Dollarizations in a global world: socio-anthropological perspectives

 Dollarizations in a global world: socio-anthropological perspectives

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – INDIVIDUAL AND FOR TEAMS RESEARCH

Submission Deadline: December 13, 2021


For at least two decades new paradigms of the social sciences have helped to understand the place of money in social life. Looking in detail at how they take root in people’s daily lives, how they interact with institutional and cultural frameworks, how they contribute to the distribution of power and social hierarchies, monetary phenomena occupy a central place in the ways societies are historicized and reproduced. It is from this perspective that we launch this call that aims to convene academics interested in understanding how the US dollar takes root in the daily lives of millions of people and in institutional frameworks or «customs» outside the borders of the United States.

The role that the U.S. currency has played in entrenching U.S. hegemony since the mid-twentieth century is well known. But its conversion into a «global currency» that circulates in multiple territories, that overflows international trade or finance (not only as the currency of the elites) and that takes root in monetary repertoires in replacement or together with other national currencies to become a unit of account, payment or exchange in the day-to-day of vast populations of the global south is still a phenomenon that needs to be understood.

The challenge of this joint call between Escuela IDAES (UNSAM, Argentina), and CLACSO is to select proposals for works focused on «national» cases that allow integration into a transnational comparative framework on how the US dollar has become and operates as a «popular» currency (Luzzi and Wilkis, 2019) legally or de facto integrated into the daily and ordinary economic practices of very varied social sectors and in extremely heterogeneous contexts.

For the set of selected countries, it is expected that the proposals can answer the following questions taking as triggers works on the dollar in Argentina (Wilkis and Luzzi, 2019), Ecuador (Nelms, 2015), Haiti (Neiburg, 2016) or Nigeria (Guyer, 2004):

What stages or periodizations can be established around legal and/or de facto dollarization?

What macro-economic circumstances have been decisive in this process?

What public controversies have developed over the role of the North American currency in the country’s politics, society, and economy? What policies have been deployed or attempted to counter or strengthen this process?

How is the US dollar integrated into monetary repertoires? What functions and in which transactions does it occupy a central place? How is this process historicized?

What social classes or ethnic or religious groups regularly link to the U.S. dollar in their daily economic lives?

This Call also has the participation of the Council for the Development of Research in Social Sciences in Africa (CODESRIA).

Terms of the Call

  • Applicants must preferably be researchers who have accredited links with CLACSO Member Centers, which they will accredit with an affidavit that is on the same registration form. In case of awarding the scholarship, they must present a letter of endorsement signed by the highest authority of the center. Scholars from outside Latin America and the Caribbean (i.e., Africa, Asia or the Middle East) are exempt from this requirement.
  • Individual and collective authorship submissions of up to three (3) members will be admitted, gender equity must be considered.
  • Each team must be made up of trained researchers, that is, they have a master's degree, doctorate or equivalent and proven academic trajectory and / or by researchers in training, that is, they are studying master's or doctoral studies or have a bachelor's degree, in the last case they must not be less than 35 years old.
  • One of the trained researchers must be selected as responsible for the registration of the project. He or she will open the registration form in the system and register the other members on it.
  • Each researcher or research team may only participate with a proposal in this call.
  • In the case where awardees of this project wish to travel to undertake their work, they must cover on their own the costs of medical insurance or similar.

Up to thirteen (13) prizes will be awarded. Each of the selected proposals will receive USD 500 (five hundred US dollars or its equivalent in the national currency of the applicant's country of residence) as recognition, against delivery of the final article. In addition, their work will be published in a collective book.

The prize will be paid by bank transfers made in the name of the researcher responsible for the application.

CLACSO and the IDAES School (UNSAM, Argentina) will publish the final products in print and/or digital media, giving them wide publicity and dissemination by the media they deem appropriate.

The authors will assign the right of original publication of the works, since CLACSO adheres to and defends the principles of open science and open access to knowledge, so that what is produced is easy to find, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

  • The member centers to which the applicants are linked must not register debts in the payment of the membership fees corresponding to the year 2020, due on June 30 of the same year.
  • Members of the Steering Committee or officials of the Executive Secretariat of CLACSO, or of the IDAES School (UNSAM, Argentina) will not be able to apply.
  • Proposals from researchers who are currently fellows in the framework of research competitions, scholarships or essays organized by CLACSO will not be accepted. Applications from researchers who have received a research grant granted by CLACSO will be accepted, provided that the beneficiary has fulfilled in a timely manner the obligations duly contracted.
  • Texts written in the four languages commonly used in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa (English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.
  • A short article proposal must be submitted to be presented at an International Seminar to be held in 2022.
  • In the application, the central points that will be taken into account in the final work to answer the questions asked must be indicated.
  • The proposed article must be attached to the registration form and must contain the following fields:
  • Pseudonym
  • Title
  • Summary of up to 500 words that includes objectives, research questions or hypotheses, methodology, and expected results or conclusions.
  • Bibliography cited and to be consulted for the preparation of the final article in case the proposal is selected.
  • Endnotes: it is suggested that they be short and as small as possible.
  • In a first stage the proposals presented will be reviewed in their formal and administrative aspects in order to verify their conformity with the rules of the contest. Proposals that do not meet the established requirements will be technically rejected.
  • Applications that move on to the next stage will be evaluated by a jury that will evaluate and select the proposals. This jury will be made up of: Johana Parra (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Fernando Rabossi (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Ariel Wilkis (IDAES School, Argentina).
  • In the evaluation and selection, the relationship of the proposal with the questions posed will be taken into account and the academic background related to the perspective and theme of the call will be weighed.
  • A proposal will be selected that addresses each of these countries:
    • Bolivia
    • Cuba
    • Ecuador
    • El Salvador
    • Ghana
    • Haití
    • Israel
    • Libanon
    • Nigeria
    • Panamá
    • Senegal
    • Venezuela
    • Zimbabwe
  • The Call may be declared void or a smaller number of prizes may be selected, in case the proposals submitted do not meet the necessary level of quality and consistency.
  • Situations not foreseen in this document will be resolved by the convening institution.
  • The opinion shall be irrevocable and unappealable.
  • The final article will have the format of a publishable chapter in an academic book. The specific formal guidelines will be announced once the selection of the winning proposals has been made.
  • The final article will be delivered within 10 (ten) months after the result of the call is known.
  • Texts written in the four languages commonly used in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa (English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.

It is an essential requirement that the presentation be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO. Printed or mailed submissions will not be accepted. It is recommended to enter the online system to know the format of the registration.

  1. Enter the CLACSO website www.clacso.org The online registration system will be available from November 5, 2021.
  2. Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). The generated user and password will be requested each time you want to enter the system to consult, modify, add or send information in this or other CLACSO activity. Applicants who submit collective proposals must designate one of the authors as responsible for registration. This same person will receive the corresponding monetary allowance in case the proposal is selected by the Jury.
  3. Identify the proposal by indicating the title of the proposal and the pseudonym of the applicant(s). Applications whose pseudonyms correspond to the name and/or surname of the applicants will not be accepted. Once the corresponding fields are completed, the system will enable the loading of the following data.
  4. They must complete in the registration form the affidavit indicating the link of the applicants with a Member Center belonging to the CLACSO network. Consult the base of member centers in: https://www.clacso.org/institucional/centros-asociados/.
  5. Complete the personal and academic data form and attach the curriculum vitae in free format; the digital copy of the identity document, passport or cédula; the digital copy of the title of the highest academic degree obtained (or proof of title in process), the photograph and the proposed article.
  6. Once the registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic receipt certificate that will serve as proof.

Registration Deadline: December 13, 2021 (Argentina)
Publication of winners: February 2022
Writing of the article: February to November 2022
Presentation of the article: November 28, 2022

The results will be published on the website of CLACSO and the IDAES-UNSAM School. Winners will be contacted by email.

Questions: [email protected]