Participants of the workshop Mapping Disability Studies in Eastern Europe hosted by Sarah D. Philips discussed their research interests in five groups: queering disability studies and cripping queer studies, disability history and heritage, disability activism, disability art/artists with disabilities, and disability and media/representations. This mind map documents their discussions and sets possible future avenues for research platform’s activities.
Mapping disability studies in Eastern Europe
Workshop hosted by Sarah D. Phillips
25 March 2022
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- queering disability studies and cripping queer studies
- intersectionality
- including motherhood
- trans/communities
- unique perspective
- the concept of global east
- workshop proposals:
- specificity of disability studies in Eastern Europe
- seminars analyzing theoretical work
- exclusion in disability studies/queer studies
- problem: lack of translated theoretical works
- let's translate!
- Disability history and heritage
- work
- care
- marginalized work
- labor of love
- care
- historical approach
- value of labor
- (in)visibility
- creative work
- innovation of deaf and disabled people
- how work is gendered
- how work/productivity is defined/valued
- displaced persons seen not as mothers but caretakers/workers
- disability activism
- similarities and differences between local disability activisms
- Slovenia
- Uzbekistan
- Poland
- activism and/in academia
- different forms of activism
- religious institutions
- popular education/popularization
- limitations of activism under different state politics
- disability art/artists with disabilities
- performative arts
- "using" disability in artistic practices
- visibility of disability
- literature
- representation
- in non-fiction literature
- how disability is perceived and defined
- representation
- the role of institutions
- accessibility of culture
- workshop proposals
- meetings with artists with disabilities
- creative writing
- cooperation of artists with and without disabilities
- representation of various disabilities in comics/film...
- disability and media/representations
- representation of disability
- in:
- school text-books
- literature
- in:
- stigmatization
- education / culture - where change begins?
- workshop proposal: comparative international literature analysis - similarities/differences in representations
- anything else?
- race is missing
- education present but not as a separate topic
- class - understood differently in different political systems
- ethical and legal aspects