Call for Book Chapters

Title: Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture

Publisher: VLC Media Publication

VLC Media Publication offers ISBN-certified, peer-reviewed publications with national and international circulation.

Editors:

Dr. Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indrapratha University, New Delhi, India

Scope of the Volume:

Folk culture represents one of the most resilient and creative expressions of collective life. Embedded in everyday practices, oral traditions, rituals, performance forms, and material culture, folk traditions are not inert remains of the past. Folk/Lok refers to the collective life, wisdom, and cultural expression of the common people rooted in specific regions, languages, and lived experiences. Lok is not merely a demographic category but a cultural and ethical space shaped by shared traditions, customs, beliefs, and value systems transmitted largely through oral and performative modes. Lok signifies living processes that negotiate continuity, resistance, and renewal. In today’s era marked by globalization, cultural homogenization, political contestations, and ecological crisis, folk culture has emerged as a powerful site of resistance, identity formation, and cultural nurture. The proposed edited volume, Folk and Culture: Tradition, Resistance and Nurture, seeks to bring together original, unpublished research that critically examines folk culture as a dynamic and dialogic practice. The volume aims to foreground folk forms as sites where tradition is preserved and reinterpreted, resistance is articulated, and community values are nurtured across generations. By bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from literature, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore studies, performance studies, history, and media studies, this volume will offer a nuanced understanding of how folk traditions function as repositories of tradition, instruments of resistance, and modes of cultural nurture in both rural and urban contexts.

Sub themes:

Potential areas of enquiry can be, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Folk traditions and cultural memory
2. Orality, performance, and community knowledge systems
3. Folk culture as resistance: caste, gender, class, ethnicity, and political dissent
4. Indigenous aesthetics and alternative epistemologies
5. Rituals, festivals, and everyday cultural practices
6. Folk narratives, myths, legends, and their modern retellings
7. Folk theatre, music, dance, and performance traditions
8. Folk art, craft, and material culture
9. Mediation of folk culture through cinema, popular culture, and digital platforms
10. Globalization, commercialization, and the politics of folk culture
11. Preservation, archiving, and cultural policy
12. Ecology, sustainability, and folk wisdom
13. Regional, subaltern, and marginalized folk traditions

For Authors:

Use Times New Roman 12 pt, double spacing, and 1-inch margins.

Each chapter should be within 4000 words, including notes and references.

Abstract in 150-200 words with 4-5 keywords

Follow MLA 9 style for reference.

Projected Timeline

Submission of complete papers:                     30 March, 2026.

Notification of Review:                                  15 April, 2026

Submission of Final Chapter:              30 April, 2026

Note:

1. The copyright will remain with the authors.
2. The papers will be peer-reviewed. The decision of the reviewers regarding publication will be final.
3. The authors will remain responsible for the UGC norms for plagiarism and submit a declaration in this regard.
4. There won’t be any publication charges. In addition, a complimentary copy will be issued per chapter.
5. We intend to publish the volume by 30 May, 2026.
6. Submissions are to be emailed to pubreadnv@gmail.com