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Call for Papers:
Participatory Communication and the Struggle Over Human Rights
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Campus Francisco Negrão de Lima (Maracanã)
1-2 July 2019
Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2019
Please send your extended abstracts of 4 – 6 pages (max) to
[log in to unmask] Your abstract can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.
English call:
http://www.lcd.uerj.br/index.php/cpdhen/?fbclid=IwAR1qwOzESv5WzcyYm2ZYL4OfdiZJ2bRq-TfpPfMW4_70AKZ2ceEUQtP917U
Versão em Português:
http://www.lcd.uerj.br/index.php/cpdh/?fbclid=IwAR0tDq_KQpP11RTu8Kj0fkHbV4EcLEr3VtQkhLjt9MJuZWiN4FivFWbGj5s
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The international seminar "Participatory Communication and the Struggle
Over Human Rights" aims to bring together researchers, activists, and
institutions to discuss how the right to participatory communication can
extend and deepen the recognition of human rights.
Struggle Over Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified by the member
countries of the United Nations (UN) on December 10, 1948, including
Brazil. The document inspired legislation and international treaties in
defense of the fundamental rights and freedom, including the right to
freedom of speech. The Declaration, art. 19, highlight that “Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
After 70 years, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the concept
of human rights and its implementation is (still) challenged. This
raises questions about the nature of the challenges of human rights,
and, particularly, of the right to communication.? After all,
communication, especially (but not only) digital, is a key in the
democratic process. What are these challenges, in general, and in
relation to communication-related rights? How are the human rights
struggled over? What is the role of citizen participation in these
struggles themselves (e.g., through activism) and how is citizen
participation the object of these struggle? How are the struggles over
the right to communicate connected with (the affirmation of other)
fundamental human rights, such as those in relation to education,
health, and housing?
Participatory Communication
Brazil is particularly relevant to these debates. In 2018, Brazil also
has completed 30 years of the Federal Constitution (CF), most known as
Citizen Constitution. It was approved after decades of military
dictatorship in the country. Nowadays, the CF was changed more than 100
times, which removed political and social rights that had previously
been approved. The recent political changes in Brazil only threaten to
further increase the levels of violence, and racism … However, the Law
of access to information was approved in 2011, ensuring that any citizen
can request public information directly to public institutions. Do these
(relatively) new legal provisions contribute to broadening the right to
communicate and make it more inclusive and participatory?
But we do not want to focus exclusively on Brazil. Latin America, as a
whole, faces a critical situation, with, for instance, the murder of
social leaders in many of the Latin American countries. In Brazil, the
council Marielle Franco, a defender of human rights, was killed in 2018
and political violence is increasing, especially in rural areas. In
Colombia, the peace agreements between the government and the guerrilla
groups are ruptured and the conflicts are growing all around the
country. Venezuela faces a conflict about the legitimacy of its
leadership, putting the entire continent on alert. Central America
suffers critical situations due to the high levels of violence and the
migratory crisis, involving citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and
Nicaragua – who attempt to escape these high levels of violence in their
countries of origin – and the governments of the United States and Mexico.
Thus, in this seminar, we welcome proposals, that explore the following
issues (among other issues):
-Advances and challenges to the right to communicate and its
participatory dimensions;
-Participatory (communication) practices and interventions which extend
and deepen the recognition of other human rights, as the right to
education, health, and housing, etc.;
-Projects, practices, narratives that link communication, education,
health, and human rights.
Thus, we especially welcome proposals in the following topics:
1) Communication and Education:
This strand addresses research that are inserted in the interface of
communication and education, in a broad way, also beyond the media and
formal and school education. It investigates practices, processes,
narratives and communicative-educational products in their
socio-historical, political, economic context, also considering
subjective, artistic, ... nuances, and the relations between race,
class, and gender within these practices.
2) Communication and Human Rights:
This strand highlights the relation between communication – in its
media, products, and processes – and human rights in a variety of
aspects. It investigates communication as a human right, articulating
historic, political / economy, socio-cultural aspects at different
levels (local, regional, national, continental and global).
3) Dialogic/Participatory Communication and media activism:
This strand articulates all forms of communication aimed at promoting
democracy and social development. It is also concerned with
participatory forms of research in the universe of dialogic
communication. It discusses the trajectory of the main concepts that
surround the field.
We expect to have the participation of about 50 scholars and activists,
mainly from Brazil and Latin America, but the call for participation
will be not limited to them.
The seminar will feature oral presentations, a Ph.D. workshop and a
conversation wheel with participatory communication activists, in a
two-day event. The participants will be invited to submit the papers
presented during the pre-conference to the Dialogic Communication
Journal (UERJ).
The event is co-organized by the Participatory Communication Research
Section (PCR) of the International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR).
Master and Ph.D. students are invited to present extended abstracts (4-6
pages) about their research and receive feedback from established
researchers. The idea is provided resources to improve their research
process, as well to strengthen the field of participatory communication.
Timing:
Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2019
Notification on submitted abstracts: 3 June 2019
Article submission deadline to Dialogic Communication Journal (UERJ): 01
August 2019
Submission of an abstract for the seminar:
After filling out the registration form, and sending the payment as
instructed, please send your extended abstracts of 4 – 6 pages (max) to
[log in to unmask] You can present your abstract in English, Portuguese
and Spanish.
Location:
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Campus Francisco Negrão de
Lima (Maracanã), Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
– RJ – Cep 20550-900.
Dates:
1-2 July 2019
Duration:
9h – 18h
Participation and registration:
The event is open and to everyone. However, to present a paper and
receive a certificate, you will need to be registered, using this form:
https://forms.gle/DVkNyLNMTpR7UNB47, and you should have paid the
registration fee.
Registration fee:
Professors/professionals: 12 USD
Students: 7 USD
Payment registration fee:
• Paypal: [log in to unmask];
• TranferWise: transferwise.com/u/anan51;
• or during the seminar
Organisers:
Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho (EMERGE / PPGMC / UFF)
Ana Lúcia Nunes de Sousa (NUTES / UFRJ)
Luana Inocêncio (UFF)
Nico Carpentier (PCR-IAMCR and Charles University)
Marcelo Ernandez (LCD / UERJ)
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