Call for Papers -- /Review of Disability Studies: An International
Journal/ (www.rds.hawaii.edu <http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/>)
*Human Security, Social Cohesion and Disability*
Guest Editors: Gregor Wolbring, Program in Community Rehabilitation and
Disability Studies, Dept of Community Health Sciences, University of
Calgary;
Anita Ghai, Department of Psychology Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi;
Kirk Allison, Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public
Health, University of Minnesota;
Human security and social cohesion are two central requisites for the
medical and social well being of disabled people. Science and technology
(S&T) advances often seen as essential for disabled people also impact
on human security and on social cohesion. Human security according to
the Commission on Human Security is concerned with safeguarding and
expanding people's vital freedoms. It requires both shielding people
from acute threats and empowering people to take charge of their own
lives. The Commission identified economic security, food security,
health security, environmental security, personal security, community
security, political security, freedom from fear, and freedom from want
as primary concerns.
Social cohesion in very general terms means: All that which brings
people together (European New Towns Platform). In Canada the following
description is in use: "Social cohesion is the ongoing process of
developing a community of shared values, shared challenges and equal
opportunity within Canada, based on a sense of trust, hope and
reciprocity among all Canadians." (Jeannotte and Sharon, 2001). This has
also been articulated complementarily in terms of social capital which
has been defined among others as "features of social organization such
as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and
cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putnam 1995).
More about the concepts can be found in the below references:
· Gregor Wolbring (2006). Human Security and NBICS
http://www.innovationwatch.com/choiceisyours/choiceisyours.2006.12.30.htm
· Gregor Wolbring (2007). NBICS and Social Cohesion
http://www.innovationwatch.com/choiceisyours/choiceisyours-2007-01-15.htm
· Caroline Beauvais and Jane Jenson.(2002) /_Social Cohesion:
Updating the State of Research_/. Canadian Policy, Research Networks,
Canadian Heritage, Ottawa. http://www.cprn.com/doc.cfm?doc=167&l=en
· European New Towns Platform. (2005). "The Top 8 Specific
Challenges for Social Cohesion in New Towns."
http://www.newtowns.net/themes
· Definitions of Social Capital
http://www.analytictech.com/networks/definitions_of_social_capital.htm
· Social Captial Initiative, Working Paper 1, 1998,
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/EXTTSOCIALCAPITAL/0,,contentMDK:20194767~menuPK:418848~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:401015,00.html
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We are honored that the theme for an issue of /The Review of Disability
Studies: An International Journal /will be human security, social
cohesion and disability. This topic is chosen because the discourse
around human security and social cohesion is of central importance for
disability studies and for the well-being of persons with disabilities.
At the same time discourses in disability studies can crucially clarify
and test the discourses of human security and social cohesion.
Thus, we urge potential contributors, regardless of their fields of
training, to articulate their ideas about human security, social
cohesion and disability. We especially encourage contributors to envision:
· Future threats to human security and social cohesion including
threats linked to new and emerging sciences and technologies processes
and products and their impact on disabled people.
· How disability studies discourses have generated tools and will
continue to generate tools which can be used to minimize future threats
to social cohesion and human security.
· Other possible prevention strategies and fixes to possible
future threat to human security and social cohesion.
We encourage the submission of empirical case studies and theoretical
models and we especially encourage contributions which cover the topic
from a low income country background.
Potential contributors to this Special Issue might consider:
1. What is the "disability," the discrimination angle of human
security and social cohesion?
2. What is the body image angle of human security and social cohesion?
3. What is the importance of the disability studies angle on human
security and social cohesion for other marginalized groups, for
the marginalized majority of the world?
4. What are potential future threats to human security and social
cohesion and what would the impact be on disabled people?
5. What are the cultural angles of human security and social cohesion?
6. What is the role and potential of law?
7. What empirical evidence and theoretical models illuminate the
processes and effects?
8. What is the impact of emerging social concepts such as
transhumanism, which is?
9. What is the impact of new and emerging sciences and technologies?
10. What role does or could disability studies be playing in the
interaction between new and emerging sciences and technologies and
human security and social cohesion?
11. How do or do not the human security and social cohesion discourses
serve the needs of disabled people?
12. What are the connections between human security and violent conflict?
13. What are the relationships between development and poverty
reduction, human security, and the prevention of violent conflict?
14. What is the impact of natural disasters on those with disabilities
in terms of security and cohesion
15. How can social capital be discussed in context of disabled
people, human security and social cohesion?
Send via email 250-word abstracts, by *March 31^st , 2008* to Guest
Editors Gregor Wolbring [log in to unmask]
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editors. For those abstracts that are selected, we will request
completed articles of approximately 3000-5000 words two months after the
note of invitation to submit a full article was sent. *Note that an
invitation to submit an article based on an abstract does not guarantee
publication of that article* in /The Review of Disability Studies/.
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