[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Turkish Television Series in Transformation

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Turkish Television Series in Transformation: Industry, Narrative, Power, 
and Global Circulation

We invite chapter proposals for an edited academic volume on Turkish 
television drama (dizi) as a cultural, industrial, aesthetic, and 
political formation. The volume will be submitted to a major academic 
publisher (Routledge or Palgrave Macmillan) and will undergo 
double-blind peer review. No payment will be required from contributors 
at any stage.

Turkish television drama has emerged as one of the most significant 
transnational screen phenomena of the twenty-first century. Building on 
foundational scholarship in the field — including Arzu Öztürkmen's The 
Delight of Turkish Dizi (2022) and Yeşim Kaptan and Ece Algan's 
Television in Turkey (2020) — this volume expands the thematic scope of 
Turkish television studies into underexplored areas and engages with a 
rapidly transforming media landscape shaped by SVOD expansion, 
platformization, digital regulation, and democratic backsliding.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Industry, labor, precarity, and financing
- Broadcasters, producers, and streaming platforms
- Serial form, genre, melodrama, and aesthetics
- Sound, costume, design, and spatial politics
- State power, nationalism, censorship, and regulation
- Minority, queer, and disability representation
- Class, urban transformation, and environmental imaginaries
- Audiences, fandom, and participatory cultures
- Platformization, algorithmic governance, and data cultures
- Global streaming services (including HBO Max/Max) in the Turkish market
- Dubbing, subtitling, format adaptation, and global recirculation

Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. We particularly welcome 
contributions grounded in empirical research (ethnographic fieldwork, 
interviews, content analysis, archival work, discourse analysis, 
production studies, digital methods) as well as proposals offering 
substantial theoretical innovation.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

Please submit the following:
- A working chapter title
- An abstract of 300-500 words outlining the central argument, 
theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical basis
- A brief author biography of 100-150 words including institutional 
affiliation, research interests, and relevant publications
- Full contact information: name, institutional affiliation, and email 
address

Completed chapters will be approximately 7,000-9,000 words (including 
references), written in English, and formatted according to the 
publisher's style guide.

KEY DATES

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2026
Full chapter submission: 1 September 2026
Peer review and editorial feedback: 15 October 2026
Revised chapter submission: 15 November 2026
Expected publication: January 2027

EDITORS

Erkan Saka, İstanbul Bilgi University
Alper Kırklar, İstanbul Bilgi University

SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES

Please send chapter proposals and inquiries to:
(Erkan.saka /at/ bilgi.edu.tr) <mailto:(Erkan.saka /at/ bilgi.edu.tr)> and 
(Alper.kirklar /at/ bilgi.edu.tr) <mailto:(Alper.kirklar /at/ bilgi.edu.tr)>


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