From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Thu Nov 1 04:12:53 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Thu Nov 1 04:12:11 2007 Subject: [Tps] Job Announcement - Public Administration Position. Message-ID: <550f31d00711010112u160974c0lb1419b8c7db0ced@mail.gmail.com> Request for Letters of Interest (RLI) PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY POSITION SPRING 2008 H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship Nova Southeastern University 3301 College Avenue - SBE Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 954-262-5115 Full-time and Adjunct Faculty Appointments POSITION: All ranks will be considered for appointments beginning Spring 2008 to teach graduate courses in the following public administration topics: organization theory; administrative law; ethics; human resources; information systems; research methods; leadership; emergency or disaster management; finance; budgeting; policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation; and strategic planning. The positions are flexible to accommodate other public administration teaching and research interests. Instructional locations include the 300-acre main campus in Davie Florida, remote sites in Florida, and online. Travel expenses for adjunct teaching assignments are reimbursed by the university in addition to the teaching stipend. Classes are typically scheduled on Friday evening and Saturday on an alternating five-weekend schedule. QUALIFICATIONS: (1) a Ph.D./D.P.A. from a regionally accredited university or ADB with expected completion within one year; (2) demonstrated relevant scholarly research; (3) demonstrated relevant teaching experience with a commitment to a high concern for student achievement; and (4) demonstrated record of accomplishment in a professional career. The Huizenga School has always valued practitioner experience in the classroom. UNIVERSITY: Nova Southeastern University is the 6th largest private nonprofit university in the U.S., with an enrollment of over 26,000 students, offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees in business, education, law, medicine, psychology and liberal arts. The Huizenga School offers masters degrees in public administration that are campus, field, and online based and doctoral programs, serving a diverse student population of predominantly adult learners. LETTERS OF INTEREST: Prospective candidates are invited to email, with "Faculty LOI" in the subject line, Professor Jack Pinkowski at jackpink@nova.edu, chair of the search committee, and copy Kevin McCarthy, MPA Program Manager, kevimcca@huizenga.nova.edu. Please include an attached Letter of Interest describing your qualifications, teaching and research activity, a copy of your curriculum vitae, and if your interest is in adjunct or permanent faculty. Nova Southeastern University admits students of any race, color, sex, age, nondisqualifying disability, religion or creed, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school, and does not discriminate in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. NSU is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4501 to award associate's, bachelor's, master's, educational specialist, and doctoral degrees. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/tps/attachments/20071101/9986a4c8/attachment.html From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Fri Nov 2 04:35:23 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Fri Nov 2 04:34:49 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - 2 Jobs Message-ID: <550f31d00711020135h52eecd56p4c782862a88633a5@mail.gmail.com> 1. Assistant Professor, The Department of Public Administration Leiden University Faculty of Social Sciences Leiden, 2300 Ra (Zuid-Holland), 38 hours per week Job description ________________________________ Function title: Assistant Professor, The Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Candidates are expected to be able to teach courses in one of the subfields mentioned, in all these programs. In addition to proficiency in English, fluency in Dutch is considered an important asset, but not a condition, although employees who are not functionally fluent in Dutch will be expected to become so over time. The teaching load is normally a total of five courses per academic year (each course is seven weeks in length), in addition to other tasks such as thesis supervision. The focus of the department's current research program is on institutional change, which includes changes in intergovernmental and organizational systems, decision making and the making of public policy, and candidates are expected to do research very broadly related to this program. Requirements ________________________________ Required education/skills:University Graduate Applicants must hold a PhD in public administration, political science, economics, or another field in the social sciences relevant to the indicated fields of expertise (young candidates who are about to finish their PhD will be considered), have a promising publication record that includes publications in international refereed journals, and have good teaching evaluations. Job type: Research / Advising Workfield(s): - Teaching & Research(Scientific discipline: Behaviour and Society) Organization ________________________________ Leiden University Faculty of Social Sciences Conditions of employment ________________________________ Employment basis: Temporary for specified period Duration of the contract: 4 years Maximum hours per week: 38 Additional Information ________________________________ Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links: About the organization (http://www.leiden.edu/) About the department (http://www.leiden.edu/) About the function (http://www.vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=1&c=1627)Application ________________________________ You can apply for this job before 10-11-2007 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to: Faculty of Social en Bahavioural Sciences Wassenaarseweg 52 P&O Postbus 9555 2300RB Leiden Nederland E-mail: pzinfo@FSW.Leidenuniv.nl When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber 7-252. ---------------- 2. Rutgers University Director Division of Global Affairs Rutgers University - Newark Rutgers University at Newark seeks nominations and applications for the position of Director of the Division of Global Affairs within the Graduate School. Over the last decade, Rutgers-Newark has made Global Affairs a major strategic focus of its academic programs, capitalizing on its location within the New York metropolitan area, arguably the world's leading center of global commerce and culture, and home to numerous international and nongovernmental organizations. Outstanding scholars with global and interdisciplinary interests in political science, history, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, business, criminal justice, public administration and environmental science are members of the Center for Global Change and Governance within the new Division of Global Affairs, and we anticipate significant numbers of additional appointments in the next several years. Unique multidisciplinary doctoral and masters programs, also within the Division of Global Affairs, now enroll 140 students. The next director will be expected to raise the stature and visibility of the Division and its faculty through fundraising and grants, fostering external connections with government agencies, corporations, and NGOs, linking with scholars and programs at other universities, and recruiting new faculty. Rutgers-Newark, one of New Jersey's leading education and research centers, is home to over 10,000 students, including 3,700 graduate students in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business, Criminal Justice, Law, Nursing, and Public Affairs and Administration. Located in the New York metropolitan area and in a city experiencing dramatic revitalization, Rutgers-Newark has been selected by U.S. News & World as the most ethnically and racially diverse national university for eleven consecutive years. Rutgers University, of which this Campus is an integral part, is a member of the AAU. The Director of the Division of Global Affairs should have an academic record appropriate for a senior faculty appointment, but we welcome candidates who are distinguished practitioners in relevant areas such as international business and diplomacy. The director reports to the Provost, who is the CEO and chief academic officer of Rutgers-Newark. Candidates may have research and teaching interests in any field of Global Affairs. Applications should include a letter of interest, CV, and names and contact information of five references. Please submit materials by email to jafried@andromeda.rutgers.edu, or by mail to Janice Friedland, Rutgers University at Newark, Office of the Provost, Room 590, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102. Review of applications will begin November 1 and continue until the position is filled. From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Fri Nov 9 10:25:49 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Fri Nov 9 10:25:41 2007 Subject: [Tps] Two positions at the University of Mexico In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <550f31d00711090725v7a383c5ch250b65c644d13d18@mail.gmail.com> The University of New Mexico Assistant Professor School of Public Administration The School of Public Administration (SPA) invites applications for two available assistant professor level probationary faculty appointments leading to a tenure decision, beginning August 2008. A Ph.D. in public administration, political science or related discipline is required. Candidates must demonstrate strong potential for cutting edge research, excellent teaching, external funding and service to the university and community. For one position, candidates' should have primary research and teaching interest must be in public sector Human Resources Management. For the second position the area of specialization in public administration is open. Faculty with engaged in productive research and scholarship commonly teach two courses per semester. The preferred qualifications for both positions are a record of scholarly publication, and excellence in teaching at the graduate level. The MPA program in the School of Public Administration is one of the oldest NASPAA accredited programs in the nation. The University of New Mexico is the premier research university in the state of New Mexico. UNM is a Carnegie Doctoral Very High Research Activity Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution, with over 33,000 students on the main and branch campuses. The University of New Mexico is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque is ranked number one on Forbes magazine's 2006 list of Best Places for Business and Careers, and is ranked number one in creativity among medium-sized cities in Richard L. Florida's book "The Rise of the Creative Class." Albuquerque is an ethnically diverse city with a rich culture and a location offering unparalleled opportunities for outdoor adventure. The University is located with in minutes of the Sandia and Manzano mountain ranges, which offer great opportunities of for hiking, biking, rock climbing and skiing. F For best consideration, completed applications should be submitted by December 1, 2007; the positions will