Growing Unequal? brings together a range of analyses on the distribution of economic resources in OECD countries. The evidence on income distribution and poverty covers,for the first time,all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s,while information on trends extending back to the mid-1980s is provided for around two-thirds of the countries. The report also [...] [...]
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| Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that,in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin,the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 –28,2011 in Berlin,Germany. This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside [...] [...] The current update summarises the main findings of this research,while outlining developments since the last Barrier report,issued in July 2009. This year,in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO),the update focuses on the impact of the Barrier on health,in particular patient and staff access to the specialized medical facilities only [...] [...] The final program for the conference is now available aspdf and at http://discoveryspace.upei.ca/mprg/node/412 [...] The Journal für Psychologie Issue 1/2010 is now available at http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp-1-2010.html [...] Permalink The New Association of Psychology (NGfP) is a coalition of researchers and practitioners in the field of psychology as well as related disciplines. Our goal is to establish a critical discourse about psychological topics that takes into account the societal and cultural dimensions. The NGfP supports inter- and transdisciplinary research and works on closing [...] [...] Hindsight:The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward Although the idea of hindsight is frequently associated with the biases,distortions,and outright lies of memory–as in the infamous “20-20” scenario or the conviction that one “knew it all along” –Mark Freeman maintains that this process of looking backward over the terrain of the past [...] [...] Call For Papers (Extended Deadline) Marxism and Psychology Conference The University of Prince Edward Island August 5-7,2010 Website:http://vre.upei.ca/mprg/ Contact:marfken@upei.ca Submission Deadline:February 1,2010 (Extended Deadline) In the history of social thought,it is difficult to find a more divisive figure than Karl Marx. For many,the mere mention of his name conjures up images of totalitarian regimes dominating [...] [...] Roskilde University,Denmark,26 to28 May 2010 This conference focuses on the everyday practices of persons,and the interplay between actors and social structures in everyday life. Everyday life in the Nordic and Europeans societies is characterized by an unprecedented rupture of economic and political systems,cultural meanings and individual identities. Global and environmental changes force [...] [...] Spawned by the linguistic turn,and in psychology specifically by the narrative turn associated with the names of Theodor Sarbin and Jerome Bruner,language became the central focus in many areas of the social sciences. The special issue of the German Journal für Psychologie aims to look behind the curtains of this development to investigate [...] [...] |
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