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[Commlist] CFP: Streets of Latin America: New battlegrounds of change

Wed Jul 12 13:14:50 GMT 2023




Extended deadline: CFP: Streets of Latin America: New battlegrounds of change

Alternautas Special Issue


_Extended deadline_: 30^th  of July 2023

Full article submission: 01^st  of September 2023

Publication: December 2023

Email: (streetsoflatam /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(streetsoflatam /at/ gmail.com)>

Latin American streets have historically been the centre of revolts, protests, and mass demonstrations of culture and religion (Gilbert, 1994). The recent wave of unrest in Bolivia and Peru and protests in Ecuador have made world headlines. From the corta ruta in Argentina to a series of upheavals in Brazil, recent events show how the street has characterised a scenario of hope and fear, opportunity and repression, creativity and precariousness (Boggerts, 2022). The media portrayal of urban life in the region is often predicated on chaos, violence, and submission. Still, the democratic possibilities of Latin American streets as a politico-performative stage for social change remain under-explored, except for contentious events.

Alternautas <https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/alternautas/announcement/view/45>calls for papers that will add to the growing scholarship about urban life in the Global South and expand on the Latin American street as the quintessential space for political and creative expression: occupying, crafting, or staying in the streets, parks, and squares can pave social and cultural transformation. Knowingly, these interventions have empowered ulterior notions of citizenship as a form of public sphere (Dabène, 2019). It includes social movements that not only react but enact creative forms of resistance (Ryan, 2018), as users consistently employ trending technologies to reinvent a received notion of space (Levy, 2018).

From the pixadores in Sao Paulo to the murals of Oaxaca, urban interventions provide unique examples of the living consciousness of the Latin American metropolises

This open-access special issue aims to enable discussions about new intersections between political and creative aspects that stem from spatial and digital interventions in Latin American cities. It seeks to unearth social justice demands that come from and reach the street thanks to new practices, movements, or technologies. This issue also aims to investigate how actors can re-orient or repurpose digital technologies to place their critique of the public space in the region.

We pose the following questions: To what extent can artists, practitioners, activists, and citizens shape the Latin American street of the 21st century into a creative, digital, and political centre of continuous demonstrations? To what degree can these actors render the city into an enhanced battleground for renewed demands of socioeconomic, ecological, racial, and gender equality? What are the current limitations to forging more street-based, politically-driven creativity towards democratic consolidation? As an interdisciplinary area of interest, we invite contributions from areas that include, but are not limited to:

Activist media in the city

Alternative media in both digital and analogical formats

Cinema or audio-visual in the city

Communist and Marxist media in the city

Ecological movements

Favela media studies

Feminist urban studies in Latin America

Folklore and traditional storytelling in the city

Geotagging and counter-mapping

LGBTQ+ or queer media in Latin America

Mural communications and art

Projection and light studies

Protest or counter-hegemonic communication

Public speaking or oral history traditions

Social movement media and the city

Sound art studies

Street art and unauthorised graffiti

Surveillance and society in Latin America

Technology, society and culture in Latin America

Urban public policies

Urban history revisited

250-word abstracts should be sent to (streetsoflatam /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(streetsoflatam /at/ gmail.com)> by the 30th April 2023. Submission is free, and we encourage papers sent by media and communications scholars. No article processing or any other charges are expected from prospective authors.

References

Bogerts, L. (2022). The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance: Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America. Germany: Berghahn Books.

Dabène, O. (2019). Street Art and Democracy in Latin America. Germany: Springer International Publishing.

Gilbert, A. (1994) The Latin American City. London: Latin American Bureau.

Levy, H. (2018). Disrupting the old periphery: Alternative media, inequality and counter-mapping in Brazil. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2).

Ryan, H. E. (2018). Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America. United Kingdom: Routledge.


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