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SOCJ 5011

Special Topics

0.5 credits · Graduate

Fall 2024 · Qualitative Methods / Special Topics

Topics

  • § Develop our perspectives on epistemology, ontology and methodology
  • § Understand ethics and self-reflexivity in qualitative research
  • § Explore links between methodology and the construction of theory
  • § Understand distinct methods employed in qualitative research design
  • § Query social justice as an ontological commitment in research
  • § Learn design elements of a qualitative research proposal
  • § Develop university-level research, analytical and writing skills

Readings

  • Required: 1. Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, 4th E. (2018), by John W. Creswell and Cheryl N. Poth.
  • Required: 2. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 3rd E. (2021), by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (or earlier edition).
  • Required: 3. Qualitative Research in Action: A Canadian Primer, 4th Ed. (2021), by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard and Lisa Jo van den Scott.
  • 3. Carter, S. M., & M. Little (2007). Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies and Methods in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Health Research 17(10): 1316
  • 1. Parker, B. (2023) Anti-colonial praxis in community-based research in feminist food studies, The Research Handbook on Intersectionality, Mary Romero and Reshawna Chapple (Eds)
  • 2. Finlay, L., (2002). Outing the Researcher: The Provenance, Process and Practice of Reflexivity. Qualitative Health Research, 12(4): 531-45.
  • 3. Berger, R. (2015). Now I see it, Now I don't: researcher's position and reflexivity in qualitative research, Qualitative Research, 15(2): 219-234.
  • 1. Doucet, A. & Mauthner, N. S., (2002). Knowing Responsibility: Linking Ethics, Research Practice and Epistemology. In Ethics in Qualitative Research, edited by M. Mauthner, M. Birch, J. Jesop & T. Miller, pgs. 123-145.
  • Gover, R,M.S. (2008). Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and
  • 2. DeVault, M. L., (2004). Talking and Listening from Women’s Standpoint: Feminist strategies for Interviewing and Analysis, in Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, edited by S. Nagy Hesse-Biber & M. L. Yaiser, pgs. 227-250.
  • 3. Carpiano, R.M. (2009). Come take a walk with me: The go-along interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being, in Health & Place, 15: 263-272.
  • 4. Deakin H. and K. Wakefield. (2014). Skype Interviewing: reflections of two PhD researchers, Qualitative Research. 14(5): 603-616.
  • 1. Martin, D. (2012). Two-eyed seeing: a framework for understanding indigenous and non- indigenous approaches to indigenous health research. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44(2): 20-42.
  • 5. Graveline, F. J., (2000). Circle as methodology: Enacting an Aboriginal paradigm, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13:4, 361-370.
  • 2. Pope, C., Ziebland, S., and Mays, N. (2000). Analyzing Qualitative Data. British Medical Journal, 320: 114-116.
  • 3. Hsieh, H, F., and Shanon, S. E., (2005). Three Approaches to Qualitative Health Research, Qualitative Health Research. 15(9): 1277-1288.
  • 2. Frank, A. (2004). After Methods, the Story: From Incongruity to Truth in Qualitative Research, Qualitative Health Research 14: 430-440. On D2L
Spring 2022

Topics

  • Project / Art piece 10%
  • Example ideas
  • Create a visual art piece
  • create a sculpture or painting
  • create a photography project
  • small scale museum installation
  • create an activist project and stage it
  • create a short comic strip
  • Lakehead University
  • write a short scene for a musical
  • write a short act for a play
  • create a short film
  • write a short
  • story
  • choreograph a dance and perform it / tape it
  • create a performance piece
  • perform it/tape it. The options are limitless
  • written component to the project
  • Written Component for Creative Project (3-4 pages) 30%
  • the ways in which their creative project fits in the themes of the course. Each student
  • themes
  • Reminders
  • Put your Name on your paper/project
  • Include a Paper/Project Title
  • Double-spaced

