Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja
This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer... more This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer peace, and disability-queer activism in post-peace accord Northern Ireland (NI). Through in-person and virtual interviews with activists, staff, and leaders who are disabled, queer, and/or in allyship, it became clear in the data that respondents were ashamed, frustrated, and sad that ableism and queerphobia continues in NI. Attacks on disabled and LGBTQIA+ people have escalated as a result of the Brexit fallout and the COVID-19 pandemic that negatively impacted marginalized communities that are targeted by legal exclusion, discriminatory, and hateful practices as well as structural and interpersonal violence. Dialogue, diversity, and inclusive practices and policies and a political system that benefits all NI citizens are crucial to building sustainable peace in NI.
This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discu... more This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses the ways in which they lived, worked, and influenced public policy in Canada. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this collection are authored by a diverse group of scholars who discuss the untold histories of Canadians with disabilities—Canadians who influenced science and technology, law, education, healthcare, and social justice. Selected chapters discuss disabilities among Indigenous women; the importance of community inclusion; the ubiquity of stairs in the Montreal metro; and the ethics of disability research. Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader offers an exceptional presentation of influential people with various disabilities who brought about social change and helped to make Canada more accessible.
Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une ... more Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une professeure de droit—analysent d'un œil critique une décision de la Cour d'appel fédérale qui soulève des questions de genre et d'incapacité. La cause porte sur l'accès aux prestations d'invalidité du Régime de pensions du Canada. Cynthia Harris, une mère qui a la sclérose en plaques, conteste l'application de la clause d'exclusion pour élever des enfants contenue dans le Régime de pensions du Canada. Mme Harris conteste la disposition pour la raison que le handicap de son enfant l'oblige à lui donner des soins parentaux plus longtemps que s'il s'agissait d'un enfant non handicapé. Les auteures critiquent les différentes approches visant à comprendre le concept d’égalité et son application aux questions d'incapacité et de genre. Elles prêtent une attention particulière aux critères de participation à la vie active dans la législation sur la...
... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we... more ... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we attach a shame to difference. ... Through its imagery, Million Dollar Baby reinforces the societal perception that people who are disabled have no quality of life. ...
The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the recor... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.
The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2014
The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with,... more The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with, and involving, forty women in Scotland and Canada. Their educational experiences are explored. The voices of women with disabilities in this article are important, and what appears are rich contextual profiles of women making spaces on their own terms.
Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ... more Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological insights from the application of ABR to the lives of disabled children and youth to help foster this critical dialogue. We decided to undertake this narrative review of the literature to better understand how ABR is used in pediatric disability contexts.
between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied b... more between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied but never explicitly teased out. Additionally, an interesting notion of scale is at play throughout the interviews – from the embodied transgression of a kiss between a French village girl and German soldier in WWII to the inversion of particularity between the local, Strasbourg identity and the regional, Alsatian identity. Sometimes these ruminations beg spatial-theoretic exegesis, but perhaps it is this omission that will allow the book to have a wider appeal, beyond a human geography audience. All told, Cosmopolitan Europe is a beautifully written and powerful piece of ethnography with real potential to compel the field of EU studies to take notice of what geography and geographers bring to the study of identity and integration.
200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of natural selection continues to inform ... more 200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of natural selection continues to inform current practice in medicine and the related discipline of bioethics or health ethics. Although darwinian theory remains fundamental to the theory and practice of both disciplines, we contend that there has been limited critical analysis of the troubling notion that the common understanding of the "naturalness" of natural selection appears to be fundamentally disconnected from the daily lived experience of the human species. Impairment and disability are not commonly understood as natural variations in human biology but rather as biology "gone wrong". We examine both historical and contemporary examples of the detrimental eff ects that uncritical acceptance and application of social darwinism have had on both the "fi t" and the "unfi t".
The development of dislocation cells in polycrystalline aluminium and nickel has been evaluated o... more The development of dislocation cells in polycrystalline aluminium and nickel has been evaluated over a tensile strain range, 0.05-0.30, using transmission electron microscopy. The results of the two test series are compared. Measurements of both the cell sizes and relative cell misorientations have been made, the latter using microdiffraction. The results are then compared with previous studies frorn the literature.
This paper investigates the place of the disabled body in health care provision. Increasingly, di... more This paper investigates the place of the disabled body in health care provision. Increasingly, differences in cognition and physicality are being re-framed and mediated in terms of social value. Disabled people have had little input in developing the space in which we find ourselves at present. We examine various historical, cultural and social perceptions underlying this debate.
Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja
This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer... more This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer peace, and disability-queer activism in post-peace accord Northern Ireland (NI). Through in-person and virtual interviews with activists, staff, and leaders who are disabled, queer, and/or in allyship, it became clear in the data that respondents were ashamed, frustrated, and sad that ableism and queerphobia continues in NI. Attacks on disabled and LGBTQIA+ people have escalated as a result of the Brexit fallout and the COVID-19 pandemic that negatively impacted marginalized communities that are targeted by legal exclusion, discriminatory, and hateful practices as well as structural and interpersonal violence. Dialogue, diversity, and inclusive practices and policies and a political system that benefits all NI citizens are crucial to building sustainable peace in NI.
This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discu... more This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses the ways in which they lived, worked, and influenced public policy in Canada. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this collection are authored by a diverse group of scholars who discuss the untold histories of Canadians with disabilities—Canadians who influenced science and technology, law, education, healthcare, and social justice. Selected chapters discuss disabilities among Indigenous women; the importance of community inclusion; the ubiquity of stairs in the Montreal metro; and the ethics of disability research. Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader offers an exceptional presentation of influential people with various disabilities who brought about social change and helped to make Canada more accessible.
Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une ... more Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une professeure de droit—analysent d'un œil critique une décision de la Cour d'appel fédérale qui soulève des questions de genre et d'incapacité. La cause porte sur l'accès aux prestations d'invalidité du Régime de pensions du Canada. Cynthia Harris, une mère qui a la sclérose en plaques, conteste l'application de la clause d'exclusion pour élever des enfants contenue dans le Régime de pensions du Canada. Mme Harris conteste la disposition pour la raison que le handicap de son enfant l'oblige à lui donner des soins parentaux plus longtemps que s'il s'agissait d'un enfant non handicapé. Les auteures critiquent les différentes approches visant à comprendre le concept d’égalité et son application aux questions d'incapacité et de genre. Elles prêtent une attention particulière aux critères de participation à la vie active dans la législation sur la...
... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we... more ... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we attach a shame to difference. ... Through its imagery, Million Dollar Baby reinforces the societal perception that people who are disabled have no quality of life. ...
The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the recor... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.
The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2014
The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with,... more The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with, and involving, forty women in Scotland and Canada. Their educational experiences are explored. The voices of women with disabilities in this article are important, and what appears are rich contextual profiles of women making spaces on their own terms.
Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ... more Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological insights from the application of ABR to the lives of disabled children and youth to help foster this critical dialogue. We decided to undertake this narrative review of the literature to better understand how ABR is used in pediatric disability contexts.
between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied b... more between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied but never explicitly teased out. Additionally, an interesting notion of scale is at play throughout the interviews – from the embodied transgression of a kiss between a French village girl and German soldier in WWII to the inversion of particularity between the local, Strasbourg identity and the regional, Alsatian identity. Sometimes these ruminations beg spatial-theoretic exegesis, but perhaps it is this omission that will allow the book to have a wider appeal, beyond a human geography audience. All told, Cosmopolitan Europe is a beautifully written and powerful piece of ethnography with real potential to compel the field of EU studies to take notice of what geography and geographers bring to the study of identity and integration.
200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of natural selection continues to inform ... more 200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of natural selection continues to inform current practice in medicine and the related discipline of bioethics or health ethics. Although darwinian theory remains fundamental to the theory and practice of both disciplines, we contend that there has been limited critical analysis of the troubling notion that the common understanding of the "naturalness" of natural selection appears to be fundamentally disconnected from the daily lived experience of the human species. Impairment and disability are not commonly understood as natural variations in human biology but rather as biology "gone wrong". We examine both historical and contemporary examples of the detrimental eff ects that uncritical acceptance and application of social darwinism have had on both the "fi t" and the "unfi t".
The development of dislocation cells in polycrystalline aluminium and nickel has been evaluated o... more The development of dislocation cells in polycrystalline aluminium and nickel has been evaluated over a tensile strain range, 0.05-0.30, using transmission electron microscopy. The results of the two test series are compared. Measurements of both the cell sizes and relative cell misorientations have been made, the latter using microdiffraction. The results are then compared with previous studies frorn the literature.
This paper investigates the place of the disabled body in health care provision. Increasingly, di... more This paper investigates the place of the disabled body in health care provision. Increasingly, differences in cognition and physicality are being re-framed and mediated in terms of social value. Disabled people have had little input in developing the space in which we find ourselves at present. We examine various historical, cultural and social perceptions underlying this debate.
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