Patrick Devlieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 160295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Devlieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Devlieger |
| SIGNATURE | DEVLIEGER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0582-3383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disability Worlds
Assemblage analysis of disability support: New materialist design for the global south
Ad hoc practices of disability support by local elites in the global south is constantly applauded for its poverty alleviation potentials, yet it conceals the pressures disabled persons face to access support. By embedding with network of Disabled People Organisation (DPO), attending disability support events, and conversing with policy makers, we gathered qualitative data to conduct assemblage analysis of disability support in Southeast Nigeria.…
Doing Embodied Mapping/s: Becoming-With in Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
We only got Coca-Cola’: Disability and the paradox of (dis)empowerment in Southeast Nigeria
Empowerment discourses ironically provide the platform for local power elites to 'ride' to fame on the backs of disabled to extend their influence in society. In the current neoliberal environment of unequal access to opportunities, disabled people must 'play along' as a survival strategy. Our qualitative data provide opportunities to reflect on the tensions between the 'local and the global', thus indicating how disability issues intersect with …
On Footwear and Disability: A Dance of Animacy
In order to explore what an anthropological material culture approach to disability would comprise, we take Tim Ingold’s morphogenetic approach to life as continuously unfolding, a result of things engaged in a dance of animacy, and in processes of ‘making’ as our central point of departure. This approach allows for a continued understanding of disability’s constructed nature; however, this approach is one that has a material, and not a discursiv…
Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). Using a materialist approach that focuses on such specific items, this article deviates from most materialist approaches to disability that are focused on the built environment, medical objects, or assistive technology. Rather, the focus is on “things” (this term is to be understood as items being aliv…
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace: The Impact of Blindness on the Brussels Metro
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
Approches des représentations sociales de l'autisme en Afrique: Sémantique culturelle en République démocratique du Congo
que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Forgetting and remembering in the margins: Constructing past and future in the Romanian Danube Delta
This article investigates the process of social forgetting by relating it to the disintegration of social and spatial networks. Looking at the case of Sulina, a small town on the eastern edge of the Romanian Danube Delta, we analyze how the unraveling of networks caused a process of social forgetting with margin-specific features, a fundamental restructuring of social memory and social identities. An important focus of our investigation is the co…
Living on the margin: Disabled Iranians in Belgian society
This paper explores the antecedents, experiences and consequences of marginalization as reported and dealt with by disabled Iranian immigrants in Belgium. This work extends the work of Gallie and colleagues and Siegrist demonstrating that the forces of marginalization applicable to all immigrants are particularly pertinent to disabled immigrants. The research is based on 26 in-depth, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, interviews with governme…
Ethnographic Film by Karl G. Heider
Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006 . This revised edition of Ethnographic Film originally appeared in 1976 and its goal has not much changed over 30 years: “an attempt to develop a systematic way of thinking of ethnographic film, and in particular about the ‘ethnographicness’ of film” (ix). What is different in this edition is perhaps the person who is writing it, now an administrator in the university, who affords himself to be “polemic, …
Disability in African films: A semiotic analysis
In Xala (1975) of Sembene Ousmane, Wend Kuuni (1982) of Gaston Kaboré, Gombele (1994) of Falaba Issa Traore, Keita (1995) of Dan Koyate, La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1998) of Djibril Diop Mambeti, and Khorma (la bêtise) (2002) of Saadi Jilaani., we analyze the multiple meanings of "sexual impotence," "albinism," "blindness," "deafness," and "mobility disabilities." We analyze how context, stigmatization, and impact on the story invite a reflecti…
Visualising disability in the past
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like ‘race’, class and gender. 1 1 See, for example, Catherine J. Kudlick, “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763–793. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool fo…
The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story
In this article, the authors use the metaphor of the rhizome of the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari as an experimental methodological concept to study the narrative construction of the self. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, the authors create a story structure that not only offers a useful view on the way in which people narratively construct their selfhood but also stimulates an experiment with alternative, nontraditional …
Who are we? From a modern Cartesian self to alternative views on selfhood
The advent of postmodernism, post structuralism and social constructionism led over the last years to a multitude of theoretical philosophical reflections on possible meanings of the psychological basic concept ‘selfhood’ or ‘subjectivity’. The modern, sovereign self was deconstructed and no longer considered as an ontological fact but rather as a product of language. The stable core self from which many traditional psychological theories start, …
The production of disability culture among young African-American men
Disability Cosmology: The Practice of Making Disability Worlds
The practice of making disability worlds is investigated both theoretically, in the context of developments in disability studies, in particular in the cultural model of disability, and practically in two examples, namely inclusive education environments and public environments. Theoretically, we argue that disability worlds can be better understood by introducing the notion of disability cosmology as the largest possible perspective on the makin…
