Disability Studies: Developments in Anthropology

Staples, James; Mehrotra, Nilika

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42488-0_3

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“…La discipline anthropologique s'est difficilement aventurée sur le terrain du handicap (Ginsburg & Rapp, 2013;Reid-Cunningham, 2009;Staples & Mehrotra, 2016). Des quelques ethnographies réalisées, certaines ont été réalisées en Inde (Friedner, 2015;Mehrotra, 2004Mehrotra, , 2011Staples, 2005Staples, , 2015, et en Chine (Kohrman, 2005).…”

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L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

Grenier

2022

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This dissertation offers an anthropological enquiry on the question of dwelling of people with disabilities in relation to their mobility habits in Quebec City in Canada. It empirically examines the singular ways people travel through various daily commutes and paths, and how their dwelling habits are produced through the physical and social configurations and encounters composing these mobility experiences.The thesis proposes an ontological perspective of disability as it explores the reality of mobility of people with different abilities within the city's assemblages from their own situated perspective. It addresses perceptual person-environment relationships as well as the practices and production modalities of "places" by which people shape their world.The thesis pays attention to the questions of being and becoming within multiple assemblages of heterogenous elements and how the constitutive experiences of people are tainted daily with situations of disability and of social participation. The objective of the fieldwork was to realistically reflect the perspective of the people as they performed their ordinary activities.The thesis focuses on two groups of people, namely wheelchairs users and people with a visual impairment who use a guide dog or a white cane. It is through their situated perspectives, rendered in the form of ontographies of their daily commutes, that dwelling in the city is understood. From an anthropological perspective coupled with a strong philosophical inclination, since it is about dwelling (Ingold, 2000), becomings and assemblages (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980), the thesis makes it possible to better understand the ways in which the individual existences of people with disabilities are constructed in environments that organize their possibilities by opening some and blocking others. By following people one by one, the thesis makes it possible to question the underlying conditions of inclusion, social participation, and the real exercise of rights in the city and to consider practices centered on the singular experiences of the world and their associated assemblages.

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L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

Grenier

2022

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“…At the same time, the relationship between anthropology and DS was hampered by the hesitance of anthropologists to approach discussions and theories in Disability Studies. Although anthropologists were encountering disabled interlocutors and talked about their socio-cultural positions and relations within their field ( 26 ), they initially considered disability a secondary topic of research. Staples and Mehotra ( 26 ) explain this phenomenon by highlighting the lack of mutual conversation and intellectual debate between anthropologists and scholars in “the realm of disability studies” as well as DS researchers' tendency to seek to define disability according to universal analytical categories.…”

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Theories and practices of disability from the Global South: a critical anthropological perspective

Brocco

2024

Front. Health Serv.

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“Critical disability studies” (CDS) is an interdisciplinary field of research that examines social, political, economic, racial, gendered and historical constructions of bodily non-normativity across different geopolitical areas and scales. Despite its diverse and multiple contributions and objectives, current research in critical disability studies has been described as mainly focusing on disability issues in the Global North and as having universalizing tendencies. In this context, intersubjective perspectives and empirical data offered by ethnographic works in medical and disability anthropology and related disciplines have been either in accord or tension with the broader field of CDS. On the one hand, this review article illustrates the many ways anthropologists have adopted various research perspectives to explore bodily non-normativity outside settings in the Global North. On the other, it shows the importance of research by anthropologists working on topics related to disability, as well as their recent fruitful collaborations with CDS scholars and approaches. By exploring these epistemological and empirical entanglements, this paper concludes that deeper engagements between CDS and anthropology, as well as a more thorough focus on the ethnographic analysis of bodily non-normativity, can open new creative routes for the analysis of disability in various world contexts.

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“…Yet, the international spread and uneven impact of the disability rights movement from the 1960s forward, as well as cross-cultural work in anthropology, show that what counts as a disability in different cultural settings is not obvious. The need for wide-ranging research and theorization cannot be underestimated, given that approximately 80% of the world's 1 billion people with disabilities reside in what is glossed as "the Global South" (Friedner and Zoanni 2018;Grech and Soldatic 2016;Staples and Mehrotra 2016;World Health Organization 2011).…”

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