Knowledge Commons | Nezka Pfeifer | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/asknezka/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nezka Pfeifer is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:53:44 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3e48cad387bcc3b1827ff6fb17c24893 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-7/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:40:34 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 6303fea6fbd2a06a17b4091d97340553 Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896641/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

]]> 0 9675ec5ab4dc98014016a9699caf100c Alicia Mihalic deposited Digitisation of Historical Dress and Textile Collections: Facilitating Platforms for Accessibility, Preservation, and Research of Material Culture in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876758/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:26 -0500 By adopting new museological functions, surviving artefacts open up the possibility of illuminating complex interrelations between the lifecycle of humans and objects. Imbued with a unique and intimate material memory, historical textiles encapsulate evidence surrounding their conceptualisation, production, and consumption, as well as their…[Read more]

]]> 0 e335f4da0d4c85abe6d663248e95b2ae Stephanie Grimes deposited Records Go Visual: Digitizing, Exhibiting, And Contextualizing Archives From The House Of Representatives in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873627/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 03:00:08 -0500 In 2015 the Office of Art and Archives focused on adding more art and archival content to the History, Art & Archives website (http://history.house.gov/). The website is a collaborative effort: curators and archivists in the Office of Art and Archives and Office of the Historian staff work on and contribute content. The Office of Art and Archives…[Read more]

]]> 0 b80783f71db8fb814831daea4728de2a Johannes Bernhardt deposited Creative Museum. Dokumentation und Manual in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864371/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:02:51 -0500 This booklet serves as documentation and manual for the app Creative Museum, the new participatory platform of the Badisches Landesmuseum. The goal of the app is to create a digital space for debate. Museum employees, experts and citizens are invited to get into conversation with each other and share their contributions on equal terms. The topics…[Read more]

]]> 0 8211f9bad911e2a9703f1d3ea282096c Naomi Lawson Jacobs deposited Speaking With Us, Not For Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853077/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:23:42 -0400 To belong in the Christian tradition, we must be able to contribute to it. Yet neurodivergent Christians have rarely been enabled to tell our own stories about ourselves as a vital part of God’s (neuro)diverse creation. In common with other autism research, academic theology is framed by pathologizing clinical paradigms of autism; neurodivergent p…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b6eddf7142c2b87fb274f84c208f547 Beverly Dywan deposited Like. Comment.Share. Transforming Engagaement at The Museum in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841919/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:24:37 -0400 An examination of how museums can change how they relate to the public, through engagement opportunities.

]]> 0 e240d24ec0f8f65223e0158bf1570a27 Christopher Griffin deposited Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post-Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829528/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:26:01 -0500 The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fb9e3616fda8404d6761703e8fe403e Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829521/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:25:05 -0500 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK). Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023. Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online. Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023. Please see poster for…[Read more]

]]> 0 d486496679f3c1e4391f26fce3a7489d Christopher Griffin started the topic CfP: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality in the discussion Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/critical-disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-on-relationalities-politics-narrative-sociality-2/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:40:46 -0500 On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality

A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK).

Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online

Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE)

Deadline…[Read more]

]]> 99f29a293d5078903417fdedc7664c97 Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818412/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 02:24:37 -0400 Focusing on rural white communities in the early twentieth century, this article examines how disability, queerness, and economic estrangement were intertwined in American eugenic assessments of the “unfit.” In doing so, it attends to the knotty relations of power by which such communities were simultaneously adjudged deviant and bestowed with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fe239c363b28895094bbbee989dac04 Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789198/ Sun, 31 Jul 2022 03:48:43 -0400 Abstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.

]]> 0 ab702972dcb1145aa6287d7ea308fa6a Anita Z Goldschmied deposited Structuring your choices: the literature review road-map in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769167/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:23:38 -0500 The article is an example of a visual map of the literature review on a page. Such a road-map or concept map structures the literature and helps readers grasp the key threads and messages, including the theoretical positioning of your review. This review looked at the genealogy of hidden dis/ability based on Latour's and Baudrillard's work.

