*Please circulate*
Guest Editors
Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy, Brunel University, UK
Brenda LeFrançois, Associate Professor, Memorial University
Jasna Russo, PhD Candidate, Brunel University, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: *November 3rd 2014*
The special issue *Mad Studies: Intersections with Disability Studies,
Social Work and ‘Mental Health’* aims for an interdisciplinary – or
‘in/disciplinary’ - collection of articles that will demonstrate the
relationship and contribution of Mad Studies to other related fields of
study.
Questions that we would in particularly like to explore include, but are
not limited to:
- How has the project of Mad Studies been taken up both in and outside
of Canada in the fields of disability studies, social work and/or ‘mental
health’? How is this emergent field evolving internationally?
- How are Mad bodies read within the fields of ‘mental health’,
disability studies and/or social work? How might Mad Studies open a space
to read Mad bodies differently and/or understand madness through the filter
of social justice principles and in particular with the centering of the
analyses of those who have been psychiatrized?
- What kind of knowledge production might lead to the development of
non-medical conceptualizations and alternative social responses to madness,
sanism, and psychiatrization, including resistance to current power
relationships within and outside of the mental health system?
- In what ways do Mad identities intersect with other socially
disadvantaged subjectivities in (re)producing hierarchies of dominance and
subordination?
- In what ways does using an intersectionality lens support the
unpacking of the role of sanism within the matrix of domination?
- What are the working realities of Mad-identified scholars
and advocates within both academic and non-academic settings?
*Intersectionalities* provides a forum for addressing issues of social
difference and power. In order to keep with the journal’s focus we in
particularly seek contributions which consider the intersections of age,
disability, class, poverty, gender and sexual identity, geographical
(dis)location, colonialism/imperialism, indigeneity, racialization,
ethnicity, citizenship. Please see the Journal policy at:
http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope
*Review process and the time line*
- Please submit abstracts by *November 3rd 2014* (not more than 500
words).
The guest editors of this special issue will review the
abstracts and notify you about the decision by *November 24th 2014*.
- The full manuscripts are due *March 30th 2015*.
*Submitting manuscripts*
- Contributions should be between 3000 and 7000 words.
- Submissions should follow the Journal’s editorial policies and
guidelines for submissions, which can be found at:
http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess
- Please note it is the responsibility of the submitting authors to
ensure that the articles are correctly edited for Canadian English and
within the journal’s format.
- At the top of your submission, please clearly state: “Special Issue:
Mad Studies: Intersections with Disability Studies, Social Work and ‘Mental
Health’
- All papers should be submitted online at
http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
We encourage contributions from authors of various regions and backgrounds
and will answer any further inquiries. Please direct inquiries to the guest
editors:
Peter Beresford, [log in to unmask]
Brenda LeFrançois, [log in to unmask]
Jasna Russo, [log in to unmask]
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Brenda A. LeFrançois, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair - PhD Studies
School of Social Work
Cross Appointed to the Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University of Newfoundland
`To write is to struggle and resist, to write is to become, to write is to
draw a map` Deleuze
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