Monthly Archive for August, 2010

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Self-Serving White Guilt

Published on August 15, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

progressBy Eric Kaufmann, in Prospect

According to Pascal Bruckner, we in the west suffer from neurotic guilt, a condition imposed upon us by the high priests of the left. This secular clerisy are heirs to the Christian tradition of original sin, which universalised guilt by claiming that humans are fallen and must redeem themselves. Nietzsche denounced Christian guilt as a psychic evil which forces man’s will to power in on himself. Pascal Bruckner is a latter-day Nietzschean who gives no quarter when it comes to excoriating our new moral elite.

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Eighteen

Published on August 13, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

eighteenBy Natan Dvir, in Guernica

Although I grew up and spent most of my photographic career in Israel, I felt I did not truly know or understand its Arab society—over a fifth of the population consisting of hundreds of thousands of families who stayed within Israel’s borders after it was established in 1948. This large minority, which is currently experiencing a challenging identity crisis, has been somewhat forgotten amidst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a highly political environment I became interested in the stories of these people living as a minority in a country defined by its majority’s religion.

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Diversity Journal, Volume 10, Number 1 now available

Published on August 10, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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The first issue of Volume 10 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations has been published.

Volume 10, Number 1 contains:

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Diversity Journal – Become an Associate Editor

Published on August 4, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

As part of the process of publishing The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations all submissions are sent for peer review, prior to publication. Assessment, comments and guidance by the referees are an essential part of the publication process and invaluable to the authors of the submitted papers.

In recognition of the important role of referees, the international advisory board acknowledges all referees who have reviewed papers as an ‘Associate Editor’ in the volume of the journal they have contributed to.

If you would like to referee papers submitted to The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, please email journals@ondiversity.com, with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.

Series: On Diversity

Published on August 4, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

We are accepting book proposals for the imprint On Diversity.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

The Minangkabau: Mixing Islam and Matriarchy

Published on August 3, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

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By Usha Alexander, in 3 Quarks Daily

“In your marriage, who is the boss?” our driver, Arman, asked in a playfully provocative tone, like he was setting up the punchline of a joke.

My partner and I looked at each other, laughed, and shrugged. Arman belonged to the Minangkabau, the society recognized among anthropologists as the world’s largest and most stable surviving matriarchy* (though some prefer to call it a gylany, matrix, matrifocal or matricentric society, or something else to avoid conjuring images of mythical Amazons). Knowing this, I presumed his question was part of a routine entertainment for tourists.

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Eleventh International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations

Published on August 3, 2010 in Conference and Newsletter. 0 Comments

cape_town1Location and Date

The 2011 Diversity Conference will  be held in Cape Town, South Africa at The University of the Western Cape from 20-22 June. For more information and important conference updates, please visit www.Diversity-Conference.com

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, please click here. Once you are ready to submit your proposal, you can do so by going here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal.  Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2011 Diversity Conference, please follow this link.

Themes

This year’s special theme is Social Justice, Care, and Difference. Other themes for the 2011 Diversity Conference include:

* Theme 1: Dimensions of Diversity
* Theme 2: Governing Diversity — Community in a Globalising World
* Theme 3: Representing Diversity — Influences of Global Tourism and Media
* Theme 4: Learning Diversity — Education in a World of Difference
* Theme 5: Working Diversity — Managing the Culture of Diversity

For more information on our overall themes for the Diversity Conference, please click here.