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Dear all,

It's only a few days left for this inspiring seminar that will take place
in Rome on Monday, September 11!

Please, find attached the poster of the event.

All the best,

Lucilla Barchetta





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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. FW: [Scientists-warning] Invitation to be co-signatory on article
> "World
>      Scientists' Warning to Humanity", A bit more help is needed after
> signing
>   2. Research Assistant - Arts in Sustainable Prosperity
>   3. CfP "Destination Africa", Leiden 22-23 March 2018
>   4. Applications invited for 3 year PDRA post at Oxford: Animal Research
> in
>      Veterinary Practice (2)
>   5. PhD Studentship available: Oral History and Conflict Resolution in
> Belfast
>   6. CFP AAG 2018: Temporary Urbanism: Activation, De-Activation and
>      Adaptability within the Urban Environment
>   7. FW: BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama, Oliver Emanuel - Ancient Greek
>   8. Event invitation: Embodying Geographies, University of Birmingham
>   9. AAG 2017 Call for Papers - 'The State and the Urban: a Security
> Affair'
>  10. 2nd CFPs: Modern Slavery and the Media: Representations and Responses
>  11. 'How Critical is Research Impact?' - PGR Conference Announcement
>  12. PhD in Urban transformations and Smart Cycling
>  13. article request (2)
>  14. Power, Violence and Justice: RC21 conference in Toronto, July 15-21
>
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> Date:    Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:14:12 -0700
> From:    "J.P. Sapinski" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FW: [Scientists-warning] Invitation to be co-signatory on article
> "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity", A bit more help is needed after
> signing
>
> If you agree with the following, please consider adding your name as a
> signatory and forwarding it to your networks:
>
> -------- Forwarded Message -------
>
>
> Dear Scientist,
>
> Twenty five years ago, in 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists and
> more than 1500 scientists published the famous declaration entitled
> “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. They called on humanity to curb
> environmental destruction, warning “all humanity that a great change in
> our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast
> human misery is to be avoided.” Now, on the 25th anniversary of their
> famous call, we looked back at their warning and evaluated the human
> response over the last quarter century. This 25-year update will soon be
> published by BioScience.
>
> To see the in press article “World scientists’ warning to humanity: a
> second notice” and add your name as a co-signatory, click:
>
>
> http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/
> <http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/>
>
>
> This short article is only 1,000 words long and can be read in 6
> minutes. If you are a scientist, we invite you to endorse this article
> by adding your name to the co-signatory list. In doing so, when the
> article is published by BioScience, you will be included in the full
> list of co-signatories in the article’s online supplemental material. We
> invite all types of scientists to sign (e.g. ecologists, economists,
> social scientists, medicine, etc.) including graduate students in the
> sciences.
>
> Please forward this email to any other scientists in your contact list
> that may also be interested in signing. For example, you could simply
> forward this email to your working group.  If you use Twitter, consider
> inviting your colleagues to add their signatures by including
> #ScientistsWarningToHumanity in a tweet.
>
> With your help, by forwarding this email to your scientist contacts, we
> will have many more scientists as co-signatories to present to world
> leaders. The deadline for signing is September 19, 2017. Thanks for
> helping get this important message to world leaders and to humanity. As
> of today, September 1, 2017, the article has been signed by nearly 7,000
> scientists from 135 countries.
>
> Thank you, Bill
>
> William J. Ripple
>
> Distinguished Professor of Ecology
>
> Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
>
> Richardson Hall #321
>
> Oregon State University
>
> Corvallis, OR 97331
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> www.cof.orst.edu/cascades <http://www.cof.orst.edu/cascades>
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> __
>
>    As of now, we still need at least one scientist to sign the paper and
> be the voice for these mostly small countries:
>
> Afghanistan, Ãland Islands, Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla,
> Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, the
> Bahamas, Bahrain, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bosnia and
> Herzegovina, Bouvet Island, the British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei
> Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African
> Republic, Chad, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the
> Comoros, the Congo, the Cook Islands, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, El
> Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas),
> the Faroe Islands, the French Southern Territories, Gabon, the Gambia,
> Georgia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Guinea,
> Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the Holy See,
> Iraq, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Kiribati, Kuwait, the Lao People’s
> Democratic Republic, Latvia, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,
> Macao, Macedonia, Maldives, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Martinique,
> Mauritania, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of
> Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue,
> Norfolk Island, the Northern Mariana Islands, State of Palestine, Papua
> New Guinea, Paraguay, Pitcairn, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Ascension
> and Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kits and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarten
> (Dutch), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
> Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone,
> Somalia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, the
> Sudan, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic,
> Tajikistan, United Republic of Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga,
> Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands
> (British), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:18:00 +0100
> From:    Kate Oakley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Research Assistant - Arts in Sustainable Prosperity
>
> Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work with Professor
> Kate Oakley on the ESRC funded, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable
> Prosperity (CUSP) project. The project has an arts and culture theme, led
> by Professor Kate Oakley, which explores the ways in which arts and
> cultural activities can help develop ideas of the good life beyond material
> consumption. Taking a case-study based approach, the research team will be
> working in regions across the UK looking at the development of localised
> cultural economies, the idea of cultural work as ‘good work’ and the role
> of cultural activities in everyday life. The appointee will provide general
> research and administrative support, interviewing and conducting of focus
> groups, and contribute to the preparation and dissemination of reports and
> journal articles.
