Hybridity as an Analytical Tool to Disrupt Habitual Understanding of Disability:(Un)Learning from the Story of My Family’s Visual Impairment
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This study aims to disrupt the notion of disability through a critical analysis of an autobiographical story of the researcher. First of all, it presents a story about the researcher’s amblyopia and her mother’s anophthalmia. Then, the autobiographical story is analyzed through the theoretical framework informed by Disability Studies and Homi Bhabha’s theory of cultural translation. The analysis focuses on how the researcher and her mother have constructed different experiences and a sense of self although their impairments cause almost similar degrees of functional limitations. This study shows how the habitual framing of disability fails to appropriately represent their hybrid way of being. It sheds light on the discursive and complex ways in which one is constituted as disabled. This study discusses what possibility the hybridity, which is revealed in the analysis of the story, can create in negotiating the meanings of disability. Lastly, the implication that this study has for social researchers is explored.
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This study aims to disrupt the notion of disability through a critical analysis of an autobiographical story of the researcher. First of all, it presents a story about the researcher’s amblyopia and her mother’s anophthalmia. Then, the autobiographical story is analyzed through the theoretical framework informed by Disability Studies and Homi Bhabha’s theory of cultural translation. The analysis focuses on how the researcher and her mother have constructed different experiences and a sense of self although their impairments cause almost similar degrees of functional limitations. This study shows how the habitual framing of disability fails to appropriately represent their hybrid way of being. It sheds light on the discursive and complex ways in which one is constituted as disabled. This study discusses what possibility the hybridity, which is revealed in the analysis of the story, can create in negotiating the meanings of disability. Lastly, the implication that this study has for social researchers is explored.
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