Archive: Settembre, 2013

• Out of Place, Into Extremis

African Geographical Review 
 
Special Issue Call for Papers
 
Out of Place, Into Extremis:
Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa
 
Guest Editors:
– Kevin M. DeJesus
Rhode Island College
– Daisuke Maruyama
University of Kyoto
 
This special issue of African Geographical Review seeks to provide a
comprehensive, contemporary compendium of perspectives on forced migration
across the African continent. This initiative draws from critical
geographical analytical frameworks to elucidate the experiences, dilemmas, trends and interventions in the experience of internally displaced persons, refugees and refugee returnees from every sector of the continent.
 
This special issue is conceived of as an analytical and empirical resource for which those scholars across disciplines, refugee advocates and humanitarian professionals may utilize to further apprehend the great complexities of the human geographies of survival forcibly displaced persons engender in their quest to locate spaces of refuge. Indeed, as Feminist Critical Geographer Jennifer Hyndman noted so presciently over a decade ago, the very acts of mobility/immobility, border crossings and the pursuit of humanitarian supports amidst grave circumstances, is both immensely spatialized and politicized.1 <#sdfootnote1sym> Displaced persons endure complex ecological, political, sociological and material factors
which shape the making of new geographies of everyday life amidst oftendreadful conditions.
 
This special issue intends to center geographic thought and analysis in the critical assessment of policy and practice concerning refugee and IDP policy-making, humanitarian intervention, contexts of contested borders of selves and nations, local reception and the challenges of return and reintegration. The geographies of return and so-called reintegration encompass profoundly vital questions and problematics, across scales, whereas making place upon returning to a home perhaps only known long ago, if ever, often engenders new dislocations.
 
The spectrum of the experiences of flight to return are inherently,
dynamically and vitally geographical, and therefore, it is the goal of this special issue to comprehensively consider this wide range of human experiences and processes that displaced persons often creatively contend with in the face of sharply-scaled social, economic and political barriers, borders and bureaucracies.
 
*Papers concerning the following themes, and those others related to the critical geographies of forced migration on the continent are welcome.
Particularly, scholars from the continent are encouraged to participate in this project.
 
–Scaling injustice: Critiques of country-specific refugee and IDP policy approaches/macro-level critiques of global refugee regimes, aid to refugees/IDPs in Africa;
 
–Paradoxes, Problematics and Purpose in the Production of Humanitarian Space: Critical approaches to refugee and IDP encampment as a spatial strategy of humanitarian management and the role of the nation-state;
 
–National citizens and Pan-African Approaches: Forced migration and the role of national borders in forcibly transnational lives amidst a quest for unified policy (i.e. 2009 African Union Convention on Internally Displaced Persons);
 
–Protecting Self and Place: Transit refugees, geographies of resources, and resistance to forced re-location;
 
–Making sacred space: The role of religion, the religio-political and religiously inspired actors in humanitarian aid provision and social-psychological needs in extremis;
 
–Livelihoods and Resources: Refugee/IDP encampments, ecological change and resource development/destruction: innovations in policy and practice;
 
–Spatial analysis, crisis mapping, and human rights of the displaced: Reflections on Africa;
 
–Spaces of change: Cultural anomie, coping and emergent social practices in everyday spaces of living refuge (i.e. refugee/IDP encampment and shifts in dowry practices);
 
–Re-inventing home: Spaces of the family and the experience of flight, long-term displacement and re-location;
 
–Spatializing social structure and communities dislocated: Social organization and re-organization in emergency and long-term spaces of refuge;
 
–The experience of displacement and how gender works: Women and men in the meeting of everyday material and social needs amidst shifting contexts of place;
 
–Spatial organization of social spaces of refuge: Re-conceiving of refugee encampment and the humanitarian spatial imagination;
 
Social and Dynamic Network Analysis in Place and Policy: How does social/dynamic network analysis theory and data-generation methods, such as ORA, contribute to the geographic study of forced migration and its human dilemmas?
 
–Urban and Rural Spaces of Refuge: Critical mappings of urban and rural implacement of displaced persons, macro-urban refugee policy, informal spaces of refuge and localizing community solidarity and proximity, urban and rural livelihood resources.
 
