Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, a book series that publishes cutting-edge family research, is seeking submissions for three upcoming volumes. Facing Death: Familial Responses to Illness and Death will take a multidisciplinary approach to how families around the world respond to illness and death. The submissions deadline is July 31, 2021. Please direct all questions to editors Christina L. Scott [email protected], Heidi M. Williams [email protected], and Siri Wilder [email protected]. Police, Courts, and Incarceration: The Justice System and the Family will delve into how various components of the justice system affect families and family relationships. The submission deadline is August 31, 2021. Please direct all questions to editors Sheila Royo Maxwell [email protected] and Sampson Lee Blair [email protected]. Flexible Work and the Family will focus on how flexible work influences families and its impact upon the work-family interface. The submission deadline is August 31, 2021. Please direct all questions to editors Anja-Kristin Abendroth [email protected] and Laura Lükemann [email protected].
The American Journal of Cultural Sociology’s new book review essays editor Celso Villegas [email protected] is accepting book review essays that put two or more texts in conversation with one another and that focus on the meaning-centered, cultural aspects of contemporary sociology. Villegas is interested in reviews that open up conversations between the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology and W. E. B. Du Bois, critical race theory, queer theory, empire and decoloniality, and critical sociology more broadly.