]]> 0 2275d394f3cebdb769f1c57d81b09abe Anita Z Goldschmied deposited Exploring joy as an active actor in reframing experiences of dis/ability in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760879/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:23:38 -0500 I work with images, stories, objects and employ object-oriented Actor-Network-Theory to co-author research with my clients. This allows us to focus on untraditional but remarkable things like hope, wants and happiness. Together, we have emerged an innovative approach that attempts to match our everyday life and all of its surprises. Disability is…[Read more]

]]> 0 12819029ed15bb6f89f3b7f957c3a77b Nezka Pfeifer started the topic Research on interdisciplinary projects in museums and online in the discussion Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/research-on-interdisciplinary-projects-in-museums-and-online/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:14:06 -0400 Hello,

Am working on this small-scale research project focusing on how best to engage online audiences with interdisciplinary projects, but I'm interested in talking with people who have worked on exhibitions, programs (in person or online) in museums or other entities. Please check this out. Thank you!…[Read more]

]]> d6206ea9cfcd58dc1eed21f2c980c577 Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743677/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:28:09 -0400 “Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive” analyzes the archive story of a queer, crip, wheelchair-using researcher at a U.S. archive. The article considers the archive as a material site where disability studies and disability history are practised; crip time and crip knowledge; the experience of feeling out of sorts; and the tension between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a5215f8a585220a00d46f9c4d645a1e Alicia Mihalic deposited Principles and Practical Implications of the Reconstruction of Historical Dress Artefacts in Museum Environment in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730696/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:24:48 -0500 Mihalic, Alicia (2020) 'Principles and Practical Implications of the Reconstruction of Historical Dress Artefacts in Museum Environment'. in Simončič, K. N. (ed.) From Replica of Historical Dress to Costume. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology. pp. 42-60.

]]> 0 d09e1b2b5c44de36030e869b5622e6ce Alicia Mihalic deposited Review of Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900 in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711903/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:24:20 -0400 Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900, Yale University Press, London, England, 2020, Appendix: Pockets in the Old Bailey, Notes, Archives, Bibliography, Index, Picture Credits, 161 Colour Illustrations, 264 pages, Softback, £19.99.

]]> 0 af59763a778515080d677a45aff71f48 Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707307/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:26:10 -0400 Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

]]> 0 54c0c8a46715e1c70baebf3738fccdf3 Todd Comer deposited Studies in the Humanities (entire issue focus on the intersectionality of disability and ecology) in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704029/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:23:54 -0400 This is not a single article but an entire double journal issue focused on the critical intersection of disability and ecology.

Studies in the Humanities (46: 1-2).

]]> 0 c4ffaeb814f21bd294a436f3d47bfe3f Florian Windhager deposited Reassembling Elephants: A Multi-Spatiotemporal Visualization Method for History and Humanities Data in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1700896/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:40:44 -0400 When engaging in the visual analysis and communication of cultural collections and other types of complex historical data, scholarly or public audiences rarely get to see their multidimensional richness. Commonly, visualization tools require analysts to selectively ‘cut’ into the complexity of the data to highlight and project particular asp…[Read more]

]]> 0 e696537dd073a68c3377e4a400dd9ef3 Alexander Henschel deposited Was heißt hier Vermittlung? Kunstvermittlung und ihr umstrittener Begriff (reading sample) in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696202/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:28:53 -0400 Mit dem Begriff der Kunstvermittlung wird Politik gemacht und er wird mit gegenläufigen Verständnissen verknüpft. Das Buch "Was heißt hier Vermittlung?" arbeitet heraus, dass die Bedeutungskonkurrenz bereits im Streitbegriff der Vermittlung angelegt ist. Der unternommene Gang durch sozialhistorische und philosophische Begriffsgeschichten wird mit…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fd649ede7db8c3f0fa2ac031dc531c9 Antonio Cordoba deposited "(De)Mythologizing the Disabled. Chilean Freaks in Roberto Bolaño's 'El Tercer Reich' and 'Estrella distante'" in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678635/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:25:36 -0500 In an essay on Latin American freaks, Susan Antebi warns, “The question of freakishness and freaks in Latin American contexts is fraught from the beginning by its decontextualized and translated quality; it is an imposition, even when embraced. To study freakishness in Latin America, or just to pay attention to it, necessarily involves an a…[Read more]

]]> 0 92db87641d501f88480709b0feb91496 Todd Comer deposited An Introduction: Disability Studies and Ecocriticism in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677408/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:25:21 -0500 Studies in the Humanities 46, 1-2 (2020)

This PDF includes the contents of volume 46 (1-2) of Studies in the Humanities. It also includes the opening critical introduction to the volume dedicated to disability studies and ecocriticism.

