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Disability Studies & Humanities

Disability Studies & Humanities. Leiden, 13 juni 2018 Alice Schippers Director Disability Studies in Nederland Senior researcher, VU medisch centrum, Amsterdam Vice President Europe, IASSIDD. Paradigms. clip. Disability. Co-Created - in interaction with others:

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Disability Studies & Humanities

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  1. Disability Studies & Humanities Leiden, 13 juni 2018 Alice Schippers Director Disability Studies in Nederland Senior researcher, VU medisch centrum, Amsterdam Vice President Europe, IASSIDD

  2. Paradigms... clip

  3. Disability Co-Created - in interaction with others: • Meaning, definitions, values about ‘disability’ change over time and are culturally diverse • ‘Outsider’ and ‘insider’ perspectives: narratives, auto-ethnografics, books, films, visual and performing arts, etc

  4. Disability Studies Originated from disabled people themselves (1980s) • To counter hegemony of mainly medicalised discourses • Disability Studies is “the study of the various forces; economic, political, and cultural, that support and sustain ‘disability,’ as defined by the disabled peoples movement, in order to generate meaningful and practical knowledge with which to further its eradication” (Barnes, 2003: p. 9). • Participatory and emancipatory research methods

  5. Nothing about us, without us • Alex: • “ We belong also to society”

  6. Nothingaboutus,withoutus

  7. Roosevelt’s sisterWhy we need Disability Studies in the Humanities(Rosemary Garland Thomson (2010), DSQ, 30(3/4) • Based on Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s own with Judith Schakespeare • Judith Roosevelt: including disability as a subject in humanities; integrating disabled students in higher education; and show significance of disability to all people • ‘Online bibliographies list over 300,000 citations on disability and medicine and 9 citations on disability and literature’

  8. Humanities & disability studies • Whodefines the research agenda? • Whocarries out the research? • Whoseinterpretations are chief? • What is the outcome (results, products) of the research? Are (some) scholars in the Humanities holding an individual and/or solely scholarly standpoint, or do they articulate or further a movement?

  9. Humanities & disability studies Orientation of publications: • In general: different roots of different paradigms • Are there (cultural, conceptual, other) differencesbetweenAnglosaxon DS andcontinental (Dutch?) DS orientation? • Why - andwhat are possibleimplications?

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