FWD: Call for papers

Please find attached a copy of "call for papers" -- If you are interested, 
please contact Torry Dickinson, Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program, 
3 Leasure Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 
phone:(785)-532-5738, fax:(785) 532-3299 or e-mail:dickins@ksu.edu

Thank you.

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®LM5¯®RM75¯

                                                        July 31, 2001
CALL FOR PAPERS

I am a women's studies teacher, world-system researcher, and applied, social 
change scholar who is developing a book proposal for an edited collection. As a 
result of publishers' interest in my research, I am seeking ®MDUL¯drafts of 
articles®MDNM¯ (no more than 25 pages) and ®MDUL¯detailed abstracts®MDNM¯ for 
articles (four pages) on the integration of university and community research, 
community development education for social change, and the relationships 
between different social change theories and contemporary global and local 
social change efforts. This project has grown out of my engagement with 
community-based education and reflects my previous publications, including 
®MDUL¯CommonWealth: Self-Sufficiency and Work®MDNM¯, ®MDUL¯Fast Forward: Work, 
Gender and Protest®MDNM¯ (co-authored with Robert Schaeffer), and "Reunifying 
Community and Transforming Society" (in ®MDUL¯Research in Community 
Sociology®MDNM¯, ed., Dan Chekki).
   
The edited collection of academic and research-based community writings will 
explore how we can join university and community knowledge to understand and 
facilitate social change processes. The collection will be multicultural, 
global, and sensitive to gender, age, class, ethnicity/"race", sexual identity, 
and urban/rural relationships. This academic book should be accessible to 
readers who have a college reading level. The ideas should be complex enough to 
interest a multicultural, multi-generational, and international group of 
readers from the global North and South. Readers will include: community 
activists, social change practitioners, alternative policy developers, global 
analysts, advocates for democracy and equality, undergraduate and graduate 
students, higher education faculty, and teachers who want to engage students in 
experiential learning, community-based education, and service learning. 

Submitted writings should communicate the understanding that university 
education on social change works when it is connected to the real-life practice 
of making social change happen in community or global settings and/or 2) 
community and global social change works when it is developed within the 
context of intellectual inquiry and systemic, applied research. 

Critical components of submissions might address the following:

-- the development of feminist participatory research, including in the areas 
of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and the creation of global alternatives 
-- the revaluing of reproductive work (including "women's work") and      
community-based educational efforts to define regional and global alternatives
-- a world-systemic, critical analysis of world inequality and world oligarchy, 
or a critical review of literature on historical and global formulations of 
alternatives
-- new and historically useful ideas about how we can reach across South-North 
and urban/rural divides to develop alternatives
-- relationships between community development education and systemic social 
change
-- theoretical, historical and global analyses (including reviews of      the 
literature) of theory/activism/praxis, including analyses of      the 
literature on community development education and feminisms
-- analyses of the relationships between feminist analysis, world-system 
analysis, post-colonial and anti-racist analysis, and other social change 
theories, and relationships between these theories and applied social change 
efforts.

In general, this project's goals are threefold: 1) to share effective 
approaches for understanding change within dominant institutions and 
alternative grassroots and global groups; 2) to share new visions and ideas 
about social change; and 3) to develop and share comprehensive historical and 
theoretical frameworks that enable us to locate community and university 
activism within the complexities of global and systemic change.

If you are interested in contributing to this book, I would like to have your 
submission ®MDUL¯by Friday, September 28®MDNM¯ AT THE LATEST. When you submit 
your article or abstract, please ®MDUL¯send a printed, hard copy to the address 
below®MDNM¯. But to facilitate the development of this project, be sure to 
include your e-mail address. I will get back to you as soon as possible (by the 
end of December, if not before) and let you know the progress I have made with 
identifying articles and submitting the proposal to publishers. Thanks for your 
interest in social change!

Torry Dickinson, Associate Professor
Women's Studies Program
3 Leasure Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
785 532-5738
e-mail: dickins@ksu.edu