An Ethnography of Severe Intellectual Disability
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-32208-3 (ISBN)
In this ethnographic investigation of a special education needs college in Australia, Jocelyn D. Avery explores how the self-identity of people with severe intellectual identities is influenced by carers and support people in their lives. Employing theoretical foundations of self-identity and embodiment and drawing largely on Mary Douglas's (1996) notions of ritual and hygiene, purity and danger, Avery argues that students in this environment are treated as though they exist in a vacuum, rather than a highly complex social environment: strategies to 'contain' their difficult selves ultimately lead to continued confinement, as if the students themselves were 'contaminated'. In the midst of this much-needed ethnography, Avery meditates on her own role: matters of consent, communication, and cooperation pose a challenge to anthropological engagement with severe intellectual disability, but researcher ethics and positionality have their own difficulties. The reflection provided here will provide a guide for future researchers to sensitively engage with people with disability.
Jocelyn D. Avery, PhD, is an independent anthropological researcher, focusing on intellectual disability.
Chapter 1: Orientation Upon Arrival Intellectual Disability Young People Cultural Environment Unfolding
Chapter 2: Conceptualisaton Selfhood Embodiment Interpretation Chapter 3: Methics Reuben Risks Positionality Representation Benefits Consent Conclusion Chapter 4: Containment Contagion Control Surveillance Chapter 5: Contaminatus Cutlery Ritual Hygiene Food Avoidances Ill Health Conclusion Chapter 6: Extending the Metaphor Challenging Behaviour Re/mediation Impressions and Ideas Inequity Conclusion Chapter 7: Agency Acceptance Resistance Manipulation Anomalies The Stress Response Conclusion Chapter 8: Disaffection Concentric Relationality Existential Loneliness Behaviour Modelling Apportioning Blame Conclusion Chapter 9: Recasting the Net Gender Matters Instrumental Communitas Human Rights Chapter 10: Reflexion
Final Vignette An Embodied Approach Paradoxes and Contraditions Aide-Mémoire
Re/mediation Redux Last Reflexion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XI, 219 p. 2 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 432 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| Schlagworte | containment • Contamination • Disability Studies • Embodiment • Health • intellectual disability • Neuroscience • Special Needs Education • Surveillance |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-32208-4 / 3030322084 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-32208-3 / 9783030322083 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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