[ecrea] Call for chapters - Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture (Wiley Blackwell)

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

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 
6000 and 8000 words (including references).
Abstracts (250 words) are due by 20 November 2015 and should be sent to 
Roza Tsagarousianou ((tsagarr /at/ westminster.ac.uk)) and Jessica Retis 
((jessica.retis /at/ gmail.com))
Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 1 September 2016.
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by 
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