VERMONT
Saint Michael's College, a Catholic, residential, liberal arts college in the Burlington area of Vermont, seeks a scholar from any Humanities field, for a two year appointment as the Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, beginning late-August 2011.
This endowed program seeks a recent Ph.D. (within the last seven years) to teach half-time in the department of his or her specialty and half-time in our Humanities Program, a series of interdisciplinary liberal studies courses that cover primary texts from the Western cultural tradition, from antiquity to the present. Scholars with cross-cultural comparative foci are also encouraged to apply.
The scholar will be mentored in the craft of teaching and will live (with family, if applicable) adjacent to the campus, in an attractive 3 BR, stand-alone house (housing is included as part of total compensation). Such proximity will facilitate the scholar’s participation in on-campus Humanities Program events and other events.
Teaching load is 3 courses, per semester (2 preps possible). Average class size is 20 - 25 students.
Competitive salary and benefits; annual travel support for conferences is available.
Applicants should demonstrate commitment to undergraduate teaching and be supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college. Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body. Applicants are invited to address in their cover letters how they might contribute to the promotion of this diversity.
A complete application will consist of a cover letter, CV and names and contact information for three references. Graduate school transcripts and reference letters may be requested of finalists, at a later stage.
Applicants must apply online, at:
http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com
Review of applications will begin March 28, 2011 and continue until an appointment is made.
EEO/AA Policy
Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body.
Visiting Faculty Positions -- College of Innovative Learning
University of Toledo
College of Innovative Learning
Toledo, OH
Date Posted: Mar. 10, 2011
http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=29499&o=560777&t=HU110418m-6
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Assistant Professor -- English
West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Coll. of Business, Humanities and Social Sci. -- History,...
Montgomery, WV
Date Posted: Mar. 4, 2011
http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=29431&o=560777&t=HU110418m-6
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Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship (Visiting Asst. Prof. Le...
Carthage College
Div. of Interdisciplinary Studies -- Western Heritage Pro...
Kenosha, WI
Date Posted: Mar. 2, 2011
http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=29390&o=560777&t=HU110418m-6
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Black and Brown Planets: the Politics of Race in Science Fiction—Essay Collection, 6/24/11
Black and Brown Planets: the Politics of Race in Science Fiction—Essay Collection, 6/24/11
Isiah Lavender, III
lavender@uca.edu
The mass popularity of science fiction (sf) has shaped the racial politics of popular culture. Through the art and science of governing the complex relationships of people in society in the context of authority, arbitrary, yet traditional, divisions of human beings along lines of color (Caucasian, Negro, Mongoloid, and Latino) have been mirrored in science fiction. In short, skin color matters in our visions of the future. Though W.E.B. DuBois articulates “the color line” as “the problem of the twentieth century” well over a hundred years ago (41), it still remains a fearsome and complicated twenty-first century problem. This problem challenges, compromises, if not corrupts, all endeavors to build a better, more progressive world. Even if race and the color line are man-made, they are political realities given value by science fiction writers that must now be reconsidered and reinterpreted by present generations of sf scholars. To transcend various repetitions of the color line—black and white, yellow and white, brown and white, red and white—we must be conscious of these repetitions. Such a consciousness can only be acquired by exploring the possible worlds of science fiction literature, television, and film and lifting blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre.
This collection will create a dialogue between many kinds of people—science fiction theorists, historians, and scholars, various culture critics, feminist scholars, academics in American Studies, fans of science fiction itself, readers interested in popular science, and even students in a variety of classrooms. Reexamining the background of science fiction may have a significant cultural effect for the twenty-first century because it can prepare us for the looming cultural changes that are descending upon us as the western world ceases to be dominated by the white majority. Science fiction has charted a few of the alternatives for this unknown territory, and the perhaps alarming change presents both opportunities and challenges for society to establish new values. In this regard, science fiction criticism is essential for stimulating appreciation of diversity.
The link between race and politics in science fiction is always evident but most often confined to exploration of how racial identity inflects or challenges conventional narrative expectations. However, any evaluation of race should include its imbrication with what could be termed “high politics.” This collection will, therefore, consider the role that race and ethnicity plays in science fictional scenarios on the design and direction of alternate or futurist hi-tech societies. What do we make of the utopian and/or dystopian potential of social orders in which people of color are placed as active and essential to political progress and the relationship of nations? This volume is designed to address literature by writers of African, Asian, European and indigenous descent. What do we make, for example, of those narratives in which African diasporas assert successful continental and global primacies? How do we represent political orders that successfully post the legacy of a Eurocentric racial imperialism? How do speculations that imagine a political ascendency for indigenous or aboriginal peoples change our sense of what kind of culture the future valorizes? Do the works of colored authors challenge the genre’s presumption of a future marked by Euro-American dominance?
The collection’s first section will focus on the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from the Dark Continent and its diaspora to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history, Afrofuturism, and the post-colonial moment, among other things. The second section will explore the affinity between sf and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being and moving between two cultures, effectively alienated as a response to political repression. The third section will challenge the political construction of Native Americans in sf, noble savages standing in the way of progress, through trickster narrative, native scientific imagination, and the haunting presence of indigenous peoples on the ever receding space frontier. The fourth section will consider political representations of Asian identity in the sf imagination from fear of the yellow peril and its host of stereotypes to techno-orientalism and the remains of a post-colonial heritage. This collection will show what science fiction criticism means when joined with critical race theories and histories of oppression.
Black and Brown Planets signifies a timely exploration of the Western obsession with color in its analysis of the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. It will allow us to consider how alternate racial futurisms, such as Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, reconfigure our sense of viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny. It will interrogate the roles (political, social, and historical) that skin color, ethnic ancestry, and cultural identity play in one’s ability to be successful in future visions. This collection is particularly relevant given the Obama Presidency and the increasing stature of China, India, Brazil and other postcolonial nations as global powers. How does or can science fiction respond to this new world, this emerging history?
Please submit 500 word abstracts, with a working bibliography and brief author bios for 4500 to 8000 word essays, via email as a word document attachment in addition to relevant contact information.
Deadline: June 24, 2011
Editor Bio: Isiah Lavender III is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. He teaches courses in African American literature and culture, world literature, and science fiction. His research concerns representations of race and ethnicity in science fiction as well as black folklore. He enjoys making presentations at local, national, and international conferences, though he is partial to ICFA. His essays and reviews have been published in Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation, among other places. Lavender’s first book, Race in American Science Fiction (2011), is out and available at Indiana University Press. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: “Africa in Science Fiction’s Imagination” and “Trickster Lives: Fiction and Reality in African American Culture.”
Isiah Lavender, III
lavender@uca.edu
The mass popularity of science fiction (sf) has shaped the racial politics of popular culture. Through the art and science of governing the complex relationships of people in society in the context of authority, arbitrary, yet traditional, divisions of human beings along lines of color (Caucasian, Negro, Mongoloid, and Latino) have been mirrored in science fiction. In short, skin color matters in our visions of the future. Though W.E.B. DuBois articulates “the color line” as “the problem of the twentieth century” well over a hundred years ago (41), it still remains a fearsome and complicated twenty-first century problem. This problem challenges, compromises, if not corrupts, all endeavors to build a better, more progressive world. Even if race and the color line are man-made, they are political realities given value by science fiction writers that must now be reconsidered and reinterpreted by present generations of sf scholars. To transcend various repetitions of the color line—black and white, yellow and white, brown and white, red and white—we must be conscious of these repetitions. Such a consciousness can only be acquired by exploring the possible worlds of science fiction literature, television, and film and lifting blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre.
This collection will create a dialogue between many kinds of people—science fiction theorists, historians, and scholars, various culture critics, feminist scholars, academics in American Studies, fans of science fiction itself, readers interested in popular science, and even students in a variety of classrooms. Reexamining the background of science fiction may have a significant cultural effect for the twenty-first century because it can prepare us for the looming cultural changes that are descending upon us as the western world ceases to be dominated by the white majority. Science fiction has charted a few of the alternatives for this unknown territory, and the perhaps alarming change presents both opportunities and challenges for society to establish new values. In this regard, science fiction criticism is essential for stimulating appreciation of diversity.
The link between race and politics in science fiction is always evident but most often confined to exploration of how racial identity inflects or challenges conventional narrative expectations. However, any evaluation of race should include its imbrication with what could be termed “high politics.” This collection will, therefore, consider the role that race and ethnicity plays in science fictional scenarios on the design and direction of alternate or futurist hi-tech societies. What do we make of the utopian and/or dystopian potential of social orders in which people of color are placed as active and essential to political progress and the relationship of nations? This volume is designed to address literature by writers of African, Asian, European and indigenous descent. What do we make, for example, of those narratives in which African diasporas assert successful continental and global primacies? How do we represent political orders that successfully post the legacy of a Eurocentric racial imperialism? How do speculations that imagine a political ascendency for indigenous or aboriginal peoples change our sense of what kind of culture the future valorizes? Do the works of colored authors challenge the genre’s presumption of a future marked by Euro-American dominance?
The collection’s first section will focus on the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from the Dark Continent and its diaspora to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history, Afrofuturism, and the post-colonial moment, among other things. The second section will explore the affinity between sf and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being and moving between two cultures, effectively alienated as a response to political repression. The third section will challenge the political construction of Native Americans in sf, noble savages standing in the way of progress, through trickster narrative, native scientific imagination, and the haunting presence of indigenous peoples on the ever receding space frontier. The fourth section will consider political representations of Asian identity in the sf imagination from fear of the yellow peril and its host of stereotypes to techno-orientalism and the remains of a post-colonial heritage. This collection will show what science fiction criticism means when joined with critical race theories and histories of oppression.
Black and Brown Planets signifies a timely exploration of the Western obsession with color in its analysis of the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. It will allow us to consider how alternate racial futurisms, such as Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, reconfigure our sense of viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny. It will interrogate the roles (political, social, and historical) that skin color, ethnic ancestry, and cultural identity play in one’s ability to be successful in future visions. This collection is particularly relevant given the Obama Presidency and the increasing stature of China, India, Brazil and other postcolonial nations as global powers. How does or can science fiction respond to this new world, this emerging history?
Please submit 500 word abstracts, with a working bibliography and brief author bios for 4500 to 8000 word essays, via email as a word document attachment in addition to relevant contact information.
Deadline: June 24, 2011
Editor Bio: Isiah Lavender III is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. He teaches courses in African American literature and culture, world literature, and science fiction. His research concerns representations of race and ethnicity in science fiction as well as black folklore. He enjoys making presentations at local, national, and international conferences, though he is partial to ICFA. His essays and reviews have been published in Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation, among other places. Lavender’s first book, Race in American Science Fiction (2011), is out and available at Indiana University Press. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: “Africa in Science Fiction’s Imagination” and “Trickster Lives: Fiction and Reality in African American Culture.”
The Women’s Studies Program of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Women’s Studies Program of Hobart and William Smith Colleges invites
applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies for
academic year 2011-12, with the possibility of renewal for one additional
year. We especially seek candidates with expertise in feminism and health
to bridge Women’s Studies to the natural sciences and/or public policy,
but remain open to other fields. Ph.D. preferred, ABD considered. The
teaching load will be five courses for the year, and we expect candidates
to be able to contribute to the teaching of core courses in the program
(e.g., Feminist Theory; Feminist Research) in addition to courses in the
candidate’s area of specialty. Candidates with experience mentoring
students of color are strongly encouraged. Information on Women’s Studies
can be found on our web site: http://www.hws.edu/academics/ws/ Candidates
should submit a letter of application, writing sample, curriculum vitae,
and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to Betty M.
