Happy New Year to everyone!
Please accept our apologies if you have received this more than once.
We would like to draw to your attention the fact that the deadline for
this Call for Abstracts is only a week away - JANUARY 8, 2001.
Abstracts/proposals sent in advance of this date would be most
appreciated. We look forward to receiving your work!
Have a safe New Year's Eve and all the best for 2001,
Shelley Lynn Tremain and Daniel Goodley
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Call for Abstracts/Proposals
for an international collection on Foucault and
disability
Title: Foucault and the Government of Disability
Editors:
Shelley Tremain, Ph.D. (Genetic Counselling Project, Roeher Institute,
Canada)
Dan Goodley, Ph.D. (Disability Research Unit, Leeds University, England)
This call seeks abstracts and proposals for papers to be included in an
edited interdisciplinary collection of essays on Foucault and
disability. The starting point for this collection is the observation
that writers in disability studies have not availed themselves of the
insights which the work of Michel Foucault offers them in their analyses
of modern forms of disablement. This neglect of the ways in which
Foucauldian analyses could enrich and expand the scope of theoretical
practices in the field seems surprising, given the huge circulation
which Foucault's work has enjoyed in the domains of feminist studies,
postcolonial theory, queer studies, and other oppositional discourses.
It is especially surprising, furthermore, given that the birth
of modern perceptions of disease and the body (1973), the social
production of madness (1973) and technologies of normalization (1980)
were among the topics which Foucault closely inspected. This edited
collection should, however, begin to correct the absence of
Foucauldian analyses from the field.
We aim to produce a collection of writing by emerging and established
writers which demonstrates the various uses of Foucault's work for
disability studies, activism, and policy. The book is intended for use
in courses on disability studies, cultural studies, philosophy and other
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences; but it will also be
of interest to service providers, cultural workers, and policy makers.
Graduate students and individuals who have not had opportunities to
publish their work are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
The following are among the topics which papers to be included in the
book might address:
-the usefulness of genealogy for disability studies,
-archaeological and genealogical excavations of medical, juridical, and
administrative discourses on impairment, disability and handicap,
-the governance and disciplining of the disabled body,
-the objectivization and constitution of physical, cognitive and sensory
"impairments,"
-the social production of incompetence
-disabled lives in normalising society,
-prevention, pre-natal screening, and the government of ‘risk,'
-naturalising discourses and the subject of impairment,
-rehabilitation, reconstruction, prostheses, and the production of
docile bodies.
DEADLINE FOR TITLES AND ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS: JANUARY 8, 2001.
Abstracts should be 300 words max.
Titles and abstracts/proposals for papers to be considered for inclusion
in Foucault and the Government of Disability should be sent to Shelley
Tremain at [log in to unmask] and Dan Goodley at
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Completed papers will be edited for style, content, punctuation and
grammar. University of Michigan Press has expressed a strong interest
in publishing the collection.
For further information or to make enquiries about submitting abstracts
to this innovative collection, contact either Dr. Tremain or Dr. Goodley
at their respective email addresses given above.
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