Introduction to Discursive Psychology and Disability: Working at the Intersection of Discursive Psychology and Disability

Enabling Crip Time With Digital Tools in Qualitative Inquiry

“…Many activists and scholars are doing extra-ordinary qualitative inquiry, for instance, by disseminating information in radically accessible and enriching ways as a commitment to resisting the ableist assumptions and practices of the process and practice of inquiry itself. Lester (2021) offered empirical and theoretical examples of qualitative discursive research steeped in commitments to critical disability studies, such as working alongside Disabled community members and researchers throughout the inquiry process.…”

Towards a shared understanding of chronic pain

“…There has been a growing interest in the role of discourse, because "what is understood or accepted to be a 'disability' is socially and culturally located and constructed via discourse" (Lupton & Seymour, 2003, p. 248). To date however, relatively few studies have taken a DP perspective on disability, and most of these studies have addressed participants' orientations to (dis)abilities in the context of mental health problems (Fasulo & Fiore, 2007;Lester, 2014Lester, , 2021Rapley et al, 1998).…”