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In “A Place to Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia,” Rachel Barken explores why people with intellectual disabilities continue to be institutionalized. You can read more at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...
A Place to Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia
Despite broader trends toward the deinstitutionalization of people with intellectual disabilities, evidence that they have a higher quality of life in the community, and recognition of community livin...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Disability Studies Publications by Untenured Academics
In 2019, Contingent Magazine published a list of peer-reviewed books and journal articles written by non-Tenure Track academics. WHAT AN AMAZING IDEA! You can read about it at the following link: http...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Voronka uses critical ethnography to explore their experiences with storytelling distress in different contexts. Their article, “Storytelling Beyond the Psychiatric Gaze: Resisting Resilience and Recovery Narratives” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...
Storytelling Beyond the Psychiatric Gaze: Resisting resilience and recovery narratives
This paper explores the politics of resilience and recovery narratives by bringing critical ethnography and auto-ethnographic methods to bear on my own experiences with storytelling distress in differ...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In their institutional ethnog. “An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods,” Underwood, Moreno Angarita, Curran, Runswick-Cole & Wertlieb query the ethics of discourses on early child development w/in historical and current global inequalities.
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An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods
This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional p...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Disability Studies Publications by Untenured Academics
In 2019, Contingent Magazine published a list of peer-reviewed books and journal articles written by non-Tenure Track academics. WHAT AN AMAZING IDEA! You can read about it at the following link: http...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
You can access “Navigating Post-Secondary Institutions in Ontario with a Learning Disability: The Pursuit of Accommodations” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Navigating Post-Secondary Institutions in Ontario with a Learning Disability: The Pursuit of Accommodations
Students with learning disabilities (LDs) face numerous challenges as they navigate their way through post-secondary institutions in Ontario. Through an institutional ethnographic analysis, this paper...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Cameron McKenzie uses institutional ethnography to contextualize their lived experience of having a learning disability in post-secondary institutions within the current neoliberal environment. 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces” is an autoethnographic exploration of the experiences of a Brazilian deaf PhD student in Sweden who conducted fieldwork in Lithuania's deaf community spaces.
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Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces
This study is an autoethnographic exploration of the experiences of a Brazilian deaf PhD student based in Sweden who conducted fieldwork in Lithuania's deaf community spaces. It seeks to demonstrate t...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You can read the essay, titled “Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies
This essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. With an ostomy, the intestine erupts past the skin barrier and interrupts everyday life. Bjerke’s os...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Heather Twele’s essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. The essay also meditates on the phenomenological strangeness of Twele touching their own ostomy for the first time.

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Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies
This essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. With an ostomy, the intestine erupts past the skin barrier and interrupts everyday life. Bjerke’s os...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens
If there is nothing natural about death, in what ways do we socially organize death? Given that disability is regarded as a memento mori, what might disability studies tell us (i.e. what can we learn)...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hilary Pearson considers how we interpret the meaning of death through a close reading analysis of select cultural representations to better understand what we may reveal and examine normative conceptions of life, death, and disability.

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Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens
If there is nothing natural about death, in what ways do we socially organize death? Given that disability is regarded as a memento mori, what might disability studies tell us (i.e. what can we learn)...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In “An Oral History of The Electrical Eggs: Science Fiction, Disability Activism, and Fan Conventions,” Eric Vero interviews two members of The Electrical Eggs, Samanda B. Jeude’s grassroots organization that advocated for science fiction fans in the southern US. 1/2
October 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Second is Edward Timke’s review of Ella Houston's Advertising Disability (2024): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

Third is W. John Williamson and Em Williamson’s review of Nikki Reimer's No Town Called We (2023): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Three book reviews were published in the newest issue of CJDS.

First is Moira Armstrong’s review of Amanda Cachia's Smoke and Mirrors Exhibition, Zimmerli Art Museum (2024): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Review of Ella Houston's Advertising Disability (2024)
As someone who has lived with a hearing disability all my life, I research and regularly reflect on how advertising portrays disabilities. Over the years, I vividly recall ads that promised to “fix” h...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM