CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Proposals for Edited Volume on Media and Intersectional Identities

Kalyani Chadha, kalyani.chadha@northwestern.edu

We are seeking proposals for chapters for an edited book to be titled Companion on Media and Intersectional Identities. The editors have signed a contract with Routledge, a leading publisher of work about media and journalism. We hope to obtain initial drafts by September 2024

The collection will focus on issues of intersectional identity—a fluid and expansive category encompassing race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and class, as well as geography, political affiliation, cultural taste, and interests. Meanwhile, we see the term media broadly, as including, among others, journalism, advertising, films, television, social media, and gaming. We seek contributions from scholars across the globe— especially those focusing on contexts in the Global South, who through varied modes of qualitative inquiry, engage in the critical analysis of identity in relation to production, representation and audience meaning-making while also interrogating the ways in which identity issues turn out to be central to ideological contestation around the role of media in society. Chapters may investigate but are not limited to:

• the implications of such contestation both in terms of mediating individual and group subjectivities
• questions about power and authority
• implications of identity with regard to content production (for instance, in terms of who has access and the ability to enter this arena)
• specific patterns of representation in specific forms of media
• various kinds of audiences’ responses to media content focused on issues of identity

Please feel free to submit a 250 - 500 word abstract or to discuss a potential idea by contacting either Kalyani Chadha (Northwestern University) at kalyani.chadha@northwestern.edu or Linda Steiner (University of Maryland) at lsteiner@umd.edu.