Disability Research calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Race, Gender, and Disability

Abstracts Due: 6/1/13

Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013

Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it.

Topics include but not limited to:

Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color

Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature

News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality

Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)

Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color

Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies

Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

Call for Papers: Shaping Identity: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Medical Interventions for Individuals with Disabilities

Within the context of ongoing debates about medical and social models of disability, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law invites authors to submit new manuscripts that address the ethical and legal implications of interventions aimed at modifying the bodies of individuals with physical or mental impairments or disabilities.

Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to ethical and legal issues emerging from:

The use of bionic eyes

The use of cochlear implants

Prosthetics for everyday use or competitive sports

“Normalizing” surgery for individuals with Down Syndrome

Limb lengthening surgeries (e.g., for individuals with achondroplasia)

The use of growth hormones

The use of “neuroenhancement” drugs (e.g., to improve focus, memory, or other cognitive functioning)

Laws that influence decision making on behalf of disabled children (e.g., the Swedish law requiring parents to consult with member of the Deaf community prior to agreeing to cochlear implant surgery for their child)

Growth attenuation procedures

Familial or community pressure to modify or refuse modifications of one’s body

Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words. Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Authors should adhere to the Journal’s publication guidelines: http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html.

Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than June 1, 2013 to Dr. Yvette Pearson:
ypearson(at)odu(dot)edu

Please write “JPSL Disability” in the email subject line.

Accepted manuscripts will be published online in October 2013.

Call for Papers: Disability and the Gothic

The relationship between disability and the Gothic, as Martha Stoddard Holmes rightly observes, has been undertheorized by scholars of the genre. This is surprising, given the intensity with which the Gothic has historically explored and exploited the prejudices associated with human difference as manifested in physiological and mental deviations from a perceived norm. The proposed volume, which will be presented within the established International Gothic Series, published by Manchester University Press, will explore the uses and abuses of disability in Gothic fiction from the eighteenth century to the present, and will advance a genuinely international and multicultural analysis of this neglected aspect of Gothic stylistics. We particularly welcome papers that discuss Gothic textuality beyond the established European and American canon. Issues which might be explored by contributors could include (but are not limited to):

Abject bodies
Amputation   
Birth defects    
Body Integrity Disorder  
Body modification   
Branding and scarification 
Conjoined siblings  
Corrective surgery  
Degeneration   
Hermaphroditism     
Hospital culture    
Human vivisection
Leprosy
Mental illness
Phantom limbs
Pigmentation variations
Post-apocalyptic bodies
Prostheses
Queer bodies
Ritual disfigurement
Supernumerary limbs
Zoomorphism

Proposals of approximately 500 words should be sent to the editors by 30 September 2013:

William Hughes, Department of English, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN UK e-mail w.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk

Andrew Smith, School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RA UK e-mail andrew.smith1@sheffield.ac.uk

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences and Law: Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web

Behavioral Sciences and Law invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue on Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web. The Web has fundamentally changed the way we participate politically, socially and culturally within a complex network of dispersed communities. Although there is a substantial literature on the web and related law and public policy, fewer articles have examined the implications of the web for persons with disabilities and over the life course. Moreover, there is an ongoing debate in academic, legal, and policy circles about the reach and breadth of web accessibility technical standards and performance criteria, and their application under national laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, and international conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, there are evolving privacy and security considerations, copyright and ownership issues, and issues of free speech and censorship. To address these and other topics, this special issue aims to provide a resource for academics and researchers, legal and social advocates, online service providers, educators and employers, and policymakers interested in emerging legal and policy issues associated with the full and equal enjoyment of the web by persons with disabilities.

We invite conceptual, legal, and empirical papers on disability, law and policy and the web. Papers from multiple perspectives and novel as well as established disciplines are welcome, such as psychology, sociology, political science, education, business and management, healthcare, vocational rehabilitation, engineering, disability studies, cognitive science, computer science and design, human-computer interaction, and public policy and law.

Papers should be no longer than 30 pages, inclusive of all tables, figures and references. Shorter research notes and focused commentary (no longer than 15 pages in total) are welcome. References should be in American Psychological Association style, although a legally-oriented paper may use the Bluebook Uniform System of Citation. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013. Please send two electronic copies of the submission, one blinded for peer review, to John Petrila, J.D., LL.M., University of South Florida (jpetril1@health.usf.edu) or Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D., Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University (pblanck@syr.edu), the guest editor for this special issue.

Behavioral Sciences & the Law is a peer reviewed journal that provides current and comprehensive information from throughout the world on topics at the interaction of the law and the behavioral sciences. Appealing to academics, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, the journal balances theoretical, legal, and research writings to provide a broad perspective on pertinent topics.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Hypatia: New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies

August 15, 2013 submission deadline

Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

-Disability and Phenomenology

-Disability and epistemologies of ignorance

-Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality

-Disability, national identity, and nationalism

-Disability and/as “assemblage”

-Disability and the question of “the animal”

-Disability and posthumanism

-Disability, ethics, and politics

-Disability and globalization

-Access, accommodation, quality of life

-Bodies and borders

-Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness

-Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-The relationship between impairment and disability identity

-Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure

-Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex

-Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of
understandings of time and space

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature

-Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice

-The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability

-Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html

Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa.

When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
114 Greer Hall
Boone, NC 28608
office: (828) 262-6817
fax: (828) 262-6619

Devva Kasnitz, PhD

Research Associate, Association of Higher Education and Disability,
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