be open until filled. Applicants should send: (1) a cover letter, and with an original signature (handwritten on paper); (2) statements of research interests and teaching philosophy; and (3) curriculum vitae.; and Application materials should be sent to: Uday Desai, Director, School of Public Administration, MSC05 3100, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001. Candidates must also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly either by hard-copy or emailed to the Director at: ucdesair@unm.edu, to arrive by the December 1, 2007 deadline, for best consideration. WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Application materials should be sent to: Uday Desai, Director, School of Public Administration, MSC05 3100, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER AND EDUCATOR. From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Mon Nov 12 11:19:07 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Mon Nov 12 11:19:10 2007 Subject: [Tps] Question - How policy travels across time and space Message-ID: <550f31d00711120819g4a24bca6i69ebae8f4a191d03@mail.gmail.com> Posting for Laleh Khalili. If you reply to Laleh directly, please consider also replying to the list so we can all benefit from the answers. Best, Dvora Yanow -----Original Message----- From: lk180@columbia.edu [mailto:lk180@columbia.edu] Sent: maandag 12 november 2007 16:40 To: Dvora Yanow Subject: Question re: how policy/travels across time and place I am working on a huge project in which I am tracing the geneology of US incarceration and detention practices in the "War on Terror" back across time and place. I am trying to see where some of the micropractices of detention have emerged and how they have changed over time. I know there are certain specific "nodes" which are considered crucial in transmission of such practices: US in Vietnam and before that in Philippines; Britain in the Boer War and then Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Norther Ireland; France in Vietnam and then Algeria; and then Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. What connects them all is that they are all ostensibly liberal democracies with extremelly illiberal counterinsurgency practices, especially when it come to detention etc. What I am hoping you could help me with is theoretical resources on policy analysis that can tell me how and where certain policy practices travel, how they change; innovation etc. It seems to me that a lot of people refer to Latour. I was wondering if you know any good theoretical works that utilise Latour in fields not necessarily related to science policy! Many many thanks for any help you can give. All my best Laleh Khalili soas lk180@columbia.edu From L.Levidow at open.ac.uk Mon Nov 12 15:23:45 2007 From: L.Levidow at open.ac.uk (Les Levidow) Date: Mon Nov 12 15:26:48 2007 Subject: [Tps] Question - How policy travels across time and space In-Reply-To: <550f31d00711120819g4a24bca6i69ebae8f4a191d03@mail.gmail.com> References: <550f31d00711120819g4a24bca6i69ebae8f4a191d03@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: >-----Original Message----- >From: lk180@columbia.edu [mailto:lk180@columbia.edu] >Sent: maandag 12 november 2007 16:40 >To: Dvora Yanow >Subject: Question re: how policy/travels across time and place > >I am working on a huge project in which I am tracing the geneology of US >incarceration and detention practices in the "War on Terror" back across >time and place. I am trying to see where some of the micropractices of >detention have emerged and how they have changed over time. I know there >are certain specific "nodes" which are considered crucial in transmission >of such practices: US in Vietnam and before that in Philippines; Britain >in the Boer War and then Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Norther Ireland; France >in Vietnam and then Algeria; and then Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. >What connects them all is that they are all ostensibly liberal democracies >with extremelly illiberal counterinsurgency practices, especially when it >come to detention etc Laleh Probably Abu Ghraib etc. has colonial analogies, but we should also look closer to home at the US 'civilian' prison system, along with the concept of an internal colony. See the article by Avery Gordon, Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror Race and Class Vol. 48(1): 42?59, 2006 Les -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Ireland a Lancaster PhD by Steve Wright used Northern Ireland as a case study for the way in which coutner insurgency technologies and techniques developed there before introduction onto the UK mainland - and presumably more widely. I think he is currently working in Leeds Uni. Ian Welsh >>> "Les Levidow" 12/11/2007 20:23 >>> >-----Original Message----- >From: lk180@columbia.edu [mailto:lk180@columbia.edu] >Sent: maandag 12 november 2007 16:40 >To: Dvora Yanow >Subject: Question re: how policy/travels across time and place > >I am working on a huge project in which I am tracing the geneology of US >incarceration and detention practices in the "War on Terror" back across >time and place. I am trying to see where some of the micropractices of >detention have emerged and how they have changed over time. I know there >are certain specific "nodes" which are considered crucial in transmission >of such practices: US in Vietnam and before that in Philippines; Britain >in the Boer War and then Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Norther Ireland; France >in Vietnam and then Algeria; and then Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. >What connects them all is that they are all ostensibly liberal democracies >with extremelly illiberal counterinsurgency practices, especially when it >come to detention etc Laleh Probably Abu Ghraib etc. has colonial analogies, but we should also look closer to home at the US 'civilian' prison system, along with the concept of an internal colony. See the article by Avery Gordon, Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror Race and Class Vol. 48(1): 42?59, 2006 Les From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Thu Nov 15 12:48:33 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Thu Nov 15 12:48:53 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network: Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2008, Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <550f31d00711150948q40047b8fx223d3e926e77910a@mail.gmail.com> http://www.icqi.org/ *The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2008)* *Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice* *Theme* The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from May 14-17, 2008. The theme of the Congress, building on previous Congresses, is "Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice." The Fourth Congress will offer the international community of qualitative research scholars the opportunity to engage in debate on ethical, epistemological, methodological and social justice issues. In these changing times, there are attempts to impose uniform bio-medical ethical standards on qualitative research. There are also increasing efforts to judge qualitative research in terms of experimental, or so-called scientifically based criteria. The politics of evidence and ethics carries important implications for how qualitative research is used in the pursuit of social justice issues. Participants will explore the relationship between these three terms and what these relationships mean for qualitative inquiry in this new century. If we as qualitative researchers do not take control of these terms for ourselves, someone else will. The 2008 Congress has several new and returning co-sponsors, including Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (UIUC), the Program in Global Studies (UIUC), Sage Publications, LeftCoast Press, The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the Manchester Discourse Power Group (DPR). *Keynote speakers * *Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison:* "The Moral Activist Role of Critical Race Theory Scholarship" *Gloria Ladson-Billings* is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Fellow in Urban Education of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. She is the former president of the American Educational Research Association, and has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education, which advances high quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice. Her primary research interests are in the relationships between culture and school and critical race theory. She is the author of *The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children* and is editor of the Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section of the* American Education Research Journal*. *Ian Stronach, Manchester Metropolitan University* *"Ethics, evidence and the demand for 'docile bodies'"* This paper will address the conference theme 'Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice' by looking at the theory and practice of social 'docility', as it has developed since the writings of Foucault almost 40 years ago. It will examine the case for claiming that a creeping authoritarianism has invested policy in professional domains, sometimes in the guise of micro-management, sometimes under the rubrics of the audit culture, and sometimes through the systemisation of improvement and progress discourses. Has there been a move from civility to docility, and, if so, what does that tell us about the nature of citizenship and identity in contemporary societies? The role of moral panics and policy hysteria in these processes will also be considered, particularly in relation to the maintenance of regimes and economies of concern and control. Such themes are a matter of theoretical interest, and the paper will draw on some of the later works of Jean-Luc Nancy, amongst others. At the same time, some of the targets of these repressions will be examined in relation to, for example, the 'pregnant teenager', the policing of client 'touch' in professional arenas, and the government inspection of progressive schools ? in particular, the ongoing saga of inspection of A.S Neill's Summerhill 'free school' from 1999 to the present. (Yes, it stil exists!). These cases have all been empirically explored by the author, through funded research. Each has something to tell us about how scapegoats are engendered and punished, as well as about the more mundane policing of professional behaviour through procedures and practices of regulation, and ? increasingly ? self-regulation. If one of our final questions is: would Foucault recognise the contemporary world in the light of the genealogies he developed in the 1960s and 1970s, then a possible answer would seem to be that not only would he recognise this world of ours, he would probably wonder whether some people hadn't mistaken his critique of 'carceral society' for a blueprint. *Ian Stronach* is Research Professor in Education at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has been an Editor to the *British Educational Research Journal *since 1996, and is on the Boards of *Cultural Studies< - >Critical Methodologies*, *British Journal of Education and Work*, *Managing Global Transitions*, an International Journal. Publications include *Educational Research Undone *(with Maggie MacLure 1996), and *Difference