Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Managing organizational diversity

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2013
Full Chapters Due:  June 30,2013

Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation
A book edited by Dr. Nancy Erbe (California State University Dominguez Hills)

To be published by IGI Global.

Introduction
We are living in an increasingly innovative global community.  In the face of vast promise and potential, however, many struggle with global diversity and difference—the variable that, when more effectively navigated, reaps rich rewards.

Many contemporary skills and approaches are emerging as the result of researching and working with diverse global partnerships, teams, networks, companies and projects.  Anyone working in this global community must stay abreast of these developments and aspire to master the most important for their particular involvement.

Objective of the Book
This book aspires to present a variety of practical tools, skills, practices, models and approaches that are proving themselves in practice—demonstrating effectiveness with managing diversity and innovation.  It will also present a few visionary proposals for transforming societies, citizens and professions so all concerned are better prepared to embrace diversity and do their part in creating valuable and necessary innovation that positively impacts the global community.

Target Audience
This book will benefit several disciplines, including business  (human resources, management (business and public) , marketing, organizational development, sales and training), engineering (including digital media arts) and information technology as well as any other concerned with international studies, development and service.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

*Practices for increasing constructive capacity with ambiguity, difference, unfamiliarity, disequilibrium and complexity
*Reducing defensiveness (distorted perception, premature and rigid judgment and other negative habit/reaction, e.g. seeking the comfort of “sameness,” in/out groups)
*Reflective Practice (recognizing, identifying, scrutinizing, improving….professional and personal frames across culture, especially internal barriers)
*Approaches to validating and rewarding authentic curiosity (exceptional inquiry) and independence, initiative, risk taking; protecting and encouraging open expression of truly fresh ideas
*Collaborative multicultural skill mastery (creating teams with inclusive equal participation)
*Ways to identify common ground and options for shared gain
*Managerial modeling, mentoring and responsiveness to diversity and innovation
*Practices for building and sustaining positive cross cultural rapport, relationship  (effective reframing across culture)…organizational social capital
*Transformative practice and approach to difference and diversity
*Research based approaches to more effective global relationships promoting innovation
*Innovative approaches to diversity and innovation

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 30, 2013 a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 30, 2013  about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates
May 15, 2013:   Proposal Submission Deadline
May  30, 2013:          Notification of Acceptance
June 30, 2013:          Full Chapter Submission
July 30, 2013:          Review Results Returned
August 30, 2013:        Final Chapter Submission
January 22, 2014:               Final Deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
DR. NANCY D. ERBE
Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
California State University Dominguez Hills
1000 EAST VICTORIA STREET, CARSON CA 90747
Tel.: +310-243-2805 * Fax: +310-516-4268
E-mail: nerbe AT csudh.edu

CFP international volunteering

Call for Chapter Proposals for Edited Book

Working Title: Volunteering and Communication Vol. II: Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts

Publisher: Peter Lang

Objective of the Book:
The purpose of this book is to give voice to the experiences of volunteers specifically in international and intercultural settings. Few of our current resources (books, texts, handbooks) address the micro-level, data-based analysis of volunteering and volunteer management with our first book being an exception.  There is even less scholarship on volunteering in international and intercultural contexts. There are a few chapters addressing it in our first book. This book will begin with a guest-authored literature review chapter. Then contributors will write data-based chapters that provide in-depth analyses of a particular issue, topic, or type of volunteer based on some theoretical or conceptual organizational or intercultural framework. Each chapter will include a very brief field report from a practitioner with experience in the volunteer situation explored in the chapter.

In particular, the editors are interested in studies that fit one of three types:

1) Experiences Volunteering Abroad: These should be studies of individuals volunteering in another country, for example, individuals from the United States doing volunteer work in another country.

2) Experiences of Volunteers Internationally: These should be studies of volunteers living in countries outside the United States, for example, the experiences of volunteers from the Netherlands or Brazil or any other country.

3) Experience of Volunteers in Intercultural Settings: These should be studies of volunteers working in settings where they must reach across intercultural boundaries to accomplish their goals, for example, Turkish volunteers working with Syrian refugees.

Book Editors:
Michael W. Kramer, University Oklahoma, Department of Communication
Loril M. Gossett, UNC Charlotte, Department of Communication Studies
Laurie K. Lewis, Rutgers University, Department of Communication

Submission Process:
This edited book will present contributed chapters focusing on the three types of volunteer experiences described above. Editors seek contributed chapters that are data-based, and focused on the management and experience of volunteering. All methodologies are welcome including quantitative, qualitative, or textual/rhetorical analysis, as well as interdisciplinary work that seeks to combine communication perspectives with other disciplinary knowledge.