]]> 0 131b26dad6e3b9d72e197dff141eeca8 José Pedro Sousa Dias deposited Que fazer com o património e as coleções científicas coloniais depois do fim do império? in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676371/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:26:44 -0500 In 1975, at the time of the independence of the last large colonies, the Portuguese government decided to maintain the main public structure of colonial research, as an instrument of cooperation and diplomacy, changing its name to Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Disconnected from its primitive mission and with a very heavy and co…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e2e3d7c346d0c6712ffce59042a2747 Kenji Khozoei deposited Decolonising the Commons: Fugitivity and Future Planning in End Times in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668572/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:25:21 -0400 They say the global proliferation of colonial and neoliberal (ir)rationalities and the techno-managerial enclosure of the ‘commons’ (Hardt & Negri 2000; Harvey 2004) has resulted in a ‘foreclosure of politics’, prompting calls for a renewed technocultural hegemony for a post-capitalist future (Srnicek & Williams 2015) or a return to the revolut…[Read more]

]]> 0 af5bbf34af4ca2e61f254a9d1765bccb Valeria Graziano deposited Caring for the Carers in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642613/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:25:45 -0400 The rapid development and adoption of technological care equipment for remote monitoring, self-diagnosis and other forms of telemedicine risks splitting care work: on the one hand, well-paid professionals developing or operating new technologies; on the other, much poorer and much less qualified assistants to take care of the operations that are…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b0fd6a1fb58f8d8e6825586947a0db1 Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care Conference | Full Programme & Abstracts | 19&20 June 2019 | Coventry - UK in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641507/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:29 -0400 The Centre for Post Digital Cultures invites you to its second annual conference, which will explore the phenomenon of 'Pirate Care'. The term Pirate Care (Graziano, 2018) condenses two processes that are particularly visible at present. On the one hand, basic care provisions that were previously considered cornerstones of social life are now…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dfdeed7217708f6701f94785dcbedd9 Tina Catania deposited Bodyminds Like Ours: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Graduate School, Disability, and the Politics of Disclosure in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640217/ Tue, 14 May 2019 16:25:21 -0400 An autoethnographic account of negotiating disability and disclosure intersectionally in graduate school by four disabled graduate students.

]]> 0 659042b3585a5b5f9a7ee671c6935597 Sophie A. Lewis deposited A comradely politics of gestational work: Militant particularism, sympoetic scholarship and the limits of generosity in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623630/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:25:21 -0500 In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

]]> 0 027513e2fc58691c02f5b8b1d3bf87d7 Aimi Hamraie deposited Crip Technoscience in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622274/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:37 -0400 Crip technoscience

]]> 0 64f1a7dd204bd9db9c0129284be99905 Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622271/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:33 -0400 Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 68716713d28ea5537d9e75d6136d1bcd Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622269/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 New digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8b9e16e0a27182374335d8557e40908 Karen Schamberger deposited Living in a material world: object biography and transnational lives in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615000/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:21:13 -0400 Personal and object biographies can be interwoven and reveal much about the transnational connections between Australia and other places. This chapter features two interwoven biographies: Guna Kinne, a Latvian Displaced Person who began making a national dress as a school girl in Latvia and continued to make it as she fled the Soviet army to…[Read more]

]]> 0 95196d473bd6db210fd25732fcef12cd Karen Schamberger deposited 'Still Children of the Dragon'? A review of three Chinese Australian heritage museums in Victoria in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614998/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:21:10 -0400 The Museum of Chinese Australian History reopened on 29th August 2010 with newly refurbished exhibitions displaying Chinese Australian history and contemporary Chinese Australian identities. This article reviews the new exhibitions in comparison with the Gum San Heritage Centre at Ararat and the Golden Dragon Museum at Bendigo and specifically…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bd6bb2a528a1f987ac8e4e3295aca84 Karen Schamberger deposited Showing Off: Queensland at World Exhibitions 1862 to 1988 by Judith McKay in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614996/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:21:06 -0400 SHOWING OFF: QUEENSLAND AT WORLD EXPOSITIONS 1862 TO 1988 BY JUDITH
MCKAY. ROCKHAMPTON AND SOUTH BRISBANE: CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY
PRESS AND THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 2004; 128PP, APPENDIX, NOTES,
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX; PAPERBOUND, $29.95

