{"id":1758,"date":"2017-01-17T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T05:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2017-01-17T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T05:56:10","slug":"call-abstracts-new-publication-iassw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iassw-aiets.org\/shadow_old\/news\/1758-call-abstracts-new-publication-iassw\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Abstracts for new publication of IASSW"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Community Work, Environment and Sustainable Development \u00a0:\u00a0<\/strong>A READER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carolyn Noble<\/strong>, NPI ACAP, Sydney and Victoria University, Melbourne Australia<\/p>\n

Vimla\u00a0 Nadkarni<\/strong>, IASSW (ex-TISS), Mumbai, India<\/p>\n

Goetz Ottmann,<\/strong> NPI ACAP, Sydney Australia<\/p>\n

About the book<\/p>\n

The purpose of this proposed book is to gather how communities and community activists, academics, and practitioners, are working in and against the current neo conservative discourse and the overarching power of capitalism which determines that economic growth\u00a0 and resource extractions takes precedent over community needs and resources, disrupting communities, civil society\u2019s responses and citizen inspired democracy. We know there are many sites of resistances and development challenges and social and cultural political responses existing under the shadow of neoliberalism and capitalism and this invitation is a call for chapters to fill the book. Despite the challenges that neoliberalism, the new conservatism and new measures of surveillance and control linked to increased managerialism and accountable community work continues and in many cases has increased as key site of activism and opposition to current socio-political discourse. We want to take a feminist\/structural\/critical social work perspective to draw out our themes and offer some directions and responses to the current challenges and offer new ways of thinking and acting in the world that is more democratic, critical of the current economic focus and supports an ecologically sustainable Future.<\/p>\n

The content can cover any of the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Community work collaboration (public-private partnerships)<\/p>\n

Civil society and citizenship \u2013 question of morals and ethics<\/p>\n

Environmental ethics<\/p>\n

Alternative community work projects (national and international examples)<\/p>\n

Environmental activism (including indigenous resistance)<\/p>\n

Urban planning and environmental greening<\/p>\n

Food and water security- protection of natural resources<\/p>\n

Social work and Social economy (cooperatives\/alternative economic systems)<\/p>\n

Green consumerism<\/p>\n

Climate change research-fact or fiction?<\/p>\n

Who pulls the environmental strings of climate change politics?<\/p>\n

Alternative, participatory, gender and ecologically sensitive budgeting<\/p>\n

Social activism\/social movements (international\/community level)<\/p>\n

Women, environment and sustainable development<\/p>\n

Post-politics of climate change<\/p>\n

This is first call for abstracts to be considered<\/strong><\/p>\n