Re: [xmca] Re: [ISCAR News] EXTRA ISCAR NEWS Sept 2009

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks. I gather the goal is more intellectual interaction. Seems
worthwhile.
mike

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Michalis Kontopodis <
michalis.kontopodis@staff.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 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
>> Lausanne
>>
>> 2. Full or Assistant professorship in education at the University of
>> Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
>>
>> 3. Ethos is now an ISCAR-affiliated Journal
>>
>> 4. 20% discount to ISCAR members for all ICHS-volumes published in English
>>
>> 5. 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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