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Purity & Danger
This symposium borrows the title, if not the substance, of anthropologist Mary Douglas’s 1966 book, Purity and Danger, in hope of inviting examination of the purity motif as it threads its way through theories and praxis of Public Administration. Beginning considerations might include: Assertions of purity of motives, versus mixed motives or dirty hands, as impetus and consequence of administrative action; assessments of the relations between purity of ideals (or identity) and inspiration to political unity, separatism, intolerance, or violence; ambitions to distill pure essence and certainty in PA theories and research methods; reflections on pollution, water purity, and water politics, or discourses of racial purity, ethnic cleansing, and other dangerous ideas and practices. Paper proposals are due January 8, 2010; completed papers are June 1, 2010. Contact: Patricia Patterson, Florida Atlantic University (patterso@fau.edu). Public Administration & Social Media Public administration scholars and practitioners are still
discovering the possible uses for continually evolving information and
interactive technologies such as social media. According to the United
States Federal Web Managers Council, social media are defined as “the
various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and
content creation” (http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/technology/other_tech.shtml).
Social technologies can be used for simple sharing of information or
the facilitation of interactions, mobile texting technology can be used
to mobilize “smart mobs” for civic action, and virtual worlds can be
used to mimic physical worlds to allow for simulated interactions.
Whatever the technology, the benefits are potentially far reaching. Paper proposals are due July 1, 2010. Final manuscripts will be due
in April 2011. The co-coordinators of this symposium are Thomas Bryer,
University of Central Florida, and Staci Zavattaro, Florida Atlantic
University.
Please submit questions and proposals via email to: tbryer@mail.ucf.edu. Forums (Click title for more information) The English translation of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2010. This Forum invites critical reflection on the contributions of Paulo Freire’s work to Public Administration pedagogy, theory, and praxis. This Forum will appear in the September 2010 issue of ATP. Please send submissions of approximately 2000 words to Jennifer Eagan, Forum Editor at jennifer.eagan@csueastbay.edu by March 15, 2010.Deleuze and Guattari advocate a way of avoiding colonization by way of perpetual motion, a mode of hybridity or flight that resists concrete identity or fixed location. They claim to capture the upside of colonial movement, migration, without the liability of settling into someone else’s territory. What forms of colonization come into play in public administration theory and practice? What are the consequences of these kinds of colonization? This Forum seeks reflections on various notions of colonization, their effects, and their relationship to public administration theory and practice. This Forum will appear in the December 2010 issue of ATP. Please send submissions of approximately 2,000 words to Jennifer Eagan, Forum Editor, at jennifer.eagan@csueastbay.edu by July 1, 2010. Reflections on Theory in Action
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