Call for Papers: Review of Disability Studies Special Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Review of Disability Studies (RDS) Special Issue:
Conversations with/across the Global South: Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities
The is an anonymous peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access, academic and international journal published by the . RDS is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies, with readers and authors from all over the world.
Submissions are being accepted in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. The overall RDS journal contains the following sections: Research and Essays, Topical Forums, Creative Works, Global Perspective on Disability Studies, Multi-Media Review, Notes from the Field, and Dissertation Abstracts. For more detailed information in regard to submissions to the RDS Special Issue, please visit the . If you have any questions or inquiries, please email: rdsj@hawaii.edu
Date for Submissions of Full Manuscripts: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Expected date of publication: January 2024
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- Ways of understanding post-colonial and decolonial concepts, theories, and praxis in critical disability studies and their limitations;
- Ways in which disability nomenclature manifests cultural, religious, and modernist configurations and the challenges that this poses for decolonizing ableist epistemologies;
- Ways of building intellectual and intertextual alliances across disability studies, crip theory, and decoloniality;
- Transnational approaches to disability justice across the Global North and South;
- Conceptualizations and approaches to disability and decolonial futurities in times of ecological crises and global calls for ecological transitions;
- Contestations, tensions, and implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for evolving disability laws in the Global South and North, and opportunities for co-learning;
- Methodological considerations for using arts-based and other creative and participatory methods as forms of decolonial struggles;
- Resistance against colonial, imperialist, gender, ethnicity, and disability oppressions developed by disabled children and youth, families, and communities in the Global South;
- Ways of building and anchoring local knowledges and decolonial leaderships with disabled women and girls in the Global South;
- Possibilities and problematics of disability futurities oriented by intergenerational justice.
Inquiries may be sent to rdsj@hawaii.edu and/or the following guest editors:
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- Xuan Thuy Nguyen, 杏吧原创 University
- email: XuanThuy.Nguyen@carleton.ca
- , St. Francis Xavier University
- email: caubrech@stfx.ca
- , Jawaharlal Nehru University
- email: NilikaM@gmail.com
- Xuan Thuy Nguyen, 杏吧原创 University
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