{"id":7727,"date":"2018-08-01T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2018-07-31T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:34:17","slug":"call-for-papers-engaged-scholar-journal-special-issue-due-december-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/2018\/call-for-papers-engaged-scholar-journal-special-issue-due-december-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Engaged Scholar Journal Special Issue — Due December 10, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Engaged<\/a><\/p>\n

The Engaged Scholar Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue on\u00a0Community Engagement\u00a0<\/strong>and the Anthropologies of Health and Wellbeing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest Editors:<\/p>\n

Sylvia Abonyi and Pamela Downe<\/p>\n

Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning<\/em>is Canada\u2019s online, open-access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal committed to profiling best practices in \u2018engaged scholarship\u2019 informed by community-academic partnerships in research, teaching and learning. The Journal occasionally publishes hard copies of its issues as well.<\/p>\n

Our Mission is to promote and support reciprocal and meaningful co-creation of knowledge among scholars, educators, professionals and community leaders, in Canada and worldwide; to inspire and promote productive dialogue between practice and theory of engaged scholarship; to critically reflect on engaged scholarship, research, and pedagogy pursued by various university and community partners, working locally, nationally and internationally, across various academic disciplines and areas of application; to serve as a forum of constructive debate on the meanings and applications of engaged scholarship among partners and communities.<\/p>\n

Engaged scholarship most commonly refers to a range of collaborative research, teaching, and learning initiatives rooted in sustained community-university partnerships and pursued across various disciplines and social and cultural contexts. Community engaged research is oftentimes understood to be community informed, situated as well as action-oriented such that the research process and results are useful to community members in making positive societal changes.<\/p>\n

For our\u00a0Spring 2020 special issue<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Engagement in the Anthropologies of Health and Wellbeing<\/strong>, we seek submissions from community- and university-based researchers and scholars who actively engage with communities (of all kinds) in their anthropological research.\u00a0 The issue aims to showcase the strengths of the health-focused and community engaged work across the subfields of the discipline: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Practicing and Public Anthropology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.\u00a0 The following areas are of particular interest:<\/p>\n