Faculty Member, School of Human Services & Social Work
Convenor Disability Studies Concentration
About
Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at the School of Human Services & Social Work Griffith University (Brisbane) and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka;
She has written extensively on issues related to disability—philosophy, desire, law, and technology. Her current research relates to studies in ableism, geodisability knowledges, body and mental enhancements, elective impairment, South Asian approaches to disability and the different workings of affirmative disability subjectivity. In addition is keen to explore the reworking of ideas by philosophers such as Agamben, Heidegger, Buber & Foucault into disability consciousness.
Her work has appeared in Disability & Society, M/C—Media and Culture, Disability Studies Quarterly, Australian Feminist Law Journal and Journal of Medical Humanities. Her first book, Contours of Ableism, will be published by Palgrave in October 2009. Dr Campbell is on the International Advisory Board of the Socio-Legal Review, the International Review of Disability Studies, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and is the Australian Editor of the proposed journal Disability Studies: Aotearoa & Australia.
Fiona is on the Organising Committee of the 1st South Asian Interdisciplinary Critical Disability Studies Conference to be held 19 - 21 April (proposed dates), 2011, country/venue TBA.
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