From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jun  2 10:34:42 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun  2 09:34:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]RESPOSE: local currencies
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From: Leonard Plotnicov <lenplot+@pitt.edu>

The recent news item of local currencies, by Matthew Cardinale, mentions 
the Ithaca Hour as the oldest local currency in the U.S. and that 
"numerous local currencies have . . . based their model on the Ithaca 
Hour." The journal, ETHNOLOGY, published an article on the Ithaca Hour, 
"Special Money: Ithaca HOURS and Garage Sales" by Gretchen M. Herrmann , 
which appears in Volume 45 #2 (SPRING 2006).

From ezorn at mail.ucf.edu  Tue Jun  2 23:04:33 2009
From: ezorn at mail.ucf.edu (Elayne Zorn)
Date: Tue Jun  2 23:18:13 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ithaca HOURs
Message-ID: <4A25A1B7.D549.00A1.0@mail.ucf.edu>

>From Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, at UADY (Yucatan): 

Bill Maurer's book Mutual 
Life Limited http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7998.html also discusses the Ithaca Hour. 

Elayne Zorn 
________________________________
Elayne Zorn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Howard Phillips Hall 309
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida 32816-1361, USA
tel  (+1) (407) 823-2227 x 2206
fax (+1) (407) 823-3498
ezorn@mail.ucf.edu
_______________________________

M.A. in Anthropology
http://anthropology.cos.ucf.edu/graduate.htm





From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Thu Jun  4 21:23:34 2009
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Mon Jun  8 15:25:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Anthropology MA Career Research
Message-ID: <4D14A28A37410D46A1CD60E6EF8FEC3EB57C2480@SUEX07-MBX-04.ad.syr.edu>

Dear MA degree holders: 

The AAA has launched a major online survey of MA anthropologists in order to better understand the career trajectories of Masters degree holders.

Departments of anthropology nationwide graduate over 1,000 Masters students per year and yet the AAA knows very little about their careers, their educational experience, and their needs for organizational affiliation.  The survey will, it is hoped, help us all understand what happens to MAs and where their educational and career choices have led them. In addition, the AAA would like to connect with more Masters alums with regard to planning services, programs, and benefits.  Departments of anthropology would like feedback on their graduate programs' usefulness as their graduates pursue careers in the broad array of specializations that is characteristic of the discipline.

The survey is being conducted by the AAA's Committee for Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Applied Anthropology (CoPAPIA) and will remain available until August 31, 2009. It is open to anyone who received a Masters degree from a North American institution prior to 2008, regardless of previous and subsequent degrees. Anthropology PhD holders are welcome to take the survey as well, especially those have had a gap between the MA and PhD, but the survey is primarily geared towards the MA experience.

The survey information is at http://www.aaanet.org/cmtes/copapia/MAalumnisurvey.cfm. It takes 20 to 30 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous. Queries can be directed via email to MASurvey2009@aaanet.org. The direct URL to the survey (also found on the page noted above) is: http://research.zarca.com/k/SsRXQTsVTsPsPsP.

Thank you in advance,
AAA MA Survey Team

Shirley J. Fiske,  CoPAPIA 2009 MA Survey chair; Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland
Linda Bennett,  CoPAPIA Chair; Professor and Associate Dean, University of Memphis
Patricia Ensworth, CoPAPIA subcommittee member; Harborlight Management Services
Terry Redding, Survey Coordinator (Beta Development Associates)

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

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 2009 MA SURVEY:

A major initiative in 2009 for CoPAPIA (Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology), a new standing committee of the AAA, is to undertake an MA alumni online survey across all major fields, from archaeology/CRM to cultural and applied anthropology. This will be the first AAA-sponsored survey on MAs; there are few data on MA alumni aside from a pathfinding survey done by Bob Harman (California State University/Long Beach) and colleagues in the late 1990s.

The overall purpose of the survey is to better understand MA career trajectories and how MAs have applied the knowledge and skills acquired in their Masters programs. The survey will provide feedback on how programs, associations, and professional groups can best serve the needs of MAs.  We hope to learn how Masters degree alumni have crafted careers, what retrospective advice they have for departmental programs, whether they continue to identify with the profession, and how we can engage them more generally in national organizations to benefit from their knowledge and experience.

Survey development has been ongoing substantively since the fall of 2008. In order to integrate multiple voices and perspectives in the design and distribution of the survey, CoPAPIA engaged an Advisory Network of experienced anthropologists representing departments with large Masters degree programs, members of the Consortium of Applied and Practicing Anthropology (COPAA), and MA alumni across the nation in diverse occupations and careers.

Ongoing survey management is provided by survey chair Shirley Fiske (Adjunct Professor, U Maryland), Linda Bennett (Professor and Associate Dean, U Memphis), and Patricia Ensworth (Harborlight Management Services). Terry Redding (Beta Development Associates) is the survey coordinator. Kathleen Terry-Sharp (Director, Practicing and Applied Programs) and Jona Pounds (Program Assistant) are providing AAA liaison and assistance.

Masters alums will be contacted through topical list serves, academic departments, and organizational list serves.  We are requesting the assistance and cooperating with a number of organizations in reaching Masters holders. Most importantly, a snowball sampling method will be used to reach MA graduates who have 'disappeared' from traditional anthropological networks. We are hoping that peer-to-peer, collegial, and friendship networks will help extend the snowballing effect.  The efforts of cooperating organizations to get information about the survey out to their broader networks of anthropologists will be critical to the survey's success. The online survey opened in May and will stay open through August 31, 2009.

Results from the survey will be published through the AAA, including the Anthropology Newsletter and the AAA web site. Individual respondents can request a copy of the survey report as well. Analysis will begin in fall 2009 and the report is expected at the end of 2009 or early 2010. An open roundtable to discuss the survey and introduce preliminary data is planned for the 2009 annual AAA meeting in Philadelphia.







From jhowell at csulb.edu  Wed Jun  3 16:21:35 2009
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Mon Jun  8 15:26:58 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: Give Us Your Best Shot: 2009 AAA Photo Contest
References: <E49954950F273A44A462B02055E397E304DA5FDB91@AAAMAIL.aaanet.org>
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dinah Winnick <dwinnick@aaanet.org>
> Date: June 3, 2009 3:16:38 PM GMT-05:00
> To: Dinah Winnick <dwinnick@aaanet.org>
> Cc: Amy Goldenberg <agoldenberg@aaanet.org>
> Subject: Give Us Your Best Shot: 2009 AAA Photo Contest
>
> Dear Anthropology News Contributing Editors,
>
> AAA invites all members to participate in our 2009 Photo Contest.  
> Entries will be accepted June 1?October 1, 2009. Winning photographs  
> will be published in AN in 2010, placed in the AN Flickr gallery and  
> displayed in the AAA office.
> This year we are pleased to offer an online submission form. For  
> information and submission tips see the contest website at www.aaanet.org/photocontest 
> . If you have questions, please email Amy Goldenberg at photos@aaanet.org 
> .
>
> To see last year?s winners, finalists and semifinalists, visit the  
> 2008 Photo Contest page and Anthropology News Flickr gallery.
>
> Best,
> Dinah
>
>
> Dinah Winnick
> Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
> American Anthropological Association
>
> Visit the new AAA blog: http://blog.aaanet.org.
>

From emg27 at georgetown.edu  Mon Jun  8 13:03:46 2009
From: emg27 at georgetown.edu (Elzbieta Gozdziak)
Date: Mon Jun  8 15:29:21 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]conference in Poznan, Poland
Message-ID: <4A2D3662.6030303@georgetown.edu>

 A conference on "Anthropology of Europe: What it is and how it should be practiced?" will be  held in Poznan, Poland on October 15 and 17, 2009. More information can be found at 

http://etnologia.amu.edu.pl/anthropology_of_europe/index.html
Please advertise among colleagues, students, and friends.


-- 
Elzbieta M Gozdziak, Ph.D.
Research Director
Editor, International Migration
Institute for the Study of International Migration
3300 Whitehaven St NW Suite 3100
Washington DC 20007
Tel.: 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541



From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jun  8 16:47:51 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  8 15:48:02 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth
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Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth
By Lizzie Buchen, Wired Science
May 29, 2009  |

Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 
percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, 
breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we've ravaged Earth's 
surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and 
urbanization - and NASA satellites have captured it all. Here are a few 
videos, compiled from images posted on NASA's Earth Observatory, of some of 
the most impressive conquests of man over environment.

Read the article and watch the short videos:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/earthobservatoryvideos/ 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Jun  9 14:25:22 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun  9 13:26:06 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: City from Below Issue of the Indypendent Reader
Message-ID: <00ec01c9e927$5712dc60$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

City from Below Issue of the Indypendent Reader Released

This special national issue of the Indypendent Reader 
(http://indyreader.org) comes out of a gathering held in Baltimore this 
March called the City From Below (http://cityfrombelow.org), which was 
co-organized by the Indyreader, Participation Park (a political project 
centered around a community garden on a reclaimed vacant lot in East 
Baltimore), and Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a worker-owned and 
democratically managed collective project in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon 
neighborhood.  The conference came out of our recognition that all of our 
projects were in very concrete ways focusing their energies on what might be 
called a politics of urban infrastructure - working towards a media platform 
for Baltimore's social movements, creating a public space and sustainable 
urban agricultural alternative, building a business oriented not towards 
profit but  towards social justice, and the distribution of radical 
information - and in a way such that all of our individual projects 
reinforce each other through the larger horizontal networks of social 
movements we all exist within.

For us and our projects, this kind of mutually reinforcing dynamic is one of 
the most exciting things about this kind of city-centric activism and 
organizing - it's not only that we're working to make the cities we live in 
a better place, but in some sense, it's the city itself that's working 
towards this goal.  Taken to its limit, it's a vision of urban democracy 
where the city's inhabitants themselves directly control the way the city 
works and how it grows - not in the sense that they get to elect a mayor or 
a councilperson once every few years, but that they actively participate in 
a thriving fabric of locally controlled projects and initiatives which build 
and manage the urban environment.

articles:

What Is The City From Below? An Opening Night Address From Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Short History of Private Property & The Right to Tenancy in Baltimore--By 
David Kandel

The Metropolitan Factory: How Capitalist Exploitation Extends Through All 
Corners of the City-Stevphen Shukaitis &Valeria Graziano

Defenders of the Land, Private Property Abolitionists - By Shiri Pasternak

A Conversation on Organizing Models for Social Justice Struggles in the City

Common Purpose, Uncommon Approach - By Tom Kertes

Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa: An Open Letter to US Activists

Crisis and Resistance in the Neoliberal City: A Conversation with David 
Harvey, Max Rameau, Shiri Pasternak, and Esther Wang

Community Land Trust Q & A: James Tracy interviews Jim Kelly

The Perils of Public Space and Democracy in Athens - By Nicholas 
Anastasopoulos, Eleni Tzirtzilaki

Trans-Caucus - By Ilana Goldszer

Whose City? KID(Z) CITY! - By the Crossing Guard organizing committee

Revitalizing Tired Terms: A Language of Anti-Gentrification Planning - By 
Katie Mazer

"To Show the Fire and the Tenderness" - By Teams Colors Collective/ Conor 
Cash, Craig Hughes, Stevie Pearce, Kevin Van Meter

A Region from Below - By Correspondenets from the Midwest Radical Cultural 
Corridor 


From J.Quirk at hull.ac.uk  Tue Jun  9 10:42:09 2009
From: J.Quirk at hull.ac.uk (Joel Quirk)
Date: Wed Jun 10 09:57:14 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Intensive Short Course: Slavery in All its Forms
Message-ID: <98F779624D1A7043915F38387CCEC669022E1719@EXCL1VS1.adir.hull.ac.uk>


From: Joel Quirk (j.quirk@hull.ac.uk)
Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
9th of June, 2009.

