Dissertations / Theses: 'Cultural disability studies'

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Geiger, Martha. "Building communication interventions for children with severe disabilities on cultural resources: an action research enquiry." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16536.

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In South Africa, children with severe disabilities are often the most neglected in terms of planning and providing appropriate interventions. For those with severe communication disabilities, an additional lack is in the area of the basic human right to meaningful interactions and communication. Sustainable strategies to provide opportunities for basic communicative participation of these children are urgently sought. The focus of this study, grounded in the transformative paradigm, was on culturally determined processes that can increase and enrich the communicative participation of children with severe communication disabilities in an isiXhosa language and cultural context. The aims of the study were: * to identify culturally determined non-verbal and pragmatic elements of social interaction in an isiXhosa language context. * to identify culturally appreciative strategies to support the communicative participation of children with severe communication impairments in this context. The participants were 44 mothers and/or primary carers of children with severe cerebral palsy from an under-resourced peri-urban isiXhosa speaking context in the Western Cape. The method comprised an action research journey with iterative cycles of collaborative action, reflection and subsequent further planning with participants. Data collection included action reflection group sessions, reflective dialogues with the group facilitators, and participant observations. All data was qualitative. Data analysis included a process of in-group collaborative analysis and verification followed by reflective dialogues with the group facilitators and interpretive thematic content analysis. The findings included 12 action learning outcomes, from which two main themes were identified, directly responding to the two main aims of the study. Findings that were considered new were framed as three theses: Thesis 1: Relationships are the context and motivation for communicative participation: the social inclusion and non-ostracism of mothers need to be prioritised in order for them and their children to enjoy communicative participation. Thesis 2: The 'Middle Ground' is a valuable positionality in implementing transformative action learning as an intervention approach. Thesis 3: There is a need to reframe culture as a resource in supporting the communication development of children with severe communication disabilities. In conclusion, implications for clinical practice, for training, for policy planning and implementation and for further research are discussed. Practical suggestions for application by mothers and others caring for children with severe communication disabilities in similar contexts are included.

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Cheu, Johnson F. "Disabling cure in twentieth-century America: disability, identity, literature and culture." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054741043.

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Vizenor, Katie Virginia. "Binary Lives| Digital Citizenship and Disability Participation in a User Content Created Virtual World." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3613110.

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Digital Citizenship is a concept typically used in discussions of how technology impacts our relationships with others and our physical world communities. It is also used to describe ways that we can leverage our technology use and skill to make our communities and nations better and stronger. Educators are now teaching "good digital citizenship" as part of a larger civics curriculum.

But, there is a second, emerging concept that I refer to as platform specific digital citizenship. I define this platform specific citizenship as the deep and abiding commitment and sense of responsibility that people develop in relation to a particular technology, such as software or technology brand. It may also refer to the ideas that people express in regard to how technology should ideally be used and what rights and responsibilities it requires of its adherents.

Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds (MMOWs) are one place researchers are finding this deep, platform specific digital citizenship emerging. These are persistent digital universes where people from all over the world develop online personas, leadership structures, discussion forums, and business and non-profit entities. The ability and extent to which this online organization is possible is largely due to the underlying structure, rules and allowances of the world of which people choose to be a part.

One online world, Second Life, has a large, active and vocal disabled population. They have committed to this environment because of the unique opportunities and freedoms that it provides. As a user content created environment, residents, as Second Life participants are referred to, are given an unprecedented amount of freedom to create the kind of experience they want. This may involve developing relationships and projects with other disabled residents. It can also involve exploring other aspects of themselves and their interests that are often neglected in their real lives due to social exclusion, and/or lack of financial and physical access.

Most of the research and popular media examinations of disability in Second Life centers on participation in disability specific communities or the benefits of identity exploration through avatar design. But, the reasons disabled people stay here is much broader and varied than what this limited discussion suggests. Commitment to Second Life is strong precisely because disability community commitment and disability expression are not the only options but exist among a wide range of choices. Moreover, the expression of disability and use of such mediated environments is constantly debated in both word and deed.

This dissertation explores the concept of digital citizenship and why people that identify as disabled in real life are attracted to committed participation in virtual worlds, in particular, Second Life. What opportunities and rights are disabled people afforded here through the technology structure? What are the avenues of entry into the Second Life community, and what does the variety of these entry points and special interest sub-communities tell us about what is important to them? How is commitment debated and deepened through the use of public spaces and forums? And, what can researchers, public health and information professionals learn from these features that can improve their own outreach?

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Jhangiani, Ira. "A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cell Phone Interface Design Preferences from the Perspective of Nationality and Disability." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35096.

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A cell phone is an electronic communication device that helps break down the distance barriers between people, with added mobility advantages. For some users a cell phone is more than a communication device; it may be used as a fashion accessory, and for some the cell phone is needed to seek help in emergency situations. The cell phone market has been expanding globally over the past decade, with approximately 423 million sold globally in the year 2002 (Kiljander & Johanna, 2003). According to the CIA World Factbook (2006), the UK has more cell phones than people. The global expansion of cell phone companies may impose problems to cell phone users, since unlike the personal computer industry the cell phone industry has no standard interface, and manufacturers have the freedom to gradually improve the user interface (Kiljander & Johanna, 2003). For a user interface to be well accepted by a target population it is necessary to identify and explore the underlying design preferences. User interfaces of new technology may lead to anxiety and delayed technology acceptance, especially for users with disabilities. Even though the need for users participating in the design process has been realized, users with disabilities are not always included in the design process (Newell & Gregor, 2001). This study followed a participatory design process, to compare and contrast the cell phone interface design preferences of users from two different nations, including users with no apparent disability and users with visual disabilities. A study was conducted to identify possible relationships between national culture, disability culture and design preferences of cell phone interfaces. The theoretical framework used to guide this study was Hofstede's (1991) five dimensional cultural model. Various studies have explored cross-cultural interface design and found some relationship of these cultural dimensions with interface design components (Choi et. al., 2005; Marcus, 1999; Marcus and Gould, 2001). This study included 13 product interactive focus groups, with a total of 69 participants, 34 in India and 35 in the United States, of the age group 19-50 years. There were 4 units of analyses in this research study. This included a control group of users without any apparent disability and a disability group with a visual disability of legal blindness. The two countries, India and the United States, were selected for this comparative study because of their diverse cultural backgrounds and the rapid expansion of cell phone usage which they are witnessing. The four units of analyses differed in their cultural dimensions. There were no significant correlations found on Design preferences of cell phone features based on Choi et at. (2005)'s study on mobile services with Hofstede (1990)'s cultural dimensions. However the relationships of some these features with the underlying cultural dimensions were found when group level analysis instead of the individual level of analysis was undertaken. Differences were also found in the ratings of the hardware attributes between disability groups and differences in usability ratings were found based on nationality and disability groups. The content analysis of the focus group sessions provided an insight to the preferences on cell phone interface components and the gave a better understanding of the mobile/cell phone culture in the two countries. These results are summarized to provide guidelines for designing cross-cultural user interfaces that are nationality specific and disability specific. A pyramid model for a holistic process of designing cell phones for users with disabilities integrated the findings of this thesis and Jordon (2002)'s pleasurability framework is proposed in the conclusion section of this thesis.
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Valtellina, Enrico. "Tipos humanos particularmente estranhos: a síndrome de Asperger como objeto cultural." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9452.

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La straordinaria attenzione sociale e culturale che nelle ultime decadi si è rivolta alla diagnosi di autismo/sindrome di Asperger chiama a una riflessione più ampia per contestualizzarne levenienza come oggetto culturale. Il presente lavoro muove in tale direzione, proponendosi di individuare le coordinate sociali, istituzionali e culturali che hanno portato a una simile esposizione delle disabilità relazionali. Storia quindi dello spettro autistico e sua preistoria, ovvero ricerca su come le forme della non conformità alle attese dellaltro nellinterazione in presenza siano state tematizzate, anteriormente al modello medico e ai suoi albori. A fianco della ricerca storica si è inoltre cercato di sostanziare il discorso di contestualizzazione culturale dello spettro autistico in quellambito settoriale dei Disability Studies che sono i Critical Autism Studies attraverso una ricognizione degli autori e dei temi.
A extraordinária atenção social e cultural que nas últimas décadas tem se dado ao diagnóstico do autismo/síndrome de Asperger convida a uma reflexão mais ampla para contextualizar o seu acontecimento como objeto cultural. É nesta direção que se move o presente trabalho, buscando identificar as coordenadas sociais, institucionais e culturais que levaram a tal exposição da deficiência relacional. Fala da história do espectro do autismo e sua pré-história ou a investigação sobre como as formas de não-conformidade com as expectativas da interação na presença do outro foram contextualizados, antes do modelo médico e em seus primeiros dias. Além disso, também têm procurado articular o discurso da contextualização cultural do espectro do autismo na area dos estudos sobre a deficiência chamada Critical Autism Studies por meio de um levantamento analítico dos autores e dos temas.

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Nisbett, Bernice Marie. "In the Eye of the Beholder: How Women Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired Define and Navigate Beauty." Scholarly Commons, 2018. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3129.

