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[ecrea] Call for Chapters for the Refereed Volume: Global Millennials: Transnational and Intercultural Perspectives

Fri Dec 30 13:29:27 GMT 2016




*Call for Chapters for the Refereed Volume:****/Global Millennials: Transnational and Intercultural/**//**/Perspectives/**//*

Edited by AhmetAtay(College of Wooster), LaraLengel(Bowling Green State University), andYannickKluch(Bowling Green State University)


Contributors are sought for/Global////Millennials: Transnational and Intercultural////Perspectives/, a refereedbookanalyzing the often-misunderstood generation of young adults born in the period from the early 1980s to early 2000s. As the most tech-savvy generation, these “digital natives” have grown up in a highly media-saturated and consumer-driven culture and, now, actively engage in 24-hour culture, art, news, and social media practices as both consumers and producers. By taking cultural studies and critical intercultural and transnational perspectives, the collection aims to examine the ways in which mediation and visualization create,promote, contest, or disrupta global millennial experienceand millennial identities.

As the under-30 cohort is the most diverse and populous adult demographic in U.S. and other nations’ histories,it is not accidental that the members of the millennial generation have radically transformed concepts of cultural and gender norms. However, theexperience and identitiesof millennials, who live in a culture that is mediated, globalized, and consumer-oriented, is often perceived as homogenized through global forces.

Given the lack of scholarly approaches to the study of global millennial culture, particularlyresearchthat takestransnational andintercultural perspectives andexamines globalcontexts,we invite studies addressing the following interrelated questions,among others: What constitutes the millennial experience, particularly in transnational contexts? What interrelated social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape millennials’ experiences? What is the impact of globalization, capitalism, neoliberalism on millennials’ world view(s)? How do media technologies create, construct, and sometimes contest a global millennial culture? What are the ways in which co-cultures within the millennial generation create different ways of resisting the globalizing nature of their culture(s)?How do millennials construct or deconstruct their identities in intercultural and transnational contexts?

Additional focus areas may include, butarenot limited to, the following:

·Mediated and visual aspects of millennial culture in specific intercultural or transnational contexts.

·Mediated representations of millennials

·Millennials and/in/as popular culture (e.g. sport, fashion, film, etc.)

·Transnational cultural identity formations of global millennials, for instance of thosewho are immigrants, diasporic bodies, or cosmopolitans.

·Millennials' political identities,particularly regarding older generations’ politics and how they impact millennials, and millennials’ view of recent major policy moves such as Brexit and the push for immigration reform.

·Millennials and gender/GLBTQ identities; millennials and contemporary feminism(s)

·Millennials and the myth of a post-racial society.

·Marginalized millennial identities

·The domination of specific cultural norms (e.g., US and UK) in the construction of millennial experiences in other global / transnational contexts (e.g., the Middle East and North Africa; the EU;LatinAmerica).

*Timeline:*

Abstractsofup to 500 words,along with a short biographical statement of each contributor,are due February 25, 2017.Editors will notify those who submitted abstracts about the status of their submissionby March 25, 2017.If invited to submit a chapter (5,000-6,000 words), full manuscripts (in APA format) will be due September 25, 2017andthe essays will be anonymously peer-reviewed.Please submit abstracts and queries to: Ahmet Atay, (aatay /at/ wooster.edu)


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