Mobilizing Disability Studies

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Kudzai Matereke
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Critical Intervention

Despite how the fields of mobility and disability studies have vastly contributed to our understanding of our lifeworld, the two, however, share asymmetric acknowledgement of each other. Mobility recurs as an aspiration for those with a disability yet disability tends to be ignored or inadequately dealt with in mobility studies. This article seeks to achieve two main objectives: first, to discuss how and what the journal has achieved over the years; and, second, to highlight that the denial of mobility is a negation of what it means to be human. Overall, the article seeks to deploy a critical intervention required for mobility studies to return the gesture to disability studies in equal magnitude. By situating the discussion within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, this article argues that at the interface of mobility and disability lies a politics of possibility for people with disabilities in their struggles for equal access and full citizenship.

EQUAL ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO EMPLOYMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – REAL POSSIBILITY OR FICTION?

2021 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XXI) ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Maciej Borski
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
Essential Questions

The aim of the article is to try to evaluate actions taken by the country, which are supposed to change the image of public administration perceived as an employer, who refuses to employ people with disabilities or whose only motivation is to avoid being charged with contribution to PERON. An evaluation will be based on further answers to some essential questions. In the first place, the author will try to establish whether the actions taken by the country in order to remove barriers to employing people with disabilities were also effective with organs, which are its emancipation. It will require referring to many normative regulations in force in RP; both these which are the results of actions of national legislator and those, which result from Poland making commitments in the international arena. Subsequently one must be considered if actions of specific public administration body are taken for the employment of people with disabilities, may be considered as effective and whether the rights of people with disabilities were there respected. This thought in turn will require referring to how institutions responsible for increasing the employment of people with disabilities in public administration work in practice.

scholarly journals "Gotta Go Now": Rethinking the Use of the Mighty and Simon Birch

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Arndt ◽  
Julia M. White ◽  
Andrea Chervenak
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Font Size

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: ">Critical film analysis in the context of disability studies is introduced, and implications of disability portrayals in film are discussed. Two films often used in middle school classrooms, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simon Birch</em> and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mighty,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></em>are introduced and briefly summarized. The films are critiqued<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </em>using Norden’s conceptualizations of stereotypic roles for characters with disabilities including the "sweet innocent" and "comic misadventurer." Finally, the importance of critical screening is outlined and ways that teachers can use these films in ways that are respectful of people with disabilities based on criteria developed by Safran (2000) are offered. </span></p>

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>

scholarly journals Representation of art as an ethical and political act

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Kallio-Tavin
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Alternative Understanding

In this article, I discuss the representation of people with disabilities as an ethical and political act, including the intimate demand of face-to-face encountering with another person and a picture in an artwork. The article explores the project, Good afternoon Mr. Holbein, by Pekka Elomaa, through two different image interpretations, which together offer an alternative understanding to the dominant discourse on image analysis. The politics of representation of people with disabilities is troubled together with Levinasian philosophy and disability studies in art education.

Perspectives of a Differently Abled Man: A Peep into VaibhavKolhe’s

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
D. Sindhuja
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The People ◽  
People With Disability

Disability studies provoke a clear and consistently thought provoking portrayal of differently abled people. Nowadays, people with disability face many problems in their day-to-day life. All people have their own dreams to achieve something special in this world. Likewise, the people with disabilities also have some dreams. The novel,The Incomplete by VaibhavKolhe deals with the difficulties and the challenges undergone by the protagonist in his life. The protagonist narrates several incidents from his childhood to his adolescence. He faces a lot of struggles in his life because of his physical disability. Even in his love, he fails because of expressing his inner emotions. This novel mainly depicts the fact that how the protagonist accepts his disability as a challenge and how he overcomes his weakness. The present paper focuses on the sufferings and reactions of a differently abled man and how he adapts to the environment and the people in the substandard society.

POLISH RESEARCHERS’ THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO DISABILITY: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DISABILITY STUDIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Joanna Głodkowska ◽  
Marta Pągowska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cognitive Space ◽  
Research Orientations

The article presents Polish researchers' scientific approaches to the phenomenon of disability in a historical perspective and in view of modern interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical studies. Humanistic and social approaches to disability create a new, interdisciplinary cognitive space. Researchers highlight the strengths, potential and developmental power of people with disabilities more and more clearly. From this perspective, disability is not perceived as an individual problem only. It is becoming apparent that it is necessary to carry out detailed and multidimensional empirical investigations that take into consideration the social, cultural and political context of how people with disabilities live. The article looks at Polish researchers' achievements that fit in with the trend dating from the second half of the 20th century - Disability Studies. The authors review and analyze paradigms of disability to show positivist and humanistic research orientations, methodological pluralism and an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of disability.

Music for Everyone?

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Crichton
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Music Experience ◽  
The Right

This paper addresses the musical needs of people with disabilities, taking two specific issues – entitlement and access to music experience. While there are increasing examples of good practice, for various reasons the needs of many individuals and groups with special needs are not being adequately met. The argument that all people, regardless of ‘ability’, should enjoy equal access to music is fundamental to the discussion.Whilst the roles of music providers may differ in various contexts, if disabled people are to enjoy the right to music at all levels, access from primary age through to adulthood has to be ensured. The implication for training to fulfil this need cannot be ignored.

scholarly journals Między niepełnosprawnością a przekładem. Osoby niepełnosprawne jako twórcy i odbiorcy przekładu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Figiel
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Sociology Of Translation ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Access Services

This paper deals with the relations between the phenomena of disability and translation studies. Translation studies and disability studies are relatively new fields, which up until recently had little in common. However, for more than a dozen years now, scholars of translation have focused on research concerning access services for people with disabilities. These services include, among others, audio description, sign language interpretation and subtitles for the deaf and the hard of hearing. However, there is not too much research concerning people with disabilities as creators, and not recipients, of translation. There is also a lack of translation scholars with disabilities. The interdisciplinary perspective of sociology of translation and disability studies may help to bridge this gap by providing a more inclusive approach to studies on translation.

scholarly journals INCLUSIVE DESIGN AS A COMPONENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
V. Shkuro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
City Life ◽  
The City

The article presents theoretical analyze the importance of implementation the concept of inclusive design in urban space; the relevance between the implementation of inclusive design and the quality of life of citizens of the settlement. Inclusive design is design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference. Increasing the number of elderly people (9,4 mln people over 60 or 22% of the population of Ukraine), people with disabilities (2,6 mln people – 6% of the population), families with young children, pregnant (4 % of the population) makes to the city, its design and infrastructure new challenges. These groups risk becoming effectively excluded from significant parts of city life, suffering marginalisation, exclusion and isolation. Limiting a city's access to just a part of the population while ignoring a significant other part, is economically, socially and politically unsustainable. Inclusive design at the city create the opportunity to guarantee equal access to fundamental rights; improve the quality of life of its population and ensure that everybody - regardless of age, mobility or ability - has equal access to all the resources and pleasures cities have to offer. Inclusive design creates an opportunity to support and create equal living conditions for the most vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, the elderly, families with young children). Implementation the ID to the urban space also support development economical sustainability of the city: increase the level of employment people and reducing unemployment, accordingly increasing the purchasing power of citizens, local business development, increase income to the budget; reduction the level of social exclusion, isolation and therefore increase the degree of independence of the client and the reduction of funds for social welfare and individual support. Creation access to the education facilities will increase the level of education. As the results, better education support better employment and higher salary. Creation accessibility also support of tourism attraction of the city. Creation inclusive design in the urban space support to improve the quality and sustainability of municipal services. Inclusive design ensure involving citizens to the city life.

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