CFP // 4S Open Panel Due FRIDAY // Decolonial, Colonial, and Indigenous Imaginaries in Games of Sea, Sky, and Land
Hello all! Abstracts of 250 words are due FRIDAY, May 26 for our 4S Open Panel: Decolonial, Colonial, and Indigenous Imaginaries in Games of Sea, Sky, and Land! Here’s the CFP as posted on the 4S site: While game studies has begun to acknowledge postcolonial and decolonial theory, the sociotechnical basis of games is rooted in colonial and imperial imaginaries. Trammell (2022) argues that game studies' fundamental theories of play are likewise racist and colonial. In-game conceptions of sea (kai), sky (lani), and land (ʻāina) seem subject to the same doctrine of discovery as reality; Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) is just one example of terra nullius exhibited in a cute resource management game. Sea, sky, and land are simply there to be occupied, mined, developed, and abandoned once the game - or the player - is done. These colonial concepts are embedded in the hegemony of play (Fron et al., 2007). As scholars from settler colonial societies that parallel this exploitation and the oppression of Hawaiian peoples, we seek to create a space where scholars can expand conversations about how the natural environment is imagined, represented, and envisioned in games, who and what can 'take space' in games, and what that means in our realities and to our futures. We encourage papers that investigate: Decolonial, colonial, and Indigenous sociotechnical imaginaries in games; their representation of and/or relationship with sea, sky, and land; how games imagine a better relationship with the natural world; implications of colonization in games; experiencing empathy toward nature and its gifts in games; effects of limitless natural resources and 'seasonless' farming. Other perspectives on postcolonialism, decolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, games, or the conference theme are also welcome. 4S will be happening in Honolulu, HI, USA, this November 8-11, 2023. This is a hybrid conference with the opportunity to present either in-person or online remotely. For more information/questions you can contact Nicole Winchester ( nicole.winchester@yorku.ca), Shelbey Walker (skwalker@yorku.ca), Nyle Sky Kauweloa (nsk@hawaii.edu), or Karanbir Jallo (jallo@yorku.ca). You can find the link to the panel <https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=31507> here, and the link to the submission site <https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&prid=1293777> here. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!
Aloha, I just wanted to give you a heads-up that the deadline for submitting abstracts (250 words) to the 4S Panel "Shaping Sustainable Socio-Technical Work Futures: Cultures, Practices and Imaginaries of Digital Professionals" is coming up this Friday. You’re very welcome to submit your work to this panel, which is being organised by Sarah Pink (Monash uni), Maria Engberg (Malmö uni), and myself. The conference will be taking place in Honolulu, USA, from November 8-11, 2023. Thanks for considering it! Panel description: Digital transformation is often said to fundamentally alter how we work, creating new possibilities for efficiency and flexibility. However, much of the research on this topic has failed to capture the perspectives of those at the forefront of this transformation, namely the digital professionals involved in creating, utilising and educating about digital, automated and robotic work tools and services. These influential actors forge expectations in the labour market of how such technologies (and future technologies that they enable us to imagine) will alter our lives and work. Exploring the cultures, practices and imaginaries in and around these professionals helps us navigate the shifting terrains of work and provides routes toward sustainable socio-technical work futures. This panel explores and contests how professionals working in the tech industries - ranging from software engineers to CEOs, project managers and creatives experience and anticipate digital transformations and how they engage with different stakeholders in work futures. The panel explores the social dynamics of when digital work technologies are anticipated, adopted and adapted to and how such practices relate to other dominant future-oriented narratives and discourses about the future of work. We welcome empirical, theoretical and conceptual papers - not the least from practitioners themselves to allow for a multilayered discussion. We are particularly interested in papers focusing on the 'quiet', and mundane ways technologies become part of quotidian routines in these professionals' lives and at work-dimensions that have slipped under the radar of scholarly attention addressing work futures. Keywords: Disciplines and the Social Organization of Science and Technology, Forms and Practices of Expertise, Information, Computing and Media Technology, Digital transformation, Future of work, Digital professionals, Tech industries, Sustainability Link to submission site: https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&pri... All the best, Martin Berg — Professor Martin Berg Department of Computer Science and Media Technology Malmö University https://mau.se/en/persons/martin.berg/
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