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Disability Studies Quarterly

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This is an Open Access Journal

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ISSN (Print) 1041-5718 - ISSN (Online) 2159-8371
Published by Ohio State University

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Reflexivity in Research: Disability between the Lines
- Authors: Jen Rinaldi
  Abstract: The purpose of this article is to consider the implications to reflexivity in disability research. The author begins by positioning herself in the field of disability studies, disclosing her own experiences. She goes on to trouble the expectation to disclose. The call to confess may be grounded in historical developments within feminist scholarship, including standpoint theory and research reflexivity—methodological tools that are certainly valuable in the pursuit of knowledge, but that are not without criticism. The author explores some key critiques, and considers the implications, specifically regarding her own responsibility to give account. She demonstrates that the sharing of personal experience and the disclosure of identity is not only difficult, uncomfortable, and invasive, but is sometimes useless, for even our confessions may be subject to thematic interpretation.Keywords: disclosure, standpoint theory, reflexivity, narrative, invisible disability
  PubDate: 2013-03-29
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Negotiating Autism in an Epidemic of Discourse
- Authors: Jenell Johnson
  PubDate: 2013-03-28
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies
- Authors: Sami Schalk
  Abstract: This creative-critical paper combines creative non-fiction and theory to trace one non-disabled scholar’s personal experience with disability studies as a field and a community. Using disidentification and crip theory, this paper theorizes the personal, political, and academic utility of identifying with crip as a nondisabled, fat, black, queer, female academic. This crip identification then undergirds and informs the researcher’s scholarship in and relationship to disability studies as a field. Specifically referencing the Society for Disability Studies dance as a potential space of cross-identification, this paper suggests that disidentification among/across/between minoritarian subjects allows for coalitional theory and politics between disability studies and other fields, particularly race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. Keywords: crip, identity, queer theory, race
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Reclaiming the Faith
- Authors: Harold Braswell
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Divas Live Among Us
- Authors: Therí A Pickens
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Becoming-undisciplined through my Foray into Disability Studies
- Authors: Pamela Moss
  Abstract: My pathway to becoming a disability studies researcher has been a series of discontinuities, a circuitous route full of twist and turns with the occasional misstep. Enmeshed in my peregrinations are my academic training as a geographer, my shift in institutional location from geography to an interdisciplinary program, and my everyday life organized around living with chronic illness. As I write my story of these entanglements, I cannot help but understand my career in terms of one refractive ray of I as a subject, assembled together through my foray into disability studies. Writing autobiographically, I explore some of the embodied contours of my career and how my own illness has been part of my intellectual shift. In this article, I reflect on how I write and the assumptions that go into how I use one refractive ray of I as a subject to foreground my movement toward becoming-undisciplined.Keywords: academic, autobiography, autobiographical writing, becoming, becoming-undisciplined, contested illness, Deleuze and Guattari, embodied knowledge, feminism, interdisciplinarity
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Coming out of the hard of hearing closet: Reflections on a shared journey in academia
- Authors: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke|Brenda Nicodemus
  Abstract: Deaf academics who navigate aspects of their professional lives through signed language interpreting services face a range of issues, including handling perceptions of their Hearing peers, identifying and negotiating their own communication preferences, and balancing personal and professional relationships with their interpreters. Interpreters bring individual sets of schemas and skills to their work, which impacts the interpreted interaction. In this paper, a Deaf academic and her interpreter/colleague discuss various challenges in having an interpreter—and being an interpreter—in academia. Topics include being “outed” as a person with a disability because of the presence of an interpreter; the need for interpreters with specialized academic vocabulary; the responsibilities of the Deaf academic and the interpreter in interpreted interactions; and the sense of vulnerability, intimacy, and autonomy experienced by the Deaf academic and the interpreter. The article is a shared reflection about the evolution of a relationship, beginning with the authors’ respective roles as client and interpreter, and leading into to their present alliance as colleagues and friends.Key words: interpretation, Deaf, academic, ethics, disability, autonomy, vulnerability, intimacy, philosophy, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, sign language, oral interpreting, American Sign Language
