Call for chapters.
Towards a New Sociology of Charity
Full call here: https://bit.ly/tansoc.
Contributions to a new volume, synergizing work that moves discussions towards a new sociology of charity, are invited. We seek to understand the current charitable moment and its links to wider social forces, where insight into a charity-related issue reveals societies’ inner workings or apply ideas from wider social processes to identify the contours of the role or problem of charity.
This project aims to pull together contributions by both emerging and established scholars, through critical perspectives which can help discern the impacts of taken-for-granted processes and actions, and bring a sociological eye to how charity could be rethought and reformulated in the twenty-first century.
If you have work—theoretical, empirical, a commentary, or normative—we are looking for contributions to an edited volume, for the British Sociological Association's Sociological Futures book series, published by Routledge. We are looking for 10-12 chapters and for these to include a good geographic and demographic spread of authors and issues discussed.
These could include:
- new theoretical examinations of charity and/or charitable giving
- boundaries between charity and mutual aid, and the refusal of charity
- the indignities or stigmas associated with charity
- charity and mutual aid as social relations
- the increased visibility of calls for ‘solidarity not charity’
- global conceptualisations of charity and mutual aid
- inequalities within/reinforced by the charity sector
- lived experiences of charity
- charity as a deliverer of social welfare
- organizational forms and processes underpinning charitable efforts
- methodological innovations in studying charity
- and many other potential subjects.
Please see the full details of this proposed volume here: https://bit.ly/tansoc. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for this edited collection, please send a 300-word abstract, outlining the chapter’s contents and fit with such a volume, alongside a 50 word biographical statement for each author, to Jon Dean (j.dean@shu.ac.uk).
All submissions must be received by Friday 22nd September.
If you have any questions about potential submissions, please contact one of the editors, Katherine Chen (kchen@ccny.cuny.edu) or Jon Dean (j.dean@shu.ac.uk).
Please circulate this call to your networks.
Many thanks
Jon and Katherine
