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Critical approaches to community, justice and decolonizing disability : editors’ summary
No full textThis chapter is a reflection on the whole book. It looks back to the themes from the introduction and forward to the conclusions. We reintroduce our themes, discuss how the sections and chapters approach the themes, and develop the ideas in the chapters in more depth. Taken together, Chaps. 1, 25, and 26 are an expression of our development of the not unproblematic ideas evoked by the phrases occupying disability and decolonizing disability
Occupying disability : an introduction
No full textInspired by disability justice and the fall 2011 "Disability Occupy Wall Street/Decolonize Disability" movements in the US and related activism elsewhere, we are interested in politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect academic fields-principally occupational therapy, disability studies and anthropology-as well as community organizing and the arts. The "occupy" international movements claim collective identities as does Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. International disability movements claim disability as a collective identity rather than a medical category and recognize the political and economic dimensions of disability inequity as it intersects with other sources of inequality. Different political positions have evolved within different disability perspectives, all of which demand audience. Working with them and understanding them requires broader social critiques not usually part of most clinical educations. Some activists would not, as a matter of principle, engage clinicians because of their unfettered access to agency and operations of power. Negotiation of separatist consciousness is a stage to forming identities in many political movements. Yet we, as editors and authors strive to move beyond simple binaries: the goal is true participation, meaningful occupation, and disability justice
Science (Fiction), Hope and Love : Conclusions
No full textThis final chapter considers the future directions of a connection between disability and occupation as they are framed in disability studies, occupational science and occupational therapy, and anthropology. Using examples from science fiction literature, the authors explore how this discussion can move beyond arguments around equality to addressing inequities, and at the same time remain grounded in human values
SDS, Future Challenges
Full text linkProduced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, The Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts and The School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, for the Society for Disability Studies
Review of Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality by Meryl Alper
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Occupying disability: critical approaches to community, justice and decolonizing disability
No full textThis book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts. Inspired by disability justice and “Disability Occupy Wall Street / Decolonize Disability” movements in the US and related movements abroad, this book builds on politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect occupational therapy, disability studies and anthropology. "Occupying Disability" will provide a discursive space where the concepts of disability, culture and occupation meet critical theory, activism and the creative arts. The concept of “occupation” is intentionally a moving target in this book. Some chapters discuss occupying spaces as a form of protest or alternatively, protesting against territorial occupations. Others present occupations as framed or problematized within the fields of occupational therapy and occupational science and anthropology as engagement in meaningful activities. The contributing authors come from a variety of professional, academic and activist backgrounds to include perspectives from theory, practice and experiences of disability. Emergent themes include: all the permutations of the concept of "occupy," disability justice/decolonization, marginalization and minoritization, technology, struggle, creativity and change. This book will engage clinicians, social scientists, activists and artists in dialogues about disability as a theoretical construct and lived experience
Making Conferences Accessible: Experiences from 1995 SDS
Full text linkProduced by Center on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, and School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies
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