CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR AN ALAIC-ECREA BOOK: Connecting paradigms: Communication Studies in Latin America and Europe (Portuguese and Spanish below) Organized by the Latin American Communication Researchers Association (ALAIC) and European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Task Force, this Call for Chapters aims to collect texts that reflect on the core paradigms within European and Latin American Communication and Media Studies, as defined below. Moreover, in a second stage, this book project will organise a dialogue between the European and Latin American authors to enrich the originally produced book chapters. In order to do so, the editors will select papers, either from Europe or from Latin America according to the axes proposed below. Every text will deal with the selected paradigm focused on its own region, elaborating the role this paradigm has played within one of the two continents, within the field of Communication and Media Studies. All texts will include a historical perspective, a detailed analysis of the current debates, and proposals on future perspectives. Whenever pertinent, theoretical proposals and methodological approaches could be included as well. Once the papers have been received and evaluated, the book editors will invite the authors that have written chapters on the same paradigm to establish an online dialogue that will lead to an additional short (textual) reflection. This innovative process aims to build up a solid and enriching exchange of ideas between the authors to be involved in the book, and will add a comparative dimension to the book project. A) Book axes 1. Functionalist currents. With an initial development based at the United States, the influence of this paradigm in professional practices and communication systems worldwide, together with a strong academic presence, is remarkable. We would like to uncover and rethink its presence among the European and Latin American scholarship, dealing also with its conflictive and/or consensual relations with other approaches. 2. Critical currents. From The Frankfurt School to the political economy of communication, first in Europe and afterwards in Latin America, a wide array of analytical perspectives has been developed with a critical focus on power structures (discursive, economic, et cetera). Texts that fit within this part of the call will focus on uncovering the history of these perspectives in one of the two regions, carefully studying their connections, their current presence in Communication Research and their relations with other perspectives. 3. Culturalist currents. Partially developed as a critique on the critical currents, Cultural Studies approaches in Europe and Latin America emphasised a focus on representations, on those social mediations that re-built the meaning of (media) messages, on the cultural settings that are inserted and produced. We are searching for updates of the debate they provoked, analysing their contemporary continuities, again in one of the two regions. 4. Alternativist currents. With origins outside Academia and with a stronger presence in Latin America, alternativist authors tried to build up concrete alternatives to hegemonic media and communication processes. Consequently, we are expecting to receive papers with a critical evaluation of the history of this approach, of their connections at the international playing field and their dialogues with the other perspectives. 5. Postcolonialist and decolonialist currents. Postcolonialist perspectives, initially arising from Asia, proposed an alternative reading of history, emphasizing and recovering the voice of those actors kept in silence under colonial power or influence, questioning the development models of global modernity as a whole. In Latin America, but also in Europe, some proposals have adopted this approach, initiating a dialogue within Communication studies, combining it with other voices coming from the global South. We are especially interested to receive papers about these very recent developments and the insights coming from these dialogues within and around our field of research, communication and media studies. 6. Feminist currents. We are eager to find papers studying the theoretical roots and practical implications of feminist research, in Europe and in Latin America. These analyses provide critical evaluations of the role of gender, within a horizon of social justice and empowerment. B) Selection process, discussion and edition In order to complete a preliminary selection of authors, we are calling for an extended abstract of no more than 1000 words (.doc, .odt or .rtf files) in English, in Spanish or in Portuguese, to be sent before February 15th 2015 to Miguel Vicente ([email protected] / [email protected]), Leonardo Custodio ([email protected]), and Fernando Oliveira Paulino (fopaulino@gmail). At the beginning of the proposal, there should be a clear identification of the following aspects: - Name of the author - Country of origin and/or residence - Region: Europe or Latin America - Selected thematic axe, according to 1-6 proposal above The author/s should also mention whether they are planning to attend the IAMCR Conference in Montréal (12-16 July 2015, iamcr.org), as the book editors are considering to convene a meeting or an interactive panel if there are enough authors that can attend the conference. Attendance of the IAMCR conference is not an obligation to participate in the book project. The book editors will notify the authors of the selected chapter abstracts by 6 March 2015. The Editors may accept chapter proposals on the condition that modifications are made to the abstract. Authors will send a first full draft of their chapters - in English, in Spanish or in Portuguese - before 22 May 2015. The length of each chapter will be between 5000 and 8000 words. These draft chapters will then be reviewed by the editors. External referees might be added at this stage in order to get additional insights for the chapters. The outcome of the review will be communicated before 22 June 2015. This will allow participants of the IAMCR conference panel (if this panel takes place) to present the already revised versions of their chapter, as conference papers. The IAMCR Conference will be organised in Montréal from 12-16 July 2015. All authors will be required to send in a new, and semi-final version, before 15 September 2015. These semi-final chapters will then be shared among all authors and editors. From 15 September to 15 November 2015, the book editors will engage the authors writing on the same paradigms in an online discussion in order to compare the articulations of these paradigms across the two continents, with the intention of producing additional short debate articles, written together by the author paradigm team and one of the editors, that will also be included in the book. In addition, authors can still make adjustments to their own chapters, if they wish to do so. The comparative debate articles will be ready before 15 December, together with all final versions of the individual chapters. Book authors will send their definitive chapters: 1) in English or 2) in Spanish or 3) in Portuguese by 30 November 2015. Once a chapter has been finalised, it will be translated from English to Spanish or from Spanish/Portuguese to English (depending on its original language). The editors will seek financial support for this translation, but cannot guarantee this at this stage. The aim is to publish the book in English, and in Spanish/Portuguese. The expected launching date of the published book is early 2017, with its presentation during the 2016 IAMCR Conference. Editors: Fernando Oliveira Paulino (ALAIC), Miguel Vicente (ECREA) and Leonardo Custodio (ECREA) Editorial Board: César Bolaño (ALAIC), Nico Carpentier (ECREA & IAMCR), Gabriel Kaplún (ALAIC)
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