BOOK: Networks, Movements & Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical
Analysis and Current Challenges
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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
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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 Researcher in the Laboratory for
Analysis of Organizations and Social Movements, CEIICH-UNAM.
Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication,
Politics and Social Change (COMPOLITICAS).
