Innovations In Deaf Studies: The Role Of Deaf Scholars (Perspectives On Deafness)

What does it mean to engage in Deaf Studies and who gets to define the field? What would a truly deaf-led Deaf Studies research program look like? What innovations do deaf scholars deem necessary in the field of Deaf Studies? Editors Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder, and Dai O'Brien and their contributing authors tackle these questions and more. Innovations in Deaf Studies foregrounds deaf ways of being and how the experience of being deaf is central not only to deaf research participants' own ontologies, but also to the positionality and framework of the study as a whole. The focus here is on the underdeveloped strands within Deaf Studies, particularly on areas around deaf people's communities, ideologies, literature, religion, language practices, and political aspirations. -- Adapted from the dust jacket.

• | Author: Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder, Dai O'Brien
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 417 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 0190612185
• | ISBN-13: 9780190612184