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EXCURSIONS JOURNAL 8:1
\nCall for Papers and Abstracts: \u2018Networks\u2019<\/h1>\n

Deadline for Symposium Abstracts: 31 July 2017
\nDeadline for Journal Articles: 31 October 2017\n<\/p>\n

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\u2018To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.\u2019 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018They have built tents across the campuses and lived there, both to show the impact indebtedness is having on their lives, to show that they need to move away from a university that is becoming more and more like a financial operation, more and more commercialised.\u2019 Sylvia Federici, Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018One thanksgiving, Danny spent hours handing out flowers to people on a busy street. It was like he was trying to jumpstart a zone of contact in the world.\u2019 Kathleen Steward, Ordinary Affects (2007)<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

The recent political turmoil, in both the US and European context, has made tangible the desire for dissolution of old networks of trade, communication and allies, and we find ourselves debating the formation of new structures, and their impact on the everyday as well as the political hierarchy. In the meantime, networks of resistance to the right have sprung up: the Women’s March on Washington found itself in solidarity with sister marches across the globe; people across Britain and the US wore safety pins to mark themselves as a resource for immigrants made newly vulnerable. Divided across the political spectrum, what these political happenings have in common is a belief in the plasticity of networks and the potential they have to create an alternative to the present.
\nEqually, developments in technology have enabled intimate surveillance of our everyday lives, increasing the potential for intrusion and violence, by both governments and corporations. Networks can be deeply conservative, restructuring academic and professional fields which are often rendered invisible in the process. Mechanisms of control, corporate or professional networks, and the norms\/practices that constitute them, can ingrain societal exclusion and privilege.
\nEnvironmental crises, war and migration demonstrate how seemingly disparate processes are deeply networked and how both social, natural and technical systems are mutually constitutive. This highlights the need to be aware of the networked complexity of the world, and the entanglement of human and nonhuman phenomenon, which is crucial to make sense of the world in which we exist.<\/p>\n

Excursions Journal are seeking abstracts of 250 \u2013 300 words for a symposium due to take place at the University of Sussex on 27 September 2017, and journal articles of 3000-5000 words. We are interested in receiving submissions from a range of disciplines that engage with instances, contemporary and historic, where the networks we have established matter. This could include, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n