T Titchkosky
Biographic Data
| ID | 68293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Titchkosky |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Titchkosky |
| SIGNATURE | TITCHKOSKY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0374-9100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Unboxing disability communication: Exploring the methodological contours of critical disability research in public health archives
This article provides an account of the experience of conducting archival research on disability, including its interpretive challenges, difficult choices, and how researchers’ biases and goals shape findings. Concerned by the absence of communication with and to people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, we turned to the School of Public Health material archived at the University of Toronto to uncover preserved stories of previous pu…
Strange Weather Narratives and Embodiment
Like the nameless character in Kevin Jared Hosein’s Commonwealth award-winning story “Passage,” we are not going to make it out with our bodies intact and we have come too far to turn round from the necessity of engaging the complex implications that arise between the weather and our bodies. “Climate crisis” is one such implication that this article explores. It turns to strange weather events narrated in Hosein’s story and in news media. Taking …
Interpretive Methods in Disability Studies: Dyslexia Inflected Inquiry
This article explores how disability studies can take shape as an interpretive method and how disability-perception can influence this. My exploration is organized in relation to the following question: In what ways might attention to dyslexia as an interpretive act inflect social inquiry? I treat interpretive methods as a form of inquiry that attends to the social activity of interpretation itself and I regard dyslexia as part of such activity. …
Philip Kirby and Margaret Jean Snowling, Dyslexia: A History
A History was published in 2022 -the same year in which the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released its Right to Read report, which aims to secure "an equal opportunity to learn to read" (2) by launching an inquiry "focused on word-level reading" and "phonics programs" (5) and by recommending that "the Ministry of Education, faculties of education and school boards explicitly recognize the term 'dyslexia'" (9). 8The timing of the two publ…
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
The Bureaucratic Making of Disability
Making use of interpretive methods of social inquiry, informed by disability studies, I show how the Western bureaucratic orientation is particularly troubled by those unable to keep the rules. Disability is, today, a term used to delineate such an inability. Exploring the meaning of bureaucratic definitions of disability can help us learn something about the organising force of bureaucracy on our lives. In particular, this paper explores a parad…
Blindness Simulation and the Culture of Sight
“What’s it like?” This question has stimulated the simulation of disability through such activities as sitting in a wheelchair, putting in ear plugs, or putting on a blindfold. Disability simulation is a curious phenomenon, stimulated as it is by a curiosity that springs from the certainty that ability and disability are essentially opposite experiences. The article theorizes simulation in relation to blindness as it appears in educational awaren…
Bauman, Zygmunt and Raud, Rein, Practices of Selfhood
Willful Subjects
In her Queer Phenomenology , Sara Ahmed suggests, “orientations are about how we begin; how we proceed from “here,” which affects how what is “there” appears, how it presents itself” (8). Ahmed’s Willful Subjects is about reorienting our relations to willfulness (48) and turning us toward an interest in the will as a cultural phenomenon in need of theorizing, by asking “what is it doing” (17). Through a kaleidoscopic whirl of literary, philosophi…
WHO's Mind, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics
This paper examines the Mental Health Improvements for Nations Development of the World Health Organization (WHO), or what it refers to as its MIND project, as it produces versions of human and human suffering. Arising at approximately the same time as decolonization began to occur, the WHO can be read as reflective of colonial history as well as a colonizing force in postcolonial times. Through an analysis of the WHO's publicly available materia…
Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou. Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
Encounters with Translations of Happiness
This special issue edited by Katie Aubrecht demonstrates that a focus on translations of happiness makes us attend to the interpretive process animating social relations. There are many registers of translation that individuals, communities, and the state make use of as they grapple with relations to happiness. Among the vast array of historical registers that aim to make happiness comprehensible or compelling, medicine and politics are two of th…
Hawking incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject
by Helene Mialet, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012, $29.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-22-652228-9, £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-22-652226-5 Hawking Incorporated is steadfast in its commitme
The Ends of the Body as Pedagogic Possibility
Critical projects such as feminist research, gender and queer theory, and cultural and critical race studies share an interest in questioning how certain people are regarded as on the edge of all t
The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass
Disability images and the art of theorizing normality
This paper addresses the power of images of disability as a way to examine how such images can be read as reproducing normality. By image of disability, I mean any appearance of disability made through the social act of interpretation. In this paper, I conduct an interpretive sociological analysis of common and even mundane everyday images of disability, including the universal icon for access. I aim to demonstrate the necessary ‘art’ of theorizi…
To Pee or not to Pee'? Ordinary Talk about Extraordinary Exclusions in a University Environment
This paper demonstrates the sorts of questions that arise for sociologically informed disability studies scholarship in the midst of the interactional scenes of access struggles in an educational workplace environment. From my experiences in the third largest building of a large Canadian university, I have recollected ordinary talk that justifies the exclusion of disabled people and have pieced together narratives representing things-possible-to-…
Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment
Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.
