<http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp>SDS
2010, 22nd Annual Conference Call for Proposals
THEME: DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
Dates: June 2-5, 2010
Host: Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Location: Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Submission Forms: All proposals must use the SDS
<http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp/app>CFP
submission form available at the 2010 SDS conference site
Proposal Deadline: Midnight EST, December 15, 2009
The board of the Society for Disability Studies
recognizes the unfortunate scheduling conflict of
this year's annual conference with that of the
Canadian Disability Studies Association. In
keeping with this year's theme of the
"Geo-Political Imagination," and in order to
encourage continuing productive exchange of
knowledge across our borders, both groups are
making all efforts to adopt innovative strategies
for connecting the events virtually through live
interactive video and special programming. Look
for an addendum to this CFP with the details of
these opportunities in the next few weeks.
DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
The development of global studies has
increasingly called for a cross-cultural and
comparative approach to questions of
marginalization, stigma, diaspora and
resettlement, labor and exploitation, climate
change, and the world-ranging production of
impairment and disability from violence, inhumane
treatment, crumbling infrastructure, and
environmental degradation. A significant amount
of scholarship also examines new resistance
cultures and the galvanization of global networks
as members of diverse disability communities try
to navigate productive collaborations across
newly wired cybernetic systems and claim the
possibilities offered by globalization. New
opportunities and new problems abound around
forging transnational communities, increased
mobility, health and charity tourism, the
implementation of universal rights, increased
transparency of states and organizations, better
community-based rehabilitation, and more varied work possibilities.
This years Society for Disability Studies
conference features the theme Disability in the
Geo-Political Imagination to spur ongoing efforts
in interdisciplinary analyses. Such a theme
arrives at a timely moment in the wake of the
signing of the United Nations Charter on the
Rights of People with Disabilities by leaders in
140 nations (including, most recently and
somewhat belatedly, the United States). As a
result of the emergence and ratification of this
convention, disability has become a more visible
topic within the public sphere. Nations, perhaps
including the United States, that previously
undervalued disabled populations now contend with
what it means to be truly inclusive. Likewise,
Disability-advocacy organizations now seek to
make further claims upon the state as a guarantor
of rights and liberties. This SDS conference
theme includes proactive responses and solutions
to the critique that disabled populations
particularly those which are disproportionately
poor and people of color are ill represented,
under-analyzed, and under-theorized, particularly
in the context of global studies. As the local
and global may be seen as intertwined and
haunting each other, so can questions of disability, race, class, and gender.
Disability studies explores the distance that
exists between popular representations of
disability as tragic embodiment, and politically
informed disability cultures that define
themselves against such devaluing views. Authors
of panel and paper proposals will ideally feature
new ways of conceptualizing people who experience
disability as social actors connected or
disconnected on a global scale. In particular,
the SDS Program Committee seeks entries from
those areas of inquiry that resist, revise, and
re-imagine contemporary understandings of human
differences and embodiment such as critical race
studies, feminist/womanist studies, class-based
analyses, queer studies, trans-gender studies,
and other critical perspectives linked to social justice initiatives.
While proposals for any topic are always welcome
at SDS, we offer a suggested theme each year.
This year’s theme encourages submissions that
attend to local conditions, including those in
our host city of Philadelphia, within a global
context and to cultures of empowerment and
resistance within the complexity of global exploitation and opportunities.
Questions about the application process or other
administrative matters may be directed to the SDS
Executive Office at <
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Overall questions can be directed to either of
the Program Committee Co-Chairs:
· David Mitchell
<<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> Temple University
· Devva Kasnitz
<<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]>
University of California, Berkeley
To read the full CFP, review application
guidelines, or to submit a proposal, visit:
<http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp>http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp
We look forward to your submissions!
Cell Phone: 510-206-5767
Devva Kasnitz, PhD
Anthropology
EMAIL: <[log in to unmask]>
Eureka Home Mailing Address:
1614 D St
Eureka, CA 95501
Voice: 707-443-1973
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