Bayer, Chair, Women’s Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva,
NY 14456; email bayer@hws.edu. Review of applications will begin
immediately, and continue until the position is filled.
Founded as Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women,
Hobart and William Smith Colleges today are a highly selective residential
liberal arts institution with a single administration, faculty and
curriculum but separate dean’s offices, student governments, athletic
programs and traditions. The Colleges are located in a small diverse city
in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. With an enrollment of
approximately 2,000, the Colleges offer 62 different majors and minors
from which students choose two areas of concentration, one of which must
be an interdisciplinary program. Creative and extensive programs of
international study and public service are also at the core of the
Colleges’ mission. Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to
attracting and supporting faculty and staff that fully represent the
racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the nation and actively seek
applications from under-represented groups. The Colleges do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status,
national origin, age, disability, veteran's status, or sexual orientation
or any other protected status.
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applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies for
academic year 2011-12, with the possibility of renewal for one additional
year. We especially seek candidates with expertise in feminism and health
to bridge Women’s Studies to the natural sciences and/or public policy,
but remain open to other fields. Ph.D. preferred, ABD considered. The
teaching load will be five courses for the year, and we expect candidates
to be able to contribute to the teaching of core courses in the program
(e.g., Feminist Theory; Feminist Research) in addition to courses in the
candidate’s area of specialty. Candidates with experience mentoring
students of color are strongly encouraged. Information on Women’s Studies
can be found on our web site: http://www.hws.edu/academics/ws/ Candidates
should submit a letter of application, writing sample, curriculum vitae,
and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to Betty M.
Bayer, Chair, Women’s Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva,
NY 14456; email bayer@hws.edu. Review of applications will begin
immediately, and continue until the position is filled.
Founded as Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women,
Hobart and William Smith Colleges today are a highly selective residential
liberal arts institution with a single administration, faculty and
curriculum but separate dean’s offices, student governments, athletic
programs and traditions. The Colleges are located in a small diverse city
in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. With an enrollment of
approximately 2,000, the Colleges offer 62 different majors and minors
from which students choose two areas of concentration, one of which must
be an interdisciplinary program. Creative and extensive programs of
international study and public service are also at the core of the
Colleges’ mission. Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to
attracting and supporting faculty and staff that fully represent the
racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the nation and actively seek
applications from under-represented groups. The Colleges do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status,
national origin, age, disability, veteran's status, or sexual orientation
or any other protected status.
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Saint Michael's College
VERMONT
, a Catholic, residential, liberal arts college in the Burlington area of Vermont, seeks a scholar from any Humanities field, for a two year appointment as the Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, beginning late-August 2011.
This endowed program seeks a recent Ph.D. (within the last seven years) to teach half-time in the department of his or her specialty and half-time in our Humanities Program, a series of interdisciplinary liberal studies courses that cover primary texts from the Western cultural tradition, from antiquity to the present. Scholars with cross-cultural comparative foci are also encouraged to apply.
The scholar will be mentored in the craft of teaching and will live (with family, if applicable) adjacent to the campus, in an attractive 3 BR, stand-alone house (housing is included as part of total compensation). Such proximity will facilitate the scholar’s participation in on-campus Humanities Program events and other events.
Teaching load is 3 courses, per semester (2 preps possible). Average class size is 20 - 25 students.
Competitive salary and benefits; annual travel support for conferences is available.
Applicants should demonstrate commitment to undergraduate teaching and be supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college. Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body. Applicants are invited to address in their cover letters how they might contribute to the promotion of this diversity.
A complete application will consist of a cover letter, CV and names and contact information for three references. Graduate school transcripts and reference letters may be requested of finalists, at a later stage.
Applicants must apply online, at:
http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com
Review of applications will begin March 28, 2011 and continue until an appointment is made.
EEO/AA Policy
Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body.