and Diversity* (co-edited with Heather Piper 2004). He is currently working with Heather Piper on a book about 'touch' in professional contexts. He is currently working on a sole-authored book, *Globalising the Educational Project*, and on a jointly authored book on *Early Professional Learning*. He has published extensively in journals in the UK, as well as in *Qualitative Inquiry* (2006) and the *International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education* (2006). Stronach's research interests are in postmodernist theorizing, evaluation, and qualitative methodologies in general. His main current research is into professionalism, looking at 'touch' in such contexts, as well as a longitudinal study of the early professional learning of teachers in Scotland, England, and Slovenia. He directs the doctoral programme for the National Leadership School of Slovenia (1996- present), is a research consultant there to the University of Primorska, as well as being a member of the Discourse, Power, Resistance initiative, which runs a sister-conference to ICQI in the UK every March. *Partial List of Session and Paper Topics* The topics for the 4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry include, but are not confined to: Autoethnography & Performance Studies, Decolonizing Truth, Democratic Methodologies, Evidence and Social Policy, Human Rights, Indigenous Law, Justice as Healing, Standards for Qualitative Inquiry, Forms and Varieties of Justice, Participatory Action Research, Politics of Evidence, Research as Resistance, Restorative Justice, Social Justice, Community Ethics, visual sociology, hypertext explorations, visual ethnography. Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference, professional workshops will be held on May 15. The Congress will also consist of keynote, plenary, spotlight, featured, regular and poster sessions. There will be an opening reception and barbeque, and a closing old-fashioned Midwest cook-out. We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals. Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1 2007. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2007. To learn more about the Fourth International Congress and how to participate, please email info@icqi.org. *Pre-Conference Events: Language, Technology, and Nursing!* On May 14 there will be at least three pre-conference language events: for Spanish, Japanese, Turkish-speaking scholars, a pre-conference event for Technology in Qualitative Research, and a pre-conference event for Nursing in Qualitative Research. Delegates need to check our websitefor developments with these special events. *Couch-Stone Meeting * The 2008 Couch-Stone Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will be held in conjunction with the 4th International Congress. The SSSI will be co-sponsors of the Congress, and will share their program and keynote speaker with Congress participants. This joint conference is a wonderful opportunity for IAQI members to learn more about symbolic interactionism. It also presents an opportunity for symbolic interactionists to learn more about the IAQI community. To help make this joint meeting a success, delegates are invited to consult the call for papers in the Fall 2007 issue of SSSI Notes. *DPR Session * Our Manchester colleagues believe it is useful to conceptualize research as subversive activity, as work that unsettles, challenges and contests existing social and educational formations. Subversive research resists work that is at ease with the methodological preconceptions of federal and private funding bodies. Subversive scholars seek discourses of resistance that contest current notions of truth, justice, healing, health, schooling, identity, learning and teaching. IAQI has a reciprocal relationship with the DPR group. They will have several high profile sessions on the themes of the Congress. In turn, IAQI will have a publicity stand and a videoconference presence at the March, 2008 DPR Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. *Pre-conference (May 15, 2008) Workshop Organizers (Partial List)* Anne Kuckartz(Workshop title:Introduction into MAXQDA: Setting up Your Data for a Computer Assisted Analysis) Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis (Workshop title: Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research) Authur W. Frank, University of Calgary (Workshop title: Letting Stories Breathe: A Workshop on Narrative Analysis) C?sar A. Cisneros Puebla & Ray Maietta (Workshop title: State of the Art: The Latest in Qualitative Software Advances) Donna M. Mertens(Workshop title: Qualitative Research and Social Transformation in the Disability Community) Greg Dimitriadis & George Kambereli (Workshop title:The Critical Use of Focus Groups) H. L. Goodall, Jr. (Workshop title: Widening the Gyre: Writing Qualitative Inquiry for Readers Outside the Academy) Ian Stronach& Heather Piper(Workshop title: Ungrounded theory: how to do it, undo it, do it to others, and say sorry) Jane F. Gilgun & Karen Staller (Workshop title: Evidence Based Social Work: Where are we Going? How do we Get There?) Jan Morse (Workshop title: Advances in Mixed Methods Design) John Creswell (Workshop Title: Designing a Mixed Methods Study) Johnny Salda?a (Workshop title:An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue) Kathy Charmaz (Workshop title: An Introduction to Constructing Grounded Theory) Laurel Richardson (Workshop title: Writing Lives and Writing Deaths) Lisa Mazzei& Alecia Jackson(Workshop title:Working the Limits of Voice) Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor& Richard Siegesmund(Workshop title:Arts-Based Research: Approaches and Practices) Norman Denzin(Workshop