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Occupying Disability : Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789401799843
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing DisabilityDDC classification:
  • 362.4
LOC classification:
  • R726.7
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments of Partnerships -- Contents -- Part I Decolonizing Disability -- 1 Occupying Disability: An Introduction -- 1.1 Anthropology, Disability Studies, and Occupational Therapy -- 1.2 The Discomfort Zone -- 1.3 Decolonizing Disability, Disability and Community, and Struggle, Creativity and Change -- 1.4 Recurrent Themes and Open Futures -- References -- 2 Krips, Cops and Occupy: Reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Occupy Oakland -- 2.3 Oakland Raid -- 2.4 Oakland Rises! Oakland Strikes! -- 2.5 Disabled People Occupy America! -- 2.6 Other Voices: OWS and CUIDO -- 2.7 Other Voices: Krips* Occupy Wall Street (KOWS) or Disabled (Un)Occupy Wall Street -- 2.8 Other Voices: Doing Radical Psych at Occupy -- 2.9 Other Voices: Thoughts On Occupy From A Disabled Community Organizer -- 2.10 Sunday, November 13th -- 3 Minamata: Disability and the Sea of Sorrow -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Minamata Disease and the History of the Minamata Incident -- 3.2.1 What Is Minamata Disease? -- 3.2.2 The History of the Minamata Incident -- 3.2.3 Minamata Becomes a Chisso "Castle Town" -- 3.2.4 The Outbreak of Minamata Disease and the Search for Its Causes -- 3.2.5 The Search for Responsibility -- 3.3 The Historical Background to Minamata Disease -- 3.4 The Disabilities and Suffering of the Minamata Disease Victims -- 3.4.1 Pollution of the Sea: The Loss of Occupational Places That Formed Spiritual Cornerstones -- 3.4.2 Sickness and Death of Families: The Loss of Peaceful Households -- 3.4.3 Damaged Bodies: Impairments of Function and Capability, Loss of Feelings of Self-Control, and Fear of Sickness and Death -- 3.4.4 Can't Fish and Can't Sell the Fish: Loss of Income, Identity and Reasons to Live -- 3.4.5 Poverty: Impairments to Daily Activity -- 3.4.6 Discrimination: Alienation from the Community.
3.4.7 The Long Absence of Responsibility: Coerced "Self-Responsibility" -- 3.4.8 Summary of Disabilities -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Movements at War? Disability and Anti-occupation Activism in Israel -- 4.1 The Big "Disability Strikes" -- 4.2 Anti-occupation and Decolonialization Framework -- 4.3 Civil Militarism and Hierarchies of Disability -- 4.4 Occupation, Militarism and Disability at a (Dis)Juncture -- 4.4.1 Intersections in "New" Social Movements (or Identity Confronts Leftist Politics) -- 4.5 Disability (Non)Politics in Neoliberal Times -- 4.6 Appropriation of Disability as Justification for War/Occupation and Its Resistance -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Landings: Decolonizing Disability, Indigeneity and Poetic Methods -- 5.1 Reading the Literature, Imagining Lives: Glue-Ear or Otitis Media -- 5.2 Decolonizing Methodologies -- 5.3 Embodied Poetics, Poetic Material: Two Stories -- 5.3.1 At the Awakenings Festival in Horsham, Australia, 2008 -- 5.3.2 At an Aboriginal Art Workshop, Alice Springs, 2008 -- 5.4 Intercultural Poetics: Writing Landings -- 5.5 Landings: Darwin -- 5.6 Landings: Silver Screen -- 5.7 Epilogue -- 5.8 Notes -- References -- 6 Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives -- 6.1 -- 6.2 -- 6.3 -- 6.4 -- 6.5 -- 6.6 -- 6.7 -- References -- 7 Scenes and Encounters, Bodies and Abilities: Devising Performance with Cyrff Ystwyth -- 7.1 Usefulness -- 7.2 Insertion -- 7.3 Knowledge -- 7.4 Rehearsal -- 7.5 At Work 1 2004 -- 7.6 At Work 2 2007 -- 7.7 At Work 3 2009 -- 7.8 At Work 4 2012 -- 7.9 Community -- 7.10 Occupation -- References -- 8 Artistic Therapeutic Treatment, Colonialism &amp -- Spectacle: A Brazilian Tale -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Mental Health in Brazil-From a Colonial Background to Recent Transformations -- 8.3 "Carnivalization".
