Rex Haigh has asked for this Call for Contributions to be circulated,
and asks the question - "Shouldn't TCs be represented in this?"
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Subject: call for papers: "rethinking prefigurative politics"
This may interest some of you:
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Special Thematic Section on "Rethinking Prefigurative Politics"
Guest Editors: Jan Haaken, Flora Cornish, Catherine Campbell, Sharon
Jackson, Liora Moskovitz
The early 21st century proliferation of small-scale social movements in
the Global North and South provides the context for this special
section. 'Prefigurative politics' emerged in the 1970s as a term that
expressed the ethos of creating alternative communities - fostering
small-scale experiments in modes of living and working that realize in
the present the values of an anticipated better society. The term has
gained new interest in recent years to understand an upsurge of
movements, including, for example, the Occupy movement, intentional
communities, workers' cooperatives, direct democracy initiatives,
Transition Towns, timebanks, eco-villages, citizens' municipal
budgeting, community gardening, reclamation of urban spaces for social
use, health cooperatives, participatory economics, permaculture,
restorative justice, food sovereignty, and the open-source movement.
Considerable thinking remains to be done on the relations between such
prefigurative practices and broad-based social change. The landscape has
changed since the 1970s, with global inequalities further entrenched,
global politics less organised by a Left-Right divide, and concepts of
localism co-opted into political and corporate agendas. Psychological
processes are crucial to understanding the emergence, development and
dissipation of such small, face-to-face communities. The dynamics of
communication, action, coalition-building, and achievement deserve
further attention. Issues of group cohesion/conflict, as well as
individual/collective change and thinking/feeling capacities are some of
the psychological themes that arise.
We welcome submissions on these and other topics that can contribute to
'rethinking prefigurative politics'. Manuscripts can be original
research reports, case studies, theoretical articles, review articles,
reflective pieces, or commentaries.
A two-round process of review will take place. Please submit long
abstracts (1000 words) by 31 October 2014 to Jan Haaken
([log in to unmask]) and Flora Cornish ([log in to unmask]). Following
review, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers by 9
March 2015 for peer review. The special section will be published in
2016. Queries may be directed to Jan Haaken or Flora Cornish.
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