title: Performance Ethnography) Robin Jarrett & Angela Odoms-Young (Workshop title:Interpreting, Writing Up and Evaluating Qualitative Materials) Ronald Pelias(Workshop title: Performative Writing) Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Workshop title: Computer Assisted Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: How to Integrate Software into Your Analysis of Qualitative Data) Yvonna Lincoln (Workshop title: New Experimental Writing Forms) See more... *Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award* The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry is pleased to announce the annual Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award, for excellence in qualitative research in a doctoral dissertation. Eligible dissertations will use and advance qualitative methods to investigate any topic. Applications for the award will be judged by the following criteria: clarity of writing; willingness to experiment with new and traditional writing forms; advocacy, promotion, development, and use of qualitative research methodologies and practices in new fields of study, and in policy arenas involving issues of social justice. There are two award categories, traditional (Category A), and experimental (Category B). Submissions in both categories address social justice issues. Submissions in Category A use traditional qualitative research and writing forms, while Category B submissions experiment with traditional writing and representational forms. An award of $250 will be given to each winner. All doctoral candidates are eligible, provided they have successfully defended their proposals prior to January 1, 2008, and will defend their final dissertation by April 1, 2008. Receiving or being considered for other awards does not preclude a student from applying for this award . Applications are due Febuary 1, 2008. The 2008 award, co-sponsored with Sage Publications, will be made at the closing townhall meeting of the Congress. For more information, please visit the website: http://www.c4qi.org/award.html For Full Details: http://www.icqi.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/tps/attachments/20071115/25edcd73/attachment-0001.html From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Sun Nov 25 11:24:32 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Sun Nov 25 11:25:24 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - 2008 European Network for Housing Research Conference Message-ID: <550f31d00711250824o1708256aq53e0e7eda34b984@mail.gmail.com> http://www.enhr2008.com/ *SAVE THE DATE * The 2008 ENHR Conference will be held in Dublin from *6th- 9th July* and is being organised by University College Dublin School of Applied Social Science and The Centre for Housing Research. The conference theme is *Shrinking Cities, Sprawling Suburbs, Changing Countrysides.* The conference will address various issues relevant to this overarching theme in both urban and rural locations. Plenary sessions will address current debates on topics such as balancing regional development, urban and rural development, socio-spatial segregation, new suburban communities, the role of immigration and tourism, developments in post socialist societies, as well as issues which are specific to rural areas. *DATES FOR YOUR DIARY * Deadline for submission of abstracts - February 29th 2008 Deadline for submission of papers ? May 30th 2008 The 2008 ENHR Housing Conference will be held in University College Dublin, Ireland. The theme of the conference is *Shrinking Cities, Sprawling Suburbs, Changing Countrysides. * The conference will address various issues relevant to this overarching theme in both urban and rural locations. Plenary sessions will address current debates on topics such as balanced regional development, urban and rural development, sociospatial segregation, new suburban communities, the role of migration and tourism, developments in post socialist societies, as well as issues which are specific to rural areas. There will be a number of plenary sessions, some of which will be in the form of panel discussions. Confirmed participants include: - Andrew Beer, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia - Chris Paris, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland - Ivan Tosics, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary - Sasha Tsenkova, University of Calgary, Canada - Mary Corcoran, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland - Mari Vattovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland - Tony Fahey, University College Dublin, Ireland - Montserrat Pareja Eastaway, University of Barcelona, Spain - Nick Gallant, University College London, England There will be a wide range of workshops held during the conference. A call for workshop papers will be made towards the end of this year. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 29 February 2008 and for submission of papers is 30 May 2008. The winner of the first Bengt Turner Award will also be announced at the conference. To coincide with the conference, a New Researchers' Colloquium will be held in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland from Friday 4 July to Sunday 6 July 2008. http://www.enhr2008.