[ecrea] Call for Chapters for the Refereed Volume: Global Millennials: Transnational and Intercultural Perspectives

*Call for Chapters for the Refereed Volume:****/Global Millennials: 
Transnational and Intercultural/**//**/Perspectives/**//*

Edited by AhmetAtay(College of Wooster), LaraLengel(Bowling Green State 
University), andYannickKluch(Bowling Green State University)


Contributors are sought for/Global////Millennials: Transnational and 
Intercultural////Perspectives/, a refereedbookanalyzing the 
often-misunderstood generation of young adults born in the period from 
the early 1980s to early 2000s. As the most tech-savvy generation, these 
“digital natives” have grown up in a highly media-saturated and 
consumer-driven culture and, now, actively engage in 24-hour culture, 
art, news, and social media practices as both consumers and producers. 
By taking cultural studies and critical intercultural and transnational 
perspectives, the collection aims to examine the ways in which mediation 
and visualization create,promote, contest, or disrupta global millennial 
experienceand millennial identities.

As the under-30 cohort is the most diverse and populous adult 
demographic in U.S. and other nations’ histories,it is not accidental 
that the members of the millennial generation have radically transformed 
concepts of cultural and gender norms. However, theexperience and 
identitiesof millennials, who live in a culture that is mediated, 
globalized, and consumer-oriented, is often perceived as homogenized 
through global forces.

Given the lack of scholarly approaches to the study of global millennial 
culture, particularlyresearchthat takestransnational andintercultural 
perspectives andexamines globalcontexts,we invite studies addressing the 
following interrelated questions,among others: What constitutes the 
millennial experience, particularly in transnational contexts? What 
interrelated social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape 
millennials’ experiences? What is the impact of globalization, 
capitalism, neoliberalism on millennials’ world view(s)?  How do media 
technologies create, construct, and sometimes contest a global 
millennial culture? What are the ways in which co-cultures within the 
millennial generation create different ways of resisting the globalizing 
nature of their culture(s)?How do millennials construct or deconstruct 
their identities in intercultural and transnational contexts?

Additional focus areas may include, butarenot limited to, the following:

·Mediated and visual aspects of millennial culture in specific 
intercultural or transnational contexts.

·Mediated representations of millennials

·Millennials and/in/as popular culture (e.g. sport, fashion, film, etc.)

·Transnational cultural identity formations of global millennials, for 
instance of thosewho are immigrants, diasporic bodies, or cosmopolitans.

·Millennials' political identities,particularly regarding older 
generations’ politics and how they impact millennials, and millennials’ 
view of recent major policy moves such as Brexit and the push for 
immigration reform.

·Millennials and gender/GLBTQ identities; millennials and contemporary 
feminism(s)

·Millennials and the myth of a post-racial society.

·Marginalized millennial identities

·The domination of specific cultural norms (e.g., US and UK) in the 
construction of millennial experiences in other global / transnational 
contexts (e.g., the Middle East and North Africa; the EU;LatinAmerica).

*Timeline:*

Abstractsofup to 500 words,along with a short biographical statement of 
each contributor,are due February 25, 2017.Editors will notify those who 
submitted abstracts about the status of their submissionby March 25, 
2017.If invited to submit a chapter (5,000-6,000 words), full 
manuscripts (in APA format) will be due September 25, 2017andthe essays 
will be anonymously peer-reviewed.Please submit abstracts and queries 
to: Ahmet Atay, (aatay /at/ wooster.edu)


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