Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract (500-750 words) for an individual presentation or a panel relating to community, democracy, and organizations, or other submission at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual meeting.

The SASE conference submission deadline is Dec. 12, 2025. Our 2026 annual meeting will primarily be an in-person conference in Bordeaux, France, July 1-3, 2026. For those unable to travel, our network—Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations—also will have a very limited number of virtual presentation slots in two sessions to be scheduled for June 22-24.

SASE is an international organization of scholars who study topics related to economic sociology and political economy. Network A is devoted to the examination of alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic forms of economic enterprise and entrepreneurship, community organizations, third-sector organizations, or political organizations. By alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic, we mean to encourage the analysis of how communities, enterprises, and societies can be organized around: (1) principles of democratic governance; (2) processes that build social solidarity and cooperation; and/or (3) substantive values and purposes that go beyond calculative self-interest and instrumental relations.

To learn more about our network and its history, please read here. To join our Network A listserv, visit here.

Network A welcomes individual papers and pre-organized, thematic panels studying:

• Any organization, community, or economic enterprise that develops participatory/solidaristic forms of organization, i.e., democratic, egalitarian or more cooperative structures/processes of organization in pursuit of pro-social purposes.

• Groups and initiatives, be they formal or informal, that promote change, including explicitly transformative, synergistic or prefigurative organizations and various forms of cooperative or shared ownership.

• Inclusive, solidaristic, liberatory, democratic, equitable, sustainable, or caring communities.

• The challenges that these organizations, initiatives, or communities face.

• The ways in which public policies and politics (e.g., electoral, industrial, etc.) can undermine or enhance democratic and community endeavors.

• Relevant phenomena including, but not limited to (alphabetical order): affinity groups; anti-oppressive human services; artistic or cultural collectives (including democratic governance and autonomy-respecting practices in creative organizations more broadly); benefit corporations; commoning and common pool resources; communitybased or community entrepreneurship and enterprises; community climate changerelated action; community development credit unions; community interest companies; community land trusts; community organizing; community development; community real estate investment cooperatives; community-based economic exchanges; community-run marketplaces; decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs); economic democracy; employee ownership trusts; free schools; giving circles; industrial foundations; limited equity housing cooperatives and co-housing; mutual companies and aid networks; open, commons-based, and inclusive innovation and valuation frameworks; participatory budgeting; perpetual purpose trusts; public-private partnerships that center social or community concerns (public-social or public-community partnerships); radical and democratic models of philanthropy, voluntarism, and giving; social-purpose enterprises; social and solidarity economies; social innovation; social intrapreneurship; tenant unions; worker centers; worker, producer, or consumer cooperatives, including platform cooperatives and union cooperatives; and worker self-directed nonprofit organizations.

How to submit to the 2026 SASE annual conference:

• You can submit an individual paper presentation, a pre-formed panel with multiple paper presentations, a roundtable discussion panel, or book salon (aka Author Meets Critics panels). We would like to encourage you to submit preformed panels; we will also give individual papers full consideration.

• Please note that network a does not require a full paper to be submitted. However, those wanting to apply to the Early Career Workshop must submit a full paper (see below).

• If you are interested submitting, click in the appropriate link based on your submission format

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• Deadline is Dec 12, 2025

For more information about the 2026 conference, including their Early Career Workshop (held in person shortly before the SASE annual meeting, with some travel expenses paid), visit here.

Please consider supporting the growth and sustainability of the Network A community by circulating this cfp to listservs and other potentially interested parties.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

Please direct any questions or comments about Network A to sase(at)inthefray.org.