Updated call for abstracts: Movements in Physiotherapy
3rd Critical Physio anthology, deadline Mar 15/23
UPDATED & EXTENDED: Call for abstracts
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New Critical Physiotherapy anthology
Working title: Exploring physical therapy’s range of motion/movement
Editors:
Clair Hebron, Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton, UK
Roshan Galvaan, Professor, University of Cape Town
Karen Synne Groven, Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University, VID Scientific University, Norway
Patricia Thille, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy, University of Manitoba
For the third anthology of critical physiotherapy scholarship, the editors invite critical interrogations and transformative explorations of motion and movement within physical therapy. As critical thinkers committed to being a positive force for an otherwise physiotherapy, we hope this book provides another excellent opportunity for contributors to explore new territory, new ideas, new collaborations, new possibilities.
As a profession with a central focus on movement, we ask where does physiotherapy move easily – perhaps too easily? And where are we stuck, hypomobile, or even perhaps, dislocated, painfully out of alignment? What movements are desired, but as of yet, still a struggle? And what causes these particular ranges of motion; why can we move so easily in some directions, and not others? What are we moving away from, and toward?
UPDATE: We invite contributions, especially from the Global South, that enhances pluriversal[i] and reflexive dialogue about ways of knowing, understanding, and approaching movement within physical therapies. We seek contributions that move away from definitive physical interpretations of movement towards critical explorations. Movement may be metaphoric and/or cognitive, affective and otherwise ways of knowing and seeing movement in personal or social terms.
Based on the review of the first set of abstracts, we have decided on three emphases within the book:
1) Critical social theory: where does critical theory move physiotherapy and its core concepts
a. Expected here is a meaningful engagement with critical theories
2) Personal accounts of movement in relation to physical therapies, thinking with the broader sense of the word movement
a. for example, first person narratives written by physiotherapists and/or persons with past or present experiences of physiotherapy, about metaphoric or affective movements they experienced in relation to physical therapies
3) Movements in and affecting physiotherapy – ie, imagined future movements, historical movements, and the like
a. for example, an imagined future integrating disability justice or decolonial perspectives with physiotherapy
Critical essays, arts-based works, practice-based examples, or empirical studies are welcome.
The resulting anthology will be open-access.
Prospective authors are invited to submit 250 – 300 word abstracts to propose their chapter to the editors at c.l.hebron@brighton.ac.uk by Mar 15, 2023. Proposals should include the chapter title, authors and country for each, and a 250-300 word abstract without references.
The editors will review the abstracts and reply by the end of March 2023. We will ask that successful authors to submit completed manuscripts by Aug 31/23.
[i] Pluriversality is an epistemic and political delinking from modernity/coloniality. Moving away from the idea of the uni-versal (González García, 2006), it brings into existence other ethics and politics by foregrounding “other epistemologies, other principles of knowledge and understanding” (Mignolo, 2007, p. 5).
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