[Emploi] Postdoc level scientist (India) | NIAS

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The National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) is a multidisciplinary research institute located in Bangalore, India. We are searching for a postdoctoral level social scientist to work in our research programme entitled :

Provincial Globalisation : The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India Regional Towns

This is an international collaborative programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam (UvA), and NIAS. The five-year research programme explores processes of globalisation at the regional level by mapping transnational networks and flows of resources connecting migrants with their home regions, and the influence of these transfers on local political, economic, and social-cultural structures and processes.

Eligibility
The selected researcher will design and carry out an independent project on transnational migration and resource flows from migrants. Candidates should have finished the PhD degree in any social science (except economics), preferably with specialisation in migration, transnational, and/or development studies. The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, a sound conceptual/ theoretical grounding in his/ her discipline, the ability to utilise and combine diverse data sources at different scales, and excellent writing and organisational skills. The postdoctoral researcher will work in an international multidisciplinary team that includes specialisations in anthropology, sociology and economics. This is a full-time two-year position based at NIAS. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application
Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae including the names and addresses of three referees, a sample of published work, and a brief research proposal (3-5 pages) based on the detailed outline of the research programme, which will be sent to applicants upon enquiry.

Deadline for applications is January 31, 2011.

Contact
Interested candidates may write to :
Prof. Carol Upadhya
School of Social Sciences
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560012 India 

www.aissr.uva.nl/aissr_about/...

[Conference] Indonesia: what role as a contemporary global actor?

Monday 1 to Thursday 4 March 2010
With support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was returned for a second five-year term of office in 2009, becoming the country's first leader democratically re-elected and giving Indonesia a welcome dose of continuity. Will this enable Indonesia to play a more significant role in global issues?

The conference aimed:
    - to take stock of recent political and economic developments in Indonesia;
    - to examine Indonesia's potential as a growing 21st century global actor, and what needs to be done to strengthen Indonesia's governance, economy and social development to enable it to address contemporary challenges domestically and internationally;
    - to map out how Indonesia can further develop its contribution towards effecting change internationally through the United Nations, G20 and regional architecture.

Among those taking part in the conference were the State Minister for National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), Professor Armida Alisyahbana, Governor of Papua province Barnabus Suebu, Heru Prasaetyo, Deputy Head of the Presidential Unit for the Management of Programs, John Prasetio, Vice Chairman of the Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN), Dr Rizal Sukma, Executive Director of the Jakarta Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Professor Anies Baswedan, President of Paramadina University and Yuli Ismartono, Executive Editor of Tempo. For a copy of the conference programme, click here.

Among key issues arising in discussion were:
    - Indonesia would like to be recognised as a place where democracy and Islam co-exist, but not as a Muslim democracy;
    - Indonesia's parliamentarians tend to adopt a protectionist stance towards free trade and economic reform, and the government needs to take a leadership role in countering such views;
    - while there are ideological differences between political parties, parties do not have political manifestos spelling out policies; there is a need for the parliament to become more transparent, with voting clearly recorded, and accountable to local constituents;
    - despite radical decentralisation, seen by some as 'over-decentralisation', achievements in local government are attributable to inspired leadership rather than systemic change; there is a serious need for reform of the civil service;
    - There needs to be much greater coordination in Indonesia's foreign policy, and on the domestic front the government needs to see policy through consistently, with better executive coordination and accountability;
    - Indonesia should perhaps concentrate on two or three items on the global agenda where its involvement could make a notable impact, rather than spread its interest across a broad range of challenging issues; it could focus its activity in its immediate region although going global is felt by some to be the only option;
    - ASEAN appears logjammed, and Indonesia should assert leadership while recognising the likely absence of support from some members of the grouping for Indonesia's proposals; efforts should be made to revive EU-ASEAN cooperation;
    - While the international community has high expectations of Indonesia's role in global issues, some question whether Indonesia should not concentrate on tackling domestic challenges, such as sustaining and improving economic growth and competitiveness, and tackling poverty, rather than looking to assume a significant role internationally; there is a need to bridge the gap between capability and expectation.

      For coverage of the conference in the Indonesian media, see :

- "Insight: debating Indonesia's global role", Dr Rizal Sukma, The Jakarta Post, 11 March 2010.
- "Postscript from Wilton Park", Yuli Ismartono, Tempo, 16 March 2010.

For a copy of the report summarising the conference discussions, click here.

Burma Studies Conference 2010.

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The coming International Burma Studies Conference will be held in France, at Universite de Provence, Marseille, 6th-9th July, 2010.

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The conference is co-organized by Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA-CNRS), Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE-CNRS), Institut national des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and Center for Burma Studies (NIU DeKalb IL USA).

