[ecrea] Call for book chapters - Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture

Call for Chapters

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*Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture *

*(Wiley Blackwell)*

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*Editors: Jessica Retis and RozaTsagarousianou*

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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
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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 7000 words
(including references).


Abstracts (250 words) are due by 20 November 2015 and should be sent to
RozaTsagarousianou((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


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