Circulation: AAA Meetings in
2010
The Executive Program Committee for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, in association with 2009-2011 President
Virginia R. Dominguez, will select a small number of Presidential Sessions
which speak directly to the theme of the conference and serve to engage
the broad constituency of anthropologists and our interlocutors. We
particularly encourage proposals which cut across approaches and domains
of enquiry, and which bring together people who do not normally participate
in the same conversations. These proposals may take the form of traditional
academic panels, but we also strongly encourage innovative ideas; there
is room for both. These proposals (and these proposals ONLY) should
be submitted directly to the Executive Program Committee Chair, Monica
Heller, at monica.heller@utoronto.ca.
Deadline is 15 January 2010. N.B.: Proposals for invited
and regular sessions are to be submitted via AAA sections at a later
date. That call for papers will be published shortly. For information
on the meetings please go to the AAA website: www.aaanet.org.
Gendered Perspectives on International
Development: Working Papers
Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) publishes
scholarly work on global social, political, and economic change and
its gendered effects in the Global South. GPID cross-cuts disciplines,
bringing together research, critical analyses, and proposals for change.
Gendered Perspectives on International Development recognizes diverse
processes of international development and globalization, and new directions
in scholarship on gender relations. The goals of GPID are: (1) to promote
research that contributes to gendered analysis of social change; (2)
to highlight the effects of international development policy and globalization
on gender roles and gender relations; and (3) to encourage new approaches
to international development policy and programming. Gendered Perspectives
on International Development Working Papers are article-length manuscripts
by scholars from a broad range of disciplines. They disseminate materials
that are at a late stage of formulation and that contribute new understandings
of women and men’s roles and gender relations amidst economic,
social, and political change. Individual papers in the series address
a range of topics including gender, violence, and human rights; gender
and agriculture; reproductive health and healthcare; gender and social
movements; masculinities and development; and the gendered division
of labor. We particularly encourage manuscripts that bridge the gap
between research, policy, and practice. Published GPID and WID Working
Papers (1981-2008) papers can be viewed at: http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/publications.htm.
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the Working Papers
series, please send a 150 word abstract summarizing the paper’s
essential points and findings to Dr. Anne Ferguson, Editor, or Anna
Jefferson, Managing Editor, at papers@msu.edu.
If the abstract suggests your paper is suitable for the Working Papers,
the full paper will be invited for peer review and publication consideration.(10/09)
International Journal of Sociology
and Anthropology
The International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (IJSA) is a
multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be monthly
by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/IJSA).
IJSA is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines
with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. IJSA will
cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission
of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific
excellence, and will publish:
· Original articles in basic and applied research
· Case studies
· Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays
We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to IJSA@acadjourn.org
for publication. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision
on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance,
a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for
authors and other details are available on our website: http://www.academicjournals.org/IJSA/Instruction.htm
IJSA is an Open Access Journal. One key request of researchers across
the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access
gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription-based
journal and thus increases the visibility and impact of published works.
It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for
permissions to reproduce and distribute content. IJSA is fully committed
to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles
as soon as they are published. (9/09)
Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights,
and Social Justice
This edited volume aims to explore the life experiences, agency, and
human rights of the women who are involved in a variety of activities
that are characterized as "trafficked" terrains in a deterritorialized
and reterritorialized world, in order to shed light on the complicated
processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice
are intersected. While previous studies have highlighted popular discourses,
national and international policies, and the victimization and struggles
of the trafficked women, few studies have centered on the stories of
the migrant subjects themselves to offer a critical reading of the recent
competing definitions of trafficking and the complex ways in which the
intertwined configurations of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality
complicate the contemporary hegemonic discourse on trafficking. This
special issue will fill this lacuna through theorizing and conceptualizing
the intersecting discourses on anti-trafficking, human rights, and social
justice from the perspectives of the transnational migrant populations.
Specifically, this issue will include articles and/or visual/audio tapes
that will rearticulate the trafficking discourses away from the state
control of immigration and the global policing of borders, and reassert
the social justice and the needs, agency, and human rights of migrant
and working communities. Some of the topics of investigation may include:a
critical analysis of the conflation of trafficking with sex work in
international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women;
effects on the vulnerable population as a result of the anti-prostitution
policy and a denial of human rights of sex workers; suggestions of more
effective anti-trafficking interventions that will ameliorate social
justice and human rights of the migrant populations; the sociocultural
effects on the migrant population as a result of the global and national
laws against trafficking, immigration and smuggling; the debate between
the recognition of women's human rights to migrate and work as sex workers
and the anti-trafficking policy that classifies sex workers as trafficked
victims and slaves; a critical analysis of the global anti-trafficking
policy and the root causes for the undocumented migration and employment;
the relationship between the human rights of the vulnerable population
and the state approaches to trafficking; the effects upon the migrant
population as a result of the ways in which the state and international
policies define "trafficked persons" and "undocumented
migrants;" the complicated intersections of forced and voluntary
labor and migrations at the national and international level. Please
submit your paper and abstract to Tiantian.Zheng@cortland.edu.
The Catharine Stimpson Prize
for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship Submission deadline: March 1, 2010. Named in honor
of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed
to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist
scholars and is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international
competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select
the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs,
and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers
submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review
and possible publication in Signs. Eligibility:
Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less than seven
years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers
for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls within
the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. For details,
see: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/stimpson.html.
AFA Section News
As the new co-editors of the AFA's Anthropology News section
notes, we are looking for submissions for future columns. The word limit
for each column is 750, and we encourage individual contributions as
well as collaborative ones. This is a great opportunity to share your
research with the readers of AN! As we inaugurate the next president
to office, we especially invite you to a discussion on the current economic
crisis and the Obama administration's response to the crisis with a
specific focus on gender. We are also looking for more general commentaries
and contributions on:
* Privatization, regulation and nationalization;
* Economic crisis and gender; and
* Neoliberalization and feminism.
Tell us about your research, your concerns, and your suggestions for
future columns. Let's invigorate the AFA column and highlight the excellent
work our members are doing to engage current issues! We look forward
to hearing from you. Damla Isik (IsikD@wcsu.edu)
and Jessica Smith (sjessica@umich.edu).
