you are warmly invited to come to a public lecture entitled 'At Home
with the Security State'
given by Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, City University of New York
Thursday 13 March 5.30pm
Lecture Room 126
Department of Geography
Queen May, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
A wine reception will follow the lecture
please confirm your attendence with Jason Go, Research and Teaching
Officer, Department of Geography, QMUL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7882 8129
Email. j.go@qmul.ac.uk
ABSTRACT for the talk:
A mobius strip of fear threads between home and ‘homeland,’ weaving
anxiety to military technology, it twists around security. In security’s
name, people have acquiesced to a public environment that is monitored,
bunkered, and conspicuously patrolled while they remake their
homes as fortresses. The stepped up militarisation of everyday life—to
say nothing of the sprawling and seemingly endless ‘war on terror’ – is
routinised in the apparatus of fear. Children, as vulnerable subjects
and as emblems of a fraught future, both embody the insecurity and
provide an alibi for its technologies. In this presentation, I will
argue that the regime of parental hypervigilance has much in common with
that of the homeland security state. The parallels in tactics,
strategies, and effects between the two scales of ‘domestic’ security
are as chilling as they are revealing. Looking at their effects on the
body and the spaces of the home, the city, and the public environment
more broadly, I will argue first that the material social practices of
security at these two scales feed off of and help justify one another to
reconfigure daily life and legitimate practices unthinkable even a
decade ago, and second that as these strategies are increasingly
domesticated they soften us as subjects of surveillance
Friday 29 February 2008
It's adults, not young people, who are a public menace... Article on children in public space
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/26/children
Thursday 28 February 2008
'DIY Community Action': New book by Liz Richardson
The Policy Press are about to publish a new book, 'DIY Community Action',
by Liz Richardson, and part of our CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy series. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members of
this list.
The book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community
development, and proposes ways forward for community building. It offers
thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life
evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat
neighbourhood problems. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
With thanks and best regards,
Jessica
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
by Liz Richardson, and part of our CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy series. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members of
this list.
The book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community
development, and proposes ways forward for community building. It offers
thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life
evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat
neighbourhood problems. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
With thanks and best regards,
Jessica
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space
Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space
Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008
Organisers
Georgina Born
Tom Rice
This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.
The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ by individuals, groups and institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music’s privileged relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.
Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are being employed to create a ‘nesting’ of the private and public, while audio technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual ‘private’ environments within the collective, ‘private’ domestic space of the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which fends off and occludes the ‘public’, ambient sounds of violent warfare; the mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical cognition.
Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well as those engaged in rich empirical research – historical, contemporary and cross-cultural – to debate these developments and outline new perspectives to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.
A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work. We hope to have a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume on the acoustic politics of space.
Speakers -
Philip Bohlman, Chicago
Michael Bull, Sussex
Eric Clarke, Oxford
Nicholas Cook, RHUL
Suzanne Cusick, NYU
Tia DeNora, Exeter
Nicola Dibben, Sheffield
John Drever, Goldsmiths
Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html
Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008
Organisers
Georgina Born
Tom Rice
This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.
The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ by individuals, groups and institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music’s privileged relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.
Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are being employed to create a ‘nesting’ of the private and public, while audio technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual ‘private’ environments within the collective, ‘private’ domestic space of the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which fends off and occludes the ‘public’, ambient sounds of violent warfare; the mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical cognition.
Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well as those engaged in rich empirical research – historical, contemporary and cross-cultural – to debate these developments and outline new perspectives to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.
A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work. We hope to have a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume on the acoustic politics of space.
Speakers -
Philip Bohlman, Chicago
Michael Bull, Sussex
Eric Clarke, Oxford
Nicholas Cook, RHUL
Suzanne Cusick, NYU
Tia DeNora, Exeter
Nicola Dibben, Sheffield
John Drever, Goldsmiths
Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
First Call for Papers
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008
Following four successful conferences between 1999 and 2006, the fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) will be held in Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholar from all parts of the world to discuss and debate critically urban and regional issues in East Asia.
Themes
There are two main themes in this conference. The first main theme is “Searching for a ‘Globalpolis’, as a progressive urban utopia, in the era of globalization.” Cities in East Asia have become increasingly globalized for the last decade. Along with the spread of neoliberal variant of globalization, the global(izing) cities in East Asia have faced increasing numbers of problems associated with growing spatial and social inequalities, dissolution of existing urban communities, increasing inter-ethnic or inter-cultural tensions, etc. As a way of finding resolutions to these problems, we suggest to imagine a progressive and alternative urban utopia, which we call a “Globalpolis”. Under this theme, we can tackle the following issues.
- Flows, networks and transnational urbanism
- Critical evaluations of the discourses of global city, creative city, innovative cities etc.
- Humanistic visions for “Globalpolis”
- Urban historicity and cultural heritage
- Power, identity and the city
- Critique of neo-liberal urbanization
- Alternative urban governance
- Social activism and civic space
- Gentrification, urban (re)development and mega urban project
- Urban environment and sustainable cities
To be added…
The second main theme is “Re-imagining the national territories in East Asia.” Existing territoriality of the national politico-economic communities in East Asia have been increasingly challenged by growing movement of capital, people, knowledge and goods across national boundaries. At the same time, however, nationalistic sentiments and national identities have been strengthened due to recent geopolitical changes in this region. What has happened in the East Asian nations and states in terms of their territorialities in relation to the increasing transnationalization of social, political, cultural and economic activities? Under this theme, we can address the following issues.
- Historical and geographical construction of national territoriality
- State, power and national territories
- Transnationalism and reorganization of national territories
- Spatial and scalar restructuring of the state
- Decentralization and the changing nature of center-local relations
- Nationalism/transnationalism and landscape
To be added…
In addition to these main themes, this conference aims to question and contextualize every issue in the development of critical and alternative geography in East Asia. Examples of other relevant issues are:
- Political economies of development
- Global economic changes and uneven regional development
- Globalization, agriculture and rural development
- Critical geopolitics in East Asia
- Globalization and regionalization in East Asia
- Innovation, cluster and agglomeration economy
- Nature and environment
- Gender and spaces of difference
- Geographies of social movement
- History of geographical practice and thoughts
- entrepreneurial city and place-marketing
……
The above list is just for illustration, not limitation. We strongly encourage the participants to mobilize your geographical imagination beyond them.
Papers and organized sessions are welcome from everyone, geographers and non-geographers alike, from any disciplinary areas.
Date
13 ~ 15 December, 2008: Parallel Sessions
16 December, 2008: Field trip
Venues
This conference is hosted by Seoul National University (13-14 December, 2008) and the University of Seoul (15 December, 2008).
Keynote Speakers
To be selected soon.
Steering Committee
Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)
Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Local Organizing Committee
Bae-Gyoon Park (Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University)
Byung-Doo Choi (Department of Geography Education, Daegu University)
Kyoung Park (Department of Digital Economics, Mokwon University)
Seong-Paik Lee (Department of Philosophy, University of Seoul)
Hyun-Jae Lee (Institute for Humanities, University of Seoul)
To be added…
Registration
Those wishing to attend this conference must register by 30 August 2008. The registration form will be attached in the 2nd call, which will be issued by the end of March 2008.
Abstracts
Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit by E-mail the TITLE and ABSRACTS (ca. 500 words) by 30 August 2008. The recipient of the email will be announced in the 2nd call.
Organized Sessions
Those planning to organize a SESSION or SESSIONS must contact Dr. Bae-Gyoon Park (geopbg@snu.ac.kr) by 31 July 2008, with title and description of the session(s) and the names of prospective presenters.
Official Language
The official language of the EARCAG is English. All the papers are to be presented and discussed in English, except for the closing session on the last day of the conference, in which the translation services for English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese will be provided.
Registration Fee
Participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
US$100 (faculty) US$50 (student)
Participants from Rest of Asia, East Europe, Latin America and Africa
US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)
Participants from North America, West Europe and Japan (G7 Group)
US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)
The fee includes two receptions, lunches during the conference, coffee breaks and a conference packet with conference proceedings. Field trips must be paid separately.
All the fees listed here are provisional and subject to change. The payment details will be announced in the 2nd call.
Accommodation
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Field trip
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Important Deadlines
Organizing paper session 31 July 2008
Registration 30 August 2008
Submission of abstracts 30 August 2008
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008
Following four successful conferences between 1999 and 2006, the fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) will be held in Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholar from all parts of the world to discuss and debate critically urban and regional issues in East Asia.
Themes
There are two main themes in this conference. The first main theme is “Searching for a ‘Globalpolis’, as a progressive urban utopia, in the era of globalization.” Cities in East Asia have become increasingly globalized for the last decade. Along with the spread of neoliberal variant of globalization, the global(izing) cities in East Asia have faced increasing numbers of problems associated with growing spatial and social inequalities, dissolution of existing urban communities, increasing inter-ethnic or inter-cultural tensions, etc. As a way of finding resolutions to these problems, we suggest to imagine a progressive and alternative urban utopia, which we call a “Globalpolis”. Under this theme, we can tackle the following issues.
- Flows, networks and transnational urbanism
- Critical evaluations of the discourses of global city, creative city, innovative cities etc.
- Humanistic visions for “Globalpolis”
- Urban historicity and cultural heritage
- Power, identity and the city
- Critique of neo-liberal urbanization
- Alternative urban governance
- Social activism and civic space
- Gentrification, urban (re)development and mega urban project
- Urban environment and sustainable cities
To be added…
The second main theme is “Re-imagining the national territories in East Asia.” Existing territoriality of the national politico-economic communities in East Asia have been increasingly challenged by growing movement of capital, people, knowledge and goods across national boundaries. At the same time, however, nationalistic sentiments and national identities have been strengthened due to recent geopolitical changes in this region. What has happened in the East Asian nations and states in terms of their territorialities in relation to the increasing transnationalization of social, political, cultural and economic activities? Under this theme, we can address the following issues.
- Historical and geographical construction of national territoriality
- State, power and national territories
- Transnationalism and reorganization of national territories
- Spatial and scalar restructuring of the state
- Decentralization and the changing nature of center-local relations
- Nationalism/transnationalism and landscape
To be added…
In addition to these main themes, this conference aims to question and contextualize every issue in the development of critical and alternative geography in East Asia. Examples of other relevant issues are:
- Political economies of development
- Global economic changes and uneven regional development
- Globalization, agriculture and rural development
- Critical geopolitics in East Asia
- Globalization and regionalization in East Asia
- Innovation, cluster and agglomeration economy
- Nature and environment
- Gender and spaces of difference
- Geographies of social movement
- History of geographical practice and thoughts
- entrepreneurial city and place-marketing
……
The above list is just for illustration, not limitation. We strongly encourage the participants to mobilize your geographical imagination beyond them.
Papers and organized sessions are welcome from everyone, geographers and non-geographers alike, from any disciplinary areas.
Date
13 ~ 15 December, 2008: Parallel Sessions
16 December, 2008: Field trip
Venues
This conference is hosted by Seoul National University (13-14 December, 2008) and the University of Seoul (15 December, 2008).
Keynote Speakers
To be selected soon.
Steering Committee
Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)
Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Local Organizing Committee
Bae-Gyoon Park (Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University)
Byung-Doo Choi (Department of Geography Education, Daegu University)
Kyoung Park (Department of Digital Economics, Mokwon University)
Seong-Paik Lee (Department of Philosophy, University of Seoul)
Hyun-Jae Lee (Institute for Humanities, University of Seoul)
To be added…
Registration
Those wishing to attend this conference must register by 30 August 2008. The registration form will be attached in the 2nd call, which will be issued by the end of March 2008.
Abstracts
Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit by E-mail the TITLE and ABSRACTS (ca. 500 words) by 30 August 2008. The recipient of the email will be announced in the 2nd call.
Organized Sessions
Those planning to organize a SESSION or SESSIONS must contact Dr. Bae-Gyoon Park (geopbg@snu.ac.kr) by 31 July 2008, with title and description of the session(s) and the names of prospective presenters.
Official Language
The official language of the EARCAG is English. All the papers are to be presented and discussed in English, except for the closing session on the last day of the conference, in which the translation services for English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese will be provided.
Registration Fee
Participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
US$100 (faculty) US$50 (student)
Participants from Rest of Asia, East Europe, Latin America and Africa
US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)
Participants from North America, West Europe and Japan (G7 Group)
US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)
The fee includes two receptions, lunches during the conference, coffee breaks and a conference packet with conference proceedings. Field trips must be paid separately.