8.4 The Tale of Vila Seco: A Fictional Account -- 8.5 Discussion -- References -- 9 A Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago: Education and Employment Policy Imperatives -- Acronyms -- 9.1 The Development Context and Disability -- 9.2 The Socio-cultural Environment -- 9.3 Education and Training Situation -- 9.4 Employment Situation -- 9.5 Policy Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Part II Disability and Community -- 10 Neoliberal Academia and a Critique from Disability Studies -- 10.1 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Soul Searching Occupations: Critical Reflections on Occupational Therapy's Commitment to Social Justice, Disability Rights, and Participation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Participation and Its Discontents -- 11.3 Contours of Participation Disparities -- 11.4 Toward a Materialist Understanding of Participation -- 11.5 Where Do We Go from Here? -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Refusing to Go Away: The Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Globalization, Entrepreneurial Cities, and Urban Aging -- 12.3 False Positive: Disability Shaming and Neoliberal `Responsibilization' -- 12.4 Elder Activism -- 12.5 The Ida Benderson Senior Citizens Center -- 12.6 Desperate Times, Prudent Measures: The City Administration Perspective -- 12.7 Older Adults Need Care: The Salvation Army Perspective -- 12.8 Procedural Injustice: The Common Council Perspective -- 12.9 Losing Home, Family, and City: Center Participants' Perspectives -- 12.10 Don't Stop: The Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group -- 12.11 Discussion: Ageism, Austerity and Entrepreneurial Governance -- 12.12 Seniors Talk Back: Voice, Embodied Activism, and Occupation -- 12.13 Conclusion: Senior Resistance, Occupation and a Broader Vision -- References.
13 Why Bother Talking? On Having Cerebral Palsy and Speech Impairment: Preserving and Promoting Oral Communication Through Occupational Community and Communities of Practice -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Rick's Story -- 13.3 Working Together Within Occupational Communities and Communities of Practice -- 13.4 Occupational Community and Communities of Practice: Exploring Boundary Interactions -- 13.5 An Ethics of Enabling Occupational Community and Communities of Practice -- References -- 14 Occupying Seats, Occupying Space, Occupying Time: Deaf Young Adults in Vocational Training Centers in Bangalore, India -- 14.1 Circulating for an Occupation -- 14.2 Vocational Training: An "Opportunity" to Learn Something -- 14.3 Occupying Seats -- 14.4 Occupying Space -- 14.5 Occupying Time -- 14.6 Conclusion: NGOs as Deaf Occupations -- References -- 15 My World, My Experiences with Occupy Wall Street and How We Can Go Further -- 16 Beyond Policy-A Real Life Journey of Engagement and Involvement -- 16.1 In Context -- 16.2 Journey -- 16.3 What Is Policy? -- 16.4 Influencing Policy -- 16.5 Beyond Policy -- 16.6 What Works? -- References -- 17 Self Advocacy and Self Determination for Youth with Disability and Their Parents During School Transition Planning -- References -- Part III Struggle, Creativity and Change -- 18 Should Robots Be Personal Assistants? -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Significance -- 18.2.1 Advanced Technology and Health Care -- 18.2.2 Human Rights, Bioethics and the Challenges of Containing New Technology in Old Wineskins -- 18.3 Method -- 18.4 What Are Advanced Technologies: Implications for the Disability Community? -- 18.4.1 Robots -- 18.4.2 Sensors Used to Monitor and Track People with Disabilities Across the Age Span -- 18.4.3 Human Enhancements -- 18.5 The Case Studies -- 18.5.1 A Young Man with Spinal Cord Injury -- Let's Call Him Jake Adams.
