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POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH ON ‘THE HUMAN ECONOMY’

UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

The Faculty of Humanities at the Buy Alprazolam Europe University of Pretoria invites applications from suitably-qualified researchers for Post-Doctoral Fellowships to Buy Alprazolam Europe contribute to an interdisciplinary project on ‘The Human Economy’.

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Scholars who Buy Alprazolam Europe have undertaken research relevant to these topics in disciplines such as Social Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Economy, Development Studies, Philosophy, Literature or Buy Alprazolam Europe Geography are welcome to apply.  Because the Buy Alprazolam Europe making of world society is at stake, there are no Buy Alprazolam Europe restrictions on where this research has been done. But the Buy Alprazolam Europe Faculty has a particular interest in fostering a dialogue on such issues between researchers from Buy Alprazolam Europe countries in the ‘global South’.

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• Have completed a Buy Alprazolam Europe doctoral degree in a relevant discipline within the past seven years
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Fellowships are for one year (2011), with the Buy Alprazolam Europe possibility of renewal for a further year depending on progress.  Fellows will be Buy Alprazolam Europe expected to write up and publish research relevant to the designated theme, and Buy Alprazolam Europe will have an opportunity to undertake additional, comparative research in southern Africa, should this Buy Alprazolam Europe be appropriate.

Successful applicants will also be expected to

• Contribute to the Faculty of Humanities Seminar Programme
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• Provide guidance to Buy Alprazolam Europe postgraduate students who will undertake research on topics linked to the Buy Alprazolam Europe interests of particular Fellows.  Each Fellow would mentor at least one student.

Fellows will receive

• A tax-free stipend of up to R175 000 per annum
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• Funding to Buy Alprazolam Europe attend one international conference outside South Africa during their tenure
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Applicants must complete the Buy Alprazolam Europe University of Pretoria Post-Doctoral Application Form before 30 June 2010.  Applications will be considered by the university’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee.

For further information, please contact

John Sharp, Professor of Social Anthropology and Buy Alprazolam Europe Deputy Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria (john.sharp@up.ac.za)

OR

Keith Hart, Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Pretoria (johnkeithhart@gmail.com)

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“Recycling Textile Technologies”

A workshop to be held at the Department of Anthropology,
University College London,
on June 14th 2010

This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together researchers who work
on textile recycling, including anthropologists, geographers,
historians, political economists, designers, and materials scientists.
This is with a view to develop a research agenda that explores
innovation in textile recycling technologies in the widest sense, and
how these succeed or fail in becoming socially embedded. Textile
recycling activities, as socio-technical systems, arise in specific
cultural contexts within global trading patterns, and their study may
incorporate the underlying relationships between people and things, raw
materials and technologies and the emergence of entrepreneurs and
innovators in social networks amongst other (f)actors.

We see at least three possible clusters of themes emerging, but welcome
further ideas:

1. Reinventing Old Solutions to New Problems?

Industrial recycling practises are specific, historically situated
socio-technical systems. While pre-industrial papermaking industries
used rags as a source of raw materials, 19th century textile mills
looked to Buy Alprazolam Europe recycled clothing as a cheaper source of raw material for the
wool shoddy industries. In the Buy Alprazolam Europe 21st century, the problem has changed to
what Buy Alprazolam Europe to do with mountains of cast-off clothing, and this drives the
search for technologically solutions appropriate to diverse cultural
contexts. Anthropological understandings of technology embrace
materials, makers, designers, and users in a relational networks
including socio-economic, political, and legal factors. In this broader
context, how are some old technologies being reinvented for the future,
and in what fields are new technologies being successfully developed?

2. The value of knowledge and skills in cultural contexts

As different cultures have developed different somatic skills and
practices, we wish to investigate the importance of tacit knowledges to
recycling. Consideration of these embedded knowledges within the global
perspective raises a number of questions specific to the processing of
waste textiles. How are knowledge and skills valued differently within a
textile waste industry compared to primary production? How intimately do
you Buy Alprazolam Europe need to know used textiles in order to process them effectively, and
how do differing levels of entanglement affect your social status within
a recycling system? For those who are bodily engaged with waste, how
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And what Buy Alprazolam Europe are the cultural specificities of the valuing of people and
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factory, an Buy Alprazolam Europe illiterate migrant woman cutting up rags in an Indian shoddy
factory and the designer creating eco-textiles from recycled materials.
Do these differences come down to a narrowing of knowledge domains? Are
these limitations the only factors affecting personal value ranking
within global systems?

3. Networks of global trade

Since at least the Buy Alprazolam Europe early 19thC rags have been globally traded for reuse
and recycling industries. Many rag businesses are family businesses that
have been trading for generations, and have nurtured valuable networks
of business contacts that span the developed and developing world in
both directions. The movement of second-hand textiles across the globe
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international trade? For example, how does the trade in second-hand
clothing and textile waste facilitate the movement of other goods along
similar networks? To what extent is textile waste trade a conduit for
other licit and illicit goods? How might the degrees of regulatory
frameworks surrounding waste enable or inhibit other flows of goods, and
is this conducive to it becoming the visible front for invisible
commodity exchange? Is this particular to textiles, to waste or raw
materials in general?

