<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Liebe alle,<div><br></div><div>Im Rahmen der IGU Gender Commission conference “<a href="https://igugender.wixsite.com/igugender/feministandqueerspatialitiesconference2024">Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change</a>”, die von 21.-22. August 2024 in Dublin stattfindet, freuen wir uns über Einreichungen für unsere Session zu digitalen Geographien alltäglicher Gewalt. Zirkuliert den Call gerne weiter. Danke!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CfP</div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">Digital Geographies of Mundane Violence</b></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">This session is dedicated to a critical discussion of normalised and mundane violence that is (co-)produced, sustained, promoted, and/or enacted through digital technologies and spans entangled socio-material-technological spaces. Digital technologies are an intrinsic and entangled part of social, cultural, and political negotiations, discourses, and processes. Digital – and particularly digital feminist – geographers have long pointed out their potentially “oppressive and violent effects” (Kwan 2007: 22). More recently, a growing body of research from digital (feminist) geographies, media and communication studies, as well as studies of violence, have dealt with digital technologies’ roles in the (re-)production and normalisation of diverse forms of violence in everyday life. This emerging research on the “digital geographies of mundane violence”, is characterised by “a critical and reflective engagement with the dynamic and non-linear spatialities of mediated violence as it unfolds in multiple and specific entangled spaces as well as with the practices and processes that counter-act the emergence and escalation of violence” (Bork-Hüffer et al. 2023: 185). Research in this context has dealt, for example, with hate speech as well as right-wing violence in social media (Wiertz & Schopper 2022, Militz 2022), embodied (Brydolf-Horwitz 2022), domestic (Cuomo & Dolci 2022), sexualized and gendered (Datta 2020), and/or racist (Mott & Cockayne 2021) digital violence. Given the volatility, diversity, and mutability of digital technologies, the “digital geographies of mundane violence” are at once a rapidly evolving and changing field in need of more attention and research. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">We invite abstracts for papers that make theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological contributions to the study of the digital geographies of mundane violence. Possible topics may include but are not limited to: </p><ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 2.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Digital geographies of (mundane) sexualized, gendered, racist, (neo-)colonial, symbolic, silent, and other forms of violence, </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 2.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Critical methodologies and research methods studying the spatialities of digital geographies of mundane violence, </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 2.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Theoretical and conceptual approaches that attempt to grasp digital geographies of mundane violence, e.g., from perspectives of Black Studies, Black Geographies, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Code Studies, </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 2.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Research ethical reflections in the context of research on the digital geographies of violence, </li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Studies on counter-violence and/or counter-politics, resistance and/or resilience to violence. </li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><b>Please submit an abstract of a maximum of 300 words to Tabea Bork-Hüffer (<span style="color: rgb(4, 98, 193);">tabea.bork-hueffer@uibk.ac.at</span>) and Elisabeth Militz (<span style="color: rgb(4, 98, 193);">elisabeth.militz@uibk.ac.at</span>) until 10 January 2024.</b> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">References cited in the call: </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Brydolf-Horwitz R (2022): Embodied and Entangled: Slow Violence and Harm via Digital Technologies. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Bork-Hüffer, T, Mahlknecht B, Markl, A, Kaufmann K (2023): Digital Geographies of Mundane Violence: Outline of an Emerging Research Field and the Example of (Cyber-)Bullying in Young People’s Lives. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Cuomo D & Dolci N (2022): The Entanglements of the Law, Digital Technologies and Domestic Violence in Seattle. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Datta A (2020): The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered Time, Speed, and Violence in the Margins of India’s Urban Age. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Mott C & D Cockayne (2021): Understanding How Hatred Persists: Situating Digital Harassment in the Long History of White Supremacy. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Wiertz T & Schopper T (2022): Geographien von Wahlkampf, Medien und Gewalt: Extrem rechte Bewegungen aus assemblagetheoretischer Perspektive. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Williams S (2015): Digital Defense: Black Feminists Resist Violence With Hashtag Activism.<span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></p></div></body></html>