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Biographic Data
| ID | 19703 |
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| NAME | P Block |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Block |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1481-0314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ableism in the academic trajectories of Black disabled women: An intersectional analysis
This paper aims to examine the implications of the intersection between ableism, sexism, and racism in the academic trajectories of Black disabled women in Brazil. The information was obtained through a sociodemographic survey form and in-depth interviews with 12 Black disabled women, which were analyzed through narrative analysis. The results showed that the intersection between ableism, sexism, and racism led to the perception of participants a…
Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking
In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life-changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face many challenges, including structural and systemic inequalities, struggles with and within various service systems, and difficulties with emotions and mental health. In response to these challenges, siblings undertake "extraordinary measures" through c…
Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
Retratos Defiças: Arte e Ativismo Deficentrados
Apresentação do dossiê Retratos Defiças: Deficiência, Arte e Comunicação
Recuperating the bad outcome: Reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis
This article analyzes convergences in the ways that both deafness and autism are framed as crises that require immediate (and often expensive) professional intervention. Parents receive messages that failure to therapeutically intervene will prevent their children from living normative lives. We demonstrate how therapy techniques such as Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis have proliferated to address these crises. We explore …
Estudios sobre discapacidad: Interseccionalidad, Anticapacitismo Y Emancipación Social
En este texto proponemos incorporar una perspectiva anticapacitista (interseccional y emancipadora en su génesis) en las investigaciones y en la actuación profesional dirigida a las personas con discapacidad. Esta perspectiva rompe con el proceso de opresión vivido por las personas con discapacidad a lo largo de la historia e incorpora la lucha política de este grupo social por la garantía de los derechos humanos y de la justicia social. Además, …
Introduction to the Special Issue: Disability and Covid-19
No abstract available
Quem escreve pela deficiência na sociologia brasileira
Quais são as gramáticas que favorecem a compreensão da deficiência no pensamento social brasilei- ro? Neste artigo, organizado em torno de um amplo processo de revisão bibliográfica, discute-se alguns dos itinerários que possibilitaram a recente postulação desta categoria como um marcador social relevante para a compreensão das múltiplas camadas de desigualdade e opressão que constituem o tecido social em que vive- mos. Por fim, argumenta-se que …
Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity: In Collaboration with Sini Diallo
How can we practice an "anthropology of disability" that is in respectful alliance with the disabled people and disability groups we study? What does critical theory making look like within the politics of such collaborative practice? What valued expertise do anthropologists offer and what do anthropologists gain? In an age of austerity and precarity in academia and in general, disabled people and disability groups struggle for survival while sec…
Deaf studies meets autistic studies
What might deaf studies and autistic studies have in common? Why, in many cases, is deafness considered to be a norm to be analyzed through linguistic and cultural frameworks, while autism is (still) seen as pathological? Utilizing ethnographic research, participation in two conferences on autism and sign language, and an analysis of deaf peoples' and autistic peoples' self-(re)presentation, we attend to sensory solidarities that might exist betw…
The Emergent Landscape of Autistic Communities and Autistic Studies
Team Building: An Anthropologist, An Occupational Therapist, and the Story of a Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Community
Although Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic condition affecting the immune and nervous systems, is usually diagnosed in young adulthood, it has become possible, in recent years, to detect and diagnosis this condition in children aged six or younger. Up to five percent (5%) of MS diagnoses now take place prior to the age of 18 with estimates ranging from 10,000-15,000 children having this condition in the United States (Krupp et al. 2007). This ne…
Introduction to Special Theme Issue Anthropology, Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies: Collaborations and Prospects
A profession exists that shares interests with medical anthropology and applied anthropology to promote health and well-being through everyday activities, meaningful routines, and social participation. The profession is occupational therapy. Increasing numbers of anthropologists have professional credentials as occupational therapists, or work with occupational therapists, and collaborate also with disability studies scholars and activists. They …
Institutional Utopias, Eugenics, and Intellectual Disability in Brazil1
This study focuses upon cultural representations of intellectual disability in Brazil with attention to the historical and cross‐cultural transmission of professional theory and ideology in Brazil, the USA, and Europe. The establishment of special education in Brazil is compared to the treatment of intellectual disability in the USA during the same period. In both cases the local eugenics movements greatly influenced the development of educationa…
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Gelya Frank .Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 284 pp., photographs, notes, references, index
From Pathology to Power: Rethinking Race, Poverty, and Disability
This paper explores the evolution of ideologies of race, poverty, and disability. Three models, identified as biological, cultural, and minority-group, are discussed. Throughout the twentieth century, biological and cultural models presented images of race, class, and disability in terms of deficiency and dependence. Biological models represented some minority groups as genetically inferior. Cultural models represented low-income minorities as tr…
From Pathology to Power: Rethinking Race, Poverty, and Disability
This paper explores the evolution of ideologies of race, poverty, and disability. Three models, identified as biological, cultural, and minority-group, are discussed. Throughout the twentieth century, biological and cultural models presented images of race, class, and disability in terms of deficiency and dependence. Biological models represented some minority groups as genetically inferior. Cultural models represented low-income minorities as tr…
Deaf studies meets autistic studies
What might deaf studies and autistic studies have in common? Why, in many cases, is deafness considered to be a norm to be analyzed through linguistic and cultural frameworks, while autism is (still) seen as pathological? Utilizing ethnographic research, participation in two conferences on autism and sign language, and an analysis of deaf peoples' and autistic peoples' self-(re)presentation, we attend to sensory solidarities that might exist betw…
Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity: In Collaboration with Sini Diallo
