[ecrea] Call for abstracts - ‘Like an animal': Refugees, Animals, and multiculturalism

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

*(Book) ‘Like an animal': Refugees, Animals, and multiculturalism*
Editors: Natalie Khazaal & Núria Almiron

We would like to invite you to contribute with a chapter to a new 
co-edited volume titled /‘Like an Animal’: Refugees, Animals, and 
Multiculturalism/. Communication scholars are very much welcomed to this 
multidisciplinary volume.

The volume explores the unexamined links between human migrants/refugees 
and nonhumans (refugees in their own right) during global migration 
crises. The volume’s goal is to open an interdisciplinary and 
multicultural discussion on the structural, symbolic, and discursive 
logics behind the human-animal divide as reflected and perpetuated in 
the case of human migration crises. Contributions will examine any of 
the intersections between human refugees and nonhuman animals’ 
interests, treatment, legal status, or media narratives and policies 
that target them in multicultural states: the EU, MENA, Latin America, 
and the US. Some of the questions we aim to address include:

  * How does the shift toward securitization, much exacerbated by the
    migration crisis, reify the two vulnerable groups?
  * What do multicultural states risk in denying the suffering of these
    “huddled masses”?
  * How does the human-animal construct frame and perpetuate the
    treatment of the two vulnerable groups?
  * What are the common ideological roots of the oppression of the two
    groups?
  * Why is it useful to think about the intersections between human
    migrants/refugees and speciesism?
  * What role does the human-animal divide play in racism,
    ethnocentrism, classism, etc. as applied to global migration crises?

The volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, journalists, 
and students as well as a range of governmental and nongovernmental 
organizations devoted to social justice including animal rights, human 
rights, and environment activism. We expect to select 10-12 
contributions to seek publication in 2020 with a top international 
academic publisher (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, 
Sage, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, etc.). The volume will commit to 
principles of nonviolence and ethical veganism, and use non-speciesist 
language. The contributions are (provisionally) due by August 31, 2019; 
the length of each chapter is 7,000-8,000 words (references and notes 
included).

Deadline for submitting 300-400 word abstracts: Nov 20, 2018

Please send abstract submissions to: (nataliekhazaal /at/ tamu.edu) 
<mailto:(nataliekhazaal /at/ tamu.edu)>

Editors:
*Natalie Khazaal*, Assistant Professor, International Studies 
Department, Texas A&M University. Dr. Khazaal studies the links among 
minorities, media, and language. She has published two books and several 
articles, including on speciesism in the US and Spanish media and EU 
policy on vivisection. Her latest book, Pretty Liar: Television, 
Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon, is a cultural study of the role 
of audiences in redefining trust in the media during violent crises and 
deep social divisions. Dr. Khazaal is on the board of Ideas Without 
Borders, an organization that promotes the free exchange of ideas and 
defends human rights from extremists and authoritarian regimes; she is 
also the faculty advisor for No Lost Generation-Texas, a student 
initiative for global refugee/migrant crisis relief efforts.
*Nuria Almiron*, Associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in 
Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Almiron’s main research areas are critical animal 
and media studies, the political economy of communication, communication 
ethics and influence groups and advocacy. She has published more than 30 
peer- reviewed articles and is an author or co-author of a similar 
number of books, including the co-edited volume Critical Animal and 
Media Studies (2016, Routledge). She is the co-director of the 
UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, the director of THINCKClima Research 
Project and the director of the MA in International Studies in Media, 
Power and Difference.


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