[Commlist] CfP: The vertical image. Politics of aerial views

  Call for papers


    Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société <http://transbordeur.ch>


      Issue 6, “The vertical image. Politics of aerial views”

The history of aerial views is closely entangled with the development of 
aerial means of locomotion which, since the 18th century, have produced 
new fixed and mobile points of view on the planet. From the first 
hot-air balloons to contemporary drones, aerial technologies generate an 
iconography at the crossroads of military, scientific and artistic 
experimentation. Issue 6 of /Transbordeur/, coordinated by Claus Gunti 
and Anne-Katrin Weber, wishes to revisit this history of aerial views by 
shedding light in particular on its epistemological and political dimension.

We thus use the notion of “vertical image” to underline the power 
relations that sustain and model it. The vertical image represents and 
materializes colonial and imperialist domination or military 
surveillance; it produces knowledge that forges these relations and 
makes them possible. Conversely, as part of activist resistance, it 
provides evidence allowing to expose and denounce the violence and 
illegality of police work. Thus, we would like to use the vertical image 
to think about the current context marked both by the massive 
surveillance of populations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and by the 
recent international demonstrations in the name of Black Lives Matter. 
The events of the past few months have produced countless vertical 
images, from thermal imaging surveillance cameras to recordings of 
demonstrators documenting police repression from “below”.

Issue 6 of /Transbordeur/ proposes to reflect on this moment by 
investigating the politics and histories of these images from a 
multidisciplinary perspective.

Read the CFP and download the full call here 
<https://transbordeur.ch/en/tr6-cfp/>

Calendar:

September 15, 2020: Abstracts
September 30, 2020: Response to authors
January 30, 2021: First version of the articles
End of February, 2021: One-day conference at the University of Lausanne
April 30, 2021: Second version of the articles
February 2022: Publication

Informations:

Texts can be submitted in French, English or German.
The abstract should not exceed 600 words. It is accompanied by 6-10 
images, a brief bibliography and biographical information.
In submitting a manuscript for review, authors agree to the Journal's 
Publishing Terms and Conditions 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/p71ldsz3kbhpxm6/20180521_transbrodeur_protocole_EN_v2.pdf?dl=1>.
Please send abstracts to (Claus.Gunti /at/ unil.ch) 
<mailto:(Claus.Gunti /at/ unil.ch)> and (Anne-Katrin.Weber /at/ unil.ch) 
<mailto:(Anne-Katrin.Weber /at/ unil.ch)>
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