Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:58:49 -0500
From: Randy Stoecker <rstoeck@pop3.utoledo.edu>
Subject: Shelterforce announcement
X-Sender: rstoeck@pop3.utoledo.edu
To: COMM-ORG@uac.rdp.utoledo.edu

[ed: here is the long awaited call for for articles for the Shelterforce special issue on organizing.]

Call for Articles:

Shelterforce, the journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building Strategies, is soliciting articles for a special issue dedicated to community organizing:

"Community Organizing: Where have we come from, where are we headed?"

For this issue, we are soliciting:

1. Article proposals from experienced practitioners, or academics working collaboratively with practitioners, on the following topics:

CDCs and organizing

Faith-based organizing

Labor-community organizing

Community-based electoral organizing

Women and organizing

Identity organizing

consensus organizing

other models?

Proposals or summaries should be no more than 300 words and should include a description of the organizing model or issue to be discussed, should point to examples of it in practice to be explored in the article, and outline the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. Proposals are due no later than April 6, 1998 and should be e-mailed to: Randy Stoecker and cc’d to Harold Simon (hs@nhi.org) and Karen Ceraso (kc@nhi.org)

2. Brief (600 words) profiles from practitioners describing campaigns waged. These articles should include: (1) the name of the organization and the organizing model or approach used (2) a statement of the issue (3) a description of the tactics (4) an evaluation of the outcome.

Because of space limitations, only a limited number of articles can be included in this issue. Those articles not accepted may be included in a joint COMM-ORG/ Shelterforce on-line collection, or may be eligible for consideration in later issues of Shelterforce.

The deadline for receipt of these brief articles/profiles is April 6.

Please include all contact information in your submissions.

Contact Randy Stoecker [contact info below] or Karen Ceraso [Senior Editor, kc@nhi.org] for more information.

Randy Stoecker
Associate Professor of Sociology
Research Associate in Urban Affairs
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH 43606
419-530-4975 (phone)
419-530-8406 (fax)
rstoeck@pop3.utoledo.edu

 

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