Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Subject: CfP - Securitizing Materiality in Latin America@LASA 2018
Dear community,
especially Latin Americanists,
my colleague Francesca Pilo´ and I are inviting additional presenters for
our envisaged paper session (see description below) at next year´s Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Barcelona, May 23-26,
2018.
If this call sparks your interest, please send your abstract of no more
than 250 words to
Frank Müller, University of Amsterdam, [log in to unmask]
and
Francesca Pilo’, University of Amsterdam, [log in to unmask]
Call for Papers:
"Securitizing Materiality in Latin America: Agency – Affects – Alliances"
Discussant: Austin Zeiderman, London School of Economics and Political
Science
This session encourages papers that debate the complex political, economic
and social relationships between materiality and security in Latin
America. In the contemporary “post-neoliberal” era, with declining
national economies, retrenchment of already fragile welfare systems, and
raising authoritarian governments in the region, we observe a growing
sense of precariousness and fear of dis-protection, cutting across class
boundaries and spaces. As an effect, from gating residential communities,
via intensifying surveillance of public urban space to the protection of
critical infrastructures of resource extraction, security is becoming more
and more “productive” (Rigakos 2016) in fabricating social order. We wish
to understand how this productivity of security reshapes urban and rural
livelihoods and spaces. Therefore, we invite presenters to examine
the securitization of diverse (physical and digital) materialities -
architecture, rural and urban grids, natural environments – from three
interrelated vantage points: Firstly, we will engage with the ways diverse
actors (government officials, politicians, private enterprises, resident
organizations, etc.) build on/react to threats and insecurities. Assuming,
secondly, that materiality deserves attention as agent in its own right,
we suggest to conceive of affects (fear, disgust, empathy) as qualities
that connect materialities and securitization. Thirdly, we wish to discuss
how, through individual and collective socio-material agency, new (ad-hoc
or stable) alliances emerge.
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*Postdoctoral Researcher @ SECURCIT (security-assemblages.com)
Center for Urban Studies
Universiteit van Amsterdam
*Journal Editor @ crolar.org
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