[csaa-forum] 22nd Annual Law and Society Conference, 13 - 15 December, Brisbane Australia: Conference Stream: Gender, Disability, Queer Theory and the Law CALL FOR PAPERS

[Fiona Campbell]

Apologies for any Cross Posts:

                  22nd Annual Law and Society Conference,
                   13 – 15 December, Brisbane Australia

 Re-Collections: Official Knowledge and the Memory of Unofficial Practices



                           Conference Web Site:


         http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/slrc/lawandsocietyconf/





Conference Stream: Gender, Disability, Queer Theory and the Law

Gender,  Disability  and  Queerness  are broader analytical signifiers that
constitute  subjects  of  marginality,  liminality  as  well  as privileged
knowledges.  It  is  possible  to  speak  not  just  of  epistemological or
juridical   colonisation   but  also  of  colonisation  of  the  subjugated
cosmological   imagination   in   legal   encounters.   Sites  of  official
knowledge/unofficial   knowledges   and   practices   produce   permissible
boundaries  of  speakability/unspeakability  with  law’s reasoning. (Legal)
stories  help  us make sense of the world and the way in which we interpret
the  ‘nature’  of things and interpolate ways of difference. This stream is
consciously  unbounded  in  its  purview and as such welcomes presentations
that  recollect,  subvert  and  (re)generate  sites  for oppositional story
telling  and  the  foregrounding  of subjugated and tacit knowledges within
legal discourses and processes. The stream embraces Bell Hooks’ notion that
the margin can be a site of radical possibility and a space for resistance.
As  such,  papers that explore points of convergence and dissonance between
gender,  disability  and  queer  significations  in  legal  encounters  are
especially encouraged.

Dr. Fiona A Kumari Campbell - Fiona.Campbell at griffith.edu.au





Abstracts close 30th September, 2004. 200 words or less Forward to stream
convenor by email.


Dr. Fiona AK Campbell
Lecturer - Disability Studies
School of Human Services
Griffith University Logan Campus
University Drive Meadowbrook
Queensland 4131
Australia
+ 61 7 3382 1411
Email: Fiona.Campbell at griffith.edu.au
Member: Socio-Legal Research Centre