scholarly journals Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain

Popular Music ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN CAMERON
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Performance Poetry ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
A Site ◽  
Personal Tragedy

AbstractDisability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments – as victims of personal tragedy – are held to the light and revealed as hegemonic constructions within a disabling society. Drawing upon styles that range from jazz, blues and folk to reggae, performance poetry and punk, disabled singers and bands in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain have been central to the development of an affirmative disability discourse rooted in ideas of pride, anger and strength. Examining lyrics by Johnny Crescendo, Ian Stanton and the Fugertivs – performers emerging as part of this movement in the 1980s and 1990s – this article considers the dark humour which runs through much of this work. It is suggested that these lyrics' observational reflections on everyday experiences of being oppressed as disabled people have been overlooked within critical disability studies to date, but are important in developing an understanding of positive disability identity as a tool available to disabled people in order to make sense of, and express themselves within, the world in which they find themselves.

scholarly journals Exploring the social legacy of paralympic games for disabled people

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Lyusyena Kirakosyan ◽  
Manoel Osmar Seabra Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Games

While the concept of legacy of sporting mega-events has been highly debated and filled with the promise to deliver tangible and measurable benefits, in the context of the Paralympics, defining legacy has been a challenge, due to a lack of universally understood and accepted nature and objectives of the Paralympic Games themselves. Although many authors and disability rights activists expect the Paralympics to accelerate agenda of inclusion of disabled people, a growing number of studies found that the Paralympics misrepresent disability and the reality of disabled people, and consequently reinforce negative stereotypes. Informed by critical disability studies, the central research aim of this article is to examine the social legacies of the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games for disabled people as identified in the media coverage of three selected periodicals, The Guardian, and O Globo. The article presents a summary of the qualitative analysis of the media coverage related to the topic of Paralympic legacy and disability rights, highlights its central themes and offers a discussion of the findings through the lens of critical disability studies.

Using arts-based research to understand the sociocultural facets of having invisible disabilities in a normative society

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Alexandra Allen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Disability Awareness ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Invisible Disabilities ◽  
Critical Autobiography

Abstract Disability studies is centred around the idea that disability is a social construction. Within the field of disability studies, however, many people with non-apparent disabilities are still underrepresented when it comes to the investigation of how social factors influence the formation of their own disability identity. Throughout this study, I use arts-based research to explore moments of critical disability awareness that highlight instances in which sociocultural factors have influenced my disability identity. By examining certain facets of critical disability studies that address issues of ableism, I am able to emphasize the ways in which critical autobiography can contribute to the discourse of having invisible disabilities within a normative society.

15Disability Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Quirici
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Current Direction ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
Political Obligations ◽  
The Third

Abstract This chapter reviews three books published in 2018 centering on disability and resistance. It is organized into five sections. The first, ‘Resistance, Disability, and Democracy’, summarizes debates about the political obligations of disability studies, and outlines how disability justice is replacing the former emphasis on rights. The second section, ‘Academic Perspectives’, reviews the provocative collection Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies, volume 1, identifying areas of contention and raising questions about the field’s current direction. The third section, ‘Activist Perspectives’, reviews Alice Wong’s collection Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People. The fourth section, ‘Beyond Identity’, reviews Robert McRuer’s Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. The concluding section, ‘An Abbreviated Manifesto’, asserts the vital role of disability justice in establishing alternatives to neoliberalism, resisting tyranny, and achieving democracy.

scholarly journals The Romantic and Sexual Experiences of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Ontario, Canada.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Santinele Martino
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

This dissertation will examine the sexual and intimate lives of adults with intellectual disabilitiesby putting into conversation theories from both the sociology of sexualities and the field ofcritical disability studies. The intersection of disabilities and sexualities remains a taboo topic inour society (Esmail et al. 2009; Shakespeare 2014). Research on the intersection of disabilitiesand sexualities remains under-researched and under-theorized in both the sociology of sexualitiesand critical disability studies, resulting in significant gaps in our understanding of the sexual andintimate lived experiences of disabled people (Erel et al. 2011; Kattari 2015; Liddiard 2011,2013; McRuer and Mollow 2012).

scholarly journals A call to rethink the Global North university: Mobilising disabled students’ experiences through the encounter of Critical Disability Studies and Epistemologies of the South

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110293
Author(s):  
Francesca Peruzzo
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The South ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Global North ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The University ◽  
Analytical Approaches

In the 1970s, disabled people and other marginalised social groups battled an exclusionary Global North university. Disability Studies emerged from those struggles as epistemologies shaped around a Westernised understanding of disability and inequalities, based on dialectic visions of progress and subjective liberation. Today, the advance of neoliberalism in universities, and its connection with colonial legacies, are embedded in different historical contingencies, and disabled students face new forms of discrimination. By merging analytical approaches from post-structural Critical Disability Studies and Epistemologies of the South, this article draws upon interviews with disabled students conducted in an Italian university to explore how neoliberal and capitalistic practices exclude certain knowledges and modalities of being university students. Through disabled students’ experiences, the article advances epistemologies that encompass processes of decolonisation and de-ableism of the university and argues for the Global North university to be an institution that can democratically reconcile polyhedral subjective possibilities of being.

