bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
On Death and Disability: Reframing Educators' Perceptions of Parental Response to Disability
Authors: Allred Keith , Hancock Christine
Published: March 2016

Keywords: parental response to disability; stage model; grief; parent-teacher collaboration; values-based practice; strength-based approachThis expository article critically reviews the literature from 1950-2010 regarding educators' perceptions of parental response to disability. Pre-service, practitioner, and professional literature are examined to explore the views presented to teacher candidates during the process of professional induction. As this literature relies upon the stage model of grief associated with Kübler-Ross' (1969) description of the acceptance of death, the effects on parent-professional relations and cultural understandings of disability are critiqued. The paper presents an alternative framing of parental response to disability emerging through positive psychology. Recommendations, based upon a disability studies in education perspective, are made regarding changes in the teacher induction process in the United States and how values-based practices informed by the emancipatory orientation of positive psychology can lead to more effective collaboration between educators and parents.
Autism, Rhetoric, and Whiteness
Authors: Heilker Paul
Published: March 2016

Keywords: autism, rhetoric, whitenessThis paper first explicates various forces working to construct autism as an overwhelmingly white phenomenon in public discourse, including popular films, television programming, "armchair" internet diagnoses, "geek chic," "shiny" autistics, "Aspie supremacy," the rhetorics of autism advocacy organizations, special education, access to health care, and parental education levels.  It then considers the epistemological and rhetorical implications of autistic whiteness, including an examination of its functions in Burkean identification and its possible operation in educational, workplace, criminal justice, and governmental contexts.
Universal Design Research as a New Materialist Practice
Authors: Hamraie Aimi
Published: March 2016

In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions of possibility for inclusive design. UD appropriates and redefines normalizing research methods, namely anthropometry, that were developed in the 19th century for uses that are contrary to disability rights and justice, such as eugenics, colonialism, and scientific racism. The paper argues that critical disability theory should understand work in UD research and design practice in order to formulate a nuanced, new materialist and historical disability epistemology, particularly in engagements with scientific knowledge. Keywords: Universal Design, accessibility, anthropometry, normate, misfit, 19th century science, eugenics, new materialism
Disability and Communication: A Consideration of Cross-disability Communication and Technology
Authors: Best Kirsty , Butler Stephanie
Published: March 2016

The authors analyze the impact of marginalizing discourses surrounding disability on the design of communication options in online and virtual worlds. The primary focus is on conflict between participants in an ongoing study in Second Life, based on audio versus textual communication needs. Although the participants in the study are diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the difficulties faced in facilitating communication between the two groups reveal serious problems with current modes of live chatting which privilege one sense over the other, which would be relevant to other disabled populations. The inability to blend audio and textual communication creates an additional barrier for participants in the ongoing study in Second Life, and for visually and hearing impaired individuals who wish to use technology as a means of communicating with one another.Keywords: Disability Studies; Communication; Hearing Impairment; Vision Impairment; Discourse model of disability; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; Accessibility
Invisible Identity in the Workplace: Intersectional Madness and Processes of Disclosure at Work
Authors: Pilling Merrick Daniel
Published: March 2016

In this article I draw on recent work regarding disabilities that are not readily apparent to analyze the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and/or trans (LGBQT) mad people in the workplace. Based on interviews with LGBQT people about madness and everyday life, I use an intersectional approach to examine participants’ work lives. I argue that decisions about disclosure of mental health related information are particularly pressing and high risk at work, given the economic stakes and the effects on health and well-being. As is the case for others with invisible disabilities, notions of authenticity shape processes of disclosure and access to accommodations for LGBQT mad people in the workplace. An intersectional analysis shows how madness cannot be considered the only salient aspect of my participants’ subject positions and how multiple identities operate together to shape their experiences. Keywords: madness, invisible disability, LGBQT, intersectionality, workplace, race, sexuality, gender identity
The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege
Authors: Wolframe PhebeAnn Marjory
Published: March 2016

In this paper, I suggest that one way to bring mad perspectives and discussions about saneism/mentalism--systemic discrimination against people who have been diagnosed as, or are perceived to be "mentally ill"--into higher eduction is to situate them within existing curricula across disciplines. One of the ways curricula can be modified is by adapting existing theoretical frameworks from other interdisciplinary fields to mad issues and contexts. As an example of this adaptation, I turn Peggy McIntosh's article "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1988), a staple of undergraduate humanities curricula, into a teaching tool for showing not only the ways in which "sane" people--those who have never been psychiatrized or perceived as "mentally ill"--have access to privileges that mad people do not, but also the ways in which saneism/mentalism intersects with other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and ableism. Keywords: saneism, mentalism, mad studies, privilege, feminism, intersectionality, pedagogy
Nature for Mental Health and Social Inclusion
Authors: Bishop Benjamin P.
Published: March 2016

