Disability and the Majority World: Towards a Global Disability Studies: The 1st annual international conference
FREE conference hosted by Critical Disability Studies @ Manchester Metropolitan University
7th – 8th July, 2011, Gaskell Lecture Theatre (GLT), Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 OJA, UK
Keynotes: to be announced shortly
This first international conference seeks to bring together academics, disability activists, practitioners, organisations, researchers and others from various fields, to discuss a range of key and emerging themes around the complex disability and global South debate. Specifically, the conference will provide a much needed inter-disciplinary, critical, supportive and open space to debate, question and challenge dominant knowledges, discourses and practices, while exploring alternatives.
We are now accepting abstracts for paper presentations, and welcome contributions around (not exclusively) the following broad areas. We particularly encourage contributions from Southern activists and researchers:
• Poverty and disability
• From North to South: whose discourse? whose strategies?
• The heterogeneity of disability
• Health and rehabilitation
• Development, globalisation and beyond
• Post/neocolonial spaces
• Researching disability across cultures
• Trans-disciplinarity
For all conference information, including registration please visit http://disabilityworld.wordpress.com/
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