Cognate Fields Research Articles

The New Sociology of Morality

Sociology was once integral to the scientific study of morality, but its explicit focus has waned over the past half-century. This article calls for greater sociological engagement in order to speak to the resurgence of the study of morality in cognate fields. We identify important treatments of morality, some of which are not explicitly so, and identify those treatments that build a distinctly sociological focus on morality: room for culturally divergent understandings of its content, a focus on antecedent social factors that shape it, and a concern with ecologically valid explorations of its social importance.

Salmon and the Adaptive Capacity of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Culture to Cope with Change

Salmon and the Adaptive Capacity of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Culture to Cope with Change Benedict J. Colombi (bio) Change due to natural disturbances and disasters, population growth and decline, economic crises, and environmental and climate change creates significant cultural challenges.1 Rapid change and the transformation it brings also involve complex relationships between sovereign tribes, resources, and the global system. This article explores how salmon and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) people who depend upon them survive given invasion and treaty making, population decline and growth, destruction of salmon habitat and damming of streams, and impending climate change.2 Salmon and Nimiipuu survival are interdependent, and without salmon the Nimiipuu say their culture will die. The Nimiipuu revere salmon as a cultural keystone species, which, for the Nimiipuu, are those species that they rely upon “most extensively to meet their needs[,] . . . are the species that become embedded in cultural traditions and narratives[,] . . . and [are] the ones on which they focus in their immediate activities and conversations.”3 As cultural keystones, Nimiipuu and salmon have forged long-standing economic and spiritual relationship and have coped with continuing change since at least the last Ice Age and perhaps even before that time. Horace Axtell, a Nez Perce elder, commented in September 2008 on the relationship between water and salmon and Nimiipuu culture: “According to our spiritual way of life, everything is based on nature. Anything that grows or lives is part of our spiritual life. The most important element we have in way of life is water. The next most important element is the fish because the fish comes from water.”4 This emphasis on the interdependency of salmon and Nimiipuu culture [End Page 75] requires some clarification. The research presented here draws from more than a decade of my ongoing collaborations as an anthropologist working with the Nimiipuu and tribal programs and before that with a lifetime of dedicating myself to the understanding of rivers, including serving as a professional fly-fishing guide for more than ten years in the Nimiipuu watersheds of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. I also draw insight from a careful reading of the published literature in Native American and Indigenous studies and related cognate fields of anthropology, history, geography, and ecology. Thus, the centrality of salmon to Nimiipuu culture demonstrates that human-animal relationships of this magnitude are not overly simplistic or static, nor are they, as some say, a last-ditch effort to gain hold of salmon with tribal sovereignty in some linear, political-cultural context. Rather, the Nimiipuu have adapted in the face of change for more than four hundred generations and twenty-five hundred salmon generations. In short, the central assertion of this article is twofold: (1) nothing is forever, and change is constant; and (2) the Nimiipuu have retained their adaptive capacity through many substantial changes, and Nimiipuu culture is the strength from which adaptive capacity emerges. Nimiipuu survival is not about trying to sustain some condition from a changing state; rather, Nimiipuu survival is about constant adaptation to the changing needs of Nimiipuu society and culture as a dynamic system. Moreover, the main interest in adaptive capacity is that neither resilience nor sustainability necessarily provides adaptive capacity, while culture does. Resilience and sustainability connote returning to or maintaining some previous state. The Nimiipuu have adapted to dramatic population, environmental, and sociopolitical changes. Thus, what are the features of Nimiipuu culture that make it adaptive? Nimiipuu Culture as Adaptive A long and diverse history provides many insights into Nimiipuu adaptive strategies. First, the Nimiipuu have maintained an Indigenous knowledge system of water and migrating salmon that has been told in tribal narratives since the people have lived in the drainages of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. This realization focuses on Nimiipuu and salmon responding to periods of great change and how they reorganize themselves to cope with that change. Moreover, the Nimiipuu and [End Page 76] salmon migrate across many jurisdictions and scales and swim through many cultures and environments, linking together complex social, political, and economic relationships. Second, the Nimiipuu’s encounters with salmon suggest that “local knowledge, environmental values, place attachments, and cultural landscapes are all functionally interdependent,” so sovereignty in...

