RTA 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deaf Culture, Identity Politics, Ableism
17 Apr 2018
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Disability: interdisciplinary field that draws from different disciplines, originates around disability rights, justice, arts and culture, and the lives of disabled people and our allies. Values that we give the body and mind. How we constitute what makes up a desirable life: how we make meaning of social issues, theory, racism, post-colonial. Term disability is a placeholder term in order to facilitate conversation. Listen to the language that people use (ex. visual impairment: usually use political language ex. disabled people to reference the exclusion, marginalization experience. We can read media- and its representations as text . Text is constructed for us, so we deconstruct it. Stuart hall: media representations are re-presentations of what we believe to be true and real: most of us can tell the difference between what is real, fact and fiction, toy with our understandings of reality, ex.
