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It is Easy to Skew the Issues: An Analysis of Parents Deemed not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder for Committing Filicide of Children with a Disability
(2021-11-15)The media rarely reports on Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD) cases but when they do it is on the statistically rare cases that are violent and heinous in nature, which are then covered in a ... -
The Right to be an Artist: Operationalizing Studio Art Practices for People with Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities
(2021-03-08)This dissertation, The Right to be an Artist: Operationalizing Studio Art Practices for People with Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities examines the practical, philosophical, fiscal and social policy realities of people ... -
Gender and Disability Consciousness Among Community Organizers and Self-Advocates
(2020-11-13)This dissertation approaches oppression of women and trans people in the disability community from the vantage point of resistance movements. Research in this area has, so far, largely excluded gender-based violence. I ... -
Sankofa: Disability and the Door of Return
(2020-11-13)This dissertation is organized as sets of related essays that explore the concept of Sankofa (return to the source) as a method to revisit, resurge and reclaim Nkrumah's ideology to better understand the structures that ... -
Neurodiversity in Relation: An Artistic Intraethnography
(2020-08-11)We move research creation by inventing with neurodiversity. Neurodiversity is relation. This moves autism away from the concept of dis-order and as non-relational and we untether from the pathology paradigm (Walker) to ... -
Understanding the Role of Community in Knowledge Mobilisation
(2020-08-11)Collaboration is how knowledge mobilisation (KMb) understands the role of community and can mean many things. In participatory action research (PAR), collaboration means a community is involved in all parts of the research ... -
Disability, Displacement, and the Biopolitics of Belonging
(2020-08-11)This dissertation is concerned with the multiple ways in which formal and substantive citizenship are regulated among migrants with disabilities and non-migrants with intellectual disabilities. The focus of this analysis ... -
Materializing a Mad Aesthetic Through the Making of Politicized Fibre Art
(2019-07-02)The field of Disability Studies not only acknowledges the value of creative production, it also turns to it as a way to craft knowledge. However, this project asserts that it is not enough for the field to support and ... -
Work Experiences of Nurses with Self-Identified Disabilities
(2018-08-27)Globally and in Canada, meaningful participation of disabled people in the labour market is a relatively new occurrence. While the literature about disabled people's experiences and perceptions related to employment is ... -
From the Standpoint of People with Disabilities: An Institutional Analysis of Work in the Non-Profit Sector
(2018-05-28)Employment can be a pathway to increased income, empowerment, quality of life and well-being. But for people with disabilities, job opportunities are limited, and employment supports often are inadequate. Despite legislative ... -
Theorizing Encounters with Southern Disabled Others: The Reproduction of Disablement in International Experiential Service Learning and Global Citizenship Education and Invitations for Disruptions
(2018-03-01)In this study I seek to understand the way disability is employed to work towards the construction of normative subject-making in the field of International Experiential and Service Learning and Global Citizen Education ... -
Modernity, Hegemony and Disability: A Critical Theoretical Exploration of the Historical Determinants of Disability
(2017-07-27)Adopting a historical analysis methodology, this critical theory dissertation demonstrates how social, economic, political, cultural and intellectual developments associated with the historical period known as modernity ... -
Untying the Knots: Furthering Decent New Employment After the Advent of Work-Limiting Disability
(2016-09-20)For many years, people with disabilities have been about two-thirds as likely as people without disabilities to be employed in Canada. The employment rate of some people with disabilities has persistently hovered at around ... -
Chatter that Matters: A New Path to Progressive Understandings of Disability Through the Online Discussion of Popular Novels
(2015-08-28)Looking to the novel as a source of information for real lives, this paper investigates the role of the popular culture book club and the informal discussion of novels in the recognition of and response to disability in ... -
Social Citizenship and Disability: Identity, Belonging, and the Structural Organization of Education
(2015-01-26)The framing of disability is an ongoing, negotiated discourse in which participants build upon, challenge, and reject the political, social, economic, and cultural influences that lead to constructions of impairment. ... -
Narratives of Separation: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Difference
(2015-01-26)Parents of children with intellectual disabilities born in Ontario in the era following World War II found themselves obliged to make significant yet misinformed decisions regarding their child’s long-term care. Immersed ...
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