[Commlist] Call for Book Chapters: Creative Junctures

Call for Book Chapters

Creative Junctures: Craft, Culture and Diaspora in Creative Practice and 
Research

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2814/creative-junctures-cfp.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2814/creative-junctures-cfp.pdf>

Editor:

Dr. Arezou Zalipour
Associate Professor in Screen Production and Cultural Studies
Department of Screen, Audio and Journalism
School of Communication Studies
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa New Zealand

Timeline/Workflow:

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    Abstract Submission Deadline (final call): 15 November 2025

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    Notification of Acceptance: November 2025

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    Full Chapter Submission Deadline: April 2026

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    Anticipated Publication Date: 2026

What does it mean to stand at the junctures? What can this mean for the 
creative process?

This original volume seeks contributions from creative practitioners, 
professionals, and creative practitioner-researchers in screen and media 
fields and industries, whose experience is characterised by moving 
across two or more cultural and social worlds and identities. The book 
presents compelling chapters written by creative practitioners and/or 
practitioner-researchers who have worked in diverse or multi-ethnic, 
multi-lingual, and multi-cultural contexts.

This book goes beyond representation and identity, engaging with 
on-the-ground questions that screen and media practitioners and 
practitioner-researchers ask (or could and should ask) about the nature 
of professional and creative practice, experience, process, and craft. 
These questions are deeply rooted in the realities of creative 
decision-making, influenced and shaped by the practitioner’s lived 
experiences, background, community, and historical awareness, ultimately 
influencing both the creative process and outcomes of their screen and 
media work and practice.

Creative Junctures: Craft, Culture and Diaspora in Creative Practice and 
Researchdraws attention to craft, creative processes, decisions, 
choices, encounters, relationships, and critical and creative thinking 
when these hinge on the experiences, truths, memories, places, feelings, 
and contexts associated with culture, identity, race, ethnicity, 
indigeneity, migration, diaspora, and diversity.

  The book invites practitioners to engage in conscious reflection on 
their craft, examining the interplay of audio/visuality, aesthetics, 
storytelling, narratives, and style including production and creative 
choices, while also addressing key methodological, ethical, and 
philosophical considerations in relation to culture, place and identity 
within the creative process.

Using creative practice as its anchoring point, this volume will include 
an eclectic selection of essays that survey a wide range of professional 
and creative practices, including creative practice research projects. 
Its defining feature is that all contributors are industry 
professionals, creative practitioners and/or practitioner-researchers 
whose cultural, ethnic, diasporic, indigenous, multicultural, or 
immigrant backgrounds and affiliations influence some aspects of their 
creative process or creative work.

Topicsmay include but are not limited to:

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    The relationship between professional and creative practice, and
    creative practice research experiences of identity, migration,
    diaspora, indigeneity, and ethnicity

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    Creative practice research projects that engage with any aspects or
    forms of above

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    The role of cultural, social and political intersections in shaping
    creative practice projects or creative outputs – decisions about
    content, story, process, style, and/or form

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    Creative processes and decision-making in multi-cultural,
    multi-lingual production contexts

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    Intersections of craft, aesthetics, and storytelling with diverse
    knowledge systems

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    Ethical, methodological, and philosophical considerations in
    creative practice

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    The impact of place, identify and lived experiences on creative
    choices and decisions

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    Refection and reflexivity on craft, creative process, and
    professional experience when working across cultural contexts and
    with specific communities

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    Explorations of displacement, belonging, hybridity, borders,
    migration, trauma, and identity through creative practice and/or
    creative practice research

Submission Guidelines

We invite scholars, practitioner-researchers, and screen professionals 
to submit chapter proposals of 150-300 wordsoutlining their proposed 
contribution. Proposals should include:

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    A clear articulation of the chapter’s focus and relevance to the
    book’s scope and themes

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    A statement on the positioning of the researcher and/or practitioner

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    Any theoretical, methodological, and/or practice-based approaches
    employed

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    A brief bio of the author(s), including relevant professional,
    industry or research experience

The book will include both shorter chapters of approximately 3,000 words 
and longer chapters of up to 8,000 words. This is to note that several 
abstracts have already been received, and authors are currently writing 
their chapters for this volume. Intellect is keen to get on board.

Contact

For inquiries and submissions, please contact: Dr. Arezou Zalipour at 
(arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz) <mailto:(arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz)>

Arezou Zalipour looks forward to receiving proposals that contribute to 
this important conversation on the intersections of culture, craft, 
identity, creative practice and/or creative practice research. If you 
have any questions and are not sure your work and practice fit the scope 
of the book, get in touch with Arezou Zalipour.



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