Exploring Constructs of Intellectual Disability and Personhood in Haryana and Delhi

Mehrotra, Nilika; Vaidya, Shubhangi

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“…Thus, Arab women with disabilities living in Israel suffer from multiple layers of discrimination: a marginalized gender within a minority group (disabled persons) that is in turn subsumed within another minority group (Arab society in Israel). Disability has a profound impact on disabled women’s ability to perform their expected gender roles due to the stereotypical conception that they are “incomplete” (Mehrotra, 2008, p. 40) and not qualified to perform the challenging roles expected of women in Arab society. This set of circumstances places them in a highly vulnerable position, and therefore special efforts should be made to promote and protect the rights of these women.…”

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Self-Perspectives on Marriage Among Arabs With Disabilities Living in Israel

Badran

Gur

Amin

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Issues

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This study aims to examine the subjective perspectives on marriage of Arabs with disabilities living in Israel. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 15 Arabs in Israel with physical, visual impairment, and mental disorders. Themes were generated using thematic analysis. Two main recursive and intertwined themes emerged: reflections about marriage and the reality of marriage. The real-life situation feeds into social perceptions: when the disabled person sees that people with disabilities hardly marry, this increases self-stigma and the fear of rejection. Similarly, social and personal perceptions exacerbate the situation on the ground. Gender also played a key factor with women with disabilities facing more stigma and negative experiences relative to men with disabilities. The findings call for raising awareness of the marital rights of Arabs with disabilities and combating negative social attitudes towards them as first steps to creating a more accessible and inclusive environment, with particular attention to gender differences.

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Self-Perspectives on Marriage Among Arabs With Disabilities Living in Israel

Badran

Gur

Amin

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Issues

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“…However, the film had to conclude in a hasty compensatory note with their marriage, thereby validating the stereotypical patriarchal family structure protecting the autistic father and the single woman, and further strengthening the paternalistic ideals of family and society as they reinforce patriarchal values of containment, protection and control of the others. Chadda and Deb in their study on Indian family systems, collectivistic society and psychotherapy elaborate that family plays a more important integral role in the management of psychiatric disorders within the collectivist social structure in India that promotes interdependence and cooperation within its members, which is in contrast to Western society that puts the additional impetus on individualism (2013).Several leading Indian disability rights activists and theorists, likeGhai (2002) andMehrotra (2013) too have emphasised how the family plays a crucial role in shaping the self-perception of the disabled in this country. Here,Das and Addlakha's (2001) formulation of "extended body-selves" is also pertinent in comprehending the dynamics of kinship in the context of disability.…”

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Nuances of the unique and evolving conceptualisation of intellectual disability in India: A study of the changing artistic parlance of representing intellectually disabled people in mainstream Hindi cinema

Deb

2022

Brit J Learn Disabil

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Owing to the different models of disablement in different religions and cultures around the world, social and aesthetic representations of intellectually disabled people are diverse in various societies. Disability is perceived in a different way in India than in the West. There are very few studies on the complex role of Indian mainstream Hindi cinema in the representation of intellectual and developmental disabilities in India. This paper explores the potential of shifting representations of intellectual and developmental disability in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first century Bollywood films in the context of multiple aesthetic challenges they pose. The shift in screen image of intellectual impairment is strongly related to the shifting and ambiguous sociocultural model of personhood in India. In earlier Indian Hindi films, characters with intellectual disabilities were depicted in terms of good/bad moralistic labels, compromised body image, leading to aesthetic undesirability. In later Hindi films, they were instead represented as enduring human beings. In short, in earlier Hindi films, there was a discriminatory hegemonic bias in the depiction of intellectually disabled characters, in contrast to that in later Hindi films, where they were depicted in richly diverse perspectives. The changing artistic parlance becomes even more interesting in the context of major developments in Indian governmental policies and rights for the disabled in the last two decades. Thus, the paper highlights that contemporary Hindi films urge the audience to consider intellectual and developmental disability as a multilayered issue and rather than merely as a disease.

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Exploring Constructs of Intellectual Disability and Personhood in Haryana and Delhi

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Self-Perspectives on Marriage Among Arabs With Disabilities Living in Israel

Self-Perspectives on Marriage Among Arabs With Disabilities Living in Israel

Nuances of the unique and evolving conceptualisation of intellectual disability in India: A study of the changing artistic parlance of representing intellectually disabled people in mainstream Hindi cinema

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