Introduction: Genealogies of Disability

Diedrich, Lisa

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“…After prolonged neglect, disability has become the subject of increasing attention among science and technology studies (STS) scholars (Moser 2000(Moser , 2003(Moser , 2005(Moser , 2006(Moser , 2009Galis 2006;Winance 2006;Diedrich 2005). Drawing on Corker and Shakespeare's assertion that the global experience of disability is too complex to be rendered within one unitary model or set of ideas (2002,15), the topic of this paper is how STS can inform disability studies in the ordering of disability and the representation of disability issues in different techno-scientific forums.…”

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Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

Galis

2011

Disability & Society

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This paper aims to discuss how science and technology studies (STS) can inform disability studies and challenge dominant approaches, such as the medical and the social models, in the ordering and representation of disability. Disability studies and STS have followed somewhat parallel paths in the history of ideas. From a positivist approach to their research objects to a strong social constructivism, both disciplines have moved to postmodern conceptualisations of science, technology and disability. In the same manner, this paper brings the conceptual vocabulary of actor-network theory (ANT) to the field of disability studies. ANT enables the ordering of disability as a simultaneous biological, material and semiotic phenomenon. The focus of the analysis shifts from merely defining disability as an impairment, handicap, or social construction (epistemology) to how disability is experienced and enacted in everyday practices, in policy-making, in the body, and in the built environment (ontology). This adoption of an ontological approach to disability allows the analysis to not only discuss how disability is done, but also to follow how disability groups and carriers of disability expertise and experience intervene in policy-making by developing 'research in the wild' and confronting scientific experts in different fora (ontological politics).

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Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

Galis

2011

Disability & Society

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“…Reclaiming the body, embodiment and medicine: tools and resources for a material semiotic approach Asking how it is that the body matters to disability as well as to ability and to subjectivity, I join a growing choir of voices questioning the othering of the body and with it also medical practices and technologies in social and cultural studies of health, bodies and disability (Hughes and Paterson 1997;Seymor 1998;Shildrick 2002;Goggin and Newell 2003;Struhkamp 2005;Diedrich 2005;Shakespeare 2006;Thomas 2007;McNeil 2008). I am, however, aware of the provocative ring to such a claim Á and especially that not only the body but also medicine has become othered in disability studies.…”

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A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Moser

2009

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Drawing on a study of life after road traffic accidents, this article explores the role of the body and embodiment for disability Á as well as for ability. It introduces the empirically more open and less medicalized terms 'decomposition' and 'recomposition' to get around and avoid being appropriated by the medical discourse, while staying true to the body and its role in the shaping of life. Inspired by feminist and social studies of science, technology and medicine, it approaches bodily realities as emerging in practices and as an ongoing open process of mattering and embodying. The argument is that a road traffic accident is better conceived as the starting point of a series of contingent shifts and dynamic recompositions than as a single radical breakdown in people's lives, subjectivities and biographies. People are decomposed and recomposed, disabled and enabled, in shifting and complex ways, in specific practices and relations.

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“…More recently, the development of information communication technologies (ICTs) as a means of fulfilling ‘the promise of technology’ (Moser, 2006: 373) for disabled people has become increasingly influential and may lead to the reinvigoration of a material social model of disability. Indeed, scholars, especially those from the research field of STS, have long emphasized the important roles technologies play in encoding, calculating, ordering, enacting and redressing disability (Admon-Rick, 2014; Blume et al, 2014; Diedrich, 2005; Mauldin, 2014; Moser, 2005, 2006; Moser and Law, 1999; Winance, 2006). They have explored the relationship between disability and technologies and technoscience, such as ICTs, digital accessibility, and universal design, especially in regard to the role technologies play in enabling and/or disabling interactions, and how technologies are deeply implicated in how people become and are made disabled (Ellcessor, 2016; Goggin and Newell, 2003, 2006; Hamraie, 2013, 2015, 2018; Moser, 2005, 2006).…”

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Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China

Lin

Liu

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Disability care is an understudied yet important phenomenon within the realm of caring media studies. It not only adds another identity-based lens for caring media studies but also proposes new questions at the intersection of media, disability and cultural studies. This study proposes a Chinese contextualized understanding of disability caring media, which may have broader implications in other contexts, even a global one. Mainly based on actor-network theory (ANT), this study looks at the smartphone as a new condition and a key actor in the emerging digital disability care actor-network to examine various modes of connections and associations, especially the application-network, the device-network, and the organization-network. This study seeks to provide a better understanding as to how meanings and technologies are enacted together in everyday caring practices, and how social dynamics are assembled and reassembled in contemporary disability caring media settings.

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Introduction: Genealogies of Disability

Cited by 12 publications

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Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China

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