[Commlist] CFP - Edited volume on Masks and human connections

*MASKS AND HUMAN CONNECTIONS*

*Luísa Magalhães & José Cândido Martins, editors*

Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal

(luisamagalhaes /at/ ucp.pt) <mailto:(luisamagalhaes /at/ ucp.pt)>

(cmartins /at/ ucp.pt) <mailto:(cmartins /at/ ucp.pt)>

*Call for Contributions to Edited Collection (WoS, Scopus indexed volume):*

We are editing a book of chapters about the relationship between the use 
of masks and the problematics of identity preservation and development. 
The book has its origins in an interdisciplinary project built under the 
hedge of our Research Unit at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social 
Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal. As editors of this 
volume, we are accepting contributions with special emphasis on broad 
research areas.

   This is an interdisciplinary project that is claiming for 
contributions from different areas. Philosophy, for example, has since 
long questioned the concepts of identity and alterity in a wide array of 
intellectual and social contexts. Psychology and behavioral research 
also addresses the /mask/ as a theme that includes emotions and 
feelings, familiar quests and personality problems, as well as burnout, 
imposter syndrome or bipolar disorders. Literary Studies, as addressing 
the exploitation of the broad and allegorical symbolism of the mask, are 
frequently relating it to issues of the greatest aesthetic and 
anthropological relevance, such as cartography of classical myths, 
identity(s), profiles of literary heroes and other literary "exempla".

  Considering the topic of communication, the project would accept 
contributions addressing the objects under which masks usage is 
understood as critical, e.g., the problem of fake news, the distinctive 
and prophylactic characters that are implied in digital environments, as 
well as the usage of performative masks or disguised productions in 
strategic communication. The book would also include the problematic of 
social media as enhancing the use of different profiles and /or masked 
identities, as well as the accounts for social media events under the 
hedge of alterity and of the participation in social / touristic 
gatherings in traditional or demonstrational circumstances.

  Contributions to this volume might include (but are not limited to) 
explorations of:

(please feel free to add your suggestions)

*1.**/The use of Masks and philosophical research/**: *

Identity; Otherness; Alterity;

2. *Psychology, the positioning of /self/ and collective social endeavours *

Emotions; Imposter Syndrome; masks and burnout; bipolar contexts of 
detached personality

3. */Masks and heroes in Literary Studies/:*

Classical symbolism; Narcissus; literature and masks heroes; masks, 
identity and enigm;

4. */Communication, social performance and digital humanities:/*

Fake news; performative masks; digital alterity: profiling characters; 
news and events; social media

5. */Uses of Masks in Tourism and Society: /*

Carnival and tourism; parades; social media events; leisure interaction

*Submission Guidelines:*

Please send an *abstract* of no more than 350 words, along with a brief 
*bibliography* (3-5 sources) demonstrating the proposed chapter’s 
theoretical foundations, and *a short biography *(75 words) by *may, 
31th, 2021. *

Please include “Masks and human connections – section number (1-5)” in 
the subject header and copy both editors on initial submissions and any 
further correspondence. We are assuming a deadline of 3 months for 
achieving the full chapter, after the publisher’s approval of the 
proposal (max. January 2022).

*Chapter Guidelines:*

Once abstracts are collected, they will be proposed to the publisher, as 
a proposal for an edited book. After abstract acceptance from the 
publisher, authors will be asked to write chapters of 7,000 to 7,500 
words including references by an agreed-upon date to be determined 
(depending on publisher’s timetable).

_NOTE: NO PAYMENT required from authors.___


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