>
> With a PhD in a relevant field, such as: cultural policy; human geography;
> sociology; environmental policy; urban or regional studies, or media and
> cultural studies, you will have a familiarity with standard socio-economic
> datasets, particularly at regional and local level. You will also have a
> developing record of research, commensurate with the level of the post, and
> excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. The role
> is based at the University of Leeds, but you will also be required to work
> at various locations in the UK, as required by the project.
>
> To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please
> contact:
>
> Professor Kate Oakley, Project Leader
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Research Assistant, (The role of the arts in Sustainable Prosperity)
> AHCMC1016 closing date 22 Sep 2017.
>
> To view the advert use the link below:
>
> http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCMC1016
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:43:52 +0200
> From:    Veit Bachmann <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CfP "Destination Africa", Leiden 22-23 March 2018
>
>
> Call for Papers
>
> Conference: Destination Africa. Contemporary Africa as a global meeting
> point
>
> Leiden, 22-23 March 2018
>
> The newly established AEGIS Collaborative Research Group (CRG) ‘Africa in
> the World – Rethinking Africa’s Global Connections’, will organize the
> ‘Destination Africa’ conference as its inaugural activity, during which
> this idea of contemporary Africa as a global meeting point will be
> explored.  Important questions include the ways in which people in Africa
> perceive this new influx and how they navigate, negotiate, engage, and
> possibly struggle to strike a balance between their own interests and those
> of the ‘newcomers’, including their evaluation of questions concerning
> integration, and the distribution of profits and resources.  The conference
> also aims to shed greater light on the motivations, interests, negotiation
> strategies and navigating practices of those who see Africa as a
> destination.  Finally, it will be important to put these current global
> encounters on African soil in a historical perspective.
>
>
> For more information please see: http://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2148
> or contact the conference organizers
>
> Mayke Kaag, ASC Leiden, [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> Stefan Schmid, ZIAF Goethe University Frankfurt,
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Deadline: 1 October 2017
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:46:24 +0100
> From:    Beth Greenhough <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Applications invited for 3 year PDRA post at Oxford: Animal
> Research in Veterinary Practice
>
> The School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford are
> seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a 3-year Wellcome Trust funded
> programme on Animal Research Nexus: Changing Constitutions of Science,
> Health and Welfare.
> The successful candidate will contribute to a project exploring the
> boundary between animal research and veterinary treatment, and the ethical,
> regulatory and social challenges faced by the veterinary profession.
> Joining a leading interdisciplinary team working on the social, cultural
> and ethical dimensions of animal research, they will undertake interviews
> and ethnographic work exploring the implications of new spaces
> (specifically sites of veterinary practice) within the animal research
> nexus; contribute to qualitative data analysis, research publications and
> dissemination; and take part in integrative activities within the wider
> programme of work.
>
> The appointment will be available for 36 months from 1 January 2018
>
> The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 9 October 2017, and
> interviews will be held week commencing 23 October 2017.
>
> Further details are available here:
> https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_
> jobspec_version_4.display_form
>
> Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Beth Greenhough:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:56:39 +0100
> From:    Beth Greenhough <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Applications invited for 3 year PDRA post at Oxford: Animal
> Research in Veterinary Practice
>
> Please note, the link in the original email does not appear to be working.
