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2012 Abe Fellowship Competition

5/25/2012

 
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
2012 Abe Fellowship Competition
Deadline: September 1, 2012
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/
    The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellowship competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The Abe Fellowship Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.

    The Abe Fellowship Research Agenda
    Applicants are invited to submit proposals for research in the social sciences and related fields relevant to any of the following three themes:
      1) Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security and Diplomacy
      Topic areas include transnational terrorism, internal ethnic and religious strife, infectious diseases, food safety, climate change, and non-proliferation, as well as the role of cultural initiatives in peace building.

      2) Global and Regional Economic Issues
      Topic areas include regional and bilateral trade arrangements, international financial stability, globalization and the mitigation of its adverse consequences, sustainable urbanization, and environmental degradation.

      3) Social and Cultural Issues
      Topic areas include demographic change, immigration, the role of civil society and media as champions of the public interest, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility, and revitalization of multi-cultural urban areas.
    Research projects should be policy relevant, contemporary, and comparative or transnational.

    Fellowship Terms
    Terms of the fellowship are flexible and are designed to meet the needs of Japanese and American researchers at different stages in their careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of three and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24 month period. Part-time residence abroad in the United States or Japan is required.

    Eligibility
    * This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate a serious, long-term affiliation with research communities in the United States or Japan.
    * Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, or equivalent professional experience at the time of application. Applications from researchers in professions other than academia are encouraged.

    Contact Details
    For further information and to apply, go to:
    http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/

    Contact SSRC staff at abe@ssrc.org

Labor Confronting Austerity Special issue of Labor Studies Journal

5/25/2012

 
Call for Papers
Labor Confronting Austerity
Special issue of Labor Studies Journal
in conjunction with the 2013 United Association for Labor Education conference in Toronto Canada, April 16-20.

The Labor Studies Journal invites paper proposals on the theme of labor confronting austerity.

Austerity measures aimed at undermining the economic, political, and social supports for building and sustaining working-class power have become a trademark of governments at all levels and of all political stripes. The current era of austerity, characterized by jobs cuts, pension clawbacks, privatizations, cuts to health benefits, reduced education funding, attacks on the prevailing wage, the negotiation of two-tier wage agreements, and the introduction of right-to-work laws, are having, and will continue to have, profound consequences for working people and their unions in both the private and public sectors. State-led attacks on labor have been facilitated by the fragmentation of labor movements, declines in union density, and the demobilization of the working class.

However, the rollback of labor rights, and the undermining of workers' social rights more generally, has not gone uncontested. From occupations to demonstrations, and legal action to political action, resistance to austerity measures exists in many different strategic forms. We welcome papers that explain, examine, and interrogate labor?s strategic approach to confronting austerity.

Appropriate topics include but are not limited to the following:

-Strategic responses to attacks on labor rights in the public sector
-Private sector union responses to austerity measures
-The role of worker education in confronting austerity
-Union-community alliances in defense of public services
-Comparative or international cases studies of union and/or working-class resistance to austerity

Papers submitted will be considered for presentation at the United Association for Labor Education Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada, April 16-20, 2013. Papers accepted and presented at the conference will then be eligible to undergo a peer review process for possible publication in a special conference issue of Labor Studies Journal.

Please send electronic copies of 1000 word manuscript proposals by November 2, 2012 to the guest editors listed below. Full-length manuscripts are expected by the time of the conference in April 2013. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed following the conference.

Professor Stephanie Ross
Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Society
York University
stephr@yorku.ca

Professor Larry Savage
Director, Jobs and Justice Research Unit
Brock University
lsavage@brocku.ca

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