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[ecrea] CfP Book - Communication for social change

Wed Jul 26 21:12:18 GMT 2017


*CfP Book on /Communication for social change: proposals for action/*

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Eds.: A. Iranzo & A. Farné

This edited book seeks to compile innovative analyses and proposals in the framework of communication for social change that explore possibilities of transformative action from civil society and cultural production.

In the last decade, the field of communication for social change has increasingly evolved, incorporating critical perspectives from post-development, critical and feminist studies that have fostered reflections on issues related to recognition, representation, and action.

With this regard, the book seeks proposals that address new communicative perspectives that promote empowering representations of victims of injustices and inequalities in order to drive new imaginaries of collective action and social change. Proposals with gender, intersectional, nonviolent, or Global South perspectives are particularly welcome. Contributions can be included in the following areas:

-Epistemologies: new conceptual and methodological proposals.

-Politics: innovative contributions in the political-institutional context.

-Activism: analyses of transformative initiatives of civil society.

-Cultural production: case studies and new representations in the media and popular culture.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

1.Theoretical issues in communication for social change and conceptual foundations to transform the concept of victim.

2.Empowering representations in the struggle for social change, proposals that relate communication for social change with ethical witnessing (Kaplan, 2005; Oliver, 2004) in the current context of cultural production, etc.

3.Communicative initiatives and strategies (in traditional or alternative media, online, arts, etc.) that promote the transformative process of the victims in political terms, beyond their individuality, towards social change.

4.Possibilities and limitations of ethical witnessing and other innovative strategies as tools to fissure the established frame of recognition of violence, victim, and justice.

5.Communicative initiatives that compile stories of resistance from victims and/or revision of the role of the different social agents.

This publication is an action of the research project “Ethical witnessing and communication for change: analysis of modes of re-signification of the victim and re-situation of social agents” funded by University Jaume I.

The book will be published with Tirant lo Blanch, included in the SPI ranking of publishers in Humanities and Social Sciences (http://ilia.cchs.csic.es/SPI/prestigio_expertos_2014.php <http://ilia.cchs.csic.es/SPI/prestigio_expertos_2014.php>). The tentative publication date will be around the end of 2018 and early 2019.

Submission information:

-Send a *500-600 words abstract* (with title, objectives, methodology, expected results, and 4-5 references, along with authors’ names and e-mail with 5 lines of CV for each contributor). Deadline for submission: *15 October 2017*. Authors will be notified within a month approximately.

-*Complete chapters*(6000-7000 words, including references) of selected abstracts will be sent by *March 1^st 2018*. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed and authors will be notified in two months approximately.

-Texts can be submitted in English or Spanish.

-Send all your proposals (abstracts and full chapters) and queries to both editors, Amador Iranzo ((iranzo /at/ uji.es) <mailto:(iranzo /at/ uji.es)>) and Alessandra Farné ((farne /at/ uji.es) <mailto:(farne /at/ uji.es)>).

Please feel free to disseminate the call among all your networks of colleagues who may be interested in publishing their advances in the field of communication for social change.

We look forward to reading your proposals and do not hesitate to contact us for any queries. Please, note that August is vacation period.

*References*

Kaplan, E. A. (2005). /Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature/. New Jersey: Rutgers UP.

Oliver, K. (2004). Witnessing and Testimony. /Parallax/, /10/(1), 79-88.






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