Key Project Details:
 
Please send your abstract of 250 words, by October 30, 2013, with the subject line: “AGR Special Issue” to: kevinm.dejesus@gmail.com
 
Selected manuscripts are due by:     January 3, 2014

 
For authors guidelines, please see:
 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rafg20&page=instructions#.Ufny6m3gWdw
 
1 <#sdfootnote1anc>Hyndman, J. (2000). *Managing Displacement: Refugees
and the Politics of Humanitarianism.* Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press.

• Two Faculty Positions, Florida State University

FLORIDA, TALLAHASSEE 32306.
Florida State University.
 
The Department of Geography invites applications for TWO faculty positions to begin August 2014.
 
POSITION 1: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Geography.
 
The successful applicant will be expected to pursue research, secure external funding, and teach in one or more of the following areas: environmental conflict and conservation, political ecology, development issues, governance of natural resources, environmental policy.
 
POSITION 2: tenure-track Assistant Professor in GIScience.
 
The successful applicant will be expected to pursue research and secure external funding in GIScience with a desired (but not limited) emphasis on applications, such as access to healthcare, transportation, issues linked to aging, and environmental conservation and policy. They are also expected to teach technical courses such as GIS programming, spatial databases, and/or geovisualization.
 
For each, salary and benefits are highly competitive, and commensurate with qualifications and experience. A PhD in geography or a related area is required. Send ONE pdf attachment (that includes letter of application, CV and names and contact details of 3 referees) to Dr. Victor Mesev (vmesev@fsu.edu) by October 31, 2013. Florida State University is an equal opportunity employer.

• Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human Geography, University of Hawaii

We are conducting an open search for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a specialization in geopolitics or environmental governance. The application deadline is October 1. The full ad on the AAG jobs site is here
 
Applications can be submitted online here: http://surveys.socialsciences.hawaii.edu/ework/
 
Krisna Suryanata (krisnawa@hawaii.edu) is chairing the search, but I am happy to answer any informal questions about the position, the department (www.geography.hawaii.edu), or living in Hawai’i.

• Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies

Please find the call for papers for the Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) in English and in Spanish in the attachment.
 
Deadline for abstract 1 December 2013
 
Info/Submission to Program Chair: Martin van der Velde (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) at M.vanderVelde@ru.nl
 
eng
 
esp

• Islands and borders in the new European migratory system

Call for papers to be submitted to L’Espace Politique, online Political Geography and Geopolitics Journal, for publication in its 2014/2 issue (n°24).

• Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

EUGENE, OREGON 97403-1251.

University of Oregon.

Tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR position beginning September 2014.

The Department of Geography seeks a broadly trained Geographer with expertise in feminist geographical perspectives in relation to human-environment relations, socio-spatial change, or critical development studies.

Preference will be given to someone with the interest and ability to teach introductory, upper-division, and graduate courses, including research methods, and human geography or a world region. Applicants should have an interest in contributing to a dynamic, collaborative geography department and to work with interdisciplinary programs at the University of Oregon, such as the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Women and Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, African Studies, European Studies, the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, and/or Environmental Studies.

Applicants must have the ability to maintain a strong program of research, publication, and teaching.

Specific duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervising masters and doctoral students. Ph.D. required by September 2014.

Complete position announcement is available at http://hr.uoregon.edu/jobs, or contact Search Committee Chair, Shaul Cohen (scohen@uoregon.edu).

Apply on-line at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2817; only online applications accepted.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to diversity and from members of underrepresented groups.

The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

To assure full consideration, applications must be received by October 1, 2013. Position will remain open until filled. For more information about the department, visit our webpage: http://geography.uoregon.edu

• African Geographical Review

African Geographical Review

 
                              Special Issue Call for Papers

   Out of Place, Into Extremis:

Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa

Guest Editors:

Kevin M. DeJesus

Rhode Island College

Daisuke Maruyama

Kyoto University

This special issue of African Geographical Review seeks to provide a comprehensive, contemporary compendium of perspectives on forced migration across the African continent. This initiative draws from critical geographical analytical frameworks to elucidate the experiences, dilemmas, trends and interventions in the experience of internally displaced persons, refugees and refugee returnees from every sector of the continent.

