Events
Lecture: Permutations of the Species: Towards an Anthropology of Independent Disability Film Festivals
David T. Mitchell, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Sharon Snyder, Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois-Chicago
Mitchell and Snyder are the co-editors of the University of Michigan Press series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, and of The Body and Physical Difference (1997). They also co-authored Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependence of Discourse (2000) and Cultural Locations of Disability (2006).
Their paper looks at the various ways that independent disability film festivals provide a unique lens from which to assess the political project of disabled peoples’ integration (or lack thereof) on a global scale. The authors assess the sustainability of such cultural efforts at ideological and aesthetic re-programming with particular attention paid to disabled people as a critical reference point for measuring the efficacy of social justice initiatives.
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