Deadline: February 15, 2017 (The Body Politic)
Under contract with Sense Publishing
Trump’s wholly unanticipated election to the Presidency is a frightening turning point in our nation’s history. We acknowledge that the events of the next year may not turn out to be as dire as current predictions suggest (or may be worse than imagined), but regardless of where we end up, understanding this pivotal time from the standpoints of a myriad of affected voices is crucial to understanding the mosaic articulation of what the United States means in the wake of a Trump victory. Trump’s ascendency and reconstitution of the national imago in fading light of the Obama years and the palpable experience new to many of real hope and expectation for radical, unprecedented change, demands we address our individual and communal experience of citizenship during a period of revolutionary upheaval.
Drs. Christine Davis and Jonathan Crane of UNC-Charlotte are working on an edited book project to give voice to the personal experiences of people affected by the election, and to connect those voices to the larger critical cultural context of Trump's rise. Because we value a balance of personal and political, we will offer narratives of personal experiences along with theoretical interpretations and a critical cultural account for the emergence of Trump. Our aim in this critique is to deliberate on personal experiences from both macro and micro perspectives. This will enable us to engage through the stories, understand the political and cultural movement surrounding this period of time, uncover reactions to the recent political climate, connect the personal to the larger cultural landscape, and tease out the theoretical through the personal.
Giving voice to the bodily experience of a post-Trump world, we intend to include voices from a diverse group of authors: newly alarmed Holocaust survivors; women navigating hurdles to abortion and reproductive health; people relying on Obamacare; people with differently-abled bodies fighting for acceptance as our President elect mocks “pigs” and the disabled; victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault; people from the Queer/Trans community (i.e., “QUILTBAGPIPE: Queer/questioning; Undecided; Intersex; Lesbian; Trans; Bisexual; Asexual; Gay/Genderqueer; Pansexual; Indeterminate; Polyamorous; Everyone else”); Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare recipients; people with undocumented status; non-citizens; people of color and ethnic diversity; Millennials; the bullied; people whose family and friendship networks have shattered in the wake of the election; people protesting the election; people of privilege and newly conferred status; Trump Democrats; Evangelicals; and members of the white supremacist and alt-Right movements. As experiences are intersectional and multilayered, our overarching goal will be to provide a space for diverse bodies to voice their experience rather than force them into pre-established categories or themes. We anticipate that chapters will include a variety of narrative and arts-based stories, some layered with explicit theoretical or cultural critique, others with meaning more implicitly based. We will provide overarching theoretical analysis in the introduction, three sectional summaries, and the conclusion.
The final organization of the book will be determined by the chapters provided by contributors and the work of the editors in making sure that each entry stands as a worthy independent contribution and part of an interlocking mosaic. In addition, we anticipate that each chapter’s narrative will overlap with other narratives as each author’s description and analysis of their individual experience intersects and makes common cause with the allied work of the other contributors. Each chapter will be 15 pages long (total 6,000-6,750 words), and each section will include a 5-page conceptual/theoretical summary by the editors.
We are looking for chapter authors who will begin capturing these stories now (through personal field notes and interviews), and then will follow the experiences of confederates, allies, adversaries and witnesses over the coming year. We anticipate finalizing the stories a year after the inauguration to capture the American experience for the first 12 months of Trump’s administration. Our expected timeline includes:
Chapter contributors selected by February 28, 2017
Contributors each obtaining any necessary IRB or other approvals: As soon as possible after selection
Contributors taking fieldnotes, conducting interviews, and writing: Throughout 2017
Submission of chapters by June 30, 2018
Chapter review to authors by September 30, 2018
Final chapters submitted by December 31, 2018
If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this book, please send a proposal by February 15, 2017, to both Drs. Davis and Crane (csdavis2@uncc.edu; jlcrane@uncc.edu) that includes: 1) a maximum 250-word abstract; 2) a 1-2-page description of your potential contribution to the book, including the topic(s) to be covered, the subject(s) of your story, the method of data collection, and the anticipated method of writing; 3) a recent curriculum vitae; 4) a writing sample.
For more information and/or a copy of the extended proposal, please contact Drs. Davis and Crane.
Christine S. Davis, Ph. D., Professor
Jonathan L. Crane, Ph.D., Associate Professor
jlcrane@uncc.edu
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