"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 froma 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 the volume's contributors demonstrate a shared concern for the wellbeing ofdisabled 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"--
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.
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.
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
Sumi Colligan is a Professor Emerita from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton. She was among the first disabled anthropologists to address the experience of being a disabled ethnographer. She has served on the Board of the Society for Disability Studies and published in the Anthropology of Work Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.
Anna Jaysane-Darr is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her research foci include neurodiversity in educational and clinical spaces in South Africa, and reproduction and nationalism among refugees. Her work has been published in Children and Society, Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies, and in the edited volume Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Loss, Transition, and Resilience in a Post-9/11 World, among other venues.
