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The Asia Lecture 2012 – The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen Relations in China

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The Asia Lecture 2012

Celebrating 10 years of the York Centre for Asian Research (2002-2012)

The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen Relations in China

Dr. Xiang Biao

University Lecturer in Social Anthropology

University of Oxford

5th November 2012, 2:30pm to 5pm, 519 York Research Tower | York University

Based on long-term field research spanning Japan, Singapore, South Korea and multiple locations in northeast China, this presentation traces how transnationally-linked commercial labor recruiters gain a dominant position in cultivating, facilitating and controlling migration. These intermediaries render themselves indispensable both for migrating workers and for the states seeking to make order from migration. The intermediary trap is thus more dynamic and complex than a simple “capture” by identifiable interest groups and is deeply implicated in changing state-citizen relations in China. Rooted in Chinese and other Asian states’ agenda to liberalize socioeconomic life without compromising sovereign power, the intermediary trap may become a worldwide phenomenon with the resurgence of state power alongside a continuing neoliberal hegemony beyond Asia.

Dr. Xiang Biao is University Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has conducted extensive field research on migration and social change in China, India and Australia. His work includes ethnographic studies of migrant communities in Beijing (Transcending Boundaries, Brill, 2005) and Indian migrant professionals (Global Body Shopping, Princeton, 2007). His forthcoming book (Making Order from Transnational Mobility, Princeton) is the result of four years of field research in China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, and examines the transnational governance of labor mobility in East Asia.

Reception will begin at 2:30pm to be followed by the Lecture at 3pm.
All are welcome!
For more information: ycar@yorku.ca || www.yorku.ca/ycar

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Assembling Nature and Citizenship in Latin America – a talk with CERLAC Fellow Alex Latta

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Nov 7, 2012
1:30 - 3:00 pm
280A York Lanes
York University, Toronto

To mark the recent release of Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles, join us as we host one of the book’s editors, CERLAC Associate Fellow Alex Latta, for a talk emerging from the central themes of the collection.

Drawing on the contributions to the book, as well as related literature and his own research, Dr. Latta will explore the ways nature becomes constituted as a resource, an object of knowledge, a target of governance and a focus for political struggle in Latin America. How are human political subjectivities simultaneously implied, activated, contested and reinvented in these constitutive moments, spaces and processes? Beyond a concern for the rights and responsibilities of “environmental citizens”, the talk will reach for a conception of citizenship that is fundamentally relational across dynamic assemblages of human and non-human elements.

Alex Latta is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies and the Balsillie School of International affairs, at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research considers the politics of water, energy and environmental justice in Latin America, with a recent focus on conflicts over hydroelectric development in Chile.

Everyone welcome

More info: cerlac@yorku.ca

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Student Poster Competition for QUEST International Conference & Tradeshow in Winnipeg

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QUEST – Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow – is hosting Smart Energy Communities in Cold Climates - QUEST 2012 International Conference & Tradeshow, taking place November 18 – 21 at the Fairmont Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Smart Energy Communities in Cold Climates will feature leading thinkers, strategists, and decision makers from across Canada and internationally sharing cutting edge information about Integrated Community Energy Solutions. Integrated Community Energy Solutions (ICES) are all about creating smart energy communities by linking energy with land use, building, transportation, water, waste, and other infrastructure at the community level. QUEST – www.questcanada.org - is a collaborative network of stakeholders whose mission is to advance ICES and create smart energy communities in Canada.

Student Poster Competition

QUEST invites Canadian post-secondary students to submit a Poster Proposal for a Poster to be displayed at the QUEST 2012 International Conference & Tradeshow.

Develop and display your poster at the QUEST 2012 International Conference & Tradeshow
Receive FREE registration for the event ($600 value)
Get high visibility from leading professionals in the energy and sustainability fields
Excellent networking opportunities
With the winning poster, get FREE travel and registration at the QUEST 2013 conference and be the official 2013 QUEST Student Ambassador
View eligibility and poster guidelines.

What should the subject of the Poster Proposal be?

Any component of what it means to be a “Smart Energy Community”, including:
- Smart Energy Buildings
- Smart Transportation and Mobility
- Smart Land Use
- Waste, Water or Wastewater
- Or how any of the above can interact and interconnect to make smarter use of energy at the community level

For more guidance, see QUEST's Technical Principles and background information on Integrated Community Energy Solutions (ICES).

For more information or to submit your poster proposal, contact ecampbell@questcanada.org

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How to present a conference paper (workshop)

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CERLAC presents

How to Present a Conference Paper

a workshop with
CERLAC Fellow Judy Hellman
(Professor of Political Science, Social and Political Thought, International Development Studies and Women's Studies, York University)

Back by popular demand, Judy Hellman will animate a workshop for graduate students on how to present a conference paper in an engaging and effective manner.

Thurs, Nov 15, 2012
3 – 4:30 pm
303 Founders College
York University

More information email cerlac@yorku.ca or click here

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THE CARBON RUSH with Director Amy Miller in Attendance

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Join us NEXT TUESDAY, November 6 for THE CARBON RUSH, a unique and powerful documentary that reveals the dirty and unjust reality of carbon trading schemes. Director Amy Miller will be in attendance and lead a discussion after the projection. This screening is co-presented with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition Toronto.

THE CARBON RUSH
This commanding doc effectively counters the propaganda around carbon-trading by featuring the voices of those most affected.

Amy Miller / Canada / 2012 / 84 ' / English - Spanish / S.T. English

WHAT: Screening of THE CARBON RUSH
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6, 6:45PM
WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
COST: Suggested donation $2-$10
INFO: cinemapolitica.org/bloor
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook event

SYNOPSIS: Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil.

What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries?

THE CARBON RUSH takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. So far their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed "green gold" by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of Campesinos have been assassinated.

THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose.

Click this link to view the trailer for the film and read more.

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Brazilian Migration to the Rupununi, Guyana

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CERLAC & YCISS present

Changing Places: Brazilian Migration to the Rupununi, Guyana.

a talk by
Katherine MacDonald
PhD candidate, Department of Geography, York University
CERLAC Research Associate

Thursday, Nov 8, 2012
1 - 2:30 pm
764 York Research Tower
York University

Recent Brazilian migration through the Amazon region and across the Guyanese border may be part of a larger geopolitical program emerging from Brazil, one that sees the Brazilian Government implementing a program of development and protection of their northern territory. This migration threatens to increase pressures on Makushi and Wapishana territories within Guyana, resulting in the annexation of traditional ancestral lands and potential losses of subsistence and livelihood practices, as well as disturbances to traditional cultures and ways of life. I believe these migration trends may be part of a larger intraregional geopolitics emerging out of Brazil, wherein development of the northern Amazon frontier is being encouraged primarily through regional colonization. I suggest that Guyana is unknowingly enmeshed within the larger geopolitical concerns of the region, and that the migration of Brazilian miners, businesspeople, and rice producers from across the border may in part be traced directly to evolving legislature, political action, and program and project implementation within the Brazilian Amazon.

More info: hender@yorku.ca

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Call for Papers: Mining, Ethics and Sustainability

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Call for Papers: Mining, Ethics and Sustainability
World Mining Congress 2013
August 12-14, 2013
Montreal, QC

EXTENDED Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Registration Opens: November 30, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2013

The purpose of the "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" program stream of the World Mining Congress is to identify and discuss the ethical values that should define the boundaries of the emerging economic, social and environmental responsibilities of mining in the 21st century and the dimensions of mining's social license to operate.

As a participant and organizational partner in the World Mining Congress, CBERN has been invited to organize a program stream for the theme of "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability". The program will extend over three days, from August 12-14, 2013 in Montreal, QC. It will include:
Three key note addresses by thought leaders whose ideas are helping to describe the nature and character of the social, economic and environmental responsibilities of mining companies in the 21st century;
Three cross sector panels that will explore the themes of "mining and sustainability", "women and mining", and "First Nation perspectives on the ethical values that define responsible mining";
Peer reviewed papers and presentations on "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" submitted in response to the program stream Call for Papers. For a list of relevant topics and themes, and for submission details, please click here.
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Submission of papers and case studies that explore the ethical responsibilities of mining and the capacity of mining to contribute to sustainable development are invited. For a list of relevant topics and themes and for submission details please click here.

Contact Information
For further information on the World Mining Congress "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" program stream please contact Hilary Martin at hmartin@cbern.ca.

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Responsible Business Dialogue, Nov 6, David Clarry – CSR in the Resource Extraction Sector

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Join us on
Nov 6, 2012 from 11:30 to 1:00 pm
as David Clarry from Hudbay Minerals will discuss:

how socially responsible performance links to business success in the resource industry,
some key stakeholders and emerging issues driving CSR related priorities
considerations on how decisions are made within companies and how social responsibility initiatives are managed
frameworks that guide socially responsible business performance in the extractive sector

To register: http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/COERBregistration

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Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Sustainable Neighbourhoods

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The University of British Columbia is searching for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with experience in the emerging fields of regenerative design and sustainability assessment methodologies – particularly as they relate to neighbourhood development – to work as part of a team including several faculty members affiliated with our Regenerative Neighbourhoods Project, their students and other post-doctoral fellows. The supervisor of the successful Post-doctoral Fellow applicant will be Dr John Robinson, Director of the CIRS research program.

The ideal candidate for this one-year program (renewable to a maximum of two years) would hold a recent (graduated within the last year) PhD in Architecture, Engineering or a social science field related to community or urban sustainability. Of particular interest is expertise in sustainability assessment tools and frameworks.

Click on the link below to read more:
Post-doctoral Fellowship - Sustainable Neighbourhoods 2012-10-11

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TIG Toronto Office is Hiring!

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TakingITGlobal is looking for volunteer interns to work in our Toronto office in January! Have a look at the opportunities below - and please forward on to any friends or colleagues you think might be interested.

TakingITGlobal's mission is to empower youth to understand and act on the world's greatest challenges. As a registered charity in Canada and the US, our key strategic initiatives include:

- providing a virtual space (www.tigweb.org) for cross-cultural expression, dialogue, networking and collaboration among youth
- supporting youth action and understanding around global issues
- developing meaningful, interactive, global education experiences
- facilitating the development of local initiatives, multilingualism and skills training

Want to know more about the internship program at TakingITGlobal? Check out our intern video here: https://www.tigurl.org/internvid

We're looking for volunteer interns to fill the following positions:

1: TIGed Professional Development Program Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10659

2: Online Community Volunteer Management Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10675

3: Communications Coordinator
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10651

4: Adobe Youth Voices Project Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10673

5: Online Community Communications Coordinator
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10677

6: Global Encounters Program Coordinator
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10653

7: Research Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10671

8: Educational Assistant - Sprout E-Course
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10683

9: TIGed Program Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10655

10: Human Resources Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10667

11: Innovate4Good Project Assistant
For more details: http://opps.tigweb.org/10691

The application deadline is Monday, November 12th, 2012

Please submit a resume and cover letter to:

Contact: Human Resources

Email: jobs@takingitglobal.org (include the title of the position in the subject of the e-mail)

Mail: 19 Duncan Street, Suite 505, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3H1

Fax: 416-352-1898

For Inquiries: 416-977-9363 ext. 315

Why should you volunteer with us?

- Your work will have an impact! TakingITGlobal's programs reached over 4.5 million users last year, empowering young people in over 200 countries to express themselves, develop understanding, and take action to address social issues in their communities and around the world!

- The staff at TakingITGlobal encompasses a broad range of skills including web development, design, marketing, evaluation and surveys, fundraising, writing, editing and strategy development. The organization provides a great platform to improve and learn new skills due to the variety of projects and the opportunity to learn from others;

- TakingITGlobal has a strong international reputation within the NGO, non-profit and charity sectors. Experience at TakingITGlobal will be respected by future employers and TakingITGlobal's collaborative nature means volunteers may grow a solid professional network and gain experience vital for future job opportunities;

- TakingITGlobal is a vibrant and positive work environment! As part of a youth-led, youth-focused organization you will be working amongst peers in a collaborative structure. Although headquartered in Toronto, TakingITGlobal is an international organization and you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues from all parts of the world!

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about these positions! Thanks for sharing these opportunities with others!

TakingITGlobal
http://www.tigweb.org

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