ANTHR 235
Anthropology of Disability
Winter 2017
Topics
- To acquire broad familiarity with key themes in, and contributions to, disability studies
- To apprehend the relevance of disability experience and disability theory to anthropology
- To discuss and to write informedly about disability activism and disability scholarship
Readings
- Davis, Lennard J. The Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition (2013)
- Week 6 Patriarchy revisited M 2/13 Li, Chenyang (2015). “Confucian Ethics and Care Ethics: The Political Dimension of a Scholarly Debate.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 30(4). W 2/15 Midweek Melbourne Method Groups 1 Questions, Groups 2 Responds, Groups 3 Considers, Group 4 Reclines F 2/17 Bonilla, Oiara (2016). “Parasitism and subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation.” From Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations. *eclass
- Week 8 Dependency M 2/27 Lecture on: Kittay, Eva Feder (1999) Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency. Part One W 3/1 Midweek Melbourne Method Group 4 Questions, Group 1 Responds, Group 2 Considers, Group 3 Reclines F 3/3 Kittay continued
- Week 9 Genealogy of morals M 3/6 Brodwin, Paul (2013). Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry (selections) *eclass W 3/8 Midweek Melbourne Method Group 3 Questions, Group 4 Responds, Group 1 Considers, Group 2 Reclines F 3/10 Lecture on Nietzsche
- Week 10 Status, Contract, or Alliance? M 3/13 Wikler, Daniel (1979). “Paternalism and the Mildly Retarded.” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 8(4):377-392 W 3/15 Midweek Melbourne Method
- Group 2 Questions, Group 3 Responds, Group 4 Considers, Group 1 Reclines F 3/17 Bannerman, Sheldon, Sherman, and Harchik (1990). “Balancing the right to habilitation with the right to personal liberties: the rights of people with developmental disabilities to eat too many doughnuts and take a nap.” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 23 (1): 79-89
- Week 11 Mad Pride M 3/20 Lewis, Bradley. “A mad fight: psychiatry and disability activism” (DSR ch. 9) W 3/22 Midweek Discussion led by Groups 1 & 2 F 3/24 Mitchell, David and Sharon Snyder. “Narrative prosthesis” (DSR ch. 17)
- Week 12 How does it feel to be a problem? M 3/27 Hevey, David. “The Enfreakment of Photography” (DSR ch. 31) W 3/29 Midweek Discussion led by Groups 3 & 4 F 3/31 Dubois, W.E.B.: biographical note and excerpts from “The souls of black folk” (1903) and “The souls of white folk” [1920] from Roberta Garner, ed. (2000) Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation (A Reader). *eclass
- Week 13 Fakin it M 4/3 Siebers, Tobin (2004) “Disability as Masquerade.” Literature and Medicine 23 (1). W 4/5 Emens, Elizabeth. “Disabling attitudes: U.S. disability law and the ADA Amendments Act.” (DSR ch. 4) F 4/7 TBA Groups 1 & 2
Winter 2016
Readings
- Kittay, Eva Feder
- Women, Equality, and Dependency
- Baynton, Douglas
- University Press
- Taylor, Sunny. (2004) “The right not to work: power and disability
- Davis, Lennard (2005) “Constructing normalcy:
- Eveleth, Rose
- Silverman, Chloe. (2008) “Fieldwork on Another Planet: Social Science
- Dubois, W.E.B
- black folk” (1903) and “The souls of white folk” [1920] from Roberta
- Garner, ed. (2000) Social Theory:
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2016-Winter-ANTHR-235-LECTURE-B1 ↗2016
- 2017-Winter-ANTHR-235-LECTURE-B1 ↗2017
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