The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness

Michalko, Rod

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“…Writing for others is a meaning-making choice of response to their experiences. These writers, as Michalko (1998) has described in regard to blindness, have come to see their disabilities as eloquent teachers about self and about humanity. In terms of story, the wounded storyteller becomes a wounded healer through storytelling (Frank, 1995).…”

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Finding a New Voice

Ryan

2006

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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This memorial tribute to James J. Bradac draws on lessons friends and colleagues learned through his witness of living well with serious disability. Analysis of published disability narratives provides the basis for identifying how writing for self and others empowers persons with acquired disability. Acquiring a disability can threaten a person's sense of self and ability to communicate effectively with others. Journal writing allows individuals to rediscover their sense of self, to release complex emotions by naming them, and work their way through the many changes in their daily lives. In particular, a person acquiring a disability must learn how to balance efforts to maintain "normality" with the need to accept changes. Writing for others helps the author clarify personal experience, find meaning, and make a valuable social contribution. Specific benefits of the written social voice are outlined in terms of both process and outcomes. Published illness narratives put a face on disability, engender empathy, advocate for a "disability-friendly" society, and show how the human spirit can transcend disability.

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Finding a New Voice

Ryan

2006

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…Conversations between participants and researchers generated knowledge of urban spaces, lived experiences and stories. Through these encounters we addressed another of Michalko's propositions by exploring how storytelling "elevates blindness to the position of something that provokes thought" [9] (p. 4).…”

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“…Anderson's methodology, also referred to as "talking whilst walking" taps into the interconnectedness of mind and place in order to elicit knowledge of environments and past experiences [8] (p. 254). On the other hand, the storytelling component of this research is inspired by Rod Michalko's idea of elevating "blindness to the position of something that provokes thought" [9] (p. 4). In The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness, Michalko offers the reader a unique "conception of blindness" by giving voice to the "many tellers of the story of blindness" [9] (p. 4).…”

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“…On the other hand, the storytelling component of this research is inspired by Rod Michalko's idea of elevating "blindness to the position of something that provokes thought" [9] (p. 4). In The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness, Michalko offers the reader a unique "conception of blindness" by giving voice to the "many tellers of the story of blindness" [9] (p. 4). Through storytelling, Light in the Borderlands also provides participants with opportunities to share lived experiences.…”

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Spatial Explorations and Digital Traces: Experiences of Legal Blindness through Filmmaking

Ruiz

Strickfaden

2016

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Descriptions of legal blindness, as lived experience-involving continual movement between the world of sightedness and blindness-are largely absent within medical models of disability. In an effort to challenge depictions of blindness as pathology, researchers in this project worked with participants who are legally blind, in a co-designed exploration of built spaces in the city of Edmonton, Canada. In this article we describe a collaborative research method through which participants shared stories while recording their movement through a shopping mall, an art gallery, and a gym. Through this project, participants often took the lead, determining the content and context of urban journeys. Stories and images shared through this collaboration suggest that legal blindness is an alternative way of knowing the world, with unique perceptual experiences, navigational strategies, and complexity that is often unacknowledged within a medically constructed blindness/sightedness binary. In describing the complex relationship between participants, researchers, architecture, and technology we will combine narrative forms of writing with actor-network theory. The sharing of stories, along with lived experiences has led to a project that revolves around ability, as opposed to disability. A link to the film is provided at the end of this article.

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“…It is a space where bodies can be disclosed as merely present objects, or otherwise. In "Three Readings of Medicalization," I turn to three common disability studies position on medicalization, the historical materialist (the social model), the phenomenological (Hughes 2000 ;Hughes and Paterson 1997 ), and the interpretive, for lack of a better term (Michalko 1998 ;Titchkosky 2007 ). I suggest that each perspective hints at the problem of the ontological difference, though admittedly the latter two are friendlier to such an interpretation than the former.…”

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Abrams¹

2016

Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement

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Chapter 3 reconsiders disability studies' founding concern with medicine through Heidegger's phenomenology. I suggest Heidegger's reframing of truth as disclosedness, or the Greek Aletheia , lets us reframe these concerns along his fundamental ontology. After outlining Heidegger's understanding of truth, I review the relevant literature, looking to the social model of disability, other phenomenological approaches, and similar, but more recent, interpretive perspectives. I suggest that medicalization not only refers to medical practices, but models that see disability only in terms of restricted function. I make sense of this using the case of rehabilitation science, and three measures employed therein. Two are numerical measures; the interview is the third. I end by discussing future work in rehabilitation.Both critical disability studies and the rehabilitation sciences share a common object of critique: the so-called medical model of disability. They differ, however, on what exactly that model is. Classical disability studies -most prominently the British social model (Barnes 2000 ; Oliver 1986 )-understand the medical model as one that frames all problems of Medicalization 46 T. ABRAMS

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