Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice
26–28 JULY 2017 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER | HIROSHIMA, JAPAN THESOCIALSCIENCES.COM Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
“Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice”
26–28 July 2017 | International Conference Center | Hiroshima, Japan
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Welcome - Common Ground Research Networks...... 1 About Common Ground...... 3 About the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network...... 7 Themes...... 8 2017 Special Focus...... 11 Scopes and Concerns...... 12 Research Network Membership...... 15 Engage in the Research Network...... 16 The International Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network...... 17 Scholar...... 18 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection About the Journal Collection...... 23 Collection Titles...... 24 Article Submission Process and Timeline...... 27 Common Ground Open...... 28 International Award for Excellence...... 29 Subscriptions and Access...... 30 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Book Imprint Call for Books...... 33 Call for Book Reviewers...... 34 Recently Published Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Books...... 35 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference About the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference...... 45 Ways of Speaking...... 48 Daily Schedule...... 50 Conference Highlights...... 52 Plenary Speakers...... 54 Emerging Scholars...... 55 Schedule of Sessions...... 56 List of Participants...... 104 Notes...... 111 Conference Calendar...... 126 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences thesocialsciences.com
Dear Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Delegates,
Welcome to Hiroshima and to the Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network—its conference, journal collection, and book imprint— was created to explore notions of disciplinarily and interdisciplinary in the human sciences. It represents a marvelous collage of specific instances of the study of social life worthy of the label ‘science’ as well as presentations which think in more general terms about the problem of method and the nature of interdisciplinary.
Founded in 2006, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference was held in 2006 at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece; in 2007 at the University of Granada, Spain; in 2008 at Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy; in 2009 at the University of Athens, Athens, Greece; in 2010 at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; in 2011 at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA; in 2012 at the Universidad Abat Oliba, Barcelona, Spain; in 2013 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; in 2014 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada; in 2015 at the University of Split in Split, Croatia; and in 2016 at Imperial College London, London, UK. We are excited to hold the 2018 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference in Granada, Spain in partnership with the University of Granada.
Conferences can be ephemeral spaces. We talk, learn, get inspired, but these conversations fade with time. This Research Network supports a range of publishing modes in order to capture these conversations and formalize them as knowledge artifacts. We encourage you to submit your research to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection. We also encourage you to submit a book proposal to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Book Imprint.
In partnership with our Editors and Network Partners the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is curated by Common Ground Research Networks. Founded in 1984, Common Ground Research Networks is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Common Ground Research Networks takes some of the pivotal challenges of our time and builds research networks which cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for people, ideas, and dialogue. However, the strength of ideas does not come from finding common denominators. Rather, the power and resilience of these ideas is that they are presented and tested in a shared space where differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. These are the kinds of vigorous and sympathetic academic milieus in which the most productive deliberations about the future can be held. We strive to create places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.
I’d like to thank my Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network colleagues, Rachael Arcario, Dominique Moore, Meg Welter, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish, who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and we hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks
1 | About Common Ground
Our Mission Common Ground Research Networks aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative research networks and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.
Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds research networks that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.
Our Media Common Ground creates and supports research networks through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host research network). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book imprint offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The Research Network also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, Quarterly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works.
3 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network
Exploring disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network
The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is a forum for discussion of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge creation within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a family of peer reviewed journals, and book imprint– exploring the affordances of new digital media. Members of this Research Network include academics, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and other education practitioners.
Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Publishing The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection enables members to publish through two media. First, research network members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.
Community The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the research network YouTube channel. Quarterly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Members also join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter, or on our new social media platform, Scholar.
7 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Themes
On disciplinary and Theme 1: Social and Community Studies interdisciplinary practices • Sociology: concepts and practices in the study of the social • Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows • What are the behavioral sciences? • Psychology of the social • Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice • Economics as social science • Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony • Philosophy’s place in the social sciences • Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice • Health in community • Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences • Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences • Social sciences for the professions and social welfare • Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion • Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence • Social sciences addressing social crisis points • Technologies in and for the social • Economics, politics, and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, work-life, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards • Commonalities, differences, and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices, and ethical positions • Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’ • The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
On the processes of Theme 2: Civic and Political Studies governance and nature • Political science as disciplinary practice of citizenship • Investigating public policy and public health • Law as a social science and criminology as social science • Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards • Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics • Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation, and inclusion • Trust, social capital, social cohesion, and social welfare • Politics in, and of, the social sciences • Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship, and nationality • Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti- terror • The neo-liberal state and its critics • Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness
8 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Themes
On disciplinary and Theme 3: Cultural Studies interdisciplinary practices • Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts in the study of human cultures and cultural • Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting, and aging interactions • Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology • Ethnographic methods • Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text • Cultural studies as a constitutive field • Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism • Where humanities and social sciences meet • Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological • Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences • Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic • Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism • Religion and the human sciences • Health, well-being, and culture
On the dynamics of Theme 4: Global Studies globalization and the • Global flows transformation of the local • Global security • Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants • The dynamics of globalization, diaspora, and diversity • Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free,’ and ‘fair’ trade • Developed and developing worlds • Inequalities in international perspective • Poverty and global justice • Human rights in global perspective • The local and the global
On the connections Theme 5: Environmental Studies between human and • The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies natural environments. • Human environments • Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study • What are applied sciences? • Health and the environment • People, place, and time: human demography • Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity • Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment
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On the social dynamics Theme 6: Organizational Studies of public, community, • Management as social science and privately owned organizations • Culture in organizations • Technology and work • The social dynamics of organizations • Human resource management • Workers’ rights • Corporate governance • Organizational and social sustainability • Corporate social responsibility • Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting • Tacit and explicit knowledge • Private and public knowledge • Scenario building and futures forecasting • Organizational change
On learning about the social and social learning Theme 7: Educational Studies • Education as a social science • The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor • Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science • Teaching and learning the social studies • History teaching and learning • Economics teaching and learning • Geography teaching and learning • Technology in learning and learning about technology
On the representation Theme 8: Communication and communication of • Media studies as social science human meanings • Communications as a social science • Information and communications technologies • The social web: the internet in its social context • Human-computer interactions • Literacies as a social learning experience
10 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2017 Special Focus
Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice
Ideally, disciplines represent fields of profound and detailed content knowledge. With each containing networks of professional practice, forms of discourse, and areas of work; these communities also legitimate themselves by their domains of publication and public communication, sites of learning, and experiences of apprenticeship within the disciplinary community. At the epicenter of all this, “discipline” delineates the boundaries of the intellectual community. By outlining methodologies of particular areas with both rigorous and concentrated intellectual effort; the various frames of reference can be used to interpret the world. Despite their aspiration to general applicability, all too often disciplines become “nationalized” or located within frames of reference bounded by country, language, or culture. In large part, this is an effect of the professional framing of intellectual life. In what ways might these boundaries bind our epistemic frames for understanding the social aspect of the social sciences? If the practice of intellectual life has implications for not just interpreting the world, but in indirect and direct ways changing it, to what extent does this also demand a global view on the doing of the social sciences?
11 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns
The Disciplinary Work of the Social Sciences Each of the sciences of the social is marked by its distinctive disciplinary modes—the thinking practices of Anthropology, Archaeology, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Science, Communications, Cultural Studies, Demography, Economics, Education, Geography, Humanities, Law, Management, Media, Politics, Policy Studies, Psychology, Social Welfare, Sociology, to name some of the principal sciences of the social. The disciplinary variation is so broad that practitioners in some of these areas may not even consider their discipline a ‘science’, whilst in other disciplines there is a general consensus about the scientific character of their endeavor.
What is a discipline? Disciplines represent fields of deep and detailed content knowledge, communities of professional practice, forms of discourse (of fine and precise semantic distinction and technicality), areas of work (types of organization or divisions within organizations such as academic departments or research organizations), domains of publication and public communication, sites of common learning, shared experiences of apprenticeship into disciplinary community, methods of reading and analyzing the world, ways of thinking or epistemic frames, even ways of acting and types of person. ‘Discipline’ delineates the boundaries of intellectual community, the distinctive practices and methodologies of particular areas of rigorous and concentrated intellectual effort, and the varying frames of reference used to interpret the world.
And what is a science? Some of the studies of the social habitually and comfortably call themselves ‘sciences’, but others do not. The English word ‘science’ derives from the Latin ‘sciens’, or knowing. Return to the expansiveness of this root, and studies of the human could lay equally legitimate claim to that word.
‘Science’ in this broadest of senses implies an intensity of focus and a concentration of intellectual energies greater than that of ordinary, everyday, commonsense or lay ‘knowing’. It is more work and harder work. It relies on the ritualistic rigors and accumulated wisdoms of disciplinary practices.
These are some of the out-of-the-ordinary knowledge processes that might justify use of the word ‘science’, not only in the social sciences but also in the natural, physical, mathematical, and applied sciences:
Science has an experiential basis. This experience may be based on direct personal intuition of the already-known, on interests integral to the lifeworld, on the richness of life fully lived. Or it might be experience gained when we move into new and potentially strange terrains, deploying the empirical processes of methodical observation or systematic experimentation.
Science is conceptual. It has a categorical frame of reference based on higher levels of semantic precision and regularity than everyday discourse. On this foundation, it connects concept to concept into schemas. This is how science builds theories which model the world.
Science is analytical. It develops frames of reasoning and explanation: logic, inference, prediction, hypothesis, induction, deduction. And it sees the world through an always cautiously critical eye, interrogating the interests, motives and ethics that may motivate knowledge claims and subjecting epistemic assumptions to an ever-vigilant process of metacognitive reflection.
12 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns
Science is application-oriented. It can be used to do things in the world. In these endeavors, it may be pragmatic, designing and implementing practical solutions within larger frames of reference and achieving technical and instrumental outcomes. Or it may be transformative—redesigning paradigms, social being, and even the conditions of the natural world. What, after all, is the purpose of knowing other than to have an effect on the world, directly or indirectly?
Science can be any or all of these experiential, conceptual, analytical, and applied things. Some disciplines may prioritize one or other of these knowledge processes, and this may be the source of their strength as well as potential weakness. In any event, these are the kinds of things we do in order to know in the out-of-the-ordinary ways worthy of the name ‘science’.
The Interdisciplinary Work of the Social and Other Sciences Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary work crosses disciplinary boundaries. This may be for pragmatic reasons, in order to see and do things that can’t be seen or done adequately within the substantive and methodological confines of a discipline. Broader views may prove to be more powerful than narrower ones, and even the more finely grained within-discipline views may prove all-the-more powerful when contextualized broadly. The deeper perspectives of the discipline may need to be balanced with and measured against the broader perspectives of interdisciplinarity.
Interdisciplinary approaches may also be applied for reasons of principle, to disrupt the habitual narrowness or outlook of within-discipline knowledge work, to challenge the ingrained, discipline-bound ways of thinking that produce occlusion as well as insight. If the knowable universe is a unity, discipline is a loss as well as a gain, and interdisciplinarity may in part recover that loss.
Interdisciplinary approaches also thrive at the interface of disciplinary and lay understandings. Here, interdisciplinarity is needed for the practical application of disciplined understandings to the actually existing world. Robust applied knowledge demands an interdisciplinary holism. A broad epistemological engagement is required simply to be able to deal with the complex contingencies of a really-integrated universe.
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking, and Ways of Knowing What are the distinctive modes of the social, natural, and applied sciences? What are their similarities and differences?
In English (but not some other languages), ‘science’ suffers a peculiar semantic narrowing. It seems to apply more comfortably to the natural world, and only by analogy to some of the more systematic and empirically-based of the human sciences. It connotes a sometimes narrow kind of systematicity: the canons of empirical method; an often less-than reflective acceptance of received theoretical categories and paradigms; formal reasoning disengaged from human and natural consequences; technical control without adequate ethical reflection; an elision of means and ends; narrow functionalism, instrumentalism, and techno-rationalism; a pragmatism to the neglect broader view of consequences; and conservative risk aversion. These are some of the occupational hazards of activities that name themselves sciences—social, natural, or applied. In studying the social setting, however, it’s not good enough just to have a rigorous empirical methodology without a critical eye to alternative interests and paradigmatic frames of reference, and without a view to the human-transformational potentials of knowledge work.
13 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns
Humanistic methodologies sometimes address the social in a deliberate counterpoint to science, distancing themselves from the perceived narrownesses of scientific method. This move, however, may at times leave science stranded, separated from its social origins and ends. The natural and technological sciences are themselves more subject to contestation around axes of human interest than the narrow understanding of science seems to be able to comprehend. Whether it be bioethics, or climate change, or the debates around Darwinism and Intelligent Design, or the semantics of computer systems, questions of politics and ideology are bound closely to the ostensible evidence. Faux empiricism is less than adequate to address the more important questions, even in the natural and technological sciences. Science can be found lacking when it is disengaged from the humanistic.
The humanistic, however, has its own occupational hazards: disengaged critique and supercilious inaction without design responsibility; political confrontation without systematic empirical foundation; ideological fractiousness without apparent need for compromise; the agnostic relativism of lived experience and identity-driven voice; voluntarism that leads to a naive lack of pragmatism and failure in application.
A reconstructive view of the social, natural, and applied sciences would be holistic, attempting always to avoid the occlusions of narrow methodological approaches. It would also be ambitious, intellectually and practically.
In this context, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network pursues two aspirations, two openings. The first is an intellectual opening, founded on an agenda designed to strengthen the theories, the research methodologies, the epistemologies, and the practices of teaching and learning about the social world and the relation of the social to the natural world.
The second opening is pragmatic and inventive. All intellectual work is an act of imagination. At its best, it is ambitious, risky, and transformative. If the natural sciences can have human ambitions as big as those of the medical sciences—the fight against MS or cancer or Alzheimer’s, for instance—then the social sciences can have ambitions as large as to settle the relation of humans to the natural environment, the material conditions of human equality, and the character of the future person.
14 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Network Membership
About The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.
Membership Benefits As an Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work: • Digital subscription to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection for one year. • Digital subscription to the book imprint for one year. • One article publication per year (pending peer review). • Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as a Reviewer after. • Subscription to the research network e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the Research Network. • Option to add a video presentation to the research network YouTube channel. • Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including: ◊ Personal profile and publication portfolio page; ◊ Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media; ◊ Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter; ◊ Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes—for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work.
15 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Engage in the Community
Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the research network by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with research network colleagues that will continue well into the future. www.facebook.com/ InterdisciplinarySocial Sciences Publish Journal Articles or Books We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the @thesocsciences journal. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the research network. As a member of the #ISS17 research network, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the network knowledge base as a Reviewer. As part of your active membership in the research network, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of journal and to the book imprint. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book imprint.
Engage through Social Media There are several ways to connect and network with research network colleagues:
Email Newsletters: Published Quarterly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the research network. Contribute news or links with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected].
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Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for research network members at: http://www.facebook.com/InterdisciplinarySocialSciences.
Twitter: Follow the community @thesocsciences and talk about the conference with #ISS17
YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http://cgnetworks.org/support/uploading-your-presentation-to-youtube.
16 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Advisory Board
The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the field. Board members are invited to attend the annual conference and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Book Imprint.
We are grateful for the continued service and support of the following world-class scholars and practitioners.
• Patrick Baert, Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK • Andreja Bubic, University of Split, Split, Croatia • Norma Burgess, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA • Hillel Goelman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada • Peter Harvey, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia • Vangelis Intzidis, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece • Paul James, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia • Ivana Batarelo Kokic, University of Split, Split, Croatia • Gerassimos Kouzelis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece • Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece • Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy • José Luis Ortega Martín, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain • Francisco Fernandez Palomares, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain • Constantine D. Skordoulis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece • Sanja Stanic, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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19 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection
Committed to being a definitive intellectual resource on emerging trends in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge creation within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection of Journals
Indexing Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO) Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) Academic Search International (EBSCO) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Biography Reference Bank About Business Source The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection aims to examine the nature Corporate Plus (EBSCO) of disciplinary practices and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context Business Source Index of “real-world” applications. It also interrogates what constitutes “science” in a social (EBSCO) Business Source context, and the connections between the social and other sciences. The journals in International (EBSCO) this collection discuss the distinctive disciplinary practices within the sciences of Cabell’s the social and examine examples of these practices. In order to define and exemplify Communication Source (EBSCO) disciplinarity, the collection fosters dialogue ranging from the broad and speculative Educational Source to the microcosmic and practical. In considering the varied interdisciplinary, (EBSCO) transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary work across and between the social, natural, Environment Complete and applied sciences, the journals in this collection showcase interdisciplinary (EBSCO) Environment Index practices in action. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical, (EBSCO) to wide-ranging multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary practices, to perspectives on OmniFile Full Text Mega knowledge and method. (EBSCO) OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCO) Political Science Collection Editor Complete (EBSCO) Scopus Gerassimos Kouzelis, Department of Political Science and Public SocINDEX (EBSCO) Administration, University of Athens, Athens, Greece SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) Sociology Source International (EBSCO) Reviewers STM Source (EBSCO) Articles published in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection are peer The Australian Research reviewed by scholars who are active members of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Council (ERA) Research Network. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with Founded: the Research Network, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based 2006 evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a Publication Frequency: more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on Quarterly (March, June, their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback September, December) and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Network Website: Reviewers in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to thesocialsciences.com the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Reviewers contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the Bookstore: iji.cgpublisher.com collection.
23 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection Titles
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review ISSN: 1833-1882 (print) DOI: 10.18848/1833-1882/CGP Indexing: Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO), Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), Academic Search Elite (EBSCO), Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), Biography Reference Bank (EBSCO), Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO), OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCO), Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review examines the nature of disciplinary practices and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of “real world” applications. It also interrogates what constitutes “science” in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies ISSN: 2327-0071 (print) | 2327-2481 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2327-0071/CGP Indexing: Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Political Science Complete (EBSCO), Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies investigates the processes of governance and the nature of citizenship and invites case studies that take the form of presentations of practice, including the documentation of socially-engaged practices and exegeses analyzing the effect of those practices.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies ISSN: 2327-008X (print) | 2327-2554 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2327-008X/CGP Indexing: Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies explores and exemplifies disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices in the study of human cultures and cultural interactions.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies ISSN: 2327-011X (print) | 2327-2570 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2327-011X/CGP Indexing: Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Educational Source (EBSCO), Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies explores the processes of learning about the social and social learning.
