Breaking the frame: Disability as embodied discourse of change

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar I

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Presentations in this panel challenge the framings of disability as a fixed, disembodied category of medical, therapeutic, and aesthetic discourse. Employing embodied methodologies of inquiry such as ethnography, in depth interviewing, and a elicitation of first person narrative accounts, participants interrogate and reframe disability as an embodied discourse, exploring change that is possible for bodies that do not fit the constraints of social frames.

Sub Unit

• Scholar to Scholar Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Moving Outside the Therapeutic Frame: Discourse of Stability and Change in Creating Integrated Dance - Margaret Quinlan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Negotiating Cultures of 'Disability' and 'Therapy': An Ethnographic Account of the Quantum Leap Farm Community - Shelby Forbes, University of South Florida

• Life on the Margins: The Disabled-Enabled Menopausal Body - Linda Vangelis, East Carolina Univ

Session Organizer

• Mariaelena Bartesaghi, University of South Florida