Community-based

This issue of Logoi has at least three roots and three reasons. The first one is to start a reflection on the so-called Community-based participatory research (CBPR). This dossier is opened by a paper of Meredith Minkler (University of Berkeley) who is one of the founders of the method CBPR and of reflection on it. This scenario is also linked to the two articles that we present in the section called Research Communities and ABCs, papers which on the one hand refer to the CBPR, but on the other side cross in particular another of our interests: the Abc method. In fact, Logoi is a partner of the research project called An ABC of Democratic Citizenship. “Community-Based Participatory Research” through Sciences & Humanities (University of Bari). The project is presented in this section. While another focus is on Latin America. You can read the contribution of Adriana Fresquet (Río de Janeiro), Abecedarios audiovisuais comunitarios: de Perú para el mundo. Let’s come to the third root/reason of this issue: the need to reflect, in many ways and with many languages, on the theme of community. We therefore have some essays that either starting from some knowledge, disciplines, languages even extra-philosophical, or focusing on authors and specific themes, address the issue-community: Interdisciplinary issues (Simona Cohen - Tel-Aviv; et alii) and Particular issues