Dr. Patricia S. Parker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Dr. Lawrence R. Frey (University of Colorado Boulder) are pleased to announce, as editors, a new book series on “Communication and Social Justice Activism” to be published by the University of California Press (see http://www.ucpress.edu/go/commsocialjustice).
Communication for social justice activism involves people (including communication researchers, teachers, students, organizational employees, and community members) using communication theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices to work with and for oppressed, marginalized, and underresourced groups and communities, as well as with activist groups and organizations, to intervene into inequitable systems and make their structures and practices more just.
This book series, thus, offers a new, important, and exciting outlet for communication scholarship that promotes social justice activism in teaching communication courses and in conducting communication research. The goal is to weave social justice activism into all levels of the communication curriculum, with books in this series serving as primary and supplementary texts in undergraduate and graduate communication courses, and as indispensable resources for communication scholars engaging in social justice communication activism teaching and research.
Books Sought: The series will publish three types of books:
1. Textbooks: Briefer and less expensive than typical course textbooks, these books offer a general overview of a topic that is taught as an undergraduate communication course, through a communication for social justice activism lens. Hence, in addition to covering traditional theories and principles about the topic explored, these books offer concrete communication competencies, practices, and examples that teach students and others (e.g., organizational members) how to intervene into inequitable systems and structures to promote social justice. Authors, therefore, help students to understand how the communicative behavior and practices examined in the course (e.g., giving public speeches, leading small groups, facilitating public dialogues, and conducting media campaigns) can be used to promote social justice. Textbooks titles might include “Public Speaking Activism for Social Justice” and “Organizational Communication Activism for Social Justice.” These books incl!
ude pedagogical features associated typically with textbooks (e.g., chapter overviews, chapter goals/topics, summary tables and charts, discussion questions, and suggested readings), and, potentially, will be accompanied by instructor manuals. The goal of these textbooks, thus, is to infuse social justice activism into communication courses.
2. Course Content-focused Books: These books focus on particularly important content that is covered in undergraduate and graduate communication courses, serving as supplemental books for those courses. On one level, these books are intended for educators who use a traditional textbook but want to expose students to a communication for social justice activism perspective. For example, “health communication campaigns” is a significant topic that is covered in an introductory health communication course; consequently, an appropriate book might be titled “Social Justice Health Communication Campaigns.” These books explain what social justice communication activism means with regard to the topic examined and identify concrete communication principles and practices that can be employed by students and others (e.g., health-care professionals) to intervene into inequitable systems and structures to promote social justice (e.g., increasing access to health care by marginaliz!
ed populations). The books also supplement, or examine directly, critical issues, tensions, and communication entanglement s to explicate how these dynamics influence processes and outcomes of social justice communication activist practices.
3. Case Studies: These books examine specific, extended examples of original communication activism studies, in which researchers intervene, working with others, have used communication theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices to promote social justice. The books describe purposes of the research, the site(s) in which research was conducted, methods employed to document endeavors, outcomes, and lessons learned from the research. For example, a book might document a communication campaign that a researcher conducted, working with social movement groups, to prevent the execution of a person on death row or to overturn an unjust law that discriminates against those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (and/or questioning). These books, thus, are intended for communication scholars (including graduate students) who are interested in conducting social justice activism research.
Submission Process
If you have ideas about books that you want to discuss with the series editors, please contact Patricia Parker (psparker@email.unc.edu) and/or Larry Frey (Larry.Frey@colorado.edu).
If you have a proposal to submit for a book for the series, please send it to: Lyn Uhl, Executive Editor, Communication Studies at luhl@ucpress.edu.
For more information about the submission process, please see the University of California Press website (http://www.ucpress.edu).
COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM SERIES EDITORS
-Patricia Parker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lawrence R. Frey, University of Colorado Boulder
COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
-Kevin Carragee, Suffolk University
-Mari Castañeda, University of Massachusetts Amherst
-Lynn Harter, Ohio University
-Stephen Hartnett, University of Colorado Denver
-Katherine Grace Hendrix, University of Memphis
-Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, University of Texas at Austin
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