[Commlist] Call for papers - Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies - Intercultural mediation, citizenship and social development

*Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies: call for papers | Intercultural 
mediation, citizenship and social development*

*Editors*: Ana Maria Costa e Silva (CECS, Universidade do Minho, 
Portugal), Margarida Morgado (Centre for English, Translation and 
Anglo-Portuguese Studies e Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, 
Portugal) & Monika Hrebacková (Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke V, Praga)

We live in times of social crisis and emergency contexts due to the 
Covid-19 pandemic situation that has certainly affected people’s 
relationships in multicultural spaces and shaken their notion of 
citizenship, while we also witnessed serious threats to social living as 
we know it. There were probably references that lost their meaning and 
others that progressively invaded our realities and our imaginations. 
The state of emergency in which we live is complex at various levels, 
including prophylactic isolation, physical distancing from people, 
psychological and social violence, and increased vulnerabilities and 
inequalities in the most marginalized populations.

This issue invites contributions on the various facets of intercultural 
mediation and the role of mediators in times of change such as these. It 
invites authors to consider the plural and multifaceted objectives of 
intercultural mediation in contexts of social transformation. The focus 
of the issue will be on trialled practices of intercultural mediation, 
the construction of multicultural citizenship, and the positive 
development of society, which are transformative and healing in a 
humanist logic of caring for the other and in terms of the possibility 
of reinterpreting society in contexts of crisis.

*The following are topics that could be addressed in this issue, namely:*

How has the pandemic situation of social crisis and health emergency 
affected the work of intercultural mediators in their different spheres 
of action (social, cultural, educational)?

What impacts were felt on social and territorial cohesion and on the 
ways in which each individual, group or community thinks about 
citizenship and its performance as citizen?

What emerging spaces of security, safety and intercultural living were 
created and how were they created?

What cultural and social interventions made the most sense in these 
times of change and why?

Which emerging conventional and non-conventional (ethical, aesthetic, 
pedagogical, social and digital) spaces were created, refashioned and/ 
or reinvented and how were they nurtured?

How have plural identities been refashioned, how have multicultural and 
intercultural communities been reimagined, and how has the sense of 
belonging in a plural and diverse post-pandemic social space evolved?

The present issue of RLEC invites proposals on case studies based on 
trialled practices of intercultural mediation and active multicultural 
citizenship; descriptions of social mediation during the period of 
pandemic emergency with a focus on what had to change during the 
pandemic; as well as reflective contributions on possibilities for 
meaningful intercultural and social mediation in post-pandemic times, 
capable of outlining various forms of intercultural experience, of 
citizenship and of social development in different contexts and from 
various perspectives.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Submission of proposals: 30 October 2021
Acceptance of submissions: 7 January 2022
Submission of translated final versions: 30 March 2022
Publication of journal number: June 2022

*LANGUAGE*

Proposals may be submitted in Portuguese or English. At the end of the 
peer review period, authors of proposals accepted for publication will 
ensure the translation of their articles into Portuguese or English, 
respectively, upon which editors will decide on their publication.

*EDITORIAL POLICY*

Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies is an open access academic journal 
that adheres to the stringent standards of peer-reviewing, and blind 
peer reviewing. Each article will be peer reviewed by two referees 
against the following acceptance criteria: academic quality, originality 
and relevance to the respective call for papers, to the objectives and 
scope of the journal,

Original articles are submitted on the journal’s website 
at https://www.rlec.pt/. When submitting for the first time to Lusophone 
Journal of Cultural Studies, please register here 
(https://rlec.pt/index.php/rlec/user/register).

Publication guidelines are available here 
(https://rlec.pt/index.php/rlec/about/submissions).

For further contact please refer to:  (rlec /at/ ics.uminho.pt)

No payment from the authors will be required.

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