CFP: The Emotions of Migration

*International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration*

*Workshop 2*
Young People's Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions,
Identities and Relationships

Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014

Venue: York Centre for Asian Research and the Children' s Studies Program
(Department of Humanities) York University, Toronto Canada

*Call for papers*: Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers --
historical and contemporary -- on children and young people's
emotional experiences of migration within and throughout Asia.
Papers should focus on mixed feelings of (but not limited to)
elation, loneliness, hope, frustration, confusion, relief, fear,
freedom and disappointment in the migration process.

There is a preference for participant-centred research in
South and Southeast Asia prioritizing the following themes:

1. Migration for work and marriage in a historical context
(especially in plantations and estates)
2. Contemporary experiences of moving for work, marriage and
school --  managing mixed feelings
3. Left Behind -- adjusting to absence and creating and maintaining
relationships

*Submission and Funding: Please submit contact details and paper
abstract (maximum of 300 words) by April 4th 2014 to:
Dr. Kabita Chakrabortry kabitac@yorku.ca <
mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca>.

Successful applicants will be notified by late-April and are required
to send in a complete draft paper (6000 - 8000 words) by July 8, 2014.
Partial or full funding will be granted to successful applicants.
Participants are encouraged to seek alternate funds for travel from
their home institutions

*Webpage*:
http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration-asia/

Reminder/Extended CFP: The War On Boys?

We are extending the deadline of a special issue of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies themed “TheWar On Boys?” to May 1, 2014. The full call for papers is at http://www.mensstudies.info/call-for-papers-the-war-on-boys/ . Guest editors are Máirtín Mac an Ghaill (Newman University, UK), Chris Haywood (Newcastle University, UK) and Jonathan A. Allan (Brandon University, Canada). APA-styled manuscripts and queries should be sent to AllanJ@brandonu.ca .

More on Thymos: http://bit.ly/REKA2m

Best wishes,

Diederik F. Janssen, MD (Editor: CS&M, Thymos)

CFP: Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions, Identities and Relationships

*International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration*

*Workshop 2*
Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions,
Identities and Relationships

Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014

Venue: York Centre for Asian Research and the Children’ s Studies Program
(Department of Humanities) York University, Toronto Canada

*Call for papers*: Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers —
historical and contemporary — on children and young people’s
emotional experiences of migration within and throughout Asia.
Papers should focus on mixed feelings of (but not limited to)
elation, loneliness, hope, frustration, confusion, relief, fear,
freedom and disappointment in the migration process.

There is a preference for participant-centred research in
South and Southeast Asia prioritizing the following themes:

1. Migration for work and marriage in a historical context
(especially in plantations and estates)
2. Contemporary experiences of moving for work, marriage and
school —  managing mixed feelings
3. Left Behind — adjusting to absence and creating and maintaining
relationships

*Submission and Funding: Please submit contact details and paper
abstract (maximum of 300 words) by April 4th 2014 to:
Dr. Kabita Chakrabortry kabitac@yorku.ca <mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca
<mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca> >.

Successful applicants will be notified by late-April and are required
to send in a complete draft paper (6000 – 8000 words) by July 8, 2014.
Partial or full funding will be granted to successful applicants.
Participants are encouraged to seek alternate funds for travel from
their home institutions

*Webpage*:
http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration
-asia/

<http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration
-asia/
>

FCD Young Scholars Program 2014

Call for Proposals

The FCD Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports policy- and practice-relevant research on the development and learning needs of the nation’s young children growing up under conditions of poverty and low-income.  FCD believes that early learning is a solid first step towards lifelong development and that promoting research in this area, conducted in a holistic and culturally sensitive manner, will help address the disparities in children’s outcomes.

YSP encourages applications from scholars who are:

  • From historically disadvantaged or underrepresented groups, e.g. first-generation college graduates, and those from low-income communities.
  • Scholars who represent a variety of disciplines and methods, given that mental, physical, health, social, economic, institutional, and community factors impact early learning and child development.

Eligibility

Eligible researchers will have received their doctoral degrees (e.g., Ph.D., J.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., M.D.) within seven years of application submission. Ten years for physician applicants.

