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Aimi Hamraie deposited Crip Technoscience in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCrip technoscience
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoNew digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoNew digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Crip technoscience
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
New digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Inclusive Design: Cultivating Accountability Toward the Intersections of Race, Aging, and Disability in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAs a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessi – ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training had taught me about how to think critically about age…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Universal Design Research as a New Materialist Practice in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoIn Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Designing Collective Access: a feminist disability theory of Universal Design in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoUniversal Design (UD) is a movement to produce built environments that are accessible to a broad range of human variation. Though UD is often taken for granted as synonymous with the best, most inclusive, forms of disability access, the values, methodologies, and epistemologies that underlie UD require closer scrutiny. This paper uses feminist and…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Proximate and Peripheral: Ableist Discourses of Space and Vulnerability Surrounding the UNCRPD in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoOn geopolitics, disability rhetoric, and the CRPD
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Cripping Feminist Technoscience in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoIn feminist technoscience studies (FTS), the term technoscience conveys that scientific knowledge and technological worlds are active constructions of entangled material, social, and historical agents. Feminist analyses of assisted reproduction, environmental harm, digital media, and cyborg bodies constitute some of the work of FTS, a close…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Beyond Accommodation: Disability, Feminist Philosophy, and the Design of Everyday Academic Life in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDisability has become a hot topic for feminist philosophy in recent years. Special issues of Hypatia and Disability Studies Quarterly, multiple conference keynote addresses, and a growing cadre of scholars are exploring the intersections of feminist and critical disability thought. As a disabled feminist scholar, I perceive these trends as a…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Historical Epistemology as Disability Studies Methodology: From the Models Framework to Foucault’s Archaeology of Cure in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoIn this paper, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by looking to Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. While the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as a progressive movement and replacement of moral and medical authority with s…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Universal Design and the Problem of “Post-Disability” Ideology in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAlthough Universal Design gains popularity as a common sense strategy for crafting built environments for all users, accessibility for disabled people remains a marginal area of inquiry within design practice and theory. This article argues that the tension between accessibility and Universal Design stems from inadequate critical and historical…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Inclusive Design: Cultivating Accountability Toward the Intersections of Race, Aging, and Disability on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
As a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessi
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ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and
Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction
to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training
had taught me about how to think critically…[Read more] -
Aimi Hamraie deposited Universal Design Research as a New Materialist Practice on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions…[Read more]
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