{"id":4649,"date":"2019-01-07T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavits-2022.bemvindo\/vi-simposio-internacional-lavits-salvador-26_28-de-junho-2019\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:22:11","slug":"vi-simposio-internacional-lavits-salvador-26_28-de-junho-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavits.org\/en\/vi-simposio-internacional-lavits-salvador-26_28-de-junho-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"VI LAVITS International Symposium Salvador, June 26-28, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/b>
\n<\/b>ASYMMETRIES AND (IN) VISIBILITIES: SURVEILLANCE, GENDER AND RACE<\/b>
\n<\/b>VI \u00a0LAVITS International Symposium<\/b>
\n<\/b>Salvador, June 26-28, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Although the growing presence of surveillance systems in urban, informational and social spaces is a global phenomenon, its local inscriptions carry singularities that deserve to be studied and debated. It is known that in Latin America, and particularly in Brazil, surveillance and control technologies and practices are historically linked to colonial, state and economic structures that produce inequalities, segregation or even extermination of specific populations – indigenous and black especially. It is also known that the criminalization of poverty has been reproduced at different moments in Latin American and Brazilian history, placing territories, communities and poor populations as primary targets of violence and control by the State. At the same time, various forms of control and surveillance of bodies and lives of women are historically known.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the evidence of all these processes, Surveillance Studies have not yet given them due attention. This edition of LAVITS International Symposium intends to tackle this gap, taking into account both the historical legacies of the relationship between surveillance, gender and race, as well as its contemporary unfoldings. Current architectures, dynamics, and surveillance technologies continue to be defined by strong asymmetries: monitoring, controlling and punishing certain groups, while ensuring the safety, comfort, and mobility of others. Advances in biometrics, algorithmic surveillance, facial recognition systems, massive analysis of personal data for the production of behavioral profiles and microtargeting, among many other examples, have reinforced concerns about the reproduction of inequalities, prejudices and discriminations. Similar power structures are replicated in urban and rural spaces, at the border control, and in informational space.<\/span><\/p>\n

The production of asymmetries is associated to a complex regime of (in)visibilities, and this is also a topic of discussion. Devices that promise to better, farther, closer or truly see, produce norms, patterns, erasures and silencing. Surveillance and control apparatuses operate thus between the invisibility of subjugated bodies and subjects and the hypervisibility of the racialized, sexually marketed or hostile bodies of indigenous and black people, women and transsexuals. Such (in)visibility regimes are articulated with architectures of violence that make some individuals more suspicious, dangerous, undesirable, and even more killable than others. Understanding the legacies and new forms of these asymmetries and invisibilities, as well as exploring and analyzing their design in contemporary surveillance apparatuses, means not only to fill a gap in this field of knowledge, but also to open new horizons and practices of research and public debate on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

LAVITS (Latin American Network for Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies), founded in 2009, has members from at least 14 institutions from four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico) and one European country (Belgium). Holding international symposia in different Latin American countries (such as Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile), LAVITS returns to Brazil in 2019, to the city of Salvador (Bahia), appropriately situated for discussions on asymmetries and (in) visibilities. This year\u2019s symposium aims to promote an interdisciplinary area of \u200b\u200bdebate and exchange of knowledge on the relationship between surveillance technologies and the reproduction of asymmetries in Latin America, especially those related to socioeconomic, racial and gender discrimination. LAVITS invites researchers, artists and activists to submit abstracts, which may be linked, but not limited to, the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n

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