scholarly journals Subversive Status: Disability Studies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pfahl ◽  
Justin J.W. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Persistent Disability ◽  
Complex Subject

<p>What activities facilitate the development of disability studies (DS)? What barriers hinder its (multi)disciplinary flourishing? We address these questions focusing on contemporary DS in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland&mdash;vibrant but challenging locales for DS. This multidisciplinary field engages intellectuals, activists, and stakeholders to subversively cross disciplinary, institutional, and political divides. Critical DS scholarship relies on collaboration among members of the disability (rights) movement, advocates, and academics to develop its subversive status. Within the academy, despite general barriers to transdisciplinary fields of study and persistent disability discrimination, more positions have been devoted to research and teaching in DS. Intersectionality debates thrive and further disciplines discover the richness that the complex subject of dis/ability offers. The field, recognizing its subversive status and engaging insights from DS worldwide&mdash;across language and disciplinary boundaries&mdash;could better focus and unfold its critical powers. The potential of DS in the German-speaking countries continues to grow, with diverse conferences, teaching, and publications bolstering the exchange of ideas.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> disability studies, disciplines, discourse, social inequality, Germany, Austria, Switzerland</p>

scholarly journals A critical reflection on the Health and Care Professions Council Standards of Proficiency for music therapists: A critical disability studies perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-94
Author(s):  
Beth Pickard
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

This article takes the theoretical and philosophical lens of critical disability studies to critically reflect on the Health and Care Professions Council Standards of Proficiency for Arts Therapists. The discipline of critical disability studies, evolving from disability studies and the disability rights movement, is initially defined before multiple paradigms of disability are introduced as central tenets of these disciplines. The relationship between critical disability studies and music therapy is explored, with reference to seminal publications and the perceptions of music therapy within them. The Health and Care Professions Council Standards of Proficiency are then taken as a source of reflection to attempt to understand the perpetuation of medicalised perspectives in the profession and the potential friction between critical disability studies and music therapy. A selection of the Standards of Proficiency are analysed according to distinct paradigms of disability. Questions are posed to interrogate and contextualise the standards in relation to critical disability studies philosophy. From this critical reflection, a discussion emerges which reflects on the reach of these professional standards and how they might contribute to a continuing, outdated expert-model of music therapy in the United Kingdom. The article concludes by drawing these threads together in a series of recommendations to educators, practitioners and the wider profession.

“Companions”

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camp ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
The University ◽  
Twentieth Century America

The documentary Crip Camp presents a 1970s summer camp for disabled youth as a place of friendship and political dialogues that spawned the American disability rights movement. The film also represented Camp Jened as a haven of racial harmony and inclusion. Jened was not the only American micro-community of disability solidarity and political possibilities that also involved questions of racial politics. Scholars have criticized disability activists and disability studies scholars for neglecting problems of racial oppression. This historical study examines three examples of empowering disability subcultures in twentieth century America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Warm Springs rehabilitation resort from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s, the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s, and Camp Interdependence in California in the 1980s. The article interrogates the racial politics of these egalitarian communities.

Virtual Activists? Women and the Making of Identities of Disability

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Meekosha
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Rights Movement

This article examines the rise of a feminist engagement with the disability rights movement. Three realms of social being—individual, society, and the state—interact in the making of the identities of disability. The emergence of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), suggests the ways women with disabilities come to identify with an autonomous women's group and the ways in which the particular forms of our activisms are produced.

The Disability Rights Movement in Japan: Past, present and future

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 855-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Hayashi ◽  
Masako Okuhira
Keyword(s):  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disability Rights Movement

Care, Disability, and Violence: Theorizing Complex Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler

Hypatia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Clifford Simplican
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Self ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Complex Dependency ◽  
Planning Approaches ◽  
Embodied Care

How do we theorize the experiences of caregivers abused by their children with autism without intensifying stigma toward disability? Eva Kittay emphasizes examples of extreme vulnerability to overturn myths of independence, but she ignores the possibility that dependents with disabilities may be vulnerable and aggressive. Instead, her work over‐emphasizes caregivers' capabilities and the constancy of disabled dependents' vulnerability. I turn to Judith Butler's ethics and her conception of the self as opaque to rethink care amid conflict. Person‐centered planning approaches, pioneered by disability rights activists, merge Butler's analysis of opacity with Kittay's work on embodied care, while also inviting a broader network of people to both interpret needs and change communities. By expanding our conceptions of dependency, feminist disability studies can continue the aim of both Kittay and Butler: to humanize unintelligible lives.

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