This special issue is conceived of as an analytical and empirical resource for which those scholars across disciplines, refugee advocates and humanitarian professionals may utilize to further apprehend the great complexities of the human geographies of survival forcibly displaced persons engender in their quest to locate spaces of refuge. Indeed, as Feminist Critical Geographer Jennifer Hyndman noted so presciently over a decade ago, the very acts of mobility/immobility, border crossings and the pursuit of humanitarian supports amidst grave circumstances, is both immensely spatialized and politicized.¹ Displaced persons endure complex ecological, political, sociological and material factors which shape the making of new geographies of everyday life amidst often dreadful conditions.

This special issue intends to center geographic thought and analysis in the critical assessment of policy and practice concerning refugee and IDP policy-making, humanitarian intervention, contexts of contested borders of selves and nations, local reception and the challenges of return and reintegration. The geographies of return and so-called reintegration encompass profoundly vital questions and problematics, across scales, whereas making place upon returning to a home perhaps only known long ago, if ever, often engenders new dislocations.

The spectrum of the experiences of flight to return are inherently, dynamically and vitally geographical, and therefore, it is the goal of this special issue to comprehensively consider this wide range of human experiences and processes that displaced persons often creatively contend with in the face of sharply-scaled social, economic and political barriers, borders and bureaucracies.

Papers concerning the following themes, and those others related to the critical geographies of forced migration on the continent are welcome. Particularly, scholars from the continent are encouraged to participate in this project.

–Scaling injustice: Critiques of country-specific refugee and IDP policy approaches/macro-level critiques of global refugee regimes, aid to refugees/IDPs in Africa;

–Paradoxes, Problematics and Purpose in the Production of Humanitarian Space: Critical approaches to refugee and IDP encampment as a spatial strategy of humanitarian management and the role of the nation-state;

–National citizens and Pan-African Approaches: Forced migration and the role of national borders in forcibly transnational lives amidst a quest for unified policy (i.e. 2009 African Union Convention on Internally Displaced Persons);

–Protecting Self and Place: Transit refugees, geographies of resources, and resistance to forced re-location;

–Making sacred space: The role of religion, the religio-political and religiously inspired actors in humanitarian aid provision and social-psychological needs in extremis;

Livelihoods and Resources: Refugee/IDP encampments, ecological change and resource development/destruction: innovations in policy and practice;

–Spatial analysis, crisis mapping, and human rights of the displaced: Reflections on Africa;

–Spaces of change: Cultural anomie, coping and emergent social practices in everyday spaces of living refuge (i.e. refugee/IDP encampment and shifts in dowry practices);

–Re-inventing home: Spaces of the family and the experience of flight, long-term displacement and re-location;

–Spatializing social structure and communities dislocated: Social organization and re-organization in emergency and long-term spaces of refuge;

-The experience of displacement and how gender works: Women and men in the meeting of everyday material and social needs amidst shifting contexts of place;

–Spatial organization of social spaces of refuge: Re-conceiving of refugee encampment and the humanitarian spatial imagination;

Social and Dynamic Network Analysis in Place and Policy: How does social/dynamic network analysis theory and data-generation methods, such as ORA, contribute to the geographic study of forced migration and its human dilemmas? 

–Urban and Rural Spaces of Refuge: Critical mappings of urban and rural implacement of displaced persons, macro-urban refugee policy, informal spaces of refuge and localizing community solidarity and proximity, urban and rural livelihood resources.

                                       Key Project Details:

Please send your abstract of 250 words, by October 30, 2013, with the subject line: “AGR Special Issue” to: kevinm.dejesus@gmail.com

      Selected manuscripts are due by:  January 3, 2014

For authors guidelines, please see:

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rafg20&page=instructions#.Ufny6m3gWdw

• The European Union in International Affairs IV

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Deadline 30 September 2013

‘The European Union in International Affairs IV’

Brussels, 22-24 May 2014

The Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB), the Institut d’Études Européennes at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations invite papers for the fourth ‘European Union in International Affairs’ (EUIA) Conference.

The EUIA Conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of ideas amongst scholars engaged in understanding the role of the EU in the world. This broad theme encompasses the dynamic interplay between the EU, its member states and external partners. Debates may focus on topical issues such as the European elections and the quest for democratic accountability, the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, European responses to the instability in the wider neighbourhood, the external implications of the Eurozone crisis, and the evolution of the post-Lisbon European foreign policy system. As such, the EUIA Conference integrates ‘inside out, outside in’ perspectives covering different policy fields.

