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New Urban Explorations: A Journal of Cooperative Inquiry and Action for Social Justice and the City

The New Urban Explorations journal is designed to be a new refereed publication featuring articles jointly produced by local citizen leaders and university-based academics focused on the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to social inequality in the city. It is viewed as an important new outlet for research emerging from what Ernest Boyer described in 1994 as the "scholarship of engagement." It is expected to feature cooperatively researched and written articles examining theoretical, methodological, analytical, policy, programmatic, and evaluation issues related to contemporary efforts to reduce the incidence of poverty in the major metropolitan areas of the United States. The title of the journal is taken from a path-breaking book by Benton McKaye entitled, "New Explorations," which called attention in the early 1920s to the many unintended negative consequences of a market-driven economy, and argued for public stewardship of the economy to avoid the worst environmental and social impacts of industrialization. The Journal plans to issue its first call for papers in October 2005, with an inaugural issue to appear in the summer of 2006.