Patterns of Legalization in the Internet: Do We Need a Constitutional Theory for Internet Law?

The paper acknowledges a growing web of legal norms that regulate governance aspects of the Internet. Some of these norms are legally binding; others are closer to what some scholars call soft law. In order to take stock of these developments, I propose an explorative typology that can bring some systematic order into the plurality of Internet norms. Although my framework is not exhaustive, it already sheds some light into future challenges that we should expect. The prospective types that I provide are (a) positivation of soft law, whereby the latter enters the formalized procedures of statutory law; (b) legalization through complementarity, which refers to positive legal instruments belonging to cognate fields flanking the content of soft law; c) informal legalization, which is based on the reproduction, dissemination, and persuasiveness of legal discourses; d) conflicting legalization, a type that aims at highlighting the conflicts of laws that can arise due to the progressive legalization. The results reveal that different types of Internet norms also contain a considerable potential for mutual conflicts. Whenever this occurs, we will have to make some significant choices related to the prevalence of certain social goods over others. Since the Internet environment is not a democratic republic, we cannot resort to significant procedural rules that could ordinarily prescribe hierarchies. However, the results of my typology also seems to suggest that there is considerable room for ordering principles and values according to deliberative arrangements or public reasoning. Although research on Internet governance has provided valuable insights into actors, processes, and interests, the time seems right to focus on the proto-­legal order that is already in place. The normative question is already waiting for us: How should we deal with this nascent web of Internet laws? The paper claims that unless we shut down the Internet, we will have to engage in dialogue about the “c” word; “c” as in constitution.

Mini-Workshop: The Homotopy Interpretation of Constructive Type Theory

Over the past few years it has become apparent that there is a surprising and deep connection between constructive logic and higherdimensional structures in algebraic topology and category theory, in the form of an interpretation of the dependent type theory of Per Martin-Löf into classical homotopy theory. The interpretation results in a bridge between the worlds of constructive and classical mathematics which promises to shed new light on both. This mini-workshop brought together researchers in logic, topology, and cognate fields in order to explore both theoretical and practical ramifications of this discovery.

The Darfur Sultanate: A History * By R. S. O'FAHEY

Darfur needs no introduction. Over the past half decade it has come to have a reputation as a desolate place cursed by mass death and destruction willed by the brutality of its central state and local clients, known for the ceaseless suffering of its poor, displaced multitudes. It has also become a pawn in a geo-political game with various regional and international players pushing their own specific agendas of intervention. So Darfur has come to have huge coverage in the global media. In response to this, a few short background works quickly came off the presses, in addition to the recycled recent history in much of the journalism covering Africa. There are, however, hardly any scholarly works of history about that now infamous place called Darfur. Few scholars have had the skills, stamina and networks to work there and go on working on it over decades. R. S. O’Fahey is one of that very small number. His initial research began in the late 1960s and he has more-or-less stuck to his subject in between detours into the surrounding areas and cognate fields. He can therefore write on Darfur with the confidence of a man who arrived there about 40 years ago, has returned many times, collected now often vanished or destroyed documentary sources, and already spent a career reflecting on, and writing, its history. However, the sources are often so thin he has to rely on some intelligent conjecture and speculation; he is, of course, fully aware of this challenge and deftly handles numerous tricky issues of historical interpretation throughout his new book.

