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Call for Papers: Anarchism and Disability
2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference: “Making Connections”
Loughborough University, U.K.
3-5 September 2012
Dear Colleagues,
This call for papers is for a Disability and Anarchism strand within the 2nd ASN conference. More details on the full conference can be found at http://anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/
We believe that disability as an axis of
oppression in capitalist society has been paid relatively little attention by
anarchists and other radical theorists (outside of the relatively small and
insular field of Disability Studies, which in the UK has largely been dominated
by Marxists and, more recently, post-structuralists), and that it is of
potentially vital importance for the anarchist movement
at this point in history, both because disabled people are at the sharp end of
the current attacks on freedom and equality by the ruling class in the UK, EU
and elsewhere, and because analyses of the politics of disability, and of wider
society from a disabled standpoint, have urgently needed fresh insights to
offer to revolutionary activists and theorists.
Issues that we would like to see
covered by this session include (but are not exclusive to):
- analyses of the centrality of wage-work and "productivity" in Western
society from anarchist and Disability Studies
perspectives
- inclusion and exclusion in education and how this intersects with anarchist and related movements for radical educational
alternatives
- the Disabled People's Movement as a liberation movement and its relevance to
contemporary anarchism
- possible anarchist responses to the current demonisation
of disabled people and dismantling of state welfare support for disabled people
by governments in the UK and elsewhere
- the intersections of drug prohibition, the prison industrial system, and
psychiatric and other medical-institutional systems, and radical critiques of
statist drug liberalisation
- examining the unexamined disablism in anarchist and
other "radical" spaces and activist practices, and how these could
benefit from greater inclusion of disabled people and consideration of their
particular experiences of oppression.
We initially envisage the format
of this session as two panels of relatively short paper presentations
(depending on space and time available and number of paper proposals), followed
by an open, non-hierarchically facilitated discussion. However, we would be open
to other suggestions of possible structures, particularly in regard to
increasing the accessibility of the session to a greater variety of
participants.
Abstracts of 250 words detailing your proposed presentation or discussion
should be submitted by the 31st of March 2012. For submissions and more
information please contact:
Steve Graby: [log in to unmask]
Anat Greenstein: [log in to unmask]
Jess Bradley: [log in to unmask]
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