Call for papers for the 2027 dossier “Between bytes and narratives about gender equality: reflections on the uses of technologies and visual culture.”
Revista PerCursos– Faed/Udesc will accept for analysis, until September 6, 2026, articles, reviews, interviews, and Portuguese translations of unpublished articles related to the theme of the dossier “Between bytes and narratives about gender equality: reflections on the uses of technologies and visual culture”.
This dossier aims to bring together studies on gender perspectives and approaches in different technologies and visual culture, understanding and analyzing the vast field of information and communication technologies (ICTs): websites, social media, applications, games, tools, visual cultural goods, which produce digital and cultural narratives in relation to social groups. Regarding gender, it is observed that they imprint meanings and signifiers based on a ‘universal and dichotomous’ perspective, silencing or producing discourses about the female and feminist contribution in different historical times and spaces. In this way, analyzing this ‘digital universe’ allows for a deeper understanding of the analytical dimensions of the production of historical knowledge, from a critical perspective, in an interweaving of the expansion of media and technological discourses, at the interface of “deterritorialization or virtualization” (Lévy, 1996).
To problematize the uses of technologies as a field for disputes over narratives about gender relations leads to scrutinizing the stage of different scenarios and subjects who issue statements, not always of subversion, but often of denial of gender inequalities, of female bodies, of the know-how of social and cultural groups. This movement of ‘control’ of narratives and collective appropriation by certain groups (especially conservative and/or far-right groups) has been witnessed in Latin America and forges a panorama of persecution against feminists, LGBTQIAP+ groups, and other subaltern or marginalized social and cultural groups that fight for gender equality.
Proposing an analysis of videos, images, websites, YouTube channels, digital primers, and other productions in the technological universe, whether focusing on the dispute of narratives and didactic discussions, or on the analysis of visual culture, makes it possible to undertake efforts towards the formation of historical consciousness. It also allows for dialogues on 'political cyberactivism' and 'its uses by the far right,' with particular attention to gender relations in the Global South.
Therefore, this dossier aims to bring together studies that offer alternative narratives within the universe of technologies, both interdisciplinarily and intersectionally, examining media connections through the lens of gender issues, as a political field with dissenting voices, in opposition to hegemonic systems, allowing for reflection on technologies as part of political mobilization, intersecting with gender, sexuality, race, and class.
The dossier will be part of the 2027 edition and will be organized by professors Cristina Scheibe Wolff (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Jaqueline Aparecida Martins Zarbato (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul), Maristela Carneiro (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso), e Maria Noel Mera (Universidade de Córdoba - Argentina).
The rules for submission are available on the journal’s website:
https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/percursos/about/submissions
