Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Culture, Migration & Health Communication in Global Context

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Culture, Migration, and Health Communication in the Global Context

Editors:
Dr. Yuping Mao, Assistant Professor
Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed, Associate Professor
Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015

Overview of the Book:
With the globalization of the world, there is increasing migration happening across geographic regions within a country or across different countries. The migrant populations keep some of their original cultures with them that influence their communication about health outcomes. Meanwhile, migrant populations are constantly exposed to and adopting cultural values and practices in their host countries or regions, which gradually alter their health related communication and behaviors. On the one hand, migrants’ health communication and behaviors have become an important social topic in many countries especially in North America and some European countries with a relatively long history of having immigrants from other countries. On the other hand, in countries like China, urbanization accelerates migration within the country, primarily with economically and socially disadvantaged population migrating from rural to urban areas. Both international and internal migration bring new challenges to public health systems. Our edited book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature, as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture, migration, and health communication in different countries.

Scope and Recommended Topics:
We invite chapters that critically review the strengths and limitations of widely applied theoretical frameworks such as assimilation, acculturation, cultural adaptation, culture-centered approach, cultural safety, cultural competency, and intercultural sensitivity. The review of those theoretical frameworks should be embedded in public health and health communication contexts.

Taking a communication perspective, this edited book will examine how differences among different cultural communities relate to health communication at interpersonal, group, and societal levels. We are interested but not limited to chapters on the following topics:
* Health communication disparities among immigrant groups
* Health information diffusion among migrant groups
* Social support and migrant groups’ health communication

This edited book will also discuss how content and format of media in combination with other social factors such as social capital and social networks influence individuals’ health beliefs and behaviors. For instance, we are interested in receiving book chapters on the following topics:
* Comprehensive literature on media effects on migrants’ health behaviors
* Media coverage and public discourse on migrants’ health
* Media campaigns and migrant population

Health communication is always situated in certain social, political, historical, and cultural contexts. This book addresses a few important contextual factors that practitioners and researchers need to be aware of in research, practice, and policy making. As such we also solicit stimulating health communication cases on immigrants’ health to be included with in-depth analysis of their unique contexts.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this book will consist of upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members and practitioners in both communication studies and health sciences, as well as their respective allied fields such as media studies, telecommunications, journalism, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, medical science, nursing, public health, psychology/psychiatry, and medical informatics. In addition to speaking to an academic audience, authors are encouraged to write so as to provide valuable information and resources to practitioners, administrators, and policy makers working in the health sector.

Submission Guidelines:
Chapter proposals should include the following components:
1.  A title page with contact information for all authors;
2.  A 750-1200 word (including references), single-spaced  extended abstract clearly explaining:
*  The purpose and the contents of the proposed chapter; and
*  How the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book;
3.  A working bibliography – a list of potential resources for your chapter done in APA style (6th edition); and,
4.  A brief biographical statement (maximum 200 words) written in the third person containing the following information:
*  Current position and affiliation;
*  Highest degree held, field, and institution granting that degree; and,
*  Current area of research and/or current research project.

Submission Format and Procedures:
Please e-mail your title page, 750-1200 word extended abstract, working bibliography, and brief biographical statement (maximum 200 words) as a Word attachment (combine all files) to Dr. Yuping Mao and Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed no later than January 15, 2015. Full chapters should be between 6,000-8,000 words, including references.

Important Dates:
Chapter Proposal Due: January 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance, and Chapter Submission Guidelines: March 15, 2015
First Draft of Full Chapters Due: July 15, 2015
Review Result Returned: September 15, 5
Revised Draft of Final Chapters (as needed) Due: November 1, 2015

NOTE: All written work should be prepared in English and conform to APA style (6th edition). Submitted work must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The editors will review all complete chapter proposals; however, there is no guarantee of eventual publication.

