[csaa-forum] Transnational Protests and the Media - Call for Chapters

[Libby Lester]

Transnational Protests and the Media  - Call for Chapters 
 
Editors: Simon Cottle, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Libby Lester,
School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania 

Deadline for submission of chapter proposals/abstracts: Monday 2 November 2009 

Transnational Protests and the Media will explore and theorize the rise of transnational protests
and their transactions within and through today’s fast-changing communications environment. In
keeping with the Global Crises and the Media series, published by Peter Lang, this contracted book
sets out to examine how different global issues and crises – war and conflict, economy and trade,
ecology and climate change, human rights and humanitarian emergencies -  become focused and
mobilized through mediated protests and demonstrations internationally and transnationally.
Providing an up-to-date, theoretically informed and substantively focused collection, Transnational
Protests and the Media seeks to address today’s changing communications environment and how this now
facilitates, shapes and becomes deployed within diverse areas of global contention and concern.   

We seek to include contributions from authors and researchers working on different global issues and
protests including war and peace, economy and trade, ecology and climate change, and human rights
and humanitarian crises, and how these have variously become enacted in and through today’s complex
of communication flows and media formations – and with what possible impacts, variously conceived.  

Indicative Topics:
•       Protesting war and peace
•       Protesting economy and trade
•       Protesting ecology and climate change
•       Protesting human rights and humanitarian emergency 
•       The changing repertoires of contention 
•       The diverse ways in which ICTs and new social media have become infused in the wider
enactment and diffusion  of mediated protests 
•       The rise of celebrity and spectacle in demonstrations about global issues 
•       The performative and dramaturgical staging and media framing of global protest events
•       Mediated protests, global citizenship, global civil society and the global public sphere

Submission Details:
The language of the book is English. The book will be part of the Global Crises and the Media
series, published by Peter Lang. All submissions should be original, unpublished and not under
review for publication elsewhere. Chapter length: 6,000 words.

Key Dates:
Chapter proposals/abstracts: Monday 2 November 2009 
Full draft chapters: 18 January 2010
Initial decisions and feedback: 8 February 2010
Final chapter revisions submitted: 8 March 2010 
In the first instance please email chapter proposals/abstracts (150-300 words) to:
Libby.Lester at utas.edu.au




Dr Libby Lester
Deputy Head, School of English, Journalism and European Languages
Coordinator, Journalism, Media and Communications

University of Tasmania
Private Bag 82
Hobart TAS 7001
AUSTRALIA

Ph:  61-3-6226 7542
Fax: 61-3-6226 7631
Email: Libby.Lester at utas.edu.au