Routledge Social Justice Communication Activism Series

Grounded on the premise that activism is a communication process and practice, this series publishes books that help instructors, researchers, and students to engage in communication activism by collaboratively designing, implementing, and evaluating communication interventions intended to advance the social justice goals of oppressed communities and activist groups and organizations. The series has two important goals: (a) weaving social justice communication activism throughout the communication curriculum, by publishing textbooks and supplementary books for a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses; and (b) offering monographs to aid researchers who conduct or want to conduct social justice communication activism scholarship.

Three types of authored or edited books are published in the Routledge Social Justice Communication Activism Series:

1. Textbooks: These books are primary textbooks used in any undergraduate communication course, such as public speaking, group communication, organizational communication, health communication, and intercultural communication. These textbooks offer a general overview of the communication subarea being taught through a communication activism lens that offers concrete communicative practices (and examples) for collaboratively intervening with oppressed communities and activist groups and organizations to make inequitable systems and structures more socially just.

2. Supplementary Course Books: These books use a social justice communication activism perspective to explicate a particularly important topic or subject that is covered in an undergraduate or graduate communication course, serving as required or recommended supplemental books for those courses or as primary texts for more advanced or optional courses. These books explain how a social justice activism perspective applies to the topic and offer concrete practices and suggestions for collaboratively conducting communication interventions with oppressed communities or activist groups and organizations, to make inequitable systems and structures more socially just.

3. Research Monographs: These books offer specific, extended examples of original social justice communication activism research. The books describe, among other things, the purposes of the research, the site(s) in which the research was conducted, the collaborative communication intervention(s) employed, the methods used to study the intervention and results obtained, and lessons learned from the study about conducting social justice communication activism research.

To discuss a proposal for the series, please contact the series editors, Lawrence R. Frey and Patricia S. Parker: [email protected] and [email protected].