[eccr] cfp: technology/disability

>Disability Studies Quarterly
>www.dsq-sds.org <http://www.dsq-sds.org/>
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Special Issue on
>Technology & Disability
>
>Guest Editors:
>Gerard Goggin, PhD, University of Queensland
>Christopher Newell, PhD, University of Tasmania
>
>An electronic journal focusing on disability studies research
>
>Disability Studies Quarterly is a refereed online publication of the
>Society for Disability Studies (SDS). The 24-year-old journal has
>established a multidisciplinary and international forum for social
>scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates,
>creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with
>disabilities. It is published four times per year at
><http://www.dsq-sds.org/> www.dsq-sds.org.
>
>Scope: Authors are invited to submit scholarly papers based on original
>research for peer review, as well as research in progress, pilot
>studies, and commentaries/essays. DSQ also accepts submissions of
>disability-oriented fiction, poetry, and review of books, films, videos,
>and theatre. DSQ represents the full range of methods, epistemologies,
>perspectives, and content that comprises multidisciplinary disability
>studies. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical
>knowledge about disability, and to promoting full and equal
>participation of persons with disabilities in society.
>
>Special Theme issue on Technology & Disability
>
>Whether in the home, at work or leisure, technology plays an important
>role in the lives of people with disabilities, and also in the way that
>disability is conceived, experienced, and framed in society.
>
>A wide range of technologies are adopted, consumed, and used by people
>with disabilities in unexpected and innovative ways. There are many
>contests over the meaning and implications of technology, as, for
>instance, in the case of the 'bionic ear'. There are also specific
>cultural and social codings of technology/disability that remain little
>recognized and examined, and political and economic discourses that have
>been little studied. For instance, disability is often invoked as a
>warrant for development of new technologies, from biotechnology to
>information and communication technologies, and 'smart homes' - yet
>these technologies often create new forms of exclusion for people with
>disabilities.
>
>In this special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly, we wish to
>provide a timely, interdisciplinary reconsideration of the connections
>between technology and disability. Rather than providing publicity,
>news, or reviews of new technologies or equipment, the issue seeks to
>investigate the deeper yet still neglected social, cultural, and
>disability rights aspects of technology and people with disabilities.
>
>In this light, we welcome submissions on topics such as (but not
>restricted to):
>
>*       histories of disability and technology
>*       case studies and re-examinations of 'classic' disability
>technologies, such as the wheelchair, prosthesis, hearing aid, and so on
>*       case studies of 'new' technologies, including digital
>technologies, communication and media technologies, biotechnologies,
>'smart home', medical technologies, and cochlear implant
>*       theoretical investigations regarding disability and technology
>(for instance: how do theories of technology/disability interact with
>other theories of technology, whether Heideggerian, social shaping of
>technology, materialist, actor-network theory, feminist, and so on)
>*       analyses of technology policy and practice
>*       studies of disability and technology design.
>
>To submit papers:
>
>Potential contributors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with
>previous issues of Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ), and to discuss
>their ideas with the Guest Editors.
>
>Gerard Goggin, PhD, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University
>of Queensland, Australia. Email:  <mailto:(g.goggin /at/ mailbox.uq.edu.au)> 
>(g.goggin /at/ mailbox.uq.edu.au)
>
>Christopher Newell, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania,
>Australia. Email:  <mailto:(Christopher.Newell /at/ utas.edu.au)>
>(Christopher.Newell /at/ utas.edu.au)
>
>If you would like to submit a paper to the journal, please prepare your
>manuscript in accordance with the DSQ style guide, and send an
>electronic copy of manuscript to the guest editors at the above
>addresses.
>
>To submit papers on disk, mail to: Christopher Newell, PhD, Medical
>Education Unit
>
>School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 99,  Hobart,
>Tasmania,7001, Australia.
>
>Submission deadline: 1 December 2004
>
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Dr Gerard Goggin
>Australian Research Fellow
>Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
>Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia
>m: 0428 66 88 24
>e: (g.goggin /at/ uq.edu.au) or (gg /at/ gerardgoggin.net)
>website: <http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/>http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/
>
>
>
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