Archive for 2016

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] Call for Chapters: Networks, Movements & Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges

Tue May 03 12:30:26 GMT 2016





BOOK: Networks, Movements & Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges <http://www.compoliticas.org/web/images/stories/CFP-%20Networks,%20Movements%20&%20Technopolitics%20in%20Latin%20America-%20Critical%20Analysis%20and%20Current%20Challenges.pdf>
Edit by Francisco Sierra Caballero (CIESPAL) and Tommaso Gravante (UNAM)

This publication aims to: firstly, present a critical reflection on the different scenarios and challenges that are appearing in Latin America regarding the power relationships that are produced based on new digital technologies and the social processes of which they are part; secondly, to establish a dialogue with researchers in other places who have critically analysed the use and application of technology and digital culture for the active participation of citizenship in decision-making, exchange and social solidarity processes, such as the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement in the USA, protests against the economic crisis in Europe and protests for a broader democratic arena in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, among others.

We therefore invite academics and researchers to contribute to one of the topic areas discussed in this book:

1. Technopolitics: a theoretical framework. In this first topic area, we are interested in and propose, based on an interpretation of Communicology of the South and together with researchers from different countries, a theoretical framework that makes it possible to conceptualise the different mediation processes that emerge between cyberdemocracy and the emancipation practices of new social movements in Latin America.

2. Dissident technopolitics practices in Latin America: critical analysis and current challenges. Taking Latin American experiences as a starting point, in this second topic area we are interested in reflecting on the practices and experiences that are, autonomously and using self-management, creating other identities and social spaces on the margins of and against the neoliberal system through the use of digital technology. We are interested in the dissenting experiences in Latin America whose practices are used not only to hack and make pirate copies of hardware and software in order to make their own technologies and liberating tools, but also to hack the concept of the body, gender, maternity, sexuality, health, care, education, knowledge, nature, spirituality, etc. They are experiences in which technologies are a pretext for rethinking and collectively rebuilding on the margins of and outside the state. There is a particular emphasis on collective writing about common culture, assets and knowledge, as well as successes, failures and challenges.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

The book will be edited by Francisco Sierra Caballero and Tommaso Gravante. Anyone who wishes to collaborate in the publication can submit their proposal by sending an abstract in English, which must be between 800 and 1500 words in length, by 1 July 2016.

Authors will be notified of the proposals chosen by 1 August 2016.

The full, original text should have a maximum length of 8,000 words (including bibliography, notes and tables) for theoretical texts and 6,000 words (including bibliography, notes and tables) for case studies. The full text, in UK English, should be sent by 1 November 2016.


SUBMISSION

Proposals and full texts should be sent to the book’s two editors: Dr. Francisco SIERRA CABALLERO ((fcompoliticas /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(fcompoliticas /at/ gmail.com)>) and Dr. Tommaso GRAVANTE ((t.gravante /at/ gmail.com)).

Call (PDF <http://www.compoliticas.org/web/images/stories/CFP-%20Networks,%20Movements%20&%20Technopolitics%20in%20Latin%20America-%20Critical%20Analysis%20and%20Current%20Challenges.pdf>)

Francisco Sierra Caballero

Professor of Communication Theory. Director of the International Centre for Advanced Studies in Communications for Latin America (CIESPAL), Quito. Director of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change (www.compoliticas.org), University of Seville.


Tommaso Gravante

PhD in Politics. Postdoctoral Fellow at UNAM, Mexico. Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change (COMPOLITICAS).
---------------
ECREA-Mailing list
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier and ECREA.
--
To subscribe, post or unsubscribe, please visit
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
--
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Chauss�de Waterloo 1151, 1180 Uccle, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
---------------


[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]