By analyzing how Desi teens? conceptions
and realization of success are influenced by community values, cultural
practices, language use, and material culture, she offers a nuanced portrait
of diasporic formations in a transforming urban region.

Learn more about Desi Land at:
http://www.amazon.com/Desi-Land-Culture-Success-Silicon/dp/0822343150
http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi

Read a review of Desi Land at:
http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/desi-land-teen-culture-class-and.
html

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact Laura Sell <lsell@duke.edu>
Instructors: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, visit
http://dukeupress.edu/contactus/exam_copy.shtml

-- 
Shalini Shankar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Asian American Studies
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Ave
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-467-1638
Email: sshankar@northwestern.edu



From terzano.1 at osu.edu  Wed Jan 14 13:11:05 2009
From: terzano.1 at osu.edu (Kathryn Terzano)
Date: Thu Jan 15 15:17:10 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers
Message-ID: <29473d7a0901141011w5d8a1b88g2538b2243f1f7718@mail.gmail.com>

***PLEASE CIRCULATE***

**Deadline: January 20, 2009**

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

With support from the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs
and The Ohio State University, we are organizing the Communicative Cities:
Integrating Technology and Place Conference. The Urban Communication
Foundation (http://www.urbancomm.org/) began exploring this topic about
three years ago and held planning sessions in Washington, DC, Rome, and
Paris.

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

Join us in Columbus, Ohio June 25-26, 2009. The conference will have a
distinguished set of keynote speakers. The theme: "Communicative Cities"
encompasses a variety of areas (design, public policy, journalism) across
different scales and settings (downtowns, city/regional, global), and seeks
to address questions such as:
o       What makes a communicative city?
o       How do cities facilitate communication?
o       How can technology and face-to-face communication be integrated in a
global world?
o       What are the challenges from the exponential rise in communication
technology?
o       What are the potential impacts on place and community?
o       How can global connectivity and data accessibility be achieved?
The submission Abstract proposal DEADLINE is January 20, 2009. We will
notify you by March 15 if your presentation is accepted.

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

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

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

How to submit your proposal:
On-line submittal at: http://tinyurl.com/6AHHVZ
For mail, e-mail or fax submissions see next page.

***PLEASE CIRCULATE***

Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place            June
25-26, 2009
Conference Submission Cover Sheet
Deadline: January 20, 2009
Please complete the following information for the primary author(s) of
papers, design presentation or primary organizers of symposia
Last name, First name,
MI_____________________________________________________
Title/Position/Organization_________________________________________________
____
Street address or p. o.
box_____________________________________________________
City, state, postal code and
country______________________________________________
Telephone: ___________________FAX:___________________
e-mail:_________________
Other author/contributor names and e-mail addresses:
 ________________________________       _____________________________
________________________________        _____________________________
Presentation
title_____________________________________________________________

Presentation Category (check one)
       [  ] paper presentation*
       [  ] presentation of design or planning project*
       [  ] symposium (3-4 papers and moderator)
        * ____I will present in either paper or poster interactive session,
but I.
             __prefer poster    ___prefer paper session
       ____I will present in poster session only
       ____I will present in paper session only.

Learning objectives (Please list the learning objectives of your
presentation (needed for continuing education certification)
1. ________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________
[  } Student Paper or Design Award. For consideration for a student paper or
design award, please check the box and have a faculty member verify your
status by sending us a signed note or e-mailing it as an attachment to:
Kate Terzano, City & Regional Planning
275 W. Woodruff
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
FAX: (614)-292-7106; terzano.1@osu.edu

Key Words:
Indicate the kind of setting (such as city, neighborhood, sidewalks, parks)
_______________
The method (such as experiment, quasi-experiment, qualitative research,
theory, plan, design) ___________________________________________
Content (such as mobile technology, spatial behavior, regulations, design,
culture) ________
Submit your cover sheet and 250-500 word abstract below by January 20, 2009.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan 15 19:00:35 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 15 19:00:47 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Reworking the University: Viion, Strategies, Demands (Minnessota)
Message-ID: <035301c9776d$75ebfb70$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
Call for Ideas
 
April 24-26, 2009, University of Minnesota
 
The current "financial meltdown" has exacerbated the ongoing crises within the university, resulting in even greater budget cuts, tuition hikes, hiring freezes and layoffs. Responses from university administrations have been predominantly reactive and have served to fortify the university as an institution of neoliberal capitalism.  The administration and others have narrated this crisis as an external force that, while dramatic in the short run, can nonetheless be managed properly.  It is clear to many, however, that the neoliberal logic that has been used to transform the university over the past few decades has failed at a systemic level; the neoliberal death spiral has come home to the university.
 
In contrast to these reactionary responses, we seek to create a space for collective re-evaluation of the university in crisis as an opportunity for real transformation. Last year's conference, "Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value" (April 2008), sought to challenge the supposed inevitability of the neoliberal university.  As a continuation of this project, "Reworking the University" seeks to draw together academics, artists, and activists, to share and produce political visions, strategies and demands for building an alternative university in common.
 
"Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference.  To this end, we hope to produce spaces for individuals and groups from different backgrounds and across a variety of institutional boundaries to converge.  While the conference will include the presentation of papers on the topic of "Reworking the University," the committee's selection process will prioritize workshops, roundtables, trainings, art installations, film screenings, performances, and other forms of creative engagement.
 
The conference organizing collective has selected several questions and themes that emerged out of the 2008 conference that we will address in various formats. If you have interest in participating, please provide us with a description of your proposed contribution.  We encourage you to self-organize a session (i.e. a performance, workshop, roundtable, training, etc.) and submit it as a whole.  Feel free to use the blog (http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com) <http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com> to help facilitate session organizing.
 
Below is a list of possible topics and we, of course, welcome additional suggestions.  In submitting your ideas for sessions, please give us as much information as possible-suggestions for themes, other participants and the session format.
 
The Reworking the University conference coincides with "Reclaim Your Education - Global Week of Action 2009" (April 20-27: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/). <http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/> Organizers also encourage suggestions for additional actions as part of this event.
 
Send your submissions (of up to 500 words) to comradmn@gmail.com.  The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2009.
 
 - Confronting American Apartheid: Access to education
 - The financial crisis and the university
 - Counter/Radical Cartographies and Disorientation Guides
 - Corporate funding and the university
 - Autonomous/Open/Free Universities
 - The Poverty of Student Life
 - Post-Enlightenment Visions: Beyond the Liberal Model
 - Anarchism and Education
 - Adjunct Unionization
 - Organizing Across Campuses, Cities, and Regions
 - Post-Antioch Universities/the Antioch Legacy
 - Anti-militarization Movements in the University
 - Prisons and Education
 - Undergrad Education Beyond Commodification
 - Historical Struggles in the University: May '68 and beyond
 - Autoreduction and Tactics for Direct Action in the Workplace
 - Contemporary Struggles in the University: The Anomalous Wave & Movements in
    Italy, Greece and elsewhere
 - Expropriating Institutional Space
 - Graduate student unionization and Radicalizing the Academy
 - Anti-professionalization; Anti-disciplinarity
 - Student Debt
 - Pedagogy of the crisis
 - Creating Radical/Open Access Publications and the Politics of Citation
 
The schedule and proceedings from last year's conference can be found at:
 http://www.makeumnpublic.org/conference.htm
 
Sincerely,
 
Committee on Revolutionizing the Academy (ComRAD)
From mccreery at gol.com  Fri Jan 16 09:04:25 2009
From: mccreery at gol.com (John McCreery)
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:20:10 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Your advice, please
Message-ID: <8659f5a00901151604k45f1dab2ia41199086c37f6a5@mail.gmail.com>

Ruth and John McCreery have submitted the following abstract for the SUNTA
panel at the SEAA meeting in Taipei this coming July.

> *Domestication and Liminality: Planning Yokohama*
>
>
> This paper surveys the history of urban planning in Yokohama, where the
> two have been inseparable since the city's beginning. The earliest
> planning preceded the opening of the treaty port in 1859. The Great Kanto
> Earthquake of 1923,  the bombing of the city in 1945, and the growth of
> Japan's economy to the second largest in the world, culminating in the
> bubble of the late 1980s, spurred new waves of planning. At every stage,
> the relationship between the planned core of the city and unplanned
> development around that core has been problematic, and the cultural and
> physical presence of the non-Japanese, which is said to give the city an
> especially cosmopolitan flavor, has been an inescapable topic. Current
> attempts to position the city as "Creative City Yokohama" raise an
> interesting question: Can any planning process domesticate the liminal
> spaces where urban disorder has flourished without stifling the  creativity
> that historically arises from disorder?
>

As independent scholars, we are not as familiar with the current literature
in urban anthropology as we ought to be. We have begun the process of
collecting syllabi from the Internet and building a list of possible
sources. It is already clear, however, that if we try to look at everything
that is being taught in even the handful of syllabi we have gathered so far,
the paper will never get written. Thus, the question I put to you: Given the
topics mentioned in our abstract, what would be on your must-read, must-cite
list?

Your advice will be greatly appreciated.


John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
jlm@wordworks.jp
http://www.wordworks.jp/
From nhkwak at ucsd.edu  Thu Jan 15 13:34:39 2009
From: nhkwak at ucsd.edu (Nancy Kwak)
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:24:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]PANEL SEARCH: Greening the City (SACRPH 2009)
In-Reply-To: <852e7ac70901142307g6872cf07xdf00558c31f3eb0e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <852e7ac70901142307g6872cf07xdf00558c31f3eb0e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <852e7ac70901151334r1168556fr65db6df6f4171e11@mail.gmail.com>

From: Matt Lasner <mlasner@gsu.edu> and Nancy Kwak <nhkwak@ucsd.edu>

"Greening the City: Twenty-first-century Environmental Reform in
Historic Perspective"
A roundtable discussion / SACRPH 2009

Central to contemporary efforts to achieve environmental
sustainability is the notion that we must reform the structure of the
city and city-building practices in rapidly developing regions.  We
must change, it is argued, how we live; where we live, work, and shop;
and how, and how much, we move through space.  This panel seeks to
bring together papers that use history?in particular the history of
planning, design, and the built environment?to explore this framework.

We seek brief papers and discussants interested in exploring one or
more of the following questions: To what extent have architects, urban
planners, housing experts, and engineers commandeered environmental
concerns to justify deeper longer-standing critiques of capitalist
modes of producing urban space (speculative real-estate development)?
Are there examples from planning history that suggest how best to
achieve environmental sustainability today?or the kinds of programs
that, due to unintended consequences, ought to be avoided?  How has
planning reconciled comparable competing imperatives to foster social
equity while demanding reductions in consumption?  Does planning,
broadly conceived, have the power or imagination to fundamentally
shift patterns of fossil-fuel consumption?

Relevant themes might include:
* Environmental crisis and the city
* Gardens and green spaces
* Regulating carbon emissions
* Traffic management
* Sustainable housing

We welcome creative approaches to these themes, and are especially
interested in discussing how urban history can bring depth to our
current discussions about sustainability and "green" practices.

Please send one-page abstracts and/or letter of interest ASAP
(deadline Feb. 1) to Matt Lasner, Georgia State University
(mlasner@gsu.edu) and Nancy Kwak (nhkwak@ucsd.edu).

Nancy Kwak
UC San Diego

From sturm at sturmstories.com  Sat Jan 17 11:17:56 2009
From: sturm at sturmstories.com (Daniel Sturm)
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:26:26 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Green Jobs for Refugees
Message-ID: <dd47c2e50901170817u59d7a4adh42f0c85c886c8e2a@mail.gmail.com>

Green Jobs for Refugees

RefugeeWorks invites submissions for an upcoming issue on job
opportunities for refugees in the "green economy." The RefugeeWorks
Newsletter has a subscriber base of 2,500 readers (academics, job developers,
case managers, program managers, and social service providers). Would you
like to contribute? Please send your story ideas and/or submissions to
Daniel Sturm at:
dsturm@refugeeworks.org

The Obama administration has announced plans to create five million
green collar jobs in the coming decade, making this a very timely topic
for refugee employment specialists. Already, the green economy offers a
wide variety of jobs, ranging from entry-level blue collar work to
skilled professional employment, "The green economy needs Ph.D.'s and
Ph.-do's," comments Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy. The
diversity of this job sector mirrors the varied skill backgrounds of our
refugee and asylee clients.

