[Commlist] Call for Papers: Nordicom Review Special Issue

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)*

*Title:* ‘Un-Civility, Racism and Populism: Interactive Practices of 
Anti- and Post-Democratic Communication’​.
*Special issue editors:*Michał Krzyżanowski (Örebro University & 
University of Liverpool), Mattias Ekman (Örebro University), Christian 
Christensen (Stockholm University), Per-Erik Nilsson (Uppsala 
University), Mattias Gardell (Uppsala University)
*Deadline for submission of full abstracts:*April 25, 2019

*Rationale/Abstract: *

This Special Issue of/ Nordicom Review/discusses interactive practices 
of articulating and communicating un-civility in the context of post- 
and anti-democratic change. It approaches un-civility through an array 
of mediated online and offline discursive and material practices whose 
common aim is to either undermine the values of liberal democracy or to 
outright forge anti-democratic ideologies and a post-democratic 
normative order. We explore uncivility as a continuum of evolving 
communicative practices that extend across the entire political 
spectrum. We therefore do not treat uncivility as strictly pre-defined 
modes of social and political behaviour that are specific for certain 
groups (e.g. extremists) or located strictly at the specific poles of 
the socio-political and ideological spectrum.

We see the exploration of phenomena related to the articulation and 
communication of uncivility as the crucial factor in understanding the 
current upsurge and trajectories of racism and right-wing populism in 
the Nordic Countries, Europe, USA and beyond. We particularly target the 
ongoing radicalisation of extreme and non-extreme modes of political 
action (e.g. via the growing number of radical groups) but also explore 
the normalisation of the politics of exclusion in and by the political 
mainstream along with its endorsement of nationalism, racism, 
anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or Euroscepticism. We view the above 
processes as interconnected through various interactions and 
communicative practices within and beyond the online/offline public 
spheres, as well as in the traditional political realm and in 
organisations satellite to politics.

Contributions to the Special Issue should address a variety of 
interactive and communicative practices of uncivility.We welcome 
contributions dealing with the analysis of uncivility in social/online 
and/or traditional media or other genres and channels of political 
communication. Contributions should necessarily draw on 
interdisciplinary approaches to concepts and models related to 
uncivility (including e.g. civility/incivility, civic norms, 
normativity, politics and morality, racism/exclusion and populism) 
against the background of systematic and empirical, nation-specific and 
comparative examples of analysing un-civility in specific mediated and 
wider communicative practices. The aim of the Special Issue is 
comparative—that is, it aims to look at the Nordic countries in a 
cross-national comparison. We therefore especially welcome contributions 
looking at practices and dynamics of uncivility in the Nordic region but 
will also consider papers looking at other national contexts in Europe 
and beyond.

*It is expected that the Special Issue will be published online and in 
print in late summer 2020.*The selection of papers to be published in 
this Special Issue will take place according to the following two-step 
procedure:

  * Step 1: Authors are first requested to submit the title and abstract
    (600 words max incl. references) of their papers along with 5-6
    keywords and short bios (150 words max. for each author) to the
    Special Issue Editors. *The deadline for submission of full
    abstracts is 25 April 2019*and the authors will be notified of the
    eventual acceptance by mid-May 2019 at the latest.
  * Step 2: If the abstracts are accepted, authors will be requested to
    submit full papers (7000 words max. inclusive of any front or end
    matter) anonymised for double-blind review and formatted according
    to the /Nordicom Review/guidelines. *The deadline for submission of
    full anonymised papers is 30 September 2019*after which double-blind
    peer-review and other administrative matters will take place
    according to the timeline to be confirmed by the Special Issue Editors.

Please note that if the submitted papers are incompatible with the 
earlier/accepted abstracts or are of insufficient academic quality, the 
Special Issue Editors reserve the right to reject such papers in line 
with /Nordicom Review’s editorial policy. 
<https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordicom-review>/

*For any questions as well as abstract & paper submissions please contact:*
Michał Krzyżanowski, University of Liverpool, UK 
((michal.krzyzanowski /at/ oru.se) <mailto:(michal.krzyzanowski /at/ oru.se)> or 
(michal.krzyzanowski /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(michal.krzyzanowski /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>)
Mattias Ekman, Örebro University, Sweden ((mattias.ekman /at/ oru.se) 
<mailto:(mattias.ekman /at/ oru.se)>)

*About Nordicom Review *
/Nordicom Review/ is an international peer-reviewed open access journal 
published by Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and 
Communication Research) at the University of Gothenburg. The publication 
of /Nordicom Review/ is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. 
/Nordicom Review/ is indexed by SCOPUS.


View this CFP on Nordicom’s website: 
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-un-civility-racism-and-populism


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