about field work

some ideas i have been collecting in conversations with people

- use archival work as collaboration work
- to work with "portenyos" make tours around the city (ask them to show me around the places they use the most)
- videotape places at different times of the day - different days and make focus groups watching the videos
- make field note chronolgically, one file per month, link the interviews to the notes.
- make a semi analytical report per month.
- think about ethnography at home, think what suposedly "non ethnographic" situations tell me about my work too, all conversations will be important.
- Collaboration:
- photos - video
- networks with ca and tacu
- reprint books formosa
- info network with indy and nik

Documentaries on the Multicultural City

call for films on some common topics

Documentaries on the Multicultural City
Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural City April 24th, 2009
http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com/

More than half of the population in the world now lives in cities, and the urban share of the globe will continue to increase dramatically to reach 70 percent by 2050. Migration, both from within and among societies, is a major source of urbanization, with multicultural cities on the rise everywhere.

Call for Documentary Film/Video Entries

In an innovative way toward mutual learning, we invite the submission of video and photo documentaries whose emphasis is on exploring multicultural cities and processes of place-making. Scholars, teachers, students and practitioners alike are searching for alternative methods to conventional data analysis and academic writing to be able to capture ethnic diversity and multicultural interactions in real world settings. The use of documentaries to show the daily practices of multiculturalism in the city can make several key contributions to research, teaching and action.

Videos not in excess of 15 minutes are requested for submission to screenings which will be held at the conference venue at the University of Hawai’i Manoa Campus on April 24th, 2009. Selections of videos to be included in the seminar will be made by a committee of students and faculty who are organizing the event. Artists, video- and filmmakers, researchers, writers and others interested in the relation between people and places and the making of multicultural cities are invited to join the project, participate to the seminar to discuss their ideas and work.

Questions, themes, topics and issues to be addressed in the documentaries can include, but are not limited to:

* How documentaries by recoding the presence of people of different origins over time can reveal ‘invisible’ minority cultures in a way that no other media can.
* The efforts at historic preservation of elements of the city that might otherwise have been overlooked but are of high cultural value to members of a community.
* How multiculturalism can work well in practice and thus contribute to a more positive attitude about and pride in the multicultural city, and thereby assist in fostering mutual accommodation and tolerance.
* In an age of global migration in which significant segments of multicultural cities do not have citizenship or are otherwise marginalized in the city, how documentaries can help identify issues of social justice.
* How multiculturalism inscribes itself into the city by everyday uses of urban space and lead us to a greater appreciation of the many different identities that make up the multicultural Cosmopolis of contemporary times.

By combining the reflections and findings emerging around the objectives of the conference, and understanding the inevitability of increasing diversity in urban places, this conference aims at drawing lessons and recommendations as to what makes the creation of ethnic spaces possible, and further what helps to form and shape livable cities with healthy intercultural relations, namely, cities as multicultural places where migrants’ place-making is understood and acknowledged as an inherent human right to the city.

This conference is sponsored by the Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity Initiative (SEED), University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

Submission Deadline and Guidelines

The purpose of the call is a selection of a maximum of eight documentaries to be screened in a one-day conference on April 24th, 2009 at the University of Hawai’i.

Submission deadline: March 1st, 2009

Guidelines

Videos should be short — no longer than 15.00 minutes. International and Domestic submissions are encouraged.
The formats accepted are: DVD
Please include: Synopsis, Bio, CV and Contact Information. All submissions will be added to the Diversity in Place Video Library for possible inclusion in future projects. If included in other projects, artists will be contacted for permission.

Send submissions to:

Vera Zambonelli, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way, 96822 Honolulu HI

Travel and lodging aid:
Pending application, the Project will cover part of travel expenses and lodging in a Youth Hostel for participants residing outside of Honolulu. If traveling to Honolulu is not an option, we will arrange videoconferencing through skype.

For more information: diversityinplace@gmail.com
http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com/


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Merlyna Lim, Ph.D.
School of Justice & Social Inquiry and
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
Arizona State University

mailing address:
CSPO, Arizona State University
PO Box 875603
Tempe, AZ 85287-5603
United States

Eli sigue ganando premios

PREMIO MUNICIPAL DE LITERATURA
LUIS JOSÉ DE TEJEDA - 2008
Género Novela Breve

ACTA DEL JURADO

En la ciudad de Córdoba, a dieciocho días del mes de diciembre del año dos mil ocho, tras haber evaluado los cuarenta y cuatro trabajos presentados, el Jurado del Premio Municipal de Literatura Luis José de Tejeda 2008, Género Novela Breve, integrado por Tununa Mercado, Angélica Gorodischer y Perla Suez, acuerda en otorgar de manera unánime las siguientes distinciones.

El Jurado otorga el TERCER PREMIO por unanimidad a El color de las rocas, ingresada con el número 32, presentada al concurso con el pseudónimo de Eloísa Andrade.

