[ecrea] CFP: Cultural workers: Mediations and sociocultural movements (Teknokultura journal)

CALL FOR PAPERS TEKNOKULTURA JOURNAL (DEC 2012)

CULTURAL WORKERS: MEDIATIONS AND SOCIOCULTURAL MOVEMENTS

Online CFP: http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/announcement/view/22

In light of new economic and technocratic interventions and in the 
context of further social and cultural downsizing and financial cuts, 
this issue joins other initiatives which from the standpoint of activism 
and social mobilization have been able to identify and organize around a 
number of concerns in urgent need of attention. By calling on cultural 
workers (teachers, artists, researchers, activists, cultural 
associations, journalists, social workers ...), Teknokultura hopes to 
organize and mobilize the individualized uneasiness of cultural workers, 
a collective as diffuse as it is broad, as capable as it is fragmented, 
in order to confront the adverse and apparently overwhelming 
circumstances of recent years. Against the progressive buying and 
selling of a culture transformed into commodity, exalted by the 
withdrawal of the State and the public sphere, we also want to render 
visible the idea that culture is a right and a basic means of 
socialization and social participation. This is a common point of 
departure from which we interpellate ourselves and our audience as part 
of a wider community of cultural workers.
> From this editorial position we encourage the exploration of the 
following practices, cases and initiatives, together with their analysis 
and theorizing, in different cultural and institutional contexts:
•    Practices that refuse to understand as purely personal concerns 
wider institutional, economic and social issue and relations. It is 
important to emphasize the personal and collective benefits derived from 
these "refusals".
•    Analyses that illustrate in rigorous ways the ability to activate 
new or already existing affinities or networks in adverse institutional 
environments without necessarily appealing to strong notions of 
militancy or full time activism. Again, it is important to emphasize the 
personal and group benefits that can be derived from these initiatives
•    Examples of solidarity and mutual aid of groups and collectives 
that have been able to activate alternative forms of "welfare and social 
support" and that may be considered as paradigmatic examples for future 
initiatives.
•    Case studies about cognitive workers or forms of immaterial work 
(academics, intellectuals, journalists, cultural critics ...) which have 
felt the need to turn to more "tangible" issues with more “material” 
effects, and the way this material turn has affected their own 
intellectual/immaterial work and politics.
In harmony with our editorial approach, we seek original and unpublished 
work, preferably based on rigorous research and analysis, not just from 
academics and intellectual workers, but also from social movements, 
activists, neighbourhood movements, rural experiences and associative 
urban experiences, whether local, national or international. Indeed, we 
invite contributions from all those spaces where sociocultural 
mediations and capitals are moving towards more sustainable social 
changes and orders.
In addition to conventional articles, Teknokultura publishes other 
formats within its diverse sections: 'A des/propósito de...' (dedicated 
to short essays or critical comments about techno scientific topics and 
debates), 'Activismo y Movimentos sociales' (‘Activism and Social 
Movements’), dedicated to a variety of initiatives and experiences 
supported by social networks, groups and social movements), 'Pantallas' 
(‘Screens’) (this section is about audiovisual work like videogames, 
cinema, web projects, etc.); we also have 'Convers-acciones’ 
(‘Convers-actions’) (including debates and collective interviews on 
relevant topics around technology and/or social mobilization) and  
'Reseñas' (‘Book Reviews’).

Articles should be up to 7000 words in the main section. For other 
sections, see the Editorial Policies: 
http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/about/editorialPolicies

Submissions are accepted in English and Spanish.

For more information please contact (tk /at/ teknokultura.net)
Coordinators: Sergio D'Antonio, Angel Gordo y Luis Moreno-Caballud

Deadlines
Final articles: NOVEMBER, 30th 2012
Publication date: DECEMBER, 2012

Use the guidelines on our website when preparing a proposal for 
presentation.
Indicate "Cultural Workers" in the draft

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check 
the status of current submissions.

Online Submissions: http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/about/submissions

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Francisco Seoane Perez
Profesor Ayudante / Assistant Professor
Facultad de Periodismo / School of Journalism
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
E-mail: (francisco.seoane /at/ uclm.es)
Web: http://www.uclm.es/cu/periodismo/profesorado/franciscoseoane.asp