Disability art and culture: A model for imaginative ways to integrate the community
This article suggests a turn to disabled people's formations of disability culture, as expressed in the arts, for new ways to imagine community integration. As I look to the arts, I examine not only the representations disabled artists create, but the art-making and arts-presenting processes themselves. I illustrate this argument by analyzing innovations in the integration of people with disabilities in professional concert dance in two American companies: AXIS Dance Company and Kinetic Light.RésuméCet article rend compte d’un changement dans la formation des personnes handicapées à la « culture du handicap », te...
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research

Étapes et enjeux de la construction du handicap au sein des politiques sociales françaises : 1939–2005
Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): Michel ChauvièreRésuméEn choisissant quelques outils de la sociologie cognitive de l’action publique, tels que les référentiels, l’auteur analyse quatre binômes paraissant avoir plus ou moins opéré dans le domaine du handicap depuis la dernière guerre mondiale : rééducation/inadaptation ; intégration/handicap ; insertion/exclusion ; inclusion/situation (de handicap). Pour chacun, et à partir de l’exemple de l’enfance, il cherche à préciser les origines et les médiateurs, les enjeux et les objectifs, les critères et modalité...
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research

Considering the concepts of the lived body and the lifeworld as tools for better understanding the meaning of assistive technology in everyday life
Publication date: Available online 1 June 2018Source: AlterAuthor(s): Inger C. BerndtssonAbstractThe lives of individuals with physical or perceptual impairments are often filled with various objects that support daily activities and are generally referred to as assistive technologies. These are usually understood as objects relating to individuals’ functional capabilities. In this article, assistive technology is instead interpreted and explored in its subjective and social meaning by drawing on continental philosophy within a framework of lifeworld phenomenology and hermeneutics, putting forward existence, embodiment a...
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Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): André Grossiord, Henri-Jacques Stiker (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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The extraordinary development of sport for people with dis/abilities. What does it all mean?
Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): Anne MarcelliniAbstractPhysical and sports practices represent a dimension of the social history of people with impairments that has become progressively visible, yet still little studied. Through the reading of socio-historical and sociological research on these practices, the author defends her contention that the development, recognition and social visibility of these individuals having been obtained by the sphere of “disability sport” are based on the convergence of two “tool boxes” for innovation: the organization of athlete classification ...
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Editorial Board
Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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Éditorial
Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): Anne Marcellini, Laurent Paccaud (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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Editorial
Publication date: June 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 2Author(s): Anne Marcellini, Laurent Paccaud (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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Trading autonomy for services: Perceptions of users and providers of services for disabled people in Iceland
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018Source: AlterAuthor(s): Laufey Löve, Rannveig Traustadóttir, James Gordon RiceAbstractThis paper adopts a critical theory perspective, aligning itself with a growing body of critical disability research in Iceland. It draws attention to the importance of ensuring that the rights of disabled people to autonomy and independence enshrined in the CRPD are respected and upheld in the implementation of all service models, including “traditional” services. The paper draws on 22 interviews with disabled people and service providers in Iceland. Both groups reveal that they perceiv...
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research

La prévention du VIH chez les personnes sourdes au Burundi : état des lieux et perspectives
This article presents the various aspects of HIV/AIDS care for deaf people in Burundi to assess social inequalities in health especially the access to preventive care. Our work is particularly focused on identifying the factors that hinder the access of deaf people to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries such as Burundi. The study is based on a literature review and a qualitative study with stakeholders and beneficiaries. The literature review was conducted on reports or other official documents that were made by various stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS. A qualitative approach was made of interviews wit...
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 10, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research

Culture-theory-disability: encounters between disability studies and cultural studies. Disability studies: body – power – difference series, A. Waldschmidt, H. Berressem, M. Ingwersen (Eds.). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld (2017), 280 pp., ISBN: 9783837625332
Publication date: Available online 18 June 2018Source: AlterAuthor(s): Angela Wegscheider (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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Sexualité et handicap mental. L’ère de la « santé mentale », L. Nayak. Éditions de L’INS HEA en co-édition avec Champ social, collection « Recherches » (2017), 516 pages
Publication date: Available online 6 July 2018Source: AlterAuthor(s): Charlotte Debest (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
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“Machetear” : Surviving disability through mendicity in the North of Chile
Publication date: January–March 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 1Author(s): Carolina FerranteAbstractIn Antofagasta, Chile's Second Region, located at the North of the country and possessing the highest salaries throughout the country, there are many people with physical disabilities that resort to mendicity, which is a survival strategy locally known as “machetear.” According to spontaneous sociology, this scene is explained through cultural and moral protagonism that creates “solidarity” towards people with disabilities in Chile. Even though this country has endorsed international human rights treaties, han...
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 5, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research

Parcours d’inclusion en maternelle. Portrait de jeunes enfants en situation de handicap, D. Bedoin, M. Janner-Raimondi. Champ social éditions, Nîmes (2017)
Publication date: January–March 2018Source: Alter, Volume 12, Issue 1Author(s): Laidi Louisa (Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research)
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - July 5, 2018 Category: Disability Source Type: research