Escrita con una prosa austera y un lenguaje íntimo y sutil la novela crece cada vez que la protagonista va en busca de los suyos. En una lengua reticente, la temporalidad de la memoria es el núcleo que sostiene esta historia de familia. La escritura del pasado ocupa un lugar medular y la familia, tema central de la memoria, recupera una forma imaginaria inquietante, un diagrama con afectos que se va construyendo de modo preciso y eficaz. La narradora ahonda con singularidad en su pasado familiar y nos conmueve mientras construye el desamparo que la lleva hacia los orígenes.

El pseudónimo Eloísa Andrade corresponde a ELIZABETH LERNER

Fragment and Fluid

This call for papers has an interesting focus that makes me think further in the method for my work as layers of overlapped maps that produce space in the way.


I am organizing a panel on "Fragment and Fluid Urbanities" at the
European Conference on African Studies to be held in Leipzig 4-7 June
2009. I would like to invite innovative papers that contribute to
theorizing urban spatialities in African cities beyond dominant accounts
of socio-spatial fragmentation. The full panel description is copied
below. I have also attached some general information on the conference
and on how to submit an abstract. Please review the panel description
and consider providing a paper or pass this call for papers to other
interested colleagues. Abstracts need to be uploaded to the conference
website by December 31, 2008.

For a list of the approved panels and further information please see:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/approvedpanels
(Panel 56)

For questions regarding the panel please contact me.

Yours sincerely,

Christine Hentschel



Fragmented and Fluid Urbanities

This panel seeks to foster a new understanding of urban spatialities in
African contexts. It contrasts common accounts of fragmentation,
polarisation, and 'new segregation', with more dynamic, fluid
understandings of contemporary urban space.
Dominant accounts of postcolonial or post-apartheid cities emphasize
their deep-rooted or newly created morphologies of social and spatial
fragmentation. According to these depictions of contemporary urban
realities, the city, as such, does not exist (anymore) and is divided
into bubbles of gentrification and forgotten slums, into islands of
safety and hotspots of fear and terror. Wealth and spatial disparities
correlate with governance disparities, triggering new forms of exclusion.
This panel encourages urban scholars from a variety of disciplines (e.g.
geography, sociology, political science, urban planning and
criminology), to challenge the concept of the fragmented city with more
dynamic, fluid theories of urban space, governance and everyday life,
using temporality, movement and informal productions of space.

Che, el Argentino de Soderbergh

Despues del frenesi

HAce unos quince dias que termine con los examenes de doctorado y el frenesi de leer sin parar. SIgo leyendo sigo con trabajo y no se si algo realmente cambio demaciado, pero si se que al menos cerre por un tiempo esto de leer todo el dia el placer de seguir el hilo de las ideas que se me crucen y me den ganas de seguir, pero tambien las cuentas regresivas de textos. Quede relativamente contenta con lo que logre escribir y la defensa oral fue bien entretenida. Las preguntas rondaron alrededor de que es exactamente el movimiento, como estudiarlo, cual la relacion entre movilidad de algunos e inmovilidad de otros, razones politicas del trabajo, profundidad historica precolonial, que es indigeneidad para mi, que es lo que cambia si cambia la movilidad y que no cambia si no cambia, cual es la relacion con el tiempo, LA verda que finalmente en el dialogo aprendi un monton, despues del trauma de escribir encerrada, en donde tamien calculo que se aprende pero en un estado de frenesi total.

la unica cosa en la que me dejo pensando es lo tremandamente individual que es el proceso, un paso mas a que eso que es el proyecto de uno se transforme en un centro en si mismo. me resulto muy raro en un lugar, por alguna razon mas rponnciado aun que en arg dnde uno es parte de una genealogia mas marcada, habla desde un grupo y hace movidas dentro de avanzadas mas colectivas. y sin embargo la academia arg fragmenta, en lo cotidiano y atrinchera de algun modo en las charlas, mientras que aca los dialogos con todos los puntos de contacto del probelame que uno encare son casi obligatorios y multiples.

Bueno ahora la pregunta es como encarar al campo para seguir pensando y armando algo pero de otra forma. Esa es la pregunta central de estos dias y algo que comprati en mi charla que fue mas dialogo que charla que di el viernes pasado en el learning community del depto.

esta es una entrada que nunca termine y deje abierta con la idea de completar tambien con resumenes de las charlas del congreso de antropo gringo, cosa que no se si pase. voy a seguir con entradas cortas hasta que enganche de vuelta a laburar a traves del blog y esto se transforme en un cuaderno de campo, con informacion no sencible claro.

Twitter and the World Simulation

este tipo es lo mas.

CAT STEVENS ... the wind

para las noches de insmnio. eramos tan hippies.