In the United States there remains an effort for mental health services to provide holistic options that improve symptomatology while improving social belonging for people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illnesses.  Consequently, the mental healthcare delivery system appears to create community-situated users of services rather than people who are active members of their communities.  This article reports on literature associated with the use of horticulture and gardening for mental health recovery and embraces the use of these services to generate enduring and genuine community integration outcomes through professional-community relationships.  Conclusions are that mental health services should engage Nature-related programing to provide opportunities that enhance multiple aspects of health and well-being, increase constructive interpersonal relationships that lead to a more authentic social inclusion, and support the destigmatization of mental illnesses.Keywords: mental health; integration; Nature, gardening, social and therapeutic horticulture; eco-therapy
Review of Harbour and Madaus, Disability Services and Campus Dynamics
Authors: Mullaney Clare
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Involuntary Cure: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
Authors: Linett Maren
Published: March 2016

This article takes a disability studies approach to Rebecca West’s 1918 novel, The Return of the Soldier, the story of an amnesiac soldier returned from the Front. Such an approach highlights the extreme sanism of the novel’s ending, where the characters agree that if Chris were left in his amnesiac state, he “would not be quite a man.” This essay argues that although the novel initiates an incisive critique of sanism as a set of patriarchal and class-bound behavioral norms, it is unable to follow through on that critique. West’s ableism overrides the novel’s concern with the injustices of class, gender, and war, prompting the novel’s insistence that the “mad” soldier, Chris Baldry, be involuntarily cured.Keywords: Rebecca West, madness, shell-shock, disability
Negotiating Autism in an Epidemic of Discourse
Authors: Johnson Jenell
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Nielsen, A Disability History of the United States
Authors: Brune Jeffrey
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Wu, Chang and Eng Reconnected
Authors: Parrey Ryan
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Internet’s Empowering and Disempowering Qualities: Online (Re)presentation of Disabled Parents
Authors: Bj Kristin , Sigurj Hanna B.
Published: March 2016

The virtual sphere has the potential to provide space for different groups to voice their thoughts and opinions and in this paper we report on findings based on analysis of the virtual discourse about disabled parents in Iceland. The virtual discourse is shaped by the deficit understanding of disability and disabled parents are commonly viewed as unable and unfit to care for children. Disabled people in Iceland have not carved out a virtual space for advocating their rights for family life and parenthood and the disability movement has remained silent on this issue. In this paper we explore the disempowering and empowering qualities of the Internet in relation to the discourse on disability and parenthood and argue for the need for information and formal advocacy.Keywords: disability; parenthood; discourse; virtual sphere; empowerment; disempowerment
Historical perspectives on studying families of children with disabilities: A case for critical research
Authors: Lalvani Priya , Polvere Lauren
Published: March 2016

Historically, research on families of children with disabilities has been framed by the medical model, which views disability as a biological deficit, necessarily associated with burden and grief.  This body of research does not acknowledge the sociocultural contexts in which the meaning of disability is embedded, or the manner in which deficit-based hegemonic discourses shape the familial experience of having a child with a disability.  In this paper, we problematize the medicalization of the phenomenon of disability and resulting research inquiries.  We propose the use of narrative inquiry, theoretically grounded in sociocultural perspectives, as a critical research methodology for situating the lives of these families in cultural and sociopolitical contexts.  Narrative inquiries complicate conclusions drawn from the medical model and contribute to new insights on the ways in which interpretations of having a child with a disability are mutually negotiated between individuals and society.                             Keywords:  families; children with disabilities; narrative inquiry; disability studies; critical disability theory; qualitative methodology
Dancing, Poetry, Pain: An Ekphrastic Etude
Authors: Kuppers Petra
Published: March 2016

A meditation on dance, poetry, pain and embodied acts of translation, moving along poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Leveling the Participatory Field: the Mind's Eye Program at the Guggenheim Museum
Authors: Krantz Georgia
Published: March 2016

This essay constitutes a methodological inquiry into standard approaches to interacting around art with people who are blind or have low vision.  Critical reflection upon Verbal Imaging and close-looking techniques yields learning environments in which visitors to the museum have opportunities for increased independence, leadership roles and sense of community. Key words: Guggenheim Museum, art education for blind and low-vision people, verbal imaging, verbal description of art, museum accessibility programs.
Museums: A Whole New World for Visually Impaired People
Authors: Ginley Barry
Published: March 2016

Accessing museums has been difficult for people who are blind or partially sighted, often due to objects being placed in glass cases creating a barrier to access. Many museums around the world provide some accessibility but what happens when a museum looks at the issue in its entirety and sees blind and partially sighted visitors as important as everyone else. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has tried to take an holistic approach to access, by looking at what prevents blind and partially sighted visitors visit a museum and how it can improve access for such an audience. Taking a focused approach to consider not only the objects but implementing a museum wide strategy is required to provide inclusive access for all visitors. The museum considers how it can improve the visitor experience by removing the physical barriers, staff training, providing touch objects and tactile books, as well as looking to the future to see how technology can play a part in improving access. Employing people with a disability has also assisted the V&A in its journey to becoming more accessible by employing a blind person as its first Disability and Access Officer, a unique opportunity to change from within. Key words: Victoria and Albert Museum, inclusive museum access, touch tours and verbal description.
Review of Good Kings Bad Kings
Authors: Wegner Gesine
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Toward a Theoretico-practical Accountability to Difference and Relationality
Authors: Rakes Heather
Published: March 2016

In this essay, I argue for a theoretico-practical accountability to difference and belonging in feminist philosophy and theory that requires attentiveness to disability as an important vector of power, normativity, and oppression. My insistence on accountability echoes the many appeals to confront and take account of one's own ableist, white supremacist, cisgendered forms of privilege (while simultaneously working to dismantle more systemic forms of privilege) that disabled feminists, feminists of color, and transgender feminists have made.[i] Following Eli Clare and Aimee Carrillo Rowe, I consider how an ongoing accountability to intersectionality and embodiment in a politics of relation can avoid the exclusionary logics at work in feminist philosophical and theoretical invocations of "gender, race, and class," or "gender, race, and sexuality" that consistently ignore disability, among other identifications, as constitutive productions of structural power. An embodied and intersectional feminist refiguring of subjectivity that attends to race, class, age, disability, cis/gender, and sexuality, among other axes of difference, should be recognized as an important requirement of accountability for feminist philosophers and theorists, especially feminist philosophers and theorists who are privileged along one or more of these axes of power.[i] Aurora Levins Morales (1998), frames this accountability as “the willingness to examine and dismantle our own privilege and take full responsibility for remaking the world so that neither we nor anyone else can hold it again” (94). Keywords: belonging; relationality; feminism; disability; queer; transgender
Disability Art, Aesthetics, and Access: Creating Exhibitions in a Liberal Arts Setting
Authors: Cooley Jessica , Fox Ann M.
Published: March 2016

In this essay we discuss the strategies and concepts behind two separate disability arts exhibitions we co-curated at Davidson College in 2009: RE/FORMATIONS: DISABILITY, WOMEN, AND SCULPTURE and STARING.  First, as curators who have mounted two disability arts exhibitions in the context of a small liberal arts college, we offer insights from our practical experience related to conceptualizing and producing a show focused around disability and art: its shape, funding, and display.  It is our hope these will be useful to curators, but also to those who have little or no curatorial experience.  Our comments will emphasize the context of the liberal arts college, but many of the central issues we confronted would be relevant to mounting such exhibitions in other settings.  Second, in discussing the dialogues about disability that emerged within and from our two exhibitions (RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture and STARING), we want to provide some answers from our own experience to the question: what compelling issues and ideas emerge at the intersection of access, disability aesthetics, and art when creating such exhibitions? Keywords: art, disability art, curator, curating disability, liberal arts college, exhibitions, disability aesthetics, RE/FORMATIONS, STARING, staring, Harriet Sanderson, Laura Splan, Nancy Fried, Judith Scott, Rebecca Horn, Doug Auld, Chris Rush, access, exhibition access, sculpture, breast cancer, intellectual disability, polio, burn survivors
Review of Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and "Enfreakment"
Authors: Durbach Nadja
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
Authors: Cellio Jennifer
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A Genealogy of (post-)Soviet Dependency: Disabling Productivity
Authors: Hartblay Cassandra
Published: March 2016

Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon's 1994 article “A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State” explored the historical emergence of "dependency" as a moral category of post-industrial American state. In this article, I engage their framework to explore the genealogy of dependency in America's post-industrial sister, the post-Soviet Russian Federation. I also add disability as a core element of 'dependency' that was largely absent from Fraser and Gordon's original analysis. Considering cross-cultural translation, I ask how Russian deployments of three words that all relate to a concept of interdependence align with and depart from American notions of dependency, and trace historical configurations of the Soviet welfare state vis-a-vis disability. To do so, I draw on historical and cultural texts, linguistic comparisons, secondary sources, and ethnographic research. Given this analysis, I argue that rather than a Cold War interpretation of the Soviet Union and the US as oppositional superpowers in the 20th century, a liberatory disability studies framework suggests that in the postindustrial era the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as dual regimes of productivity. I suggest that reframing postsocialism as a global condition helps us to shift considerations of disability justice from a critique of capitalism to a critique of productivity.  Keywords: dependency, disability, citizenship, russia, productivity
Brazil and Disability Studies: On the Map. Notes from The First International Symposium on Disability Studies in São Paulo
Authors: Connor David , Block Pamela , Calder Gideon , Rembis Michael , Watson Nicolas
Published: March 2016

