Hallo Mike and thanks a lot for your kind email,usually the Executive Committee does not have a central policy and only accepts i.e. supports initiatives of its local members,
however sometime ago, the exec committee decided to make ISCAR membership more attractive including discounts, 'central' cooperation with publishers, opportunities for PhD students to publish their work etc.
In this context the exec. com would like to gain discounts for ISCAR members in cooperation with many journals such as New Ideas in Psychology, Subjectivity, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies of Science Education - and why not, Culture & Cognition
One could say that the space in-between Ethos or other from the above mentioned journals is the Zone of Proximal Development of both the journals or the disciplines, which they represent, and of the broader field of cultural-historical activity theory, or cultural psychology.
It would be nice if e.g. anthropologists would know more about Vygotsky in the future -- and the other way round, cultural psychologists profited from debates in anthropology e.g. about ethnography or emerging cultures - this is not of course the only criterion
The journals, with which ISCAR would like to cooperate, publish ISCAR- related articles (even if not only), include wellknown ISCAR scholars in their editorial borders and have an (explicit interest) in CHAT/ cultural psychology
There is however no list of formal criteria according to which such a decision can be made, and I guess that in each case the Exec Comm will examine each journal or publisher cooperation in particular.
We would be very happy to accept further ideas, suggestions, help and - why not - critique regarding this issue, and I would be happy to provide further information or explanations,
thanks again a lot, Michalis Kontopodis (PhD) ISCAR Secretary Research Associate Institute for Eur. Ethnology Humboldt University Berlin tel.: +49 (0) 30 2093 3716 fax.: +49 (0) 30 2093 3726 http://www.csal.de http://www.iscar.org/de/ On 07.09.2009, at 04:43, Mike Cole wrote:
Without prejudicing the issue one way or the other, how did a decision get made that Ethos is an ISCAR-affiliated journal?? I value the journal, but did not associate it with ISCAR. I would appreciate understanding the perspectives of others. For example, why not have Culture and cognition as an ISCAR-related journal, or American Anthropologist and other journals that could be identified (the new Italian journal Psicologia Culturale and others???In brief, who makes such decisions based on what criteria??? mike cole On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM, <newsletter@iscar.org> wrote: Dear ISCAR Members, This is a short extra ISCAR NEWSLETTER with following News:1. ?Developmental Psychology, Semiotics and Culture? Conference in Lausanne2. Full or Assistant professorship in education at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)3. Ethos is now an ISCAR-affiliated Journal4. 20% discount to ISCAR members for all ICHS-volumes published in English5. New ISCAR-related Publications For further details please see the attached Newsletter. with best wishes, Michalis Kontopodis (PhD) ISCAR Secretary Research Associate Institute for Eur. Ethnology Humboldt University Berlin tel.: +49 (0) 30 2093 3716 fax.: +49 (0) 30 2093 3726 http://www.csal.de http://www.iscar.org/de/
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