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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/ Proposed Handbook Title: https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/8946763  The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies

by Shubhangi Mehrotra
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Proposed Handbook Title: The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies
Editors:  Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley
Publisher: Routledge
Postcolonial studies is a dynamic discipline dealing with non-Western countries and their cultures, which fall within the scope of cultural studies. This critical approach, underpinned by critical disability studies, refers to a set of theoretical attitudes which analyse the colonial discourse with emphasis on colonial consequences. We explore postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. We argue that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies, but remains surprisingly absent as a subject of analysis in the field of Postcolonial Studies. We also believe that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns, and creates dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies. Thus, the thrust of this handbook is about challenging oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation, postcolonisation, ‘them and us’ and bridging the gap between the global North and the global South spaces. We bring together diverse themes of how disability intersects with postcolonialism. Our focus is on, but not limited to the following broad themes:
*Decolonising Disability Studies
*Representations of disability in postcolonial literature
*Interface between postcolonial studies and disability studies
*Interdisciplinary dialogues on disability and postcolonial studies
*Global disability narratives
*Utilising postcolonial disability studies
*Using a critical postcolonial disability studies research agenda
*Using postcolonial perspectives to re/habilitation of children with disabilities
*Disabling postcolonialism
*Postcolonial fiction and disability
*Postcolonial disability studies and disability activism
*Interrogating postcolonial disability studies to inform social justice.
*Media and postcolonial disability studies
*Covid-19 re-defining postcolonial disability studies/theory
Interested contributors should submit an abstract of not more than 200 words to Prof Tsitsi Chataika ( mailto:tchataika@education.uz.ac.zw tchataika@education.uz.ac.zw) and Prof Dan Goodley ( mailto:d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk) by no later than 01 December 2021. Authors with disabilities are encouraged to submit abstracts. Successful abstracts contributors will be notified by 20 December 2021. Routledge has commissioned the publication of this handbook. The proposed publication date of the book is December 2022.

FYI From: H-Net Notifications <drupaladmin@mail.h-net.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 8:32 PM To: devva@EARTHLINK.NET Subject: H-Disability: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/ Proposed Handbook Title: The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies Greetings Devva Kasnitz, A new item has been posted in H-Disability. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/ Proposed Handbook Title: <https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/8946763> The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies by Shubhangi Mehrotra CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Proposed Handbook Title: The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies Editors: Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley Publisher: Routledge Postcolonial studies is a dynamic discipline dealing with non-Western countries and their cultures, which fall within the scope of cultural studies. This critical approach, underpinned by critical disability studies, refers to a set of theoretical attitudes which analyse the colonial discourse with emphasis on colonial consequences. We explore postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. We argue that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies, but remains surprisingly absent as a subject of analysis in the field of Postcolonial Studies. We also believe that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns, and creates dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies. Thus, the thrust of this handbook is about challenging oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation, postcolonisation, ‘them and us’ and bridging the gap between the global North and the global South spaces. We bring together diverse themes of how disability intersects with postcolonialism. Our focus is on, but not limited to the following broad themes: *Decolonising Disability Studies *Representations of disability in postcolonial literature *Interface between postcolonial studies and disability studies *Interdisciplinary dialogues on disability and postcolonial studies *Global disability narratives *Utilising postcolonial disability studies *Using a critical postcolonial disability studies research agenda *Using postcolonial perspectives to re/habilitation of children with disabilities *Disabling postcolonialism *Postcolonial fiction and disability *Postcolonial disability studies and disability activism *Interrogating postcolonial disability studies to inform social justice. *Media and postcolonial disability studies *Covid-19 re-defining postcolonial disability studies/theory Interested contributors should submit an abstract of not more than 200 words to Prof Tsitsi Chataika ( <mailto:tchataika@education.uz.ac.zw> tchataika@education.uz.ac.zw) and Prof Dan Goodley ( <mailto:d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk> d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk) by no later than 01 December 2021. Authors with disabilities are encouraged to submit abstracts. Successful abstracts contributors will be notified by 20 December 2021. Routledge has commissioned the publication of this handbook. The proposed publication date of the book is December 2022. * Read more or reply <https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/8946763> Please help us keep H-Net free and accessible. $25 from each of our subscribers would fund H-Net for two years. Click here <https://networks.h-net.org/support-h-net> to make a tax-deductible donation online. Contact the Help Desk: help@mail.h-net.org <mailto:help@mail.h-net.org> . Manage notification settings by visiting My Profile > Notifications on the Commons <https://networks.h-net.org/> . <https://twitter.com/HNet_Humanities> <https://www.facebook.com/humanities.socialsciences.online>