[Commlist] cfp: Towards Critical Academic Studies: Tracing the,Effects of Conflict, Crisis, and Communication in Higher Education

Call for Proposals: "Towards Critical Academic Studies: Tracing the
Effects of Conflict, Crisis, and Communication in Higher Education"

Violence on campus. Decline of the Humanities. Impoverished contingent
labor. Student debt. Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Death of tenure.
Conversations surrounding volatile subjects such as these are
powerfully shaping the lives of those of us who work and learn in
21st-century academe.

When framed as a crisis or as a series of conflicts within higher
education, such subjects are often studied for the benefit of an
executive audience and thus involve a sense of expectation: “What can
be done?” But research aimed at recommendations, strategies, and
policies can overlook the heterogeneous effects of a problem and thus
overstate the likelihood that it can be resolved through
administrative action.

We recognize a potential to enrich our understanding of academic
conflicts and crises by focusing on their effects on individuals and
within groups, communities, and societies. Specifically, careful
tracing of effects can enrich our understanding of how multiple
stakeholders experience and engage creatively with conflict and crisis
in academe.

We call for proposals of book chapters that offer in-depth analyses of
the effects of conflict and crisis within higher education.
Submissions from authors across the disciplines are very welcome. The
collection will incorporate a transnational perspective, and
submissions from authors outside of the USA are strongly encouraged.

Prospective authors should send to both editors of this collection

1) an abstract of the proposed chapter (250-word minimum) that does
all the following:

- identifies a conflict or crisis in a higher educational context,
whether school or national/regional/local educational system,

- states clearly how the chapter will illuminate the effects of the
conflict or crisis upon one or more stakeholders,

- names the research methodology/methodologies and tool/s that will be 
used, and

- identifies aspects of the author/s positionality that are relevant
to the study;

2) a curriculum vitae.

Abstracts are due by May 31, 2020; editors’ decisions will be made and
abstract authors notified by August 31, 2020; full chapters will be
due by January 31, 2021. Chapters published will likely each be a
minimum of 5,000 words.

Proposals should be sent to both Adrienne Lamberti, Associate
Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa <(lamberti /at/ uni.edu)>
and to Anne R. Richards, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary
Studies, Kennesaw State University <(Anne_Richards /at/ kennesaw.edu)>.

Among their several books on conflict, communication, and cultural
studies, the authors have most recently published the collection
/Conflict and Communication Studies:  Disciplinary Connections,
Research Directions/ (Palgrave 2019).
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