Readings

  • Required: - Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin – “Disability”
  • Required: - Tobin Siebers – “Introducing Disability Aesthetics”
  • Required: - A.J. Withers – “Constructing Difference, Controlling Deviance: The Eugenic Model”
  • Required: - Surviving Eugenics
  • Required: - Disability History Video Exhibit Timeline (2015)
  • Required: Key Topics: Eugenics, Mind/Body, Normalcy, Disability in Art History, Medical Model of
  • Required: Disability, Social Model of Disability, Feminist Approaches to Disability
  • Required: W3/May 16: Extraordinary Bodies: Disability, Race, and Gender
  • Required: - Robert Bogdan – “Race, Showmen, and the Freak Show”
  • Required: - Nadja Durbach – “Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Re-Examining ‘the Elephant Man’”
  • Required: - Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau - Introduction to Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’
  • Required: - The Greatest Showman (2017)
  • Required: - The Elephant Man (1980)
  • Required: - Freaks (1932)
  • Required: [*Content Warning* These films depict outdated cinematic depictions of persons with disabilities]
  • Required: Key Topics: Disability in the Entertainment Industry, Nineteenth Century ‘Freak-’shows, Extraordinary Bodies, Disability Intersections with Race, Gender, and Age, Constructing ‘Monstrosity,’ Mermaids, Anatomy Museums
  • Required: W4/May 23: Disability in Contemporary Visual Culture
  • Required: - Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin – “Cinematic Images of (Dis)Ability”
  • Required: - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson – “Disability and Representation”
  • Required: - John Hendrickson – “The Tension at the Heart of CODA”
  • Required: - Catherine Shoard – “Peter Dinklage Criticizes Disney for ‘Backwards’ Remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
  • Required: - Cinemability (2013)
  • Required: - CODA (2021)
  • Required: - Disability in Film
  • Required: - Zuzanna Filipiuk – “Representation of Disability in Film and Sociopolitical Implications”
  • Required: Lakehead University 7
  • Required: Key Topics: Disability and Popular Culture, Disability in Cinema, Advertisement and Counter
  • Required: Culture, Underrepresentation of Actors with Disabilities, Disability Awareness
  • Required: W5/May 30: ‘Crip’ Art, Sexuality, and Activism
  • Required: - Victoria Ann Lewis – “Crip”
  • Required: - Robert McRuer – “Crip/Queer Horizons: Disability and Dispossession”
  • Required: - Jenna Reid – “Cripping the Arts: It’s About Time”
  • Required: - Crip Camp (2020)
  • Required: - Bedding Andrew (2014)
  • Required: - A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement
  • Required: - Robert McRuer on Crip Theory
  • Required: Key Topics: ‘Crip’ Theory, Queer Theory, Desire, Representations of Disability and Sexuality, Disability Activist Movements
  • Required: W6/Jun 6: In/Visibility: Chronic Pain, Illness, and Cognitive Disability
  • Required: - Licia Carlson – “Feminist Approaches to Cognitive Disability”
  • Required: - Eli Clare – “Violence of Cure”
  • Required: - Sander L. Gilman – “Seeing the AIDS Patient”
  • Required: - Sandy Sufian and Licia Carlson – “Thoughts of Precarity, Disablement, and Risk during
  • Required: - Sara Hendren – “All Technology is Assistive”
  • Required: - Alison Kafer – “Crip Kin, Manifesting”
  • Required: - Sunaura Taylor – “Animals, Ableism, Activism”
  • Required: - Miscellaneous videos Wangechi Mutu
  • Required: - Miscellaneous Lisa Bufano performances
  • Required: Lakehead University 8
  • Required: - Examined Life – Sunaura Taylor and Judith Butler
  • Required: - Animal and Disability Liberation – with Sunaura Taylor
  • Required: Key Topics: Posthumanism, Assistive Technologies, Art and Artists, Human-Animal Studies, Animal Disability, Performance Art
Winter 2021

Topics

  • entertainment industries observed across historical Europe and North America. In this course, we
  • postmortem and colonized bodies placed on display in natural history museums, famous ‘freak’
  • shows, and human zoos. By looking to the complex ways that sex, gender, disability, species
  • processes of sex, race, gender, species, and able-bodied normalization diverges and intersects
  • analyze how these scholars have actively reclaimed the body as extraordinary and remarkable
  • through contemporary art, media, photography, installation, and performance
  • Lakehead University
  • Final Paper (12 pages): 20%
  • Ø To develop an understanding of the principles, ethics, and practices of critical disability
  • and race studies as they relate to a range of interdisciplinary topics
  • interconnectedness between race, disability, gender, and sexuality (among many other
  • identifiable categories)
  • Ø Understand the relationship between knowledge production, social location, ideology
  • and structural inequality
  • Ø Articulate how social locations such as race, disability, class, gender, and sexuality
  • inform feminist research
  • Ø Recognize the diversity of feminist and anti-oppressive approaches to interdisciplinary
  • research and practice

