Call for Chapter Proposals: Cultural Stations of Disability by David Bolt-Routledge Autocritical Disability Studies book series

Edited by David Bolt, this book will explore disability as a cultural construct with which the contributors engage on a daily basis and/or in the name of academic research.

Earlier this year, in Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions, it was argued that, irrespective of eye conditions or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we arrive, on the way to which we pass or visit many cultural stations. The proposed book will have a similar premise but will consider disability in its broadest sense, rather than focusing on blindness in particular.

In the terms of autocritical discourse analysis, which combines autoethnography and CDA, a cultural station may be a range of toys, a comic, a television series, a novel, an album, a play, an advertising campaign, an artistic movement, a course, or a multitude of other things, the key point being that it was discovered in our past yet impacts on present understandings.

This edited volume will explore cultural stations that have impacted on the various understandings of disability at which the contributors have arrived. As in related works, particular attention will be paid to language, assumptions, identity, and social implications.

The selected chapters will each have an extent of 5,000 words. However, the initial chapter proposals should be no more than 200 words and should indicate 2 cultural stations of disability. Along with a brief bio, these proposals should be submitted to the editor (boltd@hope.ac.uk) on or before 14 February 2024; the shortlisted chapters will be due 1 February 2025.

The volume will be proposed for inclusion in the Routledge Autocritical Disability Studies book series.

Already available in this series:

• David Bolt, Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X

• Erin Pritchard, Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism

• David Bolt (ed), Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions

• David Bolt (Ed), Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

Call for Papers: #Feminist Health #Humanities - The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

 In 2022, the Journal of Medical Humanities announced its intention to re-focus its content on the nascent subject of health humanities, and in 2023, NYU Press published Keywords for Health Humanities, collectively signaling a change in disciplinary trajectory to the medical humanities community. The field’s re-configuration of nomenclature, which also includes critical medical humanities and narrative medicine, reflects its evolution and expansion according to the impetuses of inclusivity and accessibility. “Health,” as Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald note in the introduction to Keywords, “is a site in which the social and global inequities of the world are writ large.” Health allows us a wider lens through which to approach lived experience and affords us the ability to draw on a fuller range of theoretical frames and nuanced interpretations as we attend to social justice.

In this issue of the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, we are soliciting articles that broadly address feminist health humanities. Feminism challenges oppression and bias, calls for intersectional analysis, and tests epistemological formations. We are curious about what feminism’s intellectual traditions and critical approaches bring to the health humanities and how feminist methodologies challenge or change medical practices or knowledge. A non-exhaustive list of topics manuscripts might address includes:

• How could healthcare change when informed by a justice-oriented or feminist lens, particularly when women’s reproductive healthcare is often a political site of resistance and strife?
• How can the health humanities inform or reflect approaches from other feminist perspectives such as critical race theory, disability studies, madness studies, etc.?
• How does feminist data science work towards closing the gender data gap (in medicine, the sciences, and other disciplines)?
• What do under-studied narratives – from patients, medical practitioners, encounters between Eastern and Western medicines, etc. – bring to our understanding of the health humanities?
• Can we find feminism in our historical approaches and encounters to the health humanities, which have informed our contemporary understanding of the field?
• How do body technologies, medical procedures, or pharmaceuticals shape our encounters with health, the body, the mind, and gender?

Submission Guidelines

Contributions that adhere to the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities’ general aims and scope will be considered. Authors who wish to contribute to the upcoming issue should upload their manuscripts here:

 https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH/about/submissions

The journal does not have a strict word limit, but we recommend manuscripts be in the range of 5000-7000 words, excluding footnotes and references. The manuscript must include an abstract no longer than 150 words. References must follow APA style. Manuscripts should be uploaded no later than January 15, 2024.

For futher information, please contact the guest-editors Nicole Infanta Keller, Chiang Mai University (nicole.keller@cmu.ac.th) or Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Georgetown University (lhartm13@jhu.edu).

The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Humanities. The journal “...aims to promote the importance of interdisciplinary studies and the coalescence between humanities and other areas such as science – be it natural-, social-, or applied science, economics, and business administration. The journal publishes interdisciplinary papers, bridging the gap between humanities and other disciplines, and emphasizing the critical role of humanities in any fields of study’s discussion and innovation

Contact Information

Soren Ivarsson, Co-editor in chief, Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

Contact Email

soren.i@cmu.ac.th

URL

https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH