Slow: Disability and Qualitative Research Methods

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Moving Toward Justice Through Qualitative Inquiry (Table 34)

Abstract

One way to resist ableism and nurture ethical disability research is to emphasize methodology, rather than the objects of study. For scholars to engage in more accessible and anti-ableist research practices, it is important to understand how ableism is embedded within qualitative research methods. Cripistemology—or disabled ways of knowing—serves as a response to systemic ableism and encourages analyzing the taken-for-granted aspects of qualitative research. The purpose of this article is to foreground discussions of qualitative inquiry by exploring how disabled was of knowing challenge normative assumptions found in qualitative research methods and methodologies. The research question that guided this manuscript was: How can scholars root qualitative research in disabled ways of knowing?

Author

• Kirsten R. Brown, USUHS