H-Net on-line seminar: "History of Community Organizing"

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:04:58 +0000

The H-Urban Seminar on the "History of Community Organizing and
Community-Based Development" is about to be launched. The seminar will
involve the periodic presentation from November 1995 through fall 1996
of papers, book reviews, and other relevant material on the history of
community organizing, community organizations, and community-based
development in North America, the Pacific Rim, South Africa, Asia, and
Europe.

The seminar will begin with a paper by Professor Robert Fisher of the
University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work entitled
"Neighborhood Organizing: The Importance of Historical Context." A

o if you are interested in receiving the papers automatically,
and commenting and/or seeing other people's comments,
subscribe to the list COMM-ORG@uicvm.uic.edu. This list
has been set up specifically to post papers from the
seminar, and to allow on-going discussion of the papers.
Thus, Professor Fisher's paper will be posted to the
list in about a week, allowing time for people to subscribe.
Comments may be posted to the list, and later papers will
be posted on about a monthly basis. This is the only case
in which a paper will be posted after the announcement of
its availability from the fileserver, Gopher & WWW; for the
rest of the seminar, the paper will first be posted on COMM-ORG,
along with comments.

To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu with
the message: SUB COMM-ORG <firstname> <Lastname>, <institution>

For example: SUB COMM-ORG Jane Doe, U. of Iowa

To obtain the first paper in the seminar, Robert Fisher's
"Neighborhood Organizing: The Importance of Historical Context,"
send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu with the message:
GET HISTORIC CONTEXT

Wendy Plotkin
H-Urban Co-Editor

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