[JoPP-Public] CFP JoPP #11 CITY

Thu Nov 17 14:02:20 CET 2016

sent it to the Critical Management Studies mailing list.
best,
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2016-11-17 2:02 GMT+01:00 Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>:

> Hi all
>
> I will post the below to CITAMS, ACS, IC&S, Fibreculture.
> Can others please post to AIR, STS, Nettime, etc and let us know here.
>
> cheers
> Mathieu
>
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> <Apologies for multiple posts>
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> Call for Papers - Journal of Peer Production #11 CITY
> Editors: Penny Travlou, Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Panayotis Antoniadis
>
> ABSTRACTS DUE 31 JANUARY 2017
>
> One of the welfare state’s key jurisdictions was to tend to housing and
> public space in benevolent ways. However, under the neoliberal dogma,
> commodification and gentrification threaten both the right to housing and
> the right to the city. In recent years, cities have become increasingly
> militarized and surveyed, resembling battlegrounds where freedom and
> democracy are under attack. At the same time, recent economic, political,
> and social crises have activated many counter-forces of resistance and
> creative alternatives for the grassroots production of food, health
> services, housing, networking infrastructures, and more.
>
> The role of technology has been contradictory as well. On the one hand,
> the Internet has enabled some of the most remarkable peer production
> success stories at a global scale, such as Wikipedia and Free and Open
> Source Software, among many others. On the other hand, it has empowered
> huge corporations like Facebook and Google to fully observe and manipulate
> our everyday activities, and oppressive governments to censor and surveil
> their citizens.
>
> At the city scale, technology offers opportunities for self-organization,
> like wireless community networks and numerous bottom-up techno-social
> initiatives, but also animates the top-down narrative of the “smart city”
> and the commodification of the “sharing economy" as a service provided by
> globally active platforms such as Airbnb and Uber. In this situation, peer
> production in space emerges as a vital bottom-up practice reclaiming
> citizen participation, and inventing new forms of community.
>
> In this context, some core challenges arise:
> – If we choose not tο rely on global players to provide peer production
> support at a local scale, how could different areas of peer production in
> the city, digital and physical, interact and support each other?
> – What types of governance models can adequately support peer production
> in the city?
>
> To address those challenges one needs to take into consideration the
> following:
> – Lessons learned from the Internet and how they may be incorporated in
> the context-specific realities of the city.
> – Knowledge-transfer methodologies across different localities.
> – Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations (urban studies,
> media studies, sociology, architecture, cultural geography, informatics,
> etc.).
> – Possible collaborations and synergies between activists that fight for
> the “right to the city” and those that fight for the “right to the
> Internet”.
> -Knowedge/experience transfer between non-urban settings (i.e. intentional
> communities, ecocommunities, the Transition movement, etc.) and the urban
> movements.
> – Inquiry into research methods and methodologies to be developed and used
> for analysing ICT-mediated peer production in urban space.
>
> This special issue of JoPP aims to explore a wide variety of alternative
> and innovative peer practices, such as urban agriculture, food
> sustainability, the solidarity economy, right to the city movements,
> cooperative housing, community networks, P2P urbanism tactics, co-design
> practices and more, that are directly reflected in the production of urban
> space. We are particularly interested in novel combinations of theory,
> methodologies, and practices that can contribute to peer production in the
> city and enable new synergies between projects and communities.
>
> Topics may include, but are not limited to:
> – Urban commons and peer production
> – Case studies of innovative peer practices approached from different
> perspectives
> – Comparative case studies on patterns of commoning and think-global /
> act-local methodologies
> – The regional dimension: examples from the Americas, Europe, Asia,
> Africa, Australasia
> – Political issues of autonomy, hegemony, labour, gender, geopolitical and
> post-colonial perspectives
> – Alternative forms of education and learning tools for promoting
> self-organization and community
> – Innovative governance tools for peer production in the city
> – Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodological approaches
> – Urban studies and the right to the (hybrid) city
> – Open source urbanism/architecture
> – Recycling/upcycling vs buying: making, consuming or prosuming the city?
>
> Important dates
> Abstract submission: 31 January 2017
> Notification to authors: 15 February 2017
> Submission of full paper: 15 May 2017
> Reviews to authors: 15 July 2017
> Revised papers: 15 September 2017
> Signals due: 10 October 2017
> Issue release: October/November 2017
>
> Submission guidelines
> Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by January 31, 2017 and should be sent
> to <city at peerproduction.net>. All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed
> according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines. See
> http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/. Full papers and materials
> are due by May 15, 2017 for review. Peer reviewed papers should be around
> 8,000 words. We also welcome experimental, alternative contributions, like
> testimonies, interviews and artistic treatments, whose format will be
> discussed case by case with the editors.
>
> *This special issue was initiated during the Hybrid City III (Athens)
> conference and developed further during the IASC Urban Commons (Bologna)
> and Habitat III (Quito) conferences.*
>
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