Urban Images in African Contexts
Call for Paper : Cadernos de Campo.
Deadline: November 30, 2022.
In this special section, we seek to reimagine imagetic and urban practices and representations of the African continent, articulating two main fields, the visual and the urban. Here we want to reunite research that discouses discourses, imaginaries, representations, figurations, and politics about different African cities. Here we understand “images” in a broad sense, encompassing not only production and reproduction technologies, like photography and film but also virtual and digital, visual arts, and museum expositions. The purpose is not only to extend the debate over the field of the visual in different cities from an anthropological perspective. In this special section, we want to punctuate the implications of the imagens in a diversity of urban processes in the continent, emphasizing the plasticity of its forms and contents, its changes, its ambivalence, and opacity; beyond the debates about gender, agency, power, and resistance. […]
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RAFID (21 novembre 2022). Urban Images in African Contexts. RAFID. Consulté le 15 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/t9cs