The Changing Nature of Theory and Practice in Marketing: on the Value of Synchrony

Any academic discipline with a closely associated area of professional endeavour is profoundly affected by the relationship between its theory and practice. Synchrony in theory and practice adds value to the management of enterprise and to the advance of the discipline. Mindful of this assertion, this article explores the changing nature of theory and practice in marketing. It examines current trends in marketing practice which are occurring as a result of change in markets, technology and organisations. It assesses the state of theory in six subfields of marketing. It also considers developments in closely related management disciplines as well as in a number of cognate fields. The authors suggest there is considerable asynchrony at the moment and that this is, in general, bad for both theorist and practitioner: doldrums in the marketing academy and the threatened end of the marketing department in business. To restore greater synchrony with practice, it is argued that marketing theory needs not just to ...

Mobilising French Studies

Preface (2014) by Charles ForsdickWhen Mobilising French Studies was published in 2011, it constituted attempt reflect on what might happen when we privilege a potent keyword - in this case mobility, and its verb form to mobilize - across a specific disciplinary field. I was particularly interested in the ways in which the harnessing of the polysemy of might resonate through French studies, federating existing activity, catalysing fresh work and approaches, enhancing or encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogues, and offering a possible platform on which we might continue build the essential of what Mary Louise Pratt helpfully dubbed a new public idea about language. One of the main triggers for the article was Stephen Greenblatt's Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, intervention that crystallized pithily a number of ideas - developed most notably over the past two decades in the work of scholars such as James Clifford, Timothy Cresswell, Mimi Sheller and John Urry - around the place of travel, translation and transfer as phenomena constitutive of cultures in their historical emergence and contemporary reality. Greenblatt's provocation has perhaps not attracted the attention it merits, although his Cardenio continues demonstrate the potential of such approach literature, culture and performance.1 Also, specifically within French studies, a number of researchers have linked this more general reflection on mobility emerging phenomena such as litterature-monde, have deployed Greenblatt's manifesto investigate complex regions such as the Indian Ocean, and have factored his work in this field into consideration of emerging areas such as the dynamics of translation;2 in addition, initiatives such as the ULIP-based journal Francospheres (also published by Liverpool University Press) have sought - in the spirit of the manifesto - define and question the presence of French and culture across frontiers and borders;3 and the historicization of contact and mobility has been subject more generally close scrutiny in a number of ongoing projects.4I still remain convinced that can operate as enabling term for work in French studies as the field continues face a series of challenges likely prove definitive. Not only, as I suggest in the article, does a creative response the challenges of Greenblatt's manifesto allow complement language and interculturality in identification of those phenomena with which all students and scholars in French studies could/should associate themselves, no matter on which cultural artefact, historical period or geographical zone of the Francosphere they may focus; but also, such a manoeuvre provides a clear indication as why French studies - and Modern Languages more generally - should develop and underline its key role in the transformation of teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences into what I described in the article that follows as an overarching disciplinary project fit address the challenges of a world seen as increasingly characterized by transnational and globalized connections. I am struck on re-reading Mobilising French Studies by the extent which the article remains ebauche, and I have indeed continued in my own work (on travel writing, postcolonial literature and translating cultures more generally) explore the implications of what I outlined. In the intervening few years since I wrote the piece, the convergence of the interests of French studies with those of the wider disciplinary field of Modern Languages has become increasingly apparent. Although I would consequently argue that has a relevance for a range of cognate fields concerned with the study of literatures, cultures and languages other than English, I still identify the potential of a specific mobilization of French studies, linked not only the unique geographical and more generally dynamics of the Francosphere, but also associated with a rich body of thought (produced by Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour, Etienne Balibar and others) that underpins the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. …

Development geography

This article offers a selective slice into the wide-ranging scholarship in critical development studies. It reaches outside of ‘development studies’ proper to explore points of intersection and complementarity with cognate fields, and identifies promising directions for future inquiry, analysis, and practice. It attends in particular to the political geographic imaginaries that frame contestations over the 2010 G20 Summit. These struggles represented both the extremes of anti-democratic neoliberal governance, as well as diverse and creative tactics aimed at building alternative alliances and social movements. The strength of recent critical development studies lies in its capacity to connect analysis of the violence and exclusion characteristic of both old and new imperialist geographies with practical and normative commitments to the creation and sustenance of spaces of political possibility. In making this call, we seek to expand the conversations of critical development scholars by paying particular attention not only to senior scholars in the field, but also to some important new research by emerging scholars.