CFP Critical Thinking in Multilingual/Intercultural Education

Call for chapters
Abstracts by 15th Dec. 2014
Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education
Edited by Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland) & Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada)
To be published by Info Age Publishing in 2016
BOOK SERIES: Contemporary Language Education 


Following a very successful volume on reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural language education (Routledge, 2014), the editors of this new volume wish to tackle the burning issue of Critical Thinking (CT). CT is often said to be a key skill of 21st century education and is very much used as a mantra by educational institutions without always defining it. The literature contains hundreds of definitions of CT but there is no consensus on a single definition. Thus ‘my CT’ does not always correspond to ‘your CT’.

One of the most basic definitions of CT could be: “The ability to interpret, analyse and evaluate ideas and arguments” (Fisher, 2011). In a study on views held by academics about CT, T. Moore (2013) found six definitional strands: CT (i) as judgment; (ii) as skepticism; (iii) as a simple originality; (iv) as sensitive readings; (v) as rationality; (vi) as an activist engagement with knowledge; and (vii) as self-reflexivity. One thing is for sure: CT involves developing certain dispositions (probing), skills (cognitive and meta-cognitive) and habits of mind (Costa & Kallick, 2009). Some scholars are interested in the reasoning process behind CT, others the outcomes. Yet again there is no agreement in global scholarship and practice about its components or simply its definition.

Recently the idea of CT has been criticized for at least two reasons. First CT can feel too negative for some, leading to equating CT with mere adversely criticizing others. According to Fisher (2011) some scholars have thus proposed to call it ‘critico-creative thinking’ to insist on its positive, imaginative aspects. Second CT has often been criticized for being too Western, to contain too many Western norms. In their 2011 article entitled Critical thinking and Chinese university students: a review of the evidence, Jing Tian and Graham David Low discuss the apparent lack of Chinese students’ CT skills. They question the usual argument that Chinese culture does not allow ‘criticality’ and show that the students’ previous learning experiences have an influence on their level of CT. CT is often used as a way of comparing educational ‘cultures’ – some have more of it than others – thus leading to unfair ethnocentric and homogenizing judgments (Holliday, 2010).

How do we then define this contested disposition, skill and habit of mind in order to make it useful? Is it possible? Can we work from definitions of CT that avoid creating hierarchies between learners and their ‘cultures’? Whose conceptions of critical thinking could we use to do so? Can we once and for all avoid falling into the trap of giving the privilege of CT to the ‘Western world’? In other words can CT be demystified?

This volume concentrates on the context of multilingual and intercultural education. Potential authors are welcome to consider the following questions:
–       What constitutes a critical thinker in multilingual and intercultural education in the 2010s? What dispositions, skills and habits of mind are needed? (Students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers)
–       How can CT contribute to renewing multilingual and intercultural education? What alternative models of CT can be used to enrich multilingual and intercultural education?
–       Can CT be taught and learnt? If so, how and in what ways and under what kinds of conditions?
–       If CT exists then what is uncritical thinking in multilingual and intercultural education?
–       Can digital technologies help to promote CT in multilingual and intercultural education?
–       The issue of assessing CT is problematic. Yet can CT be assessed summatively or formatively in multilingual and intercultural education?

Interested authors please send a 300-word abstract to the editors Fred Dervin & Julie Byrd Clark by 15th Dec. 2014. Full chapters should be ready by 1st Sept. 2015.

CFP Communication and Ethnic Conflict

Call for Chapter Proposals on Communication and Ethnic Conflict

This is a call for submissions of proposals for chapters to include in a collection about Communication approaches to Ethnic Conflict. Chapter proposal submission requires a 500-1100 word abstract by October 31, 2014. If you have interest please contact the editors or submit a proposal online.

