Thursday, January 3, 2013

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Insider/Outsider/Insider: Racial and Ethnic Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work (fwd)

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Insider/Outsider/Insider: Racial and Ethnic Equality,
Diversity and Inclusion at Work (fwd)


> H-ASIA
> Jan 3 2013
>
> CFP Insider/Outsider/Insider: Racial and Ethnic Equality, Diversity and
> Inclusion at Work
> *****************************************
> From: Kirsti Rawstron <kjr838@uowmail.edu.au>
>
> *Equality Diversity Inclusion Conference, Call for Papers:
> Insider/Outsider/Insider: Racial and Ethnic Equality, Diversity and
> Inclusion at Work*
> *Location:*Greece
> <http://www.**h-net.org/announce/geography.**cgi?geography=Greece<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Greece>
>>
> *Call for Papers Date:*2013-02-01 (in 30 days) *Date Submitted:*
> 2012-12-10
> *Announcement ID:* 199455 Equality Diversity Inclusion Conference,
> Athens,
> Greece, 1-3 July 2013
> Stream 8: Insider/Outsider/Insider: Racial and Ethnic Equality, Diversity
> and
> Inclusion at Work
>
> Organisers:
> Dr. Diane Nititham-Tunney, National-Louis University, USA Ms Kirsti
> Rawstron, University of Wollongong, Australia
>
> Stream Outline:
> There are many axes of differentiation and difference in the workplace,
> of which race is one of the most prominent. Race, although widely accepted
> as a social construction, has real and significant effects. These effects
> are ongoing, contradictory, often self-reinforcing, and performed by
> social actors, alongside the macro social institutions and micro daily
> activities (Haney Lopez 1995). In addition, few people recognize the depth
> of race and racism (Haney Lopez 1995; Tyagi 1996; Spears 1998), which can
> complicated the experiences of those who are already marginalized in
> larger
> society.
>
> This stream invites theoretical and empirical papers which explore
> aspects of ethnicity and race in employment, particularly from an
> intersectional perspective. We welcome papers from researchers and
> practitioners; from insiders and outsiders both, dealing with aspects of
> racial and ethnic inclusion in a range of occupations, groupings, and
> countries. We are interested in the challenges that people face when
> approaching research, and how they handle issues of inclusivity and
> belonging, including their own struggles with how they are perceived or
> perceive their subjects (Knowles 2006). Potential themes could include the
> intersection of race with sexuality or ability in work, empirical studies
> of insiders and outsiders within particular occupations and nations, or
> self-reflective and methodological papers on how the notion of
> insider/outsider can be complicated in working towards equality.
>
> Some questions we seek to address include:
> ? How does race work to construct insider and outsider positions within
> employment?
> ? How have these perspectives changed over time?
> ? How can workplaces become more inclusive and diverse with respects to
> ethnicity?
> ? How can we, as researchers, be sensitive to and enhance their own
> reflectivity on insider/outsider identity?
> ? To what extent does intersectionality impact upon the creation of
> insider/outsider identities within employment?
>
> Key words: race, ethnicity, insider, outsider, belonging We seek full
> drafts of papers by 1 February 2013. Please see the EDI website for
> more details on submission:
> http://www.edi-conference.org/**index.php<http://www.edi-conference.org/index.php>
> Publication plans: Papers presented could potentially be submitted to a
> special edition of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion journal.
>
> References
>
> Haney Lopez, I. F. (1996) "The Social Construction of Race" in Delgado,
> R. (ed) Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Philadelphia:
> Temple University Press)
>
> Knowles, C. (2006) 'Handling Your Baggage in the Field: Reflections on
> Research Relationships', Social Research Methodology, 9 (5), pp. 393-404
>
> Tyagi, S. (1996) 'Writing in Search of a Home' in Thompson, B. & Tyagi,
> S. (eds), Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (New
> York: Routledge)
>
> Spears, A. K. (1999) 'Race and Ideology: An Introduction' in Spears, A.
> K. (ed), Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
> (Detroit: Wayne State University Press)
>
> Diane Nititham-Tunney
> National-Louis University
> 122 S. Michigan Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60603
>
> Kirsti Rawstron
> University of Wollongong, Australia
> Email: dnititham@nl.edu, kjr838@uowmail.edu.au
> Visit the website at
> http://www.edi-conference.org/**index.php<http://www.edi-conference.org/index.php>
>
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Fw: [AASTibet] International Seminar: The Himalayan Impasse

 
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Subject: [AASTibet] International Seminar: The Himalayan Impasse

International Seminar: The Himalayan Impasse
Bonn, Germany
28 & 29 January 2013

The interdisciplinary symposium, organized by the Dept. for Mongolian and Tibetan Studies of the University of Bonn (http://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/abteilungen/zentralasien), Germany, and sponsored by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, will retrace how most of the South Himalayan region, once a vibrant hub between South, Central and East Asia became a dead end at the fringe of modern nation states. It will investigate, what direct and indirect impact this had on the local populations and how they learned coping with it.

