[Commlist] CFP - Edited Collection: DisAppearing DisAbility

*DisAppearing DisAbility – CFP *

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*Editors: Tanya Titchkosky, Elaine Cagulada and Madeleine DeWelles (OISE 
of the University of Toronto)*

*(disappearingdisability /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(disappearingdisability /at/ gmail.com)>***

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This is a *Call *for chapters**for a collection of essays, between 2000 
and 5000 words each, as well as creative works that show how disability 
appears and disappears in our midst. This collection will serve to 
introduce readers to disability studies.

Through a relational orientation to disability, the work collected here 
represents a critical return to how disability appears, including its 
appearance in the field of disability studies. */DisAppearing DisAbility 
/*will provide a resource to Canadian colleges, universities and beyond. 
Engaging political, artistic, and philosophical provocations of the 
(dis)appearing act of disability in our lives, the diversity of topics 
in this collection represents the singular aim of revealing what 
disability means while potentially remaking these meanings in more 
life-affirming ways.

There are many ways that disability appears in everyday life, often as 
calamity, loss, danger, and dysfunction. This collection is dedicated to 
revealing the cultural values and assumptions that make these 
appearances possible while making other appearances of disability seem 
impossible. Can we imagine, for example, disability appearing as /not /a 
problem, as necessary, or even as desirable? This collection explores 
these imaginaries by orienting to disability as a set of cultural 
interpretations reflective of the worlds from which they spring and into 
which disability appears and disappears, again and again.

These (dis)appearances include disability on the streets, in police 
encounters, in classroom practices, in storybooks, in other textual 
representations of disability, and in our everyday expectations in the 
midst of unexpected encounters. Each chapter should invite the reader 
into an analysis of cultural scenes of disability, scenes that are 
connected to issues of race and racism, indigeneity, gender and 
sexuality, class or other important social differences. This collection 
is guided by the hope of being a call to engage the marginality of 
disability in social thought and action, while exemplifying how to do 
disability studies. Through examples of how to critically notice and 
theorize current interpretations of disability, we hope this collection 
will revitalize our relations to (dis)appearances of disability as 
essential ways of moving, understanding, and being-in-the-world.**The 
chapters, then, should bring readers closer to a humanity that weaves us 
into stories of disability’s (dis)appearances in everyday life.

We invite essays, but also poetry, short stories, and other creative 
works that draw out the significance of how disability becomes manifest, 
yet is made to disappear, only to re-appear in unexpected forms. These 
journeys into the meaning of various cultural representations of 
disability are simultaneously pathways into doing disability studies.  
Thus, the editors will introduce the selected chapters by drawing out 
the methodological moves made by the authors. These introductions will 
help readers learn about how to do a disability studies analysis — in 
other words, how to do disability studies. We will also include short 
excerpts of classic disability studies texts in order to further 
illustrate how and why disability studies works as it does. This 
curation of the chapters will enable */DisAppearing DisAbility /*to 
actualize our commitment to offering university students, teachers, and 
anyone interested in the meaning of disability a way into developing 
deeper relations to the cultural tensions that are often present when we 
are present with the (dis)appearances of disability. We aim to select 
contributions of various forms, that reflect an orientation to 
disability’s (dis)appearances and that unveil cultural tensions as they 
entangle us and our conceptions of disability, thereby revealing how the 
meaning of people becomes manifest.

Regarding tensions, contributors might consider contradictions in our 
lives and how we live when contradictions present themselves /together/ 
in the face of disability/./ For example, attempts to move closer to 
disability through diagnoses, definitions, or programs can result in 
distancing ourselves from the complexity of disability. These moves can 
be understood as enacting interpretive relations. We are always immersed 
in interpretive relations when we perceive bodies, minds, and senses. 
There is no final meaning nor certain outcome for any interpretation of 
disability. Embracing this orientation nurtures the need to question how 
meaning is given to disability and the social and political consequences 
of doing so.

The chapters in */DisAppearing DisAbility/* orient to the inescapable 
fact that we make disability meaningful through our interpretive 
relations to it in ways that require further analysis. What relations to 
disabilityare you called into? Whatrelations call to you?

*We invite submissions (essays between 2000 and 5000 words, and poetry, 
short *

*stories, visual art with descriptions) that show how disability appears 
and *

*disappears in our midst while introducing readers to doing disability 
studies. *

*Your submission should include:*

·Your name **

·Title of work**

·Genre of work**

·A 500-word description of your proposed work

·A 200-word statement on your relation to disability and disability 
studies as they reflect the general themes and tensions of /DisAppearing 
DisAbility, /as described above, by***November 29^th , 2019 to 
(disappearingdisability /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(disappearingdisability /at/ gmail.com)> *

·Notice of acceptance January 2020

·Chapters due 6 months later.


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