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
The Blurring of Boundaries between Research and Everyday Life: Dilemmas of Employing One’s Own Experiential Knowledge in Disability Research
- Authors: Karen Mogendorff
  Abstract: Researchers with experiential disability knowledge increasingly engage in socio-medical research. In this paper the author discusses her experiences with employing her own lived experiences with disability in academic and non-academic research projects. Incorporating one’s own lived experiences in research implies a blurring of boundaries between the private, the professional, and the public. The latter may give rise to dilemmas of double membership and dilemmas of disclosure in publications. Double membership may become problematic for disabled researchers who identify with the disability community if conceptualizations of disability in scientific communities unwittingly echo negative societal images of disability. Because of the low status of disabled people and of experiential knowledge, disclosure of own experiences with disability may negatively influence young disabled researchers’ careers. Key Words: deployment of experiential knowledge, the researcher in disability studies, dilemmas
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
“This is the anthropologist, and she is sighted”: Ethnographic Research with Blind Women
- Authors: Gili Hammer
  Abstract: Power relations and the researcher’s gaze are extremely relevant to the research of blind people, yet rarely documented. Based on three years of anthropological research with blind women in Israel, this paper discusses the methodological considerations raised by the ethnography of blindness and the position of a sighted-woman-researcher in the field. Employing a “reflexive interpretation,” the analysis explores the ways in which research with blind participants raises specific questions regarding researcher-researched power relations and social interactions, offering a fresh approach to the discussion of the researcher’s “gaze” and knowledge gathered in the field. Focusing on sight and blindness within the research process, the article addresses “sensory knowledge” raised in the field, offering a nuanced account of the ethnographic inquiry as a sensory endeavor, promoting a dialogue among disability studies, anthropology of the senses, feminist disability studies, and qualitative methodology. Key words: blindness; ethnographic research; anthropology; senses; Israel; visual culture; disability; power relations.
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
People with Speech Differences as Ethnographers: Implications for Research
- Authors: Andrew B. Bennett
  Abstract: Individuals with speech disabilities who perform ethnographic researcher can exhibit certain vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities are generally tied to participants (Behar, 1996). These vulnerabilities generally focus on some particular attribute (Duffy, 2008). However, Ballamingle and Johnson (2011) argue that researchers can also be vulnerable. Broun and Heshusius (2004) had previously demonstrated how physical vulnerabilities can impact researchers with disabilities. Researcher vulnerabilities, as well as potential strengths, are important because of the role of speech in the ethnographic research practice. This article shall describe issues involved with the actual doing of ethnographic research. This discussion focuses on speech while doing fieldwork. In addition, to the discussion of fieldwork, this article also discusses the presentation of the work, especially with regards to professional conferences. Keywords: ethnographic practice, speech disability, role of researchers, researcher vulnerability, presentations
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Guest editors' introduction to special issue
- Authors: Joan M. Ostrove|Jennifer Rinaldi
  Abstract: The guest editors of this special issue on researcher identity offer reflections and an overview of the issue.
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Disclosing Our Relationships to Disabilities: An Invitation for Disability Studies Scholars
- Authors: Corbett OToole
  Abstract: In this paper, I address the question of public nondisclosure of one’s relationship to disability within Disability Studies. I argue that we need to examine our reluctance to support public disclosure, open academic inquiries into public signifiers, encourage public disclosure, and use signifiers of one’s relationship to disability in all Disability Studies contexts. I tease out the importance of public disclosure while maintaining personal privacy related to impairment information. I explore the embedded ableism in nondisclosure. And I challenge Disability Studies to address nondisclosure as a significant barrier in the field. Specific recommendations for disclosure surrounding our relationship to disability are provided
  PubDate: 2013-03-27
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Review of Chen, Animacies
- Authors: Kennan Ferguson
  PubDate: 2013-03-24
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Review of Nielsen, A Disability History of the United States
- Authors: Jeffrey Brune
  PubDate: 2013-03-24
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Review of Wu, Chang and Eng Reconnected
- Authors: Ryan Parrey
  PubDate: 2013-03-24
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)
Review of Film: Rust and Bone
- Authors: Lawrence Shapiro
  PubDate: 2013-02-20
  Issue No: Vol. 33 (2013)