Reimagining personal and collective experiences of disability in Africa
Reimagining personal and collective experiences of disability in Africa
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重新想象非洲的个人和集体残疾经历
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2019
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Siphokazi Sompeta
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C. Howell;T. Lorenzo;Siphokazi Sompeta
本文通过南非开普敦大学一群研究生的个人和集体经历，探讨了对非洲残疾问题的理解。学生们作为残疾人本身或在非洲各地工作的从业者，被要求在海报中表达他们对非洲大陆残疾的理解，作为总结性评估任务。学生海报中的内容为影响和塑造非洲残疾经历的复杂社会、政治和经济因素提供了宝贵的见解。本文认为，这些见解对于现有的关于残疾的概念思考及其对非洲及其发展讨论的重要性尤其重要。它表明，更仔细地研究非洲的残疾经历可以将非洲和南半球急需的声音带入残疾研究领域，并以有价值和必要的方式加深这些辩论。
This paper explores understandings of disability in Africa through the personal and collective experiences of a group of postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The students, as disabled people themselves or practitioners working in the field across Africa, were required to capture their understanding of disability on the continent in a poster, set as a summative assessment task. What emerges from the students’ posters provides valuable insights into the complex social, political and economic factors that influence and shape the experience of disability in Africa. The paper argues that these insights are especially important to existing conceptual thinking around disability and its importance to discussions on Africa and its development. It suggests that grappling more carefully with the experience of disability in Africa brings much needed voices from Africa and the global South into the field of Disability Studies and deepens these debates in valuable and necessary ways.