Faculty Research Grant
Recipients 2005

 

Gendered Geographies of Belonging and Citizenship Claims in Ghanaian Transnational Spaces
Madeleine Wong - Department of Geography

This project will focus on how Ghanaians negotiate changing conditions associated with migration, how they engage in citizenship claims and practices, and how they make meaning of these experiences. It will also examine the extent to which Ghanaians in the diaspora experience multiple or transnational citizenship, and the implication for conceptions and practices of citizenship in Ghana and the diaspora.

The Global Geopolitics of Higher Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy
Kris Olds - Department of Geography

The globalization of higher education and research has become a high profile issue at a range of scales. Vigorous debates are underway about issues such as the implications for education of the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), to trans-Atlantic competition for research-oriented faculty and resources, to model curricula and pedagogical practices that might engender more cosmopolitan and creative citizens. One of the outcomes of the impact of globalization on higher education and research is the drive to create new "knowledge spaces" such as global university consortia. This project will focus on the role, scope and effect of national, regional and global institutions, organizations and states in creating the conditions for the governance of knowledge and learning in the global knowledge society through a joint seminar series, a series of sessions at the annual conference of the American Association of Geographers, and the creation of an internet portal.

Global Cities, Local Catastrophes: Citizenship, Security, and the Social Ecology of Risk in Paris
Rick Keller - Department of Medical History Bioethics

This project explores the problems of the global and the local by interrogating the origins and outcome of the deadly heat wave that struck France in August 2003. It views forms of integration -- construed as the tensions of belonging to a culture and a continen -- through the lens of environmental danger. With implications for environmental history, the social study of medicine, and urban anthropology, this project will also point to the essential need for the adaptation of public health services and the welfare state to changing climates in the postindustrial era.

Global Media and Democracy in Asia
Hemant Shah - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Michael Curtin - Communication Arts
Shanthi Kumar - Communication Arts
Pan Zhongdang - Communication Arts

Global Media and Democracy in Asia is an interdisciplinary scholarly initiative that aims to explore the increasingly complex circulation of media images, technologies, capital, cultures and ideas among Indian and Chinese audiences around the world. An additional aim of this new research initiative will be to compare media forms and practices in India (as well-established democracy) and China (a country grappling with various levels of political and cultural openness).

Globalization and Changing Freshwater Demands, Uses, and Securities in the Middle East
Leila M. Harris - Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Samer Alatout - Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

The project's aim is to consider the linkages between processes of globalization through intensive case study research in two semi-arid areas of the Middle East as related to discussions and concerns related to water scarcities, securities, and water-related socio-political conflict. This study will comparatively examine changing water issues in Israel-Palestine, and upper Tigris-Euphrates basin in Turkey -- two regions where the investigators have significant expertise on water issues and institutions.

The Globalization of Protected Areas
Lisa Naughton - Department of Geography

Over the past 25 years, the global area of land under legal protection has more than tripled. This study will conduct pilot research on the social and ecological impacts of transboundary protected areas and conversation corridors in two regions of great biological richness: the Greater Virunga landscape at the border of Uganda, Rwanda, and the DRC, along the Condor Mountain Range.

Humanitarian Intervention after 9/11
Scott Straus - Department of Political Science
Heinz Klug - Law School
Sharon Hutchinson - Department of Anthropology
Stanlie James - Women's Studies

After Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo, military intervention for the purpose of human protection was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and into the new millennium. However, with 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror, the issue of humanitarian intervention largely moved off center stage. One result is that the international community still lacks effective measures for halting mass violations of human rights -- as is evident in Darfur today. This project will bring together a small group of leading thinkers on humanitarian intervention to hold a public workshop on that topic in late March 2006. The papers will subsequently be collected for publication.

New Media, Citizenship, and Human Rights in Comparative Perspective
Yongming Zhou - Department of Anthropology
Barrett McCormic - Department of Political Science

A conference will be conducted to study how new channels for communication shape the structure and boundaries of communities in diverse societies. Scholars are particularly interested in how new media facilitate or hinder pressing citizenship claims for rights and allow groups to define boundaries by mobilizing hatred against other groups. It will examine each of these themes in comparative perspective, emphasizing -- but not limited to -- China, the Middle East, and the United States.

A Spreading Word: Discourses of Reconciliation and the Remaking of Global Security
Erik Doxtader - Department of Communication Arts

This project will convene a two-day symposium on the UW-Madison campus about reconciliation, which for all of its contemporary cachet, remains an obscure concept. The symposium will convene on the 10 th anniversary of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's creation.

A Study Between Radical Islam and Broader Traditions of Moderate and Progressive Islam
W. Flagg Miller - Anthropology and Religious Studies

The object of this project is to launch a website that will enable students and researchers to investigate the relation between radical Islam and broader traditions of moderate and progressive Islam. The website will focus on one of the most infamous representatives of radical Islam, Osama bin Laden, and include excerpts of his speeches and audio-recordings of his performances matched with translations. This website presence will signal institutional momentum for one of the world's most informed research initiatives on Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and of the relations between radical Islam and more widespread traditions of moderate and progressive Islam.

Exploring Arabic Literary Traditions - a resource developed by UW Anthropology professor Flagg Miller with assistance from Global Studies.

Uncertainty of Belonging and Nervous Being: Animal Magnetism and Citizen-Production in the Nineteenth Century
Bernadette Baker - Department of Curriculum and Instruction

The focus of this study is the advent of debates over altered states of "mind" that animal magnetism, mesmerism and then hypnosis generated and the new and often feared capabilities that such studies opened both for magnetizer and magnetizee. The hypothesis behind this research is that debates over the validity of animal magnetism were fundamental motors underpinning efforts to delineate and produce "the ideal citizen" in a variety of locales and thus to govern and manage behavior.

 

 
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