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The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies ISSN: 2329-1621 (print) | 2329-1559 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2329-1621/CGP Indexing: Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Environment Complete (EBSCO), Environment Index (EBSCO), Scopus, Sustainability Reference Center (EBSCO), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies offers social science-based interpretations and interdisciplinary explorations of the connections between human and natural environments.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies ISSN: 2324-755X (print) | 2324-7568 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2324-755X/CGP Indexing: Academic Search International (EBSCO), Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies investigates the dynamics of globalization and the transformation of the local.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies ISSN: 2324-7649 (print) | 2324-7657 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2324-7649/CGP Indexing: Business Source Corporate Plus (EBSCO), Business Source Index (EBSCO), Business Source International (EBSCO), Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Management Directory (Cabell’s), Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies explores the social dynamics of public, community, and privately owned organizations.
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies ISSN: 2324-7576 (print) | 2324-7584 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2324-7576/CGP Indexing: Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Scopus, SocINDEX (EBSCO), SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO), Sociology Source International (EBSCO), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies presents studies of society that exemplify the disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices of the social sciences.
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The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication ISSN: 2324-7320 (print) | 2324-7517 (online) DOI: 10.18848/2324-7320/CGP Indexing: Communication Source (EBSCO), Educational Psychology & Administration Directory (Cabell’s), Psychology & Psychiatry Directory (Cabell’s), Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication offers social science-based interpretations and interdisciplinary explorations of the representation and communication of human meanings.
The International Journal of Science in Society ISSN: 1836-6236 (print) | 1836-6244 (online) DOI: 10.18848/1836-6236/CGP Indexing: Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO), Academic Search Elite (EBSCO), Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), Academic Search International (EBSCO), Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), Biography Reference Bank (EBSCO), OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO), OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCO), STM Source (EBSCO), The Australian Research Council (ERA) About: The International Journal of Science in Society provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the past, present and future of the sciences and their relationships to society.
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International Award for Excellence The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection presents an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking in the area of the social sciences. All articles submitted for publication in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection are entered into consideration for this award. The review committee for the award is selected from the International Advisory Board for the collection and the annual Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference. The committee selects the winning article from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the reviewer guidelines.
Award Winner, Volume No. 11 Guadalupe San Miguel Jr., The University of Houston, Houston, USA
For the Article “Race, Culture, and Politics in the Schooling of Ethnic Mexicans in the New American Southwest: The Case of Texas, 1836–1860,” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3
Abstract Little has been written about the education of ethnic Mexicans in the United States during the nineteenth century. The historical studies that exist tend to focus on the twentieth century in general and on elementary and secondary public education. This study is different in that it emphasizes nineteenth century developments and looks at how general and higher education for ethnic Mexicans was shaped during the decades in which Mexican Texas transitioned into Anglo Texas. It challenges contemporary views that educational exclusion and discrimination were twentieth century developments and argues that they emerged in the nineteenth century.
29 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Subscriptions and Access
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Aiming to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Book Imprint
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We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of: • Individually and jointly authored books • Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme • Collections of articles published in our journals • Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions
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International Political Economy: Facing Global Challenges Jonathan H. Westover (ed.)
International political economy (IPE) is an interdisciplinary field that draws on many distinct academic schools, most notably political economy, political science and economics, also sociology, history, and cultural studies. IPE ultimately is concerned with the ways in which political forces (states, institutions, individual actors, etc.) shape the systems through which economic interactions are expressed, and conversely the effect that economic interactions (including the power of collective markets and individuals acting both within and outside them) have upon political structures and outcomes. Given the rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected global landscape, a solid grasp of global systems and structures are important for an informed citizenry and competitive institutions. Within the context of complex global tensions, IPE has emerged as a balanced and interdisciplinary approach to examining and addressing the global challenges we face.
ISBNs: This edited collection will help you answer the following key questions: 978-1-61229-934-1 (pbk) • Why is it important to understand the influences and impacts of global affairs in 978-1-61229-933-4 (hbk) 978-1-61229-935-8 (pdf) our everyday lives? 206 Pages • How can an IPE approach help us to better analyze and understand an increasingly complex and interconnected globalized world? Network Website: thesocialsciences.com • What are some of the important consideration in IPE and economic strategy and planning? Bookstore: thesocialsciences. • What are some of the important consideration in IPE and sustainability? cgpublisher.com • What are some of the important consideration in IPE and education?
This edited collection provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of International Political Economy (IPE) and explores its increasingly important role within a shifting global landscape, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. This book will be informative to scholars and practitioners alike seeking to understand the wide range of influences and impacts of global affairs in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world.
Editor Bio: Dr. Jonathan H. Westover is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership in the Woodbury School of Business and Director of Academic Service Learning at UVU (and previously the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics). He is also president of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters and is a human capital leadership and performance management consultant.
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Human Rights in the Gold Coast Isidore Bonabom
Human rights is a specific ‘truth regime’ on what it means to be a human being. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed the idea that every human being has rights by virtue of being human. A paradigmatic rights-holder of UDHR represented
Human Rights in the Gold Coast every human being. This book analyses how the concept of human rights, affirmed in
ISIDORE BONABOM the 1945 United Nations Charter and articulated in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, influenced domestic politics in one British colony in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, the study highlights the way in which post-World War II nationalism produced some of the most important political changes affecting this region in the period leading up to independence. The theoretical proposition is supported by a case study of the deployment of the idea of human rights in the Gold Coast from 1945 up to Ghana’s independence from colonial rule in 1957.
Relying on a first-hand investigation of archival and primary sources, the book scrutinizes the formulation of demands for the collective right to self-determination ISBNs: which emanated from nationalist movements, the debates on whether or not to extend 978-1-61229-826-9 (pbk) the European Convention on Human Rights to the Gold Coast, and the evolution of 978-1-61229-827-6 (pdf) 258 Pages drafts for a bill of rights in Ghana’s Independence Constitution. The particular and under-privileged position of women in the colony is a subject of critical commentary Network Website: throughout the book. By examining the emergence of the human rights idea, the study thesocialsciences.com draws attention to the interplay of factors and actors that inspired a new-fangled notion Bookstore: of universal rights, while highlighting the way politics, including Cold War politics, thesocialsciences. contributed to define the subject of human rights in an ambiguous, incomplete but cgpublisher.com promising way.
Author Bio: Isidore Bonabom is a Jesuit priest from Ghana and a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Law. He holds postgraduate degrees in Law and Human Rights from the London School of Economics (LSE) as well as a PhD from the University of Sussex. His area of special interest includes rights-based approaches to law and policy- making, the construction of the human being in international human rights law, and women’s rights in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of Health and Human Rights in Ghana: The Political and Economic Aspects of Health Care (Common Ground Publishing, 2014).
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Depicting Female Suicide Bombers: Understanding the Radicalization Process Bina Patel, PhD
What makes her tick? No one is born a terrorist, but why do women desire to become suicide bombers? Depicting Female Suicide Bombers: Understanding the Radicalization Process presents a comprehensive study of Islamic females who have chosen an unconventional path labeled “terrorism” to overcome internal grief. This book presents an alternative view of suicide terrorism, focusing on the underlying issues and self- struggle that Islamic women experience against cultural and religious stigmas, gender bias, and postpartum depression. Their allegiance, the Achilles’ heel, which is to end their grief, enables them to successfully complete their mission.
Author Bio: Dr. Bina Patel graduated from Nova Southeastern University in 2014 with a Doctorate in conflict resolution and peacekeeping analysis. Bina has earned a Master’s degree in international business from Nova Southeastern University, and BA in ISBN—978-1-61229-907-5 146 Pages business administration from the University of Florida. Bina speaks five languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Spanish, and standard Arabic. Network Website: thesocialsciences.com
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Monarchial Roles: Redefining Religion and Family under Henry VIII and Mary I Niki Incorvia
Henry VIII will always be remembered as the man who married six times and executed two of his wives. His eldest daughter, Mary I, is also commonly remembered for her less than flattering legacy as the English queen who burned over 300 Protestant subjects during her short reign. Although these events happened, there is more to Henry and Mary than their infamous legacies as English rulers. Used as an alternative explanation for their actions, role theory can illuminate the role conflict, identity conflict, and transformations that led to a separation of Henry VIII and Mary I as individuals, and as sovereigns. Their roles as King and Queen of England set them apart as individuals and led them to behave in a way that may not have been true to their characters if they were not monarchs, especially in sixteenth century English society. This book presents an additional theory through the study and exploration of the complicated lives of Henry VIII and Mary I and Tudor family politics.
ISBN—978-1-61229-816-0 80 Pages Author Bio: Dr. Niki Incorvia fulfilled her doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Network Website: April 2014, concentrating in systemic violence in medieval and early modern British thesocialsciences.com history at Nova Southeastern University. Niki’s current research and studies include Bookstore: international history, gender studies, genocide, political history, royal history, and thesocialsciences. historical religious conflicts. She is an active member of the Florida Conference of cgpublisher.com Historians, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, Royal Historical Society of London, and is part of the Marketing and Promotions team of the Royal Studies Network Journal.
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Feminist Post-structuralism, Critical Media Education and School History Sources: A South African Experience of Deconstruction and Reconstitution Jill Fardon and Sonja Schoeman
Democracy demands that education pay urgent attention to the anomaly of gender inequity in socio-economic and political environments. This book aims to suggest ways in which realist, patriarchal discursive devices - such as binary language, naturalization and objectivity in texts - which are used to perpetuate such discriminatory meaning, can be “made strange”, and therefore be undermined, in the interests of a transparent society. The feminist post-structuralist approach to History teaching (and to the teaching of other subjects) which is advocated in this book, offers textual deconstruction, and reconstitution as an exciting, alternative methodology of open interpretation and plural perspective. Language is viewed as preceding gender subjectivity; and gender identity is understood as being constituted by discursive meaning in language. Language is therefore seen as the site of struggle for power in relation to identity positioning. This book suggests that language be used to allow for the close observation of codes and conventions which support embedded patriarchal ISBN—978-1-61229-789-7 197 Pages power relations. The feminist post-structuralist methodology is employed to investigate binary language within the framework of six aspects of critical media education, Network Website: namely: agencies, categories, technologies, languages, audiences and representations. thesocialsciences.com The main aim of the book is to investigate whether this approach can open up space Bookstore: for female voices, of the past and present, in order to reconstruct realist historical thesocialsciences. narratives. Suggestions for gender-fair History teaching and a lesson example for cgpublisher.com classroom practice are offered in the book.
Author Bios: Jill Fardon obtained the following qualifications, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education, B.A. Hons (History) and the University Education Diploma, before starting her lecturing career at the Bechet and Edgewood Colleges of Education. After completing her Master of Education degree, she became Subject Advisor for Social Sciences in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education. In 2007 she was awarded the Doctor of Education degree. An important peer-reviewed publication, co-authored with Professor Sonja Schoeman, is: A feminist post-structuralist analysis of an exemplar South African School History text which was published in 2010 in the South African Journal of Education, 30:307-323.
Sonja Schoeman holds a BA (cum laude), Higher Education Diploma (cum laude), BEd (Honours), MEd and DEd. She was a secondary school teacher in two African countries before becoming a university lecturer. She is currently a full professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies at the University of South Africa, and has published widely in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented papers at national and international conferences. Postgraduate students from North America and various African countries graduated under her supervision. She received the 2015 Women’s Prize for Excellence in Research, and her research focuses on teacher education, citizenship and gender.
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Democracy and Democratization in Africa Lembe M. Tiky
Unlike other studies of democracy and democratization in Africa that start the investigation with postcolonial developments, this book is a comprehensive study that investigates political developments in African colonial and postcolonial states. The research finds that centralized and decentralized African states designed and implemented democratic institutions hundreds of years before they were ultimately defeated by European powers. This argument turns upside down the conventional view that the birth place of democracy is the ancient city-state of Athens; it shows that democracy emerged in Africa and later spread in Greece. Moreover, the book proposes an original theory of democratization that discusses the conditions of the emergence of democracy in the context of precolonial Africa.
Analyzing politics in contemporary African states, the study draws a sharp dichotomic line between democracy and dictatorship and proposes a classification and ranking of these two types of political regimes in Africa. Looking ahead, this work also discusses ISBN—978-1-61229-410-0 and proposes answers to some of the most important issues regarding the building of 118 Pages democratic regimes in contemporary African states.
Network Website: thesocialsciences.com The methodological strategy adopted by this project is that of triangulation: comparative historical analysis, theoretical and empirical analyses contribute to provide Bookstore: thesocialsciences. a comprehensive explanation of democratic development in both pre- and postcolonial cgpublisher.com African states.
Author Bio: Lembe Tiky, Ph.D., teaches international relations and comparative politics courses at the University of Connecticut and is an associate of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University. His research interests include topics such as democratic theory, democratization, development, human rights, security issues, and foreign relations. Dr. Tiky received his B.A. from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon, his M.A. from the American University in Washington, DC, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to moving to the United States, he worked as a journalist and traveled extensively in the continent of Africa to cover political developments; he has published op-ed articles in numerous media outlets, including Slate Afrique and Njangui Press.
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The Social Mind: Language, Ideology, and Social Practice James Paul Gee
The Social Mind was first published in 1990. It was meant to show that there was no conflict between sociocultural views of language, learning, and thinking and new psychological views of the mind/brain. Neural network approaches to the mind argue that the mind is furnished by an unbelievably large network of neural associations. These associations are based on our lived experiences, which are different for all of us. It is our social and cultural affiliations that shape and mentor our experiences so that we can share, collaborate, and communicate in terms of a social mind that we all partially share and nonetheless also contribute to in unique ways. The book still stands as a leading statement of how work on situated and embodied cognition leads us to, and contributes to, sociocultural theories of language and learning.
Author Bio: ISBN—978-1-61229-368-4 James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor and Regents’ 129 Pages Professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. His books include: Social Linguistics and Literacies (Fourth Network Website: Edition 2011); An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Third Edition 2011); What thesocialsciences.com Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (Second Edition 2007); Bookstore: How to Do Discourse Analysis (2011); Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st thesocialsciences. Century Learning (2010) and Language and Learning in the Digital Age (2011), both cgpublisher.com written with Elizabeth Hayes.
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Health and Human Rights in Ghana: The Political and Economic Aspect of Health Care Isidore Bonabom
Many of the people who can afford to pay for health care travel outside Ghana for medical care when they are faced with serious health problems. Public health care should not be about affluence; it is a human rights issue. This inevitable link between health and human rights is sometimes overlooked in the national discourses about public health and individual access to health care. This book examines the domestic legislation on the public health care system in Ghana. The analysis is situated within the provisions of international human rights treaties, the medium-to long-term consequences of some economic policies, the role of the traditional medicine system in public health care, the silent epidemic of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and the human rights question in an age of HIV/AIDS in the country. State responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfil the right to health translates to many responsibilities for the citizens, not the least of which is providing the framework for good health delivery.
ISBN—978-1-61229-470-4 104 Pages Author Bio: Isidore Bonabom is a Jesuit priest from Ghana and a research fellow in the Faculty of Network Website: Law, University of Cape Coast. He holds postgraduate degrees in law and human rights thesocialsciences.com from the London School of Economics (LSE) as well as a Ph.D. from the University Bookstore: of Sussex. His areas of special interest include rights-based approaches to law and thesocialsciences. policy-making, the construction of ‘the human being’ in international human rights cgpublisher.com law, and women’s rights in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of several articles on human rights and of two book chapters in Preserving the Universality of Human Rights (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2012) and AIDS: 30 Years Down the Line (Paulines Publications Africa, 2013).
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Discussing and examining key issues in the social sciences, and building face-to-face relationships with leading and emerging scholars from the field that represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives Interdisciplinary Social Sciences About the Conference
Conference History Founded in 2006, the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences examines the nature of disciplinary practices in the study of society, and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of ‘real world’ applications of social research and theory. It also interrogates what constitutes ‘science’ in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical (research practices and results exemplifying one or more disciplines), to wide-ranging multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives on knowledge and method.
The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Past Conferences • 2006 - University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece • 2007 - University of Granada, Granada, Spain • 2008 - Monash University Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy • 2009 - University of Athens, Athens, Greece • 2010 - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK • 2011 - University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA • 2012 - Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain • 2013 - Charles University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic • 2014 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada • 2015 - University of Split, Split, Croatia • 2016 - Imperial College London, London, UK
Plenary Speaker Highlights The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including: • Patrick Baert, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK (2006, 2010) • David Barton, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (2006) • Robin Blackburn, The New School for Social Research, New York City, USA (2007) • Leela Fernandes, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (2008) • Sir Jack Goody, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK (2010) • Rom Harré, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (2010) • Gerassimos Kouzelis, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2009) • Alena Křížková, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (2013) • Juliet Mitchell, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2010) • Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA, (2007) • Maria Pournari, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece (2009) • Monica Edwards Schachter, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain (2012)
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Past Partners The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has had the pleasure of working with the following organizations:
Faculty of Social Sciences Globalism Institute School of Law, Economics and Charles University in Prague RMIT University Political Sciences Prague, Czech Republic (2013) Melbourne, Australia (2006–2008) The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece (2009)
Universidad Abat Oliba CEU University of the Aegean University of Granada Barcelona, Spain (2012) Rhodes, Greece (2006) Granada, Spain (2007)
Become a Partner Common Ground Research Networks has a long history of meaningful and substantive partnerships with universities, research institutes, government bodies, and non-governmental organizations. Developing these partnerships is a pillar of our Research Network agenda. There are a number of ways you can partner with a Common Ground Research Network. Contact us at [email protected] to become a partner.
