Call for Papers Special Issue of the Journal of Family Communication on Critical Approaches to Family Communication Research: Representation, Critique, and Praxis Co-editors: Elizabeth A. Suter, University of Denver Sandra L. Faulkner, Bowling Green State University A logical-empirical research perspective has long dominated family communication research. Sixty-five percent of the articles published in the Journal of Family Communication (JFC) since its inception in 2001 have represented the logical-empirical perspective, with the remaining articles representative of interpretive (34%) and critical (1%) perspectives (Stamp & Shue, 2013). The JFC Special Issue on Critical Family Communication Research: Representation, Critique, and Praxis aims to redress the underrepresentation of critical perspectives in published family communication research. This issue will highlight work that demonstrates how critical perspectives can enrich, challenge, and expand family communication studies by directing attention to issues of power, ideological assumptions, and difference. The featured articles are expected to challenge long-standing assumptions and perspectives in the study of family communication, showcase undertheorized and neglected perspectives, and advance alternative approaches and modes of writing infrequent or absent from logical-empirical and interpretively framed studies. The following information is designed solely to generate ideas and is not meant to limit the foci of potential submissions. That said, relevant scholarship might critically interrogate the family’s interface with culture, organizations, and/or societal systems and institutions. Whereas family communication has historically privatized the study of family, critical family communication scholarship often engages the family’s interface with the public domain, harnessing the potential to resist, critique, or even transform existing arrangements. For instance, submissions might effectively (1) trouble normative definitions of family; (2) articulate critical feminist perspectives on fatherhood and/or motherhood; (3) critique existing policies or laws (e.g., the US federal work-family policy); (4) disrupt conventional family communication research to provide a new language and orientation for understanding families; or (5) provide family communication scholars with conceptual tools and orientations for use in critical family communication research. Authors may draw on a range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies, such as critical feminist theories, narrative performance theory, relational dialectics theory, critical race theories, and arts-based research. Submissions should follow the complete guidelines for preparing and submitting manuscripts outlined on the Journal of Family Communication’s website. Click here for directions. Direct any inquiries to Dr. Elizabeth Suter or Dr. Sandra Faulkner . In your submission letter, be certain to indicate that the submission should be considered for this special issue. Manuscript submission deadline: March 1, 2015
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