Editors:
Steven Gibson (Northcentral University, USA)
Agnes Lucy Lando (Daystar University, Kenya)

The book, titled Impact of Communication and the Media on Ethnic Conflict will be published by IGI-Global and will present scholarly research on various approaches to how communication studies, media studies and information systems tools can model, reflect and guide understandings of national and international experiences of ethnic conflict. The included chapters will be interdisciplinary, with cultural studies and media studies as two included frameworks. Proposals may focus on a variety of aspects, including (but not limited to):
*Issues in ethnic relations
*The role of identity in conflict
*Genocide case studies and analysis
*Racial and ethnic impacts on conflict
*Conflict resolution programs
*Religious or sectarian conflict case studies
*The effect of media on international relations
*The role played in conflict by information systems
*How media reflects ethnic differences
*Simulated approaches to conflict and conflict resolution
*Communication technology’s role in ethnic relations
*Case studies in ethnic relations

CFP Communication and Conflict Transformation

Book chapter proposals call–communication and conflict transformation

Tom Matyok and Pete Kellett invite brief chapter proposals for our upcoming co-edited book with the working title: Communication and conflict transformation: Leading-edge thoughts, practices, & engagements. If contracted, the book will be published by Lexington Books as part of their new Peace and Conflict Studies Series. They would like to create a book that captures current leading-edge, and emerging thoughts/ideas, practices/ techniques, and engagements/ contexts/ applications around communication as it contributes to the broader (interdisciplinary) discussion of conflict transformation. The book is envisioned as a mix of shorter (3000 word) think pieces and reports on practices and techniques, as well as longer (up to 7500 word) research studies, and as representing the breadth of research paradigms and methodologies, and the novel, valuable, and provocative work currently being done in Communication/Communication Studies regarding conflict transformation and welcome proposals that speak to this goal. They envision completing the contract process by end of this calendar year and will be in touch with a writing timeline for spring at that point. Please email Pete Kellett a working title; name (s) of author (s); and a 75-100 word abstract of your proposed chapter by October 20, 2014.

CFP Global TV after 9/11 (Edited Anthology)

Call for Proposals
Global TV After 9/11: Shifts in international television programs and practices

The anthology explores industrial, ideological, cultural, narrative, and aesthetics shifts in the production of global television after September 11.

In the U.S., animated series – and especially those targeting an adult audience – and satirical programs have become the flagship of counterhegemonic narratives of and for American television, while simultaneously being very much part of the consumer capitalist system they question and mock (through DVD sales, merchandising, and outsourcing). Similarly, although officially created before the events of 9/11, dramas like Alias, 24, The Agency and The West Wing have strongly been affected – especially in their subsequent plot development – by the attacks on the World Trace Center and the Pentagon. The response, in these cases, has generally been the construction of patriotic narratives aimed at reassuring the American public against the fear of U.S. vulnerability, while re-establishing traditional American values such as individualism and capitalism.

Considering the shifting meaning of American television after 9/11 as a starting point, the editor aims to open up a wide range of questions, selecting a variety of essays that critically explore the following issues in relation to international media industries:

How have international responses to the catastrophic events of 9/11 affected national television productions? Have genres, formats, and fiction in general, changed (examples: the Indian adaptation of 24, the production of Hatufim in Israel, the original inspiration for Homeland)?

How has TV news changed? Have official news channels lost their credibility and satirical news programs proliferated as it has happened in the U.S. with The Daily Show (like Al-Bernameg in Egypt)?

How has the production of TV documentary (specifically about surveillance) increased/changed as a result of 9/11 (examples include HBO’s Vice Series and BBC’s Meet the Stans)?

What processes of adaptation (audiovisual translation, censorship, etc.) do post-9/11 U.S. TV programs go through when exported abroad? How does a foreign country – where the consequences of 9/11 might not be as strongly and ideologically present as they are in the U.S – import a post-9/11 TV show? How can a program remain a post-9/11 text in a country lacking a post-9/11 culture?

How do post-9/11 irony and satire travel abroad?
Have consumer culture and the very practices of media consumption changed globally after 9/11? How do international audiences perceive and “consume” 9/11 narratives?

How has media production changed in the Middle East (where the consequences of 9/11 where directly felt, and yet where radically different than the U.S.)?