___________

Slavery in All its Forms: Historical Practices and Contemporary Problems

A Three-Day Intensive Course for Postgraduate Students and Practitioners

21-23 September 2009

Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation,
University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK


SCHOLARSHIPS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Building upon a grant from the Ferens Educational Trust, the Wilberforce Institute is offering ten Ferens travel bursaries to help postgraduate scholars attend the course. These bursaries are open to students currently enrolled in either masters or PhD programmes. Successful applicants will receive a train ticket covering their travel to and from Hull (within the UK), four nights accommodation, and an exemption from course fees. To apply for a bursary, students must submit a completed application form, a current curriculum vitae, and a personal statement outlining how the course relates to their research (500 words). These materials should be submitted via email to wise@hull.ac.uk by the 19th of June 2009. The bursaries will be awarded by mid July. Unsuccessful applicants are likely to be offered a place on the course, but will have to register at the concessionary rate of ?150.  

The application form for the course can be found at www.hull.ac.uk/wise.


INTRODUCTION

Slavery is both a core feature of human history and a topic of increasing public concern in the contemporary world. This intensive short course offers participants a unique opportunity to study both historical slave systems and modern forms of slavery in a single setting. This interdisciplinary programme has been designed for scholars and practitioners who are familiar which some aspects of slavery and abolition, but would benefit from further engagement with the broader history and modern dimensions of slavery in all its forms.

To help support postgraduate students, the Wilberforce Institute has also secured funding for ten travel bursaries, which cover UK travel, accommodation and course fees. In addition, WISE is able to support applications from businesses in Yorkshire and Humber for up to 60 per cent of the costs of training through the Train to Gain Enhancement Fund. The fund is led by a partnership of colleges using money from the Learning and Skills Council's European Social Fund and Yorkshire Forward to help employees working in the region to gain new skills and qualifications. 

The course will also precede a major international conference on 'Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa', to take place between the 23-25 September, also at the Wilberforce Institute. Participants may want to consider attending both course and conference. 

         
COURSE STRUCTURE

This intensive course will take place over three days. Over the course of ten individual sessions, participants will receive expert instruction on various historical slave systems, the legal abolition of slavery, modern forms of slavery, methods for studying slavery, reparations for slavery, and forms of public commemoration. As part of this programme, participants will also undertake a guided tour of Wilberforce House, one of the world's oldest museums dedicated to the history of slavery and abolition. 

Participants will be provided with a selection of readings on each of the topics covered in the course. Each session will involve an introductory lecture, followed by class participation and deliberation. Places on the course are strictly limited. No more than 50 places will be made available. In order to keep class sizes as small as possible, participants will be divided into two different groups. Each morning and afternoon will involve two parallel sessions, with one group attending one session, and a second group attending the other. At the end of these initial sessions the two groups will then switch, ensuring that participants receive instruction in both topics. On the final day of the course, participants will also have the choice of studying either historical or contemporary research methods.


PROGRAMME


Monday, 21 September 

Morning 
	
* Introduction: Slavery: Past and Present (Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute and Darshan Vigneswaran, Forced Migration Studies Programme, WITS)

Afternoon

* Transatlantic Slavery (Simon D. Smith, Wilberforce Institute)

* Slavery in Africa (Paul Lovejoy, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University)


Tuesday, 22 September

Morning

* The Legal Abolition of Slavery (David Richardson, Wilberforce Institute)

* Bonded Labour (Joel Quirk and Gary Craig, Wilberforce Institute)

Afternoon

* Human Trafficking and the Exploitation of Migrants (Mick Wilkinson, Wilberforce Institute) 

* 'Classical' Slavery and Descent Based Discrimination (Benedetta Rossi, Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool)


Wednesday, 23 September

Early Morning

*    Research Methods and Contemporary Migration (Darshan Vigneswaran) 

OR

* Research Methods and the History of Slavery (Douglas Hamilton)

Midday

* Repairing Historical Wrongs: Slavery and its Legacies (Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)

* Representing Slavery at Wilberforce House (Nicholas J. Evans and Douglas Hamilton, Wilberforce Institute)


INSTRUCTORS

Dr Benedetta Rossi is an expert on slavery and migration in Niger, and is the recent author of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool, 2009).

Dr Darshan Vigneswaran is an expert on migration in Africa, and is the recent author of articles in Political Geography, Development and Review of International Studies.

Professor David Richardson is a world renowned expert on the history of Transatlantic Slavery, and is the recent co-author of Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Yale, 2008).

Dr Douglas Hamilton is an expert on history of the eighteenth century British Atlantic World, and is the recent co-author of Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum (Lund Humphries, 2007).

Professor Gary Craig is an expert on social justice and modern slavery, and is the recent author of Child Slavery Worldwide (Special Issue of Children and Society, 2008).

Dr Joel Quirk is an expert on links between historical slave systems and contemporary problems, and is the recent author of Unfinished Business: A Comparative Survey of Historical and Contemporary Slavery (UNESCO, 2008).

Dr Mick Wilkinson is an expert on migration and human trafficking in the United Kingdom, and is the recent co-author of Contemporary Slavery in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree, 2007).

Dr Nicholas J. Evans is an expert on migration, diasporas, and 'white' slavery, and is the recent author of articles in the International Journal of Maritime History, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Journal of Jewish Culture and History.







Professor Paul Lovejoy is a world renowned expert on the history of slavery in Africa and African diasporas, and is the recent author of Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate (Africa World Press, 2005).

Professor Rhoda Howard-Hassmann is a world renowned expert on international human rights, and is the recent author of Reparations to Africa (Pennsylvania, 2008). 

Professor Simon D. Smith is an expert on both the history of transatlantic slavery and the history of the Caribbean, and is the recent author of Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: the World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Cambridge, 2006).


APPLICATION PROCEDURES

The course is open to applicants who have: 

i) an undergraduate degree, and 
ii) experience working with, or on issues related to, historical and/or modern slavery. 

The Wilberforce Institute encourages applications from postgraduate students, interested public servants, human rights activists, researchers and policy makers in international organisations, independent scholars, and those working in the heritage sector. 

The application form can be downloaded from the Wilberforce Institute website at http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise. Applicants should also submit a current curriculum vitae.? Every effort has been made to keep course fees low. The standard fee for the course is ?250. The concessionary rate for postgraduate students is ?150. These fees include a daily lunch, tea, coffee and drinks. All applications will be reviewed by a selection committee. 

The final deadline for applications is the 28th of August 2009. Since places on the course are strictly limited, applicants are encouraged to apply by the end of July in order to ensure a place. Completed applications should be submitted via email to wise@hull.ac.uk. 


CONTACT INFORMATION

Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, 
Oriel Chambers , 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK
Phone 01482 305176? Fax:? 01482 305184? Email:? wise@hull.ac.uk 

Requests for further information can also be directed to either 
Sarah Carter at sarah.carter@hull.ac.uk (admin) or?Joel Quirk at j.quirk@hull.ac.uk (course content).


ABOUT THE WILBERFORCE INSTITUTE

Since its foundation in 2006, the Wilberforce Institute has established itself as a leading voice on questions of slavery, both nationally and internationally. The Institute seeks to improve knowledge and understanding of both historical slave systems and modern forms of slavery, and to inform public policy and political activism. Instead of viewing historical and contemporary slavery as separate fields of study, the Institute starts with the idea that the history and legacies of slavery and abolition can offer an invaluable foundation from which to understand and eradicate modern forms of human bondage. This integrated approach to past and present is unique. The Wilberforce Institute is the only place in the world which can offer specialist expertise on both historical slave systems and contemporary problems.
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From basvanheur at gmx.net  Wed Jun 10 22:02:35 2009
From: basvanheur at gmx.net (Bas Van Heur)
Date: Wed Jun 10 17:51:59 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2nd Cfp - Urban Laboratories: Towards a Science and
	Technology Studies of the Built Environment
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Please circulate        

?        2nd CALL FOR PAPERS        

?        Workshop        

Urban Laboratories: towards a Science and Technology Studies (STS) of the 
Built Environment        

?        Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November        

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences        

Maastricht University, the Netherlands        

?        Organized by the Manchester Architecture Research Centre and 
Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio.        

?        Theme and Focus        

This workshop follows a recent argument by Collier, Lakoff and Rabinow 
(2006) in highlighting the relevance of the laboratory concept for the 
human sciences and proposes to analyse the urban built environment as an 
assemblage of local knowledge claims, collaborations and emergent 
interactions. This approach highlights &ndash; following a veritable 
tradition in STS - the contingent cultural and institutional dimensions of 
knowledge production.         

?        Such a shift allows for a more ethnographic investigation of 
laboratory dynamics and creates awareness of the heterogeneity of urban 
laboratories: besides academic research institutions, it might also be 
productive to investigate policy think tanks, planning departments, 
economic development agencies, architectural firms and creative clusters as 
urban laboratories.         

?        Despite increasing references to the notion of laboratory in 
specific urban development and policy projects, sustained research on the 
role of these and other laboratories in shaping and transforming our cities 
is almost absent. This seems to reflect a broader trend in STS: after 
foundational work in the 1970s and 1980s that investigated the 
socio-cultural and technical context of knowledge production, this once 
active field of laboratory studies is now rather neglected (Kohler 2008) 
and Karin Knorr Cetina&rsquo;s hope in a 1995 review essay that laboratory 
studies could be further extended by investigating &ldquo;processes of 
laboratorization&rdquo; (163) in a variety of settings has hardly been 
realized.        

?        This workshop aims to contribute to this extension by revisiting 
the theoretical notion of laboratory and by investigating the ways in which 
this notion can be productively put to work in our analysis of the urban 
built environment. Three dimensions are central in this regard:        

?        Dimension 1: we still know very little of the actual dynamics 
involved in the emergence and reproduction of urban laboratories. Research, 
however, needs to avoid the internalist bias of early laboratory studies 
and should pay explicit attention to communication between urban 
laboratories and the rise of regional and transnational networks of 
expertise. How do facts emerge and circulate in and through these networks 
of expertise?        

?        Dimension 2: this second dimension is related to the first, but 
zooms in on questions of method i.e. the ways in which features of urban 
life become objects of laboratory research and manipulation. In the case of 
research on and in the city in particular, there seems to be a constitutive 
tension between laboratory and fieldwork science that needs to be addressed 
(Gieryn 2006). Through the use of which methods and in what ways do the 
various urban laboratories construct and manipulate local objects of 
research?        

?        Dimension 3: laboratories interact with other laboratories, but 
they also engage with a world directly outside the laboratory. This third 
dimension refers to the fact that laboratories actively shape the urban 
environment in which they are embedded. How and to what extent do processes 
of laboratorization transform the built environment in which laboratories 
are simultaneously embedded?        

