bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Philosophical Foundations of Disability Studies
Authors: Pfeiffer David
Published: March 2016

The deficit model was, at one time, dominant in the study of disability, but not in disability studies. There are three variations of the deficit model: the medical model, the rehabilitation model, and the special education model. But a person with a disability does not have a deficit. Identifying as a person with a disability is an ideological act. There are nine versions of the disability studies paradigm which can be combined into one statement which raises the question of why people with disabilities face oppression. To answer that question the philosophical foundations of Western culture must be examined. When that is done the Greek, Christian, and modern versions of an ontology with an epistemology are found. As we are "socialized" and educated we are given one of these ontologies with its accompanying epistemology. The ontology contains uncritical hypotheses about the world which are stereotypes of all but the power elite. This type of ontology lies at the heart of discrimination based on disability. We must critically examine that ontology and reconstruct it. When we do so we will find that only an experientially based epistemology will be sufficient and that it produces some experientially based knowledge, but mostly inferential knowledge. Life therefore must be lived tentatively. Our research must be guided by a critical spirit.
Summary Comments on the International Disability and Diversity Studies Institute
Authors: Brown Lillian
Published: March 2016

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From the Field -- Mahamudra Disability: Ancient India-Tibetan Social Theory
Authors: Cohn Jim
Published: March 2016

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From the Field -- Dr. Jack A. Nelson: Early Pioneer of Media and Disabilities
Authors: Jensen Matt
Published: March 2016

This personal profile was written because of the critical innovative surge Nelson made in a field that at the time was almost non-existent. His awards as a writer, both academic and professional, show his consistent concern for those in the field of disabilities. As a paraplegic, Nelson is an example for people with disabilities doing continuous research to understand the disabled person's role in the media and how technology offers them a "new world" which they can enter. Though he is retired, Nelson is still known for his concern for people with disabilities. Essentially, this paper gives recognition to a man who promoted a field of research that was in the nascent stages.
Resources, Announcements, Subscription Information, Future Issues
Authors: Editor The
Published: March 2016

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Some Concluding Notes - Healing the Split Between Psyche and Social: Constructions and Experiences of Disability
Authors: Marks Deborah
Published: March 2016

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Poetry -- Casualty
Authors: Pfeiffer David
Published: March 2016

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Communications
Authors: Authors Various
Published: March 2016

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Introduction
Authors: Shuttleworth Russell , Mona Linda
Published: March 2016

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Sex, Intimacy, and Mental Illne A Personal Reflection
Authors: Snedecor Scott
Published: March 2016

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Who'd Fuck an Ableist?
Authors: Ball Katie
Published: March 2016

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A Bibliography of Studies on Religious, Cultural, Ethnic, and National Perspectives on Disability
Authors: Pfeiffer David
Published: March 2016

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Performing in the Wind
Authors: Walton Donna
Published: March 2016

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A Comment on the Social Model(s)
Authors: Pfeiffer David
Published: March 2016

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Expectations and Realities: Academic Education and Students with Brain Injury
Authors: Chambers Edward , Gregory Robert
Published: March 2016

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Disability Studies and the Vancouver Opera's Of Mice and Men
Authors: Chivers Sally
Published: March 2016

In Disability Studies and the Vancouver Opera's Of Mice and Men, the author analyzes disability representation, revision and erasure in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, Carlisle Floyd's opera score, and the Vancouver Opera's 2002 production. She argues that the attempt to rewrite the central character Lennie as merely a metaphor leaves a social and aesthetic gap that is underscored by a performer's attempt to embody the role.
A Critique of Economic Analysis of the ADA
Authors: Tolin Tom , Patwell Martin
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this paper is to critique economic analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contrary to recent research, we conclude that the law did not create significant amounts of involuntary unemployment for workers with disabilities during the 1990s. Observed decreases in employment for this group can be explained, instead, as voluntary exits from the labor force. Our suggestions for more balanced economic analysis of the ADA conclude the paper.
To Speak or Not To Speak: The Limits of Language Ability in Sacred Experience
Authors: Haslam Molly
Published: March 2016

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Commentary: Assessing the Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Authors: Gould Martin
Published: March 2016

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Meeting the Abled? /Disabled? Self When Researching the Lives of Disabled Women
Authors: Broun Leslie , Heshusius Lous
Published: March 2016