Visiting Faculty Positions -- College of Innovative Learning
University of Toledo
College of Innovative Learning
Toledo, OH
Date Posted: Mar. 10, 2011
http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=29499&o=560777&t=HU110418m-6
____________________________________________________________________
, a Catholic, residential, liberal arts college in the Burlington area of Vermont, seeks a scholar from any Humanities field, for a two year appointment as the Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, beginning late-August 2011.
This endowed program seeks a recent Ph.D. (within the last seven years) to teach half-time in the department of his or her specialty and half-time in our Humanities Program, a series of interdisciplinary liberal studies courses that cover primary texts from the Western cultural tradition, from antiquity to the present. Scholars with cross-cultural comparative foci are also encouraged to apply.
The scholar will be mentored in the craft of teaching and will live (with family, if applicable) adjacent to the campus, in an attractive 3 BR, stand-alone house (housing is included as part of total compensation). Such proximity will facilitate the scholar’s participation in on-campus Humanities Program events and other events.
Teaching load is 3 courses, per semester (2 preps possible). Average class size is 20 - 25 students.
Competitive salary and benefits; annual travel support for conferences is available.
Applicants should demonstrate commitment to undergraduate teaching and be supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college. Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body. Applicants are invited to address in their cover letters how they might contribute to the promotion of this diversity.
A complete application will consist of a cover letter, CV and names and contact information for three references. Graduate school transcripts and reference letters may be requested of finalists, at a later stage.
Applicants must apply online, at:
http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com
Review of applications will begin March 28, 2011 and continue until an appointment is made.
EEO/AA Policy
Saint Michael's College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body.
Visiting Faculty Positions -- College of Innovative Learning
University of Toledo
College of Innovative Learning
Toledo, OH
Date Posted: Mar. 10, 2011
http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=29499&o=560777&t=HU110418m-6
____________________________________________________________________
Friday, April 15, 2011
sexual violence prevention fellow
Hi all,
BARCC is currently accepting applications for the position of Sexual Violence Prevention Fellow. Please distribute widely!
Thanks,
Steph
Steph Trilling*
Youth Outreach Coordinator
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
617.649.1267
strilling@barcc.org
www.barcc.org
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Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Critical Whiteness Studies Methodologies
Special Issue on
Critical Whiteness Studies Methodologies
This call for papers grew out of the efforts of the White Spaces Postgraduate Network that is connecting students engaged in critical whiteness studies. In the inaugural PGR conference New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies (August 2010, University of Leeds) one of the issues raised was the need to address methodological challenges in critical whiteness studies. One of the initiatives we have already undertaken is theorganisation of a virtual seminar entitled Discourse Analytical Approaches towards Uncovering Power Relations, with a specific focus on Race/Whiteness (January, 2011). Our endeavors are further reflected in this call; therefore we wish to invite MSc/MA/MS, MPhil, PhD students and junior academics from all geographic regions to contribute to the further investigation and development of the complexities of this field.This special issue of Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS) is open to any contributions intended to give fresh and creative insights on methodological approaches in critical whiteness studies. This includes (but is not limited to):
The development and applications of theory, within and across disciplines that open new territories in critical whiteness studies;
the innovative use of methods, presentation of emerging ones and application of mixed methods used in researching unequal power relations with a specific focus on race/whiteness and accompanying intersections;
new directions in data collection and analysis;
approaches to writing about whiteness critically and the dissemination of knowledge within and outside academia;
creative approaches in researching visual materials and questioning privileges of normativity and whiteness;
strategies for collective and participatory research that can be insightful and thought-provoking for critical whiteness studies;
ontological and epistemological questions and challenges in researching whiteness critically that include issues around reflexivity, knowledge production and discursive frameworks in critical whiteness studies;
scholars’ personal challenges and critical self-reflections in doing critical whiteness studies.
Submissions: articles (5000-8000 words), book reviews (1000-1500 words), visual materials, short essays (2000-3000 words) and announcements for up-and-coming seminars, lectures, conferences, special issues, blogs or other events and spaces that are opening new platforms for the development of critical whiteness studies. All submissions must be anonymized and accompanied by the GJSS article submission form, which can be downloaded from the GJSS website. Please include an abstract, a short author bio and 3 to 5 keywords. Detailed submission guidelines and formatting instructions can be found on
http://www.gjss.org/index.php?/gjss.org-Submission-of-Articles.html
All written contributions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, which you can find at
http://gjss.org/index.php?/gjss.org-Chicago-Manual-of-Style.html
Deadline for all contributions is15th June 2011. Please email all contributions to l.l.pedersen@lse.ac.uk .
Enquires about content can be directed to: Barbara Samaluk, b.samaluk@qmul.ac.uk and Linda Lund Pedersen, l.l.pedersen@lse.ac.uk .
Suggestions and enquires about book reviews can be directed to: Manuela Honegger, Manuela.Honegger@unil.ch.
Papers submitted to GJSS undergo an initial selection by the guest editors with the purpose to assess and eventually improve their relevance to the GJSS research focus. Accepted papers will then undergo double-blind peer review process.
All contributors will receive a final answer at the beginning ofJuly 2011.
Publication date: envisaged February 2012.
Critical Whiteness Studies Methodologies
This call for papers grew out of the efforts of the White Spaces Postgraduate Network that is connecting students engaged in critical whiteness studies. In the inaugural PGR conference New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies (August 2010, University of Leeds) one of the issues raised was the need to address methodological challenges in critical whiteness studies. One of the initiatives we have already undertaken is theorganisation of a virtual seminar entitled Discourse Analytical Approaches towards Uncovering Power Relations, with a specific focus on Race/Whiteness (January, 2011). Our endeavors are further reflected in this call; therefore we wish to invite MSc/MA/MS, MPhil, PhD students and junior academics from all geographic regions to contribute to the further investigation and development of the complexities of this field.This special issue of Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS) is open to any contributions intended to give fresh and creative insights on methodological approaches in critical whiteness studies. This includes (but is not limited to):
The development and applications of theory, within and across disciplines that open new territories in critical whiteness studies;
the innovative use of methods, presentation of emerging ones and application of mixed methods used in researching unequal power relations with a specific focus on race/whiteness and accompanying intersections;
new directions in data collection and analysis;
approaches to writing about whiteness critically and the dissemination of knowledge within and outside academia;
creative approaches in researching visual materials and questioning privileges of normativity and whiteness;
strategies for collective and participatory research that can be insightful and thought-provoking for critical whiteness studies;
ontological and epistemological questions and challenges in researching whiteness critically that include issues around reflexivity, knowledge production and discursive frameworks in critical whiteness studies;
scholars’ personal challenges and critical self-reflections in doing critical whiteness studies.
Submissions: articles (5000-8000 words), book reviews (1000-1500 words), visual materials, short essays (2000-3000 words) and announcements for up-and-coming seminars, lectures, conferences, special issues, blogs or other events and spaces that are opening new platforms for the development of critical whiteness studies. All submissions must be anonymized and accompanied by the GJSS article submission form, which can be downloaded from the GJSS website. Please include an abstract, a short author bio and 3 to 5 keywords. Detailed submission guidelines and formatting instructions can be found on
http://www.gjss.org/index.php?/gjss.org-Submission-of-Articles.html
All written contributions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, which you can find at
http://gjss.org/index.php?/gjss.org-Chicago-Manual-of-Style.html
Deadline for all contributions is15th June 2011. Please email all contributions to l.l.pedersen@lse.ac.uk .
Enquires about content can be directed to: Barbara Samaluk, b.samaluk@qmul.ac.uk and Linda Lund Pedersen, l.l.pedersen@lse.ac.uk .
Suggestions and enquires about book reviews can be directed to: Manuela Honegger, Manuela.Honegger@unil.ch.
Papers submitted to GJSS undergo an initial selection by the guest editors with the purpose to assess and eventually improve their relevance to the GJSS research focus. Accepted papers will then undergo double-blind peer review process.
