CFP: Parenting Through Pop Culture: Making Sure Media Matters

CALL FOR PAPERS

It has become nearly impossible to raise children without them being influenced by popular culture, even when screen time is restricted. Whether it be in the form of radio, television, paperback children’s novels, toys, or advertising, the media is increasingly shaping the identity of those who consume it. The purpose of this collection is to create concrete strategies for parents to use that will stop their kids from being passive consumers of popular culture by turning them into active participants. Thus, unlike other parenting books that warn about the dangers of the media, this book not only admits the inevitability of the media’s influence in modern life but works to produce approaches that turn this influence into a positive force. No doubt, despite all the problematic representations that saturate popular culture, many contain themes that speak toward equality, saving the environment, liberation, and beyond. And, while many of these concepts can be readily critiqued as well, by fostering critical conversations between parents and children about the media even the worst of these representations can serve as a learning moment that can positively impact kids. As editors of this collection and parents ourselves, we believe that meeting kids on their own ground can make it easier to talk about complex concepts such as race, gender, sexuality, war, immigration, and so on in a way children can relate. More importantly, having such conversations also better equip children to deal with the power of media as they grow older because they are taught to be aware of representations and what they consume. In doing so, this collection seeks to take the knowledge incorporated in critical theory in order to tangibly export it to parents as a form of praxis that will foster bonding, avenues of conversation, and change over the elements of popular culture that their children are already consuming.

As a result, we are look for chapters between 4,000 and 6,000 words that develop strategies for talking to children about popular culture. Chapters could be focused on more generalized strategies or on specific artifacts of popular culture, and can be designed for talking to kids anywhere between kindergarten through high school. At this point we are interested in a broad range of intersectional chapters that could include, but is not limited to the following:

• Analysis on advertising

• Analysis on specific songs or musical artists

• Dealing with Disney

• Dealing with fast food and agricultural representations

• Dealing with social media (musicly, snapchat, etc)

• Dealing with YouTube

• Representations surrounding race

• Representations surrounding gender

• Representations surrounding disability

• Representations surrounding sexuality

• Representations surrounding specieiesm

• Specific strategies on individual TV shows

• Specific strategies on individual movies

• Specific strategies on individual comics

At this point, we are only requesting an abstract and a bio as we finish the last stages of securing a contract. Once secured, we are anticipating the date for the first draft to be due by the fall of 2018 with subsequent editorial time and revision to follow. We expect publication to be during the summer of 2019 with the final draft being completed toward the end of spring. If accepted, we will work with you to ensure you have the necessary time to complete your chapter with all the quality and polishing it deserves.

TO SUBMIT: Please e-mail a 500 word abstract along with a brief bio of no longer than 150 words to debate@binghamton.edu no later than May 4th, 2018. You should expect to hear back no later than May 14th, 2018 as to the status of your acceptance.

Please feel free to contact us with additional questions 

CALL FOR PAPERS Edited Book (with ISBN) on Translation Studies, Authorspress, New Delhi

CALL FOR PAPERS

We have the pleasure to inform you that we are going to publish one edited book (with ISBN) on Translation Studies.

We invite papers offering case studies on various text types and translation directions as well as theoretical, methodological and terminological studies.

Length of Paper

Manuscripts should be typed in English Language only (Times New Roman font size 12 points) and should be submitted along with an abstract not more than 250 words. The length of a paper/article should be in between 2500 to 3000 words including tables, diagrams etc.

Reference

Author(s) should provide the list of reference (no footnotes) at the end of the paper in sequence as per the guidelines and examples suggested contained in APA referencing style (6th edition) or list of reference at the end of the paper.

Declaration

The author (s) should submit the declaration that the article is original, has not been published earlier, and has not been submitted / accepted for publication elsewhere. I would like to invite you to submit your paper for this book which of course is an extensive academic exercise. I shall appreciate your contribution.

*No processing fees. Contributors would be able to purchase their copies at a discount rate.

Deadline 30th April 2018.

Contact Email: varshasingh0326@gmail.com

Call For Publication: Rohingya Refugees: Identity, Citizenship, and Human Rights-Cafe Dissensus

Call For Paper for Publication: 

Rohingyas are the ethnic native community of the Rakhine State, which is situated on the western coastal region of Burma, today’s Myanmar. The words ‘Rakhine’ and ‘Rohingya’ are known for their preservation of national and ethnic heritage from centuries but, unfortunately, they have been rendered homeless in their own country. Rohingyas have become stateless through sophisticated de-nationalization which automatically made them among the “most persecuted ethnic minorities in the world”. The ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic identity of the Rohingyas was selectively and strategically excluded from the ‘national imagination’ of Myanmar state. They are denied citizenship and have become victims of structural violence, forced labor, confiscation of property, rape, gender abuse, human right violation, etc.

