scholarly journals Star Performances: Ed Roberts on the Speaking Circuit, 1983-1995

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
California Department ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Performed Identity

This article uses historical research methods to explore noted disability rights leader Ed Roberts' performances on the speaker circuit between 1983, when he left his position as director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, and his death in 1995. This article examines how he managed his performed identity, his self as presented on stage, in order to be a disability star. Using his own life story as a poignant example, he narrated an autobiography of how a paralyzed man could live a vigorous, successful, indeed a joyful life. His personal stories communicated his lived experiences of battling discrimination and stereotypes. Roberts skillfully and strategically marshalled his own growing celebrity as the most prominent disabled American while he promoted the cause of civil rights for disabled people.

Becoming the Rolling Quads: Disability Politics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
California Department ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The University

Historical analyses of 1960s university campus activism have focused on activities related to the civil rights movement, Free Speech Movement, and opposition to the Vietnam War. This study supplements the historiography of civil disobedience and political activity on college campuses during that tumultuous era with an account of the initiation of the disability rights movement with the Rolling Quads, a group of disabled student activists at the University of California, Berkeley. This small group, with little political experience and limited connections to campus and community activists, organized to combat the paternalistic managerial practices of the university and the California Department of Rehabilitation. Drawing from the philosophy and strategies of the seething political culture of 1969 Berkeley, the Rolling Quads formed an activist cell that expanded within less than a decade into the most influential disability rights organization in the country.

scholarly journals Teaching Students How to Make Their Dreams Come True: An Autoethnography of Developing and Teaching the Dream Research Methods Course

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Baesler
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Student Perspectives ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Institutional Issues ◽  
Dream Research

How to make students’ dreams come true is the central focus of this autoethnography that chronicles the story of the transformation of a traditional undergraduate communication research methods course into a new and creative dream research methods course. Pedagogical and institutional issues in teaching the traditional methods course join personal influences in my life story to birth the new dream research methods course. The content and format of the new course are described chronologically using personal stories, student perspectives, advice to teachers, and reflection questions. I encourage teachers, by experimenting with the ideas in the dream research methods course, to serve as midwives for helping bring their students’ dreams to birth.

Disability and Work During the Industrial Revolution in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Blackie
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paid Employment

A common claim in disability studies is that industrialization has marginalized disabled people by limiting their access to paid employment. This claim is empirically weak and rests on simplified accounts of industrialization. Use of the British coal industry during the period 1780–1880 as a case study shows that reassessment of the effect of the Industrial Revolution is in order. The Industrial Revolution was not as detrimental to the lives of disabled people as has often been assumed. While utopian workplaces for disabled people hardly existed, industrial sites of work did accommodate quite a large number of workers with impairments. More attention therefore needs to be paid to neglected or marginalized features of industrial development in the theorization of disability. Drawing on historical research on disability in the industrial workplace will help scholars better understand the significance of industrialization to the lives of disabled people, both in the past and the present.

scholarly journals The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonna Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Participatory Photography ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

A Struggle for Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher N. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Communities Of Color

A Struggle for Heritage draws on extensive archaeological, archival, and oral historical research and sets a remarkable standard for projects that engage a descendant community left out of the dominant narrative. Matthews demonstrates how archaeology can be an activist voice for a vulnerable population’s civil rights as he brings attention to the continuous, gradual, and effective economic assault on people of color living in a traditional neighborhood amid gentrification. Providing examples of multiple approaches to documenting hidden histories and silenced pasts, this study is a model for public and professional efforts to include and support the preservation of historic communities of color.

scholarly journals Disability, Rights and Vulnerability in British Parliamentary Debate

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Odell
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Disability Movement ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper examines discussion of disability and disabled people by Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK House of Commons from 1979–2017. It examines general trends in the number of speeches mentioning disability, including the parties and MPs most likely to mention disability issues, and examines how disability is used in conjunction with two keywords: ‘rights’ and ‘vulnerable’. It uses these keywords to explore two conceptions of how the state should engage with disability and disabled people: a paternalistic conception (which post-2010 has become more common) and a rights-based conception (which has been in decline since the 1990s). I conclude with a discussion about how this reflects the disability movement in the UK, and what it means for the future of disability politics, the welfare state and how disabled people themselves might view paternalistic government policies.