Introducing Greek Tragedy

Introducing Greek Tragedy George Kovacs A.F. Garvie. The Plays of Aeschylus. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. Pp. 80. £11.99. ISBN 9781853997075. R. Mitchell-Boyask. Aeschylus: Eumenides. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. 157. US $24.00. ISBN 9780715636428. A. Kelly. Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. 176. £12.99. ISBN 9780715637135. E. Hall, E. Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 413. £30.00 ISBN 9780199232512. Greek tragedy always finds new readers. We, as educators, functional custodians and publicists of antiquity, must do what we can to optimize that readership, both for quantity and quality, attracting newcomers and training them in the critical appraisal and appreciation of some of the most culturally significant texts in human history. Thus the recent surge of books designed for those readers new to the experience of Greek tragedy is a welcome one. These books target various demographics: Rabinowitz 2008 and Scodel 2010 are for new readers of tragedy, while works like Goldhill 2007 and Walton 2009 aim to bring Greek tragedy to contemporary theatre practitioners. Prior to Gregory 2005 and Storey and Allan 2005, there were few books in this category. Ley 1991 (revised 2006) is short, while McLeish 2003 spends much time summarizing each of the plays and supporting material (glossary, bibliography) is limited. Each of these volumes has its strengths. The mandate for this review is a broad one: to assess collectively and reflect upon the recent spate of books billed [End Page 69] as introductions to Greek tragedy. The volumes here under specific review are for different niches in academic pedagogy, but all include the word “introduction” somewhere on the jacket. Considering the range of audience competencies one can expect to find in academia, from first-year undergraduates with little experience of theatre or literature to graduate students (or beyond) in cognate fields, such as drama or comparative literature programs, the idea of an “introduction” becomes a moving target. This is to say nothing of those potential readers outside the academy, in whom we must believe if we are going to make claims of relevancy in the world today. Many of the variables of defining an introduction have been examined in the debate on companionship: the phenomenon of self-identified “companions” to authors, genres, historical periods, et cetera, usually professing a mandate of accessibility. Two of my review volumes self-identify as companions, and in fact are most deserving of the term, given that the Duckworth volumes are each intended to be read in tandem with their play. Josiah Ober has recently questioned the value of this trend (cautioning without condemning), noting that the definition of “Companion” is sorely tested when applied to such a range of works. How then to define an introduction and judge its value? I have mainly limited myself to concerns of pedagogy within the (Canadian) university. This may prove unfair to some of the works on my list, but these are the new readers we know best, the ones we can shape and train. How useful are these volumes to students, both during the run of a University course and afterwards? To which students are they useful? The introductory volume must be accessible, thorough, and well rounded, with as many approaches represented as possible, alongside supporting paratext (glossaries, chronologies, lists of suggested reading). One metric I found telling was the appropriateness of each volume in the bibliography for a student paper. If I require a given number of sources in a student’s bibliography, would I count Garvie’s volume on Aeschylus toward that quota? Probably not, given its brevity, though Garvie would swiftly lead the student to several other useful sources. I have a similar conversation with classes about online sources: Wikipedia is not a suitable bibliographic source, but it may lead to proper peer-reviewed sources and it takes only a short time to determine this. Wikipedia is a research tool, not a source. We are not going to keep our students from these resources, and part of our job must be to train the students to recognize their...