We invite panel participants to focus their proposals on the theme of understanding Burma/Myanmar’s position vis-a-vis processes of globalization. How does globalization contribute to change – or not – in Burma and also to our perceptions of Burma? Such an overview should be consequent to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach by specialists in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, political science, economics, history and archaeology; as well as in religion, literature, art and architecture.

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Location: Marseille, France (Direction)

Dates: 6-9 July 2010

Deadline for submission of panel proposals: 1 December, 2009 (CLOSED)

Deadline for paper proposals (titles and abstracts): 30 March 2010

Email: burmastudies2010@gmail.com

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Job post - Assistant professor. Globalisation, Development, East Asia.

There's a new position at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Assistant professor in the Sociology/Anthropology of Globalization and Development.

1.0 FTE (38 hours per week)

vacancy number 10-2019

The new assistant professor will be expected to spend 60 percent of his or her time on teaching and 40 percent on research.

Read the post : http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/...

Appointment: Depending on qualifications and experience, the gross monthly salary will range from €3,195 (scale 11) to €4,970 (scale 12), based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week).

Job application: Applications, in the form of a letter and a full cv and overview of publications, ought to be emailed to the Secretariat of the Department, SocaSecretariaat-fmg@uva.nl, before 1 May 2010.

For more information about this position, please contact Prof. M. Rutten (m.a.f.rutten@uva.nl; tel + 31 20 525 2236) or Prof. H.W. van Schendel (h.w.vanschendel@uva.nl; tel + 31 20 525 2121).

Appel à contributions : Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS)

2nd Symposium and Workshop
At INALCO, Paris, November 25-26, 2010
Migration, Mobility and Globalization

The 1st CAAS Symposium and Workshop was held in Leiden on August 26-28, 2009 on the theme : “Religion, Identity and Conflict”. The second one will be held in Paris at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures), on November 25-26, 2010 on the theme Migration, Mobility and Globalization”. The symposium and workshop will be hosted over two days by INALCO. It will include researchers representing different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.

 Proposed Themes : "Migration, mobility and globalization" 
- Contemporary migrations : general trends and geography of the movements
- The migratory process and the new forms of mobility
- Labor migration within Asia and Africa and from the Asian and African regions
- Migration and development
- Immigration policies
- Integration : how immigrants become part of society
- Highly qualified migrants and students - brain drain : brain waste or brain gain ?
- International cooperation and governance
- Relationship between country of origin and diasporas
- Future perspectives for global migration and mobility
- Representation, perception and portrayal of migrants

The Symposium will focus predominantly on these issues in Asian and African contexts. But this focus is not exclusive. Proposals dealing with other areas will also be considered.
Session themes will be regrouped around area or other shared themes.

 Conference : 
The first day or the first morning will be held in plenary conference format with words of welcome and keynote speakers. Workshops will start immediately afterwards. Each session will last two hours and consist of three or four 20 minutes presentations followed by a discussion introduced by a discussant. The conference will be discussion focused.
Aiming to provide a forum for fruitful discussion on the role of migrations in modern societies and their impact on international relations, this symposium will bring together historians, political scientists, migration experts, anthropology, sociology, literature and political economy scholars to problematize the issue in a global and interdisciplinary context.
One of the important objectives of CAAS is to train younger researchers jointly. We highly hope that PHD and post-doc students and young researchers will participate to this Symposium and workshops.
Language : English.
INALCO invites speakers to send the text of their presentation by email before November 10.

 Application requirements : 
We invite interested scholars from all academic disciplines to send in their applications for consideration in this symposium. Applications consist of :

1) A current curriculum vitae with a short list of publications (2 pages maximum).

2 ) A one-page proposal i.e. description of the proposed presentation, intellectual approach and methodology of the research.
Symposium participants will be selected on the content of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the benefits of including a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.
Applications should be sent by email attachment to claire.lega@inalco.fr.
By September 15, 2010, applicants will be informed on their project’s selection for the symposium.
CAAS invites applications from PHD and post-doc students and young researchers.

  Deadline for all submissions  :  September 1st, 2010. 
Travel and accommodation expenses of the participants will be covered by home institutions. Plan to subsidize PHD and post-doc students is under study.

For further information about the workshop, please contact claire.lega@inalco.fr

INALCO - http://www.inalco.fr/
Direction de la recherche et de l'école doctorale
49 bis avenue de la belle Gabrielle
75012 - Paris
Tél : 01 80 51 95 02
Fax : 01 80 51 95 49

Publication : Anthropologie politique de la globalisation.

Bernard Hours et Monique Selim
Parution : Février 2010 | L’Harmattan - Collection : « Anthropologie critique » | 286 p.

