Lindsay Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4779-2549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes
Theoretical understandings of micropolitics and ableism provided a framework to analyze power relations and their impacts in a participatory design process. Micropolitics allowed a focus on small scale interactions and relational processes that impact outcomes of participation, and revealed the importance of problem framing and coalition building. We also found resistance to ableism through micropolitical strategies including: the sharing of expe…
Document Landscape
Disabled students often face challenges in effectively meeting their learning and practicum requirements, even though institutions have policies in place to support access. Practice-based learning helps to ensure students have acquired sufficient practical knowledge of the field. It is used in many disciplines for effective skill development, and is mandatory for some accreditations, particularly in healthcare professional training. A wide array …
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
Diagramming Disability
This article presents diagrams (in the Deleuzian sense) developed from the insights of three middle school children with limited mobility about their experiences navigating social and spatial relations in their home, school and neighbourhoods. The paper explores the concept of assemblage as well as operationalising the Deleuzian idea of the diagram. The diagrams we produce (and the experiences they express) are developed in connection with domina…
Removing Ableist Barriers in Nursing Education
The current approach to clinical placement training for nurses excludes students with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to introduce a four-step model for nursing programs to identify clinical essential requirements – specific skills and competencies students must gain during placement. Engaging this four-step model will allow educators to identify how essential requirements can be achieved in a variety of ways, and thus can involve ac…
Becoming Acrobat, Becoming Academic
This article mobilizes a Spinozo-Deleuzian understanding of affect to articulate connections between embodied sensation and academic thinking, connections which surfaced during my ethnographic and autoethnographic research as a circus performer. I argue against reifying differences between the production of knowledge and of movement, suggesting we explore similarities in the conditions of their emergence including reflection, multiplicity, and re…
Inaccessible childhoods
Accessible built environments are a critical component of Canada’s commitment to disabled children’s ‘right to enjoy full and decent lives’ [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York. [Google Scholar]. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York.] . Although valid, reliable research data about the accessibility of built…
The Economic Lives of Circus “Artists”
This article, based on ethnographic research with Canadian circus performers, provides an intimate look into the lives of these creative workers. It contributes to the burgeoning literature on the creative economy by examining how ideas of “creativity” and “art” are being put to work in the lives of these performers, including the centrality of affective experiences like freedom and satisfaction, as well as the significance of particular relation…
Disability and Deleuze
Building on Deleuze's theories of the becoming of bodies, and notions of the geographic maturity of the disabled body we formulate an emplaced model of disability wherein bodies, social expectations and built form intersect in embodied experiences in specific environments to increase or decrease the capacity of disabled children to act in those environments. We join a growing effort to generate a more comprehensive model of disability, which move…
Questioning context
OBJECTIVE: To combine insights from multiple disciplines into a set of questions that can be used to investigate contextual factors affecting health decision making. BACKGROUND: Decision-making processes and outcomes may be shaped by a range of non-medical or 'contextual' factors particular to an individual including social, economic, political, geographical and institutional conditions. Research concerning contextual factors occurs across many d…
Determining the effects of therapeutic clowning on nurses in a children's rehabilitation hospital
Objective: This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of therapeutic clowns for hospitalized children on their nurses. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with 13 nurses explored perceptions of the clowns. Measures of physiological arousal, emotion and anxiety were also obtained from nine of these 13 nurses under two conditions – the presence or absence of therapeutic clowns on the unit. Results: Physiologically, the automatic nervous system…
Disability and Deleuze
Building on Deleuze's theories of the becoming of bodies, and notions of the geographic maturity of the disabled body we formulate an emplaced model of disability wherein bodies, social expectations and built form intersect in embodied experiences in specific environments to increase or decrease the capacity of disabled children to act in those environments. We join a growing effort to generate a more comprehensive model of disability, which move…
Becoming Acrobat, Becoming Academic
This article mobilizes a Spinozo-Deleuzian understanding of affect to articulate connections between embodied sensation and academic thinking, connections which surfaced during my ethnographic and autoethnographic research as a circus performer. I argue against reifying differences between the production of knowledge and of movement, suggesting we explore similarities in the conditions of their emergence including reflection, multiplicity, and re…
