Call for Papers The imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe «I’m not a professional historian, but nobody is perfect» Michel Foucault, University of Vermont, 27 October 1982 Just like gender, race and class, disability has become a standard analytical category in the historian’s tool chest nowadays. Up until now Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky’s book …
Edited Essay Collection 2nd call for Abstracts – Final Deadline Jan. 15, 2011 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and the ‘spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore sovereign power and control over the body through a consideration of the cinema’s, arguable, co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims …
Call for Papers: Cinema and the State-Tortured Body Call for Abstracts Due Date: 2010-10-01 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore the Sovereign’s power and control over the body through the cinema’s arguable co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims and …
Introduction to Post-structuralism – Essay Collection Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-10-01 This is a call for papers for an essay collection to be entitled “Introduction to Post-structuralism.” The essay collection will consist of pedagogical, explanatory descriptions of post-structuralism to be used as references or classroom textbooks. The goal of this collection is to provide clear(er) …
Book published in 2013 Omar Moufakkir, Yvette Reisinger, The host gaze in global tourism Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists’ perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, ‘The Tourist Gaze’, which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is a unique book for researchers and students as …
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