Deborah Stienstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 2022507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Stienstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Stienstra |
| SIGNATURE | STIENSTRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2202-0702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada's global policies
Over the past thirty years, women with disabilities have been misfits in Canada's foreign and global policies and practices. Once largely invisible, they face continuing barriers to their access, inclusion, and participation in local, national, and international policy- and decision-making arenas. Their “absent presence” is evident in the paradox that while disability and its intersections with gender remain unrecognized in the study of Canadian …
(Th)reading Rights and Justice
Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue to face systemic marginalisation and gaps in rights protections that limit their access to education, health, public services, and justice. Research in transnational and international relations offers little to help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements of justice as redistributive, recognition, partici…
Expanding evidence and expertise in impact assessment
Globally, the impacts of natural resource development raise concerns about the often disproportionate and negative consequences experienced by Indigenous Peoples, women, and girls. We know far less about the consequences for other often-invisible community members – such as women and girls with disabilities, youth, and people who identify as LGBTQ2S+. Further, promising practices for attending to affected communities’ diverse needs and experience…
Disabilities and Livelihoods
Livelihoods, or the means to secure the necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, and our sense of well-being. While discussions of livelihoods have influenced academic discussions and government actions in international development over the past 25 years, few have discussed the implications of a livelihoods approach for people with disabilities in the context of global Northern societies. This paper argues …
Unsettling research versus activism
This article responds to the call for producing activist-oriented scholarship by engaging with theoretical and methodological approaches that explore the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. We consider possibilities for connecting different forms of knowledge and activism by reflecting on research practices designed to foster social change. Specifically, we ask: how can critical disability studies be more reflexive about kn…
Canadian Disability Policies in a World of Inequalities
Canadian disability-related policies are shaped within a global system of inequalities, including colonialism and neoliberalism. Using a critical theory framework, this article examines the complicated material inequalities experienced by people with disabilities and evident in the intersections of disability, gender, Indigenousness, race, and age. The collectively held ideas that give context to disability policies are at odds. Human rights prot…
Canada’s responses to disability and global development
Canada has taken some positive action in addressing disability in its foreign and development policies, including its long-standing commitments to disabled peoples’ organisations globally, and significant engagement in the drafting process of and subsequent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). But, ultimately, the lack of a rights-based disability framework in Canada’s global development…
Creative encounters
Despite some promising beginnings, disability studies and development studies have paid little attention to each other, and have much to gain from doing so. We focus on the need for more inter-connected analyses of post-conflict and post-disaster contexts, and the methodological requirements of inclusive research in ‘low resource settings’. Reflecting on cross-cutting themes from this collection, we highlight: the challenge of translating formal …
Trumping All? Disability and Girlhood Studies
Recently global attention has been directed to the situations of girls and boys with disabilities, yet research tells us little about the experiences and perspectives of girls with disabilities except that their lives are filled with barriers, violence and stigma. I explore how girlhood studies can authentically include girls with disabilities. Drawing on feminist disability studies, I argue that we can use intersectional theory to identify and i…
Northern Crises
Using feminist disability studies and intersectionality, this article draws upon the ongoing resource extractions in Labrador, Canada to argue for examining local communities and relationships as one way to understand gender and global social, economic and environmental crises. The article explores how crises in Labrador have been constituted and maintained around global agendas of economic and resource development, historical and current colonia…
Voyaging on the seas of spirit
In an important article in Disability & Society Hughes argued that ontology is becoming a ‘live issue’ in disability studies. Different sources, including non‐western and aboriginal conceptions of disability and cosmology and the literature on philosophy, religion, palliative and healthcare, suggest that we are missing a critical aspect of humanity in our discussions – the spirit. Drawing upon collectively defined or interpreted experiences of di…
Accessibility, Disability, and Inclusion in Information Technologies
The pages of The Information Society have hosted and incubated a number of fine critical studies and discussions of inclusion and accessibility, not least on topics such as universal service, digital divide, community networking, development, and access to information, Internet, and telecommunications. In one sense, then, this special issue foregrounds questions of accessibility and inclusion as they are raised by disability. This may function as…
A Three-Way Dance
When we recognize the development and use of information technologies as an emerging global public good, we can move away from the stark dualisms of profit versus human rights, market share versus accessibility, and competition versus inclusion, to an understanding of how both public and private interests are at play in the development of this global public good. Governments, industry, and disability advocacy organizations are all involved in the…
The critical space between
By examining the Canadian standards system, and especially the work of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) related to accessibility, this article explores the question: can legislation and/or standards ensure access and inclusion for people with disabilities in the area of information technologies? And if so, what type is required? It argues that the standards system in Canada privileges the voices of industry while creating a discourse of p…
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
DisAbling Globalisation
(2002). DisAbling Globalisation: Rethinking Global Political Economy with a Disability Lens. Global Society: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 109-121
Cutting to Gender
Female genital mutilation (cutting or surgery) (FGM) is an issue that epitomizes the changing nature of incorporating gender in teaching International Relations. Put simply, by increasing our attention to issues of concerns to women, like FGM, in International Relations classrooms and texts we begin to recognize the importance of these to the study of International Relations (IR). Yet without paying attention to how these issues reflect on the na…
Bringing the Global Home
Madonna/Whore, Pimp/Protector
Madonnaor whore? Pimp or protector? International law and organization related to global prostitution reflect assumptions about gender relations that portray women either as whores and victims of men's lust or as good wives and mother madonnas who work to save these fallen women
Women's Movements and International Organizations
The State in Transition
This text explores the problem of identity and political space, analysing in detail the impact on the state of a globalised political space
Can the Silence Be Broken? Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
To say that the study of international affairs maintains silence in certain areas is no longer the radical statement it once was. Since its inception as a recognized discipline or field in the years between the two world wars, international relations has been a predominantly realist discipline. Over the past decade, however, challenges to realist dominance have come from post-modern theorists, feminists, post-colonial theorists, and political eco…
Trumping All? Disability and Girlhood Studies
Recently global attention has been directed to the situations of girls and boys with disabilities, yet research tells us little about the experiences and perspectives of girls with disabilities except that their lives are filled with barriers, violence and stigma. I explore how girlhood studies can authentically include girls with disabilities. Drawing on feminist disability studies, I argue that we can use intersectional theory to identify and i…
DisAbling Globalisation
(2002). DisAbling Globalisation: Rethinking Global Political Economy with a Disability Lens. Global Society: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 109-121
Can the Silence Be Broken? Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
To say that the study of international affairs maintains silence in certain areas is no longer the radical statement it once was. Since its inception as a recognized discipline or field in the years between the two world wars, international relations has been a predominantly realist discipline. Over the past decade, however, challenges to realist dominance have come from post-modern theorists, feminists, post-colonial theorists, and political eco…
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
The State in Transition
This text explores the problem of identity and political space, analysing in detail the impact on the state of a globalised political space
Unsettling research versus activism
This article responds to the call for producing activist-oriented scholarship by engaging with theoretical and methodological approaches that explore the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. We consider possibilities for connecting different forms of knowledge and activism by reflecting on research practices designed to foster social change. Specifically, we ask: how can critical disability studies be more reflexive about kn…
Women's Movements and International Organizations
Canadian Disability Policies in a World of Inequalities
Canadian disability-related policies are shaped within a global system of inequalities, including colonialism and neoliberalism. Using a critical theory framework, this article examines the complicated material inequalities experienced by people with disabilities and evident in the intersections of disability, gender, Indigenousness, race, and age. The collectively held ideas that give context to disability policies are at odds. Human rights prot…
Voyaging on the seas of spirit
In an important article in Disability & Society Hughes argued that ontology is becoming a ‘live issue’ in disability studies. Different sources, including non‐western and aboriginal conceptions of disability and cosmology and the literature on philosophy, religion, palliative and healthcare, suggest that we are missing a critical aspect of humanity in our discussions – the spirit. Drawing upon collectively defined or interpreted experiences of di…
A Three-Way Dance
When we recognize the development and use of information technologies as an emerging global public good, we can move away from the stark dualisms of profit versus human rights, market share versus accessibility, and competition versus inclusion, to an understanding of how both public and private interests are at play in the development of this global public good. Governments, industry, and disability advocacy organizations are all involved in the…