To view additional eligibility criteria, research focus and for more information about applying to the YSP please visit the YSP Program page of the FCD Website.

Timeline

March 10, 2014: Visit FCD website for full YSP guidelines

Early April 2014 – Early May 2014: Submit Letters of Intent (check FCD website for dates)

Questions

Questions can be addressed to: ysp@fcd-us.org

Quick Links

FCD website: www.fcd-us.org

YSP Program: www.fcd-us.org/our-work/young-scholars-program

 

Like ACYIG on Facebook!

Hi All,
We’ve had an ACYIG Facebook page for quite some time, and the number of people who ‘like’ the page has climbed little by little. We’re now at 477 people who have accessed the posts and conversations there by ‘liking’ the page.
But I know there are far more people on this listserv, who could also benefit from the periodic posts and announcements on the Facebook page. Do you think we can get to 500 ‘likes’ by the end of the week??
Best,
Kristen Cheney, PhD.
Senior Lecturer, Children & Youth Studies
International Institute of Social Studies
The Hague, Netherlands

‘Parenting Culture Studies’ now published

‘Parenting Culture Studies’, a new book in Palgrave’s Family, Relationships and Personal Lifeseries, has just been published. Please find a discount order form  attached.

Contents:

Introduction; Ellie Lee
PART I: PARENTING CULTURE
1. Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting; Charlotte Faircloth
2. Experts and Parenting Culture; Ellie Lee
3. The Politics of Parenting; Jan Macvarish
4. Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational Contact; Jennie Bristow
PART II: ESSAYS ON PARENTAL DETERMINISM
1. Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman who Drinks; Ellie Lee
2. The Problem of ‘Attachment’: The ‘Detached’ Parent; Charlotte Faircloth
3. Babies’ Brains and Parenting Policy: The ‘Insensitive’ Mother; Jan Macvarish
4. Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad; Charlotte Faircloth
5. The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids; Jennie Bristow
Conclusion; Ellie Lee

What reviewers are saying about Parenting Culture Studies:


“These essays represent a sophisticated and courageous examination of parenting orthodoxies that have passed too easily into fact…. Sober, trenchant, witty and important.” – Zoe Williams, The Guardian 

“The authors of this timely collection are in the forefront of analyses of contemporary parenting. The discourses and practices of parenting are rarely held up for sustained critique. Readers of this book will be challenged to question the politics and rationales of parenting cultures in this provocative and cogently argued book.” – Deborah Lupton, University of Sydney, Australia

“This terrific collection of essays probes and destroys many of the reigning orthodoxies that have turned 21st century parenting into an activity marked by cultural and individual anxiety and the over-involvement of experts and policymakers. The scholars contributing to this volume together make a profound contribution to the study of parenting culture.” – Janet Golden, Rutgers University, USA

You can also watch the authors talk about the book in these films made by Faculti Media

CFP: Children, Young People and Families in Changing Urban Spaces

 CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES IN CHANGING URBAN SPACES 

3rd and 4th September 2014

Centre for Children and Youth

University of Northampton, UK

 Organising committee:

John Horton, Faith Tucker, Sophie Hadfield-Hill (University of Birmingham), Michelle Pyer, Rebekah Ryder

Keynote speaker:

Tracey Skelton (National University of Singapore)

Themes:

This conference will bring together new, multidisciplinary research exploring the lives, issues and experiences of children, young people and families in diverse, international urban contexts. In three senses, we propose that it is timely for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in this field to share experiences of working in changing urban contexts.

First, so many urban spaces are undergoing profound changes as a result of interconnected political-economic processes, such as economic crisis and austerity politics in the global north, or uneven development and large-scale urbanisation in the global south. This conference will bring together researchers and perspectives at the vanguard of these transformations.

Second, there is evidence that children, young people and families are positioned, and socially constructed, in diverse and sometimes unprecedented ways in changing urban contexts. In wide-ranging research on participation, activisms, political movements, play or independent mobilities, for example, it is evident that changing urban spaces may afford new opportunities or new limits to the agency of children, young people and families. This conference offers an opportunity for diverse research, from diverse locations, to be discussed.

