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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/
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SUMMARY:Beyond the New Media: Deep Time of Networks and Infrastructural Memory in Asia
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP DIRECTORS:\nXiao LiuAssistant Professor\, East Asian Studies\, McGill Universityauroliu@gmail.com \nShuang ShenAssociate Professor\, Comparative Literature Department & Asian Studies Department\, Pennsylvania State Universitysxs1075@psu.edu \nCALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS:\nIt is said that we are now living in a “network society\,” in which digital social media such as Twitter and Wechat\, or information and communication technologies from smart mobile phones to portable minicomputers\, form nodes and edges that knit everyone into interconnected networks. While digital and information technologies have indeed transformed the ways in which people interact with each other\, the fetish of the “new” media and information technologies in this understanding of the “network society” obscures historical forms of connectivity and the materiality of networks. A historical understanding of network would enable to us to gain a better understanding of the past and future of inter-Asia connections. \nAlthough Asia has never been unified\, there have been multifarious socio-political formations and cultural imaginaries aimed at bridging the gaps between disparate localities or nations-states in Asia. Whether we are talking about the spread of certain universalist philosophies and worldviews or the political alliances created in defiance against the domination of Superpowers\, inter-Asian connections have persisted throughout Asia’s historical passage from the era of empire and colonialism to the decades of nationalism and globalization. How can current discussions of “network society” come to terms with inter-Asian connectivity as histories of contact\, contest\, and negotiation in Asia? How do “new” media co-exist and intersect with networks and infrastructure that have facilitated the flows of goods\, people\, or ideas and allowed for their exchange over space and continuously reshaped geopolitical imaginations of Asia? \nThis panel foregrounds the deep time of network and adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to connectivity and infrastructure. As we probe into the conjunction between historical and present forms of connectivity as well as the intersection between “new” and “old” media in an inter-Asian context\, we intend to move beyond the narrow understanding of “media” as merely content carrier or the means for representing existing things. Rather\, we want to draw attention to the infrastructural aspect of the media in enabling the circulation of knowledge and things and producing new relations and connections. Asia is one of the fastest growing areas for new media and digital technology. Yet this fervor for the new media barely paints over an uneven space and discrepant histories of modernization and development. Only by viewing networks from historical and materialist perspectives\, and only through examining media or cultural networks in conjunction with networks of resource\, labor\, and commerce\, can we hope to gain a better understanding of contemporary Asia and inter-Asian connectivity in the era of globalization. \nWe invite a wide range of explorations into cultural and social networks and infrastructures that address the following questions: How do existing infrastructural networks\, from railway to historically evolved telecommunication networks\, to undersea cable systems\, indicate layers of historical powers and connectivity\, and thus\, the palimpsestic nature of networks? How does infrastructure register the presence and legacy of imperial and colonial power or symbolize the strategic alliance across sovereign\, linguistic\, ethnic\, and religious borders? How have different regions\, societies\, localities in Asia responded to the advent of the so-called “information age”? How do they make strategic uses of historical networks and cultural memories of connectivity to construct new information infrastructures and networks? How do local and regional flows of labor\, resources\, and knowledge suggest innovative forms of inter-Asian relationality that challenge historical or emergent geopolitical patterns\, such as the polarized divides of the Cold War? \nPotential topics include but are not limited to: \n\nComparison of the ways in which different regions and areas go through the process of “informationization” by making use of their existing infrastructures and networks\nThe overlapping of the purported “new” and “old” information technologies in specific or comparative Asian contexts\nThe repurposing of old infrastructure for new and emergent media networks\nTranslocal and regional media flows and media culture across Asia\nThe circulatory histories of the flow of resources\, labor and ideas underrepresented by national histories\nThe networks of knowledge production\, both ancient and contemporary that continuously reshape the imaginations of “Asia”\nThe infrastructural as institutional memories and records of human cost\, particularly those pertaining to inter-Asian connections\nOnline shopping media platforms in and across Asia such as Taobao and Amazon and logistical labor as part of everyday infrastructures that facilitate the smooth circulation of products and commodities
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/beyond-the-new-media-deep-time-of-networks-and-infrastructural-memory-in-asia/
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