CFP: Call for Contributions to a Special Issue of Journal of Social Philosophy on the theme Reshaping the Polis: Toward a Political Conception of Disability

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Call for Contributions to a Special Issue of Journal of Social Philosophy  

Reshaping the Polis: Toward a Political Conception of Disability

Guest edited by Shelley Tremain, Ph.D.    

Submissions are cordially invited to be considered for a special issue of Journal of Social Philosophy on the theme of Reshaping the Polis: Toward a Political Conception of Disability.

Feminist philosophers and theorists have successfully shown that the elimination of women’s subordination requires that conceptions of the social and political realms be reconfigured in ways that take into account subjectivity, embodiment, partiality, and other phenomena historically associated with women and femininity and thus excluded from understandings of these realms. Likewise, this issue of JSP aims to reshape (and enlarge) accepted understandings of what counts as the political domain in ways that emerging understandings of disability demand.   

Some of the questions that contributions to the issue might address are:   

What are the relations between current conceptions of the political realm, inaccessibility, and neoliberal agendas?  

How does incarceration and segregation of disabled people in nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and prisons extend the reach of biopolitical forms of power, including settler colonialism and heteronormativity?  

In what ways can disabling epistemologies of ignorance and acts of epistemic injustice be most effectively resisted and transformed?

How are ableism and disability discrimination reproduced by and through current immigration, housing, education, and employment policies?  

Confirmed invited contributions:  

Tommy Curry, “This Nigger’s Broken: Hyper-Masculinity, ‘The Buck,’ and the Impossibility of Physical Disability in the Black Male Body”

Maeve O’Donovan, “Resisting Disability: How Misconceptions of Disability Generate Failed Policies”

Jesse Prinz, “Outsider Art, Inside”

Melanie Yergeau and Bryce Huebner, “Minding Theory of Mind”

Please send papers directly to the journal's Managing Editor, Josh Keton, at [email protected].  Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review, include an abstract of 150-250 words, be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced, in a standard 12 point font, including endnotes and references).  More information about the Journal of Social Philosophy (including author guidelines) can be found at:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/josp  

The deadline for receipt for consideration for this special issue is November 1, 2015. (Papers not included in this special issue may also be considered for future issues of the journal.)  For further information, please email Shelley Tremain at [email protected].