Offered is a reprocessing of the methodological decisions made in a graduate student's (first author) thesis, tracing her slowly evolving journey through qualitative possibilities in methodology, coming to understand that a choice for a particular methodology is actually a choice for a particular other/self relation. At a still deeper level, this process led to the sudden and painful realization that the needs, fears, and desires of the (often conflicting and shifting) self informs the contours of the other/self relation and thus limits what dares to be gained from the research process. This journey played itself out within a focus on the educational and career achievements of disabled women with the first author including herself as a participant. While the inclusion of herself seemed a natural thing to do, it forged in the end a major, painful and unforeseen confrontation between her imagined 'normal' self she had habituated herself to believe in, and her limping disabled self as she appeared to the world (and at a 'realistic' level through the world's eyes also to herself). Questions are raised about the ongoing upset that occurs when a researcher/participant honestly confronts the configuration of the self in the research process.
Identity, Positionality and Power: Issues for Disabled Researchers. A Response Paper to Broun and Heshusius
Authors: Tregaskis Claire
Published: March 2016

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Wicked
Authors: Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

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Points of Entry: Disability and the Historical Geography of Immigration
Authors: Richards Penny L.
Published: March 2016

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Learning Support for Disabled Students Undertaking Fieldwork and Related Activities
Authors: McAnneny Cathleen
Published: March 2016

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The Theatrical Landscape of Disability
Authors: Lewis Victoria Ann
Published: March 2016

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Rethinking the Digital Divide in relation to Visual Disability in India and the United States: Towards a Paradigm of 'Information Inequity'
Authors: Chaudhry Vandana , Shipp Thomas
Published: March 2016

This paper considers the barriers to information access faced by visually disabled people in the epoch of the information revolution. The authors question the inadequacy of the popular mechanistic-binary conception of the digital divide and propose a new paradigm "information inequity." This model aims toward a holistic conception of the realities of information access and marginalization for visually disabled people. The paper critiques the mechanistic-binary notion of a "digital divide" where one is either "info-rich" or "info-poor" based on the availability of technology. The paper adopts a cross-cultural perspective, considering digital disablement of visually disabled people in India and the United States. By considering the economic, political, cultural and educational aspects of marginalization, as well as the technological, the authors set out to delineate the relationship between disability, technology and society.
"I Cannot Be Like This Frankie": Disability, Social Class, and Gender in Million Dollar Baby
Authors: Dolmage Jay , DeGenaro William
Published: March 2016

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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Authors: Lambeth Laurie Clements
Published: March 2016

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Contracts
Authors: Kornhaber David
Published: March 2016

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Liberation theology of disability and the option for the poor
Authors: Danforth Scot
Published: March 2016

A liberation theology of disability provides a spiritual discourse that unites a critical analysis of the economic dimensions of disability oppression with an appreciation for the lived experience of disabled persons. This paper builds from prior liberation theology scholarship and the Catholic theological concept called the preferential option for the poor to articulate a liberation theology of disability marked by critical social analysis, humility, hope, and love.
Israel's Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law: Current Status and Future Directions
Authors: Rimmerman Arie , Araten-Bergman Tal , Avrami Shirley , Azaiza Faisal
Published: March 2016

Since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the United States (1990), many countries have passed similar disability laws, shifting the focus from a social welfare approach to a human rights approach. Similarly, in 1998 the Israeli Knesset passed the first three sections of the new Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law (Employment, Public Accommodations and Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with disabilities), leaving seven additional sections for future legislation. However, a thorough examination of its implementation reveals that the law has been only partially implemented, and there is concern as to whether this legislation brings a significant change in employment and social opportunities for people with disabilities in Israeli society. The article reviews and discusses the matter and suggests possible future directions for disability rights legislation.
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Authors: Fishman Robyn
Published: March 2016

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Literacy and Deaf People
Authors: Ransom Lillie
Published: March 2016

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Institutionalizing Inequity: Ableism, Racism and IDEA 2004
Authors: Beratan Gregg D.
Published: March 2016

For thirty years, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has been regarded as a civil rights legislation intended to fight discrimination against individuals with disabilities. While the sincerity of this claim is not in question, I contend that ableism is deeply ingrained within IDEA. Covert forms of discrimination, such as institutional ableism and racism, are far more insidious than overt discrimination because they are so difficult to question–as is the case with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 [IDEA 2004]. Using some of the techniques developed by scholars of both disability studies and critical race theory, I detail how IDEA 2004 embeds unintentional discrimination within the policies, structures and practices of the educational system. I argue that the institutions themselves (policies, practices, schools) become instruments of discrimination despite their stated purpose to end discrimination.
Physical Healing
Authors: Stolz Suzanne
Published: March 2016

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Queen of the Mountain
Authors: Atherton Martin
Published: March 2016

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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Authors: Brenner Samuel
Published: March 2016

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Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance
Authors: Levine Debra
Published: March 2016