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by Feb 28th to:
Lucy Norris lucy.norris@ucl.ac.uk Buy Alprazolam Cheap Online AND Julie Botticello
j.botticello@ucl.ac.uk
Department of Anthropology, UCL.

This workshop is Buy Alprazolam Europe being initiated as part of the ESRC project, the Waste
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COMMISION ON URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY, IUAES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, 7-9 May 2010

The Informal and the Formal: Contested Categories of Socio-Economic Life

Convenor: Italo Pardo (University of Kent)

OUTLINE

This conference recognizes both the Buy Alprazolam Europe empirical difficulty in categorising human activities as belonging strictly to the Buy Alprazolam Europe formal sector or the informal sector of the economy and the Buy Alprazolam Europe blurred boundaries between these sectors. It brings together anthropologists who specialise in different ethnographies with the Buy Alprazolam Europe main aim of addressing the complexity of the informal sector, the Buy Alprazolam Europe attendant challenges in attempting to define it and the problematic relationships between activities that Buy Alprazolam Europe take place within and without the officially set boundaries of the Buy Alprazolam Europe formal sector.

The ethnographer is often confronted with small-scale businesses and Buy Alprazolam Europe other economically significant actions and forms of exchange (individual or collective) that, not exclusively rooted in what is officially defined as ‘the informal sector’, generally address the market as a whole.From a worm’s eye viewpoint, it could be reasonably suggested that Buy Alprazolam Europe such activities may not always be strictly legal and they may not always agree with the Buy Alprazolam Europe ‘laws’ of market capitalism, but not for Buy Alprazolam Europe this should they be misread as evidence of marginality – cultural, economic, political and Buy Alprazolam Europe moral. On the contrary, it should be asked whether even people with a Buy Alprazolam Europe disadvantaged background may be actively engaged in negotiating the messiness of their lives and Buy Alprazolam Europe redefining their place in society. Contested knowledge acquired through prolonged involvement in the Buy Alprazolam Europe flow of local life brings out the weakness of the distinction between employment and Buy Alprazolam Europe work and of a view of informal work activities as a Buy Alprazolam Europe separate mode of production or as belonging to a ‘casual economy’. Of course, such complexity must be Buy Alprazolam Europe set against the background of the graded relationships between the legal and Buy Alprazolam Europe the illegal sectors that colour many dealings at various levels and Buy Alprazolam Europe in various sectors of associated life, which raises stimulating questions as to Buy Alprazolam Europe the extent to which the blurred boundaries of the ’divide’ mirror other aspects of social and cultural life (such as kinship, marriage and social and moral networks) in each specific ethnographic setting. It is Buy Alprazolam Europe not unusual to find complex links, in terms of production, distribution and Buy Alprazolam Europe consumption, between the formal sector and activities that are rooted in the Buy Alprazolam Europe informal sector, at the limits or beyond the limits of the Buy Alprazolam Europe strictly legal. For example, ethnographically diversified findings suggest that small- to Buy Alprazolam Europe medium-range formal businesses often rely on workshops that produce goods illegally (evading tax on the Buy Alprazolam Europe purchase of raw materials and the sale of finished products, as well as employment tax and Buy Alprazolam Europe other welfare state contributions) and Buy Alprazolam Europe that a proportion of such products finds its way into the Buy Alprazolam Europe legal market. In this context, the complex relationship between the Buy Alprazolam Europe legal and the illegal is a key issue, the empirical analysis of which may help us to Buy Alprazolam Europe clarify broader, far-reaching economic processes in view of ever-growing global competition. Such an Buy Alprazolam Europe approach needs to account for problematic processes whereby what is Buy Alprazolam Europe illegal at a given time in a given place may be Buy Alprazolam Europe legal in another place or may become legal at another time in the Buy Alprazolam Europe same place; it should indeed be borne in mind that Buy Alprazolam Europe changes in the law may turn given situations on their head.

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Proposals (max 500 words) should be sent by 15 March 2010 to Dr Marcello Mollica:

Chief Coordinator, CUA

Department of Social Anthropology

University of Fribourg

Bd de Pérolles 90

Bureau G 302

1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Tel. ++41 26 300 74 79

Fax ++41 26 300 96 64

e-mail: marcello.mollica@unifr.ch

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‘Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000′

21 April 2010

University of Wolverhampton, UK

The Centre for Buy Alprazolam Europe the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a Buy Alprazolam Europe workshop devoted to a discussion of illicit and illegal commercial practices, from Buy Alprazolam Europe 1500 to the present.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The trade in stolen goods
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• Commerce and the legal system
• Black markets and unlicensed dealing
• Kleptomania, retail theft and shoplifting
• Consumer and retailer protection organisations

Please e-mail proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 5 February 2010.

For further information and to submit proposals, please contact :

Laura Ugolini

E-mail:  L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Workshop web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/illegcom.html

CHORD web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

CALL FOR PAPERS

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