Announcements

January 20, 2024

The Center on Disability Studies, the interdisciplinary research center of the College of Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of Review of Disability Studies: International Journal, the Special Issue on China and Disability.

The 595-page double issue (Volume 18, Issue 4 & Volume 19, Issue 1) is guest-edited by Drs. Luanjiao Hu, The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University, and Fengming Cui, Harvard University.


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Call For Papers: 
RDS Special Issue on Disability and the Global South: 

Conversations with/across the Global South: 
Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities*

Special Issue of Review of Disability Studies: Conversations with/across the Global South: Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities, with Guest Editors Drs. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University; Katie Aubrecht, St. Francis Xavier University; and Shilpaa Anand, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.


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The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal plans a special issue on the Global South and the future of decolonial disability.  We are currently soliciting manuscripts of about 6,000 words in length that are due by August 31st, 2023. The special issue aims to create a decolonial platform for researchers and activists across the Global North and South to revisit, reclaim, and re-imagine their stories through the lens of decolonial and anti-ableist futures.


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China & Disability Special Issue: Call for papers

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on Disability and China with guest editors Dr. Luanjiao Hu, The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University, and Dr. Fengming Cui, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard University. We are currently soliciting papers of approximately 6000 words in length. The deadline for submission of papers has been extended to November 18th, 2022. Papers should be submitted to the RDS online submission system at https://rdsjournal.org/ .

https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/china-and-disability


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Aloha all,

Coming soon: Conference Proceedings from the 37th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference
  The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, College of Education, is pleased to announce the upcoming Winter Issue of Review of Disability Studies: The Conference Proceedings from the 37th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference.    The interdisciplinary issue will feature a survey of some of the innovative live presentations from around the globe at last year's Pac Rim International Conference.   Contributors will be contacted shortly if any additional matter is required.   Meanwhile,  • The current issue of RDS "Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa"  is now available at https://rdsjournal.org. • And this year's Pacific Rim Conference's Call for Proposals for the 38th Annual Pac Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity (March 6th and 7th in-person in Honolulu, HI) is currently open at https://pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu/  
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Aloha,

The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, College of Education, is pleased to announce the release of an Extended Special Issue of Review of Disability Studies: Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa. The double issue (pp. 343) is now available at https://rdsjournal.org.

The interdisciplinary issue features renowned guest editors Elvis Imafidon (University of London) and Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University), two preeminent scholars on disability and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Plain language abstracts for all articles may be viewed here: https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/Africa-plain-language-abstracts

 


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China & Disability Special Issue: Call for papers

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on Disability and China with guest editors Dr. Luanjiao Hu, The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University, and Dr. Fengming Cui, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard University. We are currently soliciting papers of approximately 6000 words in length. The deadline for submission of papers has been extended to November 18th, 2022. Papers should be submitted to the RDS online submission system at https://rdsjournal.org/ .

https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/china-and-disability


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The RDS Editorial team is pleased to announce a new Special Issue of Review of Disability Studies on Disability and Film and Media.   The interdisciplinary issue features guest editors Beth Haller and Lawrence Carter-Long, two of the nation's preeminent disability and film and media scholars and contains innovative research and creative work from around the world that looks at the role film and media can play in how we think about disability, and perhaps in helping create more inclusive and equitable spaces.

Plain language abstracts for all articles may be viewed here.
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Mahalo nui loa (Thank You Very Much!) to all who participated in the March 1-2, 2021 Pac Rim Virtual Conference and made it such a success. 

Only papers presented at the Conference are eligible to be considered for the Pac Rim Proceedings issue. Submissions are accepted from March 9 to March 31, 2021 HST at https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/about/submissions

Save the dates! For the 2022 37th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability & Diversity Monday, February 28 and Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Email: [email protected] website: https://pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu/

Submissions to the quarterly Review of Disability Studies issues continue to be accepted on an ongoing basis.


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The Review of Disability Studies (RDS) is an anonymous peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies. We are honored to  have readers and authors from all over the world. We accept submissions in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. Additionally, as part of our Global Perspective on Disability initiative (by Associate Editors S. Kazemi and H. Karah), we will be publishing two native language submissions in each issue. 

While submissions are not limited to such, we continue to welcome submissions that address the ways in which the current pandemic has impacted our practices, our lives, and the ways in which we collectively conceive of (and experience) disability.