Have strong global media markets (such as India) included post-9/11 themes in their productions? If so, to what extent and with what objectives?

Please consider submitting a 500-word abstract by November 31, 2014, and direct all questions to Chiara Ferrari.

Timeline
Abstracts due by November 31, 2014;
Selection of abstracts by end of December, 2014;
Full essays (7500 words, including bibliography and notes) due by May 31, 2015;
Final (revised) drafts due by August 31, 2015.

About the volume and editor
The specific idea for the Global TV After 9/11 anthology was developed as I completed an essay, titled: “The Taming of the Stew(ie): Family Guy, Italian Dubbing, and Post-9/11 Television”. The article discusses the cultural and ideological changes applied to the animated series Family Guy – considered a flagship of post 9/11 American television – when it is exported and translated in countries (Italy, specifically) that lack an “official” post-9/11 culture. I have previously published two books, including an edited anthology (Beyond Monopoly, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) and I have established preliminary contact with a respected University Press.

CFP Urban Foodways and Communication

Urban Foodways

Call for Chapter Proposals for a New Book
Urban Foodways and Communication: Ethnographic Studies in Intangible Cultural Food Heritages Around the World

Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014

Editors:
Casey Man Kong Lum, William Paterson University, USA, and
Marc de Ferriere le Vayer, the UNESCO Chair Project on Safeguarding and Promoting Cultural Food Heritage, the University of Tours, France

Book Overview:
Embedded in the quest for ways to preserve and promote heritage of any kind is an appreciation or a sense of an impending loss of a particular way of life – knowledge, skills set, traditions — deemed vital to the survival of a culture. Foodways places the production, procurement, preparation and sharing or consumption of food at an intersection among culture, tradition, and history. Thus, foodways is an important material and symbolic marker of identity, race and ethnicity, gender, class, ideology and social relations.

Intangible cultural heritage, according to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, refers to “the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.”

Urban Foodways and Communication seeks to enrich our understanding of unique foodways in urban settings around the world as forms of intangible cultural heritage. Each ethnographic case study is expected to focus its analysis on how the featured foodways manifests itself symbolically through and in communication. The proposed volume aims to help advance our knowledge of urban food heritages in order to contribute to their appreciation, preservation, and promotion. We invite chapter proposals from scholars from all geographic and cultural regions of the world, and are particularly interested in attracting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to write ethnographic case studies of distinctly identifiable foodways that they consider worthy of examination as intangible cultural heritage.

Submission Guidelines:
While the definition of intangible cultural heritage by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage provides a good general conceptual framework, interested colleagues are encouraged to contribute their most current research and interpretation to substantiate, augment, or otherwise advance our understanding in this area of academic inquiry.

What to submit:
All submissions must include two documents, a Chapter Proposal and a separate CV of no more than three pages. The Chapter Proposal must contain (a) a working title of the proposed chapter, (b) an 800 to 1,000-word exposition consisting of a clear description of the proposed ethnographic case study and a concise statement on how and why the foodways being examined can be regarded as a form of intangible cultural heritage, and (c) a one to two-page annotated outline of the proposed chapter. Please do not identify yourself in any way in the Chapter Proposal. Include in your submission a separate CV of no more than three pages. All submissions will go through a referee process by a review committee established in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair Project on Safeguarding and Promoting Cultural Food Heritage at the University of Tours, France.

Submission format:
All submissions must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the style of the sixth edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual. Please submit your documents in the MS Word file format.

Submission deadline (and contact person for inquiry):
Please send your Chapter Proposal and CV in the same email on or before November 15, 2014 (Eastern Time) to: Casey Lum
Notification of acceptance status of chapter proposals: December 15, 2014
Submission deadline of complete chapters: on or before April 15, 2015

Length of each complete chapter manuscript:
Each complete chapter manuscript must be between 5,000 and (no more than) 5,500 words, inclusive of the main text and References. The use of the 12-point Times New Roman font in MS Word is preferred.

