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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Critical disability studies"”.
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Institutional Counter-surveillance using a Critical Disability Studies Lens
… policy and procedure documents related to Disability at 3 U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. Policy and procedure documents are the foundation that govern how institutions "handle" Disability, outlining expectations and guidelines for providing services and …
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Challenging Deficit-Based Discourse in Higher Education Through a Social Connection Model of Responsibility: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective
This thesis engages the theoretical lenses of Critical Disability Studies, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Iris Marion Young’s Social Connection Model of Responsibility to discuss disablement and inclusivity in the Higher Education sector. This challenges Paulo Freire’s suggestion that only the …
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Reimagining Learning Disabilities: Embracing Difference as an Empowering Resource Amidst Psycho-Emotional Disablism
… can reframe their LD as a resource. Employing a Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and a social-relational framework, three interconnected studies were conducted. The first study analyzed the public narratives of three prominent LD advocates—Richard Branson, Henry Winkler, and Barbara …
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Psychoanalysis and disability : an exploration of the utility of psychoanalytic methods and analyses in the interrogation of social responses to impairment
The utility of a critical psychoanalytic approach in interrogating societal responses to disability is discussed, making use of experiential accounts of visually impaired university students gathersd via group analytic methods. The re-integration of psychoanalytic thinking and methods into …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… and screen media. Drawing together insights from critical disability studies, postcolonial studies, Foucauldian scholarship and Science and Technology Studies, it attends to the variety of ways in which contemporary texts from different contexts have engaged with and reimagined historical modes of …
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Disabling Psychology: A Crip Analysis of Deaf and Blind Psychotherapists in Practice
… seeking to understand the perceived impact of disability on the therapeutic relationship. There is an abundance of research on nondisabled therapists treating disabled clients but only a handful of studies qualitatively considering the disabled therapist’s understanding of practicing in a …
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The “Other” athletes: Representations of disability in Canadian print media during the London 2012 Paralympic Games
… highly mediated society, media culture plays a critical role in socialization and offers a conduit for the naturalization of ideas. By this reasoning, stories told by the media about Paralympic athletes have the potential to influence our understanding of disability. This study reveals the …
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(Re)presentations of Disability: Images of Persons with Down Syndrome
… by mass media for decades. The result of disability misrepresentation is the perpetuation of negative disability stereotypes and models of disability. Disability representation has rarely been informed by authentic first-hand knowledge about what disability is and who disabled people are. …
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Olympic effort: rhetorics of disability, sport, and resistance in the 2012 London Olympic narratives
… space to challenge normative constructions. This critical cultural rhetorical dissertation examines how bodies of particular athletes within the 2012 Summer Olympics can act as spaces of resistance to hegemonic norms. By analyzing the narratives surrounding Keelin Godsey and Caster Semenya during …
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The Experiences of Individuals with Psychological Disabilities in Attending Counselling: A Phenomenological Investigation
The topic of disability within counselling is one that has received relatively little attention, despite counselling’s focus on multicultural competencies. Some scholars argue that mental illness can be conceptualized as a disability, and that viewing it as such can provide important insight and …
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The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers
… university websites and the policies provided by Disability Services provide material for a rhetorical analysis addressing the marginalization of students with disabilities on college campuses. In this thesis, I discuss the degree to which university distributed texts marginalize students with …
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Reimagining Ability, Reimagining America: Teaching Disability in United States History Classes
… historical and educational literature about disability in the United States and provides a curriculum guide for teaching Human Rights Education (HRE) and disability studies (DS) at the high school level in California. This project traces the historical development of deficit attitudes toward …
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Being Ourselves: Narratives of Disabled College Students' Interpersonal Experiences with Campus Community Members
… they took from their interpersonal interactions. Critical disability studies theory and Disability Justice Principles provided a conceptual framework for this study's design. Using narrative inquiry methodology, this study explored the following research questions: (1) How do disabled college …
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"Absent Students: A Critical disabilities studies approach to accessibility services "
… Ontario. Grounded theory methodology with a critical disability studies framework was used. Each interview was analyzed using an open coding, axial coding, and selective coding progression. The analyses revealed the following prominent themes: 1) participants felt respected as a person but …
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Unbreaking Our Hearts: Cultures of Un/Desirability and the Transformative Potential of Queercrip Porn
This dissertation combines critical disability studies, sexuality and porn studies, radical disability politics, interviews and the collaborative creation of queercrip porn to both explain and challenge the operation of cultures of undesirability in dominant culture. The concept "cultures of …
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Not All Disability Is Created Equal: A Comparative Historiography Of Workers' Compensation And Disability Benefits In Ontario, Canada
… and injured workers are relatively neglected in Critical Disability Studies (CDS). A further observation is that CDS tends to avoid a class analysis of disability politics in favour of identitarian approaches. This research focuses on income security. Through a Marxist critical policy …
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Trans, Genderqueer, Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming Peoples Experiences With Mental Health Care in Ontario
… and digital story data through the lenses of critical disability studies, disability justice, mad studies, social determinants of health research, feminist new materialism and intersectionality to create a critical analysis of the neoliberal trajectory of mental health-related policy in …
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Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
This dissertation draws on performance studies, critical disability studies, and critical infrastructure studies scholarship to investigate the infrastructural politics of contemporary disability performance. Throughout, I show how disability performance enacts modes of infrastructural inversion …
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THE TENSIONS OF NORTHERN IMPORTS: DISABILITY AND INCLUSION IN KENYAN PRIMARY EDUCATION
… Northern concepts of inclusive education and disability rights are imported to countries in the global South. Specifically, through this project I examined the development of a sustainable inclusive education system in western Kenya through community-based participatory research (CBPR) and …
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Effective Altruism on Animal Activism — A Site of Ableism and Neoliberal Co-optation of Neurodivergence
… goals (e.g., Adams et al., 2023). Inspired by a critical discourse analysis (van Dijk, 1993) approach, this project conducts a broad survey of the most relevant existing literature covering Effective Altruism and its intersections with critical animal studies (CAS) and critical disability studies …
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