We have agreed to provide within the journal a list of completed theses in the field of Disability Studies. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as to provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation for theses completed from 2014 which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
Please provide the following information:
Name of the author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year
A 100-word synopsis of the thesis
Email address
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We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
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Name of author: Alise de Bie
Thesis title:Living A Mad Politics: Affirming Mad Onto-Ethico-Epistemologies Through Resonance, Resistance, and Relational Redress of Epistemic-Affective Harm
University awarding degree: McMaster University, Canada.
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019
Drawing on the theoretical influences of Mad and Disability Studies, on philosophical conceptualizations of epistemic injustice, ethical loneliness, and psycho-emotional disablism, on disability/service user/feminist ethics, on a decade of Mad community organizing, and on autobiographical and empirical methods, this thesis describes efforts to live a Mad politics in the community, in the academy, and in social work education. This thesis describes efforts to live a Mad politics in the community, academy, and in social work education by theorizing (1) the recognition and redress of affective-epistemic harms often ignored by legislative/social welfare approaches to in/justice; and (2) the generation of Mad knowledges and ways of knowing that respond to our priorities as Mad people. To do so, it draws on: the theoretical influences of Mad and Disability Studies; philosophical conceptualizations of epistemic injustice, ethical loneliness, and psycho-emotional disablism; disability/service user/feminist ethics; a decade of Mad community organizing; and autobiographical, empirical, and Survivor Research methods.
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