In this context, it is pertinent to ask the following questions: Who are the ‘Rohingyas’? What are their ethnic, linguistics, cultural, and religious identities that are not accommodated within the multiethnic national fabric of Myanmar? How have political parties responded to Rohingya crisis and refugees in India, a country which is not a part of 1951 Conventions relating to the status of refugees or the 1967 Protocol? What is the role of UNCHR-India in reaching out to the Rohingyas amidst the political tension over Rohingya refugees in India? How have the Asian countries accommodated the Rohingya refugees and what are their challenges and perspectives? How have lawyers, academicians and scholars on migration studies, social bodies, think-tank, civil societies, human rights activists, and NGOs taken up the issue of Rohingyas at both national (India) and at international level and facilitated these refugees?

The present issue of Café Dissensus aims to explore the following subthemes to understand the Rohingya crisis in general and their problems as stateless and refugees in other countries. Contributors are requested to focus on the following themes (but are not limited to these alone):

• Identity, Culture and ethnicity
• State, Citizenship, and Rohingyas
• Arkan/Rakhine State and Rohingyas
• Politics and Rohingyas in India
• Rape, Sexual Violence, and Gender
• Media and Rohingyas
• Rohingyas and International Communities
• Literature and Rohingyas
• Media and Rohingyas
• Rohingyas and Human Rights
• Rohingya, Refugees, Refugee Camps
• Legality, Illegality and Rohingyas
• Refugee Conventions and Rohingyas
• Civil Societies, NGOs, and Rohingyas

Articles, research papers/reports, narratives from people who are working with Rohingyas in refugee camps, first-first narratives from Rohingyas themselves are invited. Submissions should be of roughly 2000-2500 words. Some longer pieces would be considered, if they deserve more space. Submissions will be accepted till 15 October, 2018 and the issue will be published on 1 December, 2018. Please strict to deadline and email your submissions to the issue editor, Chapparban Sajaudeen Nijamodeen: shujaudeen09@gmail.com

About the Magazine

Cafe Dissensus is an alternative magazine dealing in art, culture, literature, and politics. It’s based in New York City, USA. We DISSENT. The magazine also runs a blog, Cafe Dissensus Every day. Our ISSN No: ISSN 2373-177X https://cafedissensus.com/

Issue 53: December 2018: Rohingya Refugees: Identity, Citizenship, and Human Rights [Last date for submission: 15 October, 2018; Date of publication: 1 December, 2018]


Guest-Editor: Chapparban Sajaudeen Nijamodeen, Assistant Professor, Centre for Study of Diaspora (CSD), Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India.

About Guest Editor

Chapparban Sajaudeen Nijamodeen, is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Study of Diaspora (CSD), Independent Centre at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. His area of research interest includes Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Literature, Muslim Diaspora Writings, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Film and Cultural Studies, Post 9/11 Studies, Contemporary English Literature/s, Muslim Literature, Minority studies and Research Methodologies in humanities.

Contact Info: 

Chapparban Sajaudeen, Assistant Professor, 

Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagr, India, 

email: shujaudeen09@gmail.com 

Contact Email: 

shujaudeen09@gmail.com

URL: 

https://cafedissensus.com/forthcoming-issuecall-for-contributions/

Call For Abstracts- Publications with ISBN -Two Books

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

Invited unsolicited abstracts of 250 words for two peer-reviewed edited books, to be published by International/National Publisher. Abstracts may be submitted for either of the following projects:

I. The Making of ‘One’ Nation: Dalit Respectability, Representations and Legacies

This book is an attempt to critically discuss the Dalit voices/identities and their contribution in making and empowering India in the light of following sub-themes:

· Dalit Movements/Identities

· Dalit Texts

· Dalit Imagination and Nationalist Movements

· Dalit Women/Men in changing the society

· Marginalized to Mainstream

· Dalit Participation in the freedom of struggle

II. Man-building to Nation-building: Debating Cultural Legacies of the RSS

The present book aims to bring together scholarly work addressing the understating of the RSS with the following sub-chapters:

· Recurring Cycle of Violence: The RSS in Kerala

· Hegemonic Citadels and Academic Freedom

· Decolonizing Indian Minds

· Saffron Space: The RSS in BJP and Outside

· Revisiting Hindutva and Postmodern Political Reflections

Important dates:

31 March, 2018: Submission of Abstract

05 April, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

10 May, 2018: Submission of Full paper

Abstracts along with the full name of the contributor(s), designation, qualifications, institutional affiliation, e-mail and telephone/ mobile number may be sent at drvarungulati@gmail.com or hemantkushwaha@jnu.ac.in

About Authors:

He is a novelist and poet and he  teaches  English Literature in (Shivaji College) University of Delhi India. His published works are available at several online websites. You can reach Amazon.

https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss…

Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha is a permanent faculty in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

Hoping to receive a positive and prompt response.

PS: We are supported by the experienced scholars and academicians and have direct access to the reputed publishers.

With Best Regards

Dr. Varun Gulati

M.A (English, Education), M.Phil., PhD.

Department of English,

Shivaji College (NAAC Accredited ‘A’)

University of Delhi

Ring Road, Raja Garden,

New Delhi – 110027

Website: shivajicollege.ac.in

E-mail: shivajicollege.ac@gmail.com

Call for Publications: Book on (De) fining Paradoxes: The Writings from North East India-ISBN Number

Call For Research Articles

With the dominant depiction of terror, fear, insurgency and identity crisis, Northeastern literature ruminates over the panorama of feelings of estrangement and marginalization of the people. But beneath this veneer lies the aboriginal treatment of its folklore, natural scenic beauty and mythology tinged with animistic tradition of the region. The writings of the emerging writers like Robin Ngangom, Mitra Phukan, Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao attempt to homogenize the feelings and culture of the people of this region which primarily appears to be heterogeneous in nature.

The recent writings of the region encapsulate a landscape of numbing turmoil, political misunderstanding, and unrelenting government apathy coupled with the enigma of the dysphoria of their existence. Literature from the North-East is the outcome of the mindscape which harbours contrary feelings and notions, natural scenic beauty, age-old traditions along with the challenges emerged from the implementation of government policies and their impetus to the creative zeal of the young minds.

These writings bear ideas of an outcry of identity being strangulated coupled with the crisis of being born to a land made alien. Overpowering such tales of agony, these writings resonate with the music and rhythm of its exotic, strange yet unique culture. Indeed, these writings are the confluence of the vibrant odour of refreshing scenic beauty and the charm of mythical allusions abounding in the aura of their primeval psyche. The literature from the North-east emerges as interplay of a fine synthesis between the harsh realities of the duality of their existence and the rhythm of the simplicity of the raw folk culture, which it exhibits. However, such tales of frenzy merge with the divinity of their natural settings as if to compensate for the rising smog of violence and disturbances, submerging it within the spectrum of its mystifying embrace.

The literature of the North-east palpitates with the venomous expression of the people, who feel rejected, harassed and subjugated in the hands of their own countrymen. Almost like a victim of the imperialist order, the reluctance of the Main-land Indians to cope with their (north-easterners) exotic differences as natural in a multi-cultural situation have emanated sparks of violence and accentuated the duality of their existence. Any North-easterner would sarcastically consider this to be a hiccup in the process of the most bragged, vaunted and illusory ideas of national integration. Easterine Iralu, a Naga poet and author of great repute, harangues “Let media stop defining the North East by the conflicts going on there. Let media focus on ordinary people and their life. Let exorticisation of North East stop”. These lines echo the intermediate state of a North-Easterner as they plunge into the gloom of being a part of a state of limbo where the stigma of the “other” has become their destiny.

The dominant cultural discourses have defined the North-easterner as primitive. But the question which every North-easterner would vouch on is why there is a necessity to blend
into the standards of a particular framework and transform themselves to legitimize their Indian identity. A North-easterner seems to hopelessly pine for a tryst with destiny and not become what Franz Fanon said, “The black soul is a white man’s artifact”. Divided between the threshold of this state of limbo, utter disillusionment and culturally rich, diversified tradition, they release lines with layered meanings and consciousness.

In order to perfectly capture the tumultuous dynamics, beautifully woven in their writings,insightful, unpublished research oriented papers are invited for publication in an edited volume with an ISBN. Guidelines for the submission of paper are as follows:

I. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication.
II. File must be in Microsoft Word format (Preferably Word 2016)
III. Paper size: A4. Font and Size: Times New Roman 12, the title must be in 14 point size, bold.
IV. Text of the paper : Justified
V. Spacing: One and half margin: 1 inch in all four sides.
VI. Word limit: 3500 to 4500 words including work cited / bibliography.
VII. Abstract: Not more than 250 words.
VIII. Keywords: 5 to 8.
IX. The authors must strictly follow MLA 7th edition in their papers.
X. Each manuscript must bear a self-declaration signifying its originality and that it has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere.
XI. A brief-bio note of 150 words of the respective authors (name, postal address,designation, affiliation, specialization, mail id, contact no. etc.) should be attached towards the end of the paper.
XII. Manuscript must be written in English.

The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing to the unexplored vistas of innovative learning tempered with critical analysis.

Selection ProcedureAll submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are approved by the referees. The details of the selection of your paper will be intimated to you telephonically or on your email. All contributors are counseled to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from editors.

Plagiarism AlertContributors are advised to abide by the austere academic ethics with respect to acknowledgement of original ideas from others. It will be the writers’ lone accountability for the lapse in originality. Neither editors nor publishers will be responsible for it.
The order of the content must be as per the following sequence:
1. Title page with the authors name and institutional details
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Main body of the text
5. Works cited
6. Declaration and Bio note

The last date of submission: 25thMay, 2018
Acceptance or rejection of the paper will be intimated after a blindfold review within a month.
Authors are requested to submit their paper to: northeastwritings@gmail.com

Editors:

Dhananjay Tripathi	Janmejay Kumar Tiwari
PhD, NET,	PhD, NET,
Assistant Professor	Lecturer Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences	Directorate of Education
National Institute of Technology Sikkim	Government of NCT, Delhi

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