CFP Communicating Prejudice

CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR EDITED BOOK
Communicating Prejudice: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach
Proposal Submission Deadline:  October 10, 2014
Editors: Camara, S. K., Drummond, D. K., & Hoey, D. M.
Publisher: Nova Publishing, Inc.

Objective:
In the conclusion of his edited book Communicating Prejudice, Michael Hecht, called for an intellectual movement beyond understanding prejudice and its personal and social effects on individuals to a more proactive approach that inquires about appreciation as a serious subject of investigation.

Our edited book, Communicating Prejudice: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach, will blend direct unsettling lived experiences with a deep exploration of appreciation, respect and empowerment. We seek contributions which will speak boldly about personal experiences with prejudice with reflections on practical emancipatory frameworks that generate new directions and tools for dialogue. These meta-narratives should display the potential for creating opportunities for inclusivity, transformation, growth and social justice. We hope to draw on key concepts from a variety of disciplines, including Communication, Sociology, Education, Psychology, and Gender Studies.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
*Meta-analyses of Prejudice: Pre and Post racial America
*Autoethnographic Accounts of Prejudice and Transformation
*Examining Historical and Present initiatives to reduce prejudice
*Exploring Varying Contexts of Prejudice (e.g., Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, Disability)
*Approaches to Appreciative Structures and Prejudicial Experiences
*Theoretical insights to opening dialogue with others
*Fostering appreciative conversations to defeat exclusion
*Co-creating Business and Organizational transformation
*Dealing with difficult situations and reframing conflict
*Contributions to Social Justice

Submission Procedure:
To have an original chapter considered for inclusion in this peer-reviewed volume, submit it with a 100-word abstract. Please include a separate title page with the author(s) and complete contact information, with brief author bio(s) in an email to the editors by October 10, 2014. Indicate in your email cover letter which of the aforementioned topics your chapter best fits. Quantitative and qualitative research articles are limited to a maximum of 25 pages of text excluding references. Personal narratives or essays are limited to 10 pages.

Important Dates:
October 10, 2014 Chapter Submission Deadline
January 15, 2015 Notification of Acceptance
June 1, 2015 Chapter Feedback to Authors
October 15, 2015 Final Edited Submission Due

CFP Analysis of Dialogue Practice

Call for Papers for Journal of Dialogue Studies
Spring 2015, Volume 3, Number 1
Social Scientific and Historical Analysis of Dialogue Practice
Paper submission deadline: 11/01/2015

This is a call for papers for the Journal of Dialogue Studies, a multidisciplinary, blind-peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year. The Journal seeks to bring together a body of original scholarship on the theory and practice of dialogue that can be critically appraised and discussed. It aims to contribute towards establishing ‘dialogue studies’ as a distinct academic field (or perhaps even emerging discipline). It is hoped that this will be directly useful not only to scholars and students but also to professionals and practitioners working in different contexts at various cultural interfaces.

The Editors would like to call for papers providing ‘social scientific and historical analysis of dialogue practice’ for the forthcoming issue. However, authors are also welcome to submit papers that address the topic of the previous issues, namely ‘dialogue ethics’, ‘critiquing dialogue theories’, or indeed any other paper that comes within the remit of the Journal as described below. All papers, regardless of their particular theme, will be considered so long as they are in line with the aims and focus of the Journal. Please see below for more information.

For the Journal‘s Editorial Team, Editorial Board, article submission guideline, style-guide and past issues please visit www.DialogueStudies.org

Papers within General Remit of Journal
The Journal publishes conceptual, research, and/or case-based works on both theory and practice, and papers that discuss wider social, cultural or political issues as these relate to the practice and evaluation of dialogue. Dialogue is understood provisionally as: meaningful interaction and exchange between individuals and/or people of different groups (social, cultural, political and religious) who come together through various kinds of conversations or activities with a view to increased understanding. Some scholars will want to question that description of dialogue, and others may be sceptical of the effectiveness of dialogue as a mechanism to produce increased understanding. The Editors of course welcome vigorous discussion and debate on these and other fundamental questions.