> please see the following link:
>
> https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_
> jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=130685
>
> Beth
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:50:39 +0000
> From:    Garikoitz Gomez Alfaro <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: PhD Studentship available: Oral History and Conflict Resolution
> in Belfast
>
> Cross-Community Oral History, Post-Conflict Geography and Conflict
> Resolution at West Belfast Interfaces
>
> TECHNE AHRC PhD Studentship in collaboration with Falls Community Council
> and University of Brighton
> Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of
> Brighton: “Cross-Community Oral History, Post-Conflict Geography and
> Conflict Resolution at West Belfast Interfaces”. This is offered under the
> TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership Awards scheme. The partner
> institutions are the University of Brighton and Falls Community Council
> (FCC) in West Belfast. The studentship will be supervised by Professor
> Graham Dawson and Professor Catherine Moriarty of the University of
> Brighton and Claire Hackett of FCC. This full-time studentship, which is
> funded for three years at standard AHRC rates, will begin on 1 October 2018.
>
> The Studentship
> This studentship will investigate, evaluate and contribute to further
> development of the Dúchas Oral History Archive as a tool for conflict
> resolution and reconciliation in West Belfast. Established by Falls
> Community Council in 1999, the original aim of the Archive was to record
> experiences of the Northern Ireland conflict in nationalist West Belfast.
> This has expanded through peacebuilding work with working class communities
> across Belfast. Over time, contacts with unionist communities emerged, were
> nurtured, and developed into a cross-community partnership for gathering
> interviews and creating opportunities for public and private conversations
> about history and memory. The archive now contains a range of collections
> and includes interviews from residents at the interfaces between the
> unionist Shankill and nationalist Divis, Clonard and Springfield areas.
>
> The project involves critical exploration of the strategies and practices
> devised by Dúchas to build relationships across divisions and to
> acknowledge and deal with a conflicted history. It will examine the
> Archive’s conception of the relationship between oral history and conflict
> resolution, and how conflicts and divisions that arise in community and
> cross-community oral history practice on West Belfast’s interfaces have
> been addressed in its work. Dúchas’s influence on local understandings
> about the value of cross-community history-making and memory-work, and its
> role in the societal and policy conversation about the significance of
> storytelling work in dealing with the past, will be considered.
>
> The project also involves detailed engagement with the narratives
> collected in the Archive, and pioneer their use in making an interpretative
> history of experiences and memories of ‘place’ on both sides of the
> interfaces before, during and after the Troubles. Drawing on current
> academic scholarship on life history and memory of conflict, post-conflict
> geography and conflict resolution, and attending to differences within as
> well as between interface communities, the project will explore how these
> stories may inform a local history concerned with community identity and
> relationship, spatial division and fragmentation, social
> (dis)connectedness, and grass-roots agency in relation to State policy and
> practice.
>
> Through this twin approach, the studentship will advance further
> developments in cross-community storytelling and archiving practices by the
> Dúchas Archive and its partnership organisations, and contribute to wider
> debates amongst community practitioners, policy-makers and academics about
> the uses and limitations of oral history in conflict resolution and
> reconciliation.
>
> Eligibility
> Applicants must satisfy AHRC eligibility requirements and should normally
> have a Masters degree and interdisciplinary academic experience in one or
> more of the following: life history research, cultural memory studies,
> historical cultural studies, social history, cultural geography, social
> anthropology. Practical experience of an oral/community history project,
> and/or peace-building/conflict resolution work, and/or archiving, would be
> an advantage.
>
> Applicants must be a resident of the UK or European Economic Area (EEA).
> In general, full studentships are available to students who are settled in
> the UK and have been ordinarily resident for a period of at least three
> years before the start of postgraduate studies. Fees-only awards are
> generally available to EU nationals resident in the EEA. International
> applicants are normally not eligible to apply for this studentship.
>
> Funding
> Subject to AHRC eligibility criteria, the studentship covers tuition fees
> and a grant (stipend) towards living expenses. The value of the stipend for
> 2018/19 is yet to be confirmed. However, it is likely to be £14,553 plus
> £550 additional stipend payment for Collaborative Doctoral Students.
> Students can apply for an additional six months stipend to engage in
> extended development activities such as work placements. For more
> information visit: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/skills/
> phdstudents/fundingandtraining.
>
> As a TECHNE student, the person selected will have full access to the
> TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership development activities and networking
> opportunities, joining a cohort of about 50 students per year from across
> seven universities in London and the south-east. See www.techne.ac.uk.
> TECHNE students can also apply for additional funding to support individual
> or group training and development activities.
>
> How to Apply
> Applicants should submit via email a curriculum vitae (no more than two
> pages), a sample of writing, a brief letter outlining their qualification
> for the studentship, and the names and contact details of two academic
> referees to [log in to unmask] no later than 5pm on
> 30 October 2017. All documents should be submitted in either a MS Word or
> PDF format. Please ensure the subject line of your email appears as
> ‘surname, first name – FCC/Brighton studentship.’
