[ecrea] CfP Disability Media and Africa

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Call for Papers: March 2018

*Disability and Media – African perspectives *

Edited by Associate Professor Mike Kent (Curtin University), Mr Tafadzwa 
Rugoho (University of Kwa Zulu Natal) & Dr Phillipa Mutswanga(Zimbabwe 
Open University).

http://www.cultware.com/current-research/disability-and-media--african-perspectives

*Abstracts Due 1 March 2018*

Disability media studies is a new and growing area of interdisciplinary 
academic interest and particularly at the intersection of media studies 
and disability studies. Trying to build a dialog between these related 
yet separate disciplines around disability and media is a challenging 
process. This edited collection will have a focus on disability media in 
Africa. It seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and 
Global North facing, scholarship in this area and expand it to include 
African perspectives. In this collection we are looking to gather 
writing about disability and media in Africa and also writing by 
academics from Africa about disability and media.

Dahl (1993) noted that one cannot legislate attitude change. While the 
media can be a vehicle that reinforces existing prejudice and 
discrimination towards people with disabilities, it also has the 
potential to bring about positive change in public perceptions and 
positively influence attitudes, beliefs, and misconceptions around 
disability.

The idea to develop this book came from day-to-day informal 
conversations, formal research and observing media material where people 
with disability are portrayed differently from other people both in 
Africa and throughout the world. It is these differences which this book 
hopes to highlight and reshape towards people with disability where the 
same media which previously reinforced their inequality can be used to 
bring justice and equity to their lives.

/Disability and Media – African perspectives/will be published by 
reputable publishers - Routledge have expressed interest in the project. 
All chapters will be subject to a rigorous peer review process.

Areas of interest that chapters might address include

  * Representation in media of disability and Africa
  * Different types of media and disability
  * Mobile media
  * Case studies on particular countries
  * Case studies from particular disability communities
  * Technological issues in media and disability
  * Media ethics and disability
  * Benefits and challenges in media and disability
  * Results of recent research in this field
  * Philosophical approaches to disability and media
  * Disability media studies in/and Africa
  * Social Media and Disability Advocacy/voice
  * Disability Agenda setting (UNCRPD and other international statues)
  * Ableism in Media
  * The medicalised body in the media
  * The objectification of the disabled body in the media
  * Disability and the media: historical perspectives
  * (Dis)Empowerments of the disabled body
  * Journalism and practices of othering the body

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*Submission procedure:*

Potential authors are invited to submit chapter abstracts of no more 
than 500 words, including a title, 4 to 6 keywords, and a brief bio, by 
email to Mike Kent <(m.kent /at/ curtin.edu.au)<mailto:(m.kent /at/ curtin.edu.au)>> 
by 1 March 2018. (Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to use 
any visual material, and how you have or will gain copyright clearance 
for visual material). Authors will receive a response by 31^st March 
2018, with those provisionally accepted due as chapters of approximately 
6000 words (including references) by 30 June 2018 for peer review. If 
you would like any further information, please contact Mike or Tafadzwa 
<(zvirevo12 /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(zvirevo12 /at/ gmail.com)>>.

*About the editors:*

**

*Mike Kent*is an Associate Professor and Head of Department in the 
Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Mike’s research 
focus is on people with disabilities and their use of, and access to, 
information communication technology and the Internet. His other area of 
research interest is in higher education and particularly online 
education, as well as online social networking platforms. /H/is book, 
with Katie Ellis, /Disability and New Media /was published by Routledge 
in 2011. He has also produced a number of edited collections including 
/An/Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest 
Social Network,////with Tama Leaver/(Routledge, 2014); //Disability and 
Social Media: Global Perspectives//, with Katie Ellis, (Routledge, 
2017); //Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education: What went 
right, what went wrong and where to now//, with Rebecca Bennett 
(Routledge, 2017); and //Chinese Social Media//: Social, Cultural and 
Political Implications,////with Katie Ellis and Jian Xu (Routledge 
2018). His forthcoming books //Manifestos for the Future of Critical 
Disability Studies/and /Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: 
Looking Towards the Future / are both edited//with Rosemarie 
Garland-Thomson, Katie Ellis and Rachel Robertson and will be available, 
again through Routledge, in 2018.

*Tafadzwa Rugoho*is a PhD Sociology candidate at Kwa Zulu Natal and a 
lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University in the Department of Development 
Studies. Tafadzwa holds an MSc Development, MSc Strategic Management and 
a BSc Sociology. He has authored a variety of book chapters and journal 
papers on disability issues as well as presenting papers at research 
conferences in this area over the past five years. He has worked for a 
variety of disability organisations for more than fifteen years. 
Tafadzwa is disabled and he is a disability activist.

**

*Phillipa Mutswanga*is a senior lecturer at Zimbabwe Open University 
(ZOU) and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Special Needs Education (SNE). 
She has authored and co-authored 38 peer reviewed research papers and a 
book chapter on gender, disability, religion and /The/ /Inclusive 
Practices Resource Book for Religious Studies/ under the sponsorship of 
ATISCA. She is expecting another chapter publication in 2018 by 
Routledge publishers on, towards developing realistic hopes and 
aspirations of people who are deaf. She has also co-authored 18 modules 
for ZOU and also co-partnered**in carrying out three consultancies 
related to disability for Lenard Cheshire, World Education and RATN. 
Phillipa’s research focuses on disability issues, talking to youths and 
the aged.


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