We are pleased to invite papers for the following panel as part of the
Canadian Anthropology Society and Society for Applied Anthropology
co-sponsored conference on *contrapunteo* at Universidad de Oriente,
Santiago de Cuba, May 16-20, 2018.


*Digital Infrastructures, Practices, and Socialities beyond the State*

Panel organizers: Geoffrey Hobbis (CREDO and University of British Columbia
Okanagan) and Stephanie Hobbis (University of British Columbia Okanagan)


This panel looks at user experiences with digital technologies off
state-controlled grids. A well-known Cuban example is *El Paquete Semanal, *a
weekly package of media content distributed on USB flash drives, referred
to by Cuban intellectual Victor Folwer as an “Internet of the poor” (cited
in Dubinsky 2016, 158). Dubinsky (2016) locates a persisting Cuban spirit
of disobedience in this technological *contrapunteo*. Similarly, Larkin
(2008) shows how media piracy in Nigeria has developed parallel
infrastructures and economies to those subjected to (global) state control.
Building on the digital turn in ethnography (Pink et al. 2016) we seek
materially and technologically grounded contributions that explore these
and similar phenomena in diverse global contexts. Paper proposals may
relate to, but are not limited, to the following topics:

·        the offline circulation and mobility of digital media

·        how non-state and state-regulated digital infrastructures and
practices shape socialities and how they are subject to social interaction

·        the digitization of non-, or not exclusively, capitalist modes of
exchange (e.g. kin-based domestic and international remittance networks)

·        how informal digital infrastructures shape and are shaped by
spatial practices

·        the myriad expressions of choice in relation to technological
constraints created by state over- or undersight

If interested, please send a 150-word abstract with a brief bio by November
13, 2017 to Geoffrey Hobbis at [log in to unmask]


Further details about the conference can be found at: https://cascacuba.com/

-- 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO)
AMU-CNRS-EHESS

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