COMM-ORG 2008 Call for Papers

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Hi COMM-ORG.  This is the annual call for papers.  Please feel welcomed 
to forward this message.

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 at comm-org.wisc.edu.

Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports 
authors revising their papers for submission to journals, trade 
publications, or anywhere.  Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference," 
papers presented on COMM-ORG are regularly published in journals and 
other 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 electronically to 
randy at comm-org.wisc.edu using a word processing or html format; 
absolutely no pdf files will be considered.
    *      Text must be in single column format.
    *      You agree that your paper will be formatted in html using the 
COMM-ORG style.