Deafnormativity

Who belongs in deaf culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12312396
AutoresS Jordan Wright (0000-0001-9440-1531, Lamar University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen36
Número8
Páginas1221-1239
Fecha de publicación2020-07-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisability & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09687599.2020.1787818
OpenAlexW3042531463
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas17

This article explores how formerly sighted Deaf individuals confront vision loss and grapple with adopting new identities as Deaf-Blind individuals. Co-researchers in this study analyze sighted Deaf culture and the resulting power dynamics that have relegated the Deaf-Blind body as inferior, revoking membership from sighted Deaf culture. From the perspective of 6 Deaf-Blind individuals, the balance of power within sighted Deaf culture is explored and solidified to reveal a hierarchy which categorizes the Deaf Disabled body in comparison to the sighted, Deaf normate.Points of interestMembers of the Deaf-Blind communities are beginning to develop their own culture which is separate from sighted Deaf culture and operates under different norms.Deaf-Blind communities reject the label of Deaf with a disability and have begun to take ownership of not only the definition of culture, but the modality in which they communicate.A majority of Deaf-Blind individuals lose vision in early adulthood, which means at some point, they were members of sighted Deaf culture and then become outcasts as a “disabled” body.The research indicates that Deaf culture actually has an unspoken hierarchy where power is concerned, an analysis that is not yet part of the academic discourse, particularly where Deaf Critical Theory is concerned

Audiology · Blindness · Deaf blind · Deaf culture · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Partially sighted · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Power (physics · Sign language · Sociology · Visually impaired · Disability Rights and Representation · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Law in Society and Culture · Medicine · Psychology