---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alisha Kirchoff <alkircho@iu.edu> Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:49 AM Subject: "Freedom" - a call for papers from Contexts Magazine To: Kirchoff, Alisha <alkircho@indiana.edu> CC: Rojas, Fabio Guillermo <frojas@indiana.edu>, <rjray@umd.edu> Dear Colleagues - I am writing on behalf of the editorial team of *Contexts*, the public-facing journal of the American Sociological Association. We are contacting members of our network as well as representatives from various ASA communities and sections to help promote a special issue of the journal for which we are currently accepting submission proposals. *Contexts* will publish a special issue in Summer 2019 exploring the many meanings of freedom from a sociological perspective. We call for proposals that address freedom from multiple angles. This may include, but is not limited to, topics such as mass incarceration, border control, the regulation of work and labor, the transition away from communism in the late 20th century, struggles against authoritarianism, the meaning of political and economic freedom across cultures, the exercise of freedom within organizations such as schools and corporations, the cultural and normative contexts that support freedom, and the assessment of institutions, such as the U.S. Constitution, that are meant to define and bolster political liberties. The full call for papers can be found on the *Contexts* website: https://contexts.org/blog/freedom-a-call-for-papers/ *The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2018. * We are requesting your help in distributing the call as widely as possible. Please help us by sharing this information with your networks, students, ASA sections, colleagues in affiliated associations (e.g. PAA, LSA), and home departments. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Co-editors Rashawn Ray (rjray@umd.edu) and Fabio Rojas ( frojas@indiana.edu). Thank you in advance for considering this request. Best wishes, Alisha Kirchoff *Alisha Kirchoff* Associate Instructor Department of Sociology Indiana University Ballantine Hall 705 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. <https://maps.google.com/?q=1020+E.+Kirkwood+Ave.+%0D%0A+Bloomington,+IN+47405&entry=gmail&source=g> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1020+E.+Kirkwood+Ave.+%0D%0A+Bloomington,+IN+47405&entry=gmail&source=g> Bloomington, IN 47405 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1020+E.+Kirkwood+Ave.+%0D%0A+Bloomington,+IN+47405&entry=gmail&source=g> -7103 alkircho@indiana.edu Editorial Assistant & Digital Content Producer *Contexts Magazine * https://contexts.org/ -- *Cheers,* *Wenhong **文泓* *Wenhong Chen,* PhD Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Department of Radio-TV-Film | Moody College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin Chair, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section American Sociological Association Office hour signup http://bit.ly/1xpHy1c http://utexas.academia.edu/wenhongchen New book: Networked China <http://www.routledge.com/9781138840027/> 512.417.4952 | wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu | @wenhongchen 1 University Station A0800, CMA 5.142 The University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067