For list members who are in Australia. This should be good.....!
Russell
A Public Seminar
Presented by the Social Policy Research Centre
and the School of Social Science and International Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
New Developments in Critical Disability Studies
Critical Disability Studies is currently undergoing a re-evaluation that includes perspectives from postmodern theory, cultural analysis, intersectionality, phenomenology and critical realism. This has emerged out of the incapacity of the social model and the medical model to deal with the complexities of disabled people’s experiences. This seminar will introduce some contemporary research from these new perspectives.
Associate Professor Helen Meekosha, Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies
Helen will speak on new developments in critical disability studies
Dr Leanne Dowse, Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies
This paper explores the ways that discourses of empowerment and citizenship are in constant tension with the material and social lives of people with intellectual disability and argues that these give rise to contradictory notions of empowerment, choice and agency.
Dr Russell Shuttleworth, Lecturer in Sexual Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
Critical-interpretive ethnography is grounded in research participants' understanding of their lived experience; incorporates a collaborative conceptualization of that experience and is informed by the ethnographer's critical analysis of relevant cultural and sociopolitical contexts. Key aspects of the critical-interpretive approach I employed during ethnographic research on the sexual access concerns of men with cerebral palsy will be outlined.
Jessica Cadwallader, Macquarie University
The critique of the social model of disability deepens the denaturalisation of both disabled bodies and able bodies. The equation of deviance with suffering is thus also problematised. As I demonstrate, this reveals that the embodied experience of suffering plays a key role in the maintenance of what Foucault calls “normalisation society.”
Thursday 15th November
2-5pm
Level 1, Room 101, Law Building, UNSW
Refreshments provided
RSVP to Megan Griffiths Ph: (02) 9385 7817 or [log in to unmask]
By Monday 12th November 2007
Speakers:
Associate Professor Helen Meekosha (Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies)
Professor Meekosha has written and spoken extensively, from a feminist and a disability perspective on citizenship, human rights, social movements, the media and the body, communications and multiculturalism.
Dr Leanne Dowse (Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies)
Leanne Dowse is interested in the application of models of critical disability inquiry to the study of intellectual disability. She is also undertaking disability projects on behalf of the Student Equity and Diversity Unit at UNSW.
Dr Russell Shuttleworth (Sexual Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney)
Russell Shuttleworth is a medical anthropologist whose primary research areas are sexuality and disability and the anthropology of disability.
Jessica Cadwallader (Macquarie University)
Jessica Cadwallader is a doctoral candidate in Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.
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