Call for Papers 2 (1): CONTEMPORARY AGENCY AND ASSEMBLIES

2024-08-20

Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences is a biannual open access publication, edited by Grupo J. J. San Marcos (Peru), which aims to disseminate research in the field of humanities and education that questions critical topics about society. contemporary in order to contribute to its fair, symmetrical and dignified transformation. The magazine receives unpublished and original works of a scientific nature, especially scientific articles (qualitative and/or quantitative research, as well as conceptual reflections), book reviews and eventually interviews.

For the call for its second issue, the Magazine organizes a dossier on “Contemporary agencies and assemblages” with researchers Karla Villapudua (Autonomous University of Baja California) and Federico Nieto (The New Center for Research & Practice) as guest editors. This monograph seeks to contextualize, enhance and generate critical perspectives using the concepts of agency and assembly from Latin America and in response to the current planetary crisis triggered by the pandemic. Under this context, the interest in reviewing the theory of assemblages becomes increasingly a viable alternative in some fields of research, especially in political and social studies that aspire to renew or update their theoretical approaches. (De Landa, 2021). Taking this into account and starting from an increasingly tangible crack within our current historical horizon, how can we then reflect and respond taking as a starting point our limits as human agents? What type of mixtures, drifts and emancipations can we formalize using these limits as a starting point and not as a mere limitation? Within this delimitation that acts as a border of manipulation (Negarestani, 2013) or malleability of the circumstances given in said crisis that allows updating and giving a platform to non-hegemonic ways of life, technologies and thoughts that become between the human and the non-human. human, we propose the following thematic axes:

  • Assemblages between politics and aesthetics
  • Emancipations, lines of flight and assemblages between the human and the non-human
  • Technological sovereignty and technical assemblies from the South
  • History of assemblages: from theory to pandemic
  • Virtual policies and social movements: territorializations and deterritorializations before and after the pandemic

In this sense, these thematic axes allow us to map political and aesthetic assemblages whose metamorphoses place us on a referential plane outside the various devices of power, and allow us to affirm ourselves in daily and long-lasting lines of flight. Finally, this work configures in itself a concrete resistance when embarking on the prevailing task of thinking from the lines of flight.

The deadline for submitting contributions is June 17, 2023. Submissions must be made through the journal's OJS: http://revistas.jjsanmarcos.org/index.php/lajhed/about/submissions. Articles must use the APA citation format (seventh edition), must be unpublished and must not be sent simultaneously to another journal. The minimum length is 12 pages and the maximum 25; In both cases you must send a .docx or .doc file in letter format, 2.5 margins and 1.5 line spacing. In the case of reviews, the minimum length is 5 pages and the maximum is 10 with the same formal requirements as articles. For more detail you can review the guidelines for authors: http://revistas.jjsanmarcos.org/index.php/lajhed/author-guidelines. Any questions can be written to the director of the magazine, Jesús Ayala-Colqui: jesus.ayalacolqui@educaidscientific.com