Zusammenfassung
- Was Call For Papers — CfC - "Democratization of the Senses"
- Wann to (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
- Wo Marburg — Deutschland
- URL https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb21/sportwissenschaft-motologie/arbeitsbereiche/bewpsych/internationale-tagungen/cfc-englisch.pdf
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Beschreibung
Call for Contributions
Democratization of the Senses – Senses of Democracy: Emancipation as Experience of Equality in Hierarchical Otherwise Sensorial Spaces
An International and Transdisciplinary Conference Organized by the Department of
Sports Science and Motologie and the Department of Studies in Culture and History
April 4 – 6, 2025 at the University of Marburg
“The existence of democracy presupposes that there is an ability of all, no matter who {…}. There is an ability shared by all. In this sense, politics can be said to be based on the distribution of the sensual (Jaques Ranciere 2016: 69).”
Questions and topics to be addressed include the following:
- How can micro-level hierarchical structures that are embedded in sensually motivated everyday behavior be described, analyzed, and thus disclosed?
- How can the dominance of certain senses be understood against the backdrop of whitepatriarchal and ableist hegemony? How can a rational understanding of democracy be identified in terms of its practical embodiment?
- What other regimes (Schäfer 2006; Atkinson 2012) aside from the visual and the socioacoustic are there and where do they manifest themselves?
- How (i.e., by means of what sensorimotor/empirical/practice-theoretical methods) can the conditions of experiencing (non-)democratic situations be understood?
- What is the relationship of somatically embedded affects like shame, discomfort, fear, joy, aggression, etc. to (in-)equality and democracy?
- How could the democratization of the senses be made tangible, perceptible, and audible through aesthetical-performative practices? What is the relevance of auditory, proprioceptive, vestibular, and haptic-kinesthetic perception for the experience of equality? o How can the role of the senses themselves in terms of knowledge production be emphasized in the analysis of (in-)equality?
- How can concepts from fields like feminist theory, postcolonial studies, disability studies, queer phenomenology, science and technology studies, Indigenous studies, or soma studies be employed in the analysis of power (in the widest sense) to achieve a “democratization of the senses – senses of democracy”?
- How can the relationship among space, the senses, and equality be conceived?
- How can puplic spaces be sensorially democratized in terms of their practical and material dimensions with reference to Lefebvre’s (2005, 2016) relational theory of space?
- How can everyday personal space (Goffman 1974) be described in multi-sensual terms, distinguished from other spaces, defended, and protected? What situational and social rules or cultural constructions define the somatically sensed subjective space?
- What appropriative qualities (Lefebvre 2016, 204) are needed to (re-)claim a visually homogenized space?
- What «both ordered and ordering forces» (Atkinson 2011), historic and current, can be identified in a specific setting - like sounds in a city - to illustrate hierarchies of the sensuous?
- What forms of resistant subjectivations are lived throughout sensual-performative practices? How do such somatic experiences materialize themselves?
- What role does the recourse to (one’s own) sensorial-sensual body experience and embodied memory play in democratic processes?
- How can those aspects of democratic negotiations between two actors be identified that transcend linguistic interaction?
- How can the concept of democratization of the senses contribute to the discourse on an “intensification of democracy” (Mouffe 2007)? o What is the relevance of (invasive and non-invasive) digital tools for the formation for a collective sensorium? What for equality?
- How are algorithms involved in the production of meaning and the senses? How do they contribute to the orchestration and hierarchization of sensoria and what is their impact on a holistic understanding of democracy?
- How are divisions of the sensual that may pose a threat to democracy configured by social media? How do algorithms become a part of the lived body and the organism?
- How can the scope of protection of more-than-human actors be defined in bodily and somatic-affective terms? How can the sensorium’s democratic expansion be promoted?
- What essentialist assumptions concerning the coexistence of humans and more-thanhumans must be overcome to allow for a concept of sensual plurality?
The conference format seeks to deconstruct dominant visual structures. We explicitly ask for multi-sensorial contributions like audio walks, sound installations and interjections, collective walks, and conversations. Lecture performances are equally welcome as sensorimotor and perception-oriented field trips, both with and without experiences of touch, considering and negotiating sensual-affective boundaries. To experiment with sensual didactics and irritate the fond habit of following the order of “eyes-seeing-thinking”, we discourage the classical lecture format and the showing of visual material in favor of otherwise-sensorial approaches.
Please submit abstracts of maximal two pages or an audio format alike by Sept. 15th, 2024 to wuttig[ at ]uni-marburg.de and ellen.thuma[ at ]uni-marburg.de
We explicitly encourage the participation of disabled (young) scientists. Feel free to inform us about your specific requirements for low-barrier attendance – we will do our best to provide solutions.
Conference languages are German and English.
Organizing team: Prof. Dr. Bettina Wuttig, Dr. Antje van Elsbergen, Ellen Sophie Thuma, M.A., Julieta Jacobi, M.A.
Conference location: Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Schlosspark 1, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund
