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| In organising the structure of the conference ENTER the organising body, the International Federation for IT in Travel & Tourism (IFITT), has a very direct approach: three tracks – a research track, an eDestination track and an Industry & Innovations track. The research track provides a platform for the very latest research papers from the academic world. The eDestinations track, is about the applications and issues to provide cutting edge business solutions and best practices to destinations. The Industry & Innovations track will focus on the latest innovations in the tourism industry.
Prof. Andy Frew, IFITT-President, is convinced: “We have an enticing combination of the world’s leading eTourism researchers joined by industry champions describing their solutions and their visions for the future.” Illustrative topics include: trends and future scenarios for travel & tourism, online communities, Web 2.0, Destination Management Systems, mobile services, interactive TV, electronic marketing, recommender systems, and a host of others – around 150 presentations in all! On Friday, 25th January, there will be an Austrian Day with a focus on Web 2.0. The presentations on the Austrian Day will be given in German by high-profile representatives of the Austrian Tourism Industry. Now in its fifteenth year, ENTER, continues to take forward its mission of bringing together industry, national agencies and research communities to hear and engage with the very latest developments in ICT in Travel and Tourism. What distinguishes ENTER from other forums on this topic is vision is that it provides current business-oriented solutions and best practice cases not only for today but for tomorrow. ENTER is the conference to get up-to-date, learn from best practices/informative cases, and see into the future. More information on ENTER, a detailed programme as well a registration form can be obtained on www.ifitt.org/ENTER. http://www.ifitt.org/enter 13/12/2007 Geographies of Hospitality
27th-29th August In recent years there have been important developments in both the conceptions of hospitality and its application to the analysis of social phenomena. Geographers (Dikeç, 2002; Barnett, 2005), philosophers (Derrida, 2000; Friese, 2004), sociologists and cultural theorists (Molz and Gibson, 2007) have begun using hospitality to understand the ethics and politics of mobility and global migration. In the meantime, management researchers who traditionally treated hospitality as a series of economic and organisational practices have begun to embrace social scientific conceptions of hospitality in their studies of its commercial provision (Lashley et al., 2007; Lugosi, 2007). There is increasing cross fertilisation of ideas between management researchers and geographers. Management academics are developing a geographical understanding of commercial operations (Di Domenico and Lynch, 2007; Lugosi, 2007) and geographers have begun to examine the how social and commercial forms of hospitality interact to transform urban communities and contribute to urban regeneration (Bell, 2007; Bell and Binnie, 2005). This session aims to build on this emerging body of work by encouraging dialogue between geographers, social scientists and those working in the management research community. We welcome any papers that help to develop a geographical understanding of hospitality, but we particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that explore: · The role of hospitality in urban, suburban and rural cultures, including its positive and negative impacts · The relationship between hospitality and urban regeneration · The entanglement of social and commercial forms of hospitality · How notions of hospitality can be used to understand social, organisational and spatial processes · The management and operation of commercial hospitality venues Authors should submit a 200-word abstract by Friday 18th of January to Peter Lugosi via email plugosi@bournemouth.ac.uk 13/12/2007 Sexing Travel: Intimacy and Subjectivity in Women’s International Tourism
2009 publication target date We are seeking ethnographically informed papers that focus on the multiple dimensions of women’s participation in sexual and intimate relationships with local men or women in international tourist destinations, to be included in an edited volume on transnational/cultural intimacy and sexual subjectivity in women’s travel. We are currently looking into various channels for publication, and are aiming for eight contributors. Scholarship on ‘ethno-sexual relations’ (Nagel, 2003) between tourists and locals is growing and reflects, in our view, the expansion of sex tourism in late capitalism from a predominantly masculine terrain (tied into ideas around the modern subject) and historical practice to a global phenomenon that includes the gendered consumption practices of First World women shaped by some women’s increasing economic power and mobility. Most work to date draws almost exclusively upon a political-economic framework that refers to “female sex tourists” or “romance tourists”, whose parameters are defined by women’s similarity (or difference) to male sex tourists. As well as ustaining the male subject at the center of the conceptualization of female sex tourism, we feel these approaches ignore the complex sensorial and emotional dimensions of women’s inter-racial, transcultural sexual and intimate relationships with local people in largely Southern and Third World countries. They also miss the opportunity to comment on the role these encounters play in new subject formations and transnational relationships. We encourage papers that open up the current narrow focus of debate and do not simply reproduce the argument that First World female tourists are exploiting