This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer peace, and disability-queer activism in post-peace accord Northern Ireland (NI). Through in-person and virtual interviews with activists,... more
This article explores building transnational queer and disabilities communities, disability-queer peace, and disability-queer activism in post-peace accord Northern Ireland (NI). Through in-person and virtual interviews with activists, staff, and leaders who are disabled, queer, and/or in allyship, it became clear in the data that respondents were ashamed, frustrated, and sad that ableism and queerphobia continues in NI. Attacks on disabled and LGBTQIA+ people have escalated as a result of the Brexit fallout and the COVID-19 pandemic that negatively impacted marginalized communities that are targeted by legal exclusion, discriminatory, and hateful practices as well as structural and interpersonal violence. Dialogue, diversity, and inclusive practices and policies and a political system that benefits all NI citizens are crucial to building sustainable peace in NI.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Political Science, Politics, Inclusion, Social Inclusion, and 12 moreLiberal Peacebuilding, Sustainable Peacebuilding, Peacebuilding, Queer, Northern Ireland, Social Exclusion and Inclusion, Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland and the Troubles, Ableism, Mainstreaming, Marginalization, and LGBTQIA+ Studies
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This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses the ways in which they lived, worked, and influenced public policy in Canada. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this... more
This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses the ways in which they lived, worked, and influenced public policy in Canada. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this collection are authored by a diverse group of scholars who discuss the untold histories of Canadians with disabilities—Canadians who influenced science and technology, law, education, healthcare, and social justice. Selected chapters discuss disabilities among Indigenous women; the importance of community inclusion; the ubiquity of stairs in the Montreal metro; and the ethics of disability research. Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader offers an exceptional presentation of influential people with various disabilities who brought about social change and helped to make Canada more accessible.
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Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une professeure de droit—analysent d'un œil critique une décision de la Cour d'appel fédérale qui soulève des questions de genre et... more
Dans le présent article, les auteures—une experte en études critiques de l'incapacité et une professeure de droit—analysent d'un œil critique une décision de la Cour d'appel fédérale qui soulève des questions de genre et d'incapacité. La cause porte sur l'accès aux prestations d'invalidité du Régime de pensions du Canada. Cynthia Harris, une mère qui a la sclérose en plaques, conteste l'application de la clause d'exclusion pour élever des enfants contenue dans le Régime de pensions du Canada. Mme Harris conteste la disposition pour la raison que le handicap de son enfant l'oblige à lui donner des soins parentaux plus longtemps que s'il s'agissait d'un enfant non handicapé. Les auteures critiquent les différentes approches visant à comprendre le concept d’égalité et son application aux questions d'incapacité et de genre. Elles prêtent une attention particulière aux critères de participation à la vie active dans la législation sur la...
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... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we attach a shame to difference. ... Through its imagery, Million Dollar Baby reinforces the societal perception that people who are disabled... more
... Yet when they ask us why, we hush their questions, ignore their curiosity and in doing so, we attach a shame to difference. ... Through its imagery, Million Dollar Baby reinforces the societal perception that people who are disabled have no quality of life. ...
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The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with, and involving, forty women in Scotland and Canada. Their educational experiences are explored. The voices of women with disabilities in... more
The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with, and involving, forty women in Scotland and Canada. Their educational experiences are explored. The voices of women with disabilities in this article are important, and what appears are rich contextual profiles of women making spaces on their own terms.
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Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical... more
Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological insights from the application of ABR to the lives of disabled children and youth to help foster this critical dialogue. We decided to undertake this narrative review of the literature to better understand how ABR is used in pediatric disability contexts.
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between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied but never explicitly teased out. Additionally, an interesting notion of scale is at play throughout the interviews – from the embodied... more
between cosmopolitanism and multinationalism, transnationalism, diversity, and so on is implied but never explicitly teased out. Additionally, an interesting notion of scale is at play throughout the interviews – from the embodied transgression of a kiss between a French village girl and German soldier in WWII to the inversion of particularity between the local, Strasbourg identity and the regional, Alsatian identity. Sometimes these ruminations beg spatial-theoretic exegesis, but perhaps it is this omission that will allow the book to have a wider appeal, beyond a human geography audience. All told, Cosmopolitan Europe is a beautifully written and powerful piece of ethnography with real potential to compel the field of EU studies to take notice of what geography and geographers bring to the study of identity and integration.