This article seeks to address the disconnection that exists between the fields of mobility and disability studies, and to open up critical conversations about why there is need to create more opportunities for more robust engagement between the
Girls with Disabilities in the Global South
Rethinking the Politics of Engagement
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
argues that this mode of theorizing “discursively colonize[s] the material and historical heterogeneities of the lives of women in the Third World” (334). The same theoretical observation can describe how the discourse of girls with disabilities has been
In Girlhood Studies
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How is disability portrayed through Welsh universities’ Disability Service web pages?
A Critical Disability Studies perspective
Beth Pickard
accessing equity of provision through the application, interview, induction and study process. As is recognised by the Welsh Assembly Government (2017) , the current system of applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) to finance disability assessment
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Masquerading Early Modern Disability
Sexuality, Violence, and the Body (Politic) in Richard III
Lauren Coker
Building on Katherine Schaap Williams’s (2009) reading of the play, this article uses a disability studies approach to consider Richard Loncraine’s 1995 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Loncraine’s adaptation allows modern-day viewers to experience a highly visual (and often intimate) exchange with Sir Ian McKellen as Richard Gloucester. Specifically, Gloucester’s verbal claims of a disability that renders him unsuitable as a leader and a lack of sexual prowess are juxtaposed alongside sexually violent visual actions and imagery—particularly in the form of phallic symbols. The juxtaposition of verbal passivity in opposition to visual aggression demonstrates how Richard showcases or hides his disability as he pursues the throne: the first half of the film features Richard masquerading ability, while the second half features him masquerading disability.
Cognitive Disability
Towards an Ethics of Possibility
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
Anthropology is well known for its capacious and ever-expanding framework and its embrace of diversity. Yet, as we argued in our 2013 Annual Review of Anthropology chapter ‘Disability Worlds’, the universal circumstance of disability – how
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 113–119 (7 total)
“Maternal Impressions”
Disability Memoirs in Socialist Poland
Natalia Pamula
Polish disability memoirs published in the 1970s and 1980s serve as a testament to the “familialization” ( urodzinnienie ) of disability under state socialism in Poland. The narratives in such memoirs reveal that mothers should be the main
Sexuality, Masculinity, and Intellectual Disability
Beyond a Focus on Regulation and Vicarious Illusions
Nathan J. Wilson and David Charnock
Research, scholarship, and theorizing about the intersection of sexuality and masculinity for men and boys with intellectual disability remains, at best, seriously limited despite decades of theorizing in the international field of masculinities
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 82–101 (20 total)
Adolescent Girls with Disabilities in Humanitarian Settings
“I Am Not ‘Worthless’—I Am a Girl with a Lot to Share and Offer”
Emma Pearce, Kathryn Paik, and Omar J. Robles
; Robles 2014 ). Disability is a critical factor since approximately 15 percent of any population will be persons with disabilities ( WHO and World Bank 2011 ), with potentially higher proportions among populations affected by conflict ( HelpAge
In Girlhood Studies
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- 118–136 (19 total)
Michele Friedner
I appreciate the opportunity to review and think with these articles as they offer an opportunity to consider ‘disability worlds’ ( Ginsburg and Rapp 2013 ) that are emerging as analytic concerns. While there has been anthropological work of
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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Sami Schalk
Introduction Disability studies scholars Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell define ablenationalism as “the degree to which treating people with disabilities as an exception valorizes able-bodied norms of inclusion as the naturalized qualification of
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 36–52 (17 total)