Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Community Psychology

Training, Research, Intervention and Community Practice:

An overview of the VII International Conference of Community Psychology

Guest Editors:
Marianne Daher, mdaher@uc.cl
Loreto Leiva, loretoleivab@u.uchile.cl

This special issue includes papers that addresses the main themes of the conference:

- Training and research associated with professional praxis: considers articles on professional
training in the field of community psychology. Topics that can be addressed are: ethical and
political dimensions involved in teaching-learning processes, methodologies and teaching
practices for research and work with communities, link between academia and community,
professional role and curricular aspects, transdisciplinary work.
- Public policies, intervention and community action: considers articles on public and social
policies in the community field. The manuscripts can be framed in the following areas:
professional work in the government and State, participation processes, and dialogue between
community, government and State.
- Community perspectives of coexistence and social justice: considers articles related to memory,
recognition, conflict, autonomy, diversity and inclusion in public and private social relations.
Contributions that deal with the ethical-political dimensions involved in these processes and
concepts can be included, as well as manuscripts about the creation of spaces for coexistence at
a local and global level.
- Subjects and social movements, governance and citizenship: considers articles that address the
interactions between collective processes oriented to the transformation of canons, social
patterns or institutions and the constitution of subjectivities and modes of existence within the
framework of the community. The above implies the consideration or approach of the modes of
government that articulate the relationships in the public, private and citizen organizations
(third sector).
- Socio-spatial links, environmental transformations and responses from the community: consider
articles about problems and challenges that arise in the relationship between subject, society and
environment, considering processes of influence and reciprocal co-definition, and association
involved in the development of socio-natural catastrophes.
Submission guidelines:

- Empirical studies presented at the VII International Conference of Community Psychology will
be prioritized.
- Deadline for submitting manuscripts: 31 August 2019
- Tentative publication of the special issue: First quarter of 2020
- The manuscript should be formatted in APA style and according to Journal of Community
Psychology author guidelines:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15206629/homepage/forauthors.html
- The manuscript should be submitted through the journal’s online editorial management system:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcop.
- All manuscripts will undergo an external, blind peer review process.
- Please indicate in the cover letter that your manuscript is for this special issue.
- Feel free to submit your manuscript ahead of this deadline. Note that we will be unable to provide
accommodations and extensions to authors who do not meet deadlines, in order to keep the entire
issue on its timeline for publication.
- For further questions regarding this special issue please contact the guest editors.