<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Request
for Chapters</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Embodied
Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Deadline for Proposal Submissions: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">October 15, 2020.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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 </span><a href="https://attw.org/publications/attw-book-series-in-technical-and-professional-communication/"><span style="font-size:12pt">ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Edited by Samuel Stinson, Minot State University and Mary Le
Rouge, Kent State University</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Representations
of the human body as a site of public regulation through technical
communication in response to health risks and crises.</span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Topics in this section could include:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">environmental pollution and injustice</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">pandemic response, including physical
distancing and mask wearing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">warning systems for natural disasters</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Representations of the earth’s body
and its parts/functions through technical communication.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Topics in this section could include:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">state of health and natural abundance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">illness, decay, imbalance, pollution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">systems theory that views the planet
as a working body of complex, intertwined parts, each affecting the other, as
in Gaia theory</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> Topics in this section could
include:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Concepts of balance and solutions
that work toward synthesis of human/nonhuman ontologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Relationships between humans and
animals and nonhuman entities investigated as key toward creating synergies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Cyborg and artificial intelligence
used to address risk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <b>Timeline</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Please
submit chapter proposals of no more than 500 words (not including citations) to
</span><a href="mailto:envirorisksubmissions@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:12pt">envirorisksubmissions@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Deadline for Proposal Submissions: October 15th, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Notification of Acceptance: November 15th, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Draft Chapters Due: March 15, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Final Chapters Due: June 30, 2021</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Mary Le Rouge</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Associate Publisher for Monographs, Collections, and Conference Proceedings<br></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">WAC Clearinghouse</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Teaching Fellow and ABD Doctoral Student</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">English Rhetoric & Composition<br></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Kent State University</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><a href="mailto:mlerouge@kent.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">mlerouge@kent.edu</font></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>