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Call for papers
PANEL 29, RAI Anthropology and Photography conference, May 29-31, 2014,
London
Visibility of dissent: meanings and repercussions of urban activism through
digital photography and video
:: Deadline :: Jan 8, 2014 ::
[Short abstract]
In recent years, activists and advocates around the world have increasingly
used digital photography and video as a central part of their repertoires
of action. This panel seeks papers that reflect on the challenges this
exercise of self-representation poses for anthropological studies of such
movements.
[Long abstract]
The use of digital media among activists around the world has become
widespread. Their use of digital photography and video helps spread
demands, critiques, and campaigns to wider populations or even around the
world. In short, they help make visible their dissent. In doing so, social
movements and other groupings shape the representations they want to be
known about them. How does this practice affect anthropological renderings
of their processes? Are we able to disentangle the self-representation from
the issues, and their wider context? Or do we more easily follow their
agenda by even perhaps contributing to the effort of such representations?
This panel seeks to bring together anthropological studies of such groups
where this practice has itself proved to be a challenge for analysis. The
various approaches that can take place when studying activism may have
differing implications in this respect. We are particularly interested in
efforts to shape cities through creative protests and actions, such as
promoting the use of bicycles, stopping the demolition of historic
buildings, or defending green areas. Campaigns such as these entail a
vision of the future without deterritorialization and privatization
inclusive and not exclusive for all inhabitants of the cities where they
take place. With this in mind, activists design their messages to appeal to
wider populations. By focusing solely on the images, we seek to focus on
the content of efforts of self-representation rather than on their
distribution in social media. We also pose the question about how easily
these techniques can travel among other activist-led campaigns.
We encourage papers looking into similar situation across all regions.
Please submit your paper through the following link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2827
More information on the conference:
http://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/
Convenors: Raśl Acosta (ITESO University), Amilia Voulvouli (Fatih
University)
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