[Commlist] CFP -- Creativity and Conflict in Cultural Industries

Call for Chapter Proposals

Creativity and Conflict in Cultural Industries

Edited by Christopher Lucas and Erica Knotts


*Abstracts due May 3*.

Please contact the editors at (creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)>with any questions.


Histories of media, cinema, and other cultural industries, popular 
culture, and academic studies are replete with stories of legendary 
feuds, power struggles, and interpersonal clashes in the high-stakes 
world of popular culture. Recent headlines have highlighted this 
fractious quality: including vital issues such as the struggle for safer 
production practices, increasing equity in production, and abolishing 
harassment and exploitation. This edited volume will explore the 
intersection of conflict studies and cultural production, investigating 
the constant presence of conflict in forms of labor within these 
industries, and offering tools and concepts for managing it.


Of course, much conflict is founded in structural factors such as 
between divisions of labor at cross-purposes, entrenched gender or 
racial inequities, or the tensions between art and commerce, yet even 
within these structures, conflict is often seen as productive, or even 
necessary, for better art and storytelling, for increased psychological 
and physical safety, and for more just working conditions. Other 
conflicts are destructive and contribute to these industries’ reputation 
for high rates of attrition and burnout. Creativity and Conflict invites 
scholars working in the domains of media industry or cultural industry 
studies, organizational communication, or conflict studies to share case 
studies, interviews, discourse analyses, and theoretical considerations 
of conflict and how it is used, imagined, managed, and mediated.


The organization of this edited volume is yet to be determined but we 
foresee three focus areas and encourage submissions that speak to these 
general approaches:


 1.

    Narratives of conflict and reflective experiences

     1.

        Interviews or case studies of conflict in cultural production

     2.

        Explorations of noted, influential, or legendary conflicts

     3.

        Examples of mediation and dispute resolution in practice

     4.

        The “war story" genre and organizational discourses of conflict

     5.

        Reality TV, Competitions, or other genres of open conflict.

     6.

        Artistic integrity and related discourses of prestige and value.

     7.

        Histories of or responses to harassment

 2.

    Studies of systemic factors that contribute to conflict. These may
    be predictive and diagnostic while acknowledging areas of
    unresolvable conflict.

     1.

        Conflict and marginalized identities

     2.

        Conflicts between craft roles

     3.

        Relations between above-the-line talent

     4.

        Intellectual property

     5.

        Ambition and discourses of conflict

     6.

        Children, child actors, and conflict

     7.

        Litigiousness, NDAs, or other juridical strategies.

 3.

    Techniques, approaches, and strategies for managing conflict,
    improving outcomes, and narratives of resolution.

     1.

        Structures of accountability on film and TV sets

     2.

        Conflict styles and creative work

     3.

        Ethical practices around creative production (e.g, documentary
        ethics)

     4.

        Intimacy direction or other emerging roles for accountability

     5.

        Emotional intelligence or other social-psychological perspectives

     6.

        Studies or narratives of forgiveness and restitution

     7.

        Communication frameworks for understanding conflict and creativity


Contributors are invited to examine conflict from a variety of 
perspectives (organizational, interpersonal, intrapersonal, structural) 
as it manifests in the wide array of media production: film, television, 
journalism, new media, gaming, and beyond. We welcome all manner of 
studies that have approached this unpredictable but ever-present force 
within the cultural industries.


Potential contributors should email (creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)> with the following information:


Complete contact details (name/title/institution affiliation/contact 
information);

A biographical sketch (maximum 150 words); *An abstract of 250-500 
words* identifying your study’s central research question(s), specific 
research method(s) and theories used, and findings or projected findings 
to the co-editors, by May 3, 2024

If you have already completed a manuscript, please send that along with 
the requested materials above. Manuscripts should be 7,000-10,000 words, 
including references and footnotes. If your manuscript has tables or 
other illustrations, please include them in your manuscript’s text and 
submit each table/illustration as a separate file (securing permission 
to reproduce images is the responsibility of the author). This book has 
been accepted for publication with Routledge and accepted chapters will 
be expected to follow Routledge’s publishing guidelines which can be 
found here: 
https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines 
<https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines>.


*Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts 
submitted to this book publication. *

We welcome questions about the edited volume or chapter proposals. 
Please contact Christopher Lucas or Erica Knotts at 
(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)>with 
any questions.

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