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Beauty defined by nonvisual means is an area of exploration long overdue. The question on what or whom is considered beautiful or attractive is often left up to each individual, and dependent on the culture in which said beauty is visually seen. This research identified the physical characteristics of Western standards of beauty among women who are visually impaired. The main objective was to explore how women who are visually impaired or blind defined both physical and non-physical beauty, in addition to how they navigated ocularcentric standards of beauty. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 women who are visually impaired or blind that live within the United States. Their interviews were transcribed and analyzed to critique the components of beauty within the cultural lens of women who are visually impaired or blind. What was taken from the data was then used to consider ways in which women can empower themselves without using visual means to define and describe who they are.

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Grando, Luciana Rosa. "Tradução, adaptação cultural e validação para o português falado no Brasil do instrumento Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/118278.

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Introdução: O Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI) é um instrumento originalmente desenvolvido na língua inglesa para mensurar a qualidade de vida de pacientes com acne. Considerando o impacto psicossocial desta doença, é importante dispormos de instrumentos culturalmente e linguisticamente validados para o uso em adolescentes brasileiros. Objetivo: O objetivo deste estudo é traduzir o CADI para o Português falado no Brasil (CADI-PB), adaptá-lo culturalmente e determinar sua confiabilidade e validade em pacientes adolescentes com acne. Métodos: 1) Etapa 1 – Tradução e validação cultural: O CADI foi traduzido e validado linguisticamente para o Português brasileiro (CADI-PB) de acordo com as diretrizes internacionais publicadas. 2) Etapa 2 – Validação: O CADI-PB, juntamente com os escores CDLQI (Índice de Qualidade de Vida em Dermatologia Infantil) e DLQI (Índice de Qualidade de Vida em Dermatologia) foram aplicados em paciente adolescentes (12-20 anos) portadores de acne. O Índice Global de Classificação da Acne (GAGS) foi utilizado para medir a gravidade clínica da doença. A consistência interna do CADI-PB foi avaliada pelo coeficiente alfa de Cronbach e a validade concorrente foi medida pelo coeficiente de correlação de Spearman e Teste T de Student para amostras pareadas. A validade de construto foi examinada por análise fatorial. Resultados: Um total de 100 adolescentes respondeu ao questionário. A versão CADI-PB apresentou boa confiabilidade e consistência interna (coeficiente alfa de Cronbach = 0,73). A validade concorrente da escala foi sustentada por uma correlação forte e significativa com os instrumentos CDLQI/DLQI (rs=0,802;p<0,001). A análise fatorial explanatória revelou a presença de duas dimensões subjacentes que explicam a escala. Conclusões: A versão CADI-PB é uma ferramenta confiável, válida e valiosa para mensurar o impacto da acne na qualidade de vida de pacientes adolescentes.
Background: The Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI) is an instrument originally developed in English language for measuring quality of life of acne patients. Considering the psychosocial impact of this disease, it is important to have instruments culturally and linguistically validated for use in Brazilian adolescents. Objective: The aim of this study was to translate the CADI into Brazilian Portuguese (CADI - PB), culturally adapt it, and verify its reliability and validity in adolescent patients with acne. Methods: 1) Step 1 - Translation and cultural validation: The CADI was translated and linguistically validated for Brazilian Portuguese (CADI - PB) in accordance with international guidelines published. 2) Step 2 - Validation: The CADI-PB, along with the CDLQI (Index of Quality of Life in Children's Dermatology) and DLQI (Index of Quality of Life in Dermatology) scores were applied to adolescents (12-20 years) patients with acne. The Global Acne Grading System (GAGS) was used to measure the clinical severity of the illness. The internal consistency of the CADI-PB was assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the concurrent validity was measure by the Spearman correlation coefficient and Student's t test for paired samples. Construct validity was assessed by factor analysis. Results: A total of 100 adolescents completed the questionnaire. The CADI-PB version showed good reliability and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0,73). The concurrent validity of the scale was supported by a strong and significant correlation with CDLQI / DLQI instruments (rs=0.802;p<0.001). Factor analysis revealed the presence of two underlying factor structure of the scale dimensions. Conclusions: CADI-PB version is a reliable, valid and valuable tool to measure the impact of acne on quality of life in adolescent patients.

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Wiener, Diane Rochelle. "Narrativity, Emplotment, and Voice in Autobiographical and Cinematic Representations of "Mentally Ill" Women, 1942-2003." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195156.

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This dissertation presents an historical overview of the interdependent representations of gender, class, ethnicity, race, nationality, sexuality, and (dis)ability in a selection of films and first-person written autobiographical texts from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century. Cinematic and written autobiographical representations of “mental illness” reflect and shape various models of psychological trauma and wellness. I explore the ways that these two genres of representation underscore, exert influence upon, and interrogate socio-cultural understandings and interpretations of deviance and normalcy, madness and sanity, and pathology and health. Some models of health and illness carry more ideological weight than others, and thus differentially contour public policy formation and the materiality of people’s daily lives. My project is distinct from other kinds of scholarship on the subject of women’s “madness.” Whereas scholarship has been written on “madness” and cinema, and on “madness” and autobiography, this related academic work has not consistently drawn linkages between multiple genres or utilized interdisciplinary methodologies to critically explore texts. Feminist scholars who address the interconnections between autobiographies and cinematic representations often pay only limited attention to psychiatric survivors. I draw parallels and distinctions between these genres, based upon my training in social work, cultural studies, film and autobiography theory, medical and linguistic anthropology, and disability studies. My perspective hinges upon my longstanding involvement with and commitment to the subject of women’s “madness” in both personal and professional arenas.

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Martins, Aline Toffoli. "Inclusão de estudantes com diferenças funcionais: a construção de um currículo cultural da educação física no Cieja." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-31102017-121309/.

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O paradigma da inclusão é um tema que vem sendo sistematicamente debatido no âmbito da legislação educacional brasileira desde a década de 1990. Porém, após quase trinta anos de políticas públicas de incentivo à inclusão das pessoas com deficiência nas escolas regulares, ainda nos deparamos com discursos que questionam sua legitimidade. Atualmente, a diretriz política educacional é a da inclusão escolar, muito embora a produção científica referente às experiências escolares, assim como as práticas administrativas e pedagógicas no chão da escola revelem que os valores da integração ainda permeiam o ideário educacional, indicando que há um descompasso entre as políticas públicas e as práticas educacionais. Entendemos que tais contradições, para serem compreendidas, implicam a reflexão sobre o lugar social das chamadas pessoas com deficiência aqui denominadas como pessoas com diferenças funcionais. Lugar social que supõe discussões sobre a produção da anormalidade, de corpos normofuncionais e dos processos educacionais. Por sua vez, a Educação Física tem sido concebida a partir de perspectivas historicamente fundamentadas em princípios elitistas, excludentes, classificatórios e monoculturais. Neira e Nunes (2009) têm discutido sobre o currículo cultural da Educação Física. O objetivo foi acompanhar a produção do currículo em ação de Educação Física, fundamentado nos princípios do currículo cultural do componente, a fim de compreender seus efeitos no processo de inclusão escolar de pessoas com diferenças funcionais em um Centro educacional integrado de jovens e adultos Cieja. O recorte estabelecido foi o da modalidade de Educação de jovens e adultos/as em uma escola da rede pública de ensino do município de São Paulo, em que acompanhamos, por um ano e meio, a professora de Educação Física, a professora da sala de recursos multifuncionais e seus/suas estudantes. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter exploratório, inspirada na etnografia. A experiência de campo constituiuse a partir da observação participante das aulas de Educação Física, de entrevistas semidirigidas com docentes e de grupo focal com estudantes, sendo todo o material registrado em um diário de campo. Concluímos que o currículo cultural da Educação Física abre possibilidades educacionais junto ao segmento populacional em foco ao reconhecer as diferenças entre os/as estudantes, estabelecendo uma ética das práticas corporais como manifestações da cultura. Foi possível apreender uma experiência de ressignificação das possibilidades de expressão e aprendizagem das pessoas com diferenças funcionais, em um paradigma que rompe com o capacitismo na Educação Física, posto que possibilitou o acolhimento dessa população de uma forma mais justa e alinhada a princípios democráticos. Entretanto, mesmo nesse campo teóricoprático, quando a discussão incide sobre as pessoas com diferenças funcionais, foram percebidos aspectos de ambiguidade, pois, em muitos momentos, há prejuízo de leituras de cunho social e cultural da realidade, com retomada de perspectivas de caráter orgânico. Na produção de conhecimento relativa aos Estudos Culturais, é incipiente o impacto da discussão sobre a produção social das diferenças funcionais, a organização desse grupo como movimento reivindicatório e as suas manifestações culturais. Nesse sentido, as teorias Crip apresentam-se como elementos fundamentais para fazer avançar os estudos comprometidos com a ruptura do ideário normofuncional de corpo.
The inclusion paradigm is a subject that has been systematically debated within the scope of Brazilian educational legislation since the 1990s. However, after almost thirty years of public policies to encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities in regular schools, we are still faced with speeches which question their legitimacy. Currently, the educational policy directive is that of school inclusion, although the scientific production referring to the school experiences, as well as the administrative and pedagogical practices on the school floor reveal that the values of integration still permeate the educational ideology, indicating that there is a mismatch between public policies and educational practices. We understand that these contradictions, to be understood, imply reflection on the social place of the so-called disabled people - here called people with functional differences. Social place that supposes discussions about the production of the abnormality, normofunctional bodies and the educational processes. In turn, Physical Education has been conceived from perspectives historically based on elitist, excluding, classificatory and monocultural principles. Neira and Nunes (2009) have discussed the cultural curriculum of Physical Education. In view of this context, our goal was to accompany the daily making of a curriculum-action of Physical Education, based on the principles of the cultural curriculum, n order to understand its effects in the process of school inclusion of people with functional differences in an integrated educational center for youth and adults Cieja. The established cut is the one of the modality of Education of young people and adults in a school of the public school of the city of São Paulo, where we accompany, for a year and a half, the Physical Education teacher, the teacher of the Room of Multifunctional resources and students. This is a qualitative research, exploratory in nature, inspired by ethnography. The field experience consisted of the participant observation of Physical Education classes, semistructured interviews with teachers and a focus group with students, all of the material being recorded in a field diary. We conclude that the cultural curriculum of Physical Education opens educational possibilities to the population segment in focus by recognizing the differences between the students, establishing an ethics of the corporal practices as manifestations of the culture. It was possible to perceive an experience of re-signification of the possibilities of expression and learning of people with functional differences, in a paradigm that breaks with the ableism in Physical Education, since it enabled the reception of this population in a fairer and aligned way with democratic principles. However, even in this theoretical-practical field, when the discussion focuses on people with functional differences, aspects of ambiguity have been perceived, since, in many instances, there is a loss of social and cultural readings of reality, with a resumption of character perspectives organic. In the production of knowledge related to Cultural Studies, the impact of the discussion on the social production of functional differences, the organization of this group as a protest movement and its cultural manifestations is incipient. In this sense, the Crip theories are presented as fundamental elements to advance the studies committed with the rupture of the normofunctional idea of body.