?        For a full call for papers, please see: 
http://www.fdcw.org/maastrichtvks/2009/04/workshop-urban-laboratories-to.html 
       

?        Call for Papers        

?        Please submit a 500 word abstract by 1 July 2009 to the 
organizers Bas van Heur (b.vanheur@maastrichtuniversity.nl) and Ralf Brand 
(Ralf.Brand@manchester.ac.uk). We will send out notices of acceptance 
mid-July.        

?        The goal of this workshop is to publish an edited volume on Urban 
Laboratories. For this and to facilitate discussion during the workshop, we 
ask all participants to prepare a draft paper and to submit this to the 
organizers before 1 October. We will then send the papers to all 
participants.        

?        Participation is free and limited funding for travel expenses and 
accommodation will be available. If you have any questions on this call for 
papers or on the workshop in general, please contact the organizers.        

?    
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jun 11 10:05:45 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 11 09:06:06 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Building the Unsettling Force: A National Conference
	to Abolish Poverty (Louisville, Kentucky)
Message-ID: <005a01c9ea95$5abafb80$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) 
and the Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA) Announce:

Building the Unsettling Force:
A National Conference to Abolish Poverty

Join residents of homeless encampments, social workers, families fighting 
foreclosure, Katrina victims, low-wage workers, immigrants, people without 
health care, members of the religious community, the unemployed, artists, 
representatives of the labor movement, and friends from the International 
Community as we come together to confront the economic crisis and to build 
a massive movement for Economic Human Rights for all.

Friday, July 17, 2009 -- Sunday, July 19, 2009
Spalding University -- Louisville, Kentucky

"There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or 
even nothing to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they 
will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and UNSETTLING 
FORCE in our complacent national life."

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from "Trumpet of Conscience," 1967


Abolish poverty in these times of increasing homelessness, hunger, and 
unemployment? We say "yes" and turn to the wisdoms of Martin Luther King 
Jr., who envisioned a movement led by an organized "unsettling force" built 
across racial lines that would spark a "revolution of values" to reorganize 
our society. As we confront the life and death struggles in our 
communities, the daily Katrinas of hunger, homelessness, downsizing, the 
denial of the rights to health care, heat and water, and the destruction of 
our families simply because we are poor, we will come together to envision, 
strategize and organize for "Another United States" and "Another 
World."

Join us! See www.economichumanrights.org for more information.

Organized by the Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA) and the Poor Peoples 
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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jun 11 10:12:03 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 11 09:12:14 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: Moving Forward: The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples
Message-ID: <00c101c9ea96$371e5ae0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Moving Forward: The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples
Written by Marc Becker
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Upside Down World
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1903/1/


Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in
the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the
Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of
Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that
approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis
that western civilization is currently experiencing.


Abya Yala is the term the Kuna people of Panama use to describe the
Americas. Indigenous activists have increasingly embraced it as an
alternative to Euro-centric language.


Peruvian professor An?bal Quijano who has long worked with Indigenous
movements said that he believed "that this meeting is the most important
political act in Latin America this year. It is important not only for
Indigenous peoples, but also for the rest of humanity. It calls into
question the role of capital in its worst moment as it threatens the
survival of the planet."


The First Indigenous summit was held in Mexico in 2000, followed by
meetings in Ecuador in 2004 and Guatemala in 2007. These summits build
on a process that dates back to the First Encounter of Southern Cone
Indian Organizations in Ollantaytambo, Peru in 1980, and the First
Continental Conference on Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance
held in Quito, Ecuador in 1990.


At the 2007 Guatemalan summit, Argentine delegates proposed holding the
next meeting on the Chilean side of the triple Peru/Bolivia/Chile
border. Although such a spot was politically significant, the logistical
demands of bringing thousands of people to such a remote site proved to
be too daunting. The tourist city of Puno provided both an abundance of
hotel rooms as well a conveniently located airport, which facilitated
the participation of so many delegates. So many people flooded to the
meeting that organizers announced that they were cutting off individual
registrations; only groups could subsequently register delegates.
Considering that the previous summits had been postponed, it was quite a
nod to successful organizing strategies that the fourth summit largely
came off largely as planed.


Indigenous Women's Summit


At the last summit in Guatemala, women decided to overcome their
marginalization by holding their own meeting on the eve of the next
summit. Following through on that idea, on May 27 over two thousand
Indigenous women gathered in Puno.


The First Indigenous Women's Summit started with a march from the
(appropriately selected) women's plaza to the National Altiplano
University where the summit was held. It was a small march, but at the
university several other (and larger) marches joined it. Several (male)
spiritual leaders led a religious ceremony on the university grounds.


Delegates then proceeded into an auditorium for opening ceremonies,
followed by three panels that set the central themes for the summit:


The first panel was on Cosmology and Identity: Model of Development,
with Juana Bartzibal from Waqikb?kej (Guatemala), Rucilda Nunta
Guimaraes from AIDESEP (Peru), and Nancy Chila from CONAMAQ (Bolivia)
presenting. Sonia Henr?quez, a Kuna from Panama moderated the panel. The
main themes were solidarity and reciprocity.


The second panel was on the Rights of Women: Violence and Racism. The
presenters were Mar?a Miquelina from COIAB (Brazil) and Aida Quilcue
from ONIC (Colombia). Cecilia Vel?zquez from CONAIE (Ecuador) moderated
the panel. A key theme in this session was the importance of both
Indigenous peoples and women in the construction of a plurinational
state. This was the only panel with a male presenter. Miguel Palac?n,
leader of the Coordinating Body of Andean Indigenous Organizations
(CAOI) and lead organizer for the summit, joined the panel to give a
male perspective on these issues. He emphasized the standard Andean
theme of gender equilibrium, with the importance of both men and women
in building a sustainable society.


The third panel was on Women in the Construction of Power and Democracy,
with presentations from Vicenta Chuma from ECUARUNARI (Ecuador), Amparo
Guti?rrez from REMUI (Mexico), and Leonilda Zurita from Bartolina Sisa
(Bolivia). Blanca Chancosa from ECUARUNARI (Ecuador) moderated. The
presenters emphasized the importance of looking at power and democracy
from the perspective of women, and the need for solidarity to achieve
these goals.


After these opening panels which set the themes and agenda for the
meeting, delegates broke into 16 different workshops. Those workshops
then gathered into six sessions to draft proposals for a final plenary
session. The six sessions were on collective rights, the construction of
power and democracy, alternative development models, violence and
discrimination, communication, and identity.


After two days of meetings, the women's forum closed with a marathon
4-hour long plenary session. Blanca Chancoso, the moderator, said that
men were free to participate, but that women should be allowed to speak
first. In reality, this was an entirely women-run event. It was not
until the very end when Bolivian women kept insisting that a defense of
coca needed to be included in the final statement (and Chancoso kept
insisting that it was already there) that a man stood up to defend the
ancient value of the sacred leaf that the "Padres Inkas" (delegates
shouted "and Madre Inkas too") gave to us.


Fourth Summit


The Fourth Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities began on May
29 with an early morning ritual ceremony in Puno's central plaza (Plaza
de Armas). After the ceremony and breakfast, delegates left on a march
that wound its way through the streets of the city and down to the Lake
Titicaca waterfront. An outdoor stage held the inaugural session of the
summit, followed by 2 panels on the crisis of capitalism and
plurinationalism. After the inaugural activities, delegates continued on
to the university for 60 different breakout sessions. As with the
women's summit, the breakout sessions were then combined into 10 panels
who presented their results to a final plenary session at the end of the
summit.


Some observers were concerned that women's issues were not among those
listed as topics of discussion at the Indigenous summit. Launching the
activities with the women's meeting, however, effectively influenced
subsequent discussions in the main summit. Women had a much more visible
and active presence in presentations and discussions than in previous
events. That is not to say that complete gender equality was achieved,
but it was an important step in the right direction.


The theme of the 2007 summit was "From Resistance to Power," reflecting
the recent election of Evo Morales in Bolivia and hopeful optimism for
additional Indigenous electoral gains elsewhere across the Americas. The
Puno summit built on those discussions by emphasizing the twin themes of
plurinational states and living well.


With both Ecuador and Bolivia having recently approved new constitutions
that recognize the rights of Indigenous nationalities, plurinationalism
became a key theme at this summit. Humberto Cholango, the president of
Ecuarunari, the movement of highland Kichwas in Ecuador, is a strong
advocate of plurinationalism. He argued that "one can't say that a
plurinational state is only for Indigenous peoples, or only for us with
the goal of isolating others." Rather, he contended that "a
plurinational state has to include Indigenous peoples, Blacks, poor
people, marginalized social sectors, workers who have been victims of
the neoliberal model." He advocated that a key agenda item coming out of
the forum should be that Indigenous activists should advocate for the
inclusion of plurinationalism in the constitutions of other countries
where it does not already exist.


Cecilia Vel?zquez from the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of
Ecuador (CONAIE) added that "we can't speak of constructing
plurinational states without the participation of Indigenous women. At
the World Social Forum in Brazil they said that another world is
possible with the participation of Indigenous peoples. We also say that
that the construction of plurinational states is only possible with the
presence of Indigenous women."


In addition to the theme of plurinationalism, the summit also emphasized
the Quechua concept of sumak kawsay, of living well, not just living
better. Since the 2007 Guatemalan summit, this has become a key issue in
Indigenous debates, even making its way into the Bolivian and Ecuadorian
constitutions.


Under the twin themes of plurinationalism and living well, delegates
debated a wide range of issues. These included opposition to the
privatization of natural resources, extractive enterprises, and the
criminalization of social movements. Panels also focused on issues such
as food sovereignty, climatic justice, and migration.


Indigenous children and youth also held parallel forums where they
gathered to build a movement to defend their interests.


Militarization of Social Spaces


One of the increasingly pressing themes in these Indigenous summits is
the militarization of civil society. The Guatemalan summit had a heavy
policy presence, allegedly justified by the high crime rate in that
country. The Puno summit was also surrounded by police, but without the
accompanying justification of problems of criminal violence. It left
many delegates feeling as if they were under constant political
surveillance.


The opening women's march was followed by a large police contingent,
with at least as many cops as marchers. Police also positioned
themselves outside of the university gates along with a large riot
control vehicle. As this was an entirely peaceful gathering, this large
peace presence was hardly justified. Interestingly, the national police
only used Indigenous women and men dressed in community policing
uniforms to help provide security inside the university.


A related theme at the summit was the criminalization of social
movements. Governments from across the region are prosecuting Indigenous
peoples who oppose neoliberal policies that contract with multinational
petroleum interests and other extractive industries. Delegates observed
that previously they faced oppression from the countries' armed forces,
but now their livelihoods are threatened by transnational corporations.
The degree of assault and collusion with government officials led Tupac
Enrique Acosta of the of Izkalotlan Pueblo to observe that "these aren't
governments; they're accomplices."


An important theme at social forums is a solidarity economy, with local
venders efficiently providing nutritious and inexpensive food for the
delegates. In Guatemala, organizers contracted with local communities to
cook a basic campesino diet of rice and beans, which worked very well.
Apparently since many local communities around Puno are reliant on the
tourist trade for their survival they were hesitant to give that up in
support of the summit. Instead, organizers contracted a commercial
vender who provided a standard but bland Andean diet of rice, potatoes,
and chicken in styrofoam containers. The result was long lines, frequent
shortages, and trash littered across the university grounds.


Moving Forward


A final topic of discussion at these types of meetings is always where
to hold the next one (and after four sequential successful meetings,
whether to hold another one is hardly even raised). The summit had a
large and well-organized Bolivian presence, partially because Puno is
located right on the Bolivian border, but also because Bolivia has
exceptionally well-organized social movements. At the women's summit, it
almost was a forgone conclusion to hold the next meeting in Bolivia in
2011, and with that decision in place it put a great deal of pressure on
the general summit to follow suit.


Both the women's and general summits talked about creating a
continent-wide organizational structure to carry on the work of
advancing Indigenous issues. While no firm plans were put in place, it
remains a topic of conversation and interest.


Social forums always take on the flavor of the local environment, and
these Indigenous summits are no exception. The Guatemalan summit was
largely a Maya affair. In Puno, it almost become a Tawantinsuyu (the old
Inka Empire) event, with its rainbow colored wipala flags decorating the
entire site. The Andean languages of Quechua and Aymara were commonly
heard both in public discourses and in casual conversation. Inka
nationalists called for a return to Tawantinsuyu.


Noticeably absent was a significant presence from the Amazon. As the
forum was taking place, the people from the Peruvian Amazon were in day
45 of a strike against the government over its attempts to usurp their
territorial and proprietary rights. More surprising, the Confederation
of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE)
scheduled its congress for precisely the same days as the summit. Marlon
Santi, the current president of CONAIE, historically one of the most
important Indigenous organizations in the Americas, is from the
Ecuadorian Amazon, and attended the CONFENIAE congress instead of coming
to Puno summit. A scattering of Brazilians attended (and only a handful
from the U.S. and Canada), leaving Spanish as the overwhelmingly lingua
franca.


Tupac Enrique Acosta who has long participated in these transnational
meetings commented that "there are ebbs and flows in the process of the
continental Indigenous movements. The summits are highlights, high
points, you could say, in the process." The summit provided a good and
energetic meeting, with perhaps some of the best discussions happening
outside of the sessions, with the informal networking and conversations
that happen at these types of events. The process of building a strong
trans-national Indigenous movement is going well.


--


Marc Becker is a Latin American historian and the author of Indians and
Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke 2008).
More photos from Becker here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/marcbecker2/Ivcumbre



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From eliottretter at gmail.com  Fri Jun 12 16:46:09 2009
From: eliottretter at gmail.com (Eliot Tretter)
Date: Sat Jun 13 09:58:26 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: There Goes the Neighborhood? University Entrepreneurialism,the 
 City, and Urban Development
Message-ID: <93271f1e0906121346ieca833kf502a025c39c89c9@mail.gmail.com>

CFP: There Goes the Neighborhood? University Entrepreneurialism, the City,
and Urban Development

 16th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography The University of Georgia
in Athens, October 23 and 24, 2009


This panel session will critically explore the relationship between
universities and the cities in which they are located.  While universities
have long engaged in space- and place- making, these
processes in recent years seem to have become actively wrapped up in a turn
toward academic and urban entrepreneurialism.  In cooperation with real
estate developers and government officials, universities have spent
increasing amounts of time and resources on the careful management of their
neighboring urban fabric in order to strengthen their market positions.  The
branding of the university - the production of the ways it looks and feels
and of the associations it evokes - has resulted in significant consequences
to both cities and universities. Building upon some of the recent work of
scholars to understand these processes, this session will provide a forum
for interrogating the past, present, and potential roles universities play
in urban life.  Specific topics of discussion may include:
-      Urban campuses and gentrification
-      "Studentification" of urban neighborhoods
-      Rights to the city and the university
-      Security and the urban campus
-      University branding and place-making
-      Blurring of campus borders and the political geographies of race
and racism
-      Exporting the US urban campus model
-      Strategies of resistance and alternative geographies of higher
education

If you are interested in participating in this session, please send an
email describing your potential contributions to Eliot Tretter (
etretter@mail.utexas.edu).
From frohlick at cc.umanitoba.ca  Sat Jun 13 09:54:49 2009
From: frohlick at cc.umanitoba.ca (Susan Frohlick)
Date: Sat Jun 13 09:59:08 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP- Pleasure Travel, Affect, and Multiple Desires
Message-ID: <E7A86C6E-99E8-4D5A-8DDE-8DADE1D83C8D@cc.umanitoba.ca>


Call for Papers for Session on ?Pleasure Travel, Affect, and Multiple  
Desires: Loving, Lusting and Other Feelings Away from Home?
Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional  
Geographies Conference, April 6-8, 2010
University of South Australia, Adelaide

Dr. Ana Dragojlovic (National Australia University) and Dr. Susan  
Frohlick (University of Manitoba), Panel Organizers

Pleasure travel brings about and presumably heightens and intensifies  
an array of emotions and affective dimensions of personal and  
collective experience?joy, happiness, frustration, anger, distaste,  
lust, love, longing, desire, and so forth. Travel to faraway or  
foreign destinations are imbued with the expectation of, and even the  
longing for, emotional experiences that ?move? us beyond our  
presumable everyday lackluster and passionless realities of work and  
domesticity. What are the specificities of these affects? What is the  
relationship between emotion at home and emotion while on vacation out  
of the country and across national boundaries? How do recent forms of  
tourism, such as volunteer, medical tourism or reproductive tourism,  
produce or give rise somehow to new emotions, a new way of feeling? So  
far, little scholarship on tourism has explored the emotional and  
affective dimensions of international pleasure travel even when  
referring to sex tourism, in favor of the rational motivations of  
tourists, or the economic structures. Yet erotic desires (the love or  
lust for the Other) are accompanied by and intertwined with multiple  
desires in tourist quests for pleasure, intensity, assuaging of guilt,  
and so on. Essentially we want to think more closely about human  
movement away from home structured by pleasure travel and its affects.  
This panel seeks papers that engage with these broad questions  
empirically and/or theoretically. Please send abstracts of 300 words  
or less by July 5, 2009 to either Dr. Susan Frohlick frohlick@cc.umanitoba.ca 
  or Dr. Ana Dragojlovic < ana.dragojlovic@gmail.com>
****************************************
S u s a n   F r o h l i c k, Ph D
Associate Professor of Anthropology
412 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB  R3T 2N2
(204)474-7872
Fax: (294)474-7600





From pordie at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de  Thu Jun 11 14:55:28 2009
From: pordie at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de (=?Windows-1252?Q?Laurent_Pordi=E9?=)
Date: Sat Jun 13 09:59:47 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Workshop / Health Tourism India / Heidelberg
Message-ID: <BAY135-W14DDF0C30477B34DACEC0C1420@phx.gbl>


International Workshop
?Making India a Global Healthcare Destination.
Historical and Anthropological Enquiries on Cross-border Healthcare?
 
Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg
14-15 June 2009
 
 
This event is co-organised and co-funded by the Cluster of Excellence ?Asia & Europe?, University of Heidelberg and the French Institute of Pondicherry (Unit 21 CNRS-MAEE)
 
Modern health tourism is taking an increasingly prominent position in academic discourse. The main reason is the recent emergence of this form of tourism as an important player in the global health economy and in the transformation of the national health landscape in the host countries. In India, economists predict that over the next decade health tourism will grow to become one of the major drivers of the country?s economy. However, very little research has been done on the social and cultural encounters which prevail in such situations. This workshop will attempt to understand the forms and meanings of health tourism, from both historical and anthropological viewpoints.
 
The Indian therapeutic landscape is produced both within and increasingly beyond the national boundaries of the country. The global circulation of therapeutic techniques and practices, medical knowledge and procedures, patients and therapists, all fashion healthcare in India. These multiple flows also have an impact on the way healthcare is thought, practiced and experienced in Europe. Specialized health and wellness institutions incorporate ?Indian therapies? in their menu, together with fragments of the subcontinent cultures. The participants to this workshop will explore these issues along three main, interrelated axes: transnationalisms, cultural encounters and the transformations of therapeutic practices, labour migration and the health tourism industry, and the global construction of India.
 
The workshop is jointly funded and organized by the Cluster of Excellence ?Asia & Europe? at the University of Heidelberg and the French Institute of Pondicherry (Unit 21 of the CNRS ? MAEE).
 
Participants
 
Julie Baujard (IRSEA, Marseille / FIP)
Burton Cleetus (University of Calicut / FIP)
Christoph Cyranski (Heildeberg)
Projit Bihari Mukharji (McMaster University, Canada)
Harish Naraindas (JNU, Delhi)
Mark Nichter (University of Arizona)
Laurent Pordi? (IFP / Heidelberg)
Johannes Quack (Heidelberg)
Sheela Saravanan (Pune)
William Sax (Heidelberg)
Anuradha Varma (VLCC International, Dubai)
Caroline Wilson (University of Sussex)
 
 
Find more details at:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/research/areas/c/projects/c4-india-global-healthcare
 

_________________________________________________________________
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From info at sfaa.net  Mon Jun 15 14:03:30 2009
From: info at sfaa.net (Society for Applied Anthropology)
Date: Mon Jun 15 14:57:37 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SfAA Call for Papers
Message-ID: <C65BF722.1DDF7%info@sfaa.net>

Call for Papers and Participation
 
The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) will
be held in M?rida, Yucatan, M?xico, March 24-27, 2010. The theme of the
meeting is "Vulnerabilities And Exclusion In Globalization."  The Program
Co-chairs, Liliana Gold?n (Florida International) and Francisco Fern?ndez
Repetto (UADY), invite the interest and submission of abstracts for papers,
sessions, posters, and workshops. Please contact either Chair,
goldin@fiu.edu, frepetto@uady.mx, or the SfAA Office at info@sfaa.net if you
have questions or wish additional information.
 
Abstracts and papers may be in English or Spanish. The deadline for receipt
of abstracts is October 15, 2009.  A detailed description of the theme and
the meeting venue may be found on the SfAA web page at www.sfaa.net and in
the recent SfAA Newsletter at www.sfaa.net/newsletter/newsletter.html.
 
The Society is an international association of applied social scientists.
The annual meetings emphasize problem definition and resolution.  The
discussions are inter-disciplinary and informal.  A special welcome is
extended to non-members.

From jhowell at csulb.edu  Wed Jun 17 15:18:40 2009
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Wed Jun 17 16:32:21 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: Anthropology News Seeks Articles for Economic Crisis
	Issue
References: <E49954950F273A44A462B02055E397E304DA6AC07A@AAAMAIL.aaanet.org>
Message-ID: <57936F7B-B979-4CA9-B819-94802DF3831F@csulb.edu>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dinah Winnick <dwinnick@aaanet.org>
> Date: June 16, 2009 12:50:32 PM GMT-05:00
> To: Dinah Winnick <dwinnick@aaanet.org>
> Subject: Anthropology News Seeks Articles for Economic Crisis Issue
>
> Hello Anthropology News Contributing Editors:
>
> Please spread the word about this opportunity within your sections,  
> committees and interest groups. Remember: those interested should  
> email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word author bio to me by June  
> 26 to participate.
>
> Best,
> Dinah
>
>
> Responding to Economic Crisis: Submit Your Article Proposal by 6/26
> Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic issue on  
> anthropologists? responses to current global economic instability  
> and its repercussions. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and  
> 50-100-word author bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick  
> (dwinnick@aaanet.org) by June 26. Selected authors will be asked to  
> submit commentaries of 1000-1400 words or shorter pieces for other  
> article types (eg, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo  
> essays and interviews).
>
> Proposed articles may address the following questions: How can  
> anthropological perspectives help us understand what is happening in  
> world economies today? What kinds of fieldwork are anthropologists  
> in these areas employing, and what theoretical frameworks do they  
> find useful? How are people?including anthropologists?creatively  
> responding to this global crisis, and finding ways to adapt to  
> emerging economic, social and political climates? Proposals  
> addressing additional topics related to this general theme are  
> welcome.
>
> To accompany these articles we envision a related Career Development  
> section examining the effects that the economic crisis has had on  
> the field of anthropology, in terms of employment, funding for  
> research and travel, publishing opportunities and education. What  
> might a more versatile and resilient anthropology look like in the  
> future?
>
> Article proposal submission deadline: June 26, 2009. View the full  
> call for proposals today:  www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/CFP-Economic-Crisis.cfm 
> .
>
>
> Dinah Winnick
> Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
> American Anthropological Association
> dwinnick@aaanet.org
> Visit the new AAA blog: http://blog.aaanet.org.
>

From behzadsarmadi at gmail.com  Wed Jun 17 18:11:50 2009
From: behzadsarmadi at gmail.com (behzad sarmadi)
Date: Thu Jun 18 09:55:25 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Commentary on current unrest in Iran
Message-ID: <c15494360906171411p36504097ycb88b194f8c22e50@mail.gmail.com>

The following are some of the more in-depth interviews and panel
discussions in N.American media on the current post-election turmoil
in Iran.


http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=400

http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?TAWSP_Int_20090615_779534_0

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10385

Behzad Sarmadi

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Jun 21 09:05:11 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 21 08:05:23 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Mapping, Memory and the City: An Interdisciplinary Conference
 (Liverpool)
Message-ID: <003a01c9f268$89b80970$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Mapping, Memory and the City

An International Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Liverpool,
25-26 February 2010

School of Architecture / School of Politics and Communication Studies

INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference invites a re-evaluation of the role of maps and mapping 
practices in cultural explorations of urban space and memory. We invite 
contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, drawing together 
scholars and practitioners working in film and cultural studies, 
architecture, geography, urban studies, as well as those with interests in 
social and cultural memory, archival practice and urban heritage. Of special 
interest are contributions addressing the role of film and film 
historiography in relation to place, landscape and urban memory. Scholars, 
filmmakers and designers engaged in all forms of moving image practice are 
particularly encouraged to submit proposals relevant to the conference 
theme. While the trope of 'mapping' has remained a prominent fixture in the 
lexicon of recent cultural criticism and debate, studies which seek to go 
beyond exclusively metaphorical applications of maps and mapping, and which 
engage more actively with cartographic practices and resources (such as, for 
example, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology) remain 
comparatively under-developed. This conference will draw on current 
developments in this and other areas of research and practice. Suggested 
themes include:

GIS & digital mapping in urban cultural studies
Psychogeography, memory and urban form
Cinematic and moving image cartographies
Digital cartography and architectural and urban design practice
Landscape and memory in amateur film practice
Maps, memory and pedagogic practice
Maps, memory and archival practice
Movie Mapping: film, place-marketing and urban tourism
Movie Mapping for architecture and urban design
Urban geographies of film production
Mapping audience and film reception
Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Robert C. Allen, Department of History, University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Mark Neumann, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University

For enquiries and further details contact Dr Les Roberts 
(les.roberts@liverpool.ac.uk) or Dr Ryan Shand (r.shand@liverpool.ac.uk).

Please submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to 
cityinfilm@liverpool.ac.uk. We also welcome proposals for panels and 
exhibits.

Initial deadline for paper proposals:30 June 2009
Deadline for panel and exhibit proposals:30 June 2009
Final deadline for paper proposals15 September 2009
Notification of acceptance:October 2009
Date for RegistrationDecember 2009
Final submission deadline for full papers:7 January 2010

A full programme of screenings, social events and city visits will be 
included in the conference programme.
Information on booking and registration will be posted to the website 
shortly: www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm
Selected papers and abstracts will be published in the conference programme.

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jun 22 14:17:52 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 22 13:18:14 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Ctr for Urban Culture and Public Spaces European
	Summer Academy (Vienna)
Message-ID: <013401c9f35d$62533c60$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>


The newly established Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public 
Spaces (SKuOR), based in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at 
University of Technology-Vienna, is organising its first European September 
Academy (20-27 September 2009).

The programme is offered to 30 postgraduate students (bachelor and PhD 
exceptionally possible) in Human Geography, Architecture, Planning, Urban 
design, Urban Sociology, Arts as well as other spatially relevant 
disciplines.

The 2009 topic is "Intraurban cultural exchange and the urban periphery: 
Breathing your city through the lungs of your fellow citizen's 
neighbourhood".

Working with local communities, artists, city council planning authorities 
and several tutors (professors) within social housing estates, participants 
in the European September Academy will produce a toolkit of playful ideas - 
space plays and playing space - inspired by spatial research theory as well 
as by spatial planning practice. The  toolkit will be presented as an 
exhibition based on plays and games that should ideally comprise a set of 
very different, fresh and game-based spatial strategies stimulating future 
processes of the cultural production of public spaces in the urban 
periphery.

Language: English
Credits: min. 3 ECTS
Each student has to pay for his/her own accommodation and travel expenses. A 
provisional Hostel reservation for students has been made. Price is approx. 
30 euro/night.

Posts for geography students are limited to 5.

For more information on the programme: Sabine Knierbein (SKuOR director): 
sabine.knierbein@skuor.tuwien.ac.at or on-line: 
http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/?page_id=759&lang=en


For submitting your application (for geography students): send an email of 
interest as soon as possible and a short one-page statement of motivation to 
Dr. Chiara Tornaghi, mail: c.tornaghi@leeds.ac.uk by the 6th July 2009.
We are particularly interested in why exactly you are interested in the 
special topic of the European September Academy (see Concept Paper on-line) 
and in the general contents of the SKuOR (see SKuOR profile on-line) and 
what abilities and experiences you want to bring in during the course of the 
September Academy. As we will be working with people coming from different 
ethnical backgrounds, additional skills in Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, 
Turkish or in other languages  are considered warmly welcome, yet they are 
not considered a precondition for your participation.

*********************************************
Dr Chiara Tornaghi
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, University of Leeds
Webpage: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/ctornaghi.html


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From bmm202 at nyu.edu  Tue Jun 23 00:05:25 2009
From: bmm202 at nyu.edu (Blagovesta Momchedjikova)
Date: Mon Jun 22 23:11:48 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Culture (6/30/09;
	MAPACA, 11/5-11/7/09, Boston, MA)
Message-ID: <f1f9ee392abe4.4a400e35@mail.nyu.edu>

CFP: Urban Culture (6/30/09; MAPACA, 11/5-11/7/09)

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Boston, MA, November 5th-November 7th, 2009. 

President Obama?s election and inauguration, and their phenomenal public celebration, allowed us to experience ourselves in a healthy, public, live community of strangers. It also demonstrated the fusion of the personal and the political, in public. Amidst prominent businesses disappearing from the city landscape (no more Circuit City, no more Virgin Megastore); new residential buildings holding ?Open Houses? indefinitely; U-Haul trucks diligently lining up our city blocks like delivery trucks; and pseudo-public communities, as on Facebook, substituting face-to-face encounters; such live, electrified, and electrifying gatherings prove that we are indeed hungry for public life; that we indeed thrive in crowds. Can such public celebratory events and the crowds that they draw help reinvent the city dweller, public life, public space, private space, and the city itself? Are public spaces having a revival right now because they are free? And if so, to what end? As in previous yea
rs, please send your proposals about these and related issues to the Urban Culture Area. Historical or ethnographic studies of public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city are welcome, as are studies of crowds and public celebrations. If interested in participating in a workshop on ?writing the urban,? in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. 
Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 30th, 2009. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in Boston, MA, November 5-7, 2009. Check: http://www.mapaca.net/confer/conferHome.html

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
Language Lecturer 
Expository Writing Program
New York University
411 Lafayette, Rm. 401
New York, NY 10003
Tel. 212-998-8860
Fax. 212-995-4376
e-mail: bmm202@nyu.edu
http://www.nyu.edu/cas/ewp/

From lknauer at umassd.edu  Tue Jun 23 11:12:40 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Knauer)
Date: Thu Jun 25 11:40:38 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Mobile phones and the Iranian opposition
Message-ID: <4A40E2D8.4000301@umassd.edu>

FYI

How Neda Soltani became the face of Iran's struggle

Robert Tait and Matthew Weaver
guardian.co.uk,	 Monday 22 June 2009 21.59 BST

Shortly after 5pm on Saturday afternoon, Hamed, an Iranian asylum seeker
in the ?Netherlands, took a frantic call from a friend in Tehran.

"A girl has just been killed right next to me," the friend said. It had
all happened quickly. A young woman, chatting on her mobile phone, had
been shot in the chest. She faded before a doctor, who was on the scene,
could do anything to help.

There was more. Hamed's friend, who does not want to be named, filmed the
incident on his phone. Within moments the footage had landed in Hamed's
inbox. Five minutes later it was on YouTube and Facebook.

Within hours it had become one of the most potent threats faced by the
Iranian regime in 30 years.

"He asked me, is it possible to publish everything right now," Hamed said.
"I published it on YouTube and Facebook and five minutes later it started
to get many emails and messages and it published everywhere.

"It shocked me very, very much and I was sure at that time everyone in the
world if they see this movie they'll be shocked, and I felt that I must
broadcast it because I try to show to the world what is going on in my
country."

The killing of Neda Soltani, the grisly images of blood spreading across
her face, have become perhaps the defining sequence in the 10-day uprising
against the regime in Tehran, a gruesome manifestation of Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei's threat to use force on the tens of thousands of people
contesting the outcome of the presidential election.

Soltani is being mythologised as a martyr to the opposition's cause, a
rallying call for a protest movement in need of a hero. Her image has been
printed on placards brandished during clashes in Tehrantoday.

The footage is disturbing. Her eyes open, Soltani seems to radiate a
calmness at odds with the panic surrounding her as she lies in the road
after being struck by a bullet.

For the authorities, it was clearly unsettling. They quickly moved to ban
the victim's family from holding an Islamic funeral, apparently for fear
of creating a figure that could unite and revive the battered opposition.

The details surrounding Soltani's death are as sketchy as her own story.
She was 26, a philosophy student and a part-time travel agent, according
to those who knew her. She was no rock thrower at the vanguard of a
movement for regime change , but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan,
a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Makan, said she had been in a car in central Tehran with her music teacher
when they were caught in a traffic jam. He said the pair had left the car
to escape the heat.

It was when she was walking down Karegar Street talking on her phone that
the shot rang out.

"Neda's aim was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, her target was her country,"
Makan said, adding that although she hadn't planned on demonstrating, she
was sympathetic to the protest movement.

