Publishing
Publishing gives the insights that emerge from COMIT's conversations and gatherings a durable form. Our imprint, Pivot Press, publishes curated volumes and essays that grow out of sustained collaborative inquiry, all freely available as open-access PDFs. Alongside them, scholars across our wider intellectual community publish books that carry this work into new fields and conversations.
Pivot Press
Each Pivot Press volume brings scholars, practitioners, and engaged communities into collaborative inquiry, forging understanding through exchange rather than compilation. Every publication is released under a Creative Commons license, with carefully designed print editions for those who want them.
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Edited volumes, each growing out of sustained collaborative inquiry.
Pivot Press Essays
Essays and curated conversations, each free to read and download.
Rural Education and Rural Development
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Rethinking Rural Futures
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What Does Rural Have to Teach Us?
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Agroecology and the Future of Food Sovereignty
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Knowledge for Transformation in Colombia and Uganda
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Thinking and Teaching Ecological Resilience with Simone Weil
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Books by COMIT fellows and collaborators that grow out of, and feed back into, our shared inquiry.
The Crisis of Identity and the Case for Human Oneness
Rethinking Social Justice: Theory and Action in an Age of Transition
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Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt
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Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia
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Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics
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Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Bahá'í Practice and Thought
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Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives
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Shorter essays by members of our community, offering an accessible way into the questions at the heart of our work.
The Crisis of Identity
Modernity as an Age of Transition
Rethinking Migration from a Global Perspective
Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: Toward a Kind of Balanced Perspectivism
Working with Pivot Press
Pivot Press publishes curated essays and volumes that grow out of COMIT's broader work of intellectual community building. Speaker series, workshops, and sustained scholarly relationships feed into our publications, and our publications feed back into these activities. As such, we do not accept isolated manuscript proposals, but instead focus on cultivating cycles of inquiry that advance our broader intellectual aims.
If you have an idea you'd like to explore with us, we'd welcome hearing from you.
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