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Conference Principles & Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the Research Network:
International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 30 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.
Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.
Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.
Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities.
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Plenary Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Sessions.
Garden Conversation Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.
Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.
Themed Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty-minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.
Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by a moderator. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session.
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Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.
Workshop/Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.
Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session.
Virtual Lightning Talk Lightning talks are 5-minute “flash” video presentations. Authors present summaries or overviews of their work, describing the essential features (related to purpose, procedures, outcomes, or product). Like Paper Presentations, Lightning Talks are grouped according to topic or perspective into themed sessions. Authors are welcome to submit traditional “lecture style” videos or videos that use visual supports like PowerPoint. Final videos must be submitted at least one month prior to the conference start date. After the conference, videos are then presented on the research network YouTube channel. Full papers can based in the virtual poster can also be submitted for consideration in the journal.
Virtual Poster This format is ideal for presenting preliminary results of work in progress or for projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. Each poster should include a brief abstract of the purpose and procedures of the work. After acceptance, presenters are provided with a template, and Virtual Posters are submitted as a PDF or in PowerPoint. Final posters must be submitted at least one month prior to the conference start date. Full papers can based in the virtual poster can also be submitted for consideration in the journal.
49 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Daily Schedule
Wednesday, 26 July
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:30 Conference Opening, Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Common Ground Research Networks, USA Plenary Session—Masae Yuasa, Professor, Hiroshima City University, USA 9:30–10:05 Judging Nuclear Issues in Hiroshima: A Challenge to Interdisciplinary Research on an Unsettled Past for an Alternative Future 10:05–10:35 Garden Conversation 10:35–11:20 Talking Circles 11:20–13:00 Parallel Sessions 13:00–14:50 Lunch & Optional Conference Tour: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 14:50–16:05 Parallel Sessions 16:05–16:20 Break 16:20–18:00 Parallel Sessions 18:00–19:00 Conference Welcome Reception
Thursday, 27 July
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:15 Daily Update Plenary Session—Robert Jacobs, Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City 9:15–9:45 University, Japan Discourses of Nuclear Competence and Disaster 9:45–10:15 Garden Conversation 10:15–11:55 Parallel Sessions 11:55–12:10 Break 12:10–13:50 Parallel Sessions 13:50–14:50 Lunch 14:50–15:35 Parallel Sessions 15:35–15:50 Break 15:50–17:30 Parallel Sessions
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Friday, 28 July
8:00–8:30 Conference Registration Desk Open 8:30–8:45 Daily Update Plenary Session—José Luis Ortega Martín, Professor, University of Granada, Spain 8:45–9:15 Good Practices in Bilingual Education in Spain 9:15–9:45 Garden Conversation 9:45–11:00 Parallel Sessions 11:00–11:10 Break 11:10–12:25 Parallel Sessions 12:25–13:05 Lunch 13:05–14:45 Parallel Sessions 14:45–15:00 Break 15:00–16:15 Parallel Sessions 16:15–16:45 Conference Closing and Award Ceremony
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Special Events Pre-Conference Tour: Sandankyo Gorge Day Trip The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is pleased to offer delegates an optional pre- conference tour to the Sandankyo gorge.
Visit Japan’s most famous canyon, the Sandan-kyo gorge, located just 70 minutes from Hiroshima City. Designated as a Japanese National Scenic Beauty, the Sandan-kyo gorge is famous for its beautiful ravine, hiking trails, and hot springs.
Conference delegates will be picked up at the conference hotel, the Crowne Plaza Ana Hiroshima, by our local guide and transported to and from the Sandan-kyo gorge. Along the way, see Japan’s countryside as our guide gives us a history of Hiroshima and the Sandan-kyo gorge.
Upon arrival we will spend 3 hours at the Sandankyo gorge, hiking and touring the rapid currents, deep pools, large rock walls, and waterfalls ranging around the Sandan--kyo gorge. Enjoy the scenery on land and by boat as we board a ferryboat to cross the river at the Kurofuchi pool. Here we will enjoy lunch at the Kurofuchi so, where we will be treated to a traditional Japanese lunch.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Walking Tour Wednesday, 26 July 2017 (During lunch on the first day) | 1:00 PM Location: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park | Cost: US$25.00
The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is pleased to offer delegates an optional tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Join other conference delegates and plenary speakers during lunch on the first day of the conference for a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Located just next to the conference venue sits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum. The tour includes entry fees into the Memorial Museum and a private guide.
From the city of Hiroshima: “The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is located in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. By standing on the Peace Boulevard side, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Memorial Cenotaph, the Peace Flame and the A-Bomb Dome can be seen along a straight line. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which opened in 1955, gives people an opportunity to learn of the outcome of the bomb attack and consider what peace really means through many reference materials. The East Wing exhibits photographs, panels, videos, and panorama models showing the actual history of Hiroshima before and after the bomb attack. The main building exhibits victims’ belongings and references which show the misery of the bomb attack. You will see a burnt lunch box, a tricycle which a 3-year-old boy was riding, etc., which reflect the instantaneous destruction and strike right at the heart of visitors. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum was designed by a group headed by Kenzo Tange, who also designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The strength of humanity rising up from the ruins is expressed in the piloti-style space under the main building. People visit the museum throughout the year and should be moved to a desire not to repeat the same misery anymore and consider deeply whether atomic weapons currently present are really necessary or not for our future.”
We hope you will join us before registration to tour this historic site!
Booking: Space is still available, so please see the conference registration desk to join this tour
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Conference Welcome Reception 26 July, Wednesday | Time: Directly following the last session of the day Location: International Conference Center Hiroshima | Complimentary to all conference delegates
The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is pleased to host the 2017 Conference Welcome Reception at The International Conference Center.
Common Ground Research Networks and the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference will be hosting a welcome reception at the conference venue, International Conference Center, just after the last session of the first day. All delegates are welcome to attend and enjoy complimentary light refreshments. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with and get to know your fellow international delegates.
Conference Dinner - Maruumiya Tatemachiten Thursday, 27 July 2017 | 6:30–8:30 PM | Location: Maruumiya Tatemachiten | Cost: US$60.00
The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is pleased to host the Conference Dinner at Maruumiya Tatemachiten
Join plenary speakers and other delegates for a delicious Japanese-style banquet at an izakaya style bar. We will sit on tatami mats and dine from low tables in the traditional Japanese style. Enjoy hearty flavors from the oceans and mountains of Hokkaido with a focus on seasonal homestyle dishes. The menu will be a traditional all-you=can eat and all-you-can drink menu from two hours.
Booking: Space is still available, please see the conference registration desk to book this dinner.
53 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Plenary Speakers
José Luis Ortega Martín Good Practices in Bilingual Education in Spain José Luis Ortega Martín is a principal lecturer at the University of Granada (TEFL), and was formerly vice dean in charge of International Relations from 2004 to 2008. He has served as the head of in- service training at UGR from 2011 to 2015, and was the head teacher of a private school in Granada from 1994 to 2003, as well as the external evaluator of the Spanish Agency for the Quality on University Studies (ANECA). Martin has also served as secretary of the local organizing committee for the International Conference on the Learner in both 2005 (Granada, Spain) and 2006 (Montego Bay, Jamaica), as well as for the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in held in Granada, Spain in 2007. He is a member of the scientific committee of several international journals, has given conferences and taught at more than ten European and American universities, and has authored and contributed to more than ten books and chapters, as well as published several papers in the areas of TEFL, teacher training, classroom management, motivation, and bilingualism, amongst others. He also serves on the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Advisory Board.
Robert Jacobs Discourses of Nuclear Competence and Disaster Robert Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University. He is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation technopolitics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (2010), (also available in a Japanese translation published by Gaifusha in 2013), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010). He is the co-editor of Images of Rupture in Civilization Between East and West: The Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media (2016), and On Hiroshima Becoming History (forthcoming, 2017). He co-edited a special issue of the journal Critical Military Studies “Re-Imagining Hiroshima” (summer 2015). Jacobs has published and lectured widely on nuclear issues around the world.
Masae Yuasa Judging Nuclear Issues in Hiroshima: A Challenge to Interdisciplinary Research on an Unsettled Past for an Alternative Future Masae Yuasa (Ph.D., University of Sheffield, UK) is a Professor at Hiroshima City University. Her major is sociology. She publishes articles relating Hiroshima and Fukushima nuclear concerns, including: “Out of Shadow: A collaborative arts performance for the black rain hibakusha” (co-authored with Aya Kasai, 2016), “Whistle in the Graveyard: Safety Discourse and Hiroshima/Nagasaki Authority in Post- Fukushima Japan” (2013) and “The Future of August 6th 1945: A Case of the ‘Peaceful Utilization’ of Nuclear Energy in Japan” (2012). She has also organized campaigns and art performances addressing nuclear issues.
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Alejandro Valencia Arias Eugene L. Hall National University of Colombia, Colombia University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, USA
Yuliya Brel Yan Gu University of Delaware, USA University of Washington, USA
Weiai Fang Faris Rahmadian Brandeis University, China Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Fahlesa Munabari Rachel Sing-Ee Tan Universitas Budi Luhur, Indonesia University of Otago, New Zealand
Kee Jeong Kim Wendy Chen Virginia Tech, USA George Mason University, USA
Bria Yifei Yan Komali Kantamaneni Southhampton Solent University, UK
Hajara Hameed Pondicherry Central University, India Xiaoya Xun University of Cambridge, UK
Yu Yuehui (Yuna) The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Carlos Mendez-Guerra Kyushu University, Japan
Zhao Xiaoyu University of Warwick, UK Irfan U Din FATA Research Centre, Pakistan Pinar Temocin Hiroshima University, Japan Taishi Muraoka Washington University in St. Louis, USA Ibrahim Khatib Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
55 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 8:00-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
9:00-9:30 CONFERENCE OPENING - PHILLIP KALANTZIS-COPE, COMMON GROUND RESEARCH NETWORKS, USA
9:30-10:05 PLENARY SESSION- MASAE YUASA, PROFESSOR, HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY, JAPAN Judging Nuclear Issues in Hiroshima: A Challenge to Interdisciplinary Research on an Unsettled Past for an Alternative Future 10:05-10:35 GARDEN CONVERSATION 10:35-11:20 TALKING CIRCLES Room 1 - Social and Community Studies / Cultural Studies Room 2 - Global Studies Room 3 - Environmental Studies Room 4 - Organizational Studies / Communication Room 5 - Educational Studies Room 6 - Civic and Political Studies Plenary Room - 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice Room 7 - Spanish-language Talking Circle Room 8 - Spanish-language Talking Cirlce
56 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 11:20-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Politics of Sustainability and Environmental Protection Coyotes in the Crosshairs: The Silent Extinction Dr. Shelley Alexander, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Dr. Dianne Draper, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Overview: Coyotes in North America experience human-driven trait change, due to severe persecution. We examine the worldviews associated with killing or coexisting with coyotes in the Foothills of Alberta, Canada. Theme: Environmental Studies Can Economic Values Explain the Willingness to Conserve Ecosystem Services? Dr. Voravee Saengavut, Faculty of Economics, Khon Kaen University, Meung, Thailand Chintana Somswasdi, Faculty of Economics, Khon Kaen University, Mueng, Thailand Penprapa Phetcharaburanin, Department of Environmental Science, Khon Kaen University, Meung, Thailand Overview: This paper discusses the relationship between economic valuation and environmental quality of ecosystem services. The passive value of ecological benefit for future generations illustrates conservation willingness. Theme: Environmental Studies Understanding Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Enhance Fisheries Governance in Canada Dr. Lucia Fanning, Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Overview: Using Canadian case studies, this paper examines the extent to which western and indigenous knowledge systems influence fisheries governance and how distinct Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) can improve current efforts. Theme: Environmental Studies Reflecting Biodiversity Conservation through Biodiversity Policy Evaluation: A Case Study of Maesa-Kogma Biosphere Reserve, Thailand Dr. Kontaros Urbanek, Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: Biodiversity policy evaluation through culturally sensitive policy evaluation method was employed at the local level of Thailand's administrative system in order to investigate its environmental policy implementation and conservation. Theme: Environmental Studies
57 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 11:20-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Gender and Women's Studies The Roots of Institutional and Social Discrimination as a Barrier to Women in Trades: Implicit Bias in the Building Trades Dr. Marquita Walker, Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA Overview: This research addresses the implicit bias women seeking to enter and remain in the male- dominated building trades experience as a result of their gender. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Economic Cost of Violence against Women and Their Children in Cebu City, Philippines Maria Alyana Diez, University of Southeastern Philippines, Davao City, Philippines Overview: This paper identifies common cases and quantifies the economic cost of violence against women and their children (VAWC) in Cebu City. Theme: Social and Community Studies Arranged Marriage and Gender (In)equality from an Historical and Global Context: Social Status, Caste, Religion, and Education Dr. Ganga Vadhavkar, Communication and Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, USA Overview: This paper explores the changing dynamics of arranged marriages across different cultures over the years. It focuses on gender, status, norms, media, and other factors that have affected this practice. Theme: Cultural Studies Gender Equality Policies in Science: The Israeli Case Jamila Elnashef, Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Dr. Uri Cohen, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Overview: This study deals with the development of gender equality policies in STEM in Israel by comparing it to the development processes in Europe and USA. Theme: Organizational Studies
58 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 11:20-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Intersections of Religion and Politics Modelling Religion and Nationalism on a Godly-Civil Continuum Dr. Eyal Lewin, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Dr. Etta Bick, Department of Middle East Studies and Political Science, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Overview: We introduce a new model for understanding the relationship between godly religions and civil religions. Theme: Civic and Political Studies To Deal with a Beast: Religious Cultural Heritage and Truman's Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Brian Muzas, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Center for United Nations and Global Governance Studies, Seton Hall University, South Orange, USA Overview: This paper explores the influence of religious cultural heritage on the decision-making framework of President Truman and his decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. Theme: Civic and Political Studies The Dilemma between the Rules and Reality of Transnational Islamic Activism in Contemporary Indonesia: The Experience of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia Dr. Fahlesa Munabari, International Relations Department, Universitas Budi Luhur, Jakarta, Indonesia Overview: I discuss the changing dynamics of the mobilization strategy of a transnational Islamic movement in Indonesia called Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI, the Liberation Party of Indonesia). Theme: Civic and Political Studies The Javanese Catholic Church during the Japanese Occupation in Indonesia, 1942-1945 Dr. Gregorius Budi Subanar, Graduate Program on Cultural and Religious Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Overview: This study describes the existence of the Indonesian Catholic Church, especially in Java, during the Japanese occupation and the presence of some Japanese Catholic figures in Indonesia during the time. Theme: Cultural Studies Room 4 Global Flows Interdisciplinary Studies on Temporary Mexican Migrant Workers in North America: The Gloves-off Economy Dr. Ofelia Becerril, Center for Rural Studies, El Colegio de Michoacan, Zamora, Mexico Overview: This paper explores the challenges of interdisciplinary studies in research on temporary migration of Mexicans and the proliferation of private agencies in the United States and Canada. Theme: Global Studies Researching Indigenous Rights: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Epistemologies Dr. Carlos Humberto Gigoux Gramegna, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK Overview: This paper discusses how research on indigenous peoples' issues have to be located in a global, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective in order to discern colonial patterns of violence and resistance. Theme: Global Studies Risk Attitudes in International Travel and Migration by Young Europeans Dr. Vladimir Balaz, Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Dr. Martina Chrancokova, Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Dr. Katarina Karasova, Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Overview: This paper explores the relation between person-centred, competence-based, and culture- determined risk-taking on one hand, and attitudes to international travel and migration on the other hand. Theme: Global Studies The Views of Indians on Indo-Burma Immigration Agreement in Colonial Burma Prof. Paramita Das, Chittaranjan College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Overview: Indian traders and merchants migrated to colonial Burma and contributed substantially to the development of the country; but, they were forced to return by the signing of the Indo-Burma Agreement. Theme: Global Studies
59 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 11:20-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Perspectives on Immigration and Migration The Impact of Displacement on Child and Family Development of Syrian Refugees: Risk and Resilience Processes Dr. Kee Jeong Kim, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Overview: This paper examines the risk and resilience processes among 117 Syrian refugee families including a father, a mother, and a child who were interviewed in Amman, Jordan. Theme: Cultural Studies "We Are Constructors of Xinjiang": Visual Representation of Han Migrants in Xinjiang in the 1950s Fan Yang, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Overview: I investigate the visual representation of Han migration in Xinjiang, China in the 1950s. During the 1950s, the Han immigrant community was portrayed as “constructors” by official discourse. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 6 Civic and Political Studies Redefining Political Union in Britain and Ireland: “Brexit,” Security Concerns, Constitutional Change, and Civil Unrest in Great Britain and Northern Ireland from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Dr. Andrew Sanders, Texas A&M University San Antonio, San Antonio, USA Overview: This paper introduces an interdisciplinary analysis of the constitutional challenges facing the United Kingdom and Ireland in the context of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Relational Approaches to Social Policy Dr. Lester J. Thompson, School of Arts and Social Science, Southern Cross University, Coolangatta, Australia Overview: This project examines the pro-social nature of humanity and compares this with contemporary policy processes in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Theme: Social and Community Studies Integrating Cybersecurity into International Relations Theory Dr. Daryl Bockett, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Mapo-gu, South Korea Overview: This paper proposes ways to apply cybersecurity issues to traditional international relations approaches such as neorealism and foreign policy studies. Theme: Global Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish 13:00-14:50 LUNCH & OPTIONAL CONFERENCE TOUR: HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL PARK Join other conference delegates and plenary speakers during lunch for a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Located just next to the conference venue sits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum. The tour includes entry fees into the Memorial Museum and a private guide.
Please meet at the conference registration desk at 13:30.
60 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 14:50-16:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Accounting for Inequalities The Outcast: Floating across the Borders Weiai Fang, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA Overview: This research fills in the gaps in the literature on internal migration by investigating holistically the two institutions of social exclusion: caste in India and hukou in China. Theme: Social and Community Studies Language Mediation, Ethics, and Politics, in the United States Prof. Alexander Rainof, Russian, German, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Overview: Language mediation in an increasingly diverse world is crucial to social interaction. Terrorism, disaster preparedness, political ideologies and funding, ethics, and training relating to US language mediation shall be discussed. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Room 2 Social Breakdown: Dysfunction, Crime, Conflict, Violence The Curious Case of Shifting Crime Patterns in Japan: Implications for Criminological Theory Dr. Nick McRee, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Portland, Portland, USA Dr. Laurie Drapela, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, USA Overview: Historical and cross-cultural data suggest crime tends to be a youthful phenomenon, and relatively rare among the elderly. Recent crime data in Japan may challenge this understanding. Theme: Social and Community Studies Violence as Recognition Dr. Irm Haleem, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Overview: This paper discusses the relevance of the philosophical notion of struggles for recognition for understanding the perpetuation of violence in our world. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 3 Governance and Development Crisis, Anomy, and Caesarism Revival in Venezuela Dr. Marco Cupolo, Department of Politics, Economics, and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA Overview: Through the crisis of its development pattern based on oil revenue, Venezuela is becoming an anomic country, and democratic caesarism may become the political answer to social disintegration. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Civil Society and Good Governance in Post-Soviet States Yuliya Brel, School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, USA Minion K. C. Morrison, School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, USA Overview: This paper analyzes how some post-Soviet states managed to obtain a degree of long-term economic growth and political stability without an ethical bureaucracy, accountable government, and a strong civil society. Theme: Civic and Political Studies When Do Managerial Networks Enhance Government Performance? Taishi Muraoka, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Overview: We explore when managerial networks boost local government performance focusing on different types of networks among mayors in El Salvador and different kinds of performance outcomes. Theme: Civic and Political Studies
61 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 14:50-16:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 New Directions in Education Higher Educating for and as Sustainability Dr. Alan Brady, Sociology Faculty, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Overview: There are educational justifications for adopting a content and language global awareness learning education for and as a sustainability approach in applied linguistics and the social sciences. Theme: Educational Studies Bible Studies in Israel: The Case of Non-Orthodox Schools Dr. Tamar Lammfromm, Bible Department, David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel Overview: My study addresses the features of and trends in the teaching of the Old Testament and the scope of its study in non-Orthodox Hebrew educational institutions. Theme: Educational Studies A Transformational Engaged English Language Policy Enactment at Higher Education Institutions in Japan: English as a lingua franca Dr. Alan Brady, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Rob Higgins, Language Center, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Overview: This paper argues that English lingua franca rather than English as second-foreign language study can effectively fulfill holistic, beyond the marketplace rationale, global human resources' aims in Japan. Theme: Educational Studies Room 5 Community Development Measuring Knowledge from a Development Perspective: The Arab Knowledge Index as a Case Study Dr. Hany Torky, Arab Knowledge Project, United Nations Development Programme, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Mariam Itani, Arab Knowledge Project, United Nations Development Programme, Beirut, Lebanon Overview: This paper introduces and discusses the Arab Knowledge Index as a pioneering attempt for promoting and monitoring knowledge-based development in the Arab region. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Basic Patterns of the Cause of Poverty: A Comparative Study in West Java, Indonesia Cecep Hermawan, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia Faaiz Fadlurrahman Falih, International Relations Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia Overview: This study observes the causes of poverty in the rural areas in Indonesia focusing on the pattern of consumption and production in West Java, Indonesia. Theme: Social and Community Studies Playing Hard to Get with Geographical Indication: The Case Study of Muga Silk in Assam, India Ananya Bhuyan, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Overview: This paper analyzes the framework and implementation of geographical indication in India through the lens of the muga silk of Assam. Theme: Social and Community Studies
62 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 14:50-16:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Sustainability Education Sustainability Education: Preparing Our Future Generations Dr. Gargi Bhaduri, Fashion Design and Merchandising, Kent State University, Kent, USA Overview: This study shows that educating the younger generation can improve their sustainability knowledge and enable them to believe that the industry can become more sustainable in the future. Theme: Environmental Studies Decolonizing Education through Transdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change Education Octaviana Trujillo, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies, Northern Arizona University, Tucson, USA Overview: This study examines strategies for including indigenous knowledge and cultural traditions into water policy and environmental decision-making to address climate change. Theme: Environmental Studies Volunteering Intention to Participate in Urban Agriculture: A Study of Undergraduate Students in Malaysia Dr. Neda Tiraieyari, Institute for Social Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia Overview: This study identifies predictors of students’ intention to voluntarily participate in urban agriculture programs in the future. Theme: Environmental Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish Room 8 Organizational Behavior The Influence of Viability and Perceived Convenience in the Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students Alejandro Valencia Arias, Department of Administration Science, Metropolitan Technological Institute, National University of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia Ivan Montoya Restrepo, National University of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia Luz Alexandra Montoya Restrepo, Faculty of Mines, National University of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia Overview: This paper identifies the influence of the viability and the perceived convenience in the entrepreneurial intention of engineering students in Medellín, Colombia. Theme: Organizational Studies Understanding Employee Motivation: A Study of China’s Creative Industries Yuet Kai Chan, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Henry Ma, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong Overview: Considering that employees’ motivation varies across professions and regions, the motivation of Chinese creative workers are studied. Findings show some uniqueness that could refer to cultural and economic reasons. Theme: Organizational Studies
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63 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 16:20-18:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Human Lifecourses: Children and Youth Play and Creativity Dr. Andrew Svedlow, School of Art and Design, University of Northern Colorado, Loveland, USA Overview: This cross-disciplinary study focuses on children's play behaviors and artistic expressions. Theme: Cultural Studies The Effect of Seating Arrangement on Parent-Child Joint Reading and Interactions Dr. Jo-Han Chang, Department of Industrial Design, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan Tai-Ling Wu, Master Program of Innovative Design, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This study examines whether the parametric variations in seating arrangements entail affordances of parent-child reading, and determine which types of seating arrangement factors facilitate parent-child reading activities. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Impact of Geolocation on Schools for Improving Learning Outcome of Primary Students in India Jhuma Halder, Department of Geography, Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India Overview: This study discusses an alternate paradigm of planning and management of primary education and helps qualitatively improve the learning outcome in children. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 2 Health: Lived Experiences “It Runs in the Family…”: Understanding Reproductive Decision-making by the Daughters of Nuclear Test Veterans Becky Alexis-Martin, Population, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Joshua Green, Population, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Overview: This interdisciplinary study of the daughters of nuclear test veterans explores how perceptions of risk of hereditary defects due to radiation exposure can influence reproductive decision-making. Theme: Cultural Studies Therapeutic Landscapes and Living with Breast Cancer: The Lived Experiences of Thai Women Pranee Liamputtong, School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia Dr. Dusanee Suwankhong, Department of Public Health, Thaksin University, Pa Payom, Thailand Overview: This paper, situated within therapeutic landscape concepts, discusses lived experiences of breast cancer among Thai women. The therapeutic landscapes of healing involved multiple levels of landscape changes including cultural contexts. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Lived Experience of Motherhood among HIV-positive Women in Southern Thailand Dr. Dusanee Suwankhong, Department of Public Health, Thaksin University, Pa Payom, Thailand Pranee Liamputtong, School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia Overview: This paper discusses experiences of mothers who are HIV positive and the many difficulties they may encounter. However, they looked after themselves, expecting to live longer for their children. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Lived Experiences of Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV in India Dr. Stephen Anthony Larmar, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Logan, Australia Overview: This paper explores the experiences of a community of men who have sex with men living with HIV in India. Theme: Social and Community Studies
64 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 16:20-18:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 International Relations and Political Studies The Chasm between Legal Synchronism and Regional Uniqueness: Intertemporal Law on the Acquisition of Territory and the South China Sea Dispute So Yeon Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This paper criticizes the application of intertemporal law on acquisition of territory to a prolonged territorial dispute, as a western-oriented application without consideration of regional circumstances. Theme: Global Studies A Neorealist Account of Pakistan's Alignment and Alliance Politics 2001-2015 Syeda Kanwal Hassan, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper uses neorealism as a theoretical lens to analyze Pakistan's policy of alignment with China and its military alliance with the United States from 2001 to 2015. Theme: Global Studies The Dynamic Security of the Strait: Taiwan's Defence under the Tsai Administration Dr. Shang-su Wu, Military Studies Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, Singapore Overview: Despite more efforts than before, Taiwan still has various challenges to strengthen its security in the face of China. Theme: Civic and Political Studies "I Will Take What's Mine with Fire and Blood": A Neorealist Viewing of Westeros in "Game of Thrones" Jeane Young Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: A theoretical study of neorealist elements observed in the book and television series, "Game of Thrones." We see how neorealist theory is reflected in the power dynamics of Westeros. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Room 4 Assessment and Evaluation of Learning Public Service Motivation between Graduates in Business Administration and Public Policy Programs: An Empirical Analysis in Guadalajara, Mexico Dr. Simon Andrew, Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, Denton, USA Dr. Filadelfo Leon-Cazares, Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Ismayilov Orkhan, Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, Denton, USA Overview: This paper compares the motivation of graduate students interested in studying business and public administration. Theme: Educational Studies Determining Reading Attitudes of Foreign Language Learners in Print and Digital Settings Dr. Rosalyn Mirasol, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Department of English, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Eunji Kim, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Overview: This paper investigates the reading attitudes of foreign language learners in academic and recreational print and digital settings. Theme: Educational Studies The Human Desire for Pleasure: Empiric Research Validating Spinoza’s 350-year- old Philosophy Dr. Abraham Mounitz, Safed Academic College, Afula, Israel Alonit Berenson, Interdisciplinary Program, Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel Overview: This study tests Spinoza’s universal self-preservation law, through the different levels desire for practical knowledge. The results of 512 respondents support Spinoza’s claims from 350 years ago. Theme: Educational Studies
65 WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY 16:20-18:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Human Rights and Social Activism One Decade of Reconciliation in Thailand Chalat Pratheuangrattana, Office for Peace and Governace, King Prajadhipok's Institute, Bangkhen, Thailand Overview: This study compares ways of building reconciliation adopted by each government, identifies factors leading to the success of reconciliation, and suggests ways of bringing about reconciliation in Thailand. Theme: Civic and Political Studies The Fissures of Education Neoliberal Policies in a Global Context: The Case of Social Movements for Education in Chile Pablo Santibanez, School of Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Overview: During the last ten years, two major social movements established critiques of global educational policies and their impact in Chile. This paper explores their main narratives. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Promoting Livelihoods in a Gram Panchayat in India: Action Research Prof. Gyan Mudra, Centre for Human Resource Development, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India Overview: This paper discusses action research focusing on the livelihood activities practiced and run by women's self-help groups and youth in the village of Ipperu GP. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 6 Session in Spanish Room 7 Session in Spanish 18:00-19:00 CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION
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9:15-9:45 PLENARY SESSION- ROBERT JACOBS, PROFESSOR, HIROSHIMA PEACE INSTITUTE OF HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY, JAPAN Discourses of Nuclear Competence and Disaster 9:45-10:15 GARDEN CONVERSATION 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Memory and Tourism Japan’s Peace Memorial Museum: Endless Memory’s War Focused on Hiroshima Peace Memorial Songeun Lee, Political Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: What’s the role of peace memorials in conveying Japan’s war memory? Are there any conflicts to convey Japan’s war memory by establishing peace memorials? Theme: Cultural Studies The Politics of Cultural Conservation of the Industrial Culture in Kaohsiung, Taiwan: An Interactive Perspective of Cultural Tourism Yu-Hsuan Lee, Department of International Affairs, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Overview: This paper discusses the conflict between cultural conservation and urban cultural economy. Theme: Social and Community Studies Chancy Tourism: Lucky Enough to Have Seen What You'll Never See Dr. Konstantina Zerva, Department of Economics, Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona, Girona, Spain Overview: Chancy tourism refers to a new tourist typology, which focuses on the re-interpretation of past destination visits after their disaster and the enhancement of tourist identity through post-distraction place bonding. Theme: Cultural Studies The Positive Interaction between Heritage Protection and Community Development: Protection Development and Utilization of Linear Cultural Heritage in Northeast China Dr. Dan Huo, Department of Architecture, Architecture and Fine Art School, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Overview: This paper, taking Northeast China as a case study, studies the interaction mechanism between protection of cross-regional, cross-cultural, multi-scale, linear cultural heritage, and community development. Theme: Social and Community Studies
67 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Social Change and Community Engagement In the Midst of Radicalism: Moderate Activists during the Chicano Movement, 1968-1978 Prof. Guadalupe San Miguel Jr., History Department, University of Houston, Houston, USA Overview: Chicano Movement historians have ignored the important role that Mexican American liberals played in promoting significant social change during the same years. This study focuses on them and their actions. Theme: Social and Community Studies Indigenous Knowledge Approaches to Dealing with Community Conflict: The Role of Peace in a Village's Community Justice Committee Dr. Rukchanok Chumnanmak, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Dusadee Ayuwat, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Wanichcha Narongchai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: This research focuses on the role and the negotiation process of community mediation in the resolution of community disputes over conflict issues. Theme: Social and Community Studies Subjective Life Satisfaction in Changing Rural Yogyakarta, Indonesia Prof. Janianton Damanik, Department of Social Development and Welfare, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Dr. S. Djuni Prihatin, Department of Social Development and Welfare, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Overview: Subjective life satisfaction in rural communities are determined by harmony, cohesiveness, and good feelings. These preferences enable the rural Javanese community to adapt to rapid social and economic changes. Theme: Social and Community Studies Community-based Inheritance of Local Culture: A Case Study of Wat Chai Sri Folk Museum in Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Wanichcha Narongchai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Dusadee Ayuwat, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Rukchanok Chumnanmak, Center for Research on Plurality in the Mekong Region, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Maung, Thailand Overview: This paper investigates a community-based inheritance approach of local culture through the case of Wat Chai Sri folk museum, located in Sawathi village in Khon Kaen province, Thailand. Theme: Social and Community Studies
68 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Human Movement and Lifeways English Skills and Earnings in a Non-English-speaking Country: Findings from Online Advertisements in Mexico Dr. Miguel Antonio Delgado Helleseter, Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, USA Overview: I examine the return to speaking English in a country where English is not an official language. I do this by looking at differences in advertised wages using online advertisements. Theme: Global Studies Migration Contexts of the Thai Fishing Industry: A Case Study of Northeastern Fishing Migrants Nattapon Meekaew, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Dusadee Ayuwat, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: This paper reveals migration contexts, particularly patterns and conditions, of ISAN migrants moving into the fishing industry. Theme: Global Studies The Construction of Social Networks for Vietnamese-Thai in Nakorn Phanom Province Nattawat Auraiampai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Keeratiporn Jutaviriya, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: This paper investigates social networks that construct social, economic, and cultural capital among Vietnamese-Thai in the Thailand-Laos border area in Nakorn Phanom Province. Theme: Global Studies
69 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Media Studies Photographers Need Not Apply: Photography Doesn't Need You Anymore Stafford Smith, School of Communications, Department of Photography, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA Overview: Social media and digital technology have turned photography into a self-sustaining medium in which photographers may no longer be necessary. Theme: Communication Media, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interfaces: Implications for Human Flourishing Dr. Robert S. Fortner, School of Communication and Media, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, USA Overview: Humankind is being reconstructed as AI, robotics, and human-computer interfaces evolve. The movement of humanity to meet technology-defined "needs," and the increasing humanization of technology has consequences for human flourishing. Theme: Communication Computopia Revisited: The Information-Communication Social Ideal Prof. Alistair Duff, School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK Overview: This paper revisits the ideal of computopia, a society based on the exploitation of information and communication technologies instead of human beings. Japanese and western approaches will be compared. Theme: Communication Information Usefulness and Adoption in Digital Communities Dr. Jorge Ferreira, Department of Business Administration, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Angilberto Freitas, Department of Business Administration, Universidade do Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cristiane Giovannini, Department of Business Administration, Pontifical Catholic Univertisy of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fernanda Ramos, Center for Extension Courses, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Guilherme Temporão, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Overview: This paper evaluates what factors influence information adoption by consumers in digital communities. Theme: Communication
70 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 10:15-11:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Human Lifecourses and Education Navigating College Culture: Understanding the First-generation College Student Experience Dr. Chitra Akkoor, Department of Communication and Philosophy, Keene State College, Keene, USA Jenna Cormier, Department of Communication and Philosophy, Keene State College, Keene, USA Overview: This paper explains the adaptation experiences of first-generation students (FGS) in the United States, to college culture, using a communication-centered, cross-cultural adaptation model. Theme: Educational Studies Financial Literacy among Turkish University Students: The Effect of Money Attitudes and Financial Behavior on Financial Literacy Prof. Arzu Şener, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Asst. Prof. Selda Coskuner, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Overview: This study tests the relationships between money attitudes, financial behavior, demographic characteristics, and the financial literacy of university students. Theme: Cultural Studies Cherry Blossoms and Gum Trees: A Narrative Inquiry into Mixed Heritage Self Identity and Life Course Coral Cara, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper investigates mixed heritage self identity through narrative inquiry and an intergenerational lens. Who am I and how did my Japanese mother influence who I have become? Theme: Cultural Studies Room 6 Colloquium Maritime Strategies in the Indo-Pacific Region Dr. Amit Gupta, Department of International Security Studies, USAF Air War College, Montgomery, USA Prof. Howard Hensel, Department of Strategy, USAF Air War College, Montgomery, USA Dr. Takuya Shimodaira, Security Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies, Shinjuku, Japan Carol Abraham, New Zealand High Commission, Canberra, Australia Overview: This colloquium analyzes the contemporary challenges and opportunities confronting some of the principal maritime powers in the Indo-Pacific region and assesses their perceptions, interests, objectives, maritime capabilities, and policies. Theme: Global Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish 11:55-12:10 BREAK
71 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 12:10-13:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Politics of Identity and Diversity Cultural Nuances Affecting the Formation of Alternative Sexual Identities within the LGBTQ Community in Seoul, South Korea Eli Alexander, Department of Anthropology, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Susan Young, Department of Anthropology, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Overview: This paper sheds light on influences impacting the formation of alternative sexual identities in gay males in South Korea. It is based on a ten-month ethnographic study. Theme: Cultural Studies Does Education on Homosexuality Influence Comfort with Homosexuality among Undergraduate Social Work Students? Evidence from Taiwan Dr. Shou-Lu Lee, Department of Social Work, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City, Taiwan Overview: Employing regression analysis on survey data, this study analyzes the influences of education on homosexuality and other factors on the perceptions of homosexuals among undergraduate social work students in Taiwan. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Gaze Turns Inward: "Acts of Truth" and the Transparent Subject Dr Rachel Adams, Research Use and Impact Assessment, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa Overview: This paper critiques the interpellation of transparent subjectivities by the discourse of transparency through self-disclosure and Foucaultian "acts of truth," thus producing unmediated, unobjectionable, and homogenous bodies of whiteness. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Room 2 Cultivating Wellness: Community Health and Wellness The Social Model of Practice: Empathy in the Singapore Context Min Yeo, Social, Therapeutic, and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK Dr. Mark Taylor, Social, Therapeutic, and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK Overview: Using Singapore as a case study, this paper explores the potential of using "societal empathy" to help mitigate emerging social challenges, an alternative to traditional approaches of designing problem- centric solutions. Theme: Social and Community Studies Convergence Clubs and Well-being Differences across Countries: A Nonparametric Density Approach Carlos Mendez-Guerra, Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Overview: This paper examines differences in well-being across countries. It finds that patterns of convergence and club formation vary drastically according to different measures of well-being. Theme: Global Studies Dual Role: A Tough Balancing Act for Urban Women Workers in Guwahati City, Assam, India Dr. Rupali Phukan Bhuyan, Geography Department, Cotton College, Guwahati, India Overview: This study assesses the dual role played by women with regard to juggling professional obligations and family life in Guwahati city, Assam, India. Theme: Social and Community Studies
72 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 12:10-13:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Factors Related to Engagement of Employees: The Case of a Pulp and Paper Company Dr. Dusadee Ayuwat, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Wanichcha Narongchai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Nattawat Auraiampai, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: Employee engagement in a pulp and paper company are related to perception of company policy, participation in activities, attitude toward the company, relationship with chiefs, and relationships with colleagues. Theme: Organizational Studies Rethinking the Concept of Organizational Commitment Aviad Bar-Haim, Management and Economics Department, Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel Overview: A redefinition of the concept of organizational commitment (OC) is required. The world of work is escaping from commitment. However, its value for organizations as unrewarded behavior remains. Theme: Organizational Studies Information Technologies in Public Administration Daria Maltseva, Department of Theory and Philosophy of Politics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Overview: This paper analyzes information technologies as applied in the field of political management and considers the content and peculiarities of using IT programs in public administration. Theme: Organizational Studies Room 4 Facets of Communication in Society Critique in the Era of Social Media: Autonomous Rationality versus the Hive Mind Dr. Christopher Schreiner, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam Overview: This study argues that the socio-cognitive "hive mind" of social media thwarts or obviates critique in the Kantian sense by privileging uncritical social consensus swayed by algorithms over autonomous rationality. Theme: Communication Information in the Post-truth Era: The "Alt-right" versus the "Regressive Left," Their Online Strategies and How They Feed Each Other Kevin Braouezec, French Institute of Geopolitics, Paris, France Overview: This paper focuses on how the political extremes use the Internet to spread biased articles and conspiracy theories and on how to counter them. Theme: Communication Differential Modes of Political Information Seeking: A Logistic Regression Analysis of Online Political Participation in China Jiayuan Wen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper focuses on how Chinese young people use the Internet to seek political information when the authoritarian government uses the Great Firewall to filter out unwanted content. Theme: Communication
73 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 12:10-13:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Spaces and Flows Knowledge Sits in Places: The Vernacularity and Emplacement of Fish Markets in the Southern Philippines Dr. Nelson Turgo, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Overview: This paper discusses knowledge production in fish auction houses in the southern Philippines. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Dynamics and Physical Characteristics of the Border Marketplace in Nong Khai Province, Thailand Sudarat Sriubon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr. Jaggapan Cadchumsang, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: This paper investigates dynamics and physical characteristics of border trading at the border trade check point in Peng Chan Village, Nong Khai Province. Theme: Global Studies The Laotian Community in the Multi-ethnic Border Area of Northern Thailand Dr. Jaggapan Cadchumsang, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Overview: Based on anthropological fieldwork, this paper explores the formation and persistence of the Laotian community in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand. Theme: Social and Community Studies Social Welfare Analysis of Managed Lane Options: A Simple Network Simulation Kotaro Sasai, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dr. Omid Rouhani, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Overview: This study develops a social welfare framework, examining simulation results of a simple modeling, to investigate underlying conditions and strategies with which managed lanes enhance social welfare. Theme: Social and Community Studies
74 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 12:10-13:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Educational Studies Mobile Learning Adoption among Higher Education Instructors Dr. Jorge Ferreira, Department of Business Administration, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Angilberto Freitas, Department of Business Administration, Universidade do Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fernanda Pina, Department of Design, Pontifical Catholic Univertisy of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Renata Kurtz, Department of Business Administration, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fernanda Ramos, Center for Extension Courses, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Guilherme Temporão, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Overview: This paper investigates higher education instructors’ attitudes towards mobile learning (m- learning), focusing on the motives behind their decision to adopt m-learning in their daily activities. Theme: Educational Studies The Role of Teachers in Developing Learners' Mathematics Discourse Benadette Aineamani, University of the Witwatersrand, Cape Town, South Africa Overview: My study investigates how teachers play the role of developing learners’ mathematics discourse, highlighting a South African case study. Theme: Educational Studies Challenges of Higher Education Access in Indonesia Ayu Anastasya Rachman, Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK Overview: This paper discusses the disparity in access to and some of the complexities which hinder the provision of equitable access to higher education in Indonesia. Theme: Educational Studies Curriculum and Public Policies for a Journalism Undergraduate Program Dr. Verônica Gesser, Postgraduate Program in Education, University of the Itajaí Valley, Itajaí, Brazil Overview: This paper discusses how the profile and the role of journalism experts relate to the logic expressed in the scope of the free market produced by the global agenda. Theme: Global Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish
75 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 12:10-13:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 8 Governance and Decision Making The "Going Public" Strategy of Korean Presidents: The Ideological Trend of People and Media Trust in the Fragmented Media Hoju Cheong, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This study covers the "going public" strategy of Korean presidents and its effectiveness. Considering the implication of this strategy and recent political scandals, this strategy should be reviewed carefully. Theme: Civic and Political Studies "Game" Relations between China and Japan in East Asia: Great Power Rivalry and Peaceful Interdependence Xiaoyu Zhao, Universitu of Warwick, Coventry, UK Overview: China and Japan are rivals as well as interdependent on one another in East Asia. This is due to the "game" relations between them. Theme: Global Studies Political Construction of Revived Anti-nuclear Activism in Turkey Pinar Temocin, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan Overview: In what context is Turkey's first nuclear power plant considered and framed as a problematic issue by anti-nuclear groups? Theme: Global Studies Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition in Algeria Dr. Abdelkader Nouibat, Faculty of Economics, Commercial, and Management Studies, University of M’Sila, M'Sila, Algeria Overview: This study analyzes the development of entrepreneurship in Algeria and its role in the economic transition process from a socialistic to a market economy. Theme: Civic and Political Studies
13:50-14:50 LUNCH
76 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Poster Session A Consilient Approach to History: African Rice Cultivation Nathan Mook, Social Studies Department, Chandler School, Pasadena, USA Overview: This study explores new ways of understanding human history through genetics. Consilience creates a more holistic approach to studying civilizations by utilizing new arenas of scientific investigation. Theme: Educational Studies Energy and Sustainability Interdisciplinary Curriculum for High Schools after 2018 in Taiwan Prof. Chien-Kuo Ku, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Tzu-Ching Lo, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This study breaks the traditional knowledge-based learning and constructs indicators for energy and sustainability interdisciplinary curriculum for high schools after 2018 in Taiwan. Theme: Educational Studies Desire for Social Distance towards Schizophrenic Patients: A Systematic Review on Mental Health Professionals Yuehui Yu, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: In order to better reveal mental health professional’s real stigma level towards schizophrenic patients, this paper chose a unique dimension of stigma and systematically reviewed literature on this issue. Theme: Social and Community Studies A Study of Leader-Member Exchange, Organizational-based Self-esteem, Organizational Identification, and Felt Accountability Dr. Chun-Hsi Chen, Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan Pei-Ju Hsieh, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan Hao-Zhong Li, Taiwan Overview: This study explores the effect of leader-member exchange (LMX) on employees’ felt accountability through the mediation of employees’ organizational-based self-esteem and organizational identification. Theme: Organizational Studies The Perceptions of University of Guam Students towards Males in the Nursing Profession Verna Zafra-Kasala, Division of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Guam, Mangilao, USA Overview: Using a sociological framework, this research explores the perceptions of university students towards males in the nursing profession. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Benefits of Working in the Same Occupation for the Total Household Income Yasin Kutuk, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey Bengi Ilhan Yanik, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This study examines whether having the same job among partners has a significant effect on the wage income of households. Theme: Social and Community Studies Developing Senior High School Interdisciplinary Courses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Chemistry Dr. Chitung Chen, Center for General Education, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan Yuchi Wen, Affiliated High School of National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This study completes a sixteen-week teaching plan for the “Inquiry Course.” Its main topics include environmental sustainability, green energy and technology, green chemistry, and other environmental protection issues. Theme: Educational Studies
77 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Beyond Oil Palm Sustainability Discourse: Reflection from Multiplex Oil Palm Smallholders Faris Rahmadian, Division of Agriculture Governance and Politics of Rural Development, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia Overview: Sustainability in oil palm has diverse meanings. This research parses the meaning of sustainability through divergent and multiplex views of oil palm smallholders, who are often reduced to monolith actors. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Academic Culture Shock of Turkish Students in Japan: Two Case Studies of Graduate Students Ayse Ilgin Sozen, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Letters, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan Prof. Tomoko Tanaka, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan Dr. Sachiko Nakano, International Student Center, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan Overview: Universities in Japan host a substantial number of international students including Turkish students. This research draws on data from in-depth interviews with Turkish students to identify their academic experiences. Theme: Cultural Studies Dress: A Conflict and an Enabler between Cultural Interactions with an Economic Bias Ruhee Das Chowdhury, Fashion Design Department, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata, India Overview: Dress, as supplements and modifications to the body, remains the most visible manifestation of any culture and is vulnerable to change. This study examines if "economic dominance" controls this change. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Impact of the Convenience Store on the Socio-economic Transformation of Suburban Areas: A Case Study of the Universitas Budi Luhur Area, Ciledug Raya Street, South Jakarta Tasya Andiana Putri, Sociology Development, Jakarta State University, Tangerang, Indonesia Sayidul Fikri, University of Indonesia, Tangerang, Indonesia Overview: This research explains the socio-economic transformation of those living in the suburban regions near the Universitas Budi Luhur (UBL), caused by the growth of convenience stores. Theme: Social and Community Studies Determinants of the Willingness to Pay for the Transition Cost from Nuclear Power Energy to Renewable Energy Seoyong Kim, Department of Public Administration, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea Sunhee Kim, Department of Public Administration, Seowon University, Chungju, South Korea Overview: Based on survey data, our study examines the structure of willingness to pay related to energy transition, in particular the transition from nuclear power energy to renewable energy. Theme: Environmental Studies
78 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Exploring the Relationship between Leaders’ Work-Life Balance and Their Leadership Style Dr. Adriana Babiak-Vazquez, KBRwyle@ NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, USA Dr. Mark Green, Department of Leadership Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, USA Dr. Phyllis Duncan, Doctoral Program, Department of Leadership Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, USA Dr. Meghan Carmody-Bubb, Department of Leadership Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, USA Dr. Jared Montoya, Doctoral Program, Department of Leadership Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, Harlingen, USA Dr. Carol Wheeler, Department of Leadership Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, USA Overview: This research investigates leaders’ work-life balance, in terms of well-being, as a predictor to the outcome of leader transformational, transactional, and passive avoidant leadership behaviors. Theme: Organizational Studies Mental Fitness in Elderly People: Active Aging to Promote Self-esteem and Quality of Life Dr. Miguel Ángel García-Martín, Department of Social Psychology, Social Work, Social Anthropology, and East Asian Studies, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain Beatriz Barranqueros, Department of Social Psychology, Social Work, Social Anthropology, and East Asian Studies, University of Málaga, Malaga, Spain Dr. Delgado Jesus, Department of Geography, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain Iolanda Galinha, Psychology Department, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: This study discusses the impact of a memory stimulation workshop developed with rural older people on self-esteem, memory self-perception, quality of life, life satisfaction, and negative stereotypes related to aging. Theme: Social and Community Studies Publicizing the Peer Reviewer: Legitimacy and Quality of Scientific Publication Dr. Sandro Serpa, Department of Sociology, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal Dr. Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Idanha a Nova, Portugal Overview: The publication of the peer reviews, preferably with the identification of the author, can be a crucial factor for an important legitimization of scientific quality of what is published. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice An Integration of Theory and Practice to Inform a Systemic Change Jeffrey Stafford, Department of Communication Studies, College of Social Science, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA Hannah Seagrave, Department of Communication Studies, College of Social Science, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA Overview: The architect and facilitator of a systemic cultural principled change within a Northwestern University shares the leadership and communication tools as well as foundational principles which guided these efforts. Theme: Organizational Studies Developing a Seventh Grade Interdisciplinary Course on Energy and Environmental Sustainability Dr. Chitung Chen, Center for General Education, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan Jo Ping Ko, Affiliated High School of National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Chin Hung Chao, Affiliated High School of National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This study responds to the new curriculum guidelines, developing project-based interdisciplinary courses related to daily lives. Theme: Educational Studies
79 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Teaching Graduate Students about Refugee Families: Hmong Families in the United States Dr. Susie Lamborn, Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA Shuang Wang, Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA Overview: This study includes student responses to a module on refugee families living in the United States that uses developmental research articles, history, and sociology chapters, and a memoir. Theme: Educational Studies The European Union’s Technology-intensive Border Work: Ethical Challenges Dr. Peter Shields, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA Overview: The European Union's technology-based border control practices function to excise the problem of border control and treatment of the Other from the realm of moral evaluation and ethical obligation. Theme: Global Studies The United Nations' Last Call for Climate Change: Global Media Coverage of the Event Dr. Young Joon Lim, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA Dr. Jennifer Lemanski, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA Overview: This study explores how the United Nations utilized communication tools to shed light on the historically largest environmental summit convening global political, business, and civil leaders. Theme: Communication International Marketing Communication Strategy for a Japanese Bio-tech Company Dr. Serajul I Bhuiyan, Department of Mass Communication, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait Dr. Hiroki Hamada, Department of Life Science, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan Overview: This study introduces an international marketing communication strategy for a series of food supplements in the international market. Theme: Organizational Studies Virtual Team Collaboration on Home Health Care, Golden Jubilee Medical Centre, Thailand Priwal Gonghom, Health Promotion Division, Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Dr. Kamthorn Tantivitayatan, Medical Division, Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Overview: This poster demonstrates a technology called "Slack" for virtual team collaboration on home health care. This tool allows for tele-consults between medical staff and patients. Theme: Social and Community Studies A Study Case: Background of Sexual Behavior Problems in Children Putri Aisyah Puspita, Psychology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia Dr. Karini Suci Murti, Psychology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia Agustin Rin Widya, Psychology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia Overview: Children learning about sexuality is a very sensitive issue. It’s important to comprehend the factors that influence sexual behavior problems in children viewed from various backgrounds. Theme: Social and Community Studies Transforming the Face of Leadership: Multicultural Leadership Characteristics Dr. Janelle C. Simmons, Educational Leadership, Liberty University, Flushing, USA Overview: This study explores and evaluates a leader in order to evaluate her leadership characteristics and by doing so determine which characteristics would be best suited to establish truly multicultural settings. Theme: Organizational Studies
