Provocations in Critical Disability Studies, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-481
Author(s):  
Leah Burch
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Historical Epistemology as Disability Studies Methodology: From the Models Framework to Foucault’s Archaeology of Cure

2015 ◽  
pp. 108-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimi Hamraie
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Disability History ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Construction Of Disability

In this article, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by examining Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. Although the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as an advancement upon moral and medical authority and a replacement of it by sociopolitical knowledge, I argue that the more comprehensive frame in which these models circulate—the “models framework”—requires the more nuanced approach that historical epistemology offers. In particular, the models framework requires greater use of epistemology as an analytical tool for understanding the historical construction of disability. Thus, I turn to Foucault’s History of Madness in order to both excavate one particular archaeological strand in the text—the archaeology of cure—and to demonstrate how this narrative disrupts some of the key assumptions of the models framework, challenging DS to consider the epistemological force of non-medical fields of knowledge for framing disability and procedures for its cure and elimination. I conclude by arguing that DS must develop historical epistemological methodologies that are sensitive to the complex overlays of moral, medical, and social knowledge, as well as attend to the social construction of scientific and biomedical knowledge itself.

scholarly journals Enacting Equity in Higher Education through Critical Disability Studies: A Critical Community Self-Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyton Schnellert ◽  
Pamela Richardson ◽  
Earllene Roberts ◽  
Sara McDonald ◽  
Carolyn MacHardy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The University ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

In this critical community self-study, we describe the development of the Interdisciplinary Disability and Inclusion Research Collaborative (IDIRC) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. IDIRC is a self-organizing collective involving eleven faculty, students and staff devoted to Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and the relationships between CDS, practice and social change. We ask: What are the social relations, commitments, activities, and research needs of this university's researchers, students and staff in relation to disability and inclusion? Through a constant comparative analysis of interview data we surfaced themes related to the social relations, commitments, activities and research needs of our members. Our findings and discussion illustrate how similar cross-disciplinary groups might build inclusive spaces, which unite staff, graduate students and faculty towards disrupting normativity, interdisciplinarity, and praxis within and beyond academia. IDIRC attends to the embodiment of values and theoretical perspectives that are relational, diversity-positive, intersectional and advocacy-oriented.

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.

“Almost Equal”: Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052094536
Author(s):  
Hana Porkertová
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Czech Society

This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach in Czech society, is the medical model. However, the text shows that although other approaches are rather marginal, their logic is present in the everyday experience of the communication partners in the research. They can espouse the rigid, medical model, while, at the same time, confronting the construction of norms that both the social model and critical disability studies defy. This finding reveals both the normative and subversive character of disability, manifested in visually impaired experience.

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 A legacy of silence: the intersections of medical sociology and disability studies

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2021-012198
Author(s):  
Gareth Martin Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Sociology ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Disability remains on the margins of the social sciences. Even where disability is foregrounded as a category of analysis, accounts regularly emerge in silos, with little interdisciplinary dialogue acknowledging the potential intersections and points of convergence. This discord is particularly acute within medical sociology and disability studies, yet there is mostly a legacy of silence about the relationship between the two disciplines. Drawing upon data from a qualitative study with parents of disabled children in the UK, I show the value of meshing ideas and tropes from medical sociology and disability studies to make sense of parents’ lived experiences. They described the challenges of living with 'impairment' and a need to readjust expectations. At the same time, parents were keen to not align with a deficit framing of their lives. They talked in affirmative terms about their children as sources of joy and vitality, perceived themselves as ‘normal’, and described convivial, even unremarkable, interactions in public spaces. Yet, parents encountered difficulties when navigating institutional settings and bureaucratic arrangements, or what was commonly referred to as ‘the system’. Their troubles were not located in their children’s bodies, but in—as per a disability studies sensibility—cultural and structural systems preventing their capacity to live well. I argue that both disability studies and medical sociology offer something to the analysis, thereby recognising the gains of not simply buying into the tradition of one worldview. I conclude by imploring for more concrete conversations between both disciplines.

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. 

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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