The EUIA Conference is open to all relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines. Through keynote addresses and policy link panels it fosters exchange between the scientific and the policy communities. Limited solidarity grants are available to cover part of the cost of participation of junior researchers from disadvantaged countries.

Please submit your paper abstract (300 words maximum) according to instructions on the conference website: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014

Deadline for paper proposals: 30 September 2013 Notification of acceptance: 17 January 2014 Submission of full papers: 9 May 2014

We look forward to welcoming you to the fourth EUIA Conference!

On behalf of the EUIA Conference organisers: IES-VUB, IEE-ULB, UNU-CRIS and Egmont

The EU in International Affairs Conference Secretariat Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels (mail address)

T: +32-2-6148001

F: +32-2-6148010

E: euia2014@ies.be

W: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014

• Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series 2013-2014

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series 2013-2014

The Department of Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment at the Radboud University of Nijmegen cordially invites you to our Lecture and Seminar Series on the theme of …

Science in/and/of Society

The interlinking of science with other spheres of society has been a lively topic in the Sociology of Science. Historically, this link was conceptualized as a linear model in which scientific ‘truth’ discovered in fundamental research was transferred through applied science into the political arena where it is transformed into the decisions that can solve our problems and improve society. In this model the ‘bridging of the gap’ between science and the common good, naturally leads to a technocratic orientation, which facilitated the expert in ‘speaking truth to power” or the politician in ‘tapping the reservoir of science’ -and, in contemporary terms, making ‘evidence based policies’. Even though our understanding of these relations has moved towards more sophisticated versions, this model still informs the common knowledge of science and society. In our everyday understanding — shaped in part by the mass media — and decision-making on spatial-environmental issues, e.g. from making our living places climate-proof to assessing the costs and benefits of megaprojects and back to curbing the geographical spreading of infectious diseases, scientific expertise plays a major role in how we frame and handle such challenges. While this process requires a large amount of trust in science and experts, the authority of science has been eroding and knowledge sometimes becomes highly contested, especially in the western context. Scientific advisory sees itself confronted with an increase in the demands for transparency, participation and democratisation. Within this theme we investigate how science in general and the ‘spatial’ disciplines of geography, environmental studies, and spatial planning in particular deal with such demands or, somewhat more inciting, how they perhaps should deal with them, considering as well the changes in the way research is funded as well as the transformation of these disciplines’ relation to the political. The theme includes an interest in processes of self-reflection that could or should take place within the respective fields of geography, spatial planning, and environmental studies.

Questions to be addressed

How to organise the exchange between (spatial) science and modern democratic politics? What could be the role of (spatial) scientists vis-à-vis other spheres of society? How do we safeguard scientific relevance in the face of increasing demand for societal relevance -and what do these notions mean? How do we assess the role of (spatial) scientific expertise in legitimising interventions we make in our environment? What role does science play in predictions of the future, in providing knowledge in the face of the abyss of the unknowable? What role do scientists play in providing knowledge on climate change? On economic forecasting? On providing visions for the future spatial ordering of our world? And how do scientist deal with the production of ‘objective knowledge’ in the face of the decline of public funding and an increase of commercial funding?

For the programme see posters below or go to www.ru.nl/humboldt

• 2014 UAA CONFERENCE: Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION—2014 UAA CONFERENCE

Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization

Urban Affairs Association Conference

San Antonio, TX

March 19‐22, 2014

Abstract/Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013

Urban areas have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last decade. More of the world’s population now lives in cities than in any other context. International trade, capital investment and divestment, migration, and porous economic, social and political boundaries fuel this global urbanization. Enormous governance challenges result for megacities and fast‐growing urban centers due to in‐migration and other trends, particularly in the global south. Ethnic, racial and economic disparities across the globe create new tensions and vehicles for exclusion, while also creating interesting possibilities for cooperation and collaboration. Economic, political, and environmental crises further burden governance and demand innovative solutions to problems unique to global urbanization. All of this raises old and new civic and policy questions about boundaries and borders of global urbanization. Consequently, the 2014 conference theme is “Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization.” The conference site, San Antonio, is a global city with a population of approximately 1.3 million, in a significant border region with boundaries that defy simple conceptualizations. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and one of its most ethnically diverse, with almost 70 percent of its native and immigrant residents being of Hispanic descent. It provides a particularly apt setting to explore borders and boundaries and how they shape urban affairs in the 21st Century. To broaden the conference discourse on the theme of global urbanization, UAA will sponsor a special track on Urban Issues in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. We welcome and will actively reach out to our research colleagues across these regions.

