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Šifra: SI7	Disability in cultural context and multiple identities
General information
Study program			Disability Studies
Year of Study			2. year
Course supervisor			Prof.dr.sc.Darja Zaviršek
Institution			University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Work
Teaching associates
Conditions for course attending
Type of course			þmandatory			 optional
Course contents
This course will focus on analyzing the cultural construction of disability as a fluid discursive category rather than as a socio-medical condition susceptible to fixed ways of knowing. The aim is to open up the diverse manifestations of disability and to ask what is at stake in the hierarchical ordering and differential valorization of bodies and embodiment. The course is intended to challenge preconceptions and to analyze cultural representations that arise from a particular cultural imaginary, The course will call on theories of phenomenology, feminism, postmodernism and cultural theory. It will move beyond the confines of binary thought – ablebodied/disabled; thus/us; body/mind – to recognition of the complexity of all forms of embodiment. This course will also examine the societal representation of disability in relationship to the lived experience of identity construction and negotiation in terms of gender, ethnicity, class and disability. Course discussion will encompass interactionist studies of stigma and ‘spoiled’ identity, and more recent literature that recognizes identity as contingent and contextual. Concepts to be explored include: identity and embodiment, strategic essentialism and the disability rights movement, and identity and community. The ability to build on, complement, supplement and interrogate extent and lived experience regarding ‘identity’, ’multiplicity’, ‘ableism’ and ‘culture’ and the tradeoffs of everyday life including its resiliances;
Learning outcomes and competencies
The knowledge of thinkers, issues and cases through bringing together separate disciplinary literatures, discourses and analyses enabling a truly interdisciplinary critical disability studies; The ability to provide exposure to knowledge and critical appreciation of a set of integrated, ‘intersectional’, cumulative and recursive themes and ‘identities’, pertinent to both academic interests and to performance of citizenship; To understand new interdisciplinary ways of understanding both disability and Croatian society; To have the skills to analyze the cultural construction of disability as a fluid discursive category rather than as a socio-medical condition susceptible to fixed ways of thinking To understand basic notions of identity politics.
Quality assurance and assessment of course performance
Seminar participation 20% Research Paper 50% Final Exam/Presentation 30%
Number of ECTS credits allocated				3
Hours per week		Lectures: 10		Seminars: 10			Exerc.:	Total hours: 20
Assessment methods		þoral examination		o written examination			ocontinual assessment	þ independent student work
Teaching methods
þ lectures		þ seminars			þ research study				o exercises
þ literature/internet		o laboratory			þ practical work				þ tutorial
Required literature
Atkin, K. (1991): Health, illness, disability and black minorities: a speculative critique of present day discourse. Disability, Handicap and Society 6, 1, 37-49. Bogdan, R., Taylor, S.J. (1994): The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories. New York: Teacher’s College Press. Bogle, J.E. , Shaul, S.L. (1981): Body image and the woman with a disability. In Bullard D., Knight S. (eds.): Sexuality and Physical Disability: Personal Perspectives. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Co. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bowe, F. (1990): Disabled and elderly people in the First, Second and Third World. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 13, 1-14. Boylan, A. (1991): Women and Disability. London: Zed Books. Butler, R. (1998): Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths. In Skelton T., Valentine, G. :Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. London: Routledge Cassell.M. M. (1992): Concepts of mental retardation in Pakistan: towards cross-cultural and historical perspectives. Disability, Handicap and Society 7, 235-255. Connors, J.L. ,Donnellan, A.M. (1993): Citizenship and culture: the role of disabled people in Navajo society. Disability, Handicap and Society 8, 3, 265-280. Corbett, J. (1994): A Proud Label: Exploring the Relationship between disability politics and gay pride. Disability and Society 9, 2, 343-358. Danek, M. (1992): The status of women with disabilities revisited. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling. 23,4,7-13. Deegan, M.J., Brooks, N.A. (eds.)(1985): Women and Disability: The Double Handicap. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Deegan, M.J. (1987): Physically Disabled Women and New Directions in Public Policy. Monticello: Vance. Devlieger, P. (1995): Why disabled? The cultural understanding of physical disability in an African society. In Ingstad B., Reynolds S. (eds.): Whyte Disability and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. Edgerton, R.B. (1970): Mental retardation in non-Western societies: towards a cross-cultural perspective on incompetence. In Hayward, H.C. (ed.): Socio-Cultural Aspects of Mental Retardation. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Frank, G. (1986): On Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital Limb Deficiency in American Culture. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 10, 189-219. Hearn, K. (1991): Disabled Lesbians and Gays are here to stay. In Kaufman, T., Lincoln, P. (eds.): High Risk Lives: Lesbian and Gay Politics after the Clause. Bridport: Prism Press. Ingstad, B. (1988): Coping Behavior of Disabled Persons and Their Families: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Norway and Botswana. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 11, 4,351-359. Jazues, M.E., Berleigh, D.L., Lee, G. (1973) :Reactions to Disabilities in China: A Comparative, Structural and Descriptive Analysis. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin 16, 206-217. Langness, L.L., Levine, H.G. (eds.) (1986): Culture and Retardation: Life Histories of Mildly Retarded Persons in an American City. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Marschall, B.,Hjelt, K. (1988): Children attending the local centre for education of handicapped children in Maniitsoq/Sukkertoppen, Greenland: medical data and living conditions. Arctic Medical Research 47, 2, 67-70. McCagg, W.O. ,Siegelbaum, L. (1989): The Disabled in the Soviet Union: Past and Present, Theory and Practice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. MacFarlane, A. (1994): On becoming an older disabled woman. Disability and Society 9, 2. Meekosha, H. (1998): Body Battles: Bodies, Gender and Disability. In Shakespeare, T. (ed.):The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, London Ming, G. (1993): Demographic features of people with disabilities in China. Disability, Handicap and Society 8, 2, 211-214. Orley, J. (1970): Culture and Mental Illness: A Study from Uganda. Nairobi: East African Publishing House. Philips, M. J. (1990): Damaged Goods: Oral Narratives of the Experience of Disability in American Culture. Social Science and Medicine 30,8, 849-857. Scheer, J., Groce, N. (1988): Impairment as a Human Constant: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Variation. Journal of Social Issues. 44, 1,23-37. Scheer, J. (1994): Culture and disability: An anthropological point of view. In Trickett, E. J., Watts, R. J., Birman D. (eds.): Human diversity: Perspectives on people in context. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Scheer, J.,Luborsky, M. L. (1991): The cultural context of polio biographies. Orthopedics 14, 11, 1173-1181. Shakespeare, T. (1994): Cultural Representation of Disabled People: Dustbins for Disavowal? Disability and Society 9, 3, 283-299. Stuart, O. (1992): Race and Disability: What Type of Double Disadvantage? Disability, Handicap and Society. 7, 2, 177-188. Talle, A. (1995): A child is a child: disability and equality among the Kenya Maasai. In Ingstad B., Whyte S.R (eds.): Disability and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. Vernon, A. (1966): A stranger in many camps: the experiences of disabled black and ethnic minority women. In J. Morris (ed).: Encounters with Strangers. London: Women’s Press. Vernon, A. (1998): Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People’s Movement. In Shakespeare, T. (ed.), The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, London: Cassell. Wendell, S. (1996): The rejected body: Feminist philosophical reflections on disability. New York: Routledge Whyte, S.R. (1997): Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda.
Recommended literature