As employers in traditional service and manufacturing industries
continue to cut wages and downsize, the rise of a green economy jobs
offers the potential for new growth in areas as diverse as building
retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobile manufacture,
wind power, solar power, cellulosic biomass fuels, pollution prevention,
farming, and environmentally conscious culinary and cleaning services.
Are refugees being employed in these sectors? What positive
experiences and challenges have you encountered, as you interact with
this growing new sector of employment?

The challenges and best practices of green sector employment will be the
theme of the forthcoming Spring 2009 newsletter. Please send your story
ideas and/or submissions to Daniel Sturm at dsturm@refugeeworks.org.
The submission deadline for our Green Jobs theme issue is February 10,
2009.

_____________________________________________________________
Daniel Sturm, Consultant & Managing Editor
RefugeeWorks
700 Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230
410/230-2758; fax: 410/230-2859
dsturm@refugeeworks.org
www.refugeeworks.org

REFUGEEWORKS
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A Program of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
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From amed at sfsu.edu  Sun Jan 18 15:05:59 2009
From: amed at sfsu.edu (Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi-AMED)
Date: Sun Jan 18 18:19:27 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]California Scholars for Academic Freedom Call to Halt
	Israeli Aggression in Gaza--Press Release
Message-ID: <FC56EC32AB454AEDB1008D59E56709A7@amedm>

Press Release 

January 18, 2009 


California Scholars for Academic Freedom

Joins the International Call

To Halt Israeli Aggression in Gaza

Contacts:

Sherna Berger Gluck, 310-455-1028 (CSULB) [sbgluck@csulb.edu]  

Rabab Abdulhadi, 914-882-3180 (AMED-SFSU)  [amed@sfsu.edu] 

Jess Ghannam, 415-726-3951 (UCSF) [jess.ghannam@ucsf.edu]

Sondra Hale, 310-836-5121 (UCLA) [sonhale@ucla.edu] 


CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (CS4AF),* a group of 100 scholars at 20 California institutions of higher learning, joins our colleagues from around the world in condemning the Israeli assault and ongoing threat of assault on Gaza.  

Militarily attacking a civilian occupied population is a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and represents the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years, a war that has turned Gaza and the West Bank into a pair of gigantic political prisons.  It has long been difficult to get an education in these prisons, and now in Gaza it is not possible at all. 

According to the Right to Education campaign of Birzeit University, the Gazan educational system has been unable to function for the last three weeks as a consequence of Israeli attacks: 27 of UNRWA's installations - almost all of which are schools - have been used to shelter 45,000 desperate Gazans who have fled their homes in response to threatened and actual bombardments by the Israeli army. Then, on the 6th of January, 3 UNRWA schools were bombed, killing all who were inside, in one case 42 people, and injuring 55. A number of other schools have been hit - on the 17th of January, Israeli forces shelled a UN-run school in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a mother and son. As well as taking lives, the attacks on Palestinian schools deprive thousands of children - those who have survived - of their educational facilities in the near future. A total of 67 schools have been destroyed as of the 17th of January.

Israel's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire, its stated intent to keep its troops in Gaza, and its claim that it has the right to renew its assault at its discretion are unacceptable resolutions to this situation. Israel must accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and not upon the criminal use of force.

We call for an international investigation into Israel's violations of international and humanitarian law during this assault on Gaza.  As scholars, we demand that Israel allow reporters, doctors, and scholars into Gaza to investigate the serious charges that have been lodged against it.  We also demand that Israel revoke orders banning its own Arab citizens the right to form political parties and to participate in the democratic voting process.  


Furthermore, in light of calls from Palestinian educational institutions that are bearing the brunt of this brutal attack on the right to education and life itself, we call for a national forum to discuss an academic/cultural boycott of Israel.   


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

*CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM is a one-year-old group of 100 academics who teach in 20 California institutions.  The group formed as a response to various violations of academic freedom that were arising from both the post-9/11/2001 climate of civil rights violations and the increasing  attacks on progressive educators by neo-conservatives. Many attacks were aimed at scholars of Arab, Muslim or Middle Eastern descent or at scholars researching and teaching about the Middle East, Arab and Muslim communities.  Our goal of protecting California Scholars based mainly in institutions of higher education has grown broader in scope. We recognize that violations of academic freedom anywhere are threats to academic freedom everywhere.           




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, PhD
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative
College of Ethnic Studies
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave, EP 425
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone: (415) 405-2668
Fax:     (415) 405-2573
Email:  amed@sfsu.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Jan 18 18:19:36 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 18 18:21:49 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: Open Letter to Our American Colleagues in the Midst of the
 Massacre in Gaza
Message-ID: <022801c979c3$3c5951c0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Phil Gasper <phil.gasper@gmail.com>

Birzeit University Right to Education Campaign and News Center

*Open letter to U.S academics on Gaza from American academics teaching in
Middle East*

Rania Masri, Marcy Newman , 10 January 2009

*An Open Letter to Our American Colleagues in the Midst of the Massacre in
Gaza*

On December 28th, Israel bombed the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), with
American-made F-16s, ten times destroying six buildings including research
laboratories and a female dormitory. IUG, like all Palestinian universities
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has no political affiliation. Like the rest
of the society, the faculty and students are a composite of various
political factions ranging from Communist to Islamist. IUG is a flagship
university, one with connections to the United States; Americans have taught
at the university as Fulbrighters, and professors from the university have
been Fulbrighters in the US.

One engineering student, Heba El-Sakka, responded to this military
bombardment of her university stating, "My graduation project, the fruit of
five years of hard study, vanished in a blink on an eye. It can't be. It
feels like the missiles took away a piece of me." Anas, a science major,
asked, "How can a book be the target of a military missile? I ask the
Western world, isn't that what you call 'barbarity?'"

This current bombing-which comes after an eighteen-month air, land, and sea
blockade-began mid-morning the previous day, December 27th, at the precise
time when children walk home from school. Thus, the first bombs killed a
number of school children. They were killed by US-made bombs and dropped by
US-made F-16s.

So far, Israel has bombed several schools-including those UNRWA schools
where Palestinians fled to escape the bombing-the Ministry of Justice, the
Ministry of Education, a control room for Palestine Telecommunications
Company, two animal farms, three charities, the fishing port, six
ambulances, eight mosques, pharmacies, ambulances, a mental health center,
the main prison, police stations (killing 120 civilian police officers) and
homes throughout Gaza.

At this writing, there are over 434 Palestinians who have been killed (21%
women and children) and over 2,300 Palestinians who are injured (57% women
and children), many of whom will likely die as a result of a severe shortage
of medicine and medical equipment. Moreover, unlike other wars?-such as the
Israeli assault of Lebanon in 2006-Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere to
flee; they are locked in a prison controlled by Israel via air, land, and
sea.

This is not the first time that Palestinians have been besieged by Israel in
Gaza or elsewhere in Palestine or in refugee camps in the region. This is
merely the latest siege in a sixty-one year history of massacres and ethnic
cleansing.

Although Israel's violations of the Geneva Convention have been highlighted
in some international media-such as blocking fuel, medicine, food, and
water from entering Gaza or preventing medical patients from seeking
treatment outside Gaza-other aspects of the siege are largely ignored,
particularly in the United States. Since June 2007, the Israeli-imposed
blockade has held the people of Gaza hostage as it imposes its policy of
collective punishment, which was escalated rhetorically as a shoah (Hebrew
for Holocaust) by Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defense minister in February
2008. Palestinians in Gaza, approximately half of whom are children, are
held captive to the onslaught of Israeli attacks on Gaza.

*Israel's attack on education*

The siege has not only drastically reduced the availability of medicine,
fuel, and food, but also of educational materials. The Israeli government
has obstructed educational accessibility in Gaza and prohibited students
from leaving to attend university in the West Bank or abroad. Last fall,
Khaled Al-Mudallal was one of those students trapped inside Gaza and
prevented from returning to Bradford University; his case symbolizes the
struggle for Palestinians' right to education. The "Let Khaled Study
Campaign," which emerged from student organizations at Bradford, organized
various petitions on his behalf; he finally returned to England last fall.
However, hundreds of other university students remain trapped in Gaza.

It is this context of Palestinians being denied their right to education by
Israel that must be brought to bear in discussions about the Palestinian
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Israel's
practice of infringing upon the right to education coincided with the
founding of the first Palestinian university, Birzeit, in 1975. In addition
to curricular materials being subjected to Israeli censors-both intellectual
material produced internally and imported- Palestinian students, faculty,
and academic institutions have been in a noose. In the West Bank, the
educational suffocation began when Birzeit's founding president, Dr. Hanna
Nasir, was arrested and deported to Lebanon in 1974. It continued with the
closing of all Palestinian universities, schools, and kindergartens in the
West Bank and Gaza, during the first intifada in 1987, ostensibly rendering
Palestinian education illegal. Between 1988 and 1992, all universities
remained closed, and Palestinian education was forced to go underground into
people's homes, mosques, churches, and community centers, which were
repeatedly raided and during which people were arrested. Since 1992, when
universities were allowed to reopen, Palestinians found themselves
struggling to arrive at their schools as a result of curfews, closures,
checkpoints. Since the start of the second intifada, Palestinian academic
institutions have been military targets as eight universities and over three
hundred schools have been shelled, shot at or raided by the Israeli army.

This brief history provides a crucial backdrop that led to the academic
boycott's genesis. But while progress has been made in Canada and England in
building support for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), in the United
States advocates of BDS have been met with charges of censorship and
anti-Semitism. PACBI asks for solidarity among global organizations to
support Palestinians by boycotting Israeli academic institutions, and
calling for sanctions and divestment using a strategy similar to that of the
anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Part of its initial 2004 statement
asks us to "refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural
cooperation, collaboration or joint projects with Israeli institutions" as
well as promote divestment from Israel at our universities. The Canadian
Union of Public Employees agreed to support the boycott in 2006.
Significantly, in 2005 England's Association of University Teachers (AUT)
was the first to adopt the academic boycott, reversing itself after
thirty-four days. A year later, the National Association of Teachers in
Further and Higher Education supported the boycott in theory; after it
merged with the AUT to form the University and College Union (UCU), the UCU
endorsed a pro-boycott motion in 2007. Last year the UCU congress voted
overwhelmingly to support the boycott process, albeit sans the word boycott.

*Is Israel an apartheid state?*

We know from South Africa that apartheid, in essence, means separation;
separate, and most definitely unequal. Legal experts and leading
human-rights figures including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the current United
Nations General Assembly President, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, and UN human
rights experts have used this term to describe Israel's policies towards
Palestinians. Even a former Israeli Attorney General, Michael Ben-Yair,
recognized it as such when he wrote in 2002, "In effect, we established an
apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their
capture. That regime exists to this day." Other Israelis agree, including
Amos Schocken, the publisher of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Zehava Gal-On, a
Knesset member with the Meretz-Yachad party, and Israeli historian, Ilan
Pappe.

It has been sixty-one years of Israeli apartheid and we believe the time has
come for Americans to join the academic boycott of Israel. We supported an
academic boycott of South Africa. The situation now, in the occupied
Palestinian territories, is by far worse according to numerous South
Africans who have experienced both, chief among them Tutu.

Israeli professor of history, Ilan Pappe, calls on his academic colleagues
to support the academic boycott of Israel. He argues that change will not
come from within, and that external pressure is essential for Israel to
change. If Israeli academics were working for change, he explained, then the
boycott might be seen as counterproductive. His writings on the subject make
it clear that Israeli academic institutions are complicit. Indeed, the
knowledge that upholds the system of apartheid and the current siege on Gaza
is produced in Israeli universities. Further, Israeli professors and
students alike, as a result of their compulsory, life-long military service
are called up for reserve duty every year.

Support for the boycott also came from a handful of academics in Israel,
some Israeli academics working abroad, and a significant number of Jewish
academics. But there are many American academics who don't support an
academic boycott because they believe in the free exchange of ideas. We
wonder why this value of speech seems to be more important than the lives,
which we value, of those Palestinians and Lebanese whose lives and rights
are regularly violated by Israel; moreover, as educators one of our
fundamental axioms must be: justice and human rights. Dialogue has been
attempted over the last sixty-one years and failed miserably. The argument
that Israeli academics would be punished is equally misguided; these are not
human rights, they are privileges. Access to research funds or travel to
conferences is nothing when compared to the casualties suffered by
Palestinian people and civilian infrastructure like its schools and
universities. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says nothing about
academics having a right to academic freedom, but it is clear about one's
right to access education, a right that Palestinians do not have.
Furthermore, in sixty-one years not one Israeli academic body or institution
has ever issued a statement condemning the ethnic cleansing and occupation
that continues to affect Palestinians' daily lives.

What American Academics can do about Israeli Apartheid

Thus, in the midst of this carnage in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinian
civil society organizations that have called on the international community
to support their call for BDS we urge our fellow American academics to work
towards this end on their university campuses. In the midst of this latest
massacre-the bloodiest massacre since 1967-the Palestinian Association of
University Teachers issued a statement calling for those in the
international community to "immediately impose boycotts, sanctions, and
divestments on the Apartheid Israeli state," and to demand the enforcement
of all United Nations resolutions, particularly UN Resolution 194 calling
for the right of return for all Palestinian refugees, and to demand that
Israel comply with the Fourth Geneva Convention and international
humanitarian law.

Likewise, the Palestinian National Boycott Committee, of which PACBI is a
part, issued a renewed call to action this week:

*While the US government has consistently sponsored, bankrolled and
protected from international censure Israel's apartheid and colonial
policies against the indigenous people of Palestine, the EU was able in the
past to advocate a semblance of respect for international law and universal
human rights. That distinction effectively ended on December 9th, when the
EU Council decided unanimously to reward Israel's criminal disregard of
international law by upgrading the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Israel
clearly understood from this decision that the EU condones its actions
against the Palestinians under its occupation. Palestinian civil society
also got the message: the EU governments have become no less complicit in
Israel's war crimes than their US counterpart.*

The large majority of world governments, particularly in the global south,
share part of the blame, as well. By continuing business as usual with
Israel, in trade agreements, arms deals, academic and cultural ties,
diplomatic openings, they have provided the necessary background for the
complicity of world powers and, consequentially, for Israel's impunity.
Furthermore, their inaction within the United Nations is inexcusable.

Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, President of the UN General Assembly
prescribed in a recent address before the Assembly the only moral way
forward for the world's nations in dealing with Israel:

*More than twenty years ago we in the United Nations took the lead from
civil society when we agreed that sanctions were required to provide a
nonviolent means of pressuring South Africa to end its violations. Today,
perhaps we in the United Nations should consider following the lead of a new
generation of civil society, who are calling for a similar non-violent
campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its
violations.*

Now, more than ever, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
National Committee, BNC, calls upon international civil society not just to
protest and condemn in diverse forms Israel's massacre in Gaza, but also to
join and intensify the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
campaign against Israel to end its impunity and to hold it accountable for
its persistent violation of international law and Palestinian rights.
Without sustained, effective pressure by people of conscience the world
over, Israel will continue with its gradual, rolling acts of genocide
against the Palestinians, burying any prospects for a just peace under the
blood and rubble of Gaza, Nablus and Jerusalem.

We urge our fellow academics to not only support this statement in theory,
but also in practice by pushing for academic boycott on your campuses as you
return to classes this week. Supporting the human rights of Palestinians is
not anti-Semitic; it is about human rights: Palestinian human rights. If
this were any other captive population besieged for seven days with US-made
material, we would be outraged and acting. So we are asking you to act now.
It is our tax dollars at work that enables this massacre to take place. Let
us work for justice, for consistency. Let us make apartheid, in all its
forms, only present in history books.

*R**ania Masri and Marcy Newman are American professors teaching in the
Middle East. Rania Masri, from North Carolina, is Assistant Professor of
Environmental Science at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. Marcy Newman,
from California, is Associate Professor of English at An Najah National
University, Nablus, Palestine. * 


From kdonahue at plymouth.edu  Fri Jan 16 15:04:28 2009
From: kdonahue at plymouth.edu (Katherine C. Donahue)
Date: Sun Jan 18 18:24:48 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?L=E9vi-Strauss_session?=
Message-ID: <004301c97815$a69886f0$f3c994d0$@edu>

Dear Colleagues,

Given the enthusiastic response to an email Deborah Reed-Danahay and I sent
out in late December concerning a proposed session on Claude L?vi-Strauss,
we are moving ahead with organizing such a session. I have pasted in the
session abstract here, and have pasted in the AAA theme information below
that. If you are interested in participating in this session, which we
anticipate submitting to the SAE and possibly to AES or SCA as well, please
send a draft of an abstract by the end of January to both of us: Katherine
Donahue kdonahue@plymouth.edu and Deborah Reed-Danahay der5@buffalo.edu for
our consideration and in order for us to work up the session, the
discussants, and submit it on time to the relevant sections. 

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to email me, Kate Donahue.

Best wishes,

Kate Donahue

Plymouth State University

 

 

L?vi-Strauss, Europe, and the Ends of Anthropology

 

This session considers the relationships between the work of Claude
L?vi-Strauss and the ends of Europeanist anthropology.  L?vi-Strauss
represents the last, or the end of, a certain type of European intellectual
that reigned during the 20th century: the anthropologist as hero 

and the anthropologist of grand theory.   His journeys to the ends of the
earth (or, rather, ?an end to journeying?), including to the Amazon that he
chronicles in Tristes Tropiques, entailed a nostalgic quest for the exotic
and the primitive as a form of self discovery for the European
anthropologist.  Papers in this session will take a historical perspective
in order to explore and critique the applications of structuralism in
Europeanist anthropology as well as the personal influences L?vi-Strauss had
on French anthropology.  More broadly, the session considers the
implications of the L?vi-Straussian project for the idea of (?ends of?) an
anthropology of Europe and especially a contemporary, multicultural Europe.

 

 

Here?s the AAA theme information:

AAA 2009 CFP:

THE END/S OF ANTHROPOLOGY

 

What is the relevance of anthropology in today?s world?  Where does our
discipline stand in the age of hyper-science and the genome; during an era
in which ethnography - as a method and form of textured representation - is
being mobilized with vigor and confidence by those working in other
disciplinary formations; at a moment when the questions we're asking are
also being answered by others in the humanities, social sciences, and media
(and often with much more popular recognition)?  Does anthropology still
provide a unique contribution? 

What are its contemporary goals, and are they different from those of
previous intellectual generations?  

 

The 2009 meetings of the American Anthropological Association will provide a
critical space to tackle these scholarly, theoretical, and political
concerns head-on as we examine our academic and public roles in relation to
the most pressing problems confronting our world today. 

We intentionally offer the double entendre of ?ends?   (as both conclusions
and purposes) in order to focus attention on anthropology?s changing
relationships to other disciplines and to a variety of publics.  Perhaps
thinking collectively about our traditional subjects, objects, and projects
would allow us to find new sources of energy for anthropological work.  We
hope to generate serious conversation about these issues as we continue to
reinvent anthropology for this new millennium. Themes we hope to explore
include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

1)    The end/s of relativism?  While cultural relativism has been one

of anthropology?s foundational tenets, it has been under direct attack
because the rhetorics and realities of global terrorism over-determine
public discourse today.  How have anthropologists balanced their investments
in relativism with their understandings of their roles as cultural critics,
and how might we continue to redefine (and defend) the basic truths of
cultural relativism in such a hostile political environment?

 

2)    The end/s of identity?  Contemporary anthropologists have been

pioneers of scholarly analyses about how identities are forged and
politicized, and have been particularly vocal in demonstrating how cultural
identifications pass themselves off as natural.  However, in decrying the
essentialisms mobilized by previous generations of social scientists, we
still struggle to make sense of the complex relationships between identity
and power.  For example, deconstructing racial identity has been a necessary
project, but is it sufficient in our quest to challenge people?s robust
investments in racial and racist ideologies?

 Is denaturalization enough to challenge the continued deployment of
identity categories as mechanisms of social control?

 

3)    The end/s of publics?  While it has become commonplace to link

the concerns of particular localities to national, regional, and global
dimensions of practice and analysis, we still often struggle
methodologically to conduct ethnography in today?s world.  How must we
re-think notions of space and time in relation to the new kinds of publics
we analyze and engage today, whether these publics are migrant communities,
diasporic communities, transnational religious communities, scientific
communities, etc.?  How do we conceptualize the explosion of mass mediated
intimacies, and what can this tell us about new forms of social and economic
engagement? What kinds of publics might we seek to address (or even produce)
with our work, and how do we push the field?s epistemological and
presentational conventions in order to effectively do so?

 

 

 

 

 

Katherine C. Donahue

Professor, Anthropology

MSC 39

Plymouth State University

Plymouth, NH 03264

 

From abir_sasso at yahoo.com  Sun Jan 18 17:25:14 2009
From: abir_sasso at yahoo.com (Abir Saksouk-Sasso)
Date: Sun Jan 18 20:53:41 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Gaza Mapping
Message-ID: <401812.1515.qm@web33001.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear all,
?
The Gaza - Map of Bombing Intensity & Casualties, Dec. 27 -12 Jan, 2009 - is out. It is available on the blog http://kharita.wordpress.com/? to view and download. Please distribute widely.

An update to include additional days will be ready soon.

A detailed?destruction map is in the process of work. 
?
We all hope we don't do more than one update and we never work on a similar map again.

ps. For those who wanted to see the Lebanon 2006 destruction maps, they can be found on the following website: http://www.samidoun.org/?q=taxonomy/term/69+70/0?


      
From tuomas.martikainen at abo.fi  Thu Jan 15 09:45:45 2009
From: tuomas.martikainen at abo.fi (Tuomas Martikainen)
Date: Mon Jan 19 12:36:39 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]South Asian Diaspora, New Journal
Message-ID: <496EE9A9.1060609@abo.fi>

South Asian Diaspora

New to Routledge for 2009

The South Asian Diaspora, shaped by dispersions of people, goods, ideas 
and beliefs that flowed from and through the Indian Subcontinent is 
currently one of the world's largest diasporas. India, Pakistan, 
Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives all anchor a sense 
of home for people who have moved outside the region through the 
centuries. These territories evoke emotional, social, political, 
economic, cultural and literary affiliations as well which find 
expression in multiple ways. The diaspora is also marked by struggles 
over meanings and tensions both amongst the diasporics and with people 
in the countries where the diasporics now inhabit. In South Asian 
Diaspora we aim to explore some of the issues that the South Asian 
diaspora presents for the contemporary world.


Call for Papers: At Home in the World: South Asians and the BBC World 
Service 1932-2008
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rsadcfp1.pdf

Editorial Board
EDITOR
Ajaya K. Sahoo - University of Hyderabad, India

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Alison Blunt - Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Parvati Raghuram - Open University, UK
P. Pratap Kumar - University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

REVIEWS EDITOR
Mala Pandurang - SNDT Women's University, India

EDITORIAL BOARD
Vijay Agnew - York University, Canada
Dibyesh Anand - Westminster University, UK
Muhammad Anwar - University of Warwick, UK
Arjun Appadurai - New York University, USA
Roger Ballard - University of Manchester, UK
Crispin Bates - University of Edinburgh, UK
Chandrasekhar Bhat - University of Hyderabad, India
Claire Dwyer - University College London, UK
John Eade - University of Surrey, UK
Thomas Faist - University of Bielefeld, Germany
Katy Gardner - University of Sussex, UK
Marie Gillespie - Open University, UK
Gayatri Gopinath - New York University, USA
Knut Axel Jacobsen - University of Bergen, Norway
Ravindra K. Jain - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Virinder Kalra - University of Manchester, UK
Binod Khadria - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Nazli Kibria - Boston University, USA
Kim Knott - University of Leeds, UK
Vinay Lal - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Karen Leonard - University of California, Irvine, USA
Chandani Lokuge - Monash University, Australia
Sunaina Maira - University of California, Davis, USA
Tuomas Martikainen - ?bo Akademi University, Finland
Christopher McDowell - City University London, UK
Brinda J. Mehta - Mills College, USA
Sudesh Mishra - Deakin University, Australia
Amalendu Misra - Lancaster University, UK
Patricia Mohammed - University of West Indies, St. Augustine
Gautam Premnath - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Bandana Purkayastha - University of Connecticut, USA
Rajesh Rai - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kasturi Ray - San Francisco State University, USA
Paula Richman - Oberlin College, USA
William Safran - University of Colorado, USA
Gabriel Sheffer - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Khachig T?l?lyan - Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
Kamala Visweswaran - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Carmen Voigt-Graf - University of South Pacific, Fiji
Pnina Werbner - Keele University, UK


From J.Quirk at hull.ac.uk  Mon Jan 19 14:27:48 2009
From: J.Quirk at hull.ac.uk (Joel Quirk)
Date: Mon Jan 19 12:45:58 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa
Message-ID: <98F779624D1A7043915F38387CCEC66901DE6838@EXCL1VS1.adir.hull.ac.uk>

From: Joel Quirk (j.quirk@hull.ac.uk).
Subject: Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa.
Date: January 19, 2009.

____________


Call for Papers:

VI International Conference on African Labour

Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa

23rd-25th of September 2009  

This is a revised call for papers and participation for an
interdisciplinary conference on 'Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary
Bondage in Africa', to take place at the Wilberforce Institute for the
study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull, United Kingdom. This conference
will explore linkages between the history of slavery and migration in
Africa and contemporary forms of bondage, such as child labour,
'classical' 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. The conference has been sponsored by: 

*	The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
(http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise).
*	The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of
Witwatersrand (http://www.migration.org.za).
*	The Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto
(http://www.africanos.eu/ceaup/). 
*	The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global
Migrations of African Peoples, York University,
(http://www.yorku.ca/tubman/Home/index.html).
*	The European Union Seventh Framework Programme, EURESCL Project
(http://www.eurescl.eu). 
*	The British Academy UK-Africa Partnership Programme
(http://www.britac.ac.uk/). 


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 caution and complicity. 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 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 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 'classical' 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 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?
*	Institutional influences and colonial practises: On what terms
can we connect colonial budgets, 'native' policies, middle rank
administration and forced labour practices?

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, by the
13th of March 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
March 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. The organizers of the conference plan on
publishing a selection of revised conference papers as a special issue
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jan 20 10:47:42 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 20 10:48:27 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Mobilization and Protest Communication on the Social
	Web
Message-ID: <00e401c97b16$83e94690$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>


Call for Papers - Deadline 1 February 2009!
5th ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009

Section: Protest Politics
Panel: Mobilization and Protest Communication on the Social Web
(http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=557)

Panel Organizers: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Baringhorst, Dr. habil. Heike Walk, Dr. 
Markus Rohde
Social web applications (Wikis, Blogs, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Orkut, 
etc.) aim to support end
users' content production and to allow for social networking of internet 
users. Since these new
technologies (often also referred to as "Web2.0") enhance users' 
possibilities to direct and active
participation in collaborative web content creation, they are looked upon as 
promising means for
democratization while also enabling conditions for unprecedented domination 
and power.
The work of transnational social movement organizations and protest networks 
is highly dependent on
social networking, trust-building and strategic alliances. These NGO 
networks are addressing political
issues which cause global problems and challenges to cope with (e.g., 
human/women/childrens'
rights, poverty, ecological and environmental issues like sustainable 
development, pollution etc., fair
trade, international democratization, peace, health and other problems that 
are mainly interconnected
with implications of globalization). Transnational NGOs and civil society 
organizations have been fairly
successful in setting many of these issues on the public agenda by 
organizing global campaigns and
mobilizing for world-wide protest activities. One central success factor of 
this international engagement
was the early adoption and intense use of new media and internet 
technologies by NGOs since the
early 1990th.
Since the new internet technologies, which are summarized by the label 
"social web", offer a whole
range of new opportunities for social networking, collaborative engagement 
and the building of social
capital among users, it is expected that transnational NGOs and civil 
society organizations will develop
strategies for the appropriation, usage and adaptation of these social web 
applications for their
purposes. The presented panel aims to analyze these NGO strategies 
concerning mobilization and
campaigning on the social web. Specifically, possibilities and limitations 
for the democratization of
media and formation of independent media networks, which enable new forms of 
collective action. It
addresses researchers investigating in transnational NGO activities and the 
socio-technical basic
conditions for international NGO networking.
The scope of submissions includes (but is not limited to):
. social web appropriation strategies of NGOs
. use of social web tools for mobilization and campaigning
. new forms of transnational NGO collaboration
. requirements analyses and needs assessment of NGOs and civil society 
activists
. development of social web applications for NGOs
. evaluation studies and case studies
. quantitative and qualitative analyses
. empirical research methods for social web technology usage
. social web applications for open source/open access movement engagement
. the deliberative quality of protest communication on social networking 
sites on the web
. protest communication on commercial formats of social networking sites
. The social web - a technical opportunity structure for the emergence of a 
global civil society?

A proposal of 300 words is due by 1 February 2009.

Please submit your paper on the web using the form at:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/select_panels.asp?panelID=557&sectionID=40 


From cmgordon at cuhk.edu.hk  Wed Jan 21 11:45:05 2009
From: cmgordon at cuhk.edu.hk (Gordon Mathews)
Date: Wed Jan 21 10:20:19 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Possible AAA panel: CFP
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.1.20090121112759.045b3b20@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk>



Hello,

I am interested in putting together a panel for AAA on the topic of 
"Africans in China/Chinese in Africa," exploring ethnographically the 
growing and ever more tangled economic, social and cultural links 
between the two regions.  My own research is on Chungking Mansions, 
Hong Kong, and on the mobile phone trade in China-made copy phones 
that goes on there--I estimate that 15%-20% of the mobile phones now 
in use in sub-Saharan Africa have passed through Chungking 
Mansions.  My graduate student has been travelling with traders 
between south China and Nigeria, exploring all the complex financial 
and legal obstacles traders face in their journeys.   We are looking 
for anthropologists who have been ethnographiocally exploring in 
different ways the Chinese presence in Africa or the African presence 
in China.  If you are interested, please be in touch with me off-list.  Thanks!

Best regards,
Gordon Mathews 


From sveissiere at ucn.ca  Mon Jan 19 10:06:59 2009
From: sveissiere at ucn.ca (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Veissi=E8re=2C__Samuel=2C_Dr=2E?=)
Date: Wed Jan 21 10:22:17 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Northern Heterotopias: CFP dealline extended to March 15
Message-ID: <442081E5774CF34C840BF71B1B221DAD028F41AA@tp-b31-9370.keewatincc.ca>


CFP Deadline extended to March 15


 


 "Northern Heterotopias," 4th Annual Aboriginal and Northern Studies Conference, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, 4-5 June 2009


https://mycampus.ucn.ca/ics/Welcome/UCN_Conference/Call_for_Papers.jnz 

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 15 January 2009.

Submission Detail:

The abstract or title page must include: (1) the name, affiliation, email address and telephone number of the principal presenter; (2) name(s) of co-presenters/co-authors; (3) a brief biography of each author/presenter.

Please submit your abstract using one of the following methods:

Email attachment (PDF or Word) to: sveissiere@ucn.ca

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

Mail to:

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

 

From d-slater at sophia.ac.jp  Wed Jan 21 18:50:45 2009
From: d-slater at sophia.ac.jp (David Slater)
Date: Wed Jan 21 10:25:41 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
Message-ID: <83a2e12e0901210150s6fedc8d9mdb7f5ea8fd41782@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Everyone,
     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a large and
growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has anyone used
one with any particular success?

Thanks,
David


-- 
David H. Slater
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Sophia University, Tokyo

The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the inconvenience.
From Nathalie_Boucher at UCS.INRS.Ca  Wed Jan 21 12:28:12 2009
From: Nathalie_Boucher at UCS.INRS.Ca (Boucher Nathalie)
Date: Wed Jan 21 12:37:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Panel on urban public places
Message-ID: <F26597FC61277B46AB000A63491CFC0BB5BC7B@pluton.INRS-UCS.UQuebec.Ca>


I wish to put together a panel on urban public places, for the CASCA/AES Conference in Vancouver, May 13-16 2009. In this age of globalised crisis, virtual interactions and movements, and the limitless desire for an uncontaminated environment and relations, what do cities offer their inhabitants in order to meet and exchange? What is happening in cities with traditional public places, no public places, unmaintained public places, or with no hope for public places? What is happening to and in traditional spaces of interactions (like parks, squares and the Habermas Caf?s) in relatively old cities ? Are there any new public places emerging from private visions of the city, like in Los Angeles? Where do people gather, mix, put their tolerance to the test in view of the heterogeneity of their city?

Deadline is January 31st. The notice is pretty short!!! If you are interested, please send me asap 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; 100 words abstract of the paper.

nathalie.boucher@ucs.inrs.ca

Nathalie Boucher

?tudiante au doctorat en ?tudes Urbaines
Institut national de la recherche Scientifique, UCS
www.ucs.inrs.ca

From pelintan at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 18:47:03 2009
From: pelintan at gmail.com (Pelin Tan)
Date: Wed Jan 21 15:32:19 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
In-Reply-To: <83a2e12e0901210150s6fedc8d9mdb7f5ea8fd41782@mail.gmail.com>
References: <83a2e12e0901210150s6fedc8d9mdb7f5ea8fd41782@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <95d66d560901210847u106c1f73qaa779317db905291@mail.gmail.com>

Hi David
not a reader maybe but does this help for your filedwork? you can contact to
Nowox: www.novox.ras.eu.org/site/spip.php?article93

best
p.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:50 AM, David Slater <d-slater@sophia.ac.jp>wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a large and
> growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
> cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has anyone used
> one with any particular success?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> --
> David H. Slater
> Faculty of Liberal Arts
> Sophia University, Tokyo
>
> The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
> returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the
> inconvenience.
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>



-- 
Pelin Tan
Research Assistant
Istanbul Technical University
Institute of Social Sciences
Architecture Faculty, Taskisla
34437 - Istanbul
phone: +90 2122433181
fax     : +90 2122456631
www.tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.slowfood.com
www.sulukule.org
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com
From rthomas at aaanet.org  Wed Jan 21 16:53:07 2009
From: rthomas at aaanet.org (Richard Thomas)
Date: Wed Jan 21 18:04:10 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAAs Annual Meeting   
Message-ID: <E49954950F273A44A462B02055E397E302D6943730@AAAMAIL.aaanet.org>

If you are looking for collaboration opportunities for the upcoming AAA meeting in Philadelphia, you might want to try the AAA website bulletin board - http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/coop.cfm .  A search tab has been added - "AAA Annual Meeting" for people to post session and paper ideas.  There is no cost associated for using this site.  Take a look, and if it looks worthwhile, spread the news!

Thanks.

Richard Thomas, membership services
New website features @ aaanet.org
Bookmark membership and meeting FAQs
http://www.aaanet.org/help/membership.cfm
http://www.aaanet.org/help/meeting.cfm

From vincent.lyon-callo at wmich.edu  Wed Jan 21 18:00:01 2009
From: vincent.lyon-callo at wmich.edu (Vincent Lyon-Callo)
Date: Wed Jan 21 18:06:38 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
Message-ID: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>

David,

As far as I've been able to tell, such a volume does not exist.  With some searching around, you can find a range of papers on the situation in different countries-and many are increasing analyzing homelessness rather than just describing homeless people-but there really isn't an edited volume that does it.  Irene Glasser had her book, but that's 15 years old now and wasn't a collection of essays.  It's actually something that I've thought about trying to pull together for many years, but have never followed through on it.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: David Slater <d-slater@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:50 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness

> Hello Everyone,
>     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a 
> large and
> growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
> cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has 
> anyone used
> one with any particular success?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
> -- 
> David H. Slater
> Faculty of Liberal Arts
> Sophia University, Tokyo
> 
> The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
> returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the 
> inconvenience._______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
> 


From alforep at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 16:45:50 2009
From: alforep at gmail.com (Alcira Forero-Pena)
Date: Thu Jan 22 12:49:19 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
In-Reply-To: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>
References: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>
Message-ID: <9331809a0901211545n37a96086s8403d2d4949cde57@mail.gmail.com>

David,

I thought that Anthony Marcus's book, *Where Have All the Homeless Gone*,
 will be useful for your purpose. Check it out.

http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Where_Have_All_The_Homeless_Gone-The_Making_And_Unmaking_Of_A_Crisis/1845451015/

Best,

Alcira

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Vincent Lyon-Callo <
vincent.lyon-callo@wmich.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> As far as I've been able to tell, such a volume does not exist.  With some
> searching around, you can find a range of papers on the situation in
> different countries-and many are increasing analyzing homelessness rather
> than just describing homeless people-but there really isn't an edited volume
> that does it.  Irene Glasser had her book, but that's 15 years old now and
> wasn't a collection of essays.  It's actually something that I've thought
> about trying to pull together for many years, but have never followed
> through on it.
>
> --
> Vin Lyon-Callo
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> Western Michigan University
> Kalamazoo MI 49008
> 269-387-3964
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Slater <d-slater@sophia.ac.jp>
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:50 am
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a
> > large and
> > growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
> > cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has
> > anyone used
> > one with any particular success?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
> > --
> > David H. Slater
> > Faculty of Liberal Arts
> > Sophia University, Tokyo
> >
> > The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
> > returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the
> > inconvenience._______________________________________________
> > URBANTH-L mailing list
> > URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> > http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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-- 
Alcira Forero-Pe?a, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado at Denver
Auraria Campus,
Administration Building 1201 5th St.
Suite 270 Denver, CO 80204
USA
Tel: 303-556-2801
From euretsky at mac.com  Wed Jan 21 21:30:33 2009
From: euretsky at mac.com (Elanah Uretsky)
Date: Thu Jan 22 12:54:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
In-Reply-To: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>
References: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>
Message-ID: <FF88B22B-4109-4437-AFCD-66E271EBAB95@mac.com>

You  might want to try getting in touch with Kim Hopper at Columbia.  
Kim has done extensive research on homelessness in NY, which he also  
wrote about in his book Reckoning with Homelessness (Cornell  
University Press 2003).

