Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action
How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnation...
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| author | Per Koren Solvang Hilde Haualand |
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| description | How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community of communicators, marked by an identification founded on sharing one another's languages, common histories and through strong similarities in terms of culture and feeling oppressed by the hearing society. The identity negotiations taking place at these meeting places prove relevant to disabled people in the way they explore pressing issues such as accessibility and conflicting perspectives on what a disability shall mean in the lives of people affected by impairment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3fc5eeb2d4742aaa7de30426ad75b942023-09-02T14:15:32ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1501-74191745-30112013-03-0116111310.1080/15017419.2012.761158416Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in actionPer Koren Solvang0Hilde Haualand1Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, NorwayFafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, NorwayHow disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community of communicators, marked by an identification founded on sharing one another's languages, common histories and through strong similarities in terms of culture and feeling oppressed by the hearing society. The identity negotiations taking place at these meeting places prove relevant to disabled people in the way they explore pressing issues such as accessibility and conflicting perspectives on what a disability shall mean in the lives of people affected by impairment.https://www.sjdr.se/articles/487deaftransnationalaccessibilitydifferenceidentity |
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| title | Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action |
| title_full | Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action |
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| title_short | Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action |
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| topic | deaf transnational accessibility difference identity |
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