Contents of Special Issue of Australian Communications Journal on "Disability & Diversity"

'Disability and Diversity', special issue of 'Australian Journal of Communication' (AJC), 30.3 (2003), out mid-Dec.

Edited by Dr Gerard Goggin, University of Queensland (g.goggin@uq.edu.au), and Dr Christopher Newell, University of Tasmania (christopher.newell@utas.edu.au).

Table of Contents:
Editorial: Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell, 'Introduction: Diversity as if disability mattered'

Section 1: Institutions
Joanne Travaglia and Hamish Robertson, 'Diversity and the promotion of disability issues in the Australian public health system'

Ronnit Redman, 'Burning down the house: Conversations in law and disability'

Linda Komesaroff, 'Deaf education and underlying structures of power in communication'

Section 2: Culture, identity, language
Helen Meekosha, 'Communicating the social: Discourses of disability and difference'

Cassandra Loeser, 'The ecstasies of exchange: Reconfiguring hearing disabled masculine subjectivities in rave space'

Rose Galvin, 'The function of language in the creation and liberation of disabled identities: From Saussure to contemporary strategies of government'

Section 3: Media and Representation
Andrew Jakubowicz, 'Wheeling free? Disability studies meets media studies and the Australian media'

Stephen Tanner, Sandy Haswell, and Mandy Lake, 'Promoting the ideals of integration and diversity: Media coverage of Special Olympics Australia'

Des Power, 'Communicating about deafness: Deaf people in the Australian press'

Phil Harper, 'Networking the Deaf nation'

Epilogue: Cindy Gallois, 'Disability diversity matters'
About the 'Australian Journal of Communication': AJC is a refereed international journal that publishes original papers on human communication research, theory, and practice. Interdisciplinary or specialist papers are welcomed. The Editor of the AJC is Dr Roslyn Petelin, University of Queensland.

For those who are not AJC subscribers, a strictly limited number of copies of the 'Disability and Diversity' issue are available for purchase for A$20 (inc. postage within Australia) or US$20 (inc. postage elsewhere in the world). Contact Gerard Goggin to place an order: g.goggin@uq.edu.au.

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