[ecrea] Call for chapter proposals – ‘Different Bodies: Disability and the Media’

*Call for chapter proposals – ‘Different Bodies: Disability and the Media’*

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Book edited by Diana Garrisi and Jacob Johanssen (Communication and 
Media Research Institute, University of Westminster).


Following on from the conference ‘Different Bodies: (Self-) 
Representation, Disability and the Media’ which was held at the 
University of Westminster in June, we are preparing a book proposal 
based on some of the themes arising from the conference. The book 
proposal will be submitted to Peter Lang, who have already expressed a 
strong interest in the project.


The collection is intended to offer a comprehensive view of the 
relationship between disability and the media from a global and 
multidisciplinary perspective. Building upon existing studies, the book 
aims to explore if and how the rapidly changing technological means of 
communication are affecting how the body as strange, shameful, wrong, 
impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ is 
constructed in the media. In particular the book aims to discuss whether 
the Internet has made it possible to develop new, alternative or more 
inclusive narratives that challenge long-established mainstream coverage 
of disability. Some of the questions we would like to address are, for 
example, whether self-representations of disability on the Internet are 
contesting or aligning with representations on mainstream media outlets. 
We would also like to look at issues such as the rise of disability hate 
crimes online, the relationship between journalism and disability 
awareness campaigns, online dating and disability, the media coverage of 
disability rights and employment.

Possible themes include but are not limited to:

  * Affective labour of bodies
  * Auto-ethnographic accounts of the body in / through digital media
  * Celebrity bodies and the spectacles of transformation
  * Cinema and disability
  * Contemporary coverage of disability in print/online/television/radio
  * De-colonizing and de-westernising the mediated body
  * Disability and advertising
  * Disability and race
  * Disability and the media: historical perspectives
  * (Dis)Empowerments of the disabled body
  * Journalism and practices of othering the body
  * Neoliberalism, policy and austerity politics
  * Posthumanist and non-representational frameworks
  * Reality television and the body
  * Representing wounds and scars
  * Researching bodies and the media: frameworks and methodologies
  * Stigma and the body
  * The abject body
  * The body and trauma
  * The mediated body as spectacle
  * The medicalised body in the media
  * The objectification of the disabled body in the media

We invite submissions of 200-250 words chapter proposals. Deadline: 30 
September 2017.

Submissions should also include:


a) Title of chapter

b) Author name/s, institutional details

c) Corresponding author’s email address

d) Keywords (no more than 5)

e)  A short bio


Commissioned chapters will be around 5,000 words. The fact that an 
abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of the final 
manuscript. If the book proposal is approved, all chapters submitted 
will be judged on the basis of a double-blind reviewing process.

We look forward to your submissions.


Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at

(D.Garrisi2 /at/ westminster.ac.uk) <mailto:(D.Garrisi2 /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> and 
(J.Johanssen /at/ westminster.ac.uk)





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