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Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies
Authors: Kudlick Catherine , Schweik Susan
Published: March 2016

This essay recounts two interconnected collaborative disability studies projects. Because of every person’s complex relationship to their own embodiment and that of others, disability beckons us to a realm beyond abstraction, even as the field becomes ever more theoretical. We describe how disability shaped what we did and how we did it; description is a key term here. Conversations such as the ones we had in 2010 and 2012 pave the way for new ideas by offering concrete examples of disability as a generative force.  Through risk taking and creative practice, the best academics and artists challenge the status quo, maybe serving as translators for people not in the habit of giving disability or disabled people much thought. The more people come to associate disability with positive ideas, the more we can imagine changing those hardwired negative, pitying forces that dominate approaches to policy, practices, and encounters in daily life.  Keywords: access, arts, audio description, critical disability studies, collaboration, curation, design, distance learning.
Disability Is a Feminist Issue: Bringing Together Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies
Authors: Piepmeier Alison , Cantrell Amber , Maggio Ashley
Published: March 2016

This paper tracks a series of conversations between a women's and gender studies professor and two of her undergraduate students, all of whom are interested in disability studies. We explore the links between disability and feminism, and to think through the possibilities of having disability studies become part of the academy. Our primarily positive interactions with the academic institution and our interest in disability studies has led to our argument that disability is in fact a feminist issue. Disability studies has allowed each of us to re-conceptualize our own relationships to feminist theory, and shaped our ability to envision a better academic environment for all students. Keywords: feminist disability studies, intersectionality, pedagogy, mental disability
“It’ll Grow Organically and Naturally": The Reciprocal Relationship between Student Groups and Disability Studies on College Campuses
Authors: Stout Allegra , Schwartz Ariel
Published: March 2016

Although few colleges and universities offer undergraduate disability studies curricula, our own experiences suggest that higher education settings provide opportunities for students to engage with and act upon disability studies theories and concepts. To learn more about the interactions between undergraduate student groups and disability studies, we interviewed students and faculty on three campuses. We found that students not only access disability studies theory through both formal and informal means, but that they also actively engage with it to develop their understandings of disability and interpret their experiences. Additionally, student groups educate their campus communities by advocating for the inclusion of disability studies in curricula, sharing their perspectives in the classroom, and hosting events related to disability studies. Through these activities, often in collaboration with faculty and staff, students forge reciprocal relationships between their activism and the field of disability studies.Keywords: Student groups, activism, advocacy, narrative, undergraduate education
The Story of My Work: How I Became Disabled
Authors: Garland-Thomson Rosemarie
Published: March 2016

Perhaps the best opening line in disability studies comes from Georgina Kleege: “Writing this book made me blind.” Following this honorable tradition, I begin my explication of disability studies through my own experience with a similar starting point: “Feminism made me disabled.” Honoring as well the tradition of making theory through narrative, I also follow Helen Keller, who like Kleege situates her knowledge in the local. From these exemplary works of feminist disability studies, I develop an explication of how I grew disability studies and how it grew me. Throughout, I consider the categories of disabled and nondisabled and the ways in which they have developed in disability studies literature broadly. I conclude by asserting the importance of both access and identity and community for disabled people. Keywords: feminist disability studies, disability identity, misfitting, history of disability studies
Refrigerator Mothers and Sick Little Boys: Bruno Bettelheim, Eugenics and the De-Pathologization of Jewish Identity
Authors: Epstein Griffin jaye
Published: March 2016

Child psychologist and Nazi concentration camp survivor Bruno Bettelheim’s influential theories of autism reveal a startling connection between Jewish identity, the medicalization of disability, colonial eugenics and race-making practices over the 20th century in North America. Using Bettelheim’s life and work as a case-study, this paper explores Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant complicity in a whitened colonial landscape through the lens of Disability Studies. It asks the question: can we be more accountable to our disabled identities – and to those disabled people who have come before us – if we learn how our families, our identities, our very selves have been complicit in medicalization and violence? Keywords: madness, race, whiteness, Jewish identity, eugenics, psychiatry
“We are sick and we are stressed”: understanding the correlates of reported emotional distress in individuals with lupus
Authors: Giffords Elissa D. , Calderon Orly
Published: March 2016

