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Volume 8 No. 1 -
Community Development - The Cream of the Crop
As - by now - customary in the short life of the New Community Quarterly, we run an issue to be filled with collected work from
across the previous year(s) and which we deem to be good to spread around and add to the very rich and ongoing tradition of
community work in all its varieties and expressions. This time, there will be some emphasis on Indigenous wisdom and CD, on the
new tasks and roles and associations to be made between the social (relational) and the ecological (place-based) aspects of CD.
Papers to be received by early March 2010
Volume 8 No. 2 -
Community Development and Young People
Community Development literature - and practice? and theory? - have not kept pace with aspects of the rather momentous
changes in our societies, especially those pertaining one group of people who are often only in the news because of the 'bad' things
they get involved in: young people. What does CD have to say about them, if anything? How are they involved in the shaping of
their communities? It is often said that they have a greater ability and sense of connectedness through their use of the electronic
media - but how do their 'virtual' communities 'perform' as 'communities'? And how are the societal institutions which are
dedicated to 'serve' young people dealing with all of these changes and evolutions? And how should they?
Papers to be received by early June 2010
Volume 8 No. 3 -
Local government, sustainability and Community Development
Given the rather disastrous outcome of the Copenhagen Global Warming 'summit', it has become even clearer than it probably
already was for readers and CD practitioners, activists and (some) theoreticians that expecting great changes to happen 'from
above' was a rather futile expectation. After - quite literally - centuries of hoping, expecting, planning, wishing 'big' change to
emanate from the 'top' and having been disappointed for longer than many of us would like to admit, the 'bottom up' version of
change so much favoured by our CD ideology, strategy and practice should probably receive renewed consideration. We have
already shared several contributions in this regard in previous issues of NCQ - how shall we be doing the 'bottom up' from
community to local government and further 'up' almost a year after the Copenhagen debacle?
Papers to be received by early September 2010
Volume 8 No. 4 -
Rural, Regional and Remote Community Development
The promised return of this once-a-year issue is very much welcomed by all of us at the editorial and management group - we are
looking forward to your contributions and welcome Helen Sheils and Deb Fosky back as issue editors!
Papers to be received by early November 2010
Your contributions, in the form of views, comments, articles and suggestions are actively invited. This is your community development journal, so we would like it to reflect your aspirations, ideals, concerns and visions for the future. One of the shared goals of community development is to improve society and the human condition. We welcome your contribution.
To facilitate this cooperation, we encourage mutual support and constructively working together to promote the theory and practice of community development.
Your written comments, views, news and articles, but also cartoons, drawings and photographs, and also information about your workshops and conferences, and informative websites, are most welcome.
Correspondence and submissions: ncq@borderlands.org.au