For consideration, authors should submit a 1-2 page abstract of the proposed chapter (not including title page and references). This proposal should include a description of the study, including its theoretical or conceptual framework, its current status (e.g., already IRB approved, data being analyzed, etc.) and include a brief summary of results if available. These submissions are due to the lead editor no later than July 31, 2013.

Submissions will be peer reviewed and decisions about inclusion in the book will be made by August 31, 2013. Selected authors will be expected to produce a full draft of their chapters by January 10, 2014. These drafts will be reviewed by the book editors for final decisions on inclusion in the book. Those accepted will submit revised versions by May 1, 2014.

Inquiries may be addressed to any of the editors. Submissions should be forwarded electronically (word document) to:
Michael W. Kramer
mkramer AT ou.edu

CFP Middle East dialogue

The Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) and the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) are pleased to announce the Middle East Dialogue (MED) and call for papers. The MED2014 will be held at The Whittemore House: Washington DC on Thursday, February 27th, 2014.

The Middle East Dialogue has established an international reputation as a focal point for new research, and a forum for the exchange of opinions and different views about issues of social, political, and economic reforms.  In addition, discussions go on concerning women’s rights and roles in the new Middle East, and ethnic and religious tolerance.

Proposals are sought from individuals or groups on topics relating to the areas mentioned above. Proposals can be configured variously as twenty minute individual presentations, or round table discussions on particular topics. Proposals are encouraged to explore present, past and futuristic approaches to these issues and what if scenarios, as well as conflict resolution, and problem-solving solutions.

Proposals of one to two pages should be sent as email attachments by January 18th, 2014 to Mr. Daniel Gutierrez Sandoval at Policy Studies Organization (PSO) at dgutierrezs AT ipsonet.org. Proposals submitted before December 20, will receive notice of approval or rejection by December 31, 2013.   A panel of reviewers from DOMES International Editorial Board will recommend select papers for publications in the peer-reviewed journal Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), published by Wiley-Blackwell.

The early conference registration fee for speakers is $200; $250 for conference attendees, due by December 20th. Late registration fee will be $300 (registration fee covers breakfast, lunch and concluding reception) payable and mailed to: PSO: 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036 Tel. (202) 349-9281; Fax (202) 483-2657).

Prof. Mohammed Aman, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, DOMES
Co-Chair, MED2014
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Prof. Paul Rich, PhD
President, Policy Studies Organization
Co-Chair, MED2014
Washington, DC

China Media Research-Confucius Institute CFP

China Media Research (CMR-2014-01) invites scholars from across disciplines to address the timely issue of Confucius Institute (CI) within ideological, political, and cultural contexts. We welcome papers that enhance understanding of Confucius Institute from critical, qualitative, or social scientific perspectives. Topics can include, but are not limited to, such issues as Hanban’s vision, its planning and management of CI, CI’s reception in the American academic community, the perception of CI students and their perceived connection to China, and the role of CI in China’s overall campaign to exert its influence abroad.

Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. We will accept extended abstracts (up to 1,000 words) or complete papers at the first stage of the reviewing process. All the submissions must be received by May 25, 2013. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by August 20, 2013. Complete manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be reviewed and the authors will be notified of final acceptance/rejection decision. Please visit China Media Research for more information about this quarterly journal, which publishes both printed and online versions.

Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor, Dr. Weiming Yao at wdyao AT pitt.edu, and/or CMR special section co-editor, Dr. Rya Butterfield at butterfi AT purdue.edu.

Questioning geocultural boundaries

CALL FOR PAPERS

Communication Theory special issue on “Questioning geocultural boundaries of communication theories: De-Westernization, cosmopolitalism and globalization”

Guest editors: Silvio Waisbord and Claudia Mellado
Submission deadline: April 1, 2013

Although Western perspectives have been dominant in the study of communication, scholars have called for the emancipation of non-Western theories and new conceptual and theoretical perspectives. Researchers have shown the importance and vitality of communication theories grounded in various philosophical conceptions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This call should not be understood as an effort to “de-Westernize” communication studies. On the contrary, the task is to explore whether non-Western perspectives expand the analysis and challenge central assumptions and arguments.

