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Summer 2007 International Section:
The State of Disability in Israel/ Palestine
Guest Editors:
Liat Ben-Moshe, Ph.D. student,
Sociology, Disability Studies & Women's Studies,
Syracuse University
Sumi Colligan, Ph.D.,
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work,
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Note: For a version of this call for papers in Hebrew and Arabic, please contact the editors at the e-mail addresses below.
Israel/Palestine is a contested space with varying and conflicting perspectives, which affects notions of ability and normality. It provides a unique and interesting locale in which to examine questions of disability formation, activism, policies, laws, ideologies and representations. The significance of the locale cannot be overstated. Israel is a relatively new nation state with ancient but evolving traditions; its people have been both victims and victimizers; Israel/Palestine exists in a constant state of military alert and everyday violence; there are tensions between Palestinians and Jews, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews, and other groups; religious and secular philosophies often clash; and the penetration of global capital and privatization have widened the gap between rich and poor. As all these factors converge, dis/ability becomes an increasingly important site of struggle for both dominant and subjugated groups.
This international section of DSQ aspires to provide a varied account of research, personal narratives, descriptions, and analysis on the state of affairs of disability in Israel/Palestine to an English-reading public. Although the readership is international, and inquiries are welcome in Hebrew and English, papers must be submitted or translated into English.
Submissions are sought from authors of various disciplines, such as applied professions, humanities, social sciences, and law. However, papers should employ a Disability Studies perspective as the overarching theoretical frame (More information can be found on the DSQ Web site at http://www.dsq-sds.org/principles.html). Possible themes may include, but are not limited to, the following formulations in relation to Israel/Palestine:
* Colonialism, nationalism, citizenship and disability in Israel/ Palestine
* Intersections of ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexuality, gender and disability
* Militarism, terrorism and disability formation
* Disability policies, laws and regulations
* The welfare state
* Representations of disability in Israeli and Palestinian poetry, novels, films and other media
* Disability activism and forms of resistance
* The Holocaust and disabled subjects and images
* Employing disability to legitimate state ideologies
* Disabled veterans and hierarchies of disability
* Disability in relation to Judaism and Islam in Israel/ Palestine
* Impact of globalization on disability issues and disability identity
* Coalition-building between disability rights groups and other social justice movements
* Disability and kinship/family structures
* Reproductive rights, genetic testing and selective abortions
* Medicalization and disability
July 2006 abstract due
September 2006 acceptance sent to authors
January 2007 draft of full paper due
March 2007 final papers due
Mid April 2007 sent to print
June 2007 publication
Please send 500-word abstracts to both editors via e-mail by 7/1/06 at:
Liat Ben-Moshe [log in to unmask]
Sumi Colligan [log in to unmask]
Liat Ben-Moshe
Sociology & Disability Studies
302 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
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Beyond Compliance (BCCC)
http://bccc.syr.edu/ <http://bccc.syr.edu/>
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