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

Tue Feb 21 14:57:05 GMT 2023






*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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