>
> Interviews are scheduled to be held in Brighton the week beginning 13
> November 2017.  Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete an
> application to the Doctoral Programme at the University of Brighton.
> For further information please contact Professor Graham Dawson (
> [log in to unmask] | +44 (0)1273 643301)
>
>
>
> --
> Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro
> Ph.D. candidate
> ---
> 10-11 Pavilion Parade
> School of Humanities
> University of Brighton
> BN2 1RA - Brighton
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:32:31 +0000
> From:    Yueming Zhang <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CFP AAG 2018: Temporary Urbanism: Activation, De-Activation and
> Adaptability within the Urban Environment
>
> Temporary Urbanism: Activation, De-Activation and Adaptability within the
> Urban Environment
>
> AAG Annual Meeting (New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018)
>
> Organizers: Lauren Andres (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental
> Sciences, University of Birmingham) [log in to unmask]<mailto:L.
> [log in to unmask]>; Yueming Zhang (School of Geography, Earth and
> Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> Temporary uses of spaces, for various purposes (arts, leisure, food
> growing, etc.) have always been a key feature of the urban scene; their
> impact on urban development has been significant either acting as catalyst
> for transformation or gentrification, as burden through illicit
> perspectives, or as coping and informal mechanism for everyday resilience.
>
> 'Temporary urbanism' can be defined as any planned or unplanned actions
> designed and thought through with the ambition of activating a space in
> need of transformation and thus of impacting the surrounding socio-economic
> environment. Temporary urbanism involves adaptability and sits within a mix
> of time scales; it is connected to the planning system but is not solely
> limited to it. Temporary urbanism embraces diversity specially by involving
> a range of decision-makers and users and aiming to foster change by
> producing alternative visions and projects whose aim is not to be sustained
> but to evolve with the space and its users. Such urbanism requires specific
> skills and technics as it challenges existing ways of thinking about space
> production as a much more flexible and fluid process.
>
> Temporary urbanism is all about urban studies. By essence it is a diverse
> and complex form of urbanism embedded within both unplanned (bottom-up) and
> planned (top-down) mechanisms. Research in this area has been extremely
> scattered and there is a need to look beyond the initial distinction of how
> the temporary has been triggered and to build a wider understanding of it
> towards a rethinking of adaptability in urban studies (including urban
> geography, urban planning, urban sociology, etc.) and how to theorise
> temporalities and adaptability in the production and re-production of space
> in both developed and developing contexts.
>
> This session invites critical contributions aiming to engage with the
> field of temporary urbanism and examining topics including, but are not
> restricted to:
>
> *             Theoretical and methodological developments about temporary
> urbanism
> *             Temporary urbanism for activating or de-activating
> transformations of urban space
> *             Unplanned and planned forms of temporary urbanism in both
> the global North and South
> *             Temporary urbanism in relation to adaptability, resilience,
> informality, and everyday coping
> *             Networks, power relationships and temporary uses
> *             Crisis, austerity, and the makeshift city
> *             Trans-/inter-disciplinary approach to conceptualize
> temporary urbanism
> *             Developing understandings of the relation between
> temporalities and space through temporary urbanism
>
> Anyone interested in participating in the session should send an abstract
> conforming to the requirements of the AAG (see
> http://annualmeeting.aag.org/ ) by October 8 to Lauren Andres (
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Yueming Zhang (
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
>
>
> Dr. Yueming Zhang
> Lecturer in Human Geography
> School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
> University of Birmingham
> Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2243
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/zhang-yueming.aspx
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:56:05 +0000
> From:    Patricia Noxolo <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FW: BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama, Oliver Emanuel - Ancient Greek
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Sharing this link to a play broadcast on Radio 4 yesterday - Oliver
> Emanuel's 'Ancient Greek'. It's a version of (and had the same impact on me
> as when I first read) Antigone by Jean Anouilh - the same discussion of how
> the elevated values of Greek tragedy are squashed down to apathy in a
> modern democracy, the pointlessness or not of protest, the disappointment
> of the young in the apathy of the older generation who did nothing as the
> world got worse for them than it was for us (I really felt that moment in
> this  play) - Antigone was one of the high points of my French degree, and
> has always stayed with me, largely because it remains so very relevant.  I
> think this play raises a number of issues that are key to the kinds of
> solidarity that might still be (but often won't be) possible between
> academics and students at this point -  http://www.bbc.co.uk/
> programmes/b017mv20 (if link doesn't work just google BBC afternoon drama
> oliver Emanuel ancient greek).  Have a listen if you get time.
