RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 27-29 August 2008: Call for Papers
Session: The New Urbanism and the Making of Sustainable Cities
Organisers: Gesa Helms (University of Glasgow), Gerry Mooney (Open University) and Mike Raco (King’s College London)
This session calls for papers that examine the relationships between the group of ideas loosely known as the ‘new urbanism’ and the planning and development of sustainable cities. For new urbanists, urban policy and planning should actively work towards the creation of new urban designs and spaces in order to facilitate new modes of community interaction and formation. Following a long tradition of such work, the emphasis is on the ways in which urban design can be used to shape the mobility and activities of individuals as much as (excluded) social groups for a wider ‘common good’. In recent times, this mode of planning thinking has become elided with broader sustainability discourses with their visions of social, economically, and environmentally ‘balanced’ urban environments.
This session seeks papers that engage with ongoing debates within social policy, geography, and criminology that are exploring the ways in which social practices and interaction are controlled, governed, and regulated under this new urbanism, and the power relationships and agendas that underpin these changes. For example, many of the debates around law and order policies, punishment, and social control try to capture the social visions, goals and aspirations of ‘bettering’ or civilising urban subjects through urban and social policy initiatives. Research has often explicitly or implicitly taken on Foucault’s governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding such changes. Yet, what is often absent in such accounts is the use of detailed, systematic empirical evidence that explores in detail the ways in which policy objectives and visions are actually put into practice on the ground.
We, therefore, welcome papers that: explore and assess the ways in which new urbanist planning principles have been developed, mobilised, and rolled-out in recent planning discourses and practices: focus on the interconnectedness of urban, criminal justice and social policies around the New Urbanism; and examine the attempts that have been made in cities to mobilise and encourage particular forms of social interaction and engagement and with what impacts on the urban. Papers that explore the emergence and novelty or such themes in the light of grounded conceptual and empirical work are particularly encouraged.
Please send a 200 word abstract by January 21 2008 to one of the session organisers: Gesa Helms, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, (g.helms@lbss.gla.ac.uk); Gerry Mooney, Faculty of Social Science, The Open University (g.c.mooney@open.ac.uk); and Mike Raco, Department of Geography, King’s College London (mike.raco@kcl.ac.uk).
Friday 30 November 2007
Rotten Neighbors
Rotten Neighbors
ABC News – Channel 7
November 27, 2007 - Posting complaints about your neighbors is just one part of what's known as on-line shaming. In June, ABC7 told you about people who embarrass their friends and enemies on the web in our special segment "Cyber Smearing." Now, a cybersmearing site that attacks "rotten neighbors," is at 41 million users and counting.
Litter . Drugs. Inconsiderate neighbors. Now people are logging on to air out their dirty neighborhood laundry. The website is called RottenNeighbor.com (http://www.rottenneighbor.com/).
Some local complaints get downright nasty. One on the city's Northwest Side claims that neighbors are dealers, junkies and --- we can't print the last descriptive. The complaint alleges people yelling obscenities, fighting and leaving used needles in the alley. This neighbor did not post the complaint but says it's true.
"I have been here 5 years and it affects me because I have little ones," said Angelina Barreia, neighbor.
The website was created by a San Diego web designer over the summer. He had rotten neighbors of his own.
"Some real estate agents don't want it, they don't like it, think it will hurt their business. People looking to buy homes love it. Some people looking to sell homes think it will bring their values down," said Brant Walker, RottenNeighbor.com.
The Chicago Association of Realtors discourages homeowners from using the site - even though exact addresses are usually not listed, users can zoom all the way down to specific blocks and homes, with Google satellite map imagery.
"If you complain about your street or your condo building -- and you complain publically about it -- you are going to create concern from potential buyers, which, in turn, can effect the value not only of your neighbor's unit but your unit as well," said Michael Golden, Chicago Association of Realtors.
Real estate agents say neighbors should try to talk to each other face to face - or mediate problems with a condo or neighborhood association. You can also call your alderman or police about serious issues instead of telling the world on line.
"To me it seems almost caddy - like 'I am telling on you,'" said Gerilyn Gordan.
These college students in Lincoln Park don't think posting problems will have any effect. One of their neighbors is on it for allegedly playing loud music until 4 a.m.
"They are not going to stop because someone blogged about them," said Kateland Vandiver.
What sounds like scoop could be false.
"We all know there are at least three sides to every story and basically you are getting just one side," said Golden.
Grant Dietmeier, for example, disputes a posting about excessive noise on his block.
"I think its a great place to live. Very safe, very quiet, wonderful neighborhood," said Dietmeier.
Walker said video and pictures will be added to his site in a few weeks. As far as legal liability goes for smearing online- only the person posting false information can be sued and, in most cases, laws don't hold websites accountable.
Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=special_coverage&id=5787689
http://www.rottenneighbor.com/
New York Post article about the site:
RIP THY NEIGHBOR: BLAST NUISANCE NEXT DOOR ON NEW WEB SITE
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10012007/news/regionalnews/rip_thy_neighbor.htm
ABC News – Channel 7
November 27, 2007 - Posting complaints about your neighbors is just one part of what's known as on-line shaming. In June, ABC7 told you about people who embarrass their friends and enemies on the web in our special segment "Cyber Smearing." Now, a cybersmearing site that attacks "rotten neighbors," is at 41 million users and counting.
Litter . Drugs. Inconsiderate neighbors. Now people are logging on to air out their dirty neighborhood laundry. The website is called RottenNeighbor.com (http://www.rottenneighbor.com/).
Some local complaints get downright nasty. One on the city's Northwest Side claims that neighbors are dealers, junkies and --- we can't print the last descriptive. The complaint alleges people yelling obscenities, fighting and leaving used needles in the alley. This neighbor did not post the complaint but says it's true.
"I have been here 5 years and it affects me because I have little ones," said Angelina Barreia, neighbor.
The website was created by a San Diego web designer over the summer. He had rotten neighbors of his own.
"Some real estate agents don't want it, they don't like it, think it will hurt their business. People looking to buy homes love it. Some people looking to sell homes think it will bring their values down," said Brant Walker, RottenNeighbor.com.
The Chicago Association of Realtors discourages homeowners from using the site - even though exact addresses are usually not listed, users can zoom all the way down to specific blocks and homes, with Google satellite map imagery.
"If you complain about your street or your condo building -- and you complain publically about it -- you are going to create concern from potential buyers, which, in turn, can effect the value not only of your neighbor's unit but your unit as well," said Michael Golden, Chicago Association of Realtors.
Real estate agents say neighbors should try to talk to each other face to face - or mediate problems with a condo or neighborhood association. You can also call your alderman or police about serious issues instead of telling the world on line.
"To me it seems almost caddy - like 'I am telling on you,'" said Gerilyn Gordan.
These college students in Lincoln Park don't think posting problems will have any effect. One of their neighbors is on it for allegedly playing loud music until 4 a.m.
"They are not going to stop because someone blogged about them," said Kateland Vandiver.
What sounds like scoop could be false.
"We all know there are at least three sides to every story and basically you are getting just one side," said Golden.
Grant Dietmeier, for example, disputes a posting about excessive noise on his block.
"I think its a great place to live. Very safe, very quiet, wonderful neighborhood," said Dietmeier.
Walker said video and pictures will be added to his site in a few weeks. As far as legal liability goes for smearing online- only the person posting false information can be sued and, in most cases, laws don't hold websites accountable.
Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=special_coverage&id=5787689
http://www.rottenneighbor.com/
New York Post article about the site:
RIP THY NEIGHBOR: BLAST NUISANCE NEXT DOOR ON NEW WEB SITE
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10012007/news/regionalnews/rip_thy_neighbor.htm
1st Global Conference Intellectuals - Knowledge, Power, Ideas
1st Global Conference
Intellectuals - Knowledge, Power, Ideas
Thursday 8th May - Saturday 10th May 2008
Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the
role,
character, nature and place of intellectuals and intellectual work in
contemporary society. Whilst the ‘intellectual’ emerges as a
particular
category with the development of modernity, the ‘knowledgeable’ and
knowledge producers have been an important historical agent and social
actor since the early Greek philosophers, and knowledge production,
whether religious, scientific or philosophical, has been important in
shaping social, political, economic and cultural change. Intellectuals
and the knowledge they produce have been subject to competing
representations: from an ‘elect’ producing knowledge for its own
sake to
different forms of philosopher king, servant of the state or dissenting
movement intellectuals connecting politically with change in the social
world. In contemporary ‘knowledge’ societies, much of the focus on
the
intellectual as a ‘public’ figure, residing within the media
intelligentsia or institutions of higher learning, but competing
theories of intellectuals and their work identify elitist, meritocratic
and radical alternatives about who intellectuals are, what they do, how
they are connected to and divided from other social institutions, and
why we understand them the way we do.
The Project underpinning this inaugural conference seeks to build both
an evidenced and critical understanding of the intellectual and
intellectual work in the past and a critical understanding of
intellectuals and intellectual work in the present, and its prospects
for the future. In doing so, it recognises that the interdisciplinary
basis of such an analysis will take in the fields of cultural studies,
education studies (with a particular focus on higher education),
history, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology, social theory and
open avenues to wider and more diverse disciplinary connections, and
the
project welcomes interdisciplinary explorations.
Some indicative themes are suggested below to indicate the types of
issues that might be addressed in conference papers and workshops.
A. History, the Intellectual and Intellectual Work
How do we understand intellectuals and intellectual work in the past?
What relationships characterised the categorisation, role, nature and
place of intellectuals within society and social institutions in the
past? How have the roles, natures and places of intellectuals changed
through history? How have we come to understand the intellectual both
before and after that particular identification emerged within the
onset
of the enlightenment project and modernity? What different models or
characterisations of the intellectual emerge historically and how
persuasive are they? What do historical understandings of the
intellectual tell us about the intellectual today?
B. Intellectuals, the Academy and Higher Education
What are the role and functions and positions that intellectuals have
taken within learning institutions? What overlap and interplay is there
between the academy and the intellectual? How have learning
institutions
developed in relation to the production of intellectuals and knowledge?
What moral, cultural, political and educational principles underpin the
academy and the learning institution? How has the association between
academy and intellectual been impacted on by recent developments in the
role and place of higher learning institutions within economy and
society?
C. Intellectuals and their Troubling Relationship to Knowledge
What is knowledge? Is it a commodity, ‘mere’ information or
something
more intrinsically apart from the production of information? What, if
anything, is the difference between knowledge and information? What
different relationships does the intellectual have with knowledge and
how do we understand them? What is the place of various types of
credentials in contemporary society and how does that relate to
intellectual status and intellectual work? To what extent is knowledge
only understood within the social context of its production and to what
extent has it a universal or divorced from social context?
D. Intellectuals and the Knowledge Society
How has the intellectual changed in their role, character and place in
the knowledge society? How have the internet and ICT’s changed the
way
intellectuals work and intellectual work is produced, distributed and
exchanged? How has the knowledge society changed our understanding of
the intellectual in society? Have we moved from the primacy of the mode
of production to the primacy of the mode of information?
E. Public Intellectuals and the Intellectual in Public and Political
Life
What is a public intellectual and how is a public intellectual
distinguished from other intellectuals and knowledge producers? What
roles and places do public intellectuals have in past and contemporary
societies? Are intellectuals and is intellectual work always political?
What political and public roles do intellectuals play?
F. Intellectuals and Cultural Life
How have intellectuals impacted on cultural life, in shaping everyday
experience, providing frameworks for understanding and producing
cultural enrichment? In what ways have intellectuals played a role in
shaping the cultural milieu? What is the relationship between the
intellectual and the artist or producer of cultural knowledge and
products? What is the relationship between intellectuals and the
aesthetic?
G. Intellectuals and the Development of Bodies of Knowledge
How do intellectuals produce and create knowledge? How should we
understand the processes of knowledge production and creation as social
and political and well as research processes? How should we understand
notions of discovery, exploration and speaking truth in the context of
critical perspectives on knowledge creation? How have particular bodies
of knowledge developed historically and come to play determining roles
in social, cultural, political and economic change?
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by
Friday 18th April 2008.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body
of
abstract. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace!
We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or
resend.
Paul Reynolds
Social and Psychological Sciences,
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
E-Mail: Reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk
Rob Fisher
Network Founder & network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-Mail: ikp@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected
papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.
For further details about the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int.html
For further details about the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int1/cfp.html
=============
Dr Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Programme Leader in Sociology and Social Psychology
Department of Social and Psychological Sciences
Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancs L39 4QP
Tel: 01695 584370
email: reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk
Intellectuals - Knowledge, Power, Ideas
Thursday 8th May - Saturday 10th May 2008
Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the
role,
character, nature and place of intellectuals and intellectual work in
contemporary society. Whilst the ‘intellectual’ emerges as a
particular
category with the development of modernity, the ‘knowledgeable’ and
knowledge producers have been an important historical agent and social
actor since the early Greek philosophers, and knowledge production,
whether religious, scientific or philosophical, has been important in
shaping social, political, economic and cultural change. Intellectuals
and the knowledge they produce have been subject to competing
representations: from an ‘elect’ producing knowledge for its own
sake to
different forms of philosopher king, servant of the state or dissenting
movement intellectuals connecting politically with change in the social
world. In contemporary ‘knowledge’ societies, much of the focus on
the
intellectual as a ‘public’ figure, residing within the media
intelligentsia or institutions of higher learning, but competing
theories of intellectuals and their work identify elitist, meritocratic
and radical alternatives about who intellectuals are, what they do, how
they are connected to and divided from other social institutions, and
why we understand them the way we do.
The Project underpinning this inaugural conference seeks to build both
an evidenced and critical understanding of the intellectual and
intellectual work in the past and a critical understanding of
intellectuals and intellectual work in the present, and its prospects
for the future. In doing so, it recognises that the interdisciplinary
basis of such an analysis will take in the fields of cultural studies,
education studies (with a particular focus on higher education),
history, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology, social theory and
open avenues to wider and more diverse disciplinary connections, and
the
project welcomes interdisciplinary explorations.
Some indicative themes are suggested below to indicate the types of
issues that might be addressed in conference papers and workshops.
A. History, the Intellectual and Intellectual Work
How do we understand intellectuals and intellectual work in the past?