This article examines needs and concerns of individuals with lupus and the correlates of self-reported emotional distress.  A survey tested the following hypotheses: Individuals with lupus report a high level of emotional distress that is associated with (1) their perceived levels of social support, (2) the self-reported frequency with which they require assistance in their daily living and (3) the amount of time from initial symptoms to diagnosis. 1,776 individuals participated.  More than 95% of the individuals are diagnosed with systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Multivariate analyses confirm individuals report a significant level of stress associated with the frequency of needing assistance in daily life.  The findings do not support a strong relationship between perceived social support and reported stress. Similarly, there was no strong association between reported stress and the length of time lapsed from initial symptoms to diagnosis. Implications for mental health practice are also discussed. Keywords: lupus, stress, social support, assistance in daily life, emotional distress.
Writing About Disability, With Disability: A Review of Stephanie Kerschbaum's Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference
Authors: Vidali Amy
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy
Authors: Loftis Sonya Freeman
Published: March 2016

Sherlock Holmes has long been rumored to be on the autism spectrum. Yet the significance of the great detective's autism "diagnosis" has been largely overlooked. While it would be impossible to diagnose a fictional character with a neurological difference, it says something about the way that the public imagines autism that Holmes is consistently imagined and described as a person on the spectrum. Indeed, Conan Doyle's character popularized the stereotype of the detective with autistic traits, thus perpetuating several common tropes about autism. Emulating Conan Doyle's famous tales, contemporary crime fiction frequently creates detective characters with autistic characteristics. For example, popular television shows such as Criminal Minds present detectives with autistic traits who are clearly constructed to remind audiences of Holmes. While figures such as Spenser Reid (and other crime fighters following in Holmes's shadow) may seem to counteract fears of people with cognitive disabilities as deviant, criminal, or dangerous, they may actually reinforce those stereotypes.
Supporting institution-to-community transitions for people with psychiatric disabilities: Findings and implications from a participatory action research project
Authors: Zakrajsek Andrea Gossett , Mirza Mansha , Chan Nathan Kai-Cheong , Wilson Tom , Karner Mark , Hammel Joy
Published: March 2016

Despite preference for community-based living, large numbers of people with psychiatric disabilities live in nursing homes throughout the US. Community-based services for this population are limited by public policy and service system barriers. This paper summarizes these barriers and presents the second phase of a participatory action research project jointly developed by university-based researchers and two Centers for Independent Living. A qualitative case study methodology was used to understand the experiences of three individuals with psychiatric disabilities reintegrating into the community from nursing homes. Findings revealed themes of social isolation, participation in virtual communities, variability of impairment experiences and unmet needs for community supports. In addition to thematic findings, action products were generated for the benefit of community partners. These products included national best practice resources and a needs assessment survey tool. Study findings and products point to specific systems change and policy recommendations to better support community reintegration for this population. These recommendations are discussed in light of U.S. healthcare reform and broader disability advocacy efforts.
The Tale of Two Civil Societies: Comparing disability rights movements in Nicaragua and Uruguay
Authors: Meyers Stephen , Lockwood Elizabeth
Published: March 2016

The UNCRPD is unique amongst international rights instruments because it empowers civil society organizations to represent the rights-bearers themselves—persons with disabilities. As such, DPOs in the Global South have become a major concern for UN agencies and international NGOs who believe that grassroots disability associations need political advocacy training in order to take up their role as rights advocates. These expectations contain implicit assumptions regarding civil society-state relations and the existence of governmental capacity. The authors, however, hypothesize that not all civil societies will fit the rights advocacy model due to the political culture and public resources available within their respective, local communities. Disability movements in Nicaragua and Uruguay are compared and contrasted. In Nicaragua, a disability rights coalition dismisses many international expectations in favor for continuing to follow traditional civil society expectations to provide services. In Uruguay, a long history of high levels of social spending and disability organizing enabled DPOs to successfully advocate for progressive laws. The deaf community, however, decided to implement their own, separate advocacy strategies to ensure a fairer distribution of public resources. The authors conclude that rather than top-down civil society training, the international movement should allow local organizations set their own priorities.
Human Rights and Neoliberalism in Australian Welfare to Work Policy: Experiences and Perceptions of People with Disabilities and Disability Stakeholders
Authors: Parker Harris Sarah , Owen Randall , Fisher Karen R , Gould Robert
Published: March 2016