Zaviršek, D.. Bibliografija Ženske in duševno zdravje. Čas. krit. znan., 19, 138-139, 203-206. [COBISS.SI-ID 28962818] Zaviršek, D.(1998): Civil society, memory and social work. Int Zaviršek, D. FLAKER, V. (1995): Developing culturally sensitive services. Social work in Europe, 2, 2, 30-36. [COBISS.SI-ID 68453] Zaviršek, D. (1997): Diskurzi o nasilju in pomoči. Soc. delo, 36, 5/6, 329-345. [COBISS.SI-ID 18031197] Zaviršek, D. (1993):Govoriti in biti razumljen. Razgledi (Ljublj.), 2, 10-11, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 76922368] Zaviršek, D. (1990): Histerija kot razlagalni model. Problemi (Ljubl.), 27[i.e.28], 8, Eseji, 4, E171-E187. [COBISS.SI-ID 29364992] Zaviršek, D. (1997): Krizni tim kot oblika preprečevanja psihiatrične hospitalizacije. Soc. delo, 36, 2, 101-110. [COBISS.SI-ID 100453] Zaviršek, D. (1996):Med simbolno polucijo in socialno izključenostjo: prizadetost v Sloveniji. Čas. krit. znan., 23, 179, 63-87. [COBISS.SI-ID 16948061] Zaviršek, D. (1992):Michel Foucault v luči feminističnih kritik. Probl., Eseji,1/2, 137-142, Problemi. - ISSN 0555-24, 19. - 30,.1/2. [COBISS.SI-ID 32835840] Zaviršek, D, (1993): Nasilje nad otroci. IB rev. (Ljubl.), 27, 3/4, 49-54. [COBISS.SI-ID 68232192] Zaviršek, D. (1993): Nasilje v družini. IB rev. (Ljubl.), 27, 1/2, 16-21. [COBISS.SI-ID 68204288] Zaviršek, D. (1991): O čem govorimo, ko govorimo o spolu?. Probl., Eseji, 1, 161-165, Problemi. - ISSN 0555-2419. - 29, 1. [COBISS.SI-ID 32731904] Zaviršek, D. (1990): O nasilju nad ženskami. Rev. krim. kriminol., 41, 2, 119-122. [COBISS.SI-ID 38902784] Zaviršek, D. (1991):Predstavitev psihiatričnega testamenta. Čas. krit. znan., 19, 138/139, 171-173. [COBISS.SI-ID 58853632] Zaviršek, D. (1993):Prostitucija - izziv za drugačno socialno delo. Rev. krim. kriminol, 44, 1, 3-10. [COBISS.SI-ID 57678] Zaviršek, D. (1988.): Rim - Pariz: iluzije nemožnih srečanj : Michel Butor, Modifikacija, CZ Problemi (Ljubl.), 30, 8, 77-88. Ilustr. Problemi. Eseji. - ISSN 0353-4030. - 4 (1992). [COBISS.SI-ID 55916032] Zaviršek, D. (1996) (edit. with Introduc.): Sexual Violence. Feminist Researches for Social Work (orig.: Spolno nasilje. Feministične študije za socialno delo). VŠSD, Ljubljana. Zaviršek, D. (1998): Slovenia. European journal of social work, 1, 3, 365-367. [COBISS.SI-ID 215141] Zaviršek, D. (1996):Socialne inovacije v socialnem delu: vizija ali iluzija devetdesetih?. Soc. delo, 35, 1, 31-40. [COBISS.SI-ID 16481885] Zaviršek, D.(1991) (edit. with Mojca Urek): Sub-Psychiatrical Studies (orig.: Sub-psihiatrične študije). ČKZ, Ljubljana. Zaviršek, D. (1996): The crisis team as a form of preventing psychiatric hospitalisation. breakthrough, 1, 1, 11-22. [COBISS.SI-ID 86629] Zviršek, D.(1987): The Josipdol Story. An anthropological study. ZSMS, Ljubljana. Zaviršek, D.(1994):Women and Mental Health. The New Cultures of Care (orig.: Ženske in duševno zdravje. O novih kulturah skrbi). VŠSD, Ljubljana. Zviršek, D. (1988) (edit.): Women and Social Work (orig.: Ženske in socialno delo). Journal for Social Work, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana. Zaviršek, D. (1991): Zgodovinska ikonografija totalne ustanove in fenomen "bolezen - ženska". Čas. krit. znan.,19, 138/139, 13-32. [COBISS.SI-ID 58810624] Zaviršek, D. (1992): Ženske, Odvisnost in Problem Dvojne Stigme. Čas. krit. znan., 20, 146/147, 51-56. [COBISS.SI-ID 70798080] Zaviršek, D. (1993): Ženske študije v antropologiji. U: BAHOVEC,D. (ur.). Od ženskih študij k feministični teoriji, (Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo, Posebna izdaja). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Študentska organizacija Univerze v Ljubljani, Enota za časopisno-založniško dejavnost, 179-189. [COBISS.SI-ID 73668096] Zaviršek, D. (1989): Ženske v politiki duševnega zdravja sodobne psihiatrije. Soc. delo, 28, 3, 307-316. [COBISS.SI-ID 9566210]
Scientific papers that qualify professor for teaching the course
Zaviršek, D. (2005): Hendikepirane matere - hendikepirani otroci : antropološka perspektiva pri razumevanju družbenih ovir mater in otrok v socialnem varstvu in socialnem delu. Soc. delo, 44, 1-2, 3-15. [COBISS.SI-ID 1669733] Zaviršek, D. (2004): Kak vyžit´ detjam s ograničennymi vozmožnostjami i detjam etničeskih men´šinstv v gosudarstvennyh učreždenijah dlitel´nogo prebyvanija. The journal of social policy studies, 2, 2, 189-202. [COBISS.SI-ID 1473381] Zaviršek, D. (2003): Luna polna, jaz pa bolna, luna prazna, jaz pa blazna : psihoanaliza in antropologija o menstruaciji. Čas. krit. znan., 31, 212, 53-66. [COBISS.SI-ID 1113445] Zaviršek, D. (2003): Nevidno nasilje - normativnost in normalizacija nasilja nad ljudmi z gibalnimi, senzornimi in intelektualnimi ovirami = [Invisible violence: norm-activity and norm-alisation of violence against people with motor, sensorial and intellectual disabilities]. Rev. krim. kriminol., jan/mar, 54, 1,3-14. [COBISS.SI-ID 833614] Zaviršek, D. (2003): Notranja nasprotja socialnega dela pri uresničevanju človekovih pravic v postmodernih družbah. Soc. delo, 42, 4/5, 219-229. [COBISS.SI-ID 973669] Zaviršek, D. (2002):Pictures and silences: memories of sexual abuse of disabled people. Int. j. soc. welf. (Print), 11, 4, 270-285. [COBISS.SI-ID 673125] Zaviršek, D. (2003): Preživljavajući etničnost i identitet : djeca pripadnici manjina u sustavu javne skrbi. Ljetop. Stud. cent. soc. rada, 10, 2, 197-209. [COBISS.SI-ID 1147493] Zaviršek, D. (2005): Tleči rasizem zahodnih demokracij. Soc. delo, 44, 4/5, 251-258. [COBISS.SI-ID 2157925