1999-2009 A Hertzian Decade

This new feature in Journal of Design History has been prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Design History Society in recognition of the emergence of design history as a discrete academic discipline. The feature has two aims. First, to reassess and evaluate writing on the history of design. It will reconsider the texts that influenced the pioneers of design history, as well as the books by those early pioneers who emerged after the founding of the discipline of design history. This will include the influence and impact of writing from cognate fields – for example, from anthropology, ethnography, literary criticism, geography – on the development of the discipline. Second, it will re-appraise texts on the practice of design that have become part of the history of design. For example, a future review will look at Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World (Pantheon Books, 1971). We thus invite suggestions from contributors for this feature. Enquiries should be addressed to the book reviews editor. Deborah Sugg Ryan

Foreign Policy Studies in Australia

Australian contributions to foreign policy analysis have focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the study of Australian foreign policy. Contributions have been made not just by political scientists, but also by historians, journalists and practitioners. While some Australians have made theoretical contributions that are relevant to understanding foreign policy, the emphasis in the study of Australian foreign policy has not been strongly theoretical. The main focus has been on giving greater depth to issues that have been important in the public debate about foreign policy in Australia. Considerable attention has been given to Australia's major Western relationships (Britain and then the United States) and also the Asia‐Pacific regional environment. During the pre‐Second World War and Cold War periods the emphasis in the study of Australian foreign policy was broadly realist (at least implicitly), but there was also an assumption that there was an element of choice in relation to the major issues. In the post‐Cold War era Australia's international situation has become more complex, and this has been reflected in foreign policy studies. While the realist tradition is still strong, there has been more scope for critical approaches to emerge. Developments in cognate fields such as political economy, security studies and environmental politics have had some impact. There is considerable scope for more theoretically engaged work to be undertaken, but it is also important to continue the focus on the issues that are important in the public debate about foreign policy in Australia.

Making a Traditional Study-Abroad Program Geographic: A Theoretically Informed Regional Approach

Geographers have been active in numerous focused study-abroad programs, but few have created or led language-based programs overseas. This article describes the development of a Spanish language program in Ecuador and how it was made geographic primarily through a theoretically informed regional geography course. The approach employs theoretical and conceptual approaches from geography and cognate fields in order to understand the landscapes and livelihoods of a given place. The article provides examples of historic landscapes, landscapes of production, and migrant landscapes. The examples demonstrate the origin of material landscape features, how landscapes are processes integral to society and the economy at multiple scales, and the labor and capital that are used to create landscapes. Geographers have much to contribute to language-based programs and incorporating landscape interpretation is a particularly useful approach.

An Occupational Perspective on the Assessment of Social Competence in Children

Maintaining relationships and interacting socially are essential aspects of the occupational performance of childhood and adolescence. Social participation occurs during many childhood occupations, such as play and school work. Occupational therapists assess and treat children with difficulties in social participation. Rather than assessing a child's social skills deficits in isolation, the use of occupation-based theoretical models guides clinicians to consider the individual in his or her environments and during occupations. Familiarity with existing models of social competence and available assessment tools provides occupational therapists with the basis for a comprehensive assessment of children. This paper presents an occupational therapy model (the Model of Human Occupation), models of social competence from cognate fields and a range of assessment tools in order to guide occupational therapists in assessing and treating children with social participation difficulties in a more occupation-centred manner. The paper also presents a rationale for the use of multiple methods for a comprehensive assessment of a child's social competence.

Theory and practice across disciplines: implications for the field of management

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate about the existence and nature of a “gap” between theory and practice in management.Design/methodology/approachThe putative theory/practice “gap” in management is investigated by examining the theory/practice debate in three cognate fields–economics, nursing and marketing.FindingsThe relationship between theory and practice is actively debated in all three of the fields. In economics, criticism has been directed at the implicit ontological assumptions made in formal mathematical methods employed by orthodox neoclassical economists. In nursing the debate has centred on the practical issues associated with implementing evidence based practice; in particular identifying and seeking to overcome barriers to implementation. In marketing, managers find most academic theory difficult to read and irrelevant; this may be because the goals of academics and the goals of practitioners are different.Research limitations/implicationsPotentially fruitful topics for further research are identified at the pragmatic, epistemological and ontological levels.Originality/valueThe paper identifies lessons for the field of management research from economics, nursing and marketing. Each of these three areas provides a unique lens through which to view the research/practice “gap” in management.

Reconnecting Knowledge Utilization and Evaluation Utilization Domains of Inquiry

Abstract: This article provides commentary for the thematic segment titled “Applying a variety of methods to the evaluation of various efforts aimed at transferring knowledge generated from research.” The authors revisit arguments supporting inquiry that takes up the challenge of connecting cognate fields of evaluation utilization and the broader domain of knowledge utilization. The central contribution of each of the foregoing articles is identified and situated within the context of ongoing inquiry in this domain.

Overlapping and Interlocking Frames for Humanities Literary Studies: Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa

Overlapping and Interlocking Frames for Humanities Literary Studies:Assia Djebar, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa Anne Donadey (bio) Abstract This article calls for more comparative perspectives among four cognate fields of study: postcolonial, feminist, ethnic, and francophone studies. Following the insights of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, Gayatri Spivak, and Ella Shohat, I argue for decolonial feminist practices in comparative research. I provide specific examples of such decolonial feminist scholarship through comparing and contrasting multilingual strategies in the works of three transnational feminist writers: francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, anglophone postcolonial filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe, and Chicana essayist and poet Gloria Anzaldúa. The presence of indigenous, national, or ethnic languages in texts written in English or French defamiliarizes these dominant languages for native speakers of French or English, and makes those languages more hospitable to native speakers of Arabic, Shona, or Spanish. I demonstrate how understanding the linguistic subtleties of the texts allows for more nuanced, culturally-relevant feminist interpretations of the message of the works. This article addresses the need for more comparative perspectives among four cognate fields of study: postcolonial, feminist, ethnic, and francophone studies.1 Francophone studies is the analysis of literature and culture produced in French by authors coming from former French colonies; postcolonial studies represents the theories, histories, and literature emerging from former British colonies; U.S. ethnic studies analyzes the socio-political conditions as well as the literary and cultural productions of people of color in the U.S.; and feminist studies proposes theories taking into account perspectives committed to women's liberation worldwide. I first outline my general argument, and then provide specific examples of decolonial feminist scholarship through an examination of multilingual strategies in the [End Page 22] works of three transnational feminist writers: francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, anglophone postcolonial filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe, and Chicana essayist and poet Gloria Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa's theorization of borderlands is invaluable to developing the concept of "overlapping and interlocking" frames of analysis (Donchin 2004, 320). Anzaldúa differentiates borders that act as arbitrary lines separating two discrete countries from borderlands, areas around the borders that serve to blur the boundaries and are sites of ambivalence and tension as well as transition and intellectual expansion (1999, 25). While Anzaldúa was writing about a real borderland, the one separating and uniting Mexico and the U.S., her paradigm-shifting work contributed to a reformulation of Chicano/a studies as "border studies" (the work of Paul Gilroy [1993] a few years later contributed to a similar reformulation of Black/African American studies as "Black Atlantic"/Africana studies). This coincided with the beginnings of a sustained interest in transnational frameworks in academia. The influence of these two scholars' works went far beyond ethnic or feminist studies, and contributed to profound reorientations in many areas of humanities research (Castillo 2006, 260-61). In an important essay on the centrality of Anzaldúa's work, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano cautions against "universalizing the theory of mestiza or border consciousness, which the text painstakingly grounds in specific historical and cultural experiences" (1998, 13) in order to preclude "[a]ppropriative readings" in which everyone becomes a mestiza and difference and specificity are erased (14; see also Phelan 1997; Castillo 2006). While I agree with Yarbro-Bejarano that what Emma Pérez (1999) would call Anzaldúa's "decolonial imaginary" should not be flattened out by a postmodern translation of the concept of borderlands that would erase its historical and cultural grounding by turning it into a disembodied metaphor that all can come to claim, it is also important to remember that Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera has at least two levels of address: one deals with the specificity of the Chicana/o history in the U.S./Mexican borderlands; the other seeks to make a space for Chicanas/os and others whose identities cannot be reduced to binaries in a variety of locations, including the academy. Anzaldúa's first words in Borderlands/La Frontera emphasize this very multiplicity of addresses: "The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S. Southwest/Mexican border. The...

