Hi,
Yes, it is surprising. Foucault spent some time here in Berkeley and
about three of my neighbors worked with him in philosophy
and anthropology. Please let me know if you need any information, etc.
Scott
> **PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS**
>
> 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
> [log in to unmask]
>
> 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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