In the footage she is wearing jeans, white trainers, a dark shirt and a
headscarf, suggesting a middle class and relatively emancipated young
woman.

Several men are shown frantically trying to save her life as blood from
her wounds rapidly develops into a large pool beside her.

Reports vary on who fired the fatal shot. Some sources suggested it was a
Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a
marksman on the roof of a nearby house.

Others said she may have been targeted because she was using a mobile
phone, one of the opposition's most important tools.

Another video said to be of Soltani, taken just before she was shot, shows
her standing among a crowd of protesters, some of whom are heard chanting
"death to the dictator" and "Allahu Akbar".

Like much of the footage that has emerged from Tehran in recent days, the
authenticity and circumstances behind the video could not be verified.

But Soltani was quickly lionised by an engaged online community inside and
outside Iran. Some have even started writing songs in her memory to
accompany the web footage.

One song, by a singer called Pourang Azad, contains the lyrics: "You left
and thousands of flowers grew, you left and my patience finished ? Your
loving look is full of demand. Sleep, sweet lady of Iran."

The incident has taken on an added poignancy from the meaning of Soltani's
first name. Neda, an Arabic word used more commonly in literary rather
than spoken Farsi, conveys the spiritual meaning of "call" or "voice".

The authorities are acutely aware of the threat posed to them by her
killing. They only agreed to release her body on condition that her family
agreed to a quick burial on Sunday in the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra
cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran.

A memorial service planned for the Nilufar mosque in the capital's
Abbasabad neighbourhood was called off after officials expressly forbade
it. All other mosques in the Tehran area have been warned against holding
services in her memory.

But that may not be enough to stop Soltani becoming a martyr, a status
revered in Shia Islam, the dominant sect in Iran. Under the creed,
mourning ceremonies are held for the dead on the third, seventh and 40th
days after their passing.

During the unrest that presaged that 1979 Islamic revolution, processions
on the 40th day of mourning for fallen protesters became landmarks that
created the momentum to topple the shah's regime.

guardian.co.uk ? Guardian News and Media Limited 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/22/neda-soltani-death-iran



From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jun 25 12:46:57 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 25 11:51:32 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Articles: Migration and Divided Societies - Ethnopolitics
Message-ID: <001801c9f5ac$c86a00a0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Migration and Divided Societies - Ethnopolitics

Chris Gilligan, University of the West of Scotland; Susan Ball-Petsimeris, 
Universit? de Paris 8

We would like to invite articles on the theme of 'migration and divided 
societies' for publication in a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal 
Ethnopolitics. The Special Issue aims to critically examine the relationship 
between migration and social divisions which are conceptualised as 'ethnic' 
in popular discourse, academic writing or government policy.

Papers are welcome that raise questions related to concepts and practices of 
migration and segregation along 'ethnic' lines.

Articles should be submitted via email to Chris Gilligan (University of the 
West of Scotland, UK) at: chris.gilligan@ uws.ac.uk to arrive by Tues 27th 
October 2009.

For a fuller outline of the rationale for the Special Issue and a guide to 
the kinds of questions we would like to address and the kinds of topics that 
we would consider for publication, see below.

Thanks in advance for your consideration,

Chris Gilligan, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Susan Ball-Petsimeris, Universit? de Paris 8, France

Migration and divided societies

The aim of the Special Issue is to examine the relationship between 
migration and social divisions which are characterised as 'ethnic'.

It is now commonplace to hear that, largely due to migration, most 
contemporary societies are characterised by ethnic diversity. In these same 
societies, however, there are often significant levels of segregation along 
ethnic lines. In political science the term 'divided society' refers to 
nations or regions, (such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, 
Bosnia-Herzegovina) , which are characterised by deep social cleavages based 
on ethnic difference. In this Special Issue, however, we use the term 
'divided society' in a looser sense - to refer to any state, region or 
locality which is characterised by significant levels of social divisions 
which are understood in ethnic terms.

We are particularly interested in articles which examine one or more of the 
following topics:

-conceptualising migration and ethnic division
-experiences of immigrants of ethnic division and attempts at integration
-responses of society (public, policy-makers, the mass media etc.. ) towards 
migrants and segregation/ integration
-causes of ethnic division
-outward migration and segregation

We are also particularly interested in articles which have a comparative 
dimension. These comparisons could be: across different migrant groups; 
across different historical periods; between different countries, or; 
between different regions or cities within one country.

We provide the following two themes by way of illustration, of the kinds of 
topics and questions that might be asked about migration and social 
division:

There has been a lot of focus on immigration and segregation. But what about 
emigration? Does emigration create, or entrench, social divisions in the 
country of emigration? There is some literature on this topic which examines 
the case of forced migrations which are generated through 'ethnic' conflict. 
This topic could, however, be developed further. Can, for example, 
segregation be reversed in post-conflict situations? What works and what 
does not work in attempting to reverse segregation? Are there other, less 
dramatic ways in which migration creates or entrenches 'ethnic' division? 
One area which has not been explored in any detail is the movement of 
indigenous populations away ('white flight') from areas where immigrants 
come to reside. What role, if any, do government policies play in promoting 
'white flight'? To what extent is 'white flight' promoted by ethnic 
considerations (rather than, for example, class and upward social mobility)?

Immigrants to 'divided societies' find a society which is already 
characterised by a deep social cleavage based on ethnic difference. What 
does it mean to 'integrate' in a society which is not itself integrated? How 
do immigrants 'fit in' to such a society? Do they 'take sides'? If so, what 
guides their choice? Do they attempt to create a 'third space' outside of 
the existing social division? If so, what barriers and opportunities do they 
encounter in doing so? These themes have been explored most extensively in 
relation to Israel. To what extent is the Israeli case unique?

These themes are merely illustrative, they do not indicate that preference 
will be given to articles which tackle either of these themes. Our main 
criteria for inclusion will be; relevance to the overall theme, quality of 
scholarship and originality.

If you know anyone who you think would be interested please pass this 
message on to them.

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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Jun 25 12:51:18 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun 25 11:51:48 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: The State of Urban Water Symposium (Mumbai)
Message-ID: <001901c9f5ac$c8929740$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Nikhil Anand <nikhil.anand@stanford.edu>

Hello!

Please find below the program announcement for 'The State of Urban Water', a 
one day PUKAR symposium on urban water's public systems.  Do feel free to 
share it with others that may be interested.


Best
Nikhil


Pukar (http://www.pukar.org.in), in collaboration with SOAK, cordially 
invites you to

The State of Urban Water
from 1-6p on June 28, 2009

at the National Gallery of Modern Art (opposite Regal Cinema, Colaba, 
Mumbai)

Despite recent efforts, water services in India's largest cities continue to 
be managed by public agencies.  Over the last two decades, these agencies 
have embarked on reform programs that include leakage detection, full 
cost-recovery and 24x7 water.  The State of Urban Water is one-day symposium 
that focuses on how India's public water supply systems work.  How are 
connections to the public system made, particularly by the urban poor? 
Finally, the papers will also discuss the effects that new water reform 
projects have on the current state of water supply.  Situated in Mumbai, the 
workshop will host researchers and practitioners from India's largest 
cities, to stimulate thinking and action on questions of urban water's 
administration, access and rule.

 Schedule

On Indian Cities (1p-2.30p)
Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School, New York), Chair
Alankar (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) Rethinking Delhi's 
Water Crisis and Reforms
Karen Coelho (Madras Institute of Development Studies), Tapping in: Leaky 
Sovereignties and Engineered Disorder in Chennai's Water System
Nikhil Anand (PUKAR/ Stanford University) The PolyTechnics of 24/7 water in 
Mumbai
Priya Sangameswaran (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) 
Discussant

Tea and Snacks (2.30-3p)

At Home in Mumbai (3p-4.30p)
TV Shah  (fmr Chief Hydraulic Engineer, MCGM, Mumbai) Chair
Sitaram Shelar (Mumbai Paani/ YUVA) Reactions through Mumbai's Water System
Lisa Bjorkman (The New School, New York) Water in Resettlement
Shaali Shaikh  (Resident/ Film maker)  Pyasa Premnagar
Amita Baviskar  (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)  Discussant

Film- Ek Dozen Paani (5p- 6p)
(Produced by Aagaz, Akansha Sewa Sangh and CAMP)
To be followed by a discussion with filmmakers, Durga Gudilu, Govindi Gudilu 
and Ismail Sharif.
(preview the films at http://www.dailymotion.com/ekdozenpaani)

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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Jun 26 22:10:38 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 26 21:14:49 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Extended CFP: AN Issue on Responding to Economic Crisis
Message-ID: <00be01c9f6c4$a6829b50$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Responding to Economic Crisis: CFP Deadline Extended to 6/29

In response to requests we've received, Anthropology News is extending the 
article proposal deadline for our upcoming economic crisis issue to Monday, 
June 29, 9:00 am EST. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 
50-100-word author bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick@aaanet.org). 
Selected authors will be asked to submit commentaries of 1000-1400 words or 
shorter pieces for other article types (eg, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes 
articles, photo essays and interviews).

Proposed articles may address the following questions: How can 
anthropological perspectives help us understand what is happening in world 
economies today? What kinds of fieldwork are anthropologists in these areas 
employing, and what theoretical frameworks do they find useful? How are 
people-including anthropologists-creatively responding to this global 
crisis, and finding ways to adapt to emerging economic, social and political 
climates? Proposals addressing additional topics related to this general 
theme are welcome.

To accompany these articles we envision a related Career Development section 
examining the effects that the economic crisis has had on the field of 
anthropology, in terms of employment, funding for research and travel, 
publishing opportunities and education. What might a more versatile and 
resilient anthropology look like in the future?

View the full call for proposals: 
www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/CFP-Economic-Crisis.cfm.


Dinah Winnick
Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
dwinnick@aaanet.org
Visit the new AAA blog: http://blog.aaanet.org. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Jun 26 22:29:50 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 26 21:30:01 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Policing and Justice: Exploring Alternatives and Furthering
 Old Debates
Message-ID: <011f01c9f6c6$c63c2e00$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers
Special Issue for Contemporary Justice Review: 
Policing and Justice: Exploring Alternatives and Furthering Old Debates

It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the "gatekeepers" of the criminal justice system and a mechanism for the provision of "justice". And yet, when we conceptualize the police thusly, we take for granted the actual empirical nature of the 'gatekeeping' role and its larger social meaning. A number of scholars have argued that democratic policing systems are necessary for the delivery of justice within liberal regimes, but just exactly how and if the various symbolic and operational functions of the police serve the goal of justice remains a question of empirical research and debate. Certainly, we have also witnessed a wealth of critical scholarship that contests the view that public policing serves all citizens equally or serves as a mechanism for accessing justice. The latter perspective raises another series of questions on possible alternatives to existing structures and processes that could make justice more widely accessible. For example, scholarship in this area has been near-exclusively focused on public policing, neglecting the plethora of private or community-based policing forms that operate beyond, below, outside, or parallel to the state. Whether or to what extent such forms assist in providing access to justice (through the state, private, or community means) remains ill-understood. 

