"Disability Studies: A Field Emerged" (original) (raw)

Disability studies: the old and the new

Canadian journal of sociology = Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 2000

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The Contribution of Disability Studies to the New Humanities

Word & Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 2020

Disability studies is deeply connected with the disability rights movement, and some of the pioneers of the movement were disabled academics. It is an area of study that draws from different disciplines, especially the social sciences and the humanities, while having its own unique character. The insights gained from disability studies are embedded in the direct experiences of disabled people and their family members and are based on an understanding of disability as arising from the interaction between people with impairments and socially created material and cultural barriers. This understanding enables the study of disability through the different disciplines within the humanities, such as philosophy, history and literary studies. Disability studies unveils the complex nature of disability and the multifarious factors that create it and that impinge on the lived experience of disabled people. It also testifies to the many ways in which disabled people negotiate their lives and identities as disabled people. For this reason, disability studies has much to reveal about the human condition and can contribute to current and future developments in the humanities.

Disability Studies: Origins, Current Conflict, and Resolution

The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2014

In this article, we identify the roots of disability studies in interdisciplinary intellectual traditions as the basis for its current creativity, as well as its challenges in serving multiple academic masters. Looking to the future, we suggest rethinking and teaching disability through an integrative, interactive framework of juncture/disjuncture.

Disability Studies as an academic field: reflections on its development

2010

Serious attempts are now being made to develop disability studies as an academic field in the Netherlands. On the one hand, the field will have to establish its place in the division of academic labor. On the other hand it will need to safeguard its relevance for, and connections with, the disability movement. How is this to be accomplished? The social model of disability offered an approach that, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, provided an integration of theoretical and sociopolitical objectives. But, in the first place this approach has not achieved the same purchase outside those countries, and in the second place it is currently subject to a variety of critiques. Drawing on insights from the social study of science, in this paper we argue that the social model should not be abandoned, but must rather be refined and extended to accommodate critique. Implications for the organization of the field of disability studies are discussed.

Disability studies: Origins, current conflict, and the resolution

The Review of Disability Studies, 2008

By challenging disability prejudice and advocating for people with disabilities in crucial bioethical debates, disability rights activists and scholars have been reformulating ethical discourse. Th is essay suggests pedagogical strategies for introducing undergraduates to an ethics of disability studies, and integrating disability perspectives into broader questions of social justice.

Fostering Disability Studies in the Academy

Coming to disability studies and SDS from the humanities has allowed me to witness the influence of a predominantly social science methodology upon other disciplines. While some of our members have bemoaned the "falling numbers" at SDS and its general lack of the organization's professional prestige or respect, I must disagree with both perceptions. Although it may be true that the organization has suffered a drop in interest by researchers in the hard sciences (particularly medicine) and by non-disabled people, the continued growth and influence of the Society has proven substantial. The call for papers at this year's conference brought in proposals from more than 230 researchers, activists, and artists. Within a week of our registration deadline the home office reported nearly 200 paid registrations. This year's presentations address disability issues across an enormously varied range of social and political contexts. These presenters hail from an impressive array of international countries including Oman,

Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards Disability Studies Then, Now, and When

Journal of Literary Disability Studies, 2022

The article deals with the early days of disability studies in the US and the development of disability studies in the humanities in the 1990s. The author reflects on his own involvement along with that of other disability scholars. In addition the article explores the failings of disability studies and ponders future directions in the field.

Need for a Paradigm Shift: Conceptualizing Disability Studies

2019

Ghai. .. argues powerfully for a paradigm shift in the way disability has been viewed historically. .. She argues. .. that all of us must collectively challenge the hegemony of 'normality' and patriarchy that have denied autonomy, equality and selfhood to the differently abled, bridging the gap between the disability movement and women's movement to ensure rights for all. Uma Chakravarti, Former Professor, Miranda House, University of Delhi. [T]houghtful, insightful and filled with compelling new ideas. It is a fresh look at an emerging field just at a point when more critical and profound thinking is greatly needed. Highly recommended.