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Silva, Jackeline Susann Souza da. "Acessibilidade, barreiras e superação: estudo de caso de experiências de estudantes com deficiência na educação superior." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4801.

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8 ABSTRACT In this century, worldwide, the theme of accessibility became an important guideline for governments and institutions to ensure the rights of people with disability to education, work, culture and leisure, and to improve their quality of life and participation in the mainstream. This involves the elimination of barriers in institutional settings, including higher education institutions, which have been historically selective and elitist. There are few studies showing how attitudinal, physical, informational-communicational, and pedagogical-curricular barriers are built and how students with disability meet and overcome them in order to have success in higher education. Therefore, this study focuses on the following question: How students with disability experience accessibility in higher education? From a cultural studies perspective, it aims to identify and analyze their experiences of accessibility (or not) at entrance examinations (access), during preparation until graduation (permanence and acquisition). A case study methodology, combined with the shadowing technique, was used to investigate the experiences of accessibility of six students (three male and three female) at Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa campus, in Brazil. Main findings show that: (a) accessibility is an issue that should be addressed prior to university entrance because there is a set of barriers that prevent access of people with disability, concerning information about graduate degrees and enrolment in entrance examinations, family social and economic situation, program choice; (b) both the federal government and the university are very slowly in moving towards an institutional policy of effective inclusion, and there is no monitoring or assessment procedures for the inclusion program in place (Programa Incluir), so there are still tough barriers for this group; (c) different types of accessibility are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, however attitudinal barriers seem to be the most relevant because when there is attitudinal access, in the first place, the other barriers tend to be reduced or eliminated; (d) in spite of the legal framework, higher education students with disability still know it superficially, or lack appropriate knowledge about their rights, and rarely use the existing legal system to ensure them. Their inner strength and the support arrangements which they develop on their own are what allow them to persist and accomplish their qualification in order to have better employment chances.
Neste século, mundialmente, o tema da acessibilidade se tornou uma importante diretriz para os governos e as instituições a fim de assegurar os direitos das pessoas com deficiência (PcD) à educação, trabalho, cultura e lazer, e melhorar sua qualidade de vida e participação nos espaços comuns. Isto envolve a eliminação de barreiras nas instituições, incluindo as de educação superior, que historicamente têm sido seletivas e elitistas. Ainda são escassos os estudos que mostram como as barreiras atitudinais, arquitetônicas, informacionais e comunicacionais, e pedagógico-curriculares são construídas e como as/os estudantes com deficiência (EcD) as encontram e as superam a fim de alcançar sucesso na formação superior. Assim, este estudo enfoca a seguinte questão: Como EcD experienciam a acessibilidade no ensino superior? Seu objetivo é identificar e analisar, à luz dos Estudos Culturais, experiências de acessibilidade (ou não) no vestibular (acesso), durante a formação até a graduação (permanência e aquisição). A metodologia estudo de caso, combinada com a técnica de shadowing (acompanhar como sombra), foi usada para investigar as experiências de acessibilidade de seis estudantes (três do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, campus de João Pessoa. Os principais achados mostram que: (a) a acessibilidade é um tema que deve começar a ser tratado muito antes do vestibular porque existe uma série de barreiras que impedem as PcD de ter acesso à educação superior, relativas ao acesso à informação sobre cursos de graduação e meios de realizar a inscrição para o vestibular, à situação familiar social e econômica e à escolha do curso de graduação; (b) o governo federal e a Universidade Federal da Paraíba são muito lentos para implementarem uma política institucional de inclusão efetiva e não há procedimentos de monitoramento e avaliação do Programa Incluir, portanto, as barreiras para esta população ainda são consistentes; c) os diferentes tipos de acessibilidade são interdependentes e influenciam-se mutuamente, contudo a acessibilidade atitudinal parece ser a mais relevante entre todas porque quando há acesso atitudinal as outras barreiras à acessibilidade tendem a ser reduzidas ou eliminadas; (d) apesar do marco legal, as/os EcD na educação superior ainda conhecem superficialmente ou não têm conhecimento apropriado sobre seus direitos e raramente fazem uso do sistema legal existente para assegurá-los. São a sua força interna e os esquemas de apoio que desenvolvem sozinhos que lhes permitem permanecer e concluir sua qualificação para ter melhores chances de emprego. Palavras-chave: estudante com deficiência, acessibilidade, educação superior, estudos culturais da deficiência.

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Lawson, Michael David. "Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3538.

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Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, this study examines medieval Scandinavian social views regarding impairment from the ninth to the thirteenth century. Beginning with the myths and legends of the eddic poetry and prose of Iceland, it investigates impairment in Norse pre-Christian belief; demonstrating how myth and memory informed medieval conceptualizations of the body. This thesis counters scholarly assumptions that the impaired were universally marginalized across medieval Europe. It argues that bodily difference, in the Norse world, was only viewed as a limitation when it prevented an individual from fulfilling roles that contributed to their community. As Christianity’s influence spread and northern European powers became more focused on state-building aims, Scandinavian societies also slowly began to transform. Less importance was placed on the community in favor of the individual and policies regarding bodily difference likewise changed; becoming less inclusive toward the impaired.

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Ray, Sarah Jaquette 1976. "The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10352.

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xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This dissertation argues that a fundamental paradox underlies U.S. environmentalism: even as it functions as a critique of dominant social and economic practices, environmentalism simultaneously reinforces many social hierarchies, especially with regard to race, immigration, and disability, despite its claims to recognize the interdependence of human and ecological well-being. This project addresses the related questions: In what ways does environmentalism--as a code of behavioral imperatives and as a set of rhetorical strategies--ironically play a role in the exploitation of land and communities? Along what lines--class, race, ability, gender, nationality, age, and even "sense of place"--do these environmental codes and discourses delineate good and bad environmental behavior? I contend that environmentalism emerged in part to help legitimize U.S. imperial ambitions and support racialized and patriarchal conceptions of national identity. Concern about "the environment" made anxieties about communities of color more palatable than overt racism. Furthermore, "environmentalism's hidden attachments" to whiteness and Manifest Destiny historically aligned the movement with other repressive ideologies, such as eugenics and strict anti-immigration. These "hidden attachments" exist today, yet few have analyzed their contemporary implications, a gap this project fills. In three chapters, I detail nineteenth-century environmentalism's influence on contemporary environmental thought. Each of these three illustrative chapters investigates a distinct category of environmentalism's "ecological others": Native Americans, people with disabilities, and undocumented immigrants. I argue that environmentalism defines these groups as "ecological others" because they are viewed as threats to nature and to the American national body politic. The first illustrative chapter analyzes Native American land claims in Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel, Almanac of the Dead . The second illustrative chapter examines the importance of the fit body in environmental literature and U.S. adventure culture. In the third illustrative chapter, I integrate literary analysis with geographical theories and methods to investigate national security, wilderness protection, and undocumented immigration in the borderland. In a concluding fourth chapter, I analyze works of members of the excluded groups discussed in the first three chapters to show how they transform mainstream environmentalism to bridge social justice and ecological concerns. This dissertation contains previously published material.
Committee in charge: Shari Huhndorf, Chairperson, English; Louise Westling, Member, English; David Vazquez, Member, English; Juanita Sundberg, Member, Not from U of 0 Susan Hardwick, Outside Member, Geography

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Jagodzinski, Mallory Diane. "Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1440101084.

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Ikegami, Makoto. "Social Workers' Experiences With Deaf and Hard of Hearing People With Mental Illness." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6906.

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The social work practice problem for this study was a lack of knowledge about social workers' experiences of working with deaf and hard of hearing people with mental illness. This study was needed to fill a practice gap by increasing an understanding of the experiences of social workers to inform best practices and address the needs of deaf and hard of hearing population through culturally and linguistically competent mental health services. The research questions focused on the experiences and challenges of social workers working with deaf and hard of hearing people and best practices identified by these social workers. Ecological systems theory was used to guide this study. Data were collected from a focus group comprising 9 social workers working with deaf and hard of hearing people with mental illness at a healthcare provider on the east coast of the United States that offered culturally and linguistically therapeutic services. Themes identified through thematic analysis of the data were cultural competence, empowerment and advocacy, professional education, and leadership to advance cultural competence. The findings of this study may be used to help healthcare providers identify key components of program design and service delivery that support culturally and linguistically competent mental health services for the population. This knowledge may also be used by social work practitioners and administrators to bring about positive social change by enhancing social work practice related to deaf and hard of hearing clients with mental illness, improving mental health outcomes, and supporting recognition of the importance of culturally and linguistically competent mental health services.

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Quackenbush, Nicole Marie. "Bodies in Culture, Culture in Bodies: Disability Narratives and a Rhetoric of Resistance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194390.

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In this dissertation I historicize dominant discourses of disability and place my analysis of five published disability narratives in dialogue with those discourses in order to show how the authors of these narratives craft alternative rhetorics to resist representation that casts them as unsuited to public space. Critical to my dissertation is my belief that personal narratives by rhetoricians with disabilities are invaluable sites of rhetorical inquiry, especially in light of the marginalized subject position of people with disabilities in the larger culture. Because my dissertation connects rhetoric and disability studies, my purpose is two-fold. For rhetorical theorists, I argue that attention to dominant discourses of disability and the alternative rhetorics in disability narratives can expand our present understanding of rhetorics of the body to interrogate: (1) who has the authority to speak and who doesn't; (2) who the dominant culture grants the position of subject and who the dominant culture sees as inherently "Other" or an object; and (3) how differing intersections of identity as configured by the actual appearance of the body can often determine whether or not the body "speaks" or is "spoken of" and, in conjunction, whether or not that body is heard, ignored, or silenced. For disability studies scholars, I rediscover the disability narrative as a genre that provides people with disabilities an opportunity to make meaning of their embodied experiences and their material circumstances while simultaneously addressing the ways in which disability itself is also a social construction similar to race, class, and gender. Ultimately, I argue that disability narrative can be a vehicle for a "rhetoric of resistance" that I posit allows people with disabilities to: (1) move their bodies and their voices from the margins to the center of public space; (2) revalue the embodied experience of disability as a site for knowledge and meaning making; and (3) challenge dominant discourses of disability that cast the disabled body as inferior and thereby serve as justification for the cultural devaluation and social marginalization of people with disabilities.

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Dagnäs, Klara. "Tillgänglighetens påverkan på kulturvärden i statliga byggnadsminnen." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-63272.

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There is a great determination towards an increased accessibility in today’s society. This creates some problems, when the building in question is a historic building of cultural significance, due to legislations and protective regulations. This thesis is executed as research for The National Property Board Sweden (SFV), who deals with these kinds of difficulties daily. The objective of this theses was to explore the influence of accessibility adaptation on cultural values in historic buildings from the 19th century, with a focus on doorways. The aim is also to identify possible faults and weaknesses that could cause a loss in cultural values. The study is based on a literature review and observations of eight doorways in the historical buildings Gamla Riksarkivet, Kungliga Operan, Linneanum and Uppsala Universitetshus. For each doorway actions and procedures have been identified and categorized based on the affected cultural values using two different evaluation models. The visual changes are, according to the result, the most frequent reason behind the affected cultural values that has been studied. The increase in social reforms and legislation about accessibility are the result of a changing society that has altered its preceptions of disabilities. This could be traced back as one of the major reasons that might be behind the loss of cultural values. Accessible environments are important, we should however consider that the cultural heritage is poorly accessible for a reason. It has been discovered that the studied archive files and documents have a lack of information, what actions and procedures the building had endured are vague. The amount of details explaining the procedures and justification of the actions are also limited, especially in the permit applications from SFV and its resolve from RAÄ. In order to facilitate the issue of how the legislation for accessibility and cultural values should be interpreted, policy documents of how the laws should relate to each other are required.
I dagens samhälle finns en stark drivkraft för att göra samhället så tillgängligt som möjligt för människor med olika funktionsnedsättningar. Det skapar en problematik när det kommer till Sveriges kulturarv, som skyddas av olika lagar, förordningar och skyddsföreskrifter. Arbetet utfördes åt statens fastighetsverk, som är en av Sveriges största myndigheter, vad gäller förvaltning av kulturfastigheter och dagligen brottas med denna problematik. Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka hur kulturvärden i dörrmiljöer hos statliga byggnadsminnen från 1800-talet påverkas i samband med åtgärder för att förbättra tillgängligheten. Målet var även att identifiera eventuella brister eller oväntade anledningar till att kulturvärden kan gå förlorade. Studien grundas på dokument- och fallstudier, som genomförts på totalt åtta dörrmiljöer i byggnaderna Gamla Riksarkivet, Kungliga Operan, Linneanum och Uppsala Universitetshus. För varje dörrmiljö har åtgärder och ingrepp som utförts identifierats. Därefter har en värdering och tolkning genomförts, utifrån två olika värderingsmodeller, av vilka kulturvärden som påverkats. Resultatet visar, att det är de visuella förändringarna, som påverkat kulturvärdena hos dörrmiljöerna i de flesta fall. Förändringarna i samhället och vår uppfattning av funktionsnedsättningar har drivit igenom de sociala reformer, som ursprungligen lett till förlusterna av kulturvärden. Samtidigt som tillgänglighet är en viktig fråga, bör vi ta hänsyn till faktumet att kulturarvet är dåligt anpassat för funktionshindrade av en anledning. I dokumentation och arkivhandlingar, som studerats, finns en tydlig brist kring vilka ingrepp som genomförts på byggnaderna sedan dess uppförande. Det är även en mycket låg detaljeringsnivå på de förklaringar och motiveringar, som finns i de tillståndsansökningar och beslut, som studerats från SFV och RAÄ. För att underlätta problematiken kring hur lagstiftningen för tillgänglighet och kulturvärden tolkas, bör bestämmelser och styrdokument för hur de olika lagstiftningarna ska förhålla sig till varandra tas fram.

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Abujbarah, Kinda. "Laughing Back: A Phenomenological Study of Disability Humor Using Culturally Responsive Methodologies." Thesis, Chapman University, 2020. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=27543102.

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Historically, disabled people have not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is associated with tragedy. My dissertation challenged the association of disability with tragedy by positioning disabled comedians as educators and ambassadors of disability rights. I reviewed the literature on disability and humor as well as disability oppression, which disability humor challenges. I used phenomenology as well as culturally responsive methodologies to examine what disabled comedians are achieving with their humor and what nondisabled audience members learned from attending their performances. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of learning was used to examine learning outcomes for audience members. I examined historical and contemporary Black humor, which is much older than disability humor in order to investigate what may be the future of disability humor.

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Lebat, Cindy. "Les personnes en situation de handicap sensoriel dans les musées : réalités d’accueil, expériences de visite et trajectoires identitaires." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA060.

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Cette thèse présente les modalités d’expérience muséale proposées aux visiteurs déficients visuels et auditifs. Elle expose pour cela à la fois les dispositifs d’accueil et de médiation culturelle des musées, leurs discours sur l’accessibilité et la différence, mais aussi la réception et l’expérience vécue par ces visiteurs. À partir d’un travail de terrain mené dans des établissements muséaux d’Île-de-France et auprès d’individus en situation de handicap, il s’agit d’abord de montrer comment ces institutions structurent et révèlent le traitement social du handicap. Les processus sociaux assignant une place et une identité sociale y étant fortement perceptibles, le musée est pris comme cadre d’analyse et de compréhension des trajectoires identitaires des personnes en situation de handicap. Plus encore, le dispositif muséal conditionne aussi le rapport sensible à l’environnement, notamment par le biais des outils de médiation culturelle. Il contribue en conséquence à imposer une image de soi, et à structurer la carrière de visiteur. En outre, cette recherche souligne la capacité des individus à s’emparer de ces éléments pour élaborer leurs propres trajectoires identitaires. Ainsi, la responsabilité portée par l’institution muséale est mise en évidence, puisqu’elle participe à la construction des identités sociales et des modalités d’être au monde des visiteurs en situation de handicap
This PhD dissertation focuses on the ways and means of the museum experience for visitors with visual or hearing deficiencies. For that matter, the aim is to grasp both the cultural mediation systems, the welcoming apparatus proposed by museums but also the experience lived by the visitors. This allows to touch upon the discourses then carried out regarding accessibility and difference. A field work was carried out in the museums of the region Île-de-France and through interviews with people with disabilities. The main objective was to bring out the way in which museums, through the devices they propose and by the discourses they carry and relay on accessibility, organize and reveal at the same time the social treatment of disability. Museums can be considered frameworks for analysis and for understanding identity trajectories, since the social processes giving a place and an identity to people are strongly perceptible in this institution. Moreover, the sensitive connection to environment and, in this case to the exhibits, is also conditioned by the museum. It therefore contributes to establish a self-image for the visitor, and thus to structure the visitor's journey. In addition, by also highlighting the ability of individuals to seize these elements to develop their identity trajectories, this work highlights the responsibility of the museum as an institution, which participates in the construction of social and personal identities

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Ka, Toni Mzolisi. "The production of an appropriate and culturally sound isiXhosa translation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Checklist." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11635.

