Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies: Announcements

Call: Special Call with short deadline

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies — 2025-09-25

It's going to be a year soon after Anita's passing last winter. Some of us—in fact, all of us at the journal—have found and continue to find that it's not only impossible to fill the vacuum that has been left but it's also very difficult to continue thinking of disability in a way that coheres with the growth of the discipline and our own thoughts. In this vacuum, how do we do our disability? What can we take forward and how? All of us who have known her deeply have something to say—maybe meaningless—but still something. We want to bring out a special, combined issue, and we would like any or all of you to contribute a short piece each, maybe roughly 1500 words (or more) on thinking of DS and/ or gender and Anita. Please submit latest by 10^th October, as we wish to bring out the issue by the last week of October.

Send your write-up by email to: injcds@gmail.com

The journal site: https://jcdsi.org/index.php/injcds

Journal News: Editorial Board changes

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies — 2025-09-25

There have been some recent changes in the editorial board of the journal due to contingencies and due to the core editorial board decisions; these are as follows:

Due Anita Ghai's sad passing in December, 2024, the journal now has Tanmoy Bhattacharya as the sole Editor.
The subcategory of Review Editors has been removed and the previous review edtors Santosh Kumar and Ritika Gulyani have become part of the merged group of Associate Editors.
Abhishek Anicca joined the Board as a new Associate Editor from Septmeber, 2025.
The five Associate Editors' names are now displayed in alphabetic order of their first names on the journal website.

Call: Call for paper

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies — 2025-09-19

Although, we do not have a specific theme for this open call, articles directly or indirectly addressing one of the core foundational principles of critical disability studies, namely, intersectionality, are highly welcome. Intersectionality (see Crenshaw, 1989; and Crenshaw 2014 for a newspaper interview) has been most widely employed in feminist movement and gender studies (see Bell Hook, 2014). There is widespread acceptance of the role of intersectionality in finding unifying social oppression patterns across different identities (class, gender, ethnicity, caste, sexuality, ability) and help create collaborative coalitions across these identities. However, the inherent complexity of intersectionality (McCall, 2005, Carastathis, 2016) requires a careful approach towards ascribed values and the various networks that they uncover/ unleash. While certain complex categories may be easily valued (for example, racially dominating and 'non-disabled', or racially dominated and disabled) in terms of degrees of opression inflicted/ suffered, certain other complex categoies arising from the same variables (for example, racially dominating and disabled, or racially dominated and 'non-disabled') are not so easily ascribable in terms of values and therefore their participation in the oppressor-opressed dyad.

When it comes to research on disability, the intersectionality aspect of it is often neglected. We abelieve that disability studies cannot be truly inclusive without addressing this intersectional aspect. Critical disability studies (CDS) framework, among other things to be progressively explored through various issues of this journal, filled this gap by making intersectionality as one of the cornerstones of research on disability studies. Based on initial work such as Söder (2009) and Goodley (2010), more and more research within the domain of CDS is addressing intersectionality (see Artiles, Dorn, & Bal, 2016, Artiles, 2013, among others).

Possible themes of the research papers may include (but are not limited to);

Justification of intersectional perspective in (critical) disability studies;
Complexity that intersectionality may introduce in disability research;
History of intersectionality in disability;
Intersectionality and activism in disability;
Intersectionality and its relations to other frames of disability reference;
The role of ‘the body’ and intersectionality;
The significance of intersectionality in the context of hemisphere/ region such as Southern/ south Asia;

Select References

Artiles, A. J. (2013). Untangling the racialization of disabilities: An intersectionality critique across disability models. DuBois Review, 10, 329–347.
Artiles, A. J., Dorn, S., & Bal, A. (2016). Objects of protection, enduring nodes of difference: Disability intersections with “other” differences, 1916–2016. Review of Research in Education, 40, 777–820.
Carastathis, Anna (2016). Leong, Karen J.; Smith, Andrea (eds.). Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803285552.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé (1989). "Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics". University of Chicago Legal Forum: 139–168.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé(2004). "Intersectionality: the double bind of race and gender". Perspectives Magazine. American Bar Association.
Goodley, D. (2010). Disability Studies: an Interdisciplinary Introduction, London: Sage.
Hooks, Bell (2014) [1984]. Feminist Theory: from margin to center (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138821668.

Call: Submission link issue

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies — 2025-09-16

This is to inform all concerned that due to a snag in the journal portal, the papers submitted for possible consideration for publication in the journal InJCDS since January 2024 are not accessible at the moment. This is to request all authors who have submitted to the journal to kindly upload the same again, and if the submission link fails to works, please send by email to injcds@gmail.com.

The same holds for any new submission, if the submission link does not work, please send the contribution by email.

Journal News: ISSN

Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies — 2023-10-21

ISSN assigned for the Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies is:

2583-5610 (Online)