The Editors do not have any preference as regards the general disciplinary background of the work. Indeed contributions will be welcome from a variety of disciplines which may, for example, include sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, the study of religion, politics, international relations or law.

Papers on ‘Social Scientific and Historical Analysis of Dialogue Practice’
The Editors invite papers on the social scientific and historical analysis of dialogue practices, including papers critically appraising the following areas:
*Where do dialogue practices come from, sociologically and intellectually?
*How has dialogue practice changed/developed over time in a particular place, religious/interreligious context and/or post conflict context?
*How have dialogue practices been shaped by overlapping areas of theory, policy and practice?
*How have dialogue practices themselves impacted upon societal issues or discourse?
*Mapping the existing field of practice and study.
*Sociological and historical analysis of the perception of the need for ‘dialogue’ given its current status as a preferred means of community engagement or management of community/intergroup tensions or conflict.
(See Fern Elsdon-Baker, JDS 1:1)

Papers on ‘Dialogue Ethics’
The Editors invite papers with a focus on dialogue and ethics, including papers critically exploring the following areas:
*Dialogic ethics as conceived by dialogue theorists such as Buber, Gadamer, Freire (and developed by others)
*Ethics espoused and/or enacted by leaders of/participants in dialogue
*Dialogue as a process of ethics formation/refinement
*Underlying and perhaps unstated values in dialogue:
*What kind of interaction is seen valid or as meaningful? What are the criteria? Who decides? (Fern Eldson-Baker, JDS 1:1)
*Where building understanding is conceived as goal of dialogue, ‘what understandings are valued and how [are] such understandings. defined’? (Michael Atkinson, JDS 1:1)
*Ethical pitfalls in the practice of dialogue

Papers on ‘Critiquing Dialogue Theories’
By dialogue ‘theories’ is meant developed, significant understandings or principles of dialogue. The Editors are open to papers exploring theories extrapolated by the author from the significant and distinctive practice of a dialogue practitioner who has perhaps not elaborated his/her ideas in writing. They invite papers which address critical/evaluative questions such as the following:
*Which dialogue theories are/have been most influential in practice?
*Do dialogue theories make sense in relation to relevant bodies of research and established theories?
*Do dialogue theories sufficiently take account of power imbalances?
*How far are dialogue theories relevant/useful to dialogue in practice?
*Do normative dialogue theories have anything to offer in challenging contexts in which circumstances often suggested as preconditions for dialogue (for example, equality, empathetic listening, the bringing of assumption into the open, safety) simply do not obtain?

The Editors welcome papers which address these questions in relation to one or more than one specified dialogue theories. They also welcome critical case studies of the application of specified dialogue theories in practice.

In all papers submitted, a concern with the theory or practice of dialogue should be in the foreground.

While the Editors do not wish to be prescriptive about the definition of dialogue, they do specify that papers should have a clear bearing on ‘live’ dialogue – actual interaction between human beings; papers which analyse written, fictional dialogue without relating this clearly and convincingly to ‘live’ dialogue are not suitable for the Journal.

Case studies should include a high level of critical evaluation of the practice in question, and/or apply dialogue theory in a way that advances understanding or critique of that theory and/or its application.

Papers should be submitted by email attachment to: journal@dialoguesociety.org and must be received by 11th January 2015 in order to allow sufficient time for peer review. Manuscripts should be presented in a form that meets the requirements set out in Journal’s Article Submission Guidelines and Style Guide. The running order for Volume 3, Number 1, listing the papers to be published in that issue, will be announced by the beginning of March 2015.

Please send any queries to the Editorial Team via journal@dialoguesociety.org

CFP Social Media in the Middle East

Social Media in the Middle East
Call for Chapter Proposals
Deadline: September 20, 2014

Editors:
Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia/Shanghai International Studies University
Adil Nurmakov, Ph.D., International IT University, Kazakhstan
Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran, Iran

Publication information: to be published in late 2015 or early in 2016 by Dignity Press.