Fifteen participating scholars and regional specialists will deliberate on the subject for two days in the premises of theGustav-Stresemann-Institut (http://www.gsi-bonn.de/)in Bonn. External audience is most welcome and participation is free of costs. Food and accommodation is also available on the premises at reasonable rates. However, note that the capacities for accommodation are limited.

For general information about the seminar, pls. contact Thierry Dodin: upp701@uni-bonn.de

For practical information, pls. contact Jeannine Bischoff: jeannine_bischoff@yahoo.de


Hardly any mountain range evokes the image of an impassable barrier as the Himalayas do. While this image might be accurate as far as geography, climate and ecology are concerned, when it comes to human population, the Himalayas were historically less a barrier than a bridge between north and south, connecting people through trade, political and religious relations, and even family and clan relations. Ideas, goods and skills transited through here in both directions to much further afield regions. Buddhism and other old South Asian cultural conceptions made their way to Tibet and from there spread up to Mongolia, Siberia and Manchuria. Foods, plants and medicinal knowledge travelled from Southeast Asia and today's South China, reaching as far as today's northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Salt, Borax and other minerals from the Tibetan Plateau found their way to South Indian markets, while, in the 19th century, Yak tails were exported to the United States via Calcutta to be used as fly flaps. Metallurgy skills and metal craft styles of Indian origin were transported to China via Nepal. South Asian Muslim traders houses established themselves in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Tibet, from where they organised the commercial transport of goods between India, China, and Central Asia. Trading routes which crossed the Himalayas were also corridors for wars that continuously redefined political borders, creating a situation where states territories rarely match the lingistic-cultural realities left by thousands of years of human settlement.

In the second half of the 20th century, however, diverse political developments, in particular the final annexation of the traditional Tibetan state by the emerging People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1951, set a process in motion that was to gradually transfigure the region for ever. Conflicts flared up particularly from 1956 on, and tensions on the Himalayan border escalated to the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962, following which most of the border was closed. The closure was less radical in Nepal, but here too the free transit of people, goods and ideas became a thing of the past. The new situation brought in many cases economic decline, cultural desorientation, social conflicts and general stagnation. Despite the emergence of new avenues and some successful coping strategies, the southern Himalaya remains till date marked by what was probably the deepest cut in its known history.
 
The aim of this international conference is to provide a comprehensive account of the 'Himalayan Impasse' by systematically retracing the regional disintegration processes which followed these developments, and analyse which strategies were developed to cope with the situation.

Fw: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of Contemporary China - January 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: TOC Journal of Contemporary China - January 2013


> H-ASIA
> January 3, 2012
>
> Table of contents: _Journal of Contemporary China_ Vol. 22, No. 79
> (January,2013)
> *****************************************************************
>
> The January 2013 issue of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now
> available online.
>
> If the library of your institution subscribes to the JCC, you can view
> full text of the articles online at:
> http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcc20/current
>
> For your convenience, below is the Table of Contents of the January 2013
> issue of the Journal of Contemporary China.
>
> Journal of Contemporary China
> Issue 22 Number 79, January 2013
>
> Controlling Corruption in Greater China: practices and trends
> Guest editors: Ting Gong and Ian Scott
>
> Hard Rules and Soft Constraints, regulating conflict of interest in China
> Ting Gong and Jianming Ren
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716941
>
> The Challenge of Commercial Bribery and Organized Crime in China
> Andrew Wedeman
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716942
>
> Fiscal Decentralization: guilty of aggravating corruption in China?
> Kilkon Ko and Hui Zhi
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716943
>
> Corruption Perception in Taiwan: reflections upon a bottom-up citizen
> perspective
> Chilik Yu, Chun-Ming Chen, and Min-Wei Lin
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716944
>
> Institutional Design and Corruption Prevention in Hong Kong
> Ian Scott
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716945
>
> Anti-Corruption Approaches in Macao: lawmaking and legal enforcement
> Eilo Yu Wing-Yat
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716946
>
> Research Articles
>
> China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and
> Competing for the Top
> Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann and
> Jingzhou Meng
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716947
>
> Dispersive Containment: A comparative case study of labour politics in
> central China
> Xiuying Cheng
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716948
>
> The Constitutive Rhetoric of Democratic Centralism: A Thematic Analysis of
> Mao?s Discourse on Democracy
> Canchu Lin, and Yueh-Ting Lee
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716949
>
> Research Note
>
> Reinterpreting the Sino-Japanese War (1939-1940): peasant mobilization,
> and the road to the PRC
> David S G Goodman
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2012.716950
>
>
> Suisheng (Sam) Zhao, Professor
> Editor, Journal of Contemporary China (Impact Factor:0.677)
> Director, Center for China-US Cooperation
> Josef Korbel School of International Studies
> University of Denver
> T. 303-871-2401, F. 303-871-4408
> http://www.du.edu/korbel/china<http://www.du.edu/korbel/china/index.html>
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