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>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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>SDA Bocconi Business School (Milan, Italy) announces the forthcoming online
>publication of the second issue of "The transdisciplinary journal of
>emergence" (www.sdabocconi.it). TJE is an English-language on-line journal
>that will be published semi-annually starting from September 2003. We are
>seeking contributions for the second (Spring 2004) issue, to be sent by
>January 15th, 2004.
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>The Theme of the second issue is: Migration, Memory, and the Construction of
>the Self in Post-Industrial Societies.
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>TJE is committed to fostering a critical dialogue across the social sciences
>and humanities and welcomes thinkers challenging existing
>models of cultural/political/economical production.  We are interested in
>adventurous takes on popular or classical subjects.  We strive to support a
>broad range of participants and perspectives.
>Of specific interest are perspectives and methodologies that cut across, or
>overcome altogether, disciplinary separations within the fields of social
>sciences and humanities
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>Although TJE is published by a Business School, we do not intend to assign a
>particular emphasis to disciplinary (or trans-disciplinary, for that matter)
>discussions of management, economics, marketing, finance, and the like.
>Indeed, we believe the above-mentioned disciplines have increasingly
>progressed over time on a path that is eventually going to bring them
>outside the domain of the social sciences. If the social sciences are to
>constitute a distinct knowledge endeavor that should not be, we believe,
>solely because their object is human beings. Instead, the reason for the
>existence of the social sciences as a separate field of inquiry should be
>epistemological.
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>Since the journal explicitly aims to overcome disciplinary separations, we
>felt it necessary to abandon the reviewing mechanisms institutionalized in
>most academic journals. We do not believe that an endeavor such as
>developing a "transdisciplinary journal" is possible within the context of
>the power/knowledge structure inherent in the traditional review process.
>Hence, papers will not be reviewed with the explicit purpose of suggesting
>modifications. Instead, the editor will assign the submitted papers to two
>members of the editorial board, and publish their reactions and observations
>along with the papers.
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>Although this particular structure makes the quality of any received paper
>difficult to determine, we believe that the very criteria of "academic
>quality" should be subject to discussion, rather than taken for granted or
>simply inferred from the presence of a structured and systematic reviewing
>process. The editorial board is currently involved in such a debate, which
>will result in future modifications to this call for submissions. A similar
>issue concerns our lack of a clear definition for the term "emergence",
>which is, similarly, subject to an ongoing debate within the editorial board
>resulting in periodic modifications to the editorial statement of the
>Journal.
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>In this way, we hope to overcome the disciplinary (in a Focauldian sense)
>emphasis of the traditional reviewing process as well as of a crystallized
>definition of a concept in favor of dialogue and trans-fertilization.
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>The deadline for our Spring 2004 issue is December 1st. We are always
>accepting submissions and proposals for future issues.
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>We thank you in advance for your support.
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>Sincerely,
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>Journal editor:
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>Angelo Fanelli
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>(University of Florida and SDA Bocconi Business School)
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>Editorial board:
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>Daniel Blochwitz (University of Florida)
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>Cristina Crucini (University of Reading)
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>Henry F. Dahmns (Florida State University)
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>Giuseppe Delmestri (Bocconi University)
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>Angelo Fanelli (University of Florida and SDA Bocconi Business School)
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>Derek Merrill (University of Florida)
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>Vilmos Misangyi (University of Delaware)
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>Afshin Hafizi (University of Florida)
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>Tom Odde (University of Florida)
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>Guillermina Seri (University of Florida)
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>Fred Young (University of Florida)
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>Website: www.sdabocconi.it/emergence
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>Email submissions to:
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