[ecrea] Submission of chapter proposals for the Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture

Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for submitting an abstract proposal for the Wiley
Blackwell/IAMCR Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture is November 20,
2015.
Please see the original call below:


_Call for Chapters - Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture (Wiley
Blackwell/IAMCR)_
Editors: Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousianou

The handbook will be the fifth volume in the Global Handbooks in Media
and Communication Research Series
<http://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-handbook>, co-published by
Wiley-Blackwell and IAMCR. The others were /The Handbook of Global Media
and Communication Policy/, /The Handbook of Political Economy of
Communications/, /The Handbook of Media Audiences/ and /The Handbook of
Development Communication and Social Change/.

_Aim of the handbook_

The aim of the Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture is to provide an
authoritative outline of the relevant intellectual terrain by presenting
key debates and state-of-the-art research on the intersection of
diasporic phenomena, media and cultural studies.

The handbook is envisaged to make a contribution to better understanding
diasporic cultures and their impact on our globalized world, the complex
networks and flows that underpin it and the transnational cultural
politics and practices that are emerging.

More precisely, the handbook is intended to
• trace and explore the multiple roots of diasporic studies in
migration, globalization and transnationalism debates;
• identify and present the key theoretical perspectives, paradigms and
focal areas of investigation;
• provide an overview of the evolution of the field in interaction with
developments in broader debates on diasporas, media technologies,
transnational and local media configurations, media audiences and users;
• identify and present key empirical research and case study exemplars;
• explore current challenges and future directions in research.

_Key Questions_
Key questions include:
• When and how did the notion of diaspora and diasporic cultures emerge?
What were the reasons for this? What was the contribution of this
terminological and conceptual innovation?
• What is the nature of 'diaspora(s)', their relation to nation,
ethnicity, religion, societies of provenance and societies of
settlement? What is distinctive about diasporic phenomena and warrants
their investigation as a particular object of enquiry?
• How are notions of the global, local and transnational articulated in
the study of diasporas? What is the place of diasporas in the
geographies of flows and networks of late modernity?
• How have diasporic cultural politics been approached? How have issues
such as the emergence of diasporic public spheres/spaces, identity
politics, diasporic activism/voice been addressed in the relevant research?
• What is the impact of the changing media, information and
communication technologies on diasporic cultures, public spaces but also
domestic and family life (transnational households)?
• In what ways do the politics and structures of ethnic broadcasting
provide spaces for diasporic cultural expression and identification?
• How are contemporary diasporas transforming new developments in global
cities and urban contexts?
• How do gender and generation intersect with the diasporic condition
and impact on diasporic cultural politics?
• Can the avenues of investigation and debates developed within
diasporic research be extended to better understand broader
transnational/translocal processes – for example the emergence and
consolidation of Hispanic, African, Muslim translocal cultural politics?
• What are the key questions that are becoming central in the agenda of
the relevant international research community?

The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to diasporic media and
culture and will bring together internationally recognised scholars from
around the world and research that has informed the field. We are
actively seeking contributions, from various disciplines, that advance
our understanding of diasporas, diasporic cultures and cultural politics
  (past, present and future), diasporic media and cultural resources,
forms of organisations and expression as well as production,
distribution, and consumption.
This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of the prestigious
series The Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research,
designed to define an intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its
key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its key
empirical research and possible future directions. For more information
and examples of the series see:
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410903.html

Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit and the extent to
which they contribute to our greater understanding of diasporic cultures
and communication. Contributors should limit their articles to between
5500 and 6000 words (including references).
Abstracts (250 words) are due by 20 November 2015 and should be sent to
Roza Tsagarousianou ((tsagarr /at/ westminster.ac.uk)
<mailto:(tsagarr /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>) and Jessica Retis
((jessica.retis /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jessica.retis /at/ gmail.com)>). Upon
acceptance, full articles will be due by 1 September 2016.
_________________________________
Dr Roza Tsagarousianou
Reader in Media and Communication
Course Leader, MA Diversity and the Media
Communication and Media Research Institute
University of Westminster
Northwick Park, Watford Road
Harrow HA1 3TP

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