Disability as Diversity: A Legitimacy Approach
Table of Contents
- 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
Text and Images from Slide
Diversity History in Brief
- Historically, discrimination and oppression have been conceptualized as population specific marginalization with a particular focus on race, class, ethnicity, and gender, and more recently, sexual orientation, disability, and age.