Recent policy approaches in Australia, influenced by neoliberalism, have constrained the implementation of international disability rights at the national level. Within the neoliberal and human rights approaches to social policy, what is the lived experience of people with disabilities? In focus groups with people with disabilities and interviews with disability stakeholders in Australia, participants were asked about their experiences and perspectives of welfare to work programs. We analyzed the data by drawing on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a framework. The analysis revealed tensions between the rights and responsibilities of citizens and the government, and a disconnection between policy discourse and policy practice. The results suggest that disability rights are jeopardized unless governments take responsibility to create the policy environment for rights-based policy to be implemented; including the equalization of opportunities, providing accessible information and communication about employment, and addressing the administration and process practices that employment service providers follow.
Privacy, Dependency, Discegenation: Toward a Sexual Culture for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Authors: Adams Rachel
Published: March 2016

Monica and David, (Alexandra Codina 2010), Girlfriend (Justin Lerner 2010), and Me Too [Yo también] (Antonio Naharro and Álvaro Pastor, 2009) are recent films that explore the need for companionship, intimacy, and sexual expression among people with intellectual disabilities. They break ground in showing people with intellectual disabilities as capable of sexual agency as well as sustaining committed, mutually satisfying relationships. However they also consider the meaning of sex in the context of dependency. More challenging still, they probe the taboo of "discegenation," sex in which only one partner is disabled. In doing so, they raise complicated questions about consent, desire, and privacy in all sexual encounters.
Accessibility on the Move: Investigating how Students with Disabilities at the University of Manitoba Experience the Body, Self, and Physical Activity
Authors: Moola Fiona J
Published: March 2016

The "ivory tower" is gradually beginning to open its doors to students with disabilities. Although scholarship on the learning experiences of students with disabilities at university is burgeoning, there is an absence of qualitative craftsmanship that has investigated the physical activity experiences of these students, most particularly in the Canadian context. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework as a lens to consider both the bodily and social effects of disablement, I adopted a thematic analytic approach to describe the activity experiences of 12 disabled students at the University of Manitoba (UofM) in Winnipeg, Canada. The students described threatened body-self relationships. They also regarded on campus physical activity as a site of both pleasure and pain. Finally, the students explained what inclusive physical activity means within the context of higher education. By describing the movement experiences and desires of disabled university students at the UofM, this study contributes toward the ongoing struggle for inclusive higher education.
Investigating Students’ Reception and Production of Normalizing Discourses in a Disability-Themed Advanced Composition Course
Authors: Selznick Hilary
Published: March 2016

In this article. I report on an IRB-approved auto-ethnographic study of a disability studies-themed rhetoric and compositon course that I designed and taught at a midsize Midwestern university. This study examines students multimodal life-writing compositions, "normal commonplace books (journals of students' encounteres with the assumptions--or commonplaces-- of normacy), and classroom discussion, asking: How do students' use normalizing discourses in relation to disability and other marginalized identity categories? And, how might educators pedagogically intervene in such discourses? Ultimately, I found that exploring "discourses of normalcy" might help educators access students' experiences with disability, and consequently, redress the hegemony of the norm. The study revealed that students were more likely to use normalizing discourses in their written responses rather than in class discussions. Similarly, the instructor intervened in these problematic discourses in written feedback rather than verbally in classroom exchanges. The study also proved that after exposure to critical disability studies, students were more willing to discuss other social issues relating to race, sexuality, religion, and class. In keeping with the aims of the special issue, the results of this study suggest one way to teach disability studies content to a variety of audiences, and details an approach used by a teacher-researcher to study a DS classroom.
Minding the Body
Authors: Kayiatos Anastasia Ioanna , Ostrove Joan
Published: March 2016

In the Fall of 2013 we team-taught a disability studies course for a small group of first-year students. The course, Minding the Body, integrated scholarship from disability studies, feminist/queer studies, psychology, and Russian Studies. Originally envisioned and taught independently in the Fall of 2012 by Joan Ostrove and focused entirely on the U.S., Anastasia Kayiatos's arrival in the Department of German and Russian Studies at Macalester College afforded us an opportunity for collaboration and co-instruction that we found invigorating, compelling, and transformative. Grounded from the outset in disability studies, the course asked students to interrogate such questions as: What is a "normal" body? A "beautiful" body? Why do we feel the way we do about our bodies? How are bodies objectified, exploited, and regulated? How and why do we discriminate against people with non-normative bodies? How do people represent the experience of having a disabled body? How can we think critically about the various ways in which people change, regulate, and enhance their bodies? How do sexism, racism, classism, colonialism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of oppression influence how different bodies are viewed, treated, educated, and experienced? The integration of Russian Studies importantly allowed us to ask how these questions and ideas change when we travel across time and geographical space. In our paper we will reflect on our experience of co-authoring the syllabus (we will include both the solo-taught and co-taught versions of the syllabus in an appendix); outline some of our techniques for team-teaching; and analyze an exemplary assignment and class meeting. We will conclude with a final word about the unique forms of teaching and learning that happened in our class as a consequence of its collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, which opened up new perspectives in disability studies not only for our students but also for us.
Beyond the Law: A Review of Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions in ADA Employment Research
Authors: Gould Robert , Parker Harris Sarah , Caldwell Kate , Fujiura Glenn , Jones Robin , Ojok Patrick , Enriquez Katherine Perez
Published: March 2016

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, 1990) is the cornerstone of civil rights policy for people with disabilities. Although enforced through the justice system, the legacy of the ADA transcends well beyond its legal ramifications. The policy’s framework and the rhetoric of Disability Rights suggest both an embrace of the spirit and the letter of the law, or promulgating both legislative and cultural change to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities are met.  In attempting to understand how and if such change has happened, researchers have gathered extensive evidence since 1990.  Much of this research evidence, however, remains fragmented, under-utilized, and at times inconclusive.  This article presents the results of a rapid evidence review of a sample of such research that is crucial to understand the ADA’s progress.  The study examines evidence about the ADA’s influence on knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about employment of people with disabilities. The research illustrates the importance of moving beyond the law to incorporate changes in knowledge about the law, perceptions of employability, and workplace culture.
"Just How Much Diversity Will the Law Permit?": The Americans with Disabilities Act, Diversity and Disability in Higher Education
Authors: Shallish Lauren
Published: March 2016

Civil rights laws including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 worked to protect classes and individuals for whom discrimination had been documented. In an effort to further remedy educational inequality, colleges and universities increasingly used identity categories to enable access and participation in postsecondary life. In addition to anti-discrimination statutes, attention to marginalized groups evolved to include larger networks of academic and co-curricular support such as formations of identity centers, cultural events, fields of study and scholarships yet disability is largely absent from this work as much of higher education maintains a singular focus on legal compliance. This study investigates how disability law is conceived and enacted on five divergent campuses and how participants understood both the function of disability law and other cultural, social and political aspects of disability-related identities.
Conservação pós-colheita de carambola sob refrigeração com recobrimento de biofilme de gelatina e PVC
Authors: Oliveira T. A. , Aroucha E. M. M. , Leite R. H. L. , Ferreira R. M. A. , Santos F. K. G.
Published: March 2016

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a Conservação pós-colheita de carambola com recobrimento de gelatina e PVC. Para isto, carambolas da cultivar ‘Gigante doce’ foram colhidas na maturidade fisiológica, transportadas para o Laboratório de Pós-colheita da Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido sendo selecionadas quanto a maturação, sanificadas, secas e separadas em três grupos para a aplicação dos recobrimentos: os frutos foram recobertos  individualmente com uma solução filmogênica de gelatina a 10% com 1% de glicerol como agente plastificante, recobertos 4 frutos com filme flexível de policloreto de vinila (PVC) de 15μm por bandeja e testemunha (sem recobrimento). Os frutos foram armazenados a 10±1 ºC e 85-90% de UR, avaliados em intervalo de cinco dias durante 20 dias quanto a perda de massa, coloração da casca, firmeza de polpa, sólidos solúveis, acidez titulável, pH e ácido ascórbico. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi inteiramente casualizados, em esquema fatorial 3 x 5, com  quatro  repetições de três frutos. O recobrimento de PVC foi mais eficiente em minimizar a perda de massa dos frutos de carambola durante o armazenamento refrigerado. Enquanto, o biofilme propiciou a manutenção da coloração verde do fruto por maior período de tempo. Verificou-se aumento no teor de ácido ascórbico e decréscimo na firmeza de polpa dos frutos com o tempo de armazenamento.

Postharvest conservation Star fruit refrigerated with biofilm coating gelatin and PVC

Abstract: The objective of this study was to evaluate the Star fruit post-harvest preservation with coating of gelatin and PVC. For this, starfruit cultivar 'sweet Giant' were harvested at physiological maturity, transported to the Postharvest Laboratory of the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid being selected as maturation, sanitized, dried and separated into three groups for the implementation of coatings: the fruits were coanting individually with a film solution of gelatin to 10% with 1% glycerol as plasticizer, covered four fruits with flexible film of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) of 15μm per tray and control (without coating). The fruits were stored at 10 ± 1 ° C and 85-90% RH, valued at five-day intervals for 20 days as the mass loss, peel color, flesh firmness, soluble solids, titratable acidity, pH and ascorbic acid. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial 3 x 5, with four replications of three fruits. The PVC coating was more efficient in minimizing the mass loss of Star fruit fruit during cold storage. While the biofilm provided the maintenance of green color of the fruit for a longer period of time. An increase in the ascorbic acid content and decrease in firmness of fruit with storage time.
Ocorrência de patógenos em cultivos de melancia e abóbora no sertão da Paraíba
Authors: Soares Maria Gilmara de Oliveira , Soares Josiglei de Abrantes , Márcia Aparecida  , Cardoso Tiago Augusto de Lima , Lima José Albérsio de Araújo
Published: March 2016