Babies and bathwaters: reflecting on the pitfalls of critical terrorism studies

This paper examines some of the key challenges critical terrorism studies will have to face. Starting from the premise that a critical turn must both challenge traditional approaches to ‘terrorism’ and provide an umbrella under which traditional and critical perspectives from ‘terrorism studies’ and cognate fields can converge, the article reflects on the tensions this will introduce, ranging from how to define the boundaries of a critical field and whether to adopt the term ‘terrorism’ as a field delineator, to the need for policy-relevance and the tensions this introduces between striving to influence policy and avoiding co-optation. The paper ends with a reflection on the challenge of being sensitive to cultural and contextual differences while remaining true to one's emancipatory agenda.

2007 Call for Papers: APSA Annual Meeting, August 30–Sept 2, 2007 Chicago, IL

Politics are ubiquitous in social life, shaping all manner of interactions in so many spheres of human activity. From the playground to the retirement community, from the marketplace to the halls of government, from families to the global economy, we are constantly engaged in political struggles large and small. Political science, in turn, has long been fundamentally interdisciplinary, exchanging ideas, theories, data, and methods with fields from anthropology to zoology;mo;usb;mc; – and everything in between. As political science has become a more self-conscious discipline, it has simultaneously grown more aware of its intellectual debts and on-going contributions to cognate fields of study. The 103rdAnnual Meeting of the American Political Science Association will celebrate the interdisciplinary nature of political science and highlight new opportunities for intellectual exchange across disciplinary boundaries.

A Case for Critical Terrorism Studies?

AbstractThat ‘terrorism research’ is mired by epistemological, methodological and political-normative problems is well established. What is usually overlooked is that, beyond the difficulties inherent in ‘terrorism research’, these problems are exacerbated by two further factors: the predominance of what Cox called a ‘problem-solving’ approach, and the dispersed nature of much of the more rigorous, ‘critical’ and conceptually innovative research on ‘terrorism’ in cognate fields that, for ideological, theoretical or practical reasons, are reluctant to engage with ‘terrorism studies’. A ‘critical turn’ is needed to reverse both these trends, but it must be inclusive and seek to be policy relevant.

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

article, Patricia Martin and DavidCollinson (2002) chart the obstacles scholars face in developing an inte-grated body of research on gender and organization. Arguing that theimpediments to such an endeavour far outweigh the incentives, they suggestthat gender and organization scholars ‘strike out’ on their own to establish anew, autonomous field of ‘gendered organization’. In this essay, we build onMartin and Collinson’s case, suggesting one way that striking out could berealized in its positive (venturing forth) rather than negative (baseball) sense.Our response stems from our own positioning as critical-feministresearchers who ‘do scholarship’ in the US-based field of organizational com-munication. This field of study is disciplinarily distinct from, but informallyrelated to, such cognate fields as management and organization studies.Although absent from Martin and Collinson’s case, organizational commu-nication studies represents an emergent site of scholarship that already wres-tles with many of the obstacles to disciplinary development faced by thenascent field of gendered organizations. Given its position in the academicinterstices between the more established disciplinary communities that studyorganization, our field is situated — institutionally, intellectually, and ideo-logically — to function as an inclusive, integrative site of gender and orga-nization scholarship, across bodies of water and disciplinary boundaries.And yet, despite such a potential, many scholars concerned with genderedorganization appear to remain unaware of our field’s existence.With this essay, we seek to enhance awareness of organizational commu-nication studies and to further develop the potential of our field to contributeto the study of gender and organization. Acting as ambassadors of sorts, weaim to introduce gender, work and organization scholars to organizationalcommunication research on gender, power, and organization and to demon-strate how that research represents a significant exception to the key patterns