Disability and the majority world: challenging dominant epistemologies
Free conference hosted by the Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Date: 9th July 2010 (10.00a.m- 4.00p.m)
Venue: Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 OJA, UK
For Directions see: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/gaskell/
This one day conference opens an exciting space that seeks to:
- Contribute to the often partial and fragmented debate around disability in the global South
- Articulate and question dominant epistemologies that condition, limit, and/or reject alternative knowledges and ways of engaging
with disability in the majority world
- Explore and articulate themes around disability in the majority world that are bypassed, ignored or rejected by dominant
intellectual fields (such as the Western disability studies) and practice (for example the international development sector)
- Highlight and engage approaches such as (not exclusively) poststructural and postcolonial approaches
- Challenge dominant epistemologies and explore the possibilities of developing a disability studies that is both critical and
global.
Speakers: Anita Ghai, Susie Miles, Raymond Lang, Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Susan Buell, Shaun Grech
Register: http://disabilityandmajorityworld.eventbrite.com/
For more information, please contact: Shaun Grech: [log in to unmask]
Dan Goodley
Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
RIHSC
Psychology and Social Change
Gaskell Campus
Manchester, M13 0JA
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