18.5.2 An Older Woman Who Is at Risk for Falling and Is Sometimes Forgetful -- Let's Call her Eve Jones -- 18.5.3 Human Enhancements: The Case of the Long Distance Runner -- 18.6 Conclusions -- References -- 19 Crab and Yoghurt -- 20 Occupying Disability Studies in Brazil -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Personal Trajectories -- 20.3 The Precursors of Disability Studies in Brazil -- 20.4 The Emergence of Brazilian Disability Studies or Who Occupies Disability Studies in Brazil? -- 20.5 Contradictions in the Field -- 20.6 Disability and Intersectionality -- 20.7 Final Considerations -- References -- 21 Black &amp -- Blue: Policing Disability &amp -- Poverty Beyond Occupy -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Occupy Was Never for Me -- 21.3 Part 2 -- Great Articles to Read on This Issue -- Additional Readings -- 22 Blindness and Occupation: Personal Observations and Reflections -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Examples and Discussion -- 22.2.1 Layer 1: The Occupation of Adaptive Learning -- 22.2.2 Layer 2: The Occupation of Contributing and Providing -- 22.2.3 Layer 3: The Occupation of Advocacy and Education -- 22.3 Conclusion -- 23 Surviving Stevenage -- 23.1 The Story of Stevenage Survivors -- 23.2 Untitled -- 23.3 To My Son -- 23.4 Push the Whoosh -- 23.5 The Moment of Reflection -- 23.6 Bipolar Lament -- 23.7 The Jacket -- 23.8 The Ocean's Magic -- 23.9 Christchild -- 23.10 Stevenage Survivors Poetry Group -- 23.11 My Poem -- 23.12 My Name is Paul Evans -- 23.13 Any Day -- 23.14 Passage for Survivors -- 23.15 Raw -- 23.16 Write Around -- 23.17 My Time with Stevenage Survivors Poetry (SSP) -- 23.18 Numerology - This I Date: 10.10.10 -- 24 If Disability Is a Dance, Who Is the Choreographer? A Conversation About Life Occupations, Art, Movement -- 24.1 Setting the Scene -- 24.2 Occupying Disability -- 24.3 Dance, Poetry and Art -- 24.4 Communication -- 24.5 Technology.
24.6 Occupying Disability Again.
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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments of Partnerships -- Contents -- Part I Decolonizing Disability -- 1 Occupying Disability: An Introduction -- 1.1 Anthropology, Disability Studies, and Occupational Therapy -- 1.2 The Discomfort Zone -- 1.3 Decolonizing Disability, Disability and Community, and Struggle, Creativity and Change -- 1.4 Recurrent Themes and Open Futures -- References -- 2 Krips, Cops and Occupy: Reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Occupy Oakland -- 2.3 Oakland Raid -- 2.4 Oakland Rises! Oakland Strikes! -- 2.5 Disabled People Occupy America! -- 2.6 Other Voices: OWS and CUIDO -- 2.7 Other Voices: Krips* Occupy Wall Street (KOWS) or Disabled (Un)Occupy Wall Street -- 2.8 Other Voices: Doing Radical Psych at Occupy -- 2.9 Other Voices: Thoughts On Occupy From A Disabled Community Organizer -- 2.10 Sunday, November 13th -- 3 Minamata: Disability and the Sea of Sorrow -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Minamata Disease and the History of the Minamata Incident -- 3.2.1 What Is Minamata Disease? -- 3.2.2 The History of the Minamata Incident -- 3.2.3 Minamata Becomes a Chisso "Castle Town" -- 3.2.4 The Outbreak of Minamata Disease and the Search for Its Causes -- 3.2.5 The Search for Responsibility -- 3.3 The Historical Background to Minamata Disease -- 3.4 The Disabilities and Suffering of the Minamata Disease Victims -- 3.4.1 Pollution of the Sea: The Loss of Occupational Places That Formed Spiritual Cornerstones -- 3.4.2 Sickness and Death of Families: The Loss of Peaceful Households -- 3.4.3 Damaged Bodies: Impairments of Function and Capability, Loss of Feelings of Self-Control, and Fear of Sickness and Death -- 3.4.4 Can't Fish and Can't Sell the Fish: Loss of Income, Identity and Reasons to Live -- 3.4.5 Poverty: Impairments to Daily Activity -- 3.4.6 Discrimination: Alienation from the Community.