What relationships characterised the categorisation, role, nature and
place of intellectuals within society and social institutions in the
past? How have the roles, natures and places of intellectuals changed
through history? How have we come to understand the intellectual both
before and after that particular identification emerged within the
onset
of the enlightenment project and modernity? What different models or
characterisations of the intellectual emerge historically and how
persuasive are they? What do historical understandings of the
intellectual tell us about the intellectual today?
B. Intellectuals, the Academy and Higher Education
What are the role and functions and positions that intellectuals have
taken within learning institutions? What overlap and interplay is there
between the academy and the intellectual? How have learning
institutions
developed in relation to the production of intellectuals and knowledge?
What moral, cultural, political and educational principles underpin the
academy and the learning institution? How has the association between
academy and intellectual been impacted on by recent developments in the
role and place of higher learning institutions within economy and
society?
C. Intellectuals and their Troubling Relationship to Knowledge
What is knowledge? Is it a commodity, ‘mere’ information or
something
more intrinsically apart from the production of information? What, if
anything, is the difference between knowledge and information? What
different relationships does the intellectual have with knowledge and
how do we understand them? What is the place of various types of
credentials in contemporary society and how does that relate to
intellectual status and intellectual work? To what extent is knowledge
only understood within the social context of its production and to what
extent has it a universal or divorced from social context?
D. Intellectuals and the Knowledge Society
How has the intellectual changed in their role, character and place in
the knowledge society? How have the internet and ICT’s changed the
way
intellectuals work and intellectual work is produced, distributed and
exchanged? How has the knowledge society changed our understanding of
the intellectual in society? Have we moved from the primacy of the mode
of production to the primacy of the mode of information?
E. Public Intellectuals and the Intellectual in Public and Political
Life
What is a public intellectual and how is a public intellectual
distinguished from other intellectuals and knowledge producers? What
roles and places do public intellectuals have in past and contemporary
societies? Are intellectuals and is intellectual work always political?
What political and public roles do intellectuals play?
F. Intellectuals and Cultural Life
How have intellectuals impacted on cultural life, in shaping everyday
experience, providing frameworks for understanding and producing
cultural enrichment? In what ways have intellectuals played a role in
shaping the cultural milieu? What is the relationship between the
intellectual and the artist or producer of cultural knowledge and
products? What is the relationship between intellectuals and the
aesthetic?
G. Intellectuals and the Development of Bodies of Knowledge
How do intellectuals produce and create knowledge? How should we
understand the processes of knowledge production and creation as social
and political and well as research processes? How should we understand
notions of discovery, exploration and speaking truth in the context of
critical perspectives on knowledge creation? How have particular bodies
of knowledge developed historically and come to play determining roles
in social, cultural, political and economic change?
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by
Friday 18th April 2008.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body
of
abstract. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace!
We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or
resend.
Paul Reynolds
Social and Psychological Sciences,
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
E-Mail: Reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk
Rob Fisher
Network Founder & network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-Mail: ikp@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected
papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.
For further details about the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int.html
For further details about the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int1/cfp.html
=============
Dr Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Programme Leader in Sociology and Social Psychology
Department of Social and Psychological Sciences
Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancs L39 4QP
Tel: 01695 584370
email: reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk
New OECD report: Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life
See Link at
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_33729_39699821_1_1_1_1,00.html
Improved childcare policies needed to achieve better work/life balance, says
OECD
- Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote
child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in
birth-rates, according to a new OECD report.
Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different
approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work
and family commitments.
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2825_498370_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.htm
l
Denmark and Iceland have the most effective public policies and workplace
practices that promote a healthy work and family balance, the report finds.
Finland, France, Norway and Sweden also perform well. English-speaking
countries generally do well in some respects, but have high rates of child
poverty, mainly because fewer lone parents work in these countries. Germany,
Korea, and the Slovak Republic do poorly in most areas covered.
The report analyses tax and benefit policies, parental-leave arrangements,
childcare, out-of-school-hours care, and workplace practices, such as access
to part-time and flexible working hours, across the 30 OECD countries. The
findings are then compared with key indicators, such as the level of child
poverty, the gender pay gap and the birth rate (see Table 1 at link).
While there is no "one-size fits all" policy recipe, the following elements
can contribute to an effective public spending and policy development
strategy:
Giving parents money on condition that one of them is not working but caring
for children sounds sensible but is often counter-productive. It destroys
incentives to work and leads employers to assume that women will stay at
home, so they stop hiring women and stop investing in their careers.
Financial incentives to work are important. Tax/benefit systems should be
designed to give both parents strong financial incentives to work.
Single parents should be obliged to look for work and given the quality
childcare support to ensure that they can.
Many countries could get better value for money from their spending on
childcare support. Out-of-school-hours care for older children, for example,
is relatively cheap to offer and can make a big impact on the ability of both
parents to work.
Parental leave works best when it is short but well-paid. To promote gender
equity and greater paternal involvement in child rearing, some part of the
leave should be shared by the parents (rather than as now, when nearly all
leave is taken by mothers).
Workplaces need to be more family-friendly. Part-time working, flexible hours
and the ability to take leave to care for sick children can all make a big
difference to parents seeking to reconcile work and family life.
See a selection of tables and graphs and country notes for selected
countries.
See the previous Babies and Bosses reviews of policies to promote work and
family reconciliation for Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands (Vol. 1);
Austria, Ireland and Japan (Vol. 2); New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
(Vol. 3.); and, Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Vol. 4).
Peter Whiteford
Principal Administrator (Welfare Reform)
Social Policy Division
Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
OECD
Phone: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 41
Fax: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 98
OECD Social Policy Division via www.oecd.org/els/social
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_33729_39699821_1_1_1_1,00.html
Improved childcare policies needed to achieve better work/life balance, says
OECD
- Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote
child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in
birth-rates, according to a new OECD report.
Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different
approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work
and family commitments.
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2825_498370_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.htm
l
Denmark and Iceland have the most effective public policies and workplace
practices that promote a healthy work and family balance, the report finds.
Finland, France, Norway and Sweden also perform well. English-speaking
countries generally do well in some respects, but have high rates of child
poverty, mainly because fewer lone parents work in these countries. Germany,
Korea, and the Slovak Republic do poorly in most areas covered.
The report analyses tax and benefit policies, parental-leave arrangements,
childcare, out-of-school-hours care, and workplace practices, such as access
to part-time and flexible working hours, across the 30 OECD countries. The
findings are then compared with key indicators, such as the level of child
poverty, the gender pay gap and the birth rate (see Table 1 at link).
While there is no "one-size fits all" policy recipe, the following elements
can contribute to an effective public spending and policy development
strategy:
Giving parents money on condition that one of them is not working but caring
for children sounds sensible but is often counter-productive. It destroys
incentives to work and leads employers to assume that women will stay at
home, so they stop hiring women and stop investing in their careers.
Financial incentives to work are important. Tax/benefit systems should be
designed to give both parents strong financial incentives to work.
Single parents should be obliged to look for work and given the quality
childcare support to ensure that they can.
Many countries could get better value for money from their spending on
childcare support. Out-of-school-hours care for older children, for example,
is relatively cheap to offer and can make a big impact on the ability of both
parents to work.
