Bhavnita Mistry
Biographic Data
| ID | 250293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bhavnita Mistry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bhavnita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mistry |
| SIGNATURE | MISTRY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Differences as potentials
Drawing on a posthuman onto-epistemology, this paper explores movements of bodies labelled-as-disabled as creative 'choreographies' that are coproduced through the coming together of multiple material, social, discursive and affective forces across time-spaces. The purpose is to challenge thinking as usual towards re-envisioning differences as potentials rather than deficits. To do so, we consider how disability can move deficit-thinking and how …
Tinkering with responsive caring in disabled children's healthcare
Health professional education has traditionally relied on the acquisition of vertical expertise whereby learners apply top-down principles and methods to develop clinical skills. In this critical qualitative study, we examined horizontal processes of “knotworking” and “tinkering” in the development of expertise amongst clinicians and trainees in a children's rehabilitation outpatient clinic. Using ethnographic methods of observation, interviews a…
Affect, intensity, and moral assemblage in rehabilitation practice
Assembling activity/setting participation with disabled young people
Rehabilitation research investigating activity participation has been largely conducted in a realist tradition that under-theorises the relationship between persons, technologies, and socio-material places. In this Canadian study we used a post-critical approach to explore activity/setting participation with 19 young people aged 14 to 23 years with complex communication and/or mobility impairments. Methods included integrated photo-elicitation, i…
Becoming men
Children and youth with progressive conditions are living longer, and there is increased interest in designing programs that will assist them with "transitioning" to adulthood. Almost none of the transitions research to date, however, has attended to the experiences of disabled boys in "becoming men," nor has there been critical conceptual work problematizing notions of "normal" adulthood or theorizing the complex, diverse, and gendered experienc…
The evolution of blame and trust
Assigning ‘blame’ is a normal human reaction when trying to identify who or what was responsible for something going wrong. What was done, by whom, the extent of the damage, combined with the system in place to prevent a reoccurrence can influence short and long-term trust. Studies to date have examined how governments have handled large-scale public health disasters without necessarily taking a close look at the factors leading to blame and the …
The Integrated Use of Audio Diaries, Photography, and Interviews in Research with Disabled Young Men
In this article we provide a critical reflection on the integrated use of solicited audio diaries, photography, and interviews in a study with disabled young men transitioning to adulthood. In the study, we developed a methodological approach for illuminating the intersectionality of gender, disability, and generation (life stage) identities. Drawing from a critical Bourdieusian perspective, we suggest that rather than producing single or 'true' …
Do the leads tell the whole story? An analysis of story leads of the Walkerton, Ontario E. coli contamination of drinking water supplies
Despite the availability of a variety of information sources, the news media remain one of the dominant sources of representations of advances in science, technology, government policies and other issues important to society. Some researchers have argued that story leads are important for conveying the content of an entire story and are highly memorable. We seek to address two questions in this article: how reliable is the story lead as a proxy f…
Disability and dignity-enabling home environments
Do the first 10 days equal a year? Comparing two Canadian public health risk events using the national media
It has been suggested that the way in which a risk event is presented within the first 10 days of media coverage provides the major frames that will dominate news media presentations of any new information about the event over time. A media content analysis for two prominent Canadian health risk events (the E. coli water contamination event in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000 and the discovery of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease in …
The Integrated Use of Audio Diaries, Photography, and Interviews in Research with Disabled Young Men
In this article we provide a critical reflection on the integrated use of solicited audio diaries, photography, and interviews in a study with disabled young men transitioning to adulthood. In the study, we developed a methodological approach for illuminating the intersectionality of gender, disability, and generation (life stage) identities. Drawing from a critical Bourdieusian perspective, we suggest that rather than producing single or 'true' …
Assembling activity/setting participation with disabled young people
Rehabilitation research investigating activity participation has been largely conducted in a realist tradition that under-theorises the relationship between persons, technologies, and socio-material places. In this Canadian study we used a post-critical approach to explore activity/setting participation with 19 young people aged 14 to 23 years with complex communication and/or mobility impairments. Methods included integrated photo-elicitation, i…
Becoming men
Children and youth with progressive conditions are living longer, and there is increased interest in designing programs that will assist them with "transitioning" to adulthood. Almost none of the transitions research to date, however, has attended to the experiences of disabled boys in "becoming men," nor has there been critical conceptual work problematizing notions of "normal" adulthood or theorizing the complex, diverse, and gendered experienc…
Disability and dignity-enabling home environments
The evolution of blame and trust
Assigning ‘blame’ is a normal human reaction when trying to identify who or what was responsible for something going wrong. What was done, by whom, the extent of the damage, combined with the system in place to prevent a reoccurrence can influence short and long-term trust. Studies to date have examined how governments have handled large-scale public health disasters without necessarily taking a close look at the factors leading to blame and the …
Differences as potentials
Drawing on a posthuman onto-epistemology, this paper explores movements of bodies labelled-as-disabled as creative 'choreographies' that are coproduced through the coming together of multiple material, social, discursive and affective forces across time-spaces. The purpose is to challenge thinking as usual towards re-envisioning differences as potentials rather than deficits. To do so, we consider how disability can move deficit-thinking and how …
Do the first 10 days equal a year? Comparing two Canadian public health risk events using the national media
It has been suggested that the way in which a risk event is presented within the first 10 days of media coverage provides the major frames that will dominate news media presentations of any new information about the event over time. A media content analysis for two prominent Canadian health risk events (the E. coli water contamination event in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000 and the discovery of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease in …
Do the leads tell the whole story? An analysis of story leads of the Walkerton, Ontario E. coli contamination of drinking water supplies
Despite the availability of a variety of information sources, the news media remain one of the dominant sources of representations of advances in science, technology, government policies and other issues important to society. Some researchers have argued that story leads are important for conveying the content of an entire story and are highly memorable. We seek to address two questions in this article: how reliable is the story lead as a proxy f…
Disability and dignity-enabling home environments
The evolution of blame and trust
Assigning ‘blame’ is a normal human reaction when trying to identify who or what was responsible for something going wrong. What was done, by whom, the extent of the damage, combined with the system in place to prevent a reoccurrence can influence short and long-term trust. Studies to date have examined how governments have handled large-scale public health disasters without necessarily taking a close look at the factors leading to blame and the …
The Integrated Use of Audio Diaries, Photography, and Interviews in Research with Disabled Young Men
In this article we provide a critical reflection on the integrated use of solicited audio diaries, photography, and interviews in a study with disabled young men transitioning to adulthood. In the study, we developed a methodological approach for illuminating the intersectionality of gender, disability, and generation (life stage) identities. Drawing from a critical Bourdieusian perspective, we suggest that rather than producing single or 'true' …
Becoming men
Children and youth with progressive conditions are living longer, and there is increased interest in designing programs that will assist them with "transitioning" to adulthood. Almost none of the transitions research to date, however, has attended to the experiences of disabled boys in "becoming men," nor has there been critical conceptual work problematizing notions of "normal" adulthood or theorizing the complex, diverse, and gendered experienc…
Assembling activity/setting participation with disabled young people
Rehabilitation research investigating activity participation has been largely conducted in a realist tradition that under-theorises the relationship between persons, technologies, and socio-material places. In this Canadian study we used a post-critical approach to explore activity/setting participation with 19 young people aged 14 to 23 years with complex communication and/or mobility impairments. Methods included integrated photo-elicitation, i…
Affect, intensity, and moral assemblage in rehabilitation practice
Tinkering with responsive caring in disabled children's healthcare
Health professional education has traditionally relied on the acquisition of vertical expertise whereby learners apply top-down principles and methods to develop clinical skills. In this critical qualitative study, we examined horizontal processes of “knotworking” and “tinkering” in the development of expertise amongst clinicians and trainees in a children's rehabilitation outpatient clinic. Using ethnographic methods of observation, interviews a…
Differences as potentials
Drawing on a posthuman onto-epistemology, this paper explores movements of bodies labelled-as-disabled as creative 'choreographies' that are coproduced through the coming together of multiple material, social, discursive and affective forces across time-spaces. The purpose is to challenge thinking as usual towards re-envisioning differences as potentials rather than deficits. To do so, we consider how disability can move deficit-thinking and how …
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social science (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Disability studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)