The Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship 2008-2009
Supporting a new generation of radical geographers...
Graduate students in radical geography are invited to apply for this year-long
award of US$2,000 and a complimentary three year subscription to Antipode.
These funds are intended to provide resources to attend an international
conference and cover additional research expenses.
The successful applicant will be a current doctoral student working in any field
of radical geographical scholarship. Applications are especially encouraged
from the developing world and/or from those traditionally marginalised in the
academy.
The competition runs every year and is announced in issues five and one of
Antipode. The closing date for the 2008-2009 scholarship applications is 31
March 2008.
Application forms are available from
http://www.antipode-online.net/scholarship-info.asp or by mail from Andrew
Kent, School of Environment and Development, Arthur Lewis Building, University
of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. A decision will be made by
the Antipode editorial board in April and all applicants will be notified of
the result in May.
Many thanks,
Andrew
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
http://www.antipode-online.net/
Friday, 11 January 2008
New Lunchtime Seminar Series for 2008: Social Political Identities and Tackling Workplace Discrimination
*New Lunchtime Seminar Series for 2008: Social Political Identities and Tackling Workplace Discrimination*
A very happy new year to you and best wishes for the year ahead.
I’d like to invite you to our new lunchtime seminar series (see list below). This new series will bring together a range of activists and academics, to explore experiences of work-related discrimination and corresponding categories of mobilisation. Keeping in step with our close ties with the labour movement, each session will also raise issues for trade unionists in Britain, as they attempt to organise marginalised workers and tackle inequalities.
We warmly welcome you all to come and listen to the views and theories of our prominent and diverse range of speakers. Please join us in debating contemporary issues of social justice on the first Wednesday of every month from 12.45 to 2pm over a sandwich lunch. These public seminars are open to all. However, since we will be providing a sandwich lunch, we would be grateful if you could inform us of your intention to attend by emailing Max Watson at in advance of each session.
The lunchtime series kicks off at 12.45pm on Wednesday 6th February 2008 with Rahila Gupta talking about her new book Enslaved and articulating an argument for the abolition of all immigration controls.
The details for this first seminar in our series is as follows (others are listed below):
Date: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Time: Starting 12.45pm ending 2pm
Venue: London Metropolitan University, The Boardroom (JS1-41), 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
The Talk: Modern Day Slavery
Campaigner and journalist, Rahila Gupta will talk about her new book 'Enslaved', an important insight into modern day slavery. Britain is once again home to hundreds of slaves – they reach our shores via unimaginably perilous crossings, are locked into hideous, back-breaking working lives, and remain hidden to the rest of us. Very few escape to talk about their appalling incarceration. Meet five who did here in this compelling, revealing book. In her book, Rahila tells the horrifying stories of people who have been trafficked, smuggled or duped into the UK, to find themselves stripped of their passports and money, locked in cramped rooms, shackled involuntarily to work as domestic servants, brothel workers, or construction workers, beaten, raped and psychologically abused, and who, if they seek their freedom, are threatened with unending violence. Rahila places these testimonies within a well-argued call to abolish all immigration controls.
Some reviews of Enslaved:
Tony Benn:
Rahila Gupta's book Enslaved which deals with modern slavery is very timely since it is coming out in the year when we are celebrating the bi-centenary of Wilberforce's Bill to abolish the slave trade. The example she gives should remind us all that the struggle for human rights has to be fought in every generation
Helena Kennedy:
This is one of the most shocking books you will read about contemporary Britain; that human beings should be treated with such degradation and cruelty is a disgrace we should find unbearable. I hope the author's passion ignites a new anti-slavery campaign. Sign me up
About the speaker:
Rahila Gupta is a campaigner and journalist. She has written radio drama and is the editor of From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters and co-author of Circle of Light, now released as a film called Provoked which she co-scripted. She is also a long-standing member of the Black feminist organisation, Southall Black Sisters.
The list of subsequent sessions is as follows. Please note that the timing and venue for all the seminars is as above.
Wednesday 5th March 2008: New Challenges in the Fight Against Racism
Speaker: Arun Kundnani is deputy editor of the journal Race & Class
Wednesday 2nd April 2008: Locating Migrant Workers in Debates about Racism
Speakers: Don Flynn is Director of the Migrant Rights Network, Wilf Sullivan is the Race Equality Officer at the TUC
Wednesday 7th May 2008: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
Speaker: Professor Nira Yuval Davis is the Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London
Wednesday 4th June 2008: Leadership and Trade Union Militancy
Speaker: Dr. Ralph Darlington is a senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at Salford University
Wednesday 2nd July & Wednesday 6th August 2008: Summer recess
Wednesday 3rd September 2008: Multiple Discrimination - theory and method
Speakers: Dr Sian Moore is a Principle Research Fellow at Working Lives Research Institute
Sukhwant Dhaliwal is currently studying for a Phd in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Wednesday 1st October 2008: Sexuality in the workplace: the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual workers and employer and trade union responses
Speaker: Tessa Wright works part-time at Working Lives Research Institute and is undertaking a PhD on the intersection of gender and sexuality in non-traditionally female work.
Wednesday 5th November 2008: Trafficking, Forced Labour and Domestic Servitude
Speakers: Poonam Joshi is the Gender Policy Advisor at Amnesty International UK and will talk about their campaign on trafficking
Bridget Anderson is author of 'Labour Exchange: Patterns of Migration in Asia' and 'Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour' and has worked with undocumented women migrants for numerous years
Wednesday 3rd December 2008: The Politics of Organising Sex Workers
Speaker: Branch secretary of the GMB Sex Workers Union
I look forward to seeing you at any or indeed ALL of these seminars.
Best wishes,
Professor Steve Jefferys
--
Steve Jefferys
Director
Working Lives Research Institute
31, Jewry St., London EC3N 2EY, UK
s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk
00 44 (O) 20 7320 3042
00 44 (0) 20 8883 6822 (home)
www.workinglives.org
www.workingagainstracism.org
--
Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
email: j.holgate@londonmet.ac.uk
www.workinglives.org/staff_jh.html
--
Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
email: j.holgate@londonmet.ac.uk
www.workinglives.org/staff_jh.html
Companies Act 2006 : www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
A very happy new year to you and best wishes for the year ahead.
I’d like to invite you to our new lunchtime seminar series (see list below). This new series will bring together a range of activists and academics, to explore experiences of work-related discrimination and corresponding categories of mobilisation. Keeping in step with our close ties with the labour movement, each session will also raise issues for trade unionists in Britain, as they attempt to organise marginalised workers and tackle inequalities.
We warmly welcome you all to come and listen to the views and theories of our prominent and diverse range of speakers. Please join us in debating contemporary issues of social justice on the first Wednesday of every month from 12.45 to 2pm over a sandwich lunch. These public seminars are open to all. However, since we will be providing a sandwich lunch, we would be grateful if you could inform us of your intention to attend by emailing Max Watson at
The lunchtime series kicks off at 12.45pm on Wednesday 6th February 2008 with Rahila Gupta talking about her new book Enslaved and articulating an argument for the abolition of all immigration controls.
The details for this first seminar in our series is as follows (others are listed below):
Date: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Time: Starting 12.45pm ending 2pm
Venue: London Metropolitan University, The Boardroom (JS1-41), 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
The Talk: Modern Day Slavery
Campaigner and journalist, Rahila Gupta will talk about her new book 'Enslaved', an important insight into modern day slavery. Britain is once again home to hundreds of slaves – they reach our shores via unimaginably perilous crossings, are locked into hideous, back-breaking working lives, and remain hidden to the rest of us. Very few escape to talk about their appalling incarceration. Meet five who did here in this compelling, revealing book. In her book, Rahila tells the horrifying stories of people who have been trafficked, smuggled or duped into the UK, to find themselves stripped of their passports and money, locked in cramped rooms, shackled involuntarily to work as domestic servants, brothel workers, or construction workers, beaten, raped and psychologically abused, and who, if they seek their freedom, are threatened with unending violence. Rahila places these testimonies within a well-argued call to abolish all immigration controls.
Some reviews of Enslaved:
Tony Benn:
Rahila Gupta's book Enslaved which deals with modern slavery is very timely since it is coming out in the year when we are celebrating the bi-centenary of Wilberforce's Bill to abolish the slave trade. The example she gives should remind us all that the struggle for human rights has to be fought in every generation
Helena Kennedy:
This is one of the most shocking books you will read about contemporary Britain; that human beings should be treated with such degradation and cruelty is a disgrace we should find unbearable. I hope the author's passion ignites a new anti-slavery campaign. Sign me up
About the speaker:
Rahila Gupta is a campaigner and journalist. She has written radio drama and is the editor of From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters and co-author of Circle of Light, now released as a film called Provoked which she co-scripted. She is also a long-standing member of the Black feminist organisation, Southall Black Sisters.
The list of subsequent sessions is as follows. Please note that the timing and venue for all the seminars is as above.
Wednesday 5th March 2008: New Challenges in the Fight Against Racism
Speaker: Arun Kundnani is deputy editor of the journal Race & Class
Wednesday 2nd April 2008: Locating Migrant Workers in Debates about Racism
Speakers: Don Flynn is Director of the Migrant Rights Network, Wilf Sullivan is the Race Equality Officer at the TUC
Wednesday 7th May 2008: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
Speaker: Professor Nira Yuval Davis is the Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London
Wednesday 4th June 2008: Leadership and Trade Union Militancy
Speaker: Dr. Ralph Darlington is a senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at Salford University
Wednesday 2nd July & Wednesday 6th August 2008: Summer recess
Wednesday 3rd September 2008: Multiple Discrimination - theory and method
Speakers: Dr Sian Moore is a Principle Research Fellow at Working Lives Research Institute
Sukhwant Dhaliwal is currently studying for a Phd in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Wednesday 1st October 2008: Sexuality in the workplace: the experience of lesbian, gay and bisexual workers and employer and trade union responses
Speaker: Tessa Wright works part-time at Working Lives Research Institute and is undertaking a PhD on the intersection of gender and sexuality in non-traditionally female work.
Wednesday 5th November 2008: Trafficking, Forced Labour and Domestic Servitude
Speakers: Poonam Joshi is the Gender Policy Advisor at Amnesty International UK and will talk about their campaign on trafficking
Bridget Anderson is author of 'Labour Exchange: Patterns of Migration in Asia' and 'Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour' and has worked with undocumented women migrants for numerous years
Wednesday 3rd December 2008: The Politics of Organising Sex Workers
Speaker: Branch secretary of the GMB Sex Workers Union
I look forward to seeing you at any or indeed ALL of these seminars.
Best wishes,
Professor Steve Jefferys
--
Steve Jefferys
Director
Working Lives Research Institute
31, Jewry St., London EC3N 2EY, UK
s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk
00 44 (O) 20 7320 3042
00 44 (0) 20 8883 6822 (home)
www.workinglives.org
www.workingagainstracism.org
--
Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
email: j.holgate@londonmet.ac.uk
www.workinglives.org/staff_jh.html
--
Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
email: j.holgate@londonmet.ac.uk
www.workinglives.org/staff_jh.html
Companies Act 2006 : www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
Thursday, 10 January 2008
‘FOOD, SOCIETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH’: A BSA FOOD STUDY GROUP CONFERENCE
‘FOOD, SOCIETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH’
A BSA FOOD STUDY GROUP CONFERENCE
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July, 2008
The British Library Conference Centre, London
Keynote speakers: Claude Fischler, EHSS and CNRS, Paris and Allison James,
University of Sheffield
The aim of this conference is to explore the interface between food,
society and public health through a sociological lens. Practices and
decisions involving food are not solely matters of individual behaviour or
action and food and health therefore need to be considered within the
context of families, communities, other social groups, and society at
large.
Does exploring food allow scholars to look beyond what is eaten to
highlight fundamental differences between segments of society?
Understanding differences in food consumption patterns could offer wider
insights into, for example, social class, ethnicity, self-identity or the
life course and the implications of these patterns for social and health
inequalities. This conference will bring together researchers,
practitioners and policy makers interested in addressing such questions.
Contemporary social, health and food-related policies often link the
consumption of food with dietary health and emphasis is placed on the
importance of personal ‘choice’. From a sociological perspective, this
raises a number of questions that could be explored: do individuals
generally connect what they eat with their health (or weight)? Has the
pleasure of eating or sharing a ‘good meal’ been forgotten in policy? What
are children taking from public health messages about food and health?
It is also important to consider what role government (and the food
industry) should play in assuring food safety and editing the
food ‘choices’ that are available. What other factors influence
our ‘choices’ and where we shop for food? Are there alternative policy
options for improving diet and public health?
The format of the conference will allow for in-depth presentation and
discussion of key topics along with shorter sessions for the presentation
of emerging findings, work in progress and new research from postgraduate
students. Abstracts for oral papers, posters and panels or symposia will
be considered by the conference programme committee.
Further details and abstract submission form available from:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/food
The abstract submission deadline is Friday 29th February 2008.
Abstracts received after this date will not be considered.
Please direct any administrative enquiries to liz.jackson@britsoc.org.uk
and any academic enquiries to w.j.wills@herts.ac.uk.
A BSA FOOD STUDY GROUP CONFERENCE
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July, 2008
The British Library Conference Centre, London
Keynote speakers: Claude Fischler, EHSS and CNRS, Paris and Allison James,
University of Sheffield
The aim of this conference is to explore the interface between food,
society and public health through a sociological lens. Practices and
decisions involving food are not solely matters of individual behaviour or
action and food and health therefore need to be considered within the
context of families, communities, other social groups, and society at
large.
Does exploring food allow scholars to look beyond what is eaten to
highlight fundamental differences between segments of society?
Understanding differences in food consumption patterns could offer wider
insights into, for example, social class, ethnicity, self-identity or the
life course and the implications of these patterns for social and health
inequalities. This conference will bring together researchers,
practitioners and policy makers interested in addressing such questions.
Contemporary social, health and food-related policies often link the
consumption of food with dietary health and emphasis is placed on the
importance of personal ‘choice’. From a sociological perspective, this
raises a number of questions that could be explored: do individuals
generally connect what they eat with their health (or weight)? Has the
pleasure of eating or sharing a ‘good meal’ been forgotten in policy? What
are children taking from public health messages about food and health?
It is also important to consider what role government (and the food
industry) should play in assuring food safety and editing the
food ‘choices’ that are available. What other factors influence
our ‘choices’ and where we shop for food? Are there alternative policy
options for improving diet and public health?
The format of the conference will allow for in-depth presentation and
discussion of key topics along with shorter sessions for the presentation
of emerging findings, work in progress and new research from postgraduate
students. Abstracts for oral papers, posters and panels or symposia will
be considered by the conference programme committee.
Further details and abstract submission form available from:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/food
The abstract submission deadline is Friday 29th February 2008.
Abstracts received after this date will not be considered.
Please direct any administrative enquiries to liz.jackson@britsoc.org.uk
and any academic enquiries to w.j.wills@herts.ac.uk.
*“Fit Cities: Practices of Sport and Fitness in the Contemporary City”*
RGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
*“Fit Cities: Practices of Sport and Fitness in the Contemporary City”*
*Dr Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University College London
*Clare Herrick, Department of Geography, King’s College London *
This group of sessions aims to start new conversations on a topic at once highly prescient and, at
the same time, grossly neglected by geographers: the place of fitness and sport in the
contemporary city.
While the wider sphere touched upon by sport and fitness is courting attention by human sciences,
sociologists, public health, policy makers and urban planners, opportunities remain for
geographical perspectives. In particular, as government attention in the UK and beyond turns to
ways of encouraging and building activity back into the contemporary city, there is scope for
exploration of the ways in which this might unfold and the wider conceptual territory upon which
such activities might tread. This paper session will therefore start to try and map out what a urban
geography focusing on issues around sport and fitness might entail, the theoretical and
conceptual frameworks upon which it might fruitfully draw and the empirical domains waiting to
be explored.
This group of sessions aims to think about and draw the links between sport and fitness and the
(often problematic) nature of the contemporary city. In particular, it wishes to move away from
discussions of the issues surrounding professional sport and its infrastructure towards the far
more mundane, everyday participatory practices of staying fit.
The organisers invite short abstracts of 200 words relating to (but not limited to) the following
broad thematic areas:
• Geographies of mass sporting participation.
• Urban geography and the ‘fit’ city
• Fitness, sport, and social exclusion
• Urban policy, sport and fitness.
