Beskrivelse
Organiser Thematic Stream NNDR - Helsinki 2025Disabilities in Modern Societies
As an alternative to an individualistic diagnosis of disability, this thematic stream contends that disability is to be understood within the context of significant shifts in social structures and institutions. Rather than considering these issues in isolation – both from one another and from broader contexts – the sessions in this thematic stream explore how disability, mental health and ill-being are not just located at the level of the individual body. The stream delves into the living conditions and opportunities shaped by the dialectic relation between individuals and evolving institutional structures, along with political and scientific discourses.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches that aim to re-examine our vocabulary of social pathologies, abelism and disability in a contemporary and innovative way, pointing towards new approaches to sustainable inclusion and diversity.
Suggested themes can include but are not limited to:
Contemporary concepts of Social Pathologies and their relevance for disability research.
Contemporary concepts of ableism and their relevance for disability research
Contemporary social diagnostics and their contribution to understanding contemporary developments in diagnostics, biological and psychological approaches to physical and mental diseases.
Contextual conditions, social structures, socioeconomic inequality, and its influence on inclusion/exclusion.
How disability is formed, accelerated (strengthened/multiplied), or reduced by contextual conditions and societal structures, especially how disability and socioeconomic inequality interact.
Interaction and communication between front-line staff and service users, its discourses, problem definitions and understandings of disability.
New paradigms and methods to strengthen multidisciplinary efforts in the field.
New ways to sustainability and bio/human diversity: crip-theory, ableism, and universal design.
Coordinators
Pia Rinø, Aalborg University. , RC group Disability and Psychiatry, SOSA;
Anthon Sand Jørgensen, Center for Integrated welfare initiatives, VIA, SOSA, AAU;
Kjeld Høgsbro, Aalborg University, SOSA;
Iben Nørup, SOSA, Aalborg University
| Periode | 2024 → 2025 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstitel | Disability in Local and Global Contexts - Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference 7-9 May 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Helsinki, FinlandVis på kort |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |
Emneord
- Disability studies
- Handicap forskning
- Nordic Network of Disability Research
- Disability in Modern Societies