80 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS The Language Situation of Chinese Children in Malaga, Spain Yiyun Ou, Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain Overview: This paper, through sociolinguistic theory, discusses the language situation of Chinese bilingual children in Spain. Theme: Educational Studies Human Beings and Nature in Radical Transformation, or Why We Still Visit Derelict Parks in Silesia Dr. Aleksandra Kunce, Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland Overview: The author addresses the problem of the philosophy of the “derelict park.” The reflections are organized around Fazaniec, a border park, established in the Upper Silesia in Central Europe. Theme: Cultural Studies Beautiful Affliction: Revealing the Beauty of Suffering and Disease through Collaborative Performance Art Cherie Acosta, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA Travis Prokop, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA Overview: Collaborative artists and pathologists expose the unseen beauty found in suffering and disease through photography, costume design, choreography, and music. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice Adequacy and Sustainability of Pension Policies in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Countries Soyeon Kim, School of Social Work, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This study compares adequacy and sustainability of pension systems in OECD countries, using a preference ranking organization method for enrichment (PROMETHEE). Theme: Global Studies Subjectivity Inquiry: Enriching Q-analysis with Traces Recorded via a Computer- mediated Interface Prof. Claire Gauzente, Institute of Economics and Management, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Kuntz Pascale, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Roy Yves, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France Languenou Eric, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Rostand Affogbolo, University of Nantes, Nantes, France Overview: Subjectivity analysis is central in social sciences. Psychologist W. Stephenson designed a method to capture subjectivity. We propose to enrich its analysis with a capture of the answering dyanmics. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Resilience of Newly Developed Communities on the Penghu Islands of Taiwan Dr. Chin-cheng Ni, Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Dr. Chien-yu Tsao, Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Overview: This study takes two communities, Nanliao and Xihu in the Penghu islands, based on their similar vulnerability and compares their different resilient responses. Theme: Environmental Studies
81 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Focused Discussions Treatment for Adolescents with Mental Health Diagnoses: Using Sensory Integration Theory, Self-awareness Training, and Occupation Dr. Alyson Stover, Pediatric Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Hermitage, USA Overview: Mental health conditions are a leading cause of disability. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach embedded in sensory integration theory, self-awareness training, and occupation science offers an innovative solution to this epidemic. Theme: Cultural Studies The Search Bar for Social Justice: Utilization of Social Media, Technology, and Virtual Reality Courtney Kidd, New York University, New York City, USA Overview: Technology is building bridges from homes to global communities. The next step is utilizing it for social justice and social work as part of our core ethics. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Value of Conformity and Creativity in Educator Ethics Dr. Shirley Dawson, Department of Teacher Education, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Dr. Melina Alexander, Department of Teacher Education, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Paul Rawlins, Department of Teacher Education, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Overview: This focused discussion opens with an interactive audience discussion on what it means to be an ethical educator. Variability, conformity, and creativity will be explored in participant responses. Theme: Educational Studies
82 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Virtual Lightning Talks The Use of Virtual Posters in the English as a Second Language Classroom Carmen Gabriela Mirea, University of Alcala, Chicago, USA Overview: This work demonstrates the use of posters in the ESL class as a true vector of communication between teacher and student, using the Glogster platform. Theme: Educational Studies How Vibrant Can Community-based Organizations Be without a Proper Results- based Monitoring and Evlauations System? Teelotma Ghoorah, Long Mountain, Mauritius Overview: This paper deconstructs the fact that a Community-based Organization (CBO) cannot be vibrant without a proper results-based monitoring and evaluation system as a basis for future improvement. Theme: Social and Community Studies An Interdependent Ethos: The Collaborative Nature of Humanitarian Aid Workers Dr. Malcolm Glover, Business Communications and Ethics, Jack Welch Management Institute, Bryant, USA Overview: Research on cultural identity and conflict management behaviors suggests the cross-cultural collaborative nature of humanitarian aid workers can enhance community engagement and dispute resolution in the developing world. Theme: Organizational Studies Organizational Culture and Climate: In the Global Reality Dr. Luz Patricia Pardo Martínez, Cooperative University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Maria Victoria Huertas de Mora, Cooperative University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Overview: This paper addresses the issue of culture and work climate organizations with multiple and diverse needs of environments and realities simultaneously acting locally, with global integration. Theme: Organizational Studies Senuk Buae: Consonance with a Cultural Model of “Living Well” and Its Effects on Stress and Depression among the Bribri of Costa Rica Greg Batchelder, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Overview: I introduce data resulting from two years of research in the indigenous Bribri community of Yorkín, Costa Rica. I show how rapidly changing cultural ideals can impact individual psychological health. Theme: Cultural Studies The Heat of the Action: Novel Insights from Auto/ethnographic Research on Physical Cultures Prof. Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK Dr. Anu Vaittinen, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Dr. George Jennings, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK Dr. Helen Owton, Open University, Market Harborough, UK Overview: This paper investigates the under-researched sense of thermoception, the lived sense of temperature. To explore thermoception in everyday-life, we employ findings from four different ethnographic/auto-ethnographic projects on various physical-cultural lifeworlds. Theme: Cultural Studies Land-use Planning and Land Allocation Procedures: Implications for Housing Development in Guyana Linda Johnson-Bhola, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana Overview: Land-use planning is a complex issue in Guyana and its intricacies are reflected in the number of instances where there is a mismatch between land suitability and land use. Theme: Social and Community Studies
83 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS The Lack of Adoption of Mobile Technology as an Employee Training Tool Prof. Anastasia Tracy Biggs, School of Business and Technology, Capella University, Colorado Springs, USA Overview: This qualitative case research investigates how mobile learning impacts employee training. Theme: Organizational Studies Christianity and Pan-Korean Nationalism: Critiquing South Korea’s Role as a Model in the Global War on Terror Prof. Benedict Edward DeDominicis, International Studies Department, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea Overview: The authorities in South Korea have demonstrated greater success in the competition with Pyongyang in generating support in great power polities. Theme: Global Studies Supporting Parents of Special Needs Children Rawy A.Thabet, Faculty of Education, British University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Prof. Eman Gaad, Faculty of Education, British University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Overview: This paper measures the impact of a behavioral training program on parents of children with special needs. Theme: Social and Community Studies Ethical Dilemmas in Reporting the 1989 Tiananmen Square Riot: A Case Study Analysis Mohammad Ali, Department of Communication, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, USA Overview: This study examines the 1989 Tiananmen Square riot in Beijing to explore the ethical dilemmas for a journalist during the protest and to analyze how the ethical issues were managed. Theme: Communication Family-oriented Human Services Practitioner: A Grounded Theory Qualitative Inquiry Dr. Narketta Sparkman, Counseling and Human Service Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Dr. Chaniece Winfield, Counseling and Human Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Anthony Vajda, Counseling and Human Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Overview: This study uses grounded theory to identify a family-oriented human services practitioner model, which addresses the skills, knowledge, and experiences of human services professionals in mediating conflict in at-risk families. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Ambitions of Comparative Legal Studies as Cross-cultural Practice Alexandra Mercescu, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania Overview: My paper addresses the question of the various forms interdisciplinarity might take in the field of comparative legal studies while also discussing the limits of this ambitious epistemological project. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice The Depiction of Love and Technology in Film Adaptation through Time and Space: Comparison Analysis of Miklos Laszlo’s play “Parfumerie” in Its Adaptation Films “The Shop around the Corner,” “In the Good Old Summertime,” and “You’ve Got Mail” Azalia Primadita Muchransyah, Film Program, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia Overview: This study explores how Miklos Laszlo’s 1937 play "Illatszertár" (Parfumerie) is adapted into three films with different treatments and styles in their depiction of love and technology. Theme: Cultural Studies Mechanisms of Historical Memory of Human Rights in Tunja, Colombia Aida Johanna Figueroa Blanco, Law School, University Foundation Juan De Castellanos, Tunja, Colombia Overview: This paper analyzes historical memory as a right of pre-university students to explore the truth in terms of human rights violations. Theme: Social and Community Studies
84 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 14:50-15:35 PARALLEL SESSIONS Museum Collections in Cultural Transmission: The Role of Conservation Aleksandra Nikolic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Overview: This research is based on experimental simulation of cultural transmission in the museum context, exploring the effect of the physical state of artifacts on their transmission capacity. Theme: Cultural Studies Room 4 Workshop The Garden Kitchen Model: Providing Opportunities for Experiential Learning to Reduce Food Inequities Jacquine Stork, Pima County Cooperative Extension, The Garden Kitchen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Jennifer Parlin, Pima County Cooperative Extension, The Garden Kitchen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Overview: Engage in a hands-on knife skills training while discussing the potential for experiential learning to improve community health, by increasing participants' self-efficacy in making healthy food decisions. Theme: Social and Community Studies
15:35-15:50 COFFEE BREAK 15:50-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Community Sustainability Food Security in Three Communities in the Conservation Areas of Southern Thailand Dr. Umaporn Muneenam, Faculty of Environmental Management, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand Pongbaworn Suwannattachote, Faculty of Environmental Management, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand Overview: This study discusses food security in four dimensions (availability, access, usage, and stability) in three communities and the local knowledge between the genders in coping with food security. Theme: Environmental Studies Environment and Economy Contextualized in a Social Indicator Mosaic: Canada, 1994 - 2014 Prof. Bryn Greer-Wootten, Institute for Social Research, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada Overview: Arguments about environment-economy relations are placed into a larger debate about the well-being of society, using a domain-based social indicators approach to examine developments in Canada over the period 1994-2014. Theme: Environmental Studies Understanding Gender and Energy: A Pathway to Equality Karla F. Ricalde, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Temixco, Mexico Dr. Karla Cedano, Institute of Renewable Energies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Temixco, Mexico Dr. Antonio del Rio Portilla, Institute of Renewable Energies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Temixco, Mexico Dr. Manuel Martinez, Institute of Renewable Energies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Temixco, Mexico Overview: Awareness of the ways gender influences our energy consumption is key to understanding energy needs, which in turn serves as tool for understanding inequalities across both gender and socioeconomic differences. Theme: Environmental Studies
85 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 15:50-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Health in the Community The Process of Breaking Bad News within a New Zealand Hospital Setting Sarah Deighton, Social Work Program, Bethlehem Tertiary Institute, Tauranga, New Zealand Overview: This project explores the organizational systems and structures of a New Zealand hospital that influence the breaking of bad news to patients and their families. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Longitudinal Relationship between Depression and Income in Korean Adults: Multi-group Comparisons between Two Age Groups Eun Hee Jung, Mental Health and Community Research Center, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: Based on social selection and social causation theory, this study examines the reciprocal relationship between depression and income in adult life over seven years. Theme: Social and Community Studies Cultivating Wellness: Psychological Flow and Play in Serious Leisure Pursuits Dr. Janet M. C. Burns, Department of Social Science, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada Overview: This paper examines the relationship between psychological flow and play across a variety of serious leisure pursuits. Theme: Social and Community Studies Doing More with Less: Suggestions for Interdisciplinary Healthcare for Rural Populations Dr. Julaine Allan, Research and Training Program, Lyndon Community, Orange, Australia Overview: This paper outlines an interdisciplinary approach to rural healthcare practice and identifies the necessary characteristics of practitioners required to implement it. Theme: Social and Community Studies
86 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 15:50-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Teaching and Learning Teacher Formation and Teaching Culture in the Area of Health: The Case of a Mexican University Dr. Elí Orlando Lozano González, Faculty of Higher Studies Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México City, Mexico Overview: This research analyzes teacher culture and formation of academics in the area of health in a Mexican university, working from the perspective of Bildung through biographical interviews. Theme: Educational Studies Experiencing "Badimaya Country": Cross-cultural and Interprofessional Learning in a Remote Western Australian Setting Dr. Rosalie Thackrah, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Prof. Sandra Thompson, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Overview: This paper explores the impact of a cultural immersion experience on allied health science students. In-depth interviews highlight learning acquired in a setting with a large, disadvantaged Aboriginal population. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice Community in the Classroom: How Students Do Community Organization while Learning It in the Classroom Dr. Baiju Vareed, Social Work Program, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Canada Overview: The experience of observing, analyzing, and planning for community organization in a time- restricted course provides a real taste of community work for social work students. Theme: Educational Studies Holistic Services through Interdisciplinary Collaborations Dr. Stephanie Boys, School of Social Work, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Prof. Carrie Hagan, McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Overview: This paper details how a new clinic was developed that partners social work and law students to holistically serve the needs of low-income clients. Theme: Educational Studies
87 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 15:50-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Addressing National and Cultural Identity Struggles for Independence of the Vietnamese, Malays, and Filipinos: The Common People's Perspective Janet Atutubo, History Department, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Overview: Southeast Asian countries were colonized by Western countries. Their histories were told by colonizers or educated elites. This study discusses the history according to the participation of ordinary people. Theme: Cultural Studies Excavating Early African-American Narratives in New York Scott Zukowski, English Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA Overview: This project brings to life the rich African-American history in a now-predominantly white town in New York through the lenses of literature, archaeology, history, and visual art. Theme: Cultural Studies Informal Political Institutions in Brazil: The Jeitinho Dr. Leandro do Nascimento Rodrigues, Political Science Institute, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil Dr. Martin Adamec, Political Science Institute, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil Willian Washington Wives, International Relations Institute, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil Overview: This paper analyzes the jeitinho, a Brazilian cultural pattern and practice that undermines formal institutions, as an informal political institution. Theme: Cultural Studies Transmission and Historical Influence of Han Culture on the Korean Peninsula Dr. Luyang Jiang, School of Asian and African Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China Overview: This paper examines the historical influence of Han culture on the local culture on the Korean Peninsula, analyzing the development of Han culture throughout different stages in history. Theme: Cultural Studies
88 THURSDAY, 27 JULY 15:50-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Peace-building and Identity Non-warring Peace Systems as a Form of Global Peacebuilding Dr. Geneviève Souillac, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA Dr. Douglas P. Fry, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA Overview: Peace systems are societies that do not make war. They promote an overarching social identity, interdependence, and non-warring values and norms. Development of a global peace system is considered. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice Ethea, Communitarianism, and Citizenship: Arab Israelis and Civic National Service Dr. Etta Bick, Department of Middle East Studies and Political Science, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Overview: I trace the emergence of a communitarian approach toward minorities in Israel through development of a civic national service program within and for the Arab community in Israel. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Democratic Values and Conflict Perception: In the Context of Protracted Conflict Ibrahim Khatib, Humboldt University in Berlin, Berlin, Germany Overview: This study checks the relation between individual differences in identity and conflict perceptions of a given protracted conflict and willingness for reconciliation. Theme: Civic and Political Studies The “Gawai” Cross-country Culture: Social Harmony at the Indonesia-Malaysia Border Dr. Sri Suwartiningsih, Faculty of Social Science and Communication, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia Overview: This paper studies the harmonious relationship between communities on the Indonesia- Malaysia border, occurring because of the kinship from the Dayak Bidayuh maintained through Gawai culture. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 6 Workshops Critical Realism and Big Data Combining Effectiveness Research and Epidemiology Methods in a Continuous Evaluation of What Works and for Whom: Utilizing Live Big Data from Chautauqua and Rockland Counties (New York State) and Manchester City Council (UK) Dr. Mansoor Abul Fazl Kazi, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, USA Overview: This workshop demonstrates continuous quantitative analysis of big data based on the critical realist evaluation paradigm, with the central aim of investigating what interventions work and in what circumstances. Theme: Social and Community Studies Promoting Growth Mindset in Online Instruction Dr. Melina Alexander, Department of Teacher Education, Weber State University, Ogden, USA RC Callahan, Weber State University, Ogden, USA Overview: Practices promoting a growth mindset has been shown to have a positive impact on student outcomes. Implementation of these practices in an online setting will be provided and practiced. Theme: Educational Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish 18:30-20:30 CONFERENCE DINNER - MARUUMIYA TATEMACHITEN
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8:45-9:15 PLENARY SESSION- JOSÉ LUIS ORTEGA MARTÍN, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA, SPAIN Good Practices in Bilingual Education in Spain 9:15-9:45 GARDEN CONVERSATION 9:45-11:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Housing and Urban Development Inter-generational Fractures of Housing Careers in South Korea Dr. Hyunjeong Lee, Department of Housing and Interior Design, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: South Korea has been experiencing socio-demographic transformation driven by globalization, and this research highlights inter-generational distinctions of housing careers triggered by a variety of internal and external forces. Theme: Social and Community Studies House Price Linkage in Price-tier Submarkets: Ripple Up or Ripple Down? Prof. Ming-Long Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien City, Taiwan Ming-Te Lee, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: House price linkages in price-tier submarkets have implications for wealth inequality reduction and housing investment strategies. This study explores the linkages in United States metropolitan cities. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 2 Online Education Building Deliberative Online Communities: Across Modes of Instruction and Levels of Courses Anita Chadha, Department of Social Science, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, USA Overview: This research explores virtual collaboration across time zones, modes of instruction, and institution type, highlighting if participants’ are similarly civically energized and academically reflective irrespective of these differences. Theme: Educational Studies University Students’ Perceptions of the Elements of Positive Online Teaching and Learning Environments Dr. Satu Uusiautti, Department of Education, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Overview: University students’ perceptions of online teaching and learning environments were studied in a northern Finnish university in 2016. Students describe their experiences of interaction and good teaching practices. Theme: Educational Studies
90 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 9:45-11:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Organizational Change and Learning The Importance of a "Ba Moderator" for Successful Knowledge Creation in Innovation-driven Organizations Dr. Karla Cedano, Institute for Renewable Energy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuenavaca, Mexico Karla F. Ricalde, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico Dr. Manuel Martínez Fernández, Institute for Renewable Energy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico Overview: We have documented three different types of organization, where Nonaka’s theory was applied and in which a change in the Ba moderator had a massive impact on the organization's productivity. Theme: Organizational Studies An Approach to Collaborative Practice via Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation: An Initiative to Interprofessional Education Dr. Kamthorn Tantivitayatan, Medical Department, Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University, Nakhonpathom, Thailand Dr. Kornprom Saengaram, Thai Airways International, Bangkok, Thailand Priwal Gonghom, Health Promotion Division, Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Overview: SBAR communication is a strategy in creating just culture. The final R, "recommendation," certainly mitigates physician paternalism and enables collaboration in the interprofessional team. Theme: Organizational Studies Partnership on Worldwide Development: A Case Study on Career Women with Disability Razaile Elaine Besa, Quezon City, Philippines Overview: ANZ Bank has challenged the employment hiring criteria in the Philippines by providing vacancies for people with disabilities who were deemed by most employers as unemployable. Theme: Organizational Studies
