Full Description
This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "disabled" and "anthropologist" belong together. The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from a profession that would ignore their critiques and creativity. Applying autoethnographic, photographic, and poetic venues, the contributors assess the drawbacks of their anthropology training programs, the limitations of accessibility practices in the academy, and how their own embodiments and the contingencies of their research and research settings have facilitated the discovery of novel methodologies and insights. Collectively this volume's contributors demonstrate a shared concern for the wellbeing of disabled ethnographers and interlocutors, whether working with Colombian refugees in Ecuador or those living with chronic pain in Michigan.
The Disabled Anthropologist is essential reading for students and scholars working in cultural and medical anthropology.
Contents
Introduction Sumi Colligan and Anna Jaysane-Darr 1. The Intrepid Anthropologist Valerie Black 2. Cripping Ethnography: Disability, Unruly Movement, and the Doing of Anthropology Alana Ackerman 3. Working on Pain Time: Doing Anthropology While Living with a Painful Chronic Illness Amanda Votta 4. Assembling the Field During a Crisis: Disabled Carework and/as Fieldwork Kim Fernandes 5. Reimagining Ethnographic Research for Collective Access through (Crip) Collaboration Erin L. Durban and Miranda Joseph 6. Recognition, Care, and Childhood Disability Krisjon Rae Olson 7. Disability Touch Susan Seizer 8. "You Used to Speak Like Us": Being Aphasic in a Spanish Galician Community and Affrilachian Neighborhood Elder Club Heidi Kelley and Kenneth A. Betsalel 9. Ethnographic Insight, Painfully Come By Rachel Parks 10. The Disabled Body and the Body Politic: Multiple Readings and Experiences Sumi Colligan Gratitude, Concluding Thoughts, and a Mini-Manifesto Megan Moodie