La globalisation ne met pas un terme aux diverses formes d’identités et d’altérités des hommes en société mais elle en modifie profondément la nature. Cet ouvrage entend aller au-delà du simple constat de nouvelles pratiques ethnographiques. Les auteurs tentent de produire une analyse anthropologique des normes qui constituent le ressort principal des processus de globalisation dans les domaines de la santé, du travail, de la sécurité, de l’éthique et de la moralité humanitaire. Ces normes sont portées par des acteurs idéologiques tels que les femmes, l’étranger, le pauvre, les ONG, figures symboliques ou organisations qui permettent leur résonance, leur réinterprétation, leur incorporation, leur diffusion. Le projet d’une gouvernance sécuritaire et globalisée privilégie une reproduction paisible de l’économie de marché. Dans ce cadre, une démocratie de consommateurs d’émotions remplace les sujets politiques. Les conséquences épistémologiques de ces mutations actuelles interpellent de façon décisive les anthropologues du présent.

Les auteurs:
Bernard HOURS et Monique SELIM, anthropologues, ont travaillé au Bangladesh, au Laos, au Vietnam, en Ouzbékistan et désormais en Chine. Monique SELIM, directrice de recherche à l’IRD (UMR développement et sociétés, Université de Paris I) a mené des recherches en anthropologie urbaine (France) puis en anthropologie du travail (Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam) avant d’aborder la production de la science dans le contexte postsoviétique de l’Ouzbékistan. Bernard HOURS s’est penché sur les cargocults (Vanuatu) puis sur les systèmes de santé (Cameroun, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam) avant de se tourner vers l’humanitaire et les ONG.

Fiche et bon de commande en version pdf : Anthropologie politique de la globalisation.

Call for panels and papers : Burma Studies - 6-9 July 2010

CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE
BURMA STUDIES 2010 / ETUDES BIRMANES 2010
Burma in the era of Globalization / La Birmanie à l’ère de la globalisation
IRSEA
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE SUR LE SUD-EST ASIATIQUE 

Location: Marseille (France) 

Dates: 6-9 July 2010

Deadline for submission of panel proposals: 1 December 2009

Deadline for paper proposals (titles and abstracts): 30 March 2010

The next International Burma Studies Conference will be held in France, at l’Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA-CNRS), Université de Provence, Marseille, 6th-9th July 2010.

We invite panel participants to focus their proposals on the theme of understanding Burma/Myanmar’s position vis-a-vis processes of globalization. How does globalization contribute to change – or not – in Burma and also to our perceptions of Burma? Such an overview should be consequent to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach by specialists in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, political science, economics, history and archaeology; as well as in religion, literature, art and architecture.

 

Call for panels and papers

Appel à contributions : Dynamic City

Dynamic City: Land, Water and Culture

The period of rapid urbanization triggered in the 1980s and ‘90s by global financial deregulation, the breakdown of the Cold War, and the emergence of internet and mobile phone connectivity has already produced several waves of academic discourse on the Dynamic City. Throughout Asia, the relation between landscape, water and culture has always held a privileged position – which is now being seriously threatened as both a spatial reality and socio-cultural perception. Modernist enthusiasms--with echoes of constructivism and futurism--and dystopic fears--extending critiques of the over stimulation and loss of humanism of the modern metropolis--have both marked the polarity of Dynamic City discourse. Yet, new arrivals to the city continue to seek out its promise of personal freedom, mobility, and new subjectivities producing the greatest challenges in the latest wave of urbanization: the balance between growth and pressures on the environment. Together these conditions, perceptions, and anticipations form the land, water and cultural dynamics of the contemporary city.

This call for submissions to a special theme issue of Nakhara seeks ways to ground the multiple cacophonous conversations on the Dynamic City by bringing together diverse examples of environmental design practices that explore the ecological, economic, political, or social dynamics between land, water and culture in this new urban condition. Authors from any discipline related to these issues are encouraged to submit manuscripts that not only critically examine the recent history of urbanization and globalization, but also theorize and formulate ways forward in creating new forms of practice within an increasingly Dynamic City.

Editor in Chief:
Associate Professor Brian McGrath, Parsons The New School for Design, USA  
Guest Editors:   
Associate Professor Dr. Kelly Shannon, KU Leuven, Belgium
Associate Professor Sharon Haar, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Schedule:

Call for papers              October 2009 - January 2010

Reviewing Papers          February 2009 - May 2010

Amendment                   May – July 2010

Publish                          September 2010

Manuscripts are due January 31, 2010

Manuscripts can be sent electronically to: jnakhara@chula.ac.th

More information and Submission Guidelines: www.arch.chula.ac.th/nakhara