Dollarization in a global world: socio-anthropological perspectives
CLACSO and the IDAES School of UNSAM in Argentina have opened applications for individual or group research projects on the topic: “Dollarization in a Global World: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives.” Application deadline: December 13, 2021. This call for proposals also includes the participation of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
For at least two decades, new paradigms in the social sciences have contributed to understanding the place of money in social life. By examining in detail how monetary phenomena are embedded in people's daily lives, how they interact with institutional and cultural frameworks, and how they contribute to the distribution of power and social hierarchies, we see that they occupy a central place in the ways societies are historicized and reproduced. From this perspective, we launch this call for papers, which aims to bring together academics interested in understanding how the US dollar is embedded in the daily lives of millions of people and in institutional frameworks or "customs" outside the borders of the United States.
The role of the US dollar in consolidating US hegemony since the mid-20th century is well known. But its transformation into a "global currency" circulating in multiple territories, extending beyond international trade and finance (not just as a currency for elites), and becoming entrenched in monetary systems, replacing or working alongside other national currencies to serve as a unit of account, payment, or exchange in the daily lives of vast populations in 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 of 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 everyday and ordinary economic practices of very varied social sectors and in extremely heterogeneous contexts.
For the selected group of countries, it is expected that the proposals will be able to 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 periods can be established regarding legal and/or de facto dollarization?
What macroeconomic circumstances have been decisive in this process?
What public controversies have arisen regarding the role of the US dollar in the country's politics, society, and economy? What policies have been implemented or attempted to counteract or reinforce this process?
How does the US dollar become integrated into monetary systems? What functions and transactions does it play a central role in? How is this process understood historically?
Which social classes or ethnic or religious groups regularly interact with the US dollar in their daily economic lives?
CONTEST RULES
Applicant profile.
Applicants should preferably be researchers with accredited affiliations to CLACSO Member Centers, which they will demonstrate with a sworn statement included in the application form. This will be given particular consideration to applications from Latin America and the Caribbean. Regardless of the institution endorsing the application, if selected, the applicant responsible for the submission must present a letter of endorsement signed by the highest authority of that institution. Researchers from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are exempt from this requirement.
-Presentations by individual and collective authors of up to three (3) members will be accepted; gender equity must be considered.
-Each team must be made up of trained researchers, that is, those who hold a master's degree, doctorate or equivalent and proven academic track record and/or researchers in training, that is, those who are pursuing master's or doctoral studies or have a degree, in the latter case they must be at least 35 years old.
-One of the trained researchers must be selected as the person responsible for registering the project. He or she will open the registration form in the system and register the other members within it.
-Each researcher or research team may only participate with one proposal in this call.
-If the scholarship is awarded and travel is necessary, the winners will have to cover the costs of medical insurance or similar expenses themselves.
Support to be granted
Up to thirteen (13) prizes will be awarded. Each selected proposal will receive USD 500 (five hundred US dollars or its equivalent in the applicant's national currency) as recognition, upon delivery of the final article. In addition, their work will be published in a collective book.
The prize will be paid via bank transfers made to 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 through the means they deem appropriate.
The authors will cede the original publication rights of the works, given that 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.
Characteristics of the proposals
-The member centers to which the applicants are linked must not have any outstanding debts in the payment of 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) may not participate.
-Proposals from researchers who are currently recipients of research grants, fellowships, or research projects organized by CLACSO will not be accepted. Applications from researchers who have previously received a CLACSO research grant will be accepted, provided that the recipient has fulfilled all obligations in a timely manner.
-Texts written in the four languages commonly used in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.
-A proposal for a short article to be presented at an international seminar to be held in 2022 must be submitted.
-The application must indicate the central points that will be taken into account in the final work to answer the questions asked.
-The article proposal must be attached to the registration form and must contain the following fields:
-Pseudonym
-Qualification
-Summary of up to 500 words that includes the objectives, research questions or hypotheses, methodology, and expected results or conclusions.
-The bibliography cited will already be consulted for the preparation of the final article in case the proposal is selected.
-End notes: it is suggested that they be short and as few as possible.
Selection criteria for proposals
-In the first stage, the submitted proposals will be reviewed for their formal and administrative aspects to verify their compliance with the competition rules. Proposals that do not meet the established requirements will be rejected.
The applications that advance to the next stage will be evaluated by a jury that will assess and select the proposals. This jury will be composed 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 considered.
-One proposal will be selected that addresses each of these countries: Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
-The Call may be declared void or a smaller number of prizes may be selected, if the proposals submitted do not meet the required quality and consistency.
-Situations not covered in this document will be resolved by the convening institution.
-The ruling will be irrevocable and unappealable.
Item characteristics
-The final article will be in the format of a publishable chapter in an academic book. Specific formatting guidelines will be announced once the winning proposals have been selected.
-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 (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
It is mandatory that the submission be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO. Printed submissions and submissions sent by email will not be accepted. It is recommended to access the online system to review the registration form.
- Access the CLACSO website clacso.orgThe online registration system has been available since November 1, 2021.
- Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). The generated username and password will be required each time you wish to access the system to consult, modify, add, or submit information for this or any other CLACSO activity. Applicants submitting collective proposals must designate one of the authors as responsible for registration. This same person will receive the corresponding monetary award if the proposal is selected by the Jury.
- Identify the proposal by indicating its title and the pseudonym of the applicant(s). Applications with pseudonyms that correspond to the applicant's first and/or last name will not be accepted. Once the corresponding fields are completed, the system will enable the uploading of the following data.
- They must complete the registration form sworn declaration indicating the applicants' affiliation with a Member Center belonging to the CLACSO network. Consult the database of member centers at: www.clacso.org.ar/clacso/centros_miembros_clacso/inicio.php.
- Complete the form personal and academic data and attach the curriculum vitae in free format; the digital copy of the identity document, passport or ID card; the digital copy of the highest academic degree obtained (or proof of degree in process), the photograph and the article proposal.
- Once registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic certificate of receipt that will serve as proof.
- The results will be published on the CLACSO and IDAES-UNSAM School websites. The winners will be contacted by email.
Terms and conditions and registration
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
INDIVIDUAL AND FOR TEAMS RESEARCH
«Dollarizations in a global world: socio-anthropological perspectives»
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 US currency has played in entrenching US 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 US 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
Profile of the applicants.
– 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 (ie, 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.
Support to be awarded
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.
Characteristics of the proposals
– 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.
Selection criteria of the proposals
– 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, Haiti, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Panama, 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 agreeing institution.
– The opinion shall be irrevocable and unappealable.
Characteristics of the articles
– 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.
Registration Procedure
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.
- Enter the CLACSO website www.clacso.org The online registration system will be available from November 1, 2021.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: www.clacso.org.ar/clacso/centros_miembros_clacso/inicio.php.
- 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.
- Once the registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic receipt certificate that will serve as proof.
The results will be published on the website of CLACSO and the IDAES-UNSAM School. Winners will be contacted by email.
Terms and conditions and registration
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