3.4.7 The Long Absence of Responsibility: Coerced "Self-Responsibility" -- 3.4.8 Summary of Disabilities -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Movements at War? Disability and Anti-occupation Activism in Israel -- 4.1 The Big "Disability Strikes" -- 4.2 Anti-occupation and Decolonialization Framework -- 4.3 Civil Militarism and Hierarchies of Disability -- 4.4 Occupation, Militarism and Disability at a (Dis)Juncture -- 4.4.1 Intersections in "New" Social Movements (or Identity Confronts Leftist Politics) -- 4.5 Disability (Non)Politics in Neoliberal Times -- 4.6 Appropriation of Disability as Justification for War/Occupation and Its Resistance -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Landings: Decolonizing Disability, Indigeneity and Poetic Methods -- 5.1 Reading the Literature, Imagining Lives: Glue-Ear or Otitis Media -- 5.2 Decolonizing Methodologies -- 5.3 Embodied Poetics, Poetic Material: Two Stories -- 5.3.1 At the Awakenings Festival in Horsham, Australia, 2008 -- 5.3.2 At an Aboriginal Art Workshop, Alice Springs, 2008 -- 5.4 Intercultural Poetics: Writing Landings -- 5.5 Landings: Darwin -- 5.6 Landings: Silver Screen -- 5.7 Epilogue -- 5.8 Notes -- References -- 6 Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives -- 6.1 -- 6.2 -- 6.3 -- 6.4 -- 6.5 -- 6.6 -- 6.7 -- References -- 7 Scenes and Encounters, Bodies and Abilities: Devising Performance with Cyrff Ystwyth -- 7.1 Usefulness -- 7.2 Insertion -- 7.3 Knowledge -- 7.4 Rehearsal -- 7.5 At Work 1 2004 -- 7.6 At Work 2 2007 -- 7.7 At Work 3 2009 -- 7.8 At Work 4 2012 -- 7.9 Community -- 7.10 Occupation -- References -- 8 Artistic Therapeutic Treatment, Colonialism &amp -- Spectacle: A Brazilian Tale -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Mental Health in Brazil-From a Colonial Background to Recent Transformations -- 8.3 "Carnivalization".

8.4 The Tale of Vila Seco: A Fictional Account -- 8.5 Discussion -- References -- 9 A Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago: Education and Employment Policy Imperatives -- Acronyms -- 9.1 The Development Context and Disability -- 9.2 The Socio-cultural Environment -- 9.3 Education and Training Situation -- 9.4 Employment Situation -- 9.5 Policy Imperatives for the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Part II Disability and Community -- 10 Neoliberal Academia and a Critique from Disability Studies -- 10.1 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Soul Searching Occupations: Critical Reflections on Occupational Therapy's Commitment to Social Justice, Disability Rights, and Participation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Participation and Its Discontents -- 11.3 Contours of Participation Disparities -- 11.4 Toward a Materialist Understanding of Participation -- 11.5 Where Do We Go from Here? -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Refusing to Go Away: The Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Globalization, Entrepreneurial Cities, and Urban Aging -- 12.3 False Positive: Disability Shaming and Neoliberal `Responsibilization' -- 12.4 Elder Activism -- 12.5 The Ida Benderson Senior Citizens Center -- 12.6 Desperate Times, Prudent Measures: The City Administration Perspective -- 12.7 Older Adults Need Care: The Salvation Army Perspective -- 12.8 Procedural Injustice: The Common Council Perspective -- 12.9 Losing Home, Family, and City: Center Participants' Perspectives -- 12.10 Don't Stop: The Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group -- 12.11 Discussion: Ageism, Austerity and Entrepreneurial Governance -- 12.12 Seniors Talk Back: Voice, Embodied Activism, and Occupation -- 12.13 Conclusion: Senior Resistance, Occupation and a Broader Vision -- References.

