[Air-L] Call for Chapters: Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence

[sahana udupa]

Dear all,



*Call for chapters*



*Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence*

Edited by Sahana Udupa, Michiel Baas and Peter Hervik



We are pleased to invite chapter contributions for the upcoming handbook on
“Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence” (contracted with Edward Elgar
Publishing, London). The handbook is designed as a comprehensive collection
of anthropological studies on AI, covering empirical, methodological,
theoretical and reflexive works emerging within the discipline of
anthropology. We welcome submissions that may include original ethnographic
fieldwork, conceptual or theoretical developments, methodological
discussion or a combination of these.



Authors are invited to send an extended abstract (1200 words) that engage
with any of the topics below:



   - Anthropology and the post-human: Genealogies and current debates
   - AI in the majority world
   - Critical studies of AI: Coloniality, race, gender, sexualities
   - Regulation, governance and politics
   - AI in everyday life (care work, health, finance, farming and other
   fields of application)
   - Art, creativity, and imagination
   - Ethnographies of AI developers, labs and developer spaces, coding
   practices
   - Geek/hacker communities, resistance and activism
   - Anthropological methods with, around or against AI
   - Ethics and AI
   - Disinformation and extreme speech
   - AI and the anthropocene (environment, cosmologies, multispecies
   anthropology)
   - Speculative musings - what do futures with or without AI look like?
   What is anthropology’s stake in defining the future course of AI?
   - AI, anthropology and human consciousness



Please email the abstracts with a brief bio to
ai4dignity at ethnologie.lmu.de before
20 March 2024.



Please feel free to contact us using the above email ID if you have any
questions.



Shortlisted abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters (6000 words,
including references). Full chapters are due by 31 October 2024. The
handbook will feature original contributions which are not under
consideration for publication elsewhere.



Best wishes

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Sahana Udupa | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich

PI, ERC Consolidator Grant, Contentious Speech on Small Platforms

Selected publications: https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa