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Call for Abstracts/Proposals
for an interdisciplinary collection on Foucault and disability
Title: Foucault and the Government of Disability
Editors:
Shelley Tremain, Ph.D. (Genetic Counselling Project, Roeher Institute,
Canada)
Dan Goodley, Ph.D. (Disability Research Unit, Leeds University, UK)
This call seeks abstracts and proposals for papers to be included in an
edited interdisciplinary collection of essays on Foucault and
disability. The starting point for this collection is the observation
that writers in disability studies have not availed themselves of the
insights which the work of Michel Foucault offers them in their analyses
of modern forms of disablement. This neglect of the ways in which
Foucauldian analyses could enrich and expand the scope of theoretical
practices in the field seems surprising, given the huge circulation
which Foucault's work has enjoyed in the domains of feminist studies,
critical race theory, queer studies, and other oppositional discourses.
This neglect is especially surprising, furthermore, given that the birth
of modern perceptions of disease and the body (1973), the social
production of madness (1973) and technologies of normalization (1980)
were among the topics which Foucault closely inspected.
This edited collection should, however, begin to correct the absence of
Foucauldian analyses from the field. We aim to produce a collection of
writing by emerging and established writers, which demonstrates the
various uses of Foucault's work for disability studies, activism, and
policy. The book is intended for use in courses on disability studies,
cultural studies, philosophy and other disciplines in the humanities and
social sciences, but will also be of interest to service providers,
cultural workers, and policy makers. Graduate students and individuals
who have previously not had opportunities to publish their work are
especially encouraged to submit proposals. The following are among the
topics which papers to be included in the book might address:
-the usefulness of genealogy for disability studies,
-archaeological and genealogical excavations of medical, juridical, and
administrative discourses on impairment, disability and handicap,
-the governance and disciplining of the disabled body,
-the objectification and constitution of physical, cognitive and sensory
"impairments,"
-the social construction of incompetence
-disabled lives in normalising society,
-prevention, pre-natal screening, and the government of ‘risk,'
-naturalising discourses and the subject of impairment,
-rehabilitation, reconstruction, prostheses, and the production of
docile bodies.
Titles and abstracts/proposals for papers to be considered for inclusion
in Foucault and the Government of Disability should be sent to Shelley
Tremain at [log in to unmask] and Dan Goodley at
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Deadline for titles and proposals/abstracts: January 8, 2001. Notices
of intention to submit an abstract are appreciated before November 30,
2000. Abstracts should be 300 max.
Completed papers must be no longer than 7,500 words, and will be edited
for style, content, punctuation and grammar. We are currently
negotiating with an editor at University of Michigan Press to have the
collection published in its Disability and Society series.
For further information or to make enquiries about submitting abstracts
to this innovative collection, contact either Dr. Tremain or Dr. Goodley
at their respective email addresses given above.
Best Regards,
Shelley Tremain and Dan Goodley
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