The grassroots community in the vanguard of inclusion: The post‐genocide Rwandan prospects
More than a decade has passed since Rwanda was plunged into the most atrocious genocide of our time. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and many more were left in desperate conditions. The economic and social reconstruction of the country has since dominated the national agenda for recovery. It is within this reform agenda that this paper looks at the situation of the post‐genocide young people with disabilities and the possible pathways fo…
Handicap” and Education in the United States of the 1930s: Discursive Formations in the New York Times
This article traces the discursive development of the concept of “handicap” in the United States, through an examination of one written medium, namely the New York Times The emergence, development and decline of the concept of handicap are situated over a span of about 75 years, beginning in 1905. The concept reflects a modern era that replaces a previous era, represented by the concept of “cripple”. The article focuses both on the impact of educ…
Your Experience Is Not My Experience: The Concept and Experience of Disability on Chicago's Near West Side
Central to the field of disability studies is the concept of disability culture, because it provides a sense of cohesion for persons with disabilities and helps to explain their identity, place in the world, and management strategies. Discussions of disability culture generally focus on shared experiences, values, and relationships to the environment. An implicit assumption in many analyses is that disability cul. ture is common to all people wit…
Disability assumptions, concepts and theory: Reply to Tom Koch
Mental retardation in American film: A semiotic analysis
L'A. examine la maniere dont le cinema americain depeint l'arrieration mentale. Il s'agit de determiner ce qu'est l'arrieration mentale et ce que sont les reponses sociales a l'arrieration mentale dans le contexte des films consideres. L'analyse des structures semiotiques sur lesquelles les dialogues sont construits et la comparaison de differents films permettent de definir un archetype de ce genre cinematographique
The disability paradox: High Quality of Life Against All Odds
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled. Benedicte lngstad. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. xi. 384 pp
Representations of Physical Disability in Colonial Zimbabwe: The Cyrene Mission and Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene
Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene is a unique short film, created in 1946 in part to popularize the work of Cyrene and its founder, the Reverend Edward George (Ned) Paterson. The film is the story of the mission, told through the transformation of the life of a disabled young man, Samuel Songo, who portrays Pitaniko, first through his experience of rejection at his village and then at the Cyrene mission. In Pitaniko , physical disability is viewed in …
The disability paradox: High Quality of Life Against All Odds
The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story
In this article, the authors use the metaphor of the rhizome of the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari as an experimental methodological concept to study the narrative construction of the self. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, the authors create a story structure that not only offers a useful view on the way in which people narratively construct their selfhood but also stimulates an experiment with alternative, nontraditional …
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace: The Impact of Blindness on the Brussels Metro
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
The production of disability culture among young African-American men
Forgetting and remembering in the margins: Constructing past and future in the Romanian Danube Delta
This article investigates the process of social forgetting by relating it to the disintegration of social and spatial networks. Looking at the case of Sulina, a small town on the eastern edge of the Romanian Danube Delta, we analyze how the unraveling of networks caused a process of social forgetting with margin-specific features, a fundamental restructuring of social memory and social identities. An important focus of our investigation is the co…
From Self-help to Charity in Disability Service: The Jairos Jiri Association in Zimbabwe
In today's Zimbabwe, an extended network of institutions which serve persons with disabilities are the legacy of Jairos Jiri, one of the greatest African philanthropists. Started as a personal initiative to help Africans with disabilities, it became part of a larger self-help movement in colonial Rhodesia. This movement was characterized by the idea to establish independent African-controlled schools and black-run business ventures in an effort t…
Visualising disability in the past
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like ‘race’, class and gender. 1 1 See, for example, Catherine J. Kudlick, “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763–793. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool fo…
Living on the margin: Disabled Iranians in Belgian society
This paper explores the antecedents, experiences and consequences of marginalization as reported and dealt with by disabled Iranian immigrants in Belgium. This work extends the work of Gallie and colleagues and Siegrist demonstrating that the forces of marginalization applicable to all immigrants are particularly pertinent to disabled immigrants. The research is based on 26 in-depth, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, interviews with governme…
Your Experience Is Not My Experience: The Concept and Experience of Disability on Chicago's Near West Side
Central to the field of disability studies is the concept of disability culture, because it provides a sense of cohesion for persons with disabilities and helps to explain their identity, place in the world, and management strategies. Discussions of disability culture generally focus on shared experiences, values, and relationships to the environment. An implicit assumption in many analyses is that disability cul. ture is common to all people wit…
Representations of Physical Disability in Colonial Zimbabwe: The Cyrene Mission and Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene
Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene is a unique short film, created in 1946 in part to popularize the work of Cyrene and its founder, the Reverend Edward George (Ned) Paterson. The film is the story of the mission, told through the transformation of the life of a disabled young man, Samuel Songo, who portrays Pitaniko, first through his experience of rejection at his village and then at the Cyrene mission. In Pitaniko , physical disability is viewed in …
Doing Embodied Mapping/s: Becoming-With in Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
Disability assumptions, concepts and theory: Reply to Tom Koch
Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). Using a materialist approach that focuses on such specific items, this article deviates from most materialist approaches to disability that are focused on the built environment, medical objects, or assistive technology. Rather, the focus is on “things” (this term is to be understood as items being aliv…
Disability in African films: A semiotic analysis
In Xala (1975) of Sembene Ousmane, Wend Kuuni (1982) of Gaston Kaboré, Gombele (1994) of Falaba Issa Traore, Keita (1995) of Dan Koyate, La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1998) of Djibril Diop Mambeti, and Khorma (la bêtise) (2002) of Saadi Jilaani., we analyze the multiple meanings of "sexual impotence," "albinism," "blindness," "deafness," and "mobility disabilities." We analyze how context, stigmatization, and impact on the story invite a reflecti…
Who are we? From a modern Cartesian self to alternative views on selfhood
The advent of postmodernism, post structuralism and social constructionism led over the last years to a multitude of theoretical philosophical reflections on possible meanings of the psychological basic concept ‘selfhood’ or ‘subjectivity’. The modern, sovereign self was deconstructed and no longer considered as an ontological fact but rather as a product of language. The stable core self from which many traditional psychological theories start, …
The grassroots community in the vanguard of inclusion: The post‐genocide Rwandan prospects
More than a decade has passed since Rwanda was plunged into the most atrocious genocide of our time. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and many more were left in desperate conditions. The economic and social reconstruction of the country has since dominated the national agenda for recovery. It is within this reform agenda that this paper looks at the situation of the post‐genocide young people with disabilities and the possible pathways fo…
Mental retardation in American film: A semiotic analysis
L'A. examine la maniere dont le cinema americain depeint l'arrieration mentale. Il s'agit de determiner ce qu'est l'arrieration mentale et ce que sont les reponses sociales a l'arrieration mentale dans le contexte des films consideres. L'analyse des structures semiotiques sur lesquelles les dialogues sont construits et la comparaison de differents films permettent de definir un archetype de ce genre cinematographique
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled. Benedicte lngstad. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. xi. 384 pp
From Self-help to Charity in Disability Service: The Jairos Jiri Association in Zimbabwe
In today's Zimbabwe, an extended network of institutions which serve persons with disabilities are the legacy of Jairos Jiri, one of the greatest African philanthropists. Started as a personal initiative to help Africans with disabilities, it became part of a larger self-help movement in colonial Rhodesia. This movement was characterized by the idea to establish independent African-controlled schools and black-run business ventures in an effort t…
Representations of Physical Disability in Colonial Zimbabwe: The Cyrene Mission and Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene
Pitaniko, the Film of Cyrene is a unique short film, created in 1946 in part to popularize the work of Cyrene and its founder, the Reverend Edward George (Ned) Paterson. The film is the story of the mission, told through the transformation of the life of a disabled young man, Samuel Songo, who portrays Pitaniko, first through his experience of rejection at his village and then at the Cyrene mission. In Pitaniko , physical disability is viewed in …
The disability paradox: High Quality of Life Against All Odds
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled
Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled. Benedicte lngstad. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. xi. 384 pp
Your Experience Is Not My Experience: The Concept and Experience of Disability on Chicago's Near West Side
Central to the field of disability studies is the concept of disability culture, because it provides a sense of cohesion for persons with disabilities and helps to explain their identity, place in the world, and management strategies. Discussions of disability culture generally focus on shared experiences, values, and relationships to the environment. An implicit assumption in many analyses is that disability cul. ture is common to all people wit…
Disability assumptions, concepts and theory: Reply to Tom Koch
Mental retardation in American film: A semiotic analysis
L'A. examine la maniere dont le cinema americain depeint l'arrieration mentale. Il s'agit de determiner ce qu'est l'arrieration mentale et ce que sont les reponses sociales a l'arrieration mentale dans le contexte des films consideres. L'analyse des structures semiotiques sur lesquelles les dialogues sont construits et la comparaison de differents films permettent de definir un archetype de ce genre cinematographique
Handicap” and Education in the United States of the 1930s: Discursive Formations in the New York Times
This article traces the discursive development of the concept of “handicap” in the United States, through an examination of one written medium, namely the New York Times The emergence, development and decline of the concept of handicap are situated over a span of about 75 years, beginning in 1905. The concept reflects a modern era that replaces a previous era, represented by the concept of “cripple”. The article focuses both on the impact of educ…
Disability Cosmology: The Practice of Making Disability Worlds
The practice of making disability worlds is investigated both theoretically, in the context of developments in disability studies, in particular in the cultural model of disability, and practically in two examples, namely inclusive education environments and public environments. Theoretically, we argue that disability worlds can be better understood by introducing the notion of disability cosmology as the largest possible perspective on the makin…
The grassroots community in the vanguard of inclusion: The post‐genocide Rwandan prospects
More than a decade has passed since Rwanda was plunged into the most atrocious genocide of our time. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and many more were left in desperate conditions. The economic and social reconstruction of the country has since dominated the national agenda for recovery. It is within this reform agenda that this paper looks at the situation of the post‐genocide young people with disabilities and the possible pathways fo…
Who are we? From a modern Cartesian self to alternative views on selfhood
The advent of postmodernism, post structuralism and social constructionism led over the last years to a multitude of theoretical philosophical reflections on possible meanings of the psychological basic concept ‘selfhood’ or ‘subjectivity’. The modern, sovereign self was deconstructed and no longer considered as an ontological fact but rather as a product of language. The stable core self from which many traditional psychological theories start, …
The production of disability culture among young African-American men
Visualising disability in the past
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like ‘race’, class and gender. 1 1 See, for example, Catherine J. Kudlick, “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 763–793. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool fo…
The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story
In this article, the authors use the metaphor of the rhizome of the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari as an experimental methodological concept to study the narrative construction of the self. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, the authors create a story structure that not only offers a useful view on the way in which people narratively construct their selfhood but also stimulates an experiment with alternative, nontraditional …
Forgetting and remembering in the margins: Constructing past and future in the Romanian Danube Delta
This article investigates the process of social forgetting by relating it to the disintegration of social and spatial networks. Looking at the case of Sulina, a small town on the eastern edge of the Romanian Danube Delta, we analyze how the unraveling of networks caused a process of social forgetting with margin-specific features, a fundamental restructuring of social memory and social identities. An important focus of our investigation is the co…
Living on the margin: Disabled Iranians in Belgian society
This paper explores the antecedents, experiences and consequences of marginalization as reported and dealt with by disabled Iranian immigrants in Belgium. This work extends the work of Gallie and colleagues and Siegrist demonstrating that the forces of marginalization applicable to all immigrants are particularly pertinent to disabled immigrants. The research is based on 26 in-depth, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, interviews with governme…
Ethnographic Film by Karl G. Heider
Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006 . This revised edition of Ethnographic Film originally appeared in 1976 and its goal has not much changed over 30 years: “an attempt to develop a systematic way of thinking of ethnographic film, and in particular about the ‘ethnographicness’ of film” (ix). What is different in this edition is perhaps the person who is writing it, now an administrator in the university, who affords himself to be “polemic, …
Disability in African films: A semiotic analysis
In Xala (1975) of Sembene Ousmane, Wend Kuuni (1982) of Gaston Kaboré, Gombele (1994) of Falaba Issa Traore, Keita (1995) of Dan Koyate, La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1998) of Djibril Diop Mambeti, and Khorma (la bêtise) (2002) of Saadi Jilaani., we analyze the multiple meanings of "sexual impotence," "albinism," "blindness," "deafness," and "mobility disabilities." We analyze how context, stigmatization, and impact on the story invite a reflecti…
Approches des représentations sociales de l'autisme en Afrique: Sémantique culturelle en République démocratique du Congo
que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace: The Impact of Blindness on the Brussels Metro
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). Using a materialist approach that focuses on such specific items, this article deviates from most materialist approaches to disability that are focused on the built environment, medical objects, or assistive technology. Rather, the focus is on “things” (this term is to be understood as items being aliv…
On Footwear and Disability: A Dance of Animacy
In order to explore what an anthropological material culture approach to disability would comprise, we take Tim Ingold’s morphogenetic approach to life as continuously unfolding, a result of things engaged in a dance of animacy, and in processes of ‘making’ as our central point of departure. This approach allows for a continued understanding of disability’s constructed nature; however, this approach is one that has a material, and not a discursiv…
We only got Coca-Cola’: Disability and the paradox of (dis)empowerment in Southeast Nigeria
Empowerment discourses ironically provide the platform for local power elites to 'ride' to fame on the backs of disabled to extend their influence in society. In the current neoliberal environment of unequal access to opportunities, disabled people must 'play along' as a survival strategy. Our qualitative data provide opportunities to reflect on the tensions between the 'local and the global', thus indicating how disability issues intersect with …
Doing Embodied Mapping/s: Becoming-With in Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
Assemblage analysis of disability support: New materialist design for the global south
Ad hoc practices of disability support by local elites in the global south is constantly applauded for its poverty alleviation potentials, yet it conceals the pressures disabled persons face to access support. By embedding with network of Disabled People Organisation (DPO), attending disability support events, and conversing with policy makers, we gathered qualitative data to conduct assemblage analysis of disability support in Southeast Nigeria.…
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