Call for Papers on Community Organizing

Posted by on January 23, 2012

Call for papers:  COMM-ORG (http://comm-org.wisc.edu) is a website and list-serve that attempts to bring together theory and practice, and academics and organizers, to advance the craft of community organizing.

COMM-ORG is looking for papers to publish on the COMM-ORG Papers page (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm). All papers are also announced on the list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations.

To submit a paper contact the editor, Randy Stoecker, at rstoecker@wisc.edu.

COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. I also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing.  Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their papers for submission to other outlets.

COMM-ORG is especially interested in papers on the following and other topics:

– What works and what doesn’t in community organizing, planning, and development.
– Real-life stories of community organizing and/or development campaigns.
– The relationships between theories and practices in community organizing.
– The history of community organizing in a changing structural-historical context.
– Linkages between community organizing and community development.
– Linkages between community organizing and planning.
– The roles of religious institutions in community organizing.
– Linkages between community organizing and social movements.
– The roles of gender, race, identity, and ideology in community organizing.
– Activist-academic collaborations in community organizing.

If you wish to submit a paper:

– The paper must be submitted using a word processing format–no pdf files.
– Text must be in single column format.
– All papers will be formatted in html using the COMM-ORG style.
– Send the paper to Randy Stoecker, rstoecker@wisc.edu