[Air-L] CfP for chapters on disability, bodies, media and representation in Asia

[Jacob Johanssen]

 We have space for some additional chapters in the edited collection
*Disability
and the Media: Other Bodies* on the themes of *disability, bodies, media
and representation in Asia*. in the following edited collection.


Book edited by Diana Garrisi (JC School of Film and Television Arts, Xi’an
Jiaotong Liverpool University) and Jacob Johanssen (Communication and Media
Research Institute, University of Westminster)

Under contract with Routledge and to be published 2019 in the Routledge
Research in Disability and Media Studies series (
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-in-Disability-and-Media-Studies/book-series/RRDMS
)


Using a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches this  volume
encompasses an array of media forms including cinema,  newspapers,
television, advertising and social media. This book has several purposes.
It critically discusses the relationship between self-representation and
representations in either reinforcing or debunking myths around disability
and othering. It explores the cultural, political and commercial basis for
why media can negatively portray some people as intrinsically different.
Finally, it suggests that the dynamic relationship between traditional and
new media and the blurred lines between forms of representation and
self-representation in new media can make it more difficult to continue
framing ability and disability as mutually exclusive categories, and
therefore cast the latter as unwanted. The book presents instances of a
possible, slow cultural shift in favour of non-dichotomic views on ability
and disability increasingly represented as fluid and necessary conditions
characterizing the essence of each human being.

*We are specifically interested in chapters that focus on Asia and its
different countries in relation to the themes of the book.*

Possible themes include but are not limited to:
·         Affective labour of bodies
·         Auto-ethnographic accounts of the body in / through digital media
·         Celebrity bodies and the spectacles of transformation
·         Cinema and disability
·         Contemporary coverage of disability in
print/online/television/radio
·         De-colonizing and de-westernising the mediated body
·         Disability and advertising
·         Disability and race
·         Disability and the media: historical perspectives
·         (Dis)Empowerments of the disabled body
·         Journalism and practices of othering the body
·         Neoliberalism, policy and austerity politics
·         Reality television and the body
·         Representing wounds and scars
·         Researching bodies and the media: frameworks and methodologies
·         Stigma and the body
-         Posthumanist and non-representational frameworks
·         The abject body
·         The body and trauma
·         The mediated body as spectacle
·         The medicalised body in the media
·         The objectification of the disabled body in the media

We invite submissions of 200-250 words chapter proposals. Deadline: Friday,
21 December 2018

Submissions should also include:
a)            Title of chapter
b)            Author name/s, institutional details
c)            Corresponding author’s email address
d)            Keywords (no more than 5)
e)            A short bio

Please send chapters to diana.garrisi at xjtlu.edu.cn and
j.johanssen at westminster.ac.uk


Commissioned chapters are around 5,000 words. The fact that an abstract is
accepted does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript. All
chapters submitted will be judged on the basis of a double-blind reviewing
process.