Disability in the news: A reconsideration of reading
By making use of a disability studies perspective informed by phenomenology, this paper interrogates the social process of reading news articles that depict disability as if it is only limit. The paper begins from my experience of reading an article that assumes reader‐willingness to imagine disability as a kind of limit without possibility, without life. I go on to consider how the meaning of disability is actually produced by normative forms of…
Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda
Michael J. Prince, Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 459-467
Disability, Self, and Society
Argues for change in the meaning society ascribes to disability, seeing it as a useful life experience that affects all of society, rather than a temporary or chronic problem for the individual to overcome.
Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities
Tanya Titchkosky, Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 517-542
Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name?“People‐First” Language in Canadian Society
Dans cet article, nous examinons la notion d'incapacité telle qu'elle est créée et véhiculée par le langage qui privilégie la « personne avant tout » Nous nous penchons en premier lieu sur la formulation très répandue, qui consiste à désigner les personnes handicapées comme des « personnes comme les autres ». En second lieu, nous étudions l'idéolo‐gie actuelle, qui met l'accent sur le fait que les personnes handicapées sont simplement des « perso…
Disability: Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives
Deborah Marks examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed and psychically experienced. The chapters cover: * language and discourse * the disabled people's movement * the 'disability' professions * public policy * unconscious investments and interpersonal relationships *…
Disability Studies: The Old and the New
This paper does not intend to empirically establish whether Disability Studies is old or new; instead, it aims to uncover what the gloss new means in relation to mainstream sociol- ogy's rejection of such a claim and the repetitive articulation of it by Disability Studies. Conceptions of disability found in traditional sociological studies of disability-as-deviance are explored, turning first to the work of Goffman and then to a mainstream devian…
Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities
Tanya Titchkosky, Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 517-542
Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name?“People‐First” Language in Canadian Society
Dans cet article, nous examinons la notion d'incapacité telle qu'elle est créée et véhiculée par le langage qui privilégie la « personne avant tout » Nous nous penchons en premier lieu sur la formulation très répandue, qui consiste à désigner les personnes handicapées comme des « personnes comme les autres ». En second lieu, nous étudions l'idéolo‐gie actuelle, qui met l'accent sur le fait que les personnes handicapées sont simplement des « perso…
Disability in the news: A reconsideration of reading
By making use of a disability studies perspective informed by phenomenology, this paper interrogates the social process of reading news articles that depict disability as if it is only limit. The paper begins from my experience of reading an article that assumes reader‐willingness to imagine disability as a kind of limit without possibility, without life. I go on to consider how the meaning of disability is actually produced by normative forms of…
Disability Studies: The Old and the New
This paper does not intend to empirically establish whether Disability Studies is old or new; instead, it aims to uncover what the gloss new means in relation to mainstream sociol- ogy's rejection of such a claim and the repetitive articulation of it by Disability Studies. Conceptions of disability found in traditional sociological studies of disability-as-deviance are explored, turning first to the work of Goffman and then to a mainstream devian…
The Ends of the Body as Pedagogic Possibility
Critical projects such as feminist research, gender and queer theory, and cultural and critical race studies share an interest in questioning how certain people are regarded as on the edge of all t
