Cultural Stations of Blindness: CFP
Edited by David Bolt
This edited volume will explore blindness as a cultural construct with which we the contributors engage as part of our social existence and/or academic research.
Irrespective of eye conditions, or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we have all come to arrive. On the way to this conceptual point, which is in any case unlikely ever to be fixed, we have passed or visited many formative cultural stations.
In the terms of autocritical discourse analysis (a hybrid method that combines autoethnography and CDA), a cultural station might be a television series, a novel, an album, a play, an advertising campaign, an artistic movement, or thousands of other things, the salient factor being that it has been discovered in our past and has made a significant impact on our present understanding if not social identity.
In this edited volume, we apply autocritical discourse analysis to explore a selection of the cultural stations that have impacted on the various understandings of blindness at which we have arrived. Particular attention will be paid to the language, assumptions, and social implications of the cultural stations we choose to prioritise.
The 20 selected chapters will each have an extent of 5,000 words. Initial chapter proposals should be no more than 200 words and should indicate 2 cultural stations of blindness. Along with a short bio, proposals should be submitted to the editor ([log in to unmask]) on or before 1 June 2021. (Selected chapters will be due 1 April 2022.)
The full book proposal will be submitted to the Routledge Autocritical Disability Studies series.
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