scholarly journals Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology on Aging and the Middle East

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Glicksman ◽  
May Jawad Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Special Issue

Building Cultural Bridges Between China and India

2021 ◽  
pp. 097133362199045
Author(s):  
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
China And India ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Social Behaviours

Employing one of the established theories from cross-cultural psychology and sociology, first it is shown that both China and India are collectivist cultures. Then the Chinese and Indian worldviews are compared to highlight fundamental similarities between the two cultures. Finally, it is shown how self-cultivation is emphasised in both China and India. Effort is made to show how ideas presented by Confucius and Lao Tsu are captured in the Indian culture and social behaviours. A number of issues are raised for the development of indigenous knowledge from multiple perspectives using various paradigms and methodology. It is hoped that the special issue and this article will stimulate researchers to bridge Chinese and Indian psychologies which may pave the path towards peaceful prosperity.

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loubna H. Skalli
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
North African ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
African Youth

Knowledge about the generation of Middle East and North African youth has been constrained by the twin processes of intense visibilization and securitization since 9/11. The introduction to this special issue pushes research on youth beyond these processes to reveal the complex and creative ways in which young men and women have been negotiating gendered identities, spaces and power. What emerges from is a refocused appreciation of youth politics and participation, altered forms of resistances and redefined spaces and forms of protest.

scholarly journals Revisiting Doing Business in the Middle East

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
David Desplaces ◽  
Nancy K. McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Management ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
A Company

This case engages students on a number of issues common to doing business in other countries, specifically in the Middle East. It is intended to be a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of the situation. The case seeks to integrate issues of international management and cross-cultural conflict and negotiation. Students are challenged to diagnose a cross-culturally sensitive situation and develop solutions in a team environment under limiting time restraints. This case is also designed to help students understand the cultural aspects of a situation and how different solutions could have major consequences on the bottom line of a company.

‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’

Ethnography ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146613812110428
Author(s):  
Dario Nardini ◽  
Giuseppe Scandurra
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
National Local

This special issue on hand-to-hand sports aims to analyse how collective identities and forms of group and community belonging are defined, strengthened, built, imagined or even denied in the sportive and social contexts in which hand-to-hand combat or wrestling disciplines are practised. Considering the wide-ranging cross-cultural distribution of combat and wrestling practices in very different cultures and societies across the contemporary world, this issue intends to provide a (not-exhaustive) comparison of practices originating in highly heterogeneous geographical, social and cultural contexts. Indeed, comparisons focus on specific practices (combat and wrestling activities) and their relationship with belonging. The contributing scholars have studied and reflected on a particular style of wrestling or combat practice and its links to social belonging and identity, whether it be expressed on regional or national, local or global, social or ethnic, institutional or ‘counter-cultural’, symbolic or concrete levels.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Leadership and Culture in the Middle East

2001 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayat Kabasakal ◽  
Ali Dastmalchian
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Indian Ocean Traffic: Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lola Sharon Davidson ◽  
Stephen Muecke
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Privileged Site

Like the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean has been a privileged site of cross-cultural contact since ancient times. In this special issue, our contributors track disparate movements of people and ideas around the Indian Ocean region and explore the cultural implications of these contacts and their role in processes that we would come to call transnationalization and globalisation. The nation is a relatively recent phenomenon anywhere on the globe, and in many countries around the Indian Ocean it was a product of colonisation and independence. So the processes of exchange, migration and cultural influence going on there for many centuries were mostly based on the economics of goods and trade routes, rather than on national identity and state policy.

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