their white feminine privilege by taking sex from young men on the beaches of the Gambia (or Barbados, Bali, Indonesia, etc) in exchange for money, goods or other less tangible benefits. We are particularly interested in papers with a strong empirical grounding, based on fieldwork and ethnographic methodology or historical approaches, that consider the diverse international tourist spaces and multifaceted contexts in which these relationships occur. We especially welcome papers that, as a collection, are multi-disciplinary (e.g. anthropology, geography, sociology, women’s and gender studies, cultural and media studies, tourist studies, history), examine a range of destinations and landscapes, and deal with a variety of nationalities and ethnicities. Please send an abstract of between 300 and 500 words before January 15, 2008 to Dr. Susan Frohlick 13/12/2007 Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
September 18-21, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS -Mobility and the Environment - The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its Sixth International Conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada from September 18th through the 21st, 2008. Papers may address any aspect of the social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political history of transport, traffic and mobility. However, special consideration will be given to proposals related to the conference theme: Mobility and the Environment. The language of the conference is English. Hosted by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the 2008 conference coincides with a period of growing concern about the problematic relationship between the human desire and need for greater mobility, and the environmental consequences and challenges of this demand. Historical perspectives on this relationship offer the promise of greater clarity and understanding. To this end, we encourage proposals that explore all aspects of the issue across the full spectrum of modalities, systems, political contexts and environments. In addition, the conference theme is also intended to embrace philosophical, technical and cultural perspectives on the history of overcoming, or adapting to, the challenges of geography and climate. With respect to all of the above, the conference will also provide an opportunity to consider how important insights and ideas arising from historical research on the environment, and on issues of mobility in general, can best be shared with an interested general public. Notwithstanding T2M’s natural affinity for the historical view, interdisciplinary approaches are greatly encouraged. Relevant proposals from the fields of geography, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, engineering and others are most welcome. The participation of young scholars and doctoral students is especially desirable. T2M also invites professionals working in the areas of mobility or environmental policy and planning to contribute. Participants are encouraged, though not required, to organize and to propose panels on specific issues or ideas. As a rule, a panel should consist of a chair, a commentator and normally up to three speakers. Session proposals will also be considered. The deadline for abstracts and a one-page CV (English only) is the 1st of March, 2008: maximum of one page for all individual papers or panel presentations, or one page per presentation within a session proposal. Session proposals should also include a one-page overview of the session. Please send proposals to: submissions@t2m.org. http://www.t2m.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=89 12/12/2007 New EuroMesco Newsletter
11/12/2007 The Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Risk, Surveillance and Regulation
Newcastle University, UK Expressions of interest for participation are invited by 31st January, 2008. Please send: name, affiliation, suggested title of paper / area of interest to: Andrew Donaldson The entanglement of infectious diseases (of both humans and animals) with the material networks of the globalizing is a matter of increasing concern. Foot and Mouth Disease has shown that an animal disease can cause major disruption to the normal social and economic workings of a modern state. SARS showed the speed with which deadly disease could transcend national borders in a connected world. The threat of a new global flu pandemic, and the linking of this to avian influenza, has demonstrated that the boundaries that might be transgressed are more than just territorial. How should we understand, control or avoid the mobilities of such diseases on a global scale? This symposium is targeted mainly at human geographers and social scientists in cognate areas of sociology, science studies, public health and politics. We will have participants from relevant policy or regulatory bodies, but aim to sketch a strategic and critical social science agenda that is not driven by immediate policy / applied concerns but which nevertheless can contribute to improved wellbeing. The cost of the event will be no more than: £150 for full-time, £100 for postgraduates. This will be a non-residential event, so you will need to find your own accommodation (a full list of options will be provided). There will be three sequential sessions focusing on three types of site at which diseases are constructed as issues, problems and objects of knowledge in different ways, but with the themes of regulation, risk and surveillance running through all three. A central point of the symposium is to identify the things 'in-between' the various domains involved in disease, including those things which bridge the nonhuman/human divide. Farmyard, Clinic and Lab This session will focus on the activities which occur at sites of direct interaction between disease and healthcare professionals, and the ways in local interactions connect with other scales. Comparison between human and animal medicine could provide useful insights in this area. Possible topics will include: * Diagnosis and disease surveillance * Local knowledges * Organisation and knowledge exchange
