The Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN): CRN_Mobilities.
CRNs provide an opportunity for ACYIG members to develop and lead inter-disciplinary groups of scholars, practitioners, and students around specific thematic interests. Collaborative Research Networks may involve activities such as email groups, listservs, calls to action, op-eds, organizing conference panels, or other activities and communications contributing to scholarly issues relevant to ACYIG membership. We strongly encourage inter-disciplinary and international membership. Membership within CRNs is free and open to the public.
The focus of this new CRN is Global Mobilities. CRN_ Mobilities examines the actual and imagined movement of global children and youth, broadly conceived. We invite scholars, students and practitioners to share resources, links, and information that considers young people as agents of mobility and movements, and/or that examines the mobility of ideas about global childhood and youth. Potential topics include but are not limited to: migration and transnational identities, social media and social movements; young people’s influence on global flows of people, capital, ideas, and values; and popular discourse and representations of global children and youth.
To join this CRNs, please sign up here: https://lists.capalon.com/
lists/listinfo/acyig_ mobilities. You must be a listserv member to send and receive emails. To post to the listserv, email: acyig_mobilities@binhost.com.
General information about the mailing list is located at https://lists.capalon.com/
lists/listinfo/acyig_ mobilities We hope you will consider actively participating and proposing your own CRN today (Click here for more informationhttp://www.aaanet.
org/sections/acyig/crns/)! Warm regards,
Michele Statz (mstatz@carthage.edu) and Lauren Heidbrink (lheidbrink@nl.edu)
Hosts of CRN_Mobilities
CFP – Childist Landscapes
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
San Francisco, March 29 – April 2, 2016
Childist Landscapes: Geographies of child abuse and neglect, and the maltreatment of young people
If one’s experience of life is rooted in one’s childhood, a richer understanding of social malaise could be gleaned by examining the most prevalent and widespread form of violence in society: the abuse, neglect, and maltreatment of children (Miller, 1981). Continue reading CFP – Childist Landscapes
CFP – New book series: “Worlds in Motion”
Berghahn Books are excited to announce the launch of a brand new series, Worlds in Motion, edited by Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, in collaboration with ANTHROMOB, the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network.
We invite new proposals for this interdisciplinary book series that aims to feature empirically grounded studies from around the world, exploring how people, objects and ideas move across the planet. With a special focus on theory as well as methodology, the series will consider movement as both an object and a method of study.
If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration, please take a look at the proposal submission guide on our website – http://www.berghahnbooks.com/index.php?pg=author_info
The Age of Criminal Responsibility
Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies (University of Northumbria)
Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney)
Wednesday 23 September 2015, 4th Floor Corporate Hub and Harvard Lecture Theatre, School of Law, Northumbria University 11.00-18.00
On Wednesday 23rd September the Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies (University of Northumbria) and the Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney) will co-host a 1 day conference on ‘The Age of Criminal Responsibility’ at Northumbria University in Newcastle. The aim of this conference is to encourage debate and discussion on the current age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales which is set at 10 years. This conference will provide a forum for exploring the latest research and developments in understanding the challenges facing young people in conflict with the law. Continue reading The Age of Criminal Responsibility
Notes from the field: Humanitarian discourses, systemic erasures, and the production of victimhood in “Child, Bride, Mother”
By Briana Nichols and Lisette Farias
The following is a dialogue between cultural-linguistic anthropology and critical occupational science written by two PhD students working in Guatemala.
Briana: What initially struck me about the image was her vacant stare. The caption below the photograph explains, “Aracely was 11 when she married her husband, who was 34. Now 15, she is raising her son on her own.” We see a girl, seated, her blue jean skirt, purple shirt, and her toddler son’s red shorts brilliantly contrast the weathered wooden shack behind her. With her son on her lap, she prepares corn. And perhaps intended to be most shocking to the non-Guatemalan viewer, she is breastfeeding.
So what are we, the western, global north, New York Times consumer, supposed to understand from this image? What emotions is it meant to evoke? What is made visible, and what is obscured when images of the “developing world” are published for outside, selectively contextualized consumption?
This photograph is one of fifteen in the “Child, Bride, Mother” exposé “documenting the issue of Child marriage” in Guatemala. It is part of a larger transmedia project, “investigating: the world of prearranged child marriage,” by photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair entitled “Too Young to Wed”(Sinclair directs a non-profit organization by the same name).
As an anthropology PhD student working in Guatemala, I wonder about the power of the outsider, myself included, in the representation of the other, the unfamiliar, the shocking. When a photojournalist chooses to focus on child marriage, the subjects of her photographs are presented within that specific framing—a framing situated in discourses of childhood, human rights, and victimization. We often take for granted the nature of childhood, its implicit innocence, and the inherent need to protect children as vulnerable and non-agentive social beings (Bluebond-Langner and Korbin 2007; Poretti et al. 2014; Rosen 2007). Fassin (2013) demonstrates how this global rhetoric of childhood is often viewed as common sense, despite its historically constructed and culturally situated nature. With this naturalization comes a legitimization of vulnerability, rendering children as the only “pure victims” and eclipsing the realities of sweeping structural violence and inequity.
Read more at youthcirculations.com…
Education and Armed Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Education and Armed Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Arnhold Symposium 2015 in New York City
When? October 29 to 30, 2015
Where? German Center for Research and Innovation and The New School for Social Research, NY, NY
The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, the German Center for Research and Innovation and The New School for Social Research are pleased to invite all interested parties to the Arnhold Symposium on Education for Sustainable Peace 2015, at which critical scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines working on the complex relationship between education and armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa will gather in New York City to present their research. Continue reading Education and Armed Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
CFP – 2016 SCCR conference Portland, Oregon
Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference
February 17-20, 2016
Call for submissions
The deadline of October 1st for submissions of papers, posters and panel proposals for the Society for Cross Cultural Research conference in Portland, Oregon is fast approaching! Visit the SCCR website at http://sccr.vancouver.wsu.edu/ Continue reading CFP – 2016 SCCR conference Portland, Oregon
Faculty Position Announcement–Assistant Professor TT Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden
The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University—Camden, New Jersey (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/), invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) to commence on September 1, 2016. Applications received by November 6, 2015 will receive full consideration. Continue reading Faculty Position Announcement–Assistant Professor TT Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden