[ecrea] CfP - Excursions Journal and Symposium - 'Networks'

*_EXCURSIONS JOURNAL 8:1_**__*

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*_Call for Papers and Abstracts: ‘Networks’_**__*

*Deadline for Symposium Abstracts: 31 July 2017*

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*Deadline for Journal Articles: 31^October 2017*

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/‘To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate 
uncritically relations of domination.’ Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)/

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/‘They have built tents across the campuses and lived there, both to 
show the impact indebtedness is having on their lives, to show that they 
need to move away from a university that is becoming more and more like 
a financial operation, more and more commercialised.’ Sylvia Federici, 
Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University (2007)/

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‘/One thanksgiving, Danny spent hours handing out flowers to people on a 
busy street. It was like he was trying to jumpstart a zone of contact in 
the world.’ Kathleen Steward, Ordinary Affects (2007)/

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The recent political turmoil, in both the US and European context, has 
made tangible the desire for dissolution of old networks of trade, 
communication and allies, and we find ourselves debating the formation 
of new structures, and their impact on the everyday as well as the 
political hierarchy. In the meantime, networks of resistance to the 
right have sprung up: the Women's March on Washington found itself in 
solidarity with sister marches across the globe; people across Britain 
and the US wore safety pins to mark themselves as a resource for 
immigrants made newly vulnerable. Divided across the political spectrum, 
what these political happenings have in common is a belief in the 
plasticity of networks and the potential they have to create an 
alternative to the present.

Equally, developments in technology have enabled intimate surveillance 
of our everyday lives, increasing the potential for intrusion and 
violence, by both governments and corporations.  Networks can be deeply 
conservative, restructuring academic and professional fields which are 
often rendered invisible in the process. Mechanisms of control, 
corporate or professional networks, and the norms/practices that 
constitute them, can ingrain societal exclusion and privilege.

Environmental crises, war and migration demonstrate how seemingly 
disparate processes are deeply networked and how both social, natural 
and technical systems are mutually constitutive.  This highlights the 
need to be aware of the networked complexity of the world, and the 
entanglement of human and nonhuman phenomenon, which is crucial to make 
sense of the world in which we exist.

Excursions Journal are seeking abstracts of 250 – 300 words for a 
symposium due to take place at the University of Sussex on 27^September 
2017, and journal articles of 3000-5000 words.  We are interested in 
receiving submissions from a range of disciplines that engage with 
instances, contemporary and historic, where the networks we have 
established matter. This could include, but is not limited to:

-How networks in our historical approaches help us to better understand 
our present moment, or reinterpret our narratives of the past

-Representations of networked practices in art, literature and music

-Spatialisation, architecture and place

-Economic networks of production, distribution and/or exchange

-Telecommunication, technology and surveillance, conspiracy, and 
in/visibility

-How networks structure organisations and hierarchies, engaging with 
networks of power, politics, social mobility and privilege

-How networks are embodied, and how networks create and construct 
feelings of belonging and/or isolation

-Migration and borders in relation to local, national and international 
networks

-The role networks play in constructing identity and identity politics, 
issues of race, gender and queer networks

-The transmission of ideas and practices through networking

-Academic networks and critiques of these, looking inward as well as 
outward, considering professional networking, and collaborative practice

-Inclusion, access and discrimination in the public and/or private spheres

-Use of complexity theory or speculative entropy to understand social 
and practical issues

-Religion, intentional communities, protest networks and the project of 
humanity

The deadline for abstract submissions for the symposium is 31 July 2017, 
abstracts should be between 250 – 300 words, and include a short author 
bio (no more than 50 words). Please submit via 
(enquiries /at/ excursions-journal.org.uk) 
<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=JwXBDL3ivCFsx2Sz9sSSqywLLpKUbmyHaGLzTPfuf2ISRLiMWwXTCG0AYQBpAGwAdABvADoAZQBuAHEAdQBpAHIAaQBlAHMAQABlAHgAYwB1AHIAcwBpAG8AbgBzAC0AagBvAHUAcgBuAGEAbAAuAG8AcgBnAC4AdQBrAA..&URL=mailto%3aenquiries%40excursions-journal.org.uk>

The deadline for journal submissions is 31 October 2017. Scholarly 
papers should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words and must follow Harvard 
style guidelines. We also encourage creative submissions in media such 
as film, photography, or audio. For creative submissions, please include 
an abstract and a brief biography (no more than 150 words) along with 
your submission. All enquiries should be directed to 
(enquiries /at/ excursions-journal.org.uk) 
<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=JwXBDL3ivCFsx2Sz9sSSqywLLpKUbmyHaGLzTPfuf2ISRLiMWwXTCG0AYQBpAGwAdABvADoAZQBuAHEAdQBpAHIAaQBlAHMAQABlAHgAYwB1AHIAcwBpAG8AbgBzAC0AagBvAHUAcgBuAGEAbAAuAG8AcgBnAC4AdQBrAA..&URL=mailto%3aenquiries%40excursions-journal.org.uk>. 
To submit your work, register with us here 
<http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/index.php?journal=excursions&page=user&op=register>


Please could you circulate this call to the relevant staff and 
postgraduate students in your institution/department.

Our recently published  issue ‘Failure’ is now also available online 
here: 
http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/index.php?journal=excursions&page=index


You can access the CfP online here: 
http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/index.php?journal=excursions&page=pages&op=view&path[]=cfp


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