[ecrea] CfP Book - Communication for social change

*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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