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EOI 2009 Conference, 15-17 July 2009, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">ISTANBUL</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>

"Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Times of Crises"

www.eoi-conference.org

Equal Opportunities International Conference will take place at <st1:placename w:st="on">Bosphorus</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, <st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city>, one of the foremost academic institutions in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>: http://www.boun.edu.tr/resimler/guney_kampus_1.html

Stream Call for Papers

Track 3: Diversity Management in Asia and the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>

Track chairs

Jawad Syed, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Kent</st1:placename></st1:place>, Email: j.syed@kent.ac.uk

Faiza Ali, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Macquarie</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Email: fali@efs.mq.edu.au

Track outline

Unprecedented economic growth of countries such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has drawn scholarly attention to management issues in the Asian context. However, it is well documented that countries in Asia as well as in the greater <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> do not enjoy a common approach to management. Diversity management in Asia and the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> remains a novel and under-studied subject. Furthermore, the evidence of diversity management practices across Asia and the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> appears divergent. A similar pattern of divergence in diversity management practices is observable in Europe and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. As diversity management is an expressly Western management concept, papers in this stream will explore diversity management in the Asian and Middle Eastern geography.

In this stream, we are interested in research or practitioner oriented papers examining the unique context, codes and processes of managing equality, diversity and inclusion in Asia and the Middle East as well as in Asian or/and Middle Eastern diaspora throughout the world. The stream is interested in papers which can provide a critical and evidence based understanding of diversity management in that territory. This stream will be attractive for researchers and postgraduate students who wish to understand the methodological and thematic idiosyncrasies of researching on diversity management in organisational settings.

Papers are invited from academics and practitioners who work in the area of equality and diversity, including but not limited to the areas of religion, age, disability, race/ethnicity, 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

Key words

Diversity, Equal Opportunity, Asia, Middle East, China, India, Arab countries, Muslim majority countries, South East Asia

Submission

Please see EOI manuscript guidelines:

http://www.eoi-conference.org/pdfs/Guidelines.pdf

All submissions to the EOI conference should be original pieces which were not published elsewhere in any other form. Please use the abstract/paper submission form for submitting your abstract/manuscript.

http://www.eoi-conference.org/paper_form.php

Important dates

• Abstract or full paper submission: 15 May 2009
   Response to authors: 15 June 2009
• Full conference schedule will be available 1 July 2009