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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