Call for Book Chapters: Sweet Encounters: Exploring the Intersections of Chocolate, Communication, Media, and Cultural Studies
Vernon Press invites submissions for the edited volume "Sweet Encounters: Exploring the Intersections of Chocolate, Communication, Media, and Cultural Studies."
This book examines the phenomenon of "chocolate" from multiple perspectives and with diverse applications. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, gastronomy, critical studies, art, decolonization studies, semiology, narrative, mythology, sociology, women's and LGBTQ+ studies, media, journalism, cinema are invited to submit essays of 5000-8000 words each, covering chocolate, media and cultural studies. Chocolate, one of the most important cultural objects in human history, will be analyzed in a multidimensional way, and its place in culture will be determined in this study. Papers are invited on various topics, from historical perspectives to current consumption patterns, from art to media and colonial relations.
The following events and phenomena are intended to inspire thinkers to contribute to the book but do not represent the full scope of possible research:
- Analyzing the presentation of chocolate in today's advertisements
- Presentation of chocolate in today's cinema or the history of cinema and analysis of films about chocolate
- Newspaper articles about chocolate
- Chocolate and colonial relations
- Chocolate and precarization
- Chocolate and the Capitalist Industry
- The anthropological history of chocolate
- Chocolate in economic terms
- Chocolate and gender
- Chocolate and psychology
- Chocolate and consumption habits
- Chocolate and autoethnography
Deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2025 (a 500-word maximum abstract).
Please send abstracts to Dr. Kazım Tolga Gürel and Mateo Rojas Samper:
Abstract acceptance will be notified by March 7, 2025. For further details, please contact the volume’s editor, Dr Kazım Tolga Gürel at kazimtolgagurel78@gmail.com.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and contributions to this important book.
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