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CFP: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCES


East Asian Development Forum 5th International Symposium on

Comparative Study of Village Development: East Asian Experiences


In order to promote academic exchanges among scholars from China, Japan, Korea and other countries engaged in the study of urban and rural social development, we hold the 5th International Symposium on Comparative Study of Village Development. The theme of this conference is "East Asian Experience of Urban-Rural Integrated Development", which is scheduled to be held by The Academy of Korean Studies in Korea, on August 23-25, 2024.

This conference will discuss the following topics:

1. Research on urban-rural relationship and urban-rural development;

2. Research on urbanization and urban-rural Integration;

3. Spatial development of Village change in East Asia;

4. Policy research on Rural revitalization and Urban-rural Integration in East Asia;

5. Rural Revitalization and Urban-rural Governance in East Asia;

6. Entrepreneurship and Local Creators for Rural and Urban Development

7. Other related topics on urban-rural integration in East Asia.


The organizer will provide all participants (paper presenters) with three nights of accommodation and meals during their stay in Korea, but the round-trip transportation expenses should be borne by yourself.

You are warmly welcome to attend this conference!


Sponsors:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Rural Sociology Committee, Chinese Society of Sociology, China


Organizer:

Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

Department of Sociology, Shandong University, China


Organizing Committee:

1. Prof. Do-Hyun Han, The Academy of Korean Studies

2. Prof. Juren Lin, Shandong University

3. Prof. Katsumi Nakao, J.F. Oberlin University, Japan


The official language: English


Please send your application to:
  • Do-Hyun Han (The Academy of Korean Studies), ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

Abstract (100-150 words) and short bio (one paragraph)


Dates:
  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 April, 2024
  • Paper (Draft) Submission Deadline: 1 July 2024

Contact Information


Professor of Sociology

Academy of Korean Studies

ecclehan@aks.ac.kr

CFP: BEYOND WORK FOR PAY? BASIC-INCOME CONCEPTS IN GLOBAL DEBATES ON AUTOMATION, POVERTY, AND UNEMPLOYMENT (1920-2020)

 
Beyond Work for Pay?

Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)


Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022


Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At the same time, and over the past century especially, the idea of payments to citizens without work requirements has found more pragmatic purchase, gaining traction as a way of assuring human rights and well-being at times of high unemployment, structural change, and job-threatening automation. In the 1960s, it also became a centerpiece of social and economic justice movement politics, reaching a height of grassroots support in the Black freedom and welfare rights movements in the United States. By then, basic income proposals had drawn support from ideologically divergent groups of policy intellectuals as a centerpiece of a reformed or re-envisioned welfare state, laying the groundwork for government-staged basic income experiments in the 1970s, though not for basic income itself. Basic income gained renewed and sustained momentum after the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, as debates about the effects of technology and automation on the labor market have continued unabated among economists and in the European and North American public. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment caused by it, such debates have had some political consequences: Switzerland in a 2016 held a referendum on (and rejected) a proposal to provide an unconditional basic income (UBI) for citizens. During the 2019/20 presidential primaries in the US, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang claimed UBI as his signature policy proposal. In the US, a group of 43 mayors is pursuing the idea for their communities. In Korea, the province of Gyeonggi-do in 2019 has implemented a basic income for all of its 175,000 24-year-olds. Meanwhile, international organizations such as GiveDirectly (supported by Nobel-prize-laureate Abihjit Banerjee) since 2017 have run large-scale basic-income trials in African countries such as Kenya.

Against the backdrop of such interest in basic-income concepts, this conference provides an opportunity for historians as well as sociologists, economists, and social scientists in other fields to discuss the emergence and the history of basic-income concepts in the past century.

We invite proposals for papers on a wide range of topics, and especially encourage papers that draw on comparative and/or transnational analysis and that address one or more of the following themes:
  • The intellectual, political, and ideological genesis of the negative income tax and similar basic income concepts deemed to preserve the income-work-paradigm in North America, Western Europe, and eventually in other parts of the world beginning in the 1960s.
  • Basic income and the changing dynamics of “expert” policy-making, amidst the proliferation of regional, national, and global governmental and NGO policy actors and the prominence of contested and often conflicting bodies of economic knowledge in policy debates.
  • The gender, race, citizenship, generational, and broadly intersectional dimensions of basic income concepts and policy proposals, as reflected in social movement politics and in public debates.
  • Basic income and the history of anti-poverty policy, within national frameworks and in the formulation of global development goals.
  • The significance of basic-income concepts in larger cultural, societal, and political shifts that historians have associated with the 1970s and 80s, such as an emphasis on markets, limited government, and the privatization of welfare systems.
  • Automation, basic income, and the shifting political economy of the “full employment” welfare state.
  • The history and normative assumptions shaping basic income “experiments” since their first introduction in the late 1960s and 70s, in the U.S. and Canada and more recently in Finland, India, and Namibia. What is the history of these experiments, and how do their normative assumptions (and the assumptions of the media covering these experiments) preserve a commitment to income-work or abandon it in favor of other life concepts?
  • The shifting nomenclature of basic income and how framing it in terms such as “social dividend,” “basic minimum,” “guaranteed,” or “unconditional” income reflect efforts to reshape public conversation about the parameters of the social contract.
The conveners aim to publish contributions to this conference either as an edited book or as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal.

The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by February 15, 2022, to the GHI Washington’s online portal at here.

Please contact Susanne Fabricius at fabricius@ghi-dc.org at the GHI Washington if you have problems with submitting your information online. Successful applicants will be notified in April 2022.



Contact Info:


Contact Email:

fabricius@ghi-dc.org

CFP: MIGRATION METHODOLOGIES: CHALLENGES, INNOVATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ASIAN MIGRATIONS


Migration Methodologies:

Challenges, Innovations and Conceptual Implications for Asian Migrations


Migration flows of unprecedented volume and complexity within, as well as in and out of Asia have become one of the main drivers of contemporary social change in the region. Major travel restrictions and curtailments in recent months brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have further raised severe concerns over the potential impacts and implications of ongoing curbs. In these contexts, approaches to studying international migration have highlighted the institutions, infrastructures, processes, practices, consequences and experiences of migration while attending to its multi-directional, multi-sited, multi-causal and open-ended nature. New spatialities and temporalities – from transnational families, mobile cities, diaspora-and-development, global care chains, contact zones, spaces of encounter, travel bubbles/corridors/sandbox to multinational migrations – have animated migration research as material borders and socially constructed boundary lines are transgressed, rigidified or redrawn in the face of multiple-, hyper- and transnational migrations and mobilities.

In view of the increasing conceptual breadth and theoretical sophistication of international migration scholarship, it follows that our research practices need to evolve to embrace the quickened pace of mobilities and the heightened sense of transience, simultaneity and otherness experienced by the migrant (and non-migrant) subject within interlocking lifeworlds. As Collins and Huang (2012, p.270) observe, contemporary migration scholarship “draws on a wide range of research methodologies, reflecting the multi-disciplinary character of the field, the diverse sites and subjects of migration, and the varied concepts and theories that underpin this area of study”. These methodologies have broadened to include computational, quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method approaches and techniques as exemplified by the use of longitudinal surveys, sequence analysis, social networks analysis; mental mapping, multi-sited ethnographies, go-along ethnography, visual ethnography, life-story interviews, paired/unpaired interviews, participatory methods and data visualization techniques (Büscher, Urry, and Witchger, 2010; Amelina and Faist, 2012; Meeus, 2012; Martiniello, 2017; Fauser, 2018; Ryan and D’Angelo, 2018).

Despite “all this methodological development, innovation and cross-fertilisation” within the scholarship on migration, the discipline has – to date – failed to fully explore, interrogate, review and compare the merit and design of such methods (Collins and Huang, 2012, p.270). The authors continue to argue that there has also been limited “reflection on the ethical and conceptual implications of these choices” (Collins and Huang, 2010, p.270). This workshop responds to their observation by providing a collaborative forum to bring together migration scholars with diverse methodological interests and expertise.

We invite papers that focus on innovative methodological approaches while drawing on substantive findings relevant to “Asian migrations” (broadly defined to refer to migration flows within, as well as in and out of Asia) in order to grapple with the challenges and possibilities in conducting migration research. Contextually grounded papers that pursue one or more of the following questions are particularly welcome:
  • How do we research new migration-led spatialities and temporalities in (im)mobile times across interconnected worlds and/or during a pandemic?
  • How do we work with multi-directionality, multi-causality and provisionality in contemporary migrations? How do we map multinational migrations over time and space?
  • What kinds of methodological routes can be pursued to go beyond the single case in migration research and to seriously contemplate multi-sited research, develop comparative transnational frameworks, increase awareness of the connectivities across scales and units of analysis, and instill wariness of methodological nationalism?
  • How do we equip ourselves for the task of boundary-crossing, a task which goes hand in hand with supporting a socially progressive migration agenda?
  • How do we devise research practices that would contribute towards dismantling institutionalized practices which reproduce racisms, nationalisms and social privilege, and pave the way for a more inclusive approach in our work as migration researchers?
  • How has the “new (pandemic-)normal” featuring lockdowns, immobilities and restricted human interactions altered our ways of conducting research and reshaped existing conceptualizations of migration?

Submission of Proposals:

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission. Please use the paper proposal form and send it in doc/docx format to Ms Rohini Anant at rohini.a@nus.edu.sg by 15 September 2021.

Please also include a statement confirming that your paper has not been published previously, it is not committed elsewhere, and that you are willing to revise your paper for potential inclusion in a special issue submission (in collaboration with the workshop organizers and other participants).

Successful applicants will be notified by end of September. Panel presenters will be required to submit drafts of papers (4,000-7,000) words by 20 December 2021. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and organizers in advance.


Convenors:

Professor Brenda Yeoh






Professor Elspeth Graham



Associate Professor Lucy Jordan



Contact Info:

Ms Rohini Anant at rohini.a@nus.edu.sg


Contact Email: 

arios@nus.edu.sg

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