RDS Volume 10, No. 3 & 4
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Item type: Item , Disability Studies Dissertation Abstracts(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Erlen, JonathonThe information for this section of RDS is provided by Jonathon Erlen of the University of Pittsburgh.Item type: Item , Film Review: FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) McLaughlin, AmandaFilmmaker: Regan Brashear Reviewer: Amanda McLaughlin Production Company: New Day Films, Blooming Grove, NY Cost: $325, Educational DVD; $375, Institutional Streaming (3 years)Item type: Item , Book Review: Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Tien, ShulanEditors: Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, and Geoffrey Reaume Reviewer: Shulan Tien, PhD Candidate, Fu-Jen University, Taiwan Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2013 ISBN: 978-55130-534-9 Cost: Softcover, 394 pages, $49.95 CADItem type: Item , Book Review: Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability; Knowledge Application to Other Social and Educational Challenges(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Linn, James G.Editors: Roy I. Brown and Rhonda M. Faragher Reviewer: James G. Linn, PhD Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-62948-264-4 (hard cover) Cost: $189.00, 418 pagesItem type: Item , Book Review: Both Sides of the Table: Autoethnographies of Educators Learning and Teaching With/In [Dis]Ability. Disability Studies in Education, Vol 12. Eds. Susan L. Gabel and Scot Danforth.(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Brown, Steven E.Editor: Phil Smith Reviewer: Steven E. Brown, PhD Publisher: New York: Peter Lang, 2013 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-4331-1451-9 Cost: $40.95, 277 pagesItem type: Item , A Capabilities View of Accessibility in Policy and Practice in Jordan and Peru(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Pal, Joyojeet; Alfaro, Ana Maria Huaita; Ammari, Tawfiq W.; Chatterjee, SaikatWe explore the recent evolution of accessibility-related policy in Jordan and Peru, and specifically consider issues around assistive technology access for people with severe vision impairments. We find differences in capacity development and institutions in the two countries over time and how it impacts the ways in which recent policy consultations have taken place, and propose a capabilities framework as a means to examine and contextualize these differences. Narratives of assistive technology use by people in both countries emphasize ways in which the capabilities approach is also a valuable tool in understanding aspirations and how social interactions evolve with access to assistive technology. We argue that the findings from Peru and Jordan, given the diversity of policy environments, infrastructure, and socio-economic attitudes towards people with disabilities, give us an important lens towards understanding the evolution of disability rights and policies in various low and middle-income countries around the world.Item type: Item , Summer of 2012: Paralympic Legacy and the Welfare Benefit Scandal(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Crow, LizThrough the summer of 2012, two sets of images dominated the British press: welfare benefits scrounger and Paralympic superhuman. Through one claimant’s traversal of the benefits system and against the heady backdrop of the Games, this narrative inquiry examines the profound and tangible consequences of these images, whilst offering hope for an abiding legacy that holds consequences for public perception of disability and the lives of disabled people.Item type: Item , Facing Dyslexia: The Education of Chuck Close(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Gobbo, KenThroughout his lifetime, the American painter, Chuck Close faced many challenges, including dyslexia and prosopagnosia. This article discusses his education and some of the creative strategies he employed to overcome the obstacles he faced from elementary school through college and graduate school. It also considers the influence of several of his teachers and the ways his learning differences came to influence his artistic process.Item type: Item , Becoming Aware of One’s Own Biased Attitude: The Observer’s Encounter with Disability in Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library no. 18(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Heindl, NinaThis art historical treatment of the graphic novel Acme Novelty Library no. 18 investigates the particular manner of its representation of disability. With reference to theory of body and also theory of images, this study shows that the reading observer is confronted with his/her social and cultural imprint in the process of examining the graphic novel.Item type: Item , Shifting Perception: Photographing Disabled People During the Civil Rights Era(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Hiles, Timothy W.During the American Civil Rights Era, photographic perception of disabled people shifted from constructs that empowered the abled “normal” to an empathetic awareness of social isolation and enfreakment. Through rhetorics of the stare, photographers demonstrated increased cognizance of what it meant to be an “other” in a society that valued homogeneity.Item type: Item , Portrait of Sixteenth-Century Disability? Quentin Matsys’s A Grotesque Old Woman(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Newman, SaraScholars rarely examine art works from a disability studies perspective; their analyses often misinterpret those works, reinforcing contemporary assumptions about disability and its past representations. Accordingly, this paper examines a portrait by sixteenth-century Antwerp artist Quentin Matsys (1466-1529) from a historically situated disability studies perspective. A Grotesque Old Woman (c.1513) has been understood in terms of abnormality. Existing scholarship has suggested that she represents physical, gender, and sexual deviance in the spirit of Erasmian allegories, or an individual with Paget’s disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paget%27s_disease_of_bone). Although these interpretations may inform contemporary scholarship, they shed little light on sixteenth-century disability and its artistic representations. This paper demonstrates how the portrait reflects a cultural transition from an earlier collective, religious model of disability to a more “municipal” one which considers disability vis-à-vis individuals engaged in daily commercial or personal activities. This analysis provides insight into how disability was understood in Matsys’s time, contributes to our understanding of the Dutch allegorical and portraiture traditions, and demonstrates what a historically situated disability model offers future research on artistic representations of disability.Item type: Item , Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Cachia, AmandaThis paper will explore the work of two contemporary dwarf photographers, Ricardo Gil and Laura Swanson, who use different conceptual and technical methods to re-frame the figure of the dwarf subject. The dwarf has often been a marginalized subject in the history of photography, so I am interested in exploring how the strategies that Gil and Swanson employ might resist reductive meanings, and offer alternative readings to the dwarf beyond the oppositional gaze. The articulation of these methods will be prefaced by a focused discussion of dwarf depictions in the history of photography based on the intentions of the photographer, so that the work of several photographers might be powerfully juxtaposed with the radical counter-strategies that Gil and Swanson utilize.Item type: Item , Forum: Introduction: Art History and Disability(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Millett-Gallant, Ann; Howie, ElizabethArt history has not been as engaged with disability studies as much as have other areas of the humanities and liberal arts. Disability studies scholars have written about artwork featuring disabled subjects and the work of disabled artists, engaging varying degrees of art historical methodology, whereas art historians have analyzed images by and about disabled people with limited awareness with disability studies. This special issue aims to encourage more interdisciplinary work between the fields and was inspired by three conference panels at the Southeast College Art Conference: Visualizing Disability: Representations of Disability in Art and Visual Culture (2011), Disability and Performance: Bodies on Display (2012), and Photographing the Body (2013).Item type: Item , Editorial: Progress(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Conway, Megan A.This is the editorial for Volume 10, Issue 3,4.Item type: Item , Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 10 Issue 3 & 4(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014)