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<b>The Somatechnics of Race<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b>Abstracts due June 30th</b></p>
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This special issue of <i><a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma" class="OWAAutoLink">Somatechnics</a></i> calls for contributions that critically examine and challenge the somatechnics of race. Somatechnics focuses on the role of bodies, technologies,
and power. Where and how does race figure in this nexus? Important contributions to the somatechnics of race include the landmark essay, ‘The somatechnics of race and whiteness’ (2009) from Joseph Pugliese and Susan Stryker. Here the authors outline a conceptual
approach to race and whiteness as ‘somatechnical practices’ (p. 4) vis-à-vis the work of Michel Foucault. Pugliese and Stryker argue somatechnics connects Foucault’s identification of the ‘anatamo-political’ exercise of power on individual bodies and biopower’s
exercise on the ‘mechanisms of life’ at the level of the population (2009, p. 3). That is, the racialisation of bodies as a somatechnics links the individual disciplinary role of racism and racial identification to the broader population and state functioning
of racial demographics and state violence. In another theoretical vein, Suvendrini Perera and Puglise (2011) have utilised Frantz Fanon’s experiential accounts of racism necessitating combat breathing (1970), which can be understood as a phenomenonological
account of the somatechnologies of race. Elaine Laforteza has extended the conceptualisation of the somatechnics of race and colonialism to include religious and secular dimensions (2015). Pugliese’s recent work situates the genealogies of racio-speciesism
within the ontological distinctions between the human and non-human (2020) with somatechnical applications. Studies on the somatechnologies of medicine (Hvidtfeldt et al., 2021), cinema (Keegan, Horak & Steinbock, 2018), and sport (Hokowhitu, 2021) have also
contributed to investigations of the different formations of the somatechnics of race.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Further applications of the somatechnics of race could consider ‘land technologies of terra nullius’ (Curley, 2021, p. 388) and their spatialisation and racialisation of First Nations. Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s instrumental conceptualisation of white possession
as foundational to racial supremacy and the negation of Indigenous sovereignties (2015) has continuing relevance to the somatechnologies of race and coloniality as well as Foucauldian understandings of biopower. How the somatechnologies of race are embedded
in infrastructural violence and the social categorisations (van der Tuin and Randell-Moon, 2019) of data and human services are also productive sites of inquiry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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What are the new and old forms of racialisation made possible by somatechnologies? Possible topics for this special issue can include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>coloniality, raciality, and settler colonisation<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>Indigenous existentialism (see Hokowhitu, 2009)<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>algorithmic technologies of race<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>infrastructural racism<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>organisational and institutional racism<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>sovereignties and racialisation<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>multimodalities and media of race<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>platform racism<o:p></o:p></p>
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-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>spatial technologies and geographies of race<o:p></o:p></p>
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Abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis until <b>June 30</b><sup><b>th</b></sup>. Full papers of 6,000-7,000w are due September 30<sup>th</sup>. Please send abstracts and all inquiries to Dr. Holly Randell-Moon at: <a href="mailto:hrandell-moon@csu.edu.au" style="color: blue;">hrandell-moon@csu.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u>References:<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Curley, A. (2021). Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources. <i>Environment and Planning D: Society and Space</i>, <i>39</i>(3), 387-404.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Fanon, F. (1970). <i>A Dying Colonialism</i>, trans. H. Chevalier. Ringwood: Pelican.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hokowhitu, B. (2009). Indigenous existentialism and the body. <i>Cultural Studies Review</i>, <i>15</i>(2).<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hokowhitu, B. (2021). Indigenous Materialisms and <i>Disciplinary Colonialism</i>. <i>Somatechnics</i>, <i>11</i>(2), 157-173.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hvidtfeldt, K., Nebeling Petersen, M., Møller, K. & Bruun Eriksen, C. (2021). Medicalised Masculinities–Somatechnical Interventions. <i>Somatechnics</i>, <i>11</i>(1), 1-9.<span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Keegan, C. M., Horak, L. & Steinbock, E. (2018). Cinematic/Trans*/Bodies (and Then, and to Come).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Somatechnics</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, <i>8</i>(1),
1-13.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Laforteza, E. (2015). <i>The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege</i>. Farnham: Ashgate.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). <i>The white possessive: property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty</i>. London: University of Minnesota Press.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Perera, S. & Pugliese, J. (2011). <span style="font-family: Times;">Introduction: Combat Breathing: State Violence and the Body in Question. <i>Somatechnics</i>, <i>1</i>(1), 1-14.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Pugliese, J. (2020). <i>Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence</i>. Durham: Duke University Press.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Pugliese, J. & Stryker, S. (2009). The somatechnics of race and whiteness. <i>Social Semiotics</i>, <i>19</i>(1), 1-8.<u><o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">van der Tuin, I. & Randell-Moon, H. (2019). The Somatechnics of Social</span><u><span lang="EN-US"> </span></u><span lang="EN-US">Categorizations. <i>Somatechnics</i>, <i>9</i>(2-3), v-xi.</span></p>
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