Globalisation of disability

Dominant militarist ideologies materially and discursively produce dis/ability. In this paper, I outline the field of Critical Disability Studies to unpack intersections of disability and gender. I theorize militarism, gender, and disability, and discuss pedagogies of possibility to counter ableism and sanism in educational systems and institutions. [Castrodale, M.A. (2015). A critical discussion on disabled subjects: Examining ableist and militarist discourses in education. In Learning Gendered Militarism. Nancy Taber (Ed.). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta Press]

Thomsen (2015) argues that people with disabilities should be granted an exception to a general prohibition on paying for sex. In this paper, I argue that Thomsen’s definition of disability is too vague to be useful in identifying who should be granted an exception to an overall ban, and that Thomsen’s case for a ban also fails to withstand scrutiny. A more reasonable argument, in my view, is that mature individuals should be allowed to decide for themselves (a) what kind of consensual sex they wish to engage in, and (b) in exchange for what.

Abstracts Due January 30th 2016.

Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Katie Ellis, Mike Kent and Rachel Robertson
The collection is a new contribution to global interdisciplinary disability studies. The book will consist of contributions from established and new voices in international disability studies outlining their own manifestos for the future of the field.  Interdisciplinary fields covered will include bio-ethics, social media, cultural studies, disability studies pedagogy, maternal studies, robotics, social sciences, Indigenous peoples, neurodiversity and much more.
We have asked some of the leading scholars in the field to provide a 4000 word manifesto on where they believe the future of critical disability studies lies. These short, sharp chapters will map out future directions for the discipline. A number of prominent writers in this field have already been approached and expressed interest including: the editorial team, Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, Beth Haller, Gerard Goggin, Baden Offord and Tara Brabazon.
We invite potential authors to submit a chapter abstract of no more than 500 words, including a title, 4 to 6 keywords, and a brief bio, by email to both Dr Mike Kent <[email protected]> and Dr Katie Ellis <[email protected]>  by 30 January 2016. (Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to use any visual material, and how you have or will gain copyright clearance for visual material.) Authors will receive a response by February 28th 2016, with those provisionally accepted due as chapters of 4000 words (including references) by May 30th 2016.

For any queries or further information please contact Mike Kent through [email protected].

About the editors:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English and Bioethics at Emory University, where her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current book project is Habitable Worlds: Disability, Technology, and Eugenics.

Dr Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Her research focuses on disability and the media extending across both representation and active possibilities for social inclusion. Her books include Disability and New Media (2011 with Mike Kent), Disabling Diversity (2008), Disability, Ageing and Obesity: Popular Media Identifications (2014; with Debbie Rodan & Pia Lebeck), Disability and the Media (2015; with Gerard Goggin), and Disability and Popular Culture (2015).

Dr Mike Kent is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Mike’s research focus is on people with disabilities and their use of, and access to, information technology and the Internet. His edited collection, with Katie Ellis, Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives will be available through Ashgate in 2016 and his book also with Katie Ellis Disability and New Media was published in 2011. His other area of research interest is in higher education and particularly online education, as well as online social networking platforms. His edited collection, An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest Social Network, was released in 2014 through Routledge. 

Dr Rachel Robertson is a West Australian writer and Senior Lecturer at Curtin University. Rachel’s academic research interests include Australian literature, feminist maternal studies, life writing and critical disability studies. Her academic work has been published in Life Writing, Axon: Creative Explorations, Hecate, Studies in the Maternal, and the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.  Her edited collection Purple Prose with Liz Byrski was published in November 2015.

Blindness in China has been a particularly stigmatizing disability.  The rise of Deng Xiao Ping catalysed establishment of Disability organisations in China - his son Pu Fang had been crippled (thrown from a building during political upheaval). Assistance to blind persons previously attempted by expatriate Caucasians and Christians began to receive government attention; cultural mores and myriad competing financial demands impede equitable progress.

Australia has long placed restrictions on the immigration of people with disabilities. While recent civil society mobilisation has forced some shift in policy, it is far from clear whether this will result in people with disabilities being accepted as immigrants. The issue is complicated further for people defined as ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ who have encountered the migration restrictions on disability. As a result of this policy landscape, there is limited rigorous research that seeks to understand the social inclusion and participation of disabled refugees and asylum seekers within the resettlement process. An extensive review reveals that refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities remain largely absent from both resettlement literature and disability research. This paper summarises the limited available research in the area around the following themes: processes of offshore migration and the way that disability is assessed under Australia’s refugee legislation; the unce...

This paper reports findings of a qualitative study conducted in collaboration with Aboriginal people with disabilities and their carers residing in the rural and remote Kimberley region of Western Australia, specifically the impact of chronic food insecurity on their daily lives. Nutritious food is important to maintaining health, particularly for Aboriginal people with disabilities who are at the greatest risk of a range of chronic health conditions, illnesses and secondary disability. In the remote areas of the West Kimberley, the high cost of living, including food expenses and the generally low incomes of residents mean that food insecurity is common. A large portion of the population living in remote and rural areas of the Kimberley is Aboriginal, and chronic illness and disability are twice as likely among this group. Lack of access to nutritious food has a cyclical interaction with disability, resulting in secondary impairments and ill health, which leads to greater economic exclusion and further food insecurity. Participants in this research consistently reported that they coped with food insecurity by fishing and crabbing on their traditional lands, “in country”. This link between land sovereignty, food sovereignty and food security for Aboriginal Australians has echoes with global food sovereignty movements.

The best higher education institutions do not educate and train only the students who are the new work force for the global market for the future, but also create new ideas and knowledge for the shortterm contemporary issues as well long term complex issues, which the industry needs critically.
However, not all the universities are successful in providing technology-based innovation so that they need new and dynamic strategic model and planning. The strategic model is understanding the needs of the socio-economic-political-cultural-environmental aspects of the interest groups, who are the students, the labor market, and different industries. In order to meet the needs, the higher education institutions should take into consideration their competencies and interest. While deciding and matching these two aspects, the alternative costs and profits should be taken into account critically for short-term and long-term goals of the universities.
Additionally, in the strategic goals, five aspects are critical in higher education. The first one is the democratization of knowledge and access, which means access to university education in order to gain innovative knowledge for the developing and competitive markets. The second aspect is the contestability of the market and funding, which is one of the most important subjects for all the universities in this competitive market economy. The third aspect is related to the research technologies, including digital. The universities should deal with the latest technologies in order to
create new values in the market as well as in the society. The forth perspective is about the global mobility in which most of the academics as well as the student find different opportunities for global partnership and dynamic synergy to improve talents and competencies. The most important aspect, however, is the integration with the industry. Universities need to develop significantly deeper
partnerships with industry by changing teaching and learning programs, supporting the funding and
application of research, and reinforcing the role of universities as drivers of innovation and growth.
Taking into consideration all these strategic purposes, on the other hand, the strategic plan is making a
kind of a gun chart to see the performances for one year, two years, five years, ten years, twenty years, and more.
In this study, the strategic models and plans of the public (5) and private (5) universities are analyzed from the five different aspects. In order to understand deeply the dynamics at these universities, the phenomenological interpretive analysis is preferred. In the depth interviews, the academics and the professionals of the technology transfer offices as well as the active researchers and academics answered 21 questions about the strategic model and planning.
The results show that the private universities are 75% better in developing business models and business plans. Additionally, most of the participants (88%) are not aware about the strategic model and plan. More importantly, they (95%) have wrong perception related to the strategic model and plan. Regarding to the 5 strategic purposes, two public universities as well as 3 private universities are
aware about, but they do not have well-developed and well-defined strategic model and plan.

Broad and inter-disciplinary inquiry into disability is at a nascent stage in Sri Lanka. This paper looks at the intersectionality of disability and gender in the specific contexts of ‘the rural’ and the armed conflict-affected areas of the country, particularly the interaction with the law. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted among rural women with disabilities in the North Central and Eastern provinces, including women who acquired disabilities resulting from the internal conflict. Legal literacy, administrative discretion in disability-related welfare programmes, and transitional justice and reconciliation emerged as the most prominent themes in the interviews. We analyse these issues using a rights framework in an attempt to highlight some of the vulnerabilities of women with disability in the rural and war-affected contexts. The paper also reflects on a few instances where those vulnerabilities have been overcome through collective action.

