Category: Publication opportunities

CFP (Up)Rooted: Autoethnographies of Belonging and Place

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Call for chapter proposals: (Up)Rooted: Autoethnographies of Belonging and Place. Deadline: chapter proposal and biography by 16 June 2025.

Editors: Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee, Robin M. Boylorn, & Emma Frances Bloomfield

The edited volume, (Up)Rooted: Autoethnographies of Belonging and Place, seeks to explore the lived experiences of belonging, uprootedness, boundaries, and borders through autoethnographic storytelling. Editors invite contributions that reflect on how individuals wrestle with identity, justification for occupying space, and the fluidity of place within political, cultural, and environmental climates. To feel (up)rooted manifests as physical (such as immigration, relocation, or occupation of certain spaces), financial (such as job loss, insecurity, or economic stress), and/or psychological (such as trauma, discrimination, social injustices, and upheaval of social norms).

In particular, they are interested in how built, natural, and cultural environments shape our sense of self and community. This volume will serve as a reflection on this critical moment, inviting scholars to examine how uprootedness, migration, institutional belonging, and the forces of exclusion and inclusion define our realities. This volume asks: How do we define belonging when everything feels at stake? How do place, space, and identity intersect in ways that root us—or uproot us—within institutions, communities, families, and geographies?

CFP: FMSH: Bibliothèque allemande (France)

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Call for proposals: Collection Bibliothèque allemande, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France. Deadline: 31 May 2025.

To foster intellectual exchange between France and German-speaking countries, the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, supported by the Goethe-Institut Paris, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Centre Georg Simmel – Franco-German Research in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, promotes the translation of significant German-language contributions in the humanities and social sciences into French.

The « Bibliothèque allemande » collection, published by the Éditions de la MSH rcompiles key texts from the humanities and social sciences that have made fundamental contributions to academic discourse in their respective fields. The translation program aims to make important scholarly works from German-speaking countries accessible to a French-speaking audience.

The program seeks monographs (up to 800,000 characters) that have had a significant impact on intellectual thought and academic debate in German-speaking countries in recent years or offer innovative and original responses to current issues. The works should appeal to a broad, intellectually curious readership; purely qualification-based works (such as PhD theses) are excluded.

New ICA Journal: Global Perspectives in Communication

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New open-access journal just established: Global Perspectives in Communication.

The International Communication Association (ICA) is pleased to announce the launch of its new open-access journal, Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC). The journal is dedicated to fostering diverse perspectives, fresh insights, and open-ended inquiries that drive communication research forward. GPC’s streamlined, high-quality peer-review process will ensure the rapid publication of scientifically rigorous research across all areas of communication.

GPC will encompass a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Communication and media studies; Interpersonal and intercultural communication; Organizational communication; Political communication; Health communication; Environmental communication; Science communication; Digital, AI, and social media communication; Human-computer communication; Journalism and mass communication; Advertising and public relations; Media and communication history; Information science and cybernetics; Popular culture; Visual communication.

Under the leadership of inaugural editor Nick Bowman (Syracuse U), GPC will welcome various submission formats, including traditional manuscripts, short papers, essays, position papers, registered reports, review articles, and book reviews. The journal also encourages diverse methodological approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, digital, and mixed-methods research. Additionally, GPC seeks to explore emerging research formats and media, such as video and audio recordings.

GPC is set to begin accepting submissions in the lead-up to ICA’s 75th Anniversary at ICA25 in Denver, and is actively recruiting for reviewers. If you are interested, please email the editor.

Open Access and Funding Model: To promote inclusivity and accessibility, GPC will waive the Article Processing Charge (APC) for unfunded articles. Articles with allocated funding-whether through a transformative deal or other means-will carry an APC. Additionally, articles from researchers in developing countries recognized by Research4Life (Tier 3) will have their APCs waived in alignment with ICA’s partnership through Oxford University Press (OUP). Authors may publish under a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND license.

CFP Symbolic Interaction and Identity Construction

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Call for submissions: Studies in Symbolic Interaction special issue: Symbolic Interaction and Identity Construction. Deadline: abstract by 15 May 2025; full paper by 30 November 2025.

Issue editor: Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (University of Northern Iowa, USA)

Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 63, is devoted to the discussions of identity construction in current social worlds from the symbolic interactionist perspective. Examinations of any form of identity construction in everyday life and in specialized temporal and spatial contexts are welcome. With this focus as the crux of Volume 63, the purpose is twofold: (1) to illustrate how symbolic interactionist theories are helpful in understanding the construction of an identity, and (2) how the construction of an identity serves to advance symbolic interactionist theories in identity construction.

CFP Minoritized Languages in an Age of (Im)mobility

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Call for book chapters: Minoritized languages in an age of (im)mobility: People, places and practices. Deadline: abstracts only due 22 April 2025.

Editors: Carla Jonsson, Annika Norlund Shaswar, Andreas Nuottaniemi

“We are pleased to invite chapters for a planned volume on minoritized languages in education and other contexts such as work life and community life. We have been in contact with the editors of the book series ‘Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism’ and we have been encouraged by them to edit a peer reviewed academic volume about this topic. We are now calling for chapters and alternative forms of publications to be included in the proposed volume which Routledge will then consider for publication and accept subject to peer-review.

The chapters can be based on empirical studies (qualitative or quantitative), literature studies or conceptual / theoretical discussions. We are also interested in alternative forms of publications (such
as for instance, but not limited to, written conversations/dialogues/interviews/thought pieces).
These could be written by representatives from organizations and civil society and/or researchers.

We have the possibility to offer two writing retreats in Sweden: one for researchers (prel. in November) and one for representatives from organizations and civil society and or researchers (prel. in September).

The volume aims to critically explore questions about minoritized languages in contexts of education
and work, investigating the possibilities and limitations of language policies in supporting their use.

By bringing together researchers from different fields the book will emphasize interdisciplinary perspectives on minoritized languages, language policy, and multilingualism in education.

This book will be aimed at academic researchers, but will also be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders.

We want this volume to include international perspectives and therefore hope for contributions from different contexts/places.

CFP Communication & Sport: Sport, Media, and Migration: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Call for submissions: Communication & Sport special issue: Sport, Media, and Migration: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

Special issue editors: Sean R. Sadri (University of Alabama), Mahdi Latififard (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran), and Lindsey Meân (Arizona State University).

This special issue aims to explore the intersection of sport, media, and migration, examining how these elements influence global migratory patterns, public discourse, and media representations of athletes, coaches, and other sports figures. The guest editors welcome submissions employing a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks from disciplines such as communication, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and political science. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): race, identity, gender, nationalism, and the role of media in shaping sports migration narratives. Both qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, are encouraged.

CFP Tourism and Cultural Change Book Series

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Tourism and Cultural Change Book Series, Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications. Deadline: Rolling.

Co-editors: Mike Robinson (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow, UK)

Understanding tourism’s relationships with culture(s), and vice versa, is of ever-increasing significance in a globalising world. Tourism and Cultural Change is a series of books that critically examine the complex and ever-changing relationship between tourism and culture(s). The series focuses on the ways that places, peoples, pasts, and ways of life are increasingly shaped, transformed, created and packaged for touristic purposes. The series examines the ways tourism utilises/makes and re-makes cultural capital in its various guises (visual and performing arts, crafts, festivals, built heritage, cuisine etc.) and the multifarious political, economic, social and ethical issues that are raised as a consequence. Theoretical explorations, research-informed analyses and detailed historical reviews from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are invited to consider such relationships.

CFP Studies in Digital Interculturality Book Series

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Call for submissions: Studies in Digital Interculturality Book Series, ReDiCo. Deadline: Rolling.

