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SUMMARY:CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post-)colonial Present
DESCRIPTION:Call for papers. The deadline for submission is September 10\, 2024\nSince the nineteenth century\, an ever-more complex web of roads\, railways\, airports\, oil pipelines\, shipping lanes\, fibre-optic cables\, tunnels\, aqueducts\, gas networks\, and electrical systems sustains and supports modern life. Built above\, through and below the ground\, infrastructural systems constitute foundational sociotechnical assemblages of modern societies: a series of installations that shape both biological and social life. A number of scholars –working across several disciplines– have begun interrogating the aesthetic dimension of these infrastructural systems\, pointing to their ability to induce a “feeling of modernity”. \nA collaborative workshop organized by the Institute of Contemporary History at Nova University Lisbon and the University of Bologna\, and partially funded by INCA\, intends to focus on infrastructures as semiotic and aesthetic vehicles. It promotes a collective investigation of the aesthetic and affective dimension of global infrastructures\, emphasizing how it interacts with colonial projects\, capitalist ventures\, and cultural superstructures. Learn more about the workshop here. \nWe particularly welcome contributions focusing on questions such as: \n\nWhat ideological messages are embedded in different infrastructural systems from the nineteenth century to the present?\nHow can historical approaches help us rethink the relationship between global infrastructures\, imperialism and ideology?\nWhat is the affective dimension associated with different infrastructural materials from steel to glass\, plastics and concrete?\nWhat has been the impact of climate change and the ecological crisis on global infrastructures and their aesthetics?\nWhat aesthetic forms and future-looking imaginaries are embedded in contemporary infrastructures and digital platforms?\n\nPapers dealing with all these aspects are welcome\, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested scholars are invited to send a long abstract between 300 and 500 words and a short bio to policante@fcsh.unl.pt and/or to mattia.frapporti2@unibo.it by the 10th of September 2024. \nThe final workshop will take place on November 28th\, 2024\, at the Nova University of Lisbon. Financial support for travelling and accommodation may be available\, especially for independent scholars\, doctoral candidates\, and early-career researchers.
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/call-for-papers-global-infrastructures-aesthetic-power-and-affective-networks-in-the-post-colonial-present/
LOCATION:Nova University\, Lisbon\, Portugal
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SUMMARY:CALL FOR PAPERS for the V Forum of the International Sociological Association
DESCRIPTION:Call for papers. The deadline for submission is the 15th of October\, 2024\nThe INCA project team has organised a session to be held during the V Forum of the International Sociological Association\, to be celebrated in Rabat\, Morocco\, on 6-11 July 2025. \nThe session is organized by Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wroclaw) and Dora Fonseca (Colabor). The session description is as follows: \nInfrastructural Power of Gafam and Worker Power in the Platform Economy \nGAFAMs\, big tech platform companies such as Google (Alphabet)\, Amazon\, Facebook (Meta Platforms)\, Apple and Microsoft\, are pressuring national industrial relations systems everywhere. As infrastructural platforms\, these transnational companies provide essential infrastructures (both physical and digital)\, thus amassing great power. GAFAM operations are carried out by combining both direct investment and outsourcing and subcontracting GAFAM services. Outsourcing services allows GAFAM companies to indirectly influence industrial relations systems and mitigate the internal impact of the capital/labor conflict within their own business units by displacing these tensions to intermediary levels. It also allows GAFAM to circumvent national legal frameworks on labour standards\, in addition to the adoption of union-busting practices that disrespect the internationally recognized rights (by ILO) of freedom of association and collective bargaining. Labour conflicts have been on the rise in several GAFAMs’ sites\, bringing to the fore debates on the impacts of GAFAMs on national industrial relation systems\, and evince different strategies from industrial relations actors\, both traditional and new. Labour movements’ power resources and innovation capacity are being tested\, and different responses and outcomes might be expected according to the varieties of trade unionism at stake. By the same token\, industrial relation systems are expected to display distinctive levels of resilience in the face of GAFAMs challenges. \nWe invite papers which draw on social theory and industrial relations to discuss and illuminate the challenges posed by GAFAMs to national industrial relations systems all around the world. \nhttps://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19950.html \nAbstract submission can be found here: \nhttps://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfp.cgi \nFAQ is located under this link: \nhttps://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts \nKey Points for Submission \nFor submitting your abstract\, you should prepare: \nTitle \nKeywords – Up to four custom keywords. \nAuthor(s) – Presenting author and any co-authors. There is a limit of seven (7) authors. \nAbstract – Abstract text may not exceed 300 words and can be entered in either English\, French or Spanish.  Please review the languages accepted in the session you want to submit for. \nDuties and Deadlines \nAbstracts Submission Opens: August 5\, 2024 \nAbstracts Submission Closes: October 15\, 2024 – No deadline extensions. \nNotification of Acceptance: December 5\, 2024 \nRules for all presenters \nAll abstracts must be submitted in English\, French or Spanish. Please review the languages accepted in the session you want to submit. \nThere is a limit of seven (7) authors per abstract. \nAuthors and co-authors cannot present and chair in the same session. Please note that the session organizer and chair do not need to be the same person.
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/call-for-papers-for-the-v-forum-of-the-international-sociological-association/
LOCATION:Rabat\, Rabat\, Morocco
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