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From: Johan Söderberg <johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se>
Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:41 PM
Subject: [NetworkedLabour] CfP: Journal of Peer Production: Urbanism
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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 to 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 analyzing 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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