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My Body Politic: A Memoir
Authors: Ryan James Emmett
Published: March 2016

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Editors' Preface
Authors: Haller Beth , Kirchner Corinne
Published: March 2016

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Deaf Learners: Developments in Curriculum and Instruction
Authors: Adams-Means Carol L.
Published: March 2016

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The Social Value of Death Versus Disability in Israel: Why It is Better to Die for Your Country
Authors: Ostrander Noam , Shevil Eynat
Published: March 2016

This study seeks to understand the different ways in which Israeli media depicted Israelis killed, wounded and disabled during the first six months of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (29 September 2000 — 1 April 2001). Specifically, this paper examines how the news articles differed in content when the individual was killed versus wounded and disabled. A content analysis using terrorism search terms in Yediot Ahronot, a popular Hebrew-language newspaper in Israel, was conducted. The results illustrate a vast disparity in the number of articles written about Israelis killed versus Israelis wounded. This occurred despite the fact that for every Israeli killed, twelve more were injured during the time period of this study. Additionally, content differences existed in the news articles if individuals were killed as opposed to wounded and disabled. While this paper cannot definitively explain these differences, several possible explanations are suggested.
Cultural Commentary: Staring Back and Forth: The Photographs of Kevin Connolly
Authors: Millett Ann
Published: March 2016

Kevin Connolly, who was born without legs, photographs people staring at him around the world. The photographs represent staring as a multi-cultural and multi-generation act. In this paper, I discuss the phenomena of staring in art and everyday life, from perspectives of art history and disability studies, in relationship to Connolly's photographs. I argue that Connelly's photographs reveal an embodied perspective and subject position of disability through staring back.
Editors' Introduction
Authors: Brueggemann Brenda , Danforth Scot
Published: March 2016

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Cultural Commentary: Trig or Treat? The 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, and Teaching Disability
Authors: Mauldin Laura
Published: March 2016

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Excerpts from Cripple Poetics: A Love Story
Authors: Kuppers Petra , Marcus Neil
Published: March 2016

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Introduction: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom
Authors: Vidali Amy , Price Margaret , Lewiecki-Wilson Cynthia
Published: March 2016

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Reflections on Sociology of Disability Course
Authors: Burris Kathryn , Stone Sharon Dale
Published: March 2016

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Globalization and the Black Market Organ Trade: When Even a Kidney Can't Pay the Bills
Authors: Hudson Karen A. , Wheeler Elizabeth
Published: March 2016

Limited attention has been focused on globalization and disability, and within this realm, the link between the black market organ trade and disability has been unexplored. Globalization as we know it, through its promotion of a competitive market-based economy and the resulting systems of national healthcare, is creating and exploiting an international community of disabled people. These disabled people are organ "donors," forced to stake their livelihood on internal organs that are sold through the classic hierarchical ranks of oppression. The goals and systems of globalization today must take these disabled communities into account, or the resulting poverty and lack of proper medical care will continue to fuel the trade in human organs.
Opening the Door to Higher Education: The Rights of the Intellectually Different to Access and Peace
Authors: Sunderland Steve
Published: March 2016

Who should go to college? The traditional answer to this question has been changed by policies that allow for the inclusion of students previously denied or discouraged. This article describes a new and innovative program for students with intellectual difficulties who have an interest in transitioning to higher education. The article is more a field report, describing some of the questions and concerns that that staff and students had about such an experience on a college campus. It offers personal reflections on some of the experience of being in classrooms, residence halls, concert halls, and living and learning events. The basic issue of freedom of action and choice for each student is a constant thread of concern that is described. Overall, the article describes the hope for a fully inclusive experience for all students."The shift toward citizenship is to take the stance that we are the creators of our world as well as the products of it. Free will trumps genetics, culture and parental upbringing."Block (2008, p. 67)"Getting into a vibrant college campus was a liberation."Shapiro (1993, p. 46)
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: From the Perspective of Young People
Authors: Quigley (Editor) Nolan , Kamara Mohamed Saidu , Gangadhar Yellamma , Paybeyee Daintowon D , Chandralal Ranjana
Published: March 2016