>
> All the best,
> Pat
>
> Dr Patricia Noxolo,
>
> School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
>
> University of Birmingham,
>
> Edgbaston,
>
> Birmingham
>
> B15 2TT
>
> UK
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Madge, Clare (Prof.) [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 06 September 2017 21:04
> To: [log in to unmask]; Patricia Noxolo
> Subject: BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama, Oliver Emanuel - Ancient Greek
>
> Just listened to this. Very close to the bone. Protesting about higher
> education. Worth a listen.
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 12:25:03 +0000
> From:    Jessica Pykett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Event invitation: Embodying Geographies, University of Birmingham
>
> List members are warmly invited to the following event:
>
> Embodying Geographies: research intensive diversity work
>
> When:
>
> 9th October 2017, 10am-3pm
>
> Where:
>
> Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham
>
> Who:
> - Keynote presentations by Dr Avril Maddrell, University of Reading, and
> Dr Jennifer Lea, University of Exeter.
> - Reflections from human geographers, geologists, environmental and
> environmental health scientists from the University of Birmingham.
> - Equality and Diversity Panel including the Univerity of Birmingham BAME
> staff network, Inclusive Curriculum Committee, and representatitves from
> RGS-IBG RACE working group, RGS Athena Network, and The Geological Society.
>
>
> Outline:
>
> In celebration of the Lapworth Museum of Geology’s hosting of the
> Trowelblazers ‘Raising Horizons’ exhibition of women in archaeology and
> geoscience<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/events/
> exhibitions/2017/25-Sept-Raising-Horisonz.aspx>, and to support Black
> History Month, this one day symposium explores embodied academic work and
> its relationship with the collective academic body.
>
>
> As academics, we are socially positioned, gendered, raced and classed in
> different ways, and we unavoidably bring these embodied positions to our
> work, workplaces, fieldwork, teaching and research activities.
>
> So too, the histories of our disciplines have been distinctly embodied,
> and our accepted canons of influential figures have often obscured the
> contributions of diverse scientists and those people, places and power
> relations who made that science possible.
>
>
> The event will examine the embodied and emotional labour involved in
> academic work, which we often conduct in circumstances not of our own
> choosing. It will provide a forum for discussions of the body within
> geography, earth and environmental subjects, considered alongside the
> activities that GEES has been undertaking in the course of its Equality and
> Diversity and Athena SWAN initiatives.
>
>
> Further details and the full programme now available at:
> https://bodygeogblog.wordpress.com/embodying-geographies-research-
> intensive-diversity-work/
>
>
> You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
> e/embodied-geographies-symposium-tickets-36400166879. Places are limited
> to 30 so please book early. Lunch will be provided.
>
>
> We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Geographical Society
> and the The Geological Society.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------
> Dr Jessica Pykett
> Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
> Athena Swan and Equalities and Diversity Champion
>
> School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham
> B15 2TT
> Tel: 01214158133
>
> New Books:
> 2017 Psychological Governance and Pubilc Policy - with Rhys Jones and Mark
> Whitehead (Routledge, London)
> 2016 Emotional States - With Eleanor Jupp and Fiona Smith (Routledge,
> London)
> 2016 Brain Culture. Shaping policy through neuroscience (Policy Press,
> Bristol - paperback)
>
> Embodied Geographies <https://bodygeogblog.wordpress.com/> research
> cluster, GEES
> Psychological Governance <http://psychologicalgovernance.wordpress.com/>
> ESRC Seminar Series
> Negotiating Neuroliberalism <http://changingbehaviours.wordpress.com/>
> ESRC Transformative Social Science research project
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:51:10 +0200
> From:    "Volinz, Lior" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAG 2017 Call for Papers - 'The State and the Urban: a Security
> Affair'
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are pleased to invite contributions to our panel on "The State and
> the Urban: a Security Affair" at the Annual Meeting of the American
> Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14,
> 2018.Deadline: October 13^th .
>
> Panel abstract:
> A growing scholarly discussion turns our attention to the role of
> security practices, materialities and knowledge in crafting the state, a
> process which takes place in both colonial and Western settings (Hansen
> 2006, Goldstein 2012, Graham 2011). In this panel we would like to turn
> this discussion toward the urban: to explore the relations between the
> city, security provision and the state. While cityscapes inform and
> define the relations between (in)security provision and the production,
> or performance, of the state, so do these relations (re)configure both
> public and private urban space.