This paper explores the accessibility situation in a developing country such as Zambia. The global view of accessibility for disabled people is provided to examine the accessibility situation in developed and developing countries, highlighting the role of the environment in achieving rights for disabled people. Recognition of disability rights relating to accessible built environments is a necessary element to ensure

In the development of creativity, innovation, patenting, and licensing in technology-based economies, different environments affect significantly the success of the new startups at the universities. Therefore, interactive ecosystems, where need assessments, ethnographic field studies, observations, and focus groups are strategically used, have significantly transformed and transcended the mindset of the participants, especially for those who have great potential in life sciences. In this study, what the effects of different interactive ecosystems are on improving creativity, innovation, patenting, and licensing is critically transferred by showing different real examples in life
sciences. Additionally, how ethnographic studies affects the participants in the process of the creating innovative products is given in the interactive ecosystem in which the target participants have become more active by developing empathy. By developing a new interactive ecosystem, specifically in the hospitals, participants’ behaviors and attitudes have changed and they have become more engaged to the problems and the needs of the patients.
Hence, in this workshop, the translational research environment is taken as an interactive environment
to show the sustainable circles from the patients’ bed to the laboratories, from the laboratories to the
TTOs to have their patents, and from the attorney to the startups and to corporates, in which the
licensing period is critically short comparing to the other systems.
In order to understand the reliability and validity of the system, the phenomenological interpretive
analysis is used to investigate, in a new interactive ecosystem, which is the translational research
center. In that way, mainly the graduate level students’ and the experienced researchers’ behaviors
and attitudes are analyzed by training them ethnographic studies tools in order to improve empathy.
The results show that, those who have more empathy comparatively than those who do not have, have
better results in developing creativity, innovation, patenting, and licensing since their products are
directly related to the touchable and urgent needs. It is no doubt that, the participants have learned
how to make marketing research and developing business models in order to be profitable for themselves and for their universities by means of royalties. The four different studies show that only 6 weeks is enough to become more active, engaged, and empathetic in order to develop new and technologically innovative products and services. The
interactive ecosystems help them to be more aware about the needs, especially in life sciences due to
the fact that all the stakeholders, doctors, patients, nurses, other medical people, and patients’ close relatives and friends are close each other to share their thoughts, ideas, and needs. Additionally, new ICT gadgets help them to be much closer in terms of the knowledge transfer. Hence, the awareness of the participants help to collect right data to transform to the new products and services which can be
licensed easily.
In this workshop, the real cases will be given in der to help the audience to develop new interactive ecosystems. The behaviors and attitudes of the participants change because their selected attention and awareness are improved. The interactive communication and teamwork capacity have increased to developed innovative products and services, which have high market values.

Problem Statement: The number of the students in mobility has increased due to  the importance of human capital in  21st  century economies where government  budges are decreased to support the universities. 
Research Questions : In  Turkish case, the effects of the students ’ mobility on  the universities  administrations are not studied critically.  The exchange students affect  criticallythe position of the universities in the ranking lists Purpose of  the
Study : The number of the students who are  coming  from different countries by  means of exchange programs, like Erasmus,  has increased markedly.  The negative and positive effects of the students ’ mobility on  the university governance are analyzed in  this study  taking into consideration curriculum,  teaching and research,  and funding.

"Our paper looks at the intersectionality of disability and gender in the specific contexts of ‘the rural’ and the armed conflict-affected areas of the country, particularly the interaction with the law. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted among rural women with disabilities in the North Central and Eastern provinces, including women who acquired disabilities resulting from the internal conflict. Legal literacy, administrative discretion in disability-related welfare programmes, and transitional justice and reconciliation emerged as the most prominent themes in the interviews. We analyse these issues using a rights framework in an attempt to highlight some of the vulnerabilities of women with disability in the rural and war-affected contexts. The paper also reflects on a few instances where those vulnerabilities have been overcome through collective action".