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/tps/attachments/20071125/194e5f6a/attachment.html From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Tue Nov 27 08:17:47 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Tue Nov 27 08:18:46 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network CfP - Institutionalising Discourse Message-ID: <550f31d00711270517i1cbe77e4we042402a1abe4abc@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Liste Date: Nov 27, 2007 11:37 AM Dear all, We are organising a panel on "Institutionalising Discourse" for the conference of the World International Studies Committee in July 2008 in Ljubljana. We would be glad to have one or two more papers on the panel. Thus, we encourage anyone interested in this topic to send us a paper proposal for our panel (find a short description below). Please contact us ( freistein@hsfk.de and (!) liste@hsfk.de) for any further questions you might have. We would be very grateful if we could get a short abstract until Thursday evening (November 29). We sincerely apologise for sending this CfP around on such short notice! Best regards, Katja Freistein Philip Liste Conference Website: http://www.wiscnetwork.org/call_for_papers.php WISC - Panel Abstract: Institutionalising Discourse While recent interpretive (or discourse theoretical) scholarship in IR has elaborated on different topoi of international affairs, research that explicitly takes issue with the construction of meaning within (international) institutions and/or the characteristics of institutionalised modes of discursive reproduction of meaning is still rare. Although motives of institutionalised discourses can be traced, for example, in the work of Foucault and a whole array of Foucault-inspired "governmentality" research, post-structuralist writings at large do not provide interpretive IR with guidance. Institutions are noticeably absent in research that is based on the ideas of thinkers like Derrida or Laclau and Mouffe. What could be the solution? This certainly depends on the perspective: "institutions" could be framed as a concept, that is as a signifier floating within the discourse, or as a bureaucratised sector of a (world) societal discourse, or as realms of institutionalised power. The aim of the panel is both to discuss theoretical notions of institutions within a discourse-oriented framework and to contribute to a better understanding within interpretive studies about the discursive politics of international institutions. _______________________________ Philip Liste Research Associate Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) Leimenrode 29 60322 Frankfurt am Main +49-(0)69-959104-40 liste@hsfk.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/tps/attachments/20071127/b8fe2e64/attachment.html From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Thu Nov 29 05:41:44 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Thu Nov 29 05:42:51 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS Call for Papers APSA 2008 Message-ID: <550f31d00711290241t40f7beb5j62ca4a829d3cbeb@mail.gmail.com> >From Frank Fischer - Here is the Theory, Policy & Society call for papers for APSA 2008: Panel Title: Critical Policy Analysis Panel Co-Chairs: Dvora Yanow (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) and Frank Fischer (Rutgers University) Description: The Theory, Policy & Society Conference group invites papers that contribute to the postempiricist perspective of public policy and policy analysis. Presentations dealing with discourse and disursive politics, argumentation and deliberation, interpretive and qualitative analysis, constructivist and narrative approaches, the politics of expertise, and democratic governance are particularly welcome. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/tps/attachments/20071129/d6457e89/attachment.html From navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in Fri Nov 30 05:43:37 2007 From: navdeep at iimahd.ernet.in (Navdeep Mathur) Date: Fri Nov 30 05:44:47 2007 Subject: [Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - The Spaces of Democratic Planning Message-ID: <550f31d00711300243n115fd8d1h655f8b5dd4aea880@mail.gmail.com> Sent on behalf of Patsy Healey --- "The Spaces of Democracy of Planning" http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/planning_event_flyer1[1].pdf Newcastle University, 11th January, 2008, Beehive, 2pm -7pm in association with "The Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network Director: Jonathan Pugh Speakers include: Professor John Forester (Cornell) Professor Patsy Healey (Newcastle University) Professor Susan Owens (University of Cambridge) Professor Maarten Hajer (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Professor Ali Madanipour (Newcastle University) In planning today, increasing emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated action in given, empirical contexts. This 'spatial turn' is having significant implications for how we think about planning as a profession, as well for how we understand democratic distributions of opportunity and responsibility. The spatial turn reflects how planning has made a certain move from a concern with governance of space, to developing a public sphere in which qualities of democracy are stimulated and cultivated. This workshop explores the spatial turn in planning, and its consequences for democratic practice, through asking the following three questions: 1] How can we practically understand the relationship between institutional, material, and aspirational sites of engagement in planning today? That is, how can we understand planning as a practice, in the United States and Europe? 2] How does planning encounter and move through these spaces? 3] And, finally, what "work" do different concepts of democracy do with regard to such spaces of planning, shaping what we mean by 'progressive planning'? We are still actively seeking sponsors for both of these events. So if your organisation or company is interested, please contact Jonathan Pugh, Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk For a flyer, please click on: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/planning_event_flyer1[1].pdf