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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES INTERNATIONAL
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
Diversity Management in the Middle East
Guest Editors: Ronald J. Burke, Jawad Syed and F. Pinar Acar
Equal Opportunities International is pleased to announce a special issue
focused on diversity management in the Middle East. The special issue
will examine different types of national and corporate institutions,
strategies,
theoretical ideas, and activities involved in diversity and equality
practices in the Middle East. The special issue aims to offer a range
of national, ideological and practical perspectives on diversity and equal
opportunity; what diversity management means both for those who do equality
and diversity work as professionals and as activists, and those who
experience its effects in countries as diverse as Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
Israel, Egypt, Iran, Qatar, UAE, and other countries which are
considered to be a part of the greater Middle East. The Middle East
lies at the juncture of Eurasia and Africa and of the Mediterranean
Sea and the Indian
Ocean. It is the birthplace and spiritual centre of three main
Abrahamic religions,i.e., Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The
economic structure of Middle Eastern countries is also diverse in the
sense that while some countries are heavily dependent on export of oil
and oil-related products (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran), others
have a highly diverse economic and industrial base (e.g., Egypt and
Israel).
The special issue poses questions about what is distinctive about current
discourses and practices of equality and diversity in the Middle East,
how different or similar they are to the Western discourses of diversity
management, and their possible implications for governments, organisations
and individuals.
Papers are invited from academics and practitioners who do work in the
area of equality and diversity, including but not limited to the areas of
religion, age, disability, ethnicity (race), gender, sexualities and
from a range of national contexts. We invite papers that deal with
these issues
either in a single country or in a comparative perspective. Papers could
include reflections on:
State institutions of diversity and equality: governance, local
authorities, equality commissions, third sector/not for profit
organisations, funding regimes including potential country specific
differences in affirmative action, statutes, and laws.
Activism and the politics of diversity and equality: insiders,
outsiders, social movements, communities, activist organisations, boundary
work.
The bureaucratisation and technologies of diversity and equality:
audits, equality measures, monitoring, policy documents, corporate plans,
targets, equality standards, diversity training, and other organisational
initiatives.
Diversity and equality formations: regional and national
anti-racism, corporate diversity, femocracies, office reform
movements, and state equality practices.
The professionalisation of diversity and equality:
credentialisation, equality consultancy, the expertise of equality practice,
equality professionals and competences.
Discriminatory practices and policies of unequal employment
prevalent in countries of the region, their influence on the stigmatised,
and coping mechanisms.
The editors invite contributions to the above or to further issues
that can be usefully raised in examining diversity management in the Middle
East. We are particularly interested in papers, either conceptual or
empirical,
that offer fresh contributions to the existing 'mainstream' literature and
its underlying assumptions of diversity management. We also seek papers that
break new ground and outline new directions for interdisciplinary
conversation and diversity research.
This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind
reviewed in the normal way. Submission will be taken to imply that a paper
contains original work that has not previously been published and is not
under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should follow the
journals regular guidelines, as published in every issue of the journal.
Papers should be no longer than 7000 words.
October 1, 2008 Call for papers issued
March 1, 2009 Submission of papers
July 1, 2009 Editorial decision
2010 Anticipated publication of the special issue
Prospective contributors can also liaise with the guest editors before
the submission date to discuss the suitability of their work for this
publication. All submissions for the special issue will be subject to
full peer review.
For further information about the journal, and link to author
guidelines and submission, please visit the EOI web pages via:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=eoi
Please note that the submissions should be made through the Manuscript
Central. Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted
online via
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eoi (selecting "Special Issue
Paper?" (Diversity Management in Asia) as the Manuscript Type).
Guest Editors
Ronald J. Burke
Schulich School of Business
York University
Toronto, Canada
Tel: +1 416 7362100, ext. 77921
Email:
rburke@schulich.yorku.ca
Jawad Syed
Kent Business School
University of Kent
Canterbury, UK
Tel: +44 1227 824114
Email:
j.syed@kent.ac.uk
F. Pinar Acar
Department of Business Administration
Middle East Technical University
Inonu Bulvari
Ankara, Turkey
Tel: +90 312 2102052
Email:
pacar@metu.edu.tr
F. Pinar Acar, Ph.D.
Department of Business Administration
Middle East Technical University
Inonu Bulvari
Ankara, TURKEY
Tel: +90 (312) 210-2052
E-Mail:
pacar@metu.edu.tr