Der vorliegende Beitrag führt eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der 2008 in Kraft getretenen UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Dabei wird der Blick von der oberflächlichen Rezeption des manifesten Inhalts auf die latenten Bedeutungsstrukturen des ‚Textes‘ verlagert und unter anderem den Fragen nachgegangen, welche objektive Konstruktion von Behinderung der Konvention zugrunde liegt und inwiefern diese in Relation mit einem ‚demokratischen Grundverständnis‘ steht. Entgegen des verbreiteten Meinungsbildes kommt der Autor zu dem Schluss, dass innerhalb der UN-Konvention ein demokratiespezifisches Bild von Behinderung vorherrscht, das mittels der weltweiten Sendungskraft der UN global verbreitet und im Zuge der Ratifizierung durchgesetzt wird. Das implizite Bestreben zur transnationalen Etablierung eines westlich-demokratisch geprägten Behinderungsbegriffs geht einher mit einer mehr oder minder indirekten Aufforderung zur Demokratisierung nicht-demokratischer Länder, sodass die Ratifizierung der Konvention durch nicht-demokratische Länder auch einen ‚cultural impact‘ mit sich bringt. Die UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen lässt sich demnach auch als kulturimperialistisch anmutender Akt bezeichnen.

In this paper, we undertake a comparative analysis of disabled women in Australia and the UK navigating a range of welfare spaces and places as their disability identity is questioned with the intensification of neoliberal austerity. Despite the time differences of the intensification of neoliberal welfare restructuring within these two nation-states, the interviews reveal that disabled women in both Australia and the UK are made to feel ashamed of their bodies, their economically constrained choices and their identity as a disabled working class woman living on welfare. The paper illustrates the affect effects of shaming as a key public emotion drawn upon by neoliberal nation states to further stigmatise, and in some instances, criminalise, bodies that are already highly marginalised by their identity of being a poor working class disabled woman surviving on welfare.

This paper explores the accessibility situation in a developing country such as Zambia. The global view of accessibility for disabled people is provided to examine the accessibility situation in developed and developing countries, highlighting the role of the environment in achieving rights for disabled people. Recognition of disability rights relating to accessible built environments is a necessary element to ensure

Problem Statement: Mobbing is one the serious problems at work, such as the universities work environments. Preventing mobbing in these environments where most of the people are highly  intellectual is not easy. Research Questions: In this study, what are the effects of self efficacy and emotional  intelligence on preventing mobbing at university environments is critically analysed, and  what kind of prevention methodology is  needed is overviewed.

Después de su aprobación por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en 2007, la Convención de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad ha sido una herramienta importante para el mejoramiento de las condiciones sociales, políticas y económicas de esta población. Al día de hoy, 158 Estados la han firmado, y al hacerlo han adquirido un compromiso en el desarrollo de políticas públicas para garantizar derechos básicos y sociales, servicios públicos, y sobre todo en la búsqueda de una completa transformación social para la construcción de una cultura de la discapacidad que promueva inclusión social, autonomía y vida independiente.

Sin embargo, ¿qué se ha hecho hasta ahora? ¿Cómo se ha incluido a las personas con discapacidad al espectro de grupos o poblaciones de atención prioritaria en los regímenes de bienestar y sistemas de protección social contemporáneos? ¿Qué tipo de políticas y programas se han diseñado y ejecutado a nivel mundial? ¿Cómo ha sido entendida la discapacidad como un problema social contemporáneo, sujeto de intervenciones públicas?

Esta sesión, por tanto, está abierta a analizar y discutir estas cuestiones y sobre todo cómo han sido respondidas por los Estados y todos los niveles de gobierno a nivel mundial, las Organizaciones No gubernamentales, y el movimiento organizado de las personas con discapacidad, de manera que se tenga una vista amplia y compleja del tipo de políticas, programas e iniciativas que existen al respecto, y sobre los resultados y el desarrollo que están logrando en sus respectivos campos.

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