JMM Special Issue Call for Papers: Deadline for submissions 20 June 2022
The Disabling Marketplace
Guest Editors: Leighanne Higgins, Lancaster University, UK; Katharina C. Husemann, King's College London, UK; Anica Zeyen, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Submissions could include, but are not exhaustive of, the following themes and questions:
- Greater insight and awareness into the impairment related consumption experiences of persons living with disability.
- Current understandings of service experiences when living with disability (this could include persons with impairment and/or family, friends, spouses, carers who care for them or join the experience with them).
- The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumers with disabilities, and/ or how the pandemic may have increased many more to the disabling marketplace.
- Embodied approaches and theories to better understand disabling marketplaces.
- Advertising and marketplace populated representations of ability and disability.
- Useful and transformative methodologies that could help create a better, universally inclusive marketplace.
- Etymologies and linguistics surrounding ableism, disablism and consumption.
- Structural forces and practices that delimit and perpetuate marketplace disability.
- Drivers and barriers to inclusive marketplaces.
- The transformative potentials of universal designs in consumption and service settings.
- Hopes and fears for our future consumption experiences – i.e. how will the able-bodied be welcomed in the marketplace as we become older and/ or less able.
- Useful methodologies to help understand and transform the disabling marketplace.
Read the full call for papers here: https://www.jmmnews.com/the-disabling-marketplace/
For any questions, please contact our corresponding guest editor Leighanne Higgins l.higgins@lancaster.ac.uk
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Anica Zeyen
Associate Professor
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham
+44 1784 276631
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