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).

Enabling Militarism? The Inclusion of Soldiers with Disabilities in the Israeli Military

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Eastwood
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Military Studies

Abstract Soldiers are rarely imagined as having disabilities, other than when they are injured in war. Yet in recent years the Israeli military has devoted considerable resources to programs promoting the inclusion of soldiers with intellectual disabilities. This paper critically examines two such programs, arguing that they should prompt a reexamination of assumptions in both critical military studies and critical disability studies. These two fields are rarely placed in dialogue, especially in international relations. Yet this paper argues that they have productive insights to offer each other and suggests that the Israeli case raises important questions when their analytical frames are combined. First, the paper argues that this example complicates the category of soldier fitness in critical military studies and reveals that militarist distinctions between ability and disability can be destabilized in ways suggested elsewhere by critical disability studies. Second, however, the paper cautions that the emancipatory potential of alternative “crip” subjectivities explored in critical disability studies remains circumscribed by geopolitical processes (including neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and militarism), which international relations is well placed to analyze. These arguments are advanced by showing how these inclusionary programs for soldiers with disabilities are implicated in the debilitating violence of Israel's settler colonial project.

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 Brokenness / Transformation: Reflections on Academic Critiques of L'Arche

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Burghardt
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

<p>L'Arche, an international federation of communities for adults with intellectual disabilities, has been critiqued by disability studies scholars throughout its fifty-year history due to its religiosity, its apparent lack of a rigorous stance on the need to address policy concerning people with disabilities, its philosophy concerning disability's meanings, and features of its language and discourse.  I address these concerns as someone who is both an academic and a long-term member of a L'Arche community. While there is historically limited and uneasy interaction between these two communities, I suggest there is potential for mutual and worthwhile exchange from theoretical and practical perspectives.</p>

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 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 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 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. 

Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110512
Author(s):  
Ida Norberg
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on a framework offered by Bauman and literature from disability studies and other sociological areas, this article argues that the experience of austerity for disabled people in Sweden is one of bureaucratic violence, shaped by disablism. The article aims to broaden the sociological conceptualisation of bureaucratic violence to include disablist austerity within its purview. It utilises fieldwork data from interviews with disabled people in Sweden to explore how welfare bureaucracy isolates and dehumanises disabled people. It also examines how Swedish welfare bureaucracies obscure the impact of austerity on this population. Due to the convergence of neoliberalism and austerity in Sweden, the exploration of bureaucratic violence opens up important questions regarding the Social Darwinist elements in neoliberal theory. Ultimately, bureaucratic violence is a useful concept for sociologists for two reasons: it sheds austerity of its technocratic veneer and connects lived experiences of welfare reform to the lethal consequences of austerity.

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