Bringing the Global Home
Madonna/Whore, Pimp/Protector
Madonnaor whore? Pimp or protector? International law and organization related to global prostitution reflect assumptions about gender relations that portray women either as whores and victims of men's lust or as good wives and mother madonnas who work to save these fallen women
(Th)reading Rights and Justice
Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue to face systemic marginalisation and gaps in rights protections that limit their access to education, health, public services, and justice. Research in transnational and international relations offers little to help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements of justice as redistributive, recognition, partici…
Disabilities and Livelihoods
Livelihoods, or the means to secure the necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, and our sense of well-being. While discussions of livelihoods have influenced academic discussions and government actions in international development over the past 25 years, few have discussed the implications of a livelihoods approach for people with disabilities in the context of global Northern societies. This paper argues …
Creative encounters
Despite some promising beginnings, disability studies and development studies have paid little attention to each other, and have much to gain from doing so. We focus on the need for more inter-connected analyses of post-conflict and post-disaster contexts, and the methodological requirements of inclusive research in ‘low resource settings’. Reflecting on cross-cutting themes from this collection, we highlight: the challenge of translating formal …
Northern Crises
Using feminist disability studies and intersectionality, this article draws upon the ongoing resource extractions in Labrador, Canada to argue for examining local communities and relationships as one way to understand gender and global social, economic and environmental crises. The article explores how crises in Labrador have been constituted and maintained around global agendas of economic and resource development, historical and current colonia…
Accessibility, Disability, and Inclusion in Information Technologies
The pages of The Information Society have hosted and incubated a number of fine critical studies and discussions of inclusion and accessibility, not least on topics such as universal service, digital divide, community networking, development, and access to information, Internet, and telecommunications. In one sense, then, this special issue foregrounds questions of accessibility and inclusion as they are raised by disability. This may function as…
Cutting to Gender
Female genital mutilation (cutting or surgery) (FGM) is an issue that epitomizes the changing nature of incorporating gender in teaching International Relations. Put simply, by increasing our attention to issues of concerns to women, like FGM, in International Relations classrooms and texts we begin to recognize the importance of these to the study of International Relations (IR). Yet without paying attention to how these issues reflect on the na…
Can the Silence Be Broken? Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
To say that the study of international affairs maintains silence in certain areas is no longer the radical statement it once was. Since its inception as a recognized discipline or field in the years between the two world wars, international relations has been a predominantly realist discipline. Over the past decade, however, challenges to realist dominance have come from post-modern theorists, feminists, post-colonial theorists, and political eco…
The State in Transition
This text explores the problem of identity and political space, analysing in detail the impact on the state of a globalised political space
Madonna/Whore, Pimp/Protector
Madonnaor whore? Pimp or protector? International law and organization related to global prostitution reflect assumptions about gender relations that portray women either as whores and victims of men's lust or as good wives and mother madonnas who work to save these fallen women
Women's Movements and International Organizations
Bringing the Global Home
Cutting to Gender
Female genital mutilation (cutting or surgery) (FGM) is an issue that epitomizes the changing nature of incorporating gender in teaching International Relations. Put simply, by increasing our attention to issues of concerns to women, like FGM, in International Relations classrooms and texts we begin to recognize the importance of these to the study of International Relations (IR). Yet without paying attention to how these issues reflect on the na…
DisAbling Globalisation
(2002). DisAbling Globalisation: Rethinking Global Political Economy with a Disability Lens. Global Society: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 109-121
Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy
Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: …
The critical space between
By examining the Canadian standards system, and especially the work of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) related to accessibility, this article explores the question: can legislation and/or standards ensure access and inclusion for people with disabilities in the area of information technologies? And if so, what type is required? It argues that the standards system in Canada privileges the voices of industry while creating a discourse of p…
Accessibility, Disability, and Inclusion in Information Technologies
The pages of The Information Society have hosted and incubated a number of fine critical studies and discussions of inclusion and accessibility, not least on topics such as universal service, digital divide, community networking, development, and access to information, Internet, and telecommunications. In one sense, then, this special issue foregrounds questions of accessibility and inclusion as they are raised by disability. This may function as…
