Deb and everyone else:
I recently started following this list and find it riveting. I am very
interested in your article, Deb, and although I can go to the library and
get a copy of it, I have an idea/question for us here. Is there, or could
we arrange, a place on a web page where list members could post this kind of
material so other list members could go there and download it? Karen
Karen Hirsch, Ph.D.
NASMHPD Fellow
MIMH, St.Louis, MO
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"September Moon"
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Subject: Re: Disability Epistemologies
Dear all
I agree with Michael that phenomenology is one of the more promising areas
for thinking about disability, because it offers a grounded embodied
perspective.
Another perspective which is even more marginal to Disability Studies is
psychoanalysis, which offers an important dimension to exploring
relationships, power and experiences.
You may be interested in a paper I wrote for the journal -Psychoanalytic
Studies- 'Emancipatory Epistemology and Interdisciplinary Practice: Can
Psychoanalysis Contribute to Disability Studies', Vol 1 3) Sept 199.
It deals with questions of subjectivity, authority, hermeneutics and
reflexivity, to argue that psychoanalysis and disability studies share many
epistemological concerns and could benefit from dialogue.
Deb
>Hi Michael --
>
>It's good to see someone else interested in this topic - I've been trying
>for over a year to find some research, any research that intersects
>disabiltiy and epistemology. I haven't had any luck. There are two routs
>I'm persuing now - 1) feminist understandings of social location as an
>epistemic standpoint, and 2) phenomenology.
>
>If any one out there has had any luck in this area, I'd be eager to get
>that information!
>
>Best,
>
>lex
>
>Alexa Schriempf
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>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, M.G.Peckitt wrote:
>
>> Excuse the slightly philosophical nature of this inquiry, but as I
>> was browsing through the philosophy of knowledge and Feminist views
>> on Science sections in my local bookstore it crossed my mind. Does
>> disability theory have a Epistemological standpoint(s)towards science
>> and scientific methods? I mean not just towards methods of
>> reseaching disablility but a disability critique towards science in
>> general, for instance a disability based critique of I.Q tests.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>
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Date: 22 October 1999 18:56
Subject: Re: Disability Epistemologies
>I myself had actually been thinking about disability and epistemology
>before I looked at a bookstore, but like Alexa find no
>disability-epistemology related articles in feminism or
>phenomenology. preceding feminist or phenomenological methods can't
>just be "mapped" that is adopted - but not adapted to suit disability
>needs, I take a more careful examination is needed.
>
>The only work that might be useful that I find was the hermeutical
>work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his ideas of "Situatedness" and
>"Horizon" in Truth and Method, a book that was originally meant for
>aesthetics but has find its way into social sciences and philosophy.
>
>For Gadamer we are all context bound by our "situationess" - that is
>what we are and when we are it e.g I am a Philosophy student,
>disabled, male, living in Britain in 1999. That is my Situation. I
>only have a certain view a, certain "Horizon" because I am bound by
>my situation by talking with others I could "fuse horizons" and
>perhaps have a wider undertsanding/interpretation or the world - have
>multiple networks of horizons.
>
>This idea, very badly sketched out here could be applied to the
>disability sitution but may not be very impressive. I would be very
>interesting in Alison Cocks' work and the views of others.
>
>Forgive the long e-mail.
>
>Michael
>
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