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Special issue of Disability and the Global South: Intersecting Indigeneity, Colonisation and Disability Guest Editors: Karen Soldatic (The Critical Institute) and John Gilroy (University of Sydney) Deadline for abstracts: 1st September 2016 There is growing global recognition of the role of disability in shaping the lives of Indigenous peoples and the significance of having an Indigenous cultural… Continue reading →

Children’s literature, Lois Keith argues, has long tended to use disability and illness as metaphors, as “devices to bring the character through a period of trial and desolation into the bright light of resolution and a happy ending” (2001, 194). Where they were depicted at all, disabled and ill characters have mainly been described in terms… Continue reading →

Disability & Society, ‘Learning from the Past: Building the Future’ Deadline: 31st August 2016 Special Issue Call for Papers It has been more than 30 years since Disability & Society first began publishing. The journal now provides a world-leading focus for debate about such issues as human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices against a background of… Continue reading →

Critical disability studies has been a continually growing field of academic study. Its intersectional approach is frequently used in political and philosophical theorizing. However, very few scholars have paid attention to how disability has been constructed by dominant media institutions in the 21st century. This is true even when scholars focus on the social model of… Continue reading →

Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University In/ability to work plays a critical role in definitions of dis/ability, but the complexities of the relationship between people with disabilities and the world of work have only recently started to gain scholarly attention.  Contributions… Continue reading →

Call for Papers: Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University Disability Studies Quarterly is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives. Please circulate accordingly and direct questions to Dr. David Turner at d.m.turner@swansea.ac.uk. In/ability… Continue reading →