All contributors will receive a final answer at the beginning ofJuly 2011.
Publication date: envisaged February 2012.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS)
Call for Papers:
Cripistemologies
Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS)
Guest Editors, Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer
“Does having a disability in itself give a person a particular point of view or
a less distorted and more complete perspective on certain issues? No. . . . But
I do want to claim that, collectively, we have accumulated a significant body of
knowledge, with a different standpoint (or standpoints) from those without
disabilities, and that that knowledge, which has been ignored and repressed in
non-disabled culture, should be further developed and articulated.”
-Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body:
Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
“A queer phenomenology might involve an orientation toward what slips, which
allows what slips to pass, in the unknowable length of its duration. In other
words, a queer phenomenology would function as a disorientation device; it would
not overcome the disalignment of the horizontal and vertical axis, allowing the
oblique to open another angle on the world. . . . Queer would become a matter of
how one approaches the object that slips away, a way to inhabit the world at the
point at which things fleet.”
-Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology:
Orientations, Objects, Others
From foundational statements in feminist disability studies to more recent
meditations at the intersection of queer theory and disability studies, the idea
of what we might term cripistemology—a theory of knowledge based in crip
embodiments, a theory of analysis predicated on crip deconstructions—is poised
on the tip of our tongues, called for, yearned for. What new forms of knowledge
might be produced through cripistemology? What are crip perspectives and
phenomenologies, and how might theorists in the humanities come to know
differently from a crip perspective? What epistemological innovations, as well
as epistemological problems, arise from cripistemological standpoints?
Following Sara Ahmed—whose work on queer phenomenology bears the implicit
imprint of the crip body as it slips or refuses to overcome disalignment, the
crip mind as it becomes disoriented and allows the oblique to open another angle
on the world—might crip as a critical positionality not also produce new
horizons of thought about objects, orientations, and others?
In asserting a crip analytic—one that is as contestatory and playful as the best
queer theory—do we risk losing our grip in a tug-of-war with medical authority?
Do identification and disidentification work the same way in crip theory as
they do in queer theory and in disability studies more generally? How do we
invoke labels of disorder, illness, and stigma without also making ourselves
subject to the structural inequalities that produced them? How might crip
theory avoid becoming ‘respectably crip’ (to redirect a phrase from Jane
Ward)—contained, in other words, by neoliberal rhetoric about diversity and
corporate multiculturalism? How might attention to cripistemologies forge a path
out of the ruts of conservative and liberal ‘options’ for thinking about
disability (and about difference in general)? What are some other routes of
thought apart from difference good, difference bad? What would move us towards
a radical reconfiguration of the question beyond the bigoted formulation of
difference as despised and the neoliberal formulation of difference as the
superficial skin covering everyone’s inherent sameness?
With such questions in mind, the co-editors seek essays that articulate a
philosophy of crip epistemologies or phenomenologies, and invite proposals on an
array of topics related to the task of defining ‘crip’ as standpoint or horizon,
which include (but are not limited to) the following:
· standpoint, sitpoint, and crippoint theory
· thinking crip, thinking black
· crip subjectivities—beyond ‘managing’ the spoiled identity
· cripping disidentification
· revealing the intersicktional, or cripping intersectionality
· cripping the Parsonian sick role
· cripistemologies of ignorance
· crip dis/orientations
· insult and the making of the crip self
· disabilinormativity and cripping the queer call to defy ‘diversity as
usual’
· crip affect—beyond the binary of crip pride/crip shame
· crip utopianism, crip nihilism
· memoirs as named or unnamed sites of cripistemological innovation
· crip ruralities and rural cripistemologies
Discussions of specific literary and cultural texts are invited, but consonant
with the philosophical flavor of this issue, preference will be given to
projects that use individual texts as vehicles to address broader cultural
debates and theoretical inquiries. A one-page proposal and a one-page
curriculum vitae should be emailed tomjohnson@uscupstate.edu
andmcruer@gwu.edu by
August 1, 2011. Finalists will be selected by November 1, 2011, and full drafts
of articles are due on May 1, 2012.
