bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

<p>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.</p><p align="center"><strong><em>Postharvest conservation Star fruit refrigerated with biofilm coating gelatin and PVC</em></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong><strong>: </strong>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.</p>
UM ESTUDO SOBRE AS EVIDENCIAÇÕES CONTÁBEIS DO GOVERNO DO ESTADO DE PERNAMBUCO SOB A ÓTICA DA TEORIA DA LEGITIMIDADE E DOS CUSTOS POLÍTICOS
Authors: Araújo João Nascimento de , Soeiro Tiago De Moura , Lagioia Umbelina Cravo Teixeira , Carlos Filho Francisco De Assis 
Published: March 2016

<p>Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar, sob a ótica da Teoria da Legitimidade e dos Custos Políticos, como estão sendo apresentadas as evidenciações contábeis compulsórias e voluntárias que o Governo do Estado de Pernambuco disponibiliza em seu sítio eletrônico. Para tal, baseado em método indutivo, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória e com análise documental. Para a análise dos resultados utilizou-se metodologia semelhante as de Beuren e Söthe (2009) e Avelino, Colauto e Cunha (2010). Foram analisados o cumprimento das Lei nº 9.755/1998 e a Lei Complementar nº 101/2000, quanto as divulgações das evidenciações compulsórias; com base nos parâmetros apresentados por Hendriksen e Van Breda (1999) de níveis de evidenciação; bem como as características qualitativas de informação do Pronunciamento Conceitual Básico (R1) do CPC (2011). Assim, o resultado a pesquisa aponta que as evidenciações compulsórias e voluntárias apresentadas pelo Estado de Pernambuco, não atingem completamente sua legitimidade perante a sociedade, pois as evidenciações não atendem de forma total os níveis de evidenciação justa e completa, bem como as características qualitativas de compreensibilidade e fidedignidade. Infere-se desses achados, portanto, que o Estado de Pernambuco não se sente potencialmente ameaçado em sua legitimidade perante a sociedade, considerando, desta forma, o custo político do aumento dos níveis e qualidade das evidenciações frente à perda da legitimidade.</p><p> </p>
O litígio estratégico na luta antitransgênicos no Brasil
Authors: Losekann Cristiana , Bissoli Luiza Duarte 
Published: March 2016

O artigo examina o uso de estratégias judiciais nas lutas contra os transgênicos no Brasil. O objetivo é entender os mecanismos que levam essas organizações a buscarem no judiciário uma forma de influenciar em decisões políticas. Argumentamos que a constituição deste tipo de estratégia deve entendida a partir da observação das razões que levam organizações a recorrerem à ação judicial. Nesse sentido analisamos que em certos aspectos o apelo ao judiciário revela uma limitação das possibilidades de entendimento via espaços de participação e deliberação. Além disso, evidenciamos que o litígio estratégico, nesse conflito, ocorre de formas distintas: por um lado, refere-se ao conteúdo da questão proposta judicialmente e, por outro, à preservação do espaço de participação e atuação das organizações.