Grech, Grue and Thomas for Online Symposia December 2023
Papers delivered on 5th December 2023 as part of an online event series.
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Shaun Grech (he/him), Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town
Bio: Shaun Grech is Senior Academic Consultant in Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) with Christian Blind Mission (CBM); Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Malta. He is also Editor in Chief of the International Journal Disability and the Global South.
Title: Critical Disability Studies: contesting ‘development’ in the global South.
Jan Grue (he/him), University of Oslo
Jan Grue is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo. He is currently PI of the research project “The Politics of Disability Identity”, which investigates the contemporary social and cultural preconditions of disability inclusion. His memoir “I Live a Life Like Yours” (2021) is published by Pushkin Press in the UK.
Title: The sick role and critical disability studies: Making invisible work visible.
Gareth M. Thomas (he/him), Cardiff University
Gareth M. Thomas is a Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is a sociologist interested in disability, health/illness, medicine and reproduction.
Title: How is my area of research, theory and scholarship transformed by an engagement with critical disability studies?
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.