This article presents the views of four young disabled people from Sierra Leone, India, Liberia and Sri Lanka regarding what the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities means to them and the experiences that they had in promoting the Convention.  All of the four contributors are involved in Leonard Cheshire Disability's Young Voices project.  This project was initiated by Leonard Cheshire Disability during the negotiation of the UN Convention, which enabled disabled people from developing countries to make a direct contribution to the negotiation process, including attending the Ad Hoc Committee meeting in New York.  The long-term objective of the Young Voices project is to nurture and develop the skill of young disabled people in developing countries to become the future leaders of the disability movement.  The project is now embarking on its second stage, with disabled people receiving training on how to effectively lobby their Governments to sign and ratify the UN Convention as well as working with the media (including film making) in their own countries to raise the political profile of disability issues. Eighteen (18) young disabled people, one from each of the participating countries involved in Young Voices project, attended the conference jointly hosted by Leonard Cheshire Disability and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19th - 22nd May 2008.  Further information regarding the conference can be found at http://www.lcint.org/?lid=4048
The Speech that Didn’t Fly: Polysemic Readings of Christopher Reeve’s Speech to the 1996 Democratic National Convention
Authors: Scherman Elizabeth
Published: March 2016

Actor Christopher Reeve’s address to the 1996 Democratic National Convention was met with enthusiasm by the mainstream press, while the disability press responded with anger and disdain. This paper conducts a rhetorical analysis of text, context and audience reception in order to explore these different interpretations of Reeve’s speech. The study is framed by the concept of polysemy, and in particular Leah Ceccarelli’s concept of strategic ambiguity and John Fiske’s concept of "gaps and fissures" that allow for different meanings to seep through texts. Reeve’s speech was not perceived by members of the disability community as providing such openings for their voices to be heard. The negative reception of Reeve’s speech was further exacerbated by his lack of credibility with many in that community, his choice of language and metaphor, and even the visual rhetoric of his convention appearance.
Marlene Tromp, ed. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain.
Authors: Burke Meghan L. , Thompson-Gillis Heather
Published: March 2016

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‘Not disabled enough’: Episodic disabilities and the Ontario Disability Support Program
Authors: Lightman Ernie , Vick Andrea , Herd Dean , Mitchell Andrew
Published: March 2016

Persons living with episodic disabilities who apply for long-term income assistance in Ontario, Canada are often denied eligibility because of the questionable legitimacy of their shifting medical conditions. Since there are no official categories for persons with episodic disabilities to fit in because they are not entirely well (and employable) nor entirely sick (and unemployable), they are judged as ‘not disabled enough’ within the existing parameters of assistance. Drawing on a series of longitudinal, semi-structured interviews with eight respondents in Toronto, all of whom applied for, but were denied, long-term assistance, we examine the tension between how episodic disabilities are embodied versus the manner in which ‘disability status’ is legislatively constructed. Implications reconsidering the logistics of fixed categories and strategies addressing the wider spectrum of the experience of disability for policy are addressed.Keywords: disability, episodic, Ontario Disability Support Program, ODSP, definitions, embodiment, legitimate
Who’s That in Charge? It’s Jenny Wren, “The Person of the House”
Authors: Schotland Sara D.
Published: March 2016

While several Dickens characters fit binary stereotypes of the disabled (pitiful/helpless; monstrous/villainous), Jenny Wren, the dolls’ dressmaker in Our Mutual Friend,(1864-5),creates a unique and constructive life overcoming her infirmities. This essay considers her successful adaptation and argues that in several respects she reverses and challenges the limits ordinarily imposed on disabled women in Victorian fiction. Jenny Wren anticipates today’s view that the disabled and the able-bodied can work together in interdependent relationships, subverting the expectation that the disabled are inevitably dependent. While typically the disabled woman in the Victorian novel is denied a reproductive future, Jenny is an exception. Dickens was ahead of his time in providing a suitor for Jenny, and envisioning that a disabled woman can be beautiful.
Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly. Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm. New York: Vertigo, 2007.
Authors: Schmitt Kate
Published: March 2016

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Commentary 1
Authors: Panitch Melanie
Published: March 2016

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Commentary 3
Authors: Barnes Colin
Published: March 2016

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Table 3: Schools with Disability Studies Courses
Authors: Cushing Pamela , Smith Tyler
Published: March 2016

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Dear Diary: The Story of a Disabled Asian Woman
Authors: Khanbhai Nafisa
Published: March 2016

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Between Disability and Womanhood: The Everyday Struggles and Triumphs of a Kenyan Woman
Authors: Gathecha Beneditta Ngina
Published: March 2016

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Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Disability: Implications on the Rights of Persons with Disability in Kenya
Authors: Otieno Pauline A
Published: March 2016

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"Nothing about Us, without Us": Weather Reports from the Autism Front: A Father's Memoir of His Autistic Son by James C. Wilson and The Only Boy in the World: A Father Explores the Mysteries of Autism by Michael Blastland
Authors: Mills Bruce
Published: March 2016

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I Have Asperger Syndrome, and I am a Parent
Authors: Zaks Zosia
Published: March 2016

