[ATTW-L] Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication cfp

[Mary Le Rouge]

*Request for Chapters*

*Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global
Contexts*

*Deadline for Proposal Submissions: *October 15, 2020.



We invite chapter proposals from both scholars and practitioners of
environmental and disaster risk communication for an edited collection
which the ATTW Book Series Editor, Tharon Howard, has invited us to submit
for consideration for the research line of the ATTW Book Series in
Technical and Professional Communication
<https://attw.org/publications/attw-book-series-in-technical-and-professional-communication/>
.

Edited by Samuel Stinson, Minot State University and Mary Le Rouge, Kent
State University



For the past twenty years, scholars in technical communications have been
studying the difficulties of enacting effective risk and crisis
communication policies to address local and global environmental problems
such as pandemics, natural and manmade disasters, medical emergencies, and
workplace and community dangers (Ding, 2014; Potts, 2014; Angeli 2019;
Sauer, 2003; Wash & Walker, 2016; Frost, 2014). Moreover, differences exist
between embodied experience and abstract representation, separating those
at risk from institutional policymakers, which can make effective risk
communication more difficult (Sauer, 2003). This is especially true in
circumstances in which embodied knowledge is dismissed as unimportant in
official documentation of risky environments (Sauer, 2003, p. 5-6).

The objective of this collection is to improve technical communication for
the general population through embodied, situated understanding of risk. In
addition to providing a series of chapters about recent issues on risk
communication, this volume offers a diverse look at methodological
practices for researchers and practitioners looking to address embodied
aspects of crisis and risk both locally and globally that incorporate UX,
storytelling, and dynamic text with visuals.

We are looking to include chapters that bring embodiment to the forefront
of risk communication, throughout the cycle of content creation,
dissemination, public response and decision making, continuing iterations
of educational efforts, and recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity
as a whole. In addition, we welcome contributions that focus on topics such
as, but not limited to, overcoming perceptual difficulties, memory lapses,
definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems in the
communication of risks to the general population. We invite work that
holistically addresses:

   1. Representations of the human body as a site of public regulation
   through technical communication in response to health risks and crises.

Topics in this section could include:

·         environmental pollution and injustice

·         pandemic response, including physical distancing and mask wearing

·         warning systems for natural disasters

Chapters on medical communication are welcome, but must have a direct link
to broader systemic environmental problems such as global warming (which
has promoted habitat loss and thus zoonotic spread of disease), plastic and
chemical pollution, population growth, or reduced air and water quality
because of fossil fuel burning.

2.      Representations of the earth’s body and its parts/functions through
technical communication.

Topics in this section could include:

·         state of health and natural abundance

·         illness, decay, imbalance, pollution

·         systems theory that views the planet as a working body of
complex, intertwined parts, each affecting the other, as in Gaia theory

Work here might entertain notions of geography and spatial/mapping issues,
renditions of natural earth cycles and processes, cosmology and Earth’s
place in the universe.

3.      Representations of natural & manmade disasters through technical
communication, where both humans and the earth together are experiencing
physical hardship and a symbiosis between the two is sought.

            Topics in this section could include:

·         Concepts of balance and solutions that work toward synthesis of
human/nonhuman ontologies

·         Relationships between humans and animals and nonhuman entities
investigated as key toward creating synergies

·         Cyborg and artificial intelligence used to address risk

This could also include a consideration of transnational responses. These
issues bring up questions such as: In what ways do representations of the
earth’s body, specifically its parts and functions, mirror embodied human
lived experience? How can we better understand and communicate about global
crises in the context of the human body?

 *Timeline*

Please submit chapter proposals of no more than 500 words (not including
citations) to envirorisksubmissions at gmail.com.

Include author name(s), institutional affiliation, and email addresses.
Highlight an area of concern that your chapter focuses on, what readers
will take away with them, and a brief list of citations you would include.

Deadline for Proposal Submissions: October 15th, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: November 15th, 2020

Draft Chapters Due: March 15, 2021

Final Chapters Due: June 30, 2021

-- 

Mary Le Rouge

Associate Publisher for Monographs, Collections, and Conference Proceedings

WAC Clearinghouse

Teaching Fellow and ABD Doctoral Student

English Rhetoric & Composition

Kent State University

mlerouge at kent.edu
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