INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPETITION
CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
The California Series in Public Anthropology encourages scholars in a range of disciplines to discuss major public issues in ways that help the broader public understand and address them. Two presidents (Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton) as well as three Nobel Laureates (Amartya Sen, Jody Williams, and Mikhail Gorbachev) have contributed to the Series either through books or forwards. Its list includes such prominent authors as Paul Farmer co-founder of Partners in Health, Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti.
Each year the Series highlights a particular problem in its international call for manuscripts. The focus this year will be on STORIES OF INEQUALITY.
We are particularly interested in authors who convey both the problems engendered by inequality as well as ways for addressing it. Prospective authors might ask themselves: How can they make their study “come alive” for a range of readers through the narration of powerful stories? They might, for example, focus on the lives of a few, select individuals tracing the problems they face and how they, to the best of their abilities, cope with them. Prospective authors might examine a specific institution and how, in various ways, it perpetuates inequality. Or authors might describe a particular group that seeks to address a facet of the problem. There are no restrictions on how prospective authors address STORIES OF INEQUALITY – only an insistence that the proposed publication draw readers to its themes through the inclusion of powerful stories about real people. The series is directed at the general public as well as college students.
The University of California Press in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology will review proposals for publication independent of whether the manuscripts themselves have been completed. We are open to working with authors as they wind their way through the writing process. The proposals can describe work the author wishes to undertake in the near future or work that is currently underway. The proposals submitted to the competition should be 3-4,000 words long and describe both the overall work as well as a general summary of what is (or will be) in each chapter. We expect the completed, publishable manuscripts to be between 250-300 pages (or 60,000-100,000 words) long excluding footnotes and references.
Examples of the types of analyses we are looking for include:
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherin Boo
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
We are interested in establishing committed, supportive relationships with authors that insures their books are not only published but are well publicized and recognized both within and beyond the academy. We are committed to insuring the success of winning proposals.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS APRIL 21, 2015
Submissions should be emailed to: bookseries@publicanthropology.
All entries will be judged by the Co-Editors of the California Series in Public Anthropology: Rob Borofsky (Center for a Public Anthropology & Hawaii Pacific University) and Naomi Schneider (University of California Press)
We would appreciate your forwarding this email on to others -- colleagues and students -- who might be interested in the Competition. (Please see below how to forward this email. It is a bit "fancier" than the standard method.) Thank you.
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