Michele Ilana Friedner

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Disability as Rupture

Theorizing the Contemporary

Disability as Rupture

Disability offers opportunities to reconceptualize ethnographic practices and anthropological projects. Actualizing these opportunities requires allowing disabi... More

Introduction: Disability as Rupture

Introduction: Disability as Rupture

In this Theorizing the Contemporary collection, we invite anthropologists to engage disability and to consider its ongoing presence in the discipline. In so doi... More

Access as Inaccess and Disability as Impingement

Theorizing the Contemporary

Access as Inaccess and Disability as Impingement

I have been conducting research on deafness and disability in India since 2007. My earlier work focused on the experiences of new Indian Sign Language speakers ... More