Nancy E Hansen, PhD, Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Master's Program,Disability Studies #wethe15 If you say I have special needs ... then just say the word disabled. Euphemisms only fuel ableism. Disability is not a dirty word. Haben Girma 128 Education Building University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2 Email:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca<mailto:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca> The Routledge History of Disability (New Book) www.routledge.com/9781138193574<http://www.routledge.com/9781138193574> ________________________________ From: The Disability-Research Discussion List <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Paul Reynolds <paulrussellreynolds@GMAIL.COM> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2023 1:54 PM To: DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Call for Papers & Expressions of Interest Marxism and Disability: Towards Critical Approaches ******************************************************** Caution: This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. ******************************************************** Call for Papers & Expressions of Interest Marxism and Disability: Towards Critical Approaches This call is for expressions of interests and for papers to be delivered at an online seminar once a month throughout 2023 (with the possibility of an in-person event in the summer. It seeks to build a collection of contributions that could form an edited collection, with an international publisher already showing initial interest. There has been significant rapprochement between Marxism and identity focused politics at the beginning of the 20th Century, with social reproduction, racialised capitalism and queer Marxism amongst those initiatives that provide a critical foundation for contemporary theory, politics and struggle. Disability studies developed in an uneasy relationship with Marxism, though many of its founding figures draw from Marxist influences (Mike Oliver, Lennard J Davis, Margaret Shildrik, Fiona Campbell, Tanja Aho, David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder) or identify directly with Marxist approaches (Marta Russell, Staffan Bengtsson, Roddy Slorach, David Matthews). At the same time, disability studies have developed its own distinctive critiques, including radical iterations such as crip theory (Robert McRuer, Simi Linton, Dan Goodley, Shelley Tremain, Gregor Wolbring, Alison Kafer) and critical disability studies. The purpose of this initiative is to explore how disability and Marxist analyses create fruitful bases for an inclusive, creative, and critical approach to the inequalities, alienation, and oppression of disabled people under contemporary capitalism, as well as to the central place of disability politics within working-class and anti-capitalist struggles. We welcome contributions cross and trans-disciplinary in nature, drawing from all Marxist traditions and strands of disability theory and focused on both philosophical/theoretical and political/empirical questions. We very much welcome work in progress. We are looking, specifically, for two types of contribution: 1. Willingness to give a paper at the seminar series online 2. Willingness to attend sessions each month in order to build a critical mass of intellectuals and activists (we regard the division as porous) engaged with the subject matter. We envisage the project as initially developing as follows: December 2022 – 10th January 2023 – send expressions of interest in the project to arianna.introna@open.ac.uk. We will compile an email list who will receive notifications of monthly seminars and the programme of papers. These expressions of interest might include titles and 250-word abstracts of contributions to the seminar series. Each seminar will be 90 minutes with 45 minutes for papers and 45 minutes for discussion. We will continue to take expressions of interest after the 10th January, but hope to have developed a cohort of interested people prior to then Wednesday 11th January – First meeting of the group 7.00pm – 9.00pm This will involve a short introductory meeting about the way in which we envisage the project developing, and the first paper: On Crip Compositionisms: Recognising Disability in Our Midst Arianna Introna, Open University Arianna Introna - arianna.introna@open.ac.uk Paul Reynolds – paul.reynolds@open.ac.uk ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies>). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research-request@jiscmail.ac.uk Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.