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The Disabled Speech of Asian Americans: Silence and Autism in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Father of the Four Passages
Authors: Chew Kristina
Published: March 2016

In this essay, I examine Lois Ann Yamanaka’s novel in regard to other recent novels about autism (Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach (2006) and Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern (2006)). I consider how the characters of autistic children often function as a “narrative prosthesis,” a kind of a catalyst to get the plot going. I look at the themes of silence and coming into speech in Asian American literature in order to show how they overlap in texts about autistic children and their mothers. Reading Father of the Four Passages in the context of other Asian American novels, I suggest that Sonia’s Asian American heritage provides her with an alternate experience of cultural alienation that leads to her acceptance of Sonny Boy and his differences. Finally, I provide a critique of standard, white, middle-class narratives of autism, which dominate the literature and which perpetuate troubling stereotypes.
Being Autistic Together
Authors: Sinclair Jim
Published: March 2016

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Autism and Aspergers in Popular Australian Cinema Post-2000
Authors: Ellis Katie
Published: March 2016

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A Tribute to My Dyslexic Body, As I Travel in the Form of a Ghost
Authors: Granger Den
Published: March 2016

In schooling structures concerned with a mind/body divide, various intelligences and voices are pathologized. There is a plethora of knowledge that tells a powerful fiction about how we are unable to learn. Unfortunately, this fairy-tale is not experienced as fiction but as truth. Sometimes I slip between the two, where ghostly forms thrive, where we can begin work to recognize the potential in dyslexic ways of knowing (Gordon 1997, 38). It is only after we begin to recognize these hauntings that we can begin to imagine how the category of learning disability is a political one. Ultimately, I hope to make visible the narrowness in the ideal academic body, and open up new potentials for sensual (sense-making) embodied academic labor.
Visually Experiencing a Phone Call: The Calculated Consumer Labor Deaf People Perform to Gain Access through Video Relay Service
Authors: Brunson Jeremy
Published: March 2016

Feminist scholars have suggested a broader conceptualization of work to include paid and unpaid, visible and invisible labor.  Employing this broader conceptualization, this paper examines a new form of service delivery for deaf people, video relay service, as an example of the growing trend in the United States that shifts labor from the service provider to service recipient.  The data discussed in this paper were collected from two focus groups with deaf people who shared their experiences with and feelings about video relay service.  The findings suggest that although video relay service is preferred to text relay service by deaf people, there are still misunderstandings that occur.  And, in responding to those misunderstandings, deaf people must determine whether it is worth their time and energy to confront less than adequate sign language interpreters, hang up and call back in order to get another interpreter, or do nothing.
Disability Design and Branding: Rethinking Disability within the 21st
Authors: Depoy Elizabeth , Gilson Stephen
Published: March 2016

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Susan M. Schweik, The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009.
Authors: Tweed Hannah
Published: March 2016

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We Exist: Intersectional In/Visibility in Bisexuality & Disability
Authors: Caldwell Kate
Published: March 2016

The intersection of theories of disability and bisexuality is unexplored, yet both are identities rendered in/visible by paternalistic environments where individual and political identities are defined by oppositional binaries and vulnerable to compulsory citizenship.  The development of such identities can be better understood by using a bisexual approach to inform theories of disability and a disability approach to inform theories of sexuality inclusive of bisexuality.  Common themes that emerge center around issues of choice, fluidity of identity, the phenomena of “coming out” and “passing,” and limitations to citizenship attendant to in/visible identities.  Disability studies can provide a non-normative discursive space within which such identity issues may be addressed critically.  Further, this article hopes to interject a bisexual perspective in discussions concerning applications of queer theory in disability studies.
Wrestling with Group Identity: Disability Activism and Direct Funding
Authors: Kelly Christine
Published: March 2016

With disability representing a diverse array of experiences and identities, it seems unlikely that advocacy groups would be able to agree on concrete policy issues. And yet, there does appear to be consensus in the global North on a number of topics. This paper explores one such example, advocacy around direct funding models of care in order to ask the question: What are the implications for the collective identity of a social movement when groups coalesce around very particular issues?  I uncover the implicit identity underlying direct funding advocacy, and how mobilizing around this identity has lead to substantial success in terms of instituting direct funding programs. However, the identity does not ‘disappear’ when the programs are actualized, leading to the exclusion and marginalization of many individuals from both specific programs and social movements. This collective identity has significant consequences for disability movements in the global North, how disability is defined and at times it results in conservative political demands. This paper suggests that a ‘collective of individuals’ approach to conceptualizing and enacting social movements represented by Titchkosky (2003) and Do-It-Yourself feminism may hold potential for future disability activism.
Hugh Gregory Gallagher’s Splendid Reception
Authors: Floyd Barbara
Published: March 2016