This special issue will address this deficit by collecting and publishing papers that foreground questions on the role and/or possibilities offered by public, private, or community-based policing forms as they seek justice for various populations. Generally, papers should explore alternative configurations of policing that go beyond the narrowly understood "gatekeeping" role. To this end, we seek papers from various disciplines and theoretical standpoints that explore the following areas: 

-- The role of the public police in fostering or limiting access to justice for individuals and/or groups; 

-- Public policing policies, programs or practices that aim to increase access to justice for marginalized groups or citizens; 

-- Forms of non-state policing (or policing 'below the state') with the potential to widen citizens' ability to access justice through formal or informal means;

-- Community-based and/or activist forms of policing or social control that replace the need for state-based initiatives.

-- The general relationship between public or private policing and social justice. 


We are also open to other subjects not outlined above that speak to the relationship between policing and justice as a special theme of scholarship. Please contact the guest-editors (Luis Fernandez, Northern Arizona University at luis.fernandez@nau.edu or Laura Huey, University of Western Ontario at lhuey@uwo.ca) in advance to discuss proposed topics. All papers must be completed and submitted electronically no later than February 15th. Please use standard formatting and submit the papers in a Word file format. 
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Jun 28 12:29:06 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 28 11:29:19 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Grants for EU Research in Urban and Regional
	Studies
Message-ID: <000e01c9f805$3002bae0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

The Research Council of the European Union is offering substantial (up to 
3.5 million euros) grants to support research by advanced scholars in 
institutions in the EU and associated countries. (There is a separate 
program for young investigators). Panel SH3 (Environment and Society) is 
seeking proposals covering the fields of urban and regional studies, urban 
and regional planning, urban sociology and urban geography, GIS, 
transportation, environment, etc. The Council is looking for innovative, 
interdisciplinary proposals involving basic research. This year relatively 
few applications were received by this panel compared to other fields; it is 
hoped that there will be more in future years.

For information on the programs, go to:

http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=66

Susan S. Fainstein
Professor and Chair, SH3
Dept. of Urban Planning and Design
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

phone: 617-495-9901
email: sfainstein@aol.com
webpage: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/fainstein/index.html

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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jun 29 13:06:54 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 29 12:07:33 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Speakers: Building Community Capacity for
	Research
Message-ID: <01ab01c9f8d3$ab7306c0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Sarena Seifer <sarena@u.washington.edu>


Dear COMM-ORG colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce the 
second call in our 2009-2010 Educational Conference Call Series. In the 
midst of the numerous recovery act funding announcements from the 
National Institutes of Health (NIH), we've been noticing a dramatic rise 
in inquiries to CCPH from community-based organizations that are either 
applying directly for research grants or as partners of academic 
institutions that are the lead applicants. We've decided to focus the 
call series on answering the most frequently asked questions, as part of 
the overarching theme of "Building Community Capacity for Research."  
Each call includes speakers who provide answers and insights from their 
direct experience, helpful handouts and links to relevant resources.

The audiofile, agenda and handouts for the first call, which took place 
on June 3 and addressed the "how and why" of obtaining a federally 
negotiated indirect rate and federal wide assurance, are now posted on 
the CCPH website at 
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html.  Elmer Freeman, 
Executive Director of the Center for Health Education Research and 
Service in Boston, MA and Loretta Jones, Executive Director, Healthy 
African American Families II in Los Angeles, CA, were the featured speakers.

The next call, scheduled for July 15 from 3:30 - 5 pm eastern time, 
addresses the question of what organizational systems and supports need 
to be in place to do community-based participatory research (CBPR) in a 
community agency setting. The call is titled "Setting Up & Running a 
CBPR Department in a Community Agency: The Access Alliance Experience.  
To register for the call, go to 
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ccphuw/78916

On the call, participants will learn about setting up and running a CBPR 
department within a community agency.  The call will feature speakers 
from Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services in 
Toronto: Yogendra Shakya, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation; and 
Rabea Murtaza, Research Coordinator (see their brief bios below). Access 
Alliance was established in 1989 with four ethno-cultural communities 
coming together in response to their identification of significant 
barriers to services for immigrants and refugees.  As it celebrates its 
20th year anniversary, Access Alliance has established itself and become 
recognized as a Centre for Excellence in Community-Based Research on 
Newcomer Urban Health.

But this did not happen overnight...

In 2000 Access Alliance started re-defining its mandate by undertaking 
ongoing needs assessments and looking at its role within the sector of 
immigrant and refugee serving agencies and other community health 
centres in Toronto.  At that time, the Board of Directors directed the 
organization to prioritize the most disadvantaged immigrants and 
refugees. Since then Access Alliance has developed indicators of  
disadvantages to help it define those immigrant and refugee groups who 
face the most barriers to services.  Its current strategic priorities 
explicitly include providing leadership through advocacy and research.  
The organization is committed to increasing knowledge and enabling 
action for addressing social determinants of health that affect newcomer 
and racialized groups.

The Research Department of Access Alliance was established in 2004.  
Over the past 5 years, it has been involved in a large number of 
projects both as principal investigator and as a collaborating 
organization. The Research Department strives to be a leader in 
innovating and promoting CBPR dedicated to empowering newcomers and 
racialized communities to be active partners in research and to become 
agents of change for promoting health equity.  It conducts research from 
an anti-oppressive, anti-racist perspective and its projects tend to 
focus on racialized groups and health access.It also works on increasing 
the capacity of community organizations, academics and other 
stakeholders to work collaboratively with community members on CBPR 
projects.

Learn more about Access Alliance and its Research Department online at:
www.accessalliance.ca
www.researchforchange.ca

PLEASE NOTE: The call is free of charge for those dialing in from Canada 
and the US.  To maximize participation, we encourage you to gather 
colleagues to dial-in together using one phone line with conference call 
capabilities. Prior to the call, an email with instructions for dialing 
in will be sent to confirmed registrants. An audiofile and handouts from 
the call will be posted on the CCPH website at www.ccph.info within 2 
weeks of the call.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Yogendra Shakya's research interests include neighborhood and 
community planning, poverty reduction, and determinants of health for 
immigrants and refugees. He has research experience in Nepal, Vietnam, 
and Canada. At Access Alliance, he is currently spearheading several 
CBPR projects exploring key determinants of immigrant health, including 
income security, housing, and access to healthcare.

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From fatimahc at eden.rutgers.edu  Sat Jun 27 13:12:05 2009
From: fatimahc at eden.rutgers.edu (Fatimah Williams Castro)
Date: Mon Jun 29 12:24:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Urban Anthro working group in NYC area?
Message-ID: <b3a6a2a30906270912o67bf169kc93bbf906bc81689@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone know if there is an urban anthropology (space and place) working
group that meets regularly in the NYC area?   At this stage in my
dissertation writing (on black social movements in Colombia, South America),
the issues of urban ethnography and the racialization of space have become
prominent topics. I'm interested in joining other scholars to circulate
works in progress for feedback and discussion.

Thanks!
Fatimah Williams Castro
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
Graduate Assistant, Center for Race & Ethnicity
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
fatimahc@eden.rutgers.edu
From marnaf at PRIO.NO  Wed Jun 24 12:51:31 2009
From: marnaf at PRIO.NO (Mark Naftalin)
Date: Mon Jun 29 12:26:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Angola enquiry
Message-ID: <D69B8360FF659141BE28DB822196476102C995D1@balder.prio.no>

Dear Professor Hansen,

 

I am writing to you on the advice of my project supervisor, Kristian
Harpviken - I do hope that is okay.  I am currently researching the role
that former refugees play in conflict in their country of origin (for
more information please refer to
http://www.prio.no/Research-and-Publications/Project/?oid=6335945).  We
have identified a number of relevant cases in Africa and further afield
which have confirmed military mobilization amongst refugees.  It is
highly likely that in these cases, those refugees engaged in combat on
return home.

 

Unfortunately, I am struggling to find any relevant literature on
Angola.  A couple of HRW documents make reference to former UNITA
combatants who have been classified as returning refugees to guarantee
their access to humanitarian assistance.  However, are you aware of any
military mobilization which took place amongst refugees in either DRC or
Zambia, especially post 1992?  If so, did they engage in conflict on
return to Angola?  If they returned home and did not engage in conflict,
that would also be interesting.  

 

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours,

Mark Naftalin

 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Jun 29 22:45:50 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 29 21:46:24 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Touring Empire's Ruins from Detroit to the Amazon
Message-ID: <00f901c9f924$8ea6e150$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Touring Empire's Ruins From Detroit to the Amazon 
By Greg Grandin

TomDispatch  June 23, 2009
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175086/greg_grandin_the_collapse_of_america_s_imperial_car_industry


The empire ends with a pull out. Not, as many supposed
a few years ago, from Iraq. There, as well as in
Afghanistan, we are mulishly staying the course, come
what may, trapped in the biggest of all the
"too-big-to-fail" boondoggles. But from Detroit.

Of course, the real evacuation of the Motor City began
decades ago, when Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler
started to move more and more of their operations out
of the downtown area to harder to unionize rural areas
and suburbs, and, finally, overseas. Even as the
economy boomed in the 1950s and 1960s, 50 Detroit
residents were already packing up and leaving their
city every day. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in
1989, Detroit could count tens of thousands of empty
lots and over 15,000 abandoned homes. Stunning Beaux
Arts and modernist buildings were left deserted to
return to nature, their floors and roofs covered by
switchgrass. They now serve as little more than ornate
bird houses.

In mythological terms, however, Detroit remains the
ancestral birthplace of storied American capitalism.
And looking back in the years to come, the sudden
disintegration of the Big Three this year will surely
be seen as a blow to American power comparable to the
end of the Raj, Britain's loss of India, that jewel in
the imperial crown, in 1948. Forget the possession of a
colony or the bomb, in the second half of the twentieth
century, the real marker of a world power was the
ability to make a precision V-8.

There have been dissections aplenty of what went wrong
with the U.S. auto industry, as well as fond
reminiscences about Detroit's salad days, about
outsized tailfins and double-barrel carburetors. Last
year, the iconic Clint Eastwood even put the iconic
white auto worker to rest in his movie Gran Torino. Few
of these postmortems have conveyed, however, just how
crucial Detroit was to U.S. foreign policy -- not just
as the anchor of America's high-tech, high-profit
export economy, but as a confirmation of our sense of
ourselves as the world's premier power (although in
linking Detroit's demise to the blowback from President
Nixon's illegal war in Laos, Eastwood at least came
closer than most).

Detroit not only supplied a continual stream of symbols
of America's cultural power, but offered the
organizational know-how necessary to run a vast
industrial enterprise like a car company -- or an
empire. Pundits love to quote GM President "Engine"
Charlie Wilson, who once famously said that he thought
what was good for America "was good for General Motors,
and vice versa." It's rarely noted, however, that
Wilson made his remark at his Senate confirmation
hearings to be Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of
Defense. At the Pentagon, Wilson would impose GM's
corporate bureaucratic model on the armed forces,
modernizing them to fight the Cold War.

After GM, it was Ford's turn to take the reins, with
John F. Kennedy tapping its CEO Robert McNamara and his
"whiz kids" to ready American troops for a "long
twilight struggle, year in and year out." McNamara used
Ford's integrated "systems management" approach to wage
"mechanized, dehumanizing slaughter," as historian
Gabriel Kolko once put it, from the skies over Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia.