• Obesogenic environments
• Public space and everyday practices of sport and fitness
• Urban sociality, community, and sport fitness
• Cultural geographies of fitness
• Sport and geographies of urban justice
• Historical approaches to sport and fitness
• Embodiment and sport
• Urban political ecology and sport/ fitness
• The political economy of urban sporting consumption
• Sport, fitness and the commodification of urban space
Please email abstracts to alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk by *January 17, 2008*
*“Fit Cities: Practices of Sport and Fitness in the Contemporary City”*
*Dr Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University College London
*Clare Herrick, Department of Geography, King’s College London *
This group of sessions aims to start new conversations on a topic at once highly prescient and, at
the same time, grossly neglected by geographers: the place of fitness and sport in the
contemporary city.
While the wider sphere touched upon by sport and fitness is courting attention by human sciences,
sociologists, public health, policy makers and urban planners, opportunities remain for
geographical perspectives. In particular, as government attention in the UK and beyond turns to
ways of encouraging and building activity back into the contemporary city, there is scope for
exploration of the ways in which this might unfold and the wider conceptual territory upon which
such activities might tread. This paper session will therefore start to try and map out what a urban
geography focusing on issues around sport and fitness might entail, the theoretical and
conceptual frameworks upon which it might fruitfully draw and the empirical domains waiting to
be explored.
This group of sessions aims to think about and draw the links between sport and fitness and the
(often problematic) nature of the contemporary city. In particular, it wishes to move away from
discussions of the issues surrounding professional sport and its infrastructure towards the far
more mundane, everyday participatory practices of staying fit.
The organisers invite short abstracts of 200 words relating to (but not limited to) the following
broad thematic areas:
• Geographies of mass sporting participation.
• Urban geography and the ‘fit’ city
• Fitness, sport, and social exclusion
• Urban policy, sport and fitness.
• Obesogenic environments
• Public space and everyday practices of sport and fitness
• Urban sociality, community, and sport fitness
• Cultural geographies of fitness
• Sport and geographies of urban justice
• Historical approaches to sport and fitness
• Embodiment and sport
• Urban political ecology and sport/ fitness
• The political economy of urban sporting consumption
• Sport, fitness and the commodification of urban space
Please email abstracts to alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk by *January 17, 2008*
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Apologies for cross-posting
Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Session organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) and Rom Imrie (Kings College London)
The contemporary work of architects and allied design and property development industries and their impacts on cities and urban landscapes has increasingly interested Geographers. Economic geographers have become fascinated by the firms involved in the production of architecture whilst urban, social and cultural geographers continue to be intrigued by the material affects of architectural forms and the spaces they create. Yet studies often tend to focus upon the outcomes of the design process – the buildings and spaces that result from the work of ‘space designers’. This session seeks to take one step back and examine the agents of production – the architects, designers, and allied professionals - and the influences upon their work. So as to better unpick the ways architectural spaces emerge, the session will explore the influences on space designers that affect how they conceptualise and understand the process of producing buildings and other spaces. In doing this the session aims to bring the work of architects but also other types of space designer (e.g. interior designers, planners, structural engineers, etc) into focus so as to help reveal the way individual and community experiences of buildings, the city and other spaces are influenced by the work of these professional groups. Possible topics for papers might include (but are not limited to):
· The work of architects within small or large firms and the social, cultural, economic and political regulation of designs;
· City planners and the influences on their decision-making process;
· Interior designers and their understandings of space;
· Examination of the way the designer’s conceptualisation of space and the public appropriation of space coincide and differ;
· Explorations of how the discourses associated with symbolic and iconic architecture, urban regeneration and entrepreneurialism influence space designers;
· The role of education in socialising and conditioning the work of space designers.
Expressions of interest should be sent to James Faulconbridge (j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk) by February 11th 2008. Please include an abstract on the pro-forma available from the RGS website (http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Submit+an+abstract.htm)
Dr James R Faulconbridge
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
Lancaster University
Farrer Avenue
Lancaster
LA1 4YQ
UK
Telephone: +44(0)1524 510265
Email: j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk
www.geog.lancs.ac.uk
Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Session organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) and Rom Imrie (Kings College London)
The contemporary work of architects and allied design and property development industries and their impacts on cities and urban landscapes has increasingly interested Geographers. Economic geographers have become fascinated by the firms involved in the production of architecture whilst urban, social and cultural geographers continue to be intrigued by the material affects of architectural forms and the spaces they create. Yet studies often tend to focus upon the outcomes of the design process – the buildings and spaces that result from the work of ‘space designers’. This session seeks to take one step back and examine the agents of production – the architects, designers, and allied professionals - and the influences upon their work. So as to better unpick the ways architectural spaces emerge, the session will explore the influences on space designers that affect how they conceptualise and understand the process of producing buildings and other spaces. In doing this the session aims to bring the work of architects but also other types of space designer (e.g. interior designers, planners, structural engineers, etc) into focus so as to help reveal the way individual and community experiences of buildings, the city and other spaces are influenced by the work of these professional groups. Possible topics for papers might include (but are not limited to):
· The work of architects within small or large firms and the social, cultural, economic and political regulation of designs;
· City planners and the influences on their decision-making process;
· Interior designers and their understandings of space;
· Examination of the way the designer’s conceptualisation of space and the public appropriation of space coincide and differ;
· Explorations of how the discourses associated with symbolic and iconic architecture, urban regeneration and entrepreneurialism influence space designers;
· The role of education in socialising and conditioning the work of space designers.
Expressions of interest should be sent to James Faulconbridge (j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk) by February 11th 2008. Please include an abstract on the pro-forma available from the RGS website (http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Submit+an+abstract.htm)
Dr James R Faulconbridge
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
Lancaster University
Farrer Avenue
Lancaster
LA1 4YQ
UK
Telephone: +44(0)1524 510265
Email: j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk
www.geog.lancs.ac.uk
Banking the Unbanked: Where Are We Now?
LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY / SCOTTISH POVERTY INFORMATION UNIT / GRAND CENTRAL
SAVING BANK CONFERENCE
Banking the Unbanked: Where Are We Now?
Tues 22 Jan 08, Glasgow
A major conference on banking and strategies to tackle financial exclusion
“Disadvantaged people have as much need as anybody else in today's society
to get access to decent financial services. This conference is an
important opportunity for all those involved to sit down together and try
to work out what the barriers are and how they can be addressed.”
Keith Aitken, Conference Chair
How do we achieve the delivery of financial services that meet the needs
of the most vulnerable groups?
To what extent can financial inclusion measures contribute to combating
poverty and social exclusion?
Who should be responsible for tackling financial exclusion?
How can government, industry and the voluntary sector work together to
improve access to and the development of effective products for vulnerable
groups?
This conference will examine ethical banking for disadvantaged groups. It
will bring together speakers and delegates from financial services, the
voluntary sector, communities and government to debate and discuss
government strategies for tackling financial exclusion. It will provide a
unique opportunity to discuss the most pressing issues relating to both
policy and practice.
Keynote speaker, Professor Asif Dowla (author, The Poor Always Pay Back)
will discuss the work of the Grameen Bank, which is internationally famous
as a pioneer of micro-credit and will draw out transferable lessons for
the UK.
To register, please contact Susan Clark on +44 (0) 141 354 1274 or
seminars@lsa.org.uk.
For more information:
http://www.lsa.org.uk/bankingtheunbankedwherearewenow.aspx
Organised by Glasgow Caledonian University, Legal Services Agency Ltd.,
PKF (UK) LLP, Grand Central Savings, and the Scottish Poverty Information
Unit
SAVING BANK CONFERENCE
Banking the Unbanked: Where Are We Now?
Tues 22 Jan 08, Glasgow
A major conference on banking and strategies to tackle financial exclusion
“Disadvantaged people have as much need as anybody else in today's society
to get access to decent financial services. This conference is an
important opportunity for all those involved to sit down together and try
to work out what the barriers are and how they can be addressed.”
Keith Aitken, Conference Chair
How do we achieve the delivery of financial services that meet the needs
of the most vulnerable groups?
To what extent can financial inclusion measures contribute to combating
poverty and social exclusion?
Who should be responsible for tackling financial exclusion?
How can government, industry and the voluntary sector work together to
improve access to and the development of effective products for vulnerable
groups?
This conference will examine ethical banking for disadvantaged groups. It
will bring together speakers and delegates from financial services, the
voluntary sector, communities and government to debate and discuss
government strategies for tackling financial exclusion. It will provide a
unique opportunity to discuss the most pressing issues relating to both
policy and practice.
Keynote speaker, Professor Asif Dowla (author, The Poor Always Pay Back)
will discuss the work of the Grameen Bank, which is internationally famous
as a pioneer of micro-credit and will draw out transferable lessons for
the UK.
To register, please contact Susan Clark on +44 (0) 141 354 1274 or
seminars@lsa.org.uk.
For more information:
http://www.lsa.org.uk/bankingtheunbankedwherearewenow.aspx
Organised by Glasgow Caledonian University, Legal Services Agency Ltd.,
PKF (UK) LLP, Grand Central Savings, and the Scottish Poverty Information
Unit
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
"LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT" conference
"LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT" conference - Lisbon / Óbidos,
Portugal, 1-5 September 2008
see http://tercud.ulusofona.pt/PECSRL/SessionsKeynotes.htm
We are inviting contributions to the following special session:
A10 Special Session: EMERGING ENERGIES, EMERGING LANDSCAPES.
Energy and landscape are intricately inter-connected. Landscapes embody
and are significantly shaped by the energy decisions of previous
generations and our own. Before the onset of the industrial revolution,
renewable energy was virtually the only type of energy available to
humankind (e.g. fire, crops to feed draught and riding animals, sailing
ships, watermills, windmills). Their relative importance in our ‘energy
mix’ became almost negligible during the industrial age, but renewable
energies are currently undergoing a renaissance. Concerns about climate
change and energy security have driven energy issues ever-higher up socio-
political agendas, and the decisions which we make about our ‘energy
futures’ will have far-reaching implications for landscapes, both directly
(through infrastructure) and indirectly (by modulating climate change).
The proposed transformation of our energy mix towards a much greater
reliance on renewables thus greatly enhances the importance and topicality
of the landscape-energy relationship. The ways in which sections of
society interpret the diverse, diffuse and spatially heterogeneous impacts
of (decentralized) renewable energies or contribute to these changes can
be regarded as a re-composition of socio-technical links between energy
generation and (territorial) identity.
The idea underlying this session is that (changes in) the notion, practice
and meaning of landscape can be studied through the ‘lens’ of energy
developments, and vice versa. The planning and/or sitting processes for
renewable energy developments create an opportunity to analyse the social
(re)construction of landscape. The session aims to explore landscape-
energy issues based on empirical, theoretical or synthetic contributions
coming from various countries and disciplinary fields. They might deal
with the development of renewable energies (e.g. wind power, biomass) or
of more conventional types of energy generation and transmission (e.g.
hydro, fossil fuel, nuclear, electricity grid networks), include landscape
as a salient dimension and/or consider the ability of theoretical
frameworks to capture the multi-dimensionality (i.e. relational, social,
environmental, material, spatial, aesthetic) of the process of landscape
construction.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 10th of January 2008.
For discussion or further information, please contact one of the
coordinators of the special session:
Alain Nadai nadai@centre-cired.fr
Charles Warren crw2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dan van der Horst d.vanderhorst@bham.ac.uk
apologies for any cross posting
Portugal, 1-5 September 2008
see http://tercud.ulusofona.pt/PECSRL/SessionsKeynotes.htm
We are inviting contributions to the following special session:
A10 Special Session: EMERGING ENERGIES, EMERGING LANDSCAPES.
Energy and landscape are intricately inter-connected. Landscapes embody
and are significantly shaped by the energy decisions of previous
generations and our own. Before the onset of the industrial revolution,
renewable energy was virtually the only type of energy available to
humankind (e.g. fire, crops to feed draught and riding animals, sailing
ships, watermills, windmills). Their relative importance in our ‘energy
mix’ became almost negligible during the industrial age, but renewable
energies are currently undergoing a renaissance. Concerns about climate
change and energy security have driven energy issues ever-higher up socio-
political agendas, and the decisions which we make about our ‘energy
futures’ will have far-reaching implications for landscapes, both directly
(through infrastructure) and indirectly (by modulating climate change).
The proposed transformation of our energy mix towards a much greater
reliance on renewables thus greatly enhances the importance and topicality
of the landscape-energy relationship. The ways in which sections of
society interpret the diverse, diffuse and spatially heterogeneous impacts
of (decentralized) renewable energies or contribute to these changes can
be regarded as a re-composition of socio-technical links between energy
generation and (territorial) identity.
The idea underlying this session is that (changes in) the notion, practice
and meaning of landscape can be studied through the ‘lens’ of energy
developments, and vice versa. The planning and/or sitting processes for
renewable energy developments create an opportunity to analyse the social
(re)construction of landscape. The session aims to explore landscape-
energy issues based on empirical, theoretical or synthetic contributions
coming from various countries and disciplinary fields. They might deal
with the development of renewable energies (e.g. wind power, biomass) or
of more conventional types of energy generation and transmission (e.g.
hydro, fossil fuel, nuclear, electricity grid networks), include landscape
as a salient dimension and/or consider the ability of theoretical
frameworks to capture the multi-dimensionality (i.e. relational, social,
environmental, material, spatial, aesthetic) of the process of landscape
construction.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 10th of January 2008.
For discussion or further information, please contact one of the
coordinators of the special session:
Alain Nadai nadai@centre-cired.fr
Charles Warren crw2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dan van der Horst d.vanderhorst@bham.ac.uk
apologies for any cross posting
Policy & Politics 3rd International Conference: cfp
CALL FOR PAPERS
Policy & Politics 3rd International Conference
"Policy Transfer in a Globalising World"
3-4 July 2008, Bristol UK
Plenary speakers:
David P. Dolowitz - University of Liverpool, UK
Sue Duncan - HM Treasury, UK
Huck-ju Kwon - Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea
Loïc Wacquant - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Abstract due on 28 March 2008
For further information, please visit www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/p&pconf
Policy & Politics 3rd International Conference
"Policy Transfer in a Globalising World"
3-4 July 2008, Bristol UK
Plenary speakers:
David P. Dolowitz - University of Liverpool, UK
Sue Duncan - HM Treasury, UK
Huck-ju Kwon - Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea
Loïc Wacquant - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Abstract due on 28 March 2008
For further information, please visit www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/p&pconf
Poverty matters: critical reflections on the geographies of poverty and welfare - CFP
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
27-29 August 2008, London
Call for papers
Poverty matters: critical reflections on the geographies of poverty and welfare
Convenor: Paul Milbourne (Cardiff University)
For a conference concerned with geographies that matter, the themes of poverty and welfare would
appear to be worthy of inclusion. These are themes that matter to those geographers seeking to
address social injustices within their work; they are also important themes for others - government,
welfare agencies and the many millions of households coping with material hardships on a daily
basis. In addition, there have been calls from within human geography for matters of poverty to be
taken more seriously by social geographers. This proposed session intends to take a critical look at
the state of geographical research on poverty and welfare by reviewing recent developments,
identifying knowledge gaps and setting out new research agendas.
It is clear from recent reviews of research in social geography that there has been renewed
interest in the geographies of poverty and welfare. Analyses of new local datasets point to the
spatial unevenness of poverty, including the persistence of regional disparities in levels of
poverty and the increased concentration of multiple forms of disadvantage in particular urban
places. Research has also moved beyond the highly visible forms of poverty in the city to explore
poverty that exists in less obviously poor places, such as smaller towns and villages. In addition,
local studies have pointed to the ways in which the particular economic, social, cultural, political
and environmental configurations of individual places act to shape the nature and experiences of
poverty, and, at the micro scale, the significance of local social space to the everyday lives of
poor households has been highlighted.
Alongside this work on the relations between poverty, space and place, there has been critical
geographical scrutiny of shifting systems of welfare provision. Recent research has pointed to the
differential spatial impacts of national workfare programmes implemented in both the UK and the US.
New systems of welfare and workfare have also been associated with increased levels of policy
devolution as more flexible and local modes of provision have been proposed to deal with the
problems of particular regions and places. In the UK context, welfare provision has been further
complicated by the development of distinctive programmes of welfare by the devolved administrations.