Parental leave works best when it is short but well-paid. To promote gender
equity and greater paternal involvement in child rearing, some part of the
leave should be shared by the parents (rather than as now, when nearly all
leave is taken by mothers).
Workplaces need to be more family-friendly. Part-time working, flexible hours
and the ability to take leave to care for sick children can all make a big
difference to parents seeking to reconcile work and family life.
See a selection of tables and graphs and country notes for selected
countries.
See the previous Babies and Bosses reviews of policies to promote work and
family reconciliation for Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands (Vol. 1);
Austria, Ireland and Japan (Vol. 2); New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
(Vol. 3.); and, Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Vol. 4).
Peter Whiteford
Principal Administrator (Welfare Reform)
Social Policy Division
Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
OECD
Phone: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 41
Fax: 33 (0)1 45 24 90 98
OECD Social Policy Division via www.oecd.org/els/social
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European Union Accession State Migrants in Social Housing in England
David Robinson
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Civilising offensives and ambivalence: the case of British gypsies
Ryan Powell
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Housing Market Renewal in an era of new housing supply
Ed Ferrari
*
Changes in the profile of men claiming Incapacity Benefit - a case
study
Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill
*
Anti-social behaviour and disability - the response of social
landlords
Caroline Hunter, Nick Hodge, Judy Nixon and Sadie Parr
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Thursday 29 November 2007
New book on Gentrification
Dear Colleague,
Routledge is pleased to offer you an exciting new book from Loretta
Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly - Gentrification.
"Intelligent, thorough, appropriately critical, and with a perfect
balance of theory and case material, this is a significant addition to
the gentrification literature, one that (finally!) brings it all
together."
--ROBERT BEAUREGARD, Columbia University
"Three prominent urban researchers come together here, exercising their
responsibilities as intellectuals with eloquence, acumen and force. In
the moral economy of gentrification, the voices of Lees, Slater and Wyly
stand not only to alter the perspectives of many people, but moreover to
affect the course of events in many places."
--ERIC CLARK, Lund University
This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for
upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The
gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become
a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has
attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular
press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with
case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering
ideas for future research.
Order your copy now. If you are in the US, Canada or Latin America
please email your order to orders@taylorandfrancis.com or call toll free
800-634-7064. If you are in the rest of the world, please email your
order to book.orders@tandf.co.uk or call +44 (0) 1264 343070. If you
would to mail your order, please use the attached flyer to do so.
Respectfully yours,
Nicole Hanley
------------------------------------------------------
Nicole R. Hanley
Marketing Manager
Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group
270 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(917) 351-7169
nicole.hanley@taylorandfrancis.com
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
Routledge is pleased to offer you an exciting new book from Loretta
Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly - Gentrification.
"Intelligent, thorough, appropriately critical, and with a perfect
balance of theory and case material, this is a significant addition to
the gentrification literature, one that (finally!) brings it all
together."
--ROBERT BEAUREGARD, Columbia University
"Three prominent urban researchers come together here, exercising their
responsibilities as intellectuals with eloquence, acumen and force. In
the moral economy of gentrification, the voices of Lees, Slater and Wyly
stand not only to alter the perspectives of many people, but moreover to
affect the course of events in many places."
--ERIC CLARK, Lund University
This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for
upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The
gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become
a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has
attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular
press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with
case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering
ideas for future research.
Order your copy now. If you are in the US, Canada or Latin America
please email your order to orders@taylorandfrancis.com or call toll free
800-634-7064. If you are in the rest of the world, please email your
order to book.orders@tandf.co.uk or call +44 (0) 1264 343070. If you
would to mail your order, please use the attached flyer to do so.
Respectfully yours,
Nicole Hanley
------------------------------------------------------
Nicole R. Hanley
Marketing Manager
Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group
270 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(917) 351-7169
nicole.hanley@taylorandfrancis.com
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
call for papers: The Olympics: Politics and Protest
From: Long, Jonathan A [mailto:J.A.Long@leedsmet.ac.uk]
Sent: 16 November 2007 15:25
Call for Papers
The Olympics: Politics and Protest
The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan
University invites papers for the above conference, to be held at
Headingley Carnegie Stadium over 17th and 18th July 2008.
The Olympic Games are probably the most popular event in the history of
sport. The TV audiences for both the Summer and the Winter Games now
approach saturation point, the Games generate huge commercial
possibilities for 'Olympic partners' and a deafening cheer goes up in
the nominated country when the venue for the next tournament but one is
revealed. Olympic history - especially the history dispensed by the
International Olympic Committee itself - is invariably a history of
sporting triumph and comradeship. The political dimensions of the
Olympic movement have too often been hidden from its history - hence
this conference.
We invite papers that take a critical stance on the Olympic movement at
some point in its history. These papers may address any of the following
themes:
- de Coubertin and the establishment of the modern Olympics
- campaigns against the Olympics and/or specific Olympiads
- gender and the Olympics and the campaign for gender equity
- racism and the Olympics
- the campaign to establish, and issues around, the Paralympics
- the amateur-professional divide
- commercialism and the Olympics
- Olympics and the Cold War
- the Olympics as a site of protest
- the Olympics and 'human rights'
- the Olympics and the environment
- critiques of Olympic ideology and educational programmes
Needless to say, papers outside of these specified themes will be
considered.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Helen Lenskyj (University of Toronto) author of Inside the
Olympic Industry(State University of New York Press, 2000).
John Horne, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, University of Edinburgh
Please direct outline of your proposed paper (300 words approx.), and
any academic enquires, to conference organiser:
Stephen Wagg, Reader in Sport and Society, Leeds Metropolitan
University: S.Wagg@leedsmet.ac.uk
Sent: 16 November 2007 15:25
Call for Papers
The Olympics: Politics and Protest
The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan
University invites papers for the above conference, to be held at
Headingley Carnegie Stadium over 17th and 18th July 2008.
The Olympic Games are probably the most popular event in the history of
sport. The TV audiences for both the Summer and the Winter Games now
approach saturation point, the Games generate huge commercial
possibilities for 'Olympic partners' and a deafening cheer goes up in
the nominated country when the venue for the next tournament but one is
revealed. Olympic history - especially the history dispensed by the
International Olympic Committee itself - is invariably a history of
sporting triumph and comradeship. The political dimensions of the
Olympic movement have too often been hidden from its history - hence
this conference.
We invite papers that take a critical stance on the Olympic movement at
some point in its history. These papers may address any of the following
themes:
- de Coubertin and the establishment of the modern Olympics
- campaigns against the Olympics and/or specific Olympiads
- gender and the Olympics and the campaign for gender equity
- racism and the Olympics
- the campaign to establish, and issues around, the Paralympics
- the amateur-professional divide
- commercialism and the Olympics
- Olympics and the Cold War
- the Olympics as a site of protest
- the Olympics and 'human rights'
- the Olympics and the environment
- critiques of Olympic ideology and educational programmes
Needless to say, papers outside of these specified themes will be
considered.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Helen Lenskyj (University of Toronto) author of Inside the
Olympic Industry(State University of New York Press, 2000).
