COMM-ORG Papers

   Editor:  Randy Stoecker

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  The Call for Papers

 

Are you writing a paper on:

  • community organizing?

  • community development?

  • community planning?

  • community-based research?

  • a related area?

COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page.  All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations. We welcome discussion of all papers on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to authors.

To submit a paper contact the editor, Randy Stoecker, at randy@comm-org.wisc.edu. 

Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their Working Papers for submission to journals, trade publications, or anywhere.  Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference," papers presented on COMM-ORG are easily published in journals and other official publications.

COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. We also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing.

We are 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, absolutely no pdf files will be considered.

  • Text must be in single column format.

  • All papers will be formatted in html using the COMM-ORG style.