Chamada de trabalhos- Dossiê "Imagens Urbanas em Contextos Africanos"

In this special section, we seek to reimagine imagetic and urban practices and representations of the African continent, articulating two main fields, the visual and the urban. Here we want to reunite research that discouses discourses, imaginaries, representations, figurations, and politics about different African cities. Here we understand "images" in a broad sense, encompassing not only production and reproduction technologies, like photography and film but also virtual and digital, visual arts, and museum expositions. The purpose is not only to extend the debate over the field of the visual in different cities from an anthropological perspective. In this special section, we want to punctuate the implications of the imagens in a diversity of urban processes in the continent, emphasizing the plasticity of its forms and contents, its changes, its ambivalence, and opacity; beyond the debates about gender, agency, power, and resistance.

To this extent, we are interested in research that discusses not only the modes of circulation and consumption of these images but also the actors, networks, social contexts, power relations, and the symbolic and epistemological orderings involved in the processes of "making things visible. From interdisciplinary dialogues, we call for works that critically reflect about the dynamics of production, circulation, consumption, and (re)appropriation of images in urban contexts. This means works that explore how these images and their premises have been accepted, subverted, or re-signified in various social processes and that problematize their uses and counter-uses in the present, and the future objectives they propose through their practical, political, aesthetic or sensorial dimensions. We also invite articles that promote critical dialogue with contemporary theoretical, methodological and epistemological developments that extend the debate on images and cities, especially within Anthropology of the Global South.