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Critical Disability Discourses: New Vision and Managing Editor Self-Introduction
Get PDFThe new vision of Critical Disability Discourses
CDD creates an academic space where emerging disability studies researchers will make valuable contributions to expanding critical disability scholarship.
CDD mentors junior disability studies scholars, graduate students, postgraduates, and early-career academics as they make their first forays into peer-reviewed publishing with CDD. This approach will occur early in the managerial review process, when vetting the suitability of submissions before assigning them to peer reviewers. This mentoring arrangement has enabled us to expand the journal’s output successfully.
Regarding output, CDD commits to publishing two issues per volume year. Each issue will comprise 5-7 original research articles, 1-2 perspective pieces, and 1-2 book reviews.
CDD reaffirms its commitment to being bilingual, offering audiences and authors translated titles, abstracts, and keywords in French.
CDD is committed to publishing ‘accepted’ pieces on our website on a rolling basis as they become ready. This includes reiterating our commitment to timely peer-review turnaround times, copyediting, and publication.
All pieces henceforth will be published with an assigned DOI.
CDD has assembled an experienced and well-rounded team of Editorial Board members, including a dedicated Arts-based editor, English language copyeditor, and a French language copyeditor
Les oasis épistémiques et le mouvement des droits des personnes handicapées
Get PDFHistorically, people with disabilities have been denied the agency to create their own narratives about their lived experiences. This silencing has led to cultural misunderstandings of disability that have contributed to institutionalism and other physical and epistemic harms, casting disability to the lower rungs of society. The powerful impacts of the disability rights movement, including deinstitutionalization, were made possible by grassroots groups of disabled activists who worked in community with each other and formed what we describe as epistemic oases. An epistemic oasis is a localized group of individuals with a shared marginalized identity through which hermeneutical resources are developed that lead to collective resistance. We draw on Fricker’s (2007) and Pohlhaus’ (2020) work on epistemic injustice and identify examples of epistemic oases that led to prominent events throughout the disability rights movement, resulting in positive political change. We examine the communities developed at Camp Janed, the University of California, Berkeley, and Gallaudet University and contend that these are examples of epistemic oases that fostered collective resistance in the twentieth century.
Keywords: Epistemic injustice, disability rights movement, disability studies, epistemic oasis, critical disability studiesHistoriquement, l’agentivité (« agency ») nécessaire pour narrer son propre récit et ses expériences vécues a été refusée aux personnes avec les handicaps. Ce silence imposé a mené à des malentendus culturels en rapport avec les handicaps, lesquels ont contribué envers l’institutionnalisme, d’autres maux physiques et épistémiques et la projection des handicaps aux échelons inférieurs de la société. Les impacts puissants produits par le mouvement des droits des personnes handicapées, ce qui inclut la désinstitutionnalisation, ont été possibles grâce aux groupes « grassroots » consistants d’activistes avec des handicaps qui ont travaillé en communauté l’un avec l’autre et formé ce que nous décrivons comme des oasis épistémiques. Une oasis épistémique consiste en un groupe localisé d’individus avec une identité marginalisée partagée qui développe des ressources herméneutiques qui peuvent aboutir à une résistance collective. Nous tirons des œuvres de Fricker (2007) et Pohlhaus (2020) sur l’injustice épistémique et identifions des exemples d’oasis épistémiques qui ont mené à des événements essentiels pour le mouvement des droits des personnes handicapées et à un changement politique positif. Nous examinons les communautés développées au « camp Jened », à l’université de la Californie à Berkeley et l’université Gallaudet et nous proposons que ceux-ci constituent des exemples d’oasis épistémiques qui ont incarné l’esprit de la résistance collective au XXe siècle.
Mots clés: L’injustice épistémique, le mouvement des droits des personnes handicapées, les études sur le handicap, l’oasis épistémique, les études critiques sur le handica
The Case of Intellectual Disability vs. the Death Penalty: A Foucauldian Analysis of Georgia’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Standard of Proof
Get PDFGeorgia was the first state in the United States to ban the execution of persons with intellectual disability, and did so 14 years prior to the federal mandate in Atkins v. Virginia (2002). In doing so, it became and remains the only state to invoke the highest of standards, beyond a reasonable doubt. When states use a standard higher than the lowest of three, defendants raising the claim of intellectual disability are placed at an increased risk for rights violations that may include lack of due process, the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment, and finally, in the extinction of life. The purpose of this case study is to analyze the 2013 legislative informational hearing hosted by the Georgia House of Representatives Non-Civil Judiciary committee on the state’s standard of proof using Foucault’s medico-judicial perspective. Based on this analysis, the second purpose of the study is to propose a position of advocacy and respective strategy for changing Georgia’s standard of proof of intellectual disability. Lastly, this article recommends a strategy of leveraging the medical model of intellectual disability in the criminal justice context as an instrument for diminishing the risk for unlawful execution and enhancing the securement of accommodations while in state penal custody, as per federal law.Keywords: Intellectual disability; death penalty; medico-judicial discourse; standard of proof; beyond a reasonable doubt; impressionist narrativ
May Day and the Moon
Get PDF"May Day and the Moon" is a playful audio exploration of childhood dreams of adult work. The storyteller, Grant Miller, is a non-binary queer disabled white person born with disabilities and having acquired disability later in life as well. Unlike mainstream disability-related stories, Grant never describes their disability nor names any diagnoses. This is done to invite audiences to trust the storyteller and to disinvite the possibility of an objectifying medical gaze. We approach the idea of work indirectly in a sound-rich audio story, challenging the standard interview format. Rather than overtly discuss unemployment, underemployment, and capitalism, the story focuses on the lack of disabled role models in the working world and lack of family encouragement to consider pursuing adult work. The story concludes with a celebration of the innovation and creativity that Grant has incorporated into their self-empowered, self-directed, joy-filled artistic life
Pulling the Rug Out From Under (Neuro)Divergence in the Divergent Universe
Get PDFVeronica Roth’s Divergent series explicitly portrays neurological diversity, along with questions of identity, family, class, choice, values, and power. It is often considered an empowering narrative for people who do not fit in, a common experience among the teen readers who are the intended audience of most young adult literature. However, it is not clear that this narrative truly supports neurodivergent people, despite neurogenetic differences being the explicit form of diversity the series’ events hinge upon. This article critically examines the portrayal of neurological difference in Roth’s universe through the neurodiversity paradigm, and finds that neurotypicality is significantly privileged by the narrative. Keywords: Neurodiversity; young adult literature; Veronica Roth; representation; autis
Review of A Class by Themselves? The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond, by Jason Ellis
No full textStaring at the Other: Seeing Defects in Recent Australian Poems
Get PDFWhen it comes to encountering the body of the other, is poetic language bound to fail? Can failure nevertheless be productive? This paper discusses four recent Australian poems which depict public encounters with bodily otherness, taking up Emmanuel Levinas's suggestion that the other is experienced in a “defecting of disclosure”, which involves both an unsettling intimacy and a profound distance.The paper explores this paradox through two visual motifs – staring and hyperopia. When bodily otherness is encountered, this often prompts staring – which theorist Rosemary Garland Thomson sees as a site of relational and significatory potential, beginning “when ordinary seeing fails”. I argue that these poems, through the varying ways in which they stage awkward encounters with seemingly defective, disabled others, emphasise the defects in our own ability to clearly see the other.Keywords: Poetry; disability; the Other; staring, Emmanuel Levina
PERSPECTIVES - Digital Influences on Sexual Discourse in Disabled Populations
Get PDFThe industry of sex aids for disabled people has been growing and becoming more nuanced, both with workers who facilitate manual sex aid and within the growing market of automated sex aids. Agency in sexual expression is often seen as an able-bodied activity and automated sex aids have yet to be considered with due rigor for general populations, including disabled populations. Here, we employ the grounded methodological choice of using digitally mediated discourses by disabled people, service providers, and activists to guide our inquiry into conversations that we, as members of the scientific community have generally neglected. We report on the financial, legal, and health implications of emerging digital technology driven changes in the landscape of sexual discourse for disabled populations. We then call for further investigation into this neglected but vitally important topic.Keywords: Automated sex aids; sexuality and disability; digital activism; sexual agency; sexual health; scientific researc