Event overview
Hosted by Goldsmiths Disability Research Centre
To imagine what Nancy Mairs calls “habitable worlds", Garland-Thomson offers the premise that the shape of the material world we build and occupy together expresses and determines who inhabits it. To do this, she examines how we use technologies -- from tools to stories -- to make human communities. Drawing from disability life stories, she argues that disability as a concept and lived experience provides human communities with multiple opportunities for expression, creativity, resourcefulness, and relationships. She addresses ethical questions about why we might want disability in the world and what we lose when we eliminate disability, concluding that social orders should accommodate rather than eliminate disability.
This is a written talk with PowerPoint.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Apr 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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