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Call for Publications
Theme: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Pulication: Mapping Global Inequality Book Series
Deadline: 25.3.2022
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We invite you to take part in the project Mapping Global Inequality -
a Major Reference Work Book Series being published by Springer
Nature, United States.
The Series will consist of several volumes. In this call for
contribution, we are seeking authors for the volume on Racial and
Ethnic Inequality.
Proposal:
There is no systematic documentation of tertiary literature on
systemic racism, specifically racial and ethnic inequality in
different regions and regimes. This volume in the Mapping Global
Inequalities series aims to explore different aspects of racism and
classism with a particular focus on racial and ethnic inequality and
its impact on life, well-being, and development in different
countries. With growing global inequality in terms of
political-economic concentrations of wealth and power in democracies
and non-democracies alike, there is persistent prevalence of
deprivations across these dimensions: unequal treatment in terms of
access and opportunities, violation of basic rights and failures to
uphold duties to protect basic rights, and structural and societal
injustice based on gender, sexuality, dis-ability, indigeneity,
class, race, ethnicity, and color. Debates abound about race, racism,
and racial justice in the global context but systematic survey across
a wide set of countries and regions are still forthcoming. People's
perception and understanding of inequality of various kinds are
constantly shifting along with the advancement of information and
digital communication technology. However, despite several social and
public policy efforts at national and international levels in several
countries and regions around the world, the situation of racial
minorities is deteriorating. In its simple definition, racial
discrimination refers to unequal treatment of persons or groups on
the basis of their race or ethnicity. Discrimination can either be
defined by law or societal norms or both. Having said that, racial
and ethnic discrimination at structural, societal, and systemic
levels beyond state or individual acts of individual discrimination
prevails in many societies across the globe; often times this
supersedes the realm of law and falls below in the more nebulous
realm of culture and social stratification. Indeed, the severity and
the impact of inequality differs based on the overall development of
the countries. For example, racial discrimination in the wealthier
countries differs from the racial and ethnic inequality experienced
by the people in less developed and developing countries. However,
racial and ethnic inequality combined with various other
discrimination, for example legal and political, harms human growth
and development in general. In different societies these inequities
and inequalities take various forms such as the wealth gap,
opportunities foreclosure and restrictions in social, political and
economic participation and freedom. Several societies across the
globe also document persistent racial inequality in education,
employment, housing, health access, and a wide range of other social
domains.
Despite enormous efforts, both at policy, research and legal levels,
intergenerational discrimination and structural racism still prevails
and prevents the sustainable and equitable growth of several
societies across the globe. Furthermore, structural racism, class
difference and ethnic inequality are among contemporary drivers that
prevent minority communities from obtaining fair housing, adequate
neighborhood resources (such as basic food security), robust
healthcare infrastructure and services, and equal access to jobs and
education opportunities, especially in the developing economies but
also advanced, industrial, developed countries. Compounding matters,
the phenomenon of stigma, othering, prejudice, bias and
discrimination in global societies in relation to class, caste and
race, and other modalities of social stratification, marginalization,
and exclusion depreciates and exacerbates the unjust societal
conditions of victims of racial and ethnic minority groups and
communities. In a remarkable move in 2015, the United Nations along
with the world leaders launched the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), following on the project of the 2000 Millennium Development
Goals; these are widely known as global goals aiming to reduce
inequality of various kinds and ensure equality and social justice
for all. However, despite the many promises of a ‘better life for
all’, racial, ethnic, class, gender, sexuality, immigrant,
indigenous, and disability inequalities continue to shape the life of
a larger number of people in different societies across the globe.
The aspirations, aims and opportunities are capsized in the
households where victims of class, race and ethnic inequality exist.
The crisis is deepening with the unstoppable force of climate change
and environmental catastrophes. While examining racial inequality and
its impact on different communities and population groups in
different countries and regions we aim to address the following
questions in this volume:
- What are the social, cultural & structural explanations for racial
and ethnic inequality in various political-legal-economic systems
across national and international lines?
- How can we measure racial and ethnic discrimination?
- Why do racial and ethnic inequality continue to persist even when
the legal constitutions of democracy forbid their continuation?
- What does the available data say about racial and ethnic
inequalities in different countries?
- How do different societies across the globe tackle differential
treatments with regards to race, class and ethnicity?
- If the pressure, mandates, and proclamations of multilateral
institutions, such as the United Nations, are inadequate to
eradicate racial inequality in many societies, then what must those
societies do on their own in terms of social policy and legal
transformation to ensure just, equal, and equitable societies which
are becoming increasingly diverse and pluralistic?
The volume aims to gain an understanding of the following:
(1) Theorizing racial inequality;
(2) demographics of racial inequality;
(3) Nature of racial inequality in different countries, regimes and
regions;
(4) Contemporary debates on structural and systemic race and racism;
(5) why racial inequality persists;
(6) Impact of racial inequality on different sections of society
i.e., youth, women, children, disabled, elderly, sexual
minorities, indigenous peoples and other marginalized sections of
society;
(7) Reducing racial inequality in education, health, social
opportunities and criminal justice systems;
(8) Strategies for reducing racial and ethnic prejudice;
(9) Economic Security Programs aiming to reduce racial inequality;
(10) Closing the racial wealth gap;
(11) Comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas;
(12) The evolution of slave regimes in a comparative perspective;
(13) Intersections between race, nation, and citizenship in MENA,
Latin America, Asia and beyond;
(14) Individual beliefs and attitudes about class, race and ethnic
inequality in the global society.
The goal is to gather original contributions in the respective areas
and make this reference work truly global in nature. There will be a
minimum of 40 chapters from at least 30 countries in this endeavor,
and each volume in the series will discuss various aspects of
inequality in different socio-political and economic contexts
providing a valuable source for the researchers, academics and policy
makers at both local and global contexts. Each of the Mapping Global
Inequality volumes will also include chapters on cross-country
comparisons to provide an understanding of similarities and
differences in many aspects of inequality across different regions
and contexts. Additionally, an extensive introductory chapter with an
overview of the volume, its scope and comparative understanding of
all the contributions will be covered in this work and all other
volumes.
Structure of the Volume:
Level of Your Contribution: Our aim is to provide an accessible and
exciting handbook for specialists, academicians, advanced students,
and readers who are familiar with the field as well as those from
other related disciplines.
The size of each chapter that we are expecting will be circa
8000-10,000 words (including the reference list). We are inviting the
chapters that are critical summaries/synopses (Tertiary literature)
rather than original research reports.
We are accepting contributions on a rolling basis and writing and
reviewing is scheduled to take place until approximately July 2024
and final proofing between then and the end of the year. The sooner
you submit your chapter the sooner it will be published online and
citable. Contributions to all the volumes in this series are
peer-reviewed.
Online-First Publication of Chapters: Once the production and
proofing loop is completed, the chapter will be published
online-first on Springer Nature's online publication webpage:
http://link.springer.com
At that stage the article is DOI citable. You will be able to access
it via your chapter page on METEOR. As author of this project, you
can also access via METEOR all other online published Springer Nature
References.
Please keep in mind: the faster you send in your manuscript, the
sooner it will be published and citable.
Print Publication: The print publication of the volume you contribute
to will be finalized once the last chapter of the volume has been
reviewed and gone through the production workflow.
Online Update of Chapters: One copy of the published version of your
chapter is re-ingested to METEOR for further updates. The chapter
opens up for updates again in METEOR and the status of your chapter
changes to ‘Open for Submission’. At this time, you can up-load fresh
or updated files, if you wish. The updated and approved chapter will
be published as a new version in the living reference version of this
project. Editors and authors can submit updates to articles at the
pace of science advancement. On behalf of the Editors
Palgrave/Springer Nature, we thank you for your contributions. Please
don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you might have.
Interested authors please send a 250 words abstract and author bio by
25 March 2022, to Dr. Rajendra Baikady:
[email protected]
Please give the subject header as - Racial and Ethnic Inequality:
Chapter proposal. The editorial team members will evaluate the
submitted abstract on a rolling basis and notify the authors along
with full chapter submission guidelines.
Qualifications: We recommend that academic authors have, be
supervised by, or in pursuit of their PhD, whereas non-academic
professionals should have at least 3 years of experience in the field.
Full chapter submission Schedule:
November 25, 2022
June 25, 2023
December 25, 2023
June 25, 2024
Editors-in-Chief:
Rajendra Baikady PhD
Department of Social Work, School of Humanities, University of
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jaroslaw Przeperski PhD
Centre for Family Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun,
Poland
Rajesh Sampath PhD
Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University,
United States
Contact:
Dr. Rajendra Baikady
Department of Social Work
School of Humanities
University of Johannesburg
South Africa
Email: [email protected]
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