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Disability images and the art of theorizing normality
This paper addresses the power of images of disability as a way to examine how such images can be read as reproducing normality. By image of disability, I mean any appearance of disability made through the social act of interpretation. In this paper, I conduct an interpretive sociological analysis of common and even mundane everyday images of disability, including the universal icon for access. I aim to demonstrate the necessary ‘art’ of theorizi…
WHO's Mind, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics
This paper examines the Mental Health Improvements for Nations Development of the World Health Organization (WHO), or what it refers to as its MIND project, as it produces versions of human and human suffering. Arising at approximately the same time as decolonization began to occur, the WHO can be read as reflective of colonial history as well as a colonizing force in postcolonial times. Through an analysis of the WHO's publicly available materia…
To Pee or not to Pee'? Ordinary Talk about Extraordinary Exclusions in a University Environment
This paper demonstrates the sorts of questions that arise for sociologically informed disability studies scholarship in the midst of the interactional scenes of access struggles in an educational workplace environment. From my experiences in the third largest building of a large Canadian university, I have recollected ordinary talk that justifies the exclusion of disabled people and have pieced together narratives representing things-possible-to-…
Disability Studies: The Old and the New
This paper does not intend to empirically establish whether Disability Studies is old or new; instead, it aims to uncover what the gloss new means in relation to mainstream sociol- ogy's rejection of such a claim and the repetitive articulation of it by Disability Studies. Conceptions of disability found in traditional sociological studies of disability-as-deviance are explored, turning first to the work of Goffman and then to a mainstream devian…
Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name?“People‐First” Language in Canadian Society
Dans cet article, nous examinons la notion d'incapacité telle qu'elle est créée et véhiculée par le langage qui privilégie la « personne avant tout » Nous nous penchons en premier lieu sur la formulation très répandue, qui consiste à désigner les personnes handicapées comme des « personnes comme les autres ». En second lieu, nous étudions l'idéolo‐gie actuelle, qui met l'accent sur le fait que les personnes handicapées sont simplement des « perso…
Disability: Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives
Deborah Marks examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed and psychically experienced. The chapters cover: * language and discourse * the disabled people's movement * the 'disability' professions * public policy * unconscious investments and interpersonal relationships *…
Disability, Self, and Society
Argues for change in the meaning society ascribes to disability, seeing it as a useful life experience that affects all of society, rather than a temporary or chronic problem for the individual to overcome.
Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities
Tanya Titchkosky, Governing Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with Disabilities, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 517-542
Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda
Michael J. Prince, Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 459-467
Disability in the news: A reconsideration of reading
By making use of a disability studies perspective informed by phenomenology, this paper interrogates the social process of reading news articles that depict disability as if it is only limit. The paper begins from my experience of reading an article that assumes reader‐willingness to imagine disability as a kind of limit without possibility, without life. I go on to consider how the meaning of disability is actually produced by normative forms of…
Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment
Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.