This session will focus on the way in which diseases are represented, simulated, predicted and anticipated through the use of statistical analysis, computer modelling, mapping and more basic field surveillance techniques. Increasingly advanced modelling techniques are at the heart of disease prevention and control, but in the words of statistician George Box "All models are wrong" so we need to put them into context. Possible topics will include: * Fieldwork vs models * Data collection and coordination * Communication and controversy
This session will focus on the interaction of diseases and their representations with global political and economic structures, organizations and processes. The maintenance and dismantling of borders and bounded territories in the face of multiple flows and mobilities is a concern in many areas of strategic planning, policy making and regulation. When considering infectious diseases the following are possible topics: * Transnational organizations * Trade and (making and unmaking) boundaries * Measures for global surveillance and intervention * Travel, consumption and risk Organising Committee: Andrew Donaldson, CRE, Newcastle David Murakami Wood, GURU, Newcastle Valerie November, EPFL, Switzerland Abigail Woods, Imperial College, London
08/12/2007 Travel and Trauma: Suffering and the Journey. An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
St John’s College, Oxford Many travellers are Dark Tourists drawn to sites of devastation and destruction, suffering and trauma: Ground Zero, Kennedy's assassination site, battlefields, concentration camps, places associated with atrocities, and the like. Such 'thanatourism' has a long history it was arguably part of the appeal, for example, of Pompeii but it seems to be on the increase today, as history becomes more swiftly commodified and turned into spectacle. But how should we regard such journeys, and the travellers that make them? Are they important witnesses to human suffering, or just ghoulish voyeurs? Are they engaged in acts of atonement, or of exploitation? And how, equally, should we regard the many travel writers who are drawn to recreate these sites, and the journeys to them, in writing not to mention the many readers who make their vicarious journeys through these texts? This colloquium is interested in all aspects of the 'dark' travel experience: the themes of suffering, and the representation or reenactment of suffering; the competing claims of reportage, collective memory, exploitation and voyeurism; the travel industry infrastructures that maintain and promote such 'thanatourism'; the rhetorical devices and narrative structures that characterise the writing of the 'dark travel' text. These are just some of the topics that contributors might like to consider papers may approach the theme of human suffering as a point of focus or badge of honour for the traveller/tourist/travel writer from any disciplinary angle, and with reference to any historical period. For more information, or to offer a paper, contact Carl.Thompson@ntu.ac.uk The deadline for paper proposals is 5th January 2008. Costs: TBC. 07/12/2007 Call for Papers: 11th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress
May 28 - 31, 2008 The Mediterranean Studies Association's 11th annual International Congress will be held on May 28-31, 2008 at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. As is the case each year, papers and sessions on all subjects relating to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all periods are encouraged. Following a day of optional excursions, the Congress will open with a plenary session and reception on the evening of Wednesday, May 28. Over the course of the next days over 150 scholarly papers will be delivered before an international audience of about 250 scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of fields. Held in the historic city of Lüneburg, the official languages of the Congress are English and German. In addition, complete sessions in any Mediterranean language are welcome. A number of special events are being planned for Congress participants that will highlight the unique cultural aspects of Lüneburg. An optional five-day coach excursion of Germany ending in Berlin is also being planned following the close of the Congress. See http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ The Congress is sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the University of Kansas. Selected revised papers will be considered for publication in the Association's journal, Mediterranean Studies, published by Manchester University Press. The Mediterranean Studies Association is an interdisciplinary organization that promotes the scholarly study of Mediterranean cultures in all aspects and disciplines. It is particularly concerned with the ideas and ideals of western Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Proposals for papers and sessions are now being solicited. Papers and proposals for sessions with a Mediterranean theme, from any period and any discipline, will be considered. Proposals for roundtable discussions of a topical work or theme are also welcome. The typical panel will include three papers, each lasting twenty minutes, a chair, and (optionally) a commentator. For examples of paper and session topics, and the range of subjects, see the programs from Lisbon (1998), Coimbra (1999), Salvador (2000), Aix-en-Provence (2001), Granada (2002), Budapest (2003), Barcelona (2004), Messina (2005), Genoa (2006), and Evora (2007). See http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a one-page curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and commentators. (If you have participated in a previous congress, you need not submit your cv again; we have it on file.) Each participant's name, e-mail and regular address, and phone number should also be listed. Proposals are now being solicited for consideration. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis as they are received. You are encouraged to submit no later than December 15, 2007. NOTE: The MSA regrets that no funding is available to support travel and other costs of participants. You are encouraged to submit proposals online as this is the quickest and most secure method. Please use the convenient online forms to submit a paper proposal or a session proposal: http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/. Alternatively you may e-mail attachments to rclement@ku.edu, or send proposals to: Richard W. Clement, Mediterranean Studies Association, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045-7616, USA. 06/12/2007 Alexander von Humboldt Lecture in Human Geography in Nijmegen: “The Rocky Expansion of Multiple Membership: Multicultural and Dual Citizenship”
05/12/2007 Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27-29 August 2008
Please send expressions of interest to both n.clarke@soton.ac.uk and p.cloke@exeter.ac.uk Deadline for titles and abstracts (c200 words): 11 Jan 2008 In World City (2007), Doreen Massey notes that lines run out from cities (trade routes, investments, political and cultural influences etc.), actions in cities have effects elsewhere, and ‘the global is locally produced’. She also notes that, on the one hand, spaces and places are increasingly the product of global flows, while, on the other, politics remains framed by a territorial imagination and structure. In view of this, she calls for the acknowledgement of ‘responsibility beyond place’, and the construction of ‘a politics of place beyond place’. This session is inspired by Massey’s arguments. It also seeks to build on them in three ways. First, while Massey focuses on London, this session considers responsibility and politics as they relate to a variety of towns and cities. Second, while Massey focuses on the period since the early 1980s, this session considers examples of ‘a local politics that thinks beyond the local’ from the contemporary period but also from the history of municipal internationalism (see Saunier 2002). Third, while Massey focuses on the specific responsibilities that attach to both actors and the beneficiaries of actions, this session considers the roles of various modes of responsibility, and other factors too, in motivating ‘a more outward-looking politics of place’. Papers are sought on the following topics: (i) The geographical imaginations that frame understandings of cities and their relationships with other places; (ii) The production of these geographical imaginations; (iii) The relationship between these geographical imaginations and action; (iv) The effects of towns and cities in the country and/or the world; (v) Examples of ‘a local politics that thinks beyond the local’ from the contemporary period (e.g. the Fairtrade Foundation’s Fairtrade Towns campaign – see Malpass et al 2007) and/or the history of municipal internationalism (e.g. the municipal foreign policy movement – see Kirby et al 1995); (vi) The various modes of responsibility and/or other factors that help to motivate ‘a more outward-looking politics of place’. References: Kirby A, Marston S and Seasholes K (1995) ‘World cities and global communities: The municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities’, in P Knox and P Taylor (eds) World Cities in a World System (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) pp267-79 Malpass A, Cloke P, Barnett C and Clarke N (2007) ‘Fairtrade urbanism? The politics of place beyond place in the British Fairtrade City campaign’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(3): 633-45 Massey D (2007) World City (Cambridge, Polity) Saunier P-Y (2002) ‘Taking up the bet on connections: A municipal contribution’, Contemporary European History 11(4): 507-27
04/12/2007 Call for papers for a session in the RGS-IBG AnnualConference 2008 (27-29 August)
2/12/2007 Forced Migration Online Podcast 3: Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2007
01/12/2007 Roads less travelled: The culture of shared air, marine, and land mobility
As fuel prices rise, as petrol becomes less easily available worldwide, and as the reflexive feeling of citizen responsibility for sustainable mobility grows, it behoves scholars to understand the symbolic significance of car-less lifestyles and countercultures of immobility. The proposed book will collect 12 original ethnographic studies written from a wide variety of social scientific fields and interdisciplinary social sciences. Submissions of proposals for papers dealing with the culture of marine mobility, air mobility, shared land mobility, and immobility are invited. Ideal proposals for ethnographic studies would look at the role played by the mentioned modes of mobility in the everyday life of individuals living in precise geographical contexts. Essays would focus on the logic, experience, and practice of alternative mobility and its shaping of the senses of space, time, identity, and community. Essay topics would include, but are not limited to, ferry-boat transportation, the culture of year-round sailboat travellers, the mobility options and movement practices of remote island communities, the experience of regional, national, and international airline travel, the practice of bush pilot air travel, train and subway commuting, urban bus transit, long-range coach travel, and also the experiences and lifestyle of immobile individuals--those who wish to "maroon" themselves within the confines of a unique space. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2008. Proposals should consist of 200 word abstracts emailed to the editor, Phillip Vannini: phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca Expressions of interest, preliminary inquiries, and requests for further information are welcomed at any time. Preliminary interest in the project from an international publisher of academic titles has already been expressed. 30/11/2007 Conflict and Cities and the Contested State has begun recruiting for its graduate programme