Cripistemologies
Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS)
Guest Editors, Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer
“Does having a disability in itself give a person a particular point of view or
a less distorted and more complete perspective on certain issues? No. . . . But
I do want to claim that, collectively, we have accumulated a significant body of
knowledge, with a different standpoint (or standpoints) from those without
disabilities, and that that knowledge, which has been ignored and repressed in
non-disabled culture, should be further developed and articulated.”
-Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body:
Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
“A queer phenomenology might involve an orientation toward what slips, which
allows what slips to pass, in the unknowable length of its duration. In other
words, a queer phenomenology would function as a disorientation device; it would
not overcome the disalignment of the horizontal and vertical axis, allowing the
oblique to open another angle on the world. . . . Queer would become a matter of
how one approaches the object that slips away, a way to inhabit the world at the
point at which things fleet.”
-Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology:
Orientations, Objects, Others
From foundational statements in feminist disability studies to more recent
meditations at the intersection of queer theory and disability studies, the idea
of what we might term cripistemology—a theory of knowledge based in crip
embodiments, a theory of analysis predicated on crip deconstructions—is poised
on the tip of our tongues, called for, yearned for. What new forms of knowledge
might be produced through cripistemology? What are crip perspectives and
phenomenologies, and how might theorists in the humanities come to know
differently from a crip perspective? What epistemological innovations, as well
as epistemological problems, arise from cripistemological standpoints?
Following Sara Ahmed—whose work on queer phenomenology bears the implicit
imprint of the crip body as it slips or refuses to overcome disalignment, the
crip mind as it becomes disoriented and allows the oblique to open another angle
on the world—might crip as a critical positionality not also produce new
horizons of thought about objects, orientations, and others?
In asserting a crip analytic—one that is as contestatory and playful as the best
queer theory—do we risk losing our grip in a tug-of-war with medical authority?
Do identification and disidentification work the same way in crip theory as
they do in queer theory and in disability studies more generally? How do we
invoke labels of disorder, illness, and stigma without also making ourselves
subject to the structural inequalities that produced them? How might crip
theory avoid becoming ‘respectably crip’ (to redirect a phrase from Jane
Ward)—contained, in other words, by neoliberal rhetoric about diversity and
corporate multiculturalism? How might attention to cripistemologies forge a path
out of the ruts of conservative and liberal ‘options’ for thinking about
disability (and about difference in general)? What are some other routes of
thought apart from difference good, difference bad? What would move us towards
a radical reconfiguration of the question beyond the bigoted formulation of
difference as despised and the neoliberal formulation of difference as the
superficial skin covering everyone’s inherent sameness?
With such questions in mind, the co-editors seek essays that articulate a
philosophy of crip epistemologies or phenomenologies, and invite proposals on an
array of topics related to the task of defining ‘crip’ as standpoint or horizon,
which include (but are not limited to) the following:
· standpoint, sitpoint, and crippoint theory
· thinking crip, thinking black
· crip subjectivities—beyond ‘managing’ the spoiled identity
· cripping disidentification
· revealing the intersicktional, or cripping intersectionality
· cripping the Parsonian sick role
· cripistemologies of ignorance
· crip dis/orientations
· insult and the making of the crip self
· disabilinormativity and cripping the queer call to defy ‘diversity as
usual’
· crip affect—beyond the binary of crip pride/crip shame
· crip utopianism, crip nihilism
· memoirs as named or unnamed sites of cripistemological innovation
· crip ruralities and rural cripistemologies
Discussions of specific literary and cultural texts are invited, but consonant
with the philosophical flavor of this issue, preference will be given to
projects that use individual texts as vehicles to address broader cultural
debates and theoretical inquiries. A one-page proposal and a one-page
curriculum vitae should be emailed tomjohnson@uscupstate.edu
August 1, 2011. Finalists will be selected by November 1, 2011, and full drafts
of articles are due on May 1, 2012.
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