To Pee or not to Pee'? Ordinary Talk about Extraordinary Exclusions in a University Environment
This paper demonstrates the sorts of questions that arise for sociologically informed disability studies scholarship in the midst of the interactional scenes of access struggles in an educational workplace environment. From my experiences in the third largest building of a large Canadian university, I have recollected ordinary talk that justifies the exclusion of disabled people and have pieced together narratives representing things-possible-to-…
The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass
Disability images and the art of theorizing normality
This paper addresses the power of images of disability as a way to examine how such images can be read as reproducing normality. By image of disability, I mean any appearance of disability made through the social act of interpretation. In this paper, I conduct an interpretive sociological analysis of common and even mundane everyday images of disability, including the universal icon for access. I aim to demonstrate the necessary ‘art’ of theorizi…
The Ends of the Body as Pedagogic Possibility
Critical projects such as feminist research, gender and queer theory, and cultural and critical race studies share an interest in questioning how certain people are regarded as on the edge of all t
Encounters with Translations of Happiness
This special issue edited by Katie Aubrecht demonstrates that a focus on translations of happiness makes us attend to the interpretive process animating social relations. There are many registers of translation that individuals, communities, and the state make use of as they grapple with relations to happiness. Among the vast array of historical registers that aim to make happiness comprehensible or compelling, medicine and politics are two of th…
Hawking incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject
by Helene Mialet, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012, $29.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-22-652228-9, £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-22-652226-5 Hawking Incorporated is steadfast in its commitme
Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou. Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
Willful Subjects
In her Queer Phenomenology , Sara Ahmed suggests, “orientations are about how we begin; how we proceed from “here,” which affects how what is “there” appears, how it presents itself” (8). Ahmed’s Willful Subjects is about reorienting our relations to willfulness (48) and turning us toward an interest in the will as a cultural phenomenon in need of theorizing, by asking “what is it doing” (17). Through a kaleidoscopic whirl of literary, philosophi…
WHO's Mind, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics
This paper examines the Mental Health Improvements for Nations Development of the World Health Organization (WHO), or what it refers to as its MIND project, as it produces versions of human and human suffering. Arising at approximately the same time as decolonization began to occur, the WHO can be read as reflective of colonial history as well as a colonizing force in postcolonial times. Through an analysis of the WHO's publicly available materia…
Bauman, Zygmunt and Raud, Rein, Practices of Selfhood
Blindness Simulation and the Culture of Sight
“What’s it like?” This question has stimulated the simulation of disability through such activities as sitting in a wheelchair, putting in ear plugs, or putting on a blindfold. Disability simulation is a curious phenomenon, stimulated as it is by a curiosity that springs from the certainty that ability and disability are essentially opposite experiences. The article theorizes simulation in relation to blindness as it appears in educational awaren…
The Bureaucratic Making of Disability
Making use of interpretive methods of social inquiry, informed by disability studies, I show how the Western bureaucratic orientation is particularly troubled by those unable to keep the rules. Disability is, today, a term used to delineate such an inability. Exploring the meaning of bureaucratic definitions of disability can help us learn something about the organising force of bureaucracy on our lives. In particular, this paper explores a parad…
Philip Kirby and Margaret Jean Snowling, Dyslexia: A History
A History was published in 2022 -the same year in which the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released its Right to Read report, which aims to secure "an equal opportunity to learn to read" (2) by launching an inquiry "focused on word-level reading" and "phonics programs" (5) and by recommending that "the Ministry of Education, faculties of education and school boards explicitly recognize the term 'dyslexia'" (9). 8The timing of the two publ…
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Interpretive Methods in Disability Studies: Dyslexia Inflected Inquiry
This article explores how disability studies can take shape as an interpretive method and how disability-perception can influence this. My exploration is organized in relation to the following question: In what ways might attention to dyslexia as an interpretive act inflect social inquiry? I treat interpretive methods as a form of inquiry that attends to the social activity of interpretation itself and I regard dyslexia as part of such activity. …
Strange Weather Narratives and Embodiment
Like the nameless character in Kevin Jared Hosein’s Commonwealth award-winning story “Passage,” we are not going to make it out with our bodies intact and we have come too far to turn round from the necessity of engaging the complex implications that arise between the weather and our bodies. “Climate crisis” is one such implication that this article explores. It turns to strange weather events narrated in Hosein’s story and in news media. Taking …
Unboxing disability communication: Exploring the methodological contours of critical disability research in public health archives
This article provides an account of the experience of conducting archival research on disability, including its interpretive challenges, difficult choices, and how researchers’ biases and goals shape findings. Concerned by the absence of communication with and to people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, we turned to the School of Public Health material archived at the University of Toronto to uncover preserved stories of previous pu…
Sociology (22 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works)