The Middle East is a challenging and highly provocative region today, and many countries and regional or local groups have a vibrant/fractured social media in interaction or opposition. The editors believe that Social Media in the Middle East will be a valuable scholarly book which will provide greater insights into the historical and contemporary events in the rapidly changing Middle East.

Seeking online chapter proposals of 200-300 words and a resume, for intended scholarly analytical chapters of 22-25 pages on topics related to social media in the Middle East: historically, politically, militarily, geographically, economically, religiously, culturally, and/or cross-culturally,  the chapters including an abstract of about 200 words; key words; an analytical framework; with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method methodology; discussion; appropriate charts and graphs; and generous citations and references according to the sixth edition of the APA Guidelines. A maximum of three coauthors for each chapter is allowed.

Interested scholars of the Middle East seeking to submit a high quality chapter proposal of 200-300 words, plus a resume, should send it all of the editors (emails in links above) by September 20, 2014.

Decisions about accepted chapters will be made in between mid-September to early October, 2014. Selected authors will have four months from acceptance to complete their chapters (not later than February 1, 2015).  All finalized chapters will be reviewed by the three coeditors for recommended revisions, additions, or changes.  Social Media in the Middle East will also include authors’ 200-250 word biographies in the third person, and thumbnail photos as an attachment, with at least 300 pixils. It is intended that Social Media in the Middle East will be in the range of 500+ pages with a preface, introduction, 14-15  high quality chapters, biographies and thumbnail photos of authors, and an index.

In the meantime, already planned  tentative chapters include:
*Dr. Haneen Mohammad Shoaib, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business  and Technology, Saudia Arabia:  social media in Saudia Arabia and immediate  environs, with Dr. Samar M. Shoaib as coauthor;  *Adil Numakov, International IT University, Kazakhstan: a cross-cultural study relating to social media in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan as they border the Middle East; and
*Ehsan Shahghasemi, University of Tehran:  social media in Iran.

These tentative chapters do not exclude other possible proposed chapters relating to similar topics.

The editors have an interest in additional topics, as illustrative, among other possibilities: Cross-cultural study of social media in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; Social media historically and contemporarily in Egypt; Cross-cultural study of social media in Sudan and South Sudan; Cross-cultural study of social media in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Dubai; Cross-cultural study of social media among the Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Turkey; Cross-cultural study of social media in the Syrian government and opposition groups in Syria; Social media in Iraq; Social media in Turkey; Social media in Lebanon; Social media in Kuwait; Social media of ISIS, the Levant, proposed Caliphate; etc.

CFP Women, Gender & Justice: International Perspectives

Call for Chapters/Papers: Women, Gender, and Justice: International Perspectives

We are in the process of editing a forthcoming book publication tentatively entitled Women, Gender, and Justice: International Perspectives to be published by an international publisher of progressive academic research. The book is dedicated to include issues & challenges pertaining to women and justice and/or gender and justice. Remember, any issue related to women or gender should be discussed from the point of view of justice (law or fairness). Authors are free to select any social, political or legal issues or regulatory challenges or legal reforms as a whole in their country or in any country.

Participants are invited to respond to this call for papers by:
Submitting an abstract of between 400-500 words, including title and keywords for an individual paper;
Submitting CV along with the abstract; to the editors: Anil Kumar and Dr Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi
Abstracts Due: 31 October 2014; Acceptance Advice: 1 November 2014
Book Publication: March 2016

Please mail the editors for more details & discussions.

(1) Anil Kumar, Assistant Professor
Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Kashmir Nowgam Campus, Nowgam, Srinagar, 190 015 (Jammu & Kashmir) India

(2) Dr Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, Assistant Professor School of Languages & Literature, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu, 182 230 (Jammu & Kashmir) India