Reminder: Call for Articles: Communities #188: Scaling Up (plus Scaling Down, Lessons from COVID-19, etc.) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Chris Roth - Communities Editor (editorgen-us.net) | |
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:40:37 -0700 (PDT) |
Inviting submissions on Scaling Up/Down, communities' pandemic responses, and more... Dear Communities contributors and friends, The unpredictable, ever-evolving alterations to our daily lives under COVID-19 mean that our magazine themes for the next few issues also need to remain fluid and adaptable. We are still seeking articles for Communities #188, Scaling Up (which may also incorporate the topic Scaling Down, something many of us have had to do, at least for the short term). We are also still assembling materials for Communities #187, Climate Justice through Community, and some of its recently arrived articles are already incorporating authors’ coronavirus experiences/perspectives. Lessons from COVID-19 is a theme that may permeate the next few issues of Communities, both in the background and in the foreground. How is your community dealing with the novel coronavirus outbreak? On any of the themes above, we invite your writing. There is still a chance that whatever you send may fit into issue #187, rather than needing to wait for #188. Those of you who are subscribers will know that we published [Communities #186](https://gen-us.net?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyI0MjAwIiwiM2dreWFiY20wYW04NG9vODRzazBrY2N3d2Nnc2tvc3MiLCIxMSIsIjg0NGI5ODcyMmEyZiIsZmFsc2Vd), Picking Up the Pieces: New Beginnings earlier this month, that our [new website](https://gen-us.net?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyI0MjAwIiwiM2dreWFiY20wYW04NG9vODRzazBrY2N3d2Nnc2tvc3MiLCIxMSIsImNjZDZjMzUwZmExOSIsZmFsc2Vd) is fully functional, and that we now offer an array of [subscription](https://gen-us.net?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyI0MjAwIiwiM2dreWFiY20wYW04NG9vODRzazBrY2N3d2Nnc2tvc3MiLCIxMSIsIjdhOGM1ZWUxODgwNyIsZmFsc2Vd) options, all of them including free access for online viewing or download of all back and current Communities issues. If you are looking for reading material during these unusual times, more than [10,000 pages](https://gen-us.net?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyI0MjAwIiwiM2dreWFiY20wYW04NG9vODRzazBrY2N3d2Nnc2tvc3MiLCIxMSIsImE4NmU5OWFiN2M1ZSIsZmFsc2Vd) of current and past Communities stories await those who sign up for any type of subscription, starting at $20. Here, again, is our latest Call for Articles, slightly amended: ● ● ● Communities magazine is still seeking articles for issue #188, "Scaling Up" [and possibly “/Scaling Down”] The issue will be out in September 2020. Please send your article ideas to [editor [at] gen-us.net](https://gen-us.net?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyI0MjAwIiwiM2dreWFiY20wYW04NG9vODRzazBrY2N3d2Nnc2tvc3MiLCIxMSIsIjQ4YjZlNDg0MjFmMSIsZmFsc2Vd) as soon as possible. We ask that your final article reach us by Friday, May 29, 2020. 1. Theme articles: Scaling Up [/Down] We invite you, if you wish, to address the questions below while considering how the idea of "scaling up" [or down] and the realities of public health emergencies intersect. Specifically, if you are a member of an intentional community that hosts or promotes gatherings, welcomes visitors and travelers, interacts with the wider society, wishes to "scale up" in one way or another, how has this crisis affected you? What measures have you taken? What discussions have you had, what perspectives have you gained, and what lessons have you learned? Feel free to share whatever stories/perspectives seem most relevant to you, whether these involve this current public health emergency or not. Your wisdom may be especially valued in these times. Here are the original, pre-pandemic article prompts: Please share your experiences, stories, and perspectives in response to any (or any combination) of the following questions: - How can the communities movement grow? How can it reach and influence more people? - Does your intentional community or cooperative group aspire to become larger? What is your vision and what steps are you taking to manifest it? - How can we "scale up" the practices developed in intentional communities and cooperative groups to reach and become incorporated in the wider culture? How do we connect across national lines, scale up to a global level? - What are the benefits of broadening our communities' outreach and educational efforts? - Has your community successfully exported your model to another group? - What are drawbacks of "scaling up"? Do efforts to reach a wider audience or grow participation end up diluting community cohesiveness or integrity? While scaling up, how do we navigate the pull to "go mainstream"? - Do you have success stories about "scaling up"? Stories of failure? Were there unexpected consequences from your efforts? Did any strategies backfire? What is your perspective now? What did you learn from your experiences? - What do we want to scale up? What do we want to scale down? Are there certain thresholds while scaling up at which new challenges/opportunities emerge? - Is there an urgency to scale up our efforts to spread a more regenerative, cooperative culture? Or is it better to let things unfold organically, perhaps more slowly? Do we defeat the spirit of cooperative culture when we try to promote it with any attachment to outcome? Can we afford to let the world recognize the relevance of cooperative culture at its own pace? Do we "become the problem" when we try to address it on its own terms? Or does the state of the world demand action even if it is not fully aligned with the way we'd like the world to be? - Are we most effective when we "cultivate our own gardens," or when we focus on trying to change things on a larger scale? Can we do both? If so, how? Please remember that we are looking for stories, personal experiences, and concrete examples in your responses—these are what will make ideas and observations most "real" and relevant to readers. [Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on this theme for Communities.] 2. We are also seeking articles about: - Creating community in your neighborhood; - Starting a new community; - Process and communication issues in community; - Ecological sustainability in community; - Social justice issues in community; - Networking to build the communities/ecovillages movement; and - Seeking community to join. Suggested submission length is from 300 to 2500 words (although we sometimes stretch these limits). We invite submissions ranging from short vignettes to extensively-developed articles, and also invite suggestions of recommended resources and article leads. We're seeking articles written in a reader-friendly, popular-magazine style, rather than in an academic style. 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Please send the article only when you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow community members. We endeavor to present a diversity of views on community, including controversial or critical views, in a respectful and cooperative manner. If your article may generate controversy or strong reactions, or if the group(s) would want the chance to review it, please share your draft with group members to get their input before sending it to us. (Please see our Writers' Guidelines for additional details.) III. Publication Rights. Once your article appears in Communities, we own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears in Communities the first time it appears in North America. In addition to appearing in Communities, your article may also appear on our website or in future compilations. You retain all other rights to it. 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