>
> The state, both in its ideas and its systems (Abrams 1988), has often
> approached as the source of sovereignty and authority. Through the
> bureaucratic, more or less corrupt, at times violent encounters between
> citizens who are positioned in an uneven geography of power, sovereignty
> and authority are often reproduced in practice and through discourses,
> suggesting specific ideas of state and state-ness (Gupta 2012; Trouillot
> 2001). Security encounters and the work of security providers, both
> public and private, such as police, army, neighborhood watches,
> vigilante groups, private security companies, and mercenaries offers a
> privileged entry point to understand the dynamics through which the
> state and its apparatus is crafted in everyday interactions in cities.
>
> Security encounters and the political work of state crafting they do
> does not happen in a geographical vacuum. Urban areas are the cradles
> where all these actors meet and interact with each other and with the
> city dwellers. Cities need to be understood as those processes and
> spaces that allow for and make state crafting possible (Isin, 2007); It
> is often through and in the city that security practices, knowledge,
> materialities, and encounters inform and produce the contours of the state.
>
> Looking at state crafting and the blurring of the boundary between state
> and city through a multiplicity of security practices raises questions
> about urban planning, urban design, and the role of urban
> infrastructure. While the latter could be the technology providing
> security, they also need to be secured, entering complex relations with
> the residents of cities. Recently ever more urban areas are being
> securitized and militarized, becoming the playground and the stage for
> state endeavours, keeping the meaning of citizenship (in cities and
> beyond) on an ever-shifting plane. Substantive citizenship, based upon
> the distribution of rights, resources and privileges, is both claimed
> and denied through and within urban space. The city becomes both an
> arena and a producer of security challenges and citizenship claims,
> where terrorism,criminality, social struggles, migration and informality
> reshape our cities and (re)configure the relations between citizens and
> the state. We therefore welcome empirically based papers that discuss
> security practices in urban areas and their relation to the state, to
> issues of securitization, militarization, policing,infrastructure and
> security architecture.
>
> Please submit abstracts of max. 250 words to both conveners at
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>and [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>by the dead-line, October 13^th . We aim to
> answer all submissions in the week following.
>
> Organized by: Lior Volinz
> <http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/v/o/l.volinz/l.volinz.html?
> search=lior+volinz&origin=XPp9OJ9KReucxCtM%2FFAngA>(University
> of Amsterdam) and Francesco Colona
> <http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/c/o/f.colona/f.colona.html?
> search=francesco+colona&origin=XPp9OJ9KReucxCtM%2FFAngA>(University
> of Amsterdam)
>
> We are looking forward to your contributions!
>
> Lior and Francesco
>
> References
>
> Abrams, P. (1988). Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State.
> /Journal of historical sociology/, /1/(1), 58-89.
>
> Goldstein, D. M. (2012). /Outlawed: between security and rights in a
> Bolivian city/. Duke University Press.
>
> Graham, S. (2011). /Cities under siege: The new military urbanism/.
> Verso Books.
>
> Gupta, A. (2012). /Red tape: Bureaucracy, structural violence, and
> poverty in India/. Duke University Press.
>
> Hansen, T. B. (2006). Performers of sovereignty: on the privatization of
> security in urban South Africa. /Critique of anthropology/, /26/(3),
> 279-295.
>
> Isin, E. F. (2007). City. state: critique of scalar thought.
> /Citizenship Studies/, /11/(2), 211-228.
>
> Trouillot, M. (2001). The anthropology of the state in the age of
> globalization 1: Close encounters of the deceptive kind. /Current
> anthropology/, /42/(1), 125-138.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Lior Volinz*
>
> PhD Candidate
> Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) /
> Centre for Urban Studies
> University of Amsterdam
> Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
> 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:28:54 +0000
> From:    Louise Waite <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: 2nd CFPs: Modern Slavery and the Media: Representations and
> Responses
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Please see the below call for papers that may be of interest to some on
> this list.
> Louise Waite
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Call for papers:
> Modern Slavery and the Media: Representations and Responses
>
> A workshop within ESRC Project:
> 'Negating Humanity': Modern slavery in its historical context and its
> implications for policy
> Central London. January 17-18th, 2018
>
> The focus of this workshop is to explore how public perception and media
> portrayals of slavery since 'abolition' in the US and UK have
> influenced/been influenced by legislation in the realm of efforts to
> abolish or ameliorate slavery. The remit of 'the media' is broad, and will
> look at film, television, fiction, reportage, social media and all forms of
> other broadcasting and reporting. The timeframe is similarly wide-ranging,
> with the workshop covering topics as varied as the media as driver of US
> anti-trafficking policy in the late nineteenth century, representations of
> 'modern slavery' that have influenced the Modern Slavery Act in the UK, and
> public reaction driving policy with regard to 'sex robots' in present day
> and future society.
