[Commlist] Call for Book Chapter Manuscripts: The Handbook of Communication in (pre & post)Pandemics: South Asian Perspectives on Securing Health and Well-Being

Call for Book Chapter Manuscripts



The Handbook of Communication in (pre & post)Pandemics: South Asian 
Perspectives on Securing Health and Well-Being



We are inviting authors to submit chapter manuscripts for a forthcoming 
handbook, tentatively titled The Handbook of Communication in (pre & 
post)Pandemics: South Asian Perspectives on Securing Health and 
Well-Being, under consideration by Routledge and edited by Gita Bamezai 
(Former Head, Communication Research, Indian Institute of Mass 
Communication), Pradeep Sopory (Wayne State University), and Uttaran 
Dutta (Arizona State University).



Research on health communication in South Asia tends to center around 
media health campaigns and media health discourse analysis. The proposed 
handbook seeks to shift the focus from the media as a site of health 
communication to other contexts such as communities, organizations, work 
groups, and family. It seeks to highlight everyday South Asian 
experiences of communicative exchanges about health and well-being in 
these contexts, which may be located in both the geographical South Asia 
as well as its Diasporas, through de-colonial, indigenous, and 
de-westernized perspectives.


Overview:

The proposed edited handbook will examine communication related to 
physical and mental health and wellbeing during (and beyond) the 
Covid-19 pandemic in South Asia. The region comprises eight countries 
(Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and 
Maldives) that share many geopolitical, socio-structural, and cultural 
characteristics. Its citizens face a range of noncommunicable and 
communicable disease burdens in the context of a dense population (1.9 
billion people, 25% of global population) and an inadequate health 
infrastructure. The Covid-19 (& post) pandemic scenario has added to the 
health burdens and posed significant short- and long-term challenges to 
people’s physical and mental wellbeing. The handbook chapters will cover 
the full range of communication contexts from intrapersonal to 
societal/cultural, with a focus on communities, organizations, work 
groups, and family, to examine communicative contents, structures, and 
processes that both enhance and harm health and well-being in South 
Asian countries and its diasporas.



Contributions from different disciplines, such as anthropology, 
economics, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology, 
examining different aspects of health communication are highly welcome. 
We solicit both theoretical and empirical works. The handbook is open to 
all quantitative, qualitative, and rhetorical/critical/cultural 
methodological approaches.


Topics:

Communication about health and well-being can be investigated in several 
contexts, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, family, work group, 
organization, community, media, and societal/cultural. Contributors are 
expected to examine communicative exchanges to create meanings about 
physical and mental health and well-being predominantly in contexts 
other than media. Our expectation is that contributors will examine the 
structure and content of common South Asian communicative experiences 
and their relationships to health for topics such as, but not limited 
to, the following:



Adverse health news and disease diagnosis; Community interactions and 
relations; Conflict and resistance; Disabilities; Disasters and public 
health emergency events; Doctor interactions with nurses and medical 
staff; Education and training curriculum and practices; Environmental 
health issues; Extended and “joint” multi-generational families and 
clans; Fear appeals and vaccine hesitancy; Food, hunger, and poverty; 
Gossip and taunting; Hate and discriminatory talk; Health activism and 
social justice; Health for all and access to health infrastructures; 
Health literacy; Healthy practices; Hierarchy of communication 
structures; History and health communication; Information/digital 
divide; Inter-organization and -agency

coordination and collaborations; Intersectionality (caste, class, 
gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation) and its implications; Mental 
health and suicide; Migration; Participatory approaches; Patient rage 
toward doctors and medical staff; Patient-health provider interactions; 
Positive deviancy approaches to behavior and social change; Provider 
interactions with families of patients; Ragging/hazing in educational 
institutions; Risk communication and pandemics. Sexual harassment in 
public and work settings; Spirituality, religion, and faith; Sports and 
physical health activities; Technology of communication, including 
mHealth and e-health; Terminal health condition and end-of-life; Traffic 
accidents and road rage; Underserved and marginalized communities; 
Work-family negotiation.


Proposal Submission Guidelines:

Chapter proposals should have the following components and be combined 
into a single document for submission:

1.  Title page with contact information for all authors;

2.  Abstract (300-500 words, excluding references) clearly explaining:

a.  Purpose and the contents of the proposed chapter; and

b.  How the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book.

3.  Working bibliography for the chapter in APA style (7th edition); and,

4.  Brief author biographical statement (max. 150 words) written in the 
third person that includes:

a.  Current position and affiliation;

b.  Highest degree held, field, and institution granting that degree; and

c.  Relevant area of research and/or relevant research project.



Proposals should be submitted by February 15th, 2023 (for other 
important dates see below).


Submissions and Inquiries:

Chapter proposal submissions and inquiries for further information 
should be sent to Gita Bamezai,(gitabamezai /at/ gmail.com); Pradeep Sopory, 
(dz3594 /at/ wayne.edu); or, Uttaran Dutta, (uttaran.dutta /at/ asu.edu).


Full-Chapter Guidelines:

Full chapters should, at the minimum, include an introduction to the 
main identified communicative issue, theoretical postulates and 
conceptual framework(s) in the context of health communication, review 
of literature (paying attention to contemporary debates/discussions in 
the domain of health communication), suggestions for a research agenda, 
and implications for policy and system changes. The chapter should be 
located/grounded in the South Asian experience. Full chapters should be 
between 5,000-7,000 words, including abstract (125 words), references, 
tables, and figures.


Important Dates (with some flexibility):

Chapter proposal due: February15th, 2023

Notification of acceptance sent to authors: March31st, 2023 First draft 
of full chapter manuscripts due: August 1st, 2023 Manuscript reviews 
sent to authors: October 1, 2023

Revised draft of chapter manuscripts due: December 15th, 2023 Final 
manuscript decisions sent to authors: January 15th, 2024


Additional Note:

Submitted work must not have been previously published or be under 
consideration for publication elsewhere. Eventual publication will be 
subject to the outcome of editorial and peer review.
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