John Horne, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, University of Edinburgh
Please direct outline of your proposed paper (300 words approx.), and
any academic enquires, to conference organiser:
Stephen Wagg, Reader in Sport and Society, Leeds Metropolitan
University: S.Wagg@leedsmet.ac.uk
Just published on the JRF website
Just published on the JRF website:
Ward councillors and community leadership: a future perspective
An exploration of how the role of ward councillors in England is likely to develop over the next five years.
Ward councillors and community leadership: a future perspective
An exploration of how the role of ward councillors in England is likely to develop over the next five years.
OECD report: Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life
See Link at
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_33729_39699821_1_1_1_1,00.html
Improved childcare policies needed to achieve better work/life balance, says
OECD
- Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote
child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in
birth-rates, according to a new OECD report.
Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different
approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work
and family commitments.
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2825_498370_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.htm
l
Denmark and Iceland have the most effective public policies and workplace
practices that promote a healthy work and family balance, the report finds.
Finland, France, Norway and Sweden also perform well. English-speaking
countries generally do well in some respects, but have high rates of child
poverty, mainly because fewer lone parents work in these countries. Germany,
Korea, and the Slovak Republic do poorly in most areas covered.
The report analyses tax and benefit policies, parental-leave arrangements,
childcare, out-of-school-hours care, and workplace practices, such as access
to part-time and flexible working hours, across the 30 OECD countries. The
findings are then compared with key indicators, such as the level of child
poverty, the gender pay gap and the birth rate (see Table 1 at link).
While there is no "one-size fits all" policy recipe, the following elements
can contribute to an effective public spending and policy development
strategy:
Giving parents money on condition that one of them is not working but caring
for children sounds sensible but is often counter-productive. It destroys
incentives to work and leads employers to assume that women will stay at
home, so they stop hiring women and stop investing in their careers.
Financial incentives to work are important. Tax/benefit systems should be
designed to give both parents strong financial incentives to work.
Single parents should be obliged to look for work and given the quality
childcare support to ensure that they can.
Many countries could get better value for money from their spending on
childcare support. Out-of-school-hours care for older children, for example,
is relatively cheap to offer and can make a big impact on the ability of both
parents to work.
Parental leave works best when it is short but well-paid. To promote gender
equity and greater paternal involvement in child rearing, some part of the
leave should be shared by the parents (rather than as now, when nearly all
leave is taken by mothers).
Workplaces need to be more family-friendly. Part-time working, flexible hours
and the ability to take leave to care for sick children can all make a big
difference to parents seeking to reconcile work and family life.
See a selection of tables and graphs and country notes for selected
countries.
See the previous Babies and Bosses reviews of policies to promote work and
family reconciliation for Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands (Vol. 1);
Austria, Ireland and Japan (Vol. 2); New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
(Vol. 3.); and, Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Vol. 4).
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_33729_39699821_1_1_1_1,00.html
Improved childcare policies needed to achieve better work/life balance, says
OECD
- Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote
child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in
birth-rates, according to a new OECD report.
Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different
approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work
and family commitments.
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2825_498370_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.htm
l
Denmark and Iceland have the most effective public policies and workplace
practices that promote a healthy work and family balance, the report finds.
Finland, France, Norway and Sweden also perform well. English-speaking
countries generally do well in some respects, but have high rates of child
poverty, mainly because fewer lone parents work in these countries. Germany,
Korea, and the Slovak Republic do poorly in most areas covered.
The report analyses tax and benefit policies, parental-leave arrangements,
childcare, out-of-school-hours care, and workplace practices, such as access
to part-time and flexible working hours, across the 30 OECD countries. The
findings are then compared with key indicators, such as the level of child
poverty, the gender pay gap and the birth rate (see Table 1 at link).
While there is no "one-size fits all" policy recipe, the following elements
can contribute to an effective public spending and policy development
strategy:
Giving parents money on condition that one of them is not working but caring
for children sounds sensible but is often counter-productive. It destroys
incentives to work and leads employers to assume that women will stay at
home, so they stop hiring women and stop investing in their careers.
Financial incentives to work are important. Tax/benefit systems should be
designed to give both parents strong financial incentives to work.
Single parents should be obliged to look for work and given the quality
childcare support to ensure that they can.
Many countries could get better value for money from their spending on
childcare support. Out-of-school-hours care for older children, for example,
is relatively cheap to offer and can make a big impact on the ability of both
parents to work.
Parental leave works best when it is short but well-paid. To promote gender
equity and greater paternal involvement in child rearing, some part of the
leave should be shared by the parents (rather than as now, when nearly all
leave is taken by mothers).
Workplaces need to be more family-friendly. Part-time working, flexible hours
and the ability to take leave to care for sick children can all make a big
difference to parents seeking to reconcile work and family life.
See a selection of tables and graphs and country notes for selected
countries.
See the previous Babies and Bosses reviews of policies to promote work and
family reconciliation for Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands (Vol. 1);
Austria, Ireland and Japan (Vol. 2); New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
(Vol. 3.); and, Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Vol. 4).
Call for Papers - ERSA 2008
Chosen as European Capital of Culture for 2008, Liverpool has been the focus for numerous regeneration initiatives. The city has changed dramatically in the last decade and is emerging as one of the UK’s leading centres for learning, culture, entertainment, sport and endeavour. The 2008 ERSA Congress, jointly hosted by the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool and the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association International, will provide an excellent opportunity to see, and reflect on, the substantial progress that has been made. The overarching theme for the Congress, ‘Culture, Cohesion and Competitiveness’ encapsulates a number of different aspects that are topical and relevant, not only for Liverpool but also across the whole of Europe.
The programme will be organised around a variety of topics and include plenary sessions with lectures by distinguished keynote speakers, including Professor Ed Glaeser (Harvard). Papers are invited on topics that not only reflect the central theme, but also reflect other topics such as:
• Cultural regeneration and its evaluation
• Climate change and its implications for urban and regional development
• The evidence base for regional policy
• Regional analysis of enterprise formation, deformation and survival
• The development of air transport in European regions
• Labour mobility in the extended European Union
• The regenerative role of river basin management
• Spatial targeting and urban policy
• Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
• Local dimensions of sustainable development
• Globalisation and regional competitiveness
• Migration, diasporas and development
• Social segregation, poverty and space
• Rural and local development
• Dublin and Liverpool: two cities compared
• Cross-border cooperation and development
• Renewable energy: a regional development perspective
• Regeneration of urban districts: analysis, policy and evaluation
• The future for regional policy in Europe
• Public health and regional prosperity
• Spatial econometrics
• Long-term unemployment and lagging regions
• New technologies, innovation and space
• Public finance and regional development
• Sustainable development and regional economic strategies
• Spatial economic analysis
• Retail development and competitiveness
• Agglomeration, clusters and policy
• City and regional marketing
• Location of economic activities and people: new directions
• City and regional governance: the role of city regions
• Infrastructure, transport, mobility and communication
• Learning regions
• New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
In addition to the above, there will also be young scientists sessions.
Prospective participants should submit an abstract of up to two pages to the conference website, http://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ersa2008 by 14 January 2008. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent to authors by 29 February 2008 and the deadline for full paper submission is 30 April 2008.
