34.786, Calls: Ling & Lit, Sociolinguistics / Language, Literature and Cultural Studies (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.786, Calls: Ling & Lit, Sociolinguistics / Language, Literature and Cultural Studies (Jrnl)

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From: Cyrille SANDEU [acetelach at gmail.com]
Subject: Ling & Lit, Sociolinguistics / Language, Literature and Cultural Studies (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

The Second Issue of the Journal Dunya

Developing Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges
and Opportunities
Coordinated by Innocent Fasse Mbouya, Constantine Kouankem and Julia
Ndibnu-Messina

In 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by
2030 were
defined. The goals include the eradication of poverty, access to
quality and equitable
education for all, environmental protection, and health for all. While
the SDGs target
the world in general, as each country faces at least one of the
obstacles to
development, it appears that developing countries, particularly those
in Africa and
South America, are the most concerned. This is why most of the
projects set up to
facilitate the achievement of the SDGs are geared toward these
countries. With 8
years to go, the 2030 Agenda seems far from being respected in Africa,
despite the
plethora of initiatives undertaken by international development
partner
organisations, the governments of Third World countries, as well as
civil societies,
not to mention scientific research. Indeed, poverty persists, new
conflicts are
emerging in a scattered manner, deforestation and environmental
destruction
continue considerably, and education for all as well as access to
drinking water seem
utopian. Moreover, multiple inequalities remain, gender disparities
persist and the
gap between rich and poor keeps widening. A recent study
(Ndibnu-Messina, et al.
2022) in relation to SDGs 13 and 15 aimed at raising awareness on
environmental
protection and eco-citizenship through the construction of a
multilingual lexicon
and a dialogue of languages through storytelling, points out all the
difficulties in
equipping speakers in multilingual contexts with the linguistic
capacities to express
in African languages, key concepts of the above-mentioned SDGs. While
these SDGs
are fraught with terminological and pedagogical glitches in
indigenous, local,
national, and regional languages, it is possible to see a similarity
with the other
SDGs.
This panorama raises questions to which researchers could provide an
answer:
how to make the SDGs intelligible to Africans and other Third World
countries so
that they can easily appropriate them? How much consideration is given
to the
multiple and diverse contexts among developing countries in the
conceptualisation of the SDGs? How can localisation studies such as
the one
carried out by UNDP in 2018 in Central and West Africa be extended to
other
settings? How to integrate the real target of the SDGs, i.e. rural
populations who
are also the most illiterate, from the outset? How does scientific
research integrate
the SDGs into its aims? These and many other questions focusing on the
SDGs in
developing countries could be clarified in the expected contribution
proposals.
The research areas for this theme are as follows:
- (Re)conceptualisation of the SDGs and socio-cultural realities.
- Deconstruction and reconstruction of the concepts of the SDGs.
- Multilingual environment and the SDGs.
- Experimental and basic sciences and the development of the SDGs.
- New visions for the achievement of the SDGs in developing countries
 Target
This call for papers is open to junior and senior researchers from all
countries. African doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows are
particularly encouraged to submit articles. The proposed articles
should
explicitly address the theme of the issue.

Format of the proposals
Writing instructions can be downloaded from www.acetelach.org
Calendar of activities
- Deadline for submission of complete papers: 30 August 2023.
- Return of two anonymous expert reports: 15 October 2023.
- Submission of revised articles: 31 November 2023
- Publication date: 30 December 2023.

Complete articles can be sent to acetelach at gmail.com

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