29/11/2007 3-year Research Post in Transport & Society, University of the West of England, Bristol
27/11/2007 Research Fellow in Diaspora Mobilisation and International Security
27/11/2007 Congreso Internacional: Patrimonio de la Humanidad, Turismo y Cambio Climático – solicitud de comunicaciones
29/11/2007 The Intercultural City: Planning For Diversity Advantage
Professor Ash Amin, Department of Geography, Durham University Many of the ideas and projects discussed in the book will also be at the centre of an international conference which is being planned by the authors to mark the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in the UK. The Intercultural Cities Conference will be held on 1 & 2 May 2008 in Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture. To register your interest in the conference and to keep abreast of programme announcements please go to http://inter.culture.info/ICC http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/4742a6b72.pdf 28/11/2007 UNHCR Dialogue on Protection Challenges
26/11/2007 Diaspora and International Security - Research Fellow Position
26/11/2007 Celebrating the Edges of the World: Tourism and Festivals of the Coast and Sea Journeys of Expression VII February 29 - March 1 2008 Venue: University of Iceland, Reykjavík Journeys of Expression VII will bring together researchers who share interests in festivals, cultural events and associated tourism in coastal settings. The conference encourages contributions from contrasting but related theoretical and conceptual approaches from the social sciences and humanities. Communities inhabiting coastal settlements around the world have long celebrated the harvest of the sea and have appeased and appealed to the Gods of the oceans through festivals and events. The coast has also been the focus of tourist activity for many years as a liminal space for recreation, whether in large scale seaside resorts, remote and beautiful coastal areas as ports of (dis)embarkation for cruise passengers, or in fishing harbours. Here tourists may encounter community celebrations and festivities incidentally, or as packaged by tourism and cultural agencies. The phenomenon of coastal festivals and associated tourism suggests a number of themes of interest to this conference. These include: (i) Ritual and festivity in the liminal spaces of the seaside; (ii) Festivals and performances of ocean produce; (iii) Worshipping the Gods of the sea and associated touristic commodification; (iv) The role of festivals in the development, decline and regeneration of seaside resort areas; (v) Encounters between natural and cultural worlds; (vi) Fishing festivals in times of abundance and scarcity; (vii) Port and harbour festivals as celebrations of cosmopolitanism; Cruise ports and cultural events; (viii) Maritime celebrations of shipping and 'sea-power'. In the tradition of the Journeys of Expression conference series, we wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, history, art, architecture, marine archaeology, politics, etc. If you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long@leedsmet.ac.uk). The deadline for the reception of abstracts is 14th December 2007. Please ind regularly updated information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a later stage) a programme at our website www.tourism-culture.com. Organisers: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; and Geography Department, University of Iceland. Partners: Visit Reykjavík; and the International Festivals and Events Association Europe (IFEA). In association with: Icelandic Tourism Research Institute; and University of Akureyri, Iceland. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Faculty of Arts and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University 25/11/2007 New Special Issue on"Mobility, Space and Social Inequality" at the Swiss Journal of Sociology
It is edited by Vincent Kaufmann, Sven Kesselring, Katharina Manderscheid and Fitz Sager and collects the following contributions in English, German and French: Urry, John - Des inégalités sociales au capital en réseau Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene - Mobility, Motility and Freedom: The Structural Story as Analytical Tool for Understanding the Interconnection Jiron M., Paola - Unravelling Invisible Inequalities in the City through Urban Daily Mobility. The Case of Santiago de Chile Abraham, Martin; Nisic, Natascha - Regionale Bindung, räumliche Mobilität und Arbeitsmarkt - Analysen für die Schweiz und Deutschland Bacqué, Marie-Hélène; Fol, Sylvie - L'inégalité face à la mobilité : du constat à l'injonction Zollinger, Lukas - Sozialräumliche Konstitutionsbedingungen der neokonservativen Denkweise der Schweizerischen Vokspartei. Eine wissens- und gemeindesoziologische Untersuchung in einer suburbanisierten Agglomerationsgemeinde des Kantons Zürich Tully, Claus J.; Baier, Dirk - Die Verschränkung zweier Dynamiken. Jugendliche Mobilität in der Moderne It also includes 20 pages of book reviews on mobility related issues and books. 