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 Review of Disability Studies (RDS) is an anonymous peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access, academic and international journal published by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawai‘i. 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 official call for submissions page. 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

Contributions to this themed issue may include but are not limited to the following topics:

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:

- Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University
  - email: XuanThuy.Nguyen@carleton.ca
- Katie Aubrecht, St. Francis Xavier University
  - email: caubrech@stfx.ca
- Nilika Mehrotra, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  - email: NilikaM@gmail.com

The submission information above was retrieved from www.rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/rds-global-south

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | Categories: Disability Studies News, News