Finally, the proliferation of welfare partnerships, operating at different spatial scales, to deal
with poverty has produced an extremely complex system of welfare provision; one that is very much
dependent on the presence of different mixes of agencies in particular places.
Offers of papers are invited that provide geographical perspectives on these and other themes
relating to poverty and welfare in the UK, US and other advanced capitalist countries. Papers are
welcomed that critically review the state of geographical research on poverty and welfare, and / or
discuss evidence from personal research on these themes. Abstracts of about 200 words in length
should be sent to Paul Milbourne (milbournep@cardiff.ac.uk) by 8th February 2008.
Paul Milbourne
School of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff,UK, CF10 3WA
tel +44(0)29 20 875791
27-29 August 2008, London
Call for papers
Poverty matters: critical reflections on the geographies of poverty and welfare
Convenor: Paul Milbourne (Cardiff University)
For a conference concerned with geographies that matter, the themes of poverty and welfare would
appear to be worthy of inclusion. These are themes that matter to those geographers seeking to
address social injustices within their work; they are also important themes for others - government,
welfare agencies and the many millions of households coping with material hardships on a daily
basis. In addition, there have been calls from within human geography for matters of poverty to be
taken more seriously by social geographers. This proposed session intends to take a critical look at
the state of geographical research on poverty and welfare by reviewing recent developments,
identifying knowledge gaps and setting out new research agendas.
It is clear from recent reviews of research in social geography that there has been renewed
interest in the geographies of poverty and welfare. Analyses of new local datasets point to the
spatial unevenness of poverty, including the persistence of regional disparities in levels of
poverty and the increased concentration of multiple forms of disadvantage in particular urban
places. Research has also moved beyond the highly visible forms of poverty in the city to explore
poverty that exists in less obviously poor places, such as smaller towns and villages. In addition,
local studies have pointed to the ways in which the particular economic, social, cultural, political
and environmental configurations of individual places act to shape the nature and experiences of
poverty, and, at the micro scale, the significance of local social space to the everyday lives of
poor households has been highlighted.
Alongside this work on the relations between poverty, space and place, there has been critical
geographical scrutiny of shifting systems of welfare provision. Recent research has pointed to the
differential spatial impacts of national workfare programmes implemented in both the UK and the US.
New systems of welfare and workfare have also been associated with increased levels of policy
devolution as more flexible and local modes of provision have been proposed to deal with the
problems of particular regions and places. In the UK context, welfare provision has been further
complicated by the development of distinctive programmes of welfare by the devolved administrations.
Finally, the proliferation of welfare partnerships, operating at different spatial scales, to deal
with poverty has produced an extremely complex system of welfare provision; one that is very much
dependent on the presence of different mixes of agencies in particular places.
Offers of papers are invited that provide geographical perspectives on these and other themes
relating to poverty and welfare in the UK, US and other advanced capitalist countries. Papers are
welcomed that critically review the state of geographical research on poverty and welfare, and / or
discuss evidence from personal research on these themes. Abstracts of about 200 words in length
should be sent to Paul Milbourne (milbournep@cardiff.ac.uk) by 8th February 2008.
Paul Milbourne
School of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff,UK, CF10 3WA
tel +44(0)29 20 875791
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: Guidance on Reviewing CCTV footage
Ridiculous timescale, but someone here might be interested...
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Home Office Scientific Development Branch
Guidance on Reviewing CCTV footage
Introduction
For some years now CCTV footage has been of great benefit to police
investigations often acting as critical evidence in solving crimes and
leading to successful prosecution. This has been particularly apparent
in recent acts of terrorism and high profile murder cases, although this
should not overlook the importance of CCTV on solving lower level crime
such as robbery, assault and public order offences.
Even though the importance of CCTV as an investigative tool has never
been in doubt, no comprehensive research has yet been carried out to
establish best practice and so optimise the reviewing process. It should
be noted at this stage that while research has been published for CCTV
operators, recent experience has exposed that the dynamics of reviewing
footage within a police investigation are not directly comparable.
Request Details
After two months working with police forces to maximise our knowledge of
present working practices we are now positioned to ask ourselves "What
research and knowledge already exits that can assist us in providing
comprehensive guidance and enhance the review process?" It is in this
regard that we are seeking external expertise to produce a report that
summarizes existing knowledge focusing on a number of related areas.
We have defined these as:
Human factors such as ergonomics, comfort, attention span, diet,
exercise, character and working in a high-pressure environment.
Visual perception testing such as understanding about how humans view
displays, how they interpret what they visualise, how quickly they
locate an object of interest and ultimately whether such can be combined
into a competency test.
Neuroscience takes us into another realm, but we are looking at whether
more can be understood about how the human brain determines exactly what
draws our attention to certain objects and ultimately controls what we
'see'.
We appreciate that there is a degree of overlap within these three
areas. Additionally bear in mind that subject to the results of this
request for proposals the Home Office may split the commission of the
work to ensure we obtain the greatest expertise for the three main
areas.
Intended Outcome
As a result of this proposal we aim to determine what research exists at
present that can be applied to this work and what further work needs to
be commissioned in order for us to publish guidance. This will benefit
many aspects of police work both in the UK and abroad. Furthermore in
order to raise the standard and profile of this role we aim to develop a
competency test.
Such competencies will be determined by combining the results of this
work with the creation of test scenarios based on CCTV footage from high
profile investigations and typical 'created' footage recorded on actual
systems.
Timescales
High importance has been attached to this project and recent experience
has highlighted the need to expedite the initial work for this project.
With this in mind we are looking for responses to this Request for
Proposal by the 14th January 2008 beyond which we expect to make a
decision on which proposals we feel are the most suitable within ten
days. Completion and receipt of the reports for any contracts placed as
a result of this request for proposals will be expected by the middle of
March 2008.
Technology
Another aspect of the project is to look into technology such as
displays, which will be handled in-house by the Video Evidence Analysis
team at the Home Office Scientific Development Branch. However please
feel free to submit proposals in this area as well as the main three
above.
Form of Submittal
While we accept some latitude on how proposals are submitted, the
following are required:
* Associated experience of your organisation/institute with
similar projects
* CV of principal overseeing work
* Scope of work proposed for one or more of the three primary
areas of work
* Hourly rates of staff working on the project
* Estimate on time required to complete work and full costs
including any expenses with options.
* Overview of potential future work with approximate timescale and
costs
Uniqueness of project
It must again be stressed that experience dictates that the reviewing of
CCTV within a police investigation is distinctly different from real
time operators of such systems. With this in mind we are looking for a
degree of innovation when approaching this request for proposal.
Furthermore as this is the first comprehensive foray into the realm of
CCTV reviewing there will be a certain kudos associated to this project
and its increased importance to the UK police forces and our
international partners who are only now coming to grips with the issues
involving CCTV.
Contact, Terms & Submission
To understand more about the work of HOSDB visit
www.hosdb.homeoffice.gov.uk
This enquiry is strictly subject to contract, and any contract(s) placed
as a result will be subject to Government conditions for Services as
identified at
http://commercial.homeoffice.gov.uk/doing-business/terms-and-conditions/
Please submit your proposal by email to Toby Nortcliffe at
toby.nortcliffe@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
who can be contacted for
further information on 01727 816211 or 07776 454 661 by the closing date
of 14th January 2008.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Home Office Scientific Development Branch
Guidance on Reviewing CCTV footage
Introduction
For some years now CCTV footage has been of great benefit to police
investigations often acting as critical evidence in solving crimes and
leading to successful prosecution. This has been particularly apparent
in recent acts of terrorism and high profile murder cases, although this
should not overlook the importance of CCTV on solving lower level crime
such as robbery, assault and public order offences.
Even though the importance of CCTV as an investigative tool has never
been in doubt, no comprehensive research has yet been carried out to
establish best practice and so optimise the reviewing process. It should
be noted at this stage that while research has been published for CCTV
operators, recent experience has exposed that the dynamics of reviewing
footage within a police investigation are not directly comparable.
Request Details
After two months working with police forces to maximise our knowledge of
present working practices we are now positioned to ask ourselves "What
research and knowledge already exits that can assist us in providing
comprehensive guidance and enhance the review process?" It is in this
regard that we are seeking external expertise to produce a report that
summarizes existing knowledge focusing on a number of related areas.
We have defined these as:
Human factors such as ergonomics, comfort, attention span, diet,
exercise, character and working in a high-pressure environment.
Visual perception testing such as understanding about how humans view
displays, how they interpret what they visualise, how quickly they
locate an object of interest and ultimately whether such can be combined
into a competency test.
Neuroscience takes us into another realm, but we are looking at whether
more can be understood about how the human brain determines exactly what
draws our attention to certain objects and ultimately controls what we
'see'.
We appreciate that there is a degree of overlap within these three
areas. Additionally bear in mind that subject to the results of this
request for proposals the Home Office may split the commission of the
work to ensure we obtain the greatest expertise for the three main
areas.
Intended Outcome
As a result of this proposal we aim to determine what research exists at
present that can be applied to this work and what further work needs to
be commissioned in order for us to publish guidance. This will benefit
many aspects of police work both in the UK and abroad. Furthermore in
order to raise the standard and profile of this role we aim to develop a
competency test.
Such competencies will be determined by combining the results of this
work with the creation of test scenarios based on CCTV footage from high
profile investigations and typical 'created' footage recorded on actual
systems.
Timescales
High importance has been attached to this project and recent experience
has highlighted the need to expedite the initial work for this project.
With this in mind we are looking for responses to this Request for
Proposal by the 14th January 2008 beyond which we expect to make a
decision on which proposals we feel are the most suitable within ten
days. Completion and receipt of the reports for any contracts placed as
a result of this request for proposals will be expected by the middle of
March 2008.
Technology
Another aspect of the project is to look into technology such as
displays, which will be handled in-house by the Video Evidence Analysis
team at the Home Office Scientific Development Branch. However please
feel free to submit proposals in this area as well as the main three
above.
Form of Submittal
While we accept some latitude on how proposals are submitted, the
following are required:
* Associated experience of your organisation/institute with
similar projects
* CV of principal overseeing work
* Scope of work proposed for one or more of the three primary
areas of work
* Hourly rates of staff working on the project
* Estimate on time required to complete work and full costs
including any expenses with options.
* Overview of potential future work with approximate timescale and
costs
Uniqueness of project
It must again be stressed that experience dictates that the reviewing of
CCTV within a police investigation is distinctly different from real
time operators of such systems. With this in mind we are looking for a
degree of innovation when approaching this request for proposal.
Furthermore as this is the first comprehensive foray into the realm of
CCTV reviewing there will be a certain kudos associated to this project
and its increased importance to the UK police forces and our
international partners who are only now coming to grips with the issues
involving CCTV.
Contact, Terms & Submission
To understand more about the work of HOSDB visit
www.hosdb.homeoffice.gov.uk
This enquiry is strictly subject to contract, and any contract(s) placed
as a result will be subject to Government conditions for Services as
identified at
http://commercial.homeoffice.gov.uk/doing-business/terms-and-conditions/
Please submit your proposal by email to Toby Nortcliffe at
toby.nortcliffe@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
further information on 01727 816211 or 07776 454 661 by the closing date
of 14th January 2008.
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CALL FOR PAPERS. 2008 Oral History Society Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS. 2008 Oral History Society Conference
2008 Oral History Society Annual Conference
University of Birmingham
4th - 5th July 2008
WHO CARED? ORAL HISTORY, CARING, HEALTH AND ILLNESS: Marking 60 years
of the National Health Service
Oral History Society Annual Conference, in association with the
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, to be
held at the University of Birmingham.
We are keen to encourage presentations from those using oral history
in understanding health care relationships in the histories of
medicine; illness; well-being; disability; and planned environments.
We particularly welcome papers that further our understanding of the
experience of formal and informal caring in community and
institutional settings and amongst professionals, the cared for,
carers and kin. Our themes will include:
* Witnessing the impact of, and challenges to, medical knowledges;
* hidden histories of organisational change and development
* the NHS and its global workforce
* power, humour, emotion, loss, resistance and changes in care
relationships;
* the making of 'expert patients'
* emerging counter-knowledges and complementary and alternative
therapies
* the health/social care interface
We are also keen to encourage papers using oral history within the
following topic areas:
1. Migration and ethnicity
2. History of disability
3. Mental health (including old age psychiatry
4. Institutions, hierarchy and boundaries, including planned
environment and therapeutic communities
5. International use of oral history in palliative care
6. Medical professionalization – professional boundaries/groups
7. Experience of institutional closure
8. Public history and the presentation of oral history
Abstracts (200 words) should be submitted by 18 January 2008
To: Belinda Waterman, Department of History, University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ.
Email: belinda@essex.ac.uk
Joanna Bornat
Professor of Oral History
Faculty of Health and Social Care
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
tel: 01908654270
2008 Oral History Society Annual Conference
University of Birmingham
4th - 5th July 2008
WHO CARED? ORAL HISTORY, CARING, HEALTH AND ILLNESS: Marking 60 years
of the National Health Service
Oral History Society Annual Conference, in association with the
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, to be
held at the University of Birmingham.
We are keen to encourage presentations from those using oral history
in understanding health care relationships in the histories of
medicine; illness; well-being; disability; and planned environments.
We particularly welcome papers that further our understanding of the
experience of formal and informal caring in community and
institutional settings and amongst professionals, the cared for,
carers and kin. Our themes will include:
* Witnessing the impact of, and challenges to, medical knowledges;
* hidden histories of organisational change and development
* the NHS and its global workforce
* power, humour, emotion, loss, resistance and changes in care
relationships;
* the making of 'expert patients'
* emerging counter-knowledges and complementary and alternative
therapies
* the health/social care interface
We are also keen to encourage papers using oral history within the
following topic areas:
1. Migration and ethnicity
2. History of disability
3. Mental health (including old age psychiatry
4. Institutions, hierarchy and boundaries, including planned
environment and therapeutic communities
5. International use of oral history in palliative care
6. Medical professionalization – professional boundaries/groups
7. Experience of institutional closure
8. Public history and the presentation of oral history
Abstracts (200 words) should be submitted by 18 January 2008
To: Belinda Waterman, Department of History, University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ.
Email: belinda@essex.ac.uk
Joanna Bornat
Professor of Oral History
Faculty of Health and Social Care
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
tel: 01908654270
New title from the Policy Press
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In 'The education debate', part of our Policy and Politics in the
Twenty-First Century series, Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of
current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is
happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as
parents and as citizens. Read an extract in our reading room
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php) or, for more
information, go to
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'Uprooted' is Roy Parker's fascinating exploration into the economic,
religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British
children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915. We are currently
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'A deafening silence', by Patrizia Romito, analyses male violence against
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In 'The education debate', part of our Policy and Politics in the
Twenty-First Century series, Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of
current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is
happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as
parents and as citizens. Read an extract in our reading room
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php) or, for more
information, go to
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1239
'Uprooted' is Roy Parker's fascinating exploration into the economic,
religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British
children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915. We are currently
offering a 30% discount on this title - please go to
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1377
for more information.
'A deafening silence', by Patrizia Romito, analyses male violence against
women and children, and the mechanisms society develops to push it out of
sight. Read an extract in our reading room
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/general/reading_room.php) or go to
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1320
In 'Well-being', Beverley Searle considers what makes us happy, using a new
approach that directly addresses the circumstances under which high
subjective well-being is experienced, often with surprising results. For
more information, please see
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1231
'Partnerships', by Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, improves our understanding of
the shifting ground on which partnerships and agreements must be reached in
today's hyper-complex society. Please see
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1385
For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk
Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
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BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Central Government initiatives have been developed to position the UK as an economy able to deliver unique value in global business markets. In line with these initiatives the ESRC has developed its Business Engagement Strategy.
This call focuses on business engagement and provides opportunities for social science researchers to engage with specific sectors of business, listed below, to encourage knowledge transfer and exchange to assist business sustainability. The ESRC encourages engagement with business through a tailored package of new and additional activity. Funding of up to £100k per application is available for a combination of activities, ideally with co-funding partners.
The call aims to:
• promote the transfer and exchange of knowledge between social science researchers and business sectors and staff within them
• respond to the knowledge needs of business through a range of knowledge exchange mechanisms
• expand networks for business sectors into academia and vice-versa
• provide business sectors with research-informed evidence to develop and review operational and management practices
• enable all parties, including the ESRC, to develop their understanding of the interaction between research and the development of operational and management practices within business sectors
• contribute to the delivery of the Government's Science and Innovation Investment Framework.
Eligibility
The call is open to social scientists based in UK Higher Education Institutions or similar organisations. The ESRC welcomes applications from more than one department in addition to the principal applicant.
Requirements
A package of activity should be developed, comprising the following elements:
• Impact Grants: projects which demonstrate the impact of research by engaging with at least one business sector audience.
• Placements: funding to permit academics working on projects in a business setting and business individuals to do likewise in an academic unit for a short period – of at least one month, not necessarily in one block of time.
• Seminars: funding for at least two seminars aimed at encouraging interaction between researchers and potential users of research within the chosen sector or group.
Placements must be co-funded to demonstrate user engagement. It is expected that each of the other activities in the package will also attract co-funding where possible. Favourable consideration will be given to such applications.
It is expected that successful awards start on 14 April 2008.
Sectors
Applicants should focus on any of the following sectors: Energy; Financial Services; Health Technologies; Retail; and Sport, Leisure and Tourism.
It is recognised that there are areas of common interest between the ESRC and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/technologystrategy/tsb/index.html
Applicants should show how the award would be used to enhance a strengthening partnership between the ESRC and the TSB.
Outputs
The package is expected to yield at least: one impact project; four placements; two seminars/workshops. However, applicants may suggest how they intend to vary this combination in response to identified business needs.
• Final reports for placements will be submitted within one month of the end of the Fellowship with a short report detailing any longer-term impact 12 months later.
• Final reports for Impact Grants will be submitted by 30 June 2009.
Closing Date
Applications should be sent to The Registry, ESRC in hard copy with an electronic copy to lesley.lilley@esrc.ac.uk by 4 February 2008.
For an application form and guidelines contact knowledgetransfer@esrc.ac.uk
Capacity Building Clusters
As part of a broad effort to encourage engagement with business ESRC is establishing a series of capacity building clusters focused on business research and engagement. The aim of the clusters will be to create a new generation of high quality researchers with a commitment to direct engagement with the business sector and as such will complement the Business Engagement Opportunities Scheme. More information on the funding package for the clusters will be available on the ESRC website from mid-December.
Central Government initiatives have been developed to position the UK as an economy able to deliver unique value in global business markets. In line with these initiatives the ESRC has developed its Business Engagement Strategy.
This call focuses on business engagement and provides opportunities for social science researchers to engage with specific sectors of business, listed below, to encourage knowledge transfer and exchange to assist business sustainability. The ESRC encourages engagement with business through a tailored package of new and additional activity. Funding of up to £100k per application is available for a combination of activities, ideally with co-funding partners.
The call aims to:
• promote the transfer and exchange of knowledge between social science researchers and business sectors and staff within them
• respond to the knowledge needs of business through a range of knowledge exchange mechanisms
• expand networks for business sectors into academia and vice-versa
• provide business sectors with research-informed evidence to develop and review operational and management practices
• enable all parties, including the ESRC, to develop their understanding of the interaction between research and the development of operational and management practices within business sectors
• contribute to the delivery of the Government's Science and Innovation Investment Framework.
Eligibility
The call is open to social scientists based in UK Higher Education Institutions or similar organisations. The ESRC welcomes applications from more than one department in addition to the principal applicant.
Requirements
A package of activity should be developed, comprising the following elements:
• Impact Grants: projects which demonstrate the impact of research by engaging with at least one business sector audience.
• Placements: funding to permit academics working on projects in a business setting and business individuals to do likewise in an academic unit for a short period – of at least one month, not necessarily in one block of time.
• Seminars: funding for at least two seminars aimed at encouraging interaction between researchers and potential users of research within the chosen sector or group.
Placements must be co-funded to demonstrate user engagement. It is expected that each of the other activities in the package will also attract co-funding where possible. Favourable consideration will be given to such applications.
It is expected that successful awards start on 14 April 2008.
Sectors
Applicants should focus on any of the following sectors: Energy; Financial Services; Health Technologies; Retail; and Sport, Leisure and Tourism.
It is recognised that there are areas of common interest between the ESRC and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/technologystrategy/tsb/index.html
Applicants should show how the award would be used to enhance a strengthening partnership between the ESRC and the TSB.
Outputs
The package is expected to yield at least: one impact project; four placements; two seminars/workshops. However, applicants may suggest how they intend to vary this combination in response to identified business needs.
• Final reports for placements will be submitted within one month of the end of the Fellowship with a short report detailing any longer-term impact 12 months later.
• Final reports for Impact Grants will be submitted by 30 June 2009.
Closing Date
Applications should be sent to The Registry, ESRC in hard copy with an electronic copy to lesley.lilley@esrc.ac.uk by 4 February 2008.
For an application form and guidelines contact knowledgetransfer@esrc.ac.uk
Capacity Building Clusters
As part of a broad effort to encourage engagement with business ESRC is establishing a series of capacity building clusters focused on business research and engagement. The aim of the clusters will be to create a new generation of high quality researchers with a commitment to direct engagement with the business sector and as such will complement the Business Engagement Opportunities Scheme. More information on the funding package for the clusters will be available on the ESRC website from mid-December.
Uni of Glam- Regeneration Hub Seminar -Jan 23rd -6-8 Cardiff City Hall
Hi - I'd like to bring the following free seminar to your attention as I think it may be of
interest to you , your colleagues and indeed students - could you please forward this information on
to many of your colleagues who may be interested
Many thanks
The Regeneration Hub at the University of Glamorgan
Presents the second in a series of
'Regenerate'
Forums
With
Marie Thérèse McGivern, Director of Development for
Belfast City Council
Leading a discussion on the
'State of the City Initiative'
The State of the City Initiative was developed to bring together the key brains and energies from
the cities public, voluntary, community and private sectors to find a collective way to create a new
future for the city of Belfast
Wednesday 23rd January 2008
City Hall, Cardiff
6 p.m. until 8 p.m.
The Regenerate Forums are aimed at an audience comprised of Policy makers, practionners, academics
and members of the public
If you are interested in attending please let me know or email the Regneration Hub
Email: pbyrne@glam.ac.uk,
Tel: 01443 483680.
email regenhub@glam.ac.uk
Penny Byrne
Programme for Community Regeneration
HLASS
University of Glamorgan
CF37 IDL
01443 483680
interest to you , your colleagues and indeed students - could you please forward this information on
to many of your colleagues who may be interested
Many thanks
The Regeneration Hub at the University of Glamorgan
Presents the second in a series of
'Regenerate'
Forums
With
Marie Thérèse McGivern, Director of Development for
Belfast City Council
Leading a discussion on the
'State of the City Initiative'
The State of the City Initiative was developed to bring together the key brains and energies from
the cities public, voluntary, community and private sectors to find a collective way to create a new
future for the city of Belfast
Wednesday 23rd January 2008
City Hall, Cardiff
6 p.m. until 8 p.m.
The Regenerate Forums are aimed at an audience comprised of Policy makers, practionners, academics
and members of the public
If you are interested in attending please let me know or email the Regneration Hub
Email: pbyrne@glam.ac.uk,
Tel: 01443 483680.
email regenhub@glam.ac.uk
Penny Byrne
Programme for Community Regeneration
HLASS
University of Glamorgan
CF37 IDL
01443 483680
Mental Well-being and Happiness: Call for papers
ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY / INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
27-29 AUGUST 2008, EDINBURGH
(www.rgs.org/ac2008)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mental Well-being and Happiness
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on
earth.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Act I
For the last 50 years Maslow's hierarchy of needs has underpinned
psychological understandings of achieving the ultimate in mental
well-being; to achieve self-actualisation. But new understandings of
well-being and happiness across the developed and developing worlds are
dismantling the hierarchy and challenging the way we conceive of mental
health.
Concerns with mental health have been dominated by a focus on deviations
from a 'norm' - particularly where this relates to stress and
psychological disorder. In contrast to traditional methods, more
recent understandings of mental health are extending beyond these
negative boundaries embracing emotions at the positive end of the
scale. Happiness, satisfaction with life or quality of life are merging
to provide more holistic measures of subjective well-being embracing the
complex relationships between the individual and their environment.
The spaces, and their potential to become places, that people inhabit
are important concepts for these new conceptualisations. They not only
facilitate our understanding of how the physical, cultural, and
political environment impact on health, but, importantly, provide the
framework for understanding how these external spaces are internalised
and give rise to the emotions that manifest as negative and positive
mental health states. In this session we wish to draw out this
discussion by considering how these complex relationships and processes
play out at the local and global level affecting mental illness, mental
health, psychological well-being and happiness.
To facilitate this debate on the changing and broadening concepts of
mental well-being, and consider the implications for geographic - the
importance of 'space' and 'place' -understandings of these phenomena, we
welcome papers along the broad questions of:
* What do we mean by mental health?
* Is mental health the same or different to happiness and
well-being?
* How do we measure these abstract concepts?
* Do space and place matter for mental well-being and happiness?
* What are the implications for public health and health policy in
developed and developing nations if the aim is to reduce suffering and
enhance well-being and happiness?
The deadline for abstracts (of around 200 words) is 8 February 2008.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Beverley Searle Chris Dunn
Research Fellow Senior Lecturer
Dr Beverley A Searle
Research Fellow
Department of Geography
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
Telephone: 0191 334 1901
Fax: 0191 334 1801
Department of Goegraphy
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/
Pathways of Housing Wealth and Well-being
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography
.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj
Social Well-being and Spatial Justice Cluster
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography
.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
27-29 AUGUST 2008, EDINBURGH
(www.rgs.org/ac2008)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mental Well-being and Happiness
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on
earth.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Act I
For the last 50 years Maslow's hierarchy of needs has underpinned
psychological understandings of achieving the ultimate in mental
well-being; to achieve self-actualisation. But new understandings of
well-being and happiness across the developed and developing worlds are
dismantling the hierarchy and challenging the way we conceive of mental
health.
Concerns with mental health have been dominated by a focus on deviations
from a 'norm' - particularly where this relates to stress and
psychological disorder. In contrast to traditional methods, more
recent understandings of mental health are extending beyond these
negative boundaries embracing emotions at the positive end of the
scale. Happiness, satisfaction with life or quality of life are merging
to provide more holistic measures of subjective well-being embracing the
complex relationships between the individual and their environment.
The spaces, and their potential to become places, that people inhabit
are important concepts for these new conceptualisations. They not only
facilitate our understanding of how the physical, cultural, and
political environment impact on health, but, importantly, provide the
framework for understanding how these external spaces are internalised
and give rise to the emotions that manifest as negative and positive
mental health states. In this session we wish to draw out this
discussion by considering how these complex relationships and processes
play out at the local and global level affecting mental illness, mental
health, psychological well-being and happiness.
To facilitate this debate on the changing and broadening concepts of
mental well-being, and consider the implications for geographic - the
importance of 'space' and 'place' -understandings of these phenomena, we
welcome papers along the broad questions of:
* What do we mean by mental health?
* Is mental health the same or different to happiness and
well-being?
* How do we measure these abstract concepts?
* Do space and place matter for mental well-being and happiness?
* What are the implications for public health and health policy in
developed and developing nations if the aim is to reduce suffering and
enhance well-being and happiness?
The deadline for abstracts (of around 200 words) is 8 February 2008.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Beverley Searle Chris Dunn
Research Fellow Senior Lecturer
Dr Beverley A Searle
Research Fellow
Department of Geography
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
Telephone: 0191 334 1901
Fax: 0191 334 1801
Department of Goegraphy
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/
Pathways of Housing Wealth and Well-being
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography
.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj
Social Well-being and Spatial Justice Cluster
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography
.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj
Women, Identity and Employability - one-day conference
Teesside Gender Research Forum
Women, Identity and Employability
One-day conference
Centre for Enterprise, University of Teesside
7th February 2008, 09.30-16.00
The day includes:
* Key note speaker, Professor Sue Yeandle (University of Leeds)
* Presentations by researchers
* A panel discussion
* Lunch and refreshments
Focus of the day:
Although there is a wealth of literature on women within employment,
less focuses on women who are on the margins of the UK labour market and
issues of employability. For many women, achieving satisfying and well
rewarded employment is more complicated than simply eradicating
structural barriers, and for some, particular life experiences and
resulting conceptions of self, can impact heavily on their
employability. This conference starts from recognition of the need for
critical attention to both the concept of employability and what it
means for diverse and also socially excluded groups of women within the
UK. For example, how do different women perceive their own
employability? In what ways does identity impact upon employability?
What personal development strategies are required to enter into and
sustain employment? Are expectations about people's employability
gendered? And how might employability issues vary for different socially
excluded groups? We look forward to a day of critical and engaging
debate on diverse themes related to women, identity and employability.
For more information and to register (registration form is attached in
the email) contact Barbara Cox by email at B.Cox@tees.ac.uk
, by phone 01642 342346 or by post to SSSL,
Clarendon Building, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK, TS1 3BA.
http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/socialfutures/Events.cfm
Conference organisers: Professor Eileen Green, Dr Joan Heggie, Ms Carrie
Singleton, Centre for Social and Policy Research,
School of Social Sciences and Law,
Clarendon Building,
University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, UK
TS1 3BA
01642 342346
http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/socialfutures/CSPRprofile.cfm
Women, Identity and Employability
One-day conference
Centre for Enterprise, University of Teesside
7th February 2008, 09.30-16.00
The day includes:
* Key note speaker, Professor Sue Yeandle (University of Leeds)
* Presentations by researchers
* A panel discussion
* Lunch and refreshments
Focus of the day:
Although there is a wealth of literature on women within employment,
less focuses on women who are on the margins of the UK labour market and
issues of employability. For many women, achieving satisfying and well
rewarded employment is more complicated than simply eradicating
structural barriers, and for some, particular life experiences and
resulting conceptions of self, can impact heavily on their
employability. This conference starts from recognition of the need for
critical attention to both the concept of employability and what it
means for diverse and also socially excluded groups of women within the
UK. For example, how do different women perceive their own
employability? In what ways does identity impact upon employability?
What personal development strategies are required to enter into and
sustain employment? Are expectations about people's employability
gendered? And how might employability issues vary for different socially
excluded groups? We look forward to a day of critical and engaging
debate on diverse themes related to women, identity and employability.
For more information and to register (registration form is attached in
the email) contact Barbara Cox by email at B.Cox@tees.ac.uk
Clarendon Building, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK, TS1 3BA.
http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/socialfutures/Events.cfm
Conference organisers: Professor Eileen Green, Dr Joan Heggie, Ms Carrie
Singleton, Centre for Social and Policy Research,
School of Social Sciences and Law,
Clarendon Building,
University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, UK
TS1 3BA
01642 342346
http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/socialfutures/CSPRprofile.cfm
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
CFP: Opening Space: commons landscapes places affect performativity..
Call for Papers:
for a special session which will be part of:
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study
of Commons
"Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global
challenges"
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham), 14th -18th July 2008
Session Title: "Opening Space: Approaching commons through new
conceptualisations of places and landscapes"
Session outline:
"In my view, an adequate theory of the commons must be rooted in critical
understanding of the symbolic dimensions of the commons as well as its
history as a concrete referent for that symbolism" (Kenneth R. Olwig,
"Commons & Landscape", 2003)
Much of the commons research agenda is understandably focused upon a range
of aspects clustered around, and linking between, notions of sustainability,
equity, governance, ecology, economy and justice (Laerhoven and Ostrom
2007). This focus is in part driven by the distinctive character of common
space in terms of nature, use, risk, loss and potential. The fate of the
commons (of whatever form) throws into sharp relief wider, often troubling
dynamics of nature-society-economy.
However, As Olwig, suggests, commons also need to be read as places and
landscapes (of one kind or another) outside, or alongside, these key
'material concerns'. The very fact that they are commons brings particular
factors into their unfolding as living (cultural and ecological) spatial
entities. In this session we seek to consider commons through the more
unusual lenses of thinking them as places and landscapes. To venture out
onto one of the many commons remaining in the UK (for example) is to
venture into places which have a very different FEEL to them - different
atmosphere, different sense of space, history and politics, in part, from
the literal openness to be found. Enclosure, so often taken for granted, and
the inevitable norm, is exposed by it absence.
There has been significant developments in geographical (and wider social
science/humanities) approaches to places and landscapes in the last decade
or so. These have in part been driven by some notably geographers,
sociologists and anthropologists (e.g. David Harvey, Nigel Thrift, Doreen
Massey, John Law, Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold, Barbra Bender). These
developments seek to deepen understandings of place and landscape (and life
within them) in the light of a whole raft of important
intellectual/theoretical trajectories often infused by broadly
poststructuralist and (related) science and technology studies,
phenomenologies, ideas of affect/embodiment, and so on. The preoccupations
of these approaches include embodiment, practice, process, hybridity,
performativity, topology (networks), complexity and the blurring of a whole
set of dualisms such as social-natural, agency-structure, and
symbolic-concrete. (Thus there is a need to heed, but also develop Olwig's
call for symbolic-concrete analysis of commons).
These developments intermesh with new understandings of nature and
nature-society relations (e.g. Whatmore 2002, Hinchcliffe, 2007) which focus
on hybridity, difference and becoming. Some of the richness of these ideas
can also be found in innovative literatures of place and landscape as in
the work of W. G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair, and others, which also deal in
history, memory, loss, longing of being-in-place. In these 'ecologies of
place' Thrift (1999) there is a deep interest in alternative spatial
becomings (e.g. Deleuzian notions of nomadism). Commons also offer great
potential in terms of thinking and doing space differently.
In these new approaches places/landscapes are;
temporal processes with spatial implications (rather that easily
fixed, bounded spaces).
(thus) outcomes of topological connection rather that topographical
process (although there are move to combine these approaches (Wylie and Rose
2007).
always contingent, on the move, and uncertain.
sites of human practice which are complex interplays of culture,
economy, politics and also emotive, affective, collective and individual
processes.
sites of nature-culture hybridity in which multiple agencies,
temporalities (velocity and rhythm) and relational couplings constantly
rework in restless dynamism, yet which also produce stabilities around which
identities, cultures affective (dwelt) habits can 'gather'.
the sites of reinterpreted understandings of Heideggerian dwelling
(as in the key work of Tim Ingold).
The session seeks to explore commons in these kinds of ways. Themes could
include;
Common as other space
Psychogeography of commons
The emotional/affective geographies of commons
Topologies of commons
Commons as networks
Commons life in practice
Commons as hybrid processes of culture-nature
Commons as places
Commons as landscapes
Ethnographies and ethologies of common life
Alternative practices of research and narrative
This session will be part of -
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study
of Commons
Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham), 14th -18th July 2008
See
http://www.iascp.org/iasc08/iasc08.html
for more details
Deadline for abstracts THIS SESSION is 25 January 2008
Please circulate this CFP if you think you know of other who will be
interested
Please send abstracts or questions to
ojones@glos.ac.uk
Cheers
Owain Jones
for a special session which will be part of:
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study
of Commons
"Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global
challenges"
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham), 14th -18th July 2008
Session Title: "Opening Space: Approaching commons through new
conceptualisations of places and landscapes"
Session outline:
"In my view, an adequate theory of the commons must be rooted in critical
understanding of the symbolic dimensions of the commons as well as its
history as a concrete referent for that symbolism" (Kenneth R. Olwig,
"Commons & Landscape", 2003)
Much of the commons research agenda is understandably focused upon a range
of aspects clustered around, and linking between, notions of sustainability,
equity, governance, ecology, economy and justice (Laerhoven and Ostrom
2007). This focus is in part driven by the distinctive character of common
space in terms of nature, use, risk, loss and potential. The fate of the
commons (of whatever form) throws into sharp relief wider, often troubling
dynamics of nature-society-economy.
However, As Olwig, suggests, commons also need to be read as places and
landscapes (of one kind or another) outside, or alongside, these key
'material concerns'. The very fact that they are commons brings particular
factors into their unfolding as living (cultural and ecological) spatial
entities. In this session we seek to consider commons through the more
unusual lenses of thinking them as places and landscapes. To venture out
onto one of the many commons remaining in the UK (for example) is to
venture into places which have a very different FEEL to them - different
atmosphere, different sense of space, history and politics, in part, from
the literal openness to be found. Enclosure, so often taken for granted, and
the inevitable norm, is exposed by it absence.
There has been significant developments in geographical (and wider social
science/humanities) approaches to places and landscapes in the last decade
or so. These have in part been driven by some notably geographers,
sociologists and anthropologists (e.g. David Harvey, Nigel Thrift, Doreen
Massey, John Law, Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold, Barbra Bender). These
developments seek to deepen understandings of place and landscape (and life
within them) in the light of a whole raft of important
intellectual/theoretical trajectories often infused by broadly
poststructuralist and (related) science and technology studies,
phenomenologies, ideas of affect/embodiment, and so on. The preoccupations
of these approaches include embodiment, practice, process, hybridity,
performativity, topology (networks), complexity and the blurring of a whole
set of dualisms such as social-natural, agency-structure, and
symbolic-concrete. (Thus there is a need to heed, but also develop Olwig's
call for symbolic-concrete analysis of commons).
These developments intermesh with new understandings of nature and
nature-society relations (e.g. Whatmore 2002, Hinchcliffe, 2007) which focus
on hybridity, difference and becoming. Some of the richness of these ideas
can also be found in innovative literatures of place and landscape as in
the work of W. G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair, and others, which also deal in
history, memory, loss, longing of being-in-place. In these 'ecologies of
place' Thrift (1999) there is a deep interest in alternative spatial
becomings (e.g. Deleuzian notions of nomadism). Commons also offer great
potential in terms of thinking and doing space differently.
In these new approaches places/landscapes are;
temporal processes with spatial implications (rather that easily
fixed, bounded spaces).
(thus) outcomes of topological connection rather that topographical
process (although there are move to combine these approaches (Wylie and Rose
2007).
always contingent, on the move, and uncertain.
sites of human practice which are complex interplays of culture,
economy, politics and also emotive, affective, collective and individual
processes.
sites of nature-culture hybridity in which multiple agencies,
temporalities (velocity and rhythm) and relational couplings constantly
rework in restless dynamism, yet which also produce stabilities around which
identities, cultures affective (dwelt) habits can 'gather'.
the sites of reinterpreted understandings of Heideggerian dwelling
(as in the key work of Tim Ingold).
The session seeks to explore commons in these kinds of ways. Themes could
include;
Common as other space
Psychogeography of commons
The emotional/affective geographies of commons
Topologies of commons
Commons as networks
Commons life in practice
Commons as hybrid processes of culture-nature
Commons as places
Commons as landscapes
Ethnographies and ethologies of common life
Alternative practices of research and narrative
This session will be part of -
The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study
of Commons
Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham), 14th -18th July 2008
See
http://www.iascp.org/iasc08/iasc08.html
for more details
Deadline for abstracts THIS SESSION is 25 January 2008
Please circulate this CFP if you think you know of other who will be
interested
Please send abstracts or questions to
ojones@glos.ac.uk
Cheers
Owain Jones
Planum Newsletter - December 2007
Planum Newsletter - December 2007
PLANUM
The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban planning,
territorial development and architecture
http://www.planum.net/menu.php
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> Planum announces the creation of a new Topics section, TRANSFORMATIONS
AROUND THE WORLD. It is devoted to collect materials that describe how the
territory is changing, the multiplication of the physical forms and
lifestyles, the presence of contrasting landscape. Changes that cross
urban agglomerations, but can also concern urban countryside, or natural
landscape, manufacturing and work landscapes...
Documents here collected can be proposed by Planum readers and can be of
different kind: photos, papers, case study defined for a research,
institutional report or travel notes.
By now 6 urban situations are introduced: Alger, Bologna, Cape Town,
Lipetsk, Dubai, Tirana. Distant in terms of distances, of economic and
social profile, of problem list to be faced.
http://www.planum.net/topics/transformations.html
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> Planum takes the opportunity to present the following new online
documents.
o a new essay in 'Topics' section about:
- the Gulf Coast of the United States, which has been battered by major
hurricanes (KATRINA, WILMA, RITA) in recent year. This paper presents the
beta version of a developmental sustainability analysis tool which should
assist decision-makers in preparing for and minimizing natural disasters
impacts (by Frederick Steiner, James Sipes, Barbara Faga, and Robert Yaro).
http://www.planum.net/topics/themesonline.html
o a BEST SITES review about SCOT document, that is "Le schéma de cohérence
territorial" which should define main guidelines of French town planning on
the scale of agglomerations ( (by Soiciz Cezilly, in 'Webcompass' section)
http://www.planum.net/webcompass/best-review.htm
o 'Bookreviews' section updating with REVIEWS of:
'Antiarchitettura e demolizione. La fine dell'architettura modernista' (by
Nikos A. Salingaros) written by Ashraf Salama and Antonio Caperna
'Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Volume 2' (edited by Bruce
Stiftel, Vanessa Watson, Henri Acselrad) written by Lucio Giecillo
and PRESENTATION of the books:
'Città portuali e waterfront urbani. Ricerca bibliografica' (edited by
Oriana Giovinazzi)
'Spatial development glossary' (by CEMAT)
'Cities between integration and disintegration: opportunities and
challenges'
(Isocarp Review 02).
FREELY DOWNLOADABLE the book edited by Pietro Elisei and Giovanni Pineschi
about the final
results of the Medisdec-Stratmed (Interreg IIIB-Medocc Area Project).
The book deals with development strategies for regions in the
Mediterranean areas.
http://www.planum.net/showspace/bookreviews-07.htm
o 'Journals' section updating with:
> RAUMPLANUNG n.132/3 and RAUMPLANUNG Spezial n.11
http://www.planum.net/journals/ns-rpl.html
> URBANISTICA n.131/2006, 132/2007, 133/2007
http://www.planum.net/journals/ns-uri.html
o 'Showspace' section updating with:
> the last issue of the DiAP NEWSLETTER
http://www.planum.net/diap/news.htm
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> Planum News section is catching up the goal of 1000 news about events,
conferences, meetings, competitions, exhibitions, etc., across Europe and
the rest of the world.
http://www.planum.net/news/
If you want to contribute to our timely news data base send your
announcements to staff@planum.net
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Planum - The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban
planning, territorial development and architecture
http://www.planum.net/menu.php - ISSN 1723-0993
European Community project funded by Ten Telecom in the year 2000
Contact staff@planum.net if you wish:
- to publish articles, essays, reports about urban policies, master plans,
urban planning project management
- to send your announcement about upcoming events, projects, workshops
- to become a Planum partner for dissemination in E.U. funded project
If you are looking for a window in this newsletter, through which to promote
your special event or your firm, become a Planum guest and reach more than
22.000 planners around the world!
http://www.planum.net/services/services.html
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PLANUM
The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban planning,
territorial development and architecture
http://www.planum.net/menu.php
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> Planum announces the creation of a new Topics section, TRANSFORMATIONS
AROUND THE WORLD. It is devoted to collect materials that describe how the
territory is changing, the multiplication of the physical forms and
lifestyles, the presence of contrasting landscape. Changes that cross
urban agglomerations, but can also concern urban countryside, or natural
landscape, manufacturing and work landscapes...
Documents here collected can be proposed by Planum readers and can be of
different kind: photos, papers, case study defined for a research,
institutional report or travel notes.
By now 6 urban situations are introduced: Alger, Bologna, Cape Town,
Lipetsk, Dubai, Tirana. Distant in terms of distances, of economic and
social profile, of problem list to be faced.
http://www.planum.net/topics/transformations.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Planum takes the opportunity to present the following new online
documents.
o a new essay in 'Topics' section about:
- the Gulf Coast of the United States, which has been battered by major
hurricanes (KATRINA, WILMA, RITA) in recent year. This paper presents the
beta version of a developmental sustainability analysis tool which should
assist decision-makers in preparing for and minimizing natural disasters
impacts (by Frederick Steiner, James Sipes, Barbara Faga, and Robert Yaro).
http://www.planum.net/topics/themesonline.html
o a BEST SITES review about SCOT document, that is "Le schéma de cohérence
territorial" which should define main guidelines of French town planning on
the scale of agglomerations ( (by Soiciz Cezilly, in 'Webcompass' section)
http://www.planum.net/webcompass/best-review.htm
o 'Bookreviews' section updating with REVIEWS of:
'Antiarchitettura e demolizione. La fine dell'architettura modernista' (by
Nikos A. Salingaros) written by Ashraf Salama and Antonio Caperna
'Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Volume 2' (edited by Bruce
Stiftel, Vanessa Watson, Henri Acselrad) written by Lucio Giecillo
and PRESENTATION of the books:
'Città portuali e waterfront urbani. Ricerca bibliografica' (edited by
Oriana Giovinazzi)
'Spatial development glossary' (by CEMAT)
'Cities between integration and disintegration: opportunities and
challenges'
(Isocarp Review 02).
FREELY DOWNLOADABLE the book edited by Pietro Elisei and Giovanni Pineschi
about the final
results of the Medisdec-Stratmed (Interreg IIIB-Medocc Area Project).
The book deals with development strategies for regions in the
Mediterranean areas.
http://www.planum.net/showspace/bookreviews-07.htm
o 'Journals' section updating with:
> RAUMPLANUNG n.132/3 and RAUMPLANUNG Spezial n.11
http://www.planum.net/journals/ns-rpl.html
> URBANISTICA n.131/2006, 132/2007, 133/2007
http://www.planum.net/journals/ns-uri.html
o 'Showspace' section updating with:
> the last issue of the DiAP NEWSLETTER
http://www.planum.net/diap/news.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Planum News section is catching up the goal of 1000 news about events,
conferences, meetings, competitions, exhibitions, etc., across Europe and
the rest of the world.
http://www.planum.net/news/
If you want to contribute to our timely news data base send your
announcements to staff@planum.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Planum - The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban
planning, territorial development and architecture
http://www.planum.net/menu.php - ISSN 1723-0993
European Community project funded by Ten Telecom in the year 2000
Contact staff@planum.net if you wish:
- to publish articles, essays, reports about urban policies, master plans,
urban planning project management
- to send your announcement about upcoming events, projects, workshops
- to become a Planum partner for dissemination in E.U. funded project
If you are looking for a window in this newsletter, through which to promote
your special event or your firm, become a Planum guest and reach more than
22.000 planners around the world!
http://www.planum.net/services/services.html
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008
CFP: The UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association (EGUK) presents:-
Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008
University of Manchester, UK, 9-11th June 2008
http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/
** Paper deadline March 10th 2008 **
The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the conference.
Call for Papers
===============
This conference focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and brings together top practitioners, users and researchers, thereby inspiring further collaboration between participants, particularly between academia and industry.
The Programme Committee is seeking refereed papers and work-in-progress reports in all aspects of computer graphics and its applications. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
computer animation, computer-based art and entertainment,
computation geometry, display technologies, fundamental
algorithms, graphics application systems, graphics
architectures and acceleration hardware, fractal and
natural phenomena, human computer interaction, image
processing, Internet graphics and collaborative
environments, medical imaging, modelling methods,
rendering techniques, texture synthesis, scientific
visualization, information visualization, virtual
reality and virtual environments, volume graphics,
web graphics.
Further details and submission categories may be found on
http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/
Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008
University of Manchester, UK, 9-11th June 2008
http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/
** Paper deadline March 10th 2008 **
The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the conference.
Call for Papers
===============
This conference focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and brings together top practitioners, users and researchers, thereby inspiring further collaboration between participants, particularly between academia and industry.
The Programme Committee is seeking refereed papers and work-in-progress reports in all aspects of computer graphics and its applications. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
computer animation, computer-based art and entertainment,
computation geometry, display technologies, fundamental
algorithms, graphics application systems, graphics
architectures and acceleration hardware, fractal and
natural phenomena, human computer interaction, image
processing, Internet graphics and collaborative
environments, medical imaging, modelling methods,
rendering techniques, texture synthesis, scientific
visualization, information visualization, virtual
reality and virtual environments, volume graphics,
web graphics.
Further details and submission categories may be found on
http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/
Just published on the JRF website
JRF
Just published on the JRF website:
How local planning authorities are delivering policies for affordable housing
Study on how local planning authorities have been implementing affordable housing policies (Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) in the context of changing and uncertain policy.
Just published on the JRF website:
How local planning authorities are delivering policies for affordable housing
Study on how local planning authorities have been implementing affordable housing policies (Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) in the context of changing and uncertain policy.
