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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">CALL FOR PAPERS: “Space, Conflict & Technologies” </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">CONFERENCE: V STS ITALIA CONFERENCE </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">The call for paper for the 24</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "> track
of the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">V STS ITALIA CONFERENCE is officially open.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">DEADLINE:
February 15, 2014</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">Track 24: Space, Conflict & Technologies </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">Convenors: Simone Tosoni (Catholic University of Milan); Matteo Tarantino (Catholic University of Milan); Christine Leuenberger (Cornell University)</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">Description: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">Human geographers have long stressed the dynamic nature of space. More than a mere container of processes, space is always co-produced by those processes.
It is a “relational” space “folded” into social relations. Space possesses a heterogeneous nature, at the same time symbolic (“spatial representations”), pragmatic (“spatial practices”) and physical (“spatial materiality”). What’s more, the social production
of space is always an open process, only temporarily stabilizable.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">Sociotechnical objects such as spatial technologies (e.g. maps and GPS) or material arrangements (e.g. urban layouts) play a central role in stabilizing and
transforming spatial relations. Social actors mobilize those sociotechnical objects within socio-spatial controversies - that is, conflicts about the legitimate use, representation or materiality of a space. Within those conflicts, competing actors may (and
do) attempt to circulate spatial representations, regulate social practices or to modify the physicality of space through sociotechnical objects. This is most evident in urban contexts, where the broad range of users and institutions involved in its continuous
production entail a high potential friction. Yet this is also true at other scales, from households to nation-states.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">In this track we are interested in theoretical, empirical and methodological works about the mobilization of sociotechnical objects in socio-spatial controversies,
at all scales. Possible topics include:</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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a) Sur- and sous-veillance technologies, including sensors and data banks.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">b) Communication technologies in policing, managing and/or intervening.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">c) The use of architecture and infrastructures to regulate sociospatial dynamics.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">d) Space, technologies and inequalities.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">e) The production and representation of space and spatial hierarchies through maps, GIS and mapping</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">All submissions and presentations need to be in English.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED by February 15, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">AT: <u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><a href="http://www.stsitalia.org/?p=1434&lang=en" target="_blank" style="color: purple; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">http://www.stsitalia.org/?p=1434&lang=en</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); ">For any inquiries please contact Matteo Tarantino (<a href="mailto:matteo.tarantino@unicatt.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; ">matteo.tarantino@unicatt.it</a>)
or Simone Tosoni (<a href="mailto:simone.tosoni@unicatt.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; ">simone.tosoni@unicatt.it</a>).</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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