Occupational Therapy calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation: What Sorts of People Should There Be?

Guest Editor

Gregor Wolbring, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Throughout history, people with non-normative abilities have been judged. Sometimes this judgment led to positive consequences, however for the most part these non-normative abilities were judged negatively and the carriers of such non-normative abilities experienced disabling treatment. This very judgment (ableism) and its disabling consequences is one of the main areas of scholarly work within the realm of disability studies. Eugenics, the practice of finding ways to better heritable abilities of humans, is one dynamic that influences the judgment of people’s abilities and the disabling consequences and vice versa.

What sorts of people should there be is a question that has been asked and answered in different ways throughout human history, is still a question asked and answered today and will be with us also for some time in the future.

Advances in science and technology will allow new judgments and actions linked to the sentiment around the question of what sorts of people there should be.

In partnership with the SSHRC-CURA-funded project “Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada” (eugenicsarchive.ca), the Editors of IJDCR would like to devote a special issue on this topic.

We invite potential contributors, regardless of fields of study (discipline), to submit 250-word abstracts that articulate the conceptual arguments and knowledge base to be covered in a critical analysis on various aspects from history to future of “What sorts of people should there be”.

Please submit abstracts to the Guest Editor via e-mail at gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca by 15 July, 2012

From selected abstracts, we will request full articles of 3000-5000 words (excluding figures and tables) of original research and scholarship on a range of topics to be submitted to the editor by 15 October 2012. Note that an invitation to submit an article does not guarantee its publication.

Every submitted article will be subject to blind peer review and recommendations arising.

As to possible areas linked to the theme the below is a sample list of possible topics

What sorts of people should be born
What sorts of people should live
What sorts of people should be citizens
What sorts of people should compete
What sorts of people….

We invite authors to investigate the history, contemporary use and potential future exhibition of the relationships between the core question “What sorts of people should there be” and such issues as:

disabled people and what it means to be ‘disabled’,
the community around them
practitioners, consumers and researchers linked to the disability discourse
community rehabilitation and the rehabilitation field in general
inclusive education and the education of disabled people in general
the future of education
employability of disabled people
citizenship of disabled people
global citizenship
body image of disabled people
medical and social health policies and their impact on disabled people
health care for disabled people
elderly people, youthism and ageism
disabled people in low income countries
laws and international conventions related to disabled people such as the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
the concept of personhood
concept of health and health care
the measure of disability adjusted life years and other measurements used to guide health care dollar allocation
quality of life assessment
history
future
science and technology governance
science and technology assessment
ethics
enhancement

For more information about the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR) please go to http://www.ijdcr.ca.

International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation

www.ijdcr.ca

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Occupational Therapy International: Global Partnerships: Promoting Participation and Health in Occupational Therapy

In March 2013, there will be a special issue of Occupational Therapy International on the process of developing and sustaining global partnerships and their outcomes in the areas of education, research or practice.

Scope
Health care scholars, practitioners and educators are invited to submit a manuscript on topics related to how occupational therapists develop, maintain, and sustain global partnerships and global partnership outcomes that promote participation and health.

Manuscripts are especially welcome in the following areas:

1. Research studies that examine how therapists develop, maintain, and sustain global partnerships and their outcomes
2. Literature reviews: Meta-analyses or meta-syntheses in a specific topic area related to global partnerships
3. Model program descriptions or case studies that describe the development and outcomes of global partnerships
4. Descriptions of innovative partnerships in progress

All manuscripts will be expected to:

Discuss the implications of the partnership for clinical practice, education and/or scholarship and the cross-cultural adaptations or implications of the partnership. Author guidelines can be found under the “For Contributors” section: http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/OTI

Submission The deadline for the receipt of Manuscripts is May 31, 2012 with anticipated publication in March 2013. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oti

Further information
Please contact the guest editors, Anne Marie Witchger Hansen, Ed.D, OTR/L (hansen@duq.edu); Jaime Phillip Muñoz, PhD, OTR/L (munoz@duq.edu), & Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, PhD (ysuarez@uic.edu). These editors will give initial feedback on manuscripts before the usual, double-blind review process