Best,
Elanah Uretsky


On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Vincent Lyon-Callo wrote:

> David,
>
> As far as I've been able to tell, such a volume does not exist.   
> With some searching around, you can find a range of papers on the  
> situation in different countries-and many are increasing analyzing  
> homelessness rather than just describing homeless people-but there  
> really isn't an edited volume that does it.  Irene Glasser had her  
> book, but that's 15 years old now and wasn't a collection of  
> essays.  It's actually something that I've thought about trying to  
> pull together for many years, but have never followed through on it.
>
> --
> Vin Lyon-Callo
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> Western Michigan University
> Kalamazoo MI 49008
> 269-387-3964
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Slater <d-slater@sophia.ac.jp>
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:50 am
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a
>> large and
>> growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
>> cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has
>> anyone used
>> one with any particular success?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> David H. Slater
>> Faculty of Liberal Arts
>> Sophia University, Tokyo
>>
>> The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
>> returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the
>> inconvenience._______________________________________________
>> URBANTH-L mailing list
>> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
>> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan 22 13:13:28 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 22 13:13:46 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Internship in Korean Community Development (Nodutdol, Korea)
Message-ID: <019901c97cbd$2179bfa0$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Yul-san Liem <yul-san@nodutdol.org>

please circulate

SUMMER INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

Application Deadline: March 15, 2009

Through grassroots organizing, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
seeks to bridge divisions created by war, nation, gender, sexual 
orientation,
language, class, and generation among Koreans and to empower our community 
to
address the injustices we and other people of color face here and abroad.
Nodutdol works in collaboration with other progressive organizations 
locally,
nationally and internationally as part of a larger movement for peace and
social change. To learn more about Nodutdol, go to www.nodutdol.org.

In 2009, Nodutdol, as part of a national coalition, will launch a national
campaign for the ratification of a Peace Treaty on the Korean peninsula.
Summer interns will assist in the campaign in many different ways, and
responsibilities may include:

- Studying the origin of Korea's national division and the history of the
people's movement for peace and national unification;
- Surveying Korean American youth and students to assess general attitudes
on the prospect for peace and unification on the Korean peninsula;
- Developing workshops and educational materials aimed at reaching and
mobilizing a broad base of Korean American youth and students in the 
campaign;
- Developing outreach materials and utilizing mass media to promote a
national Peace Treaty tour;
- Making contacts with student organizations on local campuses to arrange
workshops and other educational events;
-  Bringing together student leaders from various campuses and organizations
to form a host committee for the national Peace Treaty tour; and
-  Facilitating workshops and giving presentations at schools, churches, and
community organizations.

Internship will be 10 weeks from June through August. (Exact dates/times
TBD.)  For inquiries, call 718 335 0419.

Send resumes and cover letters no later than March 15, 2009 to:

Summer Internship Search Committee
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
5322 Roosevelt Ave, 2 floor
Woodside NY 11377
Or to nodutdol@yahoogroups.com

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From fkeles at maxwell.syr.edu  Wed Jan 21 18:10:20 2009
From: fkeles at maxwell.syr.edu (Fethi Keles)
Date: Thu Jan 22 13:17:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
References: <b3a25cf3782e.497762a1@wmich.edu>
Message-ID: <77FB233D27EF484D8F5E445D014C8C719FF8D0@SUEXCL-03.ad.syr.edu>

hi--I know of no such reader, either, but this volume by Bourgois might be of some interest http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9188.php maybe?
 
Fethi Keles
Syracuse, NY

________________________________

From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu on behalf of Vincent Lyon-Callo
Sent: Wed 1/21/2009 6:00 PM
To: David Slater
Cc: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness



David,

As far as I've been able to tell, such a volume does not exist.  With some searching around, you can find a range of papers on the situation in different countries-and many are increasing analyzing homelessness rather than just describing homeless people-but there really isn't an edited volume that does it.  Irene Glasser had her book, but that's 15 years old now and wasn't a collection of essays.  It's actually something that I've thought about trying to pull together for many years, but have never followed through on it.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: David Slater <d-slater@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:50 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness

> Hello Everyone,
>     I am teaching a fieldwork course on Tokyo Homeless--which a
> large and
> growing problem in neoliberal Japan. I am looking for a reader on the
> cross-cultural issues, including research, of homelessness. Has
> anyone used
> one with any particular success?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> --
> David H. Slater
> Faculty of Liberal Arts
> Sophia University, Tokyo
>
> The Sophia server rejects emails at times. Should your mail to me get
> returned, please resend to: dhslater@gmail.com. Sorry for the
> inconvenience._______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
>


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From Laurix at aol.com  Wed Jan 21 18:18:32 2009
From: Laurix at aol.com (Laurix@aol.com)
Date: Thu Jan 22 15:25:45 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reader on the Anthropology of Homelessness
Message-ID: <c64.3d74957e.36a90748@aol.com>

Hello!
There were a few very good dissertations at the New School in the 90s. Amy 
Donovan comes to mind. I will forward this to her in case she knows of good 
reads for you. 
Greetings, 
Laura Roush


Laura Roush
Profesora-Investigadora
Centro de Estudios Antropol?gicos
El Colegio de Michoac?n
Mart?nez de Navarrete 505
Zamora, Michoac?n

http://www.linkedin.com/in/laurix



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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jan 22 18:00:30 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 22 18:00:47 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Workshop on Dehumanisation (Durham U)
Message-ID: <005c01c97ce5$3e5bfa20$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

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

From: Ben Anderson <Ben.Anderson@DURHAM.AC.UK>

Dear all,

Below are details of a workshop being held in March at Durham on the theme 
of 'Dehumanisation'. If you'd like to attend please email me by the 6th of 
February. The workshop is free - but places are limited.
best wishes,

Ben
Dr Ben Anderson
Department of Geography
Durham University

Dehumanisation

One Day Workshop: 6th March 2009 (10.00 - 5.00).

Co-sponsored by:
Institute of Advanced Studies (Durham University) and the Social/Spatial 
Theory Research cluster (Department of Geography, Durham University).

Speakers
Chris Philo: Unreasonable humans and dehumanising rationalities
Adi Ophir: Economies of Violence OR From abandonment to catastrophization: 
Reflections on the war on Gaza.
Christa Acampora: Ways of being an enemy
Eduardo Mendieta (title tbc)
Iain Wilkinson: Social suffering: From protest to reform
Louisa Cadman: Life and death decisions in posthuman times (title tbc)
Paul Harrison: The absence of testimony

What is the relation between being-human and the myriad processes of 
dehumanisation through which life is damaged, destroyed, and abandoned? And 
how to respond - analytically, methodologically, politically - to processes 
of dehumanisation in an age animated by redefinitions of what it is to be 
human? Within the overall theme of 'de-humanisation', the workshop will 
enable inter and multi disciplinary work across two interlinked 
problematics. First, how to conceptualise processes of dehumanisation, and 
how to distinguish between distinctive forms of dehumanisation? The focus 
here will be on broad questions of the theoretical vocabularies used to 
understand how human life is reduced, abandoned or destroyed, including 
disappearance, suffering, loss, harm, and damage. Second, how are processes 
of de-humanisation countered and protested through types of witnessing. The 
workshop will engage with the practices through which suffering in 
particular is witnessed through visual and other media (including 
photography). These two ethical and political problematics will be addressed 
by drawing into relation substantive work on a range of issues central to 
the contemporary political situation, including militarisation (specifically 
the 'war on terror'), colonialisation, new technologies and urban 
infrastructure.

More specifically, the workshop will open up and explore questions 
including:

1: What might 'dehumanisation' mean in the context of the radical decentring 
of the human and the resurgence of questions of what, if anything, is 
distinctive about 'being-human'. Or, put differently, what is the relation 
between conceptualising and witnessing processes of dehumanisation and 
different types of humanism?

2: How to think through the distinctions between the categories that 
underpin any account of dehumanisation, including suffering, damage, loss, 
injustice, wrong, and evil, in the context of contemporary ways in which 
human life is reduced, destroyed and abandoned?

3: What is the relation between conceptualisations of the human - whether 
crouched in terms of capacities for reasoned discourse or a susceptibility 
to being affected that follows from finite embodiment - and processes of 
dehumanisation?

4: How does the damage and destruction of human bodies coexist in complex 
ways with other forms of destruction -  such as of non-living entities or 
non-humans? How, then, to witness processes of dehumanisation without 
necessarily reproducing an anthropocentric bias that makes the human the 
measure of the world?
 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Jan 23 12:53:20 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 23 12:55:20 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 JOB: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Studies (Colgate U)
Message-ID: <012801c97d83$bd3e3c10$0301a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Colgate University
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Studies

Colgate University's 30-year old, interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict 
Studies Program (P-CON) seeks to appoint a one-year postdoctoral scholars in 
Peace and Conflict Studies. The P-CON Program focuses on reflexive and 
critical analyses of peace and conflict. We encourage applications from 
candidates whose own research examines particular regional/historical 
conflicts or transnational dimensions of conflict, as well as the general 
intellectual frameworks developed to explain them.

Applications from candidates in the Social Sciences and the Humanities will 
be considered. The Colgate P-CON Postdoctoral Scholar will teach one course 
in P-CON each semester, share their research work with the community, and 
actively participate in and contribute to the program's active event's 
calendar. Applicants should have received their PhD no earlier than 2006; 
persons holding tenure-track appointments are not eligible to apply. PhD 
candidates must have degree in hand by the time of appointment. This 
position carries an annual salary of $42,000 with full benefits and some 
research or travel support; there is a possibility of renewal for a second 
year.

Colgate University is an AA/EOE institution and women and minorities are 
encouraged to apply. Developing and sustaining a diverse faculty, staff, and 
student body further the university's educational mission. Please submit an 
application letter and supporting materials (CV, three recommendation 
letters, and sample of written work not to exceed 20 pages; cover letter 
should indicate what research or writing the candidate will be engaged in 
while at Colgate) as soon as possible to : Daniel B. Monk, Director, P-CON 
Program, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346-9778. Review 
of applications will begin on Feb 6th, 2009. 


From jhowell at csulb.edu  Thu Jan 22 17:23:32 2009
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Fri Jan 23 17:53:35 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]LEEDS PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT
Message-ID: <A85387B0-3C75-4FB7-A92C-76ADA91ABFB9@csulb.edu>

The Leeds Prize is awarded each year by the Society for Urban/National/ 
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA, formerly known as the  
Society for Urban Anthropology) for the outstanding book in urban,  
national and/or transnational anthropology published in 2008. The  
prize is named in honor of the late Anthony Leeds, a distinguished  
pioneer in urban anthropology. The Prize Committee is chaired by  
Robert Rotenberg and includes Jo?o Biehl (winner of the 2006 prize for  
?Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment? (University of California  
Press) Steven Gregory (winner of the 2007 prize for ?The Devil Behind  
the Mirror?(University of California Press) and Xiang Biao ?Body  
Shopping? (University of Texas Press). This year's deadline for  
submission is June 15, 2009. No books received after that date will be  
considered for the 2009 prize. A letter of nomination (from an author,  
a colleague, or a publisher) and *four* copies of the book should be  
sent to:

Robert Rotenberg
Leeds Prize Committee
Department of Anthropology
DePaul University
2343 N. Racine Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614-3107

Please be sure that books are clearly marked "Leeds Prize Committee."

