Photographer Howard Schatz showcases the amazing diversity – and beauty – of the female athlete in a series of photos. The Huffington Post has more info.
Day: November 21, 2013
CFP: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
Deadline: January 15. It would be really delightful if feminist philosophers made a point of submitting work to this special issue! The editors sent a copy of the announcement to some feminist listservs already, noting that they would especially appreciate spreading word of this CFP in countries in which they have fewer contacts (including Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology Call for Papers:
Critical Underpinnings of User/Survivor Research and Co-Production
Guest Editors: Jayasree Kalathil, PhD & Nev Jones, PhD(c)
Editorial Assistant: Clara Humpston, M.Sc.
Over the past several decades, user/survivor leadership in research as well as academic “co-production” (understood as a more robust form of academic co-leadership and shared decision making as opposed to nominal or tokenistic participatory methods) has gained strong traction in the areas of mental health services research, program evaluation, policy reform and, to a lesser extent, philosophy and cultural theory. In spite of these advances, the theoretical assumptions and implications involved in such projects remain largely underdeveloped and critically un-interrogated. Likewise, critiques of user/survivor involvement and leadership rarely make their way into peer-reviewed publications, for the most part enduring in the space of informal conversations and behind-the-scenes decision-making. Certain areas of academic scholarship, including the medical humanities and philosophy of psychiatry and psychology, have similarly failed to consider the unique theoretical contributions scholars or others with lived experience might be in a position to make. Literary and philosophical analyses of others’ first person accounts, narratives or memoirs often exclude any discussion of the role or contribution of first person theory (broadly understood as the formal or informal interpretation and analysis of the sociopolitics, temporal dynamics, implications and/or rhetorical effects of first person narrative, story-telling or memoir).
The goal of the current call for papers is to solicit proposals aimed at tackling the ‘hard’ questions implicated in processes of user/survivor inclusion, exclusion and co-production. Proposals will be considered for inclusion in one or more special issues of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology as well as a planned edited book tentatively targeted for Oxford University Press’ International Perspectives on Philosophy & Psychiatry series. We are soliciting proposals in English from a range of disciplines as well as from diverse positions and standpoints, including but not limited to individuals who identify as service users or survivors. We particularly encourage the submission of papers that critically appraise user/survivor research, leadership or co-produced work (again, both from peer and non-peer scholars and stakeholders).
Examples of topics of interest include (but are emphatically not limited to):
· critical explorations of the meaning and value of ‘expertise by experience’, particularly with respect to theoretical and philosophical work
· implications of the heterogeneity of service experiences, madness/disorder, temporal trajectories of distress and/or recovery, and identity
· political issues involved in the marginalization and othering of user/survivors with intersecting socio-political minority identities
· methodological and ethical considerations (including inter- and trans-disciplinarity, leadership in the humanities and basic and translational science vs. applied mental health services research)
· interrogating key terms: user involvement, co-production, control, leadership, co-leadership
· ethical and methodological issues in relation to academic and theoretical engagement with personal narratives of madness/mental health (including autobiographies and memoirs)
· divisions between academia, community-based engagement, policy and organizational development, and activism
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