{"title":"Differing Perspectives of Stigma from Students with Disabilities and Access Workers","authors":"Aliyah Joy Balsiger","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.26","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Students with disabilities in post-secondary education have experiences of stigma that can prevent them from disclosing disabilities or using academic accommodations. Without disclosure, these students lose access to academic accommodations that can better enable their success. Access workers at post-secondary institutions are mindful of the barriers that stigma can produce and often work to reduce it. However, access workers and students with disabilities may have different understandings of stigma, including the most prevalent and concerning sources of stigma for students and the particular consequences that stigmatization provokes. I work to explain and understand these differences as consequences of varying discourses on stigma and theorize the impact of these discourses on disabled college students.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82114397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#Deafmum: A Deaf Maltese Activist’s Strategies for Addressing Hearing Parents of Deaf Children","authors":"Erika Hoffmann‐Dilloway, Annabelle Xerri","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Annabelle Xerri, a Maltese Deaf activist, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, a hearing American anthropologist, analyze Annabelle’s social media posts detailing how she navigates sensory and linguistic asymmetries between herself and her hearing children. These posts are part of a larger activist effort to ensure that d/Deaf children in Malta are provided access to sign language. We situate these social media posts in the broader moment in which her activism is unfolding, showing how the posts navigate the benefits and potential pitfalls of different popular and academic framings of the relationship between spoken and signed languages. In so doing, we follow Leila Monaghan, whose work called for and evinced nuanced attention to how broader historical contexts shaped and are shaped by d/Deaf social and linguistic practices and which attended to the roles that d/Deaf and hearing theories about language have played in these processes.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82498780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advocacy For Mexican Sign Language: History, Continuity, and Monaghan’s Contributions","authors":"Anne E. Pfister","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In honoring Leila Monaghan’s contributions to anthropology, I invite readers to recall two of the many things she did well throughout her career and through a variety of research areas. First, Monaghan’s work inspired a sustained focus on advocating for the fundamental rights and dignities of participants, including the right to sign languages. Our 2022 Society for Linguistic Anthropology panel, in honor of Monaghan’s scholarship, remembered her influence as we argued for the need for “access to and access through sign languages.” Second, Monaghan called for an understanding of identities as evolving, pluralistic, and even “experimental,” a word she used to describe the interplay of deaf and Christian identities (Monaghan 1991).","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88638966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurodivergence, Embodiment, Empowerment, Pathography: Expressions from the Margins","authors":"Douglas E. Kidd","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.31","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 G. Thomas Couser (1997:533) asserts in “Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation,” “The autobiographical act models the agency and self-determination the disability rights movement has fought for....” With autoethnographical prose, focusing on individual and community psychosocial implications of trauma, the paper offers story and analysis centered on embodied experience. This paper grounds lived experience of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a lens of de-medicalizing disability. This paper provides windows on largely hidden and little understood forms of impairment from a frequently marginalized individual. The paper examines the experiences of a severe TBI survivor by exploring the temporal dissonance of impaired cognitive processing. The paper uses pathography to give emphasis to relevant Critical Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies scholarship. The paper explores how the intersections of living with multiple impairments (disabilities) while pursuing autoethnography as an unaffiliated researcher strengthens disabled identity, empowers the drive for self-determination, and provides agency to assert oneself politically to better reduce stigma and minimize oppression by the dominant culture. This paper examines the confluence of composing personal experiences of severe TBI survival with Disability Studies scholarship that promotes centering of self and (re)creating identity.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88186913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chrissina C. Burke, Aliyah Joy Balsiger, J. Wilce, Donald A. Grushkin, Bonnie R. Marquez, Emery R. Eaves
{"title":"Introduction: Leila Monaghan’s Contributions to Anthropology","authors":"Chrissina C. Burke, Aliyah Joy Balsiger, J. Wilce, Donald A. Grushkin, Bonnie R. Marquez, Emery R. Eaves","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89000980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complexities of Simplification in Language Revitalization: The Case of Lenape in Eastern Pennsylvania","authors":"P. B. Garrett","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.38","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How can an anthropologist usefully contribute to the revitalization of a “dormant” language? This article considers simplification as an inherent, virtually inevitable aspect of language revitalization and as one that is by no means simple. A linguistic anthropologist’s understanding of the complexities of simplification, I suggest, can be the basis for valuable contributions to community-based language-revitalization efforts, particularly when the anthropologist is participating fully in those efforts by learning and apprentice-teaching the language.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88442389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krista E. Latham, Isabel S. Melhado, Olivia H. Messenger, Tanya Ramos, Alex F. Wong
{"title":"SELF-REFLECTION AS AN ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT PREPARATION FOR PRACTICE IN HUMANITARIAN CRISES","authors":"Krista E. Latham, Isabel S. Melhado, Olivia H. Messenger, Tanya Ramos, Alex F. Wong","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the impact of a critical pedagogy of forensic science approach combined with an immersive field experience to train student members of a volunteer humanitarian forensic science team in preparation for immersion in the politically charged and emotionally challenging conditions surrounding migrant death at the United States-Mexico Border. Utilizing self-reflections from student team members before and after their fieldwork, the impact of a holistic and multi-faceted training approach can be evaluated. The goal of this training approach is to produce capable forensic scientists, as well as anthropologists who recognize the power structures inherent in such situations and subsequently work to kindle social change. Comparing expectations before fieldwork to experiences obtained during fieldwork can be a powerful way to gauge their progress in a transformative learning process.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78927258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I THINK I’M A BORN-AGAIN COMMIE","authors":"Michelle V. Huynh","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87218816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FINDING HÓZHÓ IN HEALTH CARE","authors":"Shanell Yenchik","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88170730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}