CALL FOR PAPERS - VISUAL CULTURE AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

2021-04-15

CALL FOR PAPERS OF THEMATIC DOSSIER

BENJAMIN CONSTANT JOURNAL (BC) - ISSN: 1984-6061

Visual Culture and Visual Impairment

Organizers: Bianca Della Líbera da Silva (IBC) and Luiz Paulo da Silva Braga (IBC)

Submission period: April 15 to July 15, 2021.

Release forecast: October 15, 2021.

 

Visual Culture is understood as the investigative field that concentrates studies of images and their relations with the organization and elaboration of reality. According to its multidisciplinary nature, the questions of visuality dialogue with different areas, notedly to Art, Anthropology, Communication, History and Sociology. But they are also mobilized by debates from other fields of knowledge, such as Education and Teaching.

Visual Culture refers, therefore, to the multitude of repertoires and imagery representations present in our daily lives – with emphasis on design, cinema, television, advertising, architecture, photography, etc. In a visucentric society – which values and privileges visual experiences over those involving other senses – it is intended to discuss how the connection between people with visual impairment and visuality is configured; the latter, imbued of historicity, power relations and political uses in its conformation.

In this sense, it is expected to gather in this dossier works the tension – in a substantial way – between the relations of Visual Culture and visual impairment, visual impairment associated with other disabilities and also deaf-blindness, in its most varied dimensions and potentialities.

 

IMPORTANT:

  • Submissions must be made exclusively through the Benjamin Constant website. If you experience any problems, please contact the magazine's editors at the email address: revistabenjaminconstant@ibc.gov.br.
  • The articles and experience reports to be submitted should observe the instructions to the authors of the journal, available on the Benjamin Constant website.
  • The papers will be selected by the editors to make up to 12 (twelve) originals. The approved ones that exceed this quantitative will be forwarded for publication in the next editions, following the continuous sequence of BC.
  • Aiming to preserve the characteristics and scope of the proposal, papers whose investigative focus is audiodescription will be part of the dossier in proportion to a maximum of 50% of the total selected originals.

 

Permanent Call for Papers

In addition to the thematic dossier, the submissions, for the journal Benjamin Constant, of originals dealing with other subjects, but articulated to the themes of visual impairment, visual impairment associated with other disabilities and deaf-blindness, are open in a continuous segment. Articles, essays and literature reviews, experience reports and critical reviews are only accepted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Submissions must be made exclusively through the Benjamin Constant website.

Editorial Committee of Benjamin Constant.