Technologies of friendship
Accessibility politics in the 'how to' mode
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3200853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T S Criado (0000-0002-0858-1757, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 408-427 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026119830914 |
| OpenAlex | W2918702510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
This text is an ethnographic account of a singular, Barcelona-based activist endeavour called En torno a la silla (ETS): a do-it-yourself and open design and making collective engaging in a very peculiar form of accessibility politics beyond a 'disability rights' framework. In it, I entangle intimately with ETS's relational interventions, in the form of making and documentation processes. What animates me is a political engagement with the practice of 're-description', paying attention to the singularity of what relational vocabularies and practices bring to the fore. In describing the context of its appearance, as well as several of the collective's endeavours, I address ETS's relational register. Rather than being a clear-cut activist group with the aim of materialising the 'inclusion' of 'disabled people' through 'technical aids', ETS engaged in producing what they called 'technologies of friendship': frail and careful material explorations opening up interstitial relational spaces of 'mutual access' between bodily diverse people. Through circulating tutorials, poetic accounts, digitally and in workshops and presentations, ETS's technologies of friendship became also ways of addressing how relations can be materialised and reflexively described, making available in its wake ways to re-enact them. Thus it produced an inspiring 'how to' accessibility politics: a material-political concern with the speculative opening up and materialisation of conditions for the very happening of relations, relating at the hinges of unrelatability
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Friendship · Inclusion (mineral) · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The Ways of Friendship
Designs for the Pluriverse
Disability in the Global South
The Biopolitics of Disability
Contested ecologies
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
The New Politics of Disablement
Earth Beings
Earth Beings
Disabling Postcolonialism
Urban accessibility issues
The commons
Las comisiones de diversidad funcional en el 15M español
From alliance to trust
Accessible America
The Uncommons
Being Alongside
Reading relations backwards
The Interaction between Visual and Written Ethnography in Subtitling
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |