<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp145e3a6cMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">CFP: Proposed Panel for CSAA 2021 Conference, 1-3 December 2021: Disability at the intersections of technologies and mobilities </b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Various researchers have suggested the importance of a <span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">focus on the intersections of disability</span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> and <span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">mobilities</span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> (Middleton and Byles, 2019; Parent, 2016)<span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">not least because <span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">“disability provides a very sharp focus on what is at stake with mobilities, and how these are reconfigured – in exclusionary and unfair ways, but also providing options for evening up social futures”</span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> (Goggin, 2016, p. 538).<span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> This is increasingly pertinent in contemporary times</span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">, especially when it comes to technology<span></span><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">. With the pandemic, we have seen how technology can transform the ways we work, think, and interact within society, offering new opportunities around the question of disability but also potential problems. Such re-imaginings of technology are not new, but rather have always been present with disability; both in controversial ways and as technologies that have enabled the everyday lives of disabled people – think motorized wheelchairs, mobility aids, assistive devices, exo-skeletons, cochlear implants, the list goes on. With this in mind, this panel looks to explore how technology has affected the ways in which disabled populations live. Such questions are present in technologies like mobile phones, zoom and remote working, online shopping apps, social media networks, smart homes, and other new forms of emergent technologies, but also in the move towards smart cities and increasingly, the embrace of technology as the means to uplift populations by nation-states. In particular, we hope to bring together scholars who are interested in how such technologies impact the mobilities of disabled people in and across Southeast Asian nation-states and/or Australasia. We hope papers could consider the following questions: What kinds of movements, mobilities, disruptions and displacements occur at the intersection of technology and disability? How has new and emergent digital technologies, spaces, and networks, affected the ways in which disabled people move through society, in both physical and non-physical ways? What can disability as a cutting-edge analytic and source of knowledge, offer for the rethinking of mobilities and technology, and consequently society? <br><br>The organizers of this panel are Victor Zhuang, University of Illinois at Chicago and Macquarie University</span></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">, and Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We are hoping to organize a panel for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Conference 2021 to be held from 1-3 December 2021. For more information, see <a href="https://www.csaa2021conference.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.csaa2021conference.com/</a></span></span></p><div><br></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words and a brief bio to kzhuan2@uic.edu by 23 July 2021 for consideration. Thank you! </span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b>References </b><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Goggin, Gerard. 2016. "Disability and mobilities: evening up social futures." <i>Mobilities</i> 11 (4): 533-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1211821. </span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"></span></p><p class="ydp145e3a6cp1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27pt; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Middleton, Jennie, and Hari Byles. 2019. "Interdependent temporalities and the everyday mobilities of visually impaired young people." <i>Geoforum</i> 102: 76-85.</span></span></p><p class="ydp145e3a6cp1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27pt; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Parent, Laurence. 2016. "The wheeling interview: mobile methods and disability." <i>Mobilities</i> 11 (4): 521-532. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1211820. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1211820.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"> </span></p><p class="ydp145e3a6cMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p><p class="ydp145e3a6cMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p><p class="ydp145e3a6cMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p></div><br></div></div></body></html>