All the fees listed here are provisional and subject to change. The payment details will be announced in the 2nd call.
Accommodation
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Field trip
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Important Deadlines
Organizing paper session 31 July 2008
Registration 30 August 2008
Submission of abstracts 30 August 2008
The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' is now avaliable...
The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice'
(Volume 16, number 1) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.
We are currently offering a free online trial to 'Benefits: The Journal of
Poverty and Social Justice', during which time you can access all online
content, as available to current subscribers. Personal subscribers will be
able to access the free content for 30 days and institutions will be able
to activate the trial for 3 months. To sign up, go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ben
In this issue:
Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp
The experiences of 'new' East European immigrants in the UK labour market
Eugenia Markova, Richard Black
Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across
households from four ethnic groups
Lucinda Platt, Sarah Salway, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss
Managing money in later life: help from relatives and friends
Hilary Arksey, Anne Corden, Caroline Glendinning, Michael Hirst
The Street Wardens Programme as a neighbourhood renewal intervention: the
challenge of translating national policy into creative local responses in a
performance management context
Chih Hoong Sin
A living wage for London?
Chris Grover
Citizen-centred welfare: a single income-replacement benefit and
personalised conditions and support
Kate Stanley
Who's really on the fiddle?
Neil Bateman
Unhappy fund?
Terry Patterson
Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes in London's luxury hotels
Hartley Dean
Department for Work and Pensions
Contracting out welfare to work in the US: delivery lessons
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A review of research on the links between education and poverty
Government Round-up
Ruth Lister, Stephen Morris
The idea of poverty
John Veit-Wilson
On the margins of inclusion: Changing labour markets and social exclusion
in Graham Bowpitt
'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' publishes
high-quality work that is essential reading for academics, practitioners,
policy makers and students. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the
journal explores links with social security (including pensions and tax
credits), employment, area regeneration, housing, health, education and
criminal justice, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender, disability and
other social inequalities. For more information and to subscribe, visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/benefits/
(Volume 16, number 1) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.
We are currently offering a free online trial to 'Benefits: The Journal of
Poverty and Social Justice', during which time you can access all online
content, as available to current subscribers. Personal subscribers will be
able to access the free content for 30 days and institutions will be able
to activate the trial for 3 months. To sign up, go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ben
In this issue:
Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp
The experiences of 'new' East European immigrants in the UK labour market
Eugenia Markova, Richard Black
Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across
households from four ethnic groups
Lucinda Platt, Sarah Salway, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss
Managing money in later life: help from relatives and friends
Hilary Arksey, Anne Corden, Caroline Glendinning, Michael Hirst
The Street Wardens Programme as a neighbourhood renewal intervention: the
challenge of translating national policy into creative local responses in a
performance management context
Chih Hoong Sin
A living wage for London?
Chris Grover
Citizen-centred welfare: a single income-replacement benefit and
personalised conditions and support
Kate Stanley
Who's really on the fiddle?
Neil Bateman
Unhappy fund?
Terry Patterson
Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes in London's luxury hotels
Hartley Dean
Department for Work and Pensions
Contracting out welfare to work in the US: delivery lessons
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A review of research on the links between education and poverty
Government Round-up
Ruth Lister, Stephen Morris
The idea of poverty
John Veit-Wilson
On the margins of inclusion: Changing labour markets and social exclusion
in Graham Bowpitt
'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' publishes
high-quality work that is essential reading for academics, practitioners,
policy makers and students. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the
journal explores links with social security (including pensions and tax
credits), employment, area regeneration, housing, health, education and
criminal justice, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender, disability and
other social inequalities. For more information and to subscribe, visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/benefits/
PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS
PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS
25/2/2008
The Planning Portal has published a special report on eco-towns - a high-profile area affecting planning policy.
The report looks at:
* the housing and climate change context
* the planning elements of eco-towns
* the bidding process so far
* key features of an eco-town
Read the eco-towns special report:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/news?1115315508453
Recently published and up-dated guides:
Planning and Greener Homes - featuring planning and building regulations guidance on domestic energy generation and energy efficiency.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315124405.html
Planning and Mobile Phone Masts - featuring how mobile phone networks operate, the planning framework, consultation and appeals procedures.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315371796.html
25/2/2008
The Planning Portal has published a special report on eco-towns - a high-profile area affecting planning policy.
The report looks at:
* the housing and climate change context
* the planning elements of eco-towns
* the bidding process so far
* key features of an eco-town
Read the eco-towns special report:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/news?1115315508453
Recently published and up-dated guides:
Planning and Greener Homes - featuring planning and building regulations guidance on domestic energy generation and energy efficiency.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315124405.html
Planning and Mobile Phone Masts - featuring how mobile phone networks operate, the planning framework, consultation and appeals procedures.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315371796.html
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space: Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Seminar will take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 2-4pm. Further details can be obtained from Noreen Harburt (Noreen@essex.ac.uk).
In recent decades there has been an intense focus upon how we can, and should, understand the ‘space of democracy and the democracy of space’. Of course this question is not new, but what could be called the ‘spatial turn’ in academia, shows that globalisation brings spatial interconnections and flows to the fore, whilst throwing open the idea of fixed boundaries and borders. We have moved away from the assumption that space can be regarded as a pre-given background or even container of political life. Today, emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated political action in given, empirical contexts. But this spatial turn also throws up thorny tensions as to what will count and work as democratic practice today. Given that spatial flows and interconnections are now foregrounded in debate, how should we understand some of the central tensions which characterise democracy today; between ‘territorial and post-territorial politics’, ‘citizenship as everyday practice and the reassertion of statism’, ‘representation and participation’ and ‘being affected by an issue and the right to participate in it’?
The emerging "Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network explores such questions. It involves around 400 academics globally, working across the disciplines of political philosophy, politics, planning, geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology and development studies. We are presently concentrating upon establishing institutional sites, in different geographical locations, for the network to operate through. Once established, these will eventually take conversations through the different disciplines via academic workshops, academic journals, public debates, the general media and website interfaces, for example.
This will take place under the direction of Jonathan Pugh. We would also like to acknowledge the significant assistance of the special advisors, Noortje Marres, Chantal Mouffe, David Howarth, Liza Griffin, Doreen Massey, Mo O’Toole, Miles Irving, and Oliver Moss. Some of those who have actively signed up to take part in events and/or publications so far include Tony Benn, David Chandler, Tom Bentley, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael Watts, Bernard Crick, Andy Dobson, Catherine Fieschi, David Boyle, David Harvey, Clare Short, Paul Kingsnorth, David Featherstone, John Forester, Nick Cohen, Saskia Sassen, Frank Furedi, Ed Soja, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth, Patsy Healey, Will Hutton, Tim Ingold, Uma Kothari, Scott Lash, Nina Laurie, Oliver Marchart, Phil McNaghton, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Owens, Jonathan Pugh, Steve Rayner, Jenny Robinson, Richard Sennett, AbdouMaliq Simone, Joe Smith, Yannis Stavrakakis, Deborah Thien, Nigel Thrift, Francoise Verges, Hilary Wainwright, Sarah Whatmore, Steve Hinchliffe, Clive Barnett, Liza Griffin, Jim Martin, David Oswell, Oren Yiftachel, Daniela Korbas Magal, Andrew Barry, Jane Bennett, Matthew Fuller, David Oswell, Albena Yaneva, Terrell Carver, and Sandra Halperin. We also operate through a long-term public debating forum, The Great Debate; putting on debates involving college students and members of the general public in the North East of England in particular.
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
reflections upon our vision for the network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
It is extremely important to the network that we develop an "early career" strand. This will be directed by Liza Griffin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. It will seek to include early career academics in all aspects of the networks development in coming years.
And so, on the 12th March, 2008, at Essex University, a panel of those involved in the network will be discussing its vision and planned activities with early career academics. If you are an early career academic, we would very much like you to come along to this event.
There will also be discussions of some key works which will be shaping the network in years to come, and an evening event around a panel discussion of Aletta Norval’s new book: Aversive Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This Seminar will also take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 5-7pm. For further information in this regard, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/
If you are interested in the network, please contact Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.
Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Seminar will take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 2-4pm. Further details can be obtained from Noreen Harburt (Noreen@essex.ac.uk).
In recent decades there has been an intense focus upon how we can, and should, understand the ‘space of democracy and the democracy of space’. Of course this question is not new, but what could be called the ‘spatial turn’ in academia, shows that globalisation brings spatial interconnections and flows to the fore, whilst throwing open the idea of fixed boundaries and borders. We have moved away from the assumption that space can be regarded as a pre-given background or even container of political life. Today, emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated political action in given, empirical contexts. But this spatial turn also throws up thorny tensions as to what will count and work as democratic practice today. Given that spatial flows and interconnections are now foregrounded in debate, how should we understand some of the central tensions which characterise democracy today; between ‘territorial and post-territorial politics’, ‘citizenship as everyday practice and the reassertion of statism’, ‘representation and participation’ and ‘being affected by an issue and the right to participate in it’?
The emerging "Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network explores such questions. It involves around 400 academics globally, working across the disciplines of political philosophy, politics, planning, geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology and development studies. We are presently concentrating upon establishing institutional sites, in different geographical locations, for the network to operate through. Once established, these will eventually take conversations through the different disciplines via academic workshops, academic journals, public debates, the general media and website interfaces, for example.
This will take place under the direction of Jonathan Pugh. We would also like to acknowledge the significant assistance of the special advisors, Noortje Marres, Chantal Mouffe, David Howarth, Liza Griffin, Doreen Massey, Mo O’Toole, Miles Irving, and Oliver Moss. Some of those who have actively signed up to take part in events and/or publications so far include Tony Benn, David Chandler, Tom Bentley, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael Watts, Bernard Crick, Andy Dobson, Catherine Fieschi, David Boyle, David Harvey, Clare Short, Paul Kingsnorth, David Featherstone, John Forester, Nick Cohen, Saskia Sassen, Frank Furedi, Ed Soja, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth, Patsy Healey, Will Hutton, Tim Ingold, Uma Kothari, Scott Lash, Nina Laurie, Oliver Marchart, Phil McNaghton, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Owens, Jonathan Pugh, Steve Rayner, Jenny Robinson, Richard Sennett, AbdouMaliq Simone, Joe Smith, Yannis Stavrakakis, Deborah Thien, Nigel Thrift, Francoise Verges, Hilary Wainwright, Sarah Whatmore, Steve Hinchliffe, Clive Barnett, Liza Griffin, Jim Martin, David Oswell, Oren Yiftachel, Daniela Korbas Magal, Andrew Barry, Jane Bennett, Matthew Fuller, David Oswell, Albena Yaneva, Terrell Carver, and Sandra Halperin. We also operate through a long-term public debating forum, The Great Debate; putting on debates involving college students and members of the general public in the North East of England in particular.
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
reflections upon our vision for the network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
It is extremely important to the network that we develop an "early career" strand. This will be directed by Liza Griffin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. It will seek to include early career academics in all aspects of the networks development in coming years.
And so, on the 12th March, 2008, at Essex University, a panel of those involved in the network will be discussing its vision and planned activities with early career academics. If you are an early career academic, we would very much like you to come along to this event.
There will also be discussions of some key works which will be shaping the network in years to come, and an evening event around a panel discussion of Aletta Norval’s new book: Aversive Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This Seminar will also take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 5-7pm. For further information in this regard, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/
If you are interested in the network, please contact Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
People, Places, Futures:
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
A joint event between the
Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update
set in context for planners
A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008. The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.
A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004. It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.
The Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru are jointly holding two special consultation workshops to explore the issues which are specific to planning. These are in addition to the more general regional workshops. The workshops will be held in Cardiff and Bangor. The workshops will start at 10 and finish at 1pm with lunch.
