Revising modern divisions between blindness and sightedness: Doing knowledge in blind assemblages

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F22%3A43921250" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/22:43921250 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221076199" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221076199</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221076199" target="_blank" >10.1177/00380261221076199</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Revising modern divisions between blindness and sightedness: Doing knowledge in blind assemblages
Original language description
Western society associates knowledge with vision while affiliating blindness with ignorance. Following critical disability studies and drawing upon non-structured interview data and ethnographic observations with visually disabled people, the article opposes this idea by examining how blind assemblages construct knowledge and highlight its heterogeneous and dynamic character, usually obscured by visual shortcuts. After discussing how the research participants encounter discourses devaluating knowledge not based primarily on vision, the article focuses on divisive practices that lead to the construction of dis/ability and ab/normality, and how they can be revised by conceiving knowledge, senses and dis/ability as assemblages. The heterogeneous and dynamic character of knowledge, which the text argues for, defies perceiving blindness as a deficit and blurs the divisions between the self and the other as well as the sighted and the blind since knowledge is produced collectively.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-03708S" target="_blank" >GA20-03708S: Disability geography: visually impaired experience with urban space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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