LaborTech Call for Nominations: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards
Shiv Issar
*With apologies for cross-posting*
We particularly encourage applications for the Graduate Student Paper Award below.
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Labor Tech Research Network (LaborTech) invites
submissions for our second annual Book and Graduate Student Paper Awards, and
first annual Social Justice Award.
*About Us*
LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of experts concerned
with the intersection of technology and labor. We aim to reframe conversations
about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social
justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism.
We also seek to foster an interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and
community-oriented space for discussion, collaboration, and empowerment. For a
deeper discussion of our mission, please see the 'About
Us' page on our website as well as examples of topics in our decade-long Speaker Series.
*Call for Nominations*
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more
equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing a call for
three awards -- Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These
will honor projects which:
- have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;
- advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and
- address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously
address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.
*Eligibility*: Works from all disciplines and methodologies are
eligible for nomination. Nominations are open to members and non-members of
LaborTech. We welcome self-nominations especially, but also nominations
from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the projects. We
encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer communities, and those
from the global south.
*Prizes*: Winners receive a small cash award and a certificate
(which we hope to expand further in years ahead, as we are still a growing
nonprofit organization :). In addition, we offer our infrastructural
supports at LaborTech to promote visibility of your projects: by
connecting with our 400+ expert members; by making a video of winners and
distributing it both in and outside of our network to enhance public attention
and exposure; and by creating a space and opportunity for sharing your work at
out end of year virtual celebration. Winners will be announced in
December.
*Deadline and Contact*: The deadline for submissions is July
1, 2023. Send questions to labortechres...@gmail.com.
See below for separate criteria and instructions for the various awards.
BOOK AND GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
*Submission Details*:
Please submit the following items in English to labortechres...@gmail.com:
1. An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form is
available for books)
2. The author's contact email address
3. A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and contribution
of the work
4. For Graduate Student Paper, please also include in the cover letter:
a) when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted
b) if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal
c) if co-authored with faculty/advisors/other PhDs, please include a
paragraph attesting to the student's dominant role in generating the paper
(such as working on its theoretical components, doing the research, and writing
it up). In addition, we ask that the cover letter is signed (digitally, or
otherwise) by all co-authors, so that they are aware of this submission.
*Book Award Criteria*:
- Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)
- Multiple authors accepted
- Published in the last three years (2021-23)
*Graduate Student Paper Award Criteria*:
- Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who have
graduated in 2023
- Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be accepted
with the above conditions in Submission Details
- Papers may be published within the last three years (2021-23) or unpublished
- Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced
SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD
*Submission details*:
- Fill out this online form, which includes a few short questions of
400-700 words each, regarding the significance and contribution of your
social justice activities
- Please submit all items in English. If you have a submission in another
language, contact us and we'll attempt to find a translator in our group.
*Criteria*:
- Those who are interfacing with technology in the course of their organizing,
or who are organizing against inequitable technologies, in the context of
labor, feminism, anti-racism, transnationalism struggles. This may
include:
- tech workers
- labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations
- feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists
- scholar-activists. For this, we are not looking for purely academic work (i.e., scholars who are studying activism), but rather those who are participating in activism themselves, or who are promoting collaborations between activists and scholars.
- people creating design alternatives for social justice, like engineers and designers
- Open to individuals, small groups, and if appropriate,
organizations
- Focus will be on a particular campaign or project that is done with the aim
of social justice regarding labor and/or technology. These projects may
be broad (such as educating the public on a social justice issue) or specific
(such as organizing a protest for higher wages). They may use a variety
of strategies (e.g., art, design, social media, marches and strikes, policy
interventions, etc.). We'd like to honor activists who, through these
projects, have developed novel approaches or who are pioneers in the fight for
more equitable relations of technology and/or labor.
Shiv Issar
Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Employee | Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
Student Board Member 2022-24 | Society for the Study of Social Problems
Project Coordinator | Society for Social Studies of Science
https://about.me/shiv.issar | Pronouns: he/his/him |