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This study arose out of the necessity to have an isiXhosa version of the ICF Checklist to use in a study on the living conditions of people with disabilities in the Eastern and Western provinces of South Africa carried out by a partnership between the University of Cape Town, the University of Oslo, The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (Sintef) and Disabled People South Africa (DPSA). The purpose of translating the ICF Checklist was to make sure that the tool was appropriate and culturally sound for use by isiXhosa speaking disabled people in the Eastern and Western Cape.

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Hart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/25/Phoebe_Hart_Thesis_redacted.pdf.

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Orchids: Intersex and Identity in Documentary explores the creative practice challenges of working with bodies with intersex in the long-form auto/biographical documentary Orchids. Just as creative practice research challenges the dominant hegemony of quantitative and qualitative research, so does my creative work position itself as a nuanced piece, pushing the boundaries of traditional cultural studies theories, documentary film practice and creative practice method, through its distinctive distillation and celebration of a new form of discursive rupturing, the intersex voice.

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Hart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/.

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Orchids: Intersex and Identity in Documentary explores the creative practice challenges of working with bodies with intersex in the long-form auto/biographical documentary Orchids. Just as creative practice research challenges the dominant hegemony of quantitative and qualitative research, so does my creative work position itself as a nuanced piece, pushing the boundaries of traditional cultural studies theories, documentary film practice and creative practice method, through its distinctive distillation and celebration of a new form of discursive rupturing, the intersex voice.

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Dolan, Jennifer. "The Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistance." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7614.

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Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--ostensibly the result of self-control and self-discipline--a moral imperative and a symbol of good citizenship. In this thesis, I provide a critical perspective on fat studies by examining the ways in which the field authorizes itself in a society that deems the fat body unhealthy, costly, and immoral. As one potential solution to fat-hatred, fat studies proposes fat-positivity, but I argue that fat-positivity requires an extraordinary act of imagination in which the fat person overcomes what I term the ideology of thinness and subsequently feels good about herself. Importing models of ambivalence from disability studies, I propose ambivalence as an alternative to fat-positivity. I argue that ambivalence is a legitimate response when living in a society that de-values one's embodiment, but ambivalence is undertheorized by fat studies scholars. In Chapter 2, I analyze from a feminist perspective Tweets with the hashtag "feeling fat," tracing the emotion to cultural ambivalence about consumption and consumerism. In Chapter 3, I examine how the genre of the fat memoir authorizes itself during an "obesity epidemic" and what those methods reveal about gendered selfhood. Instead of indicting these Twitter users and fat memoirists for their purported lack of fat-positivity, I emphasize instead the social situations that give rise to these cultural forms. I suggest that drawing attention to ambivalence is a form of political resistance.

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Huntsman, Sherena. "Changing Access: Building a Culture of Accessibility Within Normalized Technical Communication Practices." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7560.

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As a field intricately connected to human experience and interaction, technical and professional communication (TPC) is historically, ethically, and practically tooled to address issues of equality, diversity, and access. While these important issues have not always been the focal point of TPC, the recent turn toward social justice has scholars asking critical questions about how users access information, how specific design practices may privilege some and disenfranchise others, and how we can be more inclusive across our communication practices. In this dissertation, I argue that it is within reach of TPC to address the specific problem of access—the gap between what we believe to be accessible and what is actually accessible—and to begin to change specific norms (beliefs, standards, guidelines, etc.) that guide our practices. We change norms, or the typical way we do things, by exposing them, disrupting them, and developing new, more inclusive practices. I argue that we can create new norms that are liberated from unjust assumptions of embodied ability and include accessibility as a normalized part of the design process.

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Tipton, Elizabeth Shelton. "Growing Up Deaf in Appalachia: An Oral History of My Mother." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3662.

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This study focuses on the life experiences of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman, Jane Ann Shelton, a second generation Deaf child born to Deaf parents from the communities of Devil’s Fork (Flag Pond, Tennessee) and Shelton Laurel (Madison County, North Carolina). Over two hours of videotaped interviews were interpreted and transcribed, followed by various other communications to describe the life of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman without a formal high school degree. As an advocate and a political lobbyist in Tennessee during the 1980s and 90s, she was unparalleled by her peers (deaf or hearing) in her efforts to “enhance the lives of ALL Deaf Tennesseans.” From these interactions and my firsthand knowledge, I crafted stories of her life experiences for the purpose of performing them for both Deaf and hearing audiences. Further studies should be done on rural Deaf Appalachia as precious little oral history has been collected.

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Gervin, Kelly J. "Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902.

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Aaron, Sophie M. "Love in the Time of Corona: Changes to Oberlin Hookup Culture During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1623939670177554.

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Cirkelyte, Audrone. "Humor as a Mirroring Self- Reflection : A Case study of a subversive Deaf Humor Aiming the Spotlight at the Hearing Majority." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Forum för genusvetenskap och jämställdhet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166769.

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Humor builds the ground to share the common and the uncommon, to ease the uneasiness, to laugh at oneself and the other. It is amusing and rebellious, revealing the obvious from the obscure and challenging the unchallenged. The purpose of this Master thesis is to examine the subversive humor use within Deaf communities, centered around the hearing society, as well as to explore subversive humor’s role in reinforcing the Deaf identity and resisting the often assigned otherness. Taken the form of a case study this thesis analyses two examples: a short film The Kiss, produced by Charlie Swinbourne and the series of graphical drawings from Tais, created by Alícia Sort Leal. Using visual analysis and close reading as analytical methods as well as classical (Superiority, Incongruity, Relief) and contemporary (Reversal) humor theories, this thesis provides an insight into reflective and mirroring effects of humor.

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Sauer, Lennart. "Teater och utvecklingsstörning : En studie av Ållateatern." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-353.

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This dissertation is an inductive, qualitative study of a theatre programme with persons with intellectual disabilities. The aims of the dissertation were: • to explore the experiences had by the actors as expressed through their descriptions, images and narratives, • to explore the context in which these descriptions, images and narratives take place and, • to conceptualise the experiences had by the actors. In the project, the following three qualitative methods were combined: qualitative interviews, participant observations and research circles. The theoretical framework is mainly built on three theoretical standpoints - social constructionism; the theoretical perspective that describes disability as a balance between deviance and normality; and cultural analysis. The analysis shows that the theatre and artistic programme are experienced as something new, interesting and qualitatively different from their earlier experiences. Their daily activities in the theatre are organized around and influenced by an artistic rationale. The work, the physical environment, and relations with the leaders of the theatre are different from the traditional social care setting (daily work places, group homes etc.) in which the actors are socialized. The analysis also shows a tension, in the theatre practice, between disability policy and artistic aims. On one hand, the programme has to consider the consequences of disability and disability ideology in their daily work. On the other hand, the focus of the theatre is on artistic aims and on the actors’ skills as producers of theatre and art. The social care setting, of which the theatre is a part, emphasises deviance (the problems and shortcomings of the actors) whereas the theatre emphasises normality (the artistic skills of the actors). Through their participation in the theatre company, the actors have gained a new role - the role of actors and producers of theatre and art, and not only the role of clients in the social service system. The actors also experience ambivalence from their social surroundings, such as in the theatre arena where the audience applauds their acting, whereas in other arenas they experience dissociating interaction. Both roles, being a client and being a theatre actor, are integrated in the self-understanding of the actors. In this way, the actors’ self-images can be described as a balance between deviance (intellectually disabled) and normality (theatre actor). Through their participation in the theatre, they also gained fellowship among other actors and between the actors and the leaders. This is analyzed in terms of affinity grouping. That is, the theatre can be understood as a community where the members share common interests and goals. Through the processes and acts in this community, the actors develop confidence and the strength to stand up for themselves. Against this background, parallels are discussed to disability culture and disability arts.

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Fairfield, James C. "The American Dime Museum: Bodily Spectacle and Social Midways in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature and Culture." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/50.

