[Commlist] Call for book chapters - Vol 1 - Communicating Otherness Book Series

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    *Call for Contributions to Edited Collection by Palgrave / Springer*

    (WoS, Scopus indexed)

    *Communicating Otherness, Vol.1 – /Otherness in communication 
research/*

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    Editor :  Luísa Magalhães – UCP ((luisamagalhaes /at/ ucp.pt)
    <mailto:(luisamagalhaes /at/ ucp.pt)>)

    This is the first of a six-volume international series entitled
    */Communicating Otherness/* [Luísa Magalhães, UCP & Enrique
    Castelló-Mayo, USC (Editors-in-chief)]. The theme of this series is
    the development of the concept of Otherness within an
    interdisciplinary perspective that combines Communication Studies
    with disciplines across the Arts and Humanities, Philosophy,
    Sociology, and Cultural Studies. We aim at entangling this concept
    with the position of the Other. Hence, we propose interpreting the
    process of othering from within, switching the traditional
    perspectives related to the use of power (by the Self towards the
    Other). In so doing, we will investigate the realm of the Other (as
    transformed into an alternative Self, an object that the self can
    observe, study, reflect upon) from a multidisciplinary perspective.

    Contributions to this volume will be spread along the next 4
    sections and might include (but are not limited to) explorations of:

    *1 – The ubiquitous /other /as communication receiver*

    Every process of human interaction includes source-and-receiver
    mechanisms. Communication research is frequently concerned about the
    best possible ways to create reliable sources for reliable messages.
    Also very frequently, the source is privileged in the analysis of
    data and of interactive exchanges. However, the key to fruitful
    communication lies in the willingness and understanding of the
    receiver – the Other. Reception is the ultimate target in every
    communicative process. Therefore, the positioning of /source/ in the
    shoes of the /Other/ could maybe improve the chosen strategies and
    results achieved. Authors might address this part of the volume from
    various perspectives, within an interdisciplinary effort to
    understand the /Other /in the role of /receiver/, approaching the
    process in different areas of knowledge and research.

    *2– The experience of /otherness /along educational systems *

    Education is hard work, both for those who develop educational
    strategies and for those who endure its multiple formats of
    delivery. For educators, albeit formal or informal, addressing their
    public remains a challenge – considering educators as /source/ for
    the educational message. For students, pupils, learners of all
    types, there is an area of experience that provides connection and
    bonding – or, disrespect and annoyance, mistrust, and contempt.
    Authors interested in this topic might address the narratives of
    formal and informal reception of educational formulae, discussing
    syllabi, strategies, materials, trends, and politics from the
    perspective of the receivers, as the /Other./

    *3– Threatening categories: race/ethnicity, sexuality, tradition
    /innovation, cultural identity *

    This sociological insight about how /Self /acknowledges /Other/
    along varied situations of established differences in attitudes,
    values, performances, and rituals will allow for contributions from
    a wide range of research subjects. Editor’s concern regards the
    voice of some groups and individuals that commonly endure this
    expression of difference in a threatening way, regardless of the
    strength and value of these differences in the development of
    societies. The colonial past of some European countries remains as a
    memory and as a social scar, in many cases; in other cases,
    sexuality, freedom of choice, body language and political choices
    remain as milestones for the establishment of solid behavioral
    boundaries. Biological differences can relate to illnesses or to
    alternative possibilities of life – and medical terms are needed to
    express these differences and conditions. Tradition creates memories
    as well as blockages. The role of tradition vs. the role of
    innovation became a never-ending argument in which development may
    lie the trap of denial, as well as the fear of novelty and of
    change. Authors addressing this topic are challenged to cover a wide
    field of research, centered in the reactions, feelings, expressions,
    and choices of those who embody the /Other/ in threatening
    circumstances of life and society.

    *4 – Troubleshooting /otherness/: playful contexts, fashion
    solutions and alternative geographies*

    The possibility of overcoming the difficult conditions imposed by
    /otherness/ is a call for creativity and art, as well as for
    communication and cultural interchange among receivers of varied
    ages and genders. Play constitutes a reactive behavior against the
    effects of /othering/ in formal and informal social groups. Fashion,
    in multiple fields of consumption, remains as a strong voice for
    standing up as valuable /Other /that exists in various levels of
    autonomy and of self-expression. Different countries, different
    legislations provide for escape, change and chances of a different
    life – thereby reducing the effects of negative /otherness/ and
    fostering solutions of coexistence and social peace. Authors might
    address this topic by researching play, fashion and travel or even
    migrating as a troubleshooting behavior that diminishes or
    extinguishes – in an ideal world – the difficulties and harshness of
    assuming /Self /as /Other./

    *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 *February 1, 2023*.

    *Notifications*

    will be sent to all authors as soon as the review process
    terminates. Authors of approved abstracts will be asked to write
    chapters of up to 7,500 words, including references, which must be
    submitted by the final *deadline of July 28, 2023*.

    *NOTE: *

    Please include “/Communicating Otherness/ – Vol.1 – Section XXXX ”
    in the email subject, on initial submissions and any further
    correspondence.




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