13 Why Bother Talking? On Having Cerebral Palsy and Speech Impairment: Preserving and Promoting Oral Communication Through Occupational Community and Communities of Practice -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Rick's Story -- 13.3 Working Together Within Occupational Communities and Communities of Practice -- 13.4 Occupational Community and Communities of Practice: Exploring Boundary Interactions -- 13.5 An Ethics of Enabling Occupational Community and Communities of Practice -- References -- 14 Occupying Seats, Occupying Space, Occupying Time: Deaf Young Adults in Vocational Training Centers in Bangalore, India -- 14.1 Circulating for an Occupation -- 14.2 Vocational Training: An "Opportunity" to Learn Something -- 14.3 Occupying Seats -- 14.4 Occupying Space -- 14.5 Occupying Time -- 14.6 Conclusion: NGOs as Deaf Occupations -- References -- 15 My World, My Experiences with Occupy Wall Street and How We Can Go Further -- 16 Beyond Policy-A Real Life Journey of Engagement and Involvement -- 16.1 In Context -- 16.2 Journey -- 16.3 What Is Policy? -- 16.4 Influencing Policy -- 16.5 Beyond Policy -- 16.6 What Works? -- References -- 17 Self Advocacy and Self Determination for Youth with Disability and Their Parents During School Transition Planning -- References -- Part III Struggle, Creativity and Change -- 18 Should Robots Be Personal Assistants? -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Significance -- 18.2.1 Advanced Technology and Health Care -- 18.2.2 Human Rights, Bioethics and the Challenges of Containing New Technology in Old Wineskins -- 18.3 Method -- 18.4 What Are Advanced Technologies: Implications for the Disability Community? -- 18.4.1 Robots -- 18.4.2 Sensors Used to Monitor and Track People with Disabilities Across the Age Span -- 18.4.3 Human Enhancements -- 18.5 The Case Studies -- 18.5.1 A Young Man with Spinal Cord Injury -- Let's Call Him Jake Adams.

18.5.2 An Older Woman Who Is at Risk for Falling and Is Sometimes Forgetful -- Let's Call her Eve Jones -- 18.5.3 Human Enhancements: The Case of the Long Distance Runner -- 18.6 Conclusions -- References -- 19 Crab and Yoghurt -- 20 Occupying Disability Studies in Brazil -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Personal Trajectories -- 20.3 The Precursors of Disability Studies in Brazil -- 20.4 The Emergence of Brazilian Disability Studies or Who Occupies Disability Studies in Brazil? -- 20.5 Contradictions in the Field -- 20.6 Disability and Intersectionality -- 20.7 Final Considerations -- References -- 21 Black &amp -- Blue: Policing Disability &amp -- Poverty Beyond Occupy -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Occupy Was Never for Me -- 21.3 Part 2 -- Great Articles to Read on This Issue -- Additional Readings -- 22 Blindness and Occupation: Personal Observations and Reflections -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Examples and Discussion -- 22.2.1 Layer 1: The Occupation of Adaptive Learning -- 22.2.2 Layer 2: The Occupation of Contributing and Providing -- 22.2.3 Layer 3: The Occupation of Advocacy and Education -- 22.3 Conclusion -- 23 Surviving Stevenage -- 23.1 The Story of Stevenage Survivors -- 23.2 Untitled -- 23.3 To My Son -- 23.4 Push the Whoosh -- 23.5 The Moment of Reflection -- 23.6 Bipolar Lament -- 23.7 The Jacket -- 23.8 The Ocean's Magic -- 23.9 Christchild -- 23.10 Stevenage Survivors Poetry Group -- 23.11 My Poem -- 23.12 My Name is Paul Evans -- 23.13 Any Day -- 23.14 Passage for Survivors -- 23.15 Raw -- 23.16 Write Around -- 23.17 My Time with Stevenage Survivors Poetry (SSP) -- 23.18 Numerology - This I Date: 10.10.10 -- 24 If Disability Is a Dance, Who Is the Choreographer? A Conversation About Life Occupations, Art, Movement -- 24.1 Setting the Scene -- 24.2 Occupying Disability -- 24.3 Dance, Poetry and Art -- 24.4 Communication -- 24.5 Technology.

24.6 Occupying Disability Again.

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