Sexuality,
Security and Surveillance in Digital Spaces (CfA - session)
Prague,
September 26th – 28th, 2019
Networked
platforms have become fully integrated in almost every aspect of everyday life
in the digital age. In particular, notions of digital activism through digital
mobilization have become deeply intertwined in civil society groups, non-profit
and LGBTIQ+ organizations. These platforms are used, particularly, by
marginalized groups to make visible various human rights abuses and also create
safe spaces outside of, but in relation to the daily varied forms of
hetero/homonormativities. Conversely, state officials and moral entrepreneurs
are continuously stretching their communications to networked platforms in
order to voice their discontent with emerging voices against “traditional” and
nativist’s discourses. Their tactics involves state funded surveillance of
marginalized virtual communities and individual social media accounts.
Nonetheless, the nation-state is a heterogeneous actor and in this global
neoliberal times, the relationship between the nation-state and “sexual
dissidents” is increasingly becoming more complex. As such, this panel aims to
upend and make visible, the various forms of state regulation and surveillance
ranging from the commodification of sexual difference to the forms of queer
modes of being, relating and belonging that have emerged to resist, transform
and subvert such regulatory regimes, especially in non-western contexts
(middle-east, Africa, Asia, south and central America). While the focus of this
panel is on non-western contexts, we are also aware that the boundaries between
the west and the non-west is malleable and sometimes blurred as bodies migrate
or seek refuge in other nations, thereby creating a complex system of
transnational regulatory regimes and surveillance.
This panel
focuses on aspects of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) by
elucidating, analyzing and examining the blurred boundaries of safety and
security in digital spaces by incorporating analysis of opportunities and
challenges associated with sexuality, security and surveillance in digital
spaces. Each essay investigates different aspects of security and safety, and
how its complexities manifest in social media platforms. The essays will also
explore the construction of social, digital and physical borderlands through
candid and nuanced narratives that are both distinctively personal and
contextually diverse. We thereby, focus on non-western contexts in order to
contribute to the theoretical discussion concerning digital spaces and its
implications on civil societies in places where the local and global tend to
have uneasy tensions.
This
session will explore the role of sexuality, security and surveillance in
digital spaces in various scales, contexts, places and spaces.
We seek
submissions that critically investigate, but are not limited to:
- Paradoxes in the practice or discourses around sexuality, security and surveillance in digital spaces.
- The politics of sexuality, security and surveillance in digital spaces
- The boundary work and policing work around sexuality, security and surveillance in digital spaces
- The ways in which sexuality, security and surveillance is framed, produced and negotiated within social movements and grassroots (digital) activism groups.
- Bisexual and transgender identities and security and surveillance in digital spaces
- Intersections of race, gender, class, ability, sexuality, body and nation, and its relation to security and surveillance in digital spaces.
- Sexuality, security and surveillance in digital spaces and disability.
- Sexuality, security and surveillance in digital spaces and the diaspora.
- Transnational coalitional possibilities under surveillance and security
Please
submit abstracts (250 words maximum) to sexualitysurveillance@gmail.com by
April 10, 2019. Questions or comments about the session are also welcomed.
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