scholarly journals Identifying Level of Historical Consciousness of College Students of History Education in Terms of Ethnicity, Especially Javanese and Minangkabau

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisiah Aisiah ◽  
Sumarno Sumarno
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
History Education ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
State University ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Education College ◽  
Historical Research Methods

The purpose of this study was to identify level of historical consciousness of college students in Indonesia in terms of ethnic groups, particularly Javanese and Minangkabau ethnics. Historical consciousness is measured by four aspects, namely knowledge of historical events, understanding of historical research methods, finding meaning of historical events and viewing historical usefulness. Subjects were Javanese college students, represented by history education college students of State University of Yogyakarta and Minangkabau college students represented by history education college students of Padang State University. The research data were collected through historical consciousness test. Test instruments were formulated in the form of multiple choice questions associative consisting of knowledge about historical events, understanding of historical research methods, finding meaning of historical events and viewing usefulness of history. The data were analyzed by the percentage of the average scores level of historical consciousness on both ethnics group of college students. Overall, result analysis showed that percentage score of historical consciousness of Javanese college students is 42% higher than college student of Minangkabau i.e. 39%. It means that the level of historical consciousness of Javanese college students higher than Minangkabau college students.

scholarly journals Merekonstruksi Sejarah SUB Komandemen Sumatera Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ravico Ravico
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Local History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Dutch Colonial

Local history is often underestimated, so many primary sources of history are neglected and damaged. Therefore, the need for the existence of the museum as a container for the preservation of historical sites. For example, the Museum Subkoss Garuda Sriwijaya, which stores objects of community struggle in Southern Sumatera against the Dutch Colonial. However, lack of interest and information so that many collections in the museum are considered as insignificant data. Therefore, the need to reconstruct the history behind the museum collection as a first step. This research uses historical research methods with steps, namely; heuristics, verification, interpretation and historiography. To analyze the data obtained, the archeological approach is used to study historical heritage objects to find the facts behind the objects. The results of this study confirm that this museum building has a long historical value from its function as a government office during the Dutch and Japanese colonial periods and was once a sub -oss headquarters. In the fight against invaders, there are some relics such as the C3082 steam locomotive, Jeep Willys STD 156 car, flat cannon and landmijn. All of these objects have a long history of maintaining independence.   Keywords :  Museum, History and Subkoss

scholarly journals Perjuangan Ken Arok Menjadi Raja Kerajaan Singosari Tahun 1222-1227

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Agus Susilo ◽  
Sarkowi Sarkowi
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Research Methods

One who has blue blood is identical to being a ruler. The highest satisfaction is when his desire is achieved perfectly. This has influenced Ken Arok who felt his desire should be realized as a king in the land of Java. After living in the wrong path by becoming a villain, until finally his meeting with a Brahmin whose Lohgawe made his life brighter.In writing this scientific work, the writer uses historical research methods. In historical research methods, many researchers use reference sources in the form of relevant journals and book sources that support in writing these scientific articles. The result of this discussion is that after going through the hard struggle of being a villain, being a person who was driven out of his residence, but luck continued to follow Ken Arok. His mission to become king, began by killing Tunggul Ametung with Mpu Gandring's Keris and married Ken Dedes. Subsequently defeated the Kingdom of Kediri and founded the Singosari Kingdom with the title Sri Rajasa Bhatara Sang Amurwabumi.

scholarly journals The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Way

The International Symbol of Access (ISA) produces, capacitates, and debilitates disability in particular ways and is grounded by a happy affective economy that is embedded within neoliberal capitalism. This production of disability runs counter to the dismantling of ableism and compulsory able-bodiedness. In charting the development of the modern wheelchair, the rise of disability rights in North America, and the emergence of the ISA as a universally acceptable representation of access for disabled people, I argue that this production of disability serves a capacitating function for particular forms of impairment. These capacitated forms are celebrated through a neoliberal economy of inclusion. I conclude by critically approaching the happy affects of the ISA, including the way in which the symbol creates a sense of cruel optimism for disabled people.

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