Congratulations to Sean M. Clark, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of interdisciplinary social sciences for his paper Revealing Clio’s Secrets: The Case for Historical Macromeasurement
Abstract: An excessive focus on methodological training and recent case studies has left political scientists woefully ignorant of work done by scholars in other fields, particularly that of economic historians and historical demographers. Most glaringly, political science has missed the emergence of ‘cliodynamics,’ or the novel attempt to fashion broad historical trends into consistently measurable data over great lengths of time. I therefore not only submit a comprehensive survey of the population, economy, and conflict research offered by historiographers, but also explain how this data can be harnessed by political science.
If you have read the paper you may wish to add a review.
Congratulations to all of the Award Winner finalists:
Maria Chong Abdullah, Habibah Elias, Rahil Mahyuddin and Jegak Uli: The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Adjustment Amongst First Year Students in a Malaysian Public University
Helen Joanna Boon, Stephen Tobias, Bernhard T. Baune, Tarun Sen Gupta and Lee Kennedy: Ars Cooperativa Naturae. Ethical Contingencies Across Medicine and Education: A Case Study
Chris Braddock: Sympathetic Magic and Contemproary Art: Stanley J. Tambiah’s Persuasive Analogy in Ritual Performance (to be included in an upcoming issue)
D. Burcu Egilmez: The Politics of the Turkish Gecekondu (Slum) Dwellers: A Case Study on the Izmir Kurucesme District
Joseph Galbo: Ethnographies of Empire and Resistance: “Wilderness” and the “Vanishing Indian” in Alexis de Tocqueville’s “A Fortnight in the Wilderness” and John Tanner’s “Narrative of Captivity”
Barbara J. Kampa and Raphael Nawrotzki: Assisting and Protecting Refugee Women: A Policy Analysis
Fazil Najafi, Sofia Vidalis, Kim Munksgaard and Matthew Diamond: Effective Environmental Policy toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Produced from Transportation (to be included in an upcoming issue)
Amla Salleh, Zahara Aziz, Abd. Aziz Mahyuddin and Zuria Mahmud: How do Malaysian Adolescent Children Perceive their Fathers’ Involvement in their Parenting?
Krista Sigler: Great Expectations: Advertising and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism in Late Imerial Russia, 1905-1917
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Volume 3 is complete.
Papers of interest in Volume 3 include:
With more than 250 papers, published over 12 issues, in Volume 3 there are too many interesting papers for us to mention here. Please have a look through the
online bookstore for papers which may be of interest to you.
Congratulations to Joleen Steyn-Kotze, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of interdisciplinary social sciences.
Joleen Steyn-Kotze’s paper, An Overdue Appraisal: The Need to Rethink Democracy Theory, can be accessed in the online bookstore: http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.629
Paper abstract: This paper is rooted in democracy and transformative theories as it attempts to identify issues surrounding democracy theory in order to determine whether there is a need to review democracy theory as it stands today. The central purpose of democratic consolidation theory is to determine what will ensure stability and deepening of democracy in emerging democracies. It is widely accepted that democratic consolidation theory centre on conditions that are most conducive to political stability and as such attempt to identify the conditions conducive for political stability. These conditions relate to institutions and regime performance in general. There are however fundamental flaws with democratic consolidation theory. The paper will explore the need to re-evaluate theory in order to obtain a more inclusive interpretation of reality. In essence, theory seems to be missing the point in practice, especially in non-Western contexts.
Some papers of interest which were published in Volume 3 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences include those published by plenary presenters at the conference:
Area Studies versus Disciplines: Towards an Interdisciplinary, Systemic Country Approach by Hans Kuijper.
Space Conceptualisation in the Context of Postmodernity: Theorizing Spatial Representation by Constantine D. Skordoulis and Eugenia Arvanitis.
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 4 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
You will first need to submit a presentation proposal for the conference as either an attending or virtual participant. If accepted you will be able to submit your full paper for refereeing and possible publication in the Journal.
Please check the submission guidelines prior to submitting your paper.
The International Journal of The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Announcing Vicki Adele Pascoe and Kylie Radel of Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia as winners of the 2008 International Journal of Learning Award for Excellence, for their paper “What are Nice Guys Like them doing in a Place Like that?”: Education Journeys from Australian Indigenous Students in Custody.
Indigenous Australians have been the subject of long-term disadvantage and discrimination. They are “nearly 16 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people” (Council of Social Service of New South Wales, 2006, p. 1). Just over one third of Indigenous prisoners have completed primary education as compared to just 16% of non-Indigenous prisoners (Rawnsley, 2003, p. 19). The majority of Indigenous people in custody have little opportunity to intervene in the offending cycle because they lack the education tools. Since 2000 our university has offered a Tertiary Entry Program (TEP) specifically designed for Australian Indigenous people who wish to gain the necessary skills for successful university study. More …