[csaa-forum] 2nd CFP: The Somatechnics of Infrastructure

[Randell-Moon, Holly]

Dear Colleagues,

I've received some excellent abstracts for this special issue. There is still time to submit.

Kind regards,
Holly.


The Somatechnics of Infrastructure

Abstracts accepted on a rolling basis until May 30, 2025


This special issue of Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies - Technologies - Power<https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma> seeks contributions that critically examine the relationship between bodies, power, and infrastructure. The issue understands infrastructure as inter-corporeal and enmeshed in human and more-than-human relationships. Infrastructures assemble social identities and projects of subjectification including racialisation, sexualisation, and nationalisation. Infrastructural violence and infrastructure citizenship are twinned to projects of population exclusion and inclusion. The maintenance and repair of infrastructure function also to enhance the socio- and geo-political networks infrastructure is attached to. Infrastructure histories elucidate the place- and world-making role of the support structures and systems that build mobility, security, and capitalism. In their fundamental role as support for the movement of people and things, infrastructures are inherently corporeal and capillary.

Focus can include but is not limited to:


  *   metabolic infrastructures
  *   settler colonial infrastructuring
  *   more-than-human infrastructuring
  *   environmental infrastructures
  *   racial infrastructures
  *   biopolitical infrastructures
  *   embodied infrastructural histories
  *   infrastructural aesthetics
  *   infrastructural media

Submission of manuscripts September 1, 2025.

Please send enquries to: somatechnicsjournal at gmail.com<mailto:somatechnicsjournal at gmail.com>







  Associate Professor Holly Randell-Moon

School of Indigenous Australian Studies

Faculty of Arts and Education

Charles Sturt University

Wiradyuri
Locked Bag 49
Dubbo NSW 2830
Australia

https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/holly-randell-moon






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Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies - Technology - Power<https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma>

  *   Randell-Moon, H. (2025). 'So, are you Indigenous?’ Settler responsibilities when teaching Indigenous Australian Studies. In B. Lythberg, C. Woods & S. Nemec (eds.), Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation: Stories from the Field<https://www.routledge.com/Settler-Responsibility-for-Decolonisation-Stories-from-the-Field/Lythberg-Woods-Nemec/p/book/9781032736631#:~:text=Drawing%20from%20experiences%20in%20the,reconcile%20their%20place%20in%20colonialism.>. Routledge.

  *
Randell-Moon, H. (2024). Seeing like a settler: place-making, settler heritage, and tourism in Dubbo, Australia. Tourism GeoGraphies, 26(6), 993–1011. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2380321

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