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Storying disability’s potential
No full textIn this paper, we weave in and out of theory and narrative in order to consider the potential of disability and its relationship to knowledge construction. We consider theories to be stories that one can tell about the world. And these theories are enlivened by other stories that we tell about ourselves and the world around us. As disability researchers, we explore the ways in which disability becomes known in the world and we do so through our own tales and theoretical narratives of knowing disability. In telling stories, then, we break down artificial boundaries between theory and narrative. And in theorising our stories – and storying our theories – we seek to explore the potential of disability to unsettle and challenge exclusionary curriculum. This textual assemblage traverses diverse themes including diagnosis, school programming, welfare, transportation, social interaction and access
Towards a psychology of disability : the emotional effects of living in a disabling society
No full textDecolonising Inclusive Education:New Approaches for Disability Education Policy and Practices
No full textInclusion of children with disabilities in education has long been debated as a global North project, which should be understood as contextual to the management of social diversity following World War II, including the end of colonialism and the tension between global and local cultures. However, increasingly transnational policy mobility processes contributed to the exportation of inclusion from the global North and re-enacting it in the global South, reproducing neo-colonial forms of oppression through education policies and practices which disregarded and discarded local education approaches. By mobilising post-structural tools and assemblage theory and drawing upon qualitative data collected during the year-long DIGITAL (Diversifying Inclusion and Growth: Inclusive Technologies for Accessible Learning) in the time of Coronavirus project, this chapter deploys experiences of teachers and community leaders from the global South and North during the Covid-19 pandemic to rewrite inclusion and disability from a decolonial perspective. We merge critical studies of inclusion, critical disability studies and decolonial studies in education to envisage teaching and learning practices mobilised by decolonialised and inclusive epistemologies and create a space to rethink disability policies from culturally relevant and validating perspectives.</p
Alternative Explanations : Literary Representations of Disability in sub-Saharan Africa
No full text‘Alternative explanations’ for disability in sub-Saharan Africa stem from assumptions and misconceptions, traditional, religious, medical determinist or supernatural beliefs. However, these often-competing discourses, and their literary representation, have largely been overlooked. As Barker and Murray remark, ‘Disability Studies problematically transports theories and methodologies developed within the Western academy to other global locations, paying only nominal attention to local formations and understandings of disability’ (2010: 219). Equally, scholars seldom treat explanations for disabilities comparatively, and the field rarely takes African fiction as material for analysis (Lipenga 2015). Here, we take Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley (2011), Libar Fofana’s L'étrange rêve d'une femme inachevée (2012), Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015), Unathi Magubeni’s Nwelezelanga (2016) and Helon Habila’s Waiting for An Angel (2003) as examples of 21st century African literary engagements with disability. We consider how these texts invite consideration of a cultural model of disability, which offers an alternative to medical and social models, and points towards the need to appreciate cultural and contextual readings of disability. We trace ‘crossover points’ with postcolonial concerns (Parekh 2008) to illuminate their potential to articulate and critique the impact of the various explanations attached to disability in African contexts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Using The Perspective Of ‘Peopleship’ To Conceptualise Disability In China
Get PDFThis chapter looks at how Chinese disabled people are positioned in the spectrum of peopleship, a contextualised concept expressing relationships between people and the nation more clearly than citizenship, and questions the application of universal understandings of disability in China. While enjoying the peopleship rights, the people, including disabled people, are expected to be self-enterprising to participate in national development. Disabled people are officially constructed as partially or wholly lacking ability, and their rights entitlement is in the sense of offering them extra help due to traditional compassion-based humanness, resulting in unstable social status and rights enjoyment compared to other people. We argue that the construction of disability, in tandem with peopleship cannot be explained by a universal understanding of disability. The chapter closes with a call to decolonise disability studies through greater attention to local contexts and formations of disability
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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