To be eligible for consideration a book must be relevant to the field  
of urban, national or transnational anthropology. The book must have a  
publication year of 2008. Textbooks and anthologies will not be  
considered, but books of original scholarship by more than one author  
may be submitted.
Authors must to be willing to serve on the prize selection committee  
for three years if their book is chosen. Authors must be willing to  
have their prize acceptance remarks published in *City and Society*,  
SUNTA's journal. Please address all questions concerning the prize to  
Robert Rotenberg.
  
From catey at ufl.edu  Fri Jan 23 09:23:35 2009
From: catey at ufl.edu (A. Scott Catey)
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:12:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAA 2009
Message-ID: <2037978864.6771232720615840.JavaMail.osg@osgjas01.cns.ufl.edu>

all:

please see the panel abstract and CFP below. Requesting submission 
of paper abstracts by 15 Feb 2009, currently seeking section 
support.

CALL FOR PAPERS for AAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2009, in PHILADELPHIA

Fixing Presents: Memory Work and the Authoring of the Past in the 
Present

In this panel, we seek to interrogate memory as a social practice. 
Memory is often relegated to the disciplines of history and 
philosophy, and is too often conceived as a byproduct of the 
interaction between specific historical events and individual 
experiences. Within anthropology, memory has been positioned not 
as merely a personal cognitive or emotive process, but as a 
collective social practice by which human groups attempt to deal 
with the past in the present. Collective memory is used to 
construct notions of identity, unite communities and to create 
spaces of inclusion. Memory can also be less harmonious, producing 
ruptures, fomenting discord, tension, fragmentation and 
constituting exclusionary monoliths of belonging, against which 
difference is judged, hidden, or eliminated. Ethics, agency, 
representation, power, language and other fundamental disciplinary 
concerns are thus linked to memory and the processes and practices 
of ???memory work,??? and it is these concerns and  the analytical 
instruments anthropologists deploy to consider memory that are key 
objects for this panel.

Memory work is being conducted by state officials, employees of 
NGOs and multinational corporations, activists, and lay publics. 
Among other initiatives, memory is being practiced as a response 
to global transnational processes, through political narrative, 
and as a way to constitute and legitimate local, national, and 
other forms of identity. Envisioning a future and anchoring 
present work in the social objects and events of the past is basic 
to memory work. This panel is designed in part to more closely 
link the concerns of the discipline with the substantive work of 
its practitioners. Accordingly, we will address the processes and 
effects of memory work as social practice, the coding and 
privileging of social and cultural normativities and the shaping 
effects of these normativities for subjective experience in 
ethnographic settings as well as in the professional spaces of our 
own discipline.

We are seeking papers for the panel that focus on memory as social 
practice and the multiple ways in which memory is conjured, 
embodied, strategized, used as a response to existing social 
conditions, and performed as a political act. Some of the 
questions the panel organizers seek to explore include:
1. How do social agents come together to produce memory? What 
practices do they employ?
2. How are memories conveyed to publics or particular audiences? 
That is, what acts of representation do, or must, occur for 
particular forms of memory to achieve dominance, and how do these 
particular forms ???earn??? the imprint of the historical as 
against other non-dominant or ???folk??? forms?
3. Historical representation is a political act; how is memory 
authorized, and by whom? What are the ways by which and conditions 
under which authorized forms of memory are inscribed? How do these 
inscribed versions endure; that is, what work is done to sustain 
authorized forms of memory? What are the prominent narratives of 
memory and how are they embodied? What/who gets forgotten and 
elided in memory work and memories?
4. What are the ways in which public memories are used as a 
political strategy or as an attempt to rework cultural and 
symbolic repertoires to achieve specified, intentional ends?

Abstracts must be received by 15 Feb 2009. Please send them to:
Amy Cox (amycox@ufl.edu), or
Scott Catey (catey@ufl.edu)



--

-catey..
http://www.catey.org/


From chris.l.niedt at gmail.com  Thu Jan 22 13:08:52 2009
From: chris.l.niedt at gmail.com (Chris Niedt)
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:16:31 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FINAL CALL: The Diverse Suburb (History, Politics, and Prospects)
Message-ID: <c6cd98720901221008i6a52fbc1qfb6d08e8b25350b5@mail.gmail.com>

FINAL CALL: The Diverse Suburb: History, Politics, and Prospects

Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York)

October 22-24, 2009

Call for Papers



Abstracts due: February 15, 2009



In recent years, conventional accounts of suburban homogeneity have been
called into

question. Scholars, journalists, community organizers, and advocates have
noted the

growing racial, ethnic, and class diversity of many suburbs, and have
speculated about what

these shifts mean for our understanding of suburban life. At the same time,
scholars of the

'new suburban history' have brought to light the buried histories of poor
white suburbs, of

suburbs of color, and of the women whose varied roles within suburban
communities defied

neat categorizations based on place. Organizations and individuals who fight
for social and

economic justice, meanwhile, have continued to encounter suburban resistance
to equity and

inclusion.



The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra invites academics,
activists, and

policymakers to an international and interdisciplinary conference that will
consider the

challenging and emergent phenomenon of suburban diversity. What are the
implications of

this growing diversity? To what extent is this apparent growth simply a
rediscovery of

differences long written out of suburban history? How is suburban diversity
linked to

processes, such as globalization, that operate above and cut across the
local scale?

Do the changing suburbs present new opportunities for creating a more just
and equitable

society?



We welcome proposals for individual papers, organized sessions, and
roundtables that

address these questions from a variety of approaches. Topics might include,
but are not

limited to:

? Racial and ethnic suburban enclaves, past and present

? International migration to the suburbs

? White supremacy, structural/institutional racism, and white privilege in
the suburbs

? Changing patterns of suburban class segregation

? Environmental justice movements in the suburbs

? Women's leadership in suburban social movements

? New forms of suburban social and political organization

? Affordable housing and suburban gentrification

? Inequality and suburban schools

? Control of public space and a 'right to the suburb'

? Age and inclusion in the suburbs

? Sexuality, queer identity, and suburban politics

? Representations of diverse suburbs in the visual and performing arts

? International/comparative analyses of suburban diversity

? New suburban populations and suburban religious life



Confirmed Speakers include:

Nancy Denton, State University of New York, Albany

Becky Nicolaides, University of California ? Los Angeles

Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California

john a. powell, Ohio State University

Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University



To submit an abstract, please visit our website at
http://www.hofstra.edu/diversesuburb.

Individual paper abstracts should be limited to 200 words and submitted
through the

conference website before February 15, 2009. Proposals for organized paper
sessions, panels,

and roundtables should be sent to Christopher Niedt (
Christopher.Niedt@hofstra.edu) as

soon as possible; please include the names and contact information for all
confirmed and

potential participants.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Jan 25 21:55:04 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 25 21:55:17 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Collett-White on Darwin's Sacred Cause
Message-ID: <005901c97f61$8093e0a0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Hatred Of Slavery Drove Darwin Ideas
By Mike Collett-White
Reuters
Jan 23, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSLD55838020090123


LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A new book on Charles Darwin
says a passionate hatred of slavery was fundamental to
his theory of evolution, which challenged the assumption
held by many at the time that blacks and whites were
separate species.

"Darwin's Sacred Cause" is among the first of dozens of
works about the 19th century scientist to appear in
2009, the bicentenary of his birth and 150th anniversary
of the publication of his groundbreaking "On the Origin
of Species".

Its authors, Adrian Desmond and James Moore, also expect
it to be one of the most controversial, because it
explores what they call Darwin's humanitarianism and
challenges the notion that his conclusions were the
result of pure scientific pursuit. "There's got to be
reasons why he came to common descent images of
evolution when there was no precedent for that in the
zoological science of his day," Desmond told Reuters.
"It comes out of anti-slavery.

"No one doubts that the Galapagos Islands, mockingbirds,
the giant ground sloths and the giant tortoises were
absolutely fundamental to his views and what he was
interested in.

"But you have to look at some sort of marshalling
principle. Every ship carried more than one naturalist
generally in those days -- why did none of them come to
this kind of common descent view and yet most of them
had seen exactly the same evidence?"

Moore said the book did not seek to reduce the argument
to "I'm against slavery therefore I'm an evolutionist",
adding:

"This is not a reductionist argument. We are making the
case that it was necessary for Darwin to believe in
'brotherhood science' in order to see common descent. We
can't figure out where else he got it from."

Desmond and Moore return to the naturalist 18 years
after "Darwin", their acclaimed biography of the man who
concluded all species evolved from common ancestors.

As he himself was aware, his theories were
revolutionary.

They knocked humans from their perch by suggesting they
shared ancestors with monkeys and slugs, undermined the
latest scientific research claiming whites were a
superior species to blacks and challenged creationist
assumptions.

FOREFATHERS, FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE

Desmond and Moore argue that their view is important,
because it shows Darwin was driven by human desires and
needs, and throws new light on works that are still
attacked today for being morally subversive.

The authors sifted through thousands of letters and
other archive material from the Darwin family
correspondence and Cambridge University Library and
related Darwin to the key racial literature of his day.

The National Archives also contained the logbooks of HMS
Beagle, the ship aboard which Darwin travelled the world
and gathered evidence that provided the basis of his
theories.

Darwin's Sacred Cause traces the naturalist's
abolitionism to his grandfathers' opposition to slavery
and to his friends and upbringing in Edinburgh and
Cambridge at the height of the anti-slavery movement.

Crucially, he also had first-hand experience of slavery
on the Beagle. During his five-year voyage Darwin saw
evidence of thumbscrews, beatings, the result of armed
clashes with white "masters" and heard of slavemasters
threatening to sell the children of their slaves.

"Darwin came home from the Beagle voyage and in months
he plumped for the common descent view of evolution,"
said Desmond.

Moore said that while many scientists see politics and
morals as "polluting" factors in research, Darwin is an
example of someone who successfully combined the two.

"We know Darwin 'got it right'. At one and the same
time, Darwin could see something as a moral position and
as scientifically relevant."

Darwin's Sacred Cause is published by Penguin imprint
Allen Lane and hits the shelves in Britain on Jan. 29.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)



From hdick at temple.edu  Thu Jan 22 17:29:23 2009
From: hdick at temple.edu (Hilary Dick)
Date: Sun Jan 25 22:01:24 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Mexico-US Migration Class: Your suggestions, a syllabus
Message-ID: <352291310901221429o7f0831c7lba173008abada508@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues?

Happy New Year. You may recall that I wrote the list in December,
asking for suggestions for reading and multi-media sources for my
spring course on Mexico-US migration.

I have finalized the syllabus, and I wanted to thank you all again for
the many excellent suggestions?some of which were familiar favorites
(briefly forgotten), others new to me.

For your reference, I have attached the syllabus as a .pdf, which
includes many of your suggestions, either as required material for the
course or as suggested material. I thought it might be useful for
people to see a compilation of the suggestions/how they ended up
informing the syllabus. Note--the complete bibliographic references
appear at the end of the syllabus.

There are also a number of music and movie suggestions that did not
make it onto the syllabus. I have included these below after my
signature: I've just cut-and-pasted people's emails.

Thank you again.

Sincerely,
Hilary Dick
-- 
Hilary Parsons Dick, PhD
Humanities Fellow, 2008-2010
Center for the Humanities
Temple University
http://www.temple.edu/humanities/

Other Suggestions that did not make it onto the Syllabus--

- In terms of pop culture, there is always the Tigres del Norte
catalog. That group has made a musical career of major cross-border
themes(narco corridos included), but some of their songs like "la
Jaula de oro" or "Tres Veces Mojado" are definitely worth looking
into.

- The Mexico City band Maldita Vecindad also has a song called
"mojado" from their self titled debut album about leaving family
behind to look for a better life in the USA and dying in the process.
Same goes for the band Mana (do not like them much, so do not know the
name of the song) in their "Donde Jugaran la Ninas" album.

- The band Tijuana No has an album called "Contra Revolution Avenue."
I have not heard this one since I was a teenager, but look for the
song Stolen at Gunpoint, it deals with the resentment of loosing
California and Texas to the U.S.