This article assesses the impact of Hugh Gregory Gallagher’s book FDR’s Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt’s Massive Disability — and the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public on our view of America’s only disabled president. The article examines how this book differed from previous biographies of Roosevelt, and how it influenced subsequent portrayals of the president. It focuses on how Gallagher’s study reflected his life experience as a survivor of polio. Particularly, the article looks at how Gallagher recognized what able-bodied historians had not: that despite Roosevelt’s efforts to deceive his family, the public, and himself, he did not "conquer" polio, but rather polio impacted every aspect of the president’s life from the time he contracted it in 1921 until he died in 1945. Finally, it examines the book’s significant influence in shaping how FDR was depicted at the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
From Your New Book/Media Review Editors
Authors: Vidali Amy , Price Margaret
Published: March 2016

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Breaking A Disabled Limb: Social and Medical Construction of 'Legitimate' and 'Illegitimate' Impairments
Authors: Stein Isaac
Published: March 2016

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Taking Disability Law Seriously
Authors: Blaser Arthur W.
Published: March 2016

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Rockin' and Rollin' on Fox's Glee
Authors: Sheppard Alice
Published: March 2016

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Invisible Credibility: Ethos and the E-patient
Authors: Ghiaciuc Susan
Published: March 2016

Ethos, although clearly an important rhetorical appeal, remains largely unexamined in our discussions of health-related issues. Increasingly, important health information is exchanged and public discussions take place in online forums, and whose ethos we accept as most valid has important repercussions for patients, health-professionals, and medical research. Drawing on arguments presented in online medical communities, this paper considers how chronically ill patients with invisible disabilities challenge regulating norms of accepted ethos. Using disability theory and online patient commentary about a contested Oprah Winfrey show episode, I examine how these online patients use their emergent ethos to co-construct important medical knowledge.
Black Bike, White Cane: Nonstandard Deviations of a Special Self
Authors: Kudlick Catherine
Published: March 2016

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(Re)Creating a World in Seven Days: Place, Disability and Salvation in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Authors: Askew Emily
Published: March 2016

At its most superficial rhetorical level, ABC’s hit television show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, equates the condition of the family home with the condition of the bodies inside the home.  If the home is ‘fixed’, then the people who live in that home will be 'fixed', as well.  In this essay, I consider the ways that Extreme Makover: Home Edition constructs the human body as disabled through the medium of architecture, helped along by reality television’s version of Christian sacrificial atonement.
Intersections of Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies: A Provocation
Authors: Morrison Daniel R. , Casper Monica J.
Published: March 2016

In this essay, we explore possible affinities between disability studies and trauma studies. We suggest that a fruitful engagement between these fields should start with the meanings of trauma and disability in their embodiment. We offer theoretical provocations alongside a comparative cultural analysis of traumatic brain injury and obstetric fistula. Ironically, while many disability studies scholars have worked to dislodge definitions of "abnormal" from the body, a conceptual focus on stigma still keeps the disabled body partially in view. Yet wounds, impairment, and pain are erased, and in many framings, the object of analysis is an individual being, whose now-disabled body is socially constructed, and whose agency is posited as being in struggle and resistance against the normative culture. We suggest that the body itself provides a link between disability studies and critical trauma studies, arguing both for the significance of representations as well a materialist understanding of breach, for a notion of the organic, fleshy body as it is damaged, sometimes profoundly, in its operations of life.Keywords: Disability studies; Trauma studies; Traumatic Brain Injury; Obstetric Fistula; Theory
Making Inclusive Education Work in Nigeria: Evaluation of Special Educators' Attitudes
Authors: Ajuwon Paul M.
Published: March 2016

The researcher investigated the attitudes toward inclusive education held by 141 special educators in Nigeria. Participants were administered a modified version of the Attitudes Towards Inclusion in Africa Scale (ATIAS). The scale was divided into four factors, namely, Behavior Issues, Student Needs, Resource Issues, and Professional Competency. The mean score for each of the ATIAS factors was compared by categories of eight descriptive variables. Female respondents indicated more confidence in their professional competency to teach special needs children than male respondents. Younger respondents and those with prior training in inclusion were more likely than their counterparts to believe that adequate resources were available to assist teachers to implement inclusion. Advanced formal education was associated with a greater tolerance for negative behaviors (that are sometimes connected with special needs students) and with a more positive attitude toward special supports for students with sensory disabilities. Special educators employed in Northern states were more likely than their Southern counterparts to believe that students with behavioral issues should attend their neighborhood schools. Participants expressed in open-ended comments their concerns that schools lack trained special education personnel, specialized materials, and architecturally-friendly buildings. Recommendations were made for the successful practice of inclusion in Nigeria.Keywords: inclusive education; Nigeria; special educators; attitudes; behavioral issues; student needs; resource issues; professional competency
Citizenship in Name Only: Constructing Meaningful Citizenship through a Recalibration of the Values Attached to Waged Labor
Authors: MacGregor Marion
Published: March 2016

In November 2010 the Toronto Star reported that the newly revamped Canadian citizenship test had led to an unusually high failure rate. Using the generally, although not universally, accepted understanding of citizenship as a set of civil, political and social rights and responsibilities the more meaningful test is how, or whether, we can exercise our citizenship. Closer examination reveals a deeply rooted connection between the ability to exercise social citizenship and participation in waged labor. Denied access to waged labor, as people with disabilities systematically are, undermines a person’s identity as an active citizen and his or her ability to exercise social citizenship. A recalibration of the values associated with waged labor namely, independence, self-reliance and productivity would extend worth and identity to those systemically deprived of both, produce allies amongst historically disadvantaged groups, and benefit broader segments of society many of who grow disenchanted with the current distribution of wealth and power. Key Words: waged labor, productivity, independence, social citizenship, meaningful citizenship
'No Rights without Responsibilities': Disability Rights and Neoliberal Reform under New Labour
Authors: Owen Randall , Harris Sarah Parker
Published: March 2016

The New Labour government in the United Kingdom led a series of welfare reforms for people with disabilities from 1997 to 2010. These reforms were heavily influenced by neoliberalism, and emphasized that there were 'no rights without responsibilities, 'making labor market participation essential. Simultaneously, the recognition of disability rights was growing in the United Kingdom, culminating in the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. This article explores the tension between neoliberalism and the human rights approach to disability in the context of New Labour’s welfare reforms for people with disabilities. The analysis includes the perspectives of people with disabilities and disability stakeholders who participated in focus groups or interviews in an English metropolitan region, and is framed by the principles that underpin the Convention. The article offers policy insights to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities are included in future welfare reforms.Key Words:  conditionality, employment, welfare-to-work, workfare, United Kingdom
Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies
Authors: Schalk Sami
Published: March 2016

This creative-critical paper combines creative non-fiction and theory to trace one non-disabled scholar’s personal experience with disability studies as a field and a community. Using disidentification and crip theory, this paper theorizes the personal, political, and academic utility of identifying with crip as a nondisabled, fat, black, queer, female academic. This crip identification then undergirds and informs the researcher’s scholarship in and relationship to disability studies as a field. Specifically referencing the Society for Disability Studies dance as a potential space of cross-identification, this paper suggests that disidentification among/across/between minoritarian subjects allows for coalitional theory and politics between disability studies and other fields, particularly race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. Keywords: crip, identity, queer theory, race
"This is the anthropologist, and she is sighted": Ethnographic Research with Blind Women
Authors: Hammer Gili
Published: March 2016

Power relations and the researcher's gaze are extremely relevant to the research of blind people, yet rarely documented. Based on three years of anthropological research with blind women in Israel, this paper discusses the methodological considerations raised by the ethnography of blindness and the position of a sighted-woman-researcher in the field. Employing a "reflexive interpretation," the analysis explores the ways in which research with blind participants raises specific questions regarding researcher-researched power relations and social interactions, offering a fresh approach to the discussion of the researcher's "gaze" and knowledge gathered in the field. Focusing on sight and blindness within the research process, the article addresses "sensory knowledge" raised in the field, offering a nuanced account of the ethnographic inquiry as a sensory endeavor, promoting a dialogue among disability studies, anthropology of the senses, feminist disability studies, and qualitative methodology. Key words: blindness; ethnographic research; anthropology; senses; Israel; visual culture; disability; power relations.
Emphasizing Observation in a Gallery Program for Blind and Low-Vision Visitors: Art Beyond Sight at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Authors: Hoyt Bridget O'Brien
Published: March 2016

The article recreates a gallery conversation with blind and low-vision visitors focused on The Judgment of Solomon, (c. 1640) by Matthias Stomer. Rather than passively receiving the interpretations of the facilitator, participants work together to build an understanding of the painting as a whole from the details described. The article goes on to give a history of the program's development including a nuanced evaluation of the merits of handling objects as an aid to comprehension.Key words: Museum access for the blind and visually impaired, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, art education for the blind, verbal descriptions of visual art.  Audio description of visual art, guided description.
An Art History & Art Making Course for Blind Adults
Authors: Thoma Street
Published: March 2016

The manager of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts accessible programs gives a history of the institution’s services for people with disabilities, with particular attention to services for the blind and visually impaired.  These include descriptive tours, touch tours, three-dimensional tactile interpretations of two-dimensional works, and a long standing art history and art making class for blind and visually impaired students, Form in Art.  Key words:Philadelphia Museum of Art, museum accessibility, touch tours, descriptive tours, audio description, blind artists, art education for the blind and visually impaired.
Some Touching Thoughts and Wishful Thinking
Authors: Kleege Georgina
Published: March 2016

Abstract: I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of blind visitors to expand cultural knowledge by including tactile aesthetics. Key words: blindness, blind museum access, Museum of Modern Art, tactile aesthetics.
Reason and Normative Embodiment in Plato's Republic: On the Philosophical Creation of Disability
Authors: Kiefer Thomas Joseph
Published: March 2016

This essay argues that the tendency to exclude individuals with disabilities from philosophical discourse is rooted in the attempt to apply rationally-derived principles to human embodiment.  To establish this thesis, this essay focuses on Plato's Republic as one of the first, foundational philosophical texts to specifically argue that a city governed by reasonableness should actively kill individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities because such individuals embody injustice as the lack of order. This essay concludes that because philosophical discourse is predicated upon on rationality and rational principles, the exclusion of individuals with disabilities due to considerations of normative conceptions of embodiment will always remain an inherent possibility within human reasoning. However, historical and contemporary attempts to philosophically derive a normative conception of human embodiment will also necessarily fail to adequately address human embodiment insofar as such rationalized schemas exclude individuals and deny inevitable borderline cases to appear rationally coherent.
Guest Editors' Introduction: Growing Disability Studies: Politics of Access, Politics of Collaboration
Authors: Jarman Michelle , Kafer Alison
Published: March 2016

This is an introduction and has no abstract.
Idiots Savants, Retarded Savants, Talented Aments, Mono-Savants, Autistic Savants, Just Plain Savants, People with Savant Syndrome, and Autistic People Who Are Good at Things: A View from Disability Studies
Authors: Straus Joseph
Published: March 2016

People with a particular profile of strengths and weaknesses—typically involving prodigious skill in one area (such as calendar or arithmetical calculation, art, or music) and a general “mental deficiency”—have long been categorized as “idiots savants,” or with other, similar labels.  It is the goal of this paper to dismantle this category in all of its terminological manifestations by deconstructing both the “idiocy” and the “savantism” that underpin it.  In its place, I focus instead on people with autism, who typically have special interests and activities they pursue intensively and skillfully: people identified as savants are mostly autistic, and autistic people usually have some sort of special interest or skill.  For the idiot savant, the savant skill is understood to emerge in spite of the general lack of intelligence.  For the autistic person, the special interests or skills arise not in spite of the autism but precisely because of it: autism enables the skill; the skill makes the autism visible.  Instead of enfreaking people as super-crips, I propose to celebrate them in a realistic mode, as autistic people who are good at things.Keywords: Idiot savant, savant syndrome, autism.
Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification
Authors: Maroto Michelle , Pettinicchio David
Published: March 2016

Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the population. Despite their numbers and the economic hardships they face, disability is often excluded from general sociological studies of stratification and inequality. To address some of these omissions, this paper focuses on employment and earnings inequality by disability status in the United States since the enactment of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a policy that affects many Americans. After using Current Population Survey data from 1988-2014 to describe these continuing disparities, we review research that incorporates multiple theories to explain continuing gaps in employment and earnings by disability status. In addition to theories pointing to the so-called failures of the ADA, explanations also include general criticisms of the capitalist system and economic downturns, dependence on social welfare and disability benefits, the nature of work, and employer attitudes. We conclude with a call for additional research on disability and discrimination that helps to better situate disability within the American stratification system.
“What’s the point of having friends?”: Reformulating Notions of the Meaning of Friends and Friendship among Autistic People
Authors: Bertilsdotter Rosqvist Hanna , Brownlow Charlotte , O Lindsay
Published: March 2016

In this paper we discuss the notion of 'autistic friendship'. Drawing on articles published in the Swedish advocacy magazine Empowerment, written for and by autistic people, a thematic analysis explores two interrelated themes: the meaning and performance of friendship in non-autistic (NT) and autistic (AS) worlds and the meaning of space in social interaction and community. Articles published in the magazine frequently discuss autistic only spaces as safe places in which to make friends with other autistic people and also in which to perhaps learn how to manage social interactions with the dominant non-autistic (NT) culture.