A Three-Way Dance
When we recognize the development and use of information technologies as an emerging global public good, we can move away from the stark dualisms of profit versus human rights, market share versus accessibility, and competition versus inclusion, to an understanding of how both public and private interests are at play in the development of this global public good. Governments, industry, and disability advocacy organizations are all involved in the…
Voyaging on the seas of spirit
In an important article in Disability & Society Hughes argued that ontology is becoming a ‘live issue’ in disability studies. Different sources, including non‐western and aboriginal conceptions of disability and cosmology and the literature on philosophy, religion, palliative and healthcare, suggest that we are missing a critical aspect of humanity in our discussions – the spirit. Drawing upon collectively defined or interpreted experiences of di…
Trumping All? Disability and Girlhood Studies
Recently global attention has been directed to the situations of girls and boys with disabilities, yet research tells us little about the experiences and perspectives of girls with disabilities except that their lives are filled with barriers, violence and stigma. I explore how girlhood studies can authentically include girls with disabilities. Drawing on feminist disability studies, I argue that we can use intersectional theory to identify and i…
Northern Crises
Using feminist disability studies and intersectionality, this article draws upon the ongoing resource extractions in Labrador, Canada to argue for examining local communities and relationships as one way to understand gender and global social, economic and environmental crises. The article explores how crises in Labrador have been constituted and maintained around global agendas of economic and resource development, historical and current colonia…
Canada’s responses to disability and global development
Canada has taken some positive action in addressing disability in its foreign and development policies, including its long-standing commitments to disabled peoples’ organisations globally, and significant engagement in the drafting process of and subsequent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). But, ultimately, the lack of a rights-based disability framework in Canada’s global development…
Creative encounters
Despite some promising beginnings, disability studies and development studies have paid little attention to each other, and have much to gain from doing so. We focus on the need for more inter-connected analyses of post-conflict and post-disaster contexts, and the methodological requirements of inclusive research in ‘low resource settings’. Reflecting on cross-cutting themes from this collection, we highlight: the challenge of translating formal …
Canadian Disability Policies in a World of Inequalities
Canadian disability-related policies are shaped within a global system of inequalities, including colonialism and neoliberalism. Using a critical theory framework, this article examines the complicated material inequalities experienced by people with disabilities and evident in the intersections of disability, gender, Indigenousness, race, and age. The collectively held ideas that give context to disability policies are at odds. Human rights prot…
Disabilities and Livelihoods
Livelihoods, or the means to secure the necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, and our sense of well-being. While discussions of livelihoods have influenced academic discussions and government actions in international development over the past 25 years, few have discussed the implications of a livelihoods approach for people with disabilities in the context of global Northern societies. This paper argues …
Unsettling research versus activism
This article responds to the call for producing activist-oriented scholarship by engaging with theoretical and methodological approaches that explore the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. We consider possibilities for connecting different forms of knowledge and activism by reflecting on research practices designed to foster social change. Specifically, we ask: how can critical disability studies be more reflexive about kn…
Expanding evidence and expertise in impact assessment
Globally, the impacts of natural resource development raise concerns about the often disproportionate and negative consequences experienced by Indigenous Peoples, women, and girls. We know far less about the consequences for other often-invisible community members – such as women and girls with disabilities, youth, and people who identify as LGBTQ2S+. Further, promising practices for attending to affected communities’ diverse needs and experience…
(Th)reading Rights and Justice
Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue to face systemic marginalisation and gaps in rights protections that limit their access to education, health, public services, and justice. Research in transnational and international relations offers little to help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements of justice as redistributive, recognition, partici…
Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada's global policies
Over the past thirty years, women with disabilities have been misfits in Canada's foreign and global policies and practices. Once largely invisible, they face continuing barriers to their access, inclusion, and participation in local, national, and international policy- and decision-making arenas. Their “absent presence” is evident in the paradox that while disability and its intersections with gender remain unrecognized in the study of Canadian …
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Disability studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Inclusion (mineral (5 works)