>
> The approach is inter-disciplinary with workshop participants already
> drawn from academia, NGOs and law enforcement and we would particularly
> welcome papers from inter-disciplinary scholars and specialists in film
> studies and criminology.
>
> We welcome submissions on any aspect of the above broad area, but would
> particularly welcome papers that reflect on these questions:
>
> *         Do media portrayals contribute to a sensationalist
> representation of slavery that is de-politicised?
>
> *         What does an analysis of historical and contemporary
> anti-slavery legislation tell us about the ability to disrupt forms of
> slavery and to provide protection to victims?
>
> *         What may become the key battle grounds and concerns of the
> future with regard to ongoing efforts to combat modern slavery tomorrow and
> beyond?
>
> This workshop is being organised by those involved in the broader ESRC
> funded project: http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/negating-humanity/
>
> Please submit abstracts to Kristofer Allerfeldt (
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and
> Lesley Robinson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> ) by October 1, 2017. Abstracts should be up to 250 words and please also
> include full contact details.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Dr Louise Waite, Associate Professor in Human Geography
> Director of Student Education, School of Geography
>
> NEW paper Waite, L., Lewis, H (2017) Precarious irregular migrants and
> their sharing economies: A spectrum of transactional labouring experiences.
> Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Early view online:
> http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7s2ZBdXejBs8xEjqEqGn/full
>
> Book Waite, L., Lewis, H., Craig, G. & Skrivankova, K. (2015)
> Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants: Insecure work in a globalised
> economy. Basingstoke, Palgrave.
>
> Open access Progress in Human Geography paper (2014): Hyper-precarious
> lives. Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
> http://phg.sagepub.com/content/39/5/580
>
>
> For info on Platform on Forced Labour and Asylum ESRC project, please
> visit: http://forcedlabourasylum.org.uk/
> For info on Precarious Lives ESRC project, please visit:
> https://precariouslives.wordpress.com/
>
> [cid:image001.gif@01D2A96A.BDB1A850]<http://www.leeds.ac.
> uk/news/article/3917/university_of_the_year>
> School of Geography
> University of Leeds
> Woodhouse Lane
> Leeds  LS2 9JT
> Tel +44 (0)113 343 3367
> Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Web www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/l.waite<http://www.geog.leeds.
> ac.uk/people/l.waite>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:13:49 +0000
> From:    Lazaros Karaliotas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: 'How Critical is Research Impact?' - PGR Conference Announcement
>
> Hi all,
>
> The Human Geography Research Group at the University of Glasgow is
> organising and hosting a two-day PGR conference - 'How Critical is Research
> Impact?' - in December this year.
>
> For details on the Conference you can follow this link
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/conference/ or click on the image below.
>
> Please could you let your local postgraduate community, PhD supervisees,
> and new-start PhD students, know about this event.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lazaros
>
>
> [cid:3c0c3f2b-8c66-4927-9c16-503d00ad41fb]<http://www.gla.
> ac.uk/schools/ges/conference/>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:35:03 +0000
> From:    Mattias Qviström <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: PhD in Urban transformations and Smart Cycling
>
> The Department of Urban and Rural Development at SLU, Uppsala, is offering
> a four-year position as PhD-student (see below). Please contact Matthew
> Cashmore for further information.
>
>
> 'Governing urban transformations: Cycling in the cities of the future'
>
> This PhD project will investigate how smart technologies are shaping the
> future of urban cycling. It will analyse emerging understandings, of and
> knowledge about, smart cycling; urban planning policies and material
> interventions in cycling infrastructure; and, cycling cultures and
> practices. The research aims to provide novel insights on governance for
> urban transformations by extending theorisations of sustainability
> transitions beyond innovation-centred transition management thinking.
>
> http://www.slu.se/en/education/programmes-courses/
> postgraduate-studies/new-phd-student/Read-more/?Uid=1212
>
> Deadline for applications: 16th October 2017.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Mat
>
>
> Dr Matthew Cashmore
>
>
> Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
> Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
>
> Department of Urban and Rural Development
> PO Box 7012, SE-750 07 Uppsala
> Visiting address: Ulls hus, Ulls väg 27, 756 51, Uppsala, Sweden
> Phone: +46 (0)18 67 26 47, Mobile: +45 25831000
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, www.slu.se<
> http://www.slu.se/en/>
> #slu40, www.slu40.se
> <https://internt.slu.se/en/slu-40-years/>[cid:image001.