scholarly journals The Story of My Work: How I Became Disabled

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Line

<div class="WordSection1"><p>Perhaps the best opening line in disability studies comes from Georgina Kleege: &ldquo;Writing this book made me blind.&rdquo; Following this honorable tradition, I begin my explication of disability studies through my own experience with a similar starting point: &ldquo;Feminism made me disabled.&rdquo; Honoring as well the tradition of making theory through narrative, I also follow Helen Keller, who like Kleege situates her knowledge in the local. From these exemplary works of feminist disability studies, I develop an explication of how I grew disability studies and how it grew me. Throughout, I consider the categories of <em>disabled </em>and <em>nondisabled </em>and the ways in which they have developed in disability studies literature broadly. I conclude by asserting the importance of both access and identity and community for disabled people.&nbsp;</p></div> <p class="Body1"><strong>Keywords:</strong> feminist disability studies, disability identity, misfitting, history of disability studies</p>

scholarly journals Critical Disability Studies at the Edge of Global Development: Why Do We Need to Engage with Southern Theory?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

This paper examines critical disability studies through the lens of Southern theory–a theoretical perspective on the process of knowledge production in social sciences which embodies intellectual projects from the global South (Connell, 2007). Building on Helen Meekosha’s question on decolonizing disability (2011), I critique the domination of Northern disability studies by proposing an engagement with Southern theory. My argument is three-fold: First, the use of Southern theory enables us to interrogate the domination of Northern epistemologies in Southern contexts; second, this theory unveils how colonialism has continued to manifest itself through the knowledge practices which have made the experiences of disabled people in the global South invisible; and finally, situated within the context of global development, this theory enables critical disability studies to act as a project of decolonization that engages with Indigenous ways of knowing about disability experiences. 

scholarly journals “Al half dier”: objekgeoriënteerde ontologieë, gestremdheidstudies en Siegfried (Willem Anker)

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Bibi Burger
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The World ◽  
Hands And Feet

Willem Anker’s debut novel, Siegfried, deals with the experiences of the eponymous character, who is mentally disabled and whose hands and feet are webbed. In this article, an attempt is made to investigate how the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object oriented ontologies, can be used to argue that the representation of the character of Siegfried involves a blurring of the boundaries between the human and the nonhuman. The second aim of this article is to establish whether such a blurring is ethically problematic, given the cruel ways in which people considered less human than others are often treated. Where the first aim is concerned, it is argued that Siegfried’s interaction with the world challenges hegemonic ideas of human subjectivity, especially ideas of what constitutes normal humanity. In the character of Siegfried traces are found of what can be described, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, as becomings. These becomings serve as lines of flight from blocked forms of human subjectivity. The boundaries between what is considered human and what is considered nonhuman are therefore indeed blurred. Concerning the second aim, it is argued that the novel can be read as a critique of the ways in which society treats disabled people, and that it can therefore be brought into dialogue with disability studies. The potential for object oriented ontologies to be apolitical (and even unethical, in this respect), is countered in the analysis of the novel by disability studies’ activism and social commentary. 

scholarly journals Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Kudlick ◽  
Susan Schweik
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The University

<p>This essay recounts two interconnected collaborative disability studies projects. Because of every person&rsquo;s complex relationship to their own embodiment and that of others, disability beckons us to a realm beyond abstraction, even as the field becomes ever more theoretical. We describe how disability shaped what we did and how we did it; description is a key term here. Conversations such as the ones we had in 2010 and 2012 pave the way for new ideas by offering concrete examples of disability as a generative force.&nbsp; Through risk taking and creative practice, the best academics and artists challenge the status quo, maybe serving as translators for people not in the habit of giving disability or disabled people much thought. The more people come to associate disability with positive ideas, the more we can imagine changing those hardwired negative, pitying forces that dominate approaches to policy, practices, and encounters in daily life. &nbsp;</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> access, arts, audio description, critical disability studies, collaboration, curation, design, distance learning.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Disability, Debility, and Caring Queerly

Social Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-103
Author(s):  
Christina Crosby ◽  
Janet R. Jakobsen
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Coalitional Politics

As one approach to the left of queer, the authors explore the juncture between queer studies and disability studies. Queer disability studies offers ways of conceptualizing the world as relationally complex, thus contributing additional pathways for the long project of rethinking justice in light of the critique of the liberal individual who is the bearer of rights. Debility, disability, care, labor, and value form a complex assemblage that shapes policies, bodies, and personhood. Putting disability and debility in relation to each other creates perverse sets of social relations that both constrain and produce queer potentialities, connecting affect and action in unexpected ways. A queer materialist focus on nonnormative labor opens the possibility of revaluing domestic work and caring labor generally as a first step to shifting relations between disabled people and those who do the work of care. Building social solidarity from the ground up requires both a queer theory of value and a geopolitical model of disability as vital components for queer materialism. Through a combination of embodied narrative and activist examples, the analysis frames the complexities of care and possibilities for a similarly complex coalitional politics.

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