Call for Individual Paper Proposals
Invasions and Inventions: Latin America Confronts the 21st Century
Society for Latin American Studies Conference at the University of
Leeds, UK
Thursday 26 to Friday 27 March 2009
PAPER PROPOSALS
Proposals for papers are now invited for submission to the open panels.
Paper abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to the
relevant convenors by email. Please use the proposal form. The deadline
for individual paper proposals is Wednesday 31 December 2008.
http://www.slas.org.uk/events.htm#anConf
Panels will be allocated 2 x 90 minute slots and no more than 6 speakers
and a convenor. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by
discussion. Time slots will be allocated according the logic of the
topics, to avoid overlapping themes.
PAPER PROPOSALS ARE INVITED FOR PANEL 40.
Disability in Latin America: paradigms, theories, concepts and practices
Convenor: Beatriz Miranda & Prof. Mark Priestley
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Abstract:
Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that
addresses disability as a social, cultural and human rights issues. Its
methods support the full participation and equality of disabled people
in society. Its models and theories (e.g. social and rights-based models
of disability) construct the situation of disabled people as a social
problem, with social causes.
The panel will allow established scholars and young researchers from
different disciplines to share and contest the theoretical, conceptual,
cultural and political developments that are shaping new approaches to
disability policy and research in Latin America. A key question here is
to ask which models of disability influence thinking and practice in
different cultural and political contexts. What are the dominant
discourses of disability and where do they come from? For example, how
do Western/European/Anglo-centric cultural histories affect the way
disabled people are constructed and treated in Latin American societies?
Colonial Western influences might include religious (Christian), secular
(rational individualism) and scientific (biomedical) models of
disability for example. To what extent have European discourses
influenced understandings of disability in Latin America? Conversely,
what traditional discourses of disability exist in indigenous Andean
cultures? To what extent does the emergence of new disabled people's
movements represent postcolonial struggles? Etc.
The panel will also question the translation of different models into
practice. For example: how do different models of disability influence
different interventions in support for disabled people's full inclusion
in society? Which models are being used by different agencies and what
effect do they have on outcomes for disabled people? To what extent do
non-governmental organisations use biomedical, social, cultural or human
rights models in their disability and development work? How do disabled
activists use different models of disability to support their political
campaigns and claims? Which models of disability are influencing policy
makers and legislators in Latin America? Which models of disability are
needed in university research and teaching programmes to promote the
full participation and equality of disabled people in Latin American
Societies?
Mark Priestley
Professor of Disability Policy
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
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