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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS</span></b><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">We invite
abstracts for potential contributions to an edited book tentatively titled, <i>“Language
& Social Justice: Case Studies on Communication & the Creation of Just
Societies</i>.” The volume will be a collection of case studies on the subject
of language and social justice (see abstract below). We are seeking 15-20
essays of 2000-3500 words each, written in an accessible style suitable for use
in undergraduate and graduate courses on linguistic anthropology, language and
social justice, and engaged language research. The collection will be co-edited
by Netta Avineri, Robin Conley, Laura R. Graham, Eric Johnson, and Jonathan
Rosa. Oxford University Press and Routledge have expressed interest in
the volume.</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">To be
considered for inclusion in the volume, please submit 2 documents by <b>JUNE
1ST, 2016 </b>to </span><a href="mailto:languagesocialjusticebook@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">languagesocialjusticebook@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">:</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The first document should include a working chapter
title & 500-word abstract. The name of the document should be a
shortened version of the title & ABSTRACT (in all CAPS).</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The second document should include the working chapter
title, your name(s) & 100-word biography for each author. The
name of the document should include the same shortened version of the
title & BIOGRAPHY (in all CAPS).</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Questions/inquiries
should be sent to </span><a href="mailto:languagesocialjusticebook@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">languagesocialjusticebook@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">.</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Language
and Social Justice: Case Studies on Communication & the Creation of Just
Societies</span></b><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Edited by
Netta Avineri, Robin Conley, Laura R. Graham, Eric Johnson, and Jonathan Rosa</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">From
bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns and immigration
discourses, language is a central concern in contemporary conversations and
controversies surrounding social inequality. Developed as a collaborative
effort by members of the American Anthropological Association’s Language and
Social Justice Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly
insights on the relationship between patterns of communication and the creation
of more just societies. The volume, which includes for the first time a set of
case studies that illustrate with striking detail ways that language is implicated
in the construction and perpetuation of social hierarchies, brings together
leading scholars from a range of language-related fields to provide concise
overviews of key concepts, debates, and approaches in the study of language and
social justice. The volume will be divided into sections that address, in
three to four short case study essays, topics such as race and ethnicity,
gender and sexuality, education, hate speech, and criminal justice, activist or
“engaged” research. The wide-ranging chapters will present material focused on
various languages, nations, identities, inequalities, institutional settings,
and historical contexts. Collectively, the entries to this volume will
powerfully demonstrate how language provides a crucial vantage point from which
to understand and contribute to the achievement of social justice. An
introduction, co-authored by the editors, synthesizes recent work and provides
an overview of contemporary insights regarding the relationship between
patterns of communication and the creation of more just societies.
This collection of concise case studies will be ideal for adoption
in courses in anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and communication studies.</span><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua'"></span></p>
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