ESRC Seminar Series, Combating the 'obesogenic' environment - policy solutions and priorities
We would like to invite you to attend the last in a series of four ESRC
funded seminars on the social and physical environment and obesity
jointly convened by researchers at Queen Mary and University College,
University of London.
We have four exciting speakers (details below) and there will be ample
time for debate and discussion on the day.
The seminars are free to attend and there are a limited number of travel
bursaries available for postgraduate researchers to attend.
However we do have a limited number of places so registration is
essential. Places are on a first-come first-served basis and a waiting
list will be in operation.
For further details of the seminar and a booking form please contact
Sarah Deedat on s.a.deedat@qmul.ac.uk
Please circulate to colleagues, students and others with interests in
this area
Best wishes
Steve Cummins, Tessa Parsons, Sharon Friel
Further Details
Time: 12.45 - 17.15
Date: 6 Feb 2008
Venue: CABE, 1 Kemble Street, London WC2B 4AN
Abstract:
Combating the 'obesogenic' environment - policy solutions and priorities
Encouraging innovative debate over what potential policy solutions may
be available to reduce levels of obesity is desperately needed. This
seminar will invite key thinkers within economics, planning and public
health to propose what policy measures at the local, regional and
national level that can help stem the growing incidence of obesity.
This seminar will not only be aimed at academics but also undertaken
in such a way that policymakers, charities, think-tanks and
professionals in the health, nutrition, activity and planning fields
will be fully included in debate and discussion
Speakers
Mr Nick Cavill - Cavill Associates
Professor Eric Millstone - University of Sussex
Dr Hugh Barton - University of the West of England
Professor David Hunter, - Durham University
--
Department of Geography
Health Research Group
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
02078823363
funded seminars on the social and physical environment and obesity
jointly convened by researchers at Queen Mary and University College,
University of London.
We have four exciting speakers (details below) and there will be ample
time for debate and discussion on the day.
The seminars are free to attend and there are a limited number of travel
bursaries available for postgraduate researchers to attend.
However we do have a limited number of places so registration is
essential. Places are on a first-come first-served basis and a waiting
list will be in operation.
For further details of the seminar and a booking form please contact
Sarah Deedat on s.a.deedat@qmul.ac.uk
Please circulate to colleagues, students and others with interests in
this area
Best wishes
Steve Cummins, Tessa Parsons, Sharon Friel
Further Details
Time: 12.45 - 17.15
Date: 6 Feb 2008
Venue: CABE, 1 Kemble Street, London WC2B 4AN
Abstract:
Combating the 'obesogenic' environment - policy solutions and priorities
Encouraging innovative debate over what potential policy solutions may
be available to reduce levels of obesity is desperately needed. This
seminar will invite key thinkers within economics, planning and public
health to propose what policy measures at the local, regional and
national level that can help stem the growing incidence of obesity.
This seminar will not only be aimed at academics but also undertaken
in such a way that policymakers, charities, think-tanks and
professionals in the health, nutrition, activity and planning fields
will be fully included in debate and discussion
Speakers
Mr Nick Cavill - Cavill Associates
Professor Eric Millstone - University of Sussex
Dr Hugh Barton - University of the West of England
Professor David Hunter, - Durham University
--
Department of Geography
Health Research Group
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
02078823363
"New Geographies of the UK Economy"
RGS IBG Annual Conference 2008
Royal Geographical Society, London, 27-29 August 2008
UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS
"New Geographies of the UK Economy"
Organisers:
Andrew Jones, Birkbeck, University of London; Neil Coe, University of
Manchester; Mia Gray, University of Cambridge
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
John Allen; Andrew Leyshon; Ron Martin; Doreen Massey; Alison Stenning
The UK economy currently faces a series of major challenges in the early
21st century. Globalization, uneven development, migration, technological
change, sectoral transformations and issues of sustainability are just a
few of the key issues which present the UK with uncertainties as to the
nature of future growth and prosperity opportunities. Furthermore, at the
theoretical level, geographers and other social scientists have called the
very idea of ‘the UK economy’ into question in the context of contemporary
globalization. The ongoing integration of the European Union, the
development of global production networks and the deepening complexity of
global financial integration cast doubt on the relevance of the UK economy
(defined in territorial terms) as an effective unit of analysis. All of
these challenges and theoretical issues present an increasingly difficult
task for those who seek to theorise and formulate policy in the UK at the
national and various sub-national levels.
These sessions seek to bring together the broad range of geographical
research on the UK economy currently being undertaken by scholars based
both within and outside the UK. Whilst centred around economic
geographical work, they aim to attract a diverse set of papers that
address current key challenges for theorists and policy makers in relation
to the UK economy. These might include, but are not restricted to, issues
concerned with regional economic development, transnational firms, SMEs,
migrant flows, regeneration, the North-South divide, regulation, the
knowledge economy, innovation, global production networks, globalization,
sectoral change and environmental sustainability. However, the organisers
would welcome enquiries from any authors who feel their work addresses the
broad themes of the sessions. The sessions aim to group paper
presentations around a number of invited keynote papers from leading
thinkers on different aspects of UK economic development. However, please
also get in touch if you are interested in participating as a session
chair, paper discussant or panellist.
Those interested in presenting a paper are asked to send an abstract to
Andrew Jones on (a.jones@bbk.ac.uk) by the deadline of Monday 18th
February 2008. Please use the pro-forma from the RGS website. Expressions
of interest are welcome ahead of an abstract.
Details of the RGS –IBG Annual Conference can be found at:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conf
erence/Timeline+for+AC2008.htm
Abstract submission details and the pro-forma can be found at:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conf
erence/Submit+an+abstract.htm
Royal Geographical Society, London, 27-29 August 2008
UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS
"New Geographies of the UK Economy"
Organisers:
Andrew Jones, Birkbeck, University of London; Neil Coe, University of
Manchester; Mia Gray, University of Cambridge
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
John Allen; Andrew Leyshon; Ron Martin; Doreen Massey; Alison Stenning
The UK economy currently faces a series of major challenges in the early
21st century. Globalization, uneven development, migration, technological
change, sectoral transformations and issues of sustainability are just a
few of the key issues which present the UK with uncertainties as to the
nature of future growth and prosperity opportunities. Furthermore, at the
theoretical level, geographers and other social scientists have called the
very idea of ‘the UK economy’ into question in the context of contemporary
globalization. The ongoing integration of the European Union, the
development of global production networks and the deepening complexity of
global financial integration cast doubt on the relevance of the UK economy
(defined in territorial terms) as an effective unit of analysis. All of
these challenges and theoretical issues present an increasingly difficult
task for those who seek to theorise and formulate policy in the UK at the
national and various sub-national levels.
These sessions seek to bring together the broad range of geographical
research on the UK economy currently being undertaken by scholars based
both within and outside the UK. Whilst centred around economic
geographical work, they aim to attract a diverse set of papers that
address current key challenges for theorists and policy makers in relation
to the UK economy. These might include, but are not restricted to, issues
concerned with regional economic development, transnational firms, SMEs,
migrant flows, regeneration, the North-South divide, regulation, the
knowledge economy, innovation, global production networks, globalization,
sectoral change and environmental sustainability. However, the organisers
would welcome enquiries from any authors who feel their work addresses the
broad themes of the sessions. The sessions aim to group paper
presentations around a number of invited keynote papers from leading
thinkers on different aspects of UK economic development. However, please
also get in touch if you are interested in participating as a session
chair, paper discussant or panellist.
Those interested in presenting a paper are asked to send an abstract to
Andrew Jones on (a.jones@bbk.ac.uk) by the deadline of Monday 18th
February 2008. Please use the pro-forma from the RGS website. Expressions
of interest are welcome ahead of an abstract.
Details of the RGS –IBG Annual Conference can be found at:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conf
erence/Timeline+for+AC2008.htm
Abstract submission details and the pro-forma can be found at:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conf
erence/Submit+an+abstract.htm
ESRC Research Seminar Series: Rethinking the Urban Experience: the Sensory Production of Place
ESRC Research Seminar Series: Rethinking the Urban Experience: the Sensory Production of
Place
30 - 31 January 2008
University of Salford
30th January: Seminar Four: Senses and the rhythms and temporalities of the city seeks to
explore how the sensual experience of the city is shaped by rhythm and temporality.
Presentations explore the rhythms and sensations of bicycle and bus travel, the sensual
rhythms of specific locales, the rhythms of urban advertising and attempts to install
slower rhythms in place.
31st January: Seminar Five: Senses in transition: mobility in the city looks at the
various ways in which technologies and modes of moving through the city produce particular
sensual experiences. The seminar includes presentations which focus on mobile
soundscapes, rail travel, and the distinct mobilities of the amusement park.
We welcome postgraduate students, academics and interested practitioners
To attend one or both seminars, contact Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6284. Email: t.edensor@mmu.ac.uk
For more details of the seminar series, visit http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/events.htm
Dr Tim Edensor
Reader in Cultural Geography
Department of Geography
Manchester Metropolitan University
John Dalton Extension
Chester Street
Manchester
M1 5GD
Place
30 - 31 January 2008
University of Salford
30th January: Seminar Four: Senses and the rhythms and temporalities of the city seeks to
explore how the sensual experience of the city is shaped by rhythm and temporality.
Presentations explore the rhythms and sensations of bicycle and bus travel, the sensual
rhythms of specific locales, the rhythms of urban advertising and attempts to install
slower rhythms in place.
31st January: Seminar Five: Senses in transition: mobility in the city looks at the
various ways in which technologies and modes of moving through the city produce particular
sensual experiences. The seminar includes presentations which focus on mobile
soundscapes, rail travel, and the distinct mobilities of the amusement park.
We welcome postgraduate students, academics and interested practitioners
To attend one or both seminars, contact Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6284. Email: t.edensor@mmu.ac.uk
For more details of the seminar series, visit http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/events.htm
Dr Tim Edensor
Reader in Cultural Geography
Department of Geography
Manchester Metropolitan University
John Dalton Extension
Chester Street
Manchester
M1 5GD
Geography and migration workshop: Cardiff - 16 January 2008
Geography and migration workshop: Cardiff - 16 January 2008
To be held at Cardiff University in the School of Social Sciences.
At this workshop new users will be introduced to the activities of the
Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER) and the Web-
based Interface to Census Interaction Data (WICID) data extraction
system.
Participants will also get an introduction to digitised boundary
datasets
provided by UKBORDERS at Edina. This workshop will include an
introduction
to the data services offered by Census.ac.uk and is aimed at users
studying or working in the UK higher and further education sector, but
is
not limited to those already registered to use the census.
For more information, and the booking form, see:
http://census.ac.uk/MB/Cardiff_Jan08.aspx
Jo Weatherall
Metadata and Outreach Officer
Census.ac.uk
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Tel: +44 (0)1206 872571
Email: jlw@essex.ac.uk
Web: http://census.ac.uk
To be held at Cardiff University in the School of Social Sciences.
At this workshop new users will be introduced to the activities of the
Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER) and the Web-
based Interface to Census Interaction Data (WICID) data extraction
system.
Participants will also get an introduction to digitised boundary
datasets
provided by UKBORDERS at Edina. This workshop will include an
introduction
to the data services offered by Census.ac.uk and is aimed at users
studying or working in the UK higher and further education sector, but
is
not limited to those already registered to use the census.
For more information, and the booking form, see:
http://census.ac.uk/MB/Cardiff_Jan08.aspx
Jo Weatherall
Metadata and Outreach Officer
Census.ac.uk
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Tel: +44 (0)1206 872571
Email: jlw@essex.ac.uk
Web: http://census.ac.uk
Thursday, 13 December 2007
RESEARCH ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN LAND MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN LAND MANAGEMENT
Newcastle University, School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development (Centre for Rural Economy)
£23,002 - £26,666 p.a.
Closing Date: 8 January 2008
Based in the Centre for Rural Economy within the School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development, you will work on the research project 'Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy', funded by the UK Research Councils' Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU). The research will explore the role of field-level advisers as knowledge brokers between scientific research and land management practice, focusing on the knowledge exchange practices of rural vets, wildlife ecologists, and land agents / surveyors. For one day a week, the researcher will also provide research support and analysis to the Director's Office of the RELU Programme. You must have a track record of qualitative research in a social science discipline and should have, or be near to completing, a postgraduate research degree in a relevant social science discipline.
The post will start in April 2008 and is for 2.5 years in duration.
For further particulars and details see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy.phtml?ref=D2419R
Job Ref: D2419R
Jeremy Phillipson
Assistant Director
Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
Centre for Rural Economy
School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
jeremy.phillipson@ncl.ac.uk
RELU Web site
http://www.relu.ac.uk
CRE Web site
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cre/
Newcastle University, School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development (Centre for Rural Economy)
£23,002 - £26,666 p.a.
Closing Date: 8 January 2008
Based in the Centre for Rural Economy within the School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development, you will work on the research project 'Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy', funded by the UK Research Councils' Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU). The research will explore the role of field-level advisers as knowledge brokers between scientific research and land management practice, focusing on the knowledge exchange practices of rural vets, wildlife ecologists, and land agents / surveyors. For one day a week, the researcher will also provide research support and analysis to the Director's Office of the RELU Programme. You must have a track record of qualitative research in a social science discipline and should have, or be near to completing, a postgraduate research degree in a relevant social science discipline.
The post will start in April 2008 and is for 2.5 years in duration.
For further particulars and details see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy.phtml?ref=D2419R
Job Ref: D2419R
Jeremy Phillipson
Assistant Director
Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
Centre for Rural Economy
School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
jeremy.phillipson@ncl.ac.uk
RELU Web site
http://www.relu.ac.uk
CRE Web site
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cre/
Subject: Whats Working in Community Development Conference. June 23rd-25th 2008
Subject: Whats Working in Community Development Conference. June 23rd-25th 2008
** Please circulate widely **
Hello friends and colleagues,
We are very pleased by the response to our upcoming conference, What's Working in Community Development, and we look forward to welcoming you to this special gathering. As you know, the conference is scheduled for June 23rd - 25th, 2008, at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The pre-conference announcement can be downloaded from: http://www.horizonscda.ca/PDF%20Files/PreConfLo.pdf
Remember if you are submitting an abstract or presentation outline, we must receive it by December 31st, 2007. The call for abstracts/presentations can be downloaded from: http://www.horizonscda.ca/PDF%20Files/AbstractsLo.pdf
Due to popular demand, we have decided to open our on-line registration system now, instead of in February, as originally planned (the final conference program will be available in early February, after the abstracts have all been reviewed). The conference can accommodate 300 participants. 100 spaces are delegated for participants from Atlantic Canada,100 for participants from other parts of North America, and 100 from the other six UN regions in the world (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Oceania). Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and then people will be placed on a waiting list in case quotas from other regions are not filled.
Here's how the registration system works:
* Follow this link to get started: http://www.horizonscda.ca/upcoming
* Look for the Conference Registration heading, and follow the instructions once you're there.
Looking forward to seeing you!
The Horizons Team
P.O. Box 2404 Wolfville NS, B4P 2S3
Phone: (902) 542-0156 Fax: (902) 542-4765
E-mail: admin@horizonscda.ca Web: www.horizonscda.ca
If you do not wish to receive further information from Horizons, please reply to this message quoting unsubscribe.
** Please circulate widely **
Hello friends and colleagues,
We are very pleased by the response to our upcoming conference, What's Working in Community Development, and we look forward to welcoming you to this special gathering. As you know, the conference is scheduled for June 23rd - 25th, 2008, at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The pre-conference announcement can be downloaded from: http://www.horizonscda.ca/PDF%20Files/PreConfLo.pdf
Remember if you are submitting an abstract or presentation outline, we must receive it by December 31st, 2007. The call for abstracts/presentations can be downloaded from: http://www.horizonscda.ca/PDF%20Files/AbstractsLo.pdf
Due to popular demand, we have decided to open our on-line registration system now, instead of in February, as originally planned (the final conference program will be available in early February, after the abstracts have all been reviewed). The conference can accommodate 300 participants. 100 spaces are delegated for participants from Atlantic Canada,100 for participants from other parts of North America, and 100 from the other six UN regions in the world (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Oceania). Spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and then people will be placed on a waiting list in case quotas from other regions are not filled.
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FIT CITIES: BODIES, MOVEMENT, AND PRACTICES OF FITNESS AND SPORT IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
RGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
FIT CITIES: BODIES, MOVEMENT, AND PRACTICES OF FITNESS AND SPORT IN THE CONTEMPORARY
CITY
*Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University College London*
*Clare Herrick, Department of Geography, King’s College London*
This group of sessions aims to start new conversations on a topic at once highly prescient and, at
the same time, grossly neglected by geographers: the place of fitness and sport in the
contemporary city.