91 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 9:45-11:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Environmental Studies Efficient Resource Use Analysis to Counter Climate Change on Agricultural Sustainability in Tribal Villages in India Dr. Catherine Chan, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA Dr. Brent Sipes, Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA Dr. Jacqueline Halbrendt, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands Dr. Aliza Pradhan, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India Dr. Pravat Roul, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India Xu Zhang, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China Overview: The introduction of proven conservation technologies and farmer’s efficiency with training and consultations were examined. Using technical efficiency measures, tribal farmers in India doubled their efficiency from the new technologies. Theme: Environmental Studies Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Preparedness Capability of Local Government Units Dr. Joel Feliciano, Graduate School, University of Caloocan City, Caloocan City, Philippines Overview: This study assesses the hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness capability of local government units in four cities in Metro Manila and provides basis for a proposed action plan. Theme: Environmental Studies Transforming Energy System in the Age of Post-nuclear Power Energy: Focusing Choice and Its Context at the Individual and Country Level Jaesun Wang, Department of Public Administration, Collage of Humanities and Social Sciences, Honam University, Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea Overview: The transition of energy systems depends on preference of the public; therefore, I analyze the transition from nuclear power to other energies at the country level, highlighting content specific influences. Theme: Environmental Studies Room 5 Teaching Assessment and Strategies What Does Teaching Entail? Cross-cultural Analysis of Teachers in Japan and the United States Dr. Yukari Takimoto Amos, Department of Education, Development, Teaching, and Learning, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, USA Overview: This paper compares JSL (Japanese as a second language) teachers in Japan with ESL teachers in the U.S., and discusses what teaching entails in these two countries. Theme: Educational Studies Teachers’ Motivation and Motivational Strategies in the Classroom at the University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Northern Samar Dr. Veronica Piczon, College of Education, University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Philippines Dr. Leah De Asis, College of Arts and Communication, University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Philippines Overview: This descriptive study determines the motivation and motivational strategies in the classroom of 138 teachers at the University of Eastern Philippines. Theme: Educational Studies Women Who Inspire Undergraduate Students in a Public University: Overcoming Stereotypes with a Global Citizenship Approach Prof. Sonia Claudia Duque Cuartas, School of Languages, National University of Colombia at Medellín, Medellin, Colombia Overview: This paper discusses a meaningful teaching and learning experience developed through a global citizenship approach, based on a UNICEF question, in order to combat stereotypes in the English language classroom. Theme: 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice
92 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 9:45-11:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Session in Spanish Room 7 Session in Spanish 11:00-11:10 BREAK 11:10-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Media and Its Social Impact The Image of Jurisprudence in the Media: Does Jurisprudence Need to Build Public Relations? Monika Hanych, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Overview: Media are transmitting and interpreting the message of judicial decisions to the public. That is why this research focuses on the impact media have on the image of jurisprudence. Theme: Communication What Is Behind Donald Trump's Unusual Popularity among Chinese Internet Users? An Empirical Study on Trump Online Supporters in China Yan Gu, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Overview: This is an empirical study on why Donald Trump is so popular among China's Internet users. Theme: Communication Media Liberalization and Its Impact on Indonesian Democratic Society: Human Security Perspectives Dr. Ali Maksum, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Dr. Surwandono Surwandono, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Dr. Nur Azizah, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Overview: This paper examines media liberalization and its impact, especially in the post-Suharto era, from a human security point of view. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 2 Professional Development Promoting Second-order Historical Domain Knowledge through Professional Development That Features Recursive, Lesson Study-type Collaboration Dr. Cory Callahan, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Overview: This study suggests ways to provide substantive collaborative support for in-service teachers. I explore whether a dynamic professional development program helps teachers develop professional teaching knowledge for historical domain knowledge. Theme: Educational Studies Burnout and Teaching Performance of Faculty Members at the University of Eastern Philippines, University Town, Northern Samar Dr. Leah De Asis, College of Arts and Communication, University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Philippines Overview: This is a descriptive, correlational study determining burnout and teaching performance of faculty members at the University of Eastern Philippines. Theme: Organizational Studies
93 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 11:10-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Psychology of the Social The Role of Attachment Theory in the Interdisciplinary Advancement of Psychology and Family Science Eugene Lloyd Hall, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Daniel Cooper, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Emily Jordan, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Overview: The individual and relational constructs of attachment theory exemplify how we can advance research across psychology and family science and demonstrates the need for the interdisciplinary development of theory. Theme: Social and Community Studies Culturally Responsive Mental Health Interventions with Latino/a Families: Implications for Cultural Adaptation and Implementation Science Daniel Cooper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Elizabeth Wieling, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Overview: This study critically examines strengths and limitations within cultural adaptation research. Findings outline current challenges and provide direction for developing and implementing high quality mental health services with diverse communities. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Role of Family in Mental Health Help-seeking and Service Use in Hong Kong Dr. Juan Chen, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This study examines the role of family in mental health help-seeking and service use based on a representative sample of adult Chinese population residing in Hong Kong. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 4 Social Welfare Studies Towards a Collaboration between Public Welfare Agencies and Mass Entertainment: A Turning Point in the Lives of Battered Women Segev. N Nourit, Department of Human Services, School of Social Work, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yoqneam, Israel Overview: This paper examines the factors that promote and impede battered women from leaving violent relationships, highlighting the role of mass entertainment. Theme: Social and Community Studies Teacher Victimization and Negative Consequences: Focusing on Psychological and Physical Wellbeing and Job Performance Dr. Byongook Moon, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, USA Overview: Using a sample of approximately 1,600 teachers in the USA, theis research examines whether the experience of various types of victimization leads to psychological/physical distress and negative job performance. Theme: Organizational Studies Gender and Local Social Policies in South Korea Prof. Jungho Roh, Department of Political Science, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This paper provides evidence that the gender composition of government is an important determinant of social policy generosity in South Korean local governments. Theme: Civic and Political Studies
94 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 11:10-12:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Community Health Home-based Carers’ General Knowledge of Cancer in a Rural Village of South Africa Dr. Takalani Grace Tshitangano, Department of Public Health, Health Sciences Faculty, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa Overview: This paper describes the assessment of home-based carers’ general cancer knowledge including general signs and symptoms, general causes of cancer, general screening tests, and general cancer treatments options. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Dynamics of Modern Contraceptive Use in Indonesia Mario Ekoriano, Center of Research and Development, National Population and Family Planning Board, Jakarta, Indonesia Firma Novita, Center of Training and Education, National Population and Family Planning Board, Jakarta, Indonesia Overview: This analysis determines the switching of modern contraception in Indonesia. This analysis uses secondary data from a socio-economic survey (BPS,2015). Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 6 Session in Spanish Room 7 Session in Spanish 12:25-13:05 LUNCH 13:05-14:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Water Policy and Sustainability The Water Strategy Advisory Team: A New Approach to Water Management Dr. Daniel McCool, University of Utah, Ogden, USA Marian Hubbard-Rice, Political Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Overview: This paper assesses the success of a new approach to water planning in the state of Utah, USA. Theme: Environmental Studies Considerations of Cross-national Transdisciplinary Science Challenges: The Case of Water Micropollutant Research in "noPILLS" and "WEMSI" Dr. Paul Teedon, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Overview: This paper examines conceptual challenges of doing transdisciplinary research in the context of water pollutants, such as a potential societal "wicked problem." Theme: Social and Community Studies Community and Integrated Flood Management: A Case Study of the Chaopraya and Thachin Basins, Thailand Dr. Manoon Toyama, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Pakkred, Thailand Rachanee To-arj, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Rangsit, Thailand Sombut Pantavisit, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Pakked, Thailand Apinya Wanaset, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Bangkapi, Thailand Overview: This paper examines communities’ experiences, successful internal and external factors, and learning from difficulties in the community flood management in Thailand and proposes a model of integrated community flood management. Theme: Social and Community Studies
95 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 13:05-14:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Research and Knowledge Scientific Experts and Local Knowledge: Philosophical Lessons from the Vajont Disaster Prof. Eleonora Montuschi, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy Prof. Pierluigi Barrotta, Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Overview: In publicly debating issues of social interest, how effective is non-expert knowledge vis a vis expert (eg. scientific) knowledge? What contribution can it offer? Why should it be listened to? Theme: Social and Community Studies The Role of Social Values in Scientific Claims and Public Policy Prof. Gerald D. Doppelt, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, USA Overview: This paper illuminates the role of social values in scientific claims and public policies concerning work-place stress (air traffic controllers) and the toxicity of Agent Orange (Vietnam Veterans). Theme: Civic and Political Studies Constructing Distinctiveness: Corpus-linguistic Approaches in Social Science Saskia Dankwart-Kammoun, Social Research Center Dortmund, Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany Overview: The concept of distinctiveness is of growing importance in the discussion about the future of space. An interdisciplinary methodology helps to overcome the biased view of distinctiveness in current concepts. Theme: Cultural Studies The Javanese Epistemology: Its Relevance to the Development of Science in Indonesia Reno Wikandaru, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Overview: This study formulates Javanese epistemology as the basis for the development of science in Indonesia, to build science that fits with the condition of society in Indonesia. Theme: Cultural Studies
96 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 13:05-14:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Human Rights, Human Security, Governance Government Aid and Relief in Occupied Areas Information Program under the United States Occupation of Okinawa Dr. Hideko Yoshimoto, Department of International Studies, Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Yamaguchi, Japan Overview: Based on the United States national archives, this study determines how the United States used GARIOA appropriations for the United States administration of Okinawa and their information program. Theme: Global Studies Identifying Basic Indicators for Compliance with Human Rights Obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wichai Srirat, Centre for Human Rights Law and Peace Education, School of Law, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Pakkred, Thailand Overview: This paper explains how basic human rights indicators, which are to be used by the Thailand National Human Rights Commission, have been developed. Theme: Civic and Political Studies An Information System for Social and Religious Conflict Management in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Dr. Surwandono Surwandono, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Dr. Sidik Jatmika, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Dr. Ali Maksum, Department of International Relations, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Bantul, Indonesia Overview: This paper asses the relevance of conflict management using information systems and technology. Theme: Social and Community Studies Transitional Justice and Nation-building: A Rationalist Analysis of Transitional Justice Policies Masana Ndinga-Kanga, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa Dr. Hugo van der Merwe, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa Overview: This paper introduces a multi-disciplinary theoretical framework for understanding how critical independent variables have shaped policy options and the scope for stakeholders to shape and implement certain transitional justice mechanisms. Theme: Civic and Political Studies
97 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 13:05-14:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Education for a New Humanity: Changing Trends How Social, Natural, and Applied Scientists Collide and Connect: A Story about Interdisciplinarity Put into Practice in Flemish Schools Dr. Heidi Knipprath, HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Jelle Boeve-de-Pauw, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Stijn Ceuppens, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Mieke De Cock, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Wim Dehaene, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Haydee De Loof, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Jolien De Meester, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Fien Depaepe, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Leen Goovaerts, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Luc Hellinckx, Belgium Annemie Struyf, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Lieve Thibaut, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Didier van de Velde, Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen, Bruxelles, Belgium Peter Van Petegem, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Overview: We illustrate how social, natural, and applied scientists in Flemish education collaborated to produce learning materials for integrated STEM. We also discuss the hurdles and benefits of an interdisciplinary approach. Theme: Educational Studies The Role of Language in the Teaching and Learning of Early Grade Mathematics across Three Developing Countries: A Ten-year Account Dr. Anthony A. Essien, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Yasmin Sitabkhan, International Education Division, RTI, Boston, USA Overview: This study reviews existing research on the role of language in early grade mathematics and the extent intervention programs recognize and attend to language issues in their design and implementation. Theme: Educational Studies “Remember Me”: Enabling Young People’s Voice Regarding Their Futures Tracey Hughes, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK Overview: This paper explores the factors which contribute to selected case study schools, located in socio-economically disadvantaged areas of Scotland, achieving good educational outcomes for their pupils. Theme: Educational Studies Using a Local Language as the Common Denominator in Science Education in a Multilingual Province in the Philippines: A Three-point Perspective Dr. Jualim Datiles Vela, Catanduanes State University, Virac, Philippines Romeleen Samar Go-Vela, Department of Languages, Catanduanes State University, Virac, Philippines Overview: This study determines in which language the Bicol speaking students in the Philippines can understand and express science ideas better. Theme: Educational Studies
98 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 13:05-14:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Literary and Film Studies Uranus' Satellites Contributory to Shakespeare's Infinite Dr. Şebnem Kaya, Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Eryaman, Turkey Overview: This paper first surveys the history of the Uranian satellites' discovery and then correlates these celestial bodies with the relevant characters in a number of plays penned by Shakespeare. Theme: Cultural Studies The Crisis in the Ordinary American Life: John Updike’s "Terrorist" as an Anti-9/ 11 Novel Ryo Hagino, English Department, Stony Brook University, South Setauket, USA Overview: This paper examines Updike's novel as anti-9/11 literature, in which the eventfulness of 9/11 is dissolved by the author’s longtime concern of the private crises in the ordinary American life. Theme: Cultural Studies Construction of “Punctum” Image: The Independent Documentary Film "Metro" Yao Meng, Art Institute, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Overview: Based on Roland Barthes’s theory of punctum and studium, this paper analyzes the narrative function of punctum and the social memory of image by studying an independent document film "Metro." Theme: Cultural Studies Playing between the Aristocrat and the Everyman: Heroic Masculinity Reinvented in "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (2015) Dr. Yutien Ho, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This paper investigates how the film "Kingsman" reinvents heroic masculinity by playing with British cultural heritage. Theme: Cultural Studies Room 6 Political Practice and Policy The Consolidation of Xi Jinping’s Power under the Collective Leadership System Ji-na Park, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: Chinese politics is a collective leadership system; yet, Xi Jinping seems to concentrate power toward himself. This paper debates whether China keeps or breaks the collective leadership system. Theme: Civic and Political Studies The Two Faces of Taiwan's Open-door Visa Policy in the 1980s Eun-bong Choi, Department of Political Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea Do Young Gong, Department of Political Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This paper explains Taiwan's open diplomacy in the 1980s through its visa policy. Theme: Global Studies Forms of Violence in Individual and Collective Agents Yuki Nakamura, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Overview: This paper explores how forms of violence and evil change depending on whether the type of agent perpetrating it is individual or collective. Theme: Social and Community Studies Sovereignty over Cyber Territories Melike Melis Dilisen, Foreign Service Sub-Program, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan Overview: After Xi Jinping’s call for cyber sovereignty, debates over this concept swiftly accelerated. This paper discusses whether the structure of cyberspace is evolving towards a cyber-Westphalian system. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Room 7 Session in Spanish 14:45-15:00 BREAK
99 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 15:00-16:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Educational Change and Reform in Curriculum and Instruction Chinese School District Reform and Educational Inequality Wendy Chen, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, Arlington, USA Overview: This paper examines whether and to what extent the new school district reform in mainland China has an impact on children’s educational inequality. Theme: Social and Community Studies The Impact of Globalization on Emerging and Under-resourced Research Universities: A Case Study of the State University of Zanzibar Rachel Sing-Ee Tan, Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Prof. Tony Harland, Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Dr. Ben Daniel, Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Overview: This study explores how the institution responds to the phenomenon of globalization in a resource-constrained environment and the extent to which it can balance local and international standards. Theme: Global Studies Governance of Government Middle Schools in Beijing and Delhi: Policy Instruments and Stakeholder Incentives Bria Yifei Yan, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Overview: This paper examines teacher and principal training, career development, and inter-stakeholder communication as three long-term supportive accountability instruments in the governance of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi. Theme: Educational Studies Room 2 Social Movements and Civic Activity Social Movements Act as a Magnifying Glass in Society: Political Identity, Value, and Social Perception after the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong Wai Yin Chan, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper investigates the re-orientations of political identity, value, and perception after the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement in September of 2014, conducting a questionnaire-based research among university students and graduates. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Chronology of a Movement: The SlutWalk March in Ensenada, Mexico Sheila Delhumeau Rivera, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico Dr. Andrea Lyn Spears, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico Overview: In Ensenada, Mexico, social activists who have fought for women’s rights, organized the first SlutWalk in the locale to affect changes in the social consciousness and influence public policy. Theme: Social and Community Studies Communicating Democratization in a Cross-cultural Environment: The Case of the Asian Network for Free Elections Rosa Bella M. Quindoza, Department of Communication Research, College of Communication, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Quezon, Philippines Overview: This paper examines cross-cultural communication processes, challenges, and prospects as experienced by an international network of civil society organizations in advancing democratization efforts in countries across Asia. Theme: Cultural Studies