23/11/2007 Call for papes- Historical Sociology Special Issue - Imperial Plantations Past and Present Editors: Piya Chatterjee, Women’s Studies, University of California-Riverside, Monisha Das Gupta, Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Richard Cullen Rath, History, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa In this special issue, we seek to stage an interdisciplinary conversation between the past and the present in order to engage the enduring logics of plantation systems. While keeping in mind that historical plantations have conditioned those of today, attention to contemporary plantation systems shows that the plantation is no artifact of old empires. We are looking for essays that engage plantations’ global reach, even when the object of study is as local as a particular plantation. We welcome submissions from all regions that have been profoundly changed by plantations including but not limited to eastern Africa, southern and southeastern Asia, the Americas, or plantation islands (whether in the Caribbean, the West African coast, the Indian Ocean, or the Pacific). We invite essays that think beyond area studies and nationalist frameworks. In this issue, we conceive of plantation economies and societies as bringing together multiple diasporas and staging encounters between indigenous people and immigrants. Of particular interest to us are papers that consider conquest from indigenous perspectives while marking land appropriation as necessary to the development of the plantation complex. Submissions might investigate the connections, disjunctures, and interplay among various racialized/ethnic groups as well as consumers and producers; multi-disciplinary approaches linking cultural processes such as diaspora and creolization; or the effects of supra-national structures like the World Bank and programs for structural adjustment on labor and commodity circuits. We would like to see the papers track shifts in labor regimes and consumption patterns over time rather than considering them in isolation. Millions of workers continue to labor within racialized, gendered, and sexual economies of the plantation from which the past is difficult to extricate. Essays might consider colonial, neo-colonial, and post-colonial plantations as carceral economies geared toward rendering labor predictable through everyday and extraordinary violence. We would like to foreground analyses that treat race and gender as intersecting systems of violence. We also seek papers that investigate how plantations carry ideologies such as race, caste, patriarchal gender roles, heteronormativity, or religion around the globe. What relations of power do plantations carry with them and how are they transformed in the process? We are looking for the ways that consumption simultaneously fetishizes and erases the laboring bodies who produce plantation commodities. What fantasies of consumerism erase the corporeality of the product consumed? How does capitalism both connect and isolate labor, plantation infrastructures, and consumers? By connecting cultures of mass consumerism to cultures of production, we seek to bridge the artificial divides of metropole and periphery, global and local. How do memory and memorialization -- for example in nostalgic recreations of plantations as tourist sites -- erase or minimize the realities of historic and present-day plantations? In sum, we want this special issue to trace how historical and contemporary plantations manifest the global circuits of labor, commodities, and consumption. Please send an abstract of 250 words by January 10, 2008 to jhscfp@way.net. If you already have a paper, please send it to the same address along with the abstract. The final articles should be 7,500-10,000 words. See author guidelines for the journal at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0952-1909&site=1. While we encourage authors to use images for their articles, they have to high resolution jpg, tiff or pdf files. The issue is slated for publication in January or February 2009 (volume 21, issue 4). Direct any questions about the special issue to the above address. 17/11/2007 Survey on returned migrants in the Maghreb
15/11/2007 First issue of ‘Euromed Aviation Info’
15/11/2007 Launch of new programme on border management systems in the South Caucasus
14/11/2007 New MEDSTAT website
13/11/2007 EuroMeSCo launches Call for Research Projects
11/11/2007 Investigar la inmigración en España
9/11/2007 Mediterranean Motorways of the Sea: Call for Proposals
Routledge are releasing more titles on a regular basis. The paperbacks will be sold to individuals via the dedicated website. 7/11/2007 EuroMeSCo Research Workshop: "Democracy and Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area”
The workshop was introduced by Dr. Tobias Schumacher (EuroMeSCo secretariat, Lisbon) who pointed out that the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) and thus Euro-Mediterranean relations since 9/11, and even more so since the Madrid and London bombings in 2004 and 2005 respectively, have become exposed to an increasing degree of securitization, particularly in policy areas, such as immigration, asylum and border control. In a way, it seems, according to Schumacher, as if there existed a consensus among the political elite on both shores of the Mediterranean that the way terrorism is expressing itself nowadays, was considered to be a new phenomenon that can only be countered through the introduction of highly restrictive measures at the expense of civic liberties. Whereas this trend affects the rights of third-country nationals in particular, or third-country nationals with an Islamic background to be more precise, the securitization of Euro-Mediterranean relations and policies has resulted in a rather unforeseen revitalization of sorts of parts of the EMP’s hitherto rather dormant first basket. Schumacher argued that while the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the