Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activists
This article explores how those who do not share their marginalized identities with their surrounding people (e.g., family members) and thus community resources relating to these identities, initiate and experience political development. The concept of intersectionality is used as an analytical tool...
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| description | This article explores how those who do not share their marginalized identities with their surrounding people (e.g., family members) and thus community resources relating to these identities, initiate and experience political development. The concept of intersectionality is used as an analytical tool to examine how one's political development is mediated via one's intersecting identities, communities, and experience of social in/justices. Life story interviews were conducted with disabled activists to explore this question. The stories reveal how these activists, who had initially resisted identifying as disabled for various reasons, eventually used the politicizing experiences from nondisability identities and communities to reframe and reclaim their disability status. By tracing the political developments of disabled people, this article places importance on understanding the process in a holistic way and on developing activist communities and movements that acknowledge intersecting identities and in/justices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b7b908aa5d4432185ade5d0191a94662022-12-22T02:11:27ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesDisability Studies Quarterly1041-57182159-83712016-05-0136210.18061/dsq.v36i2.44493521Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activistsAkemi Nishida0University of Illinois at ChicagoThis article explores how those who do not share their marginalized identities with their surrounding people (e.g., family members) and thus community resources relating to these identities, initiate and experience political development. The concept of intersectionality is used as an analytical tool to examine how one's political development is mediated via one's intersecting identities, communities, and experience of social in/justices. Life story interviews were conducted with disabled activists to explore this question. The stories reveal how these activists, who had initially resisted identifying as disabled for various reasons, eventually used the politicizing experiences from nondisability identities and communities to reframe and reclaim their disability status. By tracing the political developments of disabled people, this article places importance on understanding the process in a holistic way and on developing activist communities and movements that acknowledge intersecting identities and in/justices.http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4449political developmentintersectionalitydisability identity |
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| title | Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activists |
| title_full | Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activists |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activists |
| title_short | Understanding political development through an intersectionality framework: Life stories of disability activists |
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| topic | political development intersectionality disability identity |
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