Simposio Internacional Identificación, Identidad y Vigilancia en América Latina

Dando continuidade ao primeiro Simpósio Internacional Vigilância, segurança e controle social na América Latina, e às atividades da Rede de Estudos sobre Vigilância e Visibilidade na América Latina, fundada após o evento, na cidade de Curitiba, ocorrerá em março de 2010, na Universidade Autônoma do Estado do México, cidade de Toluca, o "Simposio Internacional Identificación, Identidad y Vigilancia en América Latina".

A chamada de trabalhos está aberta até 30 de outubro de 2009:

Call for Papers

International Symposium

“Identification, identity and surveillance in Latin America”

University of the State of Mexico

Faculty of Politics and social studies

Toluca, Estado de México, México

March 16^th, 17^th and 18^th 2010

Introduction

In modern societies, identification systems have been used as an important mechanism to govern, manage, classify and control populations; in other words, to surveil them. This has meant the employment of certain technologies (passports, national identity letters, RFID, among others), providing interconnected data base systems with information according to specific institutional protocols. In this way, we define identification as visibility and verification of specific details of people’s lives. Likewise, these identification systems have responded to various functions: security, migration control, goods and service administration, as well for territory, space and group access.

The historical, social and politic contexts shape the particular purposes to which each identification system responds. Large-scale surveillance systems to identify the population have been installed in Latin America after decades of colonial, military and single-party governments In addition they have been prompted by increasing multiculturalism in cities, Population growth, migration rates, the perceived rise in terrorism, public security and health risks, as well as the creation of public policies (to aid poverty and unemployment) and globalization.

These conditions have caused the harmonization and articulation of corporations, institutions, technologies and specific protocols for citizen identification in Latin American countries, , depending on each country or region’s particular situation, and its relationship with other regions worldwide. Nevertheless, the Latin American environment allows us to consider the construction of privacy, identities, forms of government and the possibility of resistance policies.

paper proposals

In line with this analytic framework, the University of the State of Mexico, Faculty of Politics and Social Studies, hereby invites scholars, analysts and activists in Latin America and worldwide, interested in identification and surveillance, in relation to such matters as cultural or ethnic identities, privacy and data protection, new identification technologies (biometrics, RFID, etc), public policies, security, communication, ethics, law, or modes of critique or resistance; to participate in the International Symposium “Identification, identity and surveillance in Latin America”, by sending a lecture proposal.

Please send an abstract, 300-500 words long, Arial 12, space line 1.5, to the following e-mail: surveillance.studies.mexico@gmail.com, before October 30^th 2009. Due to the nature of this event, the abstracts and papers are to be accepted in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Note: There is no registration fee for this event. All participants are expected to seek their own funding for travel and accommodation. A number of rooms will be reserved with reasonable rates in a nearby hotel. More details to follow.

Main subjects

1. Governmental and corporative policies of identification

2. New technologies for identification and surveillance.

3. Purposes of identification systems in Latin America.

4. Communication and information technologies.

5. Privacy and transparency.

6. Identification, identities and subjectivities.

7. Relationship between global and local, in identification systems.

8. Postcolonial logics and political regimes.

9. Identities, surveillance and resistence.

10. Identification, identity and surveillance in Latin America: new theories?

Important Dates

Call for Papers Publication: July 30^th 2009.

Abstract reception deadline: October 30^th 2009.

Accepted lectures list publication: December 15^th 2010.

Complete paper remittance deadline: February 15^th 2010.

Complete program publication: February 28th 2010.

Second Symposium on surveillance in Latin America: March 16^th, 17^th y 18^th 2010. University of the State of Mexico, Faculty of Politics and Social Studies. Toluca, México.

Organizing Committee

Nelson Arteaga Botello

Roberto J. Fuentes Rionda

Faculty of Politics and Social Studies

University of the State of Mexico

Rodrigo Firmito

Postgraduate Program in Urban Management

Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

Fernanda Bruno

Postgraduate School of Communication

Federal University of Río de Janeiro, Brasil

Marta Kanashiro

Further Studies Laboratory of Journalism and Knowledge, Technology and Market Group

University of the State of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brasil.

Danilo Doneda

De Campos Faculty of Law, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

André Lemos

Federal University of Bahia, Brasil

With the support of:

David Lyon

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

David Murakami Wood

Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, UK

Proposal reception, Information and Contact

surveillance.studies.mexico@gmail.com