In space no one can see you waving your hands: making citizenship meaningful to Deaf worlds

Emery, Steven D.

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“…Perhaps most significantly, it is possible to discern within citizenship studies a growing concern for people with disabilities (e.g. Emery, 2009; Guldvik, Askheim, & Johansen, 2013) and older people (Phelan, 2012). Such concerns recognise that there has been a tendency within both citizenship and disability studies to overlook older people, and instead focus on younger people and/or those with a physical disability(Jönson & Larsson, 2009).…”

Section: Conceptual Developments Within Citizenship Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Bartlett

2016

Dementia

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This article scans recent developments within citizenship studies and relates them to the field of dementia, specifically the 'dementia friendly communities' agenda. The dementia friendly communities agenda is selected for several reasons, most notably because, it is an area of practice in the field of dementia where citizenship is perhaps most clearly enacted. The aim of the article is to help with the advancement of social citizenship as a key concept for dementia studies, by using two of the latest ideas within citizenship studies; namely, understandings of citizenship as (a) occurring in ordinary places and (b) potentially enacted within the domestic sphere to explore dementia friendly communities. It is argued that the interplay between these two developments pave the way for deeper consideration and realisation of social citizenship in the context of people with dementia.

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Section: Conceptual Developments Within Citizenship Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Bartlett

2016

Dementia

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“…Davis 2002). According to Emery (2009) however, citizenship to the state is generally associated with the use of spoken languageand thus based on the presumption of a hearing individual as the norm. The author criticizes that social policies resulting from this conception of citizenship disregard sign language and exclude deaf people.…”

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Practices of belonging: claiming elderly care through deaf citizenship

Hiddinga

Langen

2019

Citizenship Studies

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This article explores relationships between deafness and citizenship claims, with a focus on deaf elderly and care. We concentrate on a care home for deaf elderly in the heart of the Netherlands, De Gelderhorst, as a site of deaf citizenship. Yet the claims to citizenship made through De Gelderhorst are far from singular. Rather, the center balances citizenship claims to the state as well as to the particular community that it constitutes. In this article, we explore the relationship between these multiple forms of citizenship that variably contradict and sustain one another. These multiple forms of citizenship, despite their contradictions, co-create a right to claim care and inclusion based on deafness. But which deafness? We explore how different deaf subjectivities by individuals and institutions alike are enacted. It is this multiplicity that allows for the claims to belonging, resources, or care that are embedded in deaf citizenship.

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“…This position is also reflected by Emery (2009) in his critique of Kymlicka, who considers Deaf people as representative of a disabled group: "Tying Deaf communities to the disability matrix neglects potential ways Deaf citizens may enjoy a route to equal citizenship that they believe is most appropriate and rational" (Emery 2009, 33). Deaf identity politics is not only about fighting oppression based on ideas of defects or about uniting in separate Deaf and visual identity units.…”

Section: The Relevance Of the Deaf Experience For Disability Discoursementioning

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Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action

Solvang

Haualand

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how Deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community of communicators, marked by an identification founded on sharing one another's languages, common histories and through strong similarities in terms of culture and feeling oppressed by the hearing society. The identity negotiations taking place at these meeting places prove relevant to disabled people in the way they explore pressing issues such as accessibility and conflicting perspectives on what a disability shall mean in the lives of people affected by impairment. Politics of disabilitySince the 1960s, inclusion and integration policies have gained prominence in the disability field.According to this position, disabled people should be educated in ordinary schools and participate alongside any other citizen in all of society's institutions. The goal of disability politics should be to make disability as irrelevant as possible, with an implicit degradation of the disabled body as less-than-normal.Opposed to this perspective we find a position whereby disability is defined as a difference alongside any other bodily difference. Based on this notion of a non-pathological body, disabled people will gain from building coalitions based on shared positions and experiences and come together as an interest group.According to this perspective, the nurturing of a disability identity is important. The goal of assimilating into normality, inherent in discussions on integration and inclusion, is challenged. A space for difference, for alternative normalities, is opened (Stiker 1999;Swain, French and Cameron 2003;Shakespeare 2006; Siebers 2008). However, how disabled people gather together and form common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. To understand

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In space no one can see you waving your hands: making citizenship meaningful to Deaf worlds

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Practices of belonging: claiming elderly care through deaf citizenship

Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action

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