Comentarios sobre la parte teorica

My decision to focus on the constitution of subjectivities rather than on the making of indigenous identities has been generated by several factors: a) the limitations that many authors have noted regarding the studies that only focus on “identity”, b) an attempt to find an alternative to the unsolved debates over the celebration or critique of indigeneity, c) an interest in being able to discuss what type of subjects are generated in moments in which identity is not fully-articulated, d) an attempt to examine the entanglements in which subjectivities exceed a single dimension. In other words, my starting point is Marisol de la Cadena’s and Orin Starn’s claim that indigeneity is not just a political identity but a field of governmentality, subjectivity, and knowledge, in which "becoming indigenous is always only a possibility negotiated within political fields of culture and history" (2007:13). Why and in which contexts do subjects get constituted as indigenous?
Subjectivity, agency and identity have been at the centre of debates regarding culture and politics. The so-called “politics of identity” helps us understand processes of cultural production of a defined group through the making of a chain of articulated elements that brings together and presents a group as distinct from other groups defined by their contrasts. But this theory does not offer us an alternative for thinking beyond this practice of articulation. The negative definitions of social subjects have stressed modernity’ s construction of an (exterior or interior) ‘other.’ Postcolonial and subaltern scholars have argued that subjects are not a cause constituting their identity but a difference that is an effect of power (Spivak 1988). The literature on the politics of difference proposes, then, a subjectivity that always exceeds any definition, threatens all demarcations, and is never fully articulated. These perspectives offer the possibility of thinking of this “other” beyond an explicit articulation. However, the problem with this definition is that restricts our understanding of the internal social and cultural dynamics within subaltern actors.

De lo que escribi en esta seccion y quedo sin editar este parrafo es el que mas me intereza, despues hay quizas demaciado enfasis en indigeneidad, introduzco parrafo en castellano con algunas ideas mas

De esta critica a la politica de identidad y diferencia aun sigo a Grossberg con su propuesta de la subjetividad como construccion en sucesivas capas que territorializan cada vez mas a los cuerpos. Por otro lado sigo a Briones-Ramos, en su obsecion con los pliegues, a ellas se les suma Grosz y claro todas siguen a Deleuze. Si antes del sujeto estan los cuerpos, los cuerpos no son mas que pliegues del exterior que generan una interioridad. Este exterior es un campo politico por supuesto, pero tambien incluye lo no humano. Para Grossberg entonces primero vienen las maquinarias estratificadoras, que se generan del hecho de que los sujetos surgen dentro de campos espaciales en los cuales tienen distintas posibilidades de acceder a la experiencia. El acceso a differentes experiencias, yo agregar'ia: generadas a partir de la repeticion de practica, se inscriben luego como diferencia de los sujetos. Estas son las maquinarias diferenciadoras. Finalmente la diferencia se territorializa en lugares construidos en la practica y en los desplazamientos.

Como se define la colectividad no es solo en relaciona estas estratificaciones, diferenciaciones y territorializaciones, sino que al final de su texto Grossberg vuleve a Agamben y define a las "comunidades por venir". Ahi tanto sujetos como collectividad se definen solamente por pertenencia, da lugar asi a una configuracion colectiva, que se define en positivo, pero no por iguldad, ni solo como resto, sino por la copresencia. Esto permite pesar configuraciones de diferencia mas alla de ser el "resto" del poder, en las que confluir en un lugar y pararse define un sujeto colectivo y politico.

Bueno dos cosas, tendr'ia que leer a Agamben y lo de los pliegues, pero tambien critica a Grossberg. las etapas de Grossberg y donde el termina situando la accion es algo parcial. Lo que no sigo de Grossberg es que sigue hablando de maquinarias por un lado y formas en que los sujetos habitan y se mueven estrategicamente en un espacio territorializado. Esta reconceptualizacion de la agencia no me convense, si bien esta muy refinada. Lo que no cierra es que haya un territorio por un lado y sujetos que actuan en relacion a ciertos fines. Claculo que aca lo sigo mas a Massumi y su idea de que lo que mueve son afectos que se van desatando mutuamente, que traviezan y movilizan. Mmmmmm pero con esto tampoco iria a algo totalmente antiracionalista, y tampoco dejaria todo librado a un cuerpo que siente intensidades, me da un bastante claustrofobia la verdad. Pensaria un poco mas como las subjetividades son formaciones de multiples, que se agregan y desagregan. Si las ideas con su origen intersubjetivo son un afecto entonces hay cierta resonancia, y hay ciertas formas de porcesar y darles mas impetu o hacerlas morir, creo que hay ambas cosas, un poco de manejo parcial, y bastante de atravesamiento. que es el manejo parcial, probablemente algo asi como una orientacion para el movimiento, algo que no es una certeza de un lugar especifico, pero que si es ir en cierta direccion.

En fin por ahi ando.

proposal