Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 31 July 2023.
An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2022 and written by a single author or group of authors.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2022.
Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.
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Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
one page of biodata of the nominee, including educational background, positions held, affiations, honors and awards
two pages on the nominee’s contributions to the understanding and eradication of poverty
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees.
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Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject written by a single author or group of authors and published in 2022.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is beginning to have an influence
a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
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Book of the Year Award for the best collection of essays by different authors on a poverty-related subject and published in 2022.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence
a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
Award winner will be announced at the next Yale Global Justice Program Annual Conference, autumn 2023. Winning books will be reviewed by Journal ASAP and promoted through ASAP Social Media and the ASAP Newsletter.
Partnering in sponsoring this competition, Springer Nature will award its winners books of their choice from Springer’s Sustainable Development Goals Series.
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To send a nomination or for any questions or comments, contact Michal Apollo at editor@journalasap.org.
In its first year, AGAPE aims to divide Rs. 8,00,000/- among ca. five promising projects that will pilot innovative approaches to poverty eradication. Here poverty is defined broadly as including the whole range of basic social and economic needs; and eradication is conceived as enabling households to escape poverty permanently. Only individuals and organizations planning projects in India are eligible to apply.
Guidelines:
Applications should consist of one page each on the proposal and the proposers.
The proposal page should specify a detailed plan for the pilot project, preceded by a one-sentence summary statement of purpose, and followed by a brief timeline and budget.
The proposer page should give relevant details about the person(s) intending to do the work and (if applicable) their organization.
Additional supporting materials are accepted but not encouraged.
An expert panel will assess pilot projects based on their cost-effectiveness and promise of success as well as their potentials for innovation and scale-up. Selected projects may be resubmitted in subsequent years for additional funding.
Proposals should be sent to agapeindiagroup@gmail.com by 31 July 2022, with selections to be announced by the end of August.
AGAPE is an initiative by Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international community of scholars and researchers working to confront the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty and to initiate targeted, evidence-based reforms. This initiative commemorates and honors Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, India’s foremost promoter of poverty eradication.
We would like to thank Krishen and Geeta MEHTA as the generous sponsors of the inaugural three years of the AGAPE fund.
Krishen Mehta is a Global Justice Fellow: https://globaljustice.yale.edu/people/krishen-mehta
Geeta Mehta is a Columbia University Professor: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/52-geeta-mehta
As the COVID-19 pandemic and global health exigencies show, many important vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, and other health technologies remain unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of people, many of whom suffer or die as a result.
We invite activists, academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and health professionals to contribute to an edited open-access volume advancing a human-centered approach to health innovations.
Contributors will be invited to present their draft essays at a hybrid workshop in New Haven, October 28-30, 2022.
AGAPE is an initiative by Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) to fund promising projects that will pilot innovative approaches to poverty eradication.
An exciting yet insightful and informative conference, in collaboration with ASAP, Yale University, the Global Justice Program, and Quinnipiac University took place over a span of three days. Many of the panel sessions centered around themes associated with technology, justice, and the use of artificial intelligence were discussed.
Our very own ASAP session hosted a number of ASAP members as speakers. We look forward to our next annual conference where we welcome and encourage all our members to share their projects and published papers.
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Making Tourism a Force for Peace – A Call From Tourism and Hospitality Academicians and Students On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and so began the largest assault on a European state since 1945.
• voice support for the call from Colombia, Guatemala, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Ukraine requesting the suspension of the membership of the Russian Federation from the UNWTO in accordance with Article 34 of the Statutes for conducting a policy, contrary to the fundamental aim of the Organization as enshrined in Article 3 of the Statutes of the UNWTO [12].
• call on the members of the World Travel and Tourism Council to suspend any business operations they have in the Russian Federation and to make the extent of their business operations in the country transparent to the travelling public.
• call on tourism-related academic departments and institutions to suspend all institutional relations with departments and institutions in the Russian Federation.
In order to fulfill the values of tourism as a force for peace, and to reinforce sanctions regimes we further encourage:
• all travel and tourism businesses to suspend their activities that enable tourist traffic to and from the Russian Federation.
• ask all tourists to not travel to the Russian Federation until such time as Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine and ceased its armed aggression in compliance with UN General Assembly Resolutions.
In conclusion, we invite representatives of the tourism and hospitality academy and students of tourism and related fields of study to sign this petition against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you support this initiative, please support our action by signing and by sharing:
Let us make a #TourismForceForPeace until justice has been served.
Authors:
Michal Apollo, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland; Global Justice Program, Yale University, USA; Academics Stand Against Poverty, USA
C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Oulu University, Finland; Linnaeus University, Sweden; Lund University, Sweden; Taylor\’s University, Malaysia; Co-editor, Current Issues in Tourism
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future of cities.
The journal includes work from many good people, especially in the Global South, who have interesting and constructive things to say on poverty.
We hope you will like some of the essays in it and will help the journal find suitable topics and authors, especially from the global South, for future issues.
