[ecrea] CFP: Mediated recognition: Identity, justice and activism (ICA pre-conference)

Call for ICA 2019 Pre-Conference

Mediated Recognition: Identity, Justice and Activism


Event date: 24 May 2019, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Washington D.C., USA

Venue: Main Conference Hotel

Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2018 (300-500 words abstract)

Organizers: Olivier Driessens (University of Copenhagen) and Torgeir 
Uberg Nærland (University of Bergen)


Recognition plays a crucial role in cross-boundary identity formation of 
individuals and groups and it is a central feature in social struggles. 
Charles Taylor's (1994) politics of recognition explains recognition's 
role in multiculturalism and cultural diversity, whereas Axel Honneth 
(1995) stresses the need of mutual recognition for self-actualisation, 
while providing an important alternative for Marxist analyses of social 
struggle by stressing the role of respect and esteem instead of class 
conflict. Taylor and Honneth agree that liberal politics of equal rights 
are insufficient for a just society and that justice requires social 
solidarity that includes recognition of every individual's contribution 
to society (McBride 2013).
What their social theories overlook though is the role of media, 
technology and communication in crossing the boundaries between social 
and cultural groups, in the constitution and change of recognition and 
in the pursuit of social justice. Consequently, this pre-conference has 
two central aims: (1) to update social theories of recognition by 
acknowledging its mediated nature; (2) to advance post-disciplinary 
debates on the role of media, technology and communication in the 
politics of and struggles for recognition. As such, the pre-conference 
will contribute to a better understanding of processes of identity 
formation, social conflict, (mis)representation, social justice, 
media(ted) activism and politics. It will address these issues by 
bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars.

We welcome theoretical and/or empirical contributions on questions 
including:

a) mediated recognition: How does a social theory of mediated 
recognition look like? To what extent do media, technology and 
communication alter the conditions for recognition and social justice?
b) identity and representation: Building on important work on 
recognition and the media by Cottle (2007) and Maia (2014), further work 
on media as sites of struggle is necessary. How can individuals and 
groups gain agency in mediated recognition processes? In what ways can 
activist or community media influence the recognition of marginalised, 
minority or discriminated groups across boundaries? How does mediated 
recognition fuel or intersect with politics?

c) datafication of recognition: What are the consequences for 
individuals, groups and their social fields when esteem is increasingly 
metricised and datafied, such as in Uber ratings or the Chinese Social 
Credit? What do cross-national or -cultural comparative analyses teach 
us about the (dis)similarities of data-related recognition struggles?
d) social justice: How do recognition theories shed new light on 
questions of media- and data-related misrecognition, non-recognition or 
injustice? How are social movements responding to inequalities and 
(feelings of) injustice rooted in mediated and datafied misrecognition?
Responses to the contributions will be given by Tanja Thomas (University 
of Tuebingen), Peter Lunt (University of Leicester), Maia Rousiley 
(Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Tanja Dreher (University of New 
South Wales).

Please email a 300-500 words proposal to Torgeir Uberg Nærland 
((torgeir.narland /at/ uib.no)) by January 10, 2018.
Authors will be notified of their acceptance before January 31, 2018.

Please direct any questions to: Olivier Driessens ((olivier /at/ hum.ku.dk)) or 
Torgeir Uberg Nærland ((torgeir.narland /at/ uib.no))

The preconference is sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique 
Division and the Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest 
Group (represented by Anne Kaun and Guobin Yang).

The preconference is financially supported by University of Bergen and 
University of Copenhagen.



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