Inaccessible childhoods
Accessible built environments are a critical component of Canada’s commitment to disabled children’s ‘right to enjoy full and decent lives’ [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York. [Google Scholar]. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York.] . Although valid, reliable research data about the accessibility of built…
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
Determining the effects of therapeutic clowning on nurses in a children's rehabilitation hospital
Objective: This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of therapeutic clowns for hospitalized children on their nurses. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with 13 nurses explored perceptions of the clowns. Measures of physiological arousal, emotion and anxiety were also obtained from nine of these 13 nurses under two conditions – the presence or absence of therapeutic clowns on the unit. Results: Physiologically, the automatic nervous system…
Questioning context
OBJECTIVE: To combine insights from multiple disciplines into a set of questions that can be used to investigate contextual factors affecting health decision making. BACKGROUND: Decision-making processes and outcomes may be shaped by a range of non-medical or 'contextual' factors particular to an individual including social, economic, political, geographical and institutional conditions. Research concerning contextual factors occurs across many d…
Determining the effects of therapeutic clowning on nurses in a children's rehabilitation hospital
Objective: This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of therapeutic clowns for hospitalized children on their nurses. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with 13 nurses explored perceptions of the clowns. Measures of physiological arousal, emotion and anxiety were also obtained from nine of these 13 nurses under two conditions – the presence or absence of therapeutic clowns on the unit. Results: Physiologically, the automatic nervous system…
The Economic Lives of Circus “Artists”
This article, based on ethnographic research with Canadian circus performers, provides an intimate look into the lives of these creative workers. It contributes to the burgeoning literature on the creative economy by examining how ideas of “creativity” and “art” are being put to work in the lives of these performers, including the centrality of affective experiences like freedom and satisfaction, as well as the significance of particular relation…
Disability and Deleuze
Building on Deleuze's theories of the becoming of bodies, and notions of the geographic maturity of the disabled body we formulate an emplaced model of disability wherein bodies, social expectations and built form intersect in embodied experiences in specific environments to increase or decrease the capacity of disabled children to act in those environments. We join a growing effort to generate a more comprehensive model of disability, which move…
Inaccessible childhoods
Accessible built environments are a critical component of Canada’s commitment to disabled children’s ‘right to enjoy full and decent lives’ [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York. [Google Scholar]. Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York.] . Although valid, reliable research data about the accessibility of built…
Becoming Acrobat, Becoming Academic
This article mobilizes a Spinozo-Deleuzian understanding of affect to articulate connections between embodied sensation and academic thinking, connections which surfaced during my ethnographic and autoethnographic research as a circus performer. I argue against reifying differences between the production of knowledge and of movement, suggesting we explore similarities in the conditions of their emergence including reflection, multiplicity, and re…
Diagramming Disability
This article presents diagrams (in the Deleuzian sense) developed from the insights of three middle school children with limited mobility about their experiences navigating social and spatial relations in their home, school and neighbourhoods. The paper explores the concept of assemblage as well as operationalising the Deleuzian idea of the diagram. The diagrams we produce (and the experiences they express) are developed in connection with domina…
Removing Ableist Barriers in Nursing Education
The current approach to clinical placement training for nurses excludes students with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to introduce a four-step model for nursing programs to identify clinical essential requirements – specific skills and competencies students must gain during placement. Engaging this four-step model will allow educators to identify how essential requirements can be achieved in a variety of ways, and thus can involve ac…
Document Landscape
Disabled students often face challenges in effectively meeting their learning and practicum requirements, even though institutions have policies in place to support access. Practice-based learning helps to ensure students have acquired sufficient practical knowledge of the field. It is used in many disciplines for effective skill development, and is mandatory for some accreditations, particularly in healthcare professional training. A wide array …
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes
Theoretical understandings of micropolitics and ableism provided a framework to analyze power relations and their impacts in a participatory design process. Micropolitics allowed a focus on small scale interactions and relational processes that impact outcomes of participation, and revealed the importance of problem framing and coalition building. We also found resistance to ableism through micropolitical strategies including: the sharing of expe…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works)