Por constituírem uma importante fonte de alimento, plantações de melancia e abóbora são comumente cultivadas no sertão paraibano, porém pouco se sabe sobre a ocorrência de patógenos causadores de doenças, os quais limitam a sua produtividade e renda aos produtores. Visando obter informações sobre a ocorrência dos patógenos virais e fúngicos em cultivos de abóbora e melancia situados em municípios produtores no sertão da Paraíba, amostras coletadas com sintomas de mosaico e deformação foliar, típicos de doenças virais foram analisadas pela técnica sorológica “enzime linked immuno sorbentassay” (Elisa) indireto para Papaya ring spot virus, type watermelon (PRSV-W), Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV), Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) e Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). O teste de dupla difusão em Agar foi utilizado para verificar a presença de Squash mosaic virus (SqMV). Em contrapartida, amostras coletadas com sintomas de doenças fúngicas foram analisadas pelo isolamento do patógeno e visualização de suas características morfológicas em microscópio óptico. Em abóbora, houve prevalência dos vírus ZYMV e PRSV-W em infecções simples e mistas, e maior incidência dos fungos Cladosporium spp., e Alternaria spp. Em melancia detectou-se infecção simples e mistas das espécies PRSV-W, WMV e ZYMV, e maior freqüência de Fusarium spp. e Alternaria spp.. Não foram detectados os vírus CMV e SqMV. Os resultados obtidos revelam a ocorrência de vários patógenos fúngicos e viróticos em cultivos de abóbora e melancia situados no sertão da Paraíba e ressaltam a importância da utilização de estratégias de manejo que reduzem os danos ocasionados por esses patógenos.
PROGRAMAS E PRÁTICAS SUSTENTÁVEIS NA BOVINOCULTURA DE CORTE DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL: CAMINHOS PARA A CONSOLIDAÇÃO DE UMA BOVINOCULTURA SUSTENTÁVEL
Authors: De Oliveira Gardini Alexandre , Almeida Matias Marcos José , Barros de Azevedo Denise
Published: March 2016

A sustentabilidade na bovinocultura de corte tem sido vista como uma das possibilidades para a solução de problemas ambientais causados pelo agronegócio. Essa visão, que procura disseminar valores, acredita na preservação em substituição da degradação, visualizando assim uma possibilidade objetiva de mudança com a manutenção da competitividade. Neste artigo explora essas questões ao realizar um estudo qualitativo, descritivo com objetivo de identificar os programas e as principais práticas desenvolvidos no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul que integram a questão da sustentabilidade na cadeia da bovinocultura de corte. Os dados utilizados neste artigo foram obtidos de fontes primárias, gerados pelas entrevistas com três agentes pertencentes a instituições ligadas a cadeia da bovinocultura de corte. As discussões deste artigo identificaram que os principais programas sustentáveis da bovinocultura de corte no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul são: Pecuária Bovina Orgânica, Boas Práticas Agropecuárias, e Integração Lavoura, Pecuária e Floresta, evidenciando que através de programas e práticas é possível obter uma bovinocultura de corte sustentável.
REGIONALIZAÇÃO DA PEGADA HÍDRICA DO ESTADO DA PARAÍBA
Authors: Bem Maracajá Kettrin Farias , Eloi Lincoln , De Paulo Rodrigues da Silva Vicente
Published: March 2016

O conceito de pegada de água (PH) tem sido utilizado como um indicador do volume total anual de água doce que é usado para produzir os bens e serviços consumidos pelos habitantes da nação. O objetivo deste artigo consiste em elaborar a regionalização PH no Estado da Paraíba; e, assim, quantificar o uso consuntivo de água de sua população nas diferentes mesorregiões do estado. Os resultados indicaram que PH média do Estado da Paraíba é de 796 m3/ano per capita  enquanto as mesorregiões da Mata paraibana e Cariri paraibano apresentaram maiores e as menores pegadas hídricas, respectivamente. A PH da população aumenta linearmente com a sua renda familiar, com coeficiente de determinação de 0,89 no caso do grupo com a menor renda familiar. A pegada hídrica da população aumenta em função da renda familiar e diminui de acordo com os hábitos alimentares.