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The freak played a significant role in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century entertainment, but its significance extended beyond such venues as sideshows and minstrel shows. This dissertation examines the freak as an avatar emblematic of several issues, such as class and race, traditionally focused on in studies of Turn-of-the Century American literature and culture. Disability and freakishness are explored as central to late-nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Americans’ identity. Freakishness is applied to a series of ways in which Americans in this period constructed their identity, including race, gender, and socioeconomic class, showing the dual role that the freak played for many white, able-bodied, upper-class American men. Freaks threatened such men’s sense of their own disability, triggering such complexes as Wounded Southernness or white masculinity. But contrasting themselves with freaks also solidified their visions of themselves as models of American normalcy. Besides freak shows, they encountered freakishness in a variety of arenas, including lynchings, slums, and early horror films. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s fascination with freakishness is situated as an outgrowth of that period’s eugenics movement, showing how the entwined concepts of eugenics and normalcy traversed ground that went much further than studies of physical aberration and chronic illness. This extended notion of the freak is discussed by analyzing various literary texts, especially the novels of William Dean Howells and Jack London. The autobiographies of Booker T. Washington and Helen Keller exemplify how double consciousness can serve as a means of enfreakment. Further, all these texts are situated culturally by medicalizing a series of historical events, including specific lynchings, as well as laws that reconfigured urban landscapes. The final chapter focuses on early horror film, arguing that film became the new American sideshow and in the process changed the definition of freak to something far more monstrous. In short, this dissertation demonstrates how the freak show pervaded America at the turn of the twentieth century and turned the country into one large dime museum.

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Bliss, Courtney C. "Reframing Normal:The Inclusion of Deaf Culture in the X-Men Comic Books." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu149143787039966.

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Porter, Chaya. "‘Engaging’ in Gender, Race, Sexuality and (dis)Ability in Science Fiction Television through Star Trek: the Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24209.

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As Richard Thomas writes, “there is nothing like Star Trek…Of all the universes of science fiction, the Star Trek universe is the most varied and extensive, and by all accounts the series is the most popular science fiction ever” (1). Ever growing (the latest Star Trek film will be released in Spring 2013) and embodied in hundreds of novels and slash fanfiction, decades of television and film, conventions, replicas, toys, and a complete Klingon language Star Trek is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. As Harrison et al argue in Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, the economic and cultural link embodied in the production of the Star Trek phenomena “more than anything else, perhaps, makes Star Trek a cultural production worth criticizing” (3). A utopian universe, Star Trek invites its audience to imagine a future of amicable human and alien life, often pictured without the ravages of racism, sexism, capitalism and poverty. However, beyond the pleasure of watching, I would ask what do the representations within Star Trek reveal about our popular culture? In essence, what are the values, meaning and beliefs about gender, race, sexuality and disability being communicated in the text? I will explore the ways that the Star Trek universe simultaneously encourages and discourages us from thinking about race, gender, sexuality and disability and their intersections. In other words, this work will examine the ways that representations of identity are challenged and reinforced by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. This work will situate Star Trek specifically within the science fiction genre and explore the importance of its utopian standpoint as a frame for representational politics. Following Inness, (1999), I argue that science fiction is particularly rich textual space to explore ideas of women and gender (104). As Sharona Ben-Tov suggests in The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Reality (1995) science fiction’s “position at a unique intersection of science and technology, mass media, popular culture, literature, and secular ritual” offers critical insight into social change (ctd. in Inness 104). I extend Inness and Ben-Tov here to assert that the ways in which science fiction’s rich and “synthetic language of metaphor” illustrate and re-envision contemporary gender roles also offers a re-imagination of assumptions regarding race, sexuality and disability (Inness 104). Extending current scholarship (Roberts 1999, Richards 1997, Gregory 2000, Bernardi 1998, Adare 2005, Greven 2009, Wagner and Lundeen 1998, Relke 2006, and Harrison et all 1996), I intend to break from traditions of dichotomous views of The Next Generation and Voyager as either essentially progressive or conservative. In this sense, I hope to complicate and question simplistic conclusions about Star Trek’s ideological centre. Moreover, as feminist media theorist Mia Consalvo notes, previous analyses of Star Trek have explored how the show constructs and comments on conceptions of gender and race as well as commenting on economic systems and political ideologies (2004). As such, my analysis intends to apply an intersectional approach as well as offer a ‘cripped’ (McRuer 2006) reading of Star Trek in order to provide a deeper understanding of how identities are represented both in science fiction and in popular culture. Both critical approaches – especially the emphasis on disability, sexuality and intersectional identities are largely ignored by past Trek readings. That is to say, while there is critical research on representations in Star Trek (Roberts 1999, Bernardi 1998) much of it is somewhat uni-dimensional in its analysis, focusing exclusively on gender or racialized representation and notably excluding dimensions of sexuality and ability. Moreover, as much of the writing on the Star Trek phenomena has focused on The Original Series (TOS) and The Next Generation this work will bring the same critical analysis to the Voyager series. To perform this research a feminist discourse analysis will be employed. While all seven seasons and 178 episodes of The Next Generation series as well as all seven seasons and 172 episodes of Voyager have been viewed particular episodes will be selected for their illustrative value.

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De, Camilla Lauren. "Female Leads: Negotiating Minority Identity in Contemporary Italian Horror Cinema." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595519031355062.

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Farias, Lauren. "Ethnography: Journey to Teaching." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/122.

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This paper is an ethnography, meaning the study of a group of people more closely related to the customs and culture of the group of people. This was done as part of the coursework to receive a Masters in Education and a Preliminary Multiple Subject teaching credential in California. I began by looking at how the varying experiences throughout my life have shaped me into wanting to become a teacher. This is a place in the ethnography where I evaluate my own schooling and look at who impacted my life academically. Through looking at these people, I was able to see the kind of learning style I flourish in, which lead me into how I plan on teaching. Once I wrote about how I plan on teaching I evaluated why I want to teach special education. The next phase of this writing is looking at three specific students in my classroom and is an analytical view of who the child is and why they are the way they are. We were told we needed to look at an English Learner, a student who had experienced a significant life experience, and a student on an IEP. This process was very helpful in being able to understand the child holistically because we needed to participate in a home visit. We also needed to look at the child’s personality, strengths, and weaknesses in and out of school. All of these steps helped me to better understand my students. As the research continued I looked at the community and my classroom. Looking at the history of the community through research and through a personal interview allowed me to see the community and be able to understand more. I was able to see how the community has evolved and how their passion for education has remained the same through it all. When looking at my classroom, I saw the growth my students had made over the course of the school year.

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Liliequist, Christian. "Kan man skämta om det här? : En kulturanalytisk studie av svensk ståuppkomik." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176394.

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Stand-up comedy has become increasingly popular in Sweden in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The jokes of stand-up comedians are reflections of contemporary cultural notions and discourses. Stand-up comedy can also be seen as a form a cultural free zone where one is allowed to express oneself in ways that are not possible in other public contexts. In this study I am investigating how Swedish stand-up comedians relate to cultural notions about gender, sexuality, ethnicity/race, places, age, disabilities, social class and mental illness. By applying an intersectional perspective I am able to show how various power structures can interact and strengthen each other. The main empirical material consists of three observations at different stand-up comedy clubs and four interviews with stand-up comedians. By using cultural analysis as an analysis method I am showing how stand-up comedy both reflects and is affected by larger structural patterns and discourses in society. My analysis shows that stand-up comedians are both reproducing and challenging normative cultural notions. A variety of theoretical concepts are used to analyse how standup comedians are joking about prevailing cultural notions. For example am I using gender theories to analyse jokes about notions of gender and sexuality while postcolonial concepts as well as theories about racification are applied in the analysis of jokes connected to cultural notions about race and ethnicity. In some of the jokes different cultural notions are intertwined. Furthermore I am analysing how the stand-up comedians are reflecting over what they are allowed to joke about, depending on their own background and experiences as well as how they are relating to different discourses. Stand-up comedy is still dominated by a masculine discourse that has only recently been challenged by a feminist discourse, which stand-up comedians relate to in different ways. How stand-up comedians navigate between political correctness and the discourse that comedians should be able to joke about everything is also part of my investigation. Finally, I am analysing different comic strategies used by the stand-up comedians in their performances, which affect how they are joking about various cultural notions. Some comedians are joking about themselves in a self-deprecatory way while others invites the audience to join the perspective of an assumed normative community to make jokes about what makes other groups different.

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McPeake, Zoe. "Our Bodies Aren't Wonderlands : Disenchanting the MIS(sing)Representation of Women in Popular Music." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38093.

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Through an intersectional feminist lens using Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis investigates the representations of four prominent women, their embodiments and their sexualities in the lyrics of their songs.

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Briggs, Princess. "Teachers as Facilitators or Barriers of Parent Involvement: Experiences of African American Mothers of Children in Special Education Programs." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3486.

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Parents in disenfranchised groups, namely African American parents of children with special needs, are less likely to be involved in their child’s education, although involvement is associated with positive educational outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate African American parents’ perceptions of special education programs, of teacher actions, and of school policies that influence parent involvement of African American parents of children with special needs. A phenomenological study was conducted with 15 African American mothers of children with special needs. These parents participated in individual face-to-face interviews, which included a discussion of the child’s Individualized Education Plan. Audio recordings from the interviews were transcribed and data from the transcriptions were thoroughly analyzed. The findings were categorized into four overall themes. In theme one, Perceptions of Parent Involvement, it was found that these mothers perceived themselves as being involved in their children’s education. In theme two, Facilitators of Parent Involvement, it was found that parents were more compelled to be involved in their children’s education when educators communicated effectively, valued parent input, and exhibited love and positive attitudes towards parents and children. Findings showed that the absence of these traits were Barriers of Parent Involvement, which was theme three. In the last theme, Recommendations to Teachers and School Administrators to Increase Parent Involvement, study participants shared several recommendations to increase parent involvement. My study concluded that professionals in the field should broaden their definition of parent involvement to include home-based activities of African American parents of children with special needs, such as engaging their children in home learning activities to teach them independence. Moreover, parents felt more compelled to visit the school and engage in other parent involvement activities, like attending school meetings, for example, when they perceived that school personnel valued parents’ contributions. These parents’ views were similar to insights gathered from African American parents in previous research. However, views that emerged from this current research that are different from previous studies include parents’ recommendations that school personnel communicate with parents using the parents’ preferred method, and that teachers and school staff exhibit love and positive attitudes towards parents and children.