> [log in to unmask]]
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 15:00:44 -0400
> From:    Johnny Finn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: article request
>
> Sorry for the post, everyone… Does anyone have access to the following
> article:
>
> Laurel, A.S. 2000. Structural Adjustment and the Globalization of Social
> Policy in Latin America. International Sociology 15(2): 306-325.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Johnny
>
>
>
>
> --
> John(ny) Finn, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Geography
> Department of Sociology, Social Work, & Anthropology
> Christopher Newport University
> Review Editor, Human Geography <http://www.hugeog.com/>
> Associate Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography <
> http://clagscholar.org/publications/jlag/>
> Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Phone: 757-594-7939
> Web: www.johnnyfinn.net <http://www.johnnyfinn.net/>
> https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn <https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 15:17:20 -0400
> From:    Johnny Finn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: article request
>
> Received!
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Johnny
>
>
> --
> John(ny) Finn, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Geography
> Department of Sociology, Social Work, & Anthropology
> Christopher Newport University
> Review Editor, Human Geography <http://www.hugeog.com/>
> Associate Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography <
> http://clagscholar.org/publications/jlag/>
> Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Phone: 757-594-7939
> Web: www.johnnyfinn.net <http://www.johnnyfinn.net/>
> https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn <https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 7, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Johnny Finn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the post, everyone… Does anyone have access to the following
> article:
> >
> > Laurel, A.S. 2000. Structural Adjustment and the Globalization of Social
> Policy in Latin America. International Sociology 15(2): 306-325.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Johnny
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > John(ny) Finn, PhD
> > Assistant Professor of Geography
> > Department of Sociology, Social Work, & Anthropology
> > Christopher Newport University
> > Review Editor, Human Geography <http://www.hugeog.com/>
> > Associate Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography <
> http://clagscholar.org/publications/jlag/>
> > Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > Phone: 757-594-7939
> > Web: www.johnnyfinn.net <http://www.johnnyfinn.net/>
> > https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn <https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnFinn>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 7 Sep 2017 17:50:06 -0400
> From:    Ute Lehrer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Power, Violence and Justice: RC21 conference in Toronto, July
> 15-21
>
>
>     RC21 Regional and Urban Development
>
> The XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology will be held in Toronto July
> 15-21, 2018, and RC 21 (Regional and Urban Development) will be present
> as usual.
>
> Submission of abstracts will end on September 30, 2017 24:00 GMT. Please
> check our sessions at the following website:
> https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Symposium458.html
>
>
> *Sessions:*
>
>
> Author Meets Their Critics: Unequal Cities. the Challenge of
> Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10834.html>
>
> Biography and City
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session8410.html>
>
> Climate Change and Urban Transformations
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session8371.html>
>
> Ethnic Power in Metropolises: Local Channels and Responses
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10042.html>
>
> Ethnographies of Transnationalism, Gentrification, Displacement and
> Belonging: The Intersection of Lifestyle Migration/Residential Tourism
> and Urban Transformation
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10895.html>
>
> Housing Stigma
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session7856.html>
>
> In Search for a Global Urban Justice Movement through Theory and Praxis
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session9868.html>
>
> Looking at Urban Centres As Sites of Power
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10642.html>
>
> Migration and Regeneration: Rebuilding the Uneven City
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session9662.html>
>
> Putting the Financialisation of Housing in the ‘Rights’ Place: A
> Multi-Scalar Perspective
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10212.html>
>
> Reappraising Governance and Urban Development: Habitat III & the New
> Urban Agenda
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10612.html>
>
> The Future of Western Capitalism. Global Forces and Local Challenges
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session9650.html>
>
> The Geography of Profits and Politics – How Developers Shape Urban
> Development and Policy Making
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session9684.html>
>
> The Power Struggle over Urban Space: Spatial Violence and (In)Justice
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session8521.html>
>
> The Transformative Turn in Urban Studies: The Sdgs, the New Urban Agenda
> and the Paris Agreement and their Impact on Urban Sociology and Planning
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session8958.html>
>
> Urban Violence and Criminality
> <https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
> Session10245.html>
>
> If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract
> on-line before the deadline
>
> of *September 30, 2017*.
>
> For more details, please see Abstract submission guidelines
> http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/
> toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
> <http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/
> toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of CRIT-GEOG-FORUM Digest - 6 Sep 2017 to 7 Sep 2017 (#2017-253)
> ********************************************************************
>



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