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Doświadczenie iróżnica. Status przedmiotu badań itożsamość badaczy w studiach o niepełnosprawności
Experience and Difference: The Subject Status and Identity of Researchers in Disability Studies

Author(s): Klaudia Muca
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: experience; difference; disability studies; researcher’s position;

Summary/Abstract: Muca discusses the position and identity of the researcher in the field of disability studies. Her critical analysis of categories and attitudes, undertaken in the spirit of the philosophy of science, and her references to the history of disability studies allow her to identify two basic categories in the position and identity of researchers: experience and difference. The experience of disability is a marker of difference, which affects relations between the actors in the research process, especially between people with and without disabilities. The difference associated with having or not having this experience has been and still is important for the development of critical and emancipatory disability studies.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 13-29
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish