Call for Proposals, Entries for a Handbook on the Politics of Neurodiversity
Editors: Dana Lee Baker and Matthew Mendez Garcia
Publisher: Edward Elger Publishing
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2027
We invite proposals for entries in an edited academic handbook on the politics of neurodiversity. This volume will bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on neurodiversity as a political, cultural, institutional, legal, and epistemic phenomenon.
The handbook seeks to advance critical scholarship on how neurodivergence is governed, represented, contested, institutionalized, commodified, resisted, and politicized across local, national, and global contexts. We welcome contributions from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as practitioner-scholars, activists, and community-based researchers.
We are especially interested in contributions that situate neurodiversity within broader debates concerning disability politics, citizenship, identity, labor, education, race, gender, capitalism, biopolitics, medicalization, technology, and social movements.
The handbook aims to foster dialogue across disciplines and perspectives. We particularly encourage submissions from:
Neurodivergent scholars
Early-career researchers
Disabled and scholar-activist contributors
Contributors outside North America and Western Europe
Interdisciplinary and collaborative teams
We welcome theoretical, empirical, historical, normative, and methodological approaches.
Example Topics Include (but are not limited to)
· Neurodiversity & Progressivism
· Neurodiversity & Liberalism
· Neurodiversity & Socialism
· Neurodiversity & Conservatism
· Extremism, hate, and neurodiversity
· Feminist neuroinclusion
· Neurodiversity & class power
· Neurodiversity, Faith, and Politics
· Political Histories of Neurodiversity in Nations other than the United States
· Neurodiversity and the politics of aging
· Profiles of specific activist/advocacy groups
· Black neurodivergence
· Neurodiversity in International Politics
· Positive Rights to Neuroinclusion
· Neurodiversity, Gender, and Sexuality
· Neurodiversity and Public Sector Employment
· Neurodiversity and Public Sector Ethics
Contribution Format
We envision concise, accessible, and analytically rigorous entries suitable for scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers.
Proposals should include:
A title
An abstract of approximately 250–500 words
A brief author biography (100–150 words)
Completed entries be approximately 3000 words, inclusive of bibliography and figures. Entries must meet requirements of European Accessibility Act. Entry authors must not use AI to generate text or enter their drafts into an AI system.
Submission Information
Please send proposals and inquiries to: dana.baker@csuci.edu
Deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2027
Draft chapters due: 15 August 2027
Dana Lee Baker