* Cardiff, Wednesday 9th April 2008, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
* Bangor, Thursday 10th April 2008, Technium CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Registration
The event is free to attend but you must register by 31 March 2008. Please complete and return the registration form to:
E-mail: wales@rtpi.org.uk
By post: RTPI Cymru PO Box 2465, Cardiff CF23 0DS
http://new.wales.gov.uk/consultations/currentconsultation/improveps/wspconsult/?lang=en
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Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol: Ymgynghori ar Ddiweddaru Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008
Cyd-ddigwyddiad rhwng
Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a RTPI Cymru
Gosod Diweddariad Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008 Mewn Cyd-destun i Gynllunwyr
Mae ymgynghoriad ar Gynllun Gofodol Cymru: Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol yn rhedeg o 31ain Ionawr tan 24ain Ebrill 2008 am gyfnod o 12 wythnos. Mae'r ddogfen hon yn amlinellu gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygiad economaidd, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol pob rhan o Gymru yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a bydd hefyd yn llywio'r ffordd y bydd Llywodraeth y Cynulliad yn gwario'i harian yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf.
Drwy gydweithio ar draws sectorau a thrwy weithio mewn partneriaeth, llwyddwyd i gymryd camau mawr ymlaen o ran y nodau a amlinellwyd yn y Cynllun Gofodol cyntaf yn 2004. Mae'r cynllun hwnnw wedi helpu i sicrhau ein bod, am y tro cyntaf, yn gweithredu mewn ffordd gydgysylltiedig ar faterion cymhleth megis trafnidiaeth, tai a phatrymau anheddu, ac mae wedi arwain hefyd at ddefnyddio arian cyhoeddus mewn ffordd fwy effeithiol.
Mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a'r RTPI Cymru yn cynnal dau weithdy arbennig i archwilio materion sydd yn benodol i gynllunwyr. Mae'r rhain yn ychwanegol i'r gweithdai mwy cyffredinol yn y rhanbarthau. Bydd y ddau weithdy yng Nghaerdydd a Bangor yn dechrau am 10 ac yn gorffen am 1 gyda chinio.
· Caerdydd, Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill 2008, Stadiwm y Mileniwm
· Bangor, Dydd Iau 10fed Ebrill 2008, Tecniwm CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Cofrestru
Mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ond mae rhaid cofrestru erbyn 31 Mawrth 2008. Cwblhewch y ffurflen cofrestru a'i dychwelyd at:
E-bost: Wales@rtpi.org.uk
Drwy'r post: RTPI Cymru, Blwch SP2465, Caerdydd, CF23 0DS
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
A joint event between the
Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update
set in context for planners
A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008. The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.
A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004. It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.
The Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru are jointly holding two special consultation workshops to explore the issues which are specific to planning. These are in addition to the more general regional workshops. The workshops will be held in Cardiff and Bangor. The workshops will start at 10 and finish at 1pm with lunch.
* Cardiff, Wednesday 9th April 2008, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
* Bangor, Thursday 10th April 2008, Technium CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Registration
The event is free to attend but you must register by 31 March 2008. Please complete and return the registration form to:
E-mail: wales@rtpi.org.uk
By post: RTPI Cymru PO Box 2465, Cardiff CF23 0DS
http://new.wales.gov.uk/consultations/currentconsultation/improveps/wspconsult/?lang=en
image
Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol: Ymgynghori ar Ddiweddaru Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008
Cyd-ddigwyddiad rhwng
Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a RTPI Cymru
Gosod Diweddariad Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008 Mewn Cyd-destun i Gynllunwyr
Mae ymgynghoriad ar Gynllun Gofodol Cymru: Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol yn rhedeg o 31ain Ionawr tan 24ain Ebrill 2008 am gyfnod o 12 wythnos. Mae'r ddogfen hon yn amlinellu gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygiad economaidd, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol pob rhan o Gymru yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a bydd hefyd yn llywio'r ffordd y bydd Llywodraeth y Cynulliad yn gwario'i harian yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf.
Drwy gydweithio ar draws sectorau a thrwy weithio mewn partneriaeth, llwyddwyd i gymryd camau mawr ymlaen o ran y nodau a amlinellwyd yn y Cynllun Gofodol cyntaf yn 2004. Mae'r cynllun hwnnw wedi helpu i sicrhau ein bod, am y tro cyntaf, yn gweithredu mewn ffordd gydgysylltiedig ar faterion cymhleth megis trafnidiaeth, tai a phatrymau anheddu, ac mae wedi arwain hefyd at ddefnyddio arian cyhoeddus mewn ffordd fwy effeithiol.
Mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a'r RTPI Cymru yn cynnal dau weithdy arbennig i archwilio materion sydd yn benodol i gynllunwyr. Mae'r rhain yn ychwanegol i'r gweithdai mwy cyffredinol yn y rhanbarthau. Bydd y ddau weithdy yng Nghaerdydd a Bangor yn dechrau am 10 ac yn gorffen am 1 gyda chinio.
· Caerdydd, Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill 2008, Stadiwm y Mileniwm
· Bangor, Dydd Iau 10fed Ebrill 2008, Tecniwm CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Cofrestru
Mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ond mae rhaid cofrestru erbyn 31 Mawrth 2008. Cwblhewch y ffurflen cofrestru a'i dychwelyd at:
E-bost: Wales@rtpi.org.uk
Drwy'r post: RTPI Cymru, Blwch SP2465, Caerdydd, CF23 0DS
“Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective”
APOLOGIES FOR REPEAT/CROSS-POSTING – FINAL REMINDER for those wishing to register to attend for this Regional Studies Association-supported event… Please register by e-mailing: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk
Colleagues are welcome to attend the second seminar of the Regional Studies Association Research Network on “Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective”. The one-day seminar will be held at Universidad Complutense, Madrid on Friday 7th March. The programme is below. Attendance is free.
REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION WORKING GROUP
EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
SEMINAR AT FACULTY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, SPAIN
Friday 7th March 2008
1000-1045
Melina Young
Independent Researcher, Toronto, Canada
Labour market integration of high-skilled immigrants: maximising knowledge
spill-over in Toronto, Canada
1045-1130
David Etherington
Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University, UK
Martin Jones
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, UK
World class skills? Governance geographies and the delivery of lifelong learning
1145-1230
Michael Anyadike-Danes
Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK
What is the problem, exactly? Investigating the distribution of Incapacity Benefit claimants’ conditions across British regions
1230-1315
Colin Lindsay
Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Developing services to tackle health-related barriers to employability: reflections on the UK experience
Lunch 1315-1415
1415-1500
Almudena Moreno and Enrique Crespo
Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Employment and social exclusion of women and young people in Spain
1500-1545
Ron McQuaid, Vanesa Fuertes and Sue Bond
Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Working for Families: Tackling barriers to employability among parents in Scotland
1600-1645
Maria Paz Martin Martin
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
The social construction of employability at the local level
Colin Lindsay
Senior Research Fellow
Employment Research Institute
Napier University Business School
Craiglockhart Campus 03/50
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
T: +44 (0) 131 455 4315
F: +44 (0) 131 455 4311
E: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk
W: www.napier.ac.uk/depts/eri/HOME.HTM
Colleagues are welcome to attend the second seminar of the Regional Studies Association Research Network on “Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective”. The one-day seminar will be held at Universidad Complutense, Madrid on Friday 7th March. The programme is below. Attendance is free.
REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION WORKING GROUP
EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
SEMINAR AT FACULTY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, SPAIN
Friday 7th March 2008
1000-1045
Melina Young
Independent Researcher, Toronto, Canada
Labour market integration of high-skilled immigrants: maximising knowledge
spill-over in Toronto, Canada
1045-1130
David Etherington
Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University, UK
Martin Jones
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, UK
World class skills? Governance geographies and the delivery of lifelong learning
1145-1230
Michael Anyadike-Danes
Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK
What is the problem, exactly? Investigating the distribution of Incapacity Benefit claimants’ conditions across British regions
1230-1315
Colin Lindsay
Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Developing services to tackle health-related barriers to employability: reflections on the UK experience
Lunch 1315-1415
1415-1500
Almudena Moreno and Enrique Crespo
Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Employment and social exclusion of women and young people in Spain
1500-1545
Ron McQuaid, Vanesa Fuertes and Sue Bond
Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Working for Families: Tackling barriers to employability among parents in Scotland
1600-1645
Maria Paz Martin Martin
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
The social construction of employability at the local level
Colin Lindsay
Senior Research Fellow
Employment Research Institute
Napier University Business School
Craiglockhart Campus 03/50
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
T: +44 (0) 131 455 4315
F: +44 (0) 131 455 4311
E: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk
W: www.napier.ac.uk/depts/eri/HOME.HTM
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