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The Center on Disability Studies at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is hosting the 36th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability & Diversity (Pac Rim). March 1–2, 2021 (HST) – Virtual Proposals Due: December 20, 2020 at pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu.

This year’s theme, INNOVATE, invites disability activists, scholars and friends from around the globe to share innovative ideas about how to best leverage this extraordinary moment towards our shared goal of creating inclusive communities for all.

Papers presented at the conference will be eligible to be considered for publication in a special issue of The Review of Disability Studies to feature conference proceedings.

Questions? Contact [email protected], visit pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu, or connect through social media at www.facebook.com/PacRimHawaii


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The editor and editorial board of the Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal invites your participation in peer review of manuscripts. Individuals with expertise in disability studies and a commitment to social justice are invited to become reviewers for this well-established open source journal.

Please see the 2020 Call for Reviewers full document at https://bit.ly/RDS_Reviewer_UPDATE for further information and how to submit an application.

Applications sent to [email protected] will be accepted until November 30th, 2020. Questions may be addressed to managing editor Sandra Shitanishi and editor Raphael Raphael at [email protected].


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The editor and editorial board of the Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal invites your participation in peer review of manuscripts. Individuals with expertise in disability studies and a commitment to social justice are invited to become reviewers for this well-established open source journal.

Please see the 2020 Call for Reviewers full document at https://bit.ly/RDS_Reviewer_UPDATE for further information and how to submit an application.

Applications sent to [email protected] will be accepted until November 23rd, 2020. Questions may be addressed to managing editor Sandra Shitanishi and editor Raphael Raphael at [email protected].


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Revealing the latest advancements in international disability studies in Australia & India, Canada, Ghana, Hawaii, and Saudi Arabia. Including a special 'aloha' & farewell editorial from our long-time Editor-in-Chief, Megan A. Conway. We are thankful for all of your dedication in making the journal a success and we look forward to your next journey in life. http://bit.ly/RDSv15i2


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Dive into the Review of Disability Studies Journal's 2019 Spring issue, featuring topics ranging in Disability and Immigrant Mothers in Korea; Math Educators; Ableism Scale; Multimedia Reviews; including announcements for upcoming Disability Studies opportunities. Read more at http://bit.ly/RDSv15i1.


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Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal. Volume 14 Issue 3. Dismantling Abelism: The Moral Imperative for School Leaders. Dr. Holly Manaseri, Dr. Josh Bornstein, RDS Guest Editors. September 2018. Photo of Holly Manaseri and Josh Bornstein


Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 14 Issue 3

Launching RDS Journal's open-access issue with special forum, 'Dismantling Abelims: The Moral Imperative for School Leaders' with special Guest Editors. Dr. Holly Manaseri & Dr. Josh Bornstein. Including a featured Editorial by RDS Forums Editor Dr. Jenifer Barclay, a first-person creative works perspective, and our ongoing effort to highlight the latest in Disability Studies dissertations and abstracts. Read more at http://bit.ly/RDS_v14i3


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Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal. Volume 14 Issue 2. The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation.  Dr. Jen Slater, Dr. Kirsty Liddiard RDS Guest Editors. June 2018


Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 14 Issue 2

Releasing the highly anticipated forum 'The Crip, The Fat and The Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation and Affirmation' w/ Guest Editors Dr. Kirsty Liddiard & Jen Slater. Including a delightful #DisFilm interview w/ Dominick Evans, along with the latest Disability Studies opportunities. Read more at http://bit.ly/RDSJ_v14i2


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RDSJ Redaction 2018-03-20

We are releasing a revised version of Volume 13, Issue 4 of the Review of Disability Studies.  Most particularly, we regret that we made some editorial errors related to preferred pronouns, in the article “What is a Service Animal? A Careful Rethinking” by Margaret Price, by inadvertently overlooking automatic changes made by spellcheck.
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Providing fresh perspectives and time-relevant articles, RDS Journal's first issue of 2018 covers: school violence & mental health, reviews of To Siri with Love and Diffability Hollywood, upcoming disability studies courses, and just in time for #DDawareness18, articles on autism, FASD, and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Read full issue at http://bit.ly/RDSJ_v14i1


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The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal is issuing a Call for Papers for a special forum on the subject of shame and disability, broadly conceived. It is hoped that through critical discourse addressing the historical and current contexts, contributing factors, effects, and responses to shame, greater understanding of this phenomena will diminish discrimination and violence.

