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[Commlist] CFP -- Creativity and Conflict in Cultural Industries

Fri Apr 19 08:26:46 GMT 2024




Call for Chapter Proposals

Creativity and Conflict in Cultural Industries

Edited by Christopher Lucas and Erica Knotts


*Abstracts due May 3*.

Please contact the editors at (creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)>with any questions.


Histories of media, cinema, and other cultural industries, popular culture, and academic studies are replete with stories of legendary feuds, power struggles, and interpersonal clashes in the high-stakes world of popular culture. Recent headlines have highlighted this fractious quality: including vital issues such as the struggle for safer production practices, increasing equity in production, and abolishing harassment and exploitation. This edited volume will explore the intersection of conflict studies and cultural production, investigating the constant presence of conflict in forms of labor within these industries, and offering tools and concepts for managing it.


Of course, much conflict is founded in structural factors such as between divisions of labor at cross-purposes, entrenched gender or racial inequities, or the tensions between art and commerce, yet even within these structures, conflict is often seen as productive, or even necessary, for better art and storytelling, for increased psychological and physical safety, and for more just working conditions. Other conflicts are destructive and contribute to these industries’ reputation for high rates of attrition and burnout. Creativity and Conflict invites scholars working in the domains of media industry or cultural industry studies, organizational communication, or conflict studies to share case studies, interviews, discourse analyses, and theoretical considerations of conflict and how it is used, imagined, managed, and mediated.


The organization of this edited volume is yet to be determined but we foresee three focus areas and encourage submissions that speak to these general approaches:


 1.

    Narratives of conflict and reflective experiences

     1.

        Interviews or case studies of conflict in cultural production

     2.

        Explorations of noted, influential, or legendary conflicts

     3.

        Examples of mediation and dispute resolution in practice

     4.

        The “war story" genre and organizational discourses of conflict

     5.

        Reality TV, Competitions, or other genres of open conflict.

     6.

        Artistic integrity and related discourses of prestige and value.

     7.

        Histories of or responses to harassment

 2.

    Studies of systemic factors that contribute to conflict. These may
    be predictive and diagnostic while acknowledging areas of
    unresolvable conflict.

     1.

        Conflict and marginalized identities

     2.

        Conflicts between craft roles

     3.

        Relations between above-the-line talent

     4.

        Intellectual property

     5.

        Ambition and discourses of conflict

     6.

        Children, child actors, and conflict

     7.

        Litigiousness, NDAs, or other juridical strategies.

 3.

    Techniques, approaches, and strategies for managing conflict,
    improving outcomes, and narratives of resolution.

     1.

        Structures of accountability on film and TV sets

     2.

        Conflict styles and creative work

     3.

        Ethical practices around creative production (e.g, documentary
        ethics)

     4.

        Intimacy direction or other emerging roles for accountability

     5.

        Emotional intelligence or other social-psychological perspectives

     6.

        Studies or narratives of forgiveness and restitution

     7.

        Communication frameworks for understanding conflict and creativity


Contributors are invited to examine conflict from a variety of perspectives (organizational, interpersonal, intrapersonal, structural) as it manifests in the wide array of media production: film, television, journalism, new media, gaming, and beyond. We welcome all manner of studies that have approached this unpredictable but ever-present force within the cultural industries.


Potential contributors should email (creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)> with the following information:


Complete contact details (name/title/institution affiliation/contact information);

A biographical sketch (maximum 150 words); *An abstract of 250-500 words* identifying your study’s central research question(s), specific research method(s) and theories used, and findings or projected findings to the co-editors, by May 3, 2024

If you have already completed a manuscript, please send that along with the requested materials above. Manuscripts should be 7,000-10,000 words, including references and footnotes. If your manuscript has tables or other illustrations, please include them in your manuscript’s text and submit each table/illustration as a separate file (securing permission to reproduce images is the responsibility of the author). This book has been accepted for publication with Routledge and accepted chapters will be expected to follow Routledge’s publishing guidelines which can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines <https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines>.


*Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. *

We welcome questions about the edited volume or chapter proposals. Please contact Christopher Lucas or Erica Knotts at (creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(creativityconflict /at/ gmail.com)>with any questions.

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