Thematic Dossier: Performing arts in states of war: necropolitics and poetics of hope in Latin America

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this Thematic Dossier, Urdimento – Journal of Studies in Performing Arts – will receive articles until September 20, 2026. These articles must be included in Urdimento, v.3, n. 59, December 2026.

The Editorial Committee proposing this Thematic Dossier is composed of the following professors: Paulo Marcos Cardoso Maciel, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Coordenador – UFOP). Alejandra Marín, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colômbia. Alicia Del Campo, California State University, Long Beach, EUA. Arturo Díaz Sandoval, Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Teatral Rodolfo Usigli, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, México. Lola Proaño Gómez, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lorena Verzero, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paulo Marcos Cardoso Maciel, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brasil.

Dossier proposal:

The current times call us to reflect on the post-pandemic reconfigurations of scenes from life and art in Latin America, in which individualism and separation have been exacerbated, causing spatial-temporal and affective displacements and emptiness.

We invite the submission of academic papers that interpret social and scenic manifestations as intersections between necropolitics and poetics of hope. These papers should problematize recent events of global conflict and violence and their impacts on Latin America, based on theater studies.

We are interested in observing what is missing in academic discussions and asking to what extent it is possible to contribute to a situated ethos of the collective.

Suggestions for approaches:

  • Home theater and telematic theater;
  • Public and political theater;
  • Plays about migration;
  • Dissolution and transformations in production models;
  • The relationship between theater and social, cultural, economic, and political mobilizations in recent years (since 2022);
  • Festive and resistance theatricalities;
  • Scenes beyond theater; scenes of barbarism;
  • Scenes and counter-scenes of necropolitics and its globalization;
  • Performativity of public life;
  • Taking to the streets and political action in the face of hegemonic narratives;
  • Neocolonialism and the discarding of lives;
  • Dramaturgies and stagings of power;
  • The state of emergency as normality;
  • Political economy and speculation as staging.

In addition to articles, the dossier will include submissions in the following formats: reports, debates and dramaturgy.

All submitted articles are evaluated using a double-blind system (peer review); publication will occur after approval by two ad hoc reviewers.

To publish in Urdimento n.59, the interested party must first register as an author at the link: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/user/register

Then, the article must be submitted to the OJS platform at the URDIMENTO link by September 20, 2026: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento

Articles must be submitted in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors, at the link:

http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/about/submissions

 

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  • Public and political theater;
  • Plays about migration;
  • Dissolution and transformations in production models;
  • The relationship between theater and social, cultural, economic, and political mobilizations in recent years (since 2022);
  • Festive and resistance theatricalities;
  • Scenes beyond theater; scenes of barbarism;
  • Scenes and counter-scenes of necropolitics and its globalization;
  • Performativity of public life;
  • Taking to the streets and political action in the face of hegemonic narratives;
  • Neocolonialism and the discarding of lives;
  • Dramaturgies and stagings of power;
  • The state of emergency as normality;
  • Political economy and speculation as staging.

 

In addition to articles, the dossier will include submissions in the following formats: reports, debates and dramaturgy.

 

All submitted articles are evaluated using a double-blind system (peer review); publication will occur after approval by two ad hoc reviewers.