CFP Etnofoor: Utopia
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached and below the latest Call for Papers from the Anthropological journal Etnofoor, on Utopia. STS contributions welcome! Deadline for abstracts is March 18.
All best,
Else
On behalf of the Editorial Board of Etnofoor
Else Vogel
Assistant Professor in Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
Call for Papers: Utopia
Fredric Jameson (2005) famously wrote that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. In the face of climate crisis, geopolitical upheaval, and growing social inequality, the sense that the world is indeed ending seems to grow each day, even amongst the most privileged. In the face of increasingly dystopian futures, Utopian thinking has made a striking comeback. Ambitious world-making projects can be found in blockchain technology, AI-inspired imaginaries of technological progression and automation, and large-scale reconfigurations of energy systems towards renewable fuels. Anthropologists not only critically analyse the promises of such techno-fixes (Prince and Neumark 2022), but have, in their own ways, also invigorated a ‘post-progress’ utopian politics; by looking for hope in the cracks of colonial, patriarchal and racist systems, and by exploring world making amid capitalist ruins (Bear et al. 2015; Bessire 2022; Tsing 2015). While some take ethnographic stock of the prefigurative politics of social movements or highlight the difficulty of brining progressive utopian ideals in practice (Hetherington 2020), others have suggested that anthropologists’ collaborative orientation to a not-yet ‘otherwise’ may contribute to enduring struggles against oppression and situated social and political healing (McTighe & Raschig 2019). Such examples show that engaging with the materialization of utopias, both as processes as well as concrete spatial arrangements (Harvey 2000), also offers a way to rethink the role of anthropology and anthropological critique.
We invite papers to engage with Utopia as an analytic for the exploration of world-making and world-breaking practices on different scales and in various contexts. Contributions may explore the role Utopian thinking plays in diverse cultural settings and communities, and detail how people work towards realizing Utopian ideals – from religious notions of the Promised Land to dreams of social justice– in practice. While Utopian imaginaries emerge in emancipatory social movements, they also animate (neo)colonial projects and fuel global and local conflict. Thinking with such diverse examples raises critical questions: Who defines the horizon of Utopian possibility? Who bears the costs of pursuing Utopian ideals? And what can these troubles teach us about how Utopian thinking figures in social and anthropological theory?
For this issue of Etnofoor we welcome papers addressing these or other questions. We invite contributions that analyse Utopia through ethnographic fieldwork or offer methodological, theoretical, or practical perspectives. Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words to editors@etnofoor.nl before Monday 18 March 2024. We also welcome book or literature reviews and creative contributions (such as photo essays or graphic narratives). The deadline for authors of accepted abstracts to submit their full paper is 1 June 2024.
[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of Etnofoor SI Utopia Call for Papers 2024.pdf]
EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
EASST-Eurograd
30 recent messages
- 26/07/2024 FW: Hiring: 3-year postdoctoral fellow on FemTech project
- 25/07/2024 CfP ECREA Communication History Workshop, CERN, Switzerland, 5-7 February 2025
- 25/07/2024 Call for Papers - International Workshop “Testing under crisis / Testing the crises”
- 18/07/2024 CfP: Technology and Language - philosophical, historical, socio-anthropological, linguistic dimensions
- 18/07/2024 Research Associate Opportunity in Social Science of Human-AI at Alan Turing Institute & University of Edinburgh - Closing on 7 August 2024
- 11/07/2024 Announcing Early Career Researcher Events at EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam
- 11/07/2024 17th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods (online)
- 11/07/2024 Llamado postdoctoral // Cuidado de suelos y agroecología
- 06/07/2024 Submission of item for EUROGRAD list
- 05/07/2024 JOB: 3 Professorships in Philosophy & Blockchain, Political Science & Blockchain, Sociology & Blockchain
- 03/07/2024 International Intelligence, Sustainability, and Innovation in Healthcare (ISIH 2024), Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 03/07/2024 Journal of Science Communication
- 03/07/2024 CfA: “En/Countering Tracking”, Computational Culture, Special Issue
- 03/07/2024 Funded PhD Scholarship at Liverpool (" Islamicate Scholars, Algorithms and the Making of the Contemporary World: A Decolonial Study of Mathematical, Scientific and Technological Practice in the Islamic Golden Age")
- 28/06/2024 TATuP 33/2 (2024): new publication on "Malevolent creativity and civil security" online
- 28/06/2024 Visiting research fellowships, Linköping University, urban and regional climate transition
- 28/06/2024 CETE-P: Postdoctoral Vacancy in environmental ethics
- 28/06/2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing (BAIQC 2024), Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 28/06/2024 Postdoc Position, four years, sociology of science/STS at Bielefeld University
- 26/06/2024 Offre de contrat doctoral - Le concept d'exposome comme instrument de politique de santé environnementale - LISIS
- 26/06/2024 Understanding the EU AI Act
- 26/06/2024 Senior Scientist (Postdoc) in STS for 4 years, University of Klagenfurt, Deadline: July 10, 2024
- 26/06/2024 Job advert PDRA more-than-human smart cities, London UK
- 26/06/2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Revolutions (AIR 2024) - Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 26/06/2024 Call for Papers, RESET journal - Digitalization of "Local" Politics
- 26/06/2024 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PhD position in Social Sciences (Equality Studies; Health and Society) at University College Dublin
- 26/06/2024 Invitation to Panel discussion on Responsible Innovation Communication, 4 July 6-8pm (hybrid)
- 17/06/2024 DEADLINE EXTENDED: 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024)
- 15/06/2024 Call for Papers: "Contesting Artificial Intelligence: Communicative Practices, Organizational Structures, and Enabling Technologies" (Frontiers Research Topic)
- 10/06/2024 Reminder - Routledge Handbook of the History of Medicine: Medicine from/at the Margins - Contributor expression of interest