While the wider sphere touched upon by sport and fitness is courting attention by the human
sciences, sociologists, public health, policy makers and urban planners, opportunities remain for
geographical perspectives. In particular, as government attention in the UK and beyond turns to
ways of encouraging and building physical activity back into the contemporary city, there is scope
for exploration of the ways in which this might unfold and the wider conceptual territory upon
which such activities might tread. Beyond the state, a whole range of sport and fitness practices
(from mass charity fun runs, to urban orienteering and Nordic walking, to parkour and urban
freeriding) point to how urban spaces are being reinterpreted, reworked, and reanimated in all
sorts of surprising ways through the inventiveness of the individual and collective human body.
This paper session will therefore start to try and map out what a urban geography focusing on
issues around sport and fitness might entail, the theoretical and conceptual frameworks upon
which it might fruitfully draw and the empirical domains waiting to be explored.
This group of sessions aims to think about and draw the links between sport and fitness and the
(often problematic) nature of the contemporary city. In particular, it wishes to move away from
discussions of the issues surrounding professional sport and its infrastructure towards the far
more mundane, everyday participatory practices of staying fit.
The organisers invite short abstracts of 200 words relating to (but not limited to) the following
broad thematic areas:
· Geographies of mass sporting participation.
· Urban geography and the ‘fit’ city
· Urban policy, sport and fitness.
· Public space and everyday practices of sport and fitness
· Sociality, community, and sport fitness
· Cultural geographies of sport and fitness
· Sport and geographies of urban justice
· Historical approaches to sport and fitness
· Embodiment and sport
· Urban political ecology and sport/ fitness
· The political economy of urban sporting consumption
· Landscapes of sport and exercise
If you have any inquiries about the sessions please email Clare Herrick (clare.herrick@kcl.ac.uk), or
Alan Latham (alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk).
Please email abstracts to alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk by *January 18, 2008 *
FIT CITIES: BODIES, MOVEMENT, AND PRACTICES OF FITNESS AND SPORT IN THE CONTEMPORARY
CITY
*Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University College London*
*Clare Herrick, Department of Geography, King’s College London*
This group of sessions aims to start new conversations on a topic at once highly prescient and, at
the same time, grossly neglected by geographers: the place of fitness and sport in the
contemporary city.
While the wider sphere touched upon by sport and fitness is courting attention by the human
sciences, sociologists, public health, policy makers and urban planners, opportunities remain for
geographical perspectives. In particular, as government attention in the UK and beyond turns to
ways of encouraging and building physical activity back into the contemporary city, there is scope
for exploration of the ways in which this might unfold and the wider conceptual territory upon
which such activities might tread. Beyond the state, a whole range of sport and fitness practices
(from mass charity fun runs, to urban orienteering and Nordic walking, to parkour and urban
freeriding) point to how urban spaces are being reinterpreted, reworked, and reanimated in all
sorts of surprising ways through the inventiveness of the individual and collective human body.
This paper session will therefore start to try and map out what a urban geography focusing on
issues around sport and fitness might entail, the theoretical and conceptual frameworks upon
which it might fruitfully draw and the empirical domains waiting to be explored.
This group of sessions aims to think about and draw the links between sport and fitness and the
(often problematic) nature of the contemporary city. In particular, it wishes to move away from
discussions of the issues surrounding professional sport and its infrastructure towards the far
more mundane, everyday participatory practices of staying fit.
The organisers invite short abstracts of 200 words relating to (but not limited to) the following
broad thematic areas:
· Geographies of mass sporting participation.
· Urban geography and the ‘fit’ city
· Urban policy, sport and fitness.
· Public space and everyday practices of sport and fitness
· Sociality, community, and sport fitness
· Cultural geographies of sport and fitness
· Sport and geographies of urban justice
· Historical approaches to sport and fitness
· Embodiment and sport
· Urban political ecology and sport/ fitness
· The political economy of urban sporting consumption
· Landscapes of sport and exercise
If you have any inquiries about the sessions please email Clare Herrick (clare.herrick@kcl.ac.uk), or
Alan Latham (alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk).
Please email abstracts to alan.latham@ucl.ac.uk by *January 18, 2008 *
CFP: Towards Transformative Knowledges/Practices for Sustainable Rural Futures
Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008 - 27-29 August, London.
Title: Towards Transformative Knowledges/Practices for Sustainable Rural
Futures
Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group
Convened by the Countryside and Community Research Institute
Within human geography and the social sciences more broadly there is a move
to break up settled, and narrowly drawn, institutional, pedagogic,
theoretical, disciplinary and methodological boundaries as we come to
realize that addressing the intensely complex, hybrid, unstable (yet
intransigent) nature of reality calls for new knowledge
formations/practices. New views of knowledge are exploring/practicing
integrations of theory, practice, politics and methods into new
'non-representational' assemblages of creative movement.
Related to this there is also what Latour calls a 'pixelisation of
politics', where progressive actions can take place at many sites, in many
forms, and at different scales and in different networks. These actions are
(can be) pragmatics of knowledge/practice created within competency groups
clustered around situations of concern and/or potential. Academic attention
focuses on action already in process within communities;
socio-techno-ecological networks; and processes of governance and economics.
Can rural academics identify, join and add value to these? Can rural
academics initiate these?
This session seeks to explore these new terrains of theory/practice "which
matter", in relation to sustainable rural futures. In particular we invite
papers which report upon work where academics (perhaps in interdisciplinary
alliances) are actively working with (rather than on) rural actants (which
may include non-humans) in ways which seek to be transformative in some way
- not least in terms of sustainable socio-ecological formations.
Possible themes (amongst many)
Action research and rural sustainability
Participatory research and rural sustainability
Interdisciplinary research and rural sustainability
Innovative stakeholder engagement strategies
Working with humans and non-humans
Case studies of rural projects working toward sustainable socio-ecological
sustainability in the developed and developing world
Putting non-representational theory into practise (and other theoretical
methodological trajectories)
The ethics and politics of non-representational research
Titles and Abstracts of up to 200 words to be sent to ojones@glos.ac.uk by
12 Jan 2008
Owain Jones
mobile: 07871 572969
office: 01242 715315
home: 01761 472908
Research Fellow
Countryside and Community Research Institute
Dunholme Villa, Park Campus
Cheltenham, GL50 2RH
ojones@glos.ac.uk
Title: Towards Transformative Knowledges/Practices for Sustainable Rural
Futures
Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group
Convened by the Countryside and Community Research Institute
Within human geography and the social sciences more broadly there is a move
to break up settled, and narrowly drawn, institutional, pedagogic,
theoretical, disciplinary and methodological boundaries as we come to
realize that addressing the intensely complex, hybrid, unstable (yet
intransigent) nature of reality calls for new knowledge
formations/practices. New views of knowledge are exploring/practicing
integrations of theory, practice, politics and methods into new
'non-representational' assemblages of creative movement.
Related to this there is also what Latour calls a 'pixelisation of
politics', where progressive actions can take place at many sites, in many
forms, and at different scales and in different networks. These actions are
(can be) pragmatics of knowledge/practice created within competency groups
clustered around situations of concern and/or potential. Academic attention
focuses on action already in process within communities;
socio-techno-ecological networks; and processes of governance and economics.
Can rural academics identify, join and add value to these? Can rural
academics initiate these?
This session seeks to explore these new terrains of theory/practice "which
matter", in relation to sustainable rural futures. In particular we invite
papers which report upon work where academics (perhaps in interdisciplinary
alliances) are actively working with (rather than on) rural actants (which
may include non-humans) in ways which seek to be transformative in some way
- not least in terms of sustainable socio-ecological formations.
Possible themes (amongst many)
Action research and rural sustainability
Participatory research and rural sustainability
Interdisciplinary research and rural sustainability
Innovative stakeholder engagement strategies
Working with humans and non-humans
Case studies of rural projects working toward sustainable socio-ecological
sustainability in the developed and developing world
Putting non-representational theory into practise (and other theoretical
methodological trajectories)
The ethics and politics of non-representational research
Titles and Abstracts of up to 200 words to be sent to ojones@glos.ac.uk by
12 Jan 2008
Owain Jones
mobile: 07871 572969
office: 01242 715315
home: 01761 472908
Research Fellow
Countryside and Community Research Institute
Dunholme Villa, Park Campus
Cheltenham, GL50 2RH
ojones@glos.ac.uk
Climate Change and Urban Design
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
>
>
> CLIMATE CHANGE
> AND URBAN DESIGN
>
> Science, Policy, Education and Best Practice
>
>
> The Third International C.E.U. Congress, Oslo, Norway, 14 - 16
> September 2008-
>
> (Attached and below)
>
>
> ABSTRACTS DUE February 1, 2008
> ANNOUNCEMENTS of Accepted Papers March 1, 2008
> COMPLETED DRAFTS DUE June 1, 2008
>
>
> The Topic
> Following successful Congresses in Berlin 2005 and Leeds 2006, the
> Council for European Urbanism will hold its third international
> congress in Oslo, Norway from the 14 th to 16th September 2008.
>
> The congress will discuss the rapidly-evolving topic of "Climate
> Change and Urban Design". Papers are invited on the latest
> implications in science, policy, education and best practice. What
> is the latest science telling us? What are the consequences for
> urban development internationally? What are the practical
> solutions available to reduce climate gas emissions from urban
> settlements and transportation? What strategies are available to
> adapt to changing conditions?
> The congress will welcome government officials, planners,
> architects, social scientists, ecologists, developers, local
> community activists, and all other development stakeholders who
> feel a responsibility to contribute to more sustainable urban
> development.
>
> We invite authors engaged in urban development and climate change
> topics from all parts of the world to submit paper proposals with
> abstracts by February 1, 2008 .
> Announcements of accepted proposals will be on March 1, 2008.
> Completed drafts of papers will be due by June 1, 2008.
>
> Background
> The climate change agenda has clearly reached a world-wide tipping
> point. Yet while there is growing consensus that the phenomenon
> poses a major threat to future human well-being, legitimate debate
> remains about what is to be done to reduce atmospheric carbon
> levels, as well as to adapt to changes that already appear
> likely. In particular there is ongoing debate about how the cost
> of various options correlates to potential benefits. Debate also
> continues about how the issue of climate change relates to the
> larger agenda of sustainable development.
> The built environment is well known to be one of the largest
> current contributors to greenhouse gases. Therefore those who
> work in the planning, design and building professions have a key
> role in working to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide. While much
> work has been done to decrease contributions from individual
> buildings, the role of urban design in addressing climate change
> remains more obscure, and more contentious.
>
> To be sure, buildings are not passive emitters of greenhouse
> gases. They shape the patterns of activity and consumption of
> their occupants, which in turn profoundly affect emissions. Must
> occupants drive between scattered locations, perhaps for long
> distances? Do they spend large percentages of time in buildings
> isolated from a functional public realm, with high patterns of
> consumption and emissions? Are those buildings sited in remote new
> developments where significant areas of existing vegetation have
> been replaced with paved or reflective surfaces? How does the
> urban street and block pattern contribute? What about the mix of
> uses, and the distribution of daily activities and needs?
>
> There has been much discussion of the dramatic carbon reductions
> possible per person in a higher-density urban morphology,
> particularly in comparison to automobile-dominated "sprawl"
> development. But what are the factors to be teased out? If we
> are to pursue such a goal, what are the issues to be addressed in
> economics, market dynamics, project permitting, legal regulation?
> How are these issues being addressed successfully, and what further
> challenges and opportunities remain?
>
> What about the preference of some consumers for lower density
> neighborhoods, or the argument that it is more sustainable to
> accommodate a settlement distribution or "transect" from the
> highest human use to the most pristine natural environment,
> including lower-density agricultural settlements? Does the new
> agenda imply, as some argue, that only very high densities will be
> viable? Or can a mixture that includes some lower-density
> morphologies be sustained in combination with other forms of
> mitigation? Is such a range of densities more economically
> sustainable, as some argue?
>
> Even at high densities, a wide range of morphologies is possible.
> What are the benefits and tradeoffs of the alternatives? For
> example, are dense high rise cities the inevitable best option?
> What about the negative energy impacts of tall buildings that may
> feature extensive curtain wall glazing, or require other high-
> energy conditioning, maintenance or repair? How do tall buildings
> perform across socio-economic classes, or in promoting social
> diversity and economic sustainability? How do they perform in
> repairability, adaptive re-use, or typical life-cycle?
>
> What about the advantages of "green" retrofits of existing
> buildings, in comparison to new green buildings? Since roughly
> half of the energy use of a building is in its construction, is
> there credible evidence to suggest that adaptive re-use of heritage
> buildings should be a greater priority? Are there examples of
> traditional urban fabric that offer better models of sustainable
> morphology, such as medium rise "liner" buildings, or high-density
> terraces? And do traditional buildings offer any significant
> morphological benefits for the sustainability challenge?
>
> These questions remind us that emissions are a cumulative
> phenomenon, and must be considered over whole systems and whole
> life cycles. Clearly a reduction in one targeted parameter is of
> little use if it results in the increase of another parameter by an
> equal or greater amount. Moreover, greenhouse gas emissions are
> only one parameter of sustainability that must be considered in
> balance with others.
> We encourage papers that discuss the inter-disciplinary nature of
> this challenge, and the need for a more "joined-up" approach. We
> particularly encourage discussion of effective new diagnostic and
> prescriptive tools to optimize performance across whole systems and
> whole life cycles.
>
> Themes Within the Topic
> We welcome your papers on one of the six themes below. Where
> necessary, a paper may combine two or more themes.
>
> THEME ONE: Climate Change and Urban Morphology - The Evidence
> What is the scientific evidence for or against particular links
> between urban form and contributions of greenhouse gases? What are
> the interrelationships? What are the pitfalls in research, and in
> its application? Papers may survey previous literature and/or
> present new research.
>
> THEME TWO: Climate Change and Best Practice in Urban Design
> What are the implications of climate change research for standards
> of best practice? What does the evolving evidence suggest about
> the relative importance of such parameters as density, transit
> modes, mixed use, building height, social diversity and others?
> What about the relative benefits of retrofit versus new
> construction? How can best practice address issues of market
> acceptance and consumer choice?
>
> THEME THREE: Climate Change, Urban Design and Public Policy
> What are the steps being taken to address the contribution of urban
> design on climate change through public policy, and how well are
> they succeeding? What steps are being taken to mitigate initial
> diseconomies, create new incentives, ease regulatory restrictions,
> and shift market behaviour?
>
> THEME FOUR: Climate Change, Education and Research
> How should academic institutions respond to the climate change
> agenda? What are the implications for inter-disciplinary and
> inter-institutional research? How should design schools respond to
> the challenge? What alternative curricula are implied or required?
>
> THEME FIVE: Case Studies of Urban Projects and Their Impacts
> Paper in this category should present one or more case studies with
> detailed assessment of success in mitigating greenhouse gases, or
> adapting to the consequences of climate change. They may discuss
> challenges of entitlement, market acceptance, economic performance,
> and other project requirements.
>
> THEME SIX: Innovative New Strategies
> Papers in this category should discuss new theoretical or pragmatic
> approaches, such as certification schemes (LEED-ND in the USA,
> BREEAM in the UK, et al.), trading schemes, new coding approaches,
> and other innovations.
> If your paper does not fit within one of the six themes above, be
> advised that we will accept a limited number of papers under
> general or alternative topics.
>
> The Papers
> Papers should be at least 3,000 words and no more than 6,000. Bear
> in mind that speaker presentation time will be no more than 30
> minutes, or about 3,600 words for most speakers. Papers should be
> written in 12 point Times Roman font, in Microsoft Word or
> equivalent format. Footnotes and/or references should appear at
> the end of papers. Authors agree that papers may be published in
> the Congress proceedings. Full guidelines will be sent to selected
> authors.
>
> The Abstracts
> Abstracts should be 12 point Times Roman font, in Microsoft Word or
> equivalent format. Please include your full name, full address and
> affiliation details with an abstract of your presentation of
> between 100 and 300 words. You may include a cover letter or
> email message with additional comments.