Contact: Professor Peter Batey (Chair, LOC) Sandra Robinson (Congress Administration)
Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3811 Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3118
Email: pwjbatey@liverpool.ac.uk Email: ERSA2008@liverpool.ac.uk or sandrob@liverpool.ac.uk
Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, The Gordon Stephenson Building,
74 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7ZQ, UK
The programme will be organised around a variety of topics and include plenary sessions with lectures by distinguished keynote speakers, including Professor Ed Glaeser (Harvard). Papers are invited on topics that not only reflect the central theme, but also reflect other topics such as:
• Cultural regeneration and its evaluation
• Climate change and its implications for urban and regional development
• The evidence base for regional policy
• Regional analysis of enterprise formation, deformation and survival
• The development of air transport in European regions
• Labour mobility in the extended European Union
• The regenerative role of river basin management
• Spatial targeting and urban policy
• Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
• Local dimensions of sustainable development
• Globalisation and regional competitiveness
• Migration, diasporas and development
• Social segregation, poverty and space
• Rural and local development
• Dublin and Liverpool: two cities compared
• Cross-border cooperation and development
• Renewable energy: a regional development perspective
• Regeneration of urban districts: analysis, policy and evaluation
• The future for regional policy in Europe
• Public health and regional prosperity
• Spatial econometrics
• Long-term unemployment and lagging regions
• New technologies, innovation and space
• Public finance and regional development
• Sustainable development and regional economic strategies
• Spatial economic analysis
• Retail development and competitiveness
• Agglomeration, clusters and policy
• City and regional marketing
• Location of economic activities and people: new directions
• City and regional governance: the role of city regions
• Infrastructure, transport, mobility and communication
• Learning regions
• New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
In addition to the above, there will also be young scientists sessions.
Prospective participants should submit an abstract of up to two pages to the conference website, http://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ersa2008 by 14 January 2008. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent to authors by 29 February 2008 and the deadline for full paper submission is 30 April 2008.
Contact: Professor Peter Batey (Chair, LOC) Sandra Robinson (Congress Administration)
Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3811 Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3118
Email: pwjbatey@liverpool.ac.uk Email: ERSA2008@liverpool.ac.uk or sandrob@liverpool.ac.uk
Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, The Gordon Stephenson Building,
74 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7ZQ, UK
Tuesday 27 November 2007
The Value of Ethnography
Apologies for Cross Posting
Call for Papers
The Value of Ethnography in Social and Management Science
Teaching and Research
The 3rd Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences.
Tuesday 2ndth - Thursday 4th September 2008
Hosted by
The University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
Liverpool, UK
L69 7ZH
In Association with Ethnography
Conference Chairs:
Dr Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Organising Committee:
Dr Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Dr Jason Ferdinand, University of Liverpool Management School.
Dr Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Key Note Speakers:
Professor Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK
Professor Rick Delbridge, University of Cardiff, UK
Joanna Scammell and Ashley Roberts, University of Cardiff, UK
Dr Clare Holdsworth and Sarah Hall, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Dvora Yanow, University of Amsterdam, NL
Call for Papers
In recent years ethnography has become an increasingly popular and vibrant mode of research within the social and management sciences. Within the context of work and organizations, current areas of interest include the study of new organizational forms, new management control methods, quality, auditing and information systems, work restructuring, employee involvement, empowerment, changing patterns and conditions of employment, and the impact these developments have on the lived-experience of work in terms of job-satisfaction and job-security, employee motivation and morale, commitment, leadership and change. In critical management and labour process studies these areas of research have been examined within the context of employee subjectivity and identity, gender, workplace politics, ethics, knowledge, power, control, oppression, exploitation, alienation and subjugation. Other broader social science areas of interest within the field include research into recent organisational and institutional changes within public sector services and local authorities in terms of the impact of these developments on the professions and other public sector occupations, local communities and civic society. There is also a growing interest within the field of ethnography in virtual and new media mediated ethnographies, ethnography and art and architecture, consumption, community, ethnicity, emotions and ethnography as emotional labour.
Other areas of interest include questions about the kinds of practical as well as political ethical and theoretical challenges ethnographers face within the field, the purpose of ethnography and whose interests it serves, whether ethnography can or should be ‘value-free’ and what actually counts and does not count as ‘good’ ethnography given the range of traditional (i.e.: naturalist, interpretivist, constructivist, modernist) and more contemporary (i.e.: postmodern, poststructuralist and critical) theoretical standpoints which inform how ethnographers choose to approach, conduct and write-up their research.
This symposium aims to bring together established and emerging social and management science scholars with an interest in ethnographic research to explore current trends in qualitative research in and around these and other developments within the field from a broad range of perspectives. The symposium will appeal not only to organization and management academics but also those working within sociology, anthropology, human geography, architecture, law, criminology, politics, cultural studies, environmental studies, gender studies and social and public policy. The symposium organizers welcome papers from any of these disciplines. Papers that examine the role and value of ethnography in social and management teaching and research, and those that address the theoretical, philosophical, empirical and practical questions in ethnography will be particularly welcome. In addition the organizers would also like to welcome papers that examine the political and ethical challenges involved in conducting critical ethnographic research.
Theoretically informed and empirically based papers, as well as work-in-progress papers from new and young emerging scholars, in any of the following areas will be considered:
- Public and private sector work organization and work restructuring.
- New organizational forms and changing forms of employment.
- Organizational, professional, group, community and social class cultures and sub-cultures.
- Management-labour relations and trade union practices.
- Accounting, auditing and governance.
- Services-marketing and consumer behaviour.
- Healthcare, education, local government and social and public policy.
- Ethnographies of conflict, deviance, resistance and misbehaviour (including researcher misbehaviour).
- Business ethics/ unethical business and management and employee practices.
- The role of ethnography in new times.
- The prospects for shop-floor ethnography in an era characterised by the break-up of tradition forms of shop-floor and trade union organisation.
- The contribution of virtual or new media mediated ethnographies.
- The relationship between ethnography and art.
- Ethnographies of consumption and community.
- Problematising methods of teaching and conducting ethnography.
- Ethnography as emotional labour: dealing with fear, anxiety and stress in the field.
Abstracts (up to 750-words, excluding contact details and references) should be submitted to the symposium organizers at the following email address by Friday 11th of January 2008: f.worthington@liv.ac.uk
Decisions on acceptance of papers will be given, subject to external refereeing, by Friday 15th of February 2008. Full papers will need to be submitted by 31st of July 2008. Only papers submitted to the organizers by this date will be published on the symposium website. Delegates whose papers are accepted but who are unable to meet this deadline are asked to submit a copy of their paper as soon as possible thereafter to allow the organizers to make photocopies for circulation on the opening day of the symposium.
*All papers presented at the conference will be automatically considered for publication in the Journal Ethnography.
Symposium attendance fees, accommodation and registration*
Attendance fee for delegates in full-time employment: £255.
Emerging scholars (PhD research students) and delegates in part-time employment £105
*Attendance fees include symposium proceedings, refreshments, lunches and the symposium evening dinner on Wednesday 3rdth September.
Accommodation:
All delegates will need to arrange their own accommodation. A list of recommended local hotels and guesthouses will be available shortly on the following website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/management/events/ethnography_conference_accomodation.htm
How to Register:
Symposium registration form will be available shortly to download from the following website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/management/events/ethnography_conference.htm
Informal enquiries to:
Dr Frank Worthington, email: f.worthington@liv.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you at the event in September 2008
Call for Papers
The Value of Ethnography in Social and Management Science
Teaching and Research
The 3rd Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences.
