CALL FOR PAPERS
DISABILITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY
VOLUME 32 (8) 2011
We are pleased to announce that we have secured a special edition on Disability in the Global South with the prestigious Southern Journal, Third World Quarterly (TWQ), for publication in late 2011 (vol 32, no 8). TWQ is the leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies and for three decades has set the agenda on development discourses of the global debate. As the most influential academic journal covering the emerging worlds, TWQ is at the forefront of analysis and commentary on fundamental issues of global concern.
Disability in the global South is of central concern to the emerging worlds but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Disability studies was constructed as a field of knowledge without reference to the theorists, or the social experience, of the global South. There has been a one-way transfer of ideas and knowledge from the North to the South in this field. This special edition seeks to redress the processes of scholarly colonialism by drawing together a diverse set of understandings, theorizing and experiences. The purpose of the special edition is to situate disability within the Southern context and to support the work of Southern disabled scholars and activists seeking to decolonize Southern experiences, know ledges and absences in the field while simultaneously attempting to make a radical intervention into able-bodied (mainstream) development discourses, practices and politics.
The special edition therefore intends to feature the ecologies of knowledges that emerge from the embodied reality of living with impairment in the global South. The edition will also have a section dedicated to the experiences of local practitioners and activists working in the global South and those intervening in the international policy environment.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Gender
* · Aid and development
* · Sexuality
* · Colonialism and postcolonialism
* · Disability studies as a Northern /Western phenomenon
* · Local studies of disability
* · Role of CBR/ rehabilitation
* · Alternative discourses of disability
* · Academic dependency by Southern theorists on Northern/Western frameworks and literature
* · Role of anthropology in GS with disabled people
* · Southern Indigenous knowledges and practices of disability
* · WHO
* · Arms trade, landmines and the militarisation of North-South aid relations
* · War and conflict
* · Cultural contexts of disability
* · UNCRPD
Professor Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory (2007), has agreed to write an introductory piece for the edition.
Research papers, including theoretical discussions, are approximately 8,000 words in length including bibliography, tables and graphs.
Practice papers are expected to be around no more than 3,000 words.
PLEASE CLEARLY INDICATE WHETHER YOUR ABSTRACT RELATES TO A PRACTICE PAPER OR A THEORY/RESEARCH PAPER
The journal style guide for TWQ can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0143-6597&linktype=44.
Publication Timeline
In discussions with the editors of TWQ, we have been able to secure a publication date in late 2011 (vol 32, no 8). All papers, however, will be required to undergo a refereeing process and therefore, the timeline developed has been adjusted accordingly to ensure that authors are given enough time to make any required changes.
Abstract submissions: 30 April 2010
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2010
Full papers submitted: 30 September 2010
Reviewers' comments returned: 30 Jan 2011
Reviewed papers back for final publication: 30 March 2011
Copy edits returned to authors: 30 April 2011
Publication: Late 2011
Submission Details:
Please forward a 300 word abstract to both Helen Meekosha at [log in to unmask] and Karen Soldatic at [log in to unmask] by 30 April 2010. Please stipulate if the paper is either a practice or research piece.
Assoc. Professor Helen Meekosha
School of Social Sciences and International Studies
University of NSW
Sydney 2052
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +61 2 9385 1862
Fax: +61 2 9662 8991
UNSW CRICOS provider code number 00098G
School Website: http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au
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