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[ecrea] CFP: Digital Infrastructures, Practices, and Socialities beyond the State

Sun Nov 05 23:44:31 GMT 2017





We are pleased to invite papers for the following panel as part of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) meeting on/contrapunteo­/ (counterpoints) at Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, May 16-20, 2018.

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*Digital Infrastructures, Practices, and Socialities beyond the State*


Panel organizers: Geoffrey Hobbis (CREDO and University of British Columbia Okanagan) and Stephanie Hobbis (University of British Columbia Okanagan)


This panel looks at user experiences with digital technologies off state-controlled grids. A well-known Cuban example is /El Paquete Semanal, /a weekly package of media content distributed on USB flash drives, referred to by Cuban intellectual Victor Folwer as an “Internet of the poor” (cited in Dubinsky 2016, 158). Dubinsky (2016) locates a persisting Cuban spirit of disobedience in this technological /contrapunteo/. Similarly, Larkin (2008) shows how media piracy in Nigeria has developed parallel infrastructures and economies to those subjected to (global) state control. Building on the digital turn in ethnography (Pink et al. 2016) we seek materially and technologically grounded contributions that explore these and similar phenomena in diverse global contexts. Paper proposals may relate to, but are not limited, to the following topics:

·the offline circulation and mobility of digital media

·how non-state and state-regulated digital infrastructures and practices shape socialities and how they are subject to social interaction

·the digitization of non-, or not exclusively, capitalist modes of exchange (e.g. kin-based domestic and international remittance networks)

·how informal digital infrastructures shape and are shaped by spatial practices

·the myriad expressions of choice in relation to technological constraints created by state over- or undersight

If interested, please send a 150-word abstract with a brief bio by November 13, 2017 to Geoffrey Hobbis at (geoffreygahobbis /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(geoffreygahobbis /at/ gmail.com)>.


Further details about the conference can be found at: https://cascacuba.com/




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