Professor of Disability and Community Inclusion Sally Robinson (Flinders University, Australia) and Professor Karen Fisher (Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney) are inviting contributions to a forthcoming Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy.
Please see the call for chapters here: https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/social-policy-research-centre/news/call-chapters-elgar-handbook-disability-policy-0.
This handbook considers the impact on policy of understanding disability through a human rights framework. It argues that the current language, law and concepts about human rights are changing the way that policies are framed and implemented. It seeks to understand when policies are consistent with a rights approach; and how welfare, medical and economic approaches are incorporating a human rights understanding of disability. The Handbook aims to provide a thorough overview of both fundamental and new directions of knowledge on this policy topic. It will be aimed primarily at policy makers, researchers, professionals in relevant fields, disabled persons organisations and disability services as well as academic and postgraduate audiences.
Structure
The book has an introduction, conclusion and four parts. The introduction describes the diverse conceptual approaches to disability policy, which sometimes operate in conflict or to exclude others. It makes the argument for critiquing disability policy through the lens of human rights. Parts 1-4 focus on four complementary or competing approaches to policy: human rights, welfare, medical and economic. Each part includes a conceptual chapter and topical issues. The range of international authors contributing conceptual chapters for each section will consider policy process, outcomes and impact; global south/north context; contemporary issues including globalisation, climate change and technology. These are Professor Sophie Mitra (human rights), a/Prof Jennifer Smith-Merry (medical) and Dr Daniel Mont (economic).
Personal narratives from people with disability about their policy experiences will be included in each part in the form of short essays, photos and illustrations. These will be integrated into the more traditional chapters. These seek to make visible the effects of policy in the lives of people with disability.
It is anticipated that the Handbook will contain 25-30 chapters that, together, address the policy topics listed above. When considering which contributions to accept, a balance will be sought between adequately representing the four key policy topic areas, the inclusion of diverse authors, addressing a wide range of policy issues encountered by people with disability, and the conceptual and methodological range.
Invitation
Authors are invited to propose 8,000 word chapters that consider policy about the rights of people with disability from various disciplinary perspectives, including disability studies, sociology of disability, geographies, legal studies, health sciences (critical perspectives), science and technology studies, broader humanities and cultural studies and interdisciplinary approaches. We particularly welcome contributions from researchers whose research practices position people with disability at the centre of projects, working with them, and ensuring that their views are sought, understood and conveyed to a wider audience. Contributors to each part will be invited to participate in an online forum to present and discuss their work during the writing process.
If you are interested in contributing to this Handbook, please send a 300-word abstract together with a 100-word biography for each author by 17 October 2020. If the abstract is accepted (with revisions where necessary), the full paper will be required by 30 April 2021 for peer review and editing. Acceptance of the abstract at the proposal stage does not mean an automatic acceptance of the chapter that is eventually submitted, even after the review process.
Please ensure you view the full call for chapters at https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/social-policy-research-centre/news/call-chapters-elgar-handbook-disability-policy-0 before sending your abstract.
The abstract and biography should be sent in a joint email to both [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by 17 October 2020.
With best wishes
Sally Robinson and Karen Fisher
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