Call for papers

Culture and Local Governance invites submissions for its inaugural issue. CLG is a bilingual academic journal and accepts contributions both in English and in French.

Published by Laurentian University’s Centre for Local Government, Culture and Local Governance/Culture et gouvernance locale is a peer-reviewed online journal. CLG offers a space for dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, between established and emerging scholars, and between academics and practitioners. In order to enhance the social impact of work published in its pages, CLG emphasizes research diffusion and communication. In keeping with this philosophy, CLG is an open access journal.

The journal aims at publishing original work, both theoretical and empirical, on the relation between culture and local governance. This is broadly defined to include the following:

- Cultural policies and management

CLG encourages submissions related to the administration of municipal leisure and culture services as well as local and regional cultural policies. Papers addressing the various policy and managerial aspects of local cultural administration are welcomed.

- Heritage administration and preservation

Integral to the contemporary challenges of urban development and renewal, heritage preservation and administration requires the intervention of many stakeholders. As it is an important aspect of urban and regional cultural governance, we encourage submissions that illustrate the different faces of heritage preservation.

- Culture and urban space

Articles may also address the uses of urban space. In this sense, the journal is interested in publishing papers that explore the interplay between culture and the production and consumption of space in an urban context.

- Ethnic groups and local governance

The journal likewise welcomes contributions that explore the connections between ethno-cultural groups, social identity, power relations and local governance. In particular, we welcome contributions that investigate how different groups contest and appropriate urban and regional spaces.

CLG is keenly interested in promoting the exploration of the multifaceted nature of culture and its relation to local governance. We therefore especially encourage contributions that explore linkages between the themes outlined above. CLG is a bilingual journal and invites contributions both in English and in French.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal's email address in Word format. Maximum file size is 3 MB. Manuscripts should not exceed 5,000 words. They should be accompanied by a short abstract of roughly 300 words and suggested keywords. Manuscripts should use APA style and Canadian spelling throughout. Tables, graphs, figures and diagrams should be embedded in the body of the text rather than at the end of the manuscript.

Manuscripts will be submitted to two members of the advisory board for peer review. The journal normally aims to complete the review process within two months.

We expect to publish our first issue (vol. 1, no. 1) in early 2008. For further infos, please contact:

Jonathan Paquette, political science
Laurentian University
935 Ramsey Lake rd
Sudbury, Ontario
Canada, P3E 2C6

(705) 675-1151 ext. 4334

jpaquette@laurentian.ca

or consult our website:
http://clg-cgl.politics-and-society.ca/