> ----
> Please submit proposals with abstracts to the following email address:
> climate.change.2007@gmail.com
>
> -
> Academic Committee:
> Michael Mehaffy (Chair), Sustasis Foundation, US
> ( michael.mehaffy@gmail.com )
> Harald Bodenschatz, Ph.D., Professor, Technical University of
> Berlin, DE ( harald.bodenschatz@t-online.de)
> Charles Bohl, Ph.D., Professor, University of Miami, US
> ( cbohl@miami.edu)
> Sarah Chaplin, Head, School of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston
> University, UK ( S.Chaplin@kingston.ac.uk)
> Harald Kegler, Ph.D.,Laboratory for Regional Planning, DE
> ( harald_kegler@yahoo.com)
> Susan Parham, Ph.D. Candidate, London School of Economics, UK
> ( sp@cagconsult.co.uk)
> Arne Sodal, architect, C.E.U. Norway ( arnsoeda@online.no )
> Lucien Steil, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment
> (UK) ( lucien.steil@princes-foundation,org)
> Emily Talen, Ph.D, Professor, Arizona State University, US
> ( etalen@asu.edu)
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The Call for Papers is also attached.
>
>
> For other information about the 2008 C.E.U. Congress, and
> preliminary registration of participants, please contact the
> congress organizers:
>
> Audun Engh.
> C.E.U. Norway
> St. Olavs gate 9, 0165 Oslo, Norway.
> Tel. +47.92 62 26 26
> Email: audun.engh@gmail.com
>
>
> C.E.U. - Council for European Urbanism
>
> www.ceunet.org
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
>
>
> CLIMATE CHANGE
> AND URBAN DESIGN
>
> Science, Policy, Education and Best Practice
>
>
> The Third International C.E.U. Congress, Oslo, Norway, 14 - 16
> September 2008-
>
> (Attached and below)
>
>
> ABSTRACTS DUE February 1, 2008
> ANNOUNCEMENTS of Accepted Papers March 1, 2008
> COMPLETED DRAFTS DUE June 1, 2008
>
>
> The Topic
> Following successful Congresses in Berlin 2005 and Leeds 2006, the
> Council for European Urbanism will hold its third international
> congress in Oslo, Norway from the 14 th to 16th September 2008.
>
> The congress will discuss the rapidly-evolving topic of "Climate
> Change and Urban Design". Papers are invited on the latest
> implications in science, policy, education and best practice. What
> is the latest science telling us? What are the consequences for
> urban development internationally? What are the practical
> solutions available to reduce climate gas emissions from urban
> settlements and transportation? What strategies are available to
> adapt to changing conditions?
> The congress will welcome government officials, planners,
> architects, social scientists, ecologists, developers, local
> community activists, and all other development stakeholders who
> feel a responsibility to contribute to more sustainable urban
> development.
>
> We invite authors engaged in urban development and climate change
> topics from all parts of the world to submit paper proposals with
> abstracts by February 1, 2008 .
> Announcements of accepted proposals will be on March 1, 2008.
> Completed drafts of papers will be due by June 1, 2008.
>
> Background
> The climate change agenda has clearly reached a world-wide tipping
> point. Yet while there is growing consensus that the phenomenon
> poses a major threat to future human well-being, legitimate debate
> remains about what is to be done to reduce atmospheric carbon
> levels, as well as to adapt to changes that already appear
> likely. In particular there is ongoing debate about how the cost
> of various options correlates to potential benefits. Debate also
> continues about how the issue of climate change relates to the
> larger agenda of sustainable development.
> The built environment is well known to be one of the largest
> current contributors to greenhouse gases. Therefore those who
> work in the planning, design and building professions have a key
> role in working to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide. While much
> work has been done to decrease contributions from individual
> buildings, the role of urban design in addressing climate change
> remains more obscure, and more contentious.
>
> To be sure, buildings are not passive emitters of greenhouse
> gases. They shape the patterns of activity and consumption of
> their occupants, which in turn profoundly affect emissions. Must
> occupants drive between scattered locations, perhaps for long
> distances? Do they spend large percentages of time in buildings
> isolated from a functional public realm, with high patterns of
> consumption and emissions? Are those buildings sited in remote new
> developments where significant areas of existing vegetation have
> been replaced with paved or reflective surfaces? How does the
> urban street and block pattern contribute? What about the mix of
> uses, and the distribution of daily activities and needs?
>
> There has been much discussion of the dramatic carbon reductions
> possible per person in a higher-density urban morphology,
> particularly in comparison to automobile-dominated "sprawl"
> development. But what are the factors to be teased out? If we
> are to pursue such a goal, what are the issues to be addressed in
> economics, market dynamics, project permitting, legal regulation?
> How are these issues being addressed successfully, and what further
> challenges and opportunities remain?
>
> What about the preference of some consumers for lower density
> neighborhoods, or the argument that it is more sustainable to
> accommodate a settlement distribution or "transect" from the
> highest human use to the most pristine natural environment,
> including lower-density agricultural settlements? Does the new
> agenda imply, as some argue, that only very high densities will be
> viable? Or can a mixture that includes some lower-density
> morphologies be sustained in combination with other forms of
> mitigation? Is such a range of densities more economically
> sustainable, as some argue?
>
> Even at high densities, a wide range of morphologies is possible.
> What are the benefits and tradeoffs of the alternatives? For
> example, are dense high rise cities the inevitable best option?
> What about the negative energy impacts of tall buildings that may
> feature extensive curtain wall glazing, or require other high-
> energy conditioning, maintenance or repair? How do tall buildings
> perform across socio-economic classes, or in promoting social
> diversity and economic sustainability? How do they perform in
> repairability, adaptive re-use, or typical life-cycle?
>
> What about the advantages of "green" retrofits of existing
> buildings, in comparison to new green buildings? Since roughly
> half of the energy use of a building is in its construction, is
> there credible evidence to suggest that adaptive re-use of heritage
> buildings should be a greater priority? Are there examples of
> traditional urban fabric that offer better models of sustainable
> morphology, such as medium rise "liner" buildings, or high-density
> terraces? And do traditional buildings offer any significant
> morphological benefits for the sustainability challenge?
>
> These questions remind us that emissions are a cumulative
> phenomenon, and must be considered over whole systems and whole
> life cycles. Clearly a reduction in one targeted parameter is of
> little use if it results in the increase of another parameter by an
> equal or greater amount. Moreover, greenhouse gas emissions are
> only one parameter of sustainability that must be considered in
> balance with others.
> We encourage papers that discuss the inter-disciplinary nature of
> this challenge, and the need for a more "joined-up" approach. We
> particularly encourage discussion of effective new diagnostic and
> prescriptive tools to optimize performance across whole systems and
> whole life cycles.
>
> Themes Within the Topic
> We welcome your papers on one of the six themes below. Where
> necessary, a paper may combine two or more themes.
>
> THEME ONE: Climate Change and Urban Morphology - The Evidence
> What is the scientific evidence for or against particular links
> between urban form and contributions of greenhouse gases? What are
> the interrelationships? What are the pitfalls in research, and in
> its application? Papers may survey previous literature and/or
> present new research.
>
> THEME TWO: Climate Change and Best Practice in Urban Design
> What are the implications of climate change research for standards
> of best practice? What does the evolving evidence suggest about
> the relative importance of such parameters as density, transit
> modes, mixed use, building height, social diversity and others?
> What about the relative benefits of retrofit versus new
> construction? How can best practice address issues of market
> acceptance and consumer choice?
>
> THEME THREE: Climate Change, Urban Design and Public Policy
> What are the steps being taken to address the contribution of urban
> design on climate change through public policy, and how well are
> they succeeding? What steps are being taken to mitigate initial
> diseconomies, create new incentives, ease regulatory restrictions,
> and shift market behaviour?
>
> THEME FOUR: Climate Change, Education and Research
> How should academic institutions respond to the climate change
> agenda? What are the implications for inter-disciplinary and
> inter-institutional research? How should design schools respond to
> the challenge? What alternative curricula are implied or required?
>
> THEME FIVE: Case Studies of Urban Projects and Their Impacts
> Paper in this category should present one or more case studies with
> detailed assessment of success in mitigating greenhouse gases, or
> adapting to the consequences of climate change. They may discuss
> challenges of entitlement, market acceptance, economic performance,
> and other project requirements.
>
> THEME SIX: Innovative New Strategies
> Papers in this category should discuss new theoretical or pragmatic
> approaches, such as certification schemes (LEED-ND in the USA,
> BREEAM in the UK, et al.), trading schemes, new coding approaches,
> and other innovations.
> If your paper does not fit within one of the six themes above, be
> advised that we will accept a limited number of papers under
> general or alternative topics.
>
> The Papers
> Papers should be at least 3,000 words and no more than 6,000. Bear
> in mind that speaker presentation time will be no more than 30
> minutes, or about 3,600 words for most speakers. Papers should be
> written in 12 point Times Roman font, in Microsoft Word or
> equivalent format. Footnotes and/or references should appear at
> the end of papers. Authors agree that papers may be published in
> the Congress proceedings. Full guidelines will be sent to selected
> authors.
>
> The Abstracts
> Abstracts should be 12 point Times Roman font, in Microsoft Word or
> equivalent format. Please include your full name, full address and
> affiliation details with an abstract of your presentation of
> between 100 and 300 words. You may include a cover letter or
> email message with additional comments.
> ----
> Please submit proposals with abstracts to the following email address:
> climate.change.2007@gmail.com
>
> -
> Academic Committee:
> Michael Mehaffy (Chair), Sustasis Foundation, US
> ( michael.mehaffy@gmail.com )
> Harald Bodenschatz, Ph.D., Professor, Technical University of
> Berlin, DE ( harald.bodenschatz@t-online.de)
> Charles Bohl, Ph.D., Professor, University of Miami, US
> ( cbohl@miami.edu)
> Sarah Chaplin, Head, School of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston
> University, UK ( S.Chaplin@kingston.ac.uk)
> Harald Kegler, Ph.D.,Laboratory for Regional Planning, DE
> ( harald_kegler@yahoo.com)
> Susan Parham, Ph.D. Candidate, London School of Economics, UK
> ( sp@cagconsult.co.uk)
> Arne Sodal, architect, C.E.U. Norway ( arnsoeda@online.no )
> Lucien Steil, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment
> (UK) ( lucien.steil@princes-foundation,org)
> Emily Talen, Ph.D, Professor, Arizona State University, US
> ( etalen@asu.edu)
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The Call for Papers is also attached.
>
>
> For other information about the 2008 C.E.U. Congress, and
> preliminary registration of participants, please contact the
> congress organizers:
>
> Audun Engh.
> C.E.U. Norway
> St. Olavs gate 9, 0165 Oslo, Norway.
> Tel. +47.92 62 26 26
> Email: audun.engh@gmail.com
>
>
> C.E.U. - Council for European Urbanism
>
> www.ceunet.org
>
CFP: “The Lie of the Land”: Rural Lies, Myths and Realities
Please see below a call for papers for a session in the RGS-IBG Annual
Conference 2008 (27-29 August).
Title: “The Lie of the Land”: Rural Lies, Myths and Realities
Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group
Convenors:
Gareth Enticott (Cardiff University)
Keith Halfacree (Swansea University)
In May 2006, Channel 4 screened “The Lie of the Land”, a documentary by
Molly Dineen. Originally intended to be about hunting, the documentary ended
up focusing on traditional productive agriculture in marginal South-west
England. In doing so it provoked equal amounts of outrage, praise, anger and
shock. It showed in graphic detail some of the less attractive realities of
rural living: from the routine slaughter of healthy yet unprofitable
new-born calves on dairy farms, to the acute poverty of many farmers’
day-to-day lives, to the harsh impacts of reforms to agricultural subsidies.
In the agricultural press, farmers were equally pleased and angered: pleased
because the film served to highlight the plight of productive agriculture
but also angered because some felt that it undermined those seeking to
develop quality products.
The title of the documentary – “The Lie of the Land” – resonates powerfully
in more general ways too. It signifies a set of long held ‘lies’ about the
English countryside – from the ‘lie’ of a bucolic rural idyll and the
(unseen) ‘lies’ of modern agriculture. These lies, though, are not
necessarily told by farmers but arguably more commonly by governments and
the urban population.
For this session, therefore, we are calling for papers that deal with the
implications for rural geography raised by the “Lie of the Land”. In
particular, papers are invited that deal with the following themes:
1) Rural Lies and Myths. The title of Molly Dineen’s documentary brings to
the surface wide-ranging questions about rural lies, myths and realities.
Who lies about the rural and who is aware of those untruths? What rural
myths exist? How do they circulate around rural populations? What impact do
they have? How are lies manifested and by whom or what: humans, nonhumans,
topographies/geomorphologies?
2) The practice of agriculture in (marginal) rural areas. How have recent
reforms to agricultural policy affected rural livelihoods? For example, how
has the management of the Rural Payments Agency impacted upon farmers? How
have changes to the management of agri-environment schemes, animal health
policies and the Common Agricultural Policy generally altered the practice
of farming today?
3) Methodological Lies. Dineen’s documentary is situated as a journey of
discovery and accidental realisation of a set of rural problems. What other
methodological journeys have researchers experienced that has awakened them
to rural lies and truths? To what extent are the truths researchers say
about the rural based on purposive or accidental journeys? The documentary
also raises the question of how geographers should deal with lying. Which
methods are best suited for exploring and capturing lies? Does it matter if
research participants lie? What untruths do researchers themselves tell?
Please submit abstracts of not more than 250 words by January 31st 2008 to
either:
Dr Keith Halfacree
Swansea University
k.h.halfacree@swansea.ac.uk
or:
Dr Gareth Enticott
Cardiff University
enticottg@cardiff.ac.uk
Conference 2008 (27-29 August).
Title: “The Lie of the Land”: Rural Lies, Myths and Realities
Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group
Convenors:
Gareth Enticott (Cardiff University)
Keith Halfacree (Swansea University)
In May 2006, Channel 4 screened “The Lie of the Land”, a documentary by
Molly Dineen. Originally intended to be about hunting, the documentary ended
up focusing on traditional productive agriculture in marginal South-west
England. In doing so it provoked equal amounts of outrage, praise, anger and
shock. It showed in graphic detail some of the less attractive realities of
rural living: from the routine slaughter of healthy yet unprofitable
new-born calves on dairy farms, to the acute poverty of many farmers’
day-to-day lives, to the harsh impacts of reforms to agricultural subsidies.
In the agricultural press, farmers were equally pleased and angered: pleased
because the film served to highlight the plight of productive agriculture
but also angered because some felt that it undermined those seeking to
develop quality products.
The title of the documentary – “The Lie of the Land” – resonates powerfully
in more general ways too. It signifies a set of long held ‘lies’ about the
English countryside – from the ‘lie’ of a bucolic rural idyll and the
(unseen) ‘lies’ of modern agriculture. These lies, though, are not
necessarily told by farmers but arguably more commonly by governments and
the urban population.
For this session, therefore, we are calling for papers that deal with the
implications for rural geography raised by the “Lie of the Land”. In
particular, papers are invited that deal with the following themes:
1) Rural Lies and Myths. The title of Molly Dineen’s documentary brings to
the surface wide-ranging questions about rural lies, myths and realities.
Who lies about the rural and who is aware of those untruths? What rural
myths exist? How do they circulate around rural populations? What impact do
they have? How are lies manifested and by whom or what: humans, nonhumans,
topographies/geomorphologies?
2) The practice of agriculture in (marginal) rural areas. How have recent
reforms to agricultural policy affected rural livelihoods? For example, how
has the management of the Rural Payments Agency impacted upon farmers? How
have changes to the management of agri-environment schemes, animal health
policies and the Common Agricultural Policy generally altered the practice
of farming today?
3) Methodological Lies. Dineen’s documentary is situated as a journey of
discovery and accidental realisation of a set of rural problems. What other
methodological journeys have researchers experienced that has awakened them
to rural lies and truths? To what extent are the truths researchers say
about the rural based on purposive or accidental journeys? The documentary
also raises the question of how geographers should deal with lying. Which
methods are best suited for exploring and capturing lies? Does it matter if
research participants lie? What untruths do researchers themselves tell?
Please submit abstracts of not more than 250 words by January 31st 2008 to
either:
Dr Keith Halfacree
Swansea University
k.h.halfacree@swansea.ac.uk
or:
Dr Gareth Enticott
Cardiff University
enticottg@cardiff.ac.uk
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