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Wednesday 24 March 2021 16.00 - 17.15
E-4 THE04 Do we still need another ‘other’? New Directions in the Historiography of Disability
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Network: Theory Chair: Paul van Trigt
Organizer: Paul van Trigt Discussant: Paul van Trigt
Monika Baar : Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective
Approximately 10% of the world’s population is estimated to be disabled and this number is expected to rise in the next few decades. Disability has consequences not only for the individuals concerned, but also for their families and their environment, it is a human and social issue that touches us ... (Show more)
Approximately 10% of the world’s population is estimated to be disabled and this number is expected to rise in the next few decades. Disability has consequences not only for the individuals concerned, but also for their families and their environment, it is a human and social issue that touches us all. People in different cultural settings ascribe different meanings to disability; consequently, its repercussions are both culturally contingent and universal. In the project Rethinking Disability are the local and global dimensions of disability brought together and is the interaction, tension and conflict between these two aspects examined by undertaking the first comprehensive study of the far-reaching political, societal and cultural implications of the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP), a landmark event organized by the United Nations in 1981, which appears to have gone virtually unrecognized in scholarship. During the presentation, the hypothesis of this project will be discussed, namely if the International Year, together with its counterpart, the International Decade of Disabled Persons (1982-1993) was the most significant watershed in the modern history of disability. Moreover, the practical and theoretical challenges of writing a global disability history will be addressed. (Show less)

Catherine Kudlick : Reflections from a Disability Studies Perspective
In this contribution the question will be addressed how these projects contribute to the mainstreaming of disability and the emancipatory aims of disability studies. Does the employment of life course perspectives of humans’ experiences of disability, as carried out by the DISLIFE project, indeed challenges present preconceptions about disability and ... (Show more)
In this contribution the question will be addressed how these projects contribute to the mainstreaming of disability and the emancipatory aims of disability studies. Does the employment of life course perspectives of humans’ experiences of disability, as carried out by the DISLIFE project, indeed challenges present preconceptions about disability and its diverse impacts on people’s opportunities in society. Have the findings increased our understanding of how and why liveable disabilities vary across time and place and between individuals that help to promote more equal and fairer opportunities for disabled people today? Has the Rethinking Disability succeed in delivering an innovative contribution by connecting the IYDP to broader political, social and cultural processes since the last quarter of the twentieth century and thereby bringing disability in a global context? (Show less)

Lotta Vikström : DISLIFE - Liveable Disabilities: Life Courses and Opportunity Structures across Time
People with disabilities are marginalized in society and research, and little is known about how disabilities become liveable. The project DISLIFE challenges this multifaceted bias by investigating ‘liveable disabilities’ as a function of disability and opportunity structures from the 19th century until now in Sweden. Four life course themes communicate ... (Show more)
People with disabilities are marginalized in society and research, and little is known about how disabilities become liveable. The project DISLIFE challenges this multifaceted bias by investigating ‘liveable disabilities’ as a function of disability and opportunity structures from the 19th century until now in Sweden. Four life course themes communicate their life stories in different media. DISLIFE makes innovative studies of social activities in culture, sports and on Internet, which may promote people’s opportunities in society at large. This enables the project to answer three basic questions: When: have liveable disabilities increased are analysed with mixed-method research: Health and well-being, Transitions into education and work, Into a partner relationship and family life, and interactivities in social structures off- and online. Quantitative analyses of Sweden’s long-term population databases reflect how disability impacts on people’s educational, occupational, marital and survival chances. Qualitative analyses uncover how disabled people today experience and talk about the themes and how mass media depict them or they themselves or fluctuated across time? Who: what variations in liveable disabilities are found between different people with different impairments? And why: which opportunity structures and individual features work to impede or further liveable disabilities? In the presentations a selection of the results will be discussed, together with the main challenges of historical research on disability and the life course. (Show less)

Tyler Zoanni : Reflections from the South
In this contribution the question will be addressed how disability was and is related to other concepts. Both projects follow an intersectional approach, but what does that exactly mean? Moreover, what does it mean that disability studies and history are mainly developed in the Anglo-Saxon context. The ambition of the ... (Show more)
In this contribution the question will be addressed how disability was and is related to other concepts. Both projects follow an intersectional approach, but what does that exactly mean? Moreover, what does it mean that disability studies and history are mainly developed in the Anglo-Saxon context. The ambition of the Rethinking Disability project is namely to historicize and ‘provincialize’ the prevailing Western concept of disability and to discover how it can be rendered meaningful and relevant in diverse cultural settings. How can be dealt with the fact that the literature frequently implies that developments in disability policy took place first in the Anglo-Saxon context and only then elsewhere and/or that the Anglo-Saxon disability rights movement is at least a yardstick against which to measure progress? (Show less)



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