Dear Dr. Hillary,
Hello there! I am not a psycho-geographer! (not with the axe, just with the book! haha) but I would like to recommend
‘It got very debauched, very Dubai!’ Heterosexual intimacy amongst single British expatriates by Katie Walsh
I also recommend
Linda Malam, and folks who are doing geographies on sex tourism --for instance, gays who purchase male sex overseas
and women who alter their identities while on vacations, then return home to their straight/married lives,
I know there is some work in this in Asia.
There is also promiscuity in trafficking literature--in particular, I know Aida Santos, Janice Raymond etc did work on how Filipino women
get trafficked to other destinations because (married and unmarried) Filipino men also comprise one of the largest
foreign worker population, and so this creates the demand for Filipina sex workers who represent "homes away from
home" for the Filipino seafarers or construction workers, et cetera. Although not part of US, European studies, per se
it will be a big gap not to include this.
I think this publication might include that research:
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/attach/CATW%20Comparative%20Study%202002.pdf
A Comparative Study of Women Trafficked in the Migration Process Patterns, Profiles and Health Consequences
of Sexual Exploitation in Five Countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand,
Venezuela and the United States)
Please do email me or let me know about the final bibliography you come up with as I am also very interested in the topic
you're studying
Best regards,
Danicar
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Topics of the day:
1. CFP WORKSHOP: “Value Chains, Neoliberal Regulation and Global
Restructuring: Considerations from the South”
2. Call for papers - Immigrants in Europe
3. LSE PhD Media Symposium 2012 - 'Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests'
4. Promiscuity and social class
5. Food for thought
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:11:50 -0300
From: Lucas Cardozo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP WORKSHOP: “Value Chains, Neoliberal Regulation and Global Restructuring: Considerations from the South”
*WORKSHOP: “Value Chains, Neoliberal Regulation and Global Restructuring:
Considerations from the South”*
For three decades, the value chain construct has served as a powerful
heuristic device to conceptualize and critique links between economies of
the global North and South. Over this period, the chain concept itself has
undergone two major transformations: from “commodity” to “value chain,”
signaling a reorientation from Marxist-inspired World Systems Theory to
firm-centered sociological analysis; and from an academic framework to a
development policy tool. Subsequently, value chains have had considerable
impact on industrial policy promoted by international organizations like
the World Bank and the OECD, as well as governments in “developing
countries”.
The workshop aims to foster critical conversations on the value chain
concept, its circulation as a development policy tool, as well as its
potential and limits in the context of contemporary global economic
restructuring. In fostering this dialogue, we have two specific aims.
First, we encourage analyses of value chain studies as policy tools in
light of contemporary research on neoliberalism as a form of regulation. In
short, do value chains constitute a neoliberal policy device, and if so,
what are the geographies of policy at work and how are we to understand
their effect(s)? Second, what is the future of value chains as a primarily
north-south framework in light of both intensifying hierarchies of unequal
capitalist development, and particular dynamic spaces of accumulation
emerging in the global South. We welcome a range of papers that address one
or more aspects of the following themes:
• Value chains in relation to the institutional literature on regulation,
neoliberalization and “fast policy transfer,” as well as more Foucauldian
science studies approaches on calculating devices, tools and discourses
that construct markets over uneven geographies;
• Contemporary geo-economic and geopolitical perspectives on value chains
shaped by global economic restructuring and, in particular, emergent
south-south geographies of investment and trade.
• Links between value chains and variegated geographies of subnational
regions and labor. Beyond specific sectoral studies, the particular modes
of “insertion” and disarticulation of regions in and from value chains,
shaped by geographies of social relations that condition outcomes for
particular places.
We welcome submissions from all disciplines and geographic locations.
Submissions can be in either Spanish or English.
*Important Dates*
Submission of abstracts: 1st of July
Documents (final or in progress): 1st week of October
PPT or slides for exposure: 2nd week of October
*Submissions*
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Lucas Gabriel Cardozo
Instituto de Investigación Estado, Territorio y Economía
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas - Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Área de Investigación, 3er. piso. Oficina 3.03. Tel: +54 (342) 4585610
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Moreno 2557 CP S3000CVE, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Website: www.iiete.unl.edu.ar
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:32:57 +0100
From: Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for papers - Immigrants in Europe
Call for papers
Immigrants in Europe: Between the Eurozone Crisis and the Arab Spring
London, 9 November 2012
Joint event of the PSA specialist groups for German Politics, Comparative European Politics, Greek Politics and Italian Politics
Organisers:
Patricia Hogwood, University of Westminster: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, London School of Economics: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
The parameters of Europe's immigration concerns have shifted considerably in the last few years. The Eurozone crisis and threat of deepening recession are likely to impact on Europe's competitiveness in the global market in well-qualified, professional transnational migrants. At the other end of the migration spectrum, the balance of payments crisis in the EU's more vulnerable economies may promote mass internal migration to the EU's northern and western member states as marginalised workers search for greater economic security.
The ongoing upheavals in the wake of the Arab Spring promise to add to the migration pressures affecting EU member states. To date, migration inflows to Europe from countries of North Africa and the Middle East have been more modest than originally anticipated and have largely been confined to Italy and Malta. However, this crisis has exposed tensions between member states over the handling of mass migration movements and over immigration policy more generally.
These dramatic developments represent a fundamental challenge to prevailing assumptions about the causes, patterns and impacts of migration movements into and within Europe. This challenge goes beyond the politics of migration to address wider issues of interest to political scientists, including the ethics and practice of citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and human and social rights. This one-day conference considers the implications of these new challenges both for immigrants entering and resident in the EU's member states and for political and social relations within those states.
Abstracts for papers (150-300 words) are invited in the following areas:
1) Security aspects of immigration into the EU
§ Policy linkages and conflicts (e.g. the compatibility of EU immigration concerns with security policy, neighbourhood policy, democracy promotion, international trade, etc)
§ The reform and enlargement of the Schengen system
2) Institutions and politics
§ The multilevel politics of European immigration
§ The institutionalisation of EU immigration policies
3) Integration, identity and discourse
§ Asylum and humanitarian aid for migrants in the context of the European recession
§ Policies for migrant integration into EU member state host societies
§ Discourses of migration
Please submit your abstract to Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Patricia Hogwood [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by the deadline of 22 June 2012.
Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:49:56 +0000
From: "Van Efferink, Leonhardt (2010)"
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Subject: LSE PhD Media Symposium 2012 - 'Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests'
Dear All,
The event below may be of interest to geographers working on media representations, the Arab Spring, alter-geopolitics and related topics.
Kind regards,
Leonhardt van Efferink
* PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London
* Editor of ExploringGeopolitics: http://www.exploringgeopolitics.org/
The Department of Media and Communications at LSE invites you to the 5th Media@LSE PhD Symposium.
The topic of the symposium this year is: 'Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests'.
The event will take place on Friday, June 15th, 2012 at the Graham Wallas Room, fifth floor, Old Building, LSE Campus, London. The conference will start at 9.00am.
Conceptualising cosmopolitanism as a contested term resting on a tension between the local and the global, the symposium examines the mediation of protests through new media platforms as they expand within and beyond national borders.
For more information, please visit: [log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask] or contact us at:[log in to unmask]
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:50:13 -0400
From: Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Promiscuity and social class
Does anyone know of any academic references dealing with the varying propensity to promiscuity between different social classes? I'm mainly looking at promiscuity as adultery, the seeking of new partners whilst in a 'marriage-type' relationship, in a European / N American / Christendom context, but would also be inetersted in any references for other cultures around the world.
I'm looking at the propensity to seek out new experiences in a non-sexual context, e.g. new holiday experiences, as opposed to visiting the same resort every year, and there is evidence that at least for some countries, e.g. Norway, propensity to 'seek out the new', rather than 'sticking with the familiar'' increases as one ascends the social class ladder, and I was intersted to see if any tesearch has been done to see if such behaviour was mirrored in the partner-promiscuity arena.
The issue with the Internet is there are far too many sources, most non-academic; and I'm more of a geographer than a pyschologist. Maybe some pyscho-geographers (no not the guy with the map in one hand and the axe in the other) know of research in this area.
Many thanks for any references here,
Dr Hillary Shaw
Food and Supply Chain Management Department
Harper Adams University College
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
www.fooddeserts.org
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:40:47 -0400
From: Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Food for thought
In April 2011, 45 million Americans, around 1 in 7, were recieving Food Stamps. Predictable, perhaps,in a country with a more threadbare (sorry, 'incentivising') social security system than Europeans are accustomed to. What's more suprising is what you find if you go back in time. In 2003, 22 million were on this programme. Three years before that, 2000, there were just 17 million Food Stamp recipients (source, the Guardian, 3 November 2003,pp.1-2, 'Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen'). So we've had the Credit Crunch since ca. 2007, but the biggest economy on the planet has been busy producing Food Stamp recipients since 2000, at an impressive rate of one extra recipient per 12 seconds. Even over the 'good times', pre 2007. How long before everyone, except perhaps Bill Gates, is getting them?
Dr Hillary Shaw
Food and Supply Chain Management Department
Harper Adams University College
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
www.fooddeserts.org
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