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Disability as Diversity: A Legitimacy Approach
Presented by:
Maine
Three Interrelated Areas
Diversity
What does diversity have to do with disability?
Looking Backward
Diversity History in Brief
Contribution of Nomothetic Inquiry
The Normal Curve: Normal Man
Pluralism emerges
Multiculturalism...
Three approaches to multiculturalism
Return to the Current Context
Why Another Theory?
Why Another Theory? - 2
Explanatory Legitimacy Theory
Diversity is comprised of the three interactive elements:
Description
Explanation
Legitimacy
Disability
Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?
Applied to disability
Two intersecting dimensions of Description
Typical
Atypical
Explanation - 2
Medical Diagnostic
Constructed
Legitimacy - 2
Example #1
Example #2
Bodies in Art, Literature, and Technology
History
What constitutes a body - 2
Preceptives of body
Aztec Royalty
Moncliffe ------ Loren V
Fashion Models - laRage.com -2005
L. Ferguson. (2004). Neural network #1 (blue web). From The Visible Skeleton Series.
Performing artists - ndaf.org
Victor Hugo. (1936). (original publication date 1831). The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. New York: Dodd, Mead.
Atypical Bodies in Contemporary Literature and Film
Prose - Poetry - nfad.org
male in wheelchair with tattoos
Technology
Chuck Close. Self-Portrait. 1997.
Pixel style portrait
2004 Ad for Colours Wheelchair
Woman in designer wheelchair
Painter canvas genetic image of woman
www.CartoonStock.com
So why look at art, literature and technology to inform disability?
Why Change and to What?
Looking Forward, Not Backward
Looking Forward, Not Backward - 2
Post-positivism & post-modernism
Medicalizing bodies...
Medicalized & objectified bodies...
Current responses—make atypical people typical
Our Vision
Flatten the Curve
Flatten the Curve explaination
Group symmetry
Inclusion
Universal
Homme l'epee ( Swordman) as beauty
Picasso abstract painting
Credits
Thank You
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Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?
It is currently conceptualized as a binary
Normal=non-disabled
Not normal=Disabled
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