Communication Theory therefore invites authors to submit papers for a future special issue on “Questioning geocultural boundaries of communication theories: De-Westernization, cosmopolitalism and globalization.” Contributions could analyze current theoretical developments in communication studies across the world, revisit epistemological and historical foundations, examine the integration of Western and non-Western perspectives in communication studies, the uses of theories of global comparative research, discuss the relevance of non-Western theories and models, and successful and failed efforts at theoretical cross-pollination. Submissions may address but should not be limited to the following
questions:

– Amidst the globalization, indigenization, and hybridization of communication and cultures, what do we mean by non-Western and Western theories?
– What are non-Western communication theories? Are they primarily based on non-individualistic, communitarian notions of self and universalistic premises?
– What are the commonalities and differences among non-Western theories? What contributions and differences do they offer?
– How do non-Western theories reframe questions and arguments grounded in Western theories?
– Is it valid to denominate theories on the basis of geo-cultural origin? How are essentialist positions reaffirmed? How and by whom or what are they challenged?

Manuscripts must be submitted by April 1, 2013, through the online submission system of Communication Theory. Authors should indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for the special issue. Inquiries can be sent to Silvio Waisbord (waisbord AT gwu.edu) and Claudia Mellado (claudia.mellado AT usach.cl).

CFP grounded practical theory

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Building Grounded Practical Theory in Applied Communication Research”
Journal of Applied Communication Research Special Issue
Co-editors: Robert T. Craig and Karen Tracy, University of Colorado Boulder

Submission deadline: June 15, 2013
Anticipated publication: May, 2014

Grounded practical theory (GPT) is a conceptual and methodological approach that aims to develop normative communication theories useful for reflecting on real-world dilemmas and practical possibilities of communication.

Following the initial formulation of GPT by Craig and Tracy in 1995, the approach has been applied to a variety of communicative practices ranging from academic colloquia to crisis negotiations, public meetings, and new forms of organizing. Many of these applications have not only used GPT but have also extended the approach to engage conceptual issues and to employ methods not anticipated in its initial formulation. For this special issue we seek studies that continue this process of challenging, refining, and extending the GPT framework through innovative applications of the approach to address important communication problems in any field of applied communication research.

Manuscripts, limited to 8,000 words, should be prepared for blind review. Please see the Journal of Applied Communication Research for author instructions and guidance on making submissions. Mention in the cover letter that the submission is for consideration in the special issue.

Please contact either special issue co-editor regarding and questions or preliminary ideas:
Robert.Craig AT Colorado.edu
Karen.Tracy AT Colorado.edu

Culture and news translation

Call for papers

Culture and News Translation
special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology

to be edited by Kyle Conway (University of North Dakota, USA)

This special issue will examine the role of culture in news translation.

Interest in news translation, for the most part, is a relatively recent phenomenon. It benefited from the sustained attention it received during the Translation in Global News initiative at the University of Warwick from 2004-2007, although occasional articles on the topic have appeared since the 1970s. In those early articles, scholars were concerned with how political relations between countries affected which stories traveled where. Scholars writing more recently have been more interested in how journalists’ institutional roles within a news organization shape how they construct their stories. In both cases, however, the analysis has been largely structural, concerned with newsroom organization and the political economy of news.

More recent research has raised questions about the role of culture in news translation. For example, in “Bringing the News Back Home” (Language and Intercultural Communication vol. 5, 2005), Susan Bassnett argues that journalists’ approach to translating, as they piece stories together from multiple sources, is inherently acculturating: “However and wherever a text originates, the objective is to represent that text to a specific audience, on their terms.” In Translation in Global News (2009), Esperanca Bielsa, along with Bassnett, expands on that argument by examining power in relation to culture.

In such cases, however, the nature of culture — what exactly it is — has gone largely unexamined, and many questions remain unasked. When journalists factor culture into their reporting, what is it exactly that they are taking into account? To what degree is culture a function of national, ethnic, religious, or linguistic identity? What happens when those categories come into contradiction with each other (for example, in situations where secularized national identities are challenged by the ostentatious display of religious symbols)? In such cases, what do notions of culture, as employed by journalists or by the academics studying them, bring to light or obscure from view? Is a more nuanced notion of culture possible, one that allows us to account for the effects of such contradictions?

The purpose of this issue will be to pose such questions and thereby to develop a more sophisticated understanding of culture and its role in news translation. Articles will explore what the term culture reveals and what it hides. The end goal will be to expand not only our understanding of culture as a theoretical concept but also our understanding of its role in journalists’ day-to-day practice (and the implications of that practice for news consumers’ conceptions of people they see as foreign or “other”). In this way, questions of practice will inform meta-theoretical questions related to the study of news translation, and vice versa.