Full papers should be submitted directly to RDS online at http://bit.ly/RDS_AuthorGuidelines no later than June 1, 2018. Please submit to the category “Forum - Disability and Shame”.

For questions about the content of the Forum, please contact the guest editors John Jones, [email protected], Dana Lee Baker, [email protected], or Stephanie Patterson, [email protected].

For questions about the submissions process, please contact [email protected]

Submissions to this special issue will undergo a process of peer-review. Authors will be notified of whether their papers will be invited for consideration in the forum by August 1, 2018. Prospective authors are encouraged to consult the RDS website at www.rdsjournal.org for more information about the journal and its formatting guidelines. Authors are encouraged to review previous issues of RDS in preparing their paper. Please note that initial acceptance of an article does not guarantee publication in RDS. RDS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, international journal published by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. The journal contains research articles, essays, creative works and multimedia relating to the culture of disability and people with disabilities.


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Photo of Dr.Megan Conway, RDS Chief Editor Editorial "Disabled Lives Matter" v 13 n 1 March 2017                                                                                        www.rds.hawaii.edu

We are excited to announce the publication of Volume 13 Issue 3 of Review of Disability Studies, an international, peer-reviewed journal. Discover diverse voices in this issue ranging from Self Advocates, Rehabilitation Counselors, Creative Writers, Influential Bloggers, and Education Experts.

 

 

 


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Dismantling Ableism: The Moral Imperative for Leaders - Volume 14 Issue 3


The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal(RDS) seeks proposals for a special forum on Dismantling Ableism: The Moral Imperative for Leaders. We are currently soliciting papers of up to 40000 words in length, including references and tables. The deadline for submission of papers is October 1, 2017. Papers should be submitted as a new submission at rdsjournal.org. 

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, please contact the special issue editors Dr. Holly Manaseri at [email protected] or Dr. Josh Bornstein at [email protected]


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Photo of Raphael Raphael, RDS Associate Editor for Multimedia & Creative Works,                                                                                        www.rds.hawaii.eduThe latest issue of the Review of Disability Studies is out! Dive into this issues' topics ranging for Disability Studies in Physical Recreation, Social Participation of Children, Immigrants in Australia, Anxiety as a Tool for Critical Disability Studies, Film Genre and Mental Illness and much more.



Visit our website to read the full issue at http://bit.ly/2qBtxWy

Become a subscriber today - subscriptions start at just $25.00


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The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation. Volume 14 Issue 2, Summer 2018


CALL FOR PAPERS.  Special Issue  | Volume 14 Issue 2. The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation. How are Crip, fat and ugly embodiments both resisting and resistant? How might they offer new ways on interrogating global austerity and neoliberal ways of life? How might the Crip, the fat, and the ugly generate new, diverse and polymorphous pleasures? What are the relationships, entanglements and connections between the austere and the aesthetic? What communities do the Crip, the fat, and the ugly build and how are these critical for survival, love and life? . DUE JULY 15, 2017. Guest Editors: Dr. Jen Slater j.slater@shu.ac.uk Dr. Kirsty Liddiard k.liddiard@sheffield.ac.uk


The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) seeks proposals for a special forum on the Crip, the fat, the ugly. We are currently soliciting papers of up to 7500 words in length, including references and tables. The deadline for submission of papers is July 17, 2017. Papers should be submitted to the Special Guest Editors Dr. Jen Slater, Sheffield Hallam University [email protected], and Dr. Kirsty Liddiard, University of Sheffield [email protected] . Upon submission, please indicate that your paper is for consideration of the special forum on the Crip, the fat, and the ugly in an age of austerity.


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Photo of Dr.Megan Conway, RDS Chief Editor Editorial "Disabled Lives Matter" v 13 n 1 March 2017                                                                                        www.rds.hawaii.edu

 The latest issue of the Review of Disability Studies is out! Dive into this issues' advancement of ideas from authors representing Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Hawaii, India, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

 

 

 


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Conference Topic Area: 2017 Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity

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Disability Studies cultivates a critical narrative consciousness to unlock understandings of disability in the context of multiple disciplines, experiences, and perspectives. This topic area will explore and investigate ideas of cultural identity, social conditions, and social justice, including historical, socio-cultural, political, and economic perspectives about impairment; politics and legislation; diversity; and education.


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The latest issue of RDS is out! You won't want to miss this issue featuring an international tapestry of disability studies focused research, creative works, best practices, film review and much more.