100 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 15:00-16:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 Political Global Studies International Aid, Public Health, and Human Rights: Evaluating a Japan Noncommunicable Disease Project in Fiji in Relation to the Principles of a Rights- based Approach and Mutual Accountability Hanna Yumura, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Overview: This paper is a case study on development aid, public health, and human rights, focusing on Japan's Project for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases in Fiji. Theme: Global Studies Solutions for Post-territorial Sovereignty in Maritime States So Youn (Annie) Kim, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Overview: This paper analyzes the feasible relocation plans and possible international legal solutions for the potential loss of statehood of AOSIS due to the submerging of land from climate change. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Globalization and Global Rural Areas: A Perspective on Transnational Power Relations Danyang Jing, School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China Overview: Globalization is not truly global. An unequal power status among states determines that globalization will not be a perfection. A transnational power-relation perspective is needed. Theme: Global Studies Room 4 Organizational Studies A Functional Requirement Model of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises' Information Systems Piyanush Tooptompong, Technopreneurship and Innovation Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: This study investigates the factors that influence user requirement. This study uses factor analysis techniques to create a relationship model of the request for information system functionality for SMEs. Theme: Organizational Studies Korean Pop Agencies as International Actors Anindya Apta Apsari, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Padjadjaran University, Sumedang, Indonesia Putri Mentari Racharjo, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Padjadjaran University, Sumedang, Indonesia Annisa Rohmaniah, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Padjadjaran University, Sumedang, Indonesia Overview: This paper examines whether Korean pop agencies can be considered multinational corporations, focusing on their influence in the world. Theme: Organizational Studies Organizational Spirituality as the Mediator of the Influence of Individual Spirituality on Work Attitudes Greget Kalla Buana, Business School, Durham University, Durham, UK Overview: This research put individual spirituality as an independent variable and organizational spirituality as a mediator to examine their influence on work attitudes in the workplace. Theme: Organizational Studies
101 FRIDAY, 28 JULY 15:00-16:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Late Additions The Voting Rights Act and the Case for Bail-in: Recent Cases Dr. Daniel McCool, University of Utah, Ogden, USA Prof. Richard Lee Engstrom, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences, Duke University, Chapel Hill, USA Dr. Henry Flores, Department of Political Science, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, USA Overview: This paper analyzes recent cases that requested "bail-in" under the Voting Rights Act in the United States. Theme: Civic and Political Studies Empowering a Coastal Society for Marine Protected Areas Abu Bakar Sambah, Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources Management, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia Didied Affandy, Department of Accounting, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia Overview: This study combines the basic concept of spatial analysis in the term of GIS application and community-based approach in determining the parameters of marine protected areas. Theme: Environmental Studies The New Spatial Logic of Tourism in Catalonia, Spain José Antonio Donaire, Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona, Girona, Spain Overview: The spatial logic of tourism in Catalonia has been transformed as a consequence of destination networks, the search for the "back" of the destination, and de-concentration plans. Theme: Social and Community Studies Room 6 Session in Spanish Room 7 Session in Spanish 16:15-16:45 CONFERENCE CLOSING AND AWARD CERMONY
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Rawy A.Thabet The British University in Dubai United Arab Emirates Hajara Abdul Hameed Pondicherry Central University India Aschalew Abeje Faculty of Social Sciences Ethiopia Carol Abraham New Zealand Defence Force Australia Cherie Acosta Lamar University USA Waleed Afandi Management Information System Saudi Arabia Remshay Ahmed Independent Scholar Pakistan Benadette Aineamani Pearson South Africa South Africa Putri Aisyah Puspita Sebelas Maret University Surakarta Indonesia Chitra Akkoor Keene State College USA Margarita Alario University of Wisconsin, Whitewater USA Eli Alexander Weber State University USA Melina Alexander Weber State University USA Shelley Alexander University of Calgary Canada Becky Alexis-Martin University of Southampton UK Mohammad Ali The University of Texas at Tyler USA Julaine Allan The Lyndon Community Australia Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson University of Lincoln UK Anindya Apta Apsari Universitas Padjadjaran Indonesia Janet Atutubo University of Santo Tomas Philippines Nattawat Auraiampai Khon Kaen University Thailand Dusadee Ayuwat Khon Kaen University Thailand Adriana Babiak-Vazquez KBRwyle @ NASA, Johnson Space Center USA Vladimir Balaz Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia Aviad Bar-Haim Open University of Israel Israel Greg Batchelder The University of Alabama USA Ofelia Becerril El Colegio de Michoacan Mexico Razaile Elaine Besa ANZ Global Services and Operations Philippines Gargi Bhaduri Kent State University USA Ananya Bhuyan University of Delhi India Etta Bick Ariel University Israel Anastasia Tracy Biggs Capella University USA Daryl Bockett Yonsei University South Korea Stephanie Boys Indiana University USA Alan Brady Kwansei Gakuin University Japan Kevin Braouezec French Institute of Geopolitics France Yuliya Brel University of Delaware USA Greget Kalla Buana Durham University UK Gregorius Budi Subanar Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta Indonesia Janet M. C. Burns University of New Brunswick Canada Jaggapan Cadchumsang Khon Kaen University Thailand Cory Callahan University of Alabama USA RC Callahan Weber State University USA
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Karla Cedano Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico Anita Chadha University of Houston Downtown USA Catherine Chan University of Hawaii at Manoa USA Wai Yin Chan Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Yuen Yung Sherry Chan University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Jo-Han Chang National Taipei University of Technology Taiwan Chun-Hsi Chen National Central University Taiwan Juan Chen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Wendy Chen George Mason University USA Eun-bong Choi Ewha Womans University South Korea Martina Chrancokova Slovak Academy of Science Slovakia Rukchanok Chumnanmak Khon Kaen University Thailand Daniel Cooper University of Minnesota USA Marco Cupolo University of Hartford USA Janianton Damanik Indonesian Association of Social Development Scientists Indonesia Saskia Dankwart-Kammoun Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Germany Ruhee Das Chowdhury National Institute of Fashion Technology India Paramita Das University of Calcutta India Leah De Asis University of Eastern Philippines Philippines Benedict Edward DeDominicis Catholic University of Korea South Korea Sarah Deighton Bethlehem Tertiary Institute New Zealand Miguel Antonio Delgado California State University Channel Islands USA Helleseter Sheila Delhumeau Rivera Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico Maria Alyana Diez University of Southeastern Philippines Philippines Jose Antonio Donaire University of Girona Spain Gerald D. Doppelt University of California, San Diego USA Laurie Drapela Washington State University Vancouver USA Dianne Draper University of Calgary Canada Alistair Duff Edinburgh Napier University UK Sonia Claudia Duque Cuartas Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín Colombia Mario Ekoriano National Population and Family Planning Board Indonesia Jamila Elnashef Tel Aviv University Israel Anthony A. Essien University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Weiai Fang Brandeis University USA Lucia Fanning Dalhousie University Canada Joel Feliciano University of Caloocan City Philippines Jorge Ferreira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Aida Johanna Figueroa Blanco Universidad Juan de Castellanos Colombia Robert S. Fortner Palm Beach Atlantic University USA Douglas P. Fry University of Alabama at Birmingham USA Miguel Ángel García-Martín University of Malaga Spain Verônica Gesser Universidade do Vale de Itajaí Brazil Teelotma Ghoorah Consultant Mauritius
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Carlos Humberto Gigoux University of Essex UK Gramegna Malcolm Glover Jack Welch Management Institute USA Romeleen Samar Go-Vela Catanduanes State University Philippines Do Young Gong Ewha Womans University South Korea Priwal Gonghom Mahidol University Thailand Bryn Greer-Wootten York University Canada Binbin Gu Nantong University China Yan Gu University of Washington USA Amit Gupta USAF Air War College USA Ryo Hagino Stony Brook University USA Jhuma Halder Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University India Irm Haleem Nanyang Technological University Singapore Eugene Lloyd Hall University of Minnesota USA Hiroki Hamada Okayama University of Science Japan Yurim Han The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Monika Hanych Masaryk University Czech Republic Syeda Kanwal Hassan Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Yingzi He Guangxi Teachers Education University China Cecep Hermawan Padjadjaran University Indonesia Rob Higgins Kwansei Gakuin University Japan Yutien Ho Tatung University Taiwan Marian Hubbard-Rice University of Utah; Salt Lake City Public Utilities USA Tracey Hughes University of Stirling UK Dan Huo Dalian University of Technology China Valerie Ingham Charles Sturt University Australia Mariam Itani United Nations Development Programme Lebanon Robert Jacobs Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University Japan Luyang Jiang Shanghai International Studies University China Danyang Jing Peking University China Linda Johnson-Bhola University of Guyana Guyana Bonny Jung McMaster University Canada Eun Hee Jung Kwangwoon University South Korea Komali Kantamaneni Southampton Solent University UK Winifred Kanu Imo State University Nigeria Katarina Karasova Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia Şebnem Kaya Hacettepe University Turkey Mansoor Abul Fazl Kazi State University of New York at Fredonia USA Ibrahim Khatib Humboldt University in Berlin Germany Courtney Kidd New York University; Social Justice Solutions USA Jeane Young Kim Yonsei University South Korea Kee Jeong Kim Virginia Tech USA Seoyong Kim Ajou University South Korea So Yeon Kim Yonsei University South Korea
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So Youn (Annie) Kim Carleton University Canada Soyeon Kim Seoul National University South Korea Heidi Knipprath University of Leuven Belgium Jo Ping Ko The Affiliated High School of National Taiwan Chengchi University Chien-Kuo Ku University of Taipei Taiwan Aleksandra Kunce University of Silesia in Katowice Poland Yasin Kutuk Istanbul Kemerburgaz University Turkey Oscar Labra Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue Canada Susie Lamborn University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee USA Tamar Lammfromm The David Yellin Academic College of Education Israel Stephen Anthony Larmar Griffith University Australia Hyunjeong Lee Kyung Hee University South Korea Ming-Long Lee National Dong Hwa University Taiwan Shou-Lu Lee Tzu Chi University Taiwan Songeun Lee Yonsei University South Korea Yu-Hsuan Lee Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages Taiwan Filadelfo Leon-Cazares University of Guadalajara Mexico Eyal Lewin Ariel University Israel Ling-hin Li The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Pranee Liamputtong Western Sydney University Australia Elí Orlando Lozano González Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico David Bruce Lundberg University of South Australia Australia Rosa Bella M. Quindoza Polytechnic University of the Philippines Philippines Ali Maksum Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Indonesia Daria Maltseva Saint Petersburg State University Russian Federation Savannah Mandel University of Florida USA Daniel McCool University of Utah USA Nick McRee University of Portland USA Nattapon Meekaew Khon Kaen University Thailand Carlos Mendez-Guerra Kyushu University Japan Yao Meng Renmin University of China China Rosalyn Mirasol University of Santo Tomas Philippines Carmen Gabriela Mirea University of Alcala USA Eleonora Montuschi Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Italy Nathan Mook Chandler School USA Byongook Moon University of Texas San Antonio USA Abraham Mounitz Safed Academic College Israel Azalia Primadita Muchransyah Bina Nusantara University Indonesia Gyan Mudra National Institute of Rural Development India Fahlesa Munabari Universitas Budi Luhur Indonesia Umaporn Muneenam Prince of Songkla University Thailand Taishi Muraoka Washington University in St. Louis USA Brian Muzas Seton Hall University USA
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Omar Muñoz Sánchez Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Colombia Yuki Nakamura Keio University Japan Wanichcha Narongchai Khon Kaen University Thailand Masana Ndinga-Kanga Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation South Africa Aleksandra Nikolic University of Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro Segev. N Nourit University of Haifa Israel Fabiola Olvera Aldana CONACYT student Mexico Jose José Ortega Martin University of Granada Spain Yiyun Ou University of Málaga Spain Luz Patricia Pardo Martínez Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia Colombia Ji-na Park Sogang University South Korea Jennifer Parlin University of Arizona USA Veronica Piczon University of Eastern Philippines Philippines Chalat Pratheuangrattana King Prajadhipok’s Institute Thailand Tasya Andiana Putri Universitas Negeri Jakarta Indonesia Putri Mentari Racharjo Universitas Padjadjaran Indonesia Ayu Anastasya Rachman University College London UK Faris Rahmadian Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia Alexander Rainof California State University, Long Beach USA Paul Rawlins Weber State University USA Karla F. Ricalde Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico Leandro do Nascimento University of Brasília Brazil Rodrigues Jungho Roh Kookmin University South Korea Voravee Saengavut Khon Kaen University Thailand Yukio Sakurai Rikkyo University Japan Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. University of Houston USA Andrew Sanders Texas A&M University San Antonio USA Pablo Santibanez The University of Queensland Australia Kotaro Sasai McGill University Canada Christopher Schreiner University of Guam Guam Arzu Şener Hacettepe University Turkey Sandro Serpa University of the Azores Portugal Peter Shields Eastern Washington University USA Takuya Shimodaira The National Institute for Defense Studies Japan Janelle C. Simmons Walden University USA Brent Sipes University of Hawaii at Manoa USA Stafford Smith Society for Photographic Education USA Ayse Ilgin Sozen Okayama University Japan Narketta Sparkman Old Dominion University USA Wichai Srirat Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University Thailand Sudarat Sriubon Khon Kaen University Thailand Jeffrey Stafford Eastern Washington University USA
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Jacquine Stork The University of Arizona USA Alyson Stover University of Pittsburgh USA Surwandono Surwandono Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Indonesia Dusanee Suwankhong Thaksin University Thailand Sri Suwartiningsih Satya Wacana Christian University Indonesia Andrew Svedlow University of Northern Colorado USA Yukari Takimoto Amos Central Washington University USA Rachel Sing-Ee Tan University of Otago New Zealand Kamthorn Tantivitayatan Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University Thailand Paul Teedon Glasgow Caledonian University UK Pinar Temocin Hiroshima University Japan Guilherme Temporão Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Rosalie Thackrah Curtin University Australia Lester J. Thompson Southern Cross University Australia Piyanush Tooptompong Chulalongkorn University Thailand Hany Torky United Nations Development Programme United Arab Emirates Manoon Toyama Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University Thailand Octaviana Trujillo Northern Arizona University USA Chien-yu Tsao National Tsing Hua University Taiwan Takalani Grace Tshitangano University of Venda South Africa Nelson Turgo Cardiff University UK Irfan U Din FATA Research Centre Pakistan Kontaros Urbanek Ramkhamhaeng University Thailand Satu Uusiautti University of Lapland Finland Ganga Vadhavkar University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire USA Alejandro Valencia Arias Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia Baiju Vareed Red Deer College Canada Jualim Datiles Vela Catanduanes State University Philippines Claudia Ines Velez Ochoa Fundacion Unversitaria Luis Amigo Colombia Marquita Walker Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis USA Jaesun Wang Honam University South Korea Yuchi Wen The Affiliated High School of National Taiwan Chengchi University Reno Wikandaru Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia Shang-su Wu S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Singapore Xiaoya Xun University of Cambridge UK Bria Yifei Yan National University of Singapore Singapore Fan Yang The University of Melbourne Australia Min Yeo Goldsmiths, University of London UK Hideko Yoshimoto Yamaguchi Prefectural University Japan Yuehui Yu University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Masae Yuasa Hiroshima City University Japan Hanna Yumura Waseda University Japan
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Verna Zafra University of Guam USA Konstantina Zerva Universitat de Girona Spain Xu Zhang Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering China Xiaoyu Zhao Universitu of Warwick UK Jiaan Zhu Guangxi University of Education China Deborah Zipnick Brandman University USA Scott Zukowski Stony Brook University USA
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111 | Conference Calendar 2017–2018
Seventeenth International Second International Conference Conference on Diversity in on Communication & Media Organizations, Communities & Studies Nations UBC Robson Square University of Toronto, Vancouver, Canada | 16–17 November 2017 Chestnut Conference Centre oncommunicationmedia.com/ Toronto, Canada | 26–28 July 2017 2017-conference ondiversity.com/2017-conference Fourteenth International Tenth International Conference Conference on Environmental, on the Inclusive Museum Cultural, Economic & Social University of Manchester Sustainability Manchester, UK | 15–17 September 2017 The Cairns Institute, onmuseums.com/2017-conference James Cook University Cairns, Australia | 17–19 January 2018 onsustainability.com/2018-conference Seventh International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society University of Denver Fourteenth International Denver, USA | 5–6 October 2017 Conference on Technology, healthandsociety.com/2017-conference Knowledge & Society St John’s University, Manhattan Campus New York, USA | 1–2 March 2018 Seventh International Conference techandsoc.com/2018-conference on Food Studies Roma Tre University Rome, Italy | 26–27 October 2017 Eleventh International food-studies.com/2017-conference Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies St John’s University, Manhattan Campus Eighth International Conference New York, USA | 2–3 March 2018 on The Image ubi-learn.com/2018-conference Venice International University Venice, Italy | 31 Oct.–1 November 2017 ontheimage.com/2017-conference Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Aging & Society: Seventh Engineering Interdisciplinary Conference Barcelona, Spain | 5–7 March 2018 University of California at Berkeley designprinciplesandpractices.com/ Berkeley, USA | 3–4 November 2017 2018-conference agingandsociety.com/2017-conference
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Eighteenth International Twenty-fifth International Conference on Knowledge, Conference on Learning Culture, and Change in University of Athens Organizations Athens, Greece | 21–23 June 2018 University of Konstanz thelearner.com/2018-conference Konstanz, Germany | 15–16 March 2018 organization-studies.com/2018-conference Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Eighth International Conference Society on Religion & Spirituality in Emily Carr University of Art + Design Society Vancouver, Canada | 27–29 June 2018 University of California at Berkeley artsinsociety.com/2018-conference Berkeley, USA | 17–18 April 2018 religioninsociety.com/2018-conference Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in Tenth International Conference the Humanities on Climate Change: Impacts & University of Pennsylvania Responses Philadelphia, USA | 5–7 July 2018 University of California at Berkeley thehumanities.com/2018-conference Berkeley, USA | 20–21 April 2018 on-climate.com/2018-conference Sixteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing Third International Conference on & Libraries Tourism & Leisure Studies University of Pennsylvania Hotel Melia Salinas Philadelphia, USA | 7 July 2018 Canary Islands, Spain | 17–18 May 2018 booksandpublishing.com/2018-conference tourismandleisurestudies.com/ 2018-conference Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society Eighth International Conference Florida International University on The Constructed Environment Miami, USA | 19–20 July 2018 Wayne State University sportandsociety.com/2018-conference Detroit, USA | 24–25 May 2018 constructedenvironment.com/ 2018-conference Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Eighteenth International University of Granada Conference on Diversity in Granada, Spain | 25–27 July 2018 Organizations, Communities & thesocialsciences.com/2018-conference Nations University of Texas at Austin Austin, USA | 6–8 June 2018 ondiversity.com/2018-conference
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Eleventh Global Studies Eighth International Conference Conference on Health, Wellness & Society University of Granada Imperial College London Granada, Spain | 29–30 July 2018 London, UK | 20–21 September 2018 onglobalization.com/2018-conference healthandsociety.com/2018-conference
Aging & Society: Eighth Spaces & Flows: Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference International Conference on Toyo University Tokyo, Japan | 18–19 September 2018 Urban and ExtraUrban Studies Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg University agingandsociety.com/2018-conference Heidelberg, Germany | 25–26 October 2018 spacesandflows.com/2018-conference
127 Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Founded in 2006, the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences examines the nature of disciplinary practices in the study of society and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of “real world” applications of social research and theory. The Conference also investigates what constitutes “science” in a social context and the connections between the social and other sciences. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical (research practices and results exemplifying one or more disciplines) to wide-ranging multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives on knowledge 25–27 July and method.
2018 The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is built upon four key features: internationalism, interdisciplinary, inclusiveness, and interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well University of Granada as emerging scholars, all who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple Granada, Spain opportunities to discuss key issues in the field and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks.
Returning Member Registration We are pleased to offer a Returning Member Registration Discount to delegates who have attended the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference in the past. Returning research network members receive a discount off the full conference registration rate.
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