Topical Categories

In keeping with the tradition of UAA Annual Meetings, we encourage proposals that focus on an array of research topics including:

Arts, Culture, Media

Disaster Planning for Urban Areas, Disaster Management, Emergency Preparedness, Cities & Security

Economic Development, Redevelopment, Tourism, Urban Economics, Urban Finance

Education in Urban Contexts, Urban Schools, Higher Education Institutions and Urban Communities

Environmental Issues and Cities, Sustainability and Cities, Urban Health, Technology and Society

Globalization and Urban Impacts, International Urban Issues

Governance in Cities /Urban Regions, Intergovernmental Relations, Regionalism, Urban Management

Historic Preservation, Space and Place

Historical Perspectives on Cities and Urban Regions

Housing, Neighborhoods, Community Development

Human/Social Services for Urban Populations, Nonprofit Sector in Urban Contexts

Immigration Dynamics and Impacts on Urban Areas, Population and Demographic Trends

Infrastructure, Capital Projects, Networks, Transport, Urban Services

Labor, Employment, Wages, Training

Land Use, Growth Management, Urban Development, Urban Planning

Poverty, Welfare, Income Inequality

Professional Development, The Field of Urban Affairs

Public Safety in Urban Areas, Criminal Justice, Household Violence

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Identity, Diversity

Social Capital & Urban Communities, Democracy & Civil Society in Urban Contexts, Religion & the City

Urban Design, Urban Architecture

Urban Indicators, Data/Methods, Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys

Urban Politics, Elections, Citizen Participation

Urban Theory, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs

Proposal Submission Formats and Policies

A proposal can be submitted through the UAA website (starting June 1, 2013) for a:

Research paper presentation‐‐(proposal requires an abstract) OR

Pre‐organized panel‐‐(proposal requires a group of 4‐5 paper abstracts with moderator) OR

Pre‐organized colloquy session‐‐ (proposal requires theme statement & names of 4‐5 formal discussants) OR

Breakfast roundtable‐‐(proposal requires theme statement & names of 1‐2 conveners) OR

Poster‐‐(proposal requires an abstract)

Participation Policy ‐‐‐One Session Rule

Individuals are limited to participating (as a presenter or moderator) in one (1) conference session. A conference session is defined as: a panel, a colloquy, a poster display, or a breakfast roundtable. There is no limit to the number of papers/posters for which you are a co‐author. But, you cannot be scheduled to participate in more than one session. Do not agree to participate in more than one session. Policy exception: persons who are asked to play a service role (e.g., plenary speaker, professional development session speaker) for UAA can participate in one additional session.

Late Proposals

After October 1, 2013, UAA will only accept proposals for the poster option.

Proposal Review Decision Date Acceptance or rejection notices will be sent by November 18, 2013.

Conference Hotel and Participant Registration Rates

All conference activities (except where noted) will take place at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel located along the famous San Antonio River promenade. Very competitive room rates have been secured for conference

attendees: $179 (single/double) plus applicable state and local taxes. This rate applies 3 days before/after the event if rooms are available. Cut‐off date for conference rate room reservations is February 20, 2014. Early reservations are strongly advised. The UAA website will provide a direct web link for hotel reservations.

ALL PARTICIPANTS (faculty, students, practitioners) must pay the designated fees for their registration category. Registration rates will be posted on the UAA website by July 1, 2013.

Conference Planning

Local Host: University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

Committee members: Heywood Sanders (Committee Chair), Chris Reddick, (Chair‐UTSA Public Administration); Francine Romero (Assoc. Dean‐UTSA College of Public Policy), Ivy Taylor, Public Administration.

Program Committee:

Chair, Gordana Rabrenovic (Northeastern University), Roland Anglin (Rutgers University), Robert Chaskin (University of Chicago), Cecilia Giusti (Texas A&M University), Deidre Oakley ( Georgia State University)

Questions?

Visit the UAA website: www.urbanaffairsassociation.org (info on special tracks, proposal submissions,registration, hotel reservations, etc.), contact us at conf@uaamail.org or 1‐414‐229‐3025.