• Exploring joy as an active actor in reframing experiences of dis/ability

    Author(s):
    Anita Z Goldschmied (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Critical Disability Studies
    Subject(s):
    Actor-network theory, Disabilities, Social sciences, Interdisciplinary research
    Item Type:
    Video
    Tag(s):
    joy, everyday life, solution focused, Emergence, Disability, Animation, Agency
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/d787-3k70
    Abstract:
    I work with images, stories, objects and employ object-oriented Actor-Network-Theory to co-author research with my clients. This allows us to focus on untraditional but remarkable things like hope, wants and happiness. Together, we have emerged an innovative approach that attempts to match our everyday life and all of its surprises. Disability is frequently explored from oppression and disadvantaged perspective and remains on the edge of methodological and theoretical imagination. Yet my research has found that joy is just one of the actors that have the capacity to reassemble disability and potentially promote affirmative experiences and productive collaborations between disciplines. In this short, animated film, my participants help me show joy as a key actor in their everyday life and offer an alternative appreciation of it for practitioners and policymakers who develop and provide services for disabled people. A video presentation using animation that was presented at the 2021 British Sociological Association, Medical-Sociology Conference.
    Metadata:
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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