CfP: "Technologies of Knowledge in the Global South" February 28, 2018
Technologies of Knowledge in the Global South
This
edited volume interrogates the technologies of knowledge and its impact
in structuring lives in the Global South as shaped through the common
experience of empire and imperialism, colonialism and post colonialism.
This volume enquires into technology as a mode of knowledge production
and also draws upon the use of technology in the colonial context where
it not only functioned as an element of imperial domination but was also
appropriated in the everyday lives of people. Additionally, explicit
engagement with technology in the form of census, surveys,
transportation, medicine and public health measures brought the colonial
population to face with massive state ventures as a mode of governance.
In equal measure, technology was also invoked in the production of
culture and historicizing, commemorating and preserving the past through
archaeological excavation, architectural preservation and the
maintenance of heritage sites.
The influence of technology, in its
myriad forms, is inescapable and scholars have argued over the nature
of its influence, oftentimes invoking it in relation to
colonialism/imperialism and its power, but also as an indicator of the
Global South’s encounter with modernity. Recognizing the location of
power as exercised through the production of knowledge, this volume is
not going to be a text on knowledge production or an exercise in
inquiring the category of “colonial knowledge.” We seek to move beyond
it to maintain that recognizing the indispensable role of technology in
shaping our past, requires that we reconceptualize our engagement with
the archive of history. Identifying the multiple sources of knowledge as
produced through technological intervention is an initial step to
recognizing the sites of power and the modes of dominance and
resistance.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Heritage sites, museums
- Archaeology
- Census, Maps, Surveys
- Towns, Cities, Urban Spaces
- Gender/Caste/Race politics
- Visual and Aural Media (photography, theater, cinema etc.)
- Medicine and Medical technology
- Small-scale local industries and businesses etc.
- Transportation
- Law, jurisprudence
- Radio, Internet, Mobile technology
- Vaccinations, Public health measures
- Media/communication
Submission Deadlines:
Authors
are invited to submit original and unpublished papers to our edited
volume on “Technologies of Knowledge.” Submitted papers may not have
appeared in or be under consideration for another journal, nor may they
be under review or submitted to another press during the review process.
Please note that accepted papers will likely be between 6000-8000
words.
Contact Info:
Dr. Aryendra Chakravartty (Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas)
Dr. Samiparna Samanta (O. P Jindal Global University, Jindal Global Law School, NCR of India)
Please send your abstracts to: knowledge.technology2018@gmail.com