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

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).
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