Readings

  • Required: Email Note: Ø
  • Recommended: - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson – “Disability Studies: A Field Emerged”
  • Recommended: - Subini A. Annamma, David Connor and Beth Ferri – “Theorizing at the Intersections of Race and Dis/ability”
  • Recommended: - Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin – “Disability”
  • Recommended: - Fiona Kumari Campbell – “Ability”
  • Recommended: - Victoria Ann Lewis – “Crip”
  • Recommended: W2/Jan 19: The Extraordinary Body: Theory of Matter
  • Required: - Judith Butler – excerpts from Bodies that Matter
  • Required: - Zine Magubane – “Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the ‘Hottentot Venus’”
  • Required: - Jane Nicholas – “A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History and the Study of Freakery”
  • Required: - Ellen Samuels – “Critical Divides: Judith Butler’s Body Theory and the Question of Disability”
  • Required: - Abby Wilkerson – “Embodiment”
  • Required: - Julia Miele Rodas – “Identity”
  • Required: W3/Jan 26: The Material Body: Constructing ‘Teratology’
  • Required: - Anthony Anemone – “The Monsters of Peter the Great: The Culture of the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera in the Eighteenth Century”
  • Required: - Nadja Durbach – “Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Re-Examining ‘the Elephant Man’”
  • Required: - Elizabeth Grosz – “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit”
  • Required: - Margrit Shildrick – “Monsters, Marvels, and Metaphysics: Beyond the Powers of Horrors”
  • Recommended: - Lennard Davis – “Constructing Normalcy”
  • Recommended: - Jane Nicholas and Lori Chambers – “In Search of Monkey Girl”
  • Recommended: - Helen Deutsch – “Deformity”
  • Recommended: - Susan Burch and Kim E. Nielsen – “History”
  • Recommended: W4/Feb 2: The ‘Order’ of Things
  • Required: - Maneesha Deckha – “The Salience of Species Difference for Feminist Theory”
  • Required: - Patricia Fara – excerpts from Sex, Botany and Empire
  • Required: - Londa Schiebinger – “Feminist History of Colonial Science”
  • Required: - Londa Schiebinger – “Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy”
  • Required: Lakehead University 6
  • Required: - Rachel Herrick – “Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies” (2013)
  • Required: - Kathleen LeBesco – “Fat”
  • Required: - Tanya Titchkosky – “Normal”
  • Required: - Christopher Gabbard – “Human”
  • Required: W5/Feb 9: Gender and Sexual Expression on Display
  • Required: - Sears Clare – “Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth Century San Francisco”
  • Required: - Channing Gerard Joseph – “The First Drag Queen”
  • Required: - Siobhan B. Somerville – “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body”
  • Required: - Elizabeth Stephens – “The Queer Space of the Freak Show”
  • Recommended: - Alison Kafer – “Compulsory Bodies: Reflections on Heterosexuality and Able-Bodiedness”
  • Recommended: - Allyson Mitchell – Ladies Sasquatch (2006-2010)
  • Recommended: - Kim Q. Hall – “Gender”
  • Recommended: - Margrit Shildrick – “Sex”
  • Recommended: - Robert McRuer – “Sexuality”
  • Recommended: - Tim Dean – “Queer”
  • Recommended: W6/Feb 16: Reading Week
  • Recommended: Relax and rest up J
  • Recommended: W7/Feb 23: Madness, Hysteria, and Cognitive Disability
  • Required: - Elizabeth J. Donaldson – “Revisiting the Corpus of the Madwoman: Further Notes Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory”
  • Required: - Robert Bogdan – “The Exhibition of People We Now Call Retarded”
  • Required: - Heather Meek – “Of Wandering Wombs of Women: Evolving Conceptions of Hysteria in the Age of Reason”
  • Required: - Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle – “Eugenics and the Normal Body: The Role of Visual Images and Intelligence Testing in Framing the Treatment of People with Disabilities in the Early Twentieth Century”
  • Recommended: - Licia Carlson – “Cognitive Ableism and Disability Studies: Feminist Reflections on the History of Mental Retardation”
  • Recommended: Lakehead University 7
  • Recommended: - Brad Isaacs - The Map of the Empire (2016); Tell Me About Your Mother series (2014)
  • Recommended: - Sander L. Gilman – “Madness”
  • Recommended: - Sayantani DasGupta – “Medicalization”
  • Recommended: - Licia Carlson – “Institutions”
  • Recommended: W8/Mar 2: Constructing Race and Body Ownership
  • Required: - Warren Cariou – “The Exhibited Body: The Nineteenth-Century Human Zoo”
  • Required: - Anne Fausto-Sterling – “Gender, Race, and Nation: Comparative Anatomy of ‘Hottentot’ Women in Europe, 1815-1817”
  • Required: - Coco Fusco – “The Other History of Intercultural Performance”
  • Required: - Cynthia Wu – “Labor and Ownership in the American South”
  • Required: - Benjamin Reiss – “P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth, and Antebellum Spectacles of Race”
  • Recommended: - Sami Schalk – “Introduction,” Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender
  • Recommended: - Brett Bailey – Exhibit B (2010-2016)
