12 October 2010

‘ReGenerating community’: Local-Global volume 7 now available

The latest volume of the journal Local-Global: Identity, Security, Community is now available online. This volume was developed out of presentations made at the ReGenerating Community Conference held in Melbourne in September 2009, which addressed ways in which global issues are being addressed locally through collaborations between artists, communities and local government.

Many of the presentations were made available from the Cultural Development Network’s website soon after the conference. However, this special edition of the journal is intended to create a more enduring legacy. The editors worked with authors presented here to shape oral presentations into essays and also research papers that meet the standards for credible academic publications. In many cases, these papers have been developed in response to feedback offered by conference participants or in more formal academic reviews.

The journal includes papers by Robyn Archer, AO, Anmol Vellani, Executive Director of the India Foundation for the Arts, Chris Gibson, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, and Kathy Keele, CEO, Australia Council for the Arts.

Local-Global is a collaborative international journal concerned with the resilience and difficulties of contemporary social life. It draws together groups of researchers and practitioners located in different communities across the world to critically address issues concerning the relationship between the global and the local.