Tuesday 2ndth - Thursday 4th September 2008
Hosted by
The University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
Liverpool, UK
L69 7ZH
In Association with Ethnography
Conference Chairs:
Dr Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Organising Committee:
Dr Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Dr Jason Ferdinand, University of Liverpool Management School.
Dr Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Key Note Speakers:
Professor Gary Armstrong, Brunel University, UK
Professor Rick Delbridge, University of Cardiff, UK
Joanna Scammell and Ashley Roberts, University of Cardiff, UK
Dr Clare Holdsworth and Sarah Hall, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Dvora Yanow, University of Amsterdam, NL
Call for Papers
In recent years ethnography has become an increasingly popular and vibrant mode of research within the social and management sciences. Within the context of work and organizations, current areas of interest include the study of new organizational forms, new management control methods, quality, auditing and information systems, work restructuring, employee involvement, empowerment, changing patterns and conditions of employment, and the impact these developments have on the lived-experience of work in terms of job-satisfaction and job-security, employee motivation and morale, commitment, leadership and change. In critical management and labour process studies these areas of research have been examined within the context of employee subjectivity and identity, gender, workplace politics, ethics, knowledge, power, control, oppression, exploitation, alienation and subjugation. Other broader social science areas of interest within the field include research into recent organisational and institutional changes within public sector services and local authorities in terms of the impact of these developments on the professions and other public sector occupations, local communities and civic society. There is also a growing interest within the field of ethnography in virtual and new media mediated ethnographies, ethnography and art and architecture, consumption, community, ethnicity, emotions and ethnography as emotional labour.
Other areas of interest include questions about the kinds of practical as well as political ethical and theoretical challenges ethnographers face within the field, the purpose of ethnography and whose interests it serves, whether ethnography can or should be ‘value-free’ and what actually counts and does not count as ‘good’ ethnography given the range of traditional (i.e.: naturalist, interpretivist, constructivist, modernist) and more contemporary (i.e.: postmodern, poststructuralist and critical) theoretical standpoints which inform how ethnographers choose to approach, conduct and write-up their research.
This symposium aims to bring together established and emerging social and management science scholars with an interest in ethnographic research to explore current trends in qualitative research in and around these and other developments within the field from a broad range of perspectives. The symposium will appeal not only to organization and management academics but also those working within sociology, anthropology, human geography, architecture, law, criminology, politics, cultural studies, environmental studies, gender studies and social and public policy. The symposium organizers welcome papers from any of these disciplines. Papers that examine the role and value of ethnography in social and management teaching and research, and those that address the theoretical, philosophical, empirical and practical questions in ethnography will be particularly welcome. In addition the organizers would also like to welcome papers that examine the political and ethical challenges involved in conducting critical ethnographic research.
Theoretically informed and empirically based papers, as well as work-in-progress papers from new and young emerging scholars, in any of the following areas will be considered:
- Public and private sector work organization and work restructuring.
- New organizational forms and changing forms of employment.
- Organizational, professional, group, community and social class cultures and sub-cultures.
- Management-labour relations and trade union practices.
- Accounting, auditing and governance.
- Services-marketing and consumer behaviour.
- Healthcare, education, local government and social and public policy.
- Ethnographies of conflict, deviance, resistance and misbehaviour (including researcher misbehaviour).
- Business ethics/ unethical business and management and employee practices.
- The role of ethnography in new times.
- The prospects for shop-floor ethnography in an era characterised by the break-up of tradition forms of shop-floor and trade union organisation.
- The contribution of virtual or new media mediated ethnographies.
- The relationship between ethnography and art.
- Ethnographies of consumption and community.
- Problematising methods of teaching and conducting ethnography.
- Ethnography as emotional labour: dealing with fear, anxiety and stress in the field.
Abstracts (up to 750-words, excluding contact details and references) should be submitted to the symposium organizers at the following email address by Friday 11th of January 2008: f.worthington@liv.ac.uk
Decisions on acceptance of papers will be given, subject to external refereeing, by Friday 15th of February 2008. Full papers will need to be submitted by 31st of July 2008. Only papers submitted to the organizers by this date will be published on the symposium website. Delegates whose papers are accepted but who are unable to meet this deadline are asked to submit a copy of their paper as soon as possible thereafter to allow the organizers to make photocopies for circulation on the opening day of the symposium.
*All papers presented at the conference will be automatically considered for publication in the Journal Ethnography.
Symposium attendance fees, accommodation and registration*
Attendance fee for delegates in full-time employment: £255.
Emerging scholars (PhD research students) and delegates in part-time employment £105
*Attendance fees include symposium proceedings, refreshments, lunches and the symposium evening dinner on Wednesday 3rdth September.
Accommodation:
All delegates will need to arrange their own accommodation. A list of recommended local hotels and guesthouses will be available shortly on the following website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/management/events/ethnography_conference_accomodation.htm
How to Register:
Symposium registration form will be available shortly to download from the following website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/management/events/ethnography_conference.htm
Informal enquiries to:
Dr Frank Worthington, email: f.worthington@liv.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you at the event in September 2008
Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
Please feel free to share this information
http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to let you know that the Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction will be held at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from July 13- 26, 2008.
The Summer Institute offers students of various disciplines and professions a great opportunity to advance their knowledge in the field of addiction studies in an international environment. The Institute is an intensive two-week summer programme that seeks to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of addiction and to promote opportunities for international networking among participants.
The Institute welcomes individuals with a focused interest in addiction research and treatment, Master’s and PhD students, NGO staff working on addiction-related issues, professionals in human services, practitioners, and advocates.
There are NFP fellowships available for Summer Institute participants from 57 selected countries. For more information, see http://www.nuffic.nl/nfp/ and click "fellowships for short courses".
We expect a 2008 class of approximately 15 students. The Institute's classes are intensive small group seminars with discussions, excursions, faculty lectures and guest lectures by prominent people in the field. We will be able to provide CEUs for most counselors as well as course credits for students.
The scientific director is Helen Levine, and this year’s faculty includes Dennis McCarty, Lala Ashenberg Straussner, and Mirjam Schieveld. Applications must be addressed to the Universiteit van Amsterdam at the address below. You can visit our web site http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction for further information or to download an application form.
Please feel free to share this information.
Sincerely yours,
Helen Levine,
Mirjam Schieveld
Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Postal address
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
1011TD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 525.3776
fax: +31 20 525.3778
E-mail: summerinstitute-ishss@uva.nl
http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction
http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to let you know that the Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction will be held at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from July 13- 26, 2008.
The Summer Institute offers students of various disciplines and professions a great opportunity to advance their knowledge in the field of addiction studies in an international environment. The Institute is an intensive two-week summer programme that seeks to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of addiction and to promote opportunities for international networking among participants.
The Institute welcomes individuals with a focused interest in addiction research and treatment, Master’s and PhD students, NGO staff working on addiction-related issues, professionals in human services, practitioners, and advocates.
There are NFP fellowships available for Summer Institute participants from 57 selected countries. For more information, see http://www.nuffic.nl/nfp/ and click "fellowships for short courses".