numerous conceptual flaws that are underpinning the first basket, precluded the latter from being implemented properly, the recent change of the security climate in the Euro-Mediterranean area contributed to a rapprochement between the EU, EU member states and their counterparts in the South and led to an intensified cooperation in the field of anti-terrorism legislation. According to Schumacher, this is reflected, for instance, by the adoption of a Euro-Mediterranean code of conduct on terrorism, and an informal understanding that allows EU member states on the hand to externalize – and thus outsource – areas of migration control and on the other hand Arab Mediterranean regimes to give priority to stability over political liberalization and democratization, the latter of which is the ultimate normative objective of the EMP. In view of this, Schumacher remarked that it seems as if there were at least three dichotomies that needed to be addressed: 1.) how to combine security/securitization with processes of political liberalization?; 2.) how to fight terrorism and pursue the relevant measures without curtailing civic liberties and personal freedoms and violating human rights?; 3.) how to relate the European Neighbourhood Policy’s alleged incentives that are supposed to be on offer in exchange for reform to the increasing tendency of EU member states to clamp down on immigration? These initial remarks paved the way for the first session, which was introduced by Francesca Galli (Cambridge University) and George Joffé (Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University). In their presentation on “The Legal and Political Implications of the Securitization of Counter-Terrorism Measures across the Mediterranean”, they pointed to an overreaction that was generated by the incidents of political violence, as mentioned above, and examined whether, and if so, to what extent, this had led to a securitization of both policies and legislation within the EU. With this in view, they identified developments in European security policy, in terms of the Union´s declamatory policy and the construction of new security institutions, as well as the application of externalisation and intensive trans-governmentalism to security policy across the Mediterranean. They reviewed the latest developments in the security dialogue between the EU and the southern Mediterranean partners and touched upon the evolution of domestic security policies within France and the United Kingdom and the Maghreb. Galli and Joffé explained that while the events of 9/11 contributed to bringing the security discourses of the EU and North Africa closer together and a common, yet highly simplified understanding of what constitutes the main security threats, i.e. political Islam, they emphasized that this did not bring about further agreement on how to tackle this and other alleged threats, and what practices need to be promoted in order to do so. In other words, as was remarked by the two speakers, the EU and its southern Mediterranean partners do not share a unified approach to radical Islamist groups, nor even towards the concept of transnational terrorism. Ironically, as European policy-makers claim to have a very clear understanding of the nature of the predominant security threats, they persist in considering that authoritarian governments and some co-opted secular opposition parties need to remain their privileged interlocutors. Unsurprisingly, this implies that hard security concerns (continue to) take precedence over the development of democratic states and, as a consequence, the security situation in Europe´s southern neighbourhood remains precarious. In the subsequent discussion, there was a broad consensus among the participants that if the EU and thus the EMP´s first basket were to be ultimately successful, attempts at (re-)building security regimes should rebalance Justice and Home Affairs concerns with other essential elements of both the Union´s and the southern Mediterranean partner´s external policies, on the basis of international law and respect for human rights. Moreover, participants were reminded by Georgios Karyotis (University of Strathclyde) that the externalization of threats that is somewhat underpinning the actual securitization of the discourse started already before 9/11, and they agreed that it is increasingly difficult to reverse that trend, as it was considered to be highly ideologized. The second session, introduced by Galit Palzur (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), followed up on this debate, as it focused on “The Repercussions of 9/11 on the Asylum Policies of selected EU Member States towards Asylum-Seekers from the South”. In her presentation Palzur tried to established a correlation between variables, such as the influence of public opinion, the power of interest groups, the overall economic situation in countries such as Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the relationship of the country in question with the US, and thus the degree to which these countries may be exposed to a terrorist attack, and how these factors would impact upon individual asylum policies. Based on this matrix, she argued that the events of 9/11 represented a turning point with respect to asylum policies especially in France and Germany although measures, such as the Debré Laws, the Chèvenement Laws and the “Sicherheitspaket I”, were introduced already ahead of the terrorist attacks in the US. Furthermore, she maintained that security concerns had increasingly shaped asylum policies particularly vis-à-vis Muslim asylum-seekers and pointed to the declining approval rate of asylum seekers in the countries under study. This sparked a debate over the feasibility of the applied variables, and there was widespread agreement that it is crucial