Perhaps, then, we should think of the ruins of Detroit
as our Roman Forum. Just as Rome's triumphal arches
still remind us of its bygone imperial victories in
Mesopotamia, Persia, and elsewhere, so Motown's
dilapidated buildings today invoke America's fast
slipping supremacy.

Among the most imposing is Henry Ford's Highland Park
factory, shuttered since the late 1950s. Dubbed the
Crystal Palace for its floor to ceiling glass walls, it
was here that Ford perfected assembly-line production,
building up to 9,000 Model Ts a day -- a million by
1915 -- catapulting the United States light-years ahead
of industrial Europe.

It was also here that Ford first paid his workers five
dollars a day, creating one of the fastest growing and
most prosperous working-class neighborhoods in all of
America, filled with fine arts-and-crafts style homes.
Today, Highland Park looks like a war zone, its streets
covered with shattered glass and lined with burnt-out
houses. More than 30% of its population lives in
poverty, and you don't want to know the unemployment
numbers (more than 20%) or the median yearly income
(less than $20,000).

There is one reminder that it wasn't always so. A small
historical-register plaque outside the Ford factory
reads: "Mass production soon moved from here to all
phases of American industry and set the pattern of
abundance for 20th Century living."

America in the Amazon

To truly grasp how far America has fallen from the
heights of its industrial grandeur -- and to understand
how that grandeur led to stupendous acts of folly --
you should tour another set of ruins far from the
Midwest rustbelt; they lie, in fact, deep (and nearly
forgotten) in, of all places, the Brazilian Amazon
rainforest. There, overrun by tropical vines, sits
Henry Ford's testament to the belief that the American
Way of Life could easily be exported, even to one of
the wildest places on the planet.

Ford owned forests in Michigan as well as mines in
Kentucky and West Virginia, which gave him control over
every natural resource needed to make a car -- save
rubber. So in 1927, he obtained an Amazonian land grant
the size of a small American state. Ford could have
simply set up a purchasing office there, and bought
rubber from local producers, leaving them to live their
lives as they saw fit. That's what other rubber
exporters did.

Ford, however, had more grandiose ideas. He felt
compelled to cultivate not only "rubber but the rubber
gatherers as well." So he set out to overlay Americana
on Amazonia. He had his managers build Cape Cod-style
shingled houses for the Brazilian work force he hired.
He urged them to tend flower and vegetable gardens and
eat whole wheat bread, unpolished rice, canned Michigan
peaches, and oatmeal. He dubbed his jungle town, with
suitable pride, Fordlandia.

It was the 1920s, of course, and so his managers
enforced alcohol Prohibition, or at least tried to,
though it wasn't a Brazilian law, as it was in the
United States at the time. On weekends, the company
organized square dances and recitations of the poetry
of Henry Longfellow. The hospital Ford had built in the
town offered free health care for workers and visitors
alike. It was designed by Albert Kahn, the renowned
architect who built a number of Detroit's most famous
buildings, including the Crystal Palace. Fordlandia had
a central square, sidewalks, indoor plumbing, manicured
lawns, a movie theater, shoe stores, ice cream and
perfume shops, swimming pools, tennis courts, a golf
course, and, of course, Model Ts rolling down its paved
streets.

The clash between Henry Ford -- the man who reduced
industrial production to its simplest motions in order
to produce a series of infinitely identical products,
the first indistinguishable from the millionth -- and
the Amazon, the world's most complex and diverse
ecosystem, was Chaplinesque in its absurdity, producing
a parade of mishaps straight out of a Hollywood movie.
Think Modern Times meets Fitzcarraldo. Brazilian
workers rebelled against Ford's Puritanism and nature
rebelled against his industrial regimentation. Run by
incompetent managers who knew little about rubber
planting much less social engineering, Fordlandia in
its early years was plagued by vice, knife fights, and
riots. The place seemed less Our Town than Deadwood, as
brothels and bars sprawled around its edges.

Ford did eventually manage to get control over his
namesake fiefdom, but because he insisted that his
managers plant rubber trees in tight rows -- back in
his Detroit factories, Ford famously crowded machines
close together to reduce movement -- he actually
created the conditions for the explosive growth of the
bugs and blight that feed off rubber, and these
eventually laid waste to the plantation. Over the
course of nearly two decades, Ford sank millions upon
millions of dollars into trying to make his jungle
utopia work the American way, yet not one drop of
Fordlandia latex ever made its way into a Ford car.

The eeriest thing of all is this: Today, the ruins of
Fordlandia look a lot like those in Highland Park, as
well as in other rustbelt towns where neighborhoods
that once hummed with life centered on a factory are
now returned to weed. There is, in fact, an uncanny
resemblance between Fordlandia's rusting water tower,
broken-glassed sawmill, and empty power plant and the
husks of the same structures in Iron Mountain, a
depressed industrial city on Michigan's Upper Peninsula
that also used to be a Ford town.

In the Amazon, Albert Kahn's hospital has collapsed,
the jungle has reclaimed the golf course and tennis
courts, and bats have taken up residence in houses
where American managers once lived, covering their
plaster walls with a glaze of guano. No commemorative
plaque marks its place in history, but Fordlandia, no
less than the wreck of Detroit, is a monument to the
titans of American capital -- none more titanic than
Ford -- who believed that the United States offered a
universal, and universally acknowledged, model for the
rest of humanity.

Errand into the Wilderness

It would be easy to read the story of Fordlandia as a
parable of arrogance. With a surety of purpose and
incuriosity about the world that seem all too familiar,
Ford deliberately rejected expert advice and set out to
turn the Amazon into the Midwest of his imagination.
The more the project failed on its own terms -- that
is, to grow rubber -- the more Ford company officials
defended it as a civilizational mission; think of it as
a kind of distant preview of the ever expanding set of
justifications for why the U.S. invaded Iraq six years
ago. Yet Fordlandia cuts deeper into the marrow of the
American experience than that.

Over 50 years ago, the Harvard historian Perry Miller
gave a famous lecture which he titled "Errand into the
Wilderness." In it, he tried to explain why English
Puritans lit out for the New World to begin with, as
opposed to, say, going to Holland. They went, Miller
suggested, not just to escape the corruptions of the
Church of England but to complete the Protestant
reformation of Christendom that had stalled in Europe.

The Puritans did not flee to the New World, Miller
said, but rather sought to give the faithful back in
England a "working model" of a purer community. Put
another way, central from the beginning to American
expansion was "deep disquietude," a feeling that
"something had gone wrong" at home. With the
Massachusetts Bay Colony just a few decades old, a
dissatisfied Cotton Mather began to learn Spanish,
thinking that a better "New Jerusalem" could be raised
in Mexico.

The founding of Fordlandia was driven by a similar
restlessness, a chafing sense, even in the good times,
the best of times, that "something had gone wrong" in
America. When Ford embarked on his Amazon adventure, he
had already spent the greater part of two decades, and
a large part of his enormous fortune, trying to reform
American society. His frustrations and discontents with
domestic politics and culture were legion. War, unions,
Wall Street, energy monopolies, Jews, modern dance,
cow's milk, both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt,
cigarettes, and alcohol were among his many targets and
complaints. Yet churning beneath all these imagined
annoyances was the fact that the force of industrial
capitalism he had helped unleash was undermining the
world he hoped to restore.

Ford preached with a pastor's confidence his one true
idea: ever increasing productivity combined with ever
increasing pay would both relieve human drudgery and
create prosperous working-class communities, with
corporate profits dependent on the continual expansion
of consumer demand. "High wages," as Ford put it, to
create "large markets." By the late 1920s, Fordism --
as this idea came to be called -- was synonymous with
Americanism, envied the world over for having
apparently humanized industrial capitalism.

But Fordism contained within itself the seeds of its
own undoing: the breaking down of the assembly process
into smaller and smaller tasks, combined with rapid
advances in transportation and communication, made it
easier for manufacturers to break out of the dependent
relationship established by Ford between high wages and
large markets. Goods could be made in one place and
sold somewhere else, removing the incentive employers
had to pay workers enough to buy the products they
made.

In Rome, the ruins came after the empire fell. In the
United States, the destruction of Detroit happened even
as the country was rising to new heights as a
superpower.

Ford sensed this unraveling early on and responded to
it, trying at least to slow it in ever more eccentric
ways. He established throughout Michigan a series of
decentralized "village-industries" designed to balance
farm and factory work and rescue small-town America.
Yet his pastoral communes were no match for the raw
power of the changes he had played such a large part in
engendering. So he turned to the Amazon to raise his
City on a Hill, or in this case a city in a tropical
river valley, pulling together all the many strains of
his utopianism in one last, desperate bid for success.

Nearly a century ago, the journalist Walter Lippmann
remarked that Henry Ford's drive to make the world anew
represented a common strain of "primitive Americanism,"
reinforced by a confidence born of unparalleled
achievement. He then followed with a question meant to
be sarcastic but which was, in fact, all too prophetic:
"Why shouldn't success in Detroit assure success in
front of Baghdad?" We know the ruination that befell
Detroit. Whither Baghdad? Whither America?

Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York
University and author of a number of books, most
recently, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's
Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan 2009). 

Copyright 2009 Greg Grandin 
From lknauer at umassd.edu  Tue Jun 30 14:48:56 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Knauer)
Date: Tue Jun 30 13:58:13 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]syllabus help: sustainable cities?
Message-ID: <4A4A5008.8090100@umassd.edu>

Dear colleagues: I convinced the sustainability studies program at my 
school to engage urban and environmental justice issues ... and now I 
find myself signed up to teach a 3-week (8 sessions) module on 
sustainable cities from an anthropological perspective (note to self: 
think twice before sharing your good ideas with the world). Has anyone 
out there taught something similar, or have you read anything that would 
be useful (and accessible for undergrads: it's a 200-level class)?  With 
3 weeks there's only so much I can do. Some of the topics that interest 
me are: sustainable economies, food/farming/gardens/CSAs, garbage, 
housing ... I've started to sift through the sustainable cities and 
environmental justice soc/anthro lit, but it never hurts to accumulate 
more resources.
Thanks in advance.
Lisa Maya Knauer
lknauer@umassd.edu  (in case you want to reply off-list)


From lknauer at umassd.edu  Tue Jun 30 09:02:30 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Knauer)
Date: Tue Jun 30 15:12:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Urban Anthro working group in NYC area?
In-Reply-To: <b3a6a2a30906270912o67bf169kc93bbf906bc81689@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b3a6a2a30906270912o67bf169kc93bbf906bc81689@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A49FED6.1060408@umassd.edu>

Dear Fatimah and all:
I don't know of any group in New York but would be happy to be part of 
one. My work also looks at race/ethnicity and space.  Let's see if 
others chime in. And if there is an existing group, please let us know!
Regards,
Lisa Maya Knauer

Fatimah Williams Castro wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone know if there is an urban anthropology (space and place) working
> group that meets regularly in the NYC area?   At this stage in my
> dissertation writing (on black social movements in Colombia, South America),
> the issues of urban ethnography and the racialization of space have become
> prominent topics. I'm interested in joining other scholars to circulate
> works in progress for feedback and discussion.
>
> Thanks!
> Fatimah Williams Castro
> Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
> Graduate Assistant, Center for Race & Ethnicity
> Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
> fatimahc@eden.rutgers.edu
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