Proposals for SDS 2015 due Dec 8, 2014. http://disstudies.org/conferences/atlanta-2015/cfp

The program committee of the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, to be held in Atlanta, GA, invites you to consider the multiple and significant possibilities at the intersections of disability and (getting it) right/s.  We welcome proposals in all areas of disability studies, but especially those submissions premised on this year's theme.

GETTING IT-RIGHT/S.

Disability as/is a civil right, a human right, a social right, an economic right, an educational right, a medical right, a sexual right, an employment right, a voting right, a representational right. All of these, and more. Communities and advocates - locally, nationally, transnationally - have been making efforts to get/gain rights, including recognition, legal and/or cultural; and trying, also, to get it right--to address, analyze, reclaim, revise, redress, recover disability representations in literature, culture, politics, and history. The diversity of global articulations of rights; the emergence of critiques of rights frameworks; and transnational developments such as the recent use of language from the American Disabilities Act in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities -- UNCRPD, present the field of Disability Studies, whose growth has paralleled these trends, with an opportunity to consider disability rights in all of its complexities:

When has disability, or its likeness, been considered within grassroots advocacy movements in political geographies around the globe, including nation-states and indigenous governmentalities, and in regional, local, comparative perspectives? When does disability, or its likeness, enter state law, and under what conditions? How have recent or former projects, languages, questions, policies, issues, movements, and events about disability emerged, traveled, and been contested? What conditions allow national laws to migrate transnationally? Are there shifts in the popular emergence and circulation of disability values, and are these shifts expressed with specific forms of representation? How and where has disability politics allied with, or against, “human rights” and/or decolonial frameworks? How have activists and artists crippled state-sanctioned uses of disability?

Proposals for SDS Atlanta 2015 are due: Monday, December 8, 2014.

For complete information regarding session formats and to submit a proposal, please go to: http://disstudies.org/conferences/atlanta-2015/cfp

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