to distinguish between refugees and migrants and to abandon the somewhat artificial and analytically problematic distinction between Muslim and non-Muslim asylum-seekers. In the third session, Xavier Aragall (IEMed, Barcelona) gave an overview of an ongoing EuroMeSCo project on “New Directions on National Immigration Policies: the Development of the External Dimension and its Linkage with the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership” and raised the question to what extent EMP states are externalizing their policies and which role the EMP plays in such a process. While Aragall argued that the Euro-Mediterranean framework should be utilized as a system of arbitration of sorts with respect to the identification of commonly accepted solutions to shared problems in the field of migration, it was stressed by others that a higher degree of Europeanization may not imply a higher level of coherence with the southern Mediterranean partners. In this context, it was pointed out by some participants that the governmental elite of most of the southern Mediterranean partner countries do play a rather active role and implicitly provided the basis for the EU to externalise and adopt tighter security measures in the wake of 9/11, as many of the southern leaders had already anticipated the development of the current securitization discourse some years ago when they themselves pointed to the phenomenon of transnational violence. In view of these presentations and comments, the participants reached the conclusion that the time has come to “deconstruct the constructed”, i.e. to de-securitize the current discourse that conceives of migrants both as potential threats to the stability and homogeneity of European (and southern Mediterranean) societies, and as potential terrorists. According to the participants, this must go hand in hand with a Euro-Mediterranean-wide debate about common security governance that is based upon the safeguarding of individual rights, greater accountability of governments and thus real transparency of security/counter-terrorism measures. 5/11/2007 EuroMed Aviation project holds Air Traffic Management Workshop
2/11/2007 Balancing Tourism Development and Cultural Site Preservation Along the Red Sea Coast The UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Colloquium presents: Amir H. Gohar, Planner Weds, Nov. 14, 1:05-2:00 PM Room 315A, 221 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley
3/11/2007 The 14 Nordic Migration Researchers Conference '"Borders and Boundaries" Time: November 14-16, 2007 Place: Bergen, Norway. Deadlines:Submission of abstracts: 15 September Submission of paper: 15 October Conference program now available! The 14th Nordic Migration Researcher Conference will be hosted by IMER/UiB at the University of Bergen. The theme for the Nordic Migration Researcher Conference points to issues of sovereignty, demarcation, distinction, exclusion and discrimination, but also to issues of transience, communication across distinction, and acceptance. Aspects of 'the global turn' and the Europeanization of Europe, not least as manifest in migration and migrant populations, have brought border and boundary issues to the forefront not only in social science and humanities scholarship, but also placed them with exceptional prominence on the political agenda. The conference will be organized in plenaries, subplenaries, and workshops. For each of the three days, the plenaries will focus around a specific topic. The following topics have been defined: Transnationalism and the relevance of borders Specifically, the relevance of state/European borders in our attempts to understand migratory movements and migrant population 'integration'. What reshapings of the sovereignty regimes do we see, and why? Do we see a development towards a sociology of mobility? Or do we see a re-nationalization within Europe? Borders, boundaries and identity construction are crucial issues here. Speakers: *Jonathon Moses, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway *John Urry, Lancaster University, UK Mobility and gender Increasingly, there has been a stronger and much needed focus on gender within studies in international migration and ethnic relations. This plenary will deal with, and tie together, some ways in which gender constructions are tied to imaginaries of community, and gendered distinctions in agency and the quality of life. Speakers: *Uli Linke, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA *Laura Agustín, London Metropolitan University, UK *Anja Bredal, Institute for Social Research, Norway Globalizing idioms and human rights Increasingly, globalizing and essentializing idioms, especially religious and ethnic ones, have been seen as major impediments to reasoned resolutions to conflicts and controversies. These idioms have been largely contrasted with human rights perspectives. The plenary will explore these issues, with particular attention also to the essentializing dimensions in the human rights discourses. Speakers: *Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, USA *Howard Adelman, Griffith University, Australia *Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen, Norway The Organizers welcome abstracts and paper submissions! Please check out the workshop list Directory: fass fass -> Bypassing and waping: Reconfiguring Timetables for ‘Real-time’ Mobility fass -> The lessons from the anarchist experiences on urban social cohesion fass -> Lite 304 Anglophone Children’s Literature fass -> New literacies, old identities: Girls’ experiences of literacy and new technologies at home and school fass -> The involvement of communities in the development and delivery of csr policies Download 1.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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