CFA: Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism, Zoom, 13-14 Jun. UK Time (deadline: 11 Apr., 2025, 5 pm UK Time)

This is a two half-day conference organised by Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Marxism and Disability Network scholars, and kindly funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and University of Leicester. The conference will take place online (using the Zoom platform) on: ● Friday, 13th June 2025, 12:30-17:30 BST […]

On Jason Stanley On Fascism and Organizing Inaccessible Conferences

My mother has been in the hospital for the past month, in and out of intensive care; so, my time to post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has been constrained. In addition, I have been writing responses to the questions that Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria pose to me in the interview that they have conducted with […]

CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)

This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]

Becoming Black

In the first pages of his autobiography, Darcus Beese, former president of Island Records, writes about growing up Black in mid Twentieth Century London. “Generally, it was a non-issue – he writes –; until it became an issue.” (p. 28) “Sometimes I’d be out on the street with a group of mates and a white […]

(Updated) CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)

This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]

Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice (by Mich Ciurria; reposted from May 3, 2024)  

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.”  Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]

Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy

I am putting the finishing touches on “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy,” my contribution to Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. (Columbia University Press, 2025). I have copied below the pre-copyedited version of the first section of the chapter which appears under the heading “Conceptual Needs of the Argument […]

CFP: Thinking the Global with Feminist Pragmatism, Special Issue of Pragmatism Today (deadline: Feb. 15, 2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS Summer Issue 2025 Special Issue: Thinking the Global with Feminist Pragmatism In her path-breaking work, Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996), Charlene Haddock Seigfried provides concrete directions for articulating a distinctively feminist pragmatism. Generations of scholars have now been engaged in reviving the work of women philosophers to reimagine the pragmatist canon, expanding […]