- The photo-journalist David Bacon has done a lot of visual work with
migrant communities on both sides of the border. His work "Communities
Without Borders" may be a good starting point.

- The linkage may be oblique, but I recommend reading Erich Maria
Remarque's "Flotsam," about undocumented immigrants in pre-WW II
Europe.  Many aspects of the book speak to the universality of the
undocumented experience, whether it is Mexicans coming to the US or
political refugees being jostled from country to country in Europe.

- Alex Rivera--all his fabulous films, esp Borders! See alexrivera.com

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

- I also like to show the film La Ciudad,
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thecity/ This is a great ethnofictional film
-- real life migrants (instead of actors) performing collective
stories with which they are familiar.

- (Movie) Fast Food Nation, 2006

- Documentary Oaxacan Hoops by Bernardo Rios who is at The Ohio State
University. Bernardo is a doctoral student but his documentary has
been shown across the US and Mexico. I don't know if you can buy it
but you can obtain it through Bernado at benrios7@gmail.com.
Bernardo's documentary was a result of an email to Sam after reading
True Tales in my class - Sam is totally accessible.

- Uneasy Neighbors (although not a recent documentary most issues made
visible are still pertinent now) Oaxacalifornia, documentary

- I teach a Mexico-United States Borderlands course and incorporate
the following films:

a)"De Florida a Coahuila"--Seminole/Mascogos (African-descent/Native
Am) who migrated to MX, and then some later migrated to the US;
b)Los Mineros/The Miners--about the recruitment of Mexicans to work in
the copper mines in AZ, the labor struggles, and the involvement of
some of the leaders in the Cananea, Sonora mining strike)
c)"Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers"--Chinese
migration to Northern Mexico, and US West
d)The Guest Workers--MX migrant agricultural labor in North Carolina
e)El Contrato/The Contract--MX migrant agric labor to Canada
f)Los Trabajadores/The Workers--conflict around MX day labor in
Austin, TX---good in moving the viewer from 'seeing'
"undocumented/illegal" migrant to seeing the individuals as "persons"
(particularly, Ramon, who end up as a man and father who has accepted
his role as father with responsibility to provide the best he can for
the well-being of his wife and daughters--i..e, family values,
personal responsibility, etc.)
g)The Lion King--coupled with the article by Mart?n-Rodr?guez, "Hyenas
in the Pridelands..The Lion KIng'--he argues that the subtext of the
film, in the context of CA 1993-94 and Prop 187, is about the
xenophobia about informally authorized migration (my term for
"undocumented" migration)
h)Crossing Arizona--contemporary issues about post Op Gatekeeper impact on AZ
i)On the Edge--Femicide in Juarez
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jan 26 13:24:07 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 26 13:24:23 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Junior Researchers Workshop: Urban Street Vending: Economic
 Resistance, Integration or Marginalization (TU Berlin)
Message-ID: <02a701c97fe3$4a6c3900$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Kristina Graaff <Kristina.Graaff@Metropolitanstudies.de>

Call for Papers

Workshop for Junior Researchers and Ph.D. Candidates

"Urban Street Vending: Economic Resistance, Integration or 
Marginalization?"
May 15 -16 , 2009, Technical University Berlin, Germany


Urban street vending exists in various distributive forms and includes 
numerous products: from the mobile selling of food from bikes or trays; 
more stable vending practices from carts; to street table vending, for 
instance, of books, CDs and apparel. The selling practices in public 
space vary tremendously depending on the particular country, city and 
neighborhood, affecting the sellers' networks, labor conditions and 
daily routines. The vendors' backgrounds are generally equally diverse. 
In Germany and the United States, the two focus countries of our 
workshop, the majority either have a migrant background and/or are 
people of color.

In a public space that is, on the one hand, designed to promote 
effective traffic, and, on the other hand, aimed at regulated 
consumption and leisure, street vendors are frequently faced with 
harassment and restrictions. In contrast, there are also policies that 
facilitate access to street entrepreneurialism for certain groups (such 
as war veterans) ?- whereby street vending can also be understood as a 
depository for those marginalized from the formal labor market. As an 
alternative source for neighborhood-specific goods, or an economic 
entry that does not require extensive capital, urban street selling can 
also foster social mobility and local economies.

In response to the so-far scarce research on street vending, this 
workshop ?- considering the underlying dimensions of race, class and 
gender ?- will focus on its economic conceptualizations, urban visions, 
cultural potentials and political challenges.

In a comparative approach, focusing on the German and American 
metropolis ? but also considering selling modes in other cities 
worldwide ?- we seek to problematize street vending as a practice that 
is, at the same time. tolerated, restricted and promoted by public 
policies.

In particular, we would like to examine:

* The economic framing of street vending: Can we talk about an informal 
or illicit economy? Moreover, do notions like ethnic and niche economy 
apply to the urban selling practices?

* Contemporary and past vending practices: What are the daily routines 
of economic survival, labor and entrepreneurship of different vendors 
in different cities? How have products, vendors and clients changed in 
certain vending locations over the past decades?

* The conflict between street vending as a practice of resistance, 
integration or marginalization: Does street vending furthers the 
democratization of public space as well as alternative economies, or 
does it lead to an exclusion and stigmatization of particular groups?

* The use of public space: What can be considered an appropriate use of 
public space for vending purposes, both from the entrepreneur's and 
authorities' perceptive?

* To what extent does street selling in American cities contribute to 
building alternative public spheres (for instance a black public sphere 
in Harlem)?

* The relations between vending locations, types of products, clients 
and vendors: To what extent can vending spaces and economies be 
considered as racialized?

* Representations of street economics: How do different kinds of media 
deal with the topic? What kind of images of the profession and its 
people are mediated?


Keynotes

The workshop offers internationally perspectives on street economics 
research, featuring keynote presentations by

Mark Naison, Professor of History and African-American Studies at 
Fordham University, New York, USA
Alfonso Morales, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the 
University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Kathrin Wildner, Professor of Economic Geography at Viadrina 
University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Peter Herrle, Professor of Architecture and Urban Development at the 
Technical University of Berlin, Germany (to be confirmed)


Workshop format

The workshop aims at facilitating intense dialogue and exchange among 
doctoral students and junior scholars interested in the research on 
street economics. This will be reflected in the amount of time in the 
program allocated to discussion in a constructive, supportive setting. 
Participants have the opportunity to give 15-minute presentations 
introducing their research with subsequent discussion or to participate 
as a discussant without giving a presentation. There will be a maximum 
of 20 participants. Workshop language is English.

Papers

We invite papers presenting theoretical and/or empirical contributions 
from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives on 
street economics, regarding one of the questions above.

Submitted papers should
* be directly related to one of the major topics of the workshop
* present current research

Papers should not exceed 2,500 words and include an abstract of no more 
than 300 words.

It is expected that selected papers will be published in some form 
after the workshop.

Application for presenters / discussants

Presenters: Please submit a short CV and a less than 300 word proposal 
in English for your presentation.
Discussants: Please submit a short description of your background and 
motivation to participate in the workshop.

Please send in applications no later than 22nd February 2009 to the 
following address: streetvending@metropolitanstudies.de. Applicants 
will be notified via e-mail by mid-March 2009.

The conference will take place at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, 
Technical University Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, 
Germany. The conference language is English. The participation fee will 
be 15 ?.

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

Organizers
Noa Ha (Noa.Ha@Metropolitanstudies.de) and
Kristina Graaff (Kristina.Graaff@Metropolitanstudies.de),
Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, Germany

-- 
Kristina Graaff
Doctoral Fellow/
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Foundation, 
http://www.dfg.de/en/]
TGK Berlin - New York
Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) - Technical University, Berlin 
Graduate Research Program
http://www.geschundkunstgesch.tu-berlin.de/fachgebiet_neuere_geschichte/menue/graduiertenkolleg/parameter/en/

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jan 27 10:50:15 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 27 10:50:36 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The Green Harbor Prize for Anthropological Fieldwork
Message-ID: <011a01c98096$f4cb3e60$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

The Green Harbor Prize For Anthropological Fieldwork

The Green Harbor Prize is an award sponsored by Green Harbor Financial to 
support anthropological fieldwork on economic activities that are 
sustainable, eco-friendly, culturally sensitive, committed to community 
engagement, and/or socially responsible.  For 2009, the award will be raised 
to $1,000, thanks to the generosity of Eric Rice of Johns Hopkins 
University.  This award is intended as supplemental funding for Ph.D. 
candidates doing their field research, and will only be awarded to students 
who are (or will be) in a position to use the funds for fieldwork-related 
expenses. Only students in graduate programs located in the states CO, CT, 
DC, FL, GA, IN, MA, MD, NC, NH, NY, VA will be eligible.
For full information about the award and application procedures:

http://www.greenharborfinancial.com/Green_Harbor_Anthropology_Prize.aspx


-- 
Walter E. Little
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
1400 Washington Avenue
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222

wlittle@albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/littlea.htm

Guatemalan Emergency Relief Fund (GFund)
http://www.albany.edu/relief 


From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Tue Jan 27 16:44:22 2009
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Wed Jan 28 10:55:13 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FW: [AAA_Section_Presidents_Listserv] Please assist with the survey
 sent on Jan. 23rd.
Message-ID: <4D14A28A37410D46A1CD60E6EF8FEC3E161859E8@SUEX07-MBX-04.ad.syr.edu>

Hi -
Can you post the following?

If you're an AAA member, you received an email on January 23rd from Richard Thomas (subject line: "participate in a AAA survey.") I encourage you to take the survey and give the Association your feedback.


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

443-4216
From oraliagr at yahoo.com  Sun Jan 25 20:25:17 2009
From: oraliagr at yahoo.com (Oralia GOMEZ)
Date: Wed Jan 28 10:59:07 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L] =?utf-8?q?2009_UBC_Anthropology_Graduate_Stu?=
 =?utf-8?q?dents=27_Conference_=E2=80=93_Call_for_Papers?=
In-Reply-To: <005901c97f61$8093e0a0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <93177.78453.qm@web51507.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

2009 UBC Anthropology Graduate Students' Conference ? CALL FOR PAPERS
?
The Conference is titled COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUES: CONNECTING DISCIPLINES AND COMMUNITIES, and will feature a banquet and keynote address by DR. LARRY ZIMMERMAN from the University of Indiana who will be speaking about his innovative and pioneering research into the ARCHAEOLOGY OF HOMELESSNESS.
?
The conference will be held at the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on Saturday, MARCH 7, 2009.
?
*Deadline for abstract submission is: FEBRUARY 11, 2009.*
?
Please send a 200 word abstract along with a working title and five keywords to: ubc.anth.2009@gmail.com ?
?
Conference Registration fee is $10. Tickets to the Banquet and Keynote address are $15.
?
For more details email: ubc.anth.2009@gmail.com ?or visit: 
http://ubcanthgrads.wordpress.com/about/2009-call-for-papers/ 
?
Those who will not be attending the conference are still invited to attend the banquet and keynote speech in the evening.
?
Please distribute this information to your contacts who may be interested in attending the conference and/or banquet.
?
Sincerely,
UBC Graduate Students' Conference Organizing Committee
Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
?


      
From livarghese at vassar.edu  Sun Jan 25 21:58:02 2009
From: livarghese at vassar.edu (Linta Varghese)
Date: Wed Jan 28 12:28:09 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ROC Research Coordinator Job Opening
Message-ID: <E6F7EE5C-2E63-43E0-AD9D-1C2E520FF6A9@vassar.edu>

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) is seeking a  
Research Coordinator to support worker-led research on the restaurant  
industry, to be used to support policy campaigns to improve working  
conditions for restaurant workers. This position offers an unusual  
opportunity to join a dynamic team of workers and others organizing  
for improved working conditions in the nation's largest private sector  
industry.


Background: Founded initially after September 11th, 2001 by workers  
displaced from the World Trade Center tragedy, Restaurant  
Opportunities Centers United is a national restaurant workers'  
organization with affiliates in New York, Chicago, Detroit, New  
Orleans, Maine, and Miami, and soon to include even more. ROC engages  
in campaigns against high-profile exploitative restaurant companies  
while simultaneously promoting good employers and conducting research  
and policy work to lift conditions industry-wide. Each local ROC  
affiliate a worker-led membership organization conducting local  
restaurant industry research in a participatory manner, which serves  
as the basis for local policy efforts. At the national level, ROC- 
United is supporting this local research and compiling it into  
national findings, to serve as the basis for federal policy efforts.  
Our current federal policy campaign is a campaign to increase the  
minimum wage for tipped workers, currently $2.13 at the federal level.

The Position: The Research Coordinator will support local research  
efforts around the country and collapse them for national research.


Responsibilities will include:

    1. Supporting local research efforts: :

     *Collating and analyzing government data on local restaurant  
industry
     *Coordinating the input of surveys (500 for each affiliate) and  
analyzing the results
     *Coordinating the input of employer and worker interview data and  
analyzing the results
     *Coordinating the development of report outlines with each local  
affiliate
     *Coordinating the writing of the local affiliates' reports on  
their restaurant industry
     *Training the local affiliate to conduct future research

    2. Conducting national research:

     *Collating and analyzing government data on national restaurant  
industry
     *Collapsing survey data from around the country
     *Analyzing the economics of low-wage service industries, drawing  
on government data, academic research and industry trade press
     *Summarizing the state of economic reserach on the restaurant  
industry
     *Authoring research reports and policy papers

    3. Developing public education and media materials for campaigns
    4. Representing ROC at coalition meetings and community events,  
and taking the lead on one or more local New York campaigns
    5. Coordinating with external researchers that are collaborating  
with ROC
    6. Contributing to grant proposal writing, project reporting,  
newsletters and drafting of web materials

Qualifications: The candidate should have a master?s degree or higher  
in economics, industrial relations, sociology or public policy, and a  
very strong grounding in labor market policy and low-wage and  
immigrant worker rights. Additional qualifications are:


Required:

    1. Excellent analytic and research skills, including:

     *Experience manipulating and analyzing web-based labor market and  
industry data
     *Ability to implement a research agenda to help the development  
of new policy models or support existing campaigns
     *Knowledge of applied statistics and actual experience with  
primary data analysis using standard statistical software packages

    2. Excellent writing skills
    3. Ability to supervise and coordinate the work of others

Preferred, But Not Required:

    4.  Experience working with grassroots organizations
    5.  Fluency in another language
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Jan 28 16:11:21 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 28 16:12:29 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology Extension
Message-ID: <056901c9818d$1cc2f380$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

WHITEFORD GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD

IN APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) announces its 2009 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology, in honor of Michael B. Whiteford and Scott Whiteford.  Papers submitted to the award's committee are limited to a maximum length of six thousand words, including bibliography, have an applied component, and be based on field research carried out in Latin America, the Caribbean, or among first-generation migrants from these areas.  The papers can be written in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese and have been submitted to be presented at the 2009 SLACA Spring meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marc 17-21.  The student should be a member of SLACA.

The award is intended to help two students attend the 2009 SLACA Spring Meetings, which will be held jointly with the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17 - 21, 2009.  The prize consists of US $200.00 for a student registered in a graduate program in the U.S.A. or Canada, and US $300 for a student registered in a graduate program in Latin American or the Caribbean. Scott Whiteford and Michael Whiteford will present the prize during a SLACA event at the Santa Fe meetings.  We encourage anthropology departments to support students entering the competition by providing additional conference travel funds.

The Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology in Latin America/Caribbean was created through the enduring support of Michael B. and Scott Whiteford who have donated all of the royalty income from their book Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America to the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology since its publication in 1998.  Their contributions have allowed SLACA to support the travel of scholars of Latin America in presenting their work at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. We are proud to extend the Whiteford's generosity to students' emerging scholarship at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Deadline for receiving papers: February 13, 2009.

Please address queries and send papers to Walter E. Little at wlittle@albany.edu


-- 
Walter E. Little
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
1400 Washington Avenue
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222

wlittle@albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/littlea.htm

Guatemalan Emergency Relief Fund (GFund)
http://www.albany.edu/relief
From sim-ishss at uva.nl  Thu Jan 29 14:00:00 2009
From: sim-ishss at uva.nl (sim-ishss)
Date: Thu Jan 29 17:32:49 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Summer Institute on Popular Culture and the City,
	Amsterdam, NL
Message-ID: <31FD92373131284CA2726A37EDDF3BF620819B@korteweg.uva.nl>

Please feel free to share this information
http://www.graduateschoolofsocialsciences.nl/gsss_education/object.cfm/0760D4BC-1321-B0BE-A4A4957B76D75AB9

We are very proud to present the first CAMCAS Summer Institute on Popular Culture and the City, which will be held at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, NL from July 7- 22, 2009. 

Amsterdam is a vibrant city with a rich cultural-historical heritage, a substantial creative industry and a diverse cultural life. Its inhabitants are a colorful mix of different cultures and lifestyles. In short, Amsterdam is the perfect testing ground to study and to explore popular culture. We will examine theories and concepts on media, entertainment and popular culture in an urban setting and explain the different research methods used in media, cultural and urban studies. We will discuss how city life is represented in popular culture and how popular culture moulds and forms urban life. We will describe the different subcultures among urban youth and take a closer look at the creative industry and the music scene. 

This Summer Institute offers students of various disciplines, but with an interest in media, cultural and urban studies, a great opportunity to study and to explore Amsterdam. The Institute is an intensive and active two-week summer programme that seeks to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of urban popular culture and to promote opportunities for international networking among participants. 

Deadline for Applications is May 1st, 2009.

We expect a class of approximately 15-20 students. 

The scientific director is Giselinde Kuipers and this year's faculty includes Linda Duits, Floris M?ller, Jan Rath, Stijn Reijnders, Olav Velthuis en Liesbet van Zoonen. Applications must be addressed to the University of Amsterdam at the address below. You can visit our web site http://www.graduateschoolofsocialsciences.nl/gsss_education/object.cfm/0760D4BC-1321-B0BE-A4A4957B76D75AB9
for further information or to download an application form.

Please feel free to share this information.

Sincerely yours,

Monique Aerts
Mirjam Schieveld

CAMCAS Summer Institute on Popular Culture and the City
Graduate School of Social Sciences 
(formerly: International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Postal address 
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
1011TD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 525.3776
fax: +31 20 525.3778
E-mail: sic-ishss@uva.nl
http://www.graduateschoolofsocialsciences.nl/gsss_education/object.cfm/0760D4BC-1321-B0BE-A4A4957B76D75AB9


From Mara.Leichtman at ssc.msu.edu  Fri Jan 30 12:47:20 2009
From: Mara.Leichtman at ssc.msu.edu (Leichtman, Mara)
Date: Mon Feb  2 10:15:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Book on Islam in Senegal with transnational focus
Message-ID: <EC15B06368AAA4419321FF6D2159CB1C035A0CBE@sscnt03-2.ssc.msu.edu>

Please circulate this new book announcement to your listserv.  If anybody is interested in adopting the book for courses please contact me as discounts may be available.  Thank you.

 

New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal

Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity


 


Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman 


 


Palgrave MacMillan, January 2009


http://us.macmillan.com/newperspectivesonislaminsenegal

 

Drawing together contributions from history, anthropology, sociology, political science and religious studies, this collection of original essays interrogates the new structures and conditions of Islam in Senegal, locally and globally.  This volume represents a break from the established literature on "Senegalese Islam," and brings fresh perspectives, alternative methodologies and provocative theories on transnational Islam, religious conversion, revisionist histories, and patterns of conspicuous consumption in relation to gender and Islam. Chapters highlight discourses and practices in the context of broadly defined sites:  conversion, education, politics and economics, sexuality, popular culture and architecture, and their impact on the multiple and changing articulations of Muslim identities.   

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction, Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman

 

SECTION 1: HISTORIES, ETHNOGRAPHIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ISLAM

Chapter 1: The Longue Dur?e of Quranic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia, Rudolph T. Ware 

Chapter 2: The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques, Cleo Cantone

Chapter 3: Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization, John Glover

 

SECTION 2: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS

Chapter 4: The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam, James Searing 

Chapter 5: The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Orders, Mara A. Leichtman 

Chapter 6: Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at, Marloes Janson 

 

SECTION 3: GENDER, MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY

Chapter 7: Migration, Marriage and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance, Aly Dram? 

Chapter 8: Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya, Beth A. Buggenhagen 

Chapter 9: Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity, Erin Augis 

 

SECTION 4: MODERNITY, POLITICS AND DIALECTICS

Chapter 10: Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal, Roman Loimeier

Chapter 11: Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements, Fabienne Samson

 

 

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Middle East and Asian languages and cultures and History Department an Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York.

 

Mara A. Leichtman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Muslim Studies at Michigan State University.   

 

Mara Leichtman
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Michigan State University
310 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI  48824
Tel:  (517) 432-7048
Fax:  (517) 432-2363
mara.leichtman@ssc.msu.edu

 

 

From Marietta.Baba at ssc.msu.edu  Sat Jan 31 11:55:20 2009
From: Marietta.Baba at ssc.msu.edu (Baba, Marietta)
Date: Mon Feb  2 10:28:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers:  2009 AAA IGAPP Session on Transnational
	Labor Migration Policy
Message-ID: <EC15B06368AAA4419321FF6D2159CB1C035A0E2B@sscnt03-2.ssc.msu.edu>

Dear SUNTA:

 

I am writing to you at the suggestion of Professor David Haines
regarding a possible session for the 2009 AAA Annual Meetings to be
sponsored by the Interest Group on Anthropology and Public Policy
(IGAPP).  We would like to request that a Call for Papers be circulated
on the SUNTA list serve.   If you agree, could you please post the
following message on the list serve, together with the attached session
abstract?  If there are any issues or questions, please let me know by
return e-mail.

 

Thanks very much,

Marietta

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

The AAA Interest Group on Anthropology and Public Policy invites
participation and comments on a proposed session for the 2009 Annual
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.  The focus of the
session is Transnational Labor Migration:  The Policy Nexus.  A proposed
abstract for the session is attached.  We would like your comments on
this proposal, and we also invite your participation as possible
panelist.  If you are interested, please contact the session organizer:
Marietta Baba at mbaba@msu.edu.

 

Thanks very much,

 

Marietta Baba for the

Interest Group on Anthropology and Public Policy

From sarah at osea-cite.org  Thu Jan 29 17:33:49 2009
From: sarah at osea-cite.org (Sarah Taylor)
Date: Thu Feb  5 11:37:31 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2009 Heritage Ethnography Fieldschool, Mexico
Message-ID: <00bb01c98261$aa206c60$fe614520$@org>

Please distribute appropriately among colleagues and friends.   

 

If you would like brochures sent to you for distribution, please send your
mailing address to contact@osea-cite.org

osea 2009 
Heritage Ethnography Field School
 
 
7 WEEK PROGRAM: May 17 ?   July 4, 2009, 
Yucat?n, Mexico
Based in Pist? and Maya Communities surrounding Chich?n Itz?, One of the New
Seven Wonders of the World


Students learn to design, conduct & complete independent & interdisciplinary
research in areas of:
?            Art & Intangible Cultural Heritage
?            Archaeological Heritage
?            Ethnography of Archaeology
?            Tourism Development & Urbanism
?            Community Strategies of Tourism
?            Social History through Life Histories
?            Applied and Action Research
 ?           Art Exhibitions and Ethnographic Installation
 ?           Maya Forms of Health & Healing 
 ?           Environmental Heritage

Students enroll in two courses and receive 8 credits in Anthropology:
"Anthropology Seminar in Heritage Issues"
"Ethnographic Research & Field Work Practicum"
 
Program includes intensive training in spoken Yucatec Maya language for
ethnographic field work 
 
osea Program Fees include:
Direct Enrollment with Accredited  University Transcript
Food & Lodging, Homestays with Maya families in Pist?
Local Field Trips to Chich?n Itz?, Ek Balam, Yaxuna, Cenote Xtohil, & jungle
caves
Mid-Program Break (4-night/5 day) to allow participants free-time to explore
Yucat?n on their own (not included in program fees).


 Students can use their state and federal financial aid for OSEA Programs

 
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Open to Undergraduates in sophomore year and higher, with any social science
& humanities major.
Open to Graduate Students in any social science and humanities fields.
~Minimum 1-year college-level Spanish
~GPA of 2.5 or higher
 
 
Write to contact@osea-cite.org
 
Visit www.osea-cite.org <http://www.osea-cite.org/> 
  

 

