Call for Papers - Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Special Issue
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below a call for papers on dehumanization.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Special Issue:
Dehumanization: Humanity and its Denial
Guest Editors:
Emanuele Castano (New School for Social Research, USA) and Mirek Kofta
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations seeks submissions for a special issue on /Dehumanization:/ /Humanity and its Denial/.
Among the many ways in which individuals denigrate others, denial of humanity is probably the most devastating. Indeed, various forms of dehumanization have been theorized to be a facilitating, and perhaps necessary precursor for violence against others to occur, particularly intergroup violence. Dehumanization is also considered to be at play when people need to justify their past atrocities against a group. In recent years social psychology has witnessed a renewed research interest in dehumanization, with the emergence of conceptual and empirical research revolving around the idea of emotional infra-humanization and, more recently, on dehumanization as the denial of human nature. The aim of this special issue is to showcase state-of-the-art research on these various forms of dehumanization; their meaning, their origin, and their consequences. Consistent with the focus of /GPIR/, we aim to attract a variety of contributions that focus on humanity and its denial in the context of intergroup relations.
We seek empirical papers that introduce new data and report new findings, meta-analytic or narrative review papers that integrate and summarize existing research, and theoretical papers that describe new conceptualizations or link existing research findings and theorizing to specific context and policy.
Submissions should be made electronically through the online submission website: _ http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpir
In the submission letter, indicate that the MS is submitted for consideration for publication in the Special Issue on /Dehumanization: Humanity and its Denial. Please direct inquiries to the guest editor Emanuele Castano, _castanoe[@]newschool.edu_.
The deadline for submissions is January 15 2009.