How can we practice an "anthropology of disability" that is in respectful alliance with the disabled people and disability groups we study? What does critical theory making look like within the politics of such collaborative practice? What valued expertise do anthropologists offer and what do anthropologists gain? In an age of austerity and precarity in academia and in general, disabled people and disability groups struggle for survival while sec…
Recuperating the bad outcome: Reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis
This article analyzes convergences in the ways that both deafness and autism are framed as crises that require immediate (and often expensive) professional intervention. Parents receive messages that failure to therapeutically intervene will prevent their children from living normative lives. We demonstrate how therapy techniques such as Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis have proliferated to address these crises. We explore …
Institutional Utopias, Eugenics, and Intellectual Disability in Brazil1
This study focuses upon cultural representations of intellectual disability in Brazil with attention to the historical and cross‐cultural transmission of professional theory and ideology in Brazil, the USA, and Europe. The establishment of special education in Brazil is compared to the treatment of intellectual disability in the USA during the same period. In both cases the local eugenics movements greatly influenced the development of educationa…
From Pathology to Power: Rethinking Race, Poverty, and Disability
This paper explores the evolution of ideologies of race, poverty, and disability. Three models, identified as biological, cultural, and minority-group, are discussed. Throughout the twentieth century, biological and cultural models presented images of race, class, and disability in terms of deficiency and dependence. Biological models represented some minority groups as genetically inferior. Cultural models represented low-income minorities as tr…
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Gelya Frank .Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 284 pp., photographs, notes, references, index
Institutional Utopias, Eugenics, and Intellectual Disability in Brazil1
This study focuses upon cultural representations of intellectual disability in Brazil with attention to the historical and cross‐cultural transmission of professional theory and ideology in Brazil, the USA, and Europe. The establishment of special education in Brazil is compared to the treatment of intellectual disability in the USA during the same period. In both cases the local eugenics movements greatly influenced the development of educationa…
Team Building: An Anthropologist, An Occupational Therapist, and the Story of a Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Community
Although Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic condition affecting the immune and nervous systems, is usually diagnosed in young adulthood, it has become possible, in recent years, to detect and diagnosis this condition in children aged six or younger. Up to five percent (5%) of MS diagnoses now take place prior to the age of 18 with estimates ranging from 10,000-15,000 children having this condition in the United States (Krupp et al. 2007). This ne…
Introduction to Special Theme Issue Anthropology, Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies: Collaborations and Prospects
A profession exists that shares interests with medical anthropology and applied anthropology to promote health and well-being through everyday activities, meaningful routines, and social participation. The profession is occupational therapy. Increasing numbers of anthropologists have professional credentials as occupational therapists, or work with occupational therapists, and collaborate also with disability studies scholars and activists. They …
The Emergent Landscape of Autistic Communities and Autistic Studies
Deaf studies meets autistic studies
What might deaf studies and autistic studies have in common? Why, in many cases, is deafness considered to be a norm to be analyzed through linguistic and cultural frameworks, while autism is (still) seen as pathological? Utilizing ethnographic research, participation in two conferences on autism and sign language, and an analysis of deaf peoples' and autistic peoples' self-(re)presentation, we attend to sensory solidarities that might exist betw…
Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity: In Collaboration with Sini Diallo
How can we practice an "anthropology of disability" that is in respectful alliance with the disabled people and disability groups we study? What does critical theory making look like within the politics of such collaborative practice? What valued expertise do anthropologists offer and what do anthropologists gain? In an age of austerity and precarity in academia and in general, disabled people and disability groups struggle for survival while sec…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Disability and Covid-19
No abstract available
Quem escreve pela deficiência na sociologia brasileira
Quais são as gramáticas que favorecem a compreensão da deficiência no pensamento social brasilei- ro? Neste artigo, organizado em torno de um amplo processo de revisão bibliográfica, discute-se alguns dos itinerários que possibilitaram a recente postulação desta categoria como um marcador social relevante para a compreensão das múltiplas camadas de desigualdade e opressão que constituem o tecido social em que vive- mos. Por fim, argumenta-se que …
Estudios sobre discapacidad: Interseccionalidad, Anticapacitismo Y Emancipación Social
En este texto proponemos incorporar una perspectiva anticapacitista (interseccional y emancipadora en su génesis) en las investigaciones y en la actuación profesional dirigida a las personas con discapacidad. Esta perspectiva rompe con el proceso de opresión vivido por las personas con discapacidad a lo largo de la historia e incorpora la lucha política de este grupo social por la garantía de los derechos humanos y de la justicia social. Además, …
Retratos Defiças: Arte e Ativismo Deficentrados
Apresentação do dossiê Retratos Defiças: Deficiência, Arte e Comunicação
Recuperating the bad outcome: Reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis
This article analyzes convergences in the ways that both deafness and autism are framed as crises that require immediate (and often expensive) professional intervention. Parents receive messages that failure to therapeutically intervene will prevent their children from living normative lives. We demonstrate how therapy techniques such as Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis have proliferated to address these crises. We explore …
Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
Ableism in the academic trajectories of Black disabled women: An intersectional analysis
This paper aims to examine the implications of the intersection between ableism, sexism, and racism in the academic trajectories of Black disabled women in Brazil. The information was obtained through a sociodemographic survey form and in-depth interviews with 12 Black disabled women, which were analyzed through narrative analysis. The results showed that the intersection between ableism, sexism, and racism led to the perception of participants a…
Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking
In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life-changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face many challenges, including structural and systemic inequalities, struggles with and within various service systems, and difficulties with emotions and mental health. In response to these challenges, siblings undertake "extraordinary measures" through c…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Disability studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)