]]> 0 b4fab1bfc97da4b5eb6bb8a17b0a4c98 Jonathan Paul Mitchell deposited Disability and The Inhuman in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614983/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:51:05 -0400 When presented with the term ‘inhuman’, I was drawn to consider how certain ways of being become associated with the inhuman, how this association is involved in the constitution of what is taken as properly human, and the deleterious effects for those who become associated with the inhuman. I’m going to address these topics in three stages. First…[Read more]

]]> 0 edaf6f5519d8593b5c3ffbaa92bbbbb4 Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611269/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:18:47 -0400 In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb51eb2fb19b4c95fe845b04b137ac45 Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608416/ Wed, 16 May 2018 04:32:22 -0400 Sónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]

]]> 0 e62ca00635c29ce486b7aba281d762f3 SAADIA N. LAWTON started the topic Diversity Topic: Tired of Standing Up! in the discussion Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/diversity-topic-tired-of-standing-up-6/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:15:26 -0400 Ok, so I know I said I would not start the discussion until Tuesday but I just came across this article in the Arts and culture section of the NYT about new work from the artist Kara Walker and I just could not resist. Please feel free to read and respond at your leisure. I will definitely post a few (I hope) thought provoking comments by or…[Read more]

]]> 8088f64a6dc973040d3b1ba4b579a8c1 SAADIA N. LAWTON started the topic Test in the discussion Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/test-3/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:37:38 -0400 Test

]]> f0dadada0c14fdef877e857114250077 CAA Admin created the group Museums https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1576041/ Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:39:26 -0400 0 3ead0be8e11ed2a1e5621a8caa232932 Aimi Hamraie deposited Inclusive Design: Cultivating Accountability Toward the Intersections of Race, Aging, and Disability in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573116/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 As a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessi - ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training had taught me about how to think critically about age…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eea9975f00ae6cb30cd8bbfaecc4f3e Aimi Hamraie deposited Universal Design Research as a New Materialist Practice in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573115/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1aff9c394b16767a98e06becf78fe7e Aimi Hamraie deposited Designing Collective Access: a feminist disability theory of Universal Design in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573114/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Universal Design (UD) is a movement to produce built environments that are accessible to a broad range of human variation. Though UD is often taken for granted as synonymous with the best, most inclusive, forms of disability access, the values, methodologies, and epistemologies that underlie UD require closer scrutiny. This paper uses feminist and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee71103ecb249c44487b893057291031 Aimi Hamraie deposited Proximate and Peripheral: Ableist Discourses of Space and Vulnerability Surrounding the UNCRPD in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573113/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 On geopolitics, disability rhetoric, and the CRPD

]]> 0 b999ce3320b4e53743c8dd60c7c5bf7c Aimi Hamraie deposited Cripping Feminist Technoscience in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573112/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In feminist technoscience studies (FTS), the term technoscience conveys that scientific knowledge and technological worlds are active constructions of entangled material, social, and historical agents. Feminist analyses of assisted reproduction, environmental harm, digital media, and cyborg bodies constitute some of the work of FTS, a close…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3815c68bfa3a627b5c391c620042a09 Aimi Hamraie deposited Beyond Accommodation: Disability, Feminist Philosophy, and the Design of Everyday Academic Life in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573111/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Disability has become a hot topic for feminist philosophy in recent years. Special issues of Hypatia and Disability Studies Quarterly, multiple conference keynote addresses, and a growing cadre of scholars are exploring the intersections of feminist and critical disability thought. As a disabled feminist scholar, I perceive these trends as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d611ab4ec56d8698e402bd1ff4feedca Aimi Hamraie deposited Historical Epistemology as Disability Studies Methodology: From the Models Framework to Foucault’s Archaeology of Cure in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573110/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In this paper, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by looking to Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. While the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as a progressive movement and replacement of moral and medical authority with s…[Read more]

]]> 0 801496ed830c4aa77312efa6a5048a14 Aimi Hamraie deposited Universal Design and the Problem of “Post-Disability” Ideology in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573109/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Although Universal Design gains popularity as a common sense strategy for crafting built environments for all users, accessibility for disabled people remains a marginal area of inquiry within design practice and theory. This article argues that the tension between accessibility and Universal Design stems from inadequate critical and historical…[Read more]

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