We expect a 2008 class of approximately 15 students. The Institute's classes are intensive small group seminars with discussions, excursions, faculty lectures and guest lectures by prominent people in the field. We will be able to provide CEUs for most counselors as well as course credits for students.
The scientific director is Helen Levine, and this year’s faculty includes Dennis McCarty, Lala Ashenberg Straussner, and Mirjam Schieveld. Applications must be addressed to the Universiteit van Amsterdam at the address below. You can visit our web site http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction for further information or to download an application form.
Please feel free to share this information.
Sincerely yours,
Helen Levine,
Mirjam Schieveld
Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Postal address
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
1011TD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 525.3776
fax: +31 20 525.3778
E-mail: summerinstitute-ishss@uva.nl
http://www.ishss.uva.nl/addiction
JRF Findings: 'The housing pathways of new immigrants'
Just published on the JRF website:
The housing pathways of new immigrants
This research explores the arrival experiences and settlement stories of new immigrants. It focuses on the housing experiences of new immigrants and considers the consequences of their arrival for local housing markets and neighbourhoods.
The housing pathways of new immigrants
This research explores the arrival experiences and settlement stories of new immigrants. It focuses on the housing experiences of new immigrants and considers the consequences of their arrival for local housing markets and neighbourhoods.
Call for Papers - AESOP ACSP joint conference, Chicago, July 2008
Dear Colleagues,
please note that abstract submission period for the joint conference by AESOP and ACSP in Chicago on July 6-11 in Chicago, Illinois, on the theme: "Bridging the divide - delebrating the city"? is open
Call for papers:
Abstract submission site will be open November26, 2007 and available via link from AESOP website,
Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2008 at 11:00 PM US Eastern Standard Time
The ACSP-AESOP Joint Congress Committee and the Local Host Committee at the University of Illinois at Chicago invite proposals for the
following:
• individual papers
• complete pre-organized sessions
• roundtable discussions
• poster presentations
The invitation is extended to faculty and students of ACSP and AESOP member programs and to scholars and scholarly practitioners outside the ACSP/AESOP family who are concerned with planning cities and regions.
Papers and sessions should correspond to one of the following tracks:
Track 1. Gender, ethnicity and diversity in planning
Track 2. Economic development
Track 3. Environmental planning, resource management and climate change Track 4. Governance, capacity building and participation Track 5. Housing and community development
Track 6. International development and transnational planning Track 7. Land use policy and governance Track 8. Methods for spatial and planning analysis Track 9. Planning education Track 10. Planning and human health and safety Track 11. Planning processes, law, administration, and dispute resolution Track 12. Planning theory and history Track 13. Regions and regional planning Track 14. Transportation, mobility, connectivity and infrastructure planning Track 15. Urban design and physical planning Track 16: Mini-Track - Planning ideas and planning practices, sponsored by the Journal Planning Theory and Practice, published by Routledge
Select, "submit an abstract" (at left) for further details and instructions on submitting an abstract.
NB. You may also participate by hosting a reception, displaying at the book fair, submitting job opportunities or your CV to the Job Fair or scheduling a meeting.
www.aesop-planning.com.
Anna Geppert
Secretary General of AESOP.
Université de Reims
Institut d'Aménagement du Territoire et d'Environnement de
l'Université de Reims
57 bis, rue Pierre Taittinger
51096 Reims Cedex
France
Email: aesop.secretariat@free.fr
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please note that abstract submission period for the joint conference by AESOP and ACSP in Chicago on July 6-11 in Chicago, Illinois, on the theme: "Bridging the divide - delebrating the city"? is open
Call for papers:
Abstract submission site will be open November26, 2007 and available via link from AESOP website,
Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2008 at 11:00 PM US Eastern Standard Time
The ACSP-AESOP Joint Congress Committee and the Local Host Committee at the University of Illinois at Chicago invite proposals for the
following:
• individual papers
• complete pre-organized sessions
• roundtable discussions
• poster presentations
The invitation is extended to faculty and students of ACSP and AESOP member programs and to scholars and scholarly practitioners outside the ACSP/AESOP family who are concerned with planning cities and regions.
Papers and sessions should correspond to one of the following tracks:
Track 1. Gender, ethnicity and diversity in planning
Track 2. Economic development
Track 3. Environmental planning, resource management and climate change Track 4. Governance, capacity building and participation Track 5. Housing and community development
Track 6. International development and transnational planning Track 7. Land use policy and governance Track 8. Methods for spatial and planning analysis Track 9. Planning education Track 10. Planning and human health and safety Track 11. Planning processes, law, administration, and dispute resolution Track 12. Planning theory and history Track 13. Regions and regional planning Track 14. Transportation, mobility, connectivity and infrastructure planning Track 15. Urban design and physical planning Track 16: Mini-Track - Planning ideas and planning practices, sponsored by the Journal Planning Theory and Practice, published by Routledge
Select, "submit an abstract" (at left) for further details and instructions on submitting an abstract.
NB. You may also participate by hosting a reception, displaying at the book fair, submitting job opportunities or your CV to the Job Fair or scheduling a meeting.
www.aesop-planning.com.
Anna Geppert
Secretary General of AESOP.
Université de Reims
Institut d'Aménagement du Territoire et d'Environnement de
l'Université de Reims
57 bis, rue Pierre Taittinger
51096 Reims Cedex
France
Email: aesop.secretariat@free.fr
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Monday 26 November 2007
2008 EGRG Postgraduate Prizes!
Dear all
I would like announce the details of the 2008 postgraduate thesis competitions.
Each year, we award a £100 prize to the best Masters and PhD dissertations in
the field of economic geography (broadly defined). Previous winners are listed
on the EGRG website: http://www.econgeog.org.uk/pgprize.html
In order to be considered for this year's award, please forward a hard copy of
the thesis (any form of binding will do!) to me at the below address by the
31st January 2008. This must an absolutely final version of the thesis that has
already passed the degree for which it has been submitted at a UK institution.
If you have any doubts about eligibility, just drop me a line.
The theses will be reviewed by the EGRG committee and we will announce the
winners in March/April. Please forward this email to anyone who may be
interested but might not be on this listing (e.g. members of staff with
responsibilty for coordinating Masters courses).
With all good wishes
Neil
Neil M. Coe
Geography
School of Environment & Development
The University of Manchester
Arthur Lewis Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161-275-3646
Email: neil.coe@manchester.ac.uk
I would like announce the details of the 2008 postgraduate thesis competitions.
Each year, we award a £100 prize to the best Masters and PhD dissertations in
the field of economic geography (broadly defined). Previous winners are listed
on the EGRG website: http://www.econgeog.org.uk/pgprize.html
In order to be considered for this year's award, please forward a hard copy of
the thesis (any form of binding will do!) to me at the below address by the
31st January 2008. This must an absolutely final version of the thesis that has
already passed the degree for which it has been submitted at a UK institution.
If you have any doubts about eligibility, just drop me a line.
The theses will be reviewed by the EGRG committee and we will announce the
winners in March/April. Please forward this email to anyone who may be
interested but might not be on this listing (e.g. members of staff with
responsibilty for coordinating Masters courses).
With all good wishes
Neil
Neil M. Coe
Geography
School of Environment & Development
The University of Manchester
Arthur Lewis Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161-275-3646
Email: neil.coe@manchester.ac.uk
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