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 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.

scholarly journals Paved Trails and Shampoo Shopping

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Aimee Louw
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Mobility Studies

Poetry is a gentle but relentless coach, a lover, personal benchmark, and record for growth. She shifts beliefs, practices, and emotions, tracking pitfalls, steps back, steps around, stillness, like a smooth laketop or slow-streaming river. In this Research-Creation piece, I develop my version of ‘Crip Poetics’ through autoethnographic methods including video poems and hybrid prose-poetry writing. Drawing on Critical Disability Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Mobility Studies, I bring questions of white supremacy and settler colonialism into conversation with accessibility in Canada. I interview Indigenous people with varying relationships to disability and disabled people of multiple settler cultures, using qualitative methods including Hangout as Method (Warren Cariou) and Wheeling Interviews (Laurence Parent). Engaging with interview transcripts as text, to continue conversation and exchange with interviewees, this study offers reflections on interviewing as a method. Reflecting on the limits of participant-action research and representation, I interrogate the role of researchers in marginalized knowledge production, engaging with the limits and possibilities of ‘unsettling research’. I aim to redirect eugenic trends in disability discourse and history towards prioritizing the telling of our own stories. It's my hope that these conversations and the intersections of these struggles are brought to the fore—this selection being one avenue among many to further this work. Dance with me between words and beyond political affiliation.

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.

Knowing Through Tripping: A Performative Praxis for Co-Constructing Knowledge as a Disabled Halfie

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructing Knowledge ◽  
Disability Research

This article reflects on a performative praxis entailing cultural, symbolic, embodied, and political processes involved in negotiating difference and sameness from the perspective of doing disability research in India as a disabled “halfie.” Based on my own disability experience that disrupted binaries between insider and outsider, I argue that researchers’ disability identities themselves may not be sufficient for becoming an insider to the disability community, due to varying intersectional and cultural contexts. Exposing inadequacies of the liberal disability studies methodology in the social sciences, I draw from critical qualitative methods rooted in performative, postcolonial, and critical ethnography to address questions of positionality and reflexivity, facilitating similitude and knowledge production.

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 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 The World-Systemic Dynamics of Knowledge Production: The Distribution of Transnational Academic Capital in the Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márton Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
World System ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
World Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Center Periphery

This paper expands the framework of the Bourdieusian field theory using a world-system theoretical perspective to analyze the global system of social sciences, or what might be called the world-system of knowledge production. The analysis deals with the main agents of the world-system of social sciences, and it also investigates the core-like and periphery-like processes of the system. Our findings affirm that a very characteristic center-periphery structure exists in global social sciences, with a few hegemonic countries and distinctly peripheral world regions. Our analysis not just presents empirical data on power structures in global social sciences but it also offers meaningful typologies for analysis of the roles different world regions play in maintaining the world-system of global knowledge production. The paper also proposes a three-dimensional model by which both geographical and social/institutional center-periphery relations may be analyzed.

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 ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Karvonen ◽  
Vladimir Cvetkovic ◽  
Pawel Herman ◽  
Karl Johansson ◽  
Hedvig Kjellström ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Science

AbstractDigitalisation is an increasingly important driver of urban development. The ‘New Urban Science’ is one particular approach to urban digitalisation that promises new ways of knowing and managing cities more effectively. Proponents of the New Urban Science emphasise urban data analytics and modelling as a means to develop novel insights on how cities function. However, there are multiple opportunities to broaden and deepen these practices through collaborations between the natural and social sciences as well as with public authorities, private companies, and civil society. In this article, we summarise the history and critiques of urban science and then call for a New Urban Science that embraces interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to scientific knowledge production and application. We argue that such an expanded version of the New Urban Science can be used to develop urban transformative capacity and achieve ecologically resilient, economically prosperous, and socially robust cities of the twenty-first century.

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