  • Recommended: - Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña – Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992
  • Recommended: - Lennard J. Davis – “Diversity”
  • Recommended: - Allison Carey – “Citizenship”
  • Recommended: - Nirmala Erevelles – “Race”
  • Recommended: W9/Mar 9: ‘Enfreakment’ and the Historical Sideshow
  • Required: - Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, Éric Deroo, and Sandrine Lemaire – “Human Zoos: The Greatest Exotic Shows in the West”
  • Required: - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson – “The Spectacle of the Extraordinary Body”; “Making Freaks: Visual Rhetorics and the Spectacle of Julia Pastrana”
  • Required: - Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau – “Introduction,” Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’
  • Required: - Jane Nicholas – “Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things”
  • Recommended: - Eli Clare – “Freaks and Queers”
  • Recommended: - Mothmeister – Revelations Behind the Mask | Mythological Entropy
  • Recommended: - Mothmeister – miscellaneous examples
  • Recommended: Lakehead University 8
  • Recommended: - Leonard Cassuto – “Freak”
  • Recommended: - Georgina Kleege – “Visuality”
  • Recommended: W10/Mar 16: Mermaids, ‘Missing Links,’ and the Dehumanization Process
  • Recommended: - Skye Anicca – “Cripping the Mermaid: Borderlands Approach to Feminist Disability Studies”
  • Recommended: - Beatrice Laurent – “Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination”
  • Recommended: - Cynthia Barounis – “Special Affects: Mermaids, Prosthetics, and the Disabling of Feminine Futurity”
  • Recommended: - Nigel Rothfels – “Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany”
  • Recommended: - Miranda Niittynen – “Interspecies Blendings and Resurrections: Material Histories of Disability and Race in Taxidermy Art”
  • Recommended: - Michael Bérubé – “Representation”
  • Recommended: - Ani B. Satz – “Vulnerability”
  • Recommended: W11/Mar 23: Modern Eugenics and Taxidermic Bodies
  • Required: - Donna Haraway – “Teddy Bear Patriarchy”
  • Required: - Anna Stubblefield – “‘Beyond the Pale’: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic Sterilization”
  • Required: - Fatimah Tobing-Rony – “Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography”
  • Required: - Pauline Wakeham – “Tracking the Taxidermic”
  • Required: - Rebecca Garden – “Ethics”
  • Required: - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson – “Eugenics”
  • Required: - Janet Lyon – “Modernity”
  • Required: W12/Mar 30: Unburiable Bodies and Repatriated Human Rights
  • Required: - Neil Parsons and Alinah Kelo Segobye – “Missing Persons and Stolen Bodies: The Repatriation”
  • Required: - Connie Rapoo – “‘Just Give us the Bones!’: Theatres of African Disaporic Returns”
  • Required: - Andrea Smith – “Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity”
  • Required: - Pauline Wakeham – “Repatriation’s Remainders”
  • Required: - Kent Monkman - The Rise and Fall of Civilization, 2016
  • Required: - Dana Claxton - Buffalo Bone China, 1997
  • Required: - Denise M. Nepveux – “Activism”
  • Required: - Lisa Cartwright – “Affect”
  • Required: Lakehead University 9
  • Required: - Kathryn Linn Geurts – “Senses”
  • Required: - Maya Sabatello – “Rights”
  • Required: W13/Apr 6: Disability, Illness, and the Narrative of ‘Cure’
  • Required: - Rachel Adams – “Choosing Disability, Visualizing Care”
  • Required: - Stella Bolaki – “Challenging Invisibility, Making Connections: Illness, Survival and Black Struggles in Audre Lorde’s Work”
  • Required: - Susan Sontag – excerpts from Illness as Metaphor
  • Required: - Jasbir Puar – excerpts from The Right to Maim
  • Required: - Pink Concussions
  • Required: - Wangechi Mutu – This You Call Civilization? and Exhuming Gluttony: A Lover’s Requiem
  • Required: (2006); Howl (2006); other miscellaneous artworks
  • Required: - Jill C. Anderson – “Accident”
  • Required: - G. Thomas Couser – “Illness”
  • Required: - Susannah B. Mintz – “Invisibility” Marth Stoddard Holmes – “Pain”
  • Required: - Gary L. Albrecht – “Rehabilitation”
  • Required: W14/Apr 13: Extraordinary Bodies in Art
  • Required: - Ann M. Fox and Joan Lipkin – “Res(crip)ting Feminist Theater through Disability Theater”
  • Required: - Cassandra Jackson – “Visualizing Slavery: Photography and the Disabled Subject in Art of Carrie Mae Weems”
  • Required: - Disability History Exhibit
  • Required: - Viji Kuppan – “Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump”
  • Required: - Sophia Smith Galer – “How Black Women were Whitewashed by Art”
  • Required: - Claire Cunningham – various performances and choreography
  • Required: - Carrie Mae Weems – Miscellaneous examples
  • Required: - Extraordinary Bodies, UK – “What Am I Worth?”
  • Required: - Kinetic Light
  • Required: - Michael Davidson – “Aesthetics”
  • Required: - Petra Kuppers – Performance
  • Required: - Ellen Samuels – Passing
  • Required: Lakehead University 10
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