Check out our featured editorial Cripping Concepts: Accessibility by Dr. Kelly Fritsch, RDS Associate Editor for Research.

 


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Registration Now Open for Spring Disability Studies Courses Through the UH Outreach College!
The University of Hawaii at Manoa offers the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Disability and Diversity Studies, a 15 credit graduate level (master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral) program sponsored by the Center on Disability Studies (CDS) in the College of Education. CDS also offers both graduate and undergraduate level Disability Studies Courses that can be taken as electives.
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Disability & Aging: International Perspectives

Photo of Dr.Katie Aubrecht, RDS Forums Editor Photo of Tamara Krawchenko, RDS Guest EditorPopulation aging is taking place in nearly all countries across the globe. Within current research and policy, the relationship between disability and aging is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Disability is assumed to be a product of unsuccessful aging, and aging as an obstacle to living well with a disability.


This special issue of The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) features eight original articles that analyze how disability and aging appear within research and policy in Canada, the United States, Australia and Switzerland. The articles in this international collection use interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the relationship between disability and aging in its complexity. They expose and challenge age and disability related myths and misconceptions and reconsider why global population matters.

Dr. Aubrecht & Dr. Krawchenko, Guest Editors


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Special Forum on Cripping Care: Care Pedagogies and Practices Volume 13 Issue 4, Fall 2017

Logo, The Review of Disability Studies An International Journal, Cripping Care: Care Pedagogies and practices, Volume 13 Issue 4, CALL FOR PAPERS Cripping Care: Care Pedagogies and Practices invites scholarly, multimedia and artistic explorations of care as a critical pedagogical terrain. To ‘crip’ care means to recognize the agency and value of disabled persons at the center of care relationships, as well as scholarly and artistic inquiry about care. Cripping care asserts a new direction in disability studies that opens fresh perspectives, critiques and practices to resist normalizing, often violent care regimes and practices.

The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal invites scholarly, multimedia and artistic explorations of care as a critical pedagogical terrain for the 2017 Special Forum, Cripping Care: Care Pedagogies and Practices.


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The newest issue of RDS is out!! You won't want to miss this very special edition featuring a forum from the 2015 Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity - Volume 11, Issue 4, online now! Become a subscriber today!

To visit our website featuring the latest issue click here: http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/

To visit our blog featuring an introduction by Associate Editor for Forums Katie Aubrecht previewing this very special issue click here: http://rdsinternationaljournal.blogspot.com/


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Happy Fall from RDS!

The Fall semester is well under way and our International journal is receiving submissions from all over the world! The newest issue of the Review of Disability Studies (RDS), Volume 11, Issue 3 has something for everyone. 
A few things from our exciting current issue:

Despite the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1975 granting children with disabilities in the US access to education and integration in schools, many classrooms remain segregated today. Priya Lalvani from Montclair State University shares her research on this issue in the manuscript entitled: "Rethinking Disability and Inclusive Education: A Teacher Study Group." Exploring institutionalized ableism and the role of educators in the systematic segregation of students with disabilities in schools has important implications for inclusive education in democratic societies.

The tourism industry in Zimbabwe is booming. Despite the fact that tourism is a social right for all, and people with disabilities represent a substantial market for tourism, little has been done to ensure access to tourism facilities for those with disabilities. Oliver Chikuta draws attention to this topic and makes recommendations in his research article "Is There Room in the Inn? Towards Incorporating People with Disability in Tourism Planning." 
The internationally acclaimed artist Lee Mingwei gave the "gift of song" to Maria Timberlake, our Associate Editor for Creative Works. In Maria's article she shares how she felt receiving such a gift, and her experience later as artist for a day in Mingwei's Living Room exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Maria draws implications from Mingwei's art to her studies on inclusive education and his emphasis on human connection, paying sincere attention to others, and dissolving barriers. She describes her experiences and insights in her piece entitled, "Inclusion and the Gifts of Art." 

Remember, to view the current issue and any content from the past year, you must be a subscriber! So, what are you waiting for? It's a great time to give yourself the gift of knowledge with a subscription to the Review of Disability Studies!! Register and Subscribe today. 

We are always looking for submissions, so spread the word! We are anxious to receive your research articles but would also love to get your creative submissions- poetry, essays, short stories, art work, photography, anything in the area of disability studies that you want to share with an international audience. Send your work today! For more info, check out our website.

Wishing you a productive Fall. Until next time, mahalo nui loa!!

RDS Editorial Team
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