SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, LONDON
With Prof Christopher Farrands, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Giovanni Ercolani, Universidad de Murcia
This event is free, but tickets must be booked. To book tickets please go to https://ercolani.eventbrite.co.uk/
Dr Ercolani has recently published a book on this topic, Anthropology and Security Studies. More information on the book can be found here.
Date: October 30, 2013
Time: 9:00am to 12:15pm
Venue: Fifth Floor Conference Room, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
Featuring
Invitation to follow.
Date: 3 December 2013
Time: 09.00 – 17.30
Venue: Chancellors’ Building, University of Bath, UK
Programme: For the full workshop programme, please see the Call for Participants(pdf)
Who should attend: This workshop is open to interested participants from academia, the governmental and non-governmental sectors. Please register your interest in attending the workshop by emailing the network coordinator, Dr Rana Jawad at r.jawad@bath.ac.uk.
Presenting a paper: Colleagues wishing to present a paper should email a 250 word abstract to Rana Jawad at r.jawad@bath.ac.uk by 25 October 2013.
Financial Matters and Bursaries for PhD Students: The workshop will be free of charge with a limited number of places available. A small number of travel bursaries for PhD students will also be available on a first come first served basis as follows: up to a maximum of £100 for UK-based PhD students and up to £200 for PhD students coming from overseas.
NB: Please note that priority of attendance will be given to delegates who are directly involved through their professional activities or academic research in an area of social policy or international security that is relevant to the workshop.
About this workshop: To mark the recent establishment of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Social Policy Network which is dedicated to the promotion of research on issues of social protection and social welfare in the MENA region, we are pleased to announce that our first workshop is to be held on Tuesday 3 December 2013 at the University of Bath’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Bath, UK.
Social security to protect the local populations of the MENA region from poverty and deprivation has – at long last – become an issue of major international concern – on a par perhaps, with the more traditional concern of international security. Both national governments in MENA and global development agencies (led by the ILO, World Bank, DFID and UN agencies) are now seeking to articulate new social visions for this region’s diverse populations based on a regime of (a) social assistance and cash transfer programmes and (b) the promise of extended social security coverage. But what are the prospects for social protection as a tool for policy analysis in the MENA region and are there no already existing forms of social solidarity and social mobilization which contribute to the formation of viable future social policies?
The aim of this workshop is to highlight the pivotal importance of social justice and social welfare issues affecting local populations in the MENA region and to present the case for social policy as a vital form of public intervention aimed at solving the enormous social problems that this region faces. Moreover, the workshop will explore the particular trajectory of social policy in the MENA region and the tremendous scope for effective social activism which already exists there (prior to the Arab spring). Empirical research from around the MENA region, though limited in scope has shown already that local populations have long mobilised around issues of social justice on both secular and religious grounds yet these forms of action have received little attention from the public media and mainstream public policy debates. Indeed, MENA countries have in operation systems of both state and non-state welfare provision which as yet, have received hardly any scrutiny in terms of their wider social impact.
This workshop will offer the first opportunity to take stock in a research-informed forum of the specificity of social welfare initiatives in the MENA region and crucially, what choices now lie ahead for researchers and policymakers working in this field. The two main outputs from the workshop will be a report that sets out some of the key discussions and a suitable plan for future action by the network; as well as the preparation of a themed section on some key papers from the workshop to be published at a later date in an international journal.
Message from the Centro Estratégico De Análisis Del Delito (CEAD), Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública, Chile:
“Junto con saludarles cordialmente, tengo el agrado de invitarlos al seminario “Cifras + Análisis = Construyendo Conocimiento para la Prevención del Delito”. El seminario se realizará el miércoles 02 de octubre a partir de las 09:00 horas, en el salón Patagonia del Hotel Crowne Plaza, ubicado en Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 136, comuna de Santiago.
Adjuntamos el programa de la actividad. Esperamos poder contar con su presencia en la jornada y a través de ustedes hacemos extensiva la invitación a sus equipos de trabajo.
Agradecemos confirmar su asistencia a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico mquezadav@interior.gov.cl o al 25502884 y que nos ayuden a difundir la actividad.”
Programme: CEAD seminar
Message from Susan N. Minjire, Programme Officer, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Kenya
Dear all,
Greetings from the Centre for Conflict Resolution – Kenya. This is to let you know that CCR will be undertaking a training for parties who may be interested in furthering their skills in Conflict Management, Conflict Transformation, Early Warning and Early Response amongst others. The training is scheduled to take place fron 2nd – 6th December; 2013 in Nairobi Kenya.
Detailed information about the course and the course modules to be covered during the 5 days training is in the documents below.
Training information: CCR-K TRAINING
Application Form: App-Form-Details-A13
The deadline for submitting the applications is on 20th November; 2013 by C.O.B.
For further clarification you can write back to us through ccrkenya@africaonline.co.ke.
INTRODUCCION
En los últimos 20 años se ha venido desarrollando en América Latina la investigación desde las ciencias sociales acerca del delito y el control del delito, incluyendo las instituciones estatales claves en este sentido -policía, administración de justicia penal y prisión- pero también estrategias y prácticas de control social que van más allá del estado. Dichas exploraciones han abandonado el terreno del “deber ser” en el que la cultura jurídica tradicional ubicó su propia indagación y, desde diversos campos de saber, han venido penetrando en lo que efectivamente sucede en este tejido de relaciones sociales, políticas y culturales, por lo general desde un punto de vista teórico pero también, crecientemente, desde un punto de vista empírico, alentados frecuentemente por un sentido crítico acerca del estado de cosas al respecto en las sociedades contemporáneas.
OBJETIVO
Este Workshop pretende reunir a los investigadores formados y en formación de las ciencias sociales que vienen desarrollando tareas de investigación en esta área desde las instituciones universitarias en la región para presentar los productos de sus indagaciones y avanzar en la generación de un debate académico acerca de los diversos problemas y abordajes desde un punto de vista crítico.
PRESENTACIÓN Y ACEPTACION DE PONENCIAS
Las ponencias a presentarse constituirán la materia prima de este encuentro, que contará además con conferencias de cuatro investigadores de reconocido prestigio a nivel internacional en este campo.
Las propuestas de ponencia a presentar deberán referirse a los resultados de procesos de investigación concretos, en ejecución o concluidos. En función de la cantidad de propuestas recibidas, se privilegiarán aquellas que se refieran específicamente al escenario latinoamericano e introduzcan elementos de indagación empírica. Dichas propuestas deberán tener una extensión máxima de una página, incluyendo el título, el resumen de la misma y los datos académicos básicos del autor o autores (posición académica, lugar de trabajo y correo electrónico).
La fecha límite de presentación de dichas propuestas será el día 30 de septiembre de 2013 y deberán enviarse al email:delitoysociedad@unl.edu.ar.
La aceptación de dichas propuestas será comunicada el día 15 de octubre de 2013. Las ponencias definitivas no podrán tener más de 25 páginas a espacio y medio, letra Times New Roman 12, incluyendo notas y bibliografía. Las mismas deberán ser enviadas por ese mismo medio y a la misma dirección hasta el día 15 de noviembre de 2013.
Las ponencias serán colgadas en un entorno virtual al que podrán acceder todos los participantes en el Workshop de modo que se puedan leer los materiales con anticipación. Cada panel de ponencias tendrá un investigador encargado de realizar comentarios.
GASTOS DE ALOJAMIENTO Y COMIDAS
La organización del Workshop se hará cargo de los almuerzos y cenas de los ponentes durante el evento. Un fondo está disponible para costear al menos parcialmente gastos de traslado y alojamiento. Quienes soliciten dicha cobertura parcial deberán hacerlo mediante una carta fundando dicha necesidad que debe ser enviada hasta el 15 de noviembre de 2013 al mismo email: delitoysociedad@unl.edu.ar.
PUBLICACION
Las ponencias del Workshop, luego de la revisión generada a partir de los debates en el mismo, serán publicadas. Se prevé la realización de un libro colectivo. También se explorarán otras formas de publicación.
El Estado en Acción: Las fuerzas de seguridad y el sistema de justicia, saberes y prácticas en perspectiva comparada
Coordinadores:
Dra. Sabina Frederic (CONICET-UNQ Argentina), sabinafrederic@yahoo.es
Dra. Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda (INEAC-UFF Brasil), ana_paulamiranda@yahoo.com.br
Dra. Mariana Galvani (CONICET-UBA-FSOC-IIGG Argentina), marianacgalvani@gmail.com
Coordinador Adjunto:
Dr. José Garriga (UNSAM – IDAES)
Objetivo
El simposio busca reunir investigaciones en ciencias sociales que aborden desde una perspectiva etnográfica, la inscripción social y estatal de las fuerzas policiales y de seguridad en el contexto latinoamericano. Se interesa por los análisis de aquellos aspectos referidos por ejemplo a: rutinas y dinámicas de trabajo, procesos de selección y ascenso, aspectos simbólicos y valores morales, procesos de reforma de las fuerzas de seguridad, políticas públicas hacia las fuerzas, situaciones y relaciones establecidas entre agentes y con otros grupos estatales y sociales, entre otros factores.
Palabras clave: Estado, fuerzas de seguridad, reformas, legalidades, oficios
Abstract
Los estudios empíricos sobre el quehacer de policías, gendarmes, penitenciarios y prefectos, muestran que: valores morales, sentidos de pertenencia y adscripciones sociales, nociones de la legalidad, formas de clasificación de los conflictos y delitos, imágenes, emociones y sentimientos, entre otras dimensiones, componen su trabajo en el ámbito del Estado. Más allá de las funciones que cada institución tiene asignadas, las relaciones que sus miembros establecen entre sí, y con otros grupos y actores sociales, van configurando estilos, modos y sentidos de sus oficios, aunque sin desatender a la atribución central de afirmar la labor ostensiva y represiva que los define como agentes de Estado.
En tiempos en los que las “demandas de seguridad” ponen de relieve la actuación de policías, gendarmes, penitenciarios o prefectos, este simposio se propone analizar y debatir los aportes de la antropología social y de la etnografía al conocimiento de cómo lo estatal, la estatalidad y/o el Estado cobran existencia en la perspectiva de estos agentes. Asimismo buscará entablar un diálogo crítico con investigaciones empíricas cuyos objetos aborden desde diversas perspectivas de las ciencias sociales, las cuestiones antes señaladas. Debido a las características de la historia latinoamericana, se trata de temas que sólo recientemente se han constituido en foco de interés antropológico y de las ciencias sociales en general, arrojando resultados significativos que llaman a la reflexión no sólo sobre los abordajes teóricos y metodológicos hoy adoptados, sino también sobre posiciones éticas y políticas involucradas en la relación posible entre la investigación científica y las políticas de Estado.
Las reflexiones y debates teóricos contenidos en los trabajos deberán sustentarse en resultados de investigaciones empíricas basadas en trabajo de campo: observación participante, entrevistas y/o análisis de fuentes o documentos.
The aim of this seminar is to gain insight into the historical and contemporary contest between parties for gaining control over the interpretation of violence, i.e. the portrayal of actors, motives, events, ideologies, and places in discourses on violence.
The seminar examines – both empirically and conceptually – the ways in which images are constructed and framed, but also intends to gain insight in the functions of portrayal.
Drawing on structurationism, we emphasise the need to examine the conditions of possibility for, and the constraints upon the politics of portrayal in particular cases. How do certain representations of violence contribute to (re)producing or contesting the established social order? Why and how are images contested and fought over? What is at stake for hegemonic and non-hegemonic actors in these contestations?
We conjecture that the politics of portrayal fulfill at least three functions:
Methodologically, the social dynamics involved can be accounted for with the help of a multidisciplinary approach that combines elements from frame analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnographies of violence. More specifically, we would like to explore questions on discourse formation (how does a ‘hegemonic accord’ arise, how and why are people resistant or receptive to certain repertoires?); legitimisation (how and why do audiences come to accept and support, or resist and oppose the course of action as proposed by protagonists as legitimate and justified?), and institutionalisation (how does this contest translate into political and judicial measures and instruments, e.g. terrorist lists, neoliberal reforms, penal codes, decrees, resolutions, military interventions, detentions, as well as conventions and social rules)?
We recognise that the power to portray local incidents of violence, to position them in specific contexts of knowledge, has often been removed from the local societies in which they occur. From colonial racism to the Cold War ideological stand-off, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, different systems of “knowledge” have all produced “authorities” who define and interpret local incidents but also, and importantly, act upon these interpretations.
The very tendency to place particular incidents of violence into a particular frame often involves reframing, which in turn may contribute to the distribution and persistence of those events in space and time. The portrayal of a bar room brawl as an ‘ethnic clash’, car-burnings in French suburbs as a ‘new intifada’, and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as ‘a weapon of war’ are all examples of how violent acts are increasingly framed in terms that are removed from – but certainly feed into -the local settings in which they occur.
We are interested in these framing processes taking place in contexts of violence as well as on how local actors might contest and resist them. It is the dialectics of discourse, in which a variety of actors fight a discursive battle over image and self-image, the justification of violence, blame and accountability, which is at the core of the study of the politics of portrayal.
Full programme (pdf)
Organisation: Centre for Conflict Studies (Utrecht University), in collaboration with the EU Marie Curie SPBUILD Training Network
Attendance: free
Registration: please complete the registration form
More information: http://news.hum.uu.nl/events/the-politics-of-portrayal/
Prof. John Pratt, Universidad de Wellington (Nueva Zelanda)
John Pratt es profesor de criminología de la Universidad de Wellington en Nueva Zelanda. Ha sido Fellow del Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice de la Universidad de Nueva York (2010-2011) y Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellow (2009-2012). Pratt es uno de los sociólogos del castigo más destacado del mundo de habla inglesa. Ha publicado profusamente en las más importantes revistas académicas de lengua inglesa.Es editor del Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Entre sus libros se destacan: Governing the dangerous (1997); Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order (compilado con M. Brown, 2000); Castigo y Civilización. Una lectura crítica sobre las prisiones y los regímenes carcelarios (2002 en inglés y 2006 en español); The New Punitivensess (compilado con M. Brown, S. Hallsworth, D. Brown y W. Morrison, 2005); Penal Populism (2007). En enero de 2013 aparecerá su nuevo libro: Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, resultado de una investigación comparativa de las políticas penales entre Escandinavia y el mundo de lengua inglesa en las que ha venido trabajando en los últimos años.
Programa
1. Castigo legal y civilización. Del carnaval de la ejecución a las transformaciones de la prisión. La cuestión de los impulsos descivilizatorios.
2. Populismo penal. ¿De qué se trata?: características y manifestaciones. Sus causas fundamentales. El rol de los medios de comunicación.
3. Sociedades con bajo nivel de encarcelamiento. El ejemplo escandinavo. Aportes comparativos.
Dias y Horarios
Viernes 14 de Septiembre, de 16 a 21 hs
Sabado 15 de Septiembre, de 8.30 a 13.30 hs.
Lugar
Consejo Directivo, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNL, Candido Pujato 2751 – Santa Fe
Destinatarios
Graduados en derecho, sociología, ciencia política, psicología, antropología, comunicación social, historia y filosofía
Informes e Inscripción
Secretaria de Posgrado y Servicios a Terceros – Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales – Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Candido Pujato 2751 – Primer Piso – Santa Fe
TE: 0342-4571204/4571206
Email: posgrado@fcjs.unl.edu.ar
Matricula: 300 pesos
Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University in collaboration with EU Marie Curie SPBUILD Training Network.
The aim of this seminar is to gain insight into the historical and contemporary contest between parties for gaining control over the interpretation of violence, i.e., the portrayal of actors, motives, events, ideologies, and places in discourses on violence. The seminar examines – both empirically and conceptually – the ways in which images are constructed and framed, but also intends to gain insight in the functions of portrayal. Drawing on structurationism, we emphasize the need to examine the conditions of possibility for, and the constraints upon the politics of portrayal in particular cases. How do certain representations of violence contribute to (re)producing or contesting the established social order? Why and how are images contested and fought over? What is at stake for hegemonic and non hegemonic actors in these contestations?
We conjecture that the politics of portrayal fulfill at least three functions: (1) to recruit supporters for a state or non-state cause by propagating a discourse of othering and belonging;(2) to legitimize action in light of that cause; (3) to gain or continue to hold power over political, economic, juridical, and social measures that support the cause.
Methodologically, the social dynamics involved can be accounted for with the help of a multidisciplinary approach that combines elements from frame analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnographies of violence. More specifically, we would like to explore questions on discourse formation (how does a ‘hegemonic accord’ arise, how and why are people resistant or receptive to certain repertoires?); legitimization (how and why do audiences come to accept and support, or resist and oppose the course of action as proposed by protagonists as legitimate and justified?), and institutionalization (how does this contest translate into political and judicial measures and instruments , e.g. terrorist lists, neoliberal reforms, penal codes, decrees, resolutions, military interventions, detentions, as well as conventions and social rules)?
We recognize that the power to portray local incidents of violence, to position them in specific contexts of knowledge, has often been removed from the local societies in which they occur. From colonial racism, to the Cold War ideological stand-off, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, different systems of “knowledge” have all produced “authorities” who define and interpret local incidents but also, and importantly, act upon these interpretations. The very tendency to place particular incidents of violence into a particular frame often involves reframing, which in turn may contribute to the distribution and persistence of those events in space and time. The portrayal of a bar room brawl as an ‘ethnic clash’, car-burnings in French suburbs as a ‘new intifada’, and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as ‘a weapon of war’ are all examples of how violent acts are increasingly framed in terms that are removed from – but certainly feed into -the local settings in which they occur. We are interested in these framing processes taking place in contexts of violence as well as on how local actors might contest and resist them. It is the dialectics of discourse, in which a variety of actors fight a discursive battle over image and self-image, the justification of violence, blame and accountability, which is at the core of the study of the politics of portrayal.
This workshop intends to address the above questions, by inviting a critical discussion supported by specific case studies and theoretical analyses from a range of study areas, disciplines, and practical experiences.
Organisers
Jolle Demmers (UU), Luuk Slooter (UU), Gabriel Ruiz Romero (Autonomous University of Madrid), Alexandra Abello-Colak (Bradford University) and Ariel Sánchez Meertens (INCORE, University of Ulster)
Call for Papers
We invite theoretical and case study based papers from academics (both senior and PhD students) from inside and outside the SPBUILD network.
Please send in your abstract (200 words) before Monday 27 August 2012: N.J.Witte@uu.nl
We have a limited budget for travel and accommodation.
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