Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Frontiers: Intercultural Communication and International Students

“PublicationCall for papers: Research Topic: Intercultural Communication and International Students, Frontiers in Communication. Deadline: abstract by 10 October 2023, manuscript by 31 March 2024.

This Research Topic to be edited by Jiayi Wang (De Montfort University, UK) and Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Tallinn University, Estonia).

With internationalization high on the agenda of education providers worldwide, the complex relationship between intercultural communication and the international student phenomenon deserves close study.

Being an international student is a great opportunity to be exposed to a new language and culture and to develop intercultural communication skills. Traditionally, the phrase ‘international students’ refers to those who undertake all or part of their education in a country other than their own. For present purposes, though, we adopt a broad definition of the phrase to include transnational education (TNE) students, who are often regarded as international students by their awarding institutions.

The number of international students pursuing tertiary education reached 6.3 million in 2020 (up from 2 million in 2000), and this number continues to grow (UNESCO Institute of Statistics, 2023). The recent decade has also seen a tremendous expansion of TNE, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of size and scale. TNE is the delivery of education in a country other than the one in which the degree-granting institution is based. TNE takes many diverse forms, including dual degrees, joint institutes, and international branch campuses, to name but a few. In many cases, students can get a foreign degree without ever leaving their home country or region.

Research on international students is often scattered across different disciplines, including communication, education, psychology, and language and linguistics. The field of intercultural communication (a term often used interchangeably with ‘cross-cultural communication’) investigates how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate. The combination of intercultural communication and international students is a broad and fascinating topic of research. Extant research on the topic has mainly focused on the following areas: international students’ perceptions of intercultural communication, the difficulties faced by international students, and the correlations between different variables; e.g., intercultural communication competence and effectiveness, intergroup anxiety, intercultural sensitivity, attitude towards other cultures, (meta)stereotypes, sensation seeking, ethnocentrism, empathy, mindfulness, and motivation to engage in intercultural communication.

These studies have offered valuable insights into the predictors of intercultural communication competence and effectiveness and the pathways for developing this competence and effectiveness. However, intercultural communication and international students is a complex topic that requires a multifaceted approach that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Research on the topic is lagging behind the growth of student numbers, and there are many gaps and underexplored areas. For example, TNE students have rarely been studied from an intercultural communication perspective, and international students’ perceptions of intercultural communication are much less explored than those of faculty and home students. Additionally, while academic advising has been found to be vital to international student success, academic advisers have reported a lack of institutional training on how to deal with international students. The actual intercultural interactions of, and with, international students have rarely been studied in detail.

Against this background, this Research Topic seeks to create interdisciplinary dialogue and cooperation, exploring the gaps and underexamined areas of intercultural communication and international students. Themes to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• language and communication
• intercultural communication competence and effectiveness
• intercultural interaction
• international student experience
• transnational education (TNE)
• internationalization.

CFP Korean Journal of Communication

“PublicationCall for papers: new journal established – the Korean Journal of Communication. Deadline: ongoing; first issue to be published in March 2024.

(Sponsored by the Korean American Communication Association. Do Kyun David Kim, Editor in Chief, and Yeonsoo Kim, Associate Editor.)

The Korean Journal of Communication (KJC) is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to disseminating scholarly research, book reviews, insightful commentaries, and meticulous field notes and data analysis. The journal’s primary objective is to foster the advancement and wider dissemination of Korean communication studies. KJC places significant emphasis on the breadth of its scope, which encompasses theory-based research, pioneering theory development, and cutting-edge methodological approaches to Korean communication research. Furthermore, the journal highly values contributions from both the social sciences and humanities disciplines, recognizing their unique insights and perspectives. Consequently, manuscripts from disciplines other than communication scholarship are also welcomed and appreciated by the journal.

KJC comprehensively addresses a broad spectrum of topical areas, encompassing, but not limited to, Korean pop culture and media studies, language and social interaction, cultural studies, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, advertising, public relations, corporate communication, health communication, communication technology, traditional and new media, communicative social change, international communication, journalism, mass communication, and developmental studies.

CFP Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura

“PublicationCall for papers: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura. Open year round, but articles submitted before May 2023 will be considered for the first issue.

Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura (RLEE) is an international, semi-annual, open-access, peer-reviewed, multilingual journal. RLEE publishes original empirical research articles on writing in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Its aims and scope cover writing at different stages of the lifespan, both within and outside educational institutions, and with diverse research methods. The first issue of RLEE will be published in 2023.

Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura is published by the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Clearinghouse and sponsored by the Latin American Association of Writing Studies in Higher Education and Professional Contexts (ALES). Copyright © is held by the authors and editors of the publications in the journal. Works in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 United States License.

CFP Hallryu (Korean Wave) as a Global Popular Cultural Force

“PublicationCall for proposals: Twenty-Five Years Later: Rethinking the Impact of Hallryu (Korean Wave) as a Global Popular Cultural Force, Special Issue of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023.

Submissions are encouraged from scholars that use different theoretical and empirical approaches to the special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication on the impact of Korean Wave (Hallyu) as a global popular cultural force. As the process of globalization has eroded traditional forms of national culture and identity, the interfusion between local cultures and global culture continues to increase in various corner of the world. A prominent example of the globalization of culture can be found in the Korean Wave (pronounced Hallyu in Korean). The Korean Wave, which began about 25 years ago with the exporting of Korean TV dramas across East and Southeast Asia, now refers to the popularity of South Korean popular culture including drama, movies and popular music in other Asian countries. As the seventh-largest film market in the world, Korea is now a brisk exporter of music, TV programming, and films to the Asia region and other continents such as Africa, North and South Americas, and Europe. Now this Korean version of cultural imperialism has impact on Korean language, interracial marriage, imported labors to cultural commodities such as foods, cosmetics, fashion, education, and tourism.

The special issue will examine the past, present, and future impacts of Korean Wave as a global popular cultural force in terms of political, cultural, historical, sociological, and economical aspects with a focus on the key internal and external moments, constructs, elements, fads, factors shaping current and future developments of Korean Wave. The articles will examine communication and discourse in media, social media, political and cultural arenas, and space it occupies in a certain nation or region. They will also focus on how use of language (and translation) and non-verbal symbolic systems in any on communicative contexts, including face-to-face interactions/conversations/dialog within a KW context, and popular cultural texts such as films, music, animation, television drama, etc.

The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication invites authors to submit proposals or abstract for studies that engage both empirical and critical perspectives for Korean Wave (Hallyu) research. They are particularly interested in studies that apply existing empirical and critical methodologies towards analyzing and identifying the past, present, and future perspectives and phenomena. They encourage proposals from a variety of scholarly areas (e.g., intercultural, political, interpersonal, media, organizational, cultural and global studies, economics, performance studies, music, film studies, linguistics, journalism, ads and PR, and social media, etc.). Finally, the special issue welcomes any theoretical essays that deal with Korean Wave in the context of (post) cultural imperialism and post-colonialism.

CFP Education in Global Perspectives

“PublicationCall for proposals: Comparative and International Education Society Book Series: Education in Global Perspectives. Deadline: Ongoing.

Education in Global Perspectives is a book series launched by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and SUNY Press. They publish cutting-edge scholarship, examining key issues in the field of comparative and international education. With a concerted focus by the series editors to support early career researchers to publish their first monograph, the series will situate these contributions alongside the work of more established scholars.

The series welcomes contributions from early career to more established researchers. They invite a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives rooted in comparative and international education and global studies in education. With a focus on inclusion, the series encourages proposals from scholars of diverse backgrounds and contexts around the world.

Books in the series may employ global, cross-national, regional, or other comparisons of educational phenomena. They may conduct quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods analyses; they may feature multi-sited ethnography; in-depth or comparative case studies; trace phenomena historically across sites, scales and systems; or be theoretical, philosophical, or conceptual studies.

’If you are interested in finding out more – please get in touch: globalperspective@cies.us The editors welcome the opportunity to get involved and support authors through the process of deciding whether to submit a proposal and beyond. Details on what is required to submit a proposal can be found here.

CFP Language Policy and Practice in Multilingual Families

“PublicationCall for proposals: Language Policy and Practice in Multilingual Families, Special Issue of Languages. Deadline: 31 March 2023.

Special Issue Editors: Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Estonia) and Natalia Ringblom (Sweden)

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts of various types, such as articles, reviews, and conceptual papers of a disciplinary or interdisciplinary nature, that seek to contribute to the analysis of language policy and practice in multilingual families from a multidisciplinary perspective. The multilingual (resp. bilingual) family is a worldwide fact, as more and more families now use more than one language. This provokes situations in which the family is faced with the problem of maintaining a heritage language (mother tongue, home, immigrant or minority language), its transmission to the next generation, or a language attrition and shift towards a dominant (societal or majority) language. Language transmits culture and history; thus, the loss of one’s heritage language can lead to the loss of inherited knowledge. As such, a conscious decision must be made by parents to pass on language, especially as children enter adolescence and become more independent, including in their language choices. Various factors influence the transmission of heritage language and culture, including: motivation (integrative and intrinsic motivation); its symbolic role; linguistic ideologies and language identity; socioeconomic status; social networks; religion; tendency towards social segregation or inclusion; language solidarity; the speaker’s environment and the value of multilingualism in specific domains (family, school, community and individual); and the use of heritage language in public space and its usefulness and cultural value.

 

CFP Invisible Peace Work: Narratives of Hope and Despair

“PublicationCall for book chapter abstracts: Invisible Peace Work: Narratives of Hope and Despair. Deadline: 27 March 2023.

Emi Kanemoto, Eddah Mutua, & Sasha Allgayer seek chapter proposals for an edited book (in conversation with Peter Lang) that provides narratives about individual experiences around wars, conflicts, and violence in/from different regions of the world.  While the primary way people around the world learn of conflict is through media, the world rarely gets to know what happens when the cameras go off. It is the peace scholars, practitioners, and the locals at the sites who are there, seeing, and experiencing. Through this book, they seek to bring out the “invisible” experiences in peace work.

They are specifically looking for autobiographical storytelling to foreground nuanced personal experiences with peace-building scholarship and activism. Their hope is that the stories shared offer an opportunity for scholars and peace practitioners to highlight experiences that engage in purpose and provide directions about ways to sustain doing peace work in the long-term.

Contributors can include scholars and peace practitioners who have experienced war and reconciliation first-hand, as well as those who visit such post-conflict settings in efforts to contribute different ways of understanding peace scholarship and practice. At the same time, there are drawbacks to peacebuilding efforts which are just as important to highlight.

CFP Societies: Participatory Action Research in Migration Studies

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Call for Special Issue Contributions: Participatory Action Research in Migration Studies, Societies. Deadline: 15 April 2023.

The journal Societies is organizing a Special Issue on Participatory Action Research (PAR) in migration studies which is being co-edited by Birte Nienaber, José Oliveira and Isabelle Albert (University of Luxembourg). The title of the special issue is “Doing and Critically Evaluating Participatory Action Research in Migration Studies.” Thus, its broad spectrum encompasses diverse uses of PAR within migration research. The special issue editors would particularly welcome articles from authors around the world who can bring a relevant contribution to this topic.

CFP Peacebuilding

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Call for Submissions: Peacebuilding journal. Deadline: Rolling.

 

Peacebuilding is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research.

Peacebuilding accepts the following types of article: Original articles, Review Articles, and submissions under the “Beyond the Metropole” section. The goal of this section is to promote voices who speak from positions of marginalisation, including (but not limited to) perspectives emanating from the global south, engaging with decoloniality, or affected by censorship and other forms of silencing and underrepresentation. Contributors are not limited to academics, rather the journal actively encourages activists, practitioners and community representatives (such as elders, curators, innovators) to contribute to “Beyond the Metropole.”

Conceptual innovation and ideas that lead us to challenge our ideas of peace, power and justice are particularly encouraged. Acknowledging the discipline’s tendency to focus on accessible global spaces (“metropoles”), the section features innovative, unorthodox and marginalised ideas that are often overlooked in the discipline. Providing an opportunity to take account of the weaknesses of Peace and Conflict Studies, which has sometimes aligned with power, spoken primarily from European and North American perspectives, or “normalised” its core ideas, this section provides a series of encounters with a different set of ideas about peace in the broadest sense. It is particularly interested in insights about the workings of power in relation to peace, or the various challenges and expressions of resistance against it, from positions where such power is most acutely felt.

CFP Ethnicities: Special Issue Proposals

“Publication CFP by the journal Ethnicities for Special Issue Proposals on Ethnicity & Nationalism. Deadline: 1 March 2023.

“There is currently a burgeoning interest in both sociology and politics around questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues, such as identity politics and minority rights. Ethnicities is a cross-disciplinary journal that provides a critical dialogue between these debates in sociology and politics, and related disciplines.

Ethnicities invites prospective guest editors to submit proposals for a Special Issue. The journal publishes two Special Issues each year. The next available print publication slot is Issue 2 (April) 2025 (we publish Special Issues online first if they are ready ahead of schedule).”