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Boström, Anton. "Stereotyper och Fördomar - Segregationens byggstenar : En multimodal kritisk diskursanalys av om representationen av personer med funktionsnedsätningar i två amerikanska situationskomedier." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-165472.

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Uppsatsens syfte är att genom en multimodal kritisk diskursanalytisk metod undersöka representationen av personer med funktionsnedsättningar i två olika situationskomedier, från två olika tidsperioder. Dessa är Different Strokes, från mitten på 1980-talet, och Speechless från 2016. Fokus ligger på en karaktär från respektive situationskomedi, Kathy från Different Strokes och JJ från Speechless. Vidare är syftet också att diskutera kring huruvida representationerna kan förstärka olika stereotyper och fördomar i samhället. Urvalet består av fyra (4) avsnitt från respektive serie, det vill säga totalt åtta (8) avsnitt. Personer med funktionsnedsättningar avbildas allt som oftast på ett stereotypt vis, oftast med själva funktionsnedsättningen i fokus. Bilden som förmedlas via medier har idag stor påverkan på mottagaren. Uppsatsen kommer fram till att situationskomedierna avbildar personer med funktionsnedsättningar på ett förhållandevis stereotypt vis, vilket i relativt stor mån kan påverka hur mottagaren uppfattar personer med funktionsnedsättningar. Slutligen kommer uppsatsen också fram till att det är av största vikt att avbilda personer med funktionsnedsättningar på ett respektfullt vis. Detta kan, med stor sannolikhet, leda till att redan existerande stereotyper och fördomar förstärks och därmed också stigmat i samhället.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the representation of people with disabilities in two different sitcoms, from two different time periods. The analysis is made by a multimodal critical discourse analysis method. The sitcoms are Different Strokes, from the mid 1980s, and Speechless from 2016. The focus will be on one character from each sitcom, Kathy from Different Strokes and JJ from Speechless. Furthermore, the purpose is also to discuss whether the representations can reinforce different stereotypes and prejudices in society. The selection consists of four (4) episodes from each series, i.e. a total of eight (8) sections. People with disability are often depicted in a stereotypical way, most of the time with the disability it self in focus. The image that is conveyed via the media has a great influence on the recipients today. The study concludes that both sitcoms depicted people with disabilities in a relatively stereotyped manner, which to a relatively large extent can influence how the recipient perceives people with disabilities. The study also concludes that it is of the utmost importance to depict persons with disabilities in a respectful manner. This may otherwise lead to the strengthening of existing stereotypes and prejudices and thus stigma in society.

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Bickerton, Ashley Jennifer. "‘Good Soldiers’, ‘Bad Apples’ and the ‘Boys’ Club’: Media Representations of Military Sex Scandals and Militarized Masculinities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32435.

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This thesis examines news representations of Canadian, American and Australian military personnel involved in military 'sex scandals'. I explore what the representations of military personnel involved in well-publicized sex scandals reveal about scripts of soldiering and militarized masculinities. Despite a history of systemic violence in the military, I ask how and why the systemic nature of militarized masculinities are able to remain invisible, driving representations to focus on the ‘bad’ behaviour of individuals? By engaging with feminist scholarship in International Relations, I present the longstanding culture of misogyny, racism, homophobia and ableism in the Canadian, American and Australian militaries, focusing on the ways in which militarized masculinities are guided by these violent structures, and fundamental to the military's creation of soldiers. My dissertation uses the tools of critical discourse analysis to unpack the ways blame is individualised in cases of sexual and racist violence involving military personnel, while the military’s ableism, rape culture and imperial militarized masculinities are commonly naturalized or celebrated without regard for how they are fundamentally violent. My thesis presents an intersectional feminist project that intervenes in emerging questions in the field of transnational disability studies, tracing how militarism, hegemonic militarized masculinities and imperial soldiering (re)produce categories of ability and disability.

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(9826748), Catherine Picton. "Conceptualising disability from a Samoan epistemological and cultural reference frame." Thesis, 2016. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Conceptualising_disability_from_a_Samoan_epistemological_and_cultural_reference_frame/13387271.

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This research is concerned with the changing conceptualisations of disability in Samoa. The research also investigates fundamental cultural belief systems and contemporary ideologies that affect people with disability in Samoan society. Samoan policy reform within the area of disability has provided an alternate paradigm for society to view disability. Stakeholder groups have largely embraced recent policy reforms, endorsing a social disability model. However, due to a history of missionary involvement, colonisation and traditional cultural ideologies Samoa already has several conceptualisations of disability that challenge the philosophy of a social disability model.

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Minaki, Christina Georgia. "Great Responsibility : Rethinking Disability Portrayal in Popular Fiction & Calling for a Multi-cultural Change." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30113.

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This thesis is an occasion to examine how normalcy – as a phenomenon constructed in society and so not natural but human-made – is reproduced as a hegemonic ideal through oppressive portrayals of disability in literature. Many of the fictional texts I analyze reproduce the privileging of normalcy. I therefore work to disturb normalcyʼs hold through critical analysis of a wide variety of currently popular fiction for youth and adults. Combining interpretive inquiry and personal narrative, I bring forward new understandings of normalcy, disability and culture. Along with showing how normalcyʼs supremacy is upheld within the book industry, and critiquing texts that do disability as usual (through both survey and close analysis approaches), I discuss at length several literary works that write disability in anti-oppressive, anti-ableist ways. To close this thesis, I discuss my own transformation as an author and scholar through disability studies.

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"Examining the Air Travel Experiences of Individuals with Vision Disabilities Using a Co-cultural Theoretical Lens." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62915.

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abstract: Traveling is one of the most enriching and fulfilling activities for most people. Yet factors such as crowded airports, long waiting queues, and inaccessible features of airports and airplanes often make traveling stressful for many individuals including those with disabilities. This qualitative phenomenological research study examined the underexplored area of traveling with a vision disability. Framed around a Co-cultural theoretical perspective, the study examined the lived experiences of vision impaired individuals with regard to receiving disability assistance services during air travel. The study specifically explored the communication strategies that vision impaired individuals employed to manage their assistance-related air travel needs. The study used in-depth interviews for data collection, and a combination of thematic analysis techniques for data analysis. Findings indicated four categories of assistance-related issues that vision impaired participants frequently experienced in their travel: personnel training issues, system issues, policy issues, and physical accessibility issues. The study also identified four Co-cultural communication orientations that participants used in navigating air travel: assertive accommodation, aggressive accommodation, assertive assimilation, and nonassertive assimilation. In addition, the study identified a new Co-cultural communication practice - normalizing for self. Findings of this research conclude that despite three decades since the passage of United States legislation to protect the rights of disabled people, vision impaired travelers still frequently experience inequitable air travel practices. The study offers recommendations on pressing issues concerning policies and regulations that can inform airline executives and federal legislators in facilitating a more equitable and pleasurable air travel experience for those with vision disabilities.
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Doctoral Dissertation Communication 2020

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"Embodied Persistence: Corporeal Ruptures in Modernist Discourses of Material Language and Cultural Reproductive Futurity." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53621.

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abstract: This dissertation is an examination of a modernist desire to construct future materiality via material language, which represents a desire to overcome biology and the biological body. As such, modernist discourses of material language must be understood within their broader historical context, as these textual constructs developed against a cultural backdrop replete with eugenicist ideologies. Modernists wielded discourses of material language to determine via cultural reproduction which futures might materialize, as well as which bodies could occupy those futures and in what capacities. This dissertation argues that these modernist constructs contain their own failure in their antibiologism and their refusal to acknowledge the agency of corporeal materiality before them. Unlike language, the body expresses biopower through its material (re)productivity—its corpo-reality—which, though it can be shaped and repressed by discourse, persistently ruptures through the restraints of eugenicist ideologies and the autonomous liberal model of white masculine embodiment they uphold. This work analyses sexually marginalized bodies in texts by Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, and Ernest Hemingway that, through their insistently persistent biological materiality, disrupt modernist discourses of material language that offer no future for feminine, queer, and disabled corporeality. By exploring how intersecting issues of gender, sexuality, and disability complicate theories of language’s materiality in modern American literature, this dissertation brings attention to writers and texts that challenge broader attempts in the early decades of the twentieth century to subvert the biological body through eugenicist projects of cultural reproduction.
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Doctoral Dissertation English 2019

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Meldon, Perri. "Interpreting Access: A History of Accessibility and Disability Representations in the National Park Service." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/787.

