In 2015
several member states of the United Nations agreed on the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) or what is known as the 2030 agenda. The SDGs are
expected to address major global challenges such as poverty alleviation, access
to education, addressing inequality, climate change, improving access to
quality healthcare, eradicating hunger, ensuring environmental sustainability,
promoting innovation and infrastructural development among others.
To what
extent are the intended beneficiaries of this ambitious plan aware of the 2030
agenda? What is the role of the media in communicating the SDGs? Are the
efforts to communicate the global goals reaching the target beneficiaries or do
they end up as gathering of elites in major capitals with little to show for in
terms of impact for the ordinary people? How can communication be utilized to
address the challenges of achieving sustainable development? How is the digital
media being utilized in communicating for sustainable development? How can
communication serve as a tool for community empowerment in achieving
sustainable development?
These are some of the questions that the Global Handbook
of Communications and Sustainable Development would seek to address. The book,
expected to be published by Palgrave Macmillan seek multidisciplinary
contributions that provide critical analysis, empirical research, theoretical
insights and practical examples on communication and sustainable development.
Themes to be covered by the book include, but not limited to the following
areas:
- History of communication and sustainable development
- Theories of communication and sustainable development
- Origin and challenges of implementing the SDGs
- Communicating the global goals (17 SDGs and 169 targets)
- Regional experiences in communicating sustainable development (Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Latin America)
- Communicating sustainable development through higher education
- Communication, sustainable development and social change
- Communication, sustainable development and social Justice
- Elite discourse, language and sustainable development
- Digital media and sustainable development
- Journalism and sustainable development
- Citizen journalism and sustainable development
- International communication and sustainable development
- Communication, foreign policy and sustainable development
- Communication, fragility, resilience and sustainable development
- Sustainable development and peace communication
- Role of international multilateral development agencies in communicating sustainable Development
- Role of NGOs and civil societies in communicating sustainable development
- Role of traditional institutions in communicating sustainable development
- Public Service Broadcasting and sustainable development
- Corporate communications for sustainable development
- Comparative approaches in communicating sustainable Development
- Communication and financing for sustainable development
- Challenges in communicating sustainable development
- Diasporic media and sustainable development
- Communication policy and sustainable development
- Communication, innovation and sustainable development
Time line
Authors should
submit an abstract of 250-300 words to the editor, Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u,
mjyushau@gmail.com
Deadline
for submission of abstracts: 15th December 2018
Notification
for accepted abstracts: 30th December 2018
Full
chapters: 30th March 2019 (5000-8000 words maximum)
All
abstracts should contain the following information:
- Title of chapter
- Full name of author(s)
- Affiliation
- Email address and other contact details
- Short bio (150 words maximum)
All
submissions will undergo a review process
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