Disability Studies
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Recent papers in Disability Studies
In contemporary medical discourse as well as in the field of Disability Studies, the problems concerning the Cochlear implant (CI) gave rise to a series of controversies. While medical discourses or viscourses imply a natural process of... more
To cite: Wilkins, A. 2017. Rescaling the local: Multi-academy trusts, private monopoly and statecraft in England. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49 (2), 171-185 For the past six years successive UK governments in... more
The paper traces argumentations by the Deaf community in favor of deafness against the Cochlear implant and the impact of concepts like ethnicity, kinship, communities, and the intimate living with a technical device - in german language... more
This research highlights the crucial role of an intimate link between a disabled person's self-identity and the perceived fairness of legal procedures. In doing so, it brings to the foreground a wholly ignored aspect of procedural... more
in Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Speaking. Dirksen Bauman and Benjamin Bahan, eds. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Personalisation of care services has the potential of empowering users through maximising their choice of services and improving their control on how such services are provided and by whom; there is some debate, however, of the... more
This paper examines transhuman technologies that seek to eradicate disability - primarily prostheses and implants. While most would agree that disability denies individuals the same quality of life as those deemed “abled,” this... more
Eprint can be obtained here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QFXX6WMQS9NQHUHAE3HW/full?target=10.1080/23312521.2019.1673334
The response to an uncontrolled spread of disease often incites a commingling of medical, moral, and political panic. Whether in the context of threats presented by early plagues, to contemporary super viruses, to lead toys, contagion,... more
Recent decades have witnessed concerns over representation, inclusion, and social justice move from the margins to the centre of museum practice. While a growing number of institutions seek to reflect the diversity of their communities in... more
La sezione bibliografica offre una rassegna di pubblicazioni sul tema “Letteratura e disabilità”, segnalando contributi che affrontano il problema da prospettive diverse: teorica, storico-letteraria e analitico-testuale. Senza pretese di... more
This article discusses the acquisition of a physical impairment/disability through voluntary body modification, or transability. From the perspectives of critical genealogy and feminist intersectional analysis, the article considers the... more
The 'Setting Up' chapter of my new textbook (Palgrave, 2014, out as paperback, hardback and e-files): how to think about accessible classrooms. Short Table of (full book) content: 1. Setting Up 2. Languages of Disability 3. Discourses... more
The article examines three feature-length films produced in South Korea—director Hwang Dong-hyeok’s Silenced (2011), Song Il-gon’s Always (2011), and An Sang-hun’s Blind (2011)—that highlight a problem in contemporary disability rights... more
The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled... more
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is said, manifests the paradigm change from the medical model of disability to the social model of disability. This paper argues that it goes beyond and creates... more
The law of 11 February 2005 modifying public policy for people with disabilities has been described as introducing significant disruption in defining disability. This article demonstrates that legislators strengthened administrative... more
SOURCE: Baril, A. (2020). « Queeriser le geste suicidaire : penser le suicide avec Nelly Arcan », dans I. Boisclair, P.-L. Landry et G.P. Girard (dirs.). QuébeQueer : Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et médiatiques... more
ABSTRACT This research, situated at the junction of feminist, trans and disability studies, examines the limits of intersectional feminist analyses and the difficulties faced in their consideration of gender identity and ability through... more
In this book chapter, I map out the main contributions and debates from a framework of feminism and disability.
The objective of this report is to compare and contrast anti-discrimination law in the 28 EU Member States, four EU candidate countries (namely the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) and the EEA... more
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt... more
The essay seeks to explore body-focused phenomenological writing in disability studies and film theory throughout publically shared anecdotes, coming-out narratives, and embodied autoethnographies. Through the author’s own bodily... more
In this paper, my aim is to elaborate disability movement praxis so that transnational struggles for justice over the production of impairment emerging from the Global South can be represented within the transnational frame of disability... more
In light of cultural discourses that position femininity at odds with technology, I was inspired by the work of Donna Haraway to examine how women amputees experience and negotiate feminine embodiment with prosthetic limbs. In her... more
The intention of this special thematic issue of InterAlia is to problematize the notion of a healthy, (re)productive, desirable body through the lenses of queer and crip theory.