ABOUT THE IPJP Origins of the Journal
The Journal is an initiative of the Phenomenology Research Group based at Edith
Cowan University, South West Campus, in Western Australia and Rhodes University
in South Africa, where there has been a long-established phenomenological
tradition.
The Phenomenology Research Group is a circle of postgraduate
scholars who have a range of research interests which cross a broad
spectrum
of areas including education, health, religion, business, tourism,
counselling and psychology.
The unifying force which holds these
diverse research interests together is a commitment to phenomenology
as a research methodology. This initiative arose out of a collaborative phenomenological
program with Dr Robert Schweitzer from Queensland University of
Technology and Dr Trish Sherwood of Edith Cowan University, with
Professor Christopher Stones of Rhodes University becoming involved
shortly thereafter.
Statement of Purpose
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology is intended to provide scholars in
the southern hemisphere with an avenue through which they can express their
scholarship. The Journal also serves as a networking opportunity
for scholars in the region as they undertake their research. Similar avenues
exist in the Northern Hemisphere (Europe and North America).
The IPJP is intended primarily as a forum for Southern
African, Indian, Australian, Asian, New Zealand and Pacific Island
scholars to discuss a broad range of phenomenological issues.
However, contributions from Northern Hemisphere phenomenological
scholars will also be considered |
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"We envisage the IPJP
as providing established
scholars and students with
an
avenue for publishing
written material and
undertaking
new exploratory
research in areas such as
social relationships,
bodily
experience, emotional
sentiment, mental states,
and
the
contemporary contexts
in
which these take place."
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The underlying assumption of the Journal is that
phenomenology provides researchers with a unique research philosophy
which allows them to explore issues central to the question of
being human. It enables the richness of human experience to be
explicated.
We particularly seek to support and encourage those
scholars who feel the need for a further dimension in their research
which enables them to explore topics whose import lies beyond the
reach of measurement and calibration, and in areas such as
human meaning, experiences, values, and truthfulness. We envisage
the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology as providing established
scholars and students with an avenue for publishing written material
and undertaking new exploratory research in areas such as social
relationships, bodily experience, emotional sentiment, mental states,
and the contemporary contexts in which these take place.
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