Epilogues and Prefaces
Research and Social Work and People with Intellectual Disabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11958518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Fudge Schormans (0000-0002-7892-3599, McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-66 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03124070903464301 |
| OpenAlex | W2049206462 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 20 |
It is well established that public photographic representations of people with intellectual disabilities strongly influences what we think we know about people so labelled. This paper reports on the unanticipated outcomes of a research project that looked at the ways in which public photographs often construct people with intellectual disabilities as dysfunctional, from the perspectives of the labelled people themselves. Research participants with intellectual disabilities were asked to critique a sample of public photographic images and then, using the computer software program, Photoshop, to change the images to reflect their critique. These changed images were then shown to a number of non-disabled audiences. In this paper, I address the unanticipated outcomes of the project: the effects on participants and non-disabled others resulting from activities arising from the project. These unanticipated outcomes speak to the power of visual imagery, to the empowerment that can take place when people
Intellectual disability · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Work (physics · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Work
Inventing the Feeble Mind
The Disability Studies Reader
Re-imagining the (Dis)Abled Body
Looking in the Mirror
Why Rights are Never Enough
Reconstructing the Self
Out of Place', 'Knowing One's Place
Working with the Experts
Disabling Barriers-Enabling Environments
Doing Disability Research
Research as Social Work
Inventing the Feeble Mind
The Ones That Are Wanted
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
Relationships with Severely Disabled People
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |