Dear Michalis and All,
Thanks for your note Michalis, both public and private. The ISCAR
Newsletter was indeed disturbing for some of us, not understanding
things. If the executive committee made a decision to connect with
certain journals, why were we (the ISCAR participants) not informed
of that? I am very glad that ISCAR is helping Ph.D. students to
publish, and would like to know about those possibilities. Also, I
am wondering about the Russian journal that ISCAR supports, Cultural-
Historical Psychology...it is in Russian, and our colleagues there
need help in finding ways to promote this journal to Russian-reading
participants. To date, they do not know how to set up a PayPal
account to start subscriptions....I am hoping all of you will help
Inna in October at your meeting....and, will help this journal in
particular, as it is supported by ISCAR. I am curious to understand
the ISCAR relationship to various journals....especially, our
Russian journal.
Having been interested in ISCAR since 1998 (then, ISCRAT), I must
say that I have never understood the role of the country
representatives...For example, I have never received an e-mail
giving me information on reports from the executive committee, nor
have I ever been asked for my opinions, nor have I ever received
information on ideas such as Ethos as a journal connected to ISCAR.
I have written to Michalis about this, and think this might be a
good place to start grassroots democracy within ISCAR (now, other
countries have a system where they all communicate, but I have not
experienced that, and would love to).
The ICHS series of books from Germany....again, a number of people
were shocked...Was there ever an announcement for people to submit a
book proposal to the ICHS series? Now, we are receiving discount
possibilities, but I am thinking of the new Ph.D.s....do they know
that there is a possibility for them to submit their manuscripts to
this series? I apologize as I just don't know what is
happening....By coincidence, I received an excellent book from this
series today....Lev Sememovic Vygotskij Briefe/Letters..1924-1934.
People interested in the personal side of Vygotsky will gain much
from this book....www.lehmanns.de. This book publishes the letters
of Vygotsky in German first, and then, translated into English. It
is the 2nd Edition, 2009. Unfortunately, I have not been able to
find out all of the books published in this series. It would be
rewarding to have information on this series of books (past,
present, and submission for future), since ISCAR is
involved....now, returning to ISCAR....some people knew about this
opportunity to have books published in English, with this German
company....but, is this opportunity also open to others within
ISCAR, especially to the new Ph.D. students, who were mentioned
before, as a priority within ISCAR? I hope so....My thoughts now are
a product of a number of people who have communicated with
me....Many of us want to support ISCAR at the grassroots
level.....What is the executive committee doing to make sure these
voices are the groundwork of a democratic process? Please know that
I support ISCAR with all of my heart, and believe that this is a
critical moment....I am hoping for a feeling of "inclusion," and I
believe that our newly elected members want the same. I stand behind
them.
Dot
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Michalis Kontopodis <michalis.kontopodis@staff.hu-berlin.de
> wrote:
From: Michalis Kontopodis <michalis.kontopodis@staff.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: [xmca] Re: [ISCAR News] EXTRA ISCAR NEWS Sept 2009
To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu
Cc: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 12:48 PM
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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