Over the past two decades or so we have witnessed the transition of the web from novelty to ubiquity. The web has become pervasive in our work environments, a necessity we can no longer do without. The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies brought “read/write” access to the web for the masses and thus caused (r)evolutions in fields relying on eco…[Read more]

We suggest a new approach to information literacy for students: let faculty do it. Let librarians concentrate less on educating students directly and more time helping non-librarian faculty to integrate information literacy skill building into their courses, and developing the tools and resources to simplify their ability to achieve that…[Read more]

At one time faculty rarely had much good to say about Wikipedia and typically warned their students not to use it for research. Academic librarians are visibly involved in changing the say Wikipedia is perceived on their campuses. This essay explores ways in which Wikipedia is being used to promote writing and research skills.

While written assignments are typically growing in length in line with the ever-expanding volume of resources available to student writers, platforms like Twitter demand more succinct approaches to writing and offer a range of non-traditional stylistic options in its toolbar. Perhaps the twessay is the haiku of the essay genre: short but with a…[Read more]

Zusammenfassung und Aufruf zur Teilnahme an einem Workshop auf dem Kritischen Kongress der Geographie September 2017, Tübingen.

Este nuevo trabajo, dentro de la fecunda labor intelectual de Oscar Martínez Peñate,
alcanza un doble objetivo: por una parte nos recuerda el déficit en la construcción de
nuestra identidad cultural, entendida ésta más allá de la “madeja de significados”
elaborados por nosotros mismos, como lo afirma Weber, sino como el conjunto
de valores, t…[Read more]

El Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transporte y de Vivienda
y Desarrollo Urbano (MOP)1 es una de las instituciones
del Estado que históricamente ha sido señalada por
la ciudadanía como centro de corrupción y, como otra
dependencia más del Poder Ejecutivo que no cumplía
con las funciones que por ley estaba obligada a realizar

Esta obra coordinada por el Máster Oscar Martínez Peñate reúne los puntos de vista y la experiencia de connotadas personalidades de la vida nacional, quienes, en conjunto, aportan una visión crítica, importante para arribar a la comprensión de la sociedad salvadoreña, de cómo está organizada, de cuáles son sus intereses, intenciones y proyectos,…[Read more]

Con esta obra el autor pretende que se conozca la historia vista desde los de abajo, es una nueva perspectiva de analizar los hechos desde dos puntos de vista, los que dieron las órdenes y los que las acataron.
Se describen hechos que por su crueldad y salvajismo resultan más que repugnantes; difíciles de creer que hayan sucedido, por otra pa…[Read more]

Parables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers. PDF file.

Presented at the 2017 Comics & Medicine Conference: Access Points Seattle. Public Library Central Branch, 15th – 17th June 2017. Seattle, USA.

This set of slides was modified slightly from its original version for online s…[Read more]

As 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]

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]

Universal 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]

On geopolitics, disability rhetoric, and the CRPD

In 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]

Disability 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]

In 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]

Although 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]