Co-editors: Luisa Conti, Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz and Milene Mendes de Oliveira.

The ReDICo project (“Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively”) is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for the book series Studies in Digital Interculturality. This peer-reviewed series explores the diverse dimensions of intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces, as well as their influence upon issues such as identities, group social cohesion and cultural change. In the series, they aim to publish thematically relevant monographs, edited volumes, dissertations and other contributions of the highest quality. A possibility also exists to publish all books as open access by the transcript Publishing House, in cooperation with the international de Gruyter Publishing House.

CFP Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices: Multilingualism & Intercultural Dialogues

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Multilingualism and Intercultural Dialogues: Creative and Reflexive Approaches to Identity and Belonging in Migration and Digital Spaces, Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices. Deadline for abstract: 30 April 2025; deadline for article: 15 October 2025.

Co-editors: Margaret M. Mullan (East Stroudsburg University) and Jenna M. Lo Castro (Point Park University).

This special issue will focus on multilingualism as a critical dimension of migration experiences, digital transnationalism, and intercultural communication. It will draw from themes presented at the conference ‘Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue’, addressing how multilingual practices shape and are shaped by the intersections of migration, media, and intercultural dialogue. This special issue will aim to explore innovative and reflexive methodologies, along with empirical studies that highlight the role of multilingualism in fostering (or hindering) social cohesion, identity formation, and ethical engagement in global migration contexts. This special issue will contribute to understanding multilingualism not merely as a linguistic phenomenon but as a socio-political and cultural practice deeply intertwined with migration and media. It aligns with the journal’s mission to showcase rigorous, theory-driven, and methodologically diverse research that resonates globally.

CFP The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

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Call for submissions to Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies for a special issue on The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

This special issue of LLIDS seeks to initiate a global dialogue on Social Justice (SJ). While considerations of economy undergird SJ theory, its discourse reaches beyond economics to address inequalities of access, privilege, and rights. As an academic discipline, SJ theory embraces a range of critical theories and methods: colonialist criticism, critical race theory, gender criticism, and queer theory among other methods fall under its purview. For SJ theory offers to critique the institutions—social, political, economic—that sustain inequalities of access, privilege, opportunity, and rights generally. As a social praxis, SJ theory aims to deinstitutionalize systematic inequality by means of progressive public policy. Indeed, treating equal access and opportunity as matters of social “justice” necessarily entails law and policy. SJ theory seeks to protect and expand rights of individuals and communities. In concert with posthumanism and ecocriticism, SJ theory extends this same protection to the planet and to our many “companion species” whose survival is threatened by climate change and environmental degradation.

Such is the starting point for a special issue on Social Justice, which invites submissions that reflect on, analyze, expand on, and complicate SJ theory and its implications. As an international interdisciplinary journal, LLIDS seeks to involve authors and audiences globally in exploring this timely issue. A series of questions and propositions follow apropos to this topic.

  • How does SJ theory understand itself as an ideology or ideological behavior?
  • How is SJ theory taught? What is its curriculum? What are its paths of resistance?
  • In the classroom, in scholarship, and in public/political discourse, what does SJ theory enable or make visible? What does it leave unseen or unspoken? What are its “blind spots”?
  • How can SJ theory address the political-economic crisis of the 1% against the 99%?
  • Can Social Justice have the same meaning and application/implication for all communities, charting both the Global North and the Global South?
  • As per the U.N. declaration, Social Justice seeks a “fair and compassionate distribution” of wealth. This remains a noble aim and aspiration. And given the deep entrenchment of global capitalism, is it viable?
  • How can SJ advocates claim to speak “on behalf” of a community unless/until its members have spoken and been heard? Is advocacy earned through listening? (Is SJ theory a mode of “listening rhetoric”? Can/should it become one?)
  • What can SJ advocates learn from the social methods of Engaged Theory, Grounded Theory, and the Bourdieusian Theory of Practice?