[Commlist] Call for Book Chapters: Class in contemporary UK society

*Call for Chapters:  Class in contemporary UK society *

As an explanatory analytical framework, class has to a greater or lesser 
degree been sidelined in academia. Addressing from various academic 
disciplines the complex theoretical, political, and ethical 
ramifications involved in the exploration of social class this book aims 
to provide undergraduates and postgraduate with an accessible reference 
book. Our argument is that the analysis of class remains the most 
essential and significant theoretical tool for the study of the way in 
which social, cultural and economic norms are reproduced. The proposed 
textbook will provide both an engagement with historical systems of 
class analysis while formulating new ways of engaging with the issue. 
Social class operates like an invisible coordinate system that orients 
our society and shapes individual trajectories permeating and affecting 
all areas of all lives. While UK society embraces myths of meritocracy, 
the truth remains that class structures, and class inequalities continue 
to dictate life chances. Our socioeconomic status inheres opportunity, 
defines neighbourhoods and delineates the possible. Class stamps 
identities, forges worldviews, and leaves its impact in many areas of 
society.

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*Scope of this book. *


The category of class is not compatible with single theories or 
practices. This edited volume will provide a multi-disciplinary analysis 
of the pervasive and interconnecting impacts of social class. It will 
achieve this by contextualising class across the key political, 
institutional and ideological domains of contemporary UK society. 
Academic contributors will illuminate the complex dynamics of 
socioeconomic status, resource inequities, cultural capital, and 
intersecting identities that shape class-based experiences, biases, 
constraints, and marginalisation’s. Spanning topics from health, 
housing, education, media, and the arts, chapters will unravel the 
tangible and hidden disadvantages facing working-class communities, 
while also highlighting their strengths, forms of capital, and agency. 
The book aims to raise awareness of class injustice and spark renewed 
public will to enact a more equitable society. By synthesizing current 
interdisciplinary scholarship on class and illustrating its complex 
intersections with race, gender, geography, disability status, and 
sexuality, this volume will become a core text for courses examining the 
myriad impacts of class across

society. This book fills a needed niche as an accessible volume on class 
spanning multiple domains, ideal for use with university courses that 
cover social class from an interdisciplinary point of view of Sociology, 
Social Policy, Health, Criminology, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, TV 
Studies etc.


We invite chapter submissions on the following subjects, but not limited 
too:


Class and…

*Health*

*Housing*

*Education*

*Criminal Justice System*

*Television *

*Film*

*News Media*

* Creative industries*

***Art World *

*Class and Culture. *


If you have any questions about potential submissions, please contact 
the editors (Dr Teresa Crew and Dr Deirdre O'Neill. via email on: 
(classcontemporaryuksociety /at/ gmail.com)

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Abstracts of up to 500 words and 100 word bio should be submitted via 
email to: (classcontemporaryuksociety /at/ gmail.com) by Friday 27th September 
2023, 5PM BST. Once we confirm the publishers, chapters of 7000 words 
will be due in 2025 (date to be confirmed). There will be a two stage 
review process:

  1accepted to be part of the book proposal,

  2peer review following submission of your chapter.


  Deadline for abstracts – Friday 27th September 2023


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