Potential questions to address:

Related to journalists’ practice:
* How does culture help account for when news translation takes place and, more interestingly, when it does not?
* How do journalists operate in situations of cultural conflict? How do they orient themselves and their texts toward their readers (or listeners or viewers) when their readers are implicated in that conflict?
* How do cultural norms related to translation develop within the newsroom, and how do they shape the work of the journalist-translator?
* How do journalists account for the different culturally inflected, connotative meanings evoked by emotionally or politically charged words?

Related to scholarly study of news translation:
* How do notions of cultural translation supplement notions of linguistic translation? Is the distinction useful, or even tenable?
* What insight does the field of cultural studies, with its emphasis on culture and power, offer with respect to news translation?
* What is the relationship between news translation and ethnography, whose practitioners make similar claims about their ability to represent people belonging to foreign cultures?

Proposals addressing any aspects of culture and news translation (not just the suggestions listed above) are welcome.

Submissions:
Please send an abstract of 400-500 words to the guest editor, Kyle Conway (kyle.conway AT und.edu), as a pdf, odt, rtf, doc, or docx file by Sept. 1, 2013. Full articles (max. 7000 words) will be due in Aug. 2014. See full style guidelines.

Editor contact information:
Dr. Kyle Conway, University of North Dakota, USA, kyle.conway AT und.edu

Timeline:
Deadline for proposals: Sept. 2013
Decision on proposals: Jan. 2014
Deadline for full submissions: Aug. 2014 Distribution of reviewers’ comments: Jan. 2015 Deadline for final versions: Apr. 2015

Globalizing Intercultural Communication

Call for Submissions

Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader
Editors: Kathryn Sorrells & Sachi Sekimoto
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 12, 2013
Format: Send an extended abstract of no more than 500 words and a short list of references to sachi.sekimoto AT mnsu.edu For further inquiry, please e-mail kathryn.sorrells AT csun.edu and/or sachi.sekimoto AT mnsu.edu

Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader is a compilation of research case studies and personal narratives that complement and extend themes introduced in the textbook, Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice authored by Kathryn Sorrells (Sage Publications, 2013). This textbook re-positions the study and practice of intercultural communication within the global context and offers a critical, social justice approach to grapple with the dynamic, interconnected, and complex nature of intercultural communication in the world today. The new book, Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader, can be used as a companion volume to the existing textbook or used independently as a stand-alone resource.

We are soliciting submissions that offer in-depth analyses and exploration of the multifaceted and nuanced themes related to intercultural communication in the context of globalization. While our broad emphasis is on critical and postcolonial perspectives, authors may utilize a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of intercultural communication. We are seeking submissions that offer innovative approaches to the study and practice of intercultural communication by highlighting:
*   Globalization as the context for studying intercultural communication
*   The roles of history and power in intercultural relations
*   Multi-dimensional analysis (micro, meso and macro levels of analysis)
*   A social justice approach
*   Intercultural praxis (see Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice)

Please choose one of the following types of chapter entries for submission:
1.  A research case study that is comprised of primary, grounded, and/or historically specific research (approximately 15 pages in length). See the summary of chapters below for specific themes.
2.  A personal narrative (approximately 8-12 pages in length) that is theoretically informed and enables students to apply their knowledge of intercultural communication.  See the summary of chapters below for specific themes.

Summary of Chapters
The following list provides broad themes for each chapter.  Flexibility and innovation are encouraged as authors address topics within these general parameters.
Chapter One: The Study and Practice of Intercultural Communication
*   Research case study illustrating anthropological and critical/cultural studies  definitions of culture and highlighting the historical trajectory of the intercultural field
*   Personal narrative on intercultural praxis/intercultural competence
Chapter Two: Challenges to Intercultural Communication
*   Research case study addressing stereotypes, prejudice, ethnocentrism and inequitable relations of power
*   Personal narrative on barriers to effective intercultural communication
Chapter Three: Globalization and Intercultural Communication
*   Research case study analyzing the impact of globalization on intercultural communication
*   Personal narrative illustrating the roles of history and power in intercultural communication
Chapter Four: Identities in the Global Context
*   Research case study addressing the impact of globalization (mobility, technology, etc.) on theorizing identity
*   Personal narrative on multifaceted, complex, fluid, contested experience of identity today
Chapter Five: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
*   Research case study on the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality
*   Personal narrative on race, class, gender, sexuality and nationality in context of globalization
Chapter Six: Language and Power
*   Research case study on language, politics and citizenship
*   Personal narrative on language, identity and power
Chapter Seven: Cultural Space and Intercultural Communication
*   Research case study on contested and/or hybrid intercultural spaces
*   Personal narrative on the role of place/cultural space and intercultural communication
Chapter Eight: Border Crossings and Intercultural Adaptation
*   Research case study on immigration and intercultural transitions
*   Personal narrative on intercultural adaptation
Chapter Nine: Popular Culture and Intercultural Communication
*   Research case study on popular cultural and the commodification of culture
*   Personal narrative on consuming, resisting and producing pop culture
Chapter Ten: New Media
*   Research case study on new media and intercultural communication
*   Personal narrative on the impact of new media on intercultural communication
Chapter Eleven: Intercultural Communication for Social Justice
*   Research case study on intercultural alliances for social change
*   Personal narrative on intercultural communication and social justice
Chapter Twelve: Intercultural Conflict
*   Research case study utilizing a multi-dimensional analysis of intercultural conflict
*   Personal narrative on intercultural conflict
Chapter Thirteen: Intercultural Relationships
*   Research case study on intercultural relationships, power and alliance-building
*   Personal narrative on intercultural relationships in the global context
Chapter Fourteen: Intercultural Communication in the Workplace
*   Research case study on intercultural communication in business contexts
*   Personal narrative addressing the complexities of global workplace issues

Kathryn Sorrells, Ph.D.
Professor
Communication Studies
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street,
Northridge, CA 91330-8257
kathryn.sorrells AT csun.edu

Sachi Sekimoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Minnesota State University, Mankato
230 Armstrong Hall
Mankato, MN 56001
sachi.sekimoto AT mnsu.edu

Public Anthropology book competition

The California Series in Public Anthropology is continuing its International Competition in 2013. It seeks proposals for short books oriented toward undergraduates that focus on how social scientists are facilitating social change. We are looking for accessible, grounded accounts that present compelling stories, stories that inspire others.

The proposals should describe a book that will be relatively short – around 100 pages – with a personal touch that captures the lives of people. The core of the book should involve stories of one or more social scientists as change agents, as making a difference in the world.

The University of California Press in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology will award publishing contracts for up to three such book proposals independent of whether the manuscripts themselves have been completed. The proposals can describe work the author wishes to undertake in the near future.

Interested individuals should submit a 3-4,000 word overview of their proposed manuscript – detailing (a) the problem addressed as well as (b) a summary of what each chapter covers. The proposal should be written in a manner that non-academic readers find interesting and thought-provoking.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 1, 2013

Submissions should be emailed to: bookseries AT publicanthropology.org with the relevant material enclosed as attachments.

Naomi Schneider and Rob Borofsky,
Co-Editors, California Series in Public Anthropology

The Center for a Public Anthropology is a non-profit organization that encourages scholars and their students to address public problems in public ways.

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CFP Kome

KOME, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is calling for submissions for its forthcoming issue. The journal aims to create a platform for an innovative interdisciplinary discourse in the field of communication and media studies, with a focal point on basic researches.

Since its formation, there has been a wide debate on the (in)famous first axiom of pragmatics which states that ‘one cannot not communicate’. Questions of whether the subsuming of any and all kind of information processing in a category called ‘communication’ results in a viable approach towards actions performed by various entities, or simply suits in the flow of the inflation of concepts so precious concerning human existence and co-existences are rarely answered, if even posed in the field of communication and media studies. Nowadays, applied communication researches seems not to care much about the fact that no researches on communication and media can be carried out without having preconceptions about the nature of the phenomenon constituting its object. Which, considering their disciplinary boundaries, would be perfectly acceptable if not only a marginal fraction of theories, serving as the basis for those researches had linked their assertions on communication to the preconceived notions that determine the demarcation of the domain of communication and media studies through the selection and organization of different perceptions in a given intellectual framework. The unidentified nature of such preconceptions is relevant not exclusively in metatheories but it may also make the adequacy of a given theory questionable in additional researches, which results in a situation where these theories can not provide a general answer to a couple of the most basic questions, namely, ‘what is communication’ ‘what is media’ ‘who is able to communicate’ etc. Therefore KOME welcomes researches and discussions with an eye toward defining and theorizing communication and the media, and invite authors to submit manuscripts exploring basic questions of the field with plausible reasoning, but regardless of the theoretical framework or the chosen methodology.

For submission please send your paper to the Editorial Office:
kome AT komjournal.com

Please visit our website and view the current issue.

DEADLINE: Februry 25, 2013

Marton Demeter & Janos Toth, editors