[Commlist] call for book chapters - Communicating Otherness Book Series - Palgrave Springer

*Call for Book Chapters to Edited Collection by Palgrave / Springer*

(WoS, Scopus indexed)

*/Communicating Otherness, Vol. 7 –/**/Constructions of ‘Otherness’ by 
the populist right/*

*Editorial board: *

/Rui Alexandre Novais, Universidade Católica Portuguesa - CEFH, Portugal 
(//(rnovais /at/ ucp.pt)/ <mailto:(rnovais /at/ ucp.pt)>/)
Rogério Christofoletti, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil 
(//(rogerio.christofoletti /at/ ufsc.br)/ 
<mailto:(rogerio.christofoletti /at/ ufsc.br)>/)/

This book is part of a six-volume international series entitled 
*/Communicating Otherness/* [Luísa Magalhães, UCP & Enrique 
Castelló-Mayo, USC (Editors-in-chief)]. The theme of this series is the 
development of the concept of Otherness within an interdisciplinary 
perspective that combines Communication Studies with disciplines across 
the Arts and Humanities, Philosophy, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. We 
aim at entangling this concept with the position of the Other. Hence, we 
propose interpreting the process of othering from within, switching the 
traditional perspectives related to the use of power (by the Self 
towards the Other). In so doing, we will investigate the realm of the 
Other (as transformed into an alternative Self, an object that the self 
can observe, study, reflect upon) from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Vol. 7, */Constructions of ‘Otherness’ /*by the populist right assess 
how the recent (re)upsurge of right-wing populism in the Western world 
and elsewhere brought several discursive strategies that capitalize on 
‘Othering.' In constructing their projects and (incomplete) identities 
established by alterity and ‘Otherness,’ right-wing populists often 
resort to distinct ways of relating to ‘Self’ and ‘Others’ to persuade 
and garner future supporters and convey a particular interpretation and 
understanding of social reality. They perform an enduring detoxification 
and mainstreaming/normalizing of their divisive discourses through the 
identification of a set of ideological enemies stemming from several 
exclusionary ideas:  a Manichean view of the world - between the ‘pure 
people’ and the ‘evil’ or ‘corrupt elite’ and dangerous outgroups as 
betrayers of the people sovereignty; the elite delimitation is also 
strategically enlarged to include other unelected leaders from the 
economic and cultural sectors along with the ‘arrogance of ignorance’ or 
a deep-seated hatred of intellectuals and all those with progressive 
values; majoritarianism complemented with institutionalized social and 
political inequality, nativism, and anti-multiculturalism, among others. 
Aware of the chameleonic ideational characteristic and gradational 
nature of right-wing populism manifested in national and regional 
peculiarities, this book aims to identify different types of ‘Othering’ 
and discursive construction of ‘enemies’ communicated by right-wing 
populists from both the Global North and South.

Accordingly, contributions to this volume might include (but are not 
limited to) explorations of populist right-wing pervasive 
boundary-drawing discursive practices demarcating or dichotomizing the 
functional equivalents ‘Self’ from the following ‘Others’’ as floating 
signifiers:

*1-**Othering ‘upward’ the in-groups of the elites or the establishment 
and those associated with the elites*

Domestic and international elites (individuals and groups); government 
and/or the opposition (or both); political structures and players; 
political opponents (left-wing); the state; other formal institutions of 
liberal democracy such as the courts, regulatory agencies, intelligence 
services, academia, culture, the press, etc.

*2-**Othering ‘downward’ by scapegoating the outgroups or excluded 
outsiders *

Vulnerable and marginalized populations such as immigrants and members 
of ethnonational, racial or religious groups; other minorities such as 
gender identity and sexual orientation groups.

*Submission Guidelines *

-Please send either an original full chapter of up to 7,500 words, 
including references, or an abstract of no more than 350 words, along 
with a brief bibliography (3-5 sources) demonstrating the proposed 
chapter’s theoretical foundations, and a short biography (75 words) by 
*April 15, 2023*.

-Notifications will be sent to all authors as soon as the review process 
terminates. Authors of approved abstracts will be asked to write 
chapters of up to 7,500 words, including references, which must be 
submitted by the final deadline of *July 28, 2023*.

-If you wish to submit your abstract in a language other than English, 
please contact the editors. Please include “Communicating Otherness – 
Vol.8” in the email subject and copy all editors on initial submissions 
and any further correspondence.



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