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This thesis illustrates the accomplishments and challenges of enhancing accessibility across the national parks, at the same time that great need to diversify the parks and their interpretation of American disability history remains. Chapters describe the administrative history of the NPS Accessibility Program (1979-present), exploring the decisions from both within and outside the federal agency, to break physical and programmatic barriers to make parks more inclusive for people with sensory, physical, and cognitive disabilities; and provide a case study of the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site (HOFR) in New York. The case study describes the creation of HOFR as a house museum and national historic site, with a particular focus on the history of the site’s accessibility features; considers existing barriers; and makes recommendations for programmatic changes to improve the experience for disabled and nondisabled visitors. By collaborating with and learning from nearby organizations by and for people with disabilities, HOFR can serve as a model for other historic house museums in how to effectively interpret “disability stories.” Contemplating how the National Park Service has interpreted the histories and heritage of other historically marginalized communities through theme studies, on-site interpretation, and public history scholarship yields lessons for how best to interpret disability history and depict nuanced representations of the varied disability communities living in the U.S. The inclusion of “disability stories” and representation of people with disabilities in the past will help foster deeper connections with and welcome diverse visitors to the parks.

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McGuire, Anne. "The War on Autism: On Normative Violence and the Cultural Production of Autism Advocacy." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/36211.

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This dissertation brings together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives born of the fields of disability studies, critical race theory, cultural studies and queer and feminist studies to analyze the social significance and productive effects of cultural representations of autism. Specifically, this work addresses contemporary enactments of autism advocacy as found in the mass media, education literature and policy as well as in fundraising campaigns. In response to a global/izing economy that privileges the fast, efficient exchange of information and knowledge, I attend to how autism appears in the field of autism advocacy as an abbreviation; its multiple meaning distilled down to a series of ‘red flags’ in awareness campaigns, bulleted ‘facts’ in information pamphlets, statistics in policy reports. I analyze the relationships between these fragmentary enactments of autism and trace their continuities so as to make legible an underlying logic: a powerful and ubiquitous logic that casts autism as a pathological threat to normative life, and advocacy as that which must eliminate this threat, thus, limiting the role of the ‘good’ autism advocate to one positioned ‘against’ autism. This dissertation shows how dominant, contemporary discourses of autism advocacy that narrate autism as some ‘thing’ to be ‘fought’, ‘combated’, or ‘warred against’ function to shape ‘life’ as conditional and cast autism as (one of) its condition(s). As autism is discursively and ideologically made separate from the vital category of life itself, and as bodies and minds of living people are relentlessly divided up into vital and non-vital parts, individual and collective life ‘with’ (the condition of) autism becomes life that is conceptualized as ‘almost living’ or ‘mostly dead’. I demonstrate how such an understanding of the conditionality of life is a necessary pre-condition for normative acts of violence – violence enacted in the name of securing the norm and violence that is normalized as necessary.

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Snyder, Sarah. "Bad Behaviour: The Cultural Production of Addiction and the Psychologization of Everyday Life." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42886.

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This thesis explores the cultural production of addiction and the psychologization of everyday life. Through analyses of ubiquitous addiction literature, as well as ordinary, everyday encounters, I examine how we make meaning of addiction, thus culturally constituting the addict. I explore my situated-ness in relation to addiction, which in turn helps me to think through how I am oriented toward addiction. Through an analysis of a specific account of an intersubjective experience of addiction, I examine how experiences of addiction are made between us. This thesis also explores the relationship between substance use and harm and the role the perceived “warnings signs” of addiction play in how we recognize addiction. Using a phenomenologically informed method of social inquiry, I question what the psychologization of everyday life, or our (over) use of psychology, means for our engagement with others.

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(10789695), Adriana Catalina Garcia Acevedo. "AUTISTIC ADULTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO CULTURAL CONCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY IN INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS AND URBAN FAMILIES IN COLOMBIA." Thesis, 2021.

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This ethnographic project delves into the spheres of life of three autistic adults and their families. This thesis analyzes their experiences, current routines, and personal and family narratives about what it means to be an autistic adult across different identities and geographies. This thesis also identifies forms of knowledge that arise in these life experiences and shape strategies, decisions, or attitudes taken to navigate through life or overcome possible difficulties in their present and futures. This research takes place in Colombia, a diverse country and engages with anthropology of the everyday, sensory anthropology and disability studies.

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Montalti, Chiara. "Per una prospettiva cyborg della disabilità: relazioni con l’alterità, politica e futuri culturali." Doctoral thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1277905.

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La tesi si propone di problematizzare il ruolo marginale delle persone disabili nei nostri mondi socioculturali. L’analisi si articola principalmente in tre assi: la natura contestabile e relazionale della disabilità; il radicamento delle persone disabili nel tessuto sociale, politico, e culturale, registrandone e valorizzandone i contributi; l’espansione delle condizioni di vivibilità del presente e del futuro. In tale percorso mi sono concentrata su quattro temi, che si intrecciano in ognuno dei capitoli: il rapporto con le tecnologie; le relazioni di cura e assistenza (umane e non umane); la partecipazione politica e l’attivismo; le narrazioni da aggiornare sul piano immaginativo-culturale. Sebbene i Disability Studies siano l’area di ricerca di riferimento, ho impiegato la figurazione del cyborg come uno strumento di navigazione che potesse porli in dialogo col lavoro di Donna J. Haraway, il postumanesimo e la tecnoscienza femminista: ho infatti evidenziato quali possano essere le potenzialità di tale incontro nell’esaminare proficuamente ciascuno dei temi trattati. Nello specifico, la tesi si struttura in tre sezioni, ognuna focalizzata su un macrotema: (I) il rapporto che intercorre tra il cyborg – in senso largo – e la disabilità; (II) la relazionalità e l’apertura verso l’esterno, in termini esperienziali e politici; (III) la collocazione delle persone disabili nel futuro, tanto in ambito culturale, quanto immaginato nella fiction fantascientifica. --- The thesis critically assesses the marginal role of disabled people in our sociocultural worlds. The analysis is structured into three axes: the debatable and relational nature of disability; the rooting of disabled people in the social, political, and cultural fabric, recording and valuing their contributions; the possibility to produce livable presents and futures. In this path, I focused on four topics, intertwined in each of the chapters: the connection with technologies; the relationships of (human and non-human) care and assistance; political participation and activism; the urge to update cultural and imaginative texts. Although Disability Studies are the research area of reference, I employed the figuration of the cyborg as a navigation tool that could put them in dialogue with the work of Donna J. Haraway, posthumanism and feminist technoscience: I have highlighted the potentiality of this conversion, to examine profitably each of the mentioned topics. Specifically, the thesis is structured in three sections, each focused on a macro theme: (I) the association between the cyborg – in a broad sense – and disability; (II) the experience of relationality, in biographical and political terms; (III) the positioning of disabled people in the future, both in the cultural world and in science fiction.

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(8934626), Stephen K. Horrocks. "Insulin Pump Use and Type 1 Diabetes: Connecting Bodies, Identities, and Technologies." Thesis, 2020.

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Since the late 1970s, biomedical researchers have heavily invested in the development of portable insulin pumps that allow people with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) to carry several days-worth of insulin to be injected on an as-needed basis. That means fewer needles and syringes, making regular insulin injections less time consuming and troublesome. As insulin pump use has become more widespread over the past twenty years among people with T1D, the social and cultural effects of using these medical devices on their everyday experiences have become both increasingly apparent for individuals yet consistently absent from social and cultural studies of the disease.

In this dissertation, I explore the technological, medical, and cultural networks of insulin pump treatment to identify the role(s) these biomedicalized treatment acts play in the structuring of people, their bodies, and the cultural values constructed around various medical technologies. As I will show, insulin pump treatment alters people’s bodies and identities as devices become integrated as co-productive actors within patient-users’ biological and social systems. By analyzing personal interviews and digital media produced by people with T1D alongside archival materials, this study identifies compulsory patterns in the practices, structures, and narratives related to insulin pump use to center chapters around the productive (and sometimes stifling) relationship between people, bodies, technologies, and American culture.

By analyzing the layered and intersecting sites of insulin pump treatment together, this project reveals how medical technologies, health identities, bodies, and cultures are co-constructed and co-defined in ways that bind them together—mutually constitutive, medically compelled, cultural and social. New bodies and new systems, I argue, come with new (in)visibilities, and while this new technologically-produced legibility of the body provides unprecedented management of the symptoms and side-effects of the disease, it also brings with it unforeseen social consequences that require changes to people’s everyday lives and practices.

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Przybylowicz, Stephan Elizander. "Queer-Ability: History, Culture, and the Future of the Intersection of LGBTQ and Disability Studies." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222615.

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(8850251), Ghaleb Alomaish. "“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." Thesis, 2020.

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This dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its culture and people in the West. They also simultaneously unsettle the notion of homogeneity and enable us to gain new insight into self-perception within the local Saudi context by offering a wide scope of genuine engagements with distinctive themes ranging from spatiality, identity, ethnicity, and gender to slavery, religiosity and (post)modernity. On the other side, American authors still show some signs of ambivalence towards the depiction of the Saudi (Muslim/Arab) Other, but they nonetheless also demonstrate serious effort to emancipate their representations from the confining legacy of (neo)Orientalist discourse and oil politics by tackling the concepts of race, alterity, hegemony, radicalism, nomadism and (un)belonging.

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