Third, research on urban children, young people and families is itself changing. As a number of publications and collections have made clear, interdisciplinary collaboration and conversations are increasingly commonplace. For example, new insights have resulted from collaborations between: researchers in urban studies, childhood studies and children’s geographies; researchers, young people and youth workers; quantitative, qualitative and GIS/GPS-based research; academic researchers, planners, policy-makers and practitioners; or social scientists and the creative industries. Research on childhood, youth, families and urbanity has also been enlivened and extended through engagements with conceptualisations of the social-material and bodily-emotional-affective nature of identities, relationships and urban built environments and social-cultural geographies. There are surely numerous exciting ways in which researchers from diverse backgrounds might continue to collaborate.

With all this in mind, we invite papers which engage with children and young people in relation to the following topics:

  • Economic crisis and austerity politics;
  • Designing environments for children, young people and families;
  • Movement and mobilities;
  • Urbanisation and economic development in the global south;
  • Play and popular culture;
  • Disabilities, health and wellbeing;
  • Identities, subcultures and friendships;
  • Exclusions, vulnerability, support and care;
  • Innovative concepts and research methods in urban research;
  • Work and economic participation;
  • Social media and digital technologies in the city;
  • Policing, control and surveillance;
  • Urban play, identities, subcultures and popular culture;
  • Built environments and public spaces;
  • Participation, activism and citizenship.

Abstracts (c.200 words) should be emailed to: faith.tucker@northampton.ac.uk by 16thApril 2014.

Conference information:

Information about registration for the conference will be available in due course.  The standard fee for this two-day conference will be £125; postgraduate fee £65.  (Additional charge for overnight accommodation.)

For further information, please contact Dr Faith Tucker (email:faith.tucker@northampton.ac.uk ).

CFP: Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts

ISSN: 2288-601X

www.e-csac.org

 Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts (CSAC) is a multidisciplinary international journal that publishes papers on children’s development in diverse social and cultural contexts in Asia Pacific region. CSAC’s paramount aim is to examine biological, emotional, cognitive, social, and cultural development of children; the role of social and cultural contexts, such as family, educare setting, school, and community, in children’s development; the interaction between development and context; and its theoretical and practical implications, including social policies for children.

We publish in February and August and are now accepting papers for publication in the 2014 August issue.

The submission deadline for publication in the August issue is June 1, 2014.

To submit, please visit our homepage at www.e-csac.org

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Editorial Board: http://www.e-csac.org/html/sub02_01.asp

CHIEF EDITOR

Soon Hyung Yi, Seoul National University, Korea

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Catherine McBride-Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Feng-Ming Tsao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Gisela Trommsdorff, Universitat Konstanz, Germany

Ingrid Schoon, University of London, United Kingdom

Jean Phinney, California State University at Los Angeles, USA

Joseph Tobin, Arizona State University, USA

Judi Mesman, Leiden University, Netherlands

Jung-Sook Lee, University of New South Wales, Australia

Katariina Salmela-Aro, University of Helsinki, Finland

Kenneth H. Rubin, University of Maryland, USA

Leher Singh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Marc H. Bornstein, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA

Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Ochanomizu University, Japan

Min Ju Kang, Yonsei University, Korea

Mutsumi Imai, Keio University, Japan

Myoung Soon Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

Paul E. Jose, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Robert E. Emery, University of Virginia, USA

Sara Harkness, University of Connecticut, USA

Sing Lau, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Yanjie Su, Peking University, China

MANAGING EDITOR

Grace Chung, Seoul National University, USA

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Important Features of CSAC:

Committed to SPEEDY review and publication

One of the most important features of CSAC is speedy review and rapid publication.

For all submitted manuscripts, we strive to complete the first round review within 3 weeks

and publish and accepted manuscript within 6 months of initial submission.

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Authors’ Guidelines: http://www.e-csac.org/html/sub03_01.asp

+ All manuscripts must be prepared in English.

+ Review paper is warmly welcome.

+ Submit your paper through the CSAC website: www.e-csac.org

+ To expedite the review process, please format your reference as the guideline.

+ Please visit journal homepage for more information and to view our issues.

Best Regards,

Editorial Office of CSAC

www.e-csac.org

Email: email.csac@gmail.com