Animating Disability Differently

Schauwer, Elisabeth De; Putte, Inge Van de; Goidsenhoven, Leni Van; Blockmans, Inge; Vandecasteele, Marieke; Davies, Bronwyn

doi:10.1177/1077800416684871

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“…Can the characteristics referred to by the categories not happen simultaneously? If so, would conceptualising this phenomenon as a spectrum take away or add to the analysis (for example, see the engagement with the categories ‘able’ vs. ‘disable’ by De Schauwer et al (2017))?…”

Section: A Methods For Problematising Categoriesmentioning

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How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity

Alejandro

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Following qualitative researchers’ growing interest in reflexivity, a body of scholarship has emerged that aims to turn informal practices for reflexivity into methods that can be learnt and taught alongside other research practices. This literature, however, has focused on helping researchers become more reflexive toward their situatedness and positionality, rather than toward their use of language and its effects on knowledge production – a process I refer to as ‘linguistic reflexivity’. This article addresses this gap by formalising a method for ‘problematising categories’, an informal approach familiar to qualitative researchers as a promising solution to the analytical and ethical blinders that result from scholars’ unconscious use of language. I proceed in three steps. First, I review the literature to show the analytical, empirical and ethical rationales behind this approach and offer a definition of problematising categories as the practice of making conscious how socio-linguistic units of categorisation unconsciously organise our perception and can represent a problem for knowledge production. This practice, I argue, enables us to decentre ourselves from the taken-for-granted nature of those categories. Second, I develop a three-stage research method for problematising categories: noticing ‘critical junctures' when problematisation is called for, identifying the categorical problem through sensitising questions and reconstructing an alternative. Third, I demonstrate how problematising categories contributes to the research process by applying this method to my experience in problematising the binary pair ‘local’ versus ‘international’ in a research project on the environmental impact of Chinese investment in the Senegalese fishery sector. I show that problematising categories leads to more rigorous empirical findings and nuanced analysis in a way that is feasible within the frame of qualitative research projects. Overall, this article expands the practical tools for linguistic reflexivity and heeds the methodological call to make conscious and explicit choices for every dimension of our research.

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Section: A Methods For Problematising Categoriesmentioning

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How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity

Alejandro

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Within the context of disability, heterotopias have been explored to open new deconstructions of ability/disability binaries (De Schauwer et al, 2017) and to disrupt conceptualisations of inclusion (Meininger, 2013). Beckett et al (2017) acknowledge the different forms heterotopian worlds may take, and conclude heterotopias are best described as sites of counter rationalities.…”

Section: International Journal Of Disability and Social Justice 31 Ap...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Declare Independence

Griffiths

2023

IJDSJ

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This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims and coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The article achieves this by employing Beckett and Campbell’s (2015) concept of ‘oppositional device’, which is used to understand resistance practices and the technologies of power that coalesce around disabled people’s collective action. The article argues that the independent living concept could, similarly, be understood as an oppositional device and this holds potential for furthering the emancipatory claims of disabled people’s social movements. This allows for an understanding of Independent Living Movements as assemblages of technologies that open heterotopias, which engage in the experimentation of what disabled people can be and do through the ideas of independent living. The article draws on empirical data from a study exploring young disabled people’s views and experiences of disability activism across Europe to evidence the claims made.

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“…The woman learned to be in touch with her body by experiencing the energy of moving it, of seeing it as part of the assemblage she was forming with her dance partner, and eventually by consciously showing it, discarding her veto for a custom-made strapless dress after being gently pushed by the choreographer who was set to get her shoulders out and shine. The dress empowered her by accentuating the lines of her body and by showing the tattoo of the wind on her shoulder that had brought her closer to taking up ownership of her body (De Schauwer et al, 2017). It also expressed a femininity that rocks; a stylish, but sober feminine look very much in contrast with the carnivalesque masquerade of feathers and glitters worn by the dancers they were competing against.…”

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Retouching and Revisiting the Strangers Within: An Exploration Journey on the Waves of Meaning and Matter in Dance

Blockmans

Schauwer

Hove

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Qualitative Inquiry

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This article explores what (working with) matter can tell us that language cannot or does not completely tell, about becoming a sensual, sexual woman free to move smoothly in and with her body. It explores how (working with) matter can transform living in, with and through a body, and how it affects and is affected. The text is centred around “touchpoints,” that is, encounters through touch, as experienced by the first author as a dancer on wheels, and diffracted and narrated through poetry and images interwoven with theory. These encounters are seen as mo(ve)ments in a powerful agential assemblage that holds both danger and transformative possibilities, leading us to reimagine freedom as a river